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Operation Castor

Operation Castor was a French airborne operation in the First Indochina War. The operation established a fortified airhead in Điện Biên Province, in the north-west corner of Vietnam and was commanded by Brigadier General Jean Gilles. The Operation began at 10:35 on 20 November 1953, with reinforcements dropped over the following two days. With all its objectives achieved, the operation ended on 22 November. Castor was the largest airborne operation since World War II.

Execution
The French paratroopers of the 6ème Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux (6 BPC) and the 2nd Battalion of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (II/1er RCP) dropped over Dien Bien Phu on the first day in order to secure the airstrip built by the Japanese during the occupation of French Indochina by Japan from 1940 to 1945. The operation took 65 of the 70 operational C-47 Dakota and all 12 C-119 Flying Boxcar transport aircraft the French had in the area, and still required two trips to get the lead elements into the valley. Also dropped in the first wave were elements of the 17e Régiment de Génie Parachutiste (RGP) ("17th Airborne Engineers Regiment") and the Headquarters group of Groupement Aéroporté 1 (GAP 1), ("Airborne Group 1"). They were followed later in the afternoon by the 1er Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux (1 BPC) and elements of 35e Régiment d'Artillerie Légère Parachutiste (35 RALP) and other combat support elements. Just after its landing, the 6 BPC ran into contact with the Việt Minh 910th Battalion, 148th Regiment, which was conducting field exercise in the area along with a battery from the 351st Artillery Division and an infantry company of the 320th Division. Fighting persisted until afternoon when the Việt Minh units eventually withdrew to the south.

The following day, the second airborne group, "GAP 2" – consisting of 1er Bataillon Etranger de Parachutistes (1 BEP), 8e Bataillon de Parachutistes de Choc (8 BPC), other combat support elements and the entire command and Headquarters group for the Dien Bien Phu operation under Brigadier General Jean Gilles – was dropped in. While on another drop zone, the heavy equipment came down and the engineers quickly set about repairing and lengthening the airstrip.

On 22 November, the last troops of the initial garrison, the 5e Bataillon de Parachutistes Vietnamiens ("Battalion of Vietnamese Parachutists", 5 BPVN), jumped into the valley. In the same "stick" as the commander of 5 BPVN was Brigitte Friang, a woman war correspondent with a military parachutist diploma, and five combat jumps. These troops raised the Dien Bien Phu garrison to its full planned strength of 4,500. On November 30, orders were issued for the garrison to guarantee free use of the airfield, to hold the position to the last man, and to conduct attacks to retard buildups of Viet Minh forces. General Navarre created the outpost to draw the Việt Minh into fighting a pitched battle. That battle, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, occurred four months after Operation Castor.

French order of battle
Aeroportable Division Element (, Elément Divisionnaire Aéroporté, EDAP):
 * Groupement Aéroporté 1 (GAP 1), (Airborne Group 1)

 * GAP 1 Headquarters staff
 * 1er Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux (1 BPC) (Colonial Parachute Battalion)
 * 6ème Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux (6 BPC) (Colonial Parachute Battalion)
 * 2ème Bataillon, 1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes ("1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment" II/1 RCP) (Light Infantry Parachute Regiment)
 * 17e Régiment de Génie Parachutiste (RGP) (17th Airborne Engineers Regiment)
 * 35e Régiment d'Artillerie Légère Parachutistes (35 RALP) (35th Light Artillery Parachute Regiment)

 * Groupement Aéroporté 2 (GAP 2), (Airborne Group 2)
 * 1er Bataillon Etranger de Parachutistes (1 B.E.P) (Foreign Parachute Battalion)
 * 8e Bataillon de Parachutistes de Choc (8 B.P.C) (Parachute Shock Battalion)
 * 5e Bataillon de Parachutistes Vietnamiens (5 B.P.V.N) (Vietnamese Parachute Battalion)

 * 1st Foreign Parachute Heavy Mortar Company

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Talk:Caporales

Why not change it to a redirect? --Friðrik Bragi Dýrfjörð 05:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Self-published sources and Blogs
I'm afraid that "blogs" can't be considered as WP:RS reliable sources, so that's the reason I'm changing and adding more information this time sourced information to avoid misunderstandings about this 1969 Victor and Vicente Estrada Pacheco original creation .--  Erebedhel  -  Talk  18:42, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Conceptual mistakes and large texts with unsourced material
I appreciate the efforts of the user who recently contributed to the article. However there is a fundamental mistake with the subject, this article is about Caporales and not Saya (the confusion arouse after a song from the musical group Kjarkas) but academically speaking there is absolutely no doubt about the creators of this dance which are Victor and Vicente Estrada Pacheco who created this dance in 1969 and the introduction should mention that and don't confuse the reader with another dance; the article can be expanded but those concepts can't be mixed and it's worst if it comes from unsourced material or taken from a blog or self-published sources. I won't revert any changes yet waiting for the contributor who made the recent changes to provide sources and fix the formatting for some days. Thank you. --  Erebedhel  -  Talk  01:49, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Reorganization
--Danadrianrico (talk) 20:41, 7 March 2010 (UTC) I believe I've waited a prudent amount of time awaiting for sourcing related to the discussion above. So what I'm going to do is move the text corresponding to the Saya to a new article in Afro-Bolivian Saya and proceed to wikify both articles with more sources over the next days. Thank you.  Erebedhel  -  Talk  10:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Being in Bolivia, it is a little hard to log on every day without 2 pesos. I believe the discussion on Ballet style Saya and Caporal, however similar, should be in the Saya article. Although it is nessecary to stress the difference between Saya AfroBoliviana, Modern Saya, and Caporales. Not so much about Afro style, but between Modern Style and Caporales, since they are usually mistaken due to the similarity between them. --Danadrianrico (talk) 21:43, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Thank you, Danadrianrico but could you please provide links for the Modern Saya unfortunately I don't have any information about it. And Wikipedia requires verificability and notability in order to introduce that kind of information.  Erebedhel  -  Talk  22:09, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Hello Erebedhel. It is very hard to provide any information other than word of mouth and\or videos (on youtube.) It is something that you really know if you are involved in the performing;  Mostly the difference is in stylistic rather than a concrete historical invention. Now if you would like to see these videos, I can send you some links. However, I believe it is different and valid enough to warrant a small article (like Diablada of Oruro and Puno.) Please send me a message and I can explain, and then you can edit as you see fit. --Danadrianrico (talk) 20:41, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

 * The problem is that if that's the case it wouldn't constitute encyclopedic material, Wikipedia does not allow original research but compiles information that was already documented elsewhere. Since you're interested in collaborating with the project I sent you a welcome note so you can read more about Wikipedia policies and aims and you can learn how to contribute more, thanks  Erebedhel  -  Talk  20:58, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I really think that this a wrong concept about CAPORALES ,caporales made in Peru —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.38.32 (talk) 17:35, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

 * No, Caporales is a dance that was indeed created in Bolivia. There are several cultural links between Bolivia and Peru that are particularly obvious in terms of certain dances; especially since southeastern Peru is part of the Aymara sphere of culture. However, even though Caporales is based on past traditional dances (particularly Saya), it was created in 1969 and its specific history is recorded to have been in La Paz.-- MarshalN20 | T a l k 04:22, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Dance popularity
Please refrain from erasing material on the dance's popularity.-- MarshalN20 | T al k 02:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Page protected
Since there's been a slow-burning edit war here for a few weeks now, I've fully protected the page for 3 days. I expect to see discussion of the disputed content; I see MarshalN20 has tried to bring it up here. Please discuss, and let me know if it's resolved prior to the expiration of the protection. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 19:50, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm willing to discuss. Why does the user want to delete the material? The Bolivian community in Argentina dance it, and it is common to see it in Peru as well during festivities.-- MarshalN20 | T al k 02:31, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I should also note that I've asked LucMar to talk here as well. The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 06:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The user failed to respond during the time of the page protection, so I have re-inserted the material.-- MarshalN20 | T al k 04:35, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

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I'm not certain if the writer is joking, but "chinas" is Spanish for Chinese and "machas" translates as males. 2600:1702:C59:1890:4BB8:94BF:4F94:9281 (talk) 06:42, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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Sunnyvale railway station

Sunnyvale railway station is located on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network.

The station was opened on 28 February 1924.

In 2006–2007, the station was closed over summer to be upgraded, and lengthened for 6-car trains.

