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Winnetka Heights, Dallas

Winnetka Heights is one of the oldest and largest historical districts in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas (USA). The district is bounded by Davis Street ( SH 180) on the north, 12th Street on the south, Willomet Avenue on the east and Rosemont Avenue on the west. Established in 1910, Winnetka Heights consists of early 20th century wood-frame houses (two-story 4-square and single story prairie style homes predominate).

History
Originally an affluent subdivision of Oak Cliff, Winnetka Heights, along with much of Oak Cliff suffered from poverty and neglect during the 1960s and earlier. Large homes were subdivided into small apartments and city services were scarce. In the mid-1970s, a renewed interest in urban living began a vast restoration process. A committee of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League was formed in the late 1970s for the purpose of obtaining city, state, and national historic designation for the neighborhood. The committee was successful in obtaining all three historic designations and, it is believed, that at the time the neighborhood was the largest in the country to have the historic designation. Winnetka Heights is now a culturally diverse and vibrant neighborhood.

The Winnetka Heights Historic District is located two miles from downtown Dallas, south of the Trinity River. With over 600 houses, Winnetka Heights is the second largest historic district in Dallas and one of the largest in the state of Texas. The neighborhood was originally platted as part of the Midway Addition and was developed as Winnetka Heights in 1908. The original American Craftsman|Craftsman style bungalows and Four-square Prairie houses are approaching their 100th anniversary.

J.P. Blake, R.S. Waldron, T.S. Miller Jr., and Leslie Stemmons developed Winnetka Heights beginning in 1910. Early advertisements touted an ideal neighborhood with the “3 requisite necessaries to modern home life.” First, Winnetka Heights was located on high ground with distant views of the surrounding countryside and downtown. Second, it offered modern amenities such as artesian water, sewers, telephones, electric lines, paved streets with curbs, and building restrictions. And third, its convenient proximity to downtown made it accessible by streetcar. Today residents of Winnetka Heights Historic District enjoy the benefits of this early planning, with harmonious architecture, mature landscaping, and modern city services, all in a close-in residential neighborhood.

Some of the city's stateliest houses were built in Winnetka Heights and include the houses of its developers. The Stemmons house built on the northeast corner of Rosemont and Jefferson was demolished and replaced by the Salvation Army. Waldron's craftsman house stood on the southwest corner of Rosemont and Davis and is now an apartment complex.

Strolling down its streets, past the large front porches, mature trees, and carefully crafted houses, recalls a by-gone era, nearly a century ago, when Dallas was coming of age. The Winnetka Heights Historic District retains the look and feel of an early American suburb, making it one of Dallas’ most desirable historic neighborhoods.

Historic buildings

 * The Southland Ice Company began selling eggs and milk from their store at 12th and Edgefield in 1927. The first convenience store would eventually become known as 7-Eleven. (This 7-Eleven bears a historical landmark designation; however, it was closed as a store in the late 1990s and is now an office of LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens).
 * Still standing is the Miller house at 101 N. Montclair and the Blake house, now the Turner House (home to the Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts).
 * Early residents included Texas oilman and Winnetka Heights developer J.P. Blake, who resided at 401 N. Rosemont; Thomas Jefferson Hubbert, who was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as the U.S. Pension Examiner for Texas and the Old Indian Territories, who resided at 137 S. Montclair; and Ellis Cockrell, a prominent cattle rancher, and descendant of the pioneer Cockrell family, who resided at 201 N. Montclair.

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Perfecto Yasay Jr.

Perfecto Rivas Yasay Jr. (January 27, 1947 –June 12, 2020) was a Philippine government official who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines under the Duterte administration in an ad interim basis from June 30, 2016, until March 8, 2017, the rejection of his appointment by the Commission on Appointments over eligibility concerns resulting from questions on his citizenship.

He served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and was Bangon Pilipinas Party's vice-presidential candidate in the 2010 Philippine elections, running alongside Eddie Villanueva.

Early life and education
Perfecto Yvas Yasay Jr. was born on January 27, 1947, to Perfecto Yasay Sr., a pastor, and Deborah Rivas, a public school teacher, in Kidapawan, North Cotabato. He finished his secondary education at Davao City High School in 1963 and received his Bachelor of Arts in political science at Central Philippine University, Iloilo City in 1967. He earned his law degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Legal work
Yasay became a member of the Bar of the state of New York and of the United States Supreme Court. While in New York, he was managing director of the Maceda Philippine News from 1983 to 1987 and senior partner at two law firms—Maceda, Yasay & Tolentino, Esqs., and Yasay & De Castro, Esqs.—from 1979 to 1990. In the Philippines, he was commissioner of San Jose, Yasay & Santos Law Offices from 1987 to 1993.

SEC chairman
In 1993, he was assigned as associate commissioner of SEC. He was chairman from 1995 to 2000.

Estrada impeachment trial
Yasay was among those who testified in the impeachment trial against President Joseph Estrada on charges of corruption. The probe led to the ouster of Estrada, known as EDSA People Power II in 2001.

On February 15, 2010, Yasay apologized to Estrada for "hurting and offending him" but clarified that this was not a retraction of his testimony on the deposed president's "abuse of authority and corruption."

2004 senatorial bid
He ran for a Senate seat in the 2004 Election under Aksyon Demokratiko but lost.

2010 vice presidential bid
On November 29, 2009, he accepted the nomination of the Bangon Pilipinas Party to be its candidate for vice president as the running mate of Jesus is Lord Church founder and president Eddie Villanueva. Among his campaign platform points, Yasay conveyed that the practice of using big-name endorsers should be stopped because it makes the elections a matter of money and popularity. He also said that the voters will only base their votes via the endorsers of the candidate, and that the biggest setback in the fight against corruption was the quick pardon of Joseph Estrada. Yasay lost to Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay in the vice-presidential elections.

