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Erwin König

Erwin König was reported to have been a German Wehrmacht sniper killed by the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad. Due to the lack of any Nazi records proving the existence of König and his achievements there is some doubt as to whether he existed at all or was an invention of Soviet propaganda.

König is mentioned both in Zaitsev's memoirs Notes of a Sniper (a "Major Konings", potentially SS) and William Craig's 1973 non-fiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. According to Zaitsev, his duel with König took place over a period of three days in the ruins of Stalingrad. In a post-war visit to Berlin, Zaitsev was allegedly confronted by a woman who told him that she was König's daughter, with Soviet authorities quickly evacuating Zaitsev to avoid any confrontation.

In popular culture
A fictionalized account of the duel in the film Enemy at the Gates portrays Erwin König—played by Ed Harris—as the head of the Wehrmacht Sniper School. He is sent to Stalingrad to take on the increasingly aggressive Soviet snipers. Initially he is successful, killing four of Zaytsev's partners, but eventually he is outwitted by the Russian, portrayed by Jude Law.

König appears in the 1999 novel War of the Rats by David L. Robbins in which he is an SS Colonel named Heinz Thorvald.

Ramón Rosanas wrote a comic about the conflict between Zaytsev and König.

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David Shields

David Shields is an American author who has published twenty-four books, including Reality Hunger (which, in 2019, Lit Hub named one of the most important books of the past decade), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (a New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award), and Other People: Takes & Mistakes (NYTBR Editors’ Choice). The Very Last Interview was published by New York Review Books in 2022.

The film adaptation of I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017. Shields wrote, produced, and directed Lynch: A History, a 2019 documentary about Marshawn Lynch's use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance. A new film, How We Got Here, which argues that Melville plus Nietzsche divided by the square root of (Allan) Bloom times Žižek (squared) equals Bannon, is forthcoming in January 2024, as is a companion volume of the same name.

The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the PEN/Revson Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, Shields—a senior contributing editor of the literary journal Conjunctions—has published fiction and nonfiction in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, Yale Review, Salon, Slate, Tin House, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Believer, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best American Essays.

His work has been translated into two dozen languages.

Early life
Shields was born in Los Angeles in 1956 to a lower-middle-class Jewish family. He has an older sister, a half-brother, and a half-sister. Both of Shields's parents were journalists. His mother, the West Coast correspondent for the Nation for many years, was a political activist; his father worked as a speechwriter for progressive politicians. In 1962, the family moved to San Francisco, where Shields's parents were deeply involved in the local anti-war and civil rights community, frequently opening up their home to those in need of short- or long-term shelter.

In 1978, Shields graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Brown University, with a Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, in British and American Literature. In 1980, he received a Master of Fine Arts, with Honors in Fiction, from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Career
Shields's debut novel, Heroes, about a Midwestern sportswriter's fascination with a college basketball player, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1984. From 1985 to 1988, he was a visiting assistant professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. In 1989, Knopf published Shields's second novel, Dead Languages, a semi-autobiographical novel about a boy growing up with a severe stutter. Dead Languages is a work of fiction, but it incorporates significantly larger shards of reality than Shields's first book, marking the initial phase of Shields's transition toward nonfiction, which would ultimately lead him to employ the literary collage and ‘anti-novel’ forms for which he is most well-known.

In 1992, his novel-in-stories, Handbook for Drowning, was published by Knopf. In 1996, Shields became a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College low-residency MFA Program for Writers, a position he still holds. That same year, his fourth book, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, Shields's first work of literary collage, was published by Knopf.

Between 1997 and 2009, Shields published five books: Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (Random House, 1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA award; Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro (TNI Books, 2001), which achieved bestseller status in Japan; Enough About You: Notes toward the New Autobiography (Simon & Schuster, 2002); Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine (Simon & Schuster, 2004); and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008), a New York Times bestseller. In 2001, Shields became a visiting instructor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and has taught there ever since.

In 2010, Shields's tenth book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, was published by Knopf. In Vanity Fair, Elissa Schappell called Reality Hunger an “arousing call to arms for all artists to reject the laws governing appropriation, obliterate the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, and give rise to a new modern form for a new century.” Reality Hunger was recently named one of the 100 most important books of the 2010s by LitHub. In 2011, Norton published The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, an anthology Shields co-edited with Brad Morrow. In 2012, New Harvest published Jeff, One Lonely Guy, a collage co-written by Shields, Jeff Ragsdale, and Michael Logan. Later that year, an anthology co-edited by Shields and Matthew Vollmer, Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, was published by Norton. In 2013, Knopf published How Literature Saved My Life, a blend of confessional criticism and cultural autobiography. Also in 2013, Simon & Schuster published Salinger, an “oral biography” of J.D. Salinger by Shields and Shane Salerno. Salinger was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

In 2015, Hawthorne Books published Life Is Short — Art is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity, which Shields co-edited with Elizabeth Cooperman. In 2015, Shields also published That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as told to David Shields (McSweeney's); I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, co-written with Caleb Powell; and War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict (powerHouse) a deconstruction of that newspaper's front-page war photography.

Other People: Takes & Mistakes was published by Knopf in 2017. That same year, First Pond Entertainment released the film adaptation of I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, written by Shields and Powell, starring Shields and Powell and James Franco, and directed by Franco. The trio debate the value of life versus art; art wins, barely. The film is available now on Vudu. In 2018, Shields's book Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention was published by Thought Catalog Books.

In 2019, The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power was published by Mad Creek Books. Later the same year, Shields's debut documentary, Lynch: A History, an ode to Marshawn Lynch’s use of silence, echo, and mimicry as key tools of resistance, premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival. The film, which Shields wrote, produced, and directed, was named one of the five best films at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam and has won numerous awards, including the Golden SunBreak Award for Best Documentary and the End of Cinema Award for Best Nonfiction Film. The film is now available on Sundance TV, AMC, First Look Media, Amazon Prime, and iTunes/AppleTV.

Critical reception
Shields's early fiction was noted for its use of neorealism. In 1989, writing in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Lance Olsen included Shields as part of the “Next Generation of Fiction.” With the 1996 publication of Remote, which A.O. Scott described in Newsday as “one of the definitive texts of the 1990s—a trim, elegant nonfiction answer to Infinite Jest,” Shields began to build his reputation as a pioneer of collage.

Reality Hunger was highly controversial when it was published in 2010. In The New York Times Book Review, Lucy Sante wrote that the book “urgently and succinctly addresses matters that have been in the air, have relentlessly gathered momentum, and have just been waiting for someone to link them together... [Shields's] book probably heralds what will be the dominant modes in years and decades to come.” Reality Hunger has, in fact, proven extremely influential on 21st century nonfiction, “autofiction,” and documentary film. However, in the New Yorker, James Wood called the book “highly problematic” in its “unexamined promotion of what [Shields] insists on calling ‘reality’ over narrative,” although Wood did acknowledge that Shields's “arguments about the tediousness and terminality of current fictional convention are well-taken.”

In the decade since Reality Hunger, Shields has published a dozen books, many of which are collaborative and nearly all of which attempt to embody the ars poetica theorized in Reality Hunger. The first of these collaborations, Salinger, a 2013 oral biography that subtly defied the conventions of nonfiction through its piecing together of an abundance of primary material, was praised by John Walsh in the Sunday Times (London) as “a stupendous work. . . I predict with the utmost confidence that, after this, the world will not need another Salinger biography.” Shields continued to transform and remix genre in War Is Beautiful, which Heather Baysa in the Village Voice called a “disturbingly graphic book [that] follows the New York Times 's war reporting for more than a decade, exposing the institution's tendency to glamorize armed combat to the point of manipulation."

I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, a collaboration between Shields and Caleb Powell, was praised for its erasure of the boundary between mask and self, a frequent theme in Shields's work. In the Atlantic, Leslie Jamison wrote that the book's “goal isn't sympathy or forgiveness. Life is not personal. Life is evidence. It's fodder for argument. To put the ‘I’ to work this way invites a different intimacy—not voyeuristic communion but collaborative inquiry, author and reader facing the same questions from inside their inevitably messy lives.”

