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Allied Capture
Some discussion on the "Allied capture" section. I recently removed stuff from other articles. Tried to limit the capture section to just the Kehlsteinhaus topic, not Berchtesgaden, not Berghof (Hitler). Beanbatch 19:52, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Noticed your changes. I've been in touch with the original author of the paragraph in question and we agreed that the course of events was likely different. Unfortunately, I don't believe your version is entirely accurate either. The reason for that claim is the following World War II magazine article: The Eagle's Nest: The Last Great Prize.

 * It appears that Dick Winters has read it, as he has sent in a request for correction. It pertained to the command of the 2nd battalion, not to the course of events as recounted in the article per se. I'd consider this to be the most accurate source I've found so far. I've lived in Berchtesgaden for some time, so this topic is of quite some interest to me...

 * Best
 * Jbetak 21:20, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't know who really captured the Kehlsteinhaus first. I just tried to clean up this section, copied verbatim from other articles, to focus just on Kehlsteinhaus. If what is left is not correct, it should be fixed. I think we do know who looted it first. That would be the 101st. Several soldiers from the 506th have personal items they looted from there. If someone else was first, they didn't take much with them. Beanbatch 19:57, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * If you read the book Band of Brothers by Steven Ambrose, the book states that the 101st paratroopers were the first one to the Eagle's nest because the wine was still there, and no stuff was "liberated". However, this article says that 3rd infantry division was the firts one there. Should we clear up the discrepancy? 156.110.47.73 (talk) 21:58, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Because Americans never lie, right? There are plenty of testimonies, in French and in Spanish that it was Captain Tuyeras, a french jew from the 2nd French Division who was the first allied soldier up there. And your sources lie, as the Spanish soldiers testimony that they indeed grabbed plenty of Lanson and Pommery bottles. But to know that, you should be able to read in more languages than English. --37.14.47.182 (talk) 18:20, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Rescued content on Allied seizure
Providing link to an account of 3rd Infantry seizure placed by unregistered user 71.227.211.202 (talk) on 06:12, July 8, 2014 (edit) and summarily deleted in the next page edit by unregistered user 50.147.145.83 (talk) on 03:30, September 13, 2014:

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 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of U.S forces in Europe and later President of the United States, wrote that the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was the first to take the town of Berchtesgaden, not the Eagle's Nest. In his interview with the Library of Congress, Herman Louis Finnell of the 3rd Division, 7th Regiment, Company I, stated that he and his ammo carrier, Pfc. Fungerburg, were the first to enter the Eagle's Nest, as well as the secret passages below the structure. Finnell stated that the hallway below the structure had rooms on either side filled with destroyed paintings, evening gowns, as well as destroyed medical equipment and a wine cellar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kehlsteinhaus&diff=625325574&oldid=616048978 Wikiuser100 (talk) 17:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

 * Reference at bottom of this page to Library of Congress: Veterans History Project: Interview with Herman Finnell.

Zuckspit
i read some time ago that the peak of the mountain ( ? Kehlstine Mountain) was called Zuckspit(spelling correct?) and does any one have info on that ?

thanks willy g man 76.230.158.100 (talk) 17:49, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

The elevator
This is really a rather pointless pointless question, but in the Band of Brothers mini-series, the elevator was said to have been plated with gold. Was it originally plated in gold, or was it polished brass to begin with? jak722 17:54 06, June 2006

It was always brass. They simply thought it was gold-plated. It is very impressive; really, the coolest thing about visiting the site, except for the fireplace and the view of the mountains.169.253.4.21 (talk) 17:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)TexxasFinn

Article style
I can't be sure, but either the originator of this article or one of its editors seems to be a non-native English speaker. A case in point is the word 'Mio' used in '150 Mio Euros'. A quick Google search seems to indicate that this is primarily used in the German language as an abbreviation of 'million', and is therefore not strictly an English word, although it is used in 'European English', rather like Lufthansa stewards who ask people in English to turn off their 'handies', the word for mobile (cellular) phone in German, but not an English word.

Furthermore, the style does grate in places, tending to translationese. Such as the sentence which ends "... Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party". Oh, Bold textthatBold text Adolf Hitler?! Also, can an elevator really be said to 'span' last 124 metres up to the Kehlsteinhaus? Other examples:

"...he suffered migraines and other balance problems whilst at the higher altitudes of the Kehlsteinhaus." Can a single location have more than one altitude?

Also, both spellings of metre/meter are used in the article. I think either one or the other should be used.

Tours
Though I can find no source, experience of visiting the Kehlsteinhaus myself this summer showed that guided tours are still being offered for tourists. - Estel (talk) 22:03, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Tours are officially offered - or at least they were when I visited in both 1991 and 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.195.193.43 (talk) 12:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Suggest the removal of the assertion that tours are not offered in German due to concerns regarding Nazi sympathizers; it is unsourced and the official website clearly states that tours in German are available. 71.62.24.97 (talk) 08:38, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

My understanding is that they do offer German language tours. However, to discourage Nazi sympathizers all tours must be booked through the website. It is not allowed to have a tour with an external guide, but that applies to all languages equally, not just to German. So if there are no objections I will delete this statement.Drow69 (talk) 14:52, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Common name in English is Eagle's Nest
The common name for this place in English is "Eagle's Nest" as there is more than one as the disambiguation "Eagle's Nest"  page show this will need a disambiguation name like  Eagle's Nest (Berchtesgaden) or Eagle's Nest, Berchtesgaden or  Eagle's Nest, Bavaria or Eagle's Nest (Hitler) or whatever is deemed the most suitable  disambiguation extension for the place should be (see WP:AT). -- PBS (talk) 10:07, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

 * The common name in English is bullshit, as there never was an "Eagle's Nest" near Berchtesgaden. The FHQ "Adlerhorst" was a bunker near Obermör.len in Hessen. Apparently, all Anglo-Saxons are as igorant as their moronic Nazi president Adolf Trump. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E2:33E3:4907:21FA:6654:8FCA:F323 (talk) 16:04, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Needs an Etymology section, like most similar articles, or at least a translation of the German name. Re "Eagle's Nest", it's a rather obvious name but not a translation of the German; would be good to add who coined it, if known. I'm going to piggyback another comment, as my mobile won't recognize the Add Section button. The site is central to the plot of a GA mystery, by Carr iirc. I'll dig it out. Add an 'In popular culture' section; I'm sure there are other significant references -- hopefully not too many! --D Anthony Patriarche, BSc (talk) 15:21, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I see that "Eagle's Nest" is attributed to Francois-Poncet in the Use section, a slightly odd place to look for it. Perhaps could be summarized in the lead or the proposed Etymology section. --D Anthony Patriarche, BSc (talk) 15:35, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * François-Poncet was not an English speaker, just another proof of how hare-brained the name is. Doubtless a post-war invention by boastful Amis jealous of the Red Army getting Hitler's remains. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E2:3725:689E:29D9:AE13:9680:C981 (talk) 20:35, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Nonsense?
The "Use" section says: "Kehlsteinhaus lies several miles directly above the Berghof". Really? 78.147.23.2 (talk) 19:46, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

"Hitler only visited 14 times" -- reference?
Sorry for the drive-by comment, but in the lede it says that Hitler only visited the place 14 times.

This interesting fact doesn't appear to be referenced anywhere, nor mentioned later in the article.

-- EdJogg (talk) 11:33, 5 June 2017 (UTC)  (Not watching page. Sorry.)

14 is the highest quantity given in ANY source, other sources say only five or ten times.

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Too Far to Care

Too Far to Care is the third studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released on June 17, 1997 (see 1997 in music). The album's title comes from the song "Streets of Where I'm From."

History
The album was the band's first on Elektra Records. Unlike the later two Elektra recordings, the band retained some of their country twang, making this another fan favorite. Lyrically, the band's constant touring is evident in songs like "Barrier Reef" (with references to Chicago), "Broadway" (in New York City), and "Niteclub" (inspired, according to the band, by clubs in Cleveland, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan). "Four Leaf Clover", re-recorded from the band's first album, Hitchhike To Rhome, is performed here as a duet with Exene Cervenka of the band X. "Big Brown Eyes" is also re-recorded, this time from the second album, Wreck Your Life.

Rhett has clarified that, although his name is Stewart Ransom Miller (The Second), the song "Barrier Reef" is not really autobiographical. Stewart Ransom Miller is technically Rhett's father, who apparently is sometimes asked "are you the Stewart Ransom Miller?" and answers "yes, but I think you may have me confused with my son." Instead, it's "the guy in that song, the guy who gets laid and finds himself unsurprised at how little solace there is in the coupling."

"Broadway" was written while Miller was in a hotel room in New York City during their courtship with Elektra Records Miller felt very out of place, saying "As I stood in that tiny room, I did the math. I could live for a month in my East Dallas garage apartment for the amount of money Elektra was paying per night at the Paramount Hotel. Granted, my accommodations in Dallas were humble to say the least, but this was some serious opulence. If you ever wonder why the old "major label" business model failed, look no further than the money lavished on our little Texas rock band by the dozen or so labels that wooed us that summer. Ridiculous."

