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Talk:List of companies of Pakistan

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Dont you think it would be helpful to characterize all these companies with repsect to the sectors they belong to? For e,g: Banks, Software Houses, etc. etc. Harrisbhatti

Protected
I have protected this article from editing due to and  (most likely one person) making repeated edits adding "Limited" and "Company" onto the end of article links. I have made a number of attempts on their talk pages pointing out Wikipedia policy regarding this:
 * Naming conventions
 * "Convention: The legal status of the company (Corp., plc or LLC), is not normally included, i.e. Microsoft or Wal-Mart. When disambiguation is needed, legal status, main company interest or "(company)" can be used to disambiguate: for example, Halifax (bank) or Converse (company). When the legal status is used, it is abbreviated in the article title. In the article itself, the title sentence of the article should include the abbreviated legal status. For example: Generic Corp. Ltd. is largest provider of widgets in the world."

I will unlock this article when I've got confirmation that Harrisbhatti understands this - please do not hessitate to contact me if you need any clarifiation. Thanks/wangi 20:18, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sigh, no confirmation but I guess having this article locked for two days is enough... Unlocking. /wangi 17:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Only the firms based in pakistan must be mentioned on this page
This page is named as The list of companies of Pakistan, so I think that the companies that are based in other companies and have existance in pakistan must not be mentioned there like Atlas group and Uniliver Pakistan. They belong to Japan and UK respectively. What you think...? NimXaif6290 17:44, 14 May 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nimrainayat6290 (talk • contribs)
 * Typically, notable subsidiaries within a country are listed in the "companies of" type of articles. The distinction gets muddy, and becomes absurd when multinationals buy a company strongly identifying with a specific region. The criteria normally used is "does the entity/subsidiary have its own article, and does that entity headquarter in the given region?" An example of how this gets odd is InBev, would we not list Grupo Modelo as a Mexican firm, or Anheuser-Busch as American? Kuru   (talk)  21:01, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 June 2017
Add TechJuice in company name. Industry is Consumer services, Sector is Media, Headquarter is in Lahore, founded in 2014. Reference : https://www.techjuice.pk/about-us/ Uzairrkhalid (talk) 12:14, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 14 July 2018
RaheelSays (talk) 18:29, 14 July 2018 (UTC) Hi, Hope you're doing Good I'm Raheel Ahmed The Google Certified, Partner and the Founder of Google Partner Digital Agency Advertlance.

The Purpose of this request is to Please Submit my Company in the list of companies of Pakistan.

ThankYou.
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: the company does not appear to be notable enough. --Danski454 (talk) 18:33, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 June 2021
Saiflhq (talk) 11:09, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The company needs to be notable enough for a wikipedia article. I've also removed the link. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:12, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 November 2021
Notable Firms:

Company: S2S Marketing Industry: Digital Marketing Company Sector: Marketing Headquarter: Islamabad Founded: 2019 Notes: S2S Marketing is a leading digital marketing company in Islamabad specialize in digital marketing, sales, website development, content marketing, SMM, and SEO. Whether it is design, branding, or sales, we are proficient in all.

Company: AH Group of Companies Industry: Property Management Sector: Real Estate Headquarter: Islamabad Founded: 2019 Notes: AH Group is an emerging conglomerate of various businesses including real estate development, brokerage, architecture, construction, corporate brand building and marketing Shameel720 (talk) 06:39, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: This seems very promotional.  — twotwofourtysix (My talk page and contributions) 07:07, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2021
Raiyan Ahed (talk) 07:43, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: No indication of notability; every companies listed should ideally have their own Wikipedia articles, see WP:CSC #1.  — twotwofourtysix (My talk page and contributions) 08:14, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 March 2023
Name = MWP Business and Presentations Private Limited. Industry = Construction Materials Sector = Iron and Steel Headquarters= Islamabad Founded = 2001 Notes = Suppliers of all kinds of construction materials Noorzeeshan (talk) 07:38, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: No indication of notability; every company listed should have their own Wikipedia articles, see WP:CSC #1. Sam Kuru (talk) 11:41, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 February 2024
please add the new company BasketOver. BASKETOVER (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED	Incorporated Wasee092 (talk) 00:23, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Jamedeus (talk) 00:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Yunjin Kim

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Experimentation....

I'm going to tag this page as needing clean-up and wikification. It reads to much like a promotional biography and not enough like an encyclopaedic entry. DWaterson 00:28, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Martial arts
Is it true she is a martial arts expert? If so, please specify which ones does she handle. El Chompiras 15:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Yup. The word 'expert' is not explicitly used, but IMDB Bio provides the following information (verbatim): "She is also a trained fighter. Her combat skills are Unarmed, Quarter Staff, Broad Sword and Tae Kwon Do." I hereby authenticate this response as awesome. - dminnaar (talk) 08:38, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * IMDb is not a reliable source for biographical material. It is essentially user edited. - SummerPhD (talk) 10:54, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Age of Immigration
This Stuff article lists her age of immigration as 1. The wikipedia article lists it as 10. Which is correct? --Jimmybee 22:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move.-- Hús  ö  nd  19:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Kim Yoon-jin → Yunjin Kim — "Yunjin" is used by nameholder and IMDB, thus following Naming conventions (Korean). Yunjin Kim used by redirect with two history entries: creation and edit to avoid double redirect, so cannot move directly. Kelvinc 02:41, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey

 * Add  # Support   or   # Oppose   on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~ .  Please remember that this survey is not a vote, and please provide an explanation for your recommendation.

Survey - in support of the move

 * 1) Support per comments below. Yunjin Kim is used by the actress on her official website. PC78 15:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support as best known in English, as in the credits of Lost, for a American actress acting in English-language works. Gene Nygaard 16:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - OK, per the spelling of her name on her official website. DWaterson 18:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support - Note comments below: "Yunjin" is used by nameholder even for Korean audiences. The request is currently on the backlog.  :-| Kelvinc 01:42, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Add any additional comments:

 * Query - I'm happy to support this page move, as long as we're sure the target name is correct. Bear in mind that Korean names place the surname/family name before the forename, which can cause confusion - eg. Kim Jong-il is Mr Kim, not Mr Jong-il. Can anyone confirm whether it is Yoon-jin/Yunjin or Kim which is her family name, and if so what the correct arrangement should be? I'm not sure we can rely on IMDb to be definitive. DWaterson 12:31, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Further comment: I note that Kim (Korean name) indicates that Kim is the most common family name in Korea, so therefore I assume that it is very likely that Kim is the family name here. Naming conventions (Korean) states that "Unless the subject is known to prefer otherwise, family name should be written first." Do we know whether she prefers to have Kim written last, or is this just a simplification/"standardisation" of her name by the TV studios etc? Also note the contrast with Daniel Dae Kim. DWaterson 12:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