Lynch: A History, whose montage approach builds off of the collage style of Shields's books, marks the next major shift in Shields's career: documentary film. In the New Yorker, Hua Hsu wrote, “Lynch feels like the culmination of Shields's career. The film's relentless rhythm overwhelms and overpowers you. Random acts of terror, across time and space, reveal themselves as a pattern. It's a gradient of American carnage.”

Books

 * The Very Last Interview, New York Review Books, 2022
 * The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power, Mad Creek Books, 2019
 * Nobody Hates Trump More than Trump: An Intervention, Thought Catalog, 2018
 * Other People: Takes & Mistakes, Knopf, 2017
 * War is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, powerHouse Books, 2015
 * That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews, as told to David Shields, McSweeney's, 2015
 * Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity, co-edited with Elizabeth Cooperman, Hawthorne Books, 2015
 * I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, co-written with Caleb Powell, Knopf, 2015
 * Salinger, co-written with Shane Salerno, Simon & Schuster, 2013
 * How Literature Saved My Life, Knopf, 2013
 * Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, co-edited with Matthew Vollmer, W.W. Norton, 2012
 * Jeff: One Lonely Guy, co-written with Jeff Ragsdale and Michael Logan, New Harvest, 2012
 * The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, co-edited with Bradford Morrow, W.W. Norton, 2011
 * Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, Knopf, 2010
 * The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, Knopf, 2008
 * Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine, Simon & Schuster, 2004
 * Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, 2002
 * Baseball Is Just Baseball" The Understated Ichiro, TNI Books, 2001
 * Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, Crown, 1999
 * Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, Knopf, 1996
 * Handbook for Drowning: A Novel in Stories, Knopf 1992
 * Dead Languages: A Novel, Knopf 1989
 * Heroes: A Novel, Simon & Schuster, 1984

Awards

 * Lynch: A History won the Golden SunBreak Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival, 2019
 * Lynch: A History was a finalist for Filmspotting's Golden Brick award for Best Low-Budget Indie Film of 2019, 2019
 * Reality Hunger (2010) named one of the 100 decade-defining books, LitHub, 2019
 * Royalty Research Fund Fellowships, The University of Washington, 2016, 2008, 2002, 1997, 1989
 * Pabst Endowed Chair, Atlantic Center for the Arts, February/March 2015
 * Frye Art Museum/Artist Trust Consortium James W. Ray Distinguishes Artist Award, 2015
 * One of Amazon's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year: I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel (2015)
 * Goodreads Choice Awards, finalist for best History/Biography, Salinger, 2013
 * Artist Trust Innovative Arts Award, 2013
 * &Now Awards: Best Innovative Writing, 2013
 * Best American Non-Required Reading, 2012
 * Reality Hunger: A Manifesto named as one of the best American essays of 2008 and one of the "Essayest American Essays" by Quotidiana
 * 4 Culture Award, 2008
 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, 2005–2006
 * Simpson Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Washington, 2005-2006
 * Body Politic named as one of the best 25 books of the year by the Seattle Times, 2004
 * Artist Trust Fellowships for Literature, 2003, 1991
 * Silver Medal, Canadian National Magazine Award, for contribution to "Fifteen Ways of Looking at Vince Carter" in Saturday Night magazine, 2001
 * Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, for Black Planet, 2000
 * Finalist, PEN USA Award, for Black Planet, 2000
 * Black Planet named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year by Esquire, Newsday, LA Weekly, and Amazon, 2000
 * First prize, Web del Sol creative Non-Quiction Contest, 1999
 * Distinguished Author's Award, Brandeis University National Women's Committee, 1994
 * Seattle Arts Commission Fellowship, 1992
 * King County Arts Commission Independent Artist New Works Award, 1992
 * PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship, 1992
 * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Fiction, 1991, 1982
 * Residency fellowships: Corporation of Yaddo (3), MacDowell Colony (2), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (3), Ragdale Foundation (2), Millay Colony (Edna St. Vincent Millay Award), Cummington Community of the Arts, Centrum—1982-1991
 * Washington State Book Award for Dead Languages, 1990
 * Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards, for Dead Languages, 1989
 * Short story "Audrey" chosen as one of the "Ten Best" stories in the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and included with two others in a program of short fiction presented at The Library of Congress, 1989
 * PEN Syndicated Fiction winter, 1988 1985
 * New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1988
 * Ingram Merill Foundation award, 1983
 * James D. Phelan Literary Award, San Francisco Foundation, 1981
 * Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, 1980-1982

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Jacques Camou

Jacques Camou (1 May 1792 – 8 February 1868) was a French general in the armies of Emperor Napoleon III.

Biography
Born at Sarrance in the département Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Camou began his military career on 6 September 1808, as a sergeant in the mountain infantry. With the troops of Napoleon I, he served in the Peninsular War and in Italy.

His military career was interrupted when the French armies were dissolved in 1815, but in 1817, he served again as a lieutenant. He participated in 1823 in the French expedition to Spain.

In 1830 he was sent to Algeria, where he would rise to the rank of brigadier general in 1848. Four years later, he was promoted to the rank of major general and made commander of the division of Algiers.

Subsequently, Camou commanded the 2nd Infantry Division of the Imperial Guard in the Crimean War—where he participated in the Siege of Sevastopol and in the Battle of Chernaya River in 1855—and in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859.

In 1857, he was awarded the Grand cordon of the Légion d'honneur, and on 30 December 1863, he was made a senator.

Legacy
In Paris, the rue du Général Camou is named in honour of Jacques Camou. Until 1967, the street was called just rue Camou.

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Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film)

Why Do Fools Fall in Love is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Gregory Nava. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the true story of Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers for one year. Moreover, the film highlights the three women in his life, each of whom claim to have married Lymon and lay claim to his estate.

Written by Tina Andrews, Why Do Fools Fall in Love stars Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, and Larenz Tate, who portrays Lymon. Little Richard also appears in the film as himself.

"I Want You Back", one of the singles from the soundtrack, by Melanie Brown featuring Missy Elliott, peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart.

Plot
Lymon was age 13 when the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and appeared in the movie Rock, Rock, Rock (1956).

After Mr. Rock and Roll (1957), Lymon started a solo singing career, but it all fell apart. Lymon's career was over by the time he was age 18, and he died of a heroin overdose seven years later.

Jumping from the 1950s to the 1960s, the film traces the rise and fall of Lymon (Larenz Tate) in a series of flashbacks as courtroom claims on Lymon's royalties are outlined by three women: Zola Taylor (Halle Berry) of the R&B group The Platters; Elizabeth Waters (Vivica A. Fox), a petty thief from Philadelphia; and schoolteacher Emira Eagle (Lela Rochon). Ending credits show the real Frankie Lymon singing his song "Goody Goody".

Little Richard also makes a courtroom appearance, and Miguel A. Nunez Jr. portrays Little Richard in scenes set in the 1950s.

The film ends with Emira's winning Frankie's estate.

Cast

 * Halle Berry as Zola Taylor
 * Vivica A. Fox as Elizabeth "Mickey" Waters
 * Lela Rochon as Emira Eagle
 * Larenz Tate as Frankie Lymon
 * Paul Mazursky as Morris Levy
 * Pamela Reed as Judge Lambrey
 * Alexis Cruz as Herman Santiago
 * Jon Huertas as Joe Negroni
 * David Barry Gray as Peter Markowitz
 * Miguel A. Nunez Jr. as Young Little Richard

 * Clifton Powell as Lawrence Roberts
 * Lane Smith as Ezra Grahme
 * Ben Vereen as Richard Barrett
 * Paula Jai Parker as Paula King
 * Marcello Thedford as Drug Dealer
 * Norris Young as Jimmy
 * Little Richard as himself
 * Aries Spears as Redd Foxx
 * J. August Richards as Sherman
 * Shirley Caesar as minister/singer at funeral

Background
The screenplay of the film, written by actress-turned-screenwriter Tina Andrews, took 15 years to be produced. Director Gregory Nava used most of the technical staff from his prior film Selena.