Sunnyvale railway station was seen during the fourth episode of Outrageous Fortune's fifth season.

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Glen Eden railway station

Glen Eden railway station is located on the Western Line of the AT Metro rail network in Auckland, New Zealand. The station house is a local historical landmark that was restored in 2001. A cafe is located in the old station building.

History

The station was opened on 29 March 1880 as one of the original stations on the North Auckland Line. The station's location determined the placement of the nearby Waikumete Cemetery. Special trains ran from Auckland on Sundays carrying the deceased and their entourage, and a dedicated platform was constructed to serve these trains. This unique function is one of the reasons that the station is registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category II heritage building. The station was added to the heritage register on 30 October 1998, with register number 7435.

The train station was the centre of the Glen Eden community during the turn of the century, with most stores and services located adjacent to the station. The station habitually dealt with scrub fires, caused due to sparks from the locomotive engines and the adjacent Archibald's Sawmill. The Waikumete Cemetery was opened in 1886, due to its proximity to the train station. The station became a transportation hub for Waitākere Ranges holidaymakers, who would take coaches from the train station to holiday at guest houses located in places such as Waiatarua, Karekare and Piha.

Services
Bus routes 152, 154 and 172 pass by the station on the adjacent West Coast Road.

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Koloman Sokol

Koloman Sokol (12 December 1902 – 12 January 2003) was one of the most prominent Slovak painters, graphic artists and illustrators. He was a founder of modern Slovak graphic art.

Biography
Koloman Sokol was born in Liptovský Mikuláš. He attended the private schools of Eugen Krón in Košice and Gustáv Mallý in Bratislava, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied under Max Švabinský and Tavik Frantisek Simon. In Czechoslovakia, he became a member in the SČUG Hollar, an association of Czechoslovak graphic artist. Following a brief period of study with František Kupka in Paris, he accepted an invitation from the Mexican Ministry of Culture and Education to teach his work. He became a professor of graphic techniques at the Escuela de las Artes del Libro, which he helped found in 1938, and at the University of Mexico City from 1937 to 1941.

Between 1942 and 1946 he lived in New York City. In 1946 he returned to Slovakia, where he taught at the Slovak University of Technology and at the Comenius University. In 1948 (when the Communists took power in Czechoslovakia) he left for the United States again. He settled in Bryn Mawr, a suburb of Philadelphia. From the 1960s he lived reclusively and created a special symbolical-mythological style during this period. In the 1990s he lived in Tucson, Arizona, where he died at the age of 100.

Style
Sokol's work was inspired by Vincent van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, George Grosz, and strongly by the expressionism of the Die Brücke Group. Initially, he concentrated on graphic techniques, which he later enriched by drawing and painting in Mexico. His paintings are often dramatic in presentation which led to the belief that he created a Slovak variation of expressionism at a European level. He remained true to the limits of graphic art in terms of form and shape. Artistic, ethnic, and social aspects merge in his work. Although the primary motive of his works was man, social motives dominate his expressive work and this tendency equates to the hard and harsh style of his engravings and drawings. His works frequently depicted suffering, penury and human pain. He also created numerous woodcuts.

Works
His most important works are:
 * Za cieľom - baníci (Towards the goal - miners)
 * Traja králi (The Three Magi)
 * Bača (Shepherd)
 * Nárek (Lamentation)
 * Nový mexický zákon (New Mexican Act)
 * Bitka žien (Women's Fight)
 * Matka s dieťaťom (A mother with child)
 * Na ceste (On the road)
 * Stretnutie (Meeting)
 * Odsúdená (Condemned)
 * Starý pltník (The old raftsman)
 * V ateliéri (In the studio)
 * V uličke (In a little street)

Honours

 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia : Grand Cross (or 1st Class) of the Order of the White Double Cross (2003)
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic : Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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Avondale railway station, Auckland

Avondale railway station is on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network. Relocated in 2008, the station can be accessed from St Jude St, Layard St, and Crayford St.

The proposed Avondale–Southdown Line would connect to the Western Line just east of the station.

History

 * 1880: Opened as one of the original stations on the North Auckland Line. The station was known as Whau for the first two years of its existence.
 * 1882: A post office opened as part of the station.
 * 1912: The post office closed.
 * 1914: The platform was upgraded to an island platform layout with a new building on the new platform.
 * 1915: A signal box was added.
 * 1966: The line to Morningside was double-tracked.
 * 1967: The signal box was removed after this section changed to centralised traffic control.
 * 1993: The platform was raised to meet the requirements of ex-Perth trains.
 * 1995: The station building was relocated to Swanson. Originally planned for demolition due to its poor state, Waitakere Community Board members Dave Harré and Penny Hulse lobbied the New Zealand Railways Corporation to save and refurbish the building.
 * 2008: The footbridge was demolished, the platform removed and a temporary station erected 50m to the east of the site.
 * 2010: A new station was constructed and the line double-tracked westward beyond Avondale. The station opened on 14 June.
 * 2014: Platforms extended to 150m from 143m for the new electric AM class EMU trains.

Upgrade and relocation
Until 26 December 2008 it had an island platform just west of Blockhouse Bay Road, reached via a footbridge off the road. In 2010 an upgraded station was built on Layard Street, north of the St Jude Street level crossing and approximately 100m west and 200m south of the old station.

The new station provides better connections with the Avondale town centre and the platform is on a straight section of track, unlike the old platform which was on a large sharp curve.

Electrification work was completed and the station began serving electric trains in 2015.

Services
A number of bus routes pass nearby on Great North Road, Rosebank Road and Blockhouse Bay Road. These include routes 18, 22N, 22R, 149, 191, 195, 209 and 670.

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Nian gao

Nian gao, sometimes translated as year cake  or New Year cake   or Chinese New Year's cake, is a food prepared from glutinous rice flour and consumed in Chinese cuisine. It is also simply known as "rice cake". While it can be eaten all year round, traditionally it is most popular during the Chinese New Year. It is considered good luck to eat nian gao during this time of the year because nian gao (年糕) is a homonym for "higher year" or "grow every year" (年高), which means "a more prosperous year". The character 年 is literally translated as "year", and the character 糕 (gāo) is literally translated as "cake" and is identical in sound to the character 高, meaning "tall" or "high". In Mandarin (though not all Chinese languages), Nian gao (年糕) also is an exact homonym of "sticky cake" (黏糕／粘糕), the character 黏／粘 (nián) meaning "sticky".

This sticky sweet snack was believed to be an offering to the Kitchen God, with the aim that his mouth will be stuck with the sticky cake, so that he cannot badmouth the human family in front of the Jade Emperor. It is also traditionally eaten during Chinese New Year.

Originally from China, it spread to or gave rise to related rice cakes in Southeast Asian countries and Sri Lanka due to overseas Chinese influences.

History
Making of nian gao can be traced back to the Northern and Southern dynasties (386–589 AD). The agricultural text Qimin Yaoshu, written during that time, referenced an older recipe book Shi Ci (食次) and the glutinous rice dish, ye (䊦): "Use glutinous rice flour, sieve with silk cloth, add water and honey, use hand to knead the dough, making two-inch squares, cut to four sticks, put date and chestnut meat on and under the sticks, grease around, cover with bamboo leaves, steam thoroughly, set aside two hours, if the leaves are still on, ripped off, set the sticks free." Ye was the earliest variant of nian gao known to have been made.

Significance and rituals
Nian gao sounds identical to 年高, meaning "higher year," implying promotions or prosperity year after year. This association makes nian gao a popular gift item during the New Year period. The traditional nian gao is round with an auspicious decoration such as the character for prosperity (福) on its top. The character is often written in the traditional Chinese script.

As a gift item, nian gao are fashioned into different shapes with attractive packaging to suit the festive season. Popular designs include a pair of carps (年年有餘) symbolizing surplus every year, ingots (元寶), or the God of Wealth (財神). These designs are auspicious symbols and send good wishes for the New Year.

Production
Despite numerous varieties, they all share the same glutinous rice ingredient that is pounded or ground into a paste and, depending on the variety, may simply be molded into shape or cooked again to settle the ingredient. Nian gao has many varieties, including the types found in Cantonese cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Shanghai cuisine, and northern Chinese cuisine.

