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Talk:America's Funniest Home Videos

Kimmi Gibbler Reference
Can anybody validate the statement regarding the theme song and Kimmi Gibbler? I somehow doubt that a family show would make a reference to sex with a character on another family show. FireSpike 19:47, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I'd expect that from Saget on his stand-up act.

WAVY 10 01:34, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Information
Some things I wonder about that aren't in the article... First, Ernie Anderson (a.k.a. ghoulardi and the announcer from Love Boat) announced for part of the Bob Saget years (up until his death I believe). That ought to be mentioned if anyone knows exactly when he was on the show. Also, does anyone know the name of the woman that sang the theme song? And lastly, around 2000, when Fuentes and Fugelsang left and before Bergeron came in, there were a handful of AFV special, some of which were hosted by D. L. Hugely. JeremyMcCracken 16:08, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

just a thought
have you noticed that when they get down to the 3 finalists, the cutest video wins and not the funniest one? i think the votes are rigged.--Jon Revelle 08:04, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

If the top three videos contain one video with a baby or toddler in it, it is almost guaranteed the first prize. Although some videos happen to be cute AND funny (the "play golf like your daddy" video is a good example), very often it seems that more deserving videos are shot down in lieu of the baby ones. Syckls

yes, i have noticed that, and its really annoying. Supmyman7 17:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I really want to know who picks the finalists beacause they're never any good. A 100,000$ winner was a guy dancing outside his front door. WTH? What are they smoking? 24.76.92.224

Just recently, a lady and her five infant children won because of giggling and other prompts. WTH?! That's not funny. That particular show had quite a few deserving videos, but small babies being prompted to laugh simultaneously is not funny for most of the show's viewers, it's rather irritating to watch. Jedo1507r 21:43, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Somebody should send them a really mean letter.--24.66.94.140 16:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Audience
Is it just me or does the audience seem like they were paid to be there. After any clip, funny or not, everyone (especially the ones on camera) they have HUGE smiles on and are laughing as hard as they can. 24.76.92.224 00:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

 * This is the case on most television shows, as the staff encourages the audience to look like they are having a good time; it would look bad to the home viewers if no one looked like they enjoyed being there. Usually the audience is not paid, but simply allowed in for free. Look at shows like The Price is Right or Total Request Live, for example. Michael Baptista 09:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

More criticism.
One problem with the show was lack of "funny" home videos and forced humor, not just by staging but by awful and horrid voice overs. Quite often a good video was ruined by the voice over. Or the very fact that it was placed along side 30 other short videos that were almost the exact same thing. --Kinglink 09:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Avery Williams carried the Magic Tent with Hulk Hand [November 11th 2005]
is "Avery Williams carried the Magic Tent with Hulk Hand [November 11th 2005]" supposed to be on this page? THANKS AND GOD BLESS!!!! --Dans1120 15:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

who wrote the critisism section?
I liked the article up until I got to that part. It's clearly opinionated and don't seem relevent to being in a encyclopedia. I don't like Bob Sagat either but alot of those comments should go elsewhere, probably in a imdb messageboard or review.--User:Iamstillhiro1112 05:26, 14 September 2006 (CST)

 * I think the criticisms are spot-on, whoever wrote them pointed out some good flaws in the show.

 * Obviously staged videos being aired and winning prizes
 * A strong preference by the producers for 'baby' and 'cute animal' videos
 * The fact that the audience didn't get to choose the finalists, only vote on the three videos the producers selected
 * Bob Saget's schtick being pretty lame, weighing the show down (did it really even need a host/narrator? They could have just played the clips, it works on Youtube)

 * Some of it may be opinon, but this is wikipedia, and the good thing about wikipedia is that it has information other encyclopedias wouldn't contain. I don't think pure conjecture should be on this page, but these are valid critcisms of an admittedly stupid little show.

 * I liked Bob Saget! Though they are good criticisms, whoever wrote that forgot that nowadays, they CONSTANTLY show stupid segments of, like, 20 videos of men somehow injuring their groin. Tom Bergeron and Disney came and messed this show up good (well, maybe more Disney than Tom, but Disney and ABC shouldn't be connected in the first place). To the guy above, SIGN YOUR COMMENTS! I learned that the hard way when I was a minority! WizardDuck 17:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad to see that section was removed. I think calling the winning videos fakes is a largely POV. It didn't fit the encyclopedia.--Iamstillhiro1112 01:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I actually beg to differ about the removal of the "controversy" section to this article. The fact that unfunny, often "cute" videos regularly beat out other videos that were submitted, that are clearly very funny, is necessary for full article completeness IMO, especially if you do frame it within the context that it only really got started in the Tom Bergeron era, which coincides with Disney's buyout of ABC from Capital Cities. There have also been elements of the show that have either been unnecessary or wasteful of airtime that have been aired purely for corporate synergy, e.g. the time that an annoying little kid shouted the "It's A Small World" song (a terribly unfunny, charm-free thing that got aired anyway), and when the animated Chicken Little movie (a Disney thing) got on-air plugs via a cringeworthy "interview" Bergeron did with the flick's "star". Things never got this bad when John Fugelsang and Daisy Fuentes were hosting (when ABC was still a Capital Cities net), and while Bob Saget vexed slightly with his irksome "funny voices" and general yuk-yuk nature, at least hindsight has shown us how these actions could have been those of a man who was tremendously constricted, particularly when one thinks of Saget's humor background (i.e. very off-color stuff that shocked even Sam Kinison). In fact, count me as (not the only) one of the viewers of AFV who don't stick around to hear what the "three finalists" are because it's a case of "what's the use?". This needs to be at the very least touched on in the article. (Krushsister 07:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC))

 * Whoa, whoa, REWIND. Disney bought Capital Cities in 1996, and Disney didn't do this corporate crap until the 2000s. This is one of the reasons I hate Disney nowadays (another is the fact that Jetix is slowly enveloping Toon Disney in a dark cloud of bad TV, excluding The Tick). First of all, isn't this dumb promotional crap what the vignettes on Disney Channel are for? I HATE YOU DISNEY!! WizardDuck 04:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Oops, my bad, WizardDuck. Thanks for educating me on exactly when the Capital Cities buyout happened.  Also thanks for basically substantiating what it is I was trying to state in my original post, i.e. the stupid crap started happening in the Tom Bergeron era.  Which is sad because now that WGN is rerunning the Fugelsang/Fuentes era and I'm seeing how much I'm actually laughing as compared to the newer eps, it kinda makes me sad.  BTW, as a matter of full disclosure I've never been partial to Disney.  (Krushsister 07:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC))

 * Also, if anyone wants opinionated "facts", go to retrojunk.com. I'm a member there as "99Centsplease", and it SICKENS me to see biased summaries for TV shows. Maybe I spend too much time here. WizardDuck 11:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

 * You know what's even worse about Disney's corporate synergy stuff? I was watching Superstation WGN, and they LEFT IN the Chicken Little "interview"! Maybe it's in a contract. WizardDuck 12:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

who wrote the critisism section?
I liked the article up until I got to that part. It's clearly opinionated and don't seem relevent to being in a encyclopedia. I don't like Bob Sagat either but alot of those comments should go elsewhere, probably in a imdb messageboard or review.--User:Iamstillhiro1112 05:26, 14 September 2006 (CST)

 * I think the criticisms are spot-on, whoever wrote them pointed out some good flaws in the show.

 * Obviously staged videos being aired and winning prizes
 * A strong preference by the producers for 'baby' and 'cute animal' videos
 * The fact that the audience didn't get to choose the finalists, only vote on the three videos the producers selected
 * Bob Saget's schtick being pretty lame, weighing the show down (did it really even need a host/narrator? They could have just played the clips, it works on Youtube)

 * Some of it may be opinon, but this is wikipedia, and the good thing about wikipedia is that it has information other encyclopedias wouldn't contain. I don't think pure conjecture should be on this page, but these are valid critcisms of an admittedly stupid little show.

