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Electoral District conventions
Hi. I see you've entered the fray, so to speak. Reversed a couple of your changes this morning due to existing Wiki conventions it took me a little while to get told about/figure out myself:
 * when you added the defunct BC provincial ridings category to the List of BC ridings it was redundant, according to Wiki practice, because the defunct-BC category is already a subcategory of the Canadian electoral districts category (or rather it's a subcat of the BC provincial electoral districts cat, which is a subcat of BC electoral districts, which is a subcat of Canadian electoral districts)
 * "North Okanagan electoral district" didn't need to be created as North Okanagan already existed; and there's no federal riding of the same name (the federal riding is Okanagan North. If it did need creating, the titling convention is "North Okanagan (electoral district)".  That, as a link, would refer to the provincial list IF there was a "North Okanagan" page that was the federal district page; the in-brackets qualifier is only added to sort things out if they need sorting out; hence with Yale-Lillooet, Grand Forks-Greenwood and Nelson-Creston there's no need to put anything in about it being an electoral district; it's not anything else so doesn't need the qualifier.  And it's only if there's electoral districts of the same name that there's a need for "(provincial electoral district)" in a page title, e.g. Victoria City (electoral district) and Victoria City (provincial electoral district) or Yale and Yale (provincial electoral district).  Victoria City's federal riding needed "electoral district" because there's an article/page on the HongKong neighbourhood of Victoria City that's primary; with the Vancouver City federal riding it wasn't necessary because there's nowhere else that would get the "Vancouver City" title; the provincial riding of the same name is Vancouver City (electoral district) to distinguish it from its federal counterpart; similarly in the case of the provincial constituency Lillooet (electoral district) there's no federal equivalent so "provincial" isn't necessary.
 * Otherwise welcome to the project. If you're interested there's a whole bunch of candidate/MLA/MP profiles that could use writing, at least as skeleton articles.  I've just finished completing election tables from 1871 to 1966 showing House seating after elections, and nearly all riding pages have results tables; I linked any winning candidate and there's a bunch that need bios written.  Doesn't have anything to do with the current campaign but I see you're an Okanaganian and thought you might find it interesting, e.g. Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald in Okanagan North.  I "winged it" with John Andrew Mara and Forbes George Vernon based on sketchy cross-references in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.  See any of the List of British Columbia general elections Skookum1 19:17, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I apologize. It appears I was quite confused when I did make that page. Thank you for clarifying. For now, I would like to concentrate my efforts on Federal Okanagan Ridings and clarifying what areas they consisted of. One question, is it a goal to have pages for all MLA's and MP's?--Kelownian 21:25, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * No need for apology, and the confusion is understandable; took me a while to learn all the kinks, too. And yes, it is a goal, ultimately, to have pages fror all MLAs and MPs; current most important, then historical.

 * As for riding boundaries I think you'll find the Elections Canada descriptions a bit mind-boggling; easy enough when they make mention of streams, etc. but when they start citing Land District boundaries and Township Ranges that it becomes necessary to have land maps to go with the description. At least Elections Canada has the old boundary revisions on-line; can't say the same for Elections BC.  And just to keep things simple I'll finish making the historical federal ridings; if you know of any I've missed see Okanagan (electoral districts) and please add them in the appropriate spot on that page; when I see the redlink (unmade article) I'll go ahead and make it.

 * One thing that does need doing is the historical data on existing ridings, i.e. the current election tables go back to '91 or so but no farther; I've added in some historical data on prominent ridings (Victoria City (electoral district) but not on the Okanagan ridings (so far).Skookum1 21:31, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Let me also welcome you to the project. Please note that federal ridings use an "m dash" when more than one place name appears, not a hyphen. This is the convention developed by Elections Canada. It is also used on Wikipedia, so I have moved Kelowna-Lake Country back to Kelowna—Lake Country. On their website here, you will see that Elections Canada indicates the m-dash with two hyphens. The reason for this is that place names with more than one word are hyphenated in French, so Electiosn canada uses the m-dash to indicate that two places names are being joined. This convention is not used in BC for provincial rdings, though: they use a regular hyphen. Again, welcome to the project. Ground Zero | t 15:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Just for the record there's a federal Kelowna—Lake Country and a provincial Kelowna-Lake Country (provincial electoral district), with the hyphen and m-dash currently in the right places. Why the redistribution folks have to come with the same riding names - for ridings which doubtless have different boundaries - is anybody's guess.  Lack of imagination I'd guess.  When "Lake Country" first started showing up in Govt blurbs and in their semiofficial echo at Global TV, I wasn't quite sure what they meant; I guess they mean Mabel Lake in the equation too; otherwise why not just call it Okanagan-Shuswap?Skookum1 18:49, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Re Kelowna-Lake Country
I see you (GroundZero) have added "(provincial electoral district)"; I gather that the Kelowna-Lake Country (w. hyphen) goes to a redirect to the federal page....I'm trying to remember another case where the same name, other than the hyphen/dash applies, and they resolve to their respective provincial and federal pages. In any case, wouldn't "(electoral district)" be sufficient for the provincial-riding page, since there's no "(electoral district)" in the federal riding/name/page?Skookum1 20:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

