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Leslie Mitchell (historian)

Dr Leslie Mitchell MA, DPhil, FRHistS is an academic historian specialising in British history.

Mitchell is currently an Emeritus Fellow of University College and a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, England. He has been Dean of the college, appeared in the Univ Revue, recruited students for work in the intelligence services and was editor of the University College Record, an annual publication for former members of the college. Mitchell is counted among a talented generation of post-war historians, including Maurice Keen, Alexander Murray and Henry Mayr-Harting.

Books

"'Leslie Mitchell has organised his book along thematic lines. This allows him to sidestep the deadening effects of a linear narrative and to bury in the background the kind of relentless detail that can make reading biography such a slog. It also means that Lytton springs to life from the very first chapters, which concentrate on the relationships with his ghastly mother and peculiar wife. The downside is, inevitably, a certain loss of coherence. This, though, is a small price to pay. Mitchell has a kind eye for this curious man, who now, on the second centenary of his birth, needs not simply an introduction, but a whole book to explain who he once was.'"
 * Reception to Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters

"'In 10 wonderful chapters, as fluid and generous as anything that Macaulay or Trevelyan ever wrote, Mitchell sets about describing a tone, a temper and a style that was emphatically Whig. He takes us from those great 'power statements in stone' of Chatsworth or Woburn Abbey to the buffing and polishing that went on during the grand tour, only reluctantly and temporarily abandoned thanks to a little unpleasantness in Paris; we visit languorous Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's earliest crush, who believed that parliamentary reform was probably inevitable, although he couldn't be bothered to read the detailed clauses of various bills. The result is an elegant exposition of a way of being that informed, without directing, let alone controlling, some of the most important social and political developments of the second half of the Georgian period.'"
 * Reception to The Whig World

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Talk:Mississippi Gulf Coast

Copyvio
To replace the copyvio version, I have written a stub article at Mississippi Gulf Coast/Temp. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 20:23, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Temp page has replaced the main article. RedWolf 17:14, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

User:JeffBordeaux
Jeff is a paid editor with undisclosed conflicts. Rklawton (talk) 22:15, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Piracy
More is needed in History section on piracy in the area during colonial times. Kdevans (talk) 03:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Nerve conduction study

I
I got five minutes into an NCV test and told the examiner to stop. She said, "We're not here to cause you more pain than you already have." I replied, "Too late."

I don't care what web sites tell you about it's not painful; because it's f**king painful. Half a milliamp might not sound like much, but give it about 10kV and it'll get your attention RIGHT NOW. At first, it was probably more startling than painful. But as the electrode went from my wrist to the inside of my elbow, it became pure pain. Don't let anyone tell you this test "may cause mild discomfort" -- that is medical doublespeak.

--Globe199 20:24, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I've been told that it depends on the skill of the examiner. Perhaps you would have had a better experience in someone else's hands.  One family member said he's had it done two or three times; the middle-aged physician who did the first or second time was apparently horrible.  The just-out-of-med-school newbie didn't bother him nearly as much.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:03, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Spend an afternoon in a NCV lab and you will see there is a large variation in how painful the test is to different people. The skill of the examiner doesn't play that much a role except in how many times they have to shock you to get an adequate reading. --Gccwang (talk) 23:24, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

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PAIN AND NCV TEST

Indeed the above person may well suffered this experience but its absolutely wrong and unfair to generalized this statement. Noy everyone who has the electric impulse given feels and reacts as mentioned above. The above information is correct on individual basis and experience but can be misleading if all readers come to believe of what has been explained. About 95% of people easily finish the test with only mild discomfort while the remaining 4.9% have discomfort and may or may not finish the test. Less than 1 percent of patient in our experience feel what has been mentioned above. I have done thousands of these test and this test called NCV is one of the most common and most essential test in Neurology practice. The test helps to provide essential information on the integerty of the nerves to guide in the diagnosis process. Please refer to American Academy of Neurology for more reliable information. Dr. Of Neurology. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.126.239.194 (talk) 20:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I BELIEVE THAT DOCTORS JUST WANT TO CHARGE FOR MORE TESTS

I saw a Neurologist once and the office has left multiple voice mail messages on my home phone and finally sent me a letter asking that I make an appointment to have the NCV. I haven't even gotten the results from the MRIs, EEGs, Xrays and intitial evaluation yet. They won't be getting any more of my money for more tests. The more tests they order, the more money they make. It's a racket!

Shaken2 Port Saint Lucie Florida —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.164.125.254 (talk) 20:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

small pain fiber study?
Anything to back up the small pain fiber study as being routinely accepted? Googling on this doesn't get you much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.253.96.46 (talk) 21:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

PubMed yields zero relevant results for "spf-NCS". I suggest removal of this section because it lacks notability in the medical field. Marco.calabresi (talk) 09:32, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Propose Merge
There is a separate wikipedia article entitled electroneuronography, which is the same procedure as nerve conduction study, just under a different name. As is evident by the content of the ENoG page, this is the term most commonly used for the nerve conduction study of the facial nerve, and in my experience is more commonly used by ENT specialists than by neurologists or PM&R specialists. I would propose that ENoG content be merged into this article, as I believe nerve conduction study to be the more common term used. Please provide input. Thanks. El piel (talk) 22:30, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

 * Oppose merge As you mentioned, ENoG is used more commonly by ENT specialists, and is a distinct test used only on the facial nerve. It should have its own article that discusses the procedure, measurements, and interpretation; they are not the same as for a NCV. We can have a brief section on ENoG on the NCV article, but with a redirect to electroneuronography as the main article.  --Gccwang (talk) 19:43, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Propose a different merge
The article electromyoneurography appears to describe nerve conduction studies, and it looks to be a synonym. Nerve conduction study is the more widely used term today to describe this procedure for nerve testing. Most neurologists say "EMG" or "EMG and NCV" when talking about doing both tests together.

Please note this is a different article than electroneuronography whose merge proposal is listed in the section above. --Gccwang (talk) 21:53, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Any thoughts? — fortuna  velut luna  10:02, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge: there is great overlap between the current pages. As discussed elsewhere, the nerve conduction study is commonly used as a catch-all phrase to also encompass the simultaneous electromyography, which makes the term almost synonymous with electromyoneurography. Any differences is best discussed on the same page. Klbrain (talk) 07:31, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Here's my brief summary of the 4 overlapping pages and their current scope:

*Nerve conduction study: quite tightly focussed on studies of peripheral nerve function (including motor, sensory and autonomic nerves). *Electromyography: focusses on muscle function studies, but also discusses nerve function in places. Such discussions are helpful in the context, because the study of muscle function by this method necessarily involves the measurement of nerve function *Electromyoneurography: Bridges studies of nerve and muscle function, but overlaps with content particularly on the muscle page; for example, Electromyography and Electromyoneurography cover the same combination of nerve and muscle problems; the former is more comprehensive, and the latter is more elegantly formatted and selective. *Electroneuronography: A discipline-specific term (in modern use) reflecting studies of the facial nerve and the muscles it innervates; mostly performed by audiologists and argued elsewhere to have independent notability.
 * Given the above, my feeling is that Electromyoneurography overlaps more with Electromyography than with Nerve conduction study, and therefore is better merged to this alternative target. Klbrain (talk) 08:38, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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Roy Giles

Roy Giles is an academic and recognised expert on counterterrorism, as well as a former colonel in the British Army.

During his Army career, Giles served with the British liaison mission to the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany commonly known as BRIXMIS. He formed and led the Joint Arms Control Implementation Group, declared operational by the Ministry of Defence on 1 January 1991. He later continued research into similar topics at the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA).

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Exile (Geoffrey Oryema album)

Exile is the debut album by the Ugandan musician Geoffrey Oryema. It was released in 1990. The album has sold more than 50,000 copies.

Oryema escaped his country after his father was assassinated during the rule of Idi Amin, as chronicled in "Solitude". Many of the songs contain nostalgia about the land and the people Oryema had to leave.

Production
The album was produced by Brian Eno, with Eno and Peter Gabriel providing backing vocals on some songs. It was engineered by David Bottrill. Oryema played the lukeme, among other instruments. He sang in Acoli, English, and Swahili. The title track calls for an end to tribal fighting in Africa.

