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Vincenzo Sinatra

Vincenzo Sinatra (1707 – 1765) was a Sicilian architect. He was a pupil of Rosario Gagliardi. Sinatra worked in both the Baroque style and later in Neo-Classical style.

Following the 1693 earthquake, the city of Noto was completely rebuilt on a new site. Sinatra was responsible for many of the new buildings in the new city. His works in the city included the "Church of Montevergine", the "Church of San Giovanni Battista" and the "Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore" and its Loggiato in Ispica. One of his most notable works was the ground floor of Palazzo Ducezio (now the town hall known as the Municipio) which was begun in 1746; an upper floor was added in similar style in the early 20th century. He also designed the church of San Paolo, Palazzolo Acreide.

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Hugo Schiff

Hugo (Ugo) Schiff (26 April 1834 – 8 September 1915) was an Italian naturalized chemist. The son of a Jewish businessman and brother of the physiologist Moritz Schiff, Hugo Schiff was German by nationality. He discovered Schiff bases and other imines, and was responsible for research into aldehydes; leading to his development of the Schiff test. He also worked in the field of amino acids and the Biuret reagent.

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Schiff was a student of Friedrich Wöhler in Göttingen. He completed his dissertation (Über einige Naphthyl- und Phenylderivate) also supervised by Wöhler in 1857. In the same year, due to political turmoil, Schiff left Germany in 1857 for Switzerland and the University of Bern. He was a supporter of socialism and reportedly corresponded with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He also was a cofounder of the socialist Italian newspaper L'Avanti in 1894.

Schiff moved to Italy in 1863, holding positions in Pisa and then the Florence Museum of Natural History. In 1870 he cofounded the journal Gazzetta Chimica Italiana together with Stanislao Cannizzaro. In 1877 he became a professor of general chemistry in Turin and returned to Florence in 1879 as a professor of general chemistry at what later would become the University of Florence, where he founded the Chemical Institute of the University of Florence. Schiff died in Florence.

At the University of Florence, the Hugo Schiff International Store House still exists today.

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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 speedy delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:36, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Order of the white turtle
Unverifiable Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  16:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. No Google hits.  Probably an attack page on the guy named in the article. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  16:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * delete as above Pete.Hurd 21:38, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as an attack. Jkelly 22:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy deleted. It's a libelous attack page against the guy mentioned in the last sentence. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:36, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Igor B.

Hello, Igor. I see that you inserted a personal photo into the article, that's great. It should have a formal GFDL "tag" on its image description page (that you get to by clicking on the image in the article), and it should be personally inserted by you (not me), so could you do that, please? Don't remove anything of what you already said on the page, just add or , whichever is more appropriate. expands to

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Thank you very much for editing from a name account. I assume you will be using this account only now, and that the Igor Bogdanoff account may as well stay permanently blocked. I'm a little concerned that the autoblocker might get you if you should happen to come in from the same IP as one of the permablocked accounts; please let me know if you should have any problems editing now or in the future, from lingering autoblocks or whatever. If you can't get me, try for some computer-savvy admin such as Kim Bruning or NicholasTurnbull. (A randomly chosen admin may not even have heard of the autoblocker; I'm a little unsure about the details of it myself.)

Don't ever try to edit while blocked (though I hope you won't be in that situation again)! Doing that sets off the autoblocker and lengthens the block. I'm going to put a prominent warning and explanation about it to everybody, at the top of Talk:Bogdanov Affair, when I get the time. Please take a look at it when it appears, it'll have a useful link to the block log. Thanks again for registering this account. Best wishes, Bishonen | talk 16:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC).

Arbitration accepted
Requests for arbitration/Regarding The Bogdanov Affair has been accepted. Please place evidence at Requests for arbitration/Regarding The Bogdanov Affair/Evidence Fred Bauder 15:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Temporary block
Igor, you have reverted again the article, removing significant content and restoring an unsubstansciated and doubtful  part which I have specifically ask you to back up. So you and other people here start taking me a little bit seriously, I have blocked you for 24 hours. When you come back, I expect you to address this sort of questions and raise problems in a constructive manner. Thank you. Rama 16:03, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Claims of the Theses in layman's terms
Hi Igor. I'm starting to do a preliminary draft of sweeping (and neutral) edits to the Bogdanov Affair article. Could you do me a favor and provide me with a very brief (2 or 3 paragraphs) explanation in layman's terms of your and your brother's theses? I looked around a bit, but wasn't able to find anything suitable. Normally I wouldn't ask, but since you have such an extensive background in bringing these subjects to everyday people (and since you obviously have the best idea of what the papers say) I thought you'd be the best person to provide it.

Note that what I'm looking for is just a succinct explanation of the papers to provide context to the article about the whole controversy, not any discussion of the controversy itself. You can put it on my Talk page: User_talk:Bubamara. Thanks in advance for your help. Bubamara 16:39, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Three-revert rule violation, Bogdanov Affair
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3RR block, Bogdanov Affair
Dear Igor: You have been temporarily blocked for 24 hours, as you violated the three-revert rule on Bogdanov Affair. Regrettably, due to the revert war currently in progress over that page, I have had to adopt stricter enforcement of 3RR in an effort to bring it to a close. Please, do feel free to come back after the block has expires, but please, in the future, discuss the matter properly rather than reverting. If you need any help or assistance editing on Wikipedia, feel free to contact me. -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) (e-mail) (cabal) 00:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

A brief note about Neutral point of view and Autobiography
Dear Igor: Following your recent editing to Bogdanov Affair, and its subsequent reversion, I thought that I should explain to you the reason why the changes that you have made to the article have been reverted. You may find our policy document on article neutrality, Neutral point of view, of interest to you for information on how articles must prevent a fair and balanced view of subjects; your removal of statements critical of the Bogdanov papers, for example, would thus slant the article somewhat in the favour of your point of view, which would clearly not be acceptable. In addition, you may find it of interest to read our guidelines on writing articles relating to oneself, Autobiography, since it may give you some pointers on how to approach subjects which you are directly involved in from a more unbiased perspective when writing Wikipedia articles. I do hope this gives you some further information on how to make edits that are accepted by community consensus, and I would like to thank you for your continued work in improving this article. If you have any questions or concerns relating to Wikipedia editing, or would like administrative intervention on a matter relating to the article, please do contact me or another administrator. Best regards, -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) (e-mail) (cabal) 12:08, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

3RR violation block for Bogdanov Affair
Dear Igor: I regret that, once again, I have had to block you from editing for making 4 reverts within 24 hours on Bogdanov Affair, as per the zero-tolerance policy currently in force on that article. Since I have blocked other editors of that article for similar violations, it would be somewhat unjust of me not to do the same in the case of your violations. I would like to ask you, however, to please refrain from making more than three reverts within 24 hours in the future. Best regards, -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) (e-mail) (cabal) 16:11, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Ban on editors involved in Bogdanov Affair
All user accounts used by participants in the external controversy (involving the Bogdanov Affari) are banned from Wikipedia pending resolution of this matter. The criteria for determining external involvement shall be a review of their edit history, it being presumed that if the vast majority of their edits were to the Bogdanov Affair and related pages such as this arbitration that they are not Wikipedia editors but persons involved in the external dispute. This group includes:, , , , ,. ,, , , and all others who meet the criteria. , a regular Wikipedia editor, and, a new editor who has edited other areas, are banned from editing Bogdanov Affair, pending resolution of this matter.