Miller used the biblical name "Salome" to "protect the, well, not-so-innocent ... castigating female." Miller came to visit his female acquaintance and found no answer at her door. He "retrieved an inflatable pool float", then fell asleep at her doorstep. He awoke to male and female laughter, kicked in her door, put his hand around the man's throat, and then decided to leave.

The title of "Melt Show" comes from the band Melt which had one of Miller's best friends, Clark Vogeler as a member (now part of the Toadies). Miller says "I spent many a night in the front row at the Melt show." The song is specifically about a Cuban girl from Miami that Miller fell in love with, proposed to, realized his mistake, and eventually parted ways with.

The line, "I'm calling Time And Temperature just for some company" in the song "Big Brown Eyes" refers to calling the time and temperature line. Rhett says: "the phone in our kitchen had a twenty-five foot cord that stretched throughout the upstairs of the garage. Not only was this before cell phones, it was before the ubiquity of the cordless land line. That phone, with its unending silence, mocked me. I still remember dialing 844 and then any four numbers in order to discover the time and temperature. The internet has since rendered such a service laughably archaic. At the time, though, the voice at the other end of that number soothed me in a way I can't quite explain. She was a constant in a mad, quickly changing world. And when I called, she would always answer."

"Just Like California" is, according to Miller, "a simple fantasy about being in love with a girl named Clementine who lived in California until the San Andreas Fault gave way, dropping the whole state into the Pacific Ocean."

"Curtain Calls" was written while Miller was visiting his brother in Breckenridge, Colorado in 1996 with his sister. Miller went out to a local nightclub and came home "feeling lonely." He felt: "so many people, so much mirth, and yet, in the end, we are all alone." He said that "like many songs I was writing at the time, it dealt with the allure of the itinerant life of a musician, the life onto which I was embarking, and the strong ambivalence I felt about it."

When writing "Niteclub", Miller "was living with a young woman who was poised and destined to move to New York City to pursue her dream. And then she did move. And the fuel that her departure provided my young songwriting machine burned hot indeed. I remember writing this song, or its lyrics anyway, in a phone booth in a nightclub in Cleveland. It was her 22nd birthday, and I was not with her. But I was where I was meant to be." Miller has observed the irony of the lyrics: "the nightclub did steal my youth. And the nightclub does follow me around, unchanging and eternal. And while I'm busy loving my job, I'm also lamenting the life it precludes. You know, the normal life? The 9 to 5?"

Miller wrote "House That Used to Be" around 3am while feeling lonely in his "two bedroom house a block off of White Rock Lake." He wrote it with the assistance of a Rhyming Dictionary. "I gave myself a challenge: make a list of rhyming, two-syallable words, compound words or phrases that sounded juicy and turn that list into a song. 'Graveyard/Co-starred,' 'Corn silk/Spilt milk,' 'Quaaludes/Corkscrewed' etc ..." "Four Leaf Clover" was originally recorded on Hitchhike To Rhome, the first Old 97's album. Rhett was searching for a duet to record with friend Exene Cervenka and "had started work on an old-fashioned duet that I thought we might sing, but Exene proclaimed it 'too pretty'." That song later became "Fireflies." Instead, Exene sang on "Four Leaf Clover", replacing the lyric "nothing to impress you" with "nothing to attract you" which Rhett found "much sexier."

Track listing
All songs written by Rhett Miller, Ken Bethea, Murry Hammond and Philip Peeples.
 * 1) "Timebomb" – 3:08
 * 2) "Barrier Reef" – 3:49
 * 3) "Broadway" – 3:22
 * 4) "Salome" – 4:07
 * 5) "W. TX Teardrops" (vocals by Murry Hammond) – 3:05
 * 6) "Melt Show" – 3:07
 * 7) "Streets of Where I'm From" – 3:15
 * 8) "Big Brown Eyes" – 4:23
 * 9) "Just Like California" – 2:33
 * 10) "Curtain Calls" – 4:18
 * 11) "Niteclub" – 3:49
 * 12) "House That Used to Be" – 4:08
 * 13) "Four Leaf Clover" (with Exene Cervenka) – 3:20

Too Far to Care: Expanded Edition
For the album's fifteenth anniversary in 2012, Omnivore Recordings released an expanded two-disc version of Too Far to Care. The first disc is a re-issue of the original recording with four bonus tracks entitled Too Far to Care: Expanded Edition:

 * "Northern Line" (David Roback, Kendra Smith) – 4:27
 * "Beer Cans" – 4:28
 * "No Doubt About It" – 2:40
 * "Holy Cross" – 4:24

The second disc is a collection of demos titled They Made a Monster: The Too Far to Care Demos:

 * 1) "Broadway" – 3:40
 * 2) "Daybed" – 4:55
 * 3) "Barrier Reef" – 3:45
 * 4) "W. TX Teardrops" – 3:19
 * 5) "Niteclub" – 3:46
 * 6) "When I Crash" – 3:26
 * 7) "You Were Right" – 3:30
 * 8) "Sound of Running" – 3:04
 * 9) "Everybody But Me" – 3:06
 * 10) "Holy Cross" – 4:24
 * 11) "The 1" – 3:09

Personnel

 * Old 97's
 * Rhett Miller – vocals, guitar
 * Murry Hammond – bass guitar, vocals
 * Ken Bethea – guitars
 * Philip Peeples – drums, percussion

 * Additional personnel
 * Jon Rauhouse – pedal steel, banjo
 * Wally Gagel – piano, Mellotron, percussion
 * Exene Cervenka – vocals on "Four Leaf Clover"

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Kara-class cruiser

The Kara class, Soviet designation Project 1134B Berkut B ("golden eagle"), was a class of guided missile cruisers ("large anti-submarine warfare ship," in Soviet classification) built for the Soviet Navy between 1968 and 1976. NATO classified the type as cruisers mainly due to their size and the presence of the Metel (SS-N-14 Silex) anti-ship missile system, capable of striking both submarines and surface vessels.

Design
These ships were enlarged versions of the Kresta II-class cruiser, with gas turbine engines replacing the steam turbines. These ships were fitted as flagships with improved command, control and communications facilities. These are dedicated ASW ships with significant anti-aircraft capability including both M-11 Shtorm and 9K33 Osa surface-to-air missiles.

The specifications for the class were issued in 1964 with the design being finalised in the late 1960s. The gas turbine engine was chosen instead of steam for greater efficiency and quietness, and because the main Soviet gas turbine plant had a long association with the Nikolayev shipyards.

The cruiser Azov was constructed as a trials ship for the S-300 missile system and was also fitted with the associated Top Dome Radar. During the Cold War she was confined to the Black Sea.

Ships
All the ships were built by the 61 Communards Shipyard in Mykolaiv (Nikolayev).

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Avoiding loop between Category:People and Category:Humans
Category:Humans is in Category:People and vice-versa. Since in general we are to avoid cycles in the category system, and since Category:People is in Category:Fundamental, it looks like the thing to do is to take Category:People out of Category:Humans. I'm going to go ahead and make that change; if someone disputes it, feel free to revert and discuss. Jdavidb 19:54, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * See Category talk:People. Brian Jason Drake 07:24, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Cycles and Apes
People: I have no problem with cycles if who categories overlap and co-exist. In this case, People really means "Biography". It exists for user-interface and browsing purposes. It is hard to under because it is in "Category:Top 8".

Apes: Humans are apes (I made the mistake of saying Primates). Some people might take exception to that phrasing, but that is how it goes, I guess. -- Fplay 21:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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Fabrice Fernandes

Fabrice Fernandes (born 29 October 1979 in Aubervilliers) is a French former footballer who played for several clubs, most particularly Southampton.

Playing career
Fabrice Fernandes spent three years at the INF Clairefontaine academy, before moving to Rennes in 1996.

He first joined an English team in 2000, after signing a season-long loan deal at Fulham where he helped them get promoted to the Premier League. He played for the France national under-21 football team, impressing the likes of Rangers in the process, for whom he joined on loan in March 2001, scoring on his debut for the club, from 20 yards out against Motherwell.

In December 2001, he moved to Southampton, making his debut in a defeat to Leeds United, and played in many games during the season, despite sometimes being hit with injury. He picked up an FA Cup runners-up medal in season 2002–03, and had a solid 2003–04, at the end of which he was offered a new contract to run to 2006.

However, after Southampton were relegated to the Championship under manager Harry Redknapp at the end of the 2004–05 season, Fernandes negotiated for release from his contract. The Saints needed to reduce their payroll and engaged the services of agent Willie McKay to find a new club for him. Allegedly, McKay was paid a fee of £30,000 by Southampton for his services. This transfer was amongst those being scrutinised by the Stevens enquiry into corruption in English football.