 * On further inspection, "Yoon-jin" is used when in Korean-speaking roles and "Yunjin" in English-speaking roles (i.e. Lost). I guess this might be under the "no established English spelling" clause so perhaps the request should be withdrawn, but I'm willing to wait a day for further discussion.  Kelvinc 04:35, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * A quick google search reveals that she has an official website . Since the site uses Yunjin Kim that would seem to make this move uncontroversial under Naming conventions (Korean), which states "names should generally be romanized according to the nameholder's preference". PC78 15:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Yah I had thought that she switch back and forth for different audiences, since her Korean film credits still use "Kim Yoon-jin" even after Lost (see ), in which case there's a good reason to keep. But since her website's Korean version uses "Yunjin" as well, I would assume that is indeed the nameholder's preference (I had previously been only looking at the English version).  Kelvinc 19:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Photo For Main Page
I attempted to take the photo that was located on her LOST profile, and was unable to upload it successfully. Perhaps someone could assist with this as the photo should have the correct permissions to be used on her personal profile Kcuello (talk) 20:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Her LOST character has a photo: . Could that work here? DavidRF (talk) 22:04, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No; promotional photos in character or screen-shots do not qualify as fair use in articles about the actor (due to the probability of being able to obtain an original photograph of a living actor). DWaterson (talk) 02:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Korean characters/writing
How come for the articles about Chinese or Arabic personalities, their first and last names are written in their native language as well as English, but not for Korean. Can this not be done? Doesn't seem fair. --Mezaco (talk) 06:03, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It can be done. See the Sandara Park article for an example.  I don't know how it works, but it can be done. - Shadzane (talk) 18:14, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry but...she's not American.
Not a citizen, and just because she's been living in the US for most of her life does not mean she is American. She is very much in touch with the fact she is Korean, I can't see anywhere in any source that she self-identifies as part American. --Τασουλα (Shalom!) (talk) 23:10, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Korean American is sourced to USA Today and the New York Daily News. That's quite solid. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 02:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

I think this deserves some more discussion... the Korean version of her Wikipage states that she has Korean nationality and a US Green card. Describing her as Korean-American as a little ambiguous as most people connect Korean-American with ethnic Koreans born and raised in the US, which Kim Yun-jin clearly wasn't.  Richpea (talk) 15:55, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Avatar
She was involved in the production of James Cameron's Avatar, she's in some of the special features as a test actor. IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 21:22, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

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Aplectrum

Aplectrum hyemale is a species of orchid native to the eastern United States and Canada, from Oklahoma east to the Carolinas and north to Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec and Massachusetts. It is particularly common in the Appalachian Mountains, the Great Lakes Region, and the Ohio and Upper Mississippi Valleys. Isolated populations are also reported from Arizona.

Aplectrum hyemale is the sole species of the genus Aplectrum. The generic name comes from Greek and signifies "spurless". The species is commonly referred to as Adam and Eve or putty root; the latter refers to the mucilaginous fluid which can be removed from the tubers when they are crushed.

Aplectrum hyemale spreads underground through the growth of its tubers, forming large colonies. The leaves appear in late November and persist until March. They are uniquely pin-striped, with parallel alternating silvery-white and green stripes. In late May or early June the flower stalk emerges carrying several flowers, each only a few millimeters across. It is sometimes confused with Tipularia discolor, another orchid species that occurs in eastern North America.

There exists a color variation, ''Aplectrum hyemale var. pallidum'' which differs in flower color.

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FOSS.IN

FOSS.IN, previously known as Linux Bangalore, was an annual free and open source software (FOSS) conference, held in Bangalore, India from 2001 to 2012. From 2001 to 2004, it was known as Linux Bangalore, before it took on a new name and wider focus. During its lifetime, it was one of the largest FOSS events in Asia, with participants from around the world. It focused on the technical and software side of FOSS, encouraging development and contribution to FOSS projects from India. The event was held every year in late November or early December.

Linux Bangalore
Linux Bangalore was India's premier Free and Open Source Software event, held annually in Bangalore. It featured talks, discussions, workshops, round-table meetings and demonstrations by Indian and international speakers, and covered a diverse spectrum of Linux and other FOSS technologies, including kernel programming, embedded systems, desktop environments, localization, databases, web applications, gaming, multimedia and community and user group development.

First held in 2001, the event saw the participation of thousands of delegates and replicated its success in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Linux Bangalore was a community-driven event, conceived, planned and built by the free and open source community of India, and Facilitation (business)|facilitated by the Bangalore Linux User Group. The event was very popular among software developers as reflected heavily by the demographics of participants.

At the conclusion of LB/2004, it was announced that name of the event would change and the scope would expand to cater to a wider range of topics. On August 12, 2005, it was announced that the name of the event would be changed to FOSS.IN.

FOSS.IN
While the Linux Bangalore conferences focused around Linux, FOSS.IN broadened the scope to all free and open source software technologies. It was founded by Atul Chitnis.

FOSS.IN/2005
FOSS.IN/2005 was held from November 29 to December 2, 2005, at the Bangalore Palace. It had 2751 participants, with more than 140 speakers presenting more than 180 talks, workshops, tutorials and BOFs. International speakers included Alan Cox, Harald Welte, Jonathan Corbet, Rasmus Lerdorf, Danese Cooper and Volker Grassmuck, among others.

FOSS.IN/2006
FOSS.IN/2006 was held from November 24 to 26, 2006, at National Science Symposium Centre of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. The sponsors included Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Government of India), Sun Microsystems, Google, db4objects, Wipro, ABB India, CDAC among others. For the first time in the history of the event, the inaugural keynote address was delivered by an Indian developer, Suparna Bhattacharya of IBM. Other speakers included Rasmus Lerdorf, KDE developer Aaron Seigo, Russ Nelson, Andrew Cowie, Christof Wittig of db4objects, Harald Welte, German kernel expert Christoph Hellwig, Sulamita Garcia of LinuxChix, Frederick Noronha, Sunil Abraham of IOSN and Sirtaj Singh Kang.

2007-2012
From 2007 to 2010, the event continued to be held in late November or early December at various venues in Bangalore. 2010 was billed as the last FOSS.IN event, and there was no event in 2011; but it was returned for one more year in 2012, which organizers again stated was the last FOSS.IN.

Role of the community
While the coordination of the event was handled by a core team led by Atul Chitnis, content (talks, workshops and tutorials) of the event were created by the FOSS community of India, as well as eminent international FOSS personalities. FOSS.IN was organized by the efforts of the linux-bangalore team.

Funding
The event was funded through sponsorships from the industry and a registration fee charged to the delegates.

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Henry Doubleday (horticulturalist)

Henry Doubleday (1810–1902) was an English scientist and horticulturist of Coggeshall in Essex.