 * I liked Bob Saget! Though they are good criticisms, whoever wrote that forgot that nowadays, they CONSTANTLY show stupid segments of, like, 20 videos of men somehow injuring their groin. Tom Bergeron and Disney came and messed this show up good (well, maybe more Disney than Tom, but Disney and ABC shouldn't be connected in the first place). To the guy above, SIGN YOUR COMMENTS! I learned that the hard way when I was a minority! WizardDuck 17:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad to see that section was removed. I think calling the winning videos fakes is a largely POV. It didn't fit the encyclopedia.--Iamstillhiro1112 01:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I actually beg to differ about the removal of the "controversy" section to this article. The fact that unfunny, often "cute" videos regularly beat out other videos that were submitted, that are clearly very funny, is necessary for full article completeness IMO, especially if you do frame it within the context that it only really got started in the Tom Bergeron era, which coincides with Disney's buyout of ABC from Capital Cities. There have also been elements of the show that have either been unnecessary or wasteful of airtime that have been aired purely for corporate synergy, e.g. the time that an annoying little kid shouted the "It's A Small World" song (a terribly unfunny, charm-free thing that got aired anyway), and when the animated Chicken Little movie (a Disney thing) got on-air plugs via a cringeworthy "interview" Bergeron did with the flick's "star". Things never got this bad when John Fugelsang and Daisy Fuentes were hosting (when ABC was still a Capital Cities net), and while Bob Saget vexed slightly with his irksome "funny voices" and general yuk-yuk nature, at least hindsight has shown us how these actions could have been those of a man who was tremendously constricted, particularly when one thinks of Saget's humor background (i.e. very off-color stuff that shocked even Sam Kinison). In fact, count me as (not the only) one of the viewers of AFV who don't stick around to hear what the "three finalists" are because it's a case of "what's the use?". This needs to be at the very least touched on in the article. (Krushsister 07:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC))

 * Whoa, whoa, REWIND. Disney bought Capital Cities in 1996, and Disney didn't do this corporate crap until the 2000s. This is one of the reasons I hate Disney nowadays (another is the fact that Jetix is slowly enveloping Toon Disney in a dark cloud of bad TV, excluding The Tick). First of all, isn't this dumb promotional crap what the vignettes on Disney Channel are for? I HATE YOU DISNEY!! WizardDuck 04:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Oops, my bad, WizardDuck. Thanks for educating me on exactly when the Capital Cities buyout happened.  Also thanks for basically substantiating what it is I was trying to state in my original post, i.e. the stupid crap started happening in the Tom Bergeron era.  Which is sad because now that WGN is rerunning the Fugelsang/Fuentes era and I'm seeing how much I'm actually laughing as compared to the newer eps, it kinda makes me sad.  BTW, as a matter of full disclosure I've never been partial to Disney.  (Krushsister 07:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC))

 * Also, if anyone wants opinionated "facts", go to retrojunk.com. I'm a member there as "99Centsplease", and it SICKENS me to see biased summaries for TV shows. Maybe I spend too much time here. WizardDuck 11:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

 * You know what's even worse about Disney's corporate synergy stuff? I was watching Superstation WGN, and they LEFT IN the Chicken Little "interview"! Maybe it's in a contract. WizardDuck 12:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

$100,000 Grand Prize
The $100,000 Grand Prize did not exist until the 1994 Season. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.8.33.192 (talk • contribs) 15:27, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

ABC Family airs the Saget Version
Only ABC Family airs the 1994-1997 episodes, not the 1989-1993 episodes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BlairsvilleHighSchool (talk • contribs) 11:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

AFHV Reruning on Comedy Central?
All right let's break this down:

 * Fuentes/Fugelsang and Bergeron versions are only reruning on WGN Superstation.
 * ABC Family only airs the Bob Saget episodes from 1994-97. Rumors say that the network may air the 1989-93 episodes.

Many people think that Comedy Central is going to air AFHV episodes. But the chances of seing AFHV on Comedy Central are 0.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by BlairsvilleHighSchool (talk • contribs) 11:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

 * But I wrote a letter to Comedy Central to have AFHV air reruns on the channel. [User: Nate Speed]

Assignment America
Does anyone have any information on the "Assignment America" segments from the Bob Saget era?

WAVY 10 22:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Missing info
This article is missing some information, the year that the kid singing the Micky Mouse song won the $100,000 prize. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NachoDork (talk • contribs) 01:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The article doesn't mention the foreign market versions with Mike and Kerri Kasem as hosts. For completeness I thik it should. Rohde 19:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC) i agree that it should be mentioned.(it aired it norway.)

common elements?
should there be a list of common or familiar elements, such as males being hit in the groin, people falling, etc… Madd the sane 01:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Depends, are there reliable primary sources that can be referenced? - C HAIRBOY (☎) 01:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hm. Don't know. All I know is that you can more or less count on someone being hit in the crotch sometime in the show.  This is especially true in later episodes. Madd the sane 05:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

New Set? New Theme?
a spectulation that the new hosts were chosen to replace Bergeron. The reason:

According to the rules: Bergeron can only do one program at a time. (Like Charles Gibson, he is prohibithed to do two programs in one day)

Is there going to be a new set, a new logo, and maybe a new announcer? 66.155.160.142 22:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Probably not, and I have never heard of that rule. Maybe it's another stupid Disney corporate thing (65 Episode Policy, anyone). WAVY 10 15:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

The Simpsons
What episode of The Simpsons had that AFV reference? --Carn29 23:52, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

 * A Star is Burns. Man Getting Hit by Football scene. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.175.230.58 (talk) 06:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

There was at least one other AFV reference on The Simpsons. Stark Raving Dad where Homer ends up in a mental hospital and meets a big white guy who thinks he's Michael Jackson. Although we don't see the videos, the finalists are Man Breaking Hip, Dog on Fire, and Baby With a Nail Gun. Just1thing (talk) 13:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Bergeron and the "Final Last Episode of AFV $100,000"
Having seen the end of an episode of AFV, I saw Disney and Bergeron anounce something like: "Thanx for all the years, etc...and we will be back with a NEW FORMAT AND A NEW NAME"

I thought I saw a new named show. No? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gastronomos (talk • contribs) 02:58, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

I thought that the season premiere also was going to be on Sept. 30 and I just saw the schedule and they are running an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in the normal timeslot of AFV. What the heck is going on? Chrismaster1 19:54, 30 September 2007

Saget's time on AFHV
It's becoming common knowledge that Saget only liked hosting AFHV in the first few years. Nobody should blame him for how lame the material was getting on the show, and he truly wanted out by season 5 at the most because he knew that you people would have these reactions - and maybe worse, see him as just a mediocre host. Of course Saget is one of the most sensational comics around, and you must remember, him starring on Full House was an "in-joke" to Hollywood as he was defying his true image. As for AFHV, he did not write much of his joke material and Vin DiBona would never let him go outside the box and do more creative things - in fear that viewers would be alienated and tune out. I believe he only agreed to his last Videos contract because of the money, but when ABC cancelled Full House (due to increasing costs) Saget wanted out of Videos. The fact that Videos remained on the air at that point, and not FH, snubbed him. The brass wouldn't let him leave Videos until the current contract was up in '97. So, for the final two years he was on, Bob became less enthusiatic in his hosting, which was clearly evident to the very end.

 * Can this be sourced? It's likely but dangerously close to original research (a Wikipedia no-no). WAVY 10 16:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

WAVY 10, I wasn't necessarily lobbying to put this in the article. I was just bringing up this matter so future editors won't be compelled to post dreck that gives readers, who aren't so much in the know, the wrong idea about Saget. There have been some lazy and ignorant comments that have made their way into the article, especially about him (and ONLY him...hmmm), and what's worse is that their too biased and not written in traditional encyclopedic form.

 * And you forgot to sign...twice. WAVY 10 21:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

What, I can't be anonymous if I want to? I'm not posting any of this in the article. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

What?
Someone here has their facts wrong. Saget does provide voice-overs and he currently hosts AFHV. Our conclusion: Someone here has their Facts wrong. Pacguy19 16:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You may be viewing very old re-runs, AFHV is currently hosted by Tom Bergeron. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 16:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm living in the same year you are. If I watch this show on Nick-@-nite, and it is 2007, then why would they be showing reruns? Pacguy19 20:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Pacguy, you are missing something here. AFHV stills airs new, ORIGINAL episodes on ABC. The shows you watch on N@N are reruns. How can you be unaware that Saget only hosted the show between 1989 and 1997? Besides, how would the show NOT be in reruns since it was first eligible for syndication 14 years ago and has run 18 seasons!!?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.126.229.227 (talk) 04:11, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

What year are you living in pcguy? 1995? Saget currently narrates the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS) and hosts "1 vs. 100", a game show, on NBC!

Here's the truth: Pacguy19 likes to time travel. LOL!

Ricki Lake
I haven't found any verification to the Ricki Lake news that keeps being added. I'd like to remove it again unless someone else can find a source. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 03:24, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've removed the item. I believe it to be a hoax based on a number of searches through aggregated media outlets.  I have found no reference to this, and there is no mention on any of her sites that I've found.  Once a reference is available, this can be added back, but considering the nature of the edits, I advise caution. - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 19:30, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * An IP editor tried to re-add the claim here and at Ricki Lake's article again. I've rolled it back as vandalism as it appears to be a concerted attempt to inject false information into the project. - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 00:48, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've semi-protected the article following yet another attempt by the user to add the unsubstantiated claim. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 23:42, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Someone's added Ricky back in, possibly the same IP in order to circumvent the partial block. I checked the news link, only to find out it was totally unrelated to AFV. --Æ AUSSIE evil Æ 22:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

prnewssource.com-- is this a fictional news source? 70.17.176.112 17:35, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm betting so. --Æ AUSSIE evil Æ 15:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Shout-outs to Bob's wife
I know that for most of Bob Saget's run as the host, when the show ended he would give a brief shout-out to his wife Sherry (followed by something stupid) (aka Honey).