Sam Allardyce snapped him up for free at the end of August 2005 and he made his debut for Bolton in their first ever UEFA Cup game against Lokomotiv Plovdiv at the Reebok Stadium. He appeared once in the league for Bolton, as a substitute in a 5–1 defeat to Chelsea.

In February 2006 Fernandes moved to play in Israel for Beitar Jerusalem, the club owned by Arcadi Gaydamak, the father of Portsmouth owner Alexandre Gaydamak. After leaving the Jerusalem club he has had trial spells with Stoke City and Dunfermline Athletic.

In January 2007, he joined Dinamo Bucharest (Romania) in the Romanian First League, but was released a year later. From there he joined Le Havre.

Honours
Fulham
 * Football League First Division champions: 2000–01

Beitar Jerusalem
 * Israeli Premier League champions: 2006–07

Southampton
 * FA Cup runners-up: 2003

Dinamo Bucuresti
 * Liga I champions: 2006–07
 * Romanian Supercup runners-up: 2007

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Weaire–Phelan structure

In geometry, the Weaire–Phelan structure is a three-dimensional structure representing an idealised foam of equal-sized bubbles, with two different shapes. In 1993, Denis Weaire and Robert Phelan found that this structure was a better solution of the Kelvin problem of tiling space by equal volume cells of minimum surface area than the previous best-known solution, the Kelvin structure.

History and the Kelvin problem
In two dimensions, the subdivision of the plane into cells of equal area with minimum average perimeter is given by the hexagonal tiling, but although the first record of this honeycomb conjecture goes back to the ancient Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BCE), it was not proven until the work of Thomas C. Hales in 1999. In 1887, Lord Kelvin asked the corresponding question for three-dimensional space: how can space be partitioned into cells of equal volume with the least area of surface between them? Or, in short, what was the most efficient soap bubble foam? This problem has since been referred to as the Kelvin problem.

Kelvin proposed a foam called the Kelvin structure. His foam is based on the bitruncated cubic honeycomb, a convex uniform honeycomb formed by the truncated octahedron, a space-filling convex polyhedron with 6 square faces and 8 hexagonal faces. However, this honeycomb does not satisfy Plateau's laws, formulated by Joseph Plateau in the 19th century, according to which minimal foam surfaces meet at $$120^\circ$$ angles at their edges, with these edges meeting each other in sets of four with angles of $$\arccos\tfrac{1}{3}\approx 109.47^\circ$$. The angles of the polyhedral structure are different; for instance, its edges meet at angles of $$90^\circ$$ on square faces, or $$120^\circ$$ on hexagonal faces. Therefore, Kelvin's proposed structure uses curvilinear edges and slightly warped minimal surfaces for its faces, obeying Plateau's laws and reducing the area of the structure by 0.2% compared with the corresponding polyhedral structure.

Although Kelvin did not state it explicitly as a conjecture, the idea that the foam of the bitruncated cubic honeycomb is the most efficient foam, and solves Kelvin's problem, became known as the Kelvin conjecture. It was widely believed, and no counter-example was known for more than 100 years. Finally, in 1993, Trinity College Dublin physicist Denis Weaire and his student Robert Phelan discovered the Weaire–Phelan structure through computer simulations of foam, and showed that it was more efficient, disproving the Kelvin conjecture.

Since the discovery of the Weaire–Phelan structure, other counterexamples to the Kelvin conjecture have been found, but the Weaire–Phelan structure continues to have the smallest known surface area per cell of these counterexamples. Although numerical experiments suggest that the Weaire–Phelan structure is optimal, this remains unproven. In general, it has been very difficult to prove the optimality of structures involving minimal surfaces. The minimality of the sphere as a surface enclosing a single volume was not proven until the 19th century, and the next simplest such problem, the double bubble conjecture on enclosing two volumes, remained open for over 100 years until being proven in 2002.

Description
The Weaire–Phelan structure differs from Kelvin's in that it uses two kinds of cells, although they have equal volume. Like the cells in Kelvin's structure, these cells are combinatorially equivalent to convex polyhedra. One is a pyritohedron, an irregular dodecahedron with pentagonal faces, possessing tetrahedral symmetry (Th). The second is a form of truncated hexagonal trapezohedron, a species of tetrakaidecahedron with two hexagonal and twelve pentagonal faces, in this case only possessing two mirror planes and a rotoreflection symmetry. Like the hexagons in the Kelvin structure, the pentagons in both types of cells are slightly curved. The surface area of the Weaire–Phelan structure is 0.3% less than that of the Kelvin structure.

The tetrakaidecahedron cells, linked up in face-to-face chains of cells along their hexagonal faces, form chains in three perpendicular directions. A combinatorially equivalent structure to the Weaire–Phelan structure can be made as a tiling of space by unit cubes, lined up face-to-face into infinite square prisms in the same way to form a structure of interlocking prisms called tetrastix. These prisms surround cubical voids which form one fourth of the cells of the cubical tiling; the remaining three fourths of the cells fill the prisms, offset by half a unit from the integer grid aligned with the prism walls. Similarly, in the Weaire–Phelan structure itself, which has the same symmetries as the tetrastix structure, 1/4 of the cells are dodecahedra and 3/4 are tetrakaidecahedra.

The polyhedral honeycomb associated with the Weaire–Phelan structure (obtained by flattening the faces and straightening the edges) is also referred to loosely as the Weaire–Phelan structure. It was known well before the Weaire–Phelan structure was discovered, but the application to the Kelvin problem was overlooked.

In physical systems
Experiments have shown that, with favorable boundary conditions, equal-volume bubbles spontaneously self-assemble into the Weaire–Phelan structure.

The associated polyhedral honeycomb is found in two related geometries of crystal structure in chemistry. Where the components of the crystal lie at the centres of the polyhedra it forms one of the Frank–Kasper phases, the A15 phase.

Where the components of the crystal lie at the corners of the polyhedra, it is known as the "Type I clathrate structure". Gas hydrates formed by methane, propane and carbon dioxide at low temperatures have a structure in which water molecules lie at the nodes of the Weaire–Phelan structure and are hydrogen bonded together, and the larger gas molecules are trapped in the polyhedral cages. Some alkali metal hydrides silicides and germanides also form this structure, with silicon or germanium at nodes, and alkali metals in cages.

In architecture
The Weaire–Phelan structure is the inspiration for the design by Tristram Carfrae of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre, the 'Water Cube', for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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User talk:Maxmurray

Max,

I notice you've been deleting a sentence from your mini-bio on the FCP candidates page. I'm not certain of your rationale, but your chosen course of action is inappropriate. A quote has been given, a citation has been provided, and the information is entirely relevant to the entry. If you continue to remove it, I will continue to restore it.

If your views on this subject have changed since your FCP candidacy, it would be appropriate to mention this change in the bio. Deleting the sentence without giving a reason, however, is a mistake. CJCurrie 19:55, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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Hi Maxmurray. Please understand that Wikipedia must be very careful about copyright violations. Copy-pasted material from an external site is typically removed unless it is clear that the external site has released the material under a GFDL license or equivalent. Thanks. Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 23:56, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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Satellite Rides

Satellite Rides is the fifth studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released in the second quarter of 2001 (see 2001 in music). Though track 9, "Weightless", refers to outer space while the chorus croons "ride on, ride on" to an unspecified audience, the album's title does not appear in the lyrics but was later used for the song "In The Satellite Rides A Star" on the band's follow-up album, 2004's Drag It Up.

Lyrically, the songs feature singer and songwriter Rhett Miller writing about characters other than himself, although personal references remain. "Rollerskate Skinny" is a song about actress Winona Ryder, whom Miller very briefly dated; the title refers to Holden Caulfield's description of his sister in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, while "Buick City Complex" refers to workers affected by General Motors' decision to close its failed mega-factory in Flint, Michigan. Miller wrote the song "Am I Too Late" for his grandmother, Ahnece Pugh. The album features two songs sung by bassist Murry Hammond, "Up The Devil's Pay" and "Can't Get A Line".

"Question" is often performed live with a French verse. Miller re-recorded "Question" and "Singular Girl" with a full band for his 2006 solo album, The Believer.

"Satellite Riders" is also a pseudonym under which the band plays, including a show at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle, Washington on August 31, 2008.

Soundtrack appearances
"Question" was used in a commercial for Fuse TV network in the United States. It featured sock puppets. "Question" appeared in two TV proposals: in Scrubs, season episode 15, "His Story," when Turk proposes to Carla, originally broadcast on January 30, 2003, and in Ed, season 4 episode 9, "The Proposal," when Ed proposes to Carol, originally broadcast on November 19, 2003. "Question" was also used in the season 1 episode 19, "Young Hearts Spark Fire" of Scorpion, originally broadcast on March 23, 2015.

"King of All the World" was used in the film Out Cold.

Bonus EP
Early pressings of the album included an EP of five songs recorded live at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999 for local radio station, KFOG, and one leftover studio track.