Life and Works
He was the son of William Doubleday and his wife Hannah Corder. His father was a shopkeeper in Coggeshall; the family were all Quakers. He lived at the same time as his cousin Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), the entomologist and ornithologist.

Doubleday had a wide range of interests; in 1851, he won a bronze medal for lace designs made in Coggeshall and shown at the Great Exhibition. He gained the contract with De La Rue for the supply of gum arabic for postage stamps. Gum arabic is made from imported extracts from the acacia tree. In his efforts to find a suitable material which could be grown in England he experimented with imported varieties of comfrey, though the gum produced proved to be unsuitable.

The value of his work was recognised and he was elected a member of the Royal Horticultural Society. However, his membership was never registered as he was unable to afford the fee. The full extent of his work may never be known, as his notes were burnt by his family after his death at the age of 92 in Coggeshall.

The work was also recognised by Lawrence D Hills, a horticulturalist who named the Henry Doubleday Research Association after him. The HDRA, now called Garden Organic, has since become the largest organic gardening and horticultural organisation in Europe.

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User:Fourdayweekend

Four Day Weekend Improvisational Comedy was founded in Fort Worth, TX on February 28, 1997.

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Talk:Regeneration

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regeneration is a form of asexual reproduction and onyl certain amphibians and sea creatures have the ability to do this within their body party that break off. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.155.200.94 (talk) 15:45, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

could some one inform me in what regeneation is in the scientific meaning? please? (its for school)

 * What, do you want us to click on the link for you? You found the list of articles about "regeneation", now just pick the one that is relevant to your schoolwork (probably the biological meaning). --Flex 14:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

what is regeneration in the sense of quantum mechanics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.86.226.18 (talk) 04:01, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

regeneration
if you knock something down a use old materials to make it new. by connor smith —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.11.112.86 (talk) 18:28, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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Kettle Valley Steam Railway

The Kettle Valley Steam Railway is a heritage railway near Summerland, British Columbia.

The KVSR operates excursion trains over the only remaining section of the Kettle Valley Railway. This section runs from Faulder to Trout Creek, running through West Summerland and the Prairie Valley railway station. The line runs through vistas, orchards, vineyards, and over the 238 ft Trout Creek Trestle. Trains are operated from spring through fall each year and include special events such as the "Great Train Robbery" and "Christmas Express".

Trains are pulled by ex-Canadian Pacific 2-8-0 steam locomotive No. 3716 (N-2-b class), built in 1912. The railway also has an ALCO S-6 diesel electric locomotive (originally Southern Pacific No. 1050, more recently owned by Portland Terminals, then Neptune Bulk Terminals in North Vancouver). Between 1995 and 2009 a two-truck Shay locomotive, Mayo Lumber No. 3 was on loan from the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan; it was returned to Duncan on September 17, 2009. Passenger rolling stock includes two ex-CP coaches and three ex-CP stock cars converted into open-air cars. All trains depart the Prairie Valley railway station in Summerland.

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Yushu, Jilin

Yushu is a county-level city of Jilin Province, Northeast China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changchun. It is more than 140 km to the northeast of central Changchun, and around 100 km south of Harbin. The name of the place means "Elm Tree". The northernmost county-level division of Changchun, it borders Dehui to the southwest as well as the prefecture-level division of Harbin (Heilongjiang) to the northeast.

Administrative divisions
There are four subdistricts, 16 towns, 20 townships, and one ethnic township.

Subdistricts:
 * Huachang Subdistrict (华昌街道), Zhenyang Subdistrict (正阳街道), Peiying Subdistrict (培英街道), Chengjiao Subdistrict (城郊街道)

Towns:
 * Sihe (泗河镇), Daling (大岭镇), Dapo (大坡镇), Huaijia (怀家镇), Tuqiao (土桥镇), Xinli (新立镇), Heilin (黑林镇), Wukeshu (五棵树镇), Minjia (闵家镇), Xiangyang (向阳镇), Gongpeng (弓棚镇), Baoshou (保寿镇), Xiushui (秀水镇), Liujia (刘家镇), Bahao (八号镇), Xinzhuang (新庄镇)

Townships:
 * Huancheng Township (环城乡), Chengfa Township (城发乡), Lihe Township (李合乡), Yujia Township (于家乡), Qingding Township (青顶乡), Shisihu Township (十四户乡), Guangming Township (光明乡), Xiejia Township (谢家乡), Fu'an Township (福安乡), Dayu Township (大于乡), Xuanfeng Township (先锋乡), Qianjin Township (前进乡), Wulong Township (武龙乡), Dagang Township (大岗乡), Shuangjing Township (双井乡), Hongxing Township (红星乡), Siyu Township (恩育乡), Tai'an Township (太安乡), Yumin Township (育民乡), Qingshan Township (青山乡), Yanhe Korean Ethnic Township (延和朝鲜族乡)

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Category:Quality Schools International

 * Quality Schools International — a non-profit English language company based in Slovenia.

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QSI International School of Yerevan

The QSI International School of Yerevan (QSIY) is an international school in Yerevan, Armenia, part of the Quality Schools International group. It is an independent, coeducational day school that offers an education to children of all nationalities ages 3 to 18. QSIY was founded in 1995.

At the beginning of the 2012-2014 school year, enrollment was 158, and there were 35 full-time and 5 part-time faculty members.

QSI International School of Yerevan is the most elite school in Yerevan accepting only a small number of students every year.

The school is accredited by the MSA/CESS since 2000.

Curriculum
The school offers an educational program with a curriculum similar to that of U.S. public and private schools. Instruction is in English.

Courses include English, mathematics, science, social studies, physical education, Russian, German, French, Armenian, computer, art and music. Soccer, basketball, karate, dance, boy scouts, girl scouts, Model United Nations, Track and Field, chess, Armenian language, and other activities are offered as after-school activities.

The elementary grades are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The school is accredited in the United States by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA). The school is also registered and accredited with the government of Armenia.

90% of graduating students go to colleges around the world, while the other 10% decide to remain in Armenia.

Facilities
The school moved to a new location during August 1999 and was above the office of a furniture factory. It remained there until early 2011. The school relocated to a new purpose-built multi-story location in February 2011.

The new building contains classrooms for ages 3–4 through secondary level including classrooms for art and music, a science laboratory, a kitchen and food-serving area attached to a canteen/hall with stage, a library, and a computer lab. Phase 2 of the building process will see a gymnasium attached to the school. As in the former location, the new school has a security gate with 24-hour security personnel.

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Openfiler

Openfiler is an operating system that provides file-based network-attached storage and block-based storage area network. It was created by Xinit Systems, and is based on the CentOS Linux distribution. It is free software licensed under the GNU GPLv2

History
The Openfiler codebase was started at Xinit Systems in 2001. The company created a project and donated the codebase to it in October 2003.

