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Apricot Portable

The Apricot Portable was a personal computer manufactured by ACT Ltd., and was released to the public in November 1984. It was ACT's first attempt at manufacturing a portable computer, which were gaining popularity at the time. Compared to other portable computers of its time like the Compaq Portable and the Commodore SX-64, the Apricot Portable was the first system to have an 80-column and 25-line LCD screen and the first with a speech recognition system.

The Apricot Portable was designed to be easily carried in its case, but was powered by mains electricity only. It consisted of a central unit containing the motherboard, monochrome display and a floppy disk drive. It also came with a wireless keyboard and bundled software.

Design
The Apricot Portable was contained inside a hard charcoal gray carrying case and consisted of two main parts: the central unit (with built-in monitor) and the keyboard. An optional mouse-like track board was also available. It was used by either pointing the track board at the computer and moving the trackball around with one's thumb or rolling the trackball on a flat surface. A standard serial mouse could also be used via the RS-232 port on the back of the computer. The mouse and the keyboard were both battery-powered, but the computer itself did not run on batteries and needed to be plugged into a wall outlet.

The system was 450 mm long, 172 mm wide and 200 mm high, weighing a total of 13 pounds.

The Portable's overall design was unusual in that the computer and keyboard were not connected physically, but rather by infrared signal. If an object blocked the space in between the two components, their communication would be disrupted. ACT chose to use an infrared signal communication system because it was cheaper than using a cable connection.

Features
The Apricot Portable contained a variety of features including a built-in disk drive, a speech recognition system, and a software bundle.

Display
The Portable was known for having the first 25-line liquid-crystal display (LCD) screen on a portable computer. The LCD screen was originally made by Hitachi, however ACT was not satisfied with the speed of its controller chip, prompting the company to design its own faster controller. This screen could also display graphics at a resolution of 640x200 pixels.

The optional colour monitor could display up to 8 colors at a time out of a possible 16 colors, and could run at either 640x200@60Hz or 640x256@50Hz. The Portable could continue to use its LCD display while also driving the colour display, allowing separate information to be shown on each screen.

Disk drive
A single double-sided 720 KB 3.5" floppy disk drive was built into the right-hand side of the enclosure. An external 10 MB Rodime 3.5" hard drive was available.

Voice recognition system
The Apricot Portable was the first portable computer to utilize a voice speech recognition system. A microphone was clipped to the front of the unit that was used specifically for this system. It could be used while clipped to the unit or it could be unclipped and used in-hand. The voice recognition system had the ability to store a vocabulary up to 4096 words, of which only 64 could be held in memory at a time.

The speech recognition system could operate in a dictation mode where spoken words were transcribed as text, or it could associate a spoken term with a command to be run. The system was then trained by the user repeating the words into a microphone to allow for normal variations in speech. The more times a word was repeated, the better the result.

Software
The Apricot Portable was bundled with both the MS-DOS and CP/M-86 operating systems, software including a word processor called SuperWriter, SuperPlanner, a personal diary called ACT Diary, the SuperCalc spreadsheet and ACT Sketch. An interactive tutorial disk was provided.

Apricot computers used versions of the MS-DOS operating system not constrained to the maximum 640 KB of RAM supported by the IBM PC and true clones, allowing the Portable to make use of 768 KB.

The Portable could run most software for MS-DOS. Like other Apricot computers, it could be started up from a CP/M-86 or Concurrent CP/M boot disc, and would then run CP/M-86 software in single- or multi-user mode.

In addition, a GUI program called "Activity" was provided as a more convenient way to manipulate the file system with the keyboard or the optional mouse. It presented an icon-based interface reminiscent of the Apple Macintosh, allowing the user to manage files, format disks, create new icons, keyboard layouts and characters. Help pages and a tutorial mode were also available.

Price
A basic model of the Apricot Portable with 256 KB of RAM (expandable to 768 KB) was sold for £1695 (approximately US$2460). The additional colour display with 128 KB RAM and a mouse added £300 ($435) to its price. The price of the original model was lowered in 1985 when a new version was released with 512 KB of RAM.

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Raw Story

Raw Story (also stylized as RawStory) is an American progressive news website. It was founded in 2004 by John K. Byrne and is owned by Byrne and Michael Rogers.

History
Byrne started Raw Story as a counterpoint to the right-leaning Drudge Report after he graduated from Oberlin College in 2003. It was officially launched in 2004, with Rogers joining the same year.

In 2017, Raw Story was accepted as a member of the Association of Alternative News Media.

In April 2018, Raw Story partners John K. Byrne and Michael Rogers announced that they had acquired AlterNet via a newly created company, AlterNet Media, as well as the New Civil Rights Movement.

From 2019 to 2021, Raw Story partnered with Pulitzer Prize winner investigative journalist David Cay Johnston and his nonprofit news service DCReport, providing funding for DCReport's investigative reporting in exchange for original content for Raw Story 's subscribers on financial regulation, taxes, energy, the environment, worker safety, and corruption.

In 2023, Raw Story hired Dave Levinthal as Editor-in-Chief and Adam Nichols as Executive Editor with the goal of expanding investigative and enterprise reporting. Levinthal was deputy editor at Insider, and previously served at OpenSecrets, Politico and The Dallas Morning News. Adam Nichols was formerly Managing Editor at Patch.

Coverage
Founder John Byrne described Raw Story as "focusing on news that's downplayed by mainstream media outlets". In its early days, Raw Story was known for scooping larger media outlets on their own stories and breaking them before publication. During the presidential administration of George W. Bush, Raw Story identified a secret CIA black site in Poland that was used for renditions.

In 2014, then-executive editor Tony Ortega described Raw Story 's editorial mission as trying to expose people "who try to exploit American ideas about fair play and equality by rigging things through their immense wealth or their discriminatory cultural myopia." In 2005, Newsweek described rawstory.com as: "Muck, raked: If you're looking for alleged GOP malfeasance, the folks at rawstory.com are frequently scooping the mainstream media."

In November 2008, Raw Story reported that the United Mine Workers of America, which had endorsed Barack Obama's presidential campaign, had come to Obama's defense after John McCain's presidential campaign criticized him for a comment he had made about coal to the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle earlier that January. Environmental journalist Andrew Revkin cited the article by Raw Story in a post he wrote for The New York Times ' Dot Earth blog, and Curtis Brainard, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, described the article as "well-done".

In 2011, Raw Story was among the first outlets to report on the Apple assistant Siri apparently directing users away from abortion clinics and emergency contraception, instead providing results for the definition of emergency contraception or clinics far from the user. The assistant, still in beta testing at the time, could, however, provide users with methods to acquire Viagra or use escort services.

The same year, Raw Story was the first to report on a United States Air Force contract to create fake social media profiles as a means of psychological warfare to be used against terrorist cells.

In 2012, then-executive editor Megan Carpentier wrote about undergoing a transvaginal ultrasound procedure in response to recent legislation in Virginia requiring an ultrasound prior to an abortion procedure.

In 2014, Jennifer Mascia published a column on gun violence after compiling records for The New York Times.

In 2017, Raw Story investigative reporter Jordan Green reported from the ground of the Unite the Right rally, and in 2021 covered the civil trial which resulted in a $25 million judgment against the organizers of the rally. Green had been following the activities of extremist groups, learning their lingo, and communicating with them. He had learned that such groups precisely and strategically plan their violent clashes. "That revelation informs his new work — tracking where January 6th insurrectionists’ anger is now directed and how it may manifest again."

On February 15, 2021, Raw Story reported that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem had used a state airplane to travel to conservative political events. The report led Democratic lawmakers to formally request that the state's attorney general investigate Noem.

The outlet has also reported on far-right extremists, including a report on January 6, 2021, hours before the attack on the U.S. Capitol that "predicted exactly what would happen," according to Editor & Publisher. Raw Story was among the first to report on instigators of the riots, including an alleged attempt by the Oath Keepers to get then-President Trump to declare martial law using the Insurrection Act.

In 2023, Raw Story was the first outlet to report on the re-indictments of the founders of the Rise Above Movement, a California white nationalist group known for actively seeking out and engaging in street brawls.

In 2023, Raw Story's Dave Levinthal was the first to report that cyberthieves stole $690,000 from the campaign of Senator Jerry Moran, and revealed that $150,000 was stolen from the campaign of Rep. Troy Nehls.

Raw Story investigated a teenage gang linked to a spate of racist vandalism in 2024. Its coverage drew national attention and the ire of neo-Nazis, who organized a protest outside the home of a Raw Story reporter. "The amount of harassment and threats kind of validates the importance of the story," Green told The Washington Post.