Personnel

 * Ken Bethea – electric, acoustic, 6 string & 12 string guitars, slide guitar, lap steel, accordion
 * Murry Hammond – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Can't Get a Line" and "Up the Devil's Pay"
 * Rhett Miller – electric, acoustic, 6 string & 12 string guitars, mouth trumpet, vocals
 * Philip Peeples – drums, shakers, maracas, tambourine

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Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down

Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down is a 1970 animated showcase for various caricatured Jerry Lewis characters, all based on characters from the 1965 film The Family Jewels, and styled in a fashion similar to Archie's TV Funnies and the Groovie Goolies. The title is a variant of the deciding question on the game show To Tell the Truth: "Will the real __________ please stand up?" Like most 1970s-era Saturday morning cartoon series, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down contained an adult laugh track.

Though Jerry Lewis contributed to some of the scripts, he did not voice any of the characters. The central character of Jerry Lewis was voiced by David Lander, who would later be better known for his role of Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley.

Premise
As with all of their wilder comedies, such as those mentioned above and later shows like Uncle Croc's Block and The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Filmation stuffed the episodes with slapstick jokes, and the rubbery, gangly animated version of Lewis was well realised and similar to his depiction in DC Comics' long running comic book title, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis (originally published as The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis prior to the dissolution of their show business partnership). Among the recurring characters were Chinese detective Hong Kong Flewis and his rotund son, One Ton Son; his father, Professor Lewis; and his sister Geraldine (and her pet frog, Spot). Presumably, the series takes place somewhere in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area, since in one episode, Jerry sees a road sign that reads "Atlantic City. 216 miles".

In the series, Jerry worked for the Odd Job Employment Agency under the supervision of the obnoxious Mr. Blunderpuss. A typical episode found Jerry being assigned a job, and making a complete shambles of it in his harmless, naive way.

Notably wild in their style were the opening credits and commercial bumpers. The theme song was sung in a contemporary "bubblegum" style, with the song interrupted before the end of its final verse with the title of the show intoned in a scolding manner by an announcer (Howard Morris) who stretched out the word "please" and shouted "sit down".

Along with Groovie Goolies, this was one of the first Filmation series to feature the rotating Lou Scheimer/Norm Prescott "wheel" credit. Previous shows featured a standard credit with Scheimer's name above Prescott's. It was also Filmation's first show to feature director Hal Sutherland's name written in fancy lettering.

Cast

 * David Lander as Jerry Lewis
 * Howard Morris as Mr. Blunderpuss, Ralph Rotten Lewis, Professor Lewis, One Ton Son, Hong Kong Flewis, Uncle Seadog, additional voices
 * Jane Webb as Geraldine Lewis, Rhonda (Jerry's girlfriend)


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 * 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 KEEP.  Rob e  rt  00:14, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Nationalism in the United States
Stub, unimproved for months, inaccurate description of nationalism, 99% incomplete history, apparently personal opinion, in short contains almost no relevant information on this important topic, and seems to exist solely as a vehicle for right-wing links, merge to nationalism is inappropriate since it was cut from there anyway Ruzmanci 19:56, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep/cleanup - this is a hugely important topic. The article right now is pretty bad, but might provide a starting point or two for a proper article. CDC   (talk)  20:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. Major topic and many worse starts have become good articlesCalJW 20:22, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep very important, don't see why this should be deleted. Does need cleaup and exanding though. -Greg Asche (talk) 21:09, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I think. This could be the stub of a good article, but it does need a lot of work. We need a historian to work on it. (Any takers?) There is an excellent, lengthy article on Nationalism and we do have articles on Japanese nationalism, Arab nationalism, Korean nationalism, and others. I would also like to see articles on nationalism in some of the European countries. ♠DanMS 00:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand/ clean-up. It does need a lot of work to look at the development of US nationalism from the War of Independence and the Civil War to the current day. Capitalistroadster 01:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I think it can be fixed. Gazpacho 02:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to American nationalism if that's what this page is going to describe, seems fine though. Christopher Parham (talk) 05:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep I disagree with renaming the article as per Christopher Parham. This article would refer to Nationalism within the USA proper.  To call it American nationalism is a little vague, since its becomming more common for others from The Americas to refer to themselves as American under certain contexts. Roodog2k (talk) 21:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There has been extensive debate in the Wikipedia concerning the use of the description “American”. See the articles and their talk pages: Alternative words for American (Talk) • Use of the word American (Talk). ♠DanMS 01:49, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Heversham

Heversham is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 647, increasing at the 2011 census to 699.

It is situated above the marshes of the Kent estuary which gives some fine views, notably from Heversham Head where there is a toposcope.

It has a variety of recreational facilities, including a fully functioning outdoor activities centre, tennis courts, bowling green and a playground. There are also rugby, football and hockey fields, as well as a cricket ground and pavilion.

History
Heversham had an abbey in the early Anglo-Saxon period. According to the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto, in the early tenth century its abbot, who was called Tilred, purchased the village of Castle Eden and gave half of it to Norham abbey so that he could be abbot there, perhaps because Heversham Abbey had been destroyed by the Vikings. Part of a carved stone cross still survives. It was found under the lych-gate of St Peter's Church, which may indicate that the monastery was located nearby.

Rail
It was on the Hincaster branch railway line from 26 June 1876. Passenger services ended on the branch on 4 May 1942.

Road
Heversham is situated just off the A6. It formerly straddled the A6, but the centre of the village was bypassed in the 1920s. However, the Stagecoach bus route 555 still passes through the centre.

The new section of road was opened by the future Edward VIII and was named Prince's Way. The Heversham Hotel, referred to by the locals as the "Blue Bell", is on this bypass.

Schools
Heversham Grammar School existed for more than 370 years from 1613 until 1984, when it amalgamated with the comprehensive school in Milnthorpe to become the boarding house and 6th form college of Dallam School. The boarding and outdoors section of Dallam School are situated in Heversham and the outdoors centre is open to the public.

The local primary school, Heversham St Peters, was closed in 2017. It used to be next to the church but was moved to Leasgill due to the fact that the toilets were right above the village water supply.

Famous people

 * Geoffrey Bibby, archaeologist

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Conine

Conine may refer to the following.

People

 * Griffin Conine (born 1997), American professional baseball player
 * Jeff Conine (born 1966), former Major league Baseball player
 * Steve Conine, American billionaire businessman

Places

 * Lake Conine, freshwater lake in Winter Haven, Florida
 * Conine's Clubhouse Grill, a grill owned by Jeff Conine

Other

 * Conine or coniine, a poisonous alkaloid found in poison hemlock
 * Conine, an Irish clan

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Royal Munster Fusiliers

The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1922. It traced its origins to the East India Company's Bengal European Regiment raised in 1652, which later became the 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers). The Royal Munster Fusiliers were formed in 1881 by the merger of the 101st Regiment of Foot and the 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers). One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, it had its home depot in Tralee and served as the county regiment for Cork, Clare, Limerick and Kerry. At its formation the regiment comprised two regular and two militia battalions.

The Royal Munster Fusiliers served in India before the regiment fought in the Second Boer War. Prior to the First World War, the regiment's three militia battalions were converted into reserve battalions, and a further six battalions were added to the regiment's establishment during the war. The regiment fought with distinction throughout the Great War and won three Victoria Crosses by the conflict's conclusion in 1918. Following establishment of the independent Irish Free State in 1922, the five regiments that had their traditional recruiting grounds in the counties of the new state were disbanded and the Royal Munster Fusiliers ceased to be as a regiment on 31 July 1922.

Origins
Before the regiment was reformed as part of a reorganization of the British Army in 1881, the Royal Munster Fusilier's historic background went back as far as 1652 with the formation of the Bengal European Regiment by the Honourable East India Company. This regiment would eventually become the 101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers), or the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers. The East India Company formed the 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers), or 2nd Bengal European Fusiliers, from this regiment in 1765. Both regiments, which were composed exclusively of white soldiers, not Indian sepoys, played pivotal roles in the British conquest of India throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

As well as the Royal Munster Fusilier's origins as part of the East India Company, the regiment's reserve battalions also traced their lineage to the Militia of Munster (namely the South Cork Light Infantry Militia, the Kerry Militia and the Royal Limerick County Militia, which became the 3rd, 4th and 5th Battalions, respectively). While both the fusilier regiments had originated and served as "European" regiments of the East India Company, they were transferred to the British Army in 1861 when the British Crown took control of the company's private army after the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Formation
The second half of the 19th Century saw the beginning of widespread reforms in the British Army which would eventually result in the formation of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. The first of these reforms saw the localisation of recruiting districts in Britain and Ireland between 1873 and 1874 under the Cardwell Reforms. Five of the historic East India Company's European infantry battalions were given Irish territorial titles under the Childers Reforms of 1881. The former Bengal Fusilier regiments were merged into a single regiment to become the 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers and the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, while the 3rd, 4th and 5th Royal Munster Fusilier battalions were the militia units. The Reforms linked regiments to recruiting areas – which in case of the Royal Munster Fusiliers were the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, and Limerick. Militarily, the whole of Ireland was administered as a separate command with Command Headquarters at Parkgate (Phoenix Park) Dublin, directly under the War Office in London. The regimental depot was located at Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee, County Kerry.