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1922 map is not ridings
is not of ridings. Has me wondering what it is; mining districts I'd guess, as I've seen an 1894 Land District map and it's not those. Still, the listing of Vancouver Island, Cassiar, Coast, Cariboo, Lillooet, Yale and Kootenay only seems to suggest this isn't mining districts either; I thought there were Similkameen and Boundary mining districts but maybe they were transient, or subdistricts the way Bridge River was within Lillooet. But for sure, its not the ridings; ref the riding list on British Columbia general election, 1920 and British Columbia general election, 1924. What's interesting on the map i, many places which don't even show up in the ghost town books/lists....Skookum1 (talk) 04:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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Fantastic stuff!! Such a shame that the work is so hard to find thesedays, but what a pleasure to read. One feels as if the energy and gaity of youth is rubbed onto you with every word. Enthusiastic. Great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.185.240.121 (talk) 12:07, October 8, 2005 (UTC)

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Milford, Staffordshire

Milford is a village in the county of Staffordshire, England. It lies at the edge of Cannock Chase, on the A513 road between Stafford and Rugeley. Just to the north of the village is the River Sow.

History
Milford was described as a "pleasant hamlet" by the 1851 History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, it then being part of Baswich parish. There is no church, the church at Walton-on-the-Hill, Staffordshire being less than a mile away.

Administration
Milford forms part of the civil parish of Berkswich which, in turn, forms part of the borough of Stafford.

Leisure activities
Milford Common is a popular recreation spot for local people, and has traditionally been the site of many travelling fairs. The open space and quiet roads around the Common have made it a popular gathering point for horse riders from surrounding areas. The entrance to the National Trust Shugborough estate faces the common. Shugborough houses the county's official museum.

Cannock Chase AONB is nearby. Its borders extend to about a mile south of the village, and the extensive Chase area offers a variety of outdoor activities including several leisure cycling routes.

Milford Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country mansion house at Milford. It is the home of the Levett Haszard family and is a Grade II listed building.

The Staffordshire Way long-distance footpath passes very near Milford, to the south-east. It also lies on the Heart of England Way.

Access
The nearest railway station is in the town of Stafford, about four miles from Milford. Stafford station currently serves most inter-city services running on the West Coast Main Line Birmingham-Manchester route, as well as offering local services.

Road access is by way of the A513 road. Milford is accessible by canal narrowboat, along the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. There is a cycle path along the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal towpath, leading to the National Cycle Network National Route 5 that currently ends at Walton-on-the-Hill, but will be extended southwards to Birmingham.

Provisional IRA attack
On 18 September 1990, the former governor of Gibraltar, Sir Peter Terry was shot at his home in Milford by the Provisional IRA. Terry, then aged 64, survived the shooting, but his face had to be surgically reconstructed. It was said that the shooting took place as a revenge for his role in Operation Flavius in 1988, in which three IRA operatives were killed.

Famous people
Nearby Shugborough Hall was the home of the late photographer Lord Lichfield and numerous members of the Levett family are from Milford Hall.

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Vladimir Rybakov

Vladimir Mechislavovich Rybakov / Wladimir Secinski (Влади́мир Мечисла́вович Рыбако́в / Влади́мир Сечински; 29 September 1947 – 20 August 2018 ) was a Russian writer.

Vladimir was born to émigré parents in Paris in 1947. He lived in the Soviet Union 1956–1972, including a hitch in the Soviet Army, and returned to the West in 1972, since which time he has been a journalist and a novelist with a historical bent. He spent much of the 1980s in Afghanistan, where, among other things, he interviewed Soviet soldiers captured by the Afghans. He spent 1989–1995 in Moscow and spent the last years of his life in Bulgaria, where he completed a huge historical novel about Genghis Khan. At the time of his death he was preparing a book on how Eastern and Western civilizations developed. Two of his books, The Afghans, a novella about Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, and Creature, a geopolitical thriller, have been published recently in English (2004 and 2005, respectively), and The Mystery of Genghis Khan is being prepared for publication.

English translations

 * The Brand, Hutchinson, 1986.
 * The Burden, Hutchinson, 1986.
 * The Afghans: A Novella of Soviet Soldiers in Afghanistan, Infinity Publishing, 2004.
 * Creature: A French Russian Thriller, Infinity Publishing, 2005.

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HMS Serapis (1866)

HMS Serapis was a Euphrates-class troopship commissioned for the transport of troops to and from India. She was launched in the Thames on 26 September 1866 from the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, London and was the third Royal Navy ship to bear the name. She was sold in 1894.

Design
Serapis was one of five iron-hulled vessels of the Euphrates class. All five were built to a design of 360 ft overall length by about 49 ft breadth, although Malabar was very slightly smaller than the rest of the class. They had a single screw, a speed of 14 knots, one funnel, a barque-rig sail plan, three 4-pounder guns and a white-painted hull. Her bow was a "ram bow" which projected forward below the waterline.

Career
She spent all of her career on the United Kingdom to India route carrying troops, a trip that averaged 70 days. She was the only one of her class to have been completed with a compound-expansion steam engine at build, and was the first of her class to be re-engined. While her sisters replaced their single-expansion engines with compound-expansion engines, she had the opposite adaption; her 4-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine was replaced in 1869 with a 2-cylinder single-expansion steam engine. The indicated power remained almost the same, and her top speed was largely unaffected, remaining at about 14 kn.