Secretary of Foreign Affairs
He accepted the offer of President Rodrigo Duterte to join his Cabinet on May 18, 2016. During his tenure he represented the Duterte administration's policy of an "independent foreign policy" distancing the Philippines from the United States. According to Yasay, the United States had used a "carrot and stick" foreign policy in regard to the Philippines since for their own interest to the detriment of the latter. Yasay was meant by Duterte to serve the post until mid-2017, when Duterte planned to appoint his running mate, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, as his successor. On March 8, 2017, however, Yasay's appointment was rejected by a unanimous vote of 15–0 by the Commission on Appointments due to questions about his Philippine citizenship status after a period of United States citizenship.

Board memberships and philanthropy
He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Philippine Christian University and Central Philippine University.

Death
Yasay died on June 12, 2020, in San Juan, Metro Manila, due to complications from pneumonia according to his wife. His wife clarified, however, that his pneumonia was a complication from cancer recurrence rather than COVID-19, the latter disease being the cause of a pandemic affecting the world at the time of Yasay's death.

Personal life
He was married to former Population Commission executive director Cecile Joaquin and had three children, all United States citizens. He had American citizenship until 2016, but had yet to retake the Philippine oath of citizenship; there was debate whether he was stateless or not.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The history of ME

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete, non-notable person. Thue | talk 20:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

The history of ME
Vanity. 202.156.6.54 20:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Delete. ≈ jossi ≈ 20:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD✉ 08:23, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Geeknet.nl
Nn website ♥ purplefeltangel ( talk ) ♥ ( contribs ) 20:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete one among 8billion+ websites. This one has no Alexa rank at all. -Splash talk 21:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Per Splash --JAranda | yeah 21:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Katharine Sergava

Katharine Sergava (July 30, 1910 in Tbilisi, Georgia – November 26, 2005. Married name: Katharine Sergava Sznycer) was an actress and dancer.

She was best known for portraying both Ellen and the dream-ballet version of Laurey, the heroine, in the premiere of Oklahoma!. She later performed in Look Ma, I'm Dancing, choreographed by Jerome Robbins. She had also appeared in several films and TV shows.

In 2003 she was erroneously reported dead in The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times.

She lived in retirement in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was a teacher of the Stanislavski's system at Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio) in Bank Street Greenwich Village.

Sznycer died on Saturday, November 26, 2005, in New York City from natural causes in her apartment home, after an extended stay in a nursing facility. She was 95.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sriram Rajagopalan

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The result of the debate was to delete the article.

Sriram Rajagopalan
Wikipedia is not a HOWTO or FAQ. Thue | talk 20:21, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete what appears to be a text dump of an email. I'm tempted to speedy it for being nearly unintelligible. -Splash talk 21:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy Tintin 22:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy junk =Nichalp   «Talk»=  05:09, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karate International

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The result of the debate was delete. Jitse Niesen (talk) 21:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Karate International
Non-notable bio, see Votes for deletion/Jan wellendorf (despite that, it doens't meet the criteria for speedy deletion, right?) --Interiot 20:21, 30 September 2005 (UTC) Delete nn karate club. -Splash talk 21:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Corrent WP:CSD is only for articles about an individual person. But this "school" seems to lack any indication of notability. Delete. DES (talk) 21:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * More precisely, CSD A7 is only for real people. But there are other CSDs, and this is almost A1. -Splash talk 21:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Correct, A7 is what I meant to say. DES (talk) 21:45, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was WITHDRAWN. -Splash talk 22:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Timothy F.X. Finnegan
Withdrawing this nomination - thought the page was a hoax but it's a fictional character! Apologies for any confusion. Dl yo ns 493  Ta lk   20:21, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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Sophia McDougall

Sophia McDougall (born 1979) is a British novelist, playwright, and poet.

Life and career
McDougall is best known internationally as the author of alternate history novels published by Orion Publishing Group and based on the premise that the Roman Empire survived to contemporary times. She studied English at Oxford University.

Romanitas trilogy

 * 'Romanitas' (2005), Orion Books – ISBN 0-7528-6078-X
 * Rome Burning (2007), Orion Books – ISBN 0-7528-6079-8
 * Savage City (2010), Orion Books – ISBN 0-7528-6080-1

Other novels

 * Mars Evacuees (2014), Egmont – ISBN 1-4052-6867-0
 * Space Hostages (2017)

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Edgar de Evia

Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia (July 30, 1910 – February 10, 2003), was a Mexican-born American interiors photographer.

In a career that spanned the 1940s through the 1990s, his photography appeared in magazines and newspapers such as ' House & Garden, Look and The New York Times Magazine and advertising campaigns for Borden Ice Cream and Jell-O.

Homeopathy research

In 1942, homeopathic physician Guy Beckley Stearns and de Evia contributed an essay called "The New Synthesis", For the Laurie's Domestic Medicine medical guide.

Photography
In a review of the book, The New York Times stated that "Black and white [photography] is frequently interspersed through the book and serves as a reminder that black and white still has a useful place, even in a world of color, often more convincingly as well. This is pointed up rather persuasively in the portfolio on Edgar de Evia as a 'master of still life' and in the one devoted to the work of Réne Groebli." "Editorial high-key food photography was introduced by Edgar D'Evia in 1953 for the pages of Good Housekeeping."

Melvin Sokolsky, a fashion photographer who has created images for Harpers Bazaar and Vogue, considered Edgar de Evia one of his earliest influences, saying, "I discovered that Edgar was paid $4,000 for a Jell-O ad, and the idea of escaping from my tenement dwelling became an incredible dream and inspiration."

Personalities photographed
De Evia also produced commissioned photographic portraits of individuals, including Polish-American violinist Roman Totenberg and the American fashion designer Ralph Lauren.

Editorial photography
De Evia's work appeared on Applied Photography, Architectural Digest, Good Housekeeping,  Shaggy Lamb Fashion, and  New York Magazine.