Guangdong/Cantonese cuisine
The Guangdong variety is sweetened, usually with brown sugar. It is distinct with a dark yellow color. The paste is poured into a cake pan and steamed once more to settle the mixture. The batter is steamed until it solidifies and served in thick slices. It may be eaten as is. The nian gao becomes stretchy and extremely sticky. It can also be served as a pudding flavored with rosewater or red bean paste.

The next stage is optional, as it can be sliced and be pan-fried afterwards, often with egg, to make fried nian gao. When fried, it is slightly crispy on the outside, and remains pasty on the inside. During the Chinese New Year, it is cut into square pieces and served along with similar cake dim sum dishes, like water chestnut cakes and taro cakes. People also send pieces of nian gao to their friends and relatives as wishes for prosperity and good fortune.

Fujian/Hokkien cuisine
In the Southern region of Fujian, nian gao, natural amber, is mainly used for the New Year ritual and gifts. It is made of glutinous rice and taro, which are then usually sliced and cooked before eating. It can also be wrapped in egg or cornstarch (corn flour) or sweet potato to fry.

Jiangnan and Shanghainese cuisine
Nian gao is white along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (the Jiangnan region), and it is a mild food. It is made by mixing rice with glutinous rice; the ratio between the two can be adjusted according to personal preferences. The softer version has an increased proportion of glutinous rice. Cooking methods include steaming, frying, sliced frying, or in soup. Ningbo nian gao is the most famous, and common practices include pickled pork soup nian gao and shepherd's purse fried nian gao. Shanghai's ribs nian gao are also distinctive. The Shanghai Niangao style is usually packaged in a thick, soft rod to be sliced up or packaged sliced and either stir-fried or added to soup. Depending on the cooking method, this style is a soft to a chewy variant. The Shanghai style keeps the nian gao white, and is made with nonglutinous rice. The color is its distinct feature. When served as a dish, the most common is the stir-fry method, hence the name (炒年糕, chǎo nián gāo). Three general types exist. The first is a savory dish; common ingredients include scallions, beef, pork, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, etc. The second is a sweet version using standard white sugar. The last version is almost tasteless, and is often consumed for its chewy textures.

Northern cuisine
Northern nian gao can be steamed or fried, and is mainly sweet in taste. The Beijing versions include jujube and either glutinous rice or yellow rice, mince nian gao, and white nian gao. The Shanxi makes nian gao using fried yellow rice and red bean paste or jujube paste for filling. Hebei uses jujube, small red beans, and green beans to make steamed nian gao. In Shandong, it is made of red dates and yellow rice. The Northeast type is made of beans on sticky sorghum.

Burmese cuisine
It is commonly called tikay (MY တီကေ့) in Burma, from Hokkien tike. Introduced by the Sino-Burmese, it is commonly eaten during the Lunar New Year.

Cambodian cuisine
Buddha cake, or nom preahpout, (នំព្រះពុទ្ធ) is a Cambodian counterpart consumed during Khmer New Year.

Indonesian cuisine
In Indonesia, it is known as kue keranjang or dodol Tionghoa or dodol Cina, the latter both meaning "Chinese dodol", a similar Indonesian rice flour confection.

Kue keranjang was originally named as nien kao or ni-kwee or yearly cake or seasonal cake, because they are only made once a year. In East Java, this cake was named kue keranjang because the wrapper is made from a bamboo basket with a little hole in the middle. In West Java, it was named China cake, as the origin of the cake from China, but some call it China Cake because the producers are Chinese (known as Tionghoa).

Japanese cuisine
In Japan, mochi is a similar glutinous rice cake eaten primarily for the Japanese New Year.

Korean cuisine
In Korea, tteokguk, a soup dish that uses the garae-tteok similar to the Shanghai variety of nián gāo, is traditionally eaten during the Korean New Year.

Peranakan cuisine
Peranakan Chinese offer steamed sticky cakes called kueh bakul (粘糕; nian gao) to the Kitchen God, Zao Jun (also known as Zao Shen and Zao Wang) as offerings.

Philippine cuisine
In the Philippines, the food is called tikoy, originating from the Hokkien word 甜粿. It is popular during the Lunar or Chinese New Year and was culturally assimilated within the population's own cooking techniques through trade networks between the Philippines and Hokkien-speaking regions such as Fujian and Taiwan. It is sweetened with brown sugar, giving it a dark yellow to light brown colour, but it is also often prepared with different flavours, such as ube (purple yam), giving it a purple colour, or pandan, giving it a green colour. Tikoy may be eaten as is, but can also be dipped in beaten egg and lightly pan fried until crispy, but still chewy inside. Also a version of tikoy is made in southern Quezon province. Unlike others, this variant is sweet and is similar to Japanese ''mochi. Tikoy can also be consumed as an ingredient in the Filipino dessert called turon'' or be eaten with ice cream and chocolate or covered with grated coconut flesh and peanuts.

Sri Lankan cuisine
In Sri Lanka, seenakku (සීනක්කු) is of Malay origin and derives from the influences of the Peranakan Chinese who settled on the island during Dutch rule. Seenakku is a popular sweet among the country's Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Malay communities and is served with grated coconut. Seenakku is called cheena kueh by the Sri Lankan Malay community, with its name reflecting its Chinese origin.

Vietnamese cuisine
Bánh tổ is a Vietnamese counterpart to the Chinese nian gao. It is a speciality of Quảng Nam province and also consumed by the ethnic Chinese community.

Mauritian cuisine
In Mauritius, the nian gao is commonly called gâteau la cire (literally translated as 'wax cake'); however, it can be written in diverse ways such as gato la cire, gato lasir, or gato lacire, etc. It is a traditional cake of the Sino-Mauritian community. Traditionally, it is made with rice flour, sweetened with sugar, sometimes honey, and has orange zest as the key ingredient. The classic colour of the nian gao in Mauritius has traditionally been brown; however, new colours along with new flavours, such as white (which is coconut-milk based), green (which is pandan-based), red, and yellow, has recently been introduced on the island in 2018. In Mauritius, the nian gao is a cake which symbolized sharing; it is customary for Sino-Mauritians to share and distribute nian gao to celebrate Chinese New Year to their families and friends; and thus, nian gao is consumed by locals regardless of their ethnicity. Some nian gao found on the island is imported while others are traditionally made by the local ethnic Chinese community. The traditional way of making nian gao is still transmitted from generations to generations in some families.

American Cuisine
Chinese Americans eat cooked or fried nian gao on Chinese New Year's Eve and on New Year's Eve. In Hawai'i, nian gao is known as gau and is a popular food consumed during the Chinese New Year.

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User:GarrettCombs

The Early Years
William Garrett Combs was born in Fort Scott, Kansas at Mercy Hospital to Albert Leon Combs, Jr. and Kathleen Marie Combs around 9:30 PM CST on 12 November, 1987. Roughly three years later, Garrett and his family moved to Springfield, Missouri.

Family
Garrett was born with an older brother, Matthew, who was four years older. He also had two half-siblings from Al's first marriage, Troy and Alecia, who were well into their teens when he was born.

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Morningside railway station, Auckland

Morningside railway station is a station on the Western Line of the Auckland Railway Network. It has an island platform and is accessed via a level crossing on Morningside Drive and by a subway from New North Road.

History

 * 1880: It opened as one of the original stations on the North Auckland Line.
 * 1914: A signal box was established here.
 * 1966: The line between Morningside and Avondale was partially double-tracked and the platform was upgraded to an island platform layout.
 * 1993: The platform was modified slightly to meet the requirements of new ex-Perth trains.
 * 2009: An upgraded station was opened.
 * 2013: In February, a woman in a wheelchair which was stuck in the tracks was rescued from the path of an approaching train.
 * 2014: Electrification infrastructure installed as part of the electrification of Auckland's railway network.

Bus transfers
Bus routes 20, 22N, 22R and 209 pass close to Morningside station.

In media
Morningside Station was featured in the music video for Lorde's song "Royals".

Accidents
On 29 January 2015, a pedestrian was struck by a train and killed at Morningside station whilst attempting to cross at a pedestrian level crossing.

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Maungawhau railway station

Maungawhau railway station, formerly known as Mount Eden railway station, is a Western Line station of the Auckland railway network in the Auckland suburb of Mount Eden in New Zealand. The station has been closed since 2020 and is currently undergoing an extensive reconstruction as part of the wider work on the City Rail Link. The station is due to reopen to the public in early 2026.