A less restrictive injunction Requests_for_arbitration/Regarding_The_Bogdanov_Affair/Proposed_decision is under consideration and may replace the total bans. Fred Bauder 19:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Final decision
The arbitraton committee has reached a final decision in the Requests for arbitration/Regarding The Bogdanov Affair case. →Raul654 03:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

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David S. Weiss

David S. Weiss is an American comedy writer. He has written for Dennis Miller Live, CNBC's "Dennis Miller", The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. In 2005, he ran unsuccessfully for the Writers Guild of America board of directors.

From March 2007, he was Dennis Miller's talk radio sidekick on The Dennis Miller Show, where he was referred to as "Salman," or "Sal". Miller assigned Weiss the moniker early in their time working together, due to his purported resemblance to Sir Salman Rushdie. He was also referred to as "Count Dracu-sal" and an eerie organ music cue (Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) was played whenever he made funny and/or cryptic remarks that reflected his penchant for black comedy. Miller also frequently referred to "Sal" as his "go-to Jew", when he needed some inside information on Jewish culture and customs. Weiss is a banjo player. On February 17, 2009, after not missing a radio show for the first two years, Dennis Miller nicknamed the dark-humored comic the "Cal Ripken of Hate". During the February 22nd, 2010 show, it was announced on air Weiss would be leaving the show February 26 to pursue other opportunities.

He is married to television writer and story editor Joan Binder Weiss.

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what is this and why am i an "impersonator" and "sopckpuppet"????

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Bánánach

In early Irish folklore, the bánánach were preternatural beings, described as spectres which haunted battlefields.

In Táin Bó Cuailgne, these creatures are usually referred to as part of a list "bánanaig & boccanaig & geniti glinni & demna aeoír" - bánánachs, bócanachs, spirits of the glen and sky demons.

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Lars Hirschfeld

Lars Justin Hirschfeld (born 17 October 1978) is a Canadian retired soccer goalkeeper.

Club career
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, of German descent, Hirschfeld started his career with the Edmonton Drillers, playing indoor soccer. He has also played with Energie Cottbus in Germany, Calgary Storm, and Vancouver Whitecaps.

England and Scotland
In September 2002, he joined Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, but never featured for the first team. He went on loan to Luton Town and Gillingham before being released and joining Dundee United in August 2004. A move to Leicester City followed in January 2005, but Hirschfeld only made one appearance, keeping a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw against Plymouth Argyle on the last day of the season.

Norway
Tromsø IL then signed him as a replacement goalkeeper for the remainder of the Norwegian 2005-season. Hirschfeld made some crucial saves during Tromsø's campaign to avoid relegation and was a key figure in the UEFA Cup matches against Esbjerg fB and Galatasaray, both of which Tromsø won. Nordlys, a local newspaper, called Hirschfeld the greatest goalkeeper ever to play for Tromsø IL after only 6 matches at his new club, ranking him ahead of Einar Rossbach, Knut Borch and Bjarte Flem.

The following season, Hirschfeld won the Norwegian Tippeligaen with Rosenborg, having beaten Espen Johnsen for first-string goalie at the club. Hirschfeld was in goal when Rosenborg defeated Valencia CF twice in the UEFA Champions League 2007-08 group stage, recording two clean sheets in home-and-away 2-0 wins. He made a number of saves in his side's 1–1 draw away to English club Chelsea, the last match in charge of Chelsea for manager José Mourinho.

CFR Cluj
Hirschfeld played for CFR Cluj in Romania after joining from Rosenborg for €1,300,000 on 6 January 2008. With Cluj he immediately won the domestic double but he only played in 5 games in that first (half) season and he did not play at all for them in 2008/2009.

Energie Cottbus
He signed a two-year contract with Energie Cottbus on 26 June 2009.

Return to Norway
On 15 January 2010, he left his club Energie Cottbus and signed for Oslo club Vålerenga Fotball in Norway.

On 21 January 2016 he signed with KFUM which were promoted to the OBOS-ligaen (Norwegian second level) for the first time in 2015.

Coaching career
In January 2019 Hirschfeld joined FC Edmonton as their goalkeeping coach.

International career
He made his debut for Canada in a January 2000 friendly match against Bermuda but had to compete with Pat Onstad for the national goalkeeper's jersey. By November 2009, he earned a total of 29 caps. He has represented Canada in 6 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. Hirschfeld's big break with Canada came at the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup, where he was named the best goalkeeper of the tournament after allowing only four goals in five matches and recording an impressive semifinal shutout against the United States. This caused English club Tottenham Hotspur F.C. to take interest, and Hirschfeld signed with them in September 2002. On 8 June 2012, Hirschfeld was sent off in a 2014 World Cup qualifier against Cuba for handling the ball outside his penalty area, but Canada prevailed by a score of 1-0 despite the numerical disadvantage.

Individual

 * CONCACAF Gold Cup Most Valuable Goalkeeper: 2002
 * The Voyageurs Player of the Year:
 * Third place: 2007

Rosenborg BK

 * Norwegian Premier League: 2006

CFR Cluj

 * Liga I: 2007-08
 * Romanian Cup: 2008-09

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Buchanan Valley

Buchanan Valley may refer to:

 * Buchanan Valley in Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
 * Buchanan Valley Township, Emmons County, North Dakota, in the USA.
 * Buchanan Valley, between Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Chambersburg, in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. It was the site of the kidnap of Mary Jemison in the 18th century.
 * Buchanan Valley, an area of Pine Valley in Halfway, Baker City, Idaho, in the USA.