Critical reception
The Los Angeles Daily News stated that "Oryema is a folk artist who sings in a syncopated style to the minimal backing of percussion, acoustic guitars and a seven-string harp called a nanga." The Syracuse Herald-Journal wrote that "the music is lively, the vocals intense."

Track listing
All tracks written and composed by Geoffrey Oryema, unless noted.
 * 1) "Piny Runa Woko"
 * 2) "Land of Anaka" (Geoffrey Oryema and Brian Eno)
 * 3) "Piri Wango Iya"
 * 4) "Ye Ye Ye"
 * 5) "Lacan Woto Kumu"
 * 6) "Makambo" (music from "Likambo Ya Ngana" by Franco Luambo, uncredited)
 * 7) "Jok Omako Nyako"
 * 8) "Solitude"
 * 9) "Lubanga"
 * 10) "Exile"

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South Tyneside College

South Tyneside College is a large further education college in South Tyneside in North East England. Its main site is in the town of South Shields. The college offers part-time and full-time courses for young students and adults. It was formed in 1984 by the merger of Hebburn Technical College and the Marine and Technical College, the latter founded in 1861 by a trust created by Dr Thomas Winterbottom, a former surgeon-general in Sierra Leone.

The college is still one of the largest merchant navy training colleges in the United Kingdom, and attracts students from as far afield as India and Africa. It offers courses in marine subjects marine education such as navigation, operations, mechanical and electrical engineering, communications, and catering.

The Marine and Technical College was formerly based in Ocean Road, South Shields, in a purpose-built building opened in 1869. This is now a public house called Kirkpatricks. There is a marine simulation centre on the main Westoe Campus and college sites throughout South Shields, such as: the Marine Safety Training Centre on Wapping Street; the Radar Station next to Ocean Beach Pleasure Park and the St. Hilda's Centre on Coronation Street. The former planetarium was closed in 2008, despite much local objection, and the space now houses a multi-faith chaplaincy. The college also used to own a campus in Hebburn however this was closed in 2011 due to upkeep costs. Also situated on the Westoe Campus, is the Dr Winterbottom Halls of Residence, otherwise known as "The Coronadrome". Opening in 1978, Dr Winterbottom Halls of Residence comprises six residential blocks, with the majority of the residents being marine students. It became a tertiary college in 1986 after the council's education reorganisation.

Sport
The college has had a rugby club since 1956. This is now known as South Shields RFC after changing its name in 2015. The club is based at the college and trains and plays its home games there. The club currently plays at level 9 in the rugby pyramid and plays in the Durham/Northumberland Three division and in Durham County Cup competitions. The club has three senior sides.

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Egoli Air

Egoli Air is an airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It operates charter flights both domestically and to destinations throughout Africa. Its main base is OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg.

History
The airline was established in 1986 and started operations in June 1986 as Million Air Aviation; it was rebranded as Million Air Charter in 1994 and took the current name in 2004.

Fleet
The Egoli Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2007):
 * 2 Antonov An-32
 * 2 Antonov An-32B

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Terminus (poem)

"Terminus" is a poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was published in May-Day and Other Pieces, his second collection of poetry after Poems. The poem reflects Emerson's status as a transcendentalist and is primarily composed of couplets and triplets.

In the poem, Emerson comments on the inevitability of old age and the harsh certainty of death. Emerson makes this point by invoking the name Terminus, the Roman god of endings and boundaries—this makes the god thematically relevant to the poem. Unlike the Grim Reaper, the character of Terminus is a personification of time as a natural restriction.

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It is time to be old,

To take in sail:—

The god of bounds,

Who sets to seas a shore,

Came to me in his fatal rounds,

And said: “No more!

No farther shoot

Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.

Fancy departs: no more invent;

Contract thy firmament

To compass of a tent.

There’s not enough for this and that,

Make thy option which of two;

Economize the failing river,

Not the less revere the Giver,

Leave the many and hold the few.

Timely wise accept the terms,

Soften the fall with wary foot;

A little while

Still plan and smile,

And,—fault of novel germs,—

Mature the unfallen fruit.

Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires,

Bad husbands of their fires,

Who, when they gave thee breath,

Failed to bequeath

The needful sinew stark as once,

The Baresark marrow to thy bones,

But left a legacy of ebbing veins,

Inconstant heat and nerveless reins,—

Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb,

Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.”

As the bird trims her to the gale,

I trim myself to the storm of time,

I man the rudder, reef the sail,

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime:

“Lowly faithful, banish fear,

Right onward drive unharmed;

The port, well worth the cruise, is near,

And every wave is charmed.”

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Animal Crackers

Animal crackers are a snack of sweet crackers in animal shapes.

Animal Crackers may also refer to:

Film and television

 * Animal Crackers (1930 film), the 1930 Marx Brothers movie based on the Broadway play
 * Animal Crackers (comic), any of several comic strips
 * Animal Crackers (TV series), 1997 animated TV series based on one of the comic strips
 * Animal Crackers (1937 comic strip), American newspaper comic strip
 * Animal Kwackers, a 1975 British children's television series
 * Animal Crackers (2017 film), an animated movie starring Ian McKellen, Danny DeVito, and Sylvester Stallone

Music

 * Animal Crackers (album), the first album by Wee Hairy Beasties
 * The Animal Crackers (band), a Cincinnati, Ohio DJ group
 * "Animal Crackers", tune by Duke Ellington
 * Animal Crackers (musical), the 1928 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind starring the Marx Brothers
 * "Animal Crackers in My Soup", a song sung by Shirley Temple in the 1935 movie Curly Top
 * "Animal Crackers", a 1968 song by Melanie Safka
 * "Animal Crackers", a 2021 song by BoyWithUke

Other uses

 * Animal Cracker Conspiracy Puppet Company, a puppet company co-founded by Iain Gunn and Bridget Rountree
 * "The Animal-Cracker Plot", a science fiction short story written by L. Sprague de Camp
 * An early development name for the puzzle game It's Mr. Pants

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Talk:Adriana Sklenaříková

Measurements
Did some editing, some comments about them:

The height of 182 cm comes for her own website (though it doesn't seem to exist anymore). Elswhere she has been reported to be anywhere from 173 cm (5 ft. 8 in.) to 188 cm (6 ft. 2 in.). Most fansites insist that she's 185 cm (6 ft. 1 in.), and reportedly she has said to be this height herself.

Likewise, her legs have been listed from 121 cm (47½ in.) to 127 cm (50 in.), but the official figure seems to stand at 124 cm (49 in.), apparently accepted by Guinness World Records (can't find it on my books from 1991 to 2005, but then again Guinness doesn't put ALL of the records in the books).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.221.220.31 (talk • contribs) 16:29, 13 October 2005

Name
She really should be under her married name of Karembeu, since it's the one she's using. Her official site (now down?), IMDb, and Playboy use her married name. I don't have a Wikipedia account yet, so I couldn't do it myself.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.221.220.31 (talk • contribs) 16:29, 13 October 2005

Still working?
please let me know if she is still workItalic texting or maybe she ha disappeared,because her health isn't ok.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tomas Szbarro

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete or speedy' --Cel e stianpower hablamé 19:40, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Tomas Szbarro
Would be copyvio from except its presumably Szbarro who posted it. Unverifiable, nn, advertisement, implausible (although I can imagine him performing a 3-way with Madge and Wee Willy all right. Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  20:29, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advert? Hoax? Joke? Vanity? Uh, whatever it is, make it go away. MCB 06:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Do we also delete the page of the Rolling Stones? The Beatles? Please live and let live. Tomas Szbarro
 * There are some issues with the page as it stands. Firstly, it's copy violation from the site mentioned unless it's your site and you're releasing the material into the public domain.  Secondly, how do we verify the accuracy of anything on the site?  It may be perfectly valid but how can it be checked?  Thousands of people with no relationship to them have written about the Rolling Stones and The Beatles.  Perhaps you could register as a user and put this material on your user page for the moment?  Once the above has been addressed there might be scope for making an article from it.   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   23:44, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Four Google hits for "Tomas Szbarro". NN band advert. Dismas|(talk) 10:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nominator. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 13:52, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this hoax/joke. Did anyone listen to the MP3?  It's almost funny (the operative word being "almost").  —Lifeisunfair 14:22, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Regardless of any other considerations, notability is not asserted. Very well-written, though. The style of writing leads me to believe that the author would maybe enjoy contributing to Everything2... this stuff doesn't really belong on Wikipedia, though. --Ashenai (talk) 09:48, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Postal (video game)