On 12 March 1871, Serapis broke her main shaft. She was taken in tow by the British steamship Diomed. The tow was later transferred to HMS Crocodile (1867), which towed Serapis in to Port Said, Egypt. On 22 October 1872, Serapis ran aground in the Suez Canal. She was refloated on 24 October and resumed her voyage to India. On 15 October 1873, she collided with a French schooner in the Indian Ocean. The schooner sank with the loss of a crew member. Serapis rescued the survivors. On 6 December, she collided with the British steamship Paladine at Malta. Paladine was severely damaged, Serapis was slightly damaged but had to put back to Malta for repairs. In September 1875 she transported the Prince of Wales to India to celebrate Queen Victoria's appointment as Empress of India. In 1884 the commanding officer, Captain Arthur Dupuis, was suspended after the ship grounded off Portland. In April 1886 she became part of the Indian training squadron.. On 24 November, she ran aground at Southsea, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Suez, Egypt to Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated with assistance from two tugs and taken in to Portsmouth.

Fate
She was sold to I Cohen on 23 November 1894 along with her sister ship Euphrates.

Identification
All 5 Euphrates-class troopships could be identified by a different coloured hull band. Serapis had a green hull band.

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Half-Breed (song)

"Half-Breed" is a popular song recorded by Cher in 1973.

Cher's version, recorded with instrumental backing by L.A. sessions musicians from the Wrecking Crew, was recorded on May 21, 1973 at Larrabee Sound in Los Angeles. Lyrically, the song describes the life of a girl who faces societal rejection due to having a White father and Cherokee mother. It contains themes of racism and double standards. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Cher's second solo number 1 hit in the US. The single was certified Gold in the US in 1974 for the sales of over 1 million copies.

Song information and story
The 1973 version was the first international release from Cher's album Half-Breed, recorded and intended for the American market. Written and performed by non-Natives, it is a classic "Tragic mulatto" narrative, from a non-Native perspective, of a young woman with a White father and an alleged Cherokee mother. The song offers a scenario in which the singer relates that oppressive Whites call her "Indian squaw", and claims that Native Americans do not accept her as one of their own because, "The Indians said I was White by law." The lyrics are in error, as the Cherokee (like most Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands) are a matrilineal culture, meaning that a child born to a Cherokee mother is accepted as Cherokee, no matter the nationality or ethnicity of the father, and thus the parental ethnicities would have to be reversed—a White mother and native father—for such a situation to arise.

The song is written in the key of A minor, with a moderato tempo of 116 beats per minute in common time. Cher's vocals span the notes of F3-A4.

Reception
In 1973, "Half-Breed" topped the United States Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, becoming Cher's second solo and third overall Number 1 hit, and second Gold certified solo single for the sales of over 1,000,000 copies. It was a Number 1 hit in Canada and New Zealand, and a Top 10 hit in Australia and Quebec, respectively.

Peter Fawthrop wrote that this song has a jingling rhythm and that it is one of the lighter-hearted songs on the album. Rolling Stone recommended it and described Cher's vocals as frantic and the production as supremely commercial.

Live performances
In 1999, after almost 25 years of not performing the song live, Cher performed the song in her Do You Believe? Tour. In 2002, she performed the song 326 times in her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. In 2018, she performed the song during her Here We Go Again Tour. She performed it in Oceania but it was dropped after the first leg.

Cher performed the song on the following concert tours:
 * Do You Believe? Tour (1999–2000)
 * The Farewell Tour (2002–2005)
 * Cher at the Colosseum (2008–2011)
 * Dressed to Kill Tour (2014)
 * Classic Cher (2017–2018)
 * Here We Go Again Tour (2018)

Music video
The video for "Half-Breed" is a recorded performance of the song on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in 1973, with stereotypical, "Hollywood Indian" imagery. Cher is on a horse, wearing a Bob Mackie imitation of an assortment of men's regalia: Plains-style warbonnet, a halter top modeled after a hair pipe breastplate, and a glittery loincloth. None of these things have ever been part of Cherokee clothing or regalia. Symbols the showrunners believed represented Native Americans—flames surrounding Pacific Northwestern totem poles, also not part of Cherokee culture—are also used as props. Cher has been criticized for cultural appropriation by Native American activists for the song and continuing to wear this type of costume in her live performances, or for having her dancers wear it, as recently as 2017. In a 2017 twitter exchange, Cher said she would no longer perform the song or wear the costume. However in 2018 she continued to perform the song at her shows in Vegas and then on part of her Here We Go Again Tour, as part of a medley with "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" and "Dark Lady" with dancers wearing the costumes.

Remix version
In 2002, a special remix medley was created by Dan-O-Rama for a video montage that was used in Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. The medley contains the videos of "All I Really Want to Do", "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady".

Personnel
According to the AFM contract sheet, excluding Cher’s vocals, the following musicians played on the track.

 * W.T. Babb - contractor
 * Al Capps - session leader
 * Hal Blaine
 * Al Casey
 * Gene Cipriano
 * James Getzoff
 * Thomas R. Hensley
 * Donald Peake
 * Emil Richards
 * Samuel Boghossian
 * John Durrill
 * Jesse Ehrlich
 * Raymond Kelley
 * Lou Klass
 * Jacob Krachmalnick
 * William Kurasch
 * Carl LaMagna
 * Gayle Levant
 * Leonard Malarsky
 * Gordon Marron
 * Gareth Nuttycombe
 * Reinhold Prass Jr.
 * Nathan Ross

In popular culture

 * An African-American female impersonator performs the song onstage in the 1999 film Flawless.
 * The song appeared in the 2005 film Lords of Dogtown.
 * In 2012, the character Shania Clemmons of the TV series The New Normal sang this song during a talent show while impersonating Cher.

