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Robinson Rams

The Robinson Rams are the athletic teams of Robinson Secondary School of Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb southwest of Washington, D.C. The school's athletic program includes 18 VHSL 6A varsity sports which compete in the Concorde District of the Group 6A North Region, formerly the AAA Northern Region.

Football
The varsity football team plays at Coffey Stadium, and its helmet is currently similar to that of the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL. Given the team's popularity, long-time success, and sizable student body, the Rams regularly attract 1000 fans a game. Robinson has appeared in the state championship game of Virginia's largest football classification (AAA Division 6) four times (1988, 1997, 2001, 2004); winning twice (1997, 2001). Robinson has won the Northern Region title six times: 1977, 1988, 1992, 1997, 2001, and 2004, and the district title (Northern ('72–'92), then Patriot ('93–'04)) in 1977, 1979, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2009. Robinson was moved to the Concorde district in the fall of 2005.

In 2004, the Rams were undefeated through the regular season and three playoff games, but met another undefeated team, Landstown of Virginia Beach in the state finals in Richmond. Landstown won 47–20, and Robinson finished as state runner-up with a record of 13–1. Landstown featured stand out offensive and defensive player Percy Harvin who has since gone on to stardom at the University of Florida and with the Minnesota Vikings.

In 2005, the Rams went 9–1 during the regular season, but lost in the first round of the playoffs to new rival Westfield of Chantilly. In 2006, Robinson was 6–4, losing four very close games. In 2007, Robinson had an up and down 6–6 season, highlighted with a 41–14 win over Stone Bridge, the eventual 2007 AAA Division 5 state champions. The Rams made a return to the playoffs which started with a 17–14 upset over Chantilly, the 2006 AAA Division 6 Runner-up, in the first round. However, their season ended with a 30–28 loss to West Springfield in the semi-finals, when West Springfield made a field goal with only 15 seconds left in the game.

Robinson alumni who have played in the NFL include running back Chris Warren ('85) and offensive lineman Joel Patten ('76), a tight end in high school and college.

Head coaches
Scott Vossler was promoted to head coach in January 2014, and is the seventh varsity head coach at Robinson. He was preceded by Kurt Lindstrom, Ed Henry, Nick Hilgert, Mark Bendorf, Trey Taylor, and Dan Meier.
 * Robinson did not field a varsity team the first football season; it had two JV teams in 1971.
 * ^ Former principal Meier was the interim head coach for the 2013 season.

Ed Henry, Robinson's second head coach, arrived in 1975, following a 1–9 season in 1974. After a rebuilding year in 1975 with two wins, the 1976 team improved to 5–2–3 (.650), and an 8–2 regular season in 1977, with two playoff victories and district and regional titles to finish at 10–3 (.760). Henry was the first to take the team to the postseason, in 1977 (state semi-finals) and 1979. He was a head coach in Fairfax County for over 25 years (159–82–14, .650) and was inducted into the VHSL Hall of Fame in 1997. Before coming to Robinson, he led a strong program at Marshall (44–17–1, .710) for six seasons (portrayed by Tom Nowicki in the 2000 film Remember the Titans). Before Marshall, Henry was the head coach at Annandale for 9 years (60–22–6, .710), and won a state championship in 1965. He departed Robinson after 8 seasons (43–35–5, .540) following the 1982 season to become an assistant coach at the University of Virginia.

Nick Hilgert and Mark Bendorf were former assistant coaches at Robinson, promoted from within. Hilgert, a former captain in the Marines (with two tours in Vietnam in the 1960s), was an assistant under Ed Henry for a decade at both Marshall and Robinson, initially coaching the defensive backs. He was at Robinson for a total of 21 seasons (1976–96), the final 14 years as head coach (101–52, .660). Nick Hilgert was the first head coach to take Robinson to the state finals in football (1988); he retired from teaching and coaching in the spring of 1997.

During Hilgert's tenure, Robinson produced its most famous player, running back Chris Warren (class of 1985). Warren played for the NFL Seattle Seahawks and Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s. He rushed for over 7600 yd in the NFL, including 4 consecutive seasons over 1000 yd while with the Seahawks (1992–95). Warren led the AFC in rushing in 1994 with 1545 yd in 333 attempts.

Mark Bendorf was a former head coach at Chantilly before joining the Robinson staff as defensive coordinator under Hilgert. Bendorf was the first coach to lead the school to a state title in football, which he did in his first season of 1997, with a perfect 14–0 record. In total, he has led the team to three state title games, winning twice (1997 & 2001) and runner-up (2004) once. Coach Bendorf also helped produce running back Mike Imoh (class of 2002), who went on to star for Virginia Tech (2002–05). Robinson's regular season records under Bendorf were impressive, specifically from 1999 to 2005, when the Rams lost only four regular season games in seven seasons. Bendorf is a 1974 graduate of Marshall High School, where he played under head coach Ed Henry, with Nick Hilgert on staff.

In his first ten seasons (1997–2006) as head coach of the Rams, Bendorf went 86–13 (.869) in the regular season (which included a 5–5 season in 1998 and 6–4 record in 2006), and was 14–6 (.700) in the postseason for an overall record of 100–19 (.840). Bendorf retired as head coach at age 55 following the 2010 season, in which the Rams went 9–3 and advanced to the regional finals (a one-point loss to Lake Braddock). His overall record in fourteen seasons was 130–35 (.788), the most wins and highest winning percentage in school history.

Bendorf was succeeded in March 2011 by Trey Taylor, 38, the head coach for five seasons (2006–10) at nearby W.T. Woodson. Taylor led the Cavaliers to a 31–23 record and to the post-season in 2008 and 2009. His 2009 Woodson team was 9–1 in the regular season and advanced to the regional finals. His first season resulted in a 4–6 regular season and a playoff berth. The 2012 Rams were 5–5 in the regular season and again made the playoffs.

Taylor was dismissed in November 2012, replaced in April by interim coach Dan Meier, recently the school's principal. The Rams were 7–3 in the regular season and won their first playoff game in 2013. Meier stepped down after the season and was succeeded by his defensive coordinator and associate head coach, Scott Vossler.

Wrestling
Since the opening of Robinson in 1971, the wrestling team has excelled. The team has won 29 district titles, 21 Regional titles and 9 state titles. Their State titles came in 1980, 1981, 1985, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2021 and 2022. The team was also state runner-up in 1974, 1975, 1984, 1987, 2010, 2012, 2017 and 2018.

Individually, as of 2022, athletes in the program have earned 221 district titles, 128 Regional titles and 32 wrestlers have earned 47 state titles. 192 athletes have earned all-state honors.

Many Robinson wrestlers have earned All-American status while in high school and many others have gone on to college and competed at the NCAA, NAIA or JUCO levels with success including one NCAA all-American (John Epperly Jr.) a JUCO all-american (Mark Terrill) and a NAIA all-american (Jack Bass).

Robinson has had three head coaches in the 50 years of the school. More detailed information about wrestlers, teams and coaches can be found at https://robinsonrams.com/sites/robinsonrams.com/files/files/Private_User/bthazard/WRESTLING%20CHAMPIONS%202021.pdf

Track and field
Alumnus Robert Muzzio ('82) represented the United States in the decathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The men's Indoor Track & Field team won the District Title in 2009 while the Outdoor Track & Field team won district and regional team titles in 2006.

Cross country
In addition to the state champion teams listed above, the teams also won regional championships in 1981, 1991, 1992, 2000, and 2002, and district titles in 1972, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1990, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008 and 2010.

Swim and dive
The men's team has won seven consecutive state championships from 2003 to 2009 and has been one of the dominant swim teams in the state of Virginia. The women's team has also done exceptionally well, winning multiple district titles as well as achieving high rankings in the northern region and winning the 2009 state championship. The head coach during the first 3 years of State Champion success, and several years before this was Tracey Blaine Phillips, who is currently Robinson's principal. After Ms. Blaine (Philips) left for Hayfield, Rich Gordon was appointed head coach. Gordon resigned from the position after the 2008 season. The Robinson Swim and Dive Coach for the 2009 season was Tom Koucheravy, who led the boys and girls to state titles. Tom resigned after the 2009 season. The new coach is Clayton Joiner, assisted by Kevin Nolan. In 2010, the girls won the state title and the boys, despite having lost numerous All-Mets, managed fourth place at states.