Untitled
The story posted in this article is for the second game, not the first.

is it true that you can urinate on the people or etc? --Bluejays2006 20:30, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is true. Anonunit 02:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Major Changes
Added cover art from the official Postal website, more information, reviews, etc... This is my first edit, so I hope it was okay :)

So What?
Can anyone offer some kind of clue as to what this game is about and why it is so controversial? At least offer an outline of the story or something? --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 08:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

 * There's no story. You just walk around and score points by killing passers-by for no apparent reason. Allegeldy, the game is also quite bad, and it's painfully obvious that the programmers just included all the violence because they didn't have any interesting ideas, otherwise. 81.232.72.148 23:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * But what's the controversy? The article claims that the game is controversial, but there's no indication of what controversy there was.  Can someone add a "Controversy" section explaining this?  Or at least a sentence? --Elysdir 23:47, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

 * well actually there is a story, it just the story of a psychopath who has to do some daily chores, you can actually go through the game without killing anyone, the game really is only just as violent as your are ;), but mostly the game is more humoristic than violent in a "how offensive can we get" sense (shodan | wikipedia at domn.net)

 * The story mode's only in Postal 2. In the first game you do, indeed, just wander round gunning people down. Humourlessly. It's not a terrible game, but it's doubtful whether it would have even been heard of if it weren't for the controversy.

 * I would like to point out that Postal 1 most definitely did have a story. This was back in the day when game manuals actually contained relevant information, such as Fallout 1 and 2. If I recall correctly, you perceive the world to be going insane, and your goal is to make it to the center of the mess and discover what went wrong. In the final level of the game, however, you realize that you've gone insane and you shoot yourself. (the final level being a playground full of children, children being invulnerable in Postal1)Floydzamarripa (talk) 11:20, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't think you shoot yourself. In the last level, as you say, you shoot at the children but they seem unaffected, then everything becomes blurry and you fall down. Then there's a couple of images and chatter that suggests you're locked up in a padded cell and studied. But in either case, there's absolutely a story - the article is wrong for stating that there is no plot. 83.142.5.155 (talk) 15:33, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

It would certainly be nice if any of this information was in the article. There's plenty of stuff about the technical info, but not a single word about what you do in the game! (71.192.34.220 (talk) 19:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC))

There actually IS a storyline. It's in the instruction manual. There's a story description for every level in fact. According to the manual, a "madness plague" has gripped the nation, and the main character is heading to a military base for a reason I don't quite recall (he thinks there's a cure? He thinks it might be a safe haven?). The angle, of course, is that it's all written in first person narrative format, and sounds increasingly paranoid, so the presumption is that there is no madness plague; he got fired, and then went insane, and is now convinced that everyone around him is infected. Unfortunately, I no longer have the manual, as the game was so disturbing, I destroyed both the disc and all the material that came with it.- WraithTDK —Preceding unsigned comment added by WraithTDK (talk • contribs) 03:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Isn't this the game that was banned in thirteen countries? xD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.240.76.225 (talk) 04:00, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Uwe Boll
first, OH CRAP :(((( second I find it really funny that someone put that in the summary as if it was that important on the other hand this is usually the worst thing that can happen to a game in my opinion, so I guess I just find it funny that someone else had the same opinion ;) (shodan | wikipedia at domn.net)

Why don't you just say all out that this is a bad game? -Izaak (sorry, I'm not using my account because Ami***** banned be because he was on a field day).

Kimveer Gill
In the same vein as Klebold & Harris of Columbine infamy are mentioned in the Doom article, should there be anything about Kimveer Gill and the Dawson College shooting mentioned? Gwrtheyrn 00:13, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I withdraw the above, it was Postal 2 that Gill played Gwrtheyrn 00:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

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SVGA is 800x600, not 640x480 (it says so in the article linked) VGA is 640x480. This should be corrected in the system requirements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.73 (talk) 13:38, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Playstation?
I'm fairly certain that I played this game for the original Playstation console, yet the page gives no indication that it was released on anything besides the computer; does anyone have any more information on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mshar253 (talk • contribs) 08:58, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

No it did not come out of playstation. If there was copies for playstation, then it was a home brew. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.202.195.97 (talk) 16:19, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

System Requirements
There's definitely an issue with the system requirements, I played it on Windows 95, but it claims 98 required (the game was released in 97), I can't find the original specs, but I imagine it would have run on a standard P100. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.72.245.120 (talk) 13:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Source

 * https://web.archive.org/web/20000424001620/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_09/22_postal/index.html

Release date
This article claims that POSTAL was first released on September 24, 1997 given from a "now shipping" date from PC Gamer. However, according to it's page on the official Running with Scissors website, the game was released on November 14, 1997. Inkster2 (talk) 01:00, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

 * The November date is impossible since the game already sold several thousand copies by early October and was the third-best-selling game of that month. IceWelder  [ ✉ ] 08:19, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

RWS themselves said the game released on November 14th, 1997. I've looked at the web archive link, and in that link PC Gamer wrote RWS started to ship POSTAL in 09/24/1997 but that may be misinformation. Inkster2 (talk) 05:39, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

 * It cannot have released in November because, as I showed above, several thousand copies were already sold in October. Someone at RWS misremembered the date (or took the incorrect date from an external source) and put it on the website long after it happened. The Mortal Kombat Twitter has been doing the same this year. Reliable sources from around the release are weighed higher because they capture the information as it happened. IceWelder  [ ✉ ] 08:28, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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Bruno Heller

Bruno Heller (born 13 January 1960) is an English screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for creating the HBO television series Rome, the CBS television series The Mentalist, and the FOX television series Gotham, based on the Batman franchise, co-creating the Gotham prequel television series Pennyworth, based on the Batman and V for Vendetta franchises, for Epix and HBO Max.

Early life and family
Heller's father, Lukas, was a German Jewish emigre and screenwriter (Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?). His mother, Caroline (née Carter), was an English Quaker and instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport Campaign". He has three siblings, including Zoë, a columnist and writer who has published three novels, including Notes on a Scandal.

Heller graduated from the University of Sussex near Brighton.

Career
Heller was a union soundman working in England in the 1980s when film sets were rigidly hierarchical. While working as a soundman on a series of films about England's infamous Miners' Strike, Heller met well-regarded Portuguese director Eduardo Guedes. The two collaborated on what would become Heller's first writing credit, the 1994 film Pax starring Amanda Plummer. ("Pax" is the Latin word for "Peace" used in the Portuguese epitaphs on gravestones.)

He left England for New York, where he met his wife, Miranda Cowley, granddaughter of the American poet and critic Malcolm Cowley, in a disco. After five years in the city, Heller moved with his family to Los Angeles where he worked on various television dramas including two projects for the USA Network: Touching Evil and The Huntress. But his breakthrough came with Rome, which he co-created. After the cancellation of that series for its high costs, Heller created The Mentalist. In September 2012, Heller sold a legal drama named The Advocates to CBS, which was written and executive produced by him, but the project finally did not go to series. In 2014 Heller created a TV series based on the Batman character James Gordon called Gotham for Fox Broadcasting Company.

Rome
Along with John Milius and William J. MacDonald, Heller created the television series Rome, co-produced by HBO and the BBC. Heller was also an executive producer and head writer, penning a total of 11 episodes for the series, including the pilot episode and the series finale.

The series primarily chronicles the lives and deeds of the rich, powerful, and "historically significant", yet it also focuses on the lives, fortunes, families, and acquaintances of two common men: Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, two Roman soldiers mentioned historically in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. The fictionalised Vorenus and Pullo manage to witness and often influence many of the historical events presented in the series.