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Sur

Sur, SUR or El Sur may refer to:

Films

 * Sur (film), a 1988 Argentine film directed by Fernando Solanas
 * Sur, a 1970 Mexican film directed by Gabriel Retes
 * El Sur (film) 1983 film by Víctor Erice, based on the novella by Adelaida García Morales
 * Los Cuentos de Borges: El Sur (film) 1992 film by Carlos Saura
 * Sur – The Melody of Life, a 2002 Indian film directed by Tanuja Chandra

Literature

 * "Sur" (short story), a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
 * "El Sur" (story) ("The South"), a short story by Jorge Luis Borges
 * El Sur, a novella by Adelaida García Morales, basis of the film El Sur

Music

 * "Sur" (song), a tango song composed by Homero Manzi and Aníbal Troilo
 * Sur, a 1987 album by Uruguayan singer Jaime Roos
 * Sur, a chapter in Sindhi music and poetry
 * Svara (स्वर) or sur, the seven notes of the Indian musical scale

Periodicals

 * Sur (magazine), former literary journal published in Buenos Aires, backed by Victoria Ocampo
 * El Sur (newspaper), a Chilean newspaper

Television

 * Canal Sur, TV channel in Andalusia, Spain
 * Telesur, a Latin-American TV channel

Places

 * Shur (Bible) or Sur, a wilderness from the Book of Exodus
 * Sur (river), a river in Bavaria, Germany
 * Súr, a village in Hungary
 * Sur, Diyarbakır, a district and municipality of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey
 * Sur, Iran (disambiguation)
 * Sur, Oman, a town in Oman
 * Sur, Switzerland, a village
 * Sur State, a princely state of India merged with Idar State in 1821
 * Tyre, Lebanon (Arabic: Ṣūr; Phoenician: Ṣur; Turkish: Sur), a city in Lebanon

People

 * Sur (Pashtun tribe), a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
 * Sur (poet), a 16th-century blind Bhakti saint, poet and musician

Science and technology

 * Seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR), a statistical technique for analysing multivariate data
 * Sulfonylurea receptor (SUR), the molecular target of sulfonylurea antidiabetic drugs

Transport

 * Summer Beaver Airport (IATA airport code: SUR), southwest of the First Nations community of Nibinamik, Ontario, Canada
 * Surbiton railway station (National Rail station code SUR), London, England
 * SS Sur, a Panamanian coaster in service 1955–65

Other uses

 * Sur language, a minor Plateau language of Nigeria
 * Soviet ruble (ISO 4217 code: SUR), the currency of the Soviet Union
 * Sur offering, a burnt offering in Tibetan Buddhism
 * Sur SC, a sports club based in Sur, Oman
 * Sydney University Regiment, a regiment of the Australian Army

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Theophilos Kairis

Theophilos Kairis (Greek: Θεόφιλος Καΐρης; baptismal name Θωμᾶς Thomas; 19 October 1784 – 13 January 1853) was a Greek priest, philosopher and revolutionary. He was born in Andros, Cyclades, Ottoman Greece, as a son of a distinguished family.

Education
Kairis studied in the theological school of Smyrna and was ordained a Greek Orthodox priest. He spoke many languages ranging from Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, German, and English, that would allow him to participate in organizing the Greek War of Independence and to one day build the "Orphanotropheio" (Ὀρφανοτροφεῖο; Greek for "Orphanage"), a progressive school that embraced the modern university system. Kairis studied with Benjamin of Lesbos at the school of Kydonies, Asia Minor, and was introduced to contemporary science and Greek interpretations of natural science.

Kairis studied in Pisa and Paris, and shared to the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. He studied mathematics, natural sciences and philosophy. Kairis also had an interest in archaeology, making some major findings upon his native island of Andros. He also had an interest in botany and cataloged many of the plants of his local area, as well as documenting pharmacologic properties of various plants.

Revolutionary activities
Starting from 1811 he led Greek language high schools in Asia Minor. Eventually, he took an active part (1819–1826) in the Greek War of Independence and is now considered as an important figure in the History of Modern Greece.

On 10 May 1821 Theophilos Kairis, one of the leading intellectuals of the Greek Revolution, declared the War of Independence by raising the Greek flag at the picturesque cliffside church of St George on the island of Andros: at this time, a famous heartfelt speech, or "Rhetoras", inspired shipowners and merchants to contribute funds and contribute ships to build a Greek Navy to combat the Ottoman Empire.

There are many factors that influence the beginning of the Greek War of Independence. Furthermore, philosophy and science from Western Europe began to penetrate the culture of Greece at the same time of the establishment of the Philiki Etairia, which was composed of intellectuals and merchants.

The views of the Age of Enlightenment in European countries are in general well researched, while the attempts to introduce the Enlightenment to countries in the periphery of Europe, such as Greece, is not documented to the same degree. Many unanswered questions remain from this historical period, and surround the philosophic work of Theophilos Kairis. How did the scientific revolution migrate to the Greek-speaking regions occupied by the Ottoman Empire? How did the Greeks accept the truly revolutionary ideas of the French Revolution and liberalism? What were the reactions of the conservative Greek Orthodox Church and who sacrificed their lives in the cause of their ideas?

Many of the orphans from the Greek War of Independence, especially from the massacre from the island of Psara would form the body of the Orphanotropheio, in which Kairis taught many of the ideas learned from Philhellenes from all over Europe. Hence, this was the first true European university of Greece.

Though he was an ordained priest, Kairis fought in the War of Independence and was severely wounded in one battle. Towards the end of the war, he was selected to draft the verbiage for Greece's Constitution. But when the European Great powers of the time installed Otto von Wittelsbach as a kind of Viceroy of the Powers he was not ready to integrate himself into the new system. King Otto offered him the position of Director of the University of Athens and awarded him the Gold Cross (equivalent to the Medal of Honor) for his contribution to the war, but Kairis turned both of these down. Instead, he continued to teach radical ideas of the Enlightenment which brought him into conflict with the King and with the Eastern Orthodox Church. Kairis became a victim of the Eastern Orthodox Church's equivalent of the Holy Inquisition. Kairis suffered a tragic end reserved by fate for those who, being pioneers, tried to introduce to Greece the liberal ideas of Western Europe and the Enlightenment. The philosopher priest, Theophilos Kairis, following his conviction by the Holy Synod in 1839, was confined to the monastery in political exile on the island of Skiathos. He had been located to Syros for trial but died in 1853, 10 days before his judicial hearing, of natural causes.

Orphanotropheio of Theophilos Kairis
Kairis, along with a few disciples, founded a pietistic revivalist movement known as Theosebism, inspired by the French revolutionary cults, radical Protestantism and deism. This movement was anathematised by the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Beginning with 1826, Kairis dedicated himself to an institute for orphans of the Greek revolution on Andros. The "Orphantropheio", or orphan school, presented Kairis with the opportunity to introduce to the Greek education system a wide range of subjects ranging from comparative religion, astronomy, ship navigation, agriculture, applied mathematics, accounting, natural science, advanced mathematics, and Theosebism.