Second Boer War
Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in South Africa in October 1899, a number of regiments from areas containing large centres of population formed additional regular battalions. The Royal Munster Fusiliers were announced to be among those regiments set to form 3rd and 4th regular battalions in February 1900, but they do not appear to have done so. The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers embarked for South Africa in 1899, and would serve there throughout the entire Second Boer War. Initially, the battalion took part in Lord Robert's advance into the Orange Free State. Following this, the battalion was attached to the 20th Brigade and fought at the Battle of Belmont. With the beginning of the war's guerrilla warfare phase, the battalion took part in numerous pacification campaigns against the Boers in Pretoria and Western Transvaal. The 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, formerly the South Cork Light Infantry, was embodied in early December 1899, and 435 officers and men embarked the SS Sumatra for South Africa on 23 February 1900. The 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, arrived in South Africa from India in December 1901 and served during the closing stages of the campaign, garrisoning blockhouses in the northeast of the Orange River Colony.

Following the end of the war in 1902 the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers were sent to India. More than 520 officers and men left Cape Town on the SS Lake Manitoba in September 1902, arriving at Bombay the following month and were then stationed at Multan in Punjab. They would later take part in actions against the tribes of the North-West Frontier in 1908. The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers left South Africa soon after their sister battalion, and 450 officers and men returned to Cork Harbour on the SS Orient in early November 1902.

First World War
Prior to the First World War, the Royal Munster Fusiliers were an established strength of two regular service and three reserve battalions. With the outbreak of war in August 1914, the need for further divisions resulted in the creation of a New Army made up of volunteers who would serve for the duration of the war. This rapid expansion of the British Army would significantly increase the size of the Royal Munster Fusiliers who between their regular, reserve and volunteer battalions would have a combined strength of 11 raised battalions throughout the war.

At the outbreak of war the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers was acting as a regular garrison in Rangoon, Burma, having been based in the Far East since they had left Fermoy in 1899 to fight in the Second Boer War. The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers were based at Aldershot, England as part of the 1st Army Brigade of the 1st Division at the outbreak of war. At the outbreak of war the Royal Munster Fusiliers three reserve battalions were all mobilised on 4 August 1914 and the regimental colours were sent to Tralee for safekeeping there until after the Armistice.

1914: Arrival in France and the Great Retreat
At the outbreak of war, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers was under strength, and reservists were called up from the regimental depots at Tralee and Fermoy amid much local cheering, to join the battalion at Aldershot which brought the battalion up to a strength of 27 officers and 971 other ranks before its departure to France on 13 August 1914. As part of the British Expeditionary Force, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers took part in the Battle of Mons and on 27 August were given the arduous task of forming the rearguard to cover the retreat of the 1st Division in the face of the German advance, with instructions to retreat only if ordered. The Munster's made an epic stand in a renowned rearguard action during the defence of Etreux, losing 9 officers and 87 other ranks killed while holding out, with most of the rest of the battalion being surrounded and taken prisoner after running out of ammunition. The Munster's had stemmed the Germans, who were five or six times their strength, for over a day, allowing their division to escape. The loss on an entire battalion so early in the war was a disaster for the regiment. When the scattered battalion reassembled on 29 August it was down to a mere 5 officers and 196 other ranks. The remnants of the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers were withdrawn to be recuperated before returning to battle, seeing action most notably at Langemarck, Belgium on 22 October. By 5 November, recruits from home brought its strength up to over 800 men. The battalion next saw action near Zillebeke, Belgium on 12 November and helped to defend against the last great German effort in the First Battle of Ypres. From 15 November, as snows began, they drove off further attacks, with trench warfare now becoming dominant. In early December they aided in the evacuation of the Ypres Benedictine Convent, whose occupants subsequently established Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, Ireland.

The battalion was moved south to the Festubert sector in France, after a 36-hour march were ordered on 22 December to fill a gap by taking two lines of trenches. There were 200 casualties in the first 10 minutes of heavy fire. Withdrawing in total exhaustion on the next day, many wounded drowned in water-filled shell holes. Throughout Christmas and New Year they were fully occupied maintaining the trenches. On 25 January, the Kaiser's birthday the Germans tried unsuccessfully to break through with terrific shellfire. There then followed three months of rebuilding and training the battalion when it numbered 28 officers and 700 other ranks in May. Only four of the officers were pre-war.

1915: Gallipoli and the Second Battle of Ypres
The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, who had been stationed in Burma, arrived back at Avonmouth, UK in January 1915, and were entrained for Coventry where it was assigned to the 86th Brigade of the 29th Division (United Kingdom). In March it sailed for the Dardanelles, Turkey, when it numbered 28 officers and 1,002 other ranks. Turkey had joined the Central Powers's side in November 1914, the object of the landing on the Dardanelles peninsula was to open the Dardanelles Strait in the Battle of Gallipoli to enable Allied relief convoys reach Russia. Aboard the SS River Clyde, a converted collier with a capacity for over 2,000 men, they arrived on 25 April together with the 1st Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers and some companies of the Royal Hampshires.

The SS River Clyde ran gently ashore, its exit bows facing the beach, for what was to be the troubled British landing at Cape Helles. Small boats first carried companies of Dubliners to the beach, however four hidden Turkish machine gun posts opened fire and decimated them. Lighters to the shore were roped together and two companies of Munsters poured out on to the bow's gangway but were also hit by machine gun fire, with one survivor saying they were 'literally slaughtered like rats in a trap'. Many of the Munsters jumped from the gangway in the face of the withering fire and some drowned under their heavy equipment. Those men who continued down the gangway were mown down until all the boats and lighters were filled with dead and wounded. The ship's commanding officer, Captain Edward Unwin, on being informed that they were not succeeding, replied "in British military tradition, offensives once begun are never called off". Unwin was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions that day. At daybreak the next day, just three companies of Munsters, two companies of Hampshires and one company of Dubliners had made it to the shelter of some dunes. On 26 April they took fort Sedd-el-Bahr overlooking the bay, charging and taking the village behind and held off several Turkish counterattacks. It was in this attack that the heroic actions of William Cosgrove won the regiment's first Victoria Cross. The 28 April saw a renewed attack in the Battle for Krithia village, but the survivors of the landing were withdrawn by 29 April due to heavy losses and amalgamated with the surviving Dublin Fusiliers, to form the "Dubsters" battalion of 8 officers and 770 men.

The Turks launched a renewed attack on the night of 1 May, with one Royal Munster Fusilier saying "they crept up in the dark into our trenches bayoneting our men before we knew it had begun. Bayoneting on both sides was terrible. At dawn the Turks were mowed down, and heaps of bodies and streams of blood remaining everywhere." The battalion was reduced to 4 officers and 430 men, with the Turks attempting further attacks the following days only to be driven off once again, but the combined force of Munster and Dublin Fusiliers were down to 372 men by 11 April. Both the Munsters and Dubliners received new drafts on 29 May and became separate units again. By 4 June, the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers numbered 40 officers and 500 other ranks, but many the new recruits were young and inexperienced. The Munsters withheld a further Turkish attack on 17 June, killing over 300 Turks. The arrival of further new drafts replenished the battalion to 23 officers and other 588 ranks. The Munsters took part in the Division's assault on 28 June which secured five trench lines. This provoked a general attack by the Turkish side along the Cape Helles front on 5 July, but the Turks were repulsed after suffering heavy losses.

The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers participated in limited actions into the middle of July. A month's rest was promised on 15 July, but by 22 July the battalion were back in action, their strength around 500 of whom only 3 officers and 314 men remained from those who first landed on 25 April. The climax of the Gallipoli came with the Suvla attack on 21 August in the Battle of Scimitar Hill, the Turks inflicted severe casualties. The unsuccessful attack cost the Munsters 3 officers and 79 men that day alone. There was little further action other than holding front lines from September through to November, when the weather worsened. Late in November, gales swept over the peninsula, hundreds were drowned in the flooded trenches or from exposure and frostbite. Faced with defeat, the British decided to withdraw from the peninsula and the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers was evacuated as it arrived, on the River Clyde, sailing on 2 January 1916 for Alexandria. From there it sailed with the rest of the 29th Division and arrived in France on 22 March. 3 years of warfare still remained for the battalion on the Western Front, but the battalion had already suffered 45% of its total losses for the entire war at Gallipoli, and numbered just 24 officers and 287 men when disembarking in France.