The reconstruction work is adding two side platforms on the City Rail Link line toward Karanga-a-Hape railway station in addition to the island platform on the line towards Grafton station. The station was reached via a footbridge from Mount Eden Road or from the level crossing between Ngahura Street and Fenton Street.

History

 * 1880: Opened as one of the original stations on the North Auckland Line.
 * 1912: The present island platform and a new station building were constructed.
 * 1914: A signal box was established.
 * 1964: Lost much school traffic when some trains began to stop at St Peter's College (at the now closed Boston Road station and its replacement, the nearby Grafton station).
 * 1967: Following the introduction of centralised traffic control, the signal box was removed.
 * Mid-1990s: The old station building was sold and removed, and is now located further up the track, past Morningside station, and is in use as a private home.
 * 2004: An upgraded station was opened.
 * 2019: An announcement that the station will be closed for four years from June 2020 for improvement as part of work for the City Rail Link starts.
 * 2020: Following a delay caused by the COVID-19 lockdown, Mt Eden Station closed on 11 July
 * 2023: The name of the station was officially changed from Mount Eden Station to Maungawhau Railway Station

City Rail Link
Auckland Transport (AT) changed their City Rail Link plans by removing the proposed Newton station and instead adding another platform at Mount Eden with a trench-styled layout similar to New Lynn railway station. The benefit, according to the Mayor of Auckland Len Brown, was a saving of NZD$150 million. AT chairman Lester Levy said that there had been concerted effort to optimise the design and reduce construction cost. "The change that has resulted from this focus will reduce cost by removing the very deep Newton station, which will also reduce construction disruption in upper Symonds St by 12 to 18 months. The improved design will connect passengers at Mt Eden Station to the CRL which previously bypassed them and improve operation reliability through the provision of a separated east-west junction so train lines won’t need to cross over each other." Levy said the changes also will result in an improved customer experience with the CRL platform at Mount Eden to be built in a trench similar to the New Lynn station, and be open to the sky, rather than deep underground as was the case for the proposed Newton station location. This open air location and the separated train junction will also lower operating costs.

To allow the CRL to connect to the west toward Swanson and to the east toward Newmarket, Mount Eden station closed on 11 July 2020. The Western Line was realigned between Dominion Road and Mount Eden Prison, with consequent changes to overhead line and signalling systems.

In October 2019, demolition of 30 buildings in the station vicinity commenced. This first of three phases of demolition was expected to be completed in March 2020. The new station is currently under construction and is due to open in 2026.

Bus transfers
Maungawhau Station is serviced by routes 64, 25B, 25L, 27H, 27W, and 27T services between central Auckland and Auckland Airport.

Signal box
The Mt Eden Local Control Panel was installed in the station building in 1967 and removed from service in 1995 when the station building was removed. The panel has been preserved in working order.

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You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Canada#Nova_Scotia page as living in or being associated with Nova Scotia. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Nova Scotia for instructions.--Rmky87 05:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Disappearance_of_Kimberly_McAndrew
I am writing an article about the Disappearance_of_Kimberly_McAndrew and I would to have your feedback on this article, I feel it is part of our Canadian history of missing person in Nova Scotia. I would like to keep it on Wikipedia.jbignell (talk) 01:01, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for joining our slightly slow moving project! Do you work at Collideascope? I used to work with Steve and MA when Steve was at Citadel, ages ago. I moved the article of the moment to the one you suggested, it will be a long haul to make that turkey work! As my mother-in-law says, pitter patter, lets get at 'er!WayeMason 02:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for the help with the Halifax demographics. I feel the content changes are valuable, but I feel like such a goof when the result *looks* worse afterward. Thanks for cleaning it up a bit! AshleyMorton 14:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

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Hello fellow WikiProject_Nova_Scotia member. I have recently lodged a Request for Comments on the Talk:Halifax, Nova Scotia page. I and several other editors have had a running dispute with user Lonewolf BC. The RFC is This is a dispute about whether it is accurate to continue to refer to the area of or approximately coinciding with the boundaries of the City of Halifax, which became a part of the rural/urban Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996,  as a city.

Basically, as I say on the RFC, we all agree that this is no longer a City, but to use former City's boundaries when describing the current urban area as a "city" (note the lower case) is at best arbitrary and at worst a fabrication. The city is now a continuous area that wraps the harbour, from Portuguese Cove (outside of the city of Halifax to the west and south) to Cole Harbour (outside of the former City of Dartmouth to the east). People now refer to the entire urban area of Halifax Regional Municipality as 'the city' and 'Halifax'.

Anyway, the bottom line is at least five people have tried to change the wording of the intro since January, and every time this one user changes it back. I have tried to come up with compromise wording, and he won't dialog. Right now wikipedia says HRM and Halifax are the capital of Nova Scotia. This article is now factually incorrect, in my opinion, and I need your help, please chime in. WayeMason 23:05, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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Boston Road railway station

Boston Road railway station was a station on the Western Line of the Auckland rail network, near St Peter's College and Auckland Grammar School. It was beneath an overbridge of State Highway 1, one of the busiest motorways in New Zealand. At the southern end of the station is the north western wall of Mt Eden Prison. The station closed on 10 April 2010, the day after the opening of the new Grafton station, and has since been largely demolished.

Until double-tracking between the station and Mt Eden in 2005, eastbound morning trains ran on the westbound track through the loop, avoiding the need for the school pupils to cross the line.

History
The line played an important part in the history of St Peter's College. From the time the school opened in 1939 many students came from the western suburbs of Auckland using the train service (known at that time at St Peter's College as the "North train") to attend the school. Until 1964 the nearest station was Mt Eden station, a ten-minute walk to or from the school. By 1964 about 250 St Peter's boys were using the train and walking between Mt Eden station and the school.

Brother T. A. Monagle, who supervised the train boys and who travelled on the train each day for that purpose, approached the Railways Department to request that the train stop at the school. The college had several reasons for asking that the trains should stop there. "The traffic in Mt Eden Road had become very heavy, and was a constant danger to the younger and more thoughtless of our pupils, and another source of considerable danger existed at Mt Eden station where supervision was necessary to prevent accidents when the boys were boarding the train. Again, the train would disgorge its pupils at Mt Eden and then chug merrily past the school almost empty, leaving the boys to walk half a mile, often in heavy rain." Brother Monagle persuaded the Minister of Railways, Mr John McAlpine, to come and see for himself. In fact the Minister volunteered to walk up to the Mt Eden station from the school. "Well, somebody must have been pulling some strings up above, because on the day of the Minister's visit it rained cats and dogs, and even the odd pink elephant ..." and Brother Monagle's request was granted. The North train stopped at the St Peter's College station for the first time at 8.30am on Tuesday 15 September 1964 for the 250 St Peter's College boys and a dozen from Auckland Grammar. Initially the station was just a metalled strip parallel to the tracks.

Another noteworthy event occurred in November 1965, when, for the last time, the North train was pulled by a steam engine. It was the last passenger train in the North Island to be pulled by a steam locomotive.

In relation to Brother Monagle, " ... it is generally agreed that he deserved the rank of Railway Employee. Surely no single person has ever held down so many positions at once - stationmaster, signalman, ticket inspector and guard, not to mention construction engineer, traffic officer and the occasional shot at engine-driving! During the many years that he was associated with the train, Brother Monagle became friends with most of the railway employees along the line as he made his trip each afternoon as far as Mt Albert". Initially, only the "school" trains stopped at St Peter's College, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. The St Peter's College station attained full public station status with all trains stopping there from 1993 and was named the Boston Road Station.

Station move
ONTRACK reconstructed two road bridges just to the east of the station to allow double-tracking in the section towards Newmarket station and to prepare for electrification. As part of the project, boardings and alightings were shifted several hundred metres to the northeast, between Park Road and Khyber Pass Road, where a new station and bus interchange was built. This station was named Grafton station. It is able to better serve the Central Connector and sites such as the Auckland Hospital and the university development on the former Lion Brewery site while still preserving direct access to their school for the hundreds of St Peter's College students who commute daily by train.

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Miyagino-ku, Sendai

Miyagino-ku (宮城野区) is the northeastern ward of the city Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the ward had a population of 196,086 and a population density of 3370 persons per km2 in 91322 households. The total area of the ward was 58.19 sqkm.

Geography
Miyagino-ku is located on the coast, bordered by Sendai Bay on the Pacific Ocean to the east, and by the city of Tagajō to the north.