Does anyone know if (since Bob got a divorce at some point in 1997) he did that shout-out during the final episodes he worked? WAVY 10 17:38, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Some examples of Bob's Shoutouts (aka "And Honey...") include:

1. Gas up the truck and pack up the kids, we're going camping. 2. I'll be home as soon as i put all the balloons back up in the lighting grid.

his last two episodes did not use this practice. 70.17.176.112 23:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

D. L. Hughley
After John and Daisy, and before Tom Bergeron, I remember seeing a few episodes with D.L. Hughley hosting. I got a reference here http://www.tv.com/americas-funniest-home-videos/show/3780/summary.html. The set was also changed showing a set of new iMac monitors with the AFV logo.

Raditude 04:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Reruns on USA
Back in the late 1990s, I distinctly remember AFV (the Saget version) airing in reruns on USA's "USAM" block. Does anyone else, and if they do, can this be put in the article? WizardDuck (talk) 04:29, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Mistakes
I don't know specific sources I can use to verify these "facts", but there was one season when AFV wasn't on the schedule, and only specials aired, with various hosts.

I don't recall Gary Owens ever being on the show. Tom calls the man "Jess."

Bob did narrate some videos the way Tom does. But Tom doesn't do the voice-overs. I missed those once Bob left.

And where is "Head, Gut, or Groin?" Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 20:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

renewal contract means the show will end?
I know this may not be allowed in the talk page, but with the contract of the show expiring in 2009, does this mean America's Funniest Home Videos will end it's run?--70.240.215.204 (talk) 23:17, 15 December 2008 (UTC)Chirs

Question for the article
Did AFV have any influence on the later tv series, Jackass? (Or vice versa?) I remember some of the AFV videos during the height of Jackass's popularity could have been shown on the other show (i.e, clips of people intentionally doing self-injurious stunts). -- llywrch (talk) 03:41, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

hosts missing from the list
mike kasem and kerry kasem hosted a single season in 2000. that was the first season that was aired on tv norway(called tv norge in norway.) it aired at least 20 episodes i believe. it is most likely considered a season in norway. they didnt seem to have a live audiens. they didnt give out any money either. the show was called americas funnies home videoes. the show ended each episode with clip of the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.108.222 (talk) 20:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Japanese TV?
That part sounds fake, and is not referenced. It ought to be removed, because it sounds like a stretch or completely untrue.134.117.125.20 (talk) 19:48, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The closing credits of each episode of AFV reference that it is based on the home video segments shown on Fun TV with Kato-chen and Ken-chan, so it is not a fake statement and must remain in the article, though some sort of reference could be added to keep other people from thinking the statement is fake. (Tvtonightokc 02:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC))

set changes isnt shown in the article.
From season 17 the set changed slightly with video floor plus that the back screens were replaced with modern technology. in season 20 the set changed again. some person should upload pictures of those changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.72.121 (talk) 15:32, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

I added one image, not sure if it's enough, though. -MegastarLV 7:29 August 14, 2010 it is a start at the very least. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.75.209 (talk) 18:07, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

now all pictures of the set is gone. i dont have them so i cant add them myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.86.142 (talk • contribs) 15:57, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Pictures of the set available on the gameshowwikia.com article about it. I don't know if they are free though. 97.126.246.230 (talk) 04:08, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

In the 2003 season they took out the wooden floor with the main logo, and put in a plexiglass floor with the "AFV" logo. In 2007, they put in the video floor and new TV screens. In Season 20, sliding doors were put up for Mr. Bergeron to walk through. The sliding doors used to be a curtain type thing. There is also a platform that has the "AFV" logo in plexiglass or something like that. 67.2.129.199 (talk) 18:11, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Changes like that should be shown as they are on the Jeopardy article. Tom the Bergeron (talk) 20:22, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

new person introducing the host
i dont know who it is but recently i heard that a new person introduced the host. i simply heard it on the voice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.75.209 (talk) 18:11, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

 * That's still Jess Harnell. He used that same voice back in Season 9.

-MegastarLV (talk) 3:48 September 2010

information should be added on international airings
i norway it airs on tv norway(norwegian: tv norge) air times tend to change though. i am just trying to improve wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.86.142 (talk) 01:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

seems that season 22 have begun airing in norway
at least that is what the website of the channel say. www.tvnorge.no the reason i didnt post a link is because of the difficulty with that but the address is correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.86.142 (talk) 00:00, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

seems that the 22 july attacks canceled the show in norway
the channel that airs it dropped it in favor of a movie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.86.142 (talk) 20:11, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

a norwegian show is making fun of this show
a show named torsdag kveld fra nydalen have stolen the logo and replaced home with porn. i have seen that segment twice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.59.120 (talk) 22:44, 9 May 2013 (UTC) they have made fun of it again and this time they have replaced americas with IS so the segment is called IS funniest home videoes.84.213.46.153 (talk) 18:44, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

International broadcasts
Should the article also include international broadcasts of the show? In Norway for instance the channel TV Norge is brodcasting the show I think two seasons behind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skoen (talk • contribs) 15:20, 21 February 2014 (UTC) norway was until recently ahead. they were airing seasons marked with the year 2015.84.208.60.156 (talk) 21:44, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Bergeron stepping down?
I saw in the Tom Bergeron (2001-present) section of the afv article says that he tweeted he would be stepping down as the host of the show... I don't think this is true, Justin Bieber also tweeted in 2013 that he would be retiring and he never did... 67.2.202.184 (talk) 01:37, 21 March 2014 (UTC) i havent heard anything about the singer justin bieber after he retired but hosts is different. if however the producers cant convince him to stay logic dictates that he will quit.84.208.60.156 (talk) 21:43, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Changing the title name to AFV? I don't think so!
Whoever changes the title of the article to AFV is unacceptable! The full name of the show is America's Funniest Home Videos, not AFV. AF[H]V is the on-air abbreviation. ACMEWikiNet (talk) 22:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

is it worth mentioning that tom bergeron is the oldest host ever
according to what i read tom bergeron is a year older than bob saget. that makes him the oldest host, at least as far as the non-specials i concerned.(i know little about the specials so i can not tell if any of the hosts there was older.)84.213.46.153 (talk) 19:35, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

This would only be relevant if he were being driven out due to age. Ileanadu (talk) 00:02, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Replacement host for Bergeron.
Is there any chance of someone replacing Bergeron after he steps down from hosting? Tom the Bergeron (talk) 03:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC) it is likely that somebody will take over if the producers wants the show to continue but he could possibly remain as a producer and just step down as host. who will take over we will just have to wait and see.2A02:FE0:C100:1:853:7F83:D28A:3F52 (talk) 12:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

If you submit a video now (March 2015). when would it be aired if chosen? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.76.148.172 (talk) 19:33, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

When do video clips get reviewed/aired?
If one submits a video to AFV now (March 2015), when would it be aired if chosen? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.76.148.172 (talk) 19:34, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

This is not a sentence and I have no idea what it's supposed to be saying
This is a very long set of clauses and not a sentence; I have no idea what it's supposed to be saying:

 * First, on July 19, 2015 to coincide with Disneyland's official 60th birthday on the weekend of July 17, 2015 (the actual 60th anniversary of Disneyland's grand-opening on July 17, 1955) and again on September 20, 2015 as the network's final episode airing, new or rerun, of AFV with Tom Bergeron as host signing off for the final time.

Taking out the parenthetical, we are left with this: "First, on July 19, 2015 to coincide with Disneyland's official 60th birthday on the weekend of July 17, 2015 ... and again on September 20, 2015 as the network's final episode airing, new or rerun, of AFV with Tom Bergeron as host signing off for the final time."