Filming locations
Filming locations include Jacksonville, Florida; Los Angeles; and Starke, Florida.

Distribution
The film was first presented at the Urbanworld Film Festival on August 8, 1998. The film opened in wide release on August 28, 1998 (1,369 theaters), and sales on the opening weekend were $3,946,382. Why Do Fools Fall in Love ran for eight weeks and eventually grossed $12,506,676 in the United States. At its widest release, the film was shown in 1,377 screens.

Critical response
Roger Ebert was disappointed in the screenplay and ultimately Nava's direction of the film, and wrote "There are several angles this material might have been approached from, and director Gregory Nava tries several without hitting on one that works. By the end of the film, we're not even left with anyone to root for; we realize with a little astonishment, waiting for the court verdict, that we don't care who wins."

Film critic Peter Stack liked the film and believes director Nava smartly juggles a lot of elements in the picture. He wrote "Why Do Fools Fall in Love is a fresh, enlightening example of how to take a tragic American show-business story and make it funny, warm and terrifically entertaining...[it] brims with joyful spirit and raucous comedy...[and the film] deftly juggles a surprising number of elements, but they all work."

Accolades
Wins
 * ALMA Award: Outstanding Latino Director of a Feature Film, Gregory Nava, 1999
 * American Black Film Festival: Black Film Award; Best Actor, Larenz Tate, 1999

Nominations
 * ALMA Awards: Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role, Miguel A. Núñez Jr.; Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Feature Film, Alexis Cruz, 1999
 * American Black Film Festival: Black Film Award; Best Screenplay, Tina Andrews; Best Soundtrack, 1999

Soundtrack
Two soundtrack albums were released for Why Do Fools Fall in Love by Warner Music Group. Why Do Fools Fall in Love: Original Versions from the Movie, released on September 8, 1998 by Rhino Records, contained fourteen songs, including five of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' original recordings. Also included are original hits by Little Richard, The Platters, The Shirelles, Otis Redding and others.

Why Do Fools Fall in Love: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture was released on the same day as Original Versions from the Movie, but on Warner's East West Records label in conjunction with Elektra Records and The Goldmind Inc. Save for one vintage Little Richard song, it features new hip-hop and contemporary R&B recordings practically unrelated to the actual film (one track, Gina Thompson's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", interpolates the Teenagers' hit and is featured over the film's end credits). Produced by Missy Elliott aand Timbaland, the soundtrack album features songs by artists such as Elliott, Busta Rhymes, En Vogue, Destiny's Child, Coko of SWV, and Melanie Brown.

It peaked at 55 on the Billboard 200 and 15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and spawned the singles "I Want You Back" by Melanie Brown featuring Missy Elliott (which peaked at number-one on the UK Singles Chart), En Vogue's "No Fool No More" (which peaked at 57 on the Billboard Hot 100), and Destiny's Child's "Get on the Bus" (which peaked at 15 on the UK Singles Chart). Singer Lil' Mo also made her debut with the single and music video for "Five Minutes".

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Massimiliano Rosolino

Massimiliano "Massi" Rosolino (born 11 July 1978) is an Italian retired competitive swimmer.

Biography
Born in Naples to an Italian father, Salvatore, and an Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer: "I learned to float by sheer chance at the age of 4. Instead of the common arm floating bands, they made me swim with a headboard. Unfortunately it had a hole, and by the time I finally got out of the small and deep pool, the headboard had drowned... The first real swimming course I took was when I was 6 years old, and after that, lesson by lesson, I got to the pre-competition level. I always had a hard life, even though I was physically well-built, I always had to fight to become number 1, and even though I won a lot of races, I remember every race with emotion: the first regional championships, the national ones, the Young Europeans, and of course all the stomach aches I had."

In 2002 he moved back to Australia to train with coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club.

Rosolino represented Italy in all of the four editions of the Olympic Games since 1996. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he became the second Olympic champion ever in the history of Italian swimming as he won the gold medal in the 200 m individual medley (1:58.98, then Olympic and national record). He won two more medals: a silver medal in the 400 m freestyle setting the current European record (3:43.40) behind Ian Thorpe, and a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle (1:46.65) behind Pieter van den Hoogenband and Ian Thorpe. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Rosolino won a bronze medal with the Italian team in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.

Rosolino is the most successful athlete in the history of Italian swimming, with an overall count of 60 international medals. He became world champion in the 200 m individual medley at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka. He also won 3 silver medals and a bronze medal through 5 editions of the World Long Course Championships. He won a gold medal (4×200 m freestyle relay), 2 silver medals and 7 bronze medals at the World Short Course Championships; since 1995 he won 21 medals at the European LC Championships and 20 medals at the European Short Course Swimming Championships, becoming European champion 14 times (7 long course, 7 short course).

Personal bests
Rosolino's personal bests are:

 * 100 m freestyle LC: 49.35 r (2007; World Championships in Melbourne).
 * 200 m freestyle LC: 1:46.60 sf (2000, Italian record; Olympic Games in Sydney).
 * 400 m freestyle LC: 3:43.40 (2000, European record; Olympic Games in Sydney).
 * 800 m freestyle LC: 7:50.40 (2005).
 * 1500 m freestyle LC: 15:09.28 (2001).
 * 50 m breaststroke LC: 29.29 (2004).
 * 100 m breaststroke LC: 1:03.81 (2003).
 * 200 m individual medley LC: 1:58.98 (2000; Olympic Games in Sydney).
 * 400 m individual medley LC: 4:17.30 (2003; World Championships in Barcelona).

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Over three years and 4,500 edits later I think my work is done except for local pages. I joined when Wikipedia was still fairly underground (yes, only three years ago), when copies of Wikipedia (eg. answers.com) ranked higher in Google. Over time the vandalism has increased, respect for fellow Wikipedians has decreased and there have been Wikipedia-wide campaigns against units and images. In my opinion it has been hijacked by "social climbers". I first saw these on Internet Relay Chat where the objective is to become friendly the channel "op", and recieve a promotion to the priveleged status of op. In Wikipedia the objective is to recieve barnstars and/or promotion to administrator status. One way to get points is to "address the problem" of fair use images uploaded by people such as myself.

My "split" with Wikipedia is that consider intellectual property a concept that limits freedom in the name of greediness. God knows what copyright pertaining to images on the web is all about. I understand the concept of writing a book and having ownership of that work in order to generate some income from it. But why do Wikipedia users want to delete say a screenshot of a television program? Does an "open-source" encyclopedia mean that people will be given pats on the back for deleting any image that remotely even looks like it doesn't comply with general "fair use" guidelines? Is copyright so important that an image on a wiki should be deleted within a week if it doesn't follow what a user considers to be a "valid fair use rationale"? What does Jimbo Wales, at the very top of the ladder, think?

An anti-freedom spirit has overtaken Wikipedia and I don't like it. It's all about limiting, constricting, deleting. And that's not what I joined wikipedia for. --Diceman (talk) 18:25, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Varina, Virginia

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 * ...that Varina Farms, the plantation of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, was site of the first successful cultivation of export tobacco in the Virginia Colony in 1612?

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Talk:Nursing theory

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"Theory is not meant to be an exact truth and/or reality: it is intended to be an approximation & a tool to see new possibilities." Chin & Kramer, p. 125

Perhaps we should consider nursing theory from a larger perspective? All too often nurses relate "theory" to "thoerists." I would like to see content relating to evidence based nursing and how theory guides practice. It might be a good idea to include some discussion on ways of "knowing." Try reading Chinn & Kramer's "Integrating Knowledge Development in Nursing." They offer a great perspective to nursing theory.