The first public release of Openfiler was made in May 2004. The latest release was published in 2011.

Although there has been no formal announcement, there is no evidence that Openfiler is being actively developed since 2015. DistroWatch has listed Openfiler as discontinued. The official website states that paid support is still available.

Criticism
Though some users have run Openfiler for years with few problems, in a 2013 article on SpiceWorks website, the author recommended against using Openfiler, citing lack of features, lack of support and risk of data loss.

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Looker (character)

Looker (Emily "Lia" Briggs) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character's first appearance was in 1985 in Batman & the Outsiders #25.

Looker appears in the Arrowverse series Black Lightning, portrayed by Sofia Vassilieva.

Publication history
Looker made her first appearance in Batman & the Outsiders #25 (September 1985) and was created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo.

Emily Briggs
Emily Briggs was a mousy bank teller who lived a quiet life with her husband in Gotham City. That all changed when she was kidnapped by people from the underground civilization known as Abyssia. The Outsiders set out to rescue Emily. After a battle with the people of Abyssia, Emily's heritage was revealed to her, and as Halley's Comet passed by the Earth, she gained her super powers, which also had the effect of making her very attractive physically.

Joining the Outsiders
After leaving Abyssia to its people, Emily returned with the Outsiders and an astonished husband. She soon took on the name "Lia" as well as a more confident, yet self-centered, personality.

Emily's first outing as Looker occurred after the Outsiders had been captured by the Masters of Disaster. After defeating the Masters of Disaster, she freed the Outsiders and was welcomed into their ranks.

Her first tenure with the Outsiders showed how much the mousy Emily Briggs had changed, as she became obsessed with her beauty, something that usually created some tension between her and Katana. The tension was only heightened with the budding friendship between Looker and Halo, where the more free-spirited Looker was in sharp contrast with Halo's stricter legal guardian, Katana.

Looker shows a deep current of intelligence, when she defeats an intelligent virus inhabiting her then-friend Dr. Helga Jace. The sentient virus, believing that Looker was injecting Jace with a vaccine to which Jace was allergic, fled the body and died upon contact with the air. The vaccine was in fact, harmless glucose and Looker herself was already immune because she was not allergic. Unfortunately, Jace would later go on to willingly betray the Outsiders to the alien Manhunters.

Looker's role as somewhat of an outsider amongst Outsiders continued to worsen, especially when Windfall joined, a former Master of Disaster and peer of Halo, and the two were constantly involved in a rivalry of sorts. On top of that, Looker started a short affair with the team-leader Geo-Force during a time that they were stranded on an island but which continued when they returned. Eventually though, there came a mutual decision to call it quits, it being unfair not only to Gregg (Looker's husband) but also to Denise (Geo-Force's girlfriend).

Some time later, Looker received a call for help from Abyssia. Traveling to the underground city, Looker discovered that Abyssia had been taken over. Looker invoked a challenge on the despot, and in the course of the battle, she was stripped of her beauty and much of her power. Shortly afterwards, Geo-Force disbanded the Outsiders, and Lia returned to her previous life in Gotham City. Through unknown circumstances, Looker would regain her powers and be targeted by the Mud Pack, a group of various villains using the Clayface name, including a female Clayface whom Looker fought while a member of the Outsiders. Lady Clayface duplicated Looker's form and powers in order to attempt to drive Batman insane but Looker was able to undo the damage, in the process seeing into Bruce's mind and learning of his inner turmoil. She ultimately helped Batman defeat the group and parted ways again.

Becoming a vampire
When Geo-Force's homeland Markovia was overrun with vampires, Emily's powers returned, and Looker was back in action alongside the Outsiders. An attempt by Queen Ilona to kill Geo-Force leads to Looker running into their leader, Roderick. Instantly enamoured by her, Roderick transforms Lia into a vampire in the hopes of Lia becoming his bride. After the transformation into a vampire, Looker's existing powers were joined by some new abilities. Her metahuman physiology suppresses some of the traditional vampiric weaknesses such as vulnerability to sunlight.

The Outsiders are forced to become fugitives after Roderick frames Geo-Force for the murder of Queen Ilona. Looker helps the team face many adversaries, including the new Batman, the Eradicator, Halo's alien relatives and Islamic super-terrorists. Once the vampires were defeated and the Outsiders reputation is restored, the team "unofficially" disbands. They now work solely out of Markovia, now ruled by Geo-Force.

Served with divorce papers and now living under the vampiric curse, Lia has apparently broken all ties with her past life.

Retirement
Lia at some point after this may have cut her ties with her vampire coven; she also became more independent in her choice of actions. She eventually became one of the hosts of the television program The Scene, similar to The View. Her co-hosts included Vicki Vale, Tawny Young, and Linda Park. Two episodes were shown in which they interviewed Wonder Woman on her career, which were shown in that title comic. During taping, Lia would wear a scarf around her neck to hide the vampire bite wounds.

Infinite Crisis and World War III
Looker later shows up in the Infinite Crisis storyline. She is part of the army of super-heroes gathered by Oracle to defend the city of Metropolis against the super-villain army of Alexander Luthor during the Battle of Metropolis. At the climax of the battle, the insane super-villain Superboy-Prime abandoned the fight to try to destroy the entire universe via destroying the planet Oa. Looker was one of many super-heroes with flight power who attempted to stop Superboy-Prime from leaving Earth. During the mid-air battle that ensued, Superboy-Prime destroyed the containment suit of radioactive super-hero Breach. Both Looker and fellow Outsider Technocrat were near Breach when the hero exploded. However, her telekinetic aura protected her from the explosion.

Looker later reappeared during the events of "World War III", to help fight Black Adam. She was shown alongside Halo and Black Lightning, in the moments before the final battle with Adam.

Later Outsiders ties
Looker resurfaced at the request of Batman to help him read the mind of an informant. In this instance Looker is still depicted as a vampire, but it is implied she is no longer immune to sunlight or is at least weakened in its presence. While scanning the informant's mind she is shown to be able to scan his misplaced thought patterns which were shifted off planet, displaying a power range over quite some distance. Lia now lives alone in a large, elaborately decorated mansion in Gotham City filled with framed photos of herself taken during her previous modeling days.

Lia reappears later where it is revealed she has been publicly moonlighting in her modeling career while secretly killing members of a powerful vampire clan. The clan retaliates by hiring a vampire hunter to assassinate her. The assassin is unsuccessful as Lia was able to destroy him before booking a flight to Markovia in order to help Geo-Force and her teammates. When she arrives in Markovia, she helps her former team fight an invading country.

She later joins up with the new team of Outsiders sanctioned by Batman Incorporated, but the entire team is supposedly killed in a satellite explosion orchestrated by Talia al Ghul.