Members of the Orphanotripheio represented children from all sides of the Balkan conflict, with individuals from Bulgaria, Muslim Turks displaced by the Revolution, and Catholics who had inhabited the Greek island since the Middle Ages.

In fact, Kairis had a very different vision for an independent Greece, one that was based upon the concept of separation of church and state as proposed by Thomas Jefferson. Kairis advocated for a pan-Balkan state similar to the United States, that preserved the cosmopolitan nature of the post-Byzantine Empire era, where all creeds were equally free of tyranny from the oppressive Ottomans.

This was the prelude of the so-called Eastern Question, the gradual dismemberment of the decaying Ottoman Empire by the Great powers.

The Kairis Library
The library is housed in a wonderful neoclassical building, in Hora (or Andros Town) and contains about 3,000 tomes from the collection of Theophilos Kairis. In the library are also exposed a large number of rare publications, manuscripts, historical records, works of art and a small archaeological collection. Within the records, extensive letters demonstrating a network of intellectuals would update Kairis about the trends in European science and philosophy.

Also the mathematical treatises of Kairis are present, representing a very active and original intellect, who had written on complex themes, including on mathematical extensions of Pierre-Simon Laplace's Celestial Mechanics. Artifacts that demonstrate Kairis philosophic approach to understanding the energies (energiki ousia phiseos) of nature remain in the library, and highlight Kairis knowledge of Joseph Fourier's work on energy. Through various letters and correspondence, Kairis's approach to communicating with the various philhellenes demonstrates a network of intellectuals that were involved with the French Revolution. Kairis has been referred to as the "new Socrates" and was very active in didactic education. The island of Andros has a series of water fountains, and horizontal windmills constructed at the time the students from the orphanotropio were active on the Island, and represent applications from the Kairiki lessons.

One can find books by Professor Mavromatis in the library, who edited Kairis's mathematical work, focusing on how Kairis use the Newtonian binomial to find the roots of cardinal numbers.

Kairis was in constant communication with western intellectuals from Andros, and had communicated with Auguste Comte, and wrote on his treatises on sociology, then a newly emerging subject. Kairis has also incorporated these ideas into the curriculum of the orphanotropheio. Comte's ideas were tremendously influential on Kairis in the later years of the orphanotropheio, especially the idea that social ills can be solved as advocated by Jeremy Bentham.

Kairis spoke many languages and was interested in teaching philosophy from the ancient Greeks, translating the great poetry and theatre from antiquity, as well as the philosophic treatises of Aristotle and Plato. Furthermore, lessons on the progressive subject of comparative religion was to be invaluable for the would-be ship captains and merchants embarked on international trade. Kairis would teach theosphitism, but in the context of world religions, ranging from Buddhism, many describing the philosophical thought of Kairis similar in vein as with the Transcendentalism of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Kiaris emphasised poetry as part of the curriculum and taught Lord Byron's work, Robert Browning as well as poetry from the French and German speaking west. This was to create a naturalist and metaphysical aptitude balanced with the natural sciences and mathematics.

Unfortunately, the school was disbanded after Kairis was declared a heretic, but many of the orphanotropio would go on into the shipping professions, and were also versed in accounting and probability. Of notable family names who can trace back ancestors who were schooled by Kairis were the Goulandris and Emberikos families. Other students hid in the surrounding mountains, taking with them the banned books from the school, and continued to live with the inhabitants of the island working and building some of the most interesting windmills in Greece.

Indeed, Kairis had also taught his students the early field of Archeology, and conducted field trips on the island to the place he had discovered the ruins of a temple dedicated to Aphrodite prior to the Greek revolution.

To this day, every summer, art exhibitions are organized in the new exhibition area of the library.

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Talk:Energy intensity

Economic Energy Efficiency: This term may be referred to as something else by economists; the author (Petercorless) coined it simply because he has not encountered a formal term for this value yet. Comments and correction welcome.

Units should be energy/currency, right? lordspaz 23:10, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Also, where are the references? Is this original research? lordspaz 23:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Differing graphs
The graphs of this article are confusing and require quite some math to be compared with each other. The quantity to measure energy intensity is MJ/$ in the first, but $/MBTU in the latter. Thus, not only they have different units -- with BTU being absolutely obsolete from both scientific and European practical viewpoints -- but the measures are also reciprocals of each other. This is fairly confusing. 82.118.198.121 14:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, the definition in the introduction "It is calculated as units of energy per unit of GDP" is the inverse of the adjacent graph (entitled "GDP per unit of energy use"), which displays "PPP $ per kg of oil equivalent". Shouldn't supporting material in an article follow the definition given by the article? 84.72.109.26 (talk) 22:51, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

The second graph is incorrect
I am looking at the bottom graph ... I like this because it takes a point in time and compares different countries. However:

First - I would expect energy efficiency to reflect energy use over GDP - this has it flipped. This is how both engineers and economists view the world in terms of Input - Output relationships. ... for the economist, the Leontief total requirements would be Energy input / GDP (output); also called Leontief technical coefficient. For the engineer this is the consumption factor in the production cost buildup

In other words, energy consumption divided by GDP gives the amount of energy used in making gross product (output); as shown this should be called an energy GDP multiplier.

Second the bottom chart shows groupings by energy inefficient, moderately energy efficient and highly energy efficient - the labels are wrong - this suggests that the US, Euro, Japan etc. are energy inefficient and Bangladesh and the Philippines are highly energy efficient (!!).

Third, normally relationships show as independent vs. dependent variables which requires the y and x axes to be exchanged.

Fourth - if the relationship is between energy/GDP and GDP/capita these two ratios are cointegrated and any mathematical or visual representation gives an invalid interpretation. Not sure of the significance of the comment on use of "BTU" - from a Euro point of view ... BTU is used in other parts of the world ... what are you suggesting - have two charts ? ... when did Wiki become a EU web site? Davebecher (talk) 08:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

== The assertion in the bullet points in the introduction paragraph that high energy intensity means the cost of energy is more expensive and vice versa does not make sense. If the measure is energy per $$, then more $$ in the denominator will make the measure smaller. 71.117.206.228 (talk) 20:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

The first graph does not match the source data
The data in the first graph do not match the supplied source. In particular, energy consumption per unit of GDP is far higher in China than in any of the other countries in the graph (including Norway). The source uses BTU per 2000 PPP US dollar, so the author of the graph may have introduced mistakes when converting units. The graph should be replaced with a correct one. Faagel (talk) 09:52, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

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Criticism
I know nothing about this person, so I really don't have any information to go on except this article and its citations. When I read the criticism section, the first sentence appeared to be unsourced opinion. There's nothing wrong with opinion, obviously, but I'd rather get it from a credible source. The middle section seemed to be about an incident instead of actual criticism of the subject. The last section just repeated results of an "online poll" which at best just informed us about the people who click buttons on the Newsday.com site. I'm not sure any of the criticism section should be retained in the current form. Coleca 05:26, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

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Testimonial
As a father of a nine-year-old boy who shares my passion for the Yankees, Suzyn Waldman is dear to us. Now reading her life story, we are even more enchanted with her. Go Suzyn!