Rome episodes written by Heller
Season 1
 * "The Stolen Eagle" (pilot)
 * "How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic"
 * "An Owl in a Thornbush"
 * "Stealing from Saturn"
 * "The Ram has Touched the Wall"
 * "Egeria" (with John Milius)
 * "The Spoils"
 * "Kalends of February" (season finale)

Season 2
 * "Passover"
 * "Son of Hades"
 * "De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)" (series finale)

The Mentalist
In 2008, Heller created the CBS television series, The Mentalist, with his production company Primrose Hill Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. On 7 January 2009, the show won the award for "Favorite New TV Drama" at the 35th People's Choice Awards and since then, the star, Simon Baker has received several nominations for his portrayal of the lead character, Patrick Jane. Heller served as showrunner from season 1 to season 6. He departed the show before season 7 to focus on Gotham.

The Mentalist follows Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) based in Sacramento, California. He has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his amazing skills of observation. Jane also makes frequent use of his mentalist abilities and his semi-celebrity past as a psychic medium using paranormal abilities he now admits he feigned. He abandoned his pretense out of remorse when his attention-seeking behaviour attracted the attention of a serial killer named Red John who killed his wife and daughter.

The Mentalist episodes written by Heller
Season 1
 * "Pilot"
 * "Red Hair and Silver Tape"
 * "Red John's Friends"
 * "Carnelian, Inc."
 * "Red John's Footsteps" (season finale)

Season 2
 * "Redemption"
 * "Black Gold and Red Blood"
 * "Code Red"
 * "Red Sky in the Morning" (season finale)

Season 3
 * "Red Sky at Night"
 * "Red Moon"
 * ""Strawberries and Cream (Part 2)" (season finale)

Season 4
 * "Scarlet Ribbons"
 * "Cheap Burgundy" (writer/director)
 * "The Crimson Hat" (season finale)

Season 5
 * "The Crimson Ticket"
 * "Red John's Rules" (season finale)

Season 6
 * "The Desert Rose"
 * "Red John"
 * "Blue Bird" (season finale)

Season 7
 * "White Orchids" (series finale) with Tom Szentgyorgyi & Jordan Harper

Gotham
In 2013, Fox won a bidding war for a pilot set in Gotham written by Heller.

As originally conceived, the series serves as a straightforward story of Jim Gordon's early days on the Gotham City Police force. The show includes not only the Bruce Wayne character, but also the origin stories of several Batman villains, including the Penguin, the Riddler, Catwoman, Two-Face, Poison Ivy and Scarecrow. The first season consisted of 22 episodes after being extended from sixteen.

The show premiered on 22 September 2014, and concluded on 25 April 2019.

Gotham episodes written by Heller
Season 1 Season 2
 * "Pilot"
 * "Selina Kyle"
 * "Penguin's Umbrella"
 * "The Blind Fortune Teller"
 * "All Happy Families Are Alike" (season finale)
 * "Damned If You Do..."
 * "Worse Than a Crime"
 * "Transference" (season finale)

Pennyworth
In 2018/19 Heller co-created Pennyworth. This series focuses on the early years of Alfred Pennyworth, friend, surrogate father, and butler to Bruce Wayne/Batman. A direct prequel to both Gotham and V for Vendetta, the series explores Alfred's origins as a former British soldier running a private security firm (and later a bar) in an alternate history 1960s England, as he goes to work with CIA agent Thomas Wayne – Batman's father, while coming into conflict with the fascist Raven Society/Union whilst in the throes of a British Civil War, in the years preceding the rise of the Norsefire regime, with the third season introducing predecessors to the anarchist V.

The show premiered on 28 July 2019, and concluded on 24 November 2022.

Pennyworth episodes written by Heller
Season 1 Season 2 Season 3
 * "Pilot"
 * "The Landlord's Daughter"
 * "Martha Kane"
 * "Lady Penelope"
 * "Shirley Bassey"
 * "Cilla Black"
 * "Alma Cogan"
 * "Marianne Faithfull" (season finale)
 * "The Heavy Crown"
 * "The Burning Bridge"
 * "The Rose and Thorn"
 * "The Lion and Lamb" (season finale)
 * "Well to Do"
 * "Highland Wedding" (series finale)

Personal life
In 1993, Heller married Miranda Phillips Cowley, then a senior vice president at HBO. The couple has two children. Miranda Cowley Heller is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of the novel, The Paper Palace.

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The First Man

The First Man (Le Premier homme) is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel.

On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus died in a car accident. The incomplete manuscript of The First Man, the autobiographical novel Camus was working on at the time of his death, was found in the mud at the accident site. Camus' daughter, Catherine Camus, later transcribed the handwritten manuscript to type press, and published the book in 1994. Camus hoped that it would be his masterpiece and some critics agreed with his view, even in its unfinished state – largely citing the physical intensity and uninhibited psychology of boyhood as removed from the reservedness of Camus' other novels.

Plot summary
The novel takes Jacques Cormery from birth to his years in the lycée, or secondary school, in Algiers. In a departure from the intellectual and philosophical weight of his earlier works, Camus wanted this novel to be "heavy with things and flesh." It is a novel of basic and essential things: childhood, schooldays, the life of the body, the power of the sun and the sea, the painful love of a son for his mother, the search for a lost father. But it is also about the history of a colonial people in a vast and not always hospitable African landscape, about the complex relationship of a "mother" country to its colonists, and about the intimate effects of war as well as political revolution.

Characters

 * Jacques Cormery – The main protagonist. He is raised in a poor home.
 * Catherine Cormery – Jacques's mother, who is "illiterate and largely deaf." Jacques loves her and visits her in his adulthood.
 * Pierre - Jacques's childhood friend who completes primary school and lycée by Jacques's side.

Film adaptation
A film adaptation of the novel, directed by Gianni Amelio and starring Jacques Gamblin, was released in 2011.

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Beaver Brook (New Jersey)

Beaver Brook is a 14.2 mi tributary of the Pequest River in western New Jersey in the United States.

Beaver Brook originates near Blairstown and terminates at its confluence with the Pequest River near Belvidere.

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William Henry Trescot

William Henry Trescot (November 10, 1822 – May 4, 1898) was a Charleston lawyer, historian, and diplomat born in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 10, 1822. He graduated at College of Charleston in 1840, studied law at Harvard University, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He was married to Eliza Natalie Cuthbert, whose family had land originally granted by King George II.

He was a close student of American foreign policy. From 1852 to 1854 he was secretary of the U.S. legation in London. In June 1860 he was appointed assistant secretary of state, and he was acting secretary of state in June–October, during General Lewis Cass's absence from Washington, and for a few days in December after Cass's resignation. His position was important, as the only South Carolinian holding anything like official rank, because of his intimacy with President James Buchanan, and his close relations with the secession leaders in South Carolina.

He opposed the reinforcement of Fort Sumter, used his influence to prevent any attack on the fort by South Carolina before the meeting of the state's convention called to consider the question of secession, and became the special agent of South Carolina in Washington after his resignation from his position as United States Assistant Secretary of State in December. When he returned to Charleston in February 1861, he played a leading role in the negotiations surrounding the Charleston forts. He was a member of the state legislature in 1862–1866, and served as colonel on the staff of General Roswell S. Ripley during the Civil War; and later returned to Washington.

He was counsel for the United States before the Halifax Fisheries Commission in 1877; was commissioner for the revision of the treaty with China in 1880; was minister to Chile in 1881 and 1882; in 1882 with General Ulysses S. Grant negotiated a commercial treaty with Mexico; and in 1889-1890 was a delegate to the Pan-American Congress in Washington. He died at Pendleton, South Carolina, his country place, on 4 May 1898.

In the opinion of historian David Saville Muzzey, Trescot was "one of the most accomplished diplomats in our history."

Works

 * The Diplomacy of the Revolution (1852)
 * An American View of the Eastern Question (1854)
 * The Diplomatic History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams (1857)
 * Memorial of the life of J. Johnston Pettigrew: Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army (1870)

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Animal cracker

An animal cracker is a particular type of cracker, baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or a circus, such as a lion, a tiger, a bear, or an elephant. The most common variety is light-colored and slightly sweet, but darker chocolate-flavored and colorful frosted varieties are also sold. Although animal crackers tend to be sweet in flavor like cookies, they are made with a layered dough like crackers and are marketed as crackers and not cookies.