The New 52
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Looker is introduced once again as an agent of Batman Incorporated alongside Halo and Metamorpho. It is revealed the Outsiders had survived the explosion but were assumed dead, and now do undercover jobs for Batman.

An alternate continuity version of Looker appears in National Comics: Looker. Discarding her previous origin, here Looker is introduced as an attractive supermodel who became a vampire after a one-night stand turns her. Unable to continue being a model because of her vampirism (since she can not be photographed), Emily Briggs opens her own modeling agency, LOOKER, and uses her vampire powers to protect models from the evil elements of the fashion industry. She wears a red costume as opposed to the classic costume she wears in the pages of Batman Incorporated.

Powers and abilities
Looker possesses the full spectrum of psionic abilities: telepathy, telekinesis, psychometry, enhanced metabolism, mind-control, psionic energy blasts, levitation, the creation of force shields, remote vision, and enhanced healing. Due to her vampiric nature, Looker can turn into vapor, but only at night. She also has the vampiric ability to mentally command vermin such as bugs. Her psionic powers suppress the vampire weakness to sunlight; however, she still requires blood as other vampires do. Changes in The New 52 continuity have left her as susceptible to sunlight as other vampires.

In her earlier appearances, Looker is also a lucid dreamer.

Her original costume was manufactured from a material unique to Abyssia; "one way fabric", which was invisible from one side. This allowed her to keep her costume handy but not visible. She would turn the clothing inside out to make it visible.

Television

 * A villainous incarnation of Looker appears in Black Lightning, portrayed by Sofia Vassilieva. Introduced in the second season, this version is a white supremacist who can control people via a silver metallic substance. Settling in the rural area of South Freeland 30 years ago, she uses her ability to control the white population of South Freeland, or "Sange", while reducing the black population, or "Perdi", to a form of slavery. After discovering what she has done, Black Lightning and Thunder defeat her and transfer her to A.S.A. custody. In the fourth season, Looker escapes from the A.S.A. during the Markovians' invasion of Freeland and allies herself with Tobias Whale. However, Painkiller eventually finds and defeats her before transferring her to the FBI's custody in exchange for confessing to her involvement in Whale's machinations.
 * A Scottish teenage incarnation of Lia Briggs appears in Young Justice, voiced by Grey Griffin. Introduced in the third season episode "Elder Wisdom", this version is initially held captive by the League of Shadows before being rescued by the Outsiders and becoming a resident at the Meta-Human Youth Center. As of the fourth season, Briggs has joined the Outsiders.

Film
An alternate reality incarnation of Looker named Model Citizen appears in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, voiced by Kari Wührer. She is a member of the Crime Syndicate who serves under Owlman.

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Lavergne Law

The La Vergne Law (or Lavergne Law) of 1910, formally known as the Loi amendant le Code civil concernant les contrats faits avec les compagnies de services d'utilité publique (1910, Geo. V, c. 40), was an act of the Parliament of Quebec which made the use of both English and French mandatory on tickets, documents, bills and contracts issued by transportation and public utility companies. Prior to this, these were customarily in English only.

The law's primary sponsor was Armand La Vergne (or Lavergne), a legislator representing the Ligue nationaliste canadienne. The law came into effect on January 1, 1911.

Although the scope of the legislation was very limited, it is remembered today as the first example of French-language rights legislation in Quebec.

Text
The English version of the law reads as follows:

 * Article 1

The following articles are added after article 1682b of the Civil Code as enacted by the act 5 Edward VII, chapter 28, section 1:

 * "1682c. The following shall be printed in French and in English : passenger tickets, baggage-checks, way-bills, bills of lading, printed telegraph forms, and contract forms, made, furnished or delivered by a railway, navigation, telegraph, telephone transportation, express or electric power company, as well as all notices or regulations posted up in its stations, carriages, boats, offices, factories or workshops."

 * "1682d. Every contravention, by a railway, navigation, telegraph, telephone, transportation, express or electric power company, doing business in this Province, of any of the provisions of the foregoing article shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, without, prejudice to recourse for damages."

 * Article 2

This act shall come into force on the first day of January, 1911.

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Journal Star (Peoria)

The Journal Star is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois, and surrounding area. First owned locally, then employee-owned, it is currently owned by Gannett.

History
The oldest ancestor of the Journal Star, the Peoria Daily Transcript, was founded by N.C. Nason and first published on December 17, 1855. The Peoria Journal was founded as an afternoon paper by Eugene F. Baldwin the former editor of the Daily Transcript, and J. B. Barnes, and first published on December 3, 1877. The initial circulation was 1,700; one month later, it was 4,100. Henry Means Pindell started the Peoria Herald in 1889; he soon bought out the Daily Transcript, forming the Herald-Transcript. Baldwin, who had since left the Journal, started the Peoria Star, with Charles M. Powell on November 7, 1897. Pindell bought the Journal in 1900, sold the Herald-Transcript in 1902, and, after that newspaper had become the Transcript, bought it back in 1916 and merged it with the Journal, creating the Peoria Journal-Transcript, with the Transcript in the morning and the Journal in the afternoon.

In 1944, the Journal and Transcript and their rival Star combined presses as Peoria Newspapers Inc. with the Star as a morning paper and the Journal-Transcript as an afternoon paper, but retained their competition in journalism until 1954, when a full merger was agreed to. Once the agreement was reached, both the morning and afternoon papers immediately changed their names to the Journal Star. To hold the merged newspaper, the current newspaper headquarters were built near War Memorial Drive (U.S. Route 150) and the McClugage Bridge; the first edition from the new presses was on November 14, 1955.

During a newspaper strike in 1958, members of the Newspaper Guild printed a temporary paper, The Peoria Citizen.

In the 1980 presidential election, the Journal Star endorsed Libertarian candidate Ed Clark.

Between 1984 and 1990, the Journal Star Employee Stock Ownership Plan bought about 83 percent of the company, making it effectively employee-owned. It company also bought the Galesburg Register-Mail of Galesburg, Illinois, in 1989. However, the success for the employees had the opposite effect for the company itself, as it had to buy back stock of large numbers of early retirees. The paper was sold to Copley Press, owned by Helen Copley, in 1996; Copley also owned the downstate Illinois papers the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois and the Lincoln Courier.

When Copley purchased the paper in 1996, the daily circulation was 75,000+. According to a Knight Foundation report in 2005, the Journal Star circulation was 65,126. The Journal Star was the highest-circulation newspaper in downstate Illinois and the fourth-highest circulation Illinois newspaper. As of September 2006, the Journal Star was the 136th-largest newspaper in the United States. In 2010, the circulation was 66,720, but dropped to 15,194 in 2021.