Covers

 * Swedish singers Björn Skifs & Blåblus (Blue Swede) made one of the first covers in 1973. It appeared on their album Pinewood Rally and a compilation entitled Björns Bästa (Bjorn's Best).
 * German singer Joy Fleming recorded a German-language version "Halbblut" as a single in 1973. It peaked in the West German charts at no. 38 in February 1974.
 * Orchestra leader Ray Conniff recorded it with his singers in November 1973. It remained unissued until 2009 when it appeared on Ray Conniff: The Singles Collection, Volume 3.
 * In 1990 it was covered by Shania Twain but it was not released until 2001 on her album The Complete Limelight Sessions.
 * It was covered by alternative rock band House of Large Sizes.
 * Electronica artist Peaches covered it for youth radio station Triple J's "Like a Version" segment.
 * RuPaul covered "Half-Breed" on The RuPaul Show.

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Pedantagonism
Neologism, not in widespread use. Gdr 16:10, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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Esmeral Tunçluer

Esmeral Özçelik Tunçluer (born 7 April 1980) is a Dutch-Turkish former basketball player for Fenerbahçe İstanbul. The 1.75 m national competitor plays in the guard position.

She played with Beşiktaş Cola Turka, Fenerbahçe, Botaş Spor and Mersin Metropolitan Municipality. Tunçluer won the Turkish Women's Basketball League champion title with Beşiktaş in 2005 and with Fenerbahçe İstanbul in 2007 to 2011.

Tunçluer was member of the national team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain, which won the gold medal. She played 170 times for Turkey national women's basketball team.

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Pauline Sabin

Pauline Morton Sabin (April 23, 1887 – December 27, 1955) was an American prohibition repeal leader and Republican party official. Born in Chicago, she was a New Yorker who founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR). Sabin was active in politics and known for her social status and charismatic personality. Sabin's efforts were a significant factor in the repeal of Prohibition.

Early life
Pauline Sabin was born on April 23, 1887 in Chicago. She was a wealthy, elegant, socially prominent, and politically well-connected New Yorker. She was born Pauline Joy Morton, the daughter of Paul Morton and Charlotte Goodridge. Sabin's family was very active in business and politics: her father was a railroad executive and her uncle, Joy Morton, founded the Morton Salt Company. Her grandfather, Julius Sterling Morton, had been a prominent Nebraska Democrat who served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland, and her father had served as Secretary of the Navy to President Theodore Roosevelt. This later on helped spark her interest in politics. Sabin's education included private schooling; she attended school in Chicago and Washington before making her debut into society.

She married James H. Smith Jr., in 1907, and with him had two sons before divorcing in 1914. Afterwards she owned her own interior decorating business. In 1916 she married Charles H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty Trust Company and treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA). Despite the fact that her husband was a Democrat, Sabin remained a Republican but did not support Coolidge when he refused to back repeal of the 18th Amendment. She was very active in politics; she became the first member of the Suffolk County Republican Committee in 1919. She later on helped found the Women's National Republican Club and became the president. From 1921-1926 she gained enormous recognition for recruiting thousands of members and for raising funds. She also was selected to be New York's first woman representative on the Republican National Committee in 1923.

Before 1929, she favored small government and free markets. She initially supported prohibition, as she later explained: "I felt I should approve of it because it would help my two sons. The word-pictures of the agitators carried me away. I thought a world without liquor would be a beautiful world." Towards the 1920s, however, Sabin realized that no one was taking Prohibition seriously. She grew increasingly disenchanted with prohibition but worked on behalf of Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928 despite his uncertain stand on the issue. In his inauguration speech he vowed to enforce anti-liquor legislation. After the enactment of the Jones-Stalker Act in May 1929 drastically increased penalties for the violation of prohibition, she resigned from the Republican National Committee and took up the cause of repealing prohibition.

Opposition to prohibition
Sabin voiced her first cautious public criticism of prohibition in 1926. By 1928 she had become more outspoken. The hypocrisy of politicians who would support resolutions for stricter enforcement and half an hour later be drinking cocktails disturbed her. The ineffectiveness of the law, the apparent decline of temperate drinking, and the growing prestige of bootleggers troubled her even more. Mothers, she explained, had believed that prohibition would eliminate the temptation of drinking from their children's lives but found instead that "children are growing up with a total lack of respect for the Constitution and for the law."

After her resignation as Republican National committeewoman, Sabin received tremendous support. In May 1929 in Chicago, Pauline Sabin founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform with two dozen of her society friends as its nucleus. Its leadership was dominated by wives of American industry leaders. She found women who would be active workers. The organization had outstanding women as their leaders: Mrs. R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont, Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont, and Lolita Coffin Van Rensselaer. The WONPR had very prominent family names, they were not only highly involved with their community but they were also very wealthy. The Women of the WONPR were considered smart and sophisticated women of the era. Their high social status attracted press coverage and made the movement fashionable. For housewives throughout middle America, joining the WONPR was an opportunity to mingle with high society. In less than two years, membership grew to almost 1.5 million, this was triple of the membership of the WCTU. Sabin became a symbol for independent women; she showed women that they weren't bound to support the Prohibition movement. As head of the WONPR, she countered the arguments of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She later recalled that she decided to fight Prohibition while sitting in a congressional office where the president of the WCTU asserted: "I represent the women of America!" Repeal would protect families from the crime, corruption, and furtive drinking that prohibition had created. Repeal would return decisions about alcohol to families. The WONPR stole tactics and members as well as arguments from the WCTU. Its members looked for allies in both major parties and minimized internal dissension. The WONPR gained the upper hand in the battle for the support from women; the WONPR became the largest repeal group in the country. Sabin thought that it was her duty as chairwoman to make sure the cause was made public. In 1933, WONPR moved the campaign southward to places like South Carolina and Charleston to appeal for southern support. Sabin went to Atlanta where she was the subject of the social page of the Atlanta Constitution and later on her picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine. The WONPR gained massive recognition from the media; they wanted daring, newsworthy women.