While their sister battalion had been fighting on the shores of Gallipoli, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers had continued to serve on the Western Front and faced their first major action of 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres, during which they fought at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. The day before the attack was to be launched on 9 May, the battalion received Absolution from their chaplain, Father Francis Gleeson, an event which would become depicted in the famous "Rue du Bois" painting by Fortunino Matania. The British bombardment began at 5 a.m. and the Munsters then pressed forward with extraordinary bravery, with German fire sweeping no-mans-land. Some of the Munsters audaciously charging ahead through the German lines, briefly waving a green flag on its breastwork, then moved beyond until cut off by the British artillery bombardment that followed, which killed many men sheltering in shell craters. By 11 a.m. the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers was withdrawn with only 3 officers and 200 men remaining, having lost 19 officers and 370 men killed, wounded or captured. The Munsters was one of only two British battalions to reach the German lines but they had suffered the regiment's highest loss of any one day of the war, with 11 officers and 140 men killed in action. It was an unsuccessful day for the British forces overall, with casualties exceeding 11,000, the devastating losses exposing the British forces weakness in artillery.

The summer was relatively quiet for the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers after the battalion moved to the Loos sector in June, with casualties in July and August occurring from shelling. With other forces being withdrawn to reinforce the Gallipoli Campaign, no reinforcements or recruits arrived during the summer, keeping the battalion weak as the Loos offensive began on 25 September 1915. The Munsters were held in reserve at first but they were soon tasked with holding the line and suffered over 200 casualties, leaving the battalion with around 350 soldiers all ranks, which further reduced to 250 by the time the battle died down on 13 October. John Redmond M.P., the Irish leader, visited the battalion a month later on 15 November and promised to fill the depleted 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers with Irish recruits. There followed three months of bitter winter weather in appalling trench conditions. New recruits began arriving over the winter, but in the relative inactivity, 65 men were hit by harassing random fire while 40 men went down with frostbite and trench fever in the Arctic weather before the winter had ended.

1916: The Battle of the Somme
The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers entered the front lines in France for the first time on 23 April 1916 at the Somme sector, where they slowly built up strength to 26 officers and 476 men. On 29 May, the battalion was assigned to the 48th Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division at Béthune and they were reinforced by members from the disbanded 9th Royal Munster Fusiliers, bringing the Battalion up to full strength. The Munsters remained in the area of the Loos salient into August with only intermittent casualties. When the 16th Irish Division was ordered south of the Somme battlefield, the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers entered the line facing the strategic town of Ginchy on 5 September, having suffered over 200 casualties by gas-shelling on the way. The Munsters took part in the ensuing attack and triumphant capture of Ginchy by the 16th Division but at a high cost for the battalion which was reduced to 5 officers and 305 other ranks. A London newspaper headlined How the Irish took Ginchy – Splendid daring of the Irish troops.

In May, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers received many of the personnel from the disbanded 9th Royal Munster Fusiliers, bringing it up to strength for the summer campaign. The battalions' first noteworthy operation was the carefully planned Liévin raid on 25 June. It was during this action that Lieutenant Arthur Batten-Pooll would win the regiment's second Victoria Cross, although losses were heavy for the battalion with 5 officers and 60 other ranks killed or wounded. The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers were transferred with its division down to the Somme sector in July for the opening of the Battle of the Somme, entering the lines on 14 July and capturing its objectives two days later. The battalion repulsed the German counterattack on 18 July, with an officer and 26 men killed, 127 wounded and 50 gassed. The Munsters were in reserve until 20 August, when they entered the lines once again for steady fighting but ran into heavy off-target and ineffective British artillery bombardment, killing 4 officers and 29 other ranks. A continual toll of casualties made September a costly month for the battalion. After a month's break in October, the 2 Royal Munster Fusiliers returned to the Somme for maintenance duties, then went into the mud filled front-line trenches from 27 November onwards, with a steady stream of casualties from frostbite and raids continuing to the end of December. Throughout the Somme campaign the 2RMF retained its local and Irish character.

Following the end of their involvement in the Battle of the Somme, 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers was moved northwards to Ypres in Belgium and also absorbed the remnants of the 8th Royal Munster Fusiliers on 23 November to bring it up to a strength of 48 officers and 1,069 men by 1 December. The Munsters spent Christmas 1916 in the trenches, but as the New Year arrived, an official report relates "as if by mutual consent both sides ceased fire a minute or two before the close of the old year. On the stroke of midnight the pipers tuned up and gave us The Old Year out and the New Year in, A Nation Once Again ,God Save Ireland, and a few more songs of the old country, N.C.O.s and men joining lustily in the choruses".

1917: The Battle of Messines and Passchendaele

Following a period of rest in January 1917, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers were returned the front trenches again in February at Barleux, with the thawing weather resulting in extremely muddy conditions in the trenches. In March, the first major event was the German withdrawal from the old Somme battlefield to the newly constructed Hindenburg Line. The battalion followed across the Somme, but was held up into May removing mines and booby-traps and repairing communications. The Munsters then moved to near Nieuwpoort in Flanders for an intended amphibious landing, with an impressive strength of 43 officers and 1,070 men, which was aborted following a surprise German attack on 10 July. The Munsters were then moved with their division to Dunkirk for another amphibious attempt near Zeebrugge to link with a land offensive through Passchendaele, but this was also cancelled when the land offensive did not gain enough footing.

For the men of the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, rotating routine trench duties continued up to the middle of March with light casualties (2 officers and 20 men killed). The battalion rehearsed special training during April and May for the assault on the strategic Messines Ridge. The Flanders offensive began at 3.10am on 7 June 1917 with the detonation of nineteen huge mines previously burrowed under the German lines. This was followed by the advance of the 16th Irish Division opposite the village of Wytschaete, to the right the 36th (Ulster) Division opposite the village of Messines, the largest ever concentration of Irish soldiers on a battlefield. The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers took all its objectives on schedule despite the loss of nearly all of its supporting tanks. The subsequent battle was a complete success militarily for the British, with the two Irish divisions showing great fortitude, advancing over two miles in a few days with minimal losses, which was exceptional by Western Front standards. The battalion was then relieved, and returned to the Ypres salient front section in August. Continuous rain turned the battlefront into a sea of mud causing a multitude of casualties and failure to take specific positions, reducing the battalion to 37 officers and 701 men. The Munsters were moved with its Division back south into France where it built up to 1,089 all ranks.

The 16th (Irish) Division, and with it the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, took up positions north of the main attack during the first Battle of Cambrai which opened on 21 November with the use of over 450 British tanks. The Munsters advanced with such speed that only one enemy machine gun post was manned in time to open fire, which was taken with one loss. Considering the success of capturing a difficult objective without tank support and taking 170 prisoners, losses were light, and followed previously unsuccessful attempts by other units during the summer. The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers final front tour of 1917 ended on 2 December when the Division was moved south to take over a French section.

By 6 November 1917, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers now numbered 20 officers and 630 other ranks when it arrived at "Irish Farm" in the Ypres salient. The ground was a quagmire full of water-logged shell-holes following four months of battle. It was to be the last British effort of the Passchendaele campaign. The Munsters were to be one of two battalions leading the 1st Division's attack at 6 a.m. on 10 November. Weighed down with equipment, they waded waist deep through mud and water, initially taking all objectives within 45 minutes. Seeing the progress by the Canadians on the right, the men of the Munsters pressed on. However, the South Wales Borders advance had left a gap the Germans made use of to cut off most of the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers who then had to fight their way back to the British lines. A roll call took three hours later saw only 7 officers and 240 other ranks present with 12 officers and 393 other ranks having become casualties. The battalion was moved out to Brieulles for reforming for the rest of the year.

1918: The German Spring Offensive and Final Victory
From January through to March, the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers was involved in various engagements in snow, frost and mud. By St. Patrick's Day 1918, it became clear that the Germans were gaining the initiative and their forecast "Big Move" was awaited. By the end of January 1918 the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers numbered 44 officers and 823 other ranks, and was then transferred to the 48th Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division on 3 February near Peronne where it entered the lines a week later. The division was now under the command of General Hubert Gough.

The British front was at its lengthiest when the German spring offensive opened with a devastating bombardment early on 21 March 1918, after which a fierce attack by fresh troops was launched. The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers suffered badly from the shelling but held the Germans up all night, before they broke through and overwhelmed the Munsters who dashed to retreat, with some making it to a high ridge trench where they were driven out and retired to Epehy by dark, fog having allowed the Germans to infiltrate easily. The next day the battalion was withdrawn to Tincourt where the depleted 16th (Irish) Division was concentrated, with the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers now numbering only 290 other ranks, from 629 the day before. On 22 March, the battalion crossed back over the Somme at Péronne. By 25 March, the battalion had lost 27 officers and 550 men, as the rest tried to reform, holding off several attacks and near encirclements. The Munsters formed a 400-man column and attempted a night retreat, half reaching friendly positions next morning at Hamel. The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers was fortunate to be in reserve as the Germans opened the offensive with a gas-bombardment. By the next day, the battalion was heavily engaged, the enemy using a new zigzag attack strategy. The battalion retaliated but was forced to withdraw and were quickly down to 7 officers and 450 men. There was then a general withdrawal across the Somme at Peronne, by which time the battalion was reduced to just 290 men.