Books
Books that have been illustrated with de Evia's photography include:
 * The American Annual of Photography, New York: American Photography Book Department, 1953.
 * Good Housekeeping Book of Home Decoration by Mary L. Brandt, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.
 * Picture Cookbook by The Editors of Life, Mary Hamman, Editor, New York, NY: Time, Inc., 1958. Second edition 1959, Third edition 1960.
 * The Spacemaker Book by Ellen Liman, Nancy Stahl and Lewis Wilson, New York: Viking Press, 1977.
 * Fashion: The Inside Story by Barbaralee Diamonstein, New York: Rizzoli, 1985
 * House & Garden's Best in Decoration by the Editors of House & Garden, New York: Condé Nast Books, Random House, 1987. De Evia's photos include the front jacket.
 * Glamour's On The Run by Jane Kirby, Glamour Food Editor, New York: Condé Nast Books, Villard Books, 1987. De Evia's photos include the front & back jacket.
 * Interior Design by John F. Pile, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1988.
 * The Tiffany Gourmet Cookbook by John Loring, New York: Doubleday, 1992.
 * House Beautiful Decorating Style by Carol Cooper Garey, Hearst Books, 2005. 1992 edition published by Hearst Communications.
 * Victoria On Being a Mother by Victoria Magazine Staff, Hearst Books, 2005. (1st. edition and ©1989)
 * Culinary Traditions II: A Taste of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania collected by the Waynesboro Historical Society, Morris Press, 2007.

Commercial photography
De Evia worked for Borden Ice Cream (Lady Borden campaign 1956–1960), Celanese Corporation, Gorham Silver, hats by Mr. John of John-Frederics, Leather Industries of America, Maximilian Furs (1950s, all ads had the credit "DeEvia"), McCall's patterns (all ads had the credit "Photograph by Edgar de Evia"),.

Relationships
In the 1950s, de Evia's companion and business partner was Robert Denning, who worked in his studio and who would become a leading American interior designer and partner in the firm Denning & Fourcade.

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Julius Baer

Julius Baer (né Isaac Baer; born January 2, 1857 – March 9, 1922) was a Kingdom of Württemberg-born Swiss banker, businessman and philanthropist. Baer was the founder and namesake of Julius Baer Group, and the patriarch of the Baer family.

Early life and education
Baer was born in Heidelsheim (today part of Bruchsal), Kingdom of Württemberg to Joseph (1816–1891) and Rosina (née Dreyfuss; 1819–1907) Baer, into a Jewish family. His father worked as private money lender and merchant of animal skins, while his mother was a homemaker. He was the second youngest of five siblings. Baer was educated at the Jewish School of Heidelsheim and completed a banking apprenticeship at Bankhaus August Gerstle in Augsburg from 1883 to 1885.

Career
In 1886, he became a partner in the private bank Samuel Dukas & Co. in Basel, Switzerland. A position he continued to hold until 1896, when he was deployed by his brother-in-law Ludwig Hirschhorn, to Zürich. He became a partner in Bank Hirschhorn, Uhl & Bär, which existed since 1890, and is the ultimate predecessor of today's Julius Baer Group. Since 1901, the bank bore only his name, and was known as Julius Bär & Co., which became one of the leading Swiss private banks.

He was on several board of directors including Lake Thun railway line, Südostbahn and Oerlikon-Bührle (1908–1922).

Family
In 1891, he married Marie Ulrich (1869–1917), with whom he had three sons;

 * Richard Josef Baer (1892–1940), mathematician and physicist

 * Walter Jakob Baer (1895–1970), director at Julius Baer
 * Werner Baer (1899–1960), director at Julius Baer and art collector (namely exhibited at Kunsthaus Zürich)

His grandson, Hans J. Baer (1927–2011), was a long-term executive director and president of Julius Baer, who became known through his involvement as a mediator in retrieving Jewish funds in the Volcker Commission in the 1990s.

Literature

 * Publications about Julius Baer in the Swiss National Library
 * Baer, Julius by Ueli Müller in Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS)

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Personal Information Name: Scott Olmstead

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Craig Hickman

Craig V. Hickman (born December 8, 1967) is an American writer, farmer, and Democratic politician from Maine currently representing Maine Senate District 14. He served in the 126th Maine House of Representatives as the representative for Maine's 82nd district from 2012-2018. Hickman won his 2012 primary election by nearly 80%, and campaigned on ending hunger, eliminating regulations for small farms and businesses, and investing in sustainable energy initiatives. Hickman was elected to the Maine Senate in a 2021 special election, succeeding Shenna Bellows.

Early life and career
Hickman was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on December 8, 1967. He is of African-American heritage. He attended high-school at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was valedictorian. Hickman attended college at Harvard University, graduating in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in Government. He first ran for the Maine House in 2010, losing to incumbent Patrick Flood. In 2012 he won his primary election by a sizable margin, and then the general election on November 6, 2012, beating Republican Scott Davis 59%–41%. Two years later, in the midst of a Republican wave, Hickman won re-election against Republican Lee Fellman by a landslide margin, 65%-35%.

Hickman spoke about his farm and announced the delegates earned by Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Maine Democratic presidential primary at the 2020 Democratic National Convention roll call.

Personal life
Hickman currently lives in Winthrop, Maine, with his husband, Jop Blom. He is one of six openly gay members of the Maine Legislature, alongside Sen. Justin Chenette (D–Saco) and Reps. Matt Moonen (D–Portland), Ryan Fecteau (D–Biddeford), Lois Galgay Reckitt (D–South Portland) and Andrew McLean (D–Gorham).

He operates the 25-acre historic Annabessacook Farm Bed & Breakfast, where he regularly serves free meals to underprivileged citizens. Hickman also writes one of the top-ranked independent sports blogs on the internet, and is past President of the Winthrop Area Rotary Club.

Hickman was seriously burned on July 10, 2018 while attempting to light a brush pile on fire.

Achievements
Hickman's book Fumbling Toward Divinity was a finalist in the Spirituality category at the 2006 Lambda Literary Awards. In addition, he has received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a Gertrude Johnson Literary Award, the James Baldwin Award for Cultural Achievement, and a Spirit of America Foundation Award.