Chin, P.L., & Kramer, M.K. (2004). Integrating Knowldedge Development in Nursing, 6th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

" ...to boldly go, where no person has gone before." -StarTrek

I can't believe this is still a stub!. This topic has historically been a hotbed for flaming in the Nursing world. My plan is to flesh it out a bit, then recruit some grad students to tear into it. Hopefully, they will make something innovative and provocative.LeonardM 15:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Why rely on grad students? I'm a floor nurse with an interest in this area. My interest however is the controversy surrounding the perceived uselessness of nursing theory to actual practice. That's the area that I would want to flesh out. abulafia 10:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

The list of "Major nursing theorists" is definitely lacking, and (while it isn't said explicitly) you get the impression that nursing theories and nursing models are the same thing. J

"It cannot be denied, however, that there is much vanity involved in the formulation of nursing theory." Granted I agree, but this is hardly unbiased. I'm going to go ahead and delete it from the mainn entry, but I'd love to see some more discussion. Sarah Waggoner (talk) 20:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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GWR 2301 Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2301 Class or Dean Goods Class is a class of British 0-6-0 steam locomotives.

Swindon Works built 260 of these goods locomotives between 1883 and 1899 to a design of William Dean. The 2301 class broke with previous GWR tradition in having inside frames only and changes were made in the boiler design during the period that they were being built. The first twenty engines were originally domeless though all were provided with domed boilers in due course. They were numbered 2301–2360 and 2381–2580 (2361–2380 were of the 2361 class, which were similar visually but had outside frames).

Rebuild as 3901 class
In 1907, twenty Dean Goods (numbers 2491-2510) were rebuilt as 2-6-2T 'Prairie' tank locos, forming the new 3901 class numbers 3901-3920.

War Service
In 1917, 62 engines were taken over by the Railway Operating Division and sent to France. 46 of these engines returned to England in the early summer of 1919, but the other 16 had been sent on to Salonika at the beginning of 1918. Two of these engines, nos 2308 and 2542, were sold to the Ottoman railways and renumbered 110 and 111. No 111 was withdrawn in September 1929, but 110 lasted until the 1950s. Of the 14 engines remaining at Salonika, five were written-off and the other nine returned to England in April 1921.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, the War Department requisitioned 100 of these engines from the GWR and the GWR had to hastily reinstate some engines that had been recently withdrawn. The requisitioned engines were fitted with Westinghouse brakes and 10 were fitted with pannier tanks and condensing gear. All were painted black with their WD numbers painted on. In December 1940, the War Department requisitioned a further 8 engines. The War Department renumbered the locomotives 93 to 200.

At the time of the German invasion of France, 79 of these engines had been shipped to France. Some of the engines were destroyed in the retreat to Dunkirk whilst the remainder were used on the French railways by the German occupation forces. After the war, between 22 and 26 engines were sent to China under UNRRA auspices, and 30 were returned to the UK, but were deemed unfit for service and scrapped. No.2435 (WD no.188) was sent to France in 1940 and was used in Silesia and then in Austria between 1944 and 1948 when it was claimed by the Russians before being handed back to the Austrians in 1952. Two further engines, nos. 2419 and 2526 (WD nos. 106 and 132). One locomotive, no.2489 (WD no.142), was in eastern Germany at the end of the War and was taken into Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) stock as 53 7607; it was withdrawn in 1955. The remaining engines are assumed to have been scrapped.

Of the engines that remained in England, most of them worked at War Department and Ordnance depots around the country, though in 1943, 6 were shipped to Tunisia and thence to Italy.

Some locomotives of the class have the unusual distinction of being shipped overseas in both World Wars. 32 of the 108 locomotives requisitioned during the Second World War had been previously requisitioned during the First World War, and of those 32, 24 were again sent overseas.

British Railways
Fifty-four locomotives passed to British Railways in 1948, mostly being used on Welsh branch lines due to their light axle loads. They were progressively replaced by new BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 engines, and no 2538 was the last to be withdrawn in May 1957.

Preservation
One locomotive, no. 2516 (built 1897), has survived into preservation. 2516 is currently a static exhibit at Swindon Steam Railway Museum, with the tender displayed far behind; visitors consequently have a clear view into the driving cab (see pictures).

Models
Three companies have released models of the Dean Goods class:

Oxford Rail in 2017 in Great Western (no 2475 & 2534), RoD Khaki (no 2308) and British Railways Black (no 2409) liveries.

Mainline Model Railways made a Dean Goods class in GWR Green (no 2516) and BR black (no 2538) in 1983.

Hornby Model Railways have released R2064/A/B/C (nos 2468, 2322, 2526, 2579), R2210 (no 2579) and R2275/A (nos 2322 & 2538)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daily Source Code Show Notes Wiki

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

The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 09:45, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Daily Source Code Show Notes Wiki
wikipedia is not a free hosting service  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   15:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * If you read the post it is not a hosting as the wiki is hosted at http://dailysourcecode.secretelite.com/Main_Page the intention here is to make a distinction of this ite from the daily source code site. I intend to place more details here but it will never be a hosting service as the hosting service at dailysourcecode.secretlite.com is well supported. I intend the posting to become more of a descriptiono f the site in the same manner as the Daily Source Code wiki entry describes dailysourcecode.com as a growing phenomena Ian Stanley 15:51, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete per nom. — ceejayoz ★ 15:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * delete WP:NOT a webdirectory. The site doesn't even work. — brighterorange  (talk) 15:50, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom --Rogerd 07:03, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Would say merge to Daily Source Code, but there's nothing to merge.  --Mysidia (talk) 08:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aramaic Latin Alphabet

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

The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 09:46, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Aramaic Latin Alphabet
To the non-specialist this article might look like it has substance: it doesn't. The article does not cite sources and does not claim which Aramaic language this alphabet might be used for (see Aramaic language for the diverse history of the language). The fact is that the system as laid out does not make sense in itself, and it looks like the work of someone who knows a little of the language, but has not studied it properly. Thus, it is original research. The authors, Sargonious and 12.15.7.70, have previously contributed nonsense about Aramaic to Wikipedia. I also note that the article Aramaic Latin alphabet, to which a user moved this article at an early stage, also exists. It seems that the authors didn't realise where it had gone! Gareth Hughes 15:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I disagree with this being put up for deletion on the basis that none of you are Aramaic speakers to argue about what I am.
 * Delete per nomination. — Gareth Hughes 15:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment There appears to be a bit of an edit war going on. As far as I can see, Sargonious's edits are very recent and my Aramaic is too rusty (ie nonexistent) to sort this out.  Should there be some discussion elsewhere?   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   16:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment My Aramaic is good and this article is nonsense. If there is no attempt to add references and supporting comments to the article, it remains nonsense and should be deleted. --Gareth Hughes 17:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I toyed with the idea of voting for a redirect to Aramaic alphabet, but there's not really any point, is there? --Angr/undefined 21:59, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I moved it and tried cleaning it up thinking it seemed like nonsense but giving it the benefit of the doubt. Unless good soures for this can be found it shold be deleted with some deterrent from recreation added (either redirect or deletepage template) gren グレン 00:07, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * As an Aramaic speaker, I ask you to read Verifiability, and remember that this is supposed to be an encyclopaedia. --Gareth Hughes 10:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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Frazier Thomas

William Frazier Thomas (June 13, 1918 – April 3, 1985) was a Chicago television personality. Although Thomas wrote nine children's books, he was best known for creating, hosting, writing and producing the long-running children's television program Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN-TV.