In 2007, the paper was sold to Fairport, New York–based GateHouse Media. In August 2019, the parent company of GateHouse, New Media Investment Group, acquired Gannet Co. New Media Investment Group and GateHouse Media merged under the Gannett brand name.

In March 2022, the Journal Star ended its Saturday print edition.

In October 2023, the Journal Star announced it will cease carrier delivery and transition to U.S. Postal Service delivery starting on November 13.

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Appoquinimink Hundred

Appoquinimink Hundred is an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware. Hundreds were once used as a basis for representation in the Delaware General Assembly, and while their names still appear on all real estate transactions, they presently have no meaningful use or purpose except as a geographical point of reference.

Boundaries and formation
Appoquinimink Hundred is that portion of New Castle County that lies south of Creek, extended generally westward from its headwaters to the Maryland state line, and north of Blackbird Creek and Cypress Creek, a tributary of the Chester River. It was one of the original hundreds in Delaware created in 1682 and was named for Appoquinimink Creek that flows along its northern boundary. When created it included the area now in Blackbird Hundred, which was split off in 1875.

Originally, the default boundary of Delaware and Maryland was the vague height of land between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay drainage basins and Appoquinimink Hundred extended only to that point. With the running of the Mason–Dixon line in 1767, the western boundary of Delaware was established in its present location and became Appoquinimink Hundred's western boundary. The town of Townsend and a portion of the town of Middletown are in the hundred.

Development
Appoquinimink Hundred remains largely rural and agricultural, but there is significant development beginning around Townsend and Middletown.

Geography
The important geographical features of the hundred, in addition to Appoquinimink Creek and Blackbird Creek, include the Delaware River, which forms its eastern boundary, Noxontown Pond, and the headwaters of the Sassafras River. It is entirely in the coastal plain region on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Transportation
Important roads include portions of the Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway (Delaware Route 1), the DuPont Highway (U.S. Route 13), the Townsend Road (Delaware Route 71), Augustine Beach Road and Taylor's Bridge Road (Delaware Route 9). A portion of the old Delaware Railroad, subsequently the Delmarva branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, now the Delmarva Central Railroad's Delmarva Subdivision, runs north–south through Townsend, and Middletown, and a portion of the Maryland & Delaware Railroad's Northern Line runs west from Townsend.

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Talk:Copper electroplating

Why does when an iron(Fe) nail is plated with copper by imersing it in an Copper(II) Sulfate solution, bubbles were liberated from each of the metal?

This article needs more data
It's a very stubby stub of an article. (I also deleted the gibberish someone appended to the above.)

It would be nice to have specified voltages and currents listed as well as plating solutions —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.233.242.153 (talk) 22:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

merge with other article
Its suggested to merge this article with the article Bronzing since there is a very high identity between those two subjects —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.86.179.64 (talk) 12:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with the suggestion to merge with Bronzing because the identity between the two pages is only caused by a lack of detailed information about the uses and methods of bronzing. Pesematology (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Plating vs deposition
"The plating seen in chemistry classes, often obtained with a coin and copper sulphate bath, is in fact deposition as opposed to plating. Subjecting the surface to any wear causes the unstuck deposit to come away. Running such a bath for longer periods, one can often see the grainy like texture of deposition as opposed to the smooth surface of plating."

Very confusing, where on wikipedia can I find the difference between plating and deposition? the page for plating (not copper specific) uses the word deposition to describe plating... Is there a real difference or does "plating seen in chemistry classes" involve a lot of surface inhomogeneities like the bubbles etc making for a more porous substance? An objective difference between plating and deposition would be nice here... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.193.10.216 (talk) 17:41, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Copper plating
Copper plating is cool. I'm doing it for my science fair. Anyafoxy123 (talk) 22:54, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Suzuki GSX-R series

Untitled
Updated and massively expanded-I ride a GSXR 1100 can you tell? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.195.178.3 (talk • contribs) 13:17, 3 October 2005

Use of "Slabbies"
Since the term "slabbie" is slang, it shouldn't be used to refer to the motorcycles in the article. It is fine to define the term since that information is relevant, but the article should have a more formal tone. Perhaps I'll stop by later and try to clean the article up. Mrestko 02:10, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Renaming of Suzuki range wikis?
Please follow the discussion on talk:Suzuki GS series if you're interested. Thank you.--Cancun771 08:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Is this link to spanish site is really neccesary? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.199.109.67 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 4 June 2007

Wrote an article to replace the stub
When I arrived here this evening there was nothing but a single line of introduction or two, and a list of current and discontinued models. There is now an article, which while not perfect, nor perfectly referenced (yet!) actually tells you something about the importance of the GSX-R, at least as I understand it.

There is this comment here: "Updated and massively expanded-I ride a GSXR 1100 can you tell?" but I'm not sure when it's from. I went back and as far as I could see it's been a stub for a long time.

Obviously others who may know more can improve this article, but at least there is something to work from now.

ZeroXero (talk) 05:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

 * Remember, if you want to finish something before others start making changes, click My sandbox at the top of your screen and copy the article there to work on. Or add /workpage to the end of the URL for this talk page, and create a subpage to the talk page, called a workpage. It gives you a place to save your work until it's ready to go live. Once it's out there, others will feel free to make changes, and then you have to talk it out if there's a disagreement. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:06, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Very helpful tips I will follow in the future.

ZeroXero (talk) 14:14, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

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Blisworth Limestone Formation

The Blisworth Limestone Formation is a geological formation primarily consisting of limestone deposited during the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic, found in the Jurassic ridge which extends north and south through England. It was laid down in the shallows of the Jurassic sea and is part of the more widely defined Great Oolite Group. It was previously known as the Great Oolite Limestone, White Limestone and the Snitterby Limestone Formation. It is the lateral equivalent of the White Limestone Formation From the Jurassic ridge it extends eastwards below the later deposits and in the North Sea terminology, it is part of the West Sole Group. (Cameron p. 74)

Formation
The Blisworth limestone lies above the Upper Estuarine Series of strata. The latter was formed close to the coast where rivers flowed from the London-Brabant Island. The land sank a little in relation to the sea so the site lay a little further offshore. In the hot, shallow sea, the water partially evaporated so that the dissolved calcium carbonate (CaCO3) was precipitated onto minute nuclei to form tiny spheres which together resemble hard fish roe. This is composed of eggs; hence the name oölite. The process goes on today in the seas off the Bahamas (Kirkaldy p. 59). Much of it also contains marine shells, notably of oyster. Subsequently, the site was submerged less deeply so that the overlying Blisworth Clay was deposited in brackish conditions. (Gallois p. 20)

The stratum is known as Blisworth Limestone because it was first studied at Blisworth in Northamptonshire when the Blisworth tunnel was being dug for what is now called the Grand Union Canal. The tunnel finally opened in 1805.