The swim and dive team has had multiple All-Met and All-Met honorable mention swimmers and divers as well as numerous automatic All-Americans.

Tennis
The Robinson Rams boys' tennis team has been the dominant team in Virginia's Northern Region for an extended time. The Rams have won district titles in 14 of the last 15 years, and have won more than 15 total. The tennis team has amassed more than 8 regional titles, and in 2006 was the state champion (the first from the Northern Region since 1994 and the first in school history). It repeated this feat in 2007 and 2008, winning the boys' triple crown three years in a row by taking the state singles, doubles, and team titles. The tennis team has had a winning percentage of over .800 in its last 10 seasons. In February, 2007, the coach of both the Boys' and Girls' Team, Paul Fisher, was awarded the title National High School Tennis Coach of the Year by the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR).

Lacrosse
In 2006 the Virginia High School League (VHSL), the sanctioning body for Virginia public high school athletics, recognized lacrosse as an interscholastic sport and established an official state championship tournament. From the 1970s through the 2004–2005 school year, lacrosse was played as a club sport by Virginia public high schools. From 1991 through 2005, the winner of the unofficial Northern Region tournament (Fairfax County, ☆Arlington County, and the City of Alexandria public schools) was also recognized as the unofficial Virginia state champion even though other public high schools, primarily in the Charlottesville and Richmond areas, also played club lacrosse. Robinson won the unofficial Virginia state championship in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2002. Robinson also won the first two official VHSL sanctioned state championships in 2006 and 2007, and then again in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Robinson won Region titles in 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2019; and district titles in 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Since obtaining varsity status in 1991 the Robinson boys' team has a team record of 334 wins, 91 losses and 1 tie.

The history of Lacrosse at Robinson dates to 1978 when Paul St. Germaine started the Robinson Lacrosse Club. The club team played in a league which included teams from Lake Braddock HS, St. Stevens HS, Bishop Ireton HS, the Braddock Road Boys' Club and numerous teams from the Maryland suburbs. From 1982 to at least 1985 the club sport had both varsity and J.V. teams that competed in the Washington Area Lacrosse League against public and private schools, and some club teams, from Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

The current head coach of the Robinson boys' varsity team is Matt Curran; a 1991 Robinson graduate, and 1990–91 Robinson co-Athlete of the Year (football, lacrosse); who played Division I lacrosse at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Matt was an assistant coach with the boys' varsity team from 2006 through the 2010 season.

Soccer
Robinson Varsity Boys' Soccer won the 2009 AAA Concorde District and the AAA Northern Region title. Beat Centreville High School 1–0 in District Final and Westfield High School 3–0 in Regional Final. They also won the AAA Region title in 2000.

During the 2009–10 season, the boys' varsity soccer team had a 12-game shut-out streak.

During the 2014–15 season, the boys' varsity soccer team defeated Oakton in a shoot out to claim the Conference 5 Championship with the winning penalty scored by William Zarco.

Baseball
Under head coach Bob Menefee, the Rams won the state baseball championship in 1980, and were runners-up in 1978, undefeated until a 2–1 loss in the state final at Parker Field in Richmond to hometown J.R. Tucker. The '78 Rams finished at 24–1 and had eight players that competed at the Division I level; five went on to play in the minor leagues. Robinson was a state finalist again in 2003, under head coach Bill Evers.

Alumni Shawn Camp ('94) and Javier López ('95) were relief pitchers in the major leagues.

Head coaches

 * 2006 Media Guide – Robinson Rams baseball – include team rosters (1972–2006)

Softball
The Robinson Rams softball team plays their home games at Barry Gorodnick field. The Rams have won 8 district titles (1974, 1978, 1986, 1987, 1995, 2004, 2008, and 2015), 3 regional titles (1985, 1986, and 2007), and one state title in 1986. The head coach of the 1986 team was Cindy Waddell (90–27 overall record), whose team went 23–3 and defeated Green Run HS in the AAA state championship game by a final score of 3–0.

Barry Gorodnick, a Robinson graduate and former defensive coordinator on the Rams football team, led the Robinson softball program for 22 seasons. During his time as the head coach, Gorodnick owned a 323–184 overall record and guided the Rams to one AAA Region title in 2007. Gorodnick was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in December 2010, but was able to maintain his ability to coach his program until the 2012 season. Mitch Hughes took over during the 2012 season while Gorodnick was receiving treatment. Gorodnick passed away from the disease in May 2012 at the age of 47.

Hughes maintained the position as the Rams softball coach until the 2016 season. He guided the Rams to its most recent district title in 2015, and advanced to the regional semi-finals that same season. The current head coach for the Rams is Kevin Crenshaw, who served as an assistant under Hughes for the past two seasons.

Campus facilities

 * Coffey Stadium – (synthetic turf installed in 2012)
 * Field Hockey
 * Football
 * Lacrosse
 * Soccer
 * Track & Field – (track renovated in 2011)
 * Smith Field House
 * Basketball
 * Cheerleading
 * Gymnastics
 * Indoor Track
 * Volleyball
 * Wrestling
 * Robert M. Menefee Stadium
 * Baseball
 * Barry Gorodnick Softball Field
 * Softball
 * Parking Lot 3 Courts
 * Tennis

Off-campus facilities

 * Burke Lake Park
 * Cross Country
 * South Run Recreation Center
 * Swim and Dive

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Hockey roster work
Hey, thanks for your contributions with the Ducks/Pirates related hockey stuff. Don't spend too much time with the roster at Mighty Ducks of Anaheim because we're about to roll out a different format. The Ducks roster is waiting in an almost finished state at Talk:Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. Feel free to plug in any missing info. Basically, we're waiting for rosters to be finalized. As for the Pirates and the AHL: that's really great, but maintaining the dynamic rosters of the AHL is probably too much work than its worth. If your interested in hockey related stuff at wiki, I invite you to check out our project here: WikiProject Ice Hockey ccwaters 00:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/T.L.C. With The C.A.T.

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

T.L.C. With The C.A.T.
Rancid has not set T.L.C. With The C.A.T. as the official title for their new album due out next year. -- Mike Garcia | talk 00:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP is not a crystal ball or merge with Rancid if reputable source (e.g., formal announcement) can be cited for this info. Qaz  ( talk ) 08:09, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge if reputable source can be cited otherwise delete as unverifiable. - Mgm|(talk) 08:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom CLW 12:26, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I have researched for this name on Google and it's not found anywhere, so "T.L.C. With The C.A.T." can't be the official title of Rancid's new album (if that means deleting the article). If it has been confirmed before, then I must have missed it. -- Mike Garcia | talk 13:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom --Daniel Lotspeich 20:28, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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Protein Lizard
Apart from accidental juxtapositions, "Protein Lizard" registers two google hits. As someone who was involved in the NZ music industry during the 1990s, I've certainly never heard of them (and by way of comparison, my own extremely nn band from that time garners about 25 google hits). Grutness...  wha?  00:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN As per WP:MUSIC, Vainity.--inks T 01:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. utcursch | talk 07:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia seems to need another sister project for all the bands that fail WP:Music but who are dying to get into some reference! Qaz  ( talk ) 08:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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Murder of Martha Moxley

Martha Elizabeth Moxley (August 16, 1960 – October 30, 1975) was a 15-year-old American high school student from Greenwich, Connecticut, who was murdered in 1975. Moxley was last seen alive spending time at the home of the Skakel family, across the street from her home in Belle Haven. Michael Skakel, also aged 15 at the time, was convicted in 2002 of murdering Moxley and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In 2013, Skakel was granted a new trial by a Connecticut judge who ruled that his counsel had been inadequate, and he was released on $1.2 million bail. On December 30, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4–3 to reinstate Skakel's conviction. The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed itself on May 4, 2018, and ordered a new trial. On October 30, 2020, the 45th anniversary of Moxley's murder, the state of Connecticut announced it would not retry Skakel for Moxley's murder. The case attracted worldwide publicity, as Skakel is a nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Moxley murder
On the evening of October 30, 1975, Martha Moxley left with friends to participate in "mischief night", in which neighborhood youths would ring bells and pull pranks such as toilet papering houses. According to friends, Moxley began flirting with, and eventually kissed, Thomas Skakel, the older brother of Michael Skakel. Moxley was last seen "falling together behind the fence" with Thomas, near the pool in the Skakel backyard, at around 9:30 p.m.