Magic and broadcasting
Thomas began performing as a magician at age 12 in his home town of Rushville; he was just a teenager when he wrote a book about magic. As "Thomas the Magician and Company" he performed "the Mystic Revue, a full evening of magic, mirth, music and mystery" throughout the US. By 1935, he was writing a weekly syndicated newspaper column for children about magic, at first as "Thomas the Magician" and later as Frazier Thomas. The tips and tricks Thomas covered in his column were simple enough for young readers to perform successfully. His column appeared in newspapers from 1935 to 1940. Thomas was a member of the Society of American Magicians and attended their national conferences. By 1936, Thomas had an additional interest: radio; he became the host of a summer replacement show about movies for Cincinnati radio station WLW. A year later, he interviewed Edgar Bergen and became interested enough in ventriloquilism and dummies to visit the Chicago workshop of the man who produced Charlie McCarthy. He continued working at WLW, writing and creating his own shows: I Cover the Movies and Inside Radio and as a disk jockey for others, such as BC Battle of the Bands. He was then teamed with Ruth Lyons for Collect Calls From Lowenthal. Still at WLW, the pair moved to a morning radio show, Morning Matinee (later called The 50 Club), which Thomas co-hosted with Lyons for eight years. During this time he also did personal appearances with other WLW air personalities, serving as the announcer and as a magician. In 1949, he announced he would leave Morning Matinee to establish his own radio and television production firm. He married Ann Deeds, a commercial artist for WLWT, and together the couple hosted one of the station's first television shows: Shopper's Special. Thomas then moved to Cincinnati's WKRC-TV, where he hosted his first children's program, Meet the Little People. In 1950, Frazier and Anne Thomas were among the top local television personalities in Cincinnati. Garfield Goose made his first television appearance in Cincinnati.

Garfield Goose
Thomas had the idea for Garfield Goose from attending bazaars as a boy. The local Catholic nuns used a sock puppet made into the form of a goose to ask children for charity donations. The children would "feed" the goose their pennies. He came up with the idea to use a goose puppet on his television show for giving prizes to children. The name of the goose was taken from the telephone number of the television station; at the time, all telephone exchanges had names as well as numbers. The name of the telephone exchange for the television station was Garfield.

In 1951, Thomas was hired by Chicago television station WBKB for an afternoon variety show initially called The Frazier Thomas Show. He also put in some time as the host of an evening music program, Musical Nite-cap. Thomas' afternoon show was renamed Petticoat Party; his announcer for it was Ray Rayner. Garfield Goose made his Chicago debut on Petticoat Party. It was not long before the station saw that Thomas and his goose puppet were the most popular parts of the program. On September 29, 1952, Frazier and Garfield went on their own in a show called Garfield Goose and Friend; the show went on the air directly opposite NBC's Howdy Doody.

This was a time of great transition in Chicago television. WBKB was acquired by CBS in February 1953 and renamed WBBM-TV. The WBKB call letters were then picked up by what was previously WENR-TV, owned by ABC. A clause in the contract for the WBKB sale to CBS called for all programs currently on the station to remain on the air for one year after the sale. Before the transition period was over, Thomas and his goose moved to the new WBKB (now WLS-TV), now under ABC's management. One year later, in 1955, the pair found their permanent television home at WGN-TV, where they would be joined by the other characters, making it Garfield Goose and Friends.

With the show's popularity among young viewers in the Chicago area by 1953, Thomas produced a book for them, Garfield Goose Memory Book. Thomas told the story of Garfield Goose from his youth, including information about his family and his average day in the castle. Roy Brown illustrated the 32-page booklet, which was also intended to be used as a coloring book.

In addition to entertaining, Thomas also educated his young viewers, but never with a heavy hand. His guests were people like Dr. Lester Fisher of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo and J. Bruce Mitchell of the Museum of Science and Industry whose visits were both fun and informative. Thomas also had a Hobby Corner feature where children would talk about and display things they were interested in.

There were also subtle moral messages when Thomas needed to explain to Garfield why something he had done or wanted to do was wrong. During the holidays, Thomas sang "Jingle Bells" in Latin, teaching the words and their meaning to his television audience. Children and their parents were invited to write for a copy of the words; it took Thomas weeks to mail all the replies. On occasion, Thomas would take his Jew's harp from his pocket and begin to play. His goose friend would respond to the music by either retreating to another part of his castle or hitting Thomas on the head with his beak. He also visited local schools to perform magic shows. The Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences did not begin awarding local Emmys until 1958; Thomas was the first winner of the award for Male Best Children's Performer, and won the award again in 1964 for his work with Garfield Goose and Friends and Family Classics.

Family Classics and other work
In 1961, WGN-TV had an extensive library of films which were suitable for family viewing, but were rarely aired. Fred Silverman, who was a WGN executive at the time, came up with an idea for putting the films to use. He wanted to air them when children and their parents could watch and enjoy them with Frazier Thomas as the show's host. Thomas agreed to host the program provided he had editing rights on the films, was able to choose them himself and also to refuse any titles he believed were not suitable for the show. A set designed by Thomas that resembled a cozy home library complete with a Roy Brown painting of Garfield Goose was built and he began his Family Classics weekly show on Friday evenings. Family Classics became so successful, it was beating many of the network programs in the Chicago market. The networks responded by purchasing new movies to air in the same time slot; this made it necessary for the program to move to Sunday afternoons. The Family Classics set is now part of the Museum of Broadcast Communications' collection.

Thomas also brought a movie camera on his vacations and the footage he shot became specials for the station. The Thomas family's vacation on an 85 foot schooner became Sailing the Seas of Columbus and their trip to England resulted in The Legend of Arthur, the Phantom King.

By the 1970s the way Chicago children watched television had changed, and Garfield Goose and Friends moved to mornings on WGN. When Ned Locke, ringmaster of Bozo's Circus retired in 1976, Thomas was asked to become his replacement. This meant that the show would combine with Bozo's Circus; Garfield Goose and Friends last aired on September 10, 1976. Frazier's friends were off the air permanently on January 26, 1981, after changes to the Bozo program. He continued to work on the show as the circus manager and to host Family Classics.

Death
Thomas suffered a stroke at the WGN-TV studios on April 1, 1985, and died on April 3, 1985. He had hosted the local Easter Seals telethon the day before he was stricken. He was survived by his wife, Ann, his daughter, Kitty, and his son, Jeff. Thomas received the Chicago Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Governors' Award for his television work posthumously in 1985. The Thomas family donated Garfield and the rest of the puppets, along with Thomas' uniform, to the Museum of Broadcast Communications. The 2500 block of West Bradley Place in Chicago in front of WGN-TV's studios is honorarily named "Frazier Thomas Place" in his memory. In 2005, the Museum of Broadcast Communications awarded WGN-TV's Studio 1 a plaque to commemorate the forty years of children's television broadcast from the studio. Garfield Goose and Friends with a likeness of Thomas and Garfield, is on the plaque along with Ray Rayner with Ray Rayner and Friends and Bob Bell and Bozo's Circus.

Watch

 * Rare off-air recording of Garfield Goose and Friends, Circa 1971
 * Rare off-air recording of Garfield Goose and Friends, Airdate: 11-20-75
 * One of only a few existing studio recordings of Garfield Goose and Friends, Airdate: 3-14-74

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GWR 6100 Class

The GWR 6100 Class is a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotives.

History
The class was designed by Charles Collett and introduced in 1931, and were a straightforward development of the earlier 5101 class (and for that matter the 1905 3100/5100 class). The main difference from their predecessors was an increased boiler pressure of 225 psi with a consequent increase in tractive effort.

There were seventy in the class, built in two batches in 1931–1933 and 1935. They were frequently referred to by trainspotters as 'Tanner One-ers' – being a reference to their '61xx' numbering sequence using colloquial terms for a sixpence and a penny.

The class was specifically built for commuter services in the London area where they replaced the ageing 2221 class on these services. They lasted to the end of steam on the Western Region of British Railways in 1965, never straying far from their home turf. Typical duties were Paddington to Aylesbury via High Wycombe, and from the same terminus to Oxford, Windsor, Reading and Basingstoke. They were mainly shedded at Old Oak Common, Southall, Slough, Reading and Aylesbury throughout their lives. In the early 1960s, the advent of the first generation diesel multiple units made them semi-redundant though generally far from worn out. Their last few years saw them on more menial duties, as in the adjacent photograph, until scrapping.

Preservation
One locomotive, 6106, has survived into preservation, and is at Didcot Railway Centre, though currently non-operational.