In later statements, she elaborated further on her objections to prohibition. With settlement workers reporting increasing drunkenness, she worried, "The young see the law broken at home and upon the street. Can we expect them to be lawful?" Mrs. Sabin complained to the House Judiciary Committee: "In pre-prohibition days, mothers had little fear in regard to the saloon as far as their children were concerned. A saloon-keeper's license was revoked if he were caught selling liquor to minors. Today in any speakeasy in the United States you can find boys and girls in their teens drinking liquor, and this situation has become so acute that the mothers of the country feel something must be done to protect their children."

After repeal
After the repeal amendment in December 1933, the WONPR dissolved immediately. She returned to politics and joined the American Liberty League, formed by conservative Democrats in 1934. This organization was formed to oppose Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. She hoped that women would show the same enthusiasm for the league like the WONPR but they didn't. Due to the lack of membership, the committee only lasted a year but she still remained on the executive committee in the 1930s. By 1933, she was widowed and remarried in 1936 to Dwight F. Davis. He was a former secretary of war and donor of the Davis Cup tennis trophy. She campaigned for Fiorello La Guardia and Alf Landon in 1936. In 1940, Sabin became the director of Volunteer Special Services for the American Red Cross. She aided more than four million families. In 1943, she resigned and moved to Washington D.C. She became a consultant on the White House interior decoration renovation for President Harry Truman. She was a member of the First iteration of the Committee on the Present Danger, established in 1950. On December 27, 1955, Sabin died in Washington D.C.

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Frederick Hawksworth

Frederick William Hawksworth (10 February 1884 – 13 July 1976), was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (Great Britain) (GWR).

Early career
Hawksworth spent his entire career at the Swindon Works of the GWR. He joined the company as an apprentice in 1898, aged 15, becoming an apprentice draughtsman in 1905 under George Jackson Churchward. Hawksworth was one of Churchward's "Bright Young Men", and was involved in his revolutionary designs including the general arrangement drawings for "The Great Bear".

Following Churchward's retirement in December 1921, Hawksworth was appointed Chief Draughtsman to his successor Charles Collett where he co-ordinated the work on the King Class. In 1932 he was appointed Assistant, to the Chief Mechanical Engineer, following the departure of William Stanier to the London Midland and Scottish Railway. Soon afterwards he became Principal Assistant. However, having been at the forefront of steam locomotive development, ideas at Swindon Works had somewhat stagnated under the later years of Collett, now in his seventies and whose reluctance to give up the CME's post resulted in Hawksworth's lateness in taking up this position.

According to one obituary, Hawksworth "was instrumental in getting the stationary locomotive testing plant at Swindon modernised and the development of testing practice which took place during the later 1930s was eventually accepted by British Railways as a nation Standard."

Chief Mechanical Engineer
Hawksworth became CME following Collett's retirement at the age of 70 in 1941. He continued in the design tradition which he had been involved in throughout his career, but also made some important improvements. In particular increased superheat started to be fitted to the larger classes under his regime, and the works started to make much more use of welded construction. Another prominent new concept was a tender with slab sides, using welded construction, giving a much smoother appearance than the traditional design with stepped sides and riveted plates.

Modified Hall Class
His first design to be built, from 1944, was the Modified Hall, a significant development of the Collett design with increased superheat and very different cylinder and frame construction.

County Class
After the war there were four more new designs, mostly improvements of earlier types. The 'County' Class 4-6-0 was the last and most powerful GWR 2-cylinder 4-6-0, the culmination of a line that began with the 'Saints' 42 years before. The chassis was similar to the modified Hall, but the boilers were to a new design, larger in diameter than the Std 1 (Hall) boiler but smaller in diameter and appreciably shorter than the Castle boiler. This boiler used tooling which was available from LMS 8F 2-8-0 boilers which Swindon had built for the Railway Executive during World War II and was pressed to 280psi, higher pressure than any previous GWR boiler. They used some of the names from the vanished Churchward County Class 4-4-0s.

9400 Class
The taper boilered 9400 Class 0-6-0 pannier tank, was built in large numbers by outside contractors. These were similar to the 5700 class under the footplate but had a much larger boiler giving them more power and adhesive weight - and thus braking capacity. Only the first ten, built by the Swindon, appeared under the GWR. The last two designs were only seen in British Railways livery.

1500 Class
Arguably his most radical design was the 1500 Class. This had the same boiler as the 9400 but an all new short wheelbase chassis with outside Walschaerts valve gear and no running plate, and made considerable use of welded construction. They were designed for easy maintenance by the trackside.

1600 Class
The last Hawksworth design was a very light conventional 0-6-0 pannier tank, the 1600 Class. This was a modernisation of the 2021 Class, which was now life expired.

Oil firing
Between 1946 and 1950, Hawksworth was involved in an experimental effort to introduce oil-firing in place of the coal that, post-war, was being exported to earn currency. It was halted when the increasing price of oil made it uneconomical.