False claims
On February 19, 2018, Raw Story published a report claiming that Russian trolls co-opting the Me Too movement had forced Minnesota senator Al Franken to resign, and that an article by writer Ijeoma Oluo had been used as part of the campaign. Oluo told Snopes that her article had been published after Franken announced his resignation, adding: "I was hoping that the piece would give people context and help people grow from all of this into a better place." Raw Story later retracted its report.

During the 2020 United States presidential election, Raw Story published an article on November 4, 2020, which claimed that the United States Postal Service (USPS) had failed to deliver 27 percent of mail-in ballots in South Florida. PolitiFact determined that the figure was based on a misreading of Postal Service data, and the USPS stated that it had skipped some steps to get ballots to election offices faster.

According to a study by researchers from the University of Liverpool and University of Dundee, published in the journal Discourse & Society, the headline in another 2020 article in Raw Story engaged in the fallacy of ambiguity by using "the phrasal verb ‘cashing in on’" to create the appearance of impropriety in reporting on a business owned by Jared Kushner when, according to Snopes, there was "no evidence that the startup is linked to any public damage". According to the researchers, this use of "polysemous terms in news titles ... [is] potentially misleading for the majority of readers who are used to getting their daily news feed scrolling through news titles".

Awards and recognition
In 2008, the Online News Association named Raw Story a finalist in the 2008 Online Journalism Awards in the "Investigative, Small Site" category for the article "The permanent Republican majority", which revealed improper partisan influence in the prosecution of former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama.

In 2021, a Raw Story report by Daniel Newhauser broke the story on South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem's use of the state airplane for non-official purposes, which resulted in criminal investigations. The investigative reporting was a finalist for a 2022 Society of Professional Journalists award which "honors a journalist or news organization for outstanding use of public records in reporting or advocacy of rights such as press freedom and public access."

In 2022, Raw Story won the first place EPPY Award by Editor & Publisher in the category "Best news/political blog (1 million or more unique visitors)" for "How I left the far right", an opinion piece by Dakota Adams, son of Oath Keepers' founder Stewart Rhodes, that described how Adams became disillusioned with the anti-government militia group in the later days of the Trump administration. Raw Story was also named the best U.S. news and political blog by Editor & Publisher in 2023.

In 2023, Raw Story investigative reporter Jordan Green won the Fair Media Council's Folio award for his coverage of the January 6, 2021 US Capitol riot.

In 2024, Raw Story's Alexandria Jacobson won a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business award for its "Lawmakers, Law Breakers" series, which exposed Democratic and Republican lawmakers who violated U.S. conflict of interest and insider trading laws. It received honorable mentions in two other categories. The series also won the first place inaugural ION Award in 2023, which called the nonpartisan investigation "fair, bold, specific, and thoroughly documented." The same year, Jacobson also won a Sidney award for a feature article that illuminated an epidemic of violence against U.S. Mail carriers.

Reception
Major media outlets have called Raw Story an investigative news site, progressive, left-leaning, independent, and an alternative news site. Raw Story has performed exclusive interviews, investigative reporting, and has broken many stories. Raw Story articles have been recognized by Columbia Journalism Review and the Associated Press, and been mentioned by other news agencies such as Reuters. Raw Story primarily aggregates stories from around the web and produces investigative reporting.

An August 2017 study by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society found that between May 1, 2015, and November 7, 2016, Raw Story was the fourth and fifth most popular left-wing news source on Twitter and Facebook, respectively. The study also found that Raw Story was the 9th most shared media source on Twitter by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 United States presidential election. Another study found that rawstory.com also featured prominently on the list of links shared by a Russian troll farm via Twitter.

In 2009, libertarian journalist Michael Moynihan referred to Raw Story as a "conspiracy-friendly" website. In 2016, ad verification company DoubleVerify, which helps advertisers select which types of websites their automated online ads might appear on, created a new category called "Inflammatory Politics & News", one of 75 categories. The new category was to include "hardcore conservative and liberal sites", and included rawstory.com as well as several far-right websites. A 2018 report by the Oxford Internet Institute categorized Raw Story as one of the "Top 30 Junk News Sources on Twitter." Some consider Raw Story a hyperpartisan media outlet.

Staff
As of June 2023, Roxanne Cooper was publisher and Dave Levinthal was editor-in-chief, Adam Nichols is Executive Editor, and Brad Reed is Managing Editor. Editorial staff are members of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. Notable former editorial staff include New York Times senior staff editor Michael Roston, NBC News political reporter Sahil Kapur, and former Village Voice executive editor Tony Ortega.

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Jake Grove

Charles Jacob Grove (born January 22, 1980) is an American former football center who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies, where he won the Rimington Trophy and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2004 NFL draft, and also played for the Miami Dolphins.

Early life
Grove was born in Johnson City, Tennessee. He played high school football at Jefferson Forest High School in Forest, Virginia.

College career
While attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Grove played for coach Frank Beamer's Virginia Tech Hokies football team from 2000 to 2003. As a senior in 2003, he was a first-team All-Big East selection, received unanimous first-team All-American honors, and won the Rimington Trophy, given to the nation's best college center. In recognition of his outstanding college career as a Hokie, Virginia Tech retired his jersey number in 2006, and enshrined him in the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame.

Oakland Raiders
Grove was drafted in the second round (45th overall) of the 2004 NFL draft by the Oakland Raiders, through a pick that was acquired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in exchange for Jon Gruden, where he played from 2004 to 2008. After being the reserve center behind Adam Treu as a rookie, Grove split time with him as the starting center during the 2005 NFL season, in which the Raiders had a 4-12 won-lost record, then won the job the following year, the 7th starting center in Raider history, starting all 16 games, when Treu became his replacement for a 2-14 team. But in the 2007 NFL season, Jeremy Newberry became the starting center, as Grove started only two games for the 4-12 team. He got his job back in the 2008 NFL season, starting in 12 games, though the team's fortune stayed poor with a 5-11 record. His Oakland tenure was hampered by injuries, and he only played in more than 10 games twice during his six seasons in Oakland.

Miami Dolphins
On March 2, 2009, Grove signed a five-year, $29 million ($14.5 million guaranteed) free agent contract with the Miami Dolphins. The previous starting center for the Dolphins, Samson Satele, was traded to Grove's old team, the Raiders. Grove suffered through another injury plagued year, playing in 12 games, starting 10 of them. In the 2010 preseason, he suffered from nagging knee and shoulder injuries, and was cut by the Dolphins less than a year after signing his lucrative free agent contract in favor of Joe Berger. He reportedly worked out for the Raiders, Baltimore Ravens, Detroit Lions, and New England Patriots, but did not sign with another team.

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Faustino Imbali

Faustino Fudut Imbali (born 1 May 1956) is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 21 March 2001 to 9 December 2001, and again from 29 October 2019 to 8 November 2019. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013.

Biography
Imbali was born in Ilondé, Portuguese Guinea in May 1956. He studied at the University of Bordeaux in France, graduating with a master's degree in political sociology and development in 1988. He subsequently worked as a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa in Bissau. During the Guinea-Bissau Civil War of 1998–1999 he was an advisor to Prime Minister Francisco Fadul.

Imbali ran as an independent candidate in the November 1999 presidential elections and placed third, winning 8.22% of the vote. After the victory of Kumba Ialá of the Party for Social Renewal (PRS) in that election, Imbali was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Economic and Social Reconstruction in the government named on 19 February 2000, under Prime Minister Caetano Intchama. Subsequently, in the government named on 25 January 2001, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. When Intchama was dismissed by Ialá in March 2001, Ialá nominated Imbali as his successor, despite the objections of the opposition, which held a majority in parliament. The opposition filed a no-confidence motion against Imbali but subsequently conditionally dropped the motion. In December, Imbali was dismissed by Ialá, who criticized him strongly. Accusing Imbali of diverting money from the armed forces (which Imbali denied), Ialá warned Imbali in April 2002 that he would go to jail unless he returned the money.

In 2003, Imbali founded the Manifest Party of the People (PMP) and ran as its presidential candidate in the 19 June 2005 presidential election, winning 0.52% of the vote.

Imbali was reportedly beaten and taken into custody by security forces on 5 June 2009 in violence directed against alleged coup plotters, including Baciro Dabo and Helder Proenca.