The next day, Moxley's body was found beneath a tree in her family's backyard. Her pants and underwear were pulled down, but there was no evidence of sexual assault. Pieces of a broken six-iron golf club were found near the body. An autopsy indicated that she had been both bludgeoned and stabbed with the club, which was traced back to the Skakel residence.

Initial investigation
Thomas Skakel was the last person seen with Moxley on the night of the murder. He became the prime suspect, but his father forbade access to his school and mental health records. Kenneth Littleton, who had started working as a live-in tutor for the Skakel family only hours before the murder, also became a prime suspect. However, no one was charged, and the case languished for decades. In the meantime, several books were published about the murder, including Dominick Dunne's fictional account of the case, A Season in Purgatory (1993), Mark Fuhrman's nonfiction Murder in Greenwich (1998), and Timothy Dumas's nonfiction A Wealth of Evil (1999).

Over the years, both Thomas and Michael Skakel significantly changed their alibis for the night of Moxley's murder. Michael claimed that he had been window-peeping and masturbating in a tree beside the Moxley property from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Two former students from Élan School, a treatment center for troubled youths, testified they heard Michael confess to killing Moxley with a golf club. One of the former students, Gregory Coleman, testified that Michael was given special privileges and had bragged, "I'm going to get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy."

Investigation reopened
When William Kennedy Smith was tried (and acquitted) for rape in 1991, a rumor surfaced that he had been present at the Skakel house on the night of Moxley's death, with the clear insinuation that he might have been involved. Although this proved to be unfounded, it resulted in a new investigation of the then-cold case. The Sutton Associates, a private detective agency hired by Rushton Skakel in 1991, conducted its own investigation of the killing. The Sutton report, later leaked to the media, revealed that both Thomas and Michael altered their stories about their activities the night of the murder.

In 1993, author Dominick Dunne, father of murdered actress Dominique Dunne, published A Season in Purgatory, a fictional story closely resembling the Moxley case. Mark Fuhrman's 1998 book Murder in Greenwich named Michael Skakel as the murderer and pointed out numerous mistakes made during the original police investigation. Even in the years before the Dunne and Fuhrman books, Greenwich police detectives Steve Carroll and Frank Garr, as well as police reporter Leonard Levitt, had become convinced that Skakel was the killer.

Trial
In June 1998, a rarely invoked one-man grand jury was convened to review the evidence of the case. After an eighteen-month investigation, it was decided there was enough evidence to charge Michael Skakel with murder. On January 9, 2000, an arrest warrant was issued for an unnamed juvenile for Moxley's murder. Michael Skakel surrendered to authorities later that day. He was released shortly thereafter on $500,000 bail. On March 14, Skakel was arraigned for murder in a juvenile court, since he was 15 years old at the time of Moxley's murder. On January 31, 2001, a judge ruled that Skakel would be tried as an adult.

Skakel's trial began on May 7, 2002, in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was represented by attorney Michael Sherman. Skakel's alibi was that at the time of the murder he was at his cousin's house. During the trial, the jury heard part of a taped book proposal, which included Skakel speaking about masturbating in a tree on the night of the murder – possibly the same tree under which Moxley's body was found the next morning. In the book proposal, Skakel did not admit to committing the murder. Prosecutors took words from the book proposal and overlaid them on graphic images of Moxley's dead body in a computerized, multimedia presentation shown to jurors during closing arguments. In the audiotape, Skakel said that he was afraid he might have been seen the previous night "jerking off", and had panicked. Though the jury heard the whole tape, during the closing arguments the prosecutor did not play the portion of the audiotape in which Skakel had said "jerking off", giving the impression that he was confessing to the murder.

On June 7, 2002, Skakel was found guilty of murdering Moxley and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. He was assigned to the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, Connecticut.

The prosecutors' use of the multimedia presentation during closing arguments was included in Skakel's initial appeal. In their brief responding to that appeal, the prosecution argued:

"The state engaged in appropriate and effective advocacy by using trial exhibits to highlight certain evidence and inferences. ... Just as the state should not be deprived of its most valuable evidence unless there is a compelling reason to do so, the state should not be prohibited from making its best arguments. The state's use of audio and photographic exhibits during argument was a matter of effective advocacy. The state did not, as defendant claims, distort the evidence in any respect. By placing certain exhibits next to defendant's words, or by displaying two related exhibits simultaneously, the state was making explicit the inferences it was asking the jury to draw. This is the job of an advocate."

Michael Skakel
Michael Christopher Skakel (born September 19, 1960) is the fifth of seven children, born to Rushton Walter Skakel and Anne Reynolds. Rushton's sister Ethel is the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Skakel's grandfather George was the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, a coal company that was one of the largest and wealthiest privately held corporations in the United States.

The Skakel family lived in the affluent neighborhood of Belle Haven in Greenwich, Connecticut. After his mother's death from brain cancer in 1973, Skakel began abusing alcohol. He was a poor student and reportedly flunked out of a dozen schools. He also struggled for years with dyslexia, which went undiagnosed until he was aged 26. Skakel's cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., later wrote that he was a "small sensitive child – the runt of the litter with a harsh and occasionally violent alcoholic father who both ignored and abused him." According to neighbors and family friends, the Skakel children were given unlimited amounts of money and were largely unsupervised.

In 1978, Skakel was arrested for drunk driving in New York State. To avoid criminal charges, his family sent him to the Élan School in Poland, Maine, where he purportedly received treatment for alcoholism. He ran away from the school twice before leaving after two years. Skakel later attended Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts and earned a bachelor's degree in English. During the 1980s, he attended several drug rehabilitation facilities before finally becoming sober in his twenties. Skakel also pursued a career as a professional athlete; he competed on the international speed skiing circuit and tried out for the speed skiing demonstration team that appeared at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. In 1991, Skakel married professional golfer Margot Sheridan, with whom he has one child. Sheridan filed for divorce shortly after Skakel was arrested for Moxley's murder in January 2000. Their divorce was finalized in 2001.

Post-trial
In January 2003, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a controversial article in The Atlantic Monthly, entitled "A Miscarriage of Justice," insisting that Skakel's indictment "was triggered by an inflamed media and that an innocent man is now in prison." Kennedy argued there was more evidence suggesting that Kenneth Littleton, the Skakel family's live-in tutor, had killed Moxley. He also called Dominick Dunne the "driving force" behind Skakel's prosecution. In July 2016, Kennedy released a book defending Skakel titled Framed.

Appeals
Skakel continued to fight his conviction. In November 2003, he appealed to the Connecticut Supreme Court, arguing that the trial court erred because the case should have been heard in juvenile court rather than in Superior Court, that the statute of limitations had expired on the charges against him and that there was prosecutorial misconduct. On January 12, 2006, the Connecticut Supreme Court rejected Skakel's claims and affirmed his conviction. Subsequently, Skakel retained attorney and former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on behalf of Skakel before the U.S. Supreme Court on July 12, 2006. On November 13, 2006, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

In 2007, Skakel's new attorneys, Hope Seeley and Hubert Santos, filed petitions for a writ of habeas corpus and a motion for a new trial in the Connecticut trial court that had originally heard his case, based on a theory involving Gitano "Tony" Bryant, a cousin of Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant's and a former classmate of Skakel's at the private Brunswick School in Greenwich. In a videotaped August 2003 interview with Vito Colucci, a private investigator hired by Skakel, Bryant said that, on the night of Moxley's murder, one of his friends had wanted to rape her. Bryant said that he did not previously come forward because his mother had warned him that, as a black man, he would be framed for the unsolved murder. A two-week hearing in April 2007 allowed the presentation of this hearsay evidence, among other matters. In September 2007, Skakel's attorneys filed a petition, based in part on Bryant's claims, asking for a new trial. Prosecutors formally responded that Bryant may have made up the story to sell a play about the case.