Books

 * 1993: The Language of Mirrors
 * 1994: Rituals: Poetry and Prose
 * 2005: Fumbling Toward Divinity

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mother Vinegar

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The result of the debate was DELETE  Rob e  rt  23:23, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Mother Vinegar
non notable band. they have yet to release their first album. 202.156.6.54 20:23, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Falls far short of criteria on WP:MUSIC. -- SCZenz 20:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, SqueakBox 21:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nnandity. My crystal ball is broken, but WP:MUSIC is working just fine for me. -Splash talk 21:27, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN band vanity. Cnwb 01:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Jayadeva Uyangoda

Jayadeva Uyangoda (born 13 September 1950) is a Sri Lankan political scientist. He is a constitutional expert in Sri Lanka.

Jayadewa Uyangoda was a leftist student leader and a member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) movement in the 1970s. He was arrested following the aborted insurrection of 1971 and was imprisoned by the courts. Later, he was released with other JVP rebels on an unconditional pardon by the newly appointed Jayawardena Regime in late 1970s. Having released from the jail, he did his doctoral research in the University of Hawaii on Nationalism and State Formation in Bangladesh. He remains one of Sri Lanka's most veteran commentators on ethnic conflict and human rights. He worked with Neelan Tiruchelvam in drafting the model constitution in 1999.

, Uyangoda is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Colombo, and founder-director of the Centre for Policy Research and Analysis, Colombo. He is a former chairman of the Sri Lanka Foundation in Colombo.

Uyangoda was the founder editor and later co-editor of Pravada, an academic journal in English that focuses on Sri Lanka and South Asia. He continues to write prolifically in Sinhala and English.

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ZAF

ZAF may refer to:
 * Zinc Application Framework
 * Zambian Air Force
 * South Africa by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
 * Zhengzhou East railway station, China Railway telegraph code ZAF

Zaf may refer to:
 * Zaf, Iran

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Talk:Vision for Space Exploration

The Actual Document
I have provided a link to the original PDF document from NASA. From this document, I am unable to distill the motivation for decommissioning the space station. --Scasey1960 (talk) 15:52, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Previous discussion without headers
We should go out and explore space. ..

. . .but the VSE is beginning to look like nothing more than political grandstanding.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Vision_For_Space_Exploration_Facing_Critical_Juncture.html

I do not know where to ask this, but what is the origin of the VSE? Whose idea was it? Was it originally written by Griffin? Zubrin? Someone else? I am not suggesting that person be criticized, only that the full progression be explained. This was a huge change in direction. We should know how we started on this course, and it seems unlikely that President Bush developed it personally.

One of the most serious problems with the VSE and its implementation under the Bush Administration was the lack of open discussion of the goals and strategies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danwoodard (talk • contribs) 19:58, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Cancelled Programs
It might be informative to have a listing of the programs that were cancelled or delayed due to the VSE, for example PARCS. 00:29, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Note on the Criticism Section
I'm removing Buzz Aldrin's name from those responsible for the cited abstract | "Sustainable Space Exploration and Space Development - A Unified Strategic Vision". While his work was used as a reference, the only authors listed as responsible for it are Feng Hsu, Ph.D. and Ken Cox, Ph.D.

However, I'll incorporate Aldrin's criticism of NASA's vision into a statement of its own, referencing the actual | article he wrote. --K10wnsta (talk) 21:33, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

One key point missing from the the section was the 'political engineering' a major unwritten VSE requirement to keeping the Shuttle Workforce employed, this was successful in AL, MS & TX by not in FL. This requirement restricted the mission and system planning yielding the SLS Rocket. There are competing mission architectures that have a better chance of success using commercial launch services such as Space-X. If the SLS funding was direct to designing a Lunar/Mars landing system, NASA may have been able to plan for a Moon/Mars mission. dond (talk) 19:53, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

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Conflating VSE with ESAS
The current version of the article mistakenly conflates the VSE with Exploration Systems Architecture Study. The article would serve readers better if it incorporated text like that at Exploration Systems Architecture Study. (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 01:28, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

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RWA

RWA may refer to:

Organizations

 * Race Walking Association, a professional sports body in the UK
 * Resident welfare association, any self-organised group (particularly in India) which claims to represent the residents of a specified region
 * Romance Writers of America, a genre-specific writers association
 * Rot Weiss Ahlen, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
 * Royal West of England Academy, an art gallery and academy in Clifton, Bristol, UK
 * Royal West Academy, a secondary school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Science and technology

 * Reaction wheel assembly, in spacecraft control
 * Right-wing authoritarianism, a psychological personality variable
 * Rotating-wave approximation, a mathematical simplification used in atom optics and magnetic resonance
 * Routing and wavelength assignment, a process in optical network routing

Other uses

 * Research Works Act, proposed US law (2011) to prohibit requiring free public access to results of federally funded research
 * Risk-weighted asset, a bank risk management variable usually used in the context of Basel II
 * RWA, abbreviation for Rwanda, an east-central African country
 * Ryan White Act (Ryan White CARE Act), US law providing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS

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Capon Springs Station, West Virginia

Capon Springs Station was an unincorporated community hamlet in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia centered on a station on the Winchester and Western Railroad. Located along Capon Springs Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 16) where Dry Run meets Capon Springs Run on the western end of Middle Ridge, Capon Springs Station served as a stop for guests at the Capon Springs Resort in Capon Springs and people picnicking at Capon Lake on the Cacapon River.

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Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Early life and education
Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.

Career
Meloy won The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story "Aqua Boulevard" in 2001; the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collection of short stories, Half in Love, in 2003; and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. In 2007, Granta included her on its list of the 21 "Best Young American Novelists."

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.

Describing how she wrote Half in Love, Meloy is quoted on the Ploughshares web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."

In 2015, two stories from Meloy's collection Half in Love ("Tome" and "Native Sandstone") and one story from Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It ("Travis, B.") were adapted into the movie Certain Women directed by Kelly Reichardt. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016 and was released by IFC Films in October 2016. A story from the book was also featured on This American Life's 2016 Christmas episode, read aloud by Meloy.