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Talk:Naantali

Naantali the most important tourist centre of the country? I very much doubt that.
 * According to this page, 'Naantali is the most popular attraction for Finnish tourists'. - ulayiti (talk)  10:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Naantali
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Naantali's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:33, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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Category talk:Space weapons

If Sadam's cannons are space weapons then so too must Intercontinental ballistic missile I dont know how to edit articles in catagories. All i can seem to do is add it at the top

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Black Cypress

Black Cypress may refer to:

 * Callitris endlicheri, an Australian tree commonly known as Black Cypress Pine
 * Black Cypress, one of three areas of Big Cypress Bayou in Jefferson, Texas
 * Black Cypress (novel), a mystery novel by American writer Frances Crane

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Talk:Jackson C. Frank

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needs to be updated but i don't have the time, don't delete — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.231.143.236 (talk • contribs) 07:17, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Frank's family
Does anyone know what happened to Frank's wife and daughter? Did he and his wife get divorced? I'd really like to know. Sergeant  Snopake  18:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know if he performed in woodstock 1970. They make Woodstock 70 a bold title. And by boldness i do mean there was a woodstock 70. i can't remember all of the performers and they are understated. i know some not enough. i always thought the other players kept track better than me. None have come forward. Could Jackson C. Frank be a link? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.38.131.82 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

According to the linear notes on the 1995 version of "Blues Run The Game", he and his wife split around the time his son died (or maybe because of?), which the sleeve said just as much aided to his depression. --GurTheFred 15:55, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. I'd forgotten I'd actually asked that, I thought I'd dreamt it.  Sergeant  Snopake  11:14, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

The song "Horseshoe Crabs" by the band Hop Along is about Frank. Alpacasoccer (talk) 00:19, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Birth date
Can the birth date be confirmed? What´s the source? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.72.23.251 (talk) 08:10, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

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Didn't Simon give the ownership of the songs back to Frank?
I've read somewhere that Paul Simon did own (or had later bought) the songs that Frank wrote (in the 1960's I presume), but that he gave them back to Frank sometime in the late 1990's (when he heard about his misfortune), just a few years before he died? Can anyone confirm this and (if so) add it into the article? Hakanand 14:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

What's going on here
Is he alive? Dead? Is there an organization to this article that I'm just not getting? 99.55.140.174 (talk) 21:54, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

He died in 1999. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.18.152 (talk) 17:29, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

2010 "Previously Undiscovered" studio sessions?
Is there any confirmation or citation for the previously undiscovered 1970 studio sessions found in 2010? I can find no easy third-party corroboration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.62.28 (talk) 22:49, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

These albums and singles should be added to his discography. http://www.folkblues.co.uk/discographyfrank.html --Alexedits (talk) 07:03, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Death of Franks Son
As far as I understand, Frank wrote "Young Child Fixin to Die" responding the loss of his son. Should this be added to the article? The complete lyrics are here: http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858716919/ 93.219.162.92 (talk) 11:36, 10 March 2015 (UTC)guest

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Chris Kalantzis

Christos "Chris" Kalantzis (Greek: Χρήστος "Κρις" Καλαντζής; born 27 July 1967) is an Australian former soccer player who played at the highest level of domestic football in Greece and Australia. He played at international level for Australia.

Club career
Born in Sydney to Greek immigrants. His father came from the village of Loukas in Arcadia region of the Peloponnese, Greece and his mother came from the village of Managouli in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece, he began his career with Sydney Olympic, First Grade, at the age of 15. He was then signed by the Greek team Panathinaikos, where he played for five years. Olympiacos, a rival Greek club, then signed him. On his debut against his former team he scored with his famous bicycle kick from outside the box.

He played for Olympiacos another five years before returning to Sydney Olympic to finish his career, playing two years before retiring.

International career
Kalantzis played seven matches in full international matches for Australia.

Post-football career
In February 2011, Olympiacos announced the establishment of its first Olympiacos Academy outside of Greece in Sydney, Australia. The Australian academy is managed by Kalantzis and Kyriakos Tohouroglou, both former Olympiacos players.

Honours

 * National Soccer League Cup Winners: 1983, 1985
 * A' Ethniki: 1989–90, 1990–91, 1996–97
 * Greek Cup: 1988, 1989, 1991
 * Greek Super Cup:1988

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This image has been widely used in relation to the Juanita Nielsen missing persons case, and was probably released by the NSW Police or victims family.

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The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

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Pittsburgh compound B

Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) is a radioactive analog of thioflavin T, which can be used in positron emission tomography scans to image beta-amyloid plaques in neuronal tissue. Due to this property, Pittsburgh compound B may be used in investigational studies of Alzheimer's disease.

History
The definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can only be made following the demonstration of the presence of beta-amyloid (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, the pathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease in brain tissue, typically at autopsy. While the cognitive impairments of the disease could be monitored throughout the disease course, clinicians had no reliable way to monitor the pathologic progression of the disease. Due to this fact, a clear understanding of the process of amyloid deposition and how amyloid deposits relate to the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease remains to be elucidated. While sophisticated centers for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease are able to diagnose the disease with some reliability based on its clinical presentation, the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease from other dementias is less robust. Furthermore, as novel disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease that attack and remove beta-amyloid deposits from the brain enter clinical trials, a pre-mortem tool for assessing their effectiveness at clearing the amyloid deposits was a much needed development.

To answer these needs, a research team from the University of Pittsburgh led by geriatrics psychiatrist William E. Klunk and radiochemist Chester A. Mathis synthesised charge-neutral benzothiazoles derived from thioflavin T, which included a small number of compounds with suitable properties for use as a positron emission tomography imaging agent. One of these compounds, 2-(4'-[11C]methylaminophenyl)-6-hydroxybenzothiazole, was tested in human subjects. The University of Pittsburgh team partnered with a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, to conduct the first trials of this new agent in human research subjects. As this was the second investigational compound of this class sent to Uppsala from the University of Pittsburgh group, it was termed simply Pittsburgh compound-B by the Swedish team, who also abbreviated it as "PiB".

The first PiB study of a human subject with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease was conducted by Henry Engler in February, 2002, at Uppsala University. PET scans showed that the compound was retained in areas of the cerebral cortex known to contain significant amyloid deposits from post-mortem examinations. The initial human study of PiB was expanded to include 16 Alzheimer's disease subjects and 9 cognitively normal controls, the report of which was published in 2004 in the Annals of Neurology.

Since that initial study, PiB has been adopted as a research tool by other research institutions. In addition, GE Healthcare is pursuing the development of a clinical diagnostic agent based on PiB for assessing brain amyloidosis.

Alzheimer's disease research
11C-PiB is currently the most studied and used radioligand for PET imaging of cerebral Aβ pathology. This technique has been implicated in Alzheimer's disease research whereby scientists involved in this field are able to perform noninvasive in vivo neuroimaging studies using PET scans in brains of individuals with various degrees of dementia. The 11C-Pittsburgh compound B (11C-PiB) radiotracer is used to measure regional 11C-PiB binding retention rates, thus allowing for the visual and quantitative measurement of Aβ deposition. 11C-PiB is a fluorescent derivative of thioflavin T which preferentially targets and binds to fibrillar Aβ forms found in dense core plaques with high affinity and specificity. In particular, it specifically binds to Aβ40 and Aβ42 fibrils and insoluble plaques containing the aforementioned Aβ peptides. PiB does not bind with great affinity to soluble or nonfibrillar Aβ plaques until plaques have reached a crucial magnitude, which has yet to be determined. Furthermore, this radiotracer does not bind to neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the neuronal regions of the brain during postmortem autopsies. A typical injected dose ranges from 250 to 450 MBq and the imaging time normally varies between 40 and 90 minutes. The quantification of 11C-PiB has demonstrated to elicit a profound difference in neuronal cortical binding between individuals recognized with Alzheimer's disease and age-matched cognitively normal controls.

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Caetano N'Tchama

Caetano N'Tchama (23 January 1955 – 15 December 2007) was a Bissau-Guinean politician and former Prime Minister. He held that position from 19 February 2000 to 19 March 2001 and was a member of the Social Renewal Party (PRS).

Early life
N'Tchama served as Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Francisco Fadul from 1999 to 2000; in Fadul's national unity government, which was sworn in on February 20, 1999, N'Tchama was one of the members chosen by Ansumane Mane's military junta. Following the election of PRS leader Kumba Ialá as President, N'Tchama, who was the third ranking leader of the PRS and is a cousin of Ialá, was chosen by the PRS as Prime Minister in a party vote on 24 January 2000, with 46 votes in favor and six opposed. In late September and early October 2000, he was in Dakar and then Paris for medical treatment. After Fadul accused N'Tchama of corruption, N'Tchama said in October 2000 that he planned to take legal action against Fadul due to these accusations.

In March 2001, the PRS held discussions on replacing N'Tchama as Prime Minister. Ialá dismissed N'Tchama on March 19, saying that this move was necessary to increase stability and decrease political tension. N'Tchama subsequently became head of the Internal Audit Board before being appointed as Attorney General on September 6, 2001.

He died on December 15, 2007, after a prolonged illness.