Other designs
Hawksworth was involved in the ordering of the GWR diesel shunters and two experimental Gas turbine-electric locomotives Nos. 18000 and 18100.

Proposed Designs
Hawksworth had worked on GWR No.111 ‘The Great Bear’ and planned to build a Pacific type for the Great Western, but the design never came to existence. However, a model has been made for Train Simulator 2022, by Caledonia Works, who have dubbed them 8000 Class ‘Cathedrals’.

British Railways
Hawksworth remained Chief Mechanical Engineer through the formation of the Western Region of British Railways in 1948, continuing to work on locomotive design until retiring at the end of 1949.

Retirement and death
He was chairman of the Swindon magistrates from 1951 until 1959 and was made a freeman of the borough in 1960. He died in Swindon in July 1976. His ashes are buried in St. Mark's Church, adjacent to the former site of Swindon Works.

Preservation
Examples of all the Hawksworth designs except the 'Counties' survive. The Great Western Society is in the process of building a new 'County', a replica of No.1014 County of Glamorgan, using the frames of a 'Modified Hall', parts of the boiler of an LMS Class 8 2-8-0, and an original chimney from No.1006 County of Cornwall, a regulator from No.1011 County Of Chester, and a reverser from No.1024 County Of Pembroke.

His preserved locomotives are as follows: 'Modified Halls' No.6960 Raveningham Hall, No.6984 Owsden Hall, No.6989 Wightwick Hall, No.6990 Witherslack Hall, No.6998 Burton Agnes Hall, and No.7903 Foremarke Hall. Two '9400' panniers remain, No.9400 and No.9466. Just one of his '1500' and '1600' Classes remain each, No.1501 and No.1638. Another 'Modified Hall' did survive, No.7927 Willington Hall, however its boiler went to the new-built 'Grange' and the frames are being used in the aforementioned replica 'County'.

Some of these locomotives were sent to Barry Scrapyard before preservation, these being Nos.6960, 6984, 6989, 6990, 7903, 7927 and 9466. However, several of his locos sent to this scrapyard were scrapped, including '9400's Nos.8419, 8473, 8475, 8479, 9436, 9438, 9439, 9443, 9445, 9449, 9459, 9462, 9468, 9491, 9492, 9496, and 9499.

Hawksworth’s Locomotive Designs
• County Class 4-6-0

• 1500 Class 0-6-0PT

• 1600 Class 0-6-0PT

• Modified Hall Class 4-6-0

• 9400 Class 0-6-0PT

• Diesel shunters

• Gas turbine-electric locomotives (BR 18000 and 18100)

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Hello, I'm Belbury. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, God bless you, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. I can't find a source that mentions any particular phrase being referenced by Xenophon in response to a sneeze, please do add one if you have it. Belbury (talk) 10:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

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Wheat Thins

Wheat Thins is a brand of baked whole grain snack food crackers distributed in the United States and Canada by Mondelez International. The product is also available in Australia through wholesaler USA Foods. Vegetable Thins, Oat Thins, Pita Thins, and Rice Thins, which are all spinoffs of Wheat Thins, are available in Canada and some regions of the United States. Wheat Thins themselves come in many flavors and varieties. Nabisco first introduced the product in 1947.

Advertising
The introduced recent commercial aired during The Simpsons episode  Rednecks and Broomsticks  featuring Brian and Stewie from the animated sitcom Family Guy, in which Stewie puts emphasis on the "H" in "Wheat", saying instead, "Hwheat Thins". Other recent marketing for the brand has focused on targeting younger consumers by giving away products at youth-oriented events such as college football games, and heavily utilizing social media.

Nutrition information
The following is nutrition information for Wheat Thins original.

Varieties
There are several varieties available, depending on country and market:

 * Artisan cheese: Wisconsin Colby
 * Artisan cheese: Vermont White Cheddar
 * Big
 * Chipotle
 * Dill Pickle
 * Fiber Selects 5-Grain
 * Flatbread Garlic & Parsley
 * Flatbread Tuscan Herb
 * Hint of Salt
 * Honey Mustard
 * Lime (limited time 2013)
 * Multigrain
 * Original
 * Popped – a popped chip variety of Wheat Thins
 * Ranch
 * Reduced Fat
 * Sour Cream and Onion
 * Smoked Gouda
 * Smoky BBQ
 * Spicy Buffalo
 * Sundried Tomato & Basil
 * Sweet Onion
 * Sweet Potato
 * Zesty Salsa

Additional discontinued/changed flavors:

 * Baked Snack Reduced Fat
 * Cream Cheese & Chives
 * Harvest 5-Grain
 * Harvest 7-Grain
 * Harvest Garden Vegetable
 * Honey
 * Lightly Cinnamon
 * Low Sodium
 * Parmesan Basil

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Talk:Yahgan language

Untitled
The section about the language itself is too poor, it lacks more information on grammar, alphabet is O.K. according to Aguilera's works. In my opinion, it needs to be completed in phonology/phonetics (including the diverse studies that have bee made since XIX century, including Bridges, Adam, Haudricourt, Goldbert, Guerra Eissmann, Salas and Aguilera), in grammar, including a short section of pronouns, nouns and verbs, and a bibliography.

The quotation of that old Encyclopaedia Britanica, should be removed, as it is erroneous, It has nothing to do with the language and has a racist, pejorative meaning.