History
In the late 19th century, animal-shaped crackers (or "biscuits" in World English terminology) called "Animals" were imported from England to the United States. The demand for these crackers grew to the point that bakers began to produce them domestically. Stauffer's Biscuit Company produced their first batch of animal crackers in York, Pennsylvania, in 1871. Other domestic bakeries, including the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Company of St. Louis, and the Holmes and Coutts Company of New York City, were the predecessors of the National Biscuit Company, today's "Nabisco Brands".

Animal biscuit crackers were made and distributed under the National Biscuit Company banner. In 1902, animal crackers officially became known as "Barnum's Animals" and evoked the familiar circus theme of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Later in 1902, the now-familiar box was designed for the Christmas season with the innovative idea of attaching a string to hang from the Christmas tree. Until that time, crackers were generally sold only in bulk (the proverbial "cracker barrel") or in large tins. These small cartons, which retailed for 5 cents at the time of their release, were a big hit and are still sold today.

The number and variety contained in each box has varied over the years. In total, 53 different animals have been represented by animal crackers since 1902. In its current incarnation, each package contains 22 cookies consisting of a variety of animals. The most recent addition, the koala, was added in September 2002 after being chosen by consumer votes, beating out the penguin, walrus and cobra.

In 1948, the company changed the product name to its current designation of "Barnum's Animals Crackers". In 1958, production methods changed to improve the cookies' visual details. Until then, animal shapes were stamped out of a dough sheet by a cutter. This produced outlines with little sophistication. By installing rotary dies, bakers can actually engrave details onto each cookie, creating a more intricate design. The rotary dies are still used today.

Barnum's Animals Crackers are all produced in the Fair Lawn, New Jersey, bakery by Nabisco Brands. More than 40 million packages of Barnum's Animals Crackers are sold each year, both in the United States and exported to 17 countries worldwide. The cookies are baked in a 300 ft-long traveling band oven. They are in the oven for about four minutes and are baked at the rate of 12,000 per minute. About 15,000 cartons and 330,000 cookies are produced in a single shift, using some 30 mi of string on the packages. This runs to nearly 8000 mi of string a year. Those bright circus boxes are produced in three colors—red, blue, and yellow—with different variety of animals on each.

In August 2018, Mondelez International (the parent company of Nabisco) released a new design for its Barnum's Animals Crackers boxes in the United States, showing the animals freed from their traditional circus boxcar cages. This design change was made in consultation with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), one year after the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus ceased operations. The new design shows a zebra, lion, elephant, giraffe and gorilla together in an African landscape.

Varieties
In total, 53 different animals have been featured in Barnum's Animals Crackers since 1902. The current cookies are bear, bison, camel, cougar, elephant, giraffe, gorilla, hippopotamus, hyena, kangaroo, koala, lion, monkey, rhinoceros, seal, sheep, tiger, and zebra. To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Barnum's added the koala to the menagerie in September 2002.

Stauffer's animal crackers include bear, bison, camel, cow, cat, donkey, elephant, hippopotamus, horse, lion, mountain goat, rhinoceros, and tiger. They are made in plain (vanilla), chocolate graham, cinnamon graham, "cotton candy" and icing-covered variants, as well as "breakfast cookies" made with oats, almonds, cranberries, and pomegranate.

Austin Zoo Animal Crackers currently feature bear, camel, elephant, lion, monkey, owl, penguin, rabbit, ram, rhino, turtle, and zebra.

Cadburys Animals are chocolate coated and feature crocodile, elephant, hippo, monkey, lion, tiger, and toucan.

Manufacturers
Nabisco makes Barnum's Animals Crackers, with their distinctive package art of a circus wagon fitted out as a cage and animals within it. “Barnum” refers to the famous showman and circus entrepreneur P. T. Barnum, but Nabisco does not pay a licensing fee to Barnum and Bailey Circus. The product actually says “Barnum's Animals”, subtitled “Crackers”. Half of the wheels are printed on the large sides of the box but at one time the printed wheels continued to the bottom of the box, and were partially perforated along their outline, which allowed punching the wheels out and standing the wagon to stand on its wheels. Responding to requests from PETA, in August 2018 Nabisco released new package art displaying the animals roaming free.

Stauffer Biscuit Company of York, Pennsylvania, a Japanese company owned by Meiji, also has a line of animal crackers, which are now distributed by several major discount retailers. Their use of the spices nutmeg and mace give the basic animal cracker a slightly different character from the Nabisco crackers. Former owner Rodney Stauffer now has his own company, Rodney's Animal Crackers, that also produces animal crackers.

Austin, a division of the Keebler Company, also makes a variety of animal crackers. The Austin variety has similar nutritional content and animal shapes. The Austin product is labeled under the name of the Kellogg Company, which acquired Keebler in 2001.

The Borden corporation also produced a brand of animal crackers, until the late 1970s. They came in a red box, which featured the famous Elsie the Cow logo.

Market Square Food Company Inc. in Illinois has also produced its own brand of animal crackers since 1982. Its animal crackers are distributed by several major retailers throughout the United States and internationally.

Sam's Club distributes animal crackers under its ‘’Member's Mark’’ house brand.

In the UK, Cadburys produce a range simply called “Animals”. As noted above, these biscuits have a chocolate coating on one side.

In Germany, Bahlsen produces animal crackers under the Leibniz brand.

In New Zealand, Arnott's manufactures ‘’Iced Animals’’, colourfully iced animal crackers.

In popular culture

 * "I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers" was recorded by Duke Ellington on June 21, 1926 and by Irving Aaronson & His Commanders with Phil Saxe doing the vocal for Victor on June 23, 1926.
 * Animal Crackers is the name of a 1930 Marx Brothers film.
 * A song sung by Shirley Temple in 1935, "Animal Crackers in My Soup", was used by many companies for advertising animal crackers.
 * Animal crackers are the subject of Melanie Safka's 1968 novelty hit "Animal Crackers".
 * They are the namesake of Eric Whitacre's popular choral piece Animal Crackers (2002–2009).
 * In the 2007 film Zodiac, Inspector Dave Toschi (portrayed by Mark Ruffalo) is frequently seen snacking on animal crackers. The real life Toschi was known for this habit as well.
 * Animal Crackers is also the name of a 2017 animated film, which revolves around magical animal crackers that turn people into the animal each cracker is shaped like.

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User talk:MagicValentina

Hi People

If you want to talk to me about Magic on Wiki and Stuff, please edit this page. If you can leave new things at the bottom that would be nice, and use headings if possible.

And don't forget to visit my great Magic Secrets site Thanks Valentina

I'm just wondering what happened to the forum...

Welcome
Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
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I also left a response for you about your vocabularly link on the magic page here. Cheers --PhilipO 21:21, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

List of conjuring terms
Hey - don't be put off by any perceived abruptness of the part of User:Krash. Sometimes people can come across as rough - but I'm sure he means well - I think you have probably stepped on a pet project of his (Magic)! Keep editing your articles and contributing! Any questions, just let me know. --PhilipO 19:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

RE: Magictimeline and things
Hi Mgm, I'm contributing to Project Magic, and I've already written some articles on effects plus a list of conjuring terms which someone linked in the Magic box which was cool. Was that you or PhillipO or someone else. How did you do that? It was Magic!
 * Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia's magic coverage. Anything between curly brackets is a template so it can be found at Template:Magicbox. It has an edit history like any other article. From a quick glance it appears Philip didn't add it, and I didn't either, so I'm not sure, but I do know you'll be able to find it with this additional info.

Anywayz, I noticed that the magic timeline is blank. What are you expecting here? Like a list of key dates in Magic history kind of thing. If so, I can do that for you, just let me know.
 * Yes, it's basically a rundown of important dates, I initially copied the box from the aviation project, so checking Timeline of aviation may be a good idea. History of magic should provide a consise prose article discussing the most important points from the start with Dedi to Houdini, Robert-Houdin and Copperfield to name a few.