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User talk:AndriyK

 * Archive as of March 8, 2006
 * Archive as of August 23, 2006

Ukrainian Team: Let's meet here.

Ukrainian Team: Let's meet here
Hi and welcome back. Pay your attention to History of Christianity in Ukraine: I recently discovered it, with rather POVed modern sections. Oh, and we have a new tech gizmo: you should now "confirm" your E-mail address to receive messages through WP facility. Cheers, Ukrained 11:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Let's really "meet here". I'm starting to like the name of this section. Ukrained 11:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

WP:NC(GN)
I apologize for spamming your talk page, but since you had contributed in the past to the WP:NC(GN) proposal, which is currently ready for a wider consultation, I thought you might want to give it another look now and, hopefully, suggest some final improvements. Thanks. --Lysytalk 22:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

sib-wiki vote
I herebe authorise that this vote to oppose closure of sib-wiki was cast by me.--AndriyK 17:52, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Chekhov
Many thanks. I've sorted that one already since Ghirlandajo and Alex Bakharev cleared it up for me. Because I am Cornish, English, and British I was interested to know if you can have such multiple identities in Russia. I have now decided that when Chekhov said this, it was a bit like me saying "That's the Irish in me, coming out," because I have an Irish grandmother. Cheers. qp10qp 18:28, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice to see you back
Nice to see you back. I'm glad you participate in neutralizing of Russian language in Ukraine. Also take a look at Anti-Russian sentiment and Internet brigades (the latter survived a furious attack of Russian editors).AlexPU 08:12, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I noticed you are interested in topics relating to Ukraine, and was wondering if you have an opinion on article Ethnic Russians in Ukraine. We need second or third opinion there.--Hillock65 20:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help in the article Russians in Ukraine. If I may, I would like to ask you not to get bogged down in endless discussions with one of the editors. I think it is done intentionally, I tried that and spent 3 hours the other day without any result. This article in general and some of the issues raised on discussion page need comments from all editors. Please leave your thoughts and ideas so that the consensus of the editors can be seen on the discussion page. There are areas that I outlined there and your comments on them are very welcome. Thanks again.--Hillock65 13:19, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Revert warning
Please stop revert wars in the article Russian language in Ukraine and deleting a picture in it. --Russianname 11:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I did not touch it for more than 24 hours. In spite that this picture seriously violates the WP:NOR.--AndriyK 11:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Rusyn
Please do not revert things that were added in order to respect the Neutral Point Of View policy of Wikipedia. The Rusyn subject is a very controversial one: Carpatho-Rusyns were not counted and recognized as a separate nation in Ukraine, even if their status of a separate nation is confirmed by internationnal treaties (starting from the Trianon and St-Germain treaties after the first World War). Thank you.--Rusyn 19:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

 * It does not matter how the subject is controversial, you have to follow WP policies. In particular please pay attention to WP:NOR, i.e. all the information you add has to be confirmed by reliable sources.
 * I do not have any objection concerning self-identification of Rusyns as a separate nation and am not going to start a discussion on this question.--AndriyK 16:41, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on 100% Rusyn. I wrote most of the articles on the Lemko-Rusyn Republic and the Komancza Republic, and in regard to Lemkos, I understand that some consider themselves to be Ukrainians, and some just as passionately do not. Regardless of what these people are considered to be today in Ukraine, their history is important to many, particularly in the US and Canada, who have an interest in what their grandparents thought almost a century ago.Pustelnik 22:59, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Hutsul
Your last change on the Hutsul page could also be thought as insulting towards people that still indentify themselves as Rusyns, it's the case of many hutsuls too. Rusyn 09:04, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I edit exclusively well sourced information about self-identification of Hutsul people. Note that the info is based on the opinion of representatives elected by Hutsul people (most of these representatives are Hutsul themselves). My edits do not contain any insulting towards Hutsuls or any other people.--AndriyK 16:32, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi, I am very glad that finally there are some Ukrainian editors interested to edit a number of articles where up to know there was almost noone Ukrainian. The complete list will perhaps include more than 1,000 individual articles, but here is a tiny one (to the editting of which I participated), where participation of someone from Ukraine would have been very-very helpful: Budjak, Bukovina, Chernivtsi Oblast, Fântâna Albă massacre, History of Maramureş, Khotyn, Khotyn uprising, Northern Maramuresh, Pokuttya, Zakarpattia Oblast and others. Up to now only User:DDima was a Ukrainian voice. All the others were either Russians, or a couple from eastern Europe, or occasionally someone from the west. Of course, take your time. And of course, only if you are interested in them. You might also be interested to share your oppinion about Featured article candidates/Soviet invasion of Poland (1939). Take care.:Dc76 12:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Kuban kazak
Have fun getting through to him. — Alex(U 22:35, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Ukrainian architecture
A new artical about uk:Українська архітектура has been created. Please have a look and be welcome to correct it and add new information. Best regards, --RoteArmee 10:12, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

RFC/USER Russianname
A Request for Comment on User:Russianname has been filed. As user, who had experience of dealing with this individual your comments on this RfC would be appreciated. Thank you. --Hillock65 14:35, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

request to move to kyiv
Hello,

I have set up a request to move the page Kiev to Kyiv.

I have outlined four key reasons for doing so in the discussion section of the page.

Looking through the archives, I saw that you had contributed to this page earlier. I would like to hear what you have to say on this topic.

Thank you

Horlo 02:49, 30 July 2007 (UTC)Horlo

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Sidor Artemievič Kovpak ancestors on the run for assassination

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It has happened
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Talk:Approximation theory

Splines
"Modern mathematical libraries often reduce the domain into many tiny segments and use a low-degree polynomial for each segment." Are those technically Splines? If so it would be good to link to them.38.98.147.133 (talk) 15:13, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Definition and scope
Given the definition:
 * "In mathematics, approximation theory is concerned with how functions can be approximated with other, simpler, functions, and with characterising in a quantitative way the errors introduced thereby."

... wouldn't Power series, particularly Taylor series fit within this realm? And how about Newtons method? Vonkje 07:22, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I think that approximation theory is a huge field and that any page with such a title can only outline the main areas. The article at present goes into too much detail in certain topics. For example, there should be a separate page on Chebyshev approximation and maybe even on the Remes Algorithm. (There is already such a page but it is not very good yet.) Any comments? Should I make these changes? --Pftupper 02:33, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree that the treatment is uneven and Chebyshev and Remes deserve their own pages. To my mind, power series are more for representation than approximation, but it depends on just how one uses the term. Certainly, lots of numerical methods are derived by starting with a Taylor series approximation. As to Newton's method, I'd say not her. My opinion is, make the changes! JJL 03:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

 * As the original author of all the Chebyshev and Remes stuff on this page, I agree fully with the suggestion to reorganize the subject. I think that what I put in about Chebyshev and Remes is really cool stuff, and I didn't see it anywhere, so I put it in.  I knew that "approximation theory" isn't really the right category, but there was essentially no material on the page of that name, and other pages were linking to it, so I decided to put it there.

 * A few other bits of information: The "computer" category goes into incredible detail in all the many many subtopics.  Perhaps this material should be renamed "computer approximations" and considered to be part of that category tree.  And then "approximation theory" (this page) should be devoted to the more pure maths aspects (Taylor series, etc.) with a link to "computer approximations" at the opportune moment.  Also, there is a page called "function approximation", which appears to be little more than a stub.  Its future should be taken into account also. William Ackerman 16:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Q: would a link to Karhunen–Loève transform / Principal Component analysis belong in this article? I'm no expert but it seems the goal is the same (efficient approximation of a function through a minimum set of parameters); —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.158.152.170 (talk) 06:33, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

 * I think the article should more or less cover the most important topics that are within the scope of the major journals in this area (although, as pointed out above, obviously not in great detail). As far as I know, the Karhunen–Loève theorem and PCA are outside their scope. As it is, the present article deals too exclusively with polynomial functions in one variable – although perhaps also the use of Bernstein polynomials should be mentioned). A paragraph or so on Padé approximants is definitely in order, and some other must topics, however briefly dwelt on, are splines, Fourier analysis, and wavelets. A few words on the approximation of multivariate functions (for example, by Bézier surfaces) are needed to round out the treatment. --Lambiam 16:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Merge with Approximation theory/Proofs
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motivation required
I studied approximation theory, decades ago, when programmable calculators were new and compute time expensive. Today computation power is very cheap and available, and as I address a new problem, it seems that the well-know-problems of poles and "squiggles" (errors) of polynomial approximation renders these as anachronistic toys that should be abandoned. Certainly we don't need to reduce a complex physical chemistry curves into an 6th degree polynomial so that someone can enter this, tediously, on a calculator. I believe the other commenter is correct; splines have value when we MUST interpolate from from empirical data, but poly'-curves are anachorisms. ^^ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.165.181.87 (talk) 21:17, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Mathematics
Approximation of X 210.89.62.32 (talk) 17:31, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

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The Chieftains (album)

The Chieftains  is the first album released by the Irish musical group The Chieftains in 1964. The album is now sometimes referred to as The Chieftains 1 due to the numbering system of their subsequent albums. It was one of the first folk albums to be recorded in stereo.