The German offensive had decimated the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers to a shadow of its previous strength. The 16th (Irish) Division was reduced to cadre, having suffered the heaviest losses of any British division during the March retreat. The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers was transferred to the 57th (2nd W.Lancs) Division which had not seen action since its arrival in February 1917. The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers was largely destroyed by the German offensive, losing 36 officers and 796 other ranks since 21 March. The battalion moved northwards to amalgamate with the equally hard hit 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers at Inghem on 14 April, with the resulting unit numbering 28 officers and 896 other ranks. The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers was then reduced to a training cadre of 11 officers, who left the 16th (Irish) Division to provide instruction for newly arrived American Expeditionary Force.

In May, the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers entered the lines again at Gommecourt, a quiet sector during the summer. On 27 August, the battalion again entered the line for an attack near Croisilles, taking enemy support trenches on the Hindenburg Line in half an hour with minimal losses. This was followed by the assault of 2 September when Martin Doyle won the battalion's third Victoria Cross on the Drocourt–Queant Line south of the river Scarpe, with the battalion suffering 350 casualties. The battalion was then relieved and received replacements and trained in preparation for the assault on the Cambrai to St. Quentin line. With a 3,000-yard advance on 27 September, Graincourt was captured by the Munsters. The Germans counter-attacked, recapturing many positions. The battalion remained under shellfire even behind the lines and was reduced to 7 officers and 261 men by 3 October. The battalion supported the final attack of the Battle of Cambrai on 8 October, which was found to be evacuated the following day as the Germans were in disorganised retreat. The 57th Division was then sent north to Armentières, with the Munsters entering the line on 17 October, with no resistance. Lille was captured the following day and the battalion provided a guard of honour for the French President's visit to the city on 21 October. The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers was billeted in Lille until the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers began reconstruction on 7 June 1918 when most of the 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers who had returned from Palestine were transferred to the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers. The battalion made its last transfer to the 150th Brigade of the 50th Division at Arras for the beginning of the Hundred Days Offensive. On 1 October, the battalion was transported to Épehy, which had been the scene of its Spring Offensive experiences back in March, and it was again ordered into the lines on 4 October, to capture Le Catelet. The Munsters largely gaining their objective, however, they had to retire after encountering heavy counterattacks and failures elsewhere on the line, losing many 6st Royal Munster Fusiliers pre-war veterans who had survived Gallipoli. The 50th Division's advance was resumed on 10 October, and the battalion was reduced to 13 officers and 411 men by 16 October. The Battle of Épehy began on 18 October to drive the Germans behind the river, with the Munsters going in next day in fog surprising the Germans and taking many prisoner as well the objectives. The Munsters overran their objectives and were caught in another Division's barrage, with heavy losses experienced. They were then withdrawn and reorganised for what to be their final operation of the war, successfully taking a large area around Haute Noyelles on 4 November, the number of prisoners taken indicative of the low state of German morale. After a counter-bombardment on 7 November the battalion was withdrawn for the remaining days up until the Armistice.

New Army
With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the immediate need for a considerable expansion of the British Army resulted in the formation of the New Army under Lord Kitchener. The war target was seventy divisions in all, the New Army to have thirty volunteer divisions separate and under Army Order 324, as additional from the Regular Army, with a planned period of service of at least three years. On 7 August a general United Kingdom-wide call for 100,000 volunteers aged 19–30 was issued. The battalions were to be distinguished by the word 'Service' after their number.

The first new battalions were raised as units of Kitchener's new K1 Army Group, which led to the formation of the 6th and 7th (Service) Battalions, Royal Munster Fusiliers which were a part of the 30th Brigade of the 10th (Irish) Division, under the command of General Bryan Mahon. The 8th and 9th (Service) Battalions, Royal Munster Fusiliers followed as units of the 16th (Irish) Division's 47th and 48th Brigades, part of Kitchener's second new K2 Army Group. The 16th Division was placed under the command of Major General William Hickie. In the course of the war heavy losses suffered by the two Regular Royal Munster Fusilier Battalions caused the new service battalions to be disbanded and absorbed in turn by the regular battalions, the last on 2 June 1918 when the 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers was amalgamated with the 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers.

Reserve Army
At the outbreak of war the Royal Munster Fusiliers three reserve battalions were all mobilised on 4 August 1914 and the regimental colours were sent to Tralee for safekeeping there until after the Armistice. Initially planned to be used for home defence, with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers being based in Cork while both the 4th and 5th Battalions, Royal Munster Fusiliers were based in Kerry. However, mounting casualties to the regiment's regular battalion meant that replacements were increasingly drawn from the reservists as the war went on.

Disbandment
Last reassembled in France in December before demobilisation, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers numbered 25 officers and 581 other ranks. After demobilisation by February, the last cadre of 14 officers and 54 other ranks left France in June 1919 and was reabsorbed into the reformed battalion on the Isle of Wight numbering 900 men, of these 500 with war service. Their last commander wrote "Its losses amounted to 179 officers and 4,088 rank and file killed, wounded or missing. There were twenty-eight changes in the battalion's command during the war. The battalion retained its essentially Irish character to the end of the war, and was first to last composed of voluntarily enlisted soldiers. During the war 346 officers and over 8,000 O.R.s passed through its ranks". The 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers remained a predominantly Irish battalion to the end of the war, composed of many Dublin Fusiliers from May 1918. At least 43 officers and 869 other ranks died in action with the battalion during the war. It was demobilised in December, reducing it to 13 officers and 89 others, before leaving France.

In May 1919, after returning to England, the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers absorbed the 3rd Royal Munster Fusiliers at Plymouth. It left for Silesia in September 1921, returning the following April to be disbanded in July 1922, ending a history going back 250 years. The 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers served in Egypt from November 1919 to May 1922, returning for demobilisation and disbandment in July 1922. Due to substantial defence cuts and the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 (predecessor of the Republic of Ireland), it was agreed that the six former Southern Ireland regiments would be disbanded, including the Royal Munster Fusiliers. On 12 June, five regimental Colours were laid up in a ceremony at St George's Hall, Windsor Castle in the presence of HM King George V. (The South Irish Horse had sent a Regimental engraving because the regiment chose to have its standard remain in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin). The six regiments were then all disbanded on 31 July 1922.

With the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, some thousands of the Irish regiment's ex-servicemen and officers contributed to expanding the Free State government's newly formed National Army. In its ranks, Royal Munster Fusiliers ex–servicemen, veterans from World War I, served at the side of IRA ex-guerrillas who only a few months earlier had fought against the British Army in the Irish War of Independence. They brought considerable combat experience with them and by May 1923 comprised 50 per cent of its 53,000 soldiers and 20 per cent of its officers. The Irish National Army reached a strength of 60,000.

Legacy
On 30 September 2005, Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, in a gesture of reconciliation, unveiled a newly refurbished Memorial Arch at the former British Army barracks in Tipperary. On that occasion, the Royal Munster Fusiliers banner was ceremoniously carried and displayed in the area where the regiment had been active.

Victoria Cross recipients

 * William Cosgrove 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, Great War.
 * Martin Doyle 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, Great War.
 * Arthur Batten-Pooll 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, Great War.

Great War memorials

 * Irish National War Memorial Gardens, Dublin.
 * Island of Ireland Peace Park Messines, Belgium.
 * Menin Gate Memorial Ypres, Belgium.

Regimental Colonels
Colonels of the regiment were:
 * 29 December 1873 (1st Battalion): Gen. Corbet Cotton (ex 101st Foot)
 * 16 May 1874 (2nd Battalion): F.M. Sir Frederick Paul Haines, GCB, GCSI, CIE
 * 5 October 1890: Gen. William Richard Preston
 * 7 April 1892: Gen. Henry Meade Hamilton, CB
 * 15 July 1895: Lt-Gen. Robert Stuart Baynes
 * 26 March 1899: Lt-Gen. William Rickman
 * 23 August 1900: Lt-Gen. John Wimburn Laurie, CB
 * 21 May 1912: Lt-Gen. Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles, GCB, GBE, CVO
 * 31 July 1922: Regiment disbanded

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Drag It Up

Drag It Up is a studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). The album's title comes from the fourth track, "Smokers."

The album peaked at #120 on the Billboard 200.

Critical reception
No Depression wrote that "at least half the record is subdued in tone and tempo. If the overall result isn’t quite as rawk, well, the sound suits the songs, and that makes all the difference." The Hartford Courant wrote that "the songwriting is only fair, and the murky songs sound like they were recorded in a tin shed during a heavy downpour." The Cleveland Scene called the album "joyous alt-country."

Track listing
All tracks by Rhett Miller, Ken Bethea, Murry Hammond and Philip Peeples.