Also do you want some more effects on the list of magic tricks because some magicians are saying Wiki is "what" not "how" and they don't want to share anything, mainly cos they are selfish, but I believe information should be available to anyone who wants to look it up. What do you think?
 * That's a tough one. If you dig in my talk page archives, you'll find a discussion I had with someone about the King levitation. It's hard to protect an idea from being stolen, as it cannot be copyrighted, but it is protected as trade secret. Magicians have a good reason to be greedy. They're income depends on the secret being kept and I'm sure you'd be angry too if your effect which you worked 5 years on to perfect was suddenly revealed to the world without anyone paying you a cent. If we were to expose magic tricks here, we'd put magicians out of work and that's not a good thing. Another problem with writing articles about magic tricks is that you need trustworthy and verifiable sources, so it's not always possible to write about an effect even if you know how it's done. If you want to write a step-to-step how to on magic effects, Wikibooks is indeed the place to be, but effects do need a place in the wiki. I recommend starting with effects that are generally know and common amongst many magician's (Balducci levitation, cups and balls, saw lady in half, regular levitation, etc) and not the property of one specific performer (like the King Levitation). There's an article on magic protection in the box you referred to. I hope my comments have been helpful. Don't hesitate to contact me again, Mgm|(talk) 22:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm really not out to get you
...despite what you might think. I was looking through your new articles and was wondering if you have read through Manual of Style? Also, it was I that added List of conjuring terms to Template:Magicbox. -- Krash 13:52, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Sometimes users don't have enough information on or interest in a particular subject to make extensive edits to an article. Therefore it can be more practical or convenient to tag an article instead of making the appropriate fixes.
 * I appreciate that you like the SAS article which I started. Not to blow my own horn or anything, but I think that bullet catch is a good example of how a magic trick article can strive to mature.  I've started other articles, but I won't list them here.  I'm not making any claims that how I format a page is considered in any way to be the "correct format".   -- Krash 14:00, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Elevator levitation
I removed the description of how the trick is done again. If you actually read it, it is claiming that you can levitate using an ordinary magnet hidden in your shoe. While the trick exists, the method described is clearly bogus. Not knowing the true method, I can't replace it with anything useful. --GraemeL (talk) 23:55, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I'm not a magician myself, I just have a number of the articles watchlisted because they tend to get vandalised. If you look back in the history, you'll see that I actually reverted the bogus method back in several times myself before I realised that it was probably nonsense. :-/ --GraemeL (talk) 00:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Val we need you
(sorry if i am doing this wrong but i hope you are reading this, val we need your help this is homermon, you gota help the boards out...contact mike asap)

Re-booting Magic WikiProject
I'm contacting you because you are listed as a participant at the Magic WikiProject. There is a draft for a new version of the main project page up for discussion and I would welcome your comments or suggestions. I wrote the draft because I was encouraged to try to do something to breathe some life back into the project and also to address some long standing problems that seem to dog it. The draft is posted at WikiProject Magic/draft magic project page. Since starting to edit at Wikipedia in February I've contributed 25 new articles to the Magic project and added material to many more. I would really like to see this thing get going again but I need at least a few people to give some sign of encouragement if I am to continue. Circusandmagicfan 13:59, 19 April 2007 (UTC)Circusandmagicfan

Speedy deletion of SOMF
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Magic secrets - discussion underway
Hi! As a member of the Wiki magic project, I thought you might be interested in contributing to a discussion about magical secrets on Wikipedia. There has already been agreement as to the removing of unsourced magic secrets, as detailed here. However, I think consensus needs to be reached as to what should be done after the secrets are removed. Should the secret be placed on the talk page? Or is just a comment as to why the secret was removed sufficient? The discussion is taking place at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Magic, and if you are able to take part, that would be great.

Thank you! StephenBuxton (talk) 11:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Barbi Twins

Hey so, where did the photo go?
Don't you think there should be a photo of the girls up since, after all, that's what they're famous for? — Preceding unsigned comment added by XB70Valyrie (talk • contribs) 03:45, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Pending changes
This article is one of a number selected for the early stage of the trial of the Pending Changes system on the English language Wikipedia. All the articles listed at Pending changes/Queue  are being considered for level 1 pending changes protection.

The following request appears on that page:

Comments on the suitability of theis page for "Pending changes" would be appreciated.

Please update the Queue page as appropriate.

Note that I am not involved in this project any much more than any other editor, just posting these notes since it is quite a big change, potentially

Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 23:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC).

Article organisation
There are a lot of good contributions to this article, but the organisation of the content needs a lot of improvement. Ringbang (talk) 23:07, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Connection with the Luka Magnotta case
According to this article in the Toronto Sun, the Barbi Twins were involved in the search for Luka Magnotta and have been interviewed on Headline News regarding same. 70.72.215.252 (talk) 14:30, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

 * I just added to the "Finding Luka Magnotta" section a new, second paragraph, briefly summarizing his 2012 arrest for murder and related charges. The first, and previously sole, paragraph (which I have not changed) left the impression that he was still at large ("Their search remained ongoing as of 2014"), and that he was being sought solely for his alleged role in producing videos depicting cruelty to animals.  No mention was made of the murder of Lin Jun, or of Magnotta's arrest therefor!

 * (That first paragraph says that "the twins spearheaded a movement to track down a person", but nowhere indicates that the person being sought actually was successfully tracked down!

 * Of course, it remains to be established whether Magnotta actually tortured the cats and made the videotapes of said torture or not, so the person who actually did the torturing, and video recording, and video uploading, might still be at large. But Luka Magnotta is not still at large!

 * Yet the first paragraph by itself unambiguously and unmistakably implies that he is! (Why would they still be searching for him in 2014 if he had already been found and captured in 2012, and they knew this?))

 * I never heard of Magnotta before, and I know about him only what I have read on these two Wikipedia pages (his own, and that of the Barbi twins). What neither page addresses at all is whether the Barbi sisters' efforts to catch Magnotta for torturing kittens actually contributed in any way to his being found and captured in Berlin.  It would be nice to know, one way or the other, but I have no personal knowledge in this regard.

 * (It is asserted above that "the Barbi Twins were involved in the search", but 70.72.215.252 does not indicate that their involvement actually contributed to Magnotta's being found and captured. If 70.72.215.252 meant to include the latter claim, he/she should have said so!  Since he/she did not, I assume that no such further implication was intended.)

 * Neither have I taken the extra time to read any of the five articles that are cited as sources concerning the Barbi sisters' efforts to find and catch the kitten-torturer (the four indicated in footnotes in the main article, and the one in the Toronto Sun identified just above here on the Talk page). (Only two of these five articles — the one mentioned above, and one of the four cited in the main article — even have links provided for them!  The rest presumably require either a Web search or a trip to the public library!)  If any of these five articles states or demonstrates that the sisters' efforts actually contributed to Magnotta's capture, then that fact rather obviously ought to have been mentioned by whoever provided the citation to the source in question!

 * (On the other hand, if the sisters' efforts did not actually contribute in any way to Magnotta's capture, then there is some question whether their efforts should even be mentioned. Or at least whether the discussion of their efforts to find the kitten-torturer properly belongs under the heading "Finding Luka Magnotta"!)

 * So I hope that someone who knows more than I do will address this question, one way or the other.

 * 2001:5B0:24FF:3CF0:0:0:0:2F (talk) 08:58, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

 * I've removed the paragraph.
 * For one, we shouldn't say things like "According to his Wikipedia entry..." because we shouldn't use ourselves as a source. See WP:CIRCULAR.
 * Second, the article does seem contradictory to the facts but we should work out the timeline on this talk page and then edit the article instead of pointing out our own contradictions in the article text.
 * Third, I don't have time to read the entire article right now but after skimming it just now it seems as though the article was written in 2014 but refers to events that took place in 2012. Those events are that the Barbi Twins were looking for Magnotta.  So, they were looking in 2012.  Not 2014 as our article states.  I'm not going to change the text just yet.  At least not until I've read the article in full.  But that's my reading of it for now.  Dismas |(talk) 10:40, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

 * That's fine. It doesn't matter when or how soon the problem gets fixed, or whether it gets fixed my way or some other way, so long as it gets fixed.  Altering and correcting the presently-erroneous first (and once-again only) paragraph is another way to do it.