Track listing
All tracks Traditional compositions
 * 1) "Sé Fáth mo Bhuartha / The Lark on the Strand / An Fhallaingín Mhuimhneach / Trim the Velvet" –
 * 2) "An Comhra Donn / Murphy's Hornpipe" –
 * 3) "Cailín na Gruaige Doinne" (The Brown-Haired Girl) –
 * 4) "Comb Your Hair and Curl It / The Boys of Ballisodare" –
 * 5) "The Musical Priest / The Queen of May" –
 * 6) "The Walls of Liscarroll Jig" –
 * 7) "An Dhruimfhionn Donn Dílis" –
 * 8) "The Connemara Stocking / The Limestone Rock / Dan Breen's" –
 * 9) "Casadh an tSúgan" –
 * 10) "The Boy in the Gap" –
 * 11) "Saint Mary's, Church Street / Garret Barry, The Battering Ram / Kitty goes a-Milking, Rakish Paddy" –

Personnel

 * The Chieftains
 * Paddy Moloney – uilleann pipes, tin whistle, arrangements, musical direction
 * Martin Fay – fiddle
 * Seán Potts – tin whistle
 * Michael Tubridy – flute, concertina, tin whistle
 * David Fallon – bodhrán
 * Technical
 * Morgan O'Sullivan - recording engineer
 * Edward Delaney - cover design

Sources and links

 * This album on the Chieftains' Official site

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Apricot PC

The Apricot PC (originally called the ACT Apricot) is a personal computer produced by Apricot Computers, then still known as Applied Computer Techniques or ACT. Released in late 1983, it was ACT's first independently developed microcomputer, following on from the company's role of marketing and selling the ACT Sirius 1, and was described as "the first 16-bit system to be Sirius-compatible, rather than IBM-compatible", indicating the influence that the Sirius 1 had in the United Kingdom at the time.

It achieved success in the United Kingdom, with reviewers noting the system's high resolution 800 × 400 display (for its time) and its trackball cable (later models used IR).

It used an Intel 8086 processor running at 4.77 MHz. A 8087 math co-processor was optional. The amount of memory was 256 kB, expandable to 768 kB. It came with a CRT green-screen 9" with text mode 80 × 25 or graphics 800 × 400 pixels and was equipped with two floppy discs and a keyboard with an integrated LCD display.

The Apricot Xi was a similar computer released in 1984, with a hard drive instead of a second floppy-drive.

Software
Due to an IBM PC incompatible BIOS, trying to run a software package like dBase III would result in a system crash.

The system was delivered with SuperCalc, and several system utilities, asynchronous communication, an emulator for IBM PC, Microsoft Basic-86, Basic Personal and ACT Manager (a GUI for MS-DOS). Optionally available were Microsoft Word, Multiplan, WordStar, dBase II, C-Pascal, UCSD Pascal, C, Fortran, COBOL and Basic Compiler 5.35.

IBM PC compatibility
The manufacturer did not completely clone the IBM BIOS, so although it ran MS-DOS and CP/M-86, it was not IBM PC compatible as the underlying system BIOS and hardware was very different. An Intel 8089 I/O controller was used, instead of the Intel 8237 DMA chip used in IBM computers; the ROM was only a simple boot loader rather than a full BIOS; and there was no 640k barrier. The floppy disk format was "not quite compatible"; attempting to read an ordinary PC FAT floppy in an Apricot, or vice versa, would result in a scrambled directory listing with some files missing.

Apricot later offered the possibility of converting the computer into an IBM compatible PC by replacing the motherboard with one equipped with an Intel 80286 processor.

Technical data

 * Processor: Intel 8086 4.77 MHz. Socket for optional Intel 8087 co-processor.
 * BIOS: 2 × EPROM containing the BIOS
 * Memory: 256 kB RAM expandable to 768 kB on board.
 * Storage: 2 × 3.5" floppy drives with 315 kB or 720 kB capacity
 * DMA chip: Intel 8089
 * Graphics: Comes with a green phosphor screen 9" that weights 1.9 kg. Can display one of these modes:
 * Text 80 × 25 (Characters of 10 × 16 pixels)
 * Text 132 × 50 (Characters of 6 × 8 pixels)
 * Graphics at 800 × 400 (Hitachi 46505 CRT controller chip - equivalent to a Motorola 6845, also used on the Victor 9000 computer)
 * Mechanical Keyboard 101-key QWERTY, 8 function keys and 6 keys standard dynamic membrane with an LED to the left of each one to indicate they are active. An LCD with 40 × 2 characters is included, which can display the key assignment. Weighs 1.5 kg and can be attached to the frame underneath for easy transport.
 * Housing: 42 × 32 × 10 cm plastic cream weighing about 6.4 kg The front half of the top shows a depression to bring the monitor. In the front two 3.5" floppy drives that can be protected with a shutter for transport. Under these, a carrying handle. At the rear two proprietary Apricot connector slots for expansion, parallel printer port of Centronics micro ribbon 36 pin connector type, serial port DB-25 connector, monitor connector and power supply with a switch.
 * Support for two internal 3,5" Sony floppy disk drives
 * Input / Output:
 * External monitor connector.
 * Parallel printer port, Centronics micro ribbon 36-pin connector
 * RS-232 serial port
 * Two expansion connectors or internal Apricot
 * Operating system came with standard MS-DOS 2.11 and CP/M-86.

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Mono language

There are several languages called Mono:

 * Mono language (California), an endangered Native American language of the California River basin in the United States
 * Mono language (Cameroon), an Adamawa language
 * Mono language (Congo), a Ubangian language spoken by 65,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo
 * Mono language (Solomon Islands), an Austronesian language spoken on the Solomon Islands by fewer than 4,000 people

Mono

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The Chieftains 2

Chieftains 2 is the second album released by the Irish musical group The Chieftains in 1969. It was Peadar Mercier's album debut on bodhran and Seán Keane's on fiddle.

When Seán Ó Riada disbanded Ceoltoiri Chualann in 1969, several of the players wanted to continue the sound they had pioneered. The result was the reformation of The Chieftains. "The Foxhunt" had previously been known as a piper's tune, but here it was given a full band treatment, and was widely played, as a direct result of this recording.

Track listing

 * 1) "Banish Misfortune / Gillian's Apples" –
 * 2) "Seóirse Brabston (Planxty George Brabazon)" –
 * 3) "Bean an Fhir Rua (The Red-Haired Man's Wife)" –
 * 4) "Pis Fhliuch (The Wet Quirn) (O' Farrells Welcome to Limerick)" –
 * 5) "An Páistín Fionn (The Fair-Haired Child)/ Mrs. Crotty's Reel / The Mountain Top" –
 * 6) "The Foxhunt" –
 * 7) "An Mhaighdean Mhara (The Sea Maiden) / Tie the Bonnet / O' Rourke's Reel" –
 * 8) "Callaghan's Hornpipe / Byrne's Hornpipe" –
 * 9) "Pigtown / Tie the Ribbons / The Bag of Potatoes" –
 * 10) "The Humours of Whiskey / Hardiman the Fiddler" –
 * 11) "Dónall Óg" –
 * 12) "Brian Boru's March" –
 * 13) "Sweeney's / Denis Murphy's / The Scartaglen Polka" –

Personnel

 * The Chieftains
 * Paddy Moloney – uilleann pipes, tin whistle, arrangements
 * Martin Fay – fiddle
 * Seán Potts – tin whistle
 * Seán Keane – fiddle
 * Michael Tubridy – flute, concertina, tin whistle
 * Peadar Mercier – bodhrán, bones
 * Technical
 * Edward Delaney - artwork
 * John S. Perrett - design
 * Iona Print Ltd., Glasnevin, Dublin 9 - lithography

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Special Forces (video game)

Special Forces is a video game developed by Sleepless Knights and published by MicroProse in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC DOS. In the game, a team of special operatives are to infiltrate enemy territory to complete various objectives. It is a sequel to Airborne Ranger.

Gameplay
Special Forces lets the player select a team of four from a squad of eight operatives. Once a mission is selected in one of the four regions (temperate zone, arctic, desert and jungle - daytime and nighttime variants) the player is briefed. Objectives range from hostage rescues, destroy specific objects, reconnaissance missions. The player needs to plan the mission carefully since the player does not control the operatives directly. Instead the player gives the soldiers orders similar to the game Commandos.