Speakers
Text says 2, infobox says 1. └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 13:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Text says 1 now :). --Lin linao 19:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Spelling
Topic Heading should be spelled Yahgan, the original historical spelling, not with a gh, which was someone's misguided 'correction' based on English spelling which has unfortunately stuck. Yahganlang 18:41, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Yaghan Website
I have a website building up regarding yaghan culture. I've used MediaWiki to let non-techie user to add/review content.

It's temporary URL is http://yaghan.no-ip.org, and it's up only between 9AM and 7PM Chilean Time (I think it's GMT -4).

Under the contents section in the navigation bar is the site itself. I haven't even changed the look yet, so any additions or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Since this is a non-profit project, I took some content directly from Wikipedia, and put some placeholders for some of the topics that the site must hold.

Any contributions would be greatly appreciated.

Kilroytech 14:54, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

 * 404 not found. Kortoso (talk) 00:12, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

transcription
Several examples contain the letter "v", which, however, is not included in the sound system presented in the article.These are presumably in the Bridges orthography rather than the current standard presented in the article.Bill (talk) 04:24, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * We are not tied to typewriter orthography on Wikipedia. I suggest retranscribing the examples in one of the more modern systems; any transcription system used also should be explained earlier, already before going into discussion of examples. -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 11:53, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Consistency of spelling
While the possible variants are listed at the beginning of the article, shouldn't the article's body use the same spelling throughout? I was about to change all instances to match the spelling in the title of the article but I thought I'd check the talk page first, and there's a section here from 2007 saying that "Yaghan" is actually a hypercorrection, so I wasn't going to change anything until I posted it here. LegendoftheGoldenAges85, Team M (talk | worse talk) 12:03, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

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Mattanur

Mattanur, also spelled Mattannur, is a town, municipality, and an aerotropolis in Kannur district, Kerala, India. Mattanur is about 27 km east of Kannur and Thalassery, two major towns of the district.

Mattanur lies between Kannur, Thalassery, and Iritty. It is the intersection where Thalassery–Coorg Highway (popularly known as the TC Road) meets the Kannur–Mattanur Road. The inter-state buses travelling from Bangalore and Mysore to Thalassery and Kannur pass through Mattanur. It is an important hub, connecting Kodagu and Kannur. Kannur Airport is about 5 km from Mattanur.

Location
Mattanur is located at the midland of the Kannur District at 11.91667°N, 74.58333°W and stretches for about 4.8 km. It is surrounded by eight Panchayats and a municipality, namely Irikkur and Padiyur on the north side, Iritty (municipality), Thillankeri, and Malur on the east side, Mangattidam and Vengad on the south side, and Koodali and Keezhallur on the west side.

The town is located at about 500 km north of Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital, and about 27 km east of Kannur, the district headquarters. Kochi, known as commercial capital of Kerala, is about 280 km south and Kozhikode which is a major urban center of northern Kerala, is 93 km south of Mattanur. Mysore and Bangalore, two major cities of the state of Karnataka, are 153 km and 283 km east of Mattanur, respectively, and Mangalore is about 165 km away, towards the north.

History
Historically, this area was under the rule of Kottayam royal family called the Puralisans. King Pazhassi Raja, who helped the English in the war against Tipu Sultan, had to fight against the English who had leased Kottayam to the King of Kurumbranad. The importance of this struggle is enhanced by the fact that masses of people of all castes, religions, farmers, traders and artisans joined Pazhassi in the struggle against the British. After the heroic death of Pazhassi in 1805, the British took over the administration and demolished Pazhassi fort.

There are many myths about the origin of the place. Some people say that Mattannur came from Motannur, which means the town of Mottakunn (Knoll). Another sect believes that Mattanur is an evolution of this area, which was recorded as Pattinikad in the old survey records.

Mattanur Panchayat came into existence in 1962 by joining Pazhassi, Kolari and Porora villages. The first election was held in 1963 and K. T Madhavan Nambiar was the first president. In 1978, the governing body was dissolved. The governing body came into existence in 1979 with Mukundan as the president of the Panchayat. In 1990, Mattanur was elevated as a municipality.

Connectivity
The Kannur International Airport is located just 5 km away from the town and provides the opportunity of air connectivity. The town is well connected to the neighbouring towns of Kerala and Karnataka. SH 30, the Thalassery–Coorg Road, passes through the town and connects it to other nearby towns like Thalassery, Kuthuparamba, Iritty, Madikeri etc. It also has linkages to cities like Mysore, Mangalore, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Kochi, and Thiruvananthapuram.

The proposed Kannur-Mysore National Highway under Bharatmala project, passes through Mattanur town facilitates access to major cities and towns in Kerala and Karnataka states.

The Mattanur–Maruthayi–Mannur Road, towards the north, provides accessibility through the Nayikali Bridge and the Mannur Bridge to SH 36, thus allowing easy access to towns like Irikkur, Sreekandapuram, Taliparamba, and Payyanur. The Anjarakandy Road passes at the entrance of the airport and connects settlements like Anjarakandy and Chakkarakkal. The Thalassery–Coorg Road also connects the proposed Hill Highway at Iritty, which in turn provides connectivity to all major settlements in the western Ghat area.

Kerala government has given node for developing various roads connecting Kannur Airport like Vayanthode-Mattanur-Koottupuzha road, Thalassery-Anjarakandy-Mattanur road, Kuttiady-Panoor-Mattanur road, Mananthavady-Mattanur road, Kannur-Airport roads for better connectivity.