 * However, even if one proceeds by altering and correcting the paragraph that was there before I intruded, the fact remains that if this Luka Magnotta fellow is going to be mentioned at all, the facts of his arrest in 2012, and of the crime(s) for which he was arrested, will have to be mentioned as well. (I deliberately glossed over the necrophilia charge, etc., as more detail than necessary on this page.)  Which means that most if not all of what I added before (minus the offensive phrase "According to Magnotta's Wikipedia entry", which I agree I should have omitted) will have to be put back.

 * And the article's present claim that "Their search remained ongoing as of 2014" will have to be either explained (if the search is ongoing because they are not convinced that this Luka Magnotta character is the one who tortured the cats, and they are still looking for other suspects) or else deleted as just-plain false.

 * (One of the two footnotes to that sentence cites an article dated June 9, 2012, which cannot possibly support a statement about their search remaining ongoing as of 2014. The other — a Rolling Stone article dated March 19, 2014 — must be the actual source of the confusing/contradictory claim.  However, the article is long, and when I skimmed it just now I could not find any statement to the effect that their — or anyone's —— search for the cat-torturer is ongoing.  Perhaps all that is still ongoing is their effort to stop the posting of videos of animal torture in general (and presumably the torture itself as well)?  The article does discuss other aspects of this larger effort, such as their advocacy of legislation banning videos of women crushing small vertebrates with their feet (the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010).)

 * Concerning those "five articles that are cited as sources concerning the Barbi sisters' efforts to find and catch the kitten-torturer", it turns out that the one in the Toronto Sun identified and linked to above here on the Talk page by 70.72.215.252 and one of the four that are cited in footnotes in the main article might be one and the same. Both are in the Toronto Sun, and they have the same title.  However, their publication dates are different.  The link above is to an article published on June 8, 2012 (and updated on June 9), but the date given in the footnote in question in the main article here is June 5, 2012.  So maybe they are the same article, and "June 5" is just a typo?  (In which case there are just four articles, not five, that are cited as sources concerning the Barbi sisters' efforts to find and catch the kitten-torturer.)

 * That appears to be the case. Changing the date in the URL produces a 404 error ("/2012/06/08/" appears in the URL), and searching Google on the title of the article ("Barbi Twins are naturals: Warmington") yields links only to the June 8 date, and to articles on other sites dated on or after June 8, 2012 that link to the June 8 posting.  The only search results that reference a date of June 5, 2012, are (1) the present Wikipedia entry for the Barbi Twins, (2) the Barbi Twins' Web site, and (3) the Barbi Twins' blog.  And while the latter two both say "Sun, Jun 5, 2012", they actually link to the June 8 URL and article.  They are almost character-for-character identical, and doubtless one of them (via someone else's copying and pasting) is the source of the mistake on Wikipedia.  So it would appear that the June 5 date is erroneous (I'll correct it momentarily), and that there is indeed just one Toronto Sun article rather than two.

 * 2001:5B0:24FF:3CF0:0:0:0:2F (talk) 13:48, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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I moved the page from Shane and Sia Barbi to this title, Barbi Twins, following the manual of style guidelines for popular names. "Barbi Twins" passes the Search engine test with over double the results to "Shane and Sia Barbi" as well as the styling of their names in almost all of the references listed. Keegan (talk) 04:01, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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I bet they both did not marry Ken Wahl
Articles on Wikipedia list Ken Wahl as marrying both Shane and Sia. I bet Ken did not marry both. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.118.161.59 (talk) 15:14, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

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Does Wikipedia review movies?
I'm not sure that I agree with Benna that Wikipedia "doesn't review movies" (edit 4th October). My other comments in the piece "...very atmospheric..." and "...extremely sinister..." were not edited out by Benna. How can you describe a film without offering some comment on its merits? As I recall (and it's a long time ago that I saw it) the Hitchcock film is embarrassingly bad. Peter Maggs 20:34, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's always been my impression that wiki is supposed to be totally objective and not have any personal opinions in it. You could mention common criticisms/comments, with links to the appropriate reviews.  I could easily be wrong about opinions on wiki, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elizabennet (talk • contribs) 22:32, August 13, 2006

 * Wikipedia does not "review" movies, since this is not exactly encyclopaedic, and because it would be impossible to do so while remaining impartial and objective (as per Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy). What Wikipedia can do, however, is include dispassionate articles (or subsections) on such films. So, regarding your comments about the film itself, I don't really know what "very atmospheric" means, but "extremely sinister" is no doubt something that would characterize all of Hitchkock's films, regardless of whether one thought it "good" or "bad". -- Todeswalzer | Talk 18:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Not being able to render an opinion on the comment, since it was edited out, I will say that, as an unlearned member of the peanut gallery, I know what "very atmospheric" and "extremely sinister" mean. Apart from the fact they can be slimmed down to "atmospheric and sinister," I see no good reason for censoring them from Wp. Haven't you read Wp articles on other films? [CC] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.15.121.40 (talk) 15:05, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Trivia section
Currently, there is one piece of "trivia" listed in this section and it runs as follows:

 * According to evidence from the Unabomber proceedings this book apparently had quite an effect on Theodore Kaczynski.

This phrase is so vague as to be meaningless. What kind of effect did it have? What evidence? How did Conrad's novel influence Kaczynski? It would be nice if this could be clarified by whoever wrote this, otherwise I think it needs to be deleted. --Todeswalzer 18:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

No one's clarified the meaning of this sentence so I've removed it from the article. --Todeswalzer 02:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

 * The recent inclusion by George Leung of more detailed information on this matter needs to be sourced or removed. (It also seems to me that the heading of "Trivia" isn't quite the right thing to call this.) -- Todeswalzer | Talk 16:29, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree, and I'm going to go ahead and delete the trivia section altogether. --Nick 16:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Dedication
I've removed from the article the text of the dedication to HG Wells...

 * TO H. G. WELLS

 * the chronicler of Mr. Lewisham's love the biographer of Kipps and the historian of the ages to come

 * this simple tale of the XIX century is affectionately offered

... included by Dpapic, because it doesn't, on its own, add much to the article. I also don't know of any other articles discussing specific novels where the dedication has been included ver batim. However, it might be nice to know why Conrad chose to dedicate this novel to HG Wells: please, Dpapic, include this information (perhaps somewhere in the lead section) if you happen to know it. -- Todeswalzer | Talk 18:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Looking up this article, and almost not having checked out the Talk page, I think the dedication would have added substantial information to my knowledge and understanding of the book. I wish someone would put it back in. CC (It's particularly interesting if you know of Wells' socialist slant. CC)

 * Unless someone can find a scholarly source which says WHY anyone should consider the information useful then it shouldn't be included. After all, it's just a dedication - guessing at what it would mean would surely be original research.-- Adasta   [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|15px]] [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|15px]] 21:21, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Right, but you don't need to say anything about the dedication to quote it. Quoting the dedication is not original research, it's just supplying information about the book, which touches on another writer.  Similarly, one might find information that the author mentions in an introduction that a book was written in London -- you don't need outside research, because the evidence is internal to the book; and it's just another nifty fact about the book the average reader might find interesting.  CC.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.15.121.46 (talk) 23:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Historicity?
Can someone render an opinion on the historicity of this novel? Is it based on an event that actually happened? Or, were there other events sufficiently close to this going on at that time?

Much appreciate it.

Great novel; a good article on it, too. [CC] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.15.121.40 (talk) 15:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Good suggestion -- I've included some of the background on the Greenwich bombing. --Junius49 (talk) 01:27, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks! CC.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.15.121.46 (talk) 18:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Kaczynski
I'm pretty uncomfortable with the Kaczynski section's inclusion in this article. a) as a paragraph, it has more words in it than either of the two sections about the book. b) it has the effect of adding sensationalist mystique to the book, constructing the book in a way that it appears to have central significance to Kaczynski's crimes. The book is absolutely prescient and relevant for a variety of reasons in the contemporary world. The narrative can be traced in endless revolutionary/terrorist actions -- so it seems to be silly to focus on this one event. (not to mention that the same paragraph exists verbatim in the Kaczynski article)

I propose removal of the Kaczynski paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.168.125.240 (talk) 15:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree that the Unabomber section should be removed or at least reduced -- it should certainly be taken out of the intro. --Junius49 (talk) 01:28, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I've removed the reference to the Unabomber in the intro. --Junius49 (talk) 13:49, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Peer review
Generally - nice article; it interested me enough to make me want to read the book, so that's a great sign.