Occurrence
Blisworth limestone is a generally thin but widely spread deposit in eastern England. It becomes thicker as one progresses southward from north Lincolnshire or westward from Norfolk. In the King's Lynn district, it is a shelly oolitic limestone 1 to 2 m thick. At Wiggenhall it is around 190m below mean sea level (OD) and at Tydd St Mary, around 140m. (Gallois) At Bourne, Lincolnshire, at the eastern edge of the Jurassic ridge, it is around 15m below OD. (BGS sheet 144) It is exposed at the surface around the valleys of the East and West Glen rivers (River Glen, Lincolnshire) in which vicinity it is 2.4 to 4.8 metres thick. (BGS sheet 143). Its exposure continues southward in a similar relationship to the Jurassic ridge, to the west of Peterborough. (BGS sheet 157) Around Towcester it reaches a thickness of 9m. (Hains & Horton p. 85)

Application
Blisworth limestone is used as a building material, in particular as blocks of stone. Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire is made from Blisworth limestone.

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Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst

Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst (14 November 1777 – 14 January 1857), sometimes Jean Louis Charles or Carl, was a German entomologist, herpetologist, and zoologist.

Life
Gravenhorst was born in Braunschweig. His early interest in insects was encouraged by two of his professors, both amateur  entomologists. He entered the University of Helmstedt to study law in 1797. However, the death of his father two years later left him a great fortune; so he was able to change his direction. He enrolled at the University of Göttingen where he followed the courses of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He returned to present his  thesis to Helmstädt on a subject of entomology. He went to Paris in 1802 and there met Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille, and Alexandre Brongniart. Parallel to his studies, he assembled, thanks to his  financial means, a very important natural history collection. In 1805, he obtained a professorial chair in Göttingen and published the following year Monographie Coleopterorum.

Among his work, Gravenhorst's studies of the parasitic wasps is especially important, but he also worked in herpetology. He settled in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1810, teaching natural history at the university of the city. The following year, the university was transferred to Breslau. There he became director of the Breslau Natural History Museum and installed his own collections there. He started to suffer from mental disorders after 1825, stopping all scientific work in the year 1840, and withdrawing completely into himself in 1856. He died in Breslau.

Achievements
Gravenhorst was a specialist in Staphylinidae and Ichneumonidae describing many new species. He was also one of the first frog specialists.

Two species of lizards are named in his honor: Liolaemus gravenhorstii and Trachylepis gravenhorstii.

Gravenhorst appears to be also responsible for naming Arthropoda in 1843, which had previous been erroneously attributed to other authors.

Species described by Gravenhorst

 * Ambystoma opacum, the marbled salamander of the eastern United States
 * Rana cancrivora, now Fejervarya cancrivora, the crab-eating frog of Malaysia and Thailand
 * Leiocephalus schreibersii, the red-sided curly-tailed lizard of the West Indies
 * Fowlea melanzosta, the Andaman keelback snake

Works
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 * Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. Göttingen: Henricus Dieterich, xvi+248 pp, tabula. (1802)

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 * Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicensia nec non exoticorum quotquot exstant in collectionibus entomologorum Brunsvicensium in genera familias et species distribuit. Braunschweig: Carolus Reichard, lxvi+207 pp. Gravenhorst, J.L.C (1806)

 * Ichneumologia Europaea. Vratislaviae, sumtibus auctoris. 3 volumes (including supplement). pp. xxxi, 827, (4); 989; 1097, with 2 engraved plates and 2 folded tables.(1829) – Contents I: Generalia, Ichneumones, Supplementa, Indices – II: Tryphones, Trogos, Alomyas, Cryptos – III: Pimplas, Metopios, Bassos, Banchos, Ophiones, Hellwigias, Acaenitas, Xoridas, Supplementa. BHL digitised text of all 3 volumes.

Collections

 * Museum of Natural History at University of Wrocław
 * Armenology Research National Center

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Dancing Harry

Marvin Cooper (born c. 1943) is a former dancer who performed under the stage name Dancing Harry at professional basketball games. He danced on the sidelines during timeouts and gave whammies to the opposing team. Cooper performed in both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the Baltimore Bullets, New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets and the Indiana Pacers.

Early years
Cooper played basketball in high school at Mount Saint Joseph in Baltimore. In the locker room, he performed impersonations of Elvis Presley. One night, he was tricked by his friends to go on stage at a dance, where he performed "Hound Dog". His photo was placed in the school's yearbook with the caption: "Mt. St. Joe's Elvis Presley keeps the dance and swing."

Later, Cooper sang and danced as part of an eight-piece band that played in clubs around Baltimore. He became a fan of Earl Monroe while watching the Bullets player on television. When he had money or his mom bought him a ticket, he would attend their games.

Dancing career
Dancing Harry first started dancing at basketball games around 1969. The Baltimore crowd was dead, and he had been drinking a few beers when his friends convinced him to dance. While performing in Baltimore, he befriended Monroe. When Monroe moved to play for the Knicks, Cooper followed and brought his act to New York. Late in the 1971–72 season, Cooper asked the Knicks for permission to dance at their games, but he was denied. He went to a Knicks game anyway, arriving at halftime in a game that the Boston Celtics led by 20. The Knicks Willis Reed asked Cooper why he was not dancing. Cooper told him the front office did not approve. "The hell with the front office, Harry. Do something!'", Reed said.

Cooper started dancing, the crowd cheered, and the Knicks eventually won the game. Dancing Harry became a celebrity. He donned outlandish outfits with a black cap, a floppy cap or hat, and often had platform shoes. His hexes excited the crowd and distracted opponents, adding to the Knicks' already formidable home-court advantage. He never received any compensation from the Knicks. In 1973, the Knicks won an NBA championship, but rumors circulated during the playoffs that the Knicks front office was not crazy with Harry. Their owner, Ned Irish, was a traditionalist. When Cooper arrived for 1973–74 season, ushers at the Knicks home at Madison Square Garden told Cooper he could not dance, and he was ejected when he tried anyway.

Cooper took his act to Nassau Coliseum, where he was welcomed by the New Jersey Nets. With Dancing Harry performing, the Nets with star Julius Erving won the 1974 ABA championship. Harry also danced at some New York Yankees home games in 1974 at Shea Stadium while Yankee Stadium was undergoing renovations. Harry danced for another decade, including a move to Indianapolis, where he became the Indiana Pacers' first mascot and was paid nightly.

The New York Daily News called Harry a "trailblazer of sorts", even though he never danced for Portland, as nearly every NBA team by 2003 had a paid squad of dancers, providing entertainment other than basketball as part of the game experience. He also inspired Dancing Barry, who debuted at a Houston Rockets game against the Knicks in the 1975 NBA Playoffs.