There is no rail connectivity to Mattanur, but proposals for Thalassery–Mysore railway line and Kannur South Airport Railway line are still active. The nearest railway station is Thalassery, and is located at a distance of 26 km from Mattanur. The Kannur railway station, located at 27 km from Mattanur, is the major station in the district, with access to all trains, including super-fast trains, to the north and south of the country.

Administration
Mattanur Municipality composes of 35 wards for which the members of municipal council are elected for every five years. The current municipal chairman is N. Shajith from Nellunni ward and vice chairperson is O. Preetha from Devarkad ward.

Law and order
The municipality comes under jurisdiction of Mattanur police station established in the year 1871 during the tenure of British rule. Mattannur station comes under the jurisdiction of Kannur City Police. There are six villages in the police station limits viz Koodali, Pattannur, Kolari, Keezhallur, Pazhassi and Chavassery.

The Magisterial jurisdiction of Mattanur station is Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Mattannur.

Politics
Mattanur Assembly constituency is a part of Kannur Lok Sabha constituency. Mattanur Assembly is historically a strong hold of Communist Party. The current MLA of Mattanur is K. K. Shailaja from CPI-M who won in 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election with highest margin in Kerala of 96,129 votes and 61.96% vote share.

Educational institutions

 * Pazhassi Raja NSS College, Mattannur
 * St Thomas College of Engineering and Technology
 * Govt. Polytechnic College, Mattanur
 * Rajeev Memorial College of Teacher Education, Mattanur
 * Govt HSS, Mattanur
 * Sree Sankara Vidyapeetam, Senior Seconday School, Mattannur
 * Govt HSS, Chavassery

Tourist attractions

 * Pazhassi Raja Smrithi Mandiram, located at Pazhassi, Mattannur is a Museum dedicated to Pazhassi Raja at his ancestral place. Constructed in the model of Koothambalam, this museum is built above a pond, which was once part of the palace complex of Pazhassi Raja.
 * Pazhassi Palace also known as Pazhassi Kovilakam or Kottayam Padinjare Kovilakam was constructed in 1903 by Pazhassi royal family in Kerala Architecture.
 * Pazhassi Dam is a tourist attraction with garden and boating facilities.
 * Palukachippara is a nearby hill station situated 8 km away from Mattanur town. The hills are nearly 2,347 ft above sea level, are part of the Western Ghats. The area coming under the Palukachippara ecotourism project is controlled by the state forest department.

Geography
The area has the typical midland characteristics of Kerala, with undulating terrain that is mainly used for agriculture. The geographical area of the municipal town stretches between the Irikkur River (a portion of the Valapattanam River) in the north and the Anjarakandy River in the south. The town is located at the foothills of the western shoulders of the Western Ghats, rising at the east side, while the western boundary contains gradual sloping terrain leading to the Lakshadweep Sea. The Thalassery–Coorg Road (SH30) passes through the Mattanur municipal town.

Climate
The region has a tropical humid climate with hot summer and plentiful rainfall. It rains throughout the year except during the months from January to April. The average rainfall is 3438 mm. The rainfall during July is very heavy and the region receives 68% of the annual rainfall during this season. The region has a humid climate with an oppressive hot season from March to the end of May. This is followed by south-west monsoon, which continues till the end of September. October and November witnesses the post-monsoon (North-East monsoon) or retreating monsoon season. During the months of April and May, the mean daily maximum temperature is about 35 °C. The temperature is low in December and January, and the minimum temperature is about 20 °C. On certain days, the night temperature may go down to 16 °C, although this is extremely rare.

Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Industrial Park
Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Industrial Park is located on Velliyampara near Mattanur. Government of Kerala has proposed for future developments in KINFRA Industrial Park here. Mattanur to be made a hub of KINFRA's operations in north Kerala.

A Rubber glove factory is proposed at Kinfra park here. Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) is in charge of the project.

Demographics
As of the 2011 census, Mattanur Municipality had a population of 47,078 of which males constitute 22,658 (48.1%) of the population and 24,420 (51.9%) females. Mattanur municipality spreads over an area of 54.32 km2 with 9,788 families residing in it. The sex ratio of Mattanur was 1,078 lower than state average of 1,084. In Mattanur, 11.5% of the population is under 6 years of age. Mattanur municipality had an overall literacy of 94.8% higher than state average of 94%. The male literacy stands at 97.6% and female literacy was 92.2%.

The decadal growth rate for the 2001–2011 period is 6.23% and ranks the second position in the district behind Taliparamba. Mattanur possesses the least sex ratio (1,078 females per 1,000 males) and highest value of workforce participation ratio (36.75%) among the municipal towns in the Kannur district.

Religions
As of the 2011 census, Mattanur Municipality had a total population of 47,078 of which 29,739 (63.2%) are Hindus, 16,913 (35.9%) are Muslims, 283 (0.6%) are Christians and 0.3% others.

Notable people

 * Pazhassi Raja - King of Kottayam dynasty
 * Mattannur Sankarankutty - An Indian Percussionist
 * K. K. Shailaja - Indian Politician, former Health Minister of Kerala
 * Anju Aravind - Indian film actress
 * Salim Ahamed - Indian film director, screen writer and producer

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This is an article about a controversial but obscure subject related to Islam, the Qur'an, and Alexander the Great. The article has been expanded a great deal, and information has been moved to it from Alexander the Great and Alexander in the Qur'an. Zeno of Elea 16:38, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Ryan Norton T 06:45, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
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