Meloy served on the writing staff of the Netflix series The Society, which premiered in 2019.

Personal life
Meloy is the older sister of Colin Meloy, frontman of The Decemberists, solo artist, and author of The Wildwood Chronicles novels Wildwood, Under Wildwood and Wildwood Imperium. Their aunt, the late Ellen Meloy, was also an author.

She lives in Los Angeles.

Works

 * Half in Love: Stories (2002)
 * Liars and Saints (2003)
 * A Family Daughter (2006)
 * Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories (2009)
 * The Apothecary Series (books)
 * The Apothecary (2011)
 * The Apprentices (2013)
 * The After-Room (2015)
 *  Do not become alarmed (2017)

Archival collections

 * Guide to the Maile Meloy Collection MS.L.019. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

Other

 * Interview
 * Official Web site
 * NYT review of "A Family Daughter"

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Hollow

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The result of the debate was speedied as A7 --Doc (?) 23:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Alex Hollow
Vanity ≈ jossi ≈ 20:28, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Speedy Yu-gi-oh card player. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 21:02, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy. A7 -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark) 21:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Metasequoia

Conservation status 2006
It is odd that the conservation status of the Dawn Redwood is listed as Critically Endangered, but as the article correctly states it is now a commonly grown tree throughout temperate regions worldwide. To label a common, thriving tree as critically endangered simply because its last known wild habitat is under pressure calls into question the objectivity of those who make such a designation. The preservation and range expansion of the Dawn Redwood has been one of the most successful ever undertaken for a species once considered extinct.

 * While I somewhat agree that the plant itself may not be "critically endangered", it is a combination of factors that justify it being in this category. As you mentioned, it's native habitat is dwindling.  That's a primary reason why many species are placed on endangered lists.  For example, many animal species may be kept in captivity and may thrive (through captive breeding programs), but wild populations continue to decline and  population bottlenecks and the founder effect may occur.  Because a species is cultivated and rather "common" as a landscape plant does not make it less threatened.  Another factor is dispersal.  If human influence was removed, would this common species be able to create a stand of Metasequoia?  I'm not certain it would.  In the possible outcome of complete destruction of its native habitat, it may cease to have natural resevoir.  Do not confuse ornamental plantings with an expansion of range.  Just my thoughts on this Rkitko 09:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Some parts of natural history regarding this tree above may be not right - please www.metasequoia.org for detail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.180.130.214 (talk • contribs) 15:24, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Everything now checked against Farjon's monograph - MPF 21:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Fast growing tree?
Article claims it is a fast growing tree... But how fast does it grow? How long does it live? Seriously, some very basic information about the tree is missing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.212.134 (talk) 02:24, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Merging
I propose merging Metasequoia glyptostroboides into this article, for two reasons: —hike395 (talk) 12:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) The guidelines at Tree of life and Naming conventions (flora) state that a genus with a single species should have only a genus article (see, e.g., Sequoiadendron).
 * 2) The articles already have a fair amount of overlap: combining them will make the final article much more complete.

 * Oppose. The single species is the only extant one; the others are extinct fossil taxa. That's why the two should remain separate. Discussion of Metasequoia glyptostroboides in the genus article is to put it in context with the other species. Rkitko (talk) 12:38, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

 * My interpretation of these guidelines is that they count only extant species. Shall we start a discussion at WT:WikiProject Tree of Life to get clarity? —hike395 (talk) 18:34, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

 * I was involved in developing WP:FLORA. At least from my perspective, the relevant passage was not meant to exclude fossil taxa. I've seen several genus articles expanded to include fossil taxa, e.g. Aldrovanda. Sure, start a discussion at ToL. I'm less familiar with the ToL guideline, though I suspect many there will agree that extinct taxa are a good reason to expand genus articles separate from the extant species. Rkitko (talk) 19:33, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I agree with Rkitko, the guideline does not exclude extinct taxa. I have personally created several articles for extinct species in genera that are now monotypic.  Metasequoia has at least three very notable extinct species currently.  M. occidentalis, M. foxii, and M. milleri. -- Kev  min  § 22:05, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * If those extinct Metasequoia species had articles (even stubby ones), then I would withdraw my merge suggestion immediately. This is why I think we should consider extant species --- is there enough verifiable material on extinct species to justify splitting a currently monotypic genus? Or, failing a general guideline, will there be enough material on those extinct Metasequoia species to make them notable (from a WP perspective)? —hike395 (talk) 07:40, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think the absence of potential articles is a good reason to merge. From my reading of this article, there seems to be plenty of coverage in the scientific literature for the extinct taxa and articles on them would be welcome additions to Wikipedia; they would certainly be notable. Species, much like other topics (secondary schools?), are inherently notable because they exist, or at least that's been the broad application of WP:N to them in the past. It is not our place to judge whether there is enough evidence in the literature for these extinct taxa, we just present the consensus view among the taxonomists. And, more to the point, Metasequoia is not monotypic. Each of those extinct taxa also has a type. So it would be a real error to merge the articles. Rkitko (talk) 12:31, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * This genus was originally described from the extinct species Metasequoia disticha in 1941 and this was not changed when the extant species was described in 1948 to my knowledge. Thus three, possibly four (not sure if M. disticha and M. occidentalis are synonyms now) species are accepted as valid.-- Kev  min  § 22:07, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * As a note, I have created an article for Metasequoia foxii and Sequoiadendron is actually a bad example to have brought up as it is not monotypic either (see Sequoiadendron chaneyi)-- Kev min  § 23:06, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

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SDN

SDN can stand for:

 * S4C Digital Networks, UK TV company
 * SAP Developer Network
 * Sandane Airport, Anda, Norway
 * Scottish Daily News, a newspaper published in 1975
 * Scottish Digital Network, proposed in 2011
 * SDN List, Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List
 * Sebacoyldinalbuphine
 * Sexually dimorphic nucleus, a cluster of cells in the brain
 * Sholavandan railway station, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, station code
 * Société des Nations, French for League of Nations
 * Software-defined networking, an approach to computer networking
 * Specially Designated Nationals with whom US persons may not do business
 * St Denys railway station, station code
 * Student Doctor Network in North America
 * Sydenham railway station, Sydney, station code
 * Sudan, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code