Neighboring municipalities

 * Miyagi Prefecture
 * Aoba-ku, Sendai
 * Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai
 * Izumi-ku, Sendai
 * Tomiya
 * Tagajō
 * Rifu
 * Shichigahama

History
The area of present-day Miyagino-ku was part of ancient Mutsu Province, and has been settled since at least the Japanese Paleolithic period. The area was inhabited by the Emishi people, and came under the control of the imperial dynasty during the late Nara period from their base at Tagajō. During the Heian period, the provincial capital of Mutsu Province was located near the vicinity of Iwakiri Station. The area was later controlled by the Northern Fujiwara clan of Hiraizumi. During the Sengoku period, the area was dominated by various samurai clans before coming under the control of the Date clan during the Edo period, who ruled Sendai Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. With the April 1, 1889 establishment of the post-Meiji restoration municipalities system, the area became part of Miyagi District of Miyagi Prefecture. The area was annexed by the city of Sendai on 1 November 1987.

Education
Miyagino-ku has 20 public elementary schools and 10 public junior high schools operated by the city government and one private combined middle/high school. The ward also has two public high schools operated by the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education. The city also operates one special education school.

Railway

 * JR East - Tōhoku Main Line
 * Higashi-Sendai - Iwakiri
 * JR East - Senseki Line
 * Tsutsujigaoka - Miyaginohara - Rikuzen-Haranomachi - Nigatake - Kozurushinden - Fukudamachi - Rikuzen-Takasago - Nakanosakae
 * Sendai Subway - Nanboku Line
 * Miyagino-dori

Notable buildings

 * Sendai Sun Plaza
 * Rakuten Kobo Stadium Miyagi
 * Sendai City Athletic Stadium

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Baldwin Avenue railway station

Baldwin Avenue railway station, in the suburb of Mount Albert, is on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network. The station has offset side platforms connected by a level crossing.

History

 * 1907: Between 1907 and 1 June 1915, trains would halt at Avondale Road (modern-day Asquith Ave), close to the modern-day railway station.
 * 1953: Opened as a wayside halt on 28 September.
 * 1966: The line between Morningside and Avondale was double-tracked, leading to two new platforms being built. These platforms were off-set from each other.
 * 1993: The platforms were raised to meet the standards of the new ex-Perth trains.
 * 2011: An upgraded and lengthened station was opened, with the platforms directly opposite each other.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dog Mike Coke

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/179424673 (number)

 * 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. Linuxbeak | Talk 19:05, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

179424673 (number)
Not notable. linas 05:15, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable number. — J I P | Talk 06:49, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not exceptional significance, see WikiProject Numbers for criteria. Rememeber to fix wikilinks first . -- Egil 07:14, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not exceptionally interesting. Xoloz 15:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete — I merged the trivial factoid about the prime into 100000000 (number). — RJH 15:16, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy per nom for 427 (number); if not, delete. PacknCanes 22:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Real number, notability is not a criterion for deletion. Notable as beeing 1,000,000th prime. Klonimus 02:48, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As above. Jitse Niesen (talk) 17:08, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Umm, relevance? Rhetoricalwater 22:05, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete to set a precedent before we move on to 1.1, 1.01, 1.001 ... -- red stucco 08:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Masterhatch 10:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Half of the article talks about this or that that the article is not. Perhaps it could be mentioned in an article on prime numbers. Cool3 04:03, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annika Johnson

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Linuxbeak | Talk 19:06, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Annika Johnson
Non-notable bio. College student or recent graduate who is one of seven founders of Access Now, a college organization. The founders are already listed in the Access Now article and that mention is sufficient. Google suggests that Annika Johnson won a student leadership award at Hamline University, but I don't think that's sufficient for WP:BIO. Quale 05:15, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete as per nom, and should Access Now be listed here also? Seems to be a nn campus org.  --Dvyost 05:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I have, in fact, listed Access Now below.  --Dvyost 05:57, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete per nom --Anetode 05:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. { edit } 06:32, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. — J I P | Talk 06:48, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nominator. Hall Monitor 17:31, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
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User:Zoroethgenre

the greatest man in the universe

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Taihaku-ku, Sendai

Taihaku-ku (太白区) is the southernmost ward of the city Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the ward had a population of 234,391 and a population density of 1028 persons per km2 in 113,068 households. The total area of the ward was 228.39 sqkm. Taihaku-ku is eleventh largest ward in Japan in terms of area, and second-largest in Sendai (behind Aoba-ku). The western portion of the ward is the former town of Akiu, Miyagi.

Geography
Taihaku-ku is located inland, forming the southern portion of Sendai metropolis. The area is mountainous to the west, and the Natori River flows through the ward.

Neighboring municipalities

 * Miyagi Prefecture
 * Aoba-ku, Sendai
 * Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai
 * Natori
 * Murata
 * Kawasaki
 * Yamagata Prefecture
 * Yamagata
 * Higashine

History
The area of present-day Taihaku-ku was part of ancient Mutsu Province, and has been settled since at least the Japanese Paleolithic period. The area was inhabited by the Emishi people, and came under the control of the imperial dynasty during the late Nara period. During the Heian period, it was controlled by the Abe clan, followed by the Northern Fujiwara clan of Hiraizumi. During the Sengoku period, the area was dominated by various samurai clans before coming under the control of the Date clan during the Edo period, who ruled Sendai Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. With the establishment of the post-Meiji restoration municipalities system, the area was organised into Natori District of Miyagi Prefecture. The expanding city of Sendai annexed the town of Nagamachi in 1928, villages of Nishitaga in 1932, Tanaka in 1941, Oide in 1956 and town of Akiu in 1988. On April 1, 1989 when Sendai became a designated city by the national government with increased local autonomy, Taihaku-ku was formed as one of the five wards of the city.

Railway

 * East Japan Railway Company (JR East) - Tōhoku Main Line / Jōban Line
 * Minami-Sendai - Taishidō - Nagamachi
 * Sendai Subway - Nanboku Line
 * Nagamachi-Itchome – Nagamachi – Nagamachi-Minami – Tomizawa
 * Sendai Subway - Tōzai Line
 * Yagiyama Zoological Park

Highway

 * – (Sendai-Minami Interchange)
 * – (Yamada and Nagamachi interchanges)

Colleges and universities

 * Tohoku University - Taihaku campus (Graduate School of Science)
 * Miyagi University - Taihaku campus
 * Tohoku Institute of Technology

Primary and secondary schools
Taihaku-ku has 28 public elementary schools and 14 public junior high schools operated by the city government. The ward has four public high schools operated by the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education. Miyagi Prefecture also operates two special education schools within the ward. In addition, Taihaku-ku is host to the Tohoku Korean Primary and Junior High School, a North Korean international school.

Local attractions

 * Akiu Great Falls
 * Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum
 * Sendai Yagiyama Zoological Park
 * Sendai City Wild Plants Garden

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Fruitvale Road railway station

Fruitvale Road railway station is on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network. It is near local schools, including two major high schools.

The station was opened on 28 September 1953.

In 2006–2007, the station was closed over summer to be upgraded, and lengthened for 6-car trains.

The station is known as the final confirmed place of missing French teenager Eloi Rolland, who went missing from Piha on 7 March 2020.

Station name
It is named after a nearby road. The road is not very well known, thus new passengers will most likely have no idea which suburb this station serves. It has been proposed to rename it 'Kelston' since it is in that suburb. It is quite close to Kelston Shopping Centre, Kelston Girls' College and Kelston Deaf Education Centre.

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File:Marooned (1969 film poster).jpg

Fair use in Marooned (1969 film)
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It's a low resolution copy of a Film Poster / VHS or DVD Cover.
 * 2) It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
 * 3) Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork/image.
 * 4) The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
 * 5) The image  is significant because it was used to promoted a notable film.

Source

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User talk:S3076978

Thanks for experimenting with the page Wikipedia:How to edit a page on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. 68.39.174.238 05:19, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

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You have been temporarily blocked from editing for vandalism of Wikipedia. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Jtkiefer T - 06:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

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Newmarket railway station, Auckland

Newmarket railway station is a station in the inner-city suburb of Newmarket in Auckland, New Zealand. It serves the Southern, Onehunga and Western Lines of the Auckland railway network, and is the second-busiest station in Auckland, after Waitematā.

The station was opened in 1873. It was completely rebuilt between 2008 and 2010 and now consists of two island platforms serving three tracks with a concourse above the southern end of the station. The redeveloped station opened on 14 January 2010.