Model railways
The erstwhile Kitmaster company produced an unpowered polystyrene injection moulded model kit for OO gauge. In late 1962, the Kitmaster brand was sold by its parent company (Rosebud Dolls) to Airfix, who transferred the moulding tools to their own factory; they re-introduced some of the former Kitmaster range, including this model. The tools were subsequently sold again to Dapol who have also produced this model. Mainline Railways had OO gauge Class 6100 models in their catalogue in 1983, with models in GWR green and BR lined green. Dapol announced in 2017 that it was producing a completely new OO gauge model of the class. Hornby Railways is also retooling their OO gauge model of this class.

For some time Graham Farish have produced a British N gauge model, it is dated compared with more modern models and its driving wheels are scale for the 3100 class, i.e. 5 feet 3 inches, but is still a reasonable representation which forms a good base to add detail to.

Triang also produced a powered model of 6157 in TT scale.

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Moon Warriors

Moon Warriors (in Chinese 戰神傳說) is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Sammo Hung, written by Alex Law and starring Andy Lau, Kenny Bee, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung.

Plot
Fei is a simple fisherman who possesses great sword-fighting prowess and rescues the 13th Prince of Yin from assassins sent by his brother, the 14th Prince (Kelvin Wong), who is attempting to usurp his throne. Fei invites the injured 13th Prince and his entourage to his village and allows the prince to heal, and the two become fast friends. The next morning, the 14th Prince's troupes have made their way to the village, so Fei leads the 13th Prince and his entourage to hide inside a mausoleum, which turns out to be the tomb of the King of Yin, the 13th Prince's father, and thus, Fei learns of the prince's identity. Fei joins the 13th Prince on his journey to find the Lord of Lan-ling (Chang Yi), hoping to get assistant from the lord's army to defeat the 14th Prince, but they encounter the 14th Prince and his troupes. While fighting off the troupes, the 13th Prince entrusts his bodyguard, Mo-sin and gives Fei a piece of jade to meet the Lord of Lan-ling and escort his daughter and the prince's fiancé, Princesses Yuet-nga, back.

Fei and Mo-sin meet the lord and Yuet-nga but are ambushed by the 14th Prince's assassins and fends them off. As they escort Yuet-nga on the run, they encounter another group of assassins so Mo-siun stays behind while Fei and Yuet-nga continue on. While staying in a cave during the night, Fei and Yuet-nga were attacked by a face-concealed assassin who they encounter again the next day where Fei was impaled and injured while protecting Yuet-nga. Yuet-nga nurses Fei's wound and the two fall in love as they spend time together and Fei gifts her a bunny. Meanwhile, the assassin who attacked Fei and Yuet-nga turns out to be Mo-sin, who was sent by the 14th Prince to spy on his brother. The 14th Prince threatens to poison Mo-sin if she fails to kill his brother by Moon Autumn.

Fei brings Yuet-nga back to his fishing village where she is reunited with the 13th Prince and Lord of Lan-ling announces the engagement of the prince with her daughter, the prince also awards Fei the title of the General of Restoring the Country, but the latter refuses as he is heartbroken and just wants to just live a simple life, and Yuet-nga bides a final farewell to Fei before getting married. At night, Mo-sin found the chance to kill the 13th Prince while the latter was napping, she finds her unable to so haven fallen in love with him. Yuet-nga discovers Mo-sin as a traitor after seeing the 13th Prince's entourage dead and informs the prince. Mo-sin has a change of heart and warns the 13th Prince about his brother's plan.

The next day, the 14th Prince leads his troupes into Fei's village where they slaughter 89 villagers, while Fei singlehandedly kills a number of the troupes in a fit a rage. The 14th Prince then confronts his brother, Yuet-nga and Mo-sin inside the mausoleum where he mortally wounds Mo-sin and the 13th Prince and injures Yuet-nga, until Fei barges in and fights the 14th Prince to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers. Fei is outmatched until his pet killer whale, Neptune, whips the 14th Prince, allowing Yuet-nga to blind the 14th Prince, who then delivers a devastating blow to Yuet-nga. As Yuet-nga dies in Fei's arms, the 14th Prince gets up and stabs Fei, but he is killed when the King's tomb cracks and falls on him. Fei then narrates how he woke up in the middle of the sea with Neptune afterwards, and the mausoleum has collapsed, with Yuet-nga, the 13th Prince, 14th Prince and Mo-sin buried inside. When Fei revisits years after, wildlife flowers have grown on it, reminding him of the dead bodies beneath it.

Cast

 * Andy Lau as Fei (阿飛), a simple fisherman and expert swordsman who grew up in his father's fishing village. He befriends the 13th Prince after saving the latter from assassins, who shows an instant trust to Fei, and helps the prince regain his throne.
 * Kenny Bee as 13th Prince of Yin (燕十三), the ruler of the a State of Yin who was dethroned by his evil brother, the 14th Prince, who is attempting to assassinate him. He befriends Fei after the latter saves him from assassins, who later aids him in regaining his throne.
 * Anita Mui as Princess Yuet-nga (月牙兒), daughter of Lord Lan-ling and 13th Prince's fiancé. She and Fei falls in love when the latter escorts her back to her fiancé.
 * Maggie Cheung as Mo-sin (魔仙兒), the 13th Prince's bodyguard who was sent as a spy by the 14th Prince. She has a change of heart after falling in love with the 13th Prince and betrays the 14th Prince.
 * Kelvin Wong as 14th Prince of Yin (燕十四), the 13th Prince's evil younger brother who attempts to dethrone and assassinate his brother.
 * Chang Yi as Lord Lan-ling (蘭陵君), ruler of the State of Lan-ling and father Yuet-nga who uses his troupes to assists the 13th Prince in regaining his throne.
 * Chin Ka-lok as one of 13th Prince's entourage.
 * Heung Lui
 * Tam Wai as one of 14th Prince's killer in bamboo forest.
 * Ng Biu-chuen
 * Wong Man-kit
 * Lam Wai-kong
 * Sam Mei-yiu
 * Law Yiu-hung
 * Lui Tat as one of Fei's fellow villagers.
 * Mak Wai-cheung as one of 14th Prince's killer in the kite field.
 * Hsiao Ho one of 14th Prince's killer in the kite field.
 * Leo Tsang as an official beheaded by the 14th Prince.
 * Hon Ping as one of 14th Prince's killer in the kite field.
 * Cheung Wing-cheung
 * Hoi Wai as Neptune (海威), Fei's close pet killer whale.

Critical reception
Empire gave the film a score of 4/5 stars, praising its balance in character development and jaw-breaking action. Andrew Saroch of Far East Films gave the film a similar score of 4/5 stars and praises the quality of the action choreography and the emotional nature of the characters' dilemmas, J. Doyle Wallis of DVD Talk gave the film a score of 3.5/5 stars, praising Andy Lau and Anita Mui's performances, the action choreography and the set locations. Time Out describes the film as "a visually splendid, dramatically rich, but somewhat rarefied martial arts yarn."

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Bacon Grill

Bacon Grill is a canned meat product made from chopped and cured pork (and sometimes chicken), seasoned to be similar in flavour to bacon. It is produced by several companies, including Princes for the British market, in the style of Spam and corned beef. Bacon Grill was a standard element of rations in the British Army.

Ingredients
The specific ingredients of Bacon Grill vary across manufacturers.

Celebrity Bacon Grill (purchased in February 2011) lists:
 * Pork (64%), water, starch, pork fat, pork rind, salt, Milk Protein, Stabiliser (Sodium Triphosphorate), smoke flavour, sugar, preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Spice extracts.

whereas Princes Bacon Grill ingredients list is:
 * Pork (43%), mechanically recovered chicken (16%), water, wheat starch, pork fat, pork rind, salt, sodium caseinate, stabilisers (E412, E451(i)), smoke flavoring, pepper extract, antioxidant (E316), preservative (E250).

and Plumrose Bacon Grill lists:
 * Pork (43%), mechanically recovered pork, water, pork fat, maize starch, pork rind, salt, milk protein, stabiliser (sodium triphosphate), smoke flavour, sugar, preservative (sodium nitrite), spice extracts.