The new Skakel defense team also hired a full-time investigative team to review existing and new information – particularly a book written about Élan School – in preparation for the hearing. They argued that no Élan residents who knew Skakel, other than Gregory Coleman, had ever spoken about Skakel's confession to anyone, including to the author of the book.

On October 25, 2007, a Superior Court judge denied the request for a new trial, saying that Bryant's testimony was not credible and that there was no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the original trial. Skakel's lawyer appealed this decision to the Connecticut Supreme Court. On March 26, 2009, a five-judge panel of the court heard arguments on this appeal. On April 12, 2010, the panel ruled 4–1 against Skakel's appeal.

Skakel then appealed based on charge of incompetence against Michael Sherman, his lead attorney at the trial. In an April 2013 hearing in Vernon, Connecticut, Skakel testified that Sherman, rather than focusing on Skakel's defense, instead had basked in celebrity. Skakel also claimed that Sherman was more interested in collecting fees to settle Sherman's own financial problems than in defending Skakel. Sherman testified in defense of his actions, while continuing to maintain his belief in Skakel's innocence in the Moxley case.

Parole hearings
Skakel had been imprisoned at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut. On January 24, 2012, Skakel and his attorneys argued for a sentence reduction, claiming that he should have been tried in juvenile court. On March 5, 2012, Skakel lost his bid for a sentence reduction.

Skakel's first parole hearing was held on October 24, 2012. Skakel was denied parole. He continued to deny any role in the killing. Skakel's next parole hearing was scheduled for October 2017.

2013
On October 23, 2013, Skakel was granted a new trial by Connecticut judge Thomas A. Bishop, who ruled that Michael Sherman failed to adequately represent Skakel when he was convicted in 2002. Prosecutors stated they would appeal the decision. John Moxley, the victim's brother, said that the ruling took his family by surprise and that the family hoped the state would win on appeal.

In his ruling, Bishop wrote that defense in such a case requires attention to detail, an energetic investigation and a coherent plan of defense, stating:
 * "Trial counsel's failures in each of these areas of representation were significant and, ultimately, fatal to a constitutionally adequate defense ... As a consequence of trial counsel's failures as stated, the state procured a judgment of conviction that lacks reliability."

On November 21, 2013, Skakel was released on a $1.2 million bond along with other conditions: he was to be monitored with a GPS device; could have no contact with Moxley's family; must periodically check in over the phone; and would not be allowed to leave the state of Connecticut unless granted permission, although he had since relocated to Westchester County, New York.

2016
In December 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated Skakel's murder conviction with a 4–3 majority decision, writing that his conviction was the result of "overwhelming" evidence presented by prosecutors and that his legal representation had been adequate.

2018
In January 2018, prosecutors asked the Connecticut Supreme Court to revoke Skakel's bail and to return him to prison to resume serving his sentence. However, on May 4, the Connecticut Supreme Court vacated Skakel's conviction and ordered a new trial. The court ruled that Sherman had "rendered ineffective assistance" when he failed to contact an alibi witness whose name had been provided by Skakel and that as a result, Skakel was deprived of a fair trial. State prosecutors in Stamford had the power to call for a new trial against Skakel.

2020
On October 30, 2020, chief state's attorney Richard Colangelo informed the Superior Court that Skakel would not be retried, because in Colangelo's judgment, the state would not be able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.

In popular culture
The case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries on February 16, 1996, season 8 episode 11.

The documentary TV series City Confidential covered the Martha Moxley murder in its episode titled Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?, originally aired on October 20, 1999.

In its 2003 premiere episode, "Look Again", the TV series Cold Case depicted a fictional version based on Moxley's murder.

The American Court TV (now TruTV) television series Mugshots featured the case in an episode titled "Michael Skakel - A Killing in Greenwich" which aired in 2003.

In 2014, Connecticut-born rapper Apathy released a song titled "Martha Moxley (Rest in Peace)" featuring a sample from George Michael's "Careless Whisper". The song repeatedly, but subtly, references the event, referring to Moxley and Skakel by name.

In September 2017, the rights to Kennedy's book Framed were optioned by FX Productions to develop a multi-part television series.

In June 2019, Oxygen premiered a three-part documentary titled Murder and Justice: The Case of Martha Moxley, hosted by legal analyst and former prosecutor Laura Coates.

On August 10, 2020, Crime Junkie released a podcast on the murder of Martha Moxley.

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"We have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see..." - George Berkeley

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Odeum Expo Center

The Odeum Expo Center was a convention center located in Villa Park, Illinois. It featured 20106 sqft of exhibit space at the North Hall and 21632 sqft of exhibit space at the South Hall.

Both halls had pitched roofs as high as 50 ft. The South Hall was also used as an arena with an 85-by-194-foot artificial turf surface for indoor soccer or indoor football. It seated 2,500 for indoor soccer, football or lacrosse, and up to 5,500 for boxing, MMA/UFC, wrestling, and concerts. In addition, the Odeum Expo Center featured two mezzanines, the lower with 4340 sqft and the upper mezzanine with 13024 sqft and a roof up to 40 ft. There were also 9750 sqft of meeting space and a 2064 sqft lobby.

In 2010, the Odeum became the home to the Chicago Cardinals of the Continental Indoor Football League. Also in 2010 the Chicago Riot of the Major Indoor Soccer League began play at the Odeum Expo Center. In 2014, the Chicago Blitz professional indoor football team began play at the Odeum in the CIFL. They continued their home games through 2016 as a member of the AIF, until the league folded and team subsequently cancelled their remaining season games.

In January 2022, it was announced that the Odeum would be sold and permanently closed at the end of May 2022.

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Eugène Goossens, père

Eugène Goossens (25 February 1845 – 30 December 1906) was a Belgian conductor.

Biography
He was born in Bruges and studied music as a child at the Church of Our Lady, Bruges, then at the Bruges Conservatoire. At the age of fourteen, he was admitted to the conservatoire in Brussels, where he studied composition.

He conducted opera companies throughout Europe, moving to England in 1873. There he conducted for the company of Selina Dolaro under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1876. In May 1878, for Carte, he conducted The Sorcerer by Gilbert and Sullivan and also conducted H.M.S. Pinafore in July and August 1878, while Alfred Cellier was assisting Arthur Sullivan at the promenade concerts at Covent Garden. He also conducted a "special operatic performance" of H.M.S. Pinafore at The Crystal Palace on 6 July 1878.

Goossens became famous as a musical director of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, for whom he conducted the first English performance of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, in Liverpool in 1882. He became principal conductor of Carl Rosa in 1889. He conducted Rosa's company in a command performance, in November 1892, of The Daughter of the Regiment for Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle.

He was the father of the conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens and grandfather of the conductor and composer Sir Eugene Goossens, the harpists Marie and Sidonie Goossens and the oboist Léon Goossens.

In the early 1890s, he moved to Liverpool, where he founded the "Goossens Male-voice Choir," served as organist and choirmaster at St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church and taught singing. He died in Liverpool in 1906 at the age of 61.

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List of Cthulhu Mythos characters

The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos.

Overview:
 * Name. The name of the character appears first.
 * Birth/Death. The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name. Ambivalent dates are denoted by a question mark.
 * Description. A brief description of the character follows next.