The game displays a top-down view of a part of the mission area in various configurations (one viewport per soldier up to four views at the same time in split-screen mode). The player also has access to a strategic battle map with enemy locations visible (there is no fog of war in the game).

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Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-10-03/Speedy copyvios

 Combined with the growing backlog, many Wikipedians voted to add the criterion.
 * That's a classical mistake in grammar. And we can't fix it :( Ornil 07:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


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Vertex (band)

Vertex was a band formed in 1995 featuring singer Stephen Pearcy (Ratt, Arcade, Vicious Delite, Nitronic), guitarist Al Pitrelli (Danger Danger, Hotshot, Alice Cooper, Asia, Savatage, Megadeth, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), and drummer Hiro Kuretani (WXXI, Trancentral Station). They released a self-titled album in 1996 as well as a single for the track "One Like a Son" that included two remixes by Eric Caudieux and Stan Katayama. A video for this single was also released. All bass parts were played by Pitrelli, who also recorded keyboards. Bob Daisley played bass on tracks "Time and Time" and "Ain't Gonna Be". The album is a concept album with a single narrator, chain of events and re-occurring characters.

Kuretani, who had met Stephen Pearcy at a gig where he opened for Stephen's band Arcade. Bassist Robbie Crane was a touring bassist for Vertex, but was not on the band's album. The band's music is categorized as industrial rock.

Stephen Pearcy currently has rejoined Ratt and Robbie Crane with Black Star Riders. Hiro Kuretani went on to become an electronic music (progressive breaks) producer.

Past members

 * Stephen Pearcy - Lead vocals
 * Al Pitrelli - Guitars, bass guitar, keyboards
 * Hiro Kuretani - Drums, programming, keyboards, synthesizers, computer, piano
 * Robbie Crane - Bass guitar (touring only)

Albums

 * Vertex (1996)

Singles

 * "One Like a Son"

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The Chieftains 3

The Chieftains 3 is the third album released by the Irish musical group The Chieftains in 1971.

The tight formula of the first two albums loosened up on the third album. For the first time there was a mazurka (which on the original vinyl release, on the record itself, was erroneously labelled "Sonny's Maxurka"). There is still no singing, but Pat Kilduff added lilting on two tracks.

Track listing

 * 1) "Strike the Gay Harp / Tiarna Maigheó (Lord Mayo) / The Lady on the Island / The Sailor on the Rock" –
 * 2) "Sonny's Mazurka / Tommy Hunt's Jig" –
 * 3) "Eibhlí Gheal Chiún ní Chearbhaill (Bright Quiet Eily O'Carroll) / Delahunty's Hornpipe" –
 * 4) "The Hunter's Purse" –
 * 5) "March of the King of Laois" or "Ruairí Óg Ó Mordha" –
 * 6) "Carolan's Concerto or Mrs Poer" –
 * 7) "Tom Billy's Reel / The Road to Lisdoonvarna / The Merry Sisters" –
 * 8) "An Ghaoth Aneas (The South Wind)" –
 * 9) "Tiarna Isne Chaoin (Lord Inchiquin)" –
 * 10) "The Trip to Sligo" –
 * 11) "An Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig? (Were You at the Rock?)" –
 * 12) "John Kelly's Slide / Merrily Kiss the Quaker / Denis Murphy's Slide" –

Personnel
with:
 * The Chieftains
 * Paddy Moloney - uilleann pipes, tin whistle, arrangements, conductor
 * Michael Tubridy - flute, concertina, tin whistle
 * Seán Potts - tin whistle
 * Martin Fay - fiddle
 * Seán Keane - fiddle
 * Peadar Mercier - bodhrán, bones
 * Pat Kilduff - lilting on "The Hunter's Purse" and "Merrily Kiss The Quaker"
 * Producer: Gareth a Brun (Garech Browne)
 * Liner notes by Seán MacRéamoinn, Hamish Henderson and Susannah York.

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John Quinn (collector)

John Quinn (April 14, 1870 in Tiffin, Ohio – July 28, 1924 in Fostoria, Ohio) was an Irish-American cognoscente of the art world and a lawyer in New York City who fought to overturn censorship laws restricting modern literature and art from entering the United States.

Quinn was an important patron of chief figures in Post-impressionism and literary Modernism, a major collector of modern art and original manuscripts, and the first to exhibit these works after winning legal battles against censorship and cultural isolation. In the 1920s he owned the largest single collection of modern European paintings in the world. He fought key legal battles that opened American culture to 20th century art movements, including his Congressional appeals to overturn the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.

He was part of the group who staged the Armory Show in 1913, the first great exhibition of European and American modern art in the United States, at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Quinn gave practical advice and financial assistance to Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. In gratitude, Eliot sent Quinn the original manuscript of his 1922 poem The Waste Land, including Pound's editorial suggestions.

Biography
Quinn was born in Tiffin, Ohio, one of seven children (only two of whom are known to have survived childhood) born to an Irish baker and grocer, James William Quinn, and his wife, Mary ( Quinlan). He grew up in nearby Fostoria, where his parents had relocated in 1871, a year after John's birth. His paternal grandparents, James, a blacksmith, and Mary (née Madigan) Quinn, natives of County Limerick, had settled in Tiffin in 1851.

After graduating from the University of Michigan and Georgetown University Law School, followed by a degree in international relations from Harvard University, Quinn became a successful New York lawyer, getting involved in New York’s Tammany Hall politics, but when his candidate did not get the nomination at the 1912 Democratic National Convention he became disgusted with the whole system and became an art patron, art collector, and collector of manuscripts.

By 1910, Quinn’s tastes in art had become more worldly. Naturalistic portraits and loosely painted landscapes by English and Irish artists were only the foundation of his collection. As the second decade of the 20th century began, his interests shifted across the English Channel to works by Manet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. He began to buy traditional paintings, drawings, sculpture, and decorative art from China and Japan. His French adviser for Post-Impressionist art was Henri-Pierre Roche, who later wrote the novel Jules et Jim. Quinn and Roche worked together to develop the famous 1913 Armory Show.

Quinn was a principal supporter and purchaser of manuscripts of novelist Joseph Conrad during his lifetime. He met Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1902 and became a major supporter, helping him found the Abbey Theatre. According to author Richard Spence, Quinn was a supporter of the Irish nationalist cause and associated with figures such as John Devoy and Roger Casement, although he had reportedly worked for British Intelligence services before, during, and after World War I. In this role he acted as case officer for, among others, Aleister Crowley, who was an agent provocateur posing as an Irish nationalist in order to infiltrate anti-British groups of Irish and Germans in the United States.

In the early 1920s Quinn represented Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap for their publication in The Little Review of serial portions of James Joyce's Ulysses, which the U.S. Post Office had found "obscene".

Quinn was a friend of American poet Ezra Pound. Quinn gave financial assistance to Pound and T.S. Eliot, and helped Eliot to negotiate contracts with U.S. publishers. In gratitude, Eliot sent Quinn the original manuscript of The Waste Land in 1923, containing editorial suggestions by Pound and Vivienne Eliot written on the drafts.

The Waste Land manuscript was presumed lost for many years. It was rediscovered in 1968 in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, which had purchased some of Quinn's manuscripts in 1958. Rediscovery of The Waste Land manuscript was announced in conjunction with the publication of Benjamin Lawrence Reid's biography, The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends in 1968.

Art promotion
In 1913, he convinced the United States Congress to overturn the 1909 Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act, which retained the duty on foreign works of art less than 20 years old, discouraging Americans from collecting modern European art. A huge and controversial event, the 1913 Armory Show (officially The International Exhibition of Modern Art) in New York City included examples of Symbolism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, and Cubism. Quinn opened the exhibition with the words:"... it was time the American people had an opportunity to see and judge for themselves concerning the work of the Europeans who are creating a new art."

In 1913 Quinn represented Margaret Kieley in a $2,000,000 legal contest over the Last Will and Testament of her husband Timothy J. Kieley's estate. Margaret prevailed because her husband's nephews and nieces could not produce vital witnesses and defaulted.

Estate sale
Quinn died at age 54 of intestinal cancer and was buried by his family in his native Fostoria.

Believing no American museum would appreciate his collection of modern art and wanting to provide for his sister, Julia Quinn Anderson, he wrote a will in 1918 directing that the collection be liquidated upon his death.