ASDA Bacon Grill (2018)
 * Pork (65%), water, potato starch, pork fat, pork rind, salt, sodium caseinate (from milk), stabiliser (triphosphates), smoke flavouring, sugar, preservative (sodium nitrite), spice extracts (coriander, ginger, nutmeg, pepper)

Tulip Bacon Grill (2024)
 * Pork (64%), water, starch, pork fat, pork rind, salt, milk protein, stabiliser (sodium triphosphate), smoke flavour, sugar, preservative (sodium nitrite), spice extracts.

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Max Sandvoss

Stephen "Max" James Sandvoss (born Stephen James Sandvoss) is an American businessman, farmer, and former actor.

Early life and education
Sandvoss was born in New York City, New York. His mother, Joyce, is American-born, and his father, Rolf Herman George Sandvoss, was Swiss-born.

After attending school in the suburbs of New York City, and in Connecticut, Sandvoss studied Chinese, thinking about going into international business, but changed his studies to poetry and prose writing, graduating cum laude from Harvard University in 2002.

Career
Sandvoss’ break as an actor came in 2003 when he landed the role of a football star competing against Will Estes in the NBC drama series American Dreams and as the main character in the independent film Latter Days in the same year.

His second feature film was 2005's Rumor Has It, starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Mark Ruffalo and Shirley MacLaine. Sandvoss was also cast in the short film Waning Moon, directed by Luca Colombo, which debuted in August 2006 at a Swiss Film Festival in Lugano.

In June 2006, Sandvoss began filming the horror film Buried Alive, in the role of Danny. The film was released on DVD in October 2007. In late 2006, it was announced that he would reunite with director/writer C. Jay Cox in a supporting role in the film Kiss the Bride, released in 2008.

In May 2007, Sandvoss took on the role of Mason Michael Finch in the indie film Fling (formerly titled Lie to Me), filmed on location in Kansas City, Missouri. The film had its premiere on 26 April 2008, at the Newport Beach Film Festival during the time that Sandvoss was filming a pilot for the Sci-Fi channel, titled "Revolution". It was announced in November 2008 that he would appear in the independent film Exquisite Corpse.

After working as a film and television actor from 2003 to 2010, Sandvoss founded a dairy and creamery in East Bethany, New York, with his brother Trystan Sandvoss. Since January 2018, he has held the position of national sales and marketing director at Old Chatham Sheepherding Co.

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Tympanocentesis

Tympanocentesis is the drainage of fluid from the middle ear usually caused by otitis media, by using a small-gauge needle to puncture the tympanic membrane, also known as the eardrum.

Main indication for tympanocentesis is failed treatment with antibiotics

It is sometimes referred to as a "tap" and, when conducted twice as part of a clinical trial of medication, a "double tap."

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Ingram Model 6

The Ingram Model 6 is a .45 ACP caliber submachine gun that was designed by Gordon B. Ingram and manufactured from 1949 through 1952 by the Police Ordnance Company of Los Angeles, California, US.

Overview
Although the Model 6 has an appearance similar to the Thompson submachine gun, it was intended to be sold as a low cost alternative for domestic law enforcement agencies in the United States. Normally produced with a wood stock, pistol grip and front grip, the overall length is approximately 30" with the barrel being 9". The magazine is a stick design with a capacity of 30 rounds.

Variants
A Model 7 version was made in 1952, the difference being that it was able to fire from a closed bolt and having a fire mode selector on. Only a few of these were made in the 1950s.

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Grind (song)

"Grind" is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains. It is the opening track and the lead single from their third studio album, Alice in Chains (1995). The song was written by Jerry Cantrell, who also sings lead vocals with Layne Staley harmonizing with him. "Grind" spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number seven. The song was included on the compilation albums Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (1999), Music Bank (1999), Greatest Hits (2001), and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1996.

Lyrics
Written by guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell, "Grind" addresses the various rumors that surrounded the band at the time. The opening lines, "In the darkest hole, you'd be well advised/Not to plan my funeral before the body dies", address the rumors that the band had broken up and the many rumors of vocalist Layne Staley's death that had occurred frequently around this time. In the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection, Jerry Cantrell said of the song: "That was pretty much at the height of publicity about canceled tours, heroin, amputations, everything, thus it was another 'FUCK YOU for saying something about my life' song. Any single rumor you can imagine, I've heard. I've been dead a few times, Layne's been dead countless times and lost limbs. I get on the phone every time I hear a new one, 'Hey Layne, radio in New York says you lost two more fingers.' 'Oh really? Cool.' I'd spoof The Six Million Dollar Man; 'Since technology's moved on it only cost us 2 million to put Layne back together and we got better parts.'"

Release and reception
An early cut of the song was leaked to radio prematurely, so the band released it via satellite uplink a few days later, on October 6, 1995, to combat illegal versions being played in rotation. On October 30, 1995, the song was released physically in the United Kingdom. The song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, number 18 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number 23 on the UK Singles Chart.

"Grind" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1996, losing to Pearl Jam's "Spin the Black Circle". Editorial reviews frequently singled out the dark, compelling lyrics of the song. Jon Wiederhorn of Rolling Stone noted, "'Grind' shimmers and shudders beneath a web of trippy wah-wah guitar and half-distorted vocal harmonies, and features one of the album's many hook-filled choruses."

AllMusic's Steve Huey regarded the song "among the band's best work" but also noted that the less refined tracks on the album make the defiance of "Grind" sound "more like denial." Regarding band rumors, Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented that the song advises against believing "what you may have heard and what you think you know." "Grind" was ranked at number 60 on ''Spin's "The 95 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1995" list.

Music video
The music video for "Grind" was released in November 1995. It was directed by Rocky Schenck, who had previously directed the "We Die Young", "Them Bones", and "What the Hell Have I" music videos for the band. The video was shot at Hollywood National Studios from October 8 to 21, 1995. It is a live-action video with animated sequences featuring the band underground of an old building where a three-legged dog is. The dog in the video is not the same dog on the cover of Alice in Chains' self-titled album, and contrary to false information spread on the internet, it did not belong to Jerry Cantrell either. It was a different dog named Sunshine that was hired just for the video, according to Cantrell. The old man in the video was played by actor Richard Stretchberry.

The video received heavy rotation on MTV in late 1995 and early 1996, and it is available on the home video releases The Nona Tapes (1995) and Music Bank: The Videos (1999).

Track listing

 * Tracks one and two were originally included on Alice in Chains
 * Track three was originally included on Jar of Flies
 * Track four was originally included on Facelift

Personnel

 * Jerry Cantrell – lead vocals, guitars
 * Layne Staley – backing vocals
 * Mike Inez – bass
 * Sean Kinney – drums, percussion

Cover versions
"Grind" was later covered by alternative metal band Hurt at the Layne Staley Tribute 2008.

Appearances in other media
The song was released as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on January 12, 2010.

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Nicola (name)

Nicola or Nichola is a Latinised version of the Greek personal name Nikolaos (Νικόλαος), derived from the nikē meaning "victory", and laos meaning "people", therefore implying the meaning "victory of the people". Nicola is both a male and female name, depending on cultural norms.

Nicola was a frequently given male personal name among the traditional Italian nobility, and was used often in the Middle Ages. The spelling Nikola is widely used in Slavic language speaking areas. The English form of the same name is Nicholas, with Nicolas common in French and Spanish-speaking countries, and Nicolau in Portuguese-speaking countries.

Nicola has been used as a female name since at least 1150 (the birth date of Lady Nicola de la Haie) and continues as a contemporary female name in Germany, the British Isles and Scandinavia. Less commonly, the name is spelled "Nichola" or "Nickola". The female form of Nicola in Italian is Nicoletta. Other forms of the female name in other languages include Nicole and Nicolette in French, Nikolett or Nikoletta in Hungarian, Νικολέττα or Νίκη in Greek.