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User talk:Hobojew

Image:Jeffgannon1.jpg has been listed for deletion
I am sorry that your first contribution to Wikipedia had to be put up for deletion. As humorous as the image is, I just do not see a place for it on this site. I hope this does not deter you from further productive contributions at Wikipedia. Also, you are welcome to contribute to the discussion for the deletion of the image. Once again, I am sorry that we had to get off on the wrong foot. If you need any help with anything, just let me know. Psy guy (talk) 20:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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Kansas Corporation Commission

The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) is the public utilities commission of the state of Kansas run by three Commissioners appointed by the Governor with the approval of the Senate. The Commission has the responsibility of ensuring that natural gas, electricity, telephone, and transportation vendors provide safe, adequate, and reliable services at reasonable rates. Notwithstanding the commission's name, it does not charter corporations; that function is performed by the office of the Secretary of State.

The authority of the KCC is derived from KSA 74-601 to 74-631. The current Corporation Commissioners are Dwight Keen (who is the current chair), Shari Feist Albrecht, and Susan Duffy.

History
The Kansas Commission was one of the first state regulatory bodies in the nation, established as the Railroad Commission in 1883 by the Kansas Legislature. The Railroad Commission had power and authority to regulate steam-operated railroads, express companies, sleeping car companies, and inter-company electric lines. The members were elected by a popular vote.

In 1911, the Kansas Legislature created a three-member Public Utilities Commission to regulate telegraph and telephone companies, pipeline companies, common carriers, water, electric, gas, and all power companies with the exception of those owned by municipalities. Members of this commission were appointed by the Governor.

The present regulatory body, The State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas was established by the Legislature in 1933. Its jurisdiction was extended to include the regulation of motor carriers, gas conservation, and supervision of plugging abandoned wells to protect fresh and usable water from pollution.

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User talk:Javipacheco

Rattlesnake Island is not a candidate for speedy deletion, as defined at WP:CSD. If you want the article to be deleted, please read my advice at Talk:Rattlesnake Island. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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Hugh Burnett

Hugh Burnett (July 14, 1918 – September 29, 1991) was an African-Canadian carpenter and a civil rights leader. A descendant of slaves, Hugh Burnett was a carpenter in the rural Canadian town of Dresden, Ontario. He was active in the National Unity Association (which he co-founded), an anti-discrimination group formed in 1948. At the time, Black people in Dresden and other Ontario towns were regularly refused service in restaurants, barber shops and stores.

History
In his fight against discrimination, Burnett, a plain-spoken, determined activist, engaged the support of Toronto-based groups like the Joint Labour Committee on Human Rights, whose members included Donna Hill (wife of activist Daniel Hill and mother of author Lawrence Hill and singer Dan Hill) and prominent labour activist Bromley Armstrong. Delegations to Ontario Premier Leslie Frost in the early 1950s resulted in the passage of two acts to outlaw discrimination in the province: the Fair Employment Practices Act (outlawing workplace discrimination) and the Fair Accommodation Practices Act (making discrimination illegal in restaurants, stores and other public-access areas). Despite these laws, people in the town continued to practice discrimination. The life of his school-age daughter, Patricia, was threatened.

Under Burnett's direction, in 1954, the NUA staged sit-ins of two restaurants that flouted the law, forcing a court challenge that resulted in victory for the NUA and bringing a legal end to overt discrimination in the province. Despite the victory, Burnett was forced to leave town after citizens boycotted his carpentry business. Hugh was living in London, Ontario when the first black patrons were served in the Dresden restaurant. On July 31, 2010, the Ontario Heritage Trust unveiled a plaque commemorating the contributions of Hugh Burnett and the National Unity Association to the civil rights movement in Canada. Burnett's story is told in the book "Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil Rights".

Legacy
A plaque stands on the main street of Dresden, at the corner of St. George and St. John Streets, near the restaurant that refused Burnett service. The Dresden plaque reads: "Hugh Burnett and the National Unity Association: Between 1948 and 1956, the National Unity Association (NUA) of Chatham, Dresden and North Buxton, under the leadership of Hugh R. Burnett, waged a campaign for racial equality and social justice. Their efforts led to the passage of Ontario's Fair Accommodation Practices Act (1954), and laid the groundwork for subsequent human rights legislation in Ontario and across Canada.  Traditional Anglo-Canadian rights, such as freedom of association and freedom of commerce, had historically been interpreted to permit discrimination on grounds of race, colour or creed in providing services to the public.  The NUA inspired recognition of freedom from discrimination as a fundamental principle; this led to a revolutionary change in the course of Canadian law and Canadian history. Hugh Burnett and the NUA were early pioneers in the articulations of equality rights for all Canadians, now constitutionally inscribed in the "Charter of Rights and Freedoms."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Candy thrash

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The result of the debate was DELETE. I skipped closing this at first since I participated, but then I closed the one on Candy Thrash (capital 'T') since I didn't participate. Given the debate, seems silly not to do the job properly. -Splash talk 23:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Candy thrash
a possible hoax. 202.156.6.60 20:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Only 24 unique google hits on "Candy Thrash" only 1 or 2 of which seem to be about the subject of this article. If it isn't a hoax, it must be pretty non-notable. Delete. DES (talk) 21:13, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, per DES. Most of the Googles are random adjacencies of the two words. Either it is far too new a term to come here, or it is just made up. -Splash talk 21:26, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. And sister article below. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark) 21:43, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 05:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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Savitri Goonesekere

Savitri Goonesekere is a jurist and academic from Sri Lanka. She is an international expert on the rights of children.