NEVER MIND. I think I got what it's supposed to say. Ileanadu (talk) 23:29, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

 * final episode airing, new or rerun

This can't possibly mean that no reruns will ever air after 9/20/15 with Tom Bergeron as host. It's confusing, so I'm deleting that part. The whole paragraph needs clean up of grammar, verbosity, and for clarity. Ileanadu (talk) 23:58, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Didn't I include what the audience wears?
I read about the "dress code" for the audience and I seem to recall including it somewhere. Here is a more recent source for this information.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  21:37, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Saget Run Alert
MTM distributed the Saget run in 1995 until 2004. Disney-ABC Domestic TV distributes all Saget episodes since 2004. The Seasons 1-5 aired on USA, Pax, Nick at Nite, and Hallmark. WGN never aired the Saget run. One user keeps reverting. 24.3.160.9 (talk) 12:39, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Cleanup
Hello. Will start cleaning up the article, particularly to address the "original research" tag. Will place all portions I remove here. - Windows72106 (talk) 07:06, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Removed portions: I. From "Premise"
 * "Executive produced by Vin Di Bona, Todd Thicke, and Michele Nasraway, " - ref link no longer exists
 * "and created by Vin Di Bona, it is the longest-running primetime entertainment (non-news) program on ABC (both on the network's current schedule and dating back to ABC's incorporation as a television network in 1948)." - unsourced
 * "A more similar concept in that a whole 30-to-45-minute show consisted of nothing but short clips from amateur home videos with slapstick-like accidents presented by a host began broadcasting only two months after the start of Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan in Japan, under the title Pleiten, Pech und Pannen (lit., "Crashes, bad luck, and slip ups") in West Germany in March 1986, lasting until 2003." - irrelevant, may be moved at the last section on See also
 * "which launched in 2012." - date when AFV.com launched is irrelevant
 * "From 2008 to 2012, viewers were able to upload their videos digitally to ABC's website, ABC.com; since the separate website for the program went online, users trying to access the America's Funniest Home Videos page on ABC's website – via the show page link on the site's program menu – have been redirected to AFV.com. Videos can also be sent via conventional mail on VHS and other such home video formats (VHS-C, 8 mm video cassettes, to name a few), and later as the format started to become common for home recording use in the early 2000s decade, DVD to a Hollywood, California post-office box address, with clips placed on USB flash drives and other forms of consumer flash memory formats also acceptable for physical submission as time has gone on." - unsourced, updating instead with current contest rules
 * "Due to its very low cost and universal appeal, the format has since been reproduced around the world and AFV-inspired television specials and series continue to emerge periodically in the United States. American television series inspired by AFVs format that are not related to the series itself include The Planet's Funniest Animals, The World's Funniest!, The World's Funniest Moments, Funniest Pets & People and It Only Hurts When I Laugh; however, most of the series inspired by AFV (with the minor exception of The Planet's Funniest Animals) have not matched the success of America's Funniest Home Videos and have not lasted as long." - repeated later on in the section, statement on not matching AFV's success unsourced'
 * "With the advent of smartphone technology that include built-in video cameras, social media, YouTube and other computer-oriented internet sites that brought about the era of the viral videos revolution starting in the 2000s, television stations started capitalizing on amateur caught-on-video segments, cute, funny, amazing, or not, during their newscasts again and this time (at present) appears to remain here to stay. AFV also capitalizes on the viral video revolution to their audience and viewers in terms of showing uploaded funny video clips, as well. Also, more and more shows similar to AFV continue to capitalize on the viral video revolution and emerge once in a while." - unsourced
 * "Many of the clips have been used internationally in various comedy compilation programs, with changes such as dubbing and subtitling. The title of the show is usually changed and the studio segments are omitted." - unsourced

 * "In the show's first season, the second and third prizes respectively were a new TV and VCR and a new camcorder. On the initial hour-long special, the grand prize was $5,000 with second and third places both winning a new camcorder; the producer picked the winner, with no audience voting. Periodically, beginning with the Tom Bergeron run of the series and continuing on into the Alfonso Ribiero run, the grand prize winner at each season's final $100,000 contest will also win a free vacation package, supplied by either Adventures by Disney or Disney Vacation Club, in addition to the monetary prize." - historical, probably include on the portions below. I doubt though if episodes themselves can be cited here in Wikipedia (ex. Season 1, episode 1). If there are other reliable sources on these statements, then I would include it in the next section (on the history of the show). Decided to just cite the contest rules for the version currently in the article
 * "and the Fox Family Channel series Show Me The Funny (1998–2000)." - no reliable source Vin di Bona produced this show - Windows72106 (talk) 05:32, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Animals over children
So stupid to let some dogs growling at each other win $100,000 over two cute or actually several cute precious children. Ridiculous. 2602:30A:2C0E:D2C0:AC80:F58F:B2:BD56 (talk) 01:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Operate episode overview page
Anyone gonna make an episode page if this show ever ends? Chadalvarez2021 (talk) 02:13, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Series overview sub-page
Can someone make a subpage listing all of the episodes and seasons on America's Funniest Home Videos? Chadalvarez2021 (talk) 00:07, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

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San Isidoro, León

St. Isidore's Basilica (Basílica de San Isidoro) is a Catholic church in the city of León, Castile and León, Spain, located on the site of an ancient Roman temple. Its Christian roots can be traced back to the early 10th century when a monastery for Saint John the Baptist was erected on the grounds.

In 1063 the basilica was rededicated to Saint Isidore of Seville. Isidore was archbishop of Seville, and the most celebrated academic and theologian of Visigothic Spain in the period preceding the Arab invasions. With the agreement of Abbad II al-Mu'tadid, the Muslim ruler of Seville, Isidore's relics were brought to Leon where they could be interred on Christian soil. The tomb of the saint still draws many visitors today. An equestrian statue of Saint Isidore dressed as a Moor-slayer is visible, along with many other sculptures, high on the facade.

In 1188, the Cortes of León were held in here. It was the first sample of modern parliamentarism in the history of Europe, according to the UNESCO and John Keane's book The Life and Death of Democracy.

History
The original church was built in the pre-Arab period over the ruins of a temple to the Roman god Mercury. In the 10th century, the kings of León established a community of Benedictine sisters on the site.

Following the conquest of the area by Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir (938–1002), the first church was destroyed and the area devastated. León was repopulated and a new church and monastery established in the 11th century by Alfonso V of León.

Alfonso's daughter, the infanta Sancha of León, married Ferdinand, Count of Castile. Sancha's brother, Bermudo III, declared the war against Castile and Castilian troops, with the help of Navarre, killed the Leonese king, becoming Ferdinand I of León. He and his queen gave the crucifix that bears their name to San Isidoro. The church also benefited from its position on the famous pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostella. Sculptors, stonemasons and artists from across Europe gathered to work on the monastery.

The church was rebuilt as a basilica and rededicated by Ferdinand I and Sancha in 1063. They renamed it San Isidoro in honor of St. Isidore, whose remains were transported to León.

Queen Sancha chose the new monastery as the site of the royal burial chapel. Today eleven kings, numerous queens and many nobles lie interred beneath the polychrome vaults of the medieval "royal pantheon". In 1063 the relics of Saint Isidore were transferred to the chapel, and a community of canons was established to maintain the monastery and ward the relics. The apse and transept of the building are in the Gothic style, whilst other parts of the building are Romanesque or of the Renaissance period.

In 1072, after the death of Sancho, Urraca of León and Castile summoned Alfonso VI from exile and reinstalled him as king. Together they planned an enlarged basilica, although the contemporary claims about the specifics of this amplification of the basilica may not be accurate.

The basilica is still a collegiate foundation and the canons' office is celebrated each day.

Basilica
Built mostly in the Romanesque style, the basilica has had major additions in the styles of many succeeding centuries including the Gothic. The arches on the crossing of the transept hark back to Islamic art. However the many styles merge into a harmonious whole.

The carved tympanum of the Puerta del Cordero is one of the basilica's most notable features. Created prior to 1100, this romanesque tympanum depicts the sacrifice of Abraham.

Royal Pantheon
Or the Pantheon of the Kings of León. This funeral chapel of the kings of León is one of the examples of surviving Romanesque art in León. The columns are crowned with rare Visigothic capitals, with floral or historic designs. The 12th century painted murals are in an exceptional state of preservation and consist of an ensemble of New Testament subjects along with scenes of contemporary rural life.

Museum
This contains numerous examples of early medieval art including jewelled chalices and works of ivory and precious metal. The library holds 300 medieval works, numerous manuscripts as well as mozarabic bible dating from 960 and a Latin version transcribed in the seventh century. There is also a text of the seventh century law code of the Visigothic rulers of pre-conquest Spain. The Chalice of Doña Urraca is one of the most important pieces in this Museum.

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Promise of Love

Promise of Love is an album by The American Analog Set. It was released on June 17, 2003, on Tiger Style Records.

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Set Free (album)

Set Free is an album by The American Analog Set. It was released on September 20, 2005, on Arts & Crafts. This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005.