Historical station

The station was opened in 1873 and in its historical configuration it consisted of a single island, accessed by a ramp from Remuera Road (opposite Nuffield Street) and by a pedestrian overbridge which led to Broadway and Joseph Banks Terrace. The original station building was one of four island platform station buildings in Auckland designed and built by George Troup, Chief Engineer for the New Zealand Railways Department. It was built in 1908, at the time of the installation of double track.

The signal box at the northern end of the platform was built at the same time and was one of the few of that era on its original site and still in operation in the late 20th century, being the last full-sized lever frame box on the national network.

Newmarket was also the site of Newmarket Workshops, which opened in 1878, and closed in 1927, when Otahuhu Workshops opened.

The historical configuration of the station, near Newmarket Junction (the junction of the Western and Southern Lines), forced some unusual movements. Trains from the city had to run past the junction to call at the station, as they do to this day. There were two platforms in an island configuration, and all city-bound trains stopped at one platform, outbound trains stopping at the other. This was confusing as the outward-bound platform served both the Southern and Western Lines. This problem was partially solved by 'splitting' the platform into two: Southern Line trains stopped at the southern end of the platform, Western Line at the northern end. However the platform was short, so that this did not always resolve the confusion.

The above practice became less prevalent following the higher frequency of the July 2007 timetable. From then trains used whichever platform was free, and could arrive without any indication of destination. Off-peak operations usually followed the traditional practice, but during the peak this was not practical. This led to passengers' confusion as to which train ran on which line.

During peak times, Veolia staff were often present with megaphones to inform passengers of train destinations. The signal box was attended 24 hours per day and had control of all trains within the station and Junction.

Backshunt
For many years, outbound Western Line trains reversed into a special siding, which allowed them to enter the Western Line. In July 2007, this reversing procedure ceased to be necessary, with the start of rebuilding as part of Project DART. However, once the project stalled, the backshunt process continued even after electrification and the rebuild of the station itself until City Rail Link complete.

Historic station building
The fate of the historically and architecturally significant old station building was controversial, with various proposals being put forward to demolish, refurbish, or relocate the building. Following the announcement on 14 March 2007 of the budget for the station's upgrade, Minister of Finance Michael Cullen announced that $5 million would be put towards moving the building, possibly to a proposed new station at Parnell where it would serve as a station for the Auckland War Memorial Museum in the Auckland Domain.

The signal box was closed in early 2008, and it and the station building were removed from the site on 3 March 2008 to an undisclosed storage location, as ONTRACK feared they would be vandalised. The station building was moved to Parnell station in time for the start of services on 12 March 2017 and the official opening of the station on 13 March 2017.

Redeveloped station

Newmarket station was rebuilt for NZ$35 million between January 2008 and January 2010 as part of ONTRACK's Project DART. It was necessary to close the station for the rebuild and two temporary stations were built: Newmarket South, approximately 200m south on the Southern Line, and Newmarket West (also called Kingdon Street) on the Western Line. Both stations were demolished later. As well as modernising the facilities and appearance, the redevelopment improved connections between the station and the surrounding commercial and residential areas. The station now has a concourse level above the platforms, and entrances from a new square off Broadway, a 65m long covered bridge (capable of carrying emergency vehicles) off Remuera Road, and a pedestrian bridge from Joseph Banks Terrace, from the Remuera side.

The station retains the option of extending the concourse, with pedestrian entry off Broadway further north possible in the future. The current entrance off Broadway may also be widened, with Auckland Council considering demolishing two shops to widen the passage. Some criticism was made at the time of opening about the high step up into trains, which was considered necessary by the designers to allow freight trains to pass the platforms. Authorities noted that this was the same height as at other stations throughout the Auckland system with the exception of Britomart, which does not have freight trains passing. Authorities confirmed the vertical distance to step up to some train carriages would be up to 374 mm, but this would be reduced with the introduction of the new carriages specifically designed for the electrification of the Auckland network.

New track layout
Integral to the redevelopment was the requirement to reorganise the track layout. The new station has twin islands and three tracks. Each island has two platforms, although currently Platform Two is not in use for passenger services. Generally Platform One serves westbound services on the Western Line. Platform Three serves Britomart bound services on all three lines (Western, Onehunga and Southern), while Platform Four serves southbound services on the Onehunga and Southern Lines. The station cost an estimated NZ$25 million to redevelop (paid for by ARTA), and ONTRACK spent around NZ$45 million to change the layout. The project has been called the most challenging in the whole upgrade of Auckland's railway network.

Western Line trains reverse direction to leave the station, requiring the driver to get out and walk to the other end of the train and adding two to three minutes to each trip.

From 18 March 2018, Britomart bound Western Line trains began to open both sets of doors on Platforms Two and Three, allowing for easy transfers between Southern, Western and Onehunga Line trains.

Pedestrian access
The main entrance from the concourse opens onto Station Square, a large plaza located on the western side of the station which is linked to Broadway and Remuera Road by a pair of covered passages. There is also a covered bridge connecting the concourse to Remuera Road to the south and a smaller bridge connecting the concourse to Joseph Banks Terrace to the east. There are also proposals for a future northern entrance which would link the concourse to another entrance on Broadway opposite the Olympic Pools.

Electrification
On 27 April 2014, Auckland's new AM class electric trains were debuted to the general public in a celebratory open day held at Britomart Transport Centre. As part of the day's events, 5000 Aucklanders were able to take a free ride on one of the new trains from Britomart, to Newmarket station and back.

The electric trains officially entered public service on the rail network's Onehunga Line the following day.

Awards
The station's lighting design engineer, Opus International Consultants, won three New Zealand IES Lighting design awards in 2010 for the lighting design: an Award of Excellence, Award of Commendation and the Trends People's Choice Award for the innovative LED lantern box design on Remuera Road.

The station and its architects, Opus and Herriot + Melhuish:Architecture, won best building award in the "Urban Design" category in 2011, awarded by the New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services to Waitematā, Swanson, Onehunga, Papakura and Pukekohe via Newmarket. The basic inter-peak weekday timetable is:
 * 6 trains per hour (tph) to Waitematā from Swanson and Papakura
 * 3 tph to Swanson
 * 3 tph to Papakura
 * 2 tph to Onehunga

Bus routes 30, 70, 75, 295, 309, 751, 781, the Inner Link and the Outer Link pass close to Newmarket station.

On 24 June 2022, the Onehunga line was shortened to terminate at Newmarket due to a reduction of platforms at Waitematā for City Rail Link construction. Services to Waitematā were restored during off-peak and weekends by March 2023. From 29 April 2024, Onehunga Line trains were again shortened to terminate at Newmarket at all times of the day.

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Talk:Gants Hill tube station

Busiest station
I'm afraid this fact is not supported by the figures which is why I removed it. Here are the exit/entry figures p/a for some stations outside central London:

Dagenham Heathway          3.225 million Gants Hill                 3.556 million Upton Park                 6.41 million East Ham tube station      9.098 million Barking station            9.963 million

Its better to let facts speak rather than make broad unsupported statements. MRSC 05:19, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Please don't put words in my mouth. I never said that it was the busiest station.  I said, and still say, that it is one of the busiest stations.  Would MRSC care to put up the complete list, including say Fairlop and Moor Park, so that readers can get a balanced picture? Londoneye 12:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's best to avoid peacock terms and weasel terms in articles and just let facts speak for themselves. It also ensures NPOV when writing good articles.
 * Given that stations outside central London vary from the very low (<1M p/a) to the very high (>9M p/a) I would have to say that Gants Hill is pretty much average just like Dagenham Heathway. I don't think there is any need to put this in the article, just presenting the figures is enough.
 * I'm sorry you feel I was putting words in your mouth but I had no such intention. MRSC 13:01, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually the station is not really an average entry and exit figure because the figure has a big gap with other stations like Upton Park.Vincent60030 (talk) 14:17, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The question is from over nine years ago. It is surely irrelevant by now. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:13, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Pictures
Wouldnt it be better to switch the two images around. Your opinions if you please Medscin 18:32, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Which two are you referring to? Grunners (talk) 17:01, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Moscow Metro
We had two conflicting statements regarding Gants Hill's design being influenced by the Moscow Metro, or vice-versa - have clarified using the tfl posters on display at the moment as the source - copy of which can be seen |here. Grunners (talk) 17:01, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Connections section
Charlesdrakew,