Education
Goonesekere studied at Ladies' College, Colombo, and obtained arts and law degrees at the University of Peradeniya in 1961, graduating with First Class Honours. She attended Harvard Law School as a Smith-Mundt Fulbright scholar, where she obtained her master’s degree in 1962.

Career
Goonesekere began her academic career as the first woman law lecturer in the Department of Law, University of Ceylon. She held the post of Senior Lecturer when the Department of Law was moved from the Peradeniya campus to Colombo in 1965, and was established as the University of Ceylon, Colombo. She also taught in the Faculty of Law, Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, from 1977 to 1982.

In 1983 Goonesekere was appointed as Professor of Law at the Open University of Sri Lanka, the first woman to hold this position, and was subsequently appointed the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prof. Goonesekere returned to the University of Colombo in 1995 as Senior Professor of Law, and was the first woman Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo from 1999 to 2002.

Prof. Goonesekere was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the Open University of Sri Lanka and an honorary Doctorate of Law by the University of Colombo, in recognition of her contributions to these institutions.

A prolific writer, Goonesekere was instrumental in the evolution of modern legal education in Sri Lanka. Her works on family law and child labour issues include: Child Labour in Sri Lanka: Learning from the Past (ILO:1993); Children, Law and Justice: A South Asian Perspective (Sage: 1998); and as editor, Violence, Law, and Women's Rights in South Asia (Sage:2004).

Other activities

 * Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Member of the Board (since 2016)

Recognition

 * 2008 – Fukuoka Prize
 * On 27 March 2019, Goonesekere was celebrated as one 12 Women Changemakers by the Sri Lanka parliament.

Selected Works
“The Legal Status of the Female in the Sri Lanka Law on Family Relations” (Gunasena:1980)

“Children, Law and Justice: A South Asian Perspective” (Sage: 1998)

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User talk:Asht0n

Intresting Ayyavazhi Family
Hai Asht0n, there are intresting articles about Ayyavazhi, a new religion on both mythology and religiosity. Wikipedia is rich with this topic in English, but poor in other languages. Since french is a leading language in Wikipedia it is better to translate the contents on this AYYAVAZHI family to french. - Paul Raj

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Talk:Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

Old talk
"They in effect split from the main party and in the election to the Constituent Assembly often stood as left-SRs against the mainstream party (although with little electoral success)." Not completely true. The Left SR did not really stand as a seperate party in Assembly elections. The split happened during the elections and only became offical after. So in most areas you could only vote for the SR (no distinction between the Right SR or Left SR). 'Mainstream party' is POV due to its political meaning, 'main party' would be better. In the peasant soviet elections held after the split was fully completed both parties got about the same vote. Propose changing it.

"They in effect split from the main party. The split had not been completed before the Constituent Assembly elections, the first meaningful electoral test between the parties in the peasant soviets a few weeks after the Assembly elections showed the parties had roughly equal support in the peasantry."

Any objections? TheInquisitor 21:31, 30 Sep 2005

"Many left-SRs joined the Soviet government after the Bolshevik revolution of October, 1917"

The Left SR party was a coalition partner in the Soviet Government. Will change this to;

"The Left SR party became the coalition partner of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Government after the revolution of October, 1917"

Any objections? TheInquisitor 00:52, 3rd Oct 2005

Requested move 31 March 2018

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The result of the move request was: for the time being, moved as requested. Dekimasu よ! 22:06, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Left Socialist Revolutionaries → Left Socialist-Revolutionaries – A few years back I moved this page from Left Socialist-Revolutionaries to its current name without discussion. I apologize for this and I know realize that the previous name was a more accurate translation. However I also think that "Left SRs" is the most commonly used name so we could also move this page to that. Charles Essie (talk) 19:35, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

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A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
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User talk:Aschus

Intresting Ayyavazhi Family
Hai Aschus, there are intresting articles about Ayyavazhi, a new religion on both mythology and religiosity. Wikipedia is rich with this topic in English, but poor in other languages. Since french is a leading language in Wikipedia it is better to translate the contents on this AYYAVAZHI family to french. - Paul Raj

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Japanese cruiser Kuma

Kuma (球磨) was a Kuma-class cruiser light cruiser in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The lead vessel of the five ship class, she was named after the Kuma River in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan.

Background
After the construction of the Tenryū-class cruisers, the demerits of the small cruiser concept became apparent. At the end of 1917, plans for an additional six Tenryū-class vessels, plus three new-design 7,200 ton-class scout cruisers were shelved, in place of an intermediate 5,500 ton-class vessel which could be used as both a long-range, high speed reconnaissance ship, and also as a command vessel for destroyer or submarine flotillas. Kuma was laid down at Sasebo Naval Arsenal on 29 August 1918, launched on 14 July 1919 and commissioned on 31 August 1920.

Design
The Kuma-class vessels were essentially enlarged versions of the Tenryū-class cruisers, with greater speed, range, and weaponry. With improvements in geared-turbine engine technology, the Kuma-class vessels were capable of the high speed of 36 kn, and a range of 9000 nmi at 10 kn.

The number of 14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval guns was increased from four on the Tenryū class to seven on Kuma: two forward, two on each side of the superstructure and three aft, which meant that only six guns could be brought to bear on a broadside. The torpedo launchers were also increased to four double launchers: however, the Kuma class remained highly deficient in anti-aircraft protection, with only two 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval guns and two 6.5 mm machine guns. Kuma could be distinguished from her sister ships by the addition of funnel caps from 1929.

Early career
Immediately after commissioning, Kuma was assigned to cover the landings of Japanese troops during the Japanese intervention in Siberia against the Bolshevik Red Army. She was subsequently based at Port Arthur, and patrolled the northern China coast between the Kwantung Leased Territory and Qingdao.

Kuma was refit in late 1934 with a tripod mast, two rotatable quadruple torpedo launchers, and an aircraft catapult for launching a reconnaissance floatplane, typically a Kawanishi E7K1 "Alf". As the Second Sino-Japanese War began to escalate, Kuma patrolled the China coast, and covered the landings of Japanese forces in central China. She was captained by Captain Tadashige Daigo from November 1935 to December 1936. In December 1937, Kuma served as flagship for a squadron of minelaying submarines JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-121 through JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-124 based out of Qingdao until fall of 1938.