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Okhtyrka

Okhtyrka (Охтирка, ; Ахтырка) is a city in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Okhtyrka Raion within the oblast. Okhtyrka was once home to Hussars and Cossacks. It was also in the past a regional seat of the Sloboda Ukraine Imperial Region and of the Ukrainian SSR. Since the discovery of oil and gas in 1961, Okhtyrka has come to be known as the "Oil Capital of Ukraine." It is home to the Okhtyrka air base and other historical and religious sites. Some religious buildings in Okhtyrka were almost destroyed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Name
The city of Okhtyrka is located on the banks of the Okhtyrka river. According to the most approved etymology, the city is named after the river.

Some local historians have suggested that the river's name may have originated in the Turkic language, where it can be translated to mean "lazy river," "place of ambush," or "white fort." However, Russian philologist Oleg Trubachyov has pointed out that there is insufficient evidence to support this theory.

Alternatively, linguist Kostiantyn Tyshchenko has suggested that the river's name may have Gothic origins.

Geography
Located south of the Sumy region, Okhtyrka lies in the center of a triangle created by regional centers — Sumy, Kharkiv, and Poltava. The city is on the left bank of the Vorskla River, colloquially known as the 'Blue Pearl' of the Ukrainian rivers.

History and legends
Okhtyrka was first established by former Ruthenians of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, after escaping Polonization, moved from the Right-bank Ukraine to Sloboda Ukraine. Next to the new settlement, Polish authorities established a border outpost against the Muscovite Belgorod Border Line. The settlement and the outpost were founded on the right bank of the Vorskla River, on the site of an ancient Ruthenian settlement on Ak-tyr Hill (from Turkic — "white rock") in 1641, by Ukrainian Cossacks led by Polish government official Kulczewski. It was named Akhtyrsky.

In 1647, according to the act of demarcation of borders drawn by the Treaty of Polyanovka of 1634, it was ceded by the Kingdom of Poland to the Tsardom of Russia. Akhtyrsk became the last southwestern point of the Belgorod defense line that stretched along the southern border of the Russian state in the middle of the 17th century. In 1650, the Russian authorities reduced the fortress to a mere lookout outpost, next to which soon appeared the Holy Trinity Monastery.

In 1653 on the banks of the Vorskla tributary Okhtyrka a group of migrants from right-bank Ukraine established a settlement which adopted the name of the outpost. In 1654 a fortification was completed, and in 1655–1656 it was further expanded by Russian sluzhilie (service members) led by the Tsar's appointed voivodes Larion Kaminin and Trofim Chernov. In 1656, a group of over 1,000 people from right-bank Ukraine arrived, led by Cossack sotnik Arystov and protopope Antoniy from Zhyvotov (possibly the Kiev Voivodeship).

Being bolstered by this position during the 17th and 18th centuries, Okhtyrka rose to rival Kharkiv. The first census of the city was taken in 1655 by governor of Okhtyrka, Trofim Khrushchev, listing 1,339 residents. In 1655–1658, the settlement was a regimental town of the Okhtyrka Regiment.

In 1718 a tobacco factory started, the first one in Ukraine. Throughout the 18th century Okhtyrka transformed into a center of crafts and trade. Following the 1765 liquidation of the regimental system of administration, Okhtyrka became a center of the Sloboda Ukraine province and then Okhtyrka uyezd of the Kharkov Governorate.

2022 Russian Invasion

Clashes have been ongoing in Okhtyrka between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the invading Russian Armed Forces since 24 February 2022. On the morning of February 25, the city of Оkhtyrka was shelled. According to Amnesty International, Russian troops used cluster munitions, including dropping them on a kindergarten. As a result, three people died, including a child. On this day, in the area of Оkhtyrka, a Russian Grad fired multiple rockets on a bus for the evacuation of residents. The Chairman of the Sumy Regional State Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi said that five more civilians were killed in the city. On the morning of February 26, other explosions were heard. Later it became known that Russian Armed Forces bombed a military unit and also fired at the Dachny residential area. According to Zhyvytskyi, more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers died as a result of shelling by Russian troops of a military unit in Оkhtyrka. On February 27, the chairman of the Sumy Regional State Administration reported that Russian tanks had shot a bus with civilians. On February 28, Russian forces used a vacuum bomb on the city. On March 1, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russian troops were holding the city surrounded. On March 3, Russian aircraft bombarded the local thermal power plant and fired at residential areas of Оkhtyrka. On March 5, the head of the Sumy Regional State Administration announced that the Оkhtyrka Combined Heat and Power Plant was completely destroyed after an air bombardment by Russian aircraft, resulting in the death of 5 workers. On March 8, Оkhtyrka was subjected to another artillery shelling from Russia; residential areas were damaged. On the night of March 10, a Russian aircraft bombed Оkhtyrka twice; a bombing attack was carried out on the Kachanovsky GPP of PJSC Ukrnafta. At noon on March 13, as a result of Russian shelling, along Kyiv street No. 2, the gas station BVS No. 22 was on fire. On the night of March 13–14, Russian aircraft bombed the city again. On March 16, the Russian military began to retreat. On March 20, active hostilities continued in the Оkhtyrka Raion.

On March 24, 2022, in order to celebrate the accomplishments, mass heroism and resilience of citizens identified in the defense of their city during the repulse of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, by Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 164/2022, the city of Оkhtyrka was awarded the honorary distinction "Hero City of Ukraine".

Russians, using prohibited means of warfare, carried out an air bombardment of the most densely populated residential area of Оkhtyrka, Dachnyi neighborhood. As a result of the bombing, at least 15 residential high-rise and private houses, civil infrastructure facilities, and power lines were destroyed or damaged. According to the Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine in Оkhtyrka, rescuers were able to free an injured woman from the rubble of damaged houses and also found the body of one deceased person. According to preliminary data, one person died. On March 25, Russian aircraft bombed Оkhtyrka again. On March 30, public utilities in Оkhtyrka began repairing damaged houses.

After new attacks caused more deaths, 4,500 people in 22 border towns in the raion were evacuated in March 2024.

The coat of arms
The town's coat of arms (blue field, golden cross and shining sun above) celebrates the city's visiting pilgrims. It was introduced by Simon Bekenshtein on September 21, 1781, and reinstated in 1991 by the city council.

Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:

Military history
In 1655–1658 the Okhtyrka Cossack Regiment was formed and lasted until 1765, when, ordered by Catherine II, all Cossack regiments were dismantled. In 1709, the territory of the Cossack regiment became the scene of fierce fighting with the Swedes. For more than a hundred years the Cossack regiment had fought against the invasion of the Tatars, and the troops had both defeats and victories over the Turks, Tatars, and the Swedes. Later, Okhtyrka's Cossack regiment reformed into hussars.

Okhtyrka Fortress
Okhtyrka, like all of Sloboda Ukraine, had an disorderly city layout. The central core of the city was represented by the fortress, which occupied an elevated place; the buildings fitting into the terrain without any order.

Okhtyrka's fort sat on the shore of the small Okhtyrka river where it makes a loop, forming a natural protection. The fortress was surrounded by numerous lakes, complicating any potential approaches to it.

The fortress had the shape of an irregular quadrilateral, and occupied the area of the present city center, from the river to the location of today's "Intercession Cathedral" outside the castle. It was surrounded by a wooden fence with five stone and fifteen wooden towers, as well as two bastions. The fortress gates had drawbridges. Around the castle a moat was dug and earth mound built with caponier at the corners. The moat was filled with water.

In the early 18th century, Cossacks of the Okhtyrka regiment took an active part in the Great Northern War, recapturing the Swedish and Russian lands bordering the Baltic Sea. On December 26, 1707, Peter the First came to the city to personally verify the readiness of the garrison and hold a council of war.

Hussars
Okhtyrka Hussars played an important role in the fight against Napoleon during the War of 1812. They participated in the battles of Smolensk, Vyazma, and Borodino. For services in battle the regiment was honored to open the parade of victors at the entry of Allied troops in Paris. In this regiment, the Russian poet Dimitry Davydov served as one of the leaders of the partisan movement during the War in 1812, as well as the Russian composer Alexander Alyabyev. In 1823, the regiment was commanded by a future Decembrist, A. Muravyev, and Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian poet.

Many people fought and died in WWI and even more in WWII. The fighting around Okhtyrka was fearsome and resulted in a prominent common grave of Soviet soldiers in the area.

Soviet times
During World War II, Okhtyrka was occupied by the German Army from 15 October 1941 to 23 February 1943 and again from 11 March to 25 August 1943. The Germans operated a Gulag transit camp for prisoners of war in 1941–1942. Okhtyrka was near the southern flank of the Kursk Bulge, and fighting in the city in the summer of 1943 was fierce. Afterwards, the city and its surroundings built monuments to those who fought in the war: the eternal flame of remembrance in the city park, Valley of Heroes, T-34 tank on a pedestal in one of the city's entrances, the Mound of Glory, etc. After the war, a large army garrison was established in the area of Okhtyrka. Military parades in the city, arranged on the occasion of Soviet holidays, were comparable with the Ukrainian capital city due to the number of participating vehicles and machinery of all kinds.