 * 1) "Won't Be Home" - 4:48
 * 2) "Moonlight" - 3:40
 * 3) "Borrowed Bride" - 2:08
 * 4) "Smokers" (vocals by Murry Hammond) - 3:52
 * 5) "Coahuila" (vocals by Ken Bethea) - 2:27
 * 6) "Blinding Sheets Of Rain" - 3:20
 * 7) "Valium Waltz" - 4:39
 * 8) "In The Satellite Rides A Star" (vocals by Murry Hammond) - 4:40
 * 9) "The New Kid" - 3:41
 * 10) "Bloomington" - 3:27
 * 11) "Adelaide" - 3:29
 * 12) "Friends Forever" - 3:08
 * 13) "No Mother" - 4:59

Personnel
Old 97's Additional Musicians
 * Rhett Miller - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, backup vocals on "Smokers" and "Satellite," additional backup vocals on "Coahulia"
 * Murry Hammond - bass, backing vocals, harmonium on "No Mother," electric guitar on "New Kid," lead guitar and tambourine on "Bloomington," lead vocals on "Smokers," vocals, acoustic guitar and shaker on "Satellite"
 * Ken Bethea - lead guitar, accordion, no. 2 plectrum on "No Mother," lead vocals on "Coahulia"
 * Philip Peeples - drums, shakers, tambourines
 * Ken, Murry, Rhett and Philip - group backup vocals on "No Mother," "Friends Forever" and "Smokers"
 * Craig Packham - tambourine on "New Kid"
 * Archie Thompson - piano on "Borrowed Bride"
 * Mitch Manker - trumpet on "Adelaide," appears courtesy of the Ray Charles Orchestra
 * Sarah Neill - age 2, backward piano on "Valium Waltz"
 * Chris Lawrence - pedal steel guitar on "Moonlight" and "Blinding Sheets of Rain"

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The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty

The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty (later called The New Adventures of Waldo Kitty) is an American animated and partially live-action television series, produced by Filmation, which originally aired for one season on Saturday mornings on NBC from September 6 to November 29, 1975. Howard Morris, Jane Webb, and Allan Melvin provided voices for the three main characters on the series. The show follows a cat named Waldo who daydreams of being a superhero and defeating the villainous bulldog Tyrone. It was inspired by James Thurber's 1939 short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", and his widow Helen Thurber sued Filmation in 1975 for creating the series without the permission of her husband's estate. The outcome of the decision resulted in the series being retitled in future broadcasts as The New Adventures of Waldo Kitty.

The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty was produced by Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott and directed by Don Christensen and Rudy Larriva. Critically, a positive response was aimed at the show's imaginative story lines and its ability to parody pop culture events well. However, producer Scheimer was extremely upset by the series' final result, listing the issues that arose during production and the minimal number of episodes produced as reasons for this, among others. The series has a total of just 13 episodes. In 1989, three episodes from The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty were featured on a VHS tape released by United American Video.

Premise and description
The series was inspired by Walter Mitty, the main character in James Thurber's 1939 short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". Each episode began with live action footage of Waldo and Felicia, who were usually being bullied by Tyrone. Waldo would then daydream about being a superhero and coming to the rescue of others. The series contained a lot of satire per the request of Filmation and cited television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and magazine Mad as the reason why.

Characters
The series features the following three main characters throughout its run:
 * Howard Morris as Waldo, a "fraidy cat" who enjoys imagining and dreaming that he is a superhero; he pictures himself in a variety of personas, including Catman, Robin Cat, The Lone Kitty, Captain Herc, and Catzan.
 * Jane Webb as Felicia, a cat who is Waldo's girlfriend and trusty companion. During the animation portions of the show, she is usually held captive or kidnapped by Tyrone and eventually rescued by Waldo.
 * Allan Melvin as Tyrone, an evil English bulldog. He generally bullies Waldo and Felicia in each episode, during both the animated and live action segments. Scheimer selected Melvin to voice Tyrone as he had "a hoarse [and] very deep voice".

Production and filming
The concept for The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty was first developed by Lorna Smith, who was in charge of the layout of several Filmation series at the time. Being a "big cat lover", she suggested to Scheimer that they create a series led by cats; however, according to Scheimer, he didn't remember their conversation but because "she raised a fuss" regarding the issue, Smith ultimately received credit for the idea in the show's credits. Scheimer claimed in a 2012 autobiography, co-written by Andy Mangels, that the production of the series was also extremely problematic. In 1974, NBC reduced the episode orders on its green-lit series from sixteen to thirteen episodes, which Scheimer felt made it very difficult to sell the show to different markets around the world. He said that with just thirteen episodes, "you were always taking a chance that you were producing something that was going to have no value except on commercial television in the United States".

Executively produced by Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott's Filmation, Don Christensen and Rudy Larriva served as the series' two directors. Additionally, Jim Ryan and Bill Danch contributed as head writers to the series, while Ray Ellis (under the alias name Yvette Blais) and Jeff Michael composed the opening theme music for the show. Since the series' title and story were a play on Thurber's short story without the permission of his estate, his wife Helen Thurber filed a lawsuit against Filmation in 1975. She cited that the company "debas[ed] and distort[ed]" her late husband's story. Due to the controversy, Filmation ultimately settled with Thurber and changed the title to The New Adventures of Waldo Kitty in syndication.

In the early 1970s, Filmation began producing several new series for the Big Three television networks. They started creating live action series, instead of just animation ones, and also series that combined both. While a majority of the series was animated, live-action segments involving actual animals were also included to separate different scenes in an episode. According to Scheimer, filming with the animals was tough, as the bulldog who portrayed Tyrone would often chase the cats on set around and not stay still during filming.

Broadcast history
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty was broadcast on NBC as part of their Saturday morning children's lineup between September 6 and November 29, 1975, and before being cancelled, it continued to air regularly on the network until September 4, 1976. In March 1976, Filmation received news from NBC that they had decided not to renew the series for a second season and instead chose to focus on "spread[ing] their schedule between reruns of vintage toons and new live-action shows". At its original allocated time slot, the series aired immediately after syndicated repeats of Josie and the Pussycats (1970–1971) and right before new episodes of The Pink Panther Show (1969–1980).

In August 1989, United American Video released several Filmation series on VHS in the United States. As part of their limited line of "budget" VHS tapes, they released The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Groovie Goolies (1970), Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–1985), My Favorite Martians (1973), Space Sentinels (1977), and Blackstar (1981) for the first time ever. The tape featuring The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty contained just three of the thirteen episodes.

Critical reception
Many years later, authors Timothy Burke and Kevin Burke wrote in Saturday Morning Fever: Growing Up with Cartoon Culture called the show a "special treat" and appreciated it for being able to parody "pop culture stables" cleverly. They enjoyed that Waldo was selected as the main character because there was "no more perfect a character for kids to empathize with than a shy dreamer who lives out a thousand adventures in his or her head". They also speculated that Wishbone (1995–1997) contained the same premise as The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, but with a dog as the main character instead of a cat. Producer Scheimer was hugely disappointed by the entire series, calling it "a mistake on many levels".

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The Telephone (opera)

The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois is an English-language comic opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti, both words and music. It was written for production by the Ballet Society and was first presented on a double bill with Menotti's The Medium at the Heckscher Theater, New York City, February 18–20, 1947. The Broadway production took place on May 1, 1947, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Metropolitan Opera Company presented it once, at the Lewisohn Stadium, on July 31, 1965.

Synopsis
Ben, bearing a gift, comes to visit Lucy at her apartment; he wants to propose to her before he leaves on a trip. Despite his attempts to get her attention for sufficient time to ask his question, Lucy is occupied with interminable conversations on the telephone. Between her calls, when Lucy leaves the room, Ben even takes the risk of trying to cut the telephone cord, though his attempt is unsuccessful. Not wanting to miss his train, Ben leaves without asking Lucy for her hand in marriage. But Ben makes one last attempt: He calls Lucy from a telephone booth outside on the street and makes his proposal. She consents, and the two join in a romantic duet over the phone line, at the end of which Lucy makes sure that Ben remembers her phone number.

Recordings

 * Film and video
 * In 1968 a film of the opera was made for SFB / ORF, in German. Anja Silja and Eberhard Wächter portrayed the young couple. It was conducted by Milo Chamberlain, and the production was directed by Otto Schenk
 * In 2006 a DVD was licensed by Decca Music Group and released by Video Artists International, with Carole Farley and Russell Smythe in the roles and José Serebrier conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. This DVD also includes a performance of Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine, whose story also contains a telephone conversation.
 * In 2020, Scottish Opera and the Parea Series each released a film of the opera; both were set in the 21st century with smartphones as the titular telephone, with the Parea Series film set specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discography

 * The Medium, The Telephone, Elizabeth Hertzberg, Lorenzo Grante, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, Flavio Emilio Scogna, Brilliant Classics 95361, 2018.

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