Invasion of the Philippines
On 10 April 1941, Kuma was assigned to Vice Admiral Ibo Takahashi's CruDiv 16 in the Japanese 3rd Fleet. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941, Kuma was participating in the invasion of the northern Philippines, having departed from its base in Mako, Pescadores Islands with the JAPANESE CRUISER Ashigara, JAPANESE CRUISER Maya and destroyers JAPANESE DESTROYER Asakaze and JAPANESE DESTROYER Matsukaze. From 10–11 December, Kuma covered landings at Aparri and Vigan; off Vigan, Kuma was attacked unsuccessfully by five USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the 14th Squadron. On 22 December, Kuma covered further landings at Lingayen Gulf, Philippines.

On 3 January 1942, Kuma was reassigned to Vice Admiral Rokuzō Sugiyama's Third Southern Expeditionary Fleet. She was assigned to patrols around the Philippine islands from 10 January to 27 February 1942.

In March, Kuma was assigned to cover the invasion of the southern Philippines, shelling Cebu harbor on 1 March, sinking two coastal transports, and covering the landings at Zamboanga, Mindanao on 3 March. Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) from Kuma rescued about 80 Japanese nationals who had been interned. Kuma is also credited with sinking twelve transport vessels in the Sulu Sea off of Cebu the same night.

On 9 April 1942, off Cebu, Kuma and the torpedo boat Kiji were attacked by U.S. torpedo boats PT-34 and PT-41. Kuma was hit in the bow by one of eight Mark 8 torpedoes fired, but it was a dud. PT-34 was destroyed by Mitsubishi F1M "Petes" launched from the seaplane tender Sanuki Maru.

On 10 April, Kuma covered landings on Cebu by the Kawaguchi Detachment's 35th Infantry Brigade HQ and the 124th Infantry Regiment, and on 16 April landings on Panay by the Kawamura Detachment's 9th Infantry Brigade HQ and the 41st Infantry Regiment. On 6 May, Kuma covered the final assault on the American bastion on Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. Afterwards, Kuma remained on patrol at Manila until 12 August 1942.

Dutch East Indies and New Guinea campaigns
After a refit at Kure Naval Arsenal in September, Kuma returned to Manila on 20 September 1942 and was reassigned to Vice Admiral Shirō Takasu's Second Southern Expeditionary Fleet (Dutch East Indies Force). She was sent to Hong Kong to embark troops of the 38th Infantry Division, which she disembarked at Rabaul, New Britain on 10 October. Kuma then proceeded to Makassar, Celebes where she began patrols under the command of Captain Ichiro Yokoyama, with occasional embarkation of reinforcements for Rabaul, Kaimana, New Guinea and Kabui, New Guinea until 13 April 1943.

From late April through the end of May 1943, Kuma was refitted at the Seletar Naval Base Singapore, and afterwards resumed patrols around the Dutch East Indies to 23 June.

On 23 June 1943, while at Makassar with CruDiv 16's JAPANESE CRUISER Kinu, JAPANESE CRUISER Ōi, and JAPANESE CRUISER Kitakami, Kuma was attacked by seventeen Consolidated Aircraft B-24 Liberator bombers of the 319th Squadron/90th Bomb Group (H) of the 5th Air Force. All four light cruisers were straddled by near-misses, but suffered only slight damage.

On 24 June 1943, CruDiv 16's flag was transferred from Kinu to Kuma. Both cruisers then departed Makassar for patrols around the Dutch East Indies until 23 October. From 1 November, Kuma was refit in Singapore. Her No. 5 140-mm gun was removed as were her aircraft catapult and derrick. Two triple mount Type 96 25-mm AA guns were fitted. This brought the total number of Kuma's 25-mm AA guns to ten barrels (2x3, 2x2). Refit was completed by 12 November, and patrols/transport runs around the Dutch East Indies resumed, extending occasionally to Port Blair, Andaman Islands, Penang, Mergui, Burma through 9 January 1944.

On 11 January 1944, after departing from Penang with the destroyer JAPANESE DESTROYER Uranami on anti-submarine warfare exercises, Kuma was sighted by Royal Navy submarine HMS Tally-Ho (P317) based out of Trincomalee, Ceylon. Approximately 10 mi northwest of Penang, Tally-Ho fired a seven-torpedo salvo from 1,900 yd. Kuma's lookouts spotted the torpedoes' wakes, and although the rudder was sent hard over, Kuma was hit starboard aft by two torpedoes, setting the ship on fire. Kuma sank by the stern in the vicinity of 5.43333°N, 99.86667°W detonating her own depth charges. Uranami took on survivors, including Captain Sugino, but 138 crewmen perished with the ship.

Kuma was removed from the navy list on 10 March 1944.

The wreck
Kuma's wreck was discovered in March 2004 by a group of divers including Australian explorer Kevin Denlay operating off the research vessel MV Empress, based out of Singapore. The wreck was found to be on its starboard side in 155 ft of water, covered in fishing nets and snagged fishing lines. The bridge structure was fairly intact, although half-buried in bottom silt, and her funnels had fallen off. The port side waist 5.5-inch gun was basically intact, as were the two on the fore-deck, although the top of the waist mount enclosure had partially disintegrated. The circular rotating base of the forward port torpedo rack was intact, but there were no torpedo tubes mounted on it. However, the aft port rotating torpedo tube mount had completely fallen off the ship. The glass in many of the portholes, especially amidships, has been melted and fused due to the intensity of the fire that raged while the vessel was sinking. The ship's stern was missing completely aft of where the torpedoes hit; all that remained was a jagged edge, although the outboard port propeller and shaft were still visible protruding from the wreck.

In 2014 it was reported that illegal salvagers recovered scrap metal from several shipwrecks, including Kuma. Subsequent reports state that the wreck is almost completely gone now.

title: Japanese cruiser Kuma


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