In the last decade of the Soviet period, Okhtyrka was militarized, housing several army regiments. The Dachny precinct became a home to officers' families from the former USSR. Many of them served in Eastern Bloc countries (East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia etc.), took part in Vietnam and Afghanistan wars, and served as consultants in Cuba. As the USSR started to fall apart, the machinery and ballistic rockets were transported to Russian territory, however it took much longer for the regiments to move or to transform. Many military personnel or their families stayed in Okhtyrka or still have connections to the city.

Architecture
There are many wooden and brick churches in the area.

On "Monastery Hill", overlooking the Vorskla river 4–5 km north of Оkhtyrka, stands the Holy Trinity Monastery, established in 1654. The grounds have been practically destroyed during the Soviet era with exception of its bell tower, that kept some of its structure intact. The Russian Revolution of October, World War II and the anti-religious policies of the Soviet era were factors. It has been reopened following restoration of religious life in Ukraine and Russia, for the 4th time during its history. Mostly surviving on donations and on the work of enthusiastic monks and volunteers, with Kyiv Church blessings, it has started to rebuild and has become one of the main religious places for Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Christian worshipers in the region.

Cathedral and its relics
The Cathedral of the Holy Virgin (1753–1762) was formerly attributed to Bartolomeo Rastrelli and now to Dmitry Ukhtomsky with managing architect S. Dudinsky. Its architecture is the traditional Sloboda Ukrainian Baroque with elements derived from the imperial capital. The interior is decorated with Ionic pilasters and paintings on sails. It suffered during the Great Patriotic War. Restorations began in 1970–1972 but were completed only after the collapse of the USSR. The construction is unique in its three-dimensional solution and has no analogy in Ukrainian Baroque architecture.

Nearby stands the Nativity Church (1825), which resembles a palace rather than a church. The cathedral belltower was built in three tiers and adorned with a statuary in 1783.

Miraculous icon of Okhtyrka
Iconography of Оkhtyrka originates in Italo-Greek art. Usually pictured is a half-length image of the Blessed Virgin Mary with folded hands in supplication, with to her left Jesus Christ, crucified on the cross.

The Okhtyrka miraculous icon, July 2, 1739, is kept in the church.

The story is that the image, which was said to emanate radiance, was uncovered by priest Vasily (Basil) Danilov in the grassland of Protection Church while he was mowing and took it home. After three years later, the priest entered the room on the day of the feast of the Protection and was struck by the extraordinary light of the icon. He prayed devoutly near the icon but said nothing to anyone else. Later, the priest saw the Virgin in a dream, and heard her command him to remove dust from it and to clean it with water. On his awakening he executed the command. He left the water that he used to clean the icon in a vessel, planning to take it to the river the next morning to empty and to wash the vessel. Again, he fell asleep and dreamed he was going to the river the next morning. He heard the voice of Mother of God tell him to return home and keep the water, and that it would heal any who suffered from fever. He had a daughter who had long experienced fevers so when he awoke, he gave her the water to drink, and his daughter soon recovered.

Later, the priest asked Ioan (John) the iconographer, to repair damaged paint on the icon. Knowing of its miraculous healing qualities, Ioan washed it with water and gave the water to his son, who suffered from fever, who also recovered. While preparing for the restoration that night he heard the icon say: "Get up! Now is the time to return the icon to where you took it. Fix it you cannot." The painter prayed before the icon until morning, and took it back to Basil, who, convinced of its miraculous power, put it in the protection of the Church. Fever sufferers began to pray to the icon and were miraculously healed in great numbers.

The news of the miracles of the icon spread to the Imperial Court. The Mother of God appeared in a vivid dream to the widow Baroness von Veydel, who visited Okhtyrka in 1748. The Lady told her that her days were numbered and ordered her to give away her estate, distributing it to the needy, and promised protection to her two young daughters. The baroness rushed to distribute the property and died five days later. The news about this reached the Empress, and Elizabeth took the orphans to the court, raised them and married one to Count Panin, and the other to Count Chernyshov. Both of them made generous contributions to the cathedral, where the icon remained until the day they died.

In 1751 the Holy Synod honored the icon of Okhtyrka as miraculous. In 1753 Empress Elizabeth donated funds and a stone Cathedral of the Holy Virgin was erected where the icon was found. The icon was kept in the Cathedral until its theft in 1903 during its voyage to St. Petersburg for restoration.

The icon found its way to Harbin, and was acquired by S A Stepanov. According to the Harbin Archpriest Nikolai Trufanova, who repeatedly visited the Okhtyrka icon in Okhtyrka, it was the icon that had gone missing. He confirmed that Stepanov acquired the icon of Okhtyrka. In the 1950s, the son of Stepanov brought it to Brazil and then to San Francisco, where he gave it to the Committee of the Russian Orthodox youth as a blessing. Then Okhtyrka icon was placed under the jurisdiction of Sydney Archbishop Hilarion (Kapral).

Blessed copies of Okhtyrka icon

The icon of Okhtyrka, which is revered as a healer of many diseases, has been copied with the blessing of the church in small numbers that were distributed mainly in the south of Russia, in Kharkiv diocese. One such icon from the 18th or 19th century is kept in Moscow, in the main aisle of the church of Resurrection in the Arbat (ap. Philip) Jerusalem monastery. The Okhtyrka icon is called "Samara" – the main shrine of Samara Nicholas male monastery.

In 1975, the information that the lost Okhtyrka icon was in San Francisco reached the Soviet Union. In 1995 the Metropolitan Nicodemus of Kharkiv (Rusnak) brought a copy of the icon, and handed it to Okhtyrka St. Basil's Cathedral. In connection with this event, a procession on the third day after the Holy Trinity with other icons placed the Okhtyrka icon into the Holy Trinity Monastery. These processions occurred yearly from 1844 on the Saturday of Pentecost, and later the icons were transferred back on the feast of All Saints. On June 15, 1999 Okhtyrka held celebrations to mark the 260th anniversary of the phenomenon of the Okhtyrka icon.

List of temples in honor of Okhtyrka icons

Temples in the village Chernetove Bryansk region, Russia; Akhtyrsky nunnery in the village Gusevka Volgograd region, Russia; Church in the village of Akhtyrka Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region, Russia; Chapel at the Republican Hospital in Petrozavodsk; Akhtyrsky Cathedral in City Orel, Russia.

Culture
People who live in Okhtyrka have origins in different nationalities with the mainstream culture being predominantly Ukrainian and Russian. This is also influenced by Orthodox faith traditions, the surrounding Christian architecture, and the religious life and history of the city. In recent years, following the independence of Ukraine, there is a noticeable shift to Ukrainian culture. The spoken language is Ukrainian and Russian, or a mixture of both, with Ukrainian language dominating.

Okhtyrkivtsi (residents of Okhtyrka) celebrate: the Day of the City on August 25, in honor of liberation of the city on this day in 1943 from Nazi German invaders, Ukrainian independence day, Patronal feast days, Carnival, a festival in honor of the holiday of Ivan Kupala and many others.

Tobacco
In 1718, the first Russian tobacco manufacture began, which was attributed to several villages (944 peasant households), but proved unprofitable. In 1727 the company sold its treasury to private individuals. The tobacco factory was served by an isolated plantation (50 acres), from which were collected seven thousand pounds of tobacco.

Oil and gas
Since the discovery of oil and gas in 1961, Okhtyrka has become the "oil capital of Ukraine". The Okhtyrka region produces the most oil in Ukraine.

Other industries
In the early 20th century there were manufacturers of light woollen stuffs and a trade in corn, cattle and the produce of domestic industries. The area is fertile, and the orchards produced excellent fruit.

Obolon CJSC has a brewery in Okhtyrka.

Sports
Okhtyrka is home to the Ukrainian First League team, FC Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka.