Alhazred, Abdul
(655?–738)

The infamous "mad Arab" credited as the author of Al-Azif (the Necronomicon). He is first mentioned in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City". See Abdul Alhazred.

Akeley, George Goodenough
The son of Henry Wentworth Akeley. See "The Whisperer in Darkness".

Akeley, Henry Wentworth
(c. 1871–??)

Vermont folklorist and correspondent of Albert Wilmarth who becomes involved with the Fungi from Yuggoth. See "The Whisperer in Darkness".

Allen, Zadok
(c. 1831–1926?)

One of the few completely human residents of Innsmouth. Despite very advanced age, he apparently does not die a natural death, but is dealt with in the uproar set off by the narrator. See "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".

Angell, George Gammell
(1857–November 23, 1926)

A Professor Emeritus of Semitic languages at Brown University who researches the worldwide Cthulhu cult. See "The Call of Cthulhu".

Armitage, Dr. Henry
(1855–1939/1946?)

Chief librarian at Miskatonic University who confronted the Dunwich Horror. See "The Dunwich Horror".

Ashley, Professor Ferdinand C.
Professor of ancient history at Miskatonic University, mentioned in "The Shadow Out of Time".

Atal
Resident of Ulthar in the Dreamlands. See "The Other Gods".

Atwood, Professor
( ?? – 1930–31)

Professor of physics at Miskatonic University who accompanied Professor William Dyer on the disastrous Pabodie Expedition to Antarctica in 1930–31 chronicled in At the Mountains of Madness in which he dies with Professor Lake.

Barzai (the Wise)
Barzai is high-priest of the Gods of Earth (the Great Ones) in Ulthar and one-time teacher of Atal. See "The Other Gods".

Billington, Alijah
Alijah Billington is the heir to Richard Billington's estate in the early 19th century. See The Lurker at the Threshold.

Blake, Robert Harrison
A fictional horror writer. See Robert Harrison Blake.

Blayne, Horvath
(c. 1925–1948)

A character from August Derleth's 1952 story "The Black Island". Upon being given the Elder Sign by Shrewsbury, he feels an unpleasant sensation from it, and soon realizes that he has Deep One ancestry.

Bowen, Enoch
Bowen is a renowned occultist and archaeologist who lived in Providence, Rhode Island. See "The Haunter of the Dark".

Bran Mak Morn
(?–c. 210)

In the fiction of Robert E. Howard, the last king of the Picts. See Bran Mak Morn.

Carter, Randolph
(1873–1928?)

Boston author, occultist, and legendary "dreamer". See Randolph Carter.

Castaigne, Hildred
A New York City resident who after a head injury becomes obsessed with the play The King in Yellow, even producing a translation. He is institutionalized at an asylum for the criminally insane after he tries to kill his brother's fiancée.

Castro
An aged sailor and Cthulhu cultist. See "The Call of Cthulhu".

Chalmers, Halpin
(1891–July 3, 1928)

Mystic, esteemed writer of horror fiction, and the victim of a gruesome, unsolved murder. He was born in Partridgeville, New York and was a graduate of Miskatonic University, class of 1918. Later he became the Curator of Archaeology at the Manhattan Museum of Fine Arts in Brooklyn. After Chalmers' death, his fiction became hugely popular. His most famous work is The Secret Watcher (London's Charnel House Press). Posthumous publications about Chalmers include The Collected Letters of Halpin Chalmers and Halpin Chalmers: Voyager of Other and Many Dimensions, a biography by Fred Carstairs.

Chandraputra, Swami Sunand
Disguise of Randolph Carter.

Clarendon, Dr. Alfred
An American physician who had dreamed of conquering fever and ended up a murderous servant of inhuman powers.

Colum, Nayland
A London writer who vanishes from a ship bringing him home from Arabia. See The Trail of Cthulhu.

Copeland, Harold Hadley
(c. 1860–May 15, 1926)

A scholar who appears in the fiction of Lin Carter, starting with "The Dweller in the Tomb". See Xothic legend cycle.

Corsi, Bartolomeo
A 12th century Florentine monk and body-swapped victim of the Great Race of Yith.

Crom-Ya
(15,000 BC)

Cimmerian chief, worshipper of Tsathoggua, and body-swapped victim of the Great Race.

Crow, Titus
(1916–1968?)

Crow is the protagonist of a series of Mythos stories written by Brian Lumley, first appearing in 1970's "Billy's Oak". He is a British occult researcher and psychic dedicated to combating the Cthulhu Cycle Deities. See Titus Crow.

Crucian, Robert
(1972-????)

Introduced by writer Jason Bengston, a former military police officer, and part-time librarian. See Robert Crucian.

Curwen, Joseph
(1663–1771)

In Lovecraft's novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Curwen is a necromancer who comes back to corporeal existence through his descendant Charles Dexter Ward.

Danforth
Graduate student at Miskatonic University who accompanies the ill-fated Pabodie Expedition to Antarctica. See At the Mountains of Madness.

Davenport, Eli
Vermont folklorist who recounts the legend of a race of strange beings that dwelt beneath the Vermont hills. See "The Whisperer in Darkness".

Davies, Chandler
(?–May ? 1962)

In the writings of Brian Lumley, a renowned British artist and friend of Titus Crow. His macabre paintings are legendary; foremost is his piece Stars and Faces. After his mistress burned his latest work, G'harne Landscape, he went mad with rage and was confined to Woodholme Sanitorium, where he died shortly thereafter.

De la Poer, Thomas
(c. 1855–?)The last of the De la Poer family, who, after rebuilding the infamous Exham Priory (the hated seat of his ancestors), moving in and exploring its cellars, went mad and died in Hanwell Asylum. See The Rats in the Walls.

De Marigny, Étienne-Laurent
New Orleans occultist.

De Marigny, Henri-Laurent
(1923–)

Son of Étienne-Laurent de Marigny and New Orleans mystic. In the 1930s, his father sent him to England, where he became the inseparable colleague of Titus Crow.

Derby, Edward Pickman
(1890–1933)

Poet and husband of Asenath Waite. See "The Thing on the Doorstep".

d'Erlette, Comte
Title of a French aristocrat and the fictional author of Cultes des Goules, inspired by the ancestral form of Mythos author August Derleth's name. The fictional writer is first mentioned in Robert Bloch's 1935 story "The Suicide in the Study", which calls his book "ghastly". Lovecraft uses the name in two 1935 stories, "The Shadow Out of Time" and "Haunter of the Dark", the latter of which calls d'Erlette's work "infamous". Derleth himself refers to d'Erlette in "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders" (1950) and "The Black Island" (1952).

Eddy C. Bertin's 1976 "Darkness, My Name Is", presenting the Comte's given name as Francois-Honore Balfour, describes Cultes des Goules as "rather disappointing because its author had possessed more fantasy than knowledge about the hideous things he was writing about."

Dewart, Ambrose
A reclusive descendant of Alijah Billington and scholar in Arkham. See The Lurker at the Threshold.

Dexter, (Doctor) Ambrose
Ambrose Dexter removed the Shining Trapezohedron and a group of dangerous grimoires from the Church of Starry Wisdom after the death of Robert Blake; when trying to get rid of the stone was possessed by the Haunter, and became a human puppet for Nyarlathotep to live within as a nuclear scientist. See "The Haunter of the Dark".

Du Nord, Gespard
Wizard in 13th century Averoigne. He is believed to have translated the Greek version of the Book of Eibon into French c. 1240.

Dyer, William
(c. 1875–?)

Professor of geology at Miskatonic University and leader of the disastrous Pabodie Expedition to Antarctica in 1930–31. In 1935, he accompanied an expedition to Australia's Great Sandy Desert to search for the ruins of a primordial civilization.

E-poh
Wizened leader of the Tcho-Tcho people, possibly killed when Alaozar was destroyed by the Elder Gods. He was well over seven thousand years old and led the cult of Zhar and Lloigor.

Eibon
Renowned wizard of Hyperborea, author of the Book of Eibon, and worshiper of Tsathoggua.