Of what I have referenced should be placed in this way because different bus stations have different bus routes so please do not merge it into one. Thank you.Vincent60030 (talk) 15:39, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

concourse bored?
I'm reading London's Underground by H F Howson. He suggests that the concourse at Gant's Hill was bored (rather than cut and cover). Im not convinced that is likely, so thought I'd see what Wikipedia has to say. Unfortunately it says nothing about station construction. Does anyone know the answer?FreeFlow99 (talk) 14:00, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * There is a detailed discussion of the construction in Antony Badsey-Ellis's Building London's Underground, 2016, ISBN 9-781854-143976. The platform tunnels, side passages and centre concourse were bored in several stages using five overlapping bores, three of which were enlarged later to form the final arrangement. The domed section of the central concourse is same 21 ft diameter as the platform tunnels at a higher centre line.--DavidCane (talk) 14:41, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
 * do you have the full book David? I'm currently improving the article to hopefully good article status. VKZY LUFan (talk) (Mind the Gap!) 08:35, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I do. Would you like me to write a piece on the construction method? Whilst the station was inspired by the Moscow Metro, the bit in "Design" about Holden being a consultant on the Moscow Underground is wrong. The main advice was technical rather than architectural and from the Managing director, Frank Pick, rather than Holden.--DavidCane (talk) 13:29, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Wow, the information from the picture was indeed not right. Sure, go ahead. Thanks very much :) VKZY LUFan (talk) (Mind the Gap!) 12:15, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Woodford via Hainault services ceased?
So Trains generally do not go to Woodford via Hainault at off-peak hours? VKZY LUFan (talk) (Mind the Gap!) 05:08, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Helen Kushnick

— J I P | Talk 05:20, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Dates don't add up
First line: Helen Kushnick (born Helen Gorman born 1948 in NYC and died August 28, 1996) Last line: Helen died of breast cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 51.

1996 minus 1948 does not equal 51. Date of death confirmed at 8/28/96, and age at death confirmed (in NY Times and Entertainment Weekly) at 51. Birth date must be between 8/29/1944 and 8/28/1945. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.153.16.62 (talk) 01:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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Gold Reserve Inc.

Gold Reserve Inc. is a gold mining company founded in 1956 with operations and mining property in Bolivar State, Venezuela.

The company is currently headquartered in Spokane, Washington.

As a part of a 2016 settlement based on a dispute over withdrawal of a gold concession to Gold Reserve, the government of Venezuela entered into a joint venture with the company to mine the Brisas and Las Cristinas goldmines.

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User:HunterZ

I have decided to retire from Wikipedia because it has been too thoroughly colonized by people who are more interested in arm-chairing the worthiness of other people's contributions than in actually working to make those contributions worthwhile. This site is extremely user hostile and unwelcoming. Don't bother trying to argue this; if you actually care, then work to push lazy gatekeepers off of the platform.

I will never forget when Wikipedia jumped the shark: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-30-ca-webscout30-story.html

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Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai

Wakabayashi-ku (若林区) is the eastern ward of the city Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the ward had a population of 138,102 and a population density of 2715 persons per km² in 63583 households. The total area of the ward was 50.86 sqkm.

Geography
Wakabayashi-ku is located on the coast, bordered by Sendai Bay on the Pacific Ocean to the east, and by the city of Natori separated by the Natori River to the south.

Neighboring municipalities

 * Miyagi Prefecture
 * Aoba-ku, Sendai
 * Miyagino-ku, Sendai
 * Taihaku-ku, Sendai
 * Natori

History
The area of present-day Wakabayashi-ku was part of ancient Mutsu Province, and has been settled since at least the Japanese Paleolithic period. The area was inhabited by the Emishi people, and numerous kofun burial mounds from the Kofun period have been found. The area came under the control of the imperial dynasty during the late Nara period from their base at Tagajō. During the Heian period, the Mutsu Kokubun-ji provincial temple was located in the area. The area was later controlled by the Northern Fujiwara clan of Hiraizumi. During the Sengoku period, the area was dominated by various samurai clans before coming under the control of the Date clan during the Edo period, who ruled Sendai Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. With the April 1, 1889 establishment of the post-Meiji restoration municipalities system, the area was divided between Natori District and Miyagi District of Miyagi Prefecture. The area was annexed by the city of Sendai in 1989. In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the area was severely damaged, especially in Arahama district, where almost all 2,700 houses were destroyed and swept away by tsunamis.

Education
Wakabayashi-ku has 12 public elementary schools and six public junior high schools operated by the city government, and one public junior school operated by the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education. There are two private elementary schools. The ward also has two public high schools operated by the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education. The city also operates one combined middle/junior high school.

Railway

 * Sendai Subway - Nanboku Line
 * Atagobashi - Kawaramachi
 * Sendai Subway - Tōzai Line
 * Rembo - Yakushidō - Oroshimachi - Rokuchonome - Arai

National historic sites

 * Tōmizuka Kofun
 * Mutsu Kokubun-ji

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Enrico Mizzi

Enrico Mizzi (20 September 1885 – 20 December 1950) was a Maltese politician, leader of the Maltese Nationalist Party from 1926 and briefly Prime Minister of Malta in 1950.

Life
Born on 20 September 1885 in Valletta, Enrico Mizzi was the son of Maria Sofia (Marie Sophie) Folliero de Luna, daughter of the vice-consul of Naples, and of Fortunato Mizzi, a pro-Italian Maltese politician, founder of the Partit Anti-Riformista. His mother died in 1903 and his father in 1905, when Enrico was only 17 and 19 respectively.

Enrico studied in the Gozo seminary, and read law at the University of Rome La Sapienza and at the University of Urbino. He graduated in literature and science at the Royal University of Malta in 1906, and in Law at Urbino in 1911.

In 1926 Enrico Mizzi married Bice Vassallo; they had one son, Fortunat Mizzi (1927–2017), who became a priest in 1952 and founded the Moviment Azzjoni Socjali (MAS) in 1955.

Politics
Despite completing his legal studies in Rome, Mizzi had little chance to practice law. He was drawn instead to politics and journalism. In 1915 Enrico Mizzi was elected member of the Comitato Patriottico Maltese and founded the newspaper L'Eco di Malta, organ of the Committee itself.

He stood as a parliamentary candidate for Gozo in 1915, and was elected. He worked to develop a Constitution that was independent of English rule at the time.

In 1916 he was arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for proclaiming himself a representative of the Italian nationality of Malta – his sentence was reduced to a reprimand by the Governor of the time due to suspected interference. In May 1917 he was arrested and court-martialled for sedition during wartime, found guilty of all charges and imprisoned for a year. Although this sentence was again reduced, he lost his right to practice law in the country.

Leader of the Partit Nazzjonalista
In his youth, Enrico Mizzi decided to follow in the footsteps of his father Fortunato Mizzi, who was a member of the Pro-Italian Maltese community, whose political activity showed strong support towards Italy's Risorgimento and the official use of the Italian language in Malta. "Mizzi was first elected to the Council of Government from Gozo in 1915 as Member of the Comitato Patriottico. While Mizzi was striving to obtain a liberal Constitution he was arrested at his residence on 7 Mayand court-martialled on charges of sedition in 1917 under the Malta Defence Regulations for writings and statements against the British. He was sentenced to a year's imprisonment with hard labour, the loss of civil rights and the withdrawal of lawyer's warrant. The sentence was commuted by Governor Methuen to a 'severe censure', while his civil rights and warrant were restored following the cessation of hostilities in 1918. Mizzi founded the Circolo Giovane Malta and was life president of the Societa' Dante Alighieri."

After the end of the First World War, Mizzi was part of the large and moderate coalition called the Maltese Political Union (Unjoni Politika Maltija, UPM), led by Ugo Pasquale Mifsud. It splintered from it, together with the more extremist and pro-Italian current, to form the Democratic Nationalist Party (Partit Demokratiku Nazzjonalista, PDN), led by Mizzi.

The two movements participated separately in the 1921 Maltese general election, but adopted a form of desistance so as not to damage each other; the PDN elected 4 MPs from Gozo.

UPM and PDN run once again separately, albeit in coalition, in the 1924 elections. After the elections of 1924, Mizzi's party formed a government in coalition with the Unione Politica Maltese and they elected 15 parliamentary seats. During this legislature, Mizzi was the Minister for Postal Services, Agriculture and Fisheries together with Industry and Commerce.