Notable people or residents born in Okhtyrka

 * John P. Crimson – writer.
 * Nicholas Filippovich Batiuk – Soviet military.commander, one of the heroes of the defense of Stalingrad.
 * Sergey Borodaevsky – economist.
 * Mikhail Gurevich. – Soviet aircraft designer, studied at the gymnasium Okhtyrka.
 * Peter Ledenyov – Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Mikhail Yakovlevich Rudinsky – archaeologist.
 * Peter Antonovich Yaroslavsky – architect.
 * Andrei Chikatilo – one of the most famous Soviet serial killers, he studied at the Technical College of Communications Okhtyrka.
 * Mykola Zerov – Ukrainian literary critic, poet – a master's sonnets.
 * Mykola Khvyliovyi – Soviet Ukrainian writer.
 * Svetlana Svetlichnaya – Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1974).
 * Oleksiy Berest – Soviet officer and veteran of World War II.
 * Paul Grabowsky – Ukrainian poet, translator, member of the revolutionary movement.
 * Ostap Vyshnia – Soviet Ukrainian writer, humorist and satirist.
 * Borys Antonenko-Davydovych – Soviet and Ukrainian writer.
 * Leonid Pavlovych Maidan – Ukrainian-Russian-Canadian poet. Editor of Ukrainian-language journal in Toronto (Canada) around 1950. Also wrote under the pseudonym 'Dan-May' and 'Leonid May'. Books of poetry published in Canada include 'V Pokhid' (Ukrainian), and 'Stikhi-Lirika' Academia Press, 1949, (Russian). He is formally recognized as a Russian emigre poet by the Russian Federation.

The city mayor is Igor Alekseev.

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Hans Georg Klamroth

Johannes "Hans" Georg Klamroth (12 October 1898, Halberstadt – 26 August 1944) was, by his knowledge of the plans through distant relatives and his son-in-law Lieutenant-Colonel Bernhard Klamroth, involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

After the bombing at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia on 20 July 1944 failed to kill Hitler, Klamroth was arrested and, after a show trial at the Volksgerichtshof on 15 August, sentenced to death for keeping his knowledge of the plot to himself. He was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 26 August. Reportedly, he was stripped nude from the waist down several hours after his hanging.

The Halberstadt-born businessman was originally a follower of National Socialism and an NSDAP and SS member; he also served as a major in the reserve as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht. His daughter, television journalist Wibke Bruhns, published her father's biography in 2004, using letters between him and his father, as well as family pictures to contribute to his story. The book, Meines Vaters Land ("My Father's Land"), spawned much discussion. It was translated into English in 2007 and published in 2008 as My Father's Country.

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Peter Wheeler (TVR)

Peter Robert Wheeler (29 February 1944 – 11 June 2009) was a chemical engineer from Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, who owned the Blackpool-based TVR sports car company for 23 years.

Wheeler made his fortune supplying specialist equipment to the North Sea oil industry. After owning a TVR, he ended up buying the company in 1981. Wheeler sold TVR to Nikolai Smolenski in 2004 for around £15 million. Despite his background in chemistry, Peter Wheeler also contributed to the design of TVRs.

Under Wheeler's ownership, TVR moved from cars with Triumph and Ford engines to using the Rover V8, and later the Speed Eight and Speed Six designed for TVR by Al Melling. The cars produced under his control were typically stunning to look at, with incredible performance. The distinctive intakes below the headlamps on the Chimaera, were purely accidental and the result of his dog 'Ned' biting the prototype bodyshell.

Wheeler died on 11 June 2009 after a long illness.

Evo Magazine's former editor Harry Metcalfe said of Wheeler: "Peter Wheeler was one of those larger-than-life characters I thought only existed in novels. He always seemed to excel at anything he turned his hand to, despite not always doing things the easy way. He might have been quietly spoken but he possessed formidable drive and incredible presence (being 6ft 6in tall helped here), qualities that helped him build TVR into what it was in its heyday."

Speaking to CAR Magazine, Ben Samuelson, who worked with Wheeler for 12 years, said: "They were exciting, challenging and fantastic times. You never got bored – you didn’t know what was going to happen next! There were no committee meetings, he wasn’t a touchy-feely person, there were no group yoga sessions or anything; he was a proper boss."

Even after selling TVR Wheeler remained involved in the motoring industry, regularly racing an Aston Martin DB4, and also designing the Scamander amphibious car.

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Joe Liggins

Joseph Christopher Liggins, Jr. (born Theodro Elliott; July 9, 1916 – July 26, 1987) was an American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist who led Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers in the 1940s and 1950s. His band appeared often on the Billboard magazine charts. The band's biggest hit was "The Honeydripper", released in 1945. Joe Liggins was the older brother of R&B performer Jimmy Liggins.

Music career
The son of Harriett and Elijah Elliott, he was born in Seminole, Oklahoma, and took his stepfather's surname, Liggins, as a child. He apparently dropped the name Theodro and adopted the names Joseph Christopher during the 1930s. The family moved to San Diego in 1932. He graduated from Hoover High School, studied music at San Diego State College, and performed with local bands at clubs and Naval bases. He wrote arrangements on a freelance basis for Curtis Mosby’s Blue Blowers, and in 1935 Liggins joined the Creole Crusaders, which was led by the drummer Ellis Walsh.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1939, where he played with Sammy Franklin's California Rhythm Rascals and other groups. When Franklin turned down a chance to record Liggins' song "The Honeydripper", Liggins decided to start his own band. The original Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers recordings were issued on the Exclusive Records imprint of brothers Leon and Otis René. Joe Liggins' Honeydrippers was formed in the basement of the Los Angeles home of the saxophonist Little Willie Jackson, who co-founded the group and who, at the time of his death in 2001, was the last original surviving member of the Honeydrippers. "The Honeydripper" topped the R&B chart, then called the race chart, for 18 weeks in 1945. More than 60 years later, "The Honeydripper" remains tied with Louis Jordan's "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" for the longest-ever stay at the top of that chart. It reportedly logged two million sales.

The Honeydrippers performed at five of the Cavalcade of Jazz concerts, all of which took place at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, and were produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. The first Cavalcade of Jazz concert was on September 23, 1945, and included Count Basie, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam, and Big Joe Turner to a crowd of 15,000. The second Cavalcade of Jazz concert was held on October 12, 1946, and included Jack McVea, Slim Gaillard, T-Bone Walker, Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra and Louis Armstrong. The third Cavalcade of Jazz was held on September 7, 1947, and included Woody Herman, The Valdḗs Orchestra, T-Bone Walker, Slim Gaillard, Johnny Otis and his Orchestra, Toni Harper, The Three Blazers, and Sarah Vaughan. The fourth Cavalcade of Jazz was held September 12, 1948, and included Joe Adams as Emcee, Dizzy Gillespie, Frankie Lane, Little Miss Cornshucks, the Sweethearts of Rhythm, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon, the Blenders and the Sensations. The seventh Cavalcade of Jazz was held on July 8, 1951, and featured Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton, Percy Mayfield, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Roy Brown. Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers were on the program for more Cavalcade of Jazz concerts than any other artist. In the program description it was noted that band critics called Joe Liggins and his Original Honeydrippers, "The Hottest Little Band in the Land."

Liggins had a series of further R&B chart hits on the Exclusive label, including "Left a Good Deal in Mobile" (#2, 1945); "Got a Right to Cry" (#2, 1946); "Tanya" (#3, 1946); and "Blow Mr. Jackson" (#3, 1947). He signed with Specialty Records in 1950, where he gained more hits, including "Rag Mop" (#4, 1950), "Boom-Chick-A-Boogie", "Pink Champagne" (#1 for 13 weeks in 1950), and "Little Joe's Boogie". "Pink Champagne" also reached number 30 on the pop chart, and both "Pink Champagne" and "Got A Right To Cry" sold over one million copies and were awarded gold discs.

His songs were mostly a blend of jump blues and basic R&B. With Roy Milton, he was an architect of the small-band jump blues of the first post-war decade. Liggins often toured with such acts as Jimmy Witherspoon, Amos Milburn and the jump blues shouter H-Bomb Ferguson. In March 1954, the band took part in a benefit show held at the Club 5-4 in Los Angeles for the wife of Stan Getz.

In 1946, before the concept of rock music had been defined, Billboard described the group's song "Sugar Lump" as "right ryhthmic rock and roll music".

Although Liggins' success stopped in the late 1950s, he continued to perform until his death following a stroke, in Lynwood, California, at the age of 71.