Eldin the Wanderer
(?–1979)

Companion of David Hero on his adventures in the Dreamlands. In the waking world, he was Leonard Dingle, a professor of psychology and anthropology and dream researcher. After he died, he became a permanent resident of the Dreamlands and remains one of its greatest figures. He now serves at the pleasure of King Kuranes of Celephaïs.

Elton, Basil
(c. 1870–?)

Custodian of the North Point Lighthouse and traveler of the Dreamlands. He lost his dream-self during his quest for unknown Cathuria.

Exior K'Mool
Third most powerful wizard of Theem'hdra, after his master Mylakhrion and Teh Atht. Like his former master, he tried to attain immortality by making a bargain with the Great Old Ones. However, his home and the ruined city of Humquass were destroyed when Nyarlathotep arrived to deal with him in person.

Feery, Joachim
(?–1934)

Occultist and author of Notes on the Cthäat Aquadingen and Notes on the Necronomicon.

Also used as an alternate name by Robert M. Price.

Franklyn, Roland
(?–1967)

In the writings of Ramsey Campbell, the leader of a cult in Brichester, England in the mid-1960s. In January 1964, he published his cult's dogma in We Pass From View (True Light Press). Among the claims made in the book is that the deceased must be cremated in order for the soul to be reincarnated. Otherwise, the "burrowers of the core may drag off his body from the grave with him still in it to the feast of Eihort." The late Roland Franklyn himself, alas, was not cremated.

Geoffrey, Justin
An English poet who died in a lunatic asylum. Some years before, his already frail psyche had been warped by looking for too long at the Black Stone of legend near the village of Stregoicavar. He never witnessed the annual, nocturnal rite of 24 June. The narrator in "The Black Stone" mentions that if he had, he would have become insane much earlier. His poetry is used as prelude in The Thing on the Roof and his backstory was explored in the unfinished story, The House. Here it was revealed that Geoffrey came from a family of merchants with no interest in art or poetry. The fragment suggests that Justin's insanity began when, as a child, he went to sleep one summer night beside a long-abandoned, sinister-looking farmhouse. Afterwards, he developed an increasingly violent temper (in contrast to his family's well known friendliness and sociability) as well as the habit of sneaking out of the house late at night to go exploring. Justin left home at the age of 17, after reluctantly completing high school. The Thing on the Doorstep reveals that Geoffrey was a correspondent of Edward Derby and gives the year of his death as 1926. See "The Black Stone"

Gilman, Walter
(?–May 1, 1928)

See "The Dreams in the Witch House".

Gordon, Edgar Hengist
In Robert Bloch's [1936] short story "The Dark Demon", Gordon is a failed writer of horror fiction who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. His morbid writings (such as "Gargoyle", "The Principle of Evil", Night-Gaunt, and The Soul of Chaos) were said to drive away readers and publishers alike.

Grimlan, John
(March 10, 1630?–March 10, 1930)

Made a pact with Malik Tous, the Prince of Darkness, for 250 years of life.

Gustau, Thelred
(?–1972) Published Legends of the Olden Runes, based on translated documents written by Teh Atht, preserved in a golden box cast up by the eruption of Surtsey. Disappeared in a mysterious "explosion."

Hero, David
A Dreamer, in the Dreamlands. Once mortal, he died and was reborn in the Dreamlands.

Hoag, (Captain) Abner Exekiel
(1697–?)

A sea captain in the Lin Carter story "The Dweller in the Tomb".

Hutchinson, Edward
True name of Baron Ferenczy of Transylvania.

Ibn Schacabao
Wizard mentioned in the Necronomicon.

Johansen, Gustaf
(??–1925)

A Norwegian sailor who encounters Cthulhu. Unlike his companions, he manages to survive both physically and mentally, and returns home – only to be murdered most subtly by a member of the Cthulhu cult. "The Call of Cthulhu".

Klarkash-Ton
Atlantean high-priest credited with recording the "Commoriom myth-cycle" of ancient Hyperborea. (The name is Lovecraft's pun for his friend and correspondent Clark Ashton Smith.)

Keane, Abel
An assistant of Laban Shrewsbury who mysteriously disappeared. See The Trail of Cthulhu.

Kirowan, (Professor) John
See John Kirowan.

Kuranes
A king in the Dreamlands, originally a hobo in the waking world. See Kuranes.

Lake, Prof.
( ?? – 1930–31)

A professor of biology at Miskatonic University. Member of the Pabodie Antarctic expedition.

Lapham, Seneca
A professor of anthropology at Miskatonic University who investigated the death of Ambrose Dewart. See The Lurker at the Threshold.

Legrasse, John Raymond
In Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu", Legrasse is a New Orleans police inspector who investigated the Cthulhu cult. See "The Call of Cthulhu".

Lillibridge, Edwin M.
An inquisitive reporter for the Providence Telegram who disappears in 1893 – as it turns out, inside the Free-Will Church where the Church of Starry Wisdom sect holds its services. His remains are discovered by Robert Blake when he investigates the abandoned building. See The Haunter of the Dark

LLanfer, (Doctor) Cyrus
(?–c. 1950)

A chief librarian of Miskatonic University Library who first appears in August Derleth's "The Return of Hastur". After graduating from the university in 1902, he became the assistant director of the library and later took over Henry Armitage's post some time before 1936. He is noteworthy for compiling "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", a huge catalog of the arcane books kept in the Special Collections department.

Luveh-Keraphf
The mad high priest of Bast during Egypt's 13th Dynasty and writer of the Black Rites. The name is Robert Bloch's homage to Lovecraft.

Marsh, Obadiah
A sea captain and the founder of the Esoteric Order of Dagon in Innsmouth. See "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".

Mason, Keziah
See "The Dreams in the Witch House".

Misquamacus
See The Lurker at the Threshold.

Morgan, (Professor) Francis
Professor of Medicine and Comparative Anatomy (or Archaeology) at Miskatonic University who helped defeat the Dunwich Horror. See "The Dunwich Horror".

Mülder, (Doctor & Professor) Gottfried
(? – 1858?)

Scientist and travel-companion of von Junzt. Wrote the foreword to Unaussprechlichen Kulten as well as The Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the Ghorl Nigräl .

Mylakhrion
Most powerful wizard of Theem'hdra. He attained immortality by making a bargain with the Great Old One Cthulhu. He was killed by Cthulhu after attempting to renege on the agreement. Lived in Humquass and Tharamoon.

Nephren-Ka
The Black Pharaoh, an insane pharaoh who secured the Shining Trapezohedron for Egypt, but after being convinced by the resident Haunter of the Dark, he had a lightless temple created to hold the stone and the deity within. That temple became a center of abominable happenings, and the rites carried out there were so monstrous the temple was destroyed and the Pharaoh's name was struck from all records and monuments. The Pharaoh was controlled by the cruel god Nyarlathotep, of whom the Haunter of the Dark was likely an avatar.

Peaslee, Nathaniel Wingate
In Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time", a professor of Political Economy at Miskatonic University and one-time victim of the Great Race of Yith. See "The Shadow Out of Time". He was killed in the epilogue of The Transition of Titus Crow in the aftermath of Project X's unsuccessful attempt to kill Cthylla.

Phelan, Andrew
(c. 1910–1938?)

One-time assistant of Laban Shrewsbury. See The Trail of Cthulhu.

Philetas, Theodorus
(c. 950)

A fictional Greek scholar from Constantinople, Byzantine Empire. In 950AD, Philetas translated Al Hazred's Kitab Al Azif into Greek and gave it the title Necronomicon.

Phillips, Ward (1)
First president of the institution later known as Miskatonic University and one of the three instructors at the school. In 1693, he donated the first books to what would become Miskatonic's famed library.

Phillips, Ward (2)
Reverend of the Second Church (later First Baptist Church) of Arkham and author of Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-England Canaan. See The Lurker at the Threshold.