Re: "Georgie Girl"
"Georgie Girl" is a phrase used in a deprecating way by sports columnist Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News. Raissman is well-known by Daily News readers for his depiction of Yankees announcers, Waldman included, as shills for team management (hence the "George" in "Georgie Girl," a reference to George Steinbrenner). As a Yankees fan since 1974, I recommend that the term "Georgie Girl" be removed from its current place in the article, or at least put into context as I've described. -- ajk1962f-wikipedia (at) yahoo.com

Georgie Girl edit
It's vandalism, and only Raissman and Sterling call her that. I just took it out. MattyFridays 04:28, 15 August 2006 (UTC) MattyFridays

WP:BLP
Hi all, please make sure you reference negative statements. I just had to take out quite some text as it was not sourced. --Mbimmler 17:08, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh my goodness gracious
I don't know how the redirects works but when someone types "oh my goodness gracious" into a search i feel its reasonable they be redirected here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.37.64 (talk) 03:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

bahaha. interesting idea. --Boston Burkenation (talk) 20:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Sued the hospital?
She actually sued the hospital for not finding the cancer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.58.149.18 (talk) 18:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

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I looked her up on here because I was curious how old she was. I was perplexed that a person in the public eye for over 30 years does not have that info on here. She’s 75 btw, but why isn’t that info included here? 2600:1005:B04A:BEA6:610C:D783:A72F:6BD0 (talk) 18:16, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

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SWZ

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 * Western Sydney Airport, an airport formerly known by this code
 * Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country with the three-letter country code of SWZ

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Billy Joiner

Billy Joiner (10 May 1938 – 2019), was an American professional boxer from Cincinnati, U.S.

Early life
Joiner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 10 May 1938. His father was a former professional boxer, as was his uncle who had once knocked out Freddie Miller in a bout.

Amateur career
Joiner was the 1962 National Golden Gloves and National AAU Light-Heavyweight Champion and compiled an Amateur record of 86–6 (The Ring, March 1964), and won the National Golden Gloves with a win over Gerald McClure of Toledo, Ohio. He also fought Cassius Clay twice as an amateur between 1960–61. He made his professional debut in August 1962, stopping Jukius Dickins in two rounds.. Training in the Reading Hill Gym. Sparing partner. Rocky Susshine. Was training for his first bought in the Grater Cincinnati Golden Gloves. Greater Cincinnati included Cincinnati. Kentucky and Indiana. In the first year Rocky Susshine won 38 fights by TKO. Rocky going from Sub-Novice to Open Division in the first year. Soon after Rocky was sent to Vietnam.

Professional career
He was a promising heavyweight prospect in the 1960s who failed to live up to his promise. A slick boxer with little punch, Joiner is best remembered for lasting the distance with former world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston on March 28, 1969, during Liston's comeback. This was in fact their second fight. They'd fought in May the year before with Liston winning a seventh round stoppage.

He also fought (and lost) to top heavyweight contenders Zora Folley, Oscar Bonavena, Mac Foster, Alfredo Evangelista and Larry Holmes.

Later life
After retiring from the ring Joiner worked for thirty years with the Ohio State Highway Maintenance Department, finishing as a Superintendent. He was also employed as an amateur boxing coach.

Death
Joiner died at the age of 81 in June 2019.

Professional boxing record

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 * Win
 * 12-13-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Young Louis
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 13/11/1981
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 * align=left|
 * Loss
 * 11-13-3
 * align=left|🇺🇾 Alfredo Evangelista
 * KO
 * 1
 * 27/05/1978
 * align=left|🇪🇸 León, Spain
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 11-12-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 "King" Jim Fletcher
 * TKO
 * 5
 * 19/08/1976
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Washoe Fairgrounds Pavilion, Reno, Nevada, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Loss
 * 10-12-3
 * align=left|🇦🇷 Oscar Bonavena
 * UD
 * 10
 * 26/02/1976
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Reno, Nevada, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Loss
 * 10-11-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Larry Holmes
 * TKO
 * 3
 * 20/12/1975
 * align=left|🇵🇷 Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico
 * align=left|Referee stopped the bout at 2:29 of the third round.
 * Loss
 * 10-10-3
 * align=left|🇩🇪 Bernd August
 * PTS
 * 8
 * 28/09/1973
 * align=left|🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
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 * Loss
 * 10-9-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Mac Foster
 * KO
 * 5
 * 29/07/1971
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
 * align=left|Joiner knocked out at 2:55 of the fifth round.
 * Loss
 * 10-8-3
 * align=left|🇩🇪 Juergen Blin
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 09/10/1970
 * align=left|🇩🇪 Hamburg, Germany
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 * Loss
 * 10-7-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Alvin Lewis
 * UD
 * 10
 * 15/07/1970
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Loss
 * 10-6-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Zora Folley
 * UD
 * 10
 * 05/11/1969
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Silver Slipper, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
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 * Win
 * 10-5-3
 * align=left|🇨🇦 Bob Cleroux
 * SD
 * 10
 * 31/07/1969
 * align=left|🇨🇦 Paul Sauve Arena, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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 * Loss
 * 9-5-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Sonny Liston
 * UD
 * 10
 * 28/03/1969
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Kiel Auditorium, Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Loss
 * 9-4-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Sonny Liston
 * RTD
 * 7
 * 23/05/1968
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Draw
 * 9-3-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Chuck Leslie
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 27/03/1968
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Silver Slipper, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Draw
 * 9-3-2
 * align=left|🇮🇹 Dante Cane
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 12/02/1968
 * align=left|🇮🇹 Bologna, Italy
 * align=left|
 * Draw
 * 9-3-1
 * align=left|🇮🇹 Piero Tomasoni
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 26/12/1967
 * align=left|🇮🇹 Brescia, Italy
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 * Loss
 * 9-3
 * align=left|🇺🇸 "King" Jim Fletcher
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 04/12/1967
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Silver Slipper, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Loss
 * 9-2
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Hubert Hilton
 * TKO
 * 9
 * 08/09/1966
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Freeport Stadium, Freeport, New York
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 9-1
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Mert Brownfield
 * KO
 * 2
 * 13/06/1966
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 8-1
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Lee Wallace Carr
 * UD
 * 10
 * 13/11/1964
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Loss
 * 7-1
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Amos Johnson
 * SD
 * 10
 * 11/09/1964
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|Ohio Heavyweight Title.
 * Win
 * 7-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Oron Johnson
 * TKO
 * 8
 * 22/05/1964
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|Referee stopped the bout at 2:50 of the eighth round.
 * Win
 * 6-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Harvey C. Jones
 * UD
 * 8
 * 17/04/1964
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 5-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Lloyd Washington
 * UD
 * 10
 * 11/03/1964
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Painesville Armory, Painesville, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 4-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Lou Bailey
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 17/01/1964
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 3-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Amos Johnson
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 19/11/1963
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Akron, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 2-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Marion Connor
 * TKO
 * 5
 * 06/02/1963
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Canton Auditorium, Canton, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|Referee stopped the bout at 2:05 of the fifth round.
 * Win
 * 1-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Julius Dickens
 * KO
 * 2
 * 25/08/1962
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S.
 * align=left|Dickens knocked out at 1:24 of the second round.
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 * Win
 * 3-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Amos Johnson
 * PTS
 * 10
 * 19/11/1963
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Akron, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|
 * Win
 * 2-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Marion Connor
 * TKO
 * 5
 * 06/02/1963
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Canton Auditorium, Canton, Ohio, U.S.
 * align=left|Referee stopped the bout at 2:05 of the fifth round.
 * Win
 * 1-0
 * align=left|🇺🇸 Julius Dickens
 * KO
 * 2
 * 25/08/1962
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 * align=left|Dickens knocked out at 1:24 of the second round.
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Talk:2004/05 United States network television schedule