On 23 January 1926 the two parties joined together to form the Partit Nazzjonalista, with Mizzi acting as a co-leader together with Sir Ugo Mifsud till the death of the latter in 1942.

However, the new unitary party was defeated by the elections of 1927, in favor of the Compact, the electoral alliance between the Maltese Constitutional Party and Labour.

In the years from 1924 to 1933 Mizzi held numerous ministerial positions and was president of the Dante Alighieri Society and director of the Gazzetta maltese in his capacity as a promoter of the Italian character of Malta.

Mizzi the "knight without stain or fear". remained well known for promoting Maltese patriotism and nationalism at a time when Malta was a colony. He was also associated with the Italianate identity of the Maltese people, the cause for selecting Italian as an official language of the country, and a strong proponent of the Roman Catholic faith in opposition to the Protestant faith of the colonial authorities.

Deportation to Uganda
On 30 May 1940, while Mizzi was at the Malta Printing Press, he was arrested and together with 47 other Maltese was interned for having Italian sympathies. In February 1942, Governor Dobbie took out a warrant to illegally deport 47 Maltese to Uganda, Mizzi amongst them. During his exile, Mizzi did all he could to remain up to date on events in Malta. He remained in close contact with other members of the Partit Nazzjonalista, such as Gorg Borg Olivier and Giuseppe Schembri.

Reform of the Partit Nazzjonalista
The group of exiles were allowed back into the country on 8 March 1945. Mizzi quickly re-entered politics, and attended the Council Sitting on 15 March. Mizzi planned to reorganise the PN from the ground up. The ideology of the Party, and its support of Italian culture and language formed the basalt of this, and was frequently used against him by his political enemies. Between 1939 and 1942, the Times of Malta and Il-Berqa, two newspapers owned by Gerald Strickland, called him a quisling and a sympathiser of Italian Fascism.

Prime Minister of Malta
At the 1950 elections the Partit Nazzjonalista reported a great success and Mizzi was appointed Prime Minister in a hung parliament. He died in Valletta just three months later, on 20 December 1950, and had a state funeral. To date, he is the only Maltese prime minister to have died in office.

Legacy
Mizzi is remembered by the Maltese as a contributing force in the Maltese national and European identity. "I hope that when I pass from this life to become a memory to posterity I hope no one will slander me... for party reasons.... As I had been declared by the Nationalist Party some thirty years ago, I am still, thank God, before the Party, before the people, and above all else before my own conscience 'senza macchia e senza paura'." The Central Bank of Malta issued a silver proof coin with Enrico Mizzi's head on it as part of its Distinguished Maltese Personalities Series in 2001.

A foundation, to promote and better appreciate his life and works and that of his father, Fortunato, was established in 2010.

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Remuera railway station

Remuera railway station is a station serving the suburb of Remuera in Auckland, New Zealand. It is served by the Southern Line and the Onehunga Line (off-peak only), and consists of an island platform which is accessed by a ramp from the Market Road SH1 motorway overbridge. The station was opened in 1873 and is one of the oldest remaining island platform stations in New Zealand. It includes a weatherboard and tile station building, typical of those designed by George Troup.

Original Station
Remuera station was first built in 1873 as a stop on the Auckland-Onehunga railway. By 1903, Remuera station was at its maximum capacity and Minister for Railways Sir Joseph Ward acknowledged that better capacity was needed on the line. A double track line was built to Penrose Junction. The Auckland-Onehunga line was later extended to Hamilton. New island platforms were also built at Newmarket, Greenlane, Ellerslie and Penrose.

Rebuilt station
The current Remuera station was rebuilt and opened in November 1907 for £1,149 and a toilet block was added shortly after for £80, but was demolished in 1982.

The station saw a steady decline in freight and passengers and became unstaffed in 1942. In 1970, Alltrans built a large cargo depot, which closed in 1980s. During the same decade, the station was closed to all traffic, except for passengers and traffic to the private Alltrans sidings.

Post Electrification
Between 2013 and 2014, Remuera station was electrified and the platforms were modified towards the southern end of the station to allow the AM Class EMU to operate. Currently, both platforms at Remuera station are open to all passengers, but remains unstaffed.

From 16 January 2023 to 19 March 2023, Remuera station closed to all traffic and had rail-bus replacements to allow Stage 1 of the Rail Network Rebuild to allow the opening of City Rail Link. Remuera station has remained open for Stage 3 of the Rail Network Rebuild, despite stations beyond Puhinui on the Southern Line being closed for refurbishment until March/April 2024.

Services
Auckland One Rail, on behalf of Auckland Transport, operates suburban services on the Southern Line and Onehunga Line. All Southern Line services stop at Remuera. Since 26 August 2018, Onehunga Line services stop only in the evenings. The typical weekday off-peak timetable in trains per hour (tph) is:
 * 3 tph to Waitematā
 * 3 tph to Puhinui

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kamandag

 * 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. Linuxbeak | Talk 19:08, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Kamandag
Non-notable band. Article is full of irrelevant claptrap needing a rewrite. jni 05:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Doesn't meet WP:MUSIC criteria.  --Dvyost 05:31, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Friday (talk) 18:17, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Addison's disease

Dated content
Moving here from lead dated content (1981) regarding reported "associations": "Addison's disease can be described in association with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, acquired hypoparathyroidism, diabetes mellitus, pernicious anemia, hypogonadism, chronic and active hepatitis, malabsorption, immunoglobulin abnormalities, alopecia, vitiligo, spontaneous myxedema, Graves' disease, and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis." 86.182.104.203 (talk) 20:47, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

"rare"
This:
 * the average reader knows what rare is but may not understand that 1 in 10,000 is considered rare for a disorder

is the most baffling claimed justification for an edit that I can ever recall seeing. Nobody knows what "rare" without any context actually means. Everybody understands that 10,000 is a much bigger number than 1. 81.106.71.55 (talk) 13:13, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

 * Hey I was just going to start a convo on the talk page about this since you reverted my most recent edit. When it comes to medical diseases "rare" means a condition that effects less than 200,000 people in the US (source, i'm sure you could find a less US centric source somewhere as well but I'm just using the FDA since it's a well established source). Addisons disease fits this criteria.
 * The reason why I think putting rare in the first sentence is appropriate is because numbers (especially bigger ones like 9 to 14 per 100,000 people) are hard to visualize. additionally, for example something affecting 1 in 100 people might seem rare in other contexts (for example naturally blonde hair is considered rare but has a prevelance of about 2%, so 2 in 100) it isn't rare in the world of medicine. Obviously if someone knows this then saying Addisons disease is rare seems obvious however Wikipedia is written for the average reader.
 * I'm not going to undo your revert as I would rather others weigh in on this topic however Addisons disease is considered rare, the page has existed with that in the lead for some time without any issues, and tons of other articles state that a disease is rare without any issues. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 15:36, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's anything wrong with labelling diseases as rare, provided that it is an apt description. Addisons is not only rare by the "rare diseases" standard, but also when compared to "common" endocrine disorders such as diabetes and hypothyroidism. Draken Bowser (talk) 16:28, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I would also like to point out that Addison's being rare is a huge part of the disorder. Because it's so rare, it's often misdiagnosed and can take years to diagnose. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 16:49, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Rare disease covers all this. I have reverted. Johnbod (talk) 16:42, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I support the reversion. Anyone who wonders what "rare" means can click on the link to rare disease.  In general, all diseases that are described with the exact term "rare disease" in reliable sources (unless it's disputed by others, of course) should be described as a rare disease, with the link, in the lead of the article.  This is part of the encyclopedic context of rare diseases:  you cannot understand the subject if you don't understand that it is both statistically uncommon (which could be achieved by "1 in 10,000") and also subject to various regulatory schemes (which cannot by achieved by stating the prevalence). WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:21, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I also added the link to rare disease. Johnbod (talk) 03:19, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

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Jim Burke

Jim Burke may refer to:
 * Jim Burke (author) (born 1961), American author
 * Jim Burke (cricketer) (1930–1979), Australian cricketer
 * Jim Burke (illustrator) (born 1973), American illustrator
 * Jim Burke (c. 1956–1994), the real name of the prolific letter column contributor T. M. Maple
 * Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer (Jim Burke), British parodist and rapper
 * Jim Burke (film producer), American film producer who frequently collaborates with Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

title: Jim Burke


text: User talk:69.234.237.106

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