Phillips, Ward (3)
Aged writer of pulp fiction in Providence, Rhode Island and friend of Randolph Carter. (The character is based on Lovecraft, hence the name.)

Phillips, Winfield
(1907–1937)

Pickman, Richard Upton
(?–1926?)

Renowned Boston painter infamous for his ghoulish works. In 1926, he vanished from his home (though years later he resurfaced as a ghoul in the Dreamlands). See "Pickman's Model".

Pott, Johannes Henricus
(1692–1777)

German chemist, see Johann Heinrich Pott

Prinn, Abigail
(?–December 14, 1690)

In Henry Kuttner's "The Salem Horror", an alleged witch and self-proclaimed high priestess of Nyogtha in Salem, Massachusetts. She died mysteriously before the Salem witch trials began. Fearing she had cursed the town, superstitious colonists drove a stake through her heart before burying her. She may be a descendant of Ludwig Prinn.

She rose from the dead to summon Nyogtha and attack the protagonist of The Salem Horror.

Prinn, Ludwig
(?–1542)

Sorcerer and author of De Vermis Mysteriis.

Rice, (Professor) Warren
Professor of Classical Languages at Miskatonic University and a member of the famous trio that defeated the Dunwich Horror. See "The Dunwich Horror".

Schrach, Gerhard
Character in Hero of Dreams (Lumley)

Shrewsbury, Laban
(1864–1938?)

An anthropologist and professor of philosophy at Miskatonic University who disappeared for twenty years, only to be presumed killed in a house fire shortly after his reappearance. See The Trail of Cthulhu.

Silberhutte, Hank
A telepath from Texas with the ability to sense the minds of alien beings. In 1966, he joined the Wilmarth Foundation to help fight the Cthulhu Cycle Deities (the Great Old Ones). He is introduced in Brian Lumley's The Burrowers Beneath and reappears on his own in Spawn of the Winds and In the Moons of Borea as well as a guest-appearance in Elysia.

Sincaul, Cyprian
In Clark Ashton Smith's "The Hunters From Beyond" (1932), Sincaul is a renowned San Francisco sculptor with a reputation for producing morbid works. He also appears in Lin Carter's "Out of the Ages".

Smith, Japhet
An agent of the Cthulhu cult. See The Trail of Cthulhu.

Smith, Morgan
Occult scholar and author of the seminal Sign of the Skull.

Surama
Humanoid teacher and collaborator of Dr Clarendon. Surama was perhaps a serpent man.

Thurston, Francis Wayland
The grand-nephew of George Angell, who discovers the secret of the Cthulhu Cult while going through his late uncle's papers. See "The Call of Cthulhu".

Tuttle, Amos
(?–1937?)

Miskatonic Library benefactor, collector of the Tuttle Celaeno Fragments and the R'leyh Text.

T'yog
In "Out of the Aeons", ghostwritten by Lovecraft, T'yog is high priest of Shub-Niggurath and sorcerer in the province of K'naa in ancient Mu. He sought to challenge the power of Ghatanothoa by confronting the god in its lair on Yaddith-Gho. To protect himself from the god's medusa-like ability, he prepared a special scroll. T'yog was defeated when Ghatanothoa's priests replaced his scroll with a fake.

He also appears in Lin Carter's "The Thing in the Pit".

Typer, Alonzo Hasbrouch
(1855–1908)

Came to and disappeared in Chorazin, N.Y., and his diary was found in 1935. See The Diary of Alonzo Typer

Undercliffe, Errol
(c. 1937–1967?)

Enigmatic writer of horror fiction in Brichester, England. He disappeared in 1967 after looking into the death of Roland Franklyn. His stories appear in two collections: The Man Who Feared to Sleep and Photographed by Lightning. His correspondent Ramsey Campbell (whose story "The Stocking" Undercliffe dismissed as "elaborately pointless") paid tribute to him in Demons by Daylight, and noted that a Korean director, Harry Chang, was to film some of Undercliffe's stories under the title Red Dreams.

Upton, Daniel
(c. 1884–?)

Character in The Thing on the Doorstep. Father of Edward Derby Upton.

Von Junzt, Friedrich Wilhelm
The author of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten (Nameless Cults). See The Black Stone.

Waite, Asenath
(1905–1932)

In Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", she is the daughter and victim of Ephraim Waite. She is the only female student of Miskatonic University mentioned.

Waite, Ephraim
In Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", he is the father of Asenath Waite who later possessed her body.

Walmsley, Gordon (of Goole)
Author and expert in the science of ciphers

Ward, Charles Dexter
(1902–1928?)

See The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Warren, Harley
Occult friend of Randolph Carter and victim of unknown forces. See Harley Warren.

Webb, William Channing
An explorer and professor of Anthropology at Princeton University who encountered the Cthulhu Cult in Greenland. See "The Call of Cthulhu".

Wendy-Smith, Sir Amery
(?–1933)

Archaeologist, explorer, and author of the G'harne Fragments.

West, Herbert
Miskatonic University medical student who experimented with the reanimation of corpses. See "Herbert West-Reanimator".

Whateley, Lavinia
(c. 1878–October 31, 1926?)

Albino daughter of Noah Whateley. See "The Dunwich Horror".

Whateley, (Wizard) Noah
(?–August 1, 1924)

Backwoods farmer and reputed sorcerer. See "The Dunwich Horror".

Whateley, Wilbur
(February 2, 1913–August 3, 1928)

Son of Lavinia Whateley and Yog-Sothoth. See "The Dunwich Horror".

Wilmarth, Albert N.
Folklorist and assistant professor of English at Miskatonic University who investigated strange events in Vermont. See "The Whisperer in Darkness".

Wormius, Olaus
A man who prepared the Latin edition of the Necronomicon during the eleventh century. See Ole Worm.

Yakthoob
In Lin Carter's 1971 short story "The Doom of Yakthoob", the title character is a wizard who apprenticed the young Abdul Alhazred. He perishes horribly during an ill-fated summoning of a demon.

Zamacona Y Nuñez, Panfilio De
(c. 1512–?)

In the 1940 Zealia Bishop short story "The Mound", ghost-written by Lovecraft, Zamacona Y Nuñez is a Spanish conquistador who accompanied Coronado on an excursion into the New World. After Coronado turned back in 1541, Zamacona continued into what is now Oklahoma searching for a lost city of gold. Instead, he discovers the underground realm of K'n-yan., After living with the increasingly inhuman people of K'n-yan for a few years, he attempts escape, but is betrayed by a pack-beast. A second attempt ends horribly with him captured, and made into a mutilated zombie monster guarding the mound entrance referred to in the story's title.

Zanthu
Appears in "The Dweller in the Tomb", RF, "The Thing in the Pit", WF

Muvian sorcerer, author of the Zanthu Tablets.

Zarnak, (Doctor) Anton
Occult detective

Zon Mezzamalech
A wizard of Hyperborea, ancient even in Eibon's time, who sought through a mysterious cloudy crystal, the secrets guarded by the mindless Ubbo-Sathla, spawner of all earthly life. He and the crystal both disappear.

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Systemwars.com (second version)

I'll take this as a blatantly bad faith deletion. Please renominate if you wish to have a deletion debate and delete this new article written by me in good faith. --Tony Sidaway Talk 00:33, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The article was again speedied by the closer who again falsely claimed that the article, entirely the product of my own mind, was a recreation. I will not pursue the matter further on this occasion. My propensity to assume good faith has been severely tested, and I am rather disappointed.  This was pure bloodlust. --Tony Sidaway Talk  00:47, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


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Eugène Goossens, fils

Eugène Goossens (28 January 1867 – 31 July 1958) was a French-born conductor and violinist.

Career
Goossens was born in Bordeaux and studied in Bruges and the conservatoire in Brussels. He moved to England with his father, Eugène Goossens, père, in 1873, and after a period of service with the Carl Rosa Opera Company as violinist, répétiteur and deputy conductor under the direction of his father he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1891.