In 1927, an exhibition and sale of Quinn's art collection took place in New York City. The event included works by Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Robert Delaunay, Jacques Villon, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Gino Severini, Marie Laurencin, Constantin Brâncuși, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, in addition to American artists Arthur B. Davies, Walt Kuhn, Marsden Hartley, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, and Max Weber. The sale was conducted by Otto Bernet and Hiram H. Parke at the American Art Galleries. A catalog was published for the occasion by the American Art Association.

Works from Quinn's collection
 File:Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, c. 1887, oil on canvas, 15 ¾ by 13 ⅜ inches. Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut.jpg|Vincent van Gogh, 1887, Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 41 × 33.5 cm, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT File:Georges Seurat 047.jpg|Georges Seurat, 1888, Les Poseuses, ensemble, oil on canvas, 39.4 × 48.7 cm, Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art File:Die Frau mit der Puderquaste - Georges Seurat (Courtauld Institute of Art).jpg|Georges Seurat, 1889–90, Jeune femme se poudrant (La Poudreuse), oil on canvas, 94.2 × 79.5 cm, Courtauld Institute of Art, London File:Georges Seurat, 1891, Le Cirque (The Circus), oil on canvas, 185 x 152 cm, Musée d'Orsay.jpg|Georges Seurat, 1891, Le Cirque (The Circus), oil on canvas, 185 x 152 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris File:Henri Rousseau 010.jpg|Henri Rousseau, 1897, The Sleeping Gypsy, oil on canvas, 130 × 201 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York File:Initiation to Study-Two Young Ladies – Odilon Redon (Dallas Museum of Art).jpg|Odilon Redon, c.1905, Initiation study: two young ladies, oil on canvas, 93 x 65 cm, Dallas Museum of Art Matisse Souvenir de Biskra.jpg|Henri Matisse, 1907, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), oil on canvas, 92.1 x 140.3 cm, Baltimore Museum of Art. This painting created an international sensation at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City File:Henri Rousseau - Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo.jpg|Henri Rousseau, 1908, Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo (The Jungle), oil on canvas, 170 × 189.5 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art File:Robert Delaunay - Saint-Séverin - Google Art Project.jpg|Robert Delaunay, 1909, Saint-Séverin no.2, oil on canvas, 99.37 x 73.9 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Art File:Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1910, Torse de jeune homme (Torso of a young man), terracotta, Armory Show postcard, published 1913.jpg|Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1910–11, Torse de jeune homme (Torso of a young man), terracotta, 60.4 cm, Armory Show postcard, published 1913. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. File:Marcel Duchamp, 1910, Joueur d'échecs (The Chess Game), oil on canvas, 114 x 146.5 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg|Marcel Duchamp, 1910, Joueur d'échecs (The Chess Game), oil on canvas, 114 x 146.5 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art File:Pablo Picasso, 1910, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm, Joseph Pulitzer Collection.jpg|Pablo Picasso, 1910, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm, Joseph Pulitzer Collection File:Violin and Candlestick.jpg|Georges Braque, 1910, Violin and Candlestick, oil on canvas, 60.96 x 50.17 cm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art File:Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1911, Baudelaire, reproduced in Les Peintres Cubistes, 1913.jpg|Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1911, Baudelaire File:Metzinger cycle track.jpg|Jean Metzinger, 1912, At the Cycle-Race Track (Au Vélodrome), oil and sand on canvas, 130.4 x 97.1 cm, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice File:Jacques Villon, 1912, Girl at the Piano, oil on canvas, 129.2 x 96.4 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York...jpg|Jacques Villon, 1912, Girl at the Piano (Fillette au piano), oil on canvas, 129.2 x 96.4 cm, oval, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, New York, Chicago and Boston. Purchased from the Armory Show by John Quinn File:Juan Gris - Man in a Café.jpg|Juan Gris, 1912, Man in a Café, oil on canvas, 127.6 x 88.3 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Reproduced in The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations, by Guillaume Apollinaire File:Constantin Brancusi, Portrait of Mlle Pogany, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia..jpg|Constantin Brâncuși, 1912, Portrait of Mlle Pogany, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Armory Show postcard File:Constantine Brancusi, Une Muse, 1912, plaster, 45.7 cm (18 in.). Armory Show postcard.jpg|Constantin Brâncuși, 1912, Une Muse, plaster, 45.7 cm, Armory Show postcard. Exhibited: New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry (no. 618); The Art Institute of Chicago (no. 26) and Boston, Copley Hall (no. 8), International Exhibition of Modern Art, February–May 1913 File:Albert Gleizes, l'Homme au Balcon, 1912, oil on canvas, 195.6 x 114.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg|Albert Gleizes, 1912, l'Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud), oil on canvas, 195.6 x 114.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Completed the year Gleizes co-authored Du "Cubisme" with Metzinger. Exhibited at the Armory show, New York, Chicago, Boston, 1913 File:André Derain, 1912, Window on the Park (La Fênetre sur le parc), 130.8 x 89.5 cm (51.5 x 35.25 in), Museum of Modern Art, NY.jpg|André Derain, 1912, Window on the Park (La Fênetre sur le parc), 130.8 x 89.5 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York File:Jacques Villon, 1914, Portrait de M. J. B. peintre (Jacques Bon), oil on canvas, 121.92 x 81.28 cm, Columbus Museum of Art.jpg|Jacques Villon, 1914, Portrait de M. J. B. peintre (Jacques Bon), oil on canvas, 121.92 x 81.28 cm, Columbus Museum of Art File:Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1914, Femme assise, plaster, 65.5 cm (25.75 in), photograph by Duchamp-Villon.jpg|Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1914, Femme assise, plaster, 65.5 cm, photograph by Duchamp-Villon File:Albert Gleizes, 1914-15, Portrait of an Army Doctor (Portrait d'un médecin militaire), oil on canvas, 119.8 x 95.1 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.jpg|Albert Gleizes, 1914–15, Portrait of an Army Doctor (Portrait d'un médecin militaire), oil on canvas, 119.8 x 95.1 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum File:Albert Gleizes, 1915, Brooklyn Bridge, oil and gouache on canvas, 102 x 102 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.jpg|Albert Gleizes, 1915, Brooklyn Bridge (Pont de Brooklyn), oil and gouache on canvas, 102 x 102 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York File:Jean Metzinger, 1916, Femme au miroir (Femme à sa toilette, Lady at her Dressing Table), oil on canvas, 92.4 x 65.1 cm, private collection.jpg|Jean Metzinger, 1916, Femme au miroir (Femme à sa toilette, Lady at her Dressing Table), oil on canvas, 92.4 x 65.1 cm, private collection File:Rooster (Gallic Cock) by Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1916, Cleveland Museum of Art.JPG|Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1916, Rooster (Gallic Cock), painted bronze, Cleveland Museum of Art File:Pablo Picasso, 1918, Arlequin au violon (Harlequin with Violin), oil on canvas, 142 x 100.3 cm, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.jpeg|Pablo Picasso, 1918, Arlequin au violon (Harlequin with Violin), oil on canvas, 142 x 100.3 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art File:Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and Live Trees), oil on canvas, 49.4 x 65.4 cm, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokio.jpg|Pablo Picasso, 1919, Paysage (Landscape with Dead and Live Trees), oil on canvas, 49.4 x 65.4 cm, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo

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The Chieftains 4

The Chieftains 4 is an album by The Chieftains. It is the first album to feature Derek Bell on the harp. This album is where The Chieftains' modern sound began.

Track listing
All tracks traditional compositions; except where indicated
 * 1) "Drowsy Maggie" – 4:00
 * 2) "Morgan Magan" – 2:53
 * 3) "The Tip of the Whistle" – 2:57
 * 4) "Bucks of Oranmore" – 2:17
 * 5) "The Battle of Aughrim" – 7:36
 * 6) "The Morning Dew" (Paddy Moloney) – 3:34
 * 7) "Carrickfergus (or Do Bhi Bean Uasal)" – 2:49
 * 8) "Sláinte Bhreagh Hiulit (Hewlett)" – 2:34
 * 9) "Cherish The Ladies" – 2:29
 * 10) "Lord Mayo" – 2:44
 * 11) "Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland)" (Seán Ó Riada) – 3:33
 * 12) "O'Keefe's Slide /An Suisin Ban (The white blanket) / The Star Above The Garter / The Weaver's Slide" – 3:39

Personnel

 * The Chieftains
 * Paddy Moloney - uilleann pipes, tin whistle, arrangements, musical director
 * Martin Fay - fiddle, bones
 * Seán Potts - tin whistle
 * Seán Keane - fiddle
 * Peadar Mercier - bodhran, bones
 * Derek Bell - harp
 * Michael Tubridy - flute, concertina, tin whistle
 * Technical
 * Paul Tregurtha - recording
 * Edward Delaney - cover painting

Legacy
The arrival of Derek Bell on harp gave The Chieftains a distinctive delicate sound. The slow air "Mná na hÉireann" (Women of Ireland), composed by Seán Ó Riada, was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon. In 1996 Mike Oldfield recorded it on his album Voyager but credited it to "Traditional".