Name days

 * 21 March and 10 September (Hungary)
 * 29 August (Slovakia)
 * 3 September (United Kingdom)
 * 20 November (Czech Republic)
 * 6 December, in line with Saint Nicholas (Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia)
 * 19 December, Saint Nikola (North Macedonia, Serbia)

A–L

 * Nicola Abbagnano (1901–1990), Italian existential philosopher
 * Nicola Adams (born 1982), English boxer
 * Nicola Amoruso (born 1974), Italian football player
 * Nicola Asuni (born 1973), Italian sprinter
 * Nicola Barr (born 1996), Australian rules footballer
 * Nicola Benedetti (born 1987), Scottish classic violinist
 * Nicola Berti (born 1967), Italian football player
 * Nicola Best, British statistician
 * Nicola Blackwood-Bate (born 1979), British politician
 * Nicola Boem (born 1989), Italian road cyclist
 * Nicola Bolger (born 1993), Australian football player
 * Nicola Bombacci (1879–1945), Italian Marxist revolutionary
 * Nicola Brogan, Northern Irish politician
 * Nicola Brown (disambiguation), several people
 * Nicola Calipari (1953–2005), Italian military intelligence officer with the rank of major general
 * Nicola I. Campbell, Indigenous Canadian author, poet, and educator
 * Nicola Conte, Italian DJ and producer
 * Nicola Coughlan (born 1987), Irish actress
 * Nicola Di Bari (born 1940), Italian singer-songwriter
 * Nicola Docherty (born 1992), Scottish footballer
 * Nicola Edgington (born 1980), British murderer
 * Nicola Fairbrother (born 1970), British judoka
 * Nicola Filippo (born 1957), American artist
 * Nicola Glencross (born 1989), Scottish professional wrestler
 * Nicola Gobbo, Australian lawyer
 * Nicola Griffith (born 1960), British author
 * Nicola de la Haie (died 1230), English landowner and military administrator
 * Nicola Heywood-Thomas (1955–2023), Welsh broadcaster and journalist
 * Nicola Jackson (born 1984), British swimmer
 * Nicola Jackson (artist) (born 1960), New Zealand artist
 * Nicola King, fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
 * Nicola Larini (born 1964), racing driver
 * Nicola Legrottaglie (born 1976), Italian football player
 * Nicola Luisotti (born 1961), Italian musician

M–Z

 * Nicola Mendelsohn (born 1971), British advertising executive
 * Nicola McEwen, FRSE professor of territorial politics at the University of Edinburgh, Centre on Constitutional Change.
 * Nicola Pagett (1945–2021), English actress
 * Nicola Peltz (born 1995), American actress
 * Nicola Philippaerts (born 1993), Belgian show jumping rider
 * Nicola Pierce (born 1969), Irish writer and ghost writer
 * Nicola Piovani (born 1946), classical musician
 * Nicola Pisano (1220s–1284), Italian sculptor
 * Nicola Pozzi (born 1986), Italian football player
 * Nicola Ann Raphael (1985–2001), Scottish schoolgirl who committed suicide
 * Nicola Rauti (born 2000), Italian football player
 * Nicola Rescigno (1916–2008), Italian-American opera conductor
 * Nicola Richards (born 1994), British politician
 * Nicola Rizzoli (born 1971), Italian football referee
 * Nicola Roberts (born 1985), British popstar, member of Girls Aloud
 * Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (1920–1991), Russian-Italian operatic bass
 * Nicola Rubinstein, fictional character on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street
 * Nicola Sacco (1891–1927), Italian-American anarchist ("Sacco and Vanzetti")
 * Nicola Shulman (born 1960), British biographer
 * Nicola Smith (born 1949), English bridge player
 * Nicola Smith (footballer) (born 1980), New Zealand football player
 * Nicola Sturgeon (born 1970), Former Leader of the SNP and the former First Minister of Scotland between 2014 and 2023
 * Nicola Tappenden (born 1982), British glamour model
 * Nicola Walker (born 1970), British actress
 * Nicola Zalewski (born 2002), Polish football player
 * Nicola (Okanagan leader) (1780/85 – ~1865), First Nations political figure in the fur trade era of British Columbia, Canada

Given name: Nichola

 * Nichola (fool) (fl. 1560–1570), fool or jester to Mary, Queen of Scots
 * Nichola Beck, English badminton player
 * Nichola Bruce (born 1953), British film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and artist
 * Nichola Burley (born 1986), British actress
 * Nichola Fryday (born 1995), Irish rugby player
 * Nichola Goddard (1980–2006), Canadian soldier
 * Nichola Gutgold (born 1964), American scholar and academic
 * Nichola Holt, contestant on Series 1 of the British TV show Big Brother
 * Nichola Hope, one of the British twin artists Nichola and Sarah Hope
 * Nichola Kane, broadcast journalist and producer working in Scotland
 * Nichola Mallon (born 1979), Northern Irish politician
 * Nichola McAuliffe (born 1955), British television and stage actress and writer
 * Nichola Pease (born 1961), British fund manager
 * Nichola Raihani, British psychologist, professor at University College London
 * Nichola Simpson (born 1956), British archer
 * Nichola Theobald, British film, television and voice-over actress, television presenter and fashion model

Surname

 * Carlos Nicola (born 1973), Uruguayan former footballer
 * Davide Nicola (born 1973), Italian football manager and retired player
 * Enrico De Nicola (1877–1959), Italian jurist, journalist, politician and provisional Head of State of republican Italy from 1946 to 1948
 * Isaac Nicola (1916–1997), Cuban guitarist
 * James C. Nicola, American theatre director
 * Lewis Nicola (1717–1807), Irish-American military officer during the American Revolutionary War, author of the Newburgh letter
 * Marcelo Nicola (born 1971), Argentine-Italian basketball coach and retired player

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Talk:Eureka

Eureka (in Ballarat)?
I do think that the area around Bakery Hill is referred to as Eureka, or something to that effect. Can someone confirm? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.136.207 (talk • contribs) 07:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

 * ✅ Please see Eureka, Victoria which I just added to this dis ambiguous page. --Taweetham (talk) 04:08, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Alphabetical
I've just hauled off and alphabetized things within their categories. Oh, and added film and television category. --Lexein 15:46, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Eureka (2006) Moved to top of Film and Television

I believe that the Eureka (2006) Sci Fi Channel series should be moved to the top of the Film and Television category, as the show is active and is the most popular of that list. Finding the show takes longer when having to search through a list.

Just my 2c. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VisitEureka (talk • contribs) 11:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC).

 * ❌ Per Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages, ordering is by alphabetical order. --Taweetham (talk) 13:05, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Motto?
Why is Eureka in the Mottos category? --212.183.136.193 (talk) 16:58, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ It is no longer in the category but you can see at the top of the page: "Eureka!, the state motto of California" --Taweetham (talk) 12:56, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Eureka effect
Hi, I am new to editing in wikipedia, and I have added a link to the eureka effect page. I hope this is an appropriate place for the link Quasihuman (talk) 12:59, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ The statement is now at the top of the page. --Taweetham (talk) 13:02, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Eureka (2006 TV series) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 13:00, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

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Yekaterina Peshkova

Yekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova, née Volzhina (Екатери́на Па́вловна Пешко́ва, née Во́лжина; 26 July 1876 – 26 March 1965) was a Soviet human rights activist and humanitarian, first wife of Maxim Gorky.

Life
Before the October Revolution she took an active part in the work of the Committee for Assistance to Russian Political Prisoners (Комитет помощи русским политкаторжанам) under the leadership of Vera Figner. After 1914 she led the Children's Commission at the Society for Assistance to War Victims. After 1918 she was the major activist of the Moscow Committee of the Political Red Cross.

After 1922, she was chairwoman of the subsequent organization the Assistance to Political Prisoners (Pompolit, Помощь политическим заключенным, Помполит). She was honored by an order of the Polish Red Cross for her participation in the exchange of prisoners of war after the Polish–Soviet War.

In 1927, she was instrumental in securing the commutation and release of Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn after he was accused of counter-revolutionary activities, and sentenced to death.

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