After conducting other opera companies including the Moody-Manners Company he rejoined the Carl Rosa company, serving from 1889 to 1915 as principal conductor. He conducted part of Sir Thomas Beecham's opera season at His Majesty's Theatre in 1917. In 1926 he joined the British National Opera Company as a conductor.

Goossens married a Carl Rosa singer, Annie Cook, who was the daughter of a well-known bass singer, T. Aynsley Cook. Their children were the composer and conductor Sir Eugene Goossens, the harpists Marie Goossens (1894–1991) and Sidonie Goossens (1899–2004), the horn player Adolphe Goossens (1896–1916) and the oboist Léon Goossens (1897–1988).

Pristine Audio is in the process of issuing a series of the complete recordings. Volume 1 was released in 2022 and Volume 2 in 2023.

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Piano Sonata No. 17 (Beethoven)

The Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, was composed in 1801–02 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The British music scholar Donald Francis Tovey says in A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas: "'With all the tragic power of its first movement the D minor Sonata is, like Prospero, almost as far beyond tragedy as it is beyond mere foul weather. It will do you no harm to think of Miranda at bars 31–38 of the slow movement... but people who want to identify Ariel and Caliban and the castaways, good and villainous, may as well confine their attention to the exploits of Scarlet Pimpernel when the Eroica or the C minor Symphony is being played.'"

Structure
The piece consists of three movements and takes approximately twenty-five minutes to perform: 1. Largo – Allegro

2. Adagio (B♭ major)

3. Allegretto Each of the movements is in sonata form, although the second lacks a substantial development section.

First movement

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The first movement alternates brief moments of seeming peacefulness with extensive passages of turmoil, after some time expanding into a haunting "storm" in which the peacefulness is lost. This musical form is unusual among Beethoven sonatas to that date. Concerning the time period and style, it was thought of as an odd thing to write (a pianist's skills were demonstrated in many ways, and showing changes in tone, technique and tempo efficiently many times in one movement was one of them). The development begins with rolled, long chords, quickly ending to the tremolo theme of the exposition. There is a long recitative section at the beginning of this movement's recapitulation (foreshadowing the oboe recitative in the first movement of Symphony No. 5), again ending with fast and suspenseful passages that resolve to the home key of D minor.

Second movement

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The second movement in B♭ major is slower and more dignified. The rising melodic ideas in the opening six measures are reminiscent of the first movement's recitative. Other ideas in this movement mirror the first; for instance, a figure in the eighth measure and parallel passages of the second movement are similar to a figure in measure 6 of the first. The symbolization which occurs at the beginning of the movement, recurs at both the subsequent turning points, the beginning of the development and that of the recapitulation.

Third movement

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The third movement is also in sonata form and is back in the home key of D minor. It is at first flowing with emotion and then reaching a climax, before moving into an extended development section which mainly focuses on the opening figure of the movement, reaching a climax at measures 169–173. The recapitulation, which is preceded by an extensive cadenza-like passage of sixteenth notes for the right hand, is followed by another transition and then another statement of the primary theme. The refrain undergoes phrase expansion to build tension for the climax of the movement at measure 381, a fortissimo falling chromatic scale.

Historical context
In the spring of 1802, Beethoven followed the advice of his physician, Johann Adam Schmidt, and left Vienna for rural Heiligenstadt. Once there, he fell into despair over his deteriorating hearing and wrote the famous Testament of 6 and 10 October. He likely kept himself busy studying various musical and literary writings. In April, he turned his business affairs over to his younger brother, Carl. Carl managed the business aspects in the most beneficial way possible, even when it wasn’t as ethical. According to Ferdinand Ries, the two argued frequently, but Ludwig forgave him repeatedly between 1802 and 1806. These events likely influenced this piece of music. The subtitle “Tempest,” may also have occurred due to extensive similarities between Beetoven’s relationship with his brother Carl and that between Prospero and Antonio.

Controversy over the name Tempest
The Piano Sonata No. 17 is usually referred to as The Tempest (or Der Sturm in his native German), but the sonata was not given this title by Beethoven, or indeed referred to as such during his lifetime. The name comes from a reference to a personal conversation with Beethoven by his associate Anton Schindler in which Schindler reports that Beethoven suggested, in passing response to his question about interpreting it and Op. 57, the Appassionata sonata, that he should read Shakespeare's Tempest.

Some, however, have suggested that Beethoven might have instead been referring to the works of C. C. Sturm, the preacher and author best known for his Reflections on the Works of God in Nature, a copy of which he owned and, indeed, had heavily annotated. Although much of Schindler's information is distrusted by classical music scholars, this is a first-hand account, unlike other scholarly reports.

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1926 Yugoslav Football Championship

The 1926 National Championship (Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1926 / Државно првенство 1926) was a football competition held within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The two dominant teams of pre-World War II Yugoslav football, Jugoslavija and Građanski, began laying the foundations of the next seven decades of a deeply rooted rivalry between Zagreb and Belgrade. Both teams dominated the competition with comfortable margins, but were quite evenly matched in the finals.

Quarter finals

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Semi finals

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Final

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Winning squad
Champions:

GRAĐANSKI ZAGREB (coach: Imre Poszony)
 * Maksimilijan Mihalčić
 * Franz Mantler
 * Miho Remec
 * Miroslav Arnold
 * Rudolf Rupec
 * Dragutin Vragović
 * Géza Ábrahám
 * Rudolf Hitrec
 * Emil Perška
 * Franjo Giler
 * Luka Vidnjević

Top scorers
Final goalscoring position, number of goals, player/players and club.
 * 1 - 8 goals - Dušan Petković (Jugoslavija)
 * 2 - 6 goals - Franjo Giler (Građanski Zagreb)
 * 3 - 5 goals - Dragan Jovanović (Jugoslavija)

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Fila (disambiguation)

Fila is a South Korean clothing and consumer good manufacturer founded by Ettore and Giansevero Fila in Italy.

Fila or FILA may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

 * F.I.L.A. (company), an international supplier of art materials and related products
 * Fédération Internationale des Luttes Associées (International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles), the former name of United World Wrestling

People

 * Fila Fuamatu, Samoan powerlifter
 * Rudolf Fila (1932–2015), Slovak painter and author
 * Toma Fila, Serbian lawyer and politician

Places

 * Fila, an island of Vanuatu
 * Fila, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran

Other

 * Fila (hat), a traditional Yoruba cap
 * Fila Brazillia, an English electronica duo
 * Fila Brasileiro or Brazilian Mastiff, a large working breed of dog developed in Brazil
 * Fly International Luxurious Art, a 2015 album by American rapper Raekwon

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LRM

LRM may refer to:

 * Land Reform Museum, a museum in Taipei, Taiwan
 * La République En Marche!, a French centrist political party
 * La Romana International Airport (IATA code), in the Dominican Republic
 * Learning relationship management, a family of learning management software
 * Left-to-right mark, a Unicode bidirectional formatting character
 * LR&M Constructions, an Australian civil engineering and construction company
 * IFLA Library Reference Model, a conceptual entity–relationship model

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Meng and Ecker

Meng and Ecker was a British underground comic written by David Britton and illustrated by Kris Guidio. It was published in 1989 by the controversial Manchester-based company Savoy and lasted for nine issues before being banned in 1992 under obscenity laws.

Concept
The characters Meng and Ecker were inspired by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Authorities pulped thousands of copies of Meng & Ecker after finding the book "obscene and likely to corrupt." In finding the comic obscene, the judge said, "This comic could be read - and possibly gloated over - by people who enjoyed viciousness and violence. It had pictures that would be repulsive to right-thinking people."

Meng and Ecker also appeared in three controversial prose novels written by Britton: Lord Horror (1990), Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz (1996), and Baptised in the Blood of Millions (2001). The first novel, Lord Horror, was the first book to be banned in the United Kingdom since Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned in 1968.

The name 'Meng & Ecker' is a homage to a Manchester Tearooms, which operated near St Ann's Square for most of the twentieth century.

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