CBS Saturday
Did CBS have no original programming on Saturday this season? 23skidoo 16:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Jan Syrový

A politician?
I wonder to what extent is it appropriate to call Syrový a politician. The definition of the word may be a subject to debate; but from my point of view, naming into a political function doesn't make you a politician. Also, Syrový is already in "Prime ministers of Czechoslovakia" category, which suits him (IMHO) much more than "Czechoslovakian politicians". So, I'd like to have him removed from that -- but if there is a convention or deeper intention in his inclusion it that category, it would be good if it was discussed here. -- Sandius 16:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Done. Better later than never. Pavel Vozenilek 00:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram is the second and final studio album by American rock band Ram Jam, released in 1978. It was re-released in 2006 on Rock Candy Records. The title is a play on James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Critical reception
In 2006, Goldmine wrote that "few people paid much attention to this rip-snorting scorcher at the time, but among ardent hard-rock fans, it's a towering classic, a lost gem."

Personnel

 * Myke Scavone – vocals, percussion
 * Jimmy Santoro – lead guitar
 * Bill Bartlett – lead guitar, vocals
 * Howie Blauvelt – bass guitar, vocals
 * Peter Charles – drums

Production

 * Producer: Jeffry Katz/Jerry Kasenetz
 * Engineer: Barry Magaliff
 * Engineer assistant: Steve Goldman

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NACAA

NACAA may refer to:

 * National Association Of County Agricultural Agents (USA)
 * National Australian Convention of Amateur Astronomers
 * National Association of Clean Air Agencies (USA)

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Passé composé

The passé composé (compound past) is a past tense in the modern French language. It is used to express an action that has been finished completely or incompletely at the time of speech, or at some (possibly unknown) time in the past. It originally corresponded in function to the English present perfect, but now there is a tendency to use it for all completed actions in the past as the equivalent of the simple past. Its current usage corresponds fairly closely to that of the Latin perfect tense. It is formed using an auxiliary verb and the past participle of a verb.

In British teaching of French, the passé composé is usually known as the perfect tense.

Conjugation
The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle. The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).

The passé composé is usually translated into English as a simple past tense, "I saw", or as a present perfect would be, "I have seen". It could also be translated as emphatic past tense, "I did see". The auxiliary may actually be used similarly in any tense, leading to the French compound tenses.
 * J'ai vu quelque chose          (I saw something / I have seen something)
 * Tu as parlé de quelque chose      (You spoke of something / you have spoken of something)
 * Le garçon est sorti     (The boy has gone out / the boy went out / the boy is out)

Auxiliary avoir
The auxiliary verb is typically avoir 'to have', but is sometimes être 'to be' (see below).

This is the conjugation of avoir, with a past participle:
 * j’ai vu (I saw)
 * nous avons vu (we saw)
 * tu as vu (you saw)
 * vous avez vu (you saw)
 * il/elle/on a vu (he/she/one/it saw)
 * ils/elles ont vu (they (m)/they (f) saw)

Auxiliary être
The verbs that use être as an auxiliary verb are intransitive verbs that usually indicate motion or change of state.

Since some of these verbs can be used as a transitive verb as well, they will instead take avoir as an auxiliary in those instances; e.g. Sortir, monter, descendre, entrer, retourner, and passer all have transitive and intransitive uses.
 * Il est sorti (he went out / he has gone out / he is out)
 * Il a sorti un outil pour le réparer (he took out a tool to repair it [something else])

This is the conjugation of être, with a past participle:

 * je suis mort(e) (I died, I am dead)
 * nous sommes mort(e)s (we died, we are dead)
 * tu es mort(e)  (you died, you are dead)
 * vous êtes mort(e)s  (you died, you are dead)
 * il/elle/on est mort(e) (he/she/one/it died, he/she/it is dead)
 * ils/elles sont mort(e)s (they died, they are dead)

The following is a list of verbs that use être (for intransitive usage) as their auxiliary verbs in passé composé:
 * Devenir – to become – (être) devenu(e)(s)
 * Revenir – to come back – (être) revenu(e)(s)
 * Monter – to go up – (être) monté(e)(s)
 * Rester – to stay – (être) resté(e)(s)
 * Sortir – to exit – (être) sorti(e)(s)
 * Venir – to come – (être) venu(e)(s)
 * Aller – to go – (être) allé(e)(s)
 * Naître – to be born – (être) né(e)(s)
 * Descendre – to descend – (être) descendu(e)(s)
 * Entrer – to enter – (être) entré(e)(s)
 * Retourner – to return – (être) retourné(e)(s)
 * Tomber – to fall – (être) tombé(e)(s)
 * Rentrer – to re-enter – (être) rentré(e)(s)
 * Arriver – to arrive – (être) arrivé(e)(s)
 * Mourir – to die – (être) mort(e)(s)
 * Partir – to leave – (être) parti(e)(s)

The above have been remembered using the mnemonic acronym DR and MRS VANDERTRAMP. (Other teaching methods have been used. An alternative version of the mnemonic acronym adds a final "P" (as ...TRAMPP), to account for "passer" in the following section of "additional" être-conjugated verbs. Language evolution with time poses a challenge for this approach.)