The Honeydrippers (band members)

 * Little Willie Jackson – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
 * James Jackson, Jr. – tenor saxophone
 * Joe Liggins – piano, vocal
 * Frank Pasley – guitar
 * Eddie Davis – bass
 * Preston "Peppy" Prince – drums

Guest session musicians:
 * Joe Darensbourg – clarinet
 * Johnny Moore – guitar
 * Gene Phillips – guitar
 * Red Callender – bass

Original 10" shellac (78rpm) and 7" vinyl (45rpm) releases
Bronze Records:
 * 125 The Honeydripper, Part 1/The Honeydripper, Part 2 -1944

Exclusive Records:
 * 207 The Honeydripper, Part 1 [re-recording]/The Honeydripper, Part 2 [re-recording] −1945
 * 208 Left a Good Deal in Mobile (by Herb Jeffries w/Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers)/Here's Hopin' (by Herb Jeffries Orchestra w/Homer Hall Chorus)
 * 210 Got a Right to Cry/Blue Moods
 * 211 Got Your Love in My Heart (by Herb Jeffries w/Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers)/Tisco Tisco (by Pat Kay w/Herb Jeffries Orchestra)
 * 212 I Know My Love Is True/Harlemesque
 * 213 Lovers Lament/Miss Betty's Blues
 * 216 Caravan/You Ain't Goin' to Heaven No How
 * 219 Sugar Lump/Boddle-Do-Da-Deet
 * 231 Breaking My Heart/Tanya
 * 232 Drippers' Boogie, Part 1/Drippers' Boogie, Part 2
 * 236 T.W.A./Last Night Blues
 * 238 Someday Sweetheart/Yvette
 * 242 Some of These Days/The Blues
 * 244 The Blues/Blow Mr. Jackson
 * 250 Down Home Blues/Ten Toes
 * 252 Think of Me/Little Willie
 * 256 Sugar/You'll Miss Me Sure's You're Born
 * 258 Life Don't Mean a Thing to Me/Siboney
 * 262 Worried/How Come
 * 267 Groovy Groove/Apple of My Eye
 * 271 Drippers' Blues/Sweet Georgia Brown
 * 41x Roll 'Em/Sweet And Lovely
 * 49x Spooks Holiday/The Darktown Strutters' Ball
 * 61x Don't Stop Loving Me/Key Jam
 * 68x Got a Right to Cry [reissue]/Blue Moods [reissue]
 * 79x End of a Kiss/He Knows How to Knock Me Out
 * 84x Three O'clock Jump, Part 1/Three O'clock Jump, Part 2
 * 102x Miss You/Big Baritone
 * 124x The Honeydripper, Part 1 [reissue]/The Honeydripper, Part 2 [reissue]
 * 132x Ruth/Loosiana
 * 144x Lonesome Guitar/Hey Mama
 * 151x What Is the Reason (You Don't Love Me)/Ham-Bone Boogie
 * 152x I Cover the Waterfront/Fascination

Modern Records:
 * 20-547 58th Street Jump/On the Sunny Side of the Street
 * 20-566 Black and Blue (v: Little Willie Jackson)/Jackson's Boogie
 * 20-571 I Ain't Got Nobody (v: Peppy Prince)/Shasta
 * 20-587 Little Willie's Boogie/You Can Depend On Me (v: Peppy Prince)
 * 20-605 Someday, Somehow, Somewhere (v: Little Willie Jackson)/My Baby's Blues
 * 20-613 The Peanut Vendor/Let's Jump ---note: these 12 sides were recorded by The Honeydrippers and released under the name/leadership of Little Willie Jackson.

Dot Records:
 * 1031 The Honeydripper, Part 1/The Honeydripper, Part 2
 * 1032 I've Got a Right to Cry/Last Night Blues
 * 1033 Tanya/Down Home Blues ---note: these 6 sides are reissues of material originally recorded for Exclusive Records; Dot bought these masters and re-released them in 1951.

Specialty Records:
 * 338 I've Got a Right to Cry [re-recording]/The Honeydripper [re-recording]
 * 350 Rag Mop/Ramblin' Blues
 * 355 Pink Champagne/Sentimental Lover
 * 368 Rhythm in the Barnyard, Part 1/Rhythm in the Barnyard, Part 2
 * 379 Little Joe's Boogie/Daddy on My Mind (v: Joe Liggins & Candy Rivers)
 * 392 I Just Can't Help Myself/Frankie Lee
 * 394 That's the One for Me (v: Joe Liggins & Candy Rivers)/Bob Is The Guy (v: Candy Rivers)
 * 402 Whiskey, Gin & Wine/One Sweet Letter (v: Candy Rivers)
 * 409 Louisiana Woman/Trying to Lose the Blues
 * 413 So Alone/Oh, How I Miss You
 * 426 Boogie Woogie Lou/Rain, Rain, Rain (v: Candy Rivers)
 * 430 Tanya [re-recording]/Drippers' Boogie [re-recording]
 * 441 Cryin' Over You/Going Back to New Orleans
 * 453 Blues for Tanya/Freight Train Blues
 * 465 Farewell Blues (v: Dell St. John)/Deep Feeling Kind of Love (v: Joe Liggins & Christine)
 * 474 The Big Dipper/Everyone's Down on Me (v: Billy Bivins)
 * 492 Make Love to Me/Tears on My Pillow
 * 529 Whiskey, Woman & Loaded Dice/Do You Love Me Pretty Baby

Mercury Records:
 * 70440 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah/They Were Doin' the Mambo [rel. 1954]

Aladdin Records:
 * 3368 Justina/Go Ahead [rel. 1957]

Duplex Records:
 * 1004 House Party/Tell Me So [rel. 1964]

Original 10" shellac (78rpm) 3-disc album set

 * 1948 Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers (a self-titled release) [rec. 1945–1947] (Exclusive #EX-1004, although not listed on jacket cover); includes the following discs:
 * 262 Worried (instrumental) [mx# 1224]/How Come [mx# 1226]
 * 238 Someday Sweetheart [mx# 1086]/Yvette (instrumental) [mx# 1087]
 * 216 Caravan (instrumental) [mx# 1018]/You Ain't Goin' To Heaven No How [mx# 1017]

LP/CD releases/compilations of note

 * 1962 Honeydripper (Mercury #MG-20731/#SR-60731 [LP]) -note: re-recordings of hits.
 * 1974 Great Rhythm & Blues Oldies, Volume 6: Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers (Blues Spectrum (Johnny Otis' label) #BS-106 [LP])
 * 1976 Joe & Jimmy Liggins: Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man (Sonet #SNTF-5020 [LP]) -note: one side each from Joe and his brother Jimmy; all Specialty material.
 * 1981 Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers: Darktown Strutters Ball [rec. 1945–1950] (Jukebox Lil #JB-601 [LP])
 * 1988 Joe Liggins With the Original Million-Seller "The Honeydripper" [rec. 1945–1949] (Jukebox Lil #JB-622 [LP])
 * 1989 Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers (Specialty #SPCD-7006)
 * 1992 Dripper's Boogie: Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers – Vol. 2 (Specialty #SPCD-7025)
 * 1996 The Honeydripper: Rare And Unreleased Recordings 1946–1949 (Night Train International #7031)
 * 2002 The Shuffle Boogie King (Proper Pairs #PVCD-117 [2CD])
 * 2002 The Chronological Joe Liggins 1944–1946 (Classics 'Blues & Rhythm Series' #5020)
 * 2003 The Chronological Joe Liggins 1946–1948 (Classics 'Blues & Rhythm Series' #5063)
 * 2004 The Chronological Joe Liggins 1948–1950 (Classics 'Blues & Rhythm Series' #5108)
 * 2005 The Chronological Joe Liggins 1950–1952 (Classics 'Blues & Rhythm Series' #5155)
 * 2008 Jukebox Hits 1945–1951 (Acrobat #ACMCD-4236)
 * 2016 The Joe Liggins Collection 1944–1957 (Acrobat #ACTRCD-9061 [3CD])

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Oligotroph

An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients. They may be contrasted with copiotrophs, which prefer nutritionally rich environments. Oligotrophs are characterized by slow growth, low rates of metabolism, and generally low population density. Oligotrophic environments are those that offer little to sustain life. These environments include deep oceanic sediments, caves, glacial and polar ice, deep subsurface soil, aquifers, ocean waters, and leached soils.

Examples of oligotrophic organisms are the cave-dwelling olm; the bacterium "Candidatus Pelagibacter communis", which is the most abundant organism in the ocean (with an estimated 2 × 1028 individuals in total); and lichens, with their extremely low metabolic rate.

Etymology
Etymologically, the word "oligotroph" is a combination of the Greek adjective oligos (ὀλίγος) meaning "few" and the adjective trophikos (τροφικός) meaning "feeding".

Plant adaptations
Plant adaptations to oligotrophic soils provide for greater and more efficient nutrient uptake, reduced nutrient consumption, and efficient nutrient storage. Improvements in nutrient uptake are facilitated by root adaptations such as nitrogen-fixing root nodules, mycorrhizae and cluster roots. Consumption is reduced by very slow growth rates, and by efficient use of low-availability nutrients; for example, the use of highly available ions to maintain turgor pressure, with low-availability nutrients reserved for the building of tissues. Despite these adaptations, nutrient requirement typically exceed uptake during the growing season, so many oligotrophic plants have the ability to store nutrients, for example, in trunk tissues, when demand is low, and remobilise them when demand increases.

Oligotrophic environments
Oligotrophs occupy environments where the available nutrients offer little to sustain life. The term “oligotrophic” is commonly used to describe terrestrial and aquatic environments with very low concentrations of nitrates, iron, phosphates, and carbon sources