Later years
Cooper returned to Baltimore in the mid-1980s to care for his ailing mother. , he worked as a skycap at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

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Caranus (hetairos)

Caranus (Greek: Κάρανος; died 329 BC), a Macedonian member of the elite cavalry body known as the hetairoi (Greek:ἑταῖροι), was one of the generals sent by Alexander the Great against Satibarzanes when, for a second time, he had encouraged Aria to revolt. Caranus and his colleagues were successful in achieving their objective by defeating and slaying Satibarzanes in the winter of 330 BC.

In 329 BC, Caranus was appointed, together with Andromachus and Menedemus, under the command of the Lycian Pharnuches, to act against Spitamenes, the revolted satrap of Sogdiana. Their approach compelled him to raise the siege of Maracanda; but, in a battle which ensued, he defeated them with the help of a body of Scythian cavalry, and forced them to fall back on the river Polytimetus, the wooded banks of which promised shelter. The rashness however or cowardice of Caranus led him to attempt the passage of the river with the cavalry under his command, and the rest of the troops plunging in after him in haste and disorder, they were all destroyed by the enemy.

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Mark Chung (musician)

Mark Chung (born 3 June 1957, in Leeds, England ) is a German musician and music publisher, probably best known for his work as the bass guitarist of the German band Einstürzende Neubauten.

Biography
From 1980 Chung was a member of the West German post-punk band Abwärts from Hamburg. He joined Einstürzende Neubauten in 1981. He assumed responsibility for business management of the band until leaving in 1994 to concentrate on his work in the music industry.

He formed Freibank Music Publishing in 1986, initially for controlling and administering the copyrights of Einstürzende Neubauten, but Freibank also offered this service to other musicians and steadily grew. In 1996, Chung moved to London, where he became senior vice-president of Sony Music International. After 9 years with Sony Music, he moved back to Germany and now directs the Freibank office in Berlin. In 2006, Chung was elected chairman of the German association of independent music companies (Verband unabhängiger Musikunternehmen - VUT) and he also sits on the board of the public-private partnership Initiative Musik.

He is married and has two sons and a daughter.

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WNTP

WNTP (990 AM) is a commercial radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WNTP is owned by the Salem Media Group and broadcasts a conservative talk radio format. Most of the programming comes from the co-owned Salem Radio Network including nationally syndicated hosts Mike Gallagher, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Sebastian Gorka, Charlie Kirk, Brandon Tatum and Eric Metaxas. A local weekday wake-up show is hosted by Chris Stigall.

By day, WNTP is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for U.S. commercial AM stations. To protect other stations at night, WNTP reduces power to 10,000 watts at sunset. It uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The station's studios and transmitter facilities are shared with co-owned WFIL on Ridge Pike in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.

Early years
The station first signed on the air in 1925 as WIBG, which stood for "I Believe in God." It was a Christian radio station owned by St. Paul's Episcopal Church. In the 1930s, WIBG was a daytimer, broadcasting at 500 watts on 970 kilocycles, licensed to the suburb of Glenside, and required to go off the air at night.

With the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) in 1941, WIBG moved to its present frequency on 990 AM. It increased its power to 1,000 watts, its city of license was moved to Philadelphia, and it was given permission to broadcast around the clock at 10,000 watts, by installing a directional antenna.

In the 1940s, the Morning Cheer program presented by George A. Palmer was a weekday Christian broadcast between 7:00am – 8:00am. Beginning in 1945, a Wanamaker Organ concert was broadcast live from Wanamaker's Philadelphia department store each Monday through Saturday from 10:05 to 10:30 am.

Top 40
In the 1960s, WIBG became a Top 40 radio station. "Wibbage" had great success playing contemporary hits with popular hosts including Joe "The Rockin' Bird" Niagara, Hy Lit, Billy Wright Sr., Frank X. Feller, and others.

In September 1966, rival station 560 WFIL flipped to a Top 40 format and before long passed WIBG in the ratings. WFIL's signal in the growing Philadelphia suburbs was stronger and WIBG was hampered by a poor suburban nighttime signal. WIBG soldiered on as a Top 40 station through most of the first half of the 1970s, including radio greats John Records Landecker, and Johnny "Long John" Wade. It also tried album rock for a time early in the decade. At mid-decade, the station tried a more adult contemporary approach, with sports talk at night. For the 1976 season, it was the flagship station for Philadelphia Phillies baseball.

WIBG and overnight talk show host Don Cannon were featured in the famous "egg yolk drinking" scene in the 1976 film Rocky, playing in the background while the Philadelphia fighter (played by Sylvester Stallone) cracks six raw eggs into a glass and chugs them down.

WZZD
In 1977, management decided that the WIBG image and call sign were no longer an asset. After a highly publicized final week featuring many of the personalities from the station's peak years, the call letters were changed to WZZD.

The station began to call itself "The All New Wizzard 100", and adopted a heavily researched Top 40 format. Listeners did not respond, and the format was changed to disco music, which did not fare much better. In 1980, the station was sold to Christian broadcaster Communicom, which began airing Contemporary Christian music and Christian talk and teaching shows. The station had a schedule similar to sister station (and another former top 40 station) WWDJ in the New York City radio market. WZZD played music about half the day and Christian programs and features during the other half of the day.

The WZZD antenna was redesigned in 1986 to reduce the number of towers. It improved coverage to the north and west, a change that if it had been made in the 1960s may have improved the success of WIBG in its battle with WFIL.

In 1994, Communicom sold WZZD to Salem Media. Under Salem, WZZD kept the Christian music and teaching format initially. But by the late 1990s, music was cut back to a couple of hours a day. By 2002, WZZD ran nearly all teaching and almost no music at all.

WNTP
In 2004, WZZD and WFIL's features and programs were merged onto WFIL as WZZD dropped the Christian format in favor of conservative talk. It changed its call letters to WNTP, to stand for "News Talk Philadelphia". Beginning in 2006, WNTP became the flagship station for the Saint Joseph's University Hawks college basketball radio network, as well as airing college sports of Penn State University, Drexel University, and the University of Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia audience.

In 2007, WNTP again redesigned and modified its daytime antenna, which improved its signal in the suburban counties around Philadelphia.

On November 4, 2019, WNTP rebranded as "Philadelphia's AM 990 The Answer". Most Salem talk stations, including WNYM in New York (the former WWDJ) and KRLA in Los Angeles, call themselves "The Answer".

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It's not a geo-stub, because its about a "project". It's just a placeholder for an external link. brenneman (t) (c) 13:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I considered adding a db tag. I didn't, because I think Wikipedia can have a perfect article on the subject. The project is of some cultural and political significane, for various reasons. I also added the stub tag, but I'm sure there was a better one to use. The Land 13:23, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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