In addition to these, at least two other verbs are conjugated with être:
 * Décéder – to die – (être) décédé(e)(s)
 * Passer – to spend/pass– (être) passé(e)(s) (although it is only conjugated with être when describing movement)

Reflexive forms
In addition to the above verbs, all reflexive/pronominal verbs use être as their auxiliary verb. A reflexive/pronominal verb is one that relates back to the speaker, either as an object e.g. Je me suis trompé 'I'm mistaken, I made a mistake' (= *j'ai trompé moi-même, literally 'I fooled myself'), or as a dative form e.g. Je me suis donné du temps (= *j'ai donné du temps à moi-même, 'I gave myself some time').

Formation of French past participles
To form the past participle for first-group verbs (-ER verbs) and aller too, drop the -er and add -é.

parler (to speak)   - er + é = parlé (spoken) arriver (to arrive) - er + é = arrivé (arrived) manger (to eat)     - er + é = mangé (eaten)

To form the past participle for second-group verbs (-IR verbs with -ISSANT gerund), drop the -ir and add -i.

finir (to finish)   - ir + i = fini (finished) choisir (to choose) - ir + i = choisi (chosen) grandir (to grow up) - ir + i = grandi (grown up)

To form the past participle for third-group verbs (-RE verbs), drop the -re and add -u.

pendre (to hang)    - re + u = pendu (hung or sometimes hanged) vendre (to sell)    - re + u = vendu (sold) entendre (to hear)  - re + u = entendu (heard) attendre (to wait)  - re + u = attendu (waited)

 * The irregular past participles (which are often found with the third group verbs) must be memorized separately, of which the following are a few:

acquérir:   acquis      (acquired) apprendre:  appris      (learnt/learned) atteindre:  atteint     (attained) avoir:      eu          (had) boire:      bu          (drunk/drunken) comprendre: compris     (understood) conduire:   conduit     (driven) connaître:  connu       (known) construire: construit   (constructed) courir:     couru       (run) couvrir:    couvert     (covered) craindre:   craint      (feared) croire:     cru         (believed) décevoir:   déçu        (disappointed) découvrir:  découvert   (discovered) devoir:     dû          (had to) dire:       dit         (said) écrire:     écrit       (written) être:       été         (been) faire:      fait        (done) instruire:  instruit    (prepared) joindre:    joint       (joined) lire:       lu          (read) mettre:     mis         (put, placed) offrir:     offert      (offered) ouvrir:     ouvert      (opened) paraître:   paru        (resembled) peindre:    peint       (painted) pouvoir:    pu          (been able to) prendre:    pris        (taken) produire:   produit     (produced) recevoir:   reçu        (received) rire:       ri          (laughed) savoir:     su          (known) souffrir:   souffert    (hurt) surprendre: surpris     (surprised) suivre:     suivi       (followed) tenir:      tenu        (held, holden) venir:      venu        (come) vivre:      vécu        (lived) voir:       vu          (seen) vouloir:    voulu       (wanted)

Agreement between participle and object
The use of the past participle in compound tenses in French is complicated by occasional "agreement" with the object of the action. In French, agreement is accomplished by adding an -e to the end of the past participle if the grammatical gender of the subject or direct object in question is feminine and an -s if it is plural. (Note that for verbs of the first and second group, the past participle ends with a vowel, thus the masculine and feminine, singular and plural forms are all pronounced the same. Within the third-group verbs, one can find past participles ending with a mute consonant, such as mis and fait, and those do change pronunciation.)
 * The past participle almost always agrees with the subject when the auxiliary verb is être (beware, though, that pronominal verbs may produce tricky cases), or when the past participle is used as an adjective (which is essentially the same case).
 * When the auxiliary verb is avoir, the past participle must agree with the direct object if the direct object precedes the past participle in the sentence.

Examples :
 * Les hommes sont arrivés. (The men arrived /the men have arrived)
 * NB: agreement, s is needed in that case, because of the être auxiliary - the meaning (and construction) is that of a predicative expression in that case.
 * Les filles sont venues. (The girls came / the girls have come / the girls have arrived)
 * NB: agreement of venues, see above.
 * Nous nous sommes levé(e)s. (We got up, rose / we did rise)
 * NB : an extra e would be required if nous refers to a group of females - see above.
 * J'ai vu la voiture. (I saw the car / I have seen the car / I did see the car)
 * Je l'ai vue. (I saw it / I have seen it)
 * NB - agreement needed in that case, referring to the car (the object materialized by " l' " is mentioned before the participle - see Accord du participe passé en français for details).
 * Les voitures que j'ai vues étaient rouges. (The cars [that I saw / that I've seen] were red)
 * que relative to Les voitures, implies that the participle is feminine plural in that case (les voitures sont vues).
 * ''Où sont mes lunettes ? Où est-ce que je les ai mises ? (Where are my glasses? Where did I put them?)
 * Voilà l'erreur que j'ai faite. (There's the mistake [I made/I have made])
 * que relative to l'erreur, feminine singular)

For more information, see French verbs, and Accord du participe passé en français.

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User talk:Gurde

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Response to question at Talk: Electromagnetic induction
The choice of constants for a unit system is arbitrary, but you're right in that 4π must appear somewhere in the equations regardless of unit system due to the total solid angle. So SI has simply chosen to have their 4π in Coulombs law, whereas Gauss's law is without it:

 * $$ \mathbf{E} = \frac{1}{4 \pi \varepsilon_0} \frac{q}{r^2}$$ and $$\oint \mathbf{E} \cdot d \mathbf{s} = Q_{enclosed} / \varepsilon_0$$

For comparison, in Gaussian units the same equations are

 * $$ \mathbf{E} = \frac{q}{r^2}$$ and $$ \oint \mathbf{E} \cdot d \mathbf{s} = 4 \pi Q_{enclosed}$$

So you hit the nail on the head. — Laura Scudder | Talk 16:46, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

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Glisson

Glisson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Dorothy Glisson (1912–2001), American politician
 * Francis Glisson (died 1677), British physician, anatomist, and writer
 * Gordon Glisson (1930–1997), American jockey
 * James Glisson (born 1939), American politician
 * Michael Glisson, United States Army general
 * Oliver S. Glisson (1809–1890), United States Navy admiral

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Spruce Falls

Spruce Falls may refer to:

 * Spruce Falls (Saskatchewan)
 * Spruce Falls Mill, a pulp and paper mill owned by Tembec in Kapuskasing, Ontario

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikilinking (2)

 * 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 SPEEDY DELETE per precedent. N (t/c) 17:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikilinking
Previously marked as a speedy, but I don't see how it is one. Similar-but-not-identical article deleted in June. Google on "wikilinking -site:wikipedia.org" gives 9000 hits, but on cursory inspection none seem relevant to this game. Delete unless proven to exist. N (t/c) 16:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * (See here for the list of project namespace articles that we already have on this game.)
 * How many times is this exact same game going to go through VFD/AFD before it becomes a speedy deletion candidate? For the reasons given in Articles for deletion/Wikichallenge, Speedy delete. Uncle G 17:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for pointing that out. N (t/c) 17:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * How many times is this exact same game going to go through VFD/AFD before it becomes a speedy deletion candidate? For the reasons given in Articles for deletion/Wikichallenge, Speedy delete. Uncle G 17:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for pointing that out. N (t/c) 17:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for pointing that out. N (t/c) 17:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

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Skizz

Skizz was a comic strip in 2000 AD which appeared in three installments across more than a decade. It was written by Alan Moore and drawn by Jim Baikie. Two sequels appeared some years later, written and drawn by Baikie.

Plot
Skizz, an alien interpreter, crash lands on Earth and his ship self-destructs to stop it from falling into the wrong hands. He is saved from the military (led by a thuggish South African named Van Owen - an apparent reference to Warren Zevon's Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner) - by a young girl called Roxy.

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George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton

George Carr Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton (27 March 1797 – 24 July 1873) was a banker with interests in the railways, a partner in the family firm of Glyn, Mills & Co., which was reputed to be the largest private bank in London.

Background
He was the fourth son of Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, also a banker, and former Lord Mayor of London. His mother was the daughter of John Plumptre of Nottingham. The Wolvertons lived at the manor house in Iwerne Minster, two miles south of Fontmell, in Dorset. They also owned Gaunts House, Wimborne.

Business career
Glyn and his bank were important in the development of the railways - hence the link with Wolverton. By the 1850s, over 200 railway companies, both domestic and foreign, banked with Glyn, Mills, and Co. In 1836 Glyn became Chairman of the North Midland Railway, and in 1837 the second Chairman of the London and Birmingham Railway. In 1841 he resigned his Chairmanship of the North Midland, but remained a director. In 1842, he founded the Railway Clearing House, an organization that helped determine payments by companies that operated trains to the many different companies that owned connecting tracks. In 1846, when the London and North Western Railway was formed, he was its Chairman until 1852. Glyn's bank served as one of the London agents for the provincial government of Canada, and in 1852 he was a promoter of the Grand Trunk Railway. He was the first President of The Railway Benevolent Society, upon its creation, at a meeting at the London Tavern, on 8 May 1858. George presided at this meeting and gave a speech outlining his aims for this society: The first aim was to benefit the widow and orphan. The second aim was to educate the child. A resolution was carried unanimously, at that meeting, stating that the society should be called the Railway Benevolent Institution.

Political career
Apart from his business career Glyn also represented Kendal in the House of Commons from 1847 to 1868 as a Liberal yet he never fought an election. He was unopposed at every general election from 1847 up to and including his last contest in 1865, a total of five general elections without the need to politick for a single vote. On 14 December 1869 Glyn was raised to the peerage as Baron Wolverton, of Wolverton in the County of Buckingham.

Family
Lord Wolverton married Marianne Grenfell, daughter of Pascoe Grenfell, MP for Penryn, on 17 March 1823. They had nine sons and two daughters. Several of his sons gained distinction.
 * The Hon. Sidney Glyn and the Hon. Pascoe Glyn were both Members of Parliament.
 * The Right Reverend the Hon. Edward Glyn was Bishop of Peterborough and the father of Ralph Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn.
 * The Hon. Henry Carr Glyn was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy.

Death
Lord Wolverton died in July 1873, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son George Grenfell Glyn. Lady Wolverton died in March 1892.

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Derek Birley

Sir Derek Sydney Birley (31 May 1926 – 14 May 2002) was a distinguished English educationalist and a prize-winning writer on the social history of sport, particularly cricket.

Life and career
Born in a mining community in West Yorkshire, Birley attended Hemsworth Grammar School, Hemsworth, West Yorkshire. A fervent English patriot and anti-fascist, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery from school in 1944, hoping to contribute to active service in the South-East Asian front. He was quickly transferred to the Intelligence Corps to be trained in Russian and Chinese, and sent to the Russian sector in Berlin, where he served from 1944 to 1947 as a Russian interpreter.

On his return to England, he was awarded an ex-serviceman's scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge, to read English. In 1951, he was joint winner with J. G. Ballard of a short story competition held by Varsity, the Cambridge student newspaper.

After university he joined the teaching staff of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, where he taught English between 1952 and 1955. He left the school to become an administrator in the Leeds Education Authority. He continued his career in education administration, rising to become deputy director of Education in Liverpool in 1964. He wrote a number of books on management of education in this period. He became involved in Anthony Crosland's consultations about higher education, from which the vision of polytechnics emerged. In 1970, he moved to Northern Ireland and took up the post of Rector of what became the first Ulster Polytechnic, and the first polytechnic in the UK – against determined opposition from the then Unionist government – and, following a government merger of higher education, became the founding Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ulster.

When he retired in 1991, he had overseen two decades of massive increases in provision of higher education in Northern Ireland, and equity of representation for Catholic and women students. He was knighted for services to education. His other passion was the social history of sport. In 1979, he wrote The Willow Wand, 'a strikingly original and robustly demythologising book, criticising the pastoral nostalgia of the genre'.

This was voted by a distinguished poll in Wisden Cricketer in July 2010 as the best cricket book of all time. He wrote a three-volume history of sport in Britain in the 1990s which "is unlikely to be surpassed". The second volume won the Aberdare Literary prize in 1995. In 1999, A Social History of English Cricket was named The Cricket Society's Book of the Year and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

Marriage
He married Professor Norma Reid in 1990. He had two sons from a previous marriage.

Books

 * The Education Officer and His World. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
 * An Equal Chance: Equalities and Inequalities of Educational Opportunity (with Anne Dufton). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. New edition, London: Routledge, 2017.
 * Planning and Education. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
 * Opportunities at Sixteen. Belfast: HMSO, 1978.
 * The Willow Wand: Some Cricket Myths Explored. London: Queen Anne Press, 1979. New edition, London: Aurum, 2000.
 * Sport and the Making of Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
 * Land of Sport and Glory: Sport and British Society, 1887–1910. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
 * Playing the Game: Sport and British Society, 1914–1945. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
 * A Social History of English Cricket. London: Aurum, 1999.

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