I've corrected spelling and typos.

The references need a bit of tidying up. No ISBNs in the refs, Referencing the book several times - I think it might be clearer/simpler to just have ONE reference to the book itself, listing all the page numbers you reference, ie   ...and then just   on the others.

Unless there is some reason you need to reference different editions?

I suggest change "hansom" to "Hansom cab" for clarity

The link to Patrick Reilly doesn't exist - is the name misspelled?

Re. unabomber - is it possible to show any specifics that relate from the book to the unabomber actions?

Given the length of the article, I'd like to see 1 more picture in it, but I'm not sure what. Maybe a movie poster or something? Just to break things up a little.

HTH

Chzz (talk) 12:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I have to disagree with Chzz's point regarding the references. According to WP:CITE: "When citing books and articles, provide page numbers where appropriate. Page numbers should be included whenever possible in a citation that accompanies a specific quotation from, or a paraphrase or reference to, a specific passage of a book or article."  The article currently has the correct idea, but I suggest merely shortening the book references to include last name (year) and page number so as to differentiate between the different editions currently listed in the bibliography.  For example: "Conrad (1994), 5" for the first ref.  María ( habla  con migo ) 17:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

 * On reflection - fair enough, just tidy it up so as many as poss use the same volume, and all the ones from the same book are listed together. TBH, I did ask a couple of 'experts' and got 2 different answers, so whether to have a separate ref for each page or not seems a bit undefined...depends on the article, etc. I just found the current refs confusing, but simple cleaning could sort that out. Chzz (talk) 18:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

 * No, it is quite defined, in fact. :) Book sources are not treated the same as website sources.  As per the guideline stated above, page numbers are necessary for most instances in which there are numerous citations from one book; they should not be "cleaned up" or they will lose verifiability.  Because I assume that the article will be expanded using the same works already listed in the Bibliography, it is important that sourcing is as accurate as possible.  María ( habla  con migo ) 18:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Unabomber - It's very hard to define clearly if anything from the book directly influenced his actions. All that is known is that the book influenced him, and this is what I have referenced.

 * References - I reference different editions of the novel as they all have different information in their respective introductions.

Re. multiple refs problem, here is an excerpt from WP:FOOT which is relevent;

 * Consider maintaining a separate bibliography/references section that gives full publication details for frequently cited sources, then you only need to cite the author, short title, and page number in specific notes, following Citing sources. For examples of this usage, see Johannes Kepler and Rabindranath Tagore.  For another solution to this issue, especially when a single source is cited many times in one article, but cites to different pages in that source each time, see Template:Rp.

Chzz (talk) 15:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

yes thats corect. Full bibliographic information included in the Bibliography, short citation (author, year/short title and page number) in the individual footnotes. This is all fairly basic. María ( habla con migo ) 16:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Done.-- Adasta   [[Image:Flag_of_England.svg|15px]] [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|15px]] 21:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Synopsis
It's been some time since I read the book, but I'm pretty sure Ossipon isn't panicked by Mrs. Verloc's suicide - quite the opposite. Ossipon, who's a professional gigolo, betrays Mrs. Verloc and steals her money, driving her to suicide, about which he doesn't really know, but can guess and gets so disgusted with himself that it hampers his earning power, driving him to starvation - perhaps the synopsis on the page is from some movie? I think the synopsis should be much shorter anyway - the novel isn't about the action anyway... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.70.215.172 (talk) 09:38, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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Stage

 * In 1923 Conrad adapted the novel as a three-act drama of the same title.
 * On 23 May 2006 the Feldkirch Festival premiered an opera based on the novel. Simon Wills wrote the music and libretto and Peter Kajlinger sang the main character, Adolf Verloc.
 * A theatrical adaptation was produced in 2007 by Alexander Gelman, Artistic Director of Organic Theater Company in Chicago, IL, premiering on 18 April 2008.
 * In January 2008, the play was staged in Italian by the Teatro Stabile di Genova of Genoa, under the direction of Marco Sciaccaluga.
 * The Center for Contemporary Opera in New York presented the world premiere of a new opera by Michael Dellaira (music) and J D McClatchy (libretto), at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College on 18 March 2011. Amy Burton sang Winnie, Scott Bearden sang Verloc. It had its European premiere at the Armel International Opera Festival on 14 October 2011 in Szeged, Hungary, where the opera was broadcast live on the Arte Channel, and named the festival's "Laureat". Adrienn Miksch sang Winnie, Nicolas Rigas sang Verloc. The same production was reprised on 18 April 2012 at L'Opéra-Théâtre d'Avignon in Avignon, France.  All productions were directed by Sam Helfrich and conducted by Sara Jobin.
 * The Capitol City Opera Company of Atlanta presented the world premiere of The Secret Agent, an opera in two acts with music by Curtis Bryant and libretto by Allen Reichman at the Conant Center for Performing Arts at Oglethorpe University on 15 March 2013. Directed by Michael Nutter, the production featured soprano Elizabeth Claxton in the role of Winnie, baritone Wade Thomas as Verloc and tenor Timothy Miller as Ossipon.  In this operatic treatment, originally completed in 2007 under the title The Anarchist, Winnie, discovering that she has been abandoned on the train, sings a final aria "Fooled Again."  Bryant quotes one measure from Puccini's Tosca before Winnie leaps into the path of an oncoming train, ending her life and the opera.

Film

 * The novel supposedly formed the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film, Sabotage, though the plot and characters are very different. (Another 1936 Hitchcock film, Secret Agent, was based on short stories by W. Somerset Maugham.)
 * A 1996 film The Secret Agent, more faithful to the original novel, starred Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette and Gérard Depardieu.

Television

 * The BBC adapted The Secret Agent in two 45-minute episodes in 1967, with Nigel Green as Adolph Verloc, Mary Webster as Winnie, Dennis Waterman as Stevie, David Collings as Mr Vladimir, Edwin Richfield as Chief Inspector Heat, and John Cater as The Professor.
 * A second BBC version, a single 95-minute play, was screened in 1975, with Paul Rogers as Verloc, Frances White as Winnie, Peter Clough as Stevie, Anton Rodgers as Mr Vladimir, Peter Sallis as Chief Inspector Heat, and John Cater reprising as The Professor.
 * A third BBC version, in three 55-minute episodes, appeared in 1992, with David Suchet as Adolf Verloc, Cheryl Campbell as his wife Winnie, and Peter Capaldi as Mr Vladimir. Verloc was transformed into a more sympathetic character for this work, in which he deeply grieved for Stevie's death.
 * In July 2016 the BBC broadcast a fourth version, starring Toby Jones, Vicky McClure and Stephen Graham.

Radio

 * David Napthine dramatised a radio adaptation for BBC Radio 4 in 2006, starring Ron Cook and Robert Glenister.

Archiving this unsourced list of adaptations here. Feel free to reinstate with reliable, independent sources. (not watching, please )  czar  13:08, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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Bradburn, Manitoba

Bradburn is a ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada near the town of Carman. Founded in 1906, it was a stop on the Midland Railway. The town died after the railway closed and the tracks were taken up, in 1926.

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Chalabre (Languedocien: Eissalabra) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

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The local industry died out around 70 years ago, although the buildings of many still remain.

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Jean Danjou, one of the most famous commanders of the French Foreign Legion, was born in Chalabre in 1828. He commanded the legionnaires at the celebrated Battle of Camarón.

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Toward a New Philosophy of Biology

Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist (published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1988) is a book by Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr.

It is a collection of 28 essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into ten categories—Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective. The book, Mayr notes in the Forward, is an attempt "to strengthen the bridge between biology and philosophy, and point to the new direction in which a new philosophy of biology will move."

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 * Ayala, Francisco J. Science, New Series, Vol. 240, No. 4860 (June, 1988).
 * Griesemer, James R. The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 64, No. 1 (March, 1989).
 * Maienschein, Jane. Isis, Vol. 80, No. 3 (September, 1989).
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