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Centaurea benedicta

Centaurea benedicta, known by the common names St. Benedict's thistle, blessed thistle, holy thistle, spotted thistle or blessed knapweed, is a thistle-like plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, from Portugal north to southern France and east to Iran. It is known in other parts of the world, including parts of North America, as an introduced species and often a noxious weed.

Growth
Centaurea benedicta is an annual plant growing to 60 cm tall, with leathery, hairy leaves up to 30 cm long and 8 cm broad, with small spines on the margins. The flowers are yellow, produced in a dense flowerhead (capitulum) 3–4 cm diameter, surrounded by numerous spiny basal bracts. Blessed thistle blooms mid summer to early fall.

All parts of the plant have a light down covering. This plant has a sprawling habit instead of standing upright. It needs full sun to grow and good soil drainage, as it will die in waterlogged soil. Water blessed thistle daily if you want your plant to produce lush leaves.

Seeds are too large to start in most seed trays, so it is recommended to sow outside after the danger of frost passes. Bury the seed 1/4 inch in the soil which should remain most until germination that takes between two and three weeks. Leave at least 12 to 15 inches of space between plants.

In literature
In Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, “Carduus Benedictus”, in tincture form, is recommended for a cold. The pointed allusion, by Margaret, is to Beatrice's tormentor-lover, Benedick.

Folk medicine
Blessed thistle is used in folk remedies as a galactagogue with other herbs to increase breast milk supply, although there is no scientific evidence that such use is effective. Although the leaves are unpalatable with a bitter taste, blessed thistle is used as a flavoring in alcoholic beverages, and is considered a safe ingredient for food uses. As a member of the ragweed family, blessed thistle may cause allergic reactions in susceptible people, and use of large amounts may cause stomach cramps, nausea and vomiting.

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Biphasic

Biphasic, meaning having two phases, may refer to:

 * Phase (matter), in the physical sciences, a biphasic system, e.g. one involving liquid water and steam
 * Biphasic sleep, a nap or siesta in addition to the usual sleep episode at night
 * Phase (pharmacology)
 * Biphasic disease
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What does this mean? — J I P | Talk 07:36, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorbs maintain a list of IP addresses that are open proxies, I.E. anyone can use them to connect to a web site. They are therefore vulnerable to abuse by persistent vandals. Rich Farmbrough 20:55 28  April 2006 (UTC).

Necessary to have the term in capital?
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Was Linux-VServer the first?
Regarding this change of Operating system-level virtualization that you have made — the first one was definitely chroot UNIX system call, then followed FreeBSD Jails, next came SWsoft's Virtuozzo (developed since 1999, first version released in 2001), then all the others. I do not disagree with you (alphabetical order is OK with me), it's just for you to know who done what when. Regards, K001 22:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC).

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Arbat District

Arbat District (район Арбат) is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population:

The district extends from central Mokhovaya Street west to Novoarbatsky Bridge over the Moskva River. Its irregular boundaries correspond roughly to Znamenka Street and Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane in the south and Povarskaya Street in the north. Main radial streets are Vozdvizhenka Street, New Arbat Street and pedestrian Arbat Street.

Economy

Aeroflot has its head office in the district.

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Huang Gongwang

Huang Gongwang (born 1269, Changshu, Jiangsu province, China—died 1354), birth name Lu Jian, was a Chinese painter, poet and writer born at the end of the Song dynasty in Changshu, Jiangsu. He was the oldest of the "Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty" (1206-1368).

Biography
At the age of 10, the Song dynasty fell to the Yuan dynasty and he, like many other Chinese scholars of the time, found his path to officialdom and a good career severely limited. "He was first an unranked ling-shih at a Surveillance Office in the Chiang-che Branch Secretariat (Province), probably engaged in some sort of land tax supervision. Later he served as a secretary in the metropolitan Censorate where he was unfortunately involved in the slander case of a minister, Chang Lu. He seems to have spent quite some time in jail before retreating into Taoism [as did many others of the age—another was the famous painter Ni Zan], completely disillusioned." He spent his last years in the Fu-ch'un mountains near Hangzhou devoting himself to Taoism. There, over a three-year period (1347–50), he completed one of his most famous, and arguably greatest, works, a long hand scroll Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.

In art he rejected the landscape conventions of his era's Academy, but is now regarded as an exemplification of the "literati painters", the wenrenhua ideal. Art historian James Cahill identified Huang Gongwang as the artist who "most decisively altered the course of landscape painting, creating models that would have a profound effect on landscapists of later centuries." One of Huang's strongest influences was his technique of using very dry brush strokes together with light ink washes (when colour is applied to a specific area using a soft-haired brush with wide strokes that blend them together into a unified wash) to build up his landscape paintings. He also wrote a treatise on landscape painting, Secrets of Landscape Painting (寫山水訣, Xiě Shānshuǐ Jué).

His landscape painting's style and tone stands at an intersection of ancient masters, namely, Juran and Dong Yuan of the Five Dynasties, the Four Wangs, Shen Zhou, Dong Qichang as well as others of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Poetry and Music
As was typical for Chinese scholar-officials of his era, he also wrote poetry and had some talent for music.

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1882 in architecture

The year 1882 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

 * March 19 – Construction work begins on the church of Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, to the design of Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano; it is scheduled for completion to the design of Antoni Gaudí in 2026.
 * September 30 – Dedication of Hearthstone House, in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, the first residential building to be powered by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system.
 * Construction work begins on the Catholic church of St John the Baptist, Norwich, England, to the design of George Gilbert Scott Jr., who converted to Catholicism two years earlier; it will be consecrated in 1910, and again as a cathedral in 1976.

Buildings opened

 * March 4 – Forth Bridge, Scotland opened.
 * June 29 – Russian Monument, Sofia, unveiled.
 * September 8 – St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore, India, designed by Rev. L. E. Kleiner, consecrated.
 * October – Conservative Club, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Robert Rowand Anderson.
 * October 10 – Selwyn College, Cambridge, England, designed by Arthur Blomfield.
 * December 25 – Hotel Roanoke, a luxury hotel in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway.

Buildings completed

 * Hotel Gaillard, Paris, designed by Jules Février.
 * Palmenhaus Schönbrunn (palm house) in Vienna.
 * Pro-Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul in Tunis.
 * Church of St Mary Magdalene, East Moors, Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England, completed by Temple Moore to a design by George Gilbert Scott Jr.
 * Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.
 * Normand Memorial Hall, Dysart, Scotland, designed by Robert Rowand Anderson.
 * A six-story architectural folly, Elephant Bazaar, later renamed as "Lucy the Elephant", constructed by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, United States.

Awards

 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Heinrich von Ferstel.

Births

 * January 2 – Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, prolific Nevada architect (died 1969)
 * January 3 – David Adler, Jewish-American architect practising in Chicago (died 1949)
 * May 17 – Karl Burman, Estonian architect and painter (died 1965)
 * July 2 – Francis Conroy Sullivan, Canadian architect (died 1929)
 * July 25 – Wolff Schoemaker, Dutch Art Deco architect (died 1949)
 * October 12 – Leslie Wilkinson, Australian architect (died 1973)
 * December 12 – Edward Maufe, English architect (died 1974)

Deaths

 * June 29 – Joseph Hansom, English Gothic Revival architect (born 1803)
 * December 4 – Virginio Vespignani, Italian architect (born 1808)

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Godunov

Godunov (Годунов) is a Russian surname.

Godunov can refer to the following:

 * House of Godunov, Two Tsars of Russia and their kin:
 * Tsar Boris Fyodorovich Godunov a regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605
 * Tsar Fyodor Borisovich Godunov son of Tsar Boris Godunov, ruled less than a year as Feodor II after his father's death in 1605; murdered in June the same year
 * Xenia Borisovna Godunova (later the Nun Olga) daughter of Tsar Boris Godunov
 * Irina Feodorovna Godunova (later the Nun Alexandra) wife of Tsar Feodor I Ivanovich and sister of Tsar Boris Godunov
 * Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov, a Russian born mathematician who contributed to Finite volume method
 * Godunov's scheme, a mathematical method invented by the above
 * Aleksandr Borisovich Godunov was a Russian ballet dancer and actor
 * Petr Ivanovich Godunov a Siberian governor
 * Godunov map created by the above
 * Godunov (TV series) Russian television drama

title: Godunov


text: Category:Saudi Arabian diplomats

title: Category:Saudi Arabian diplomats


text: Category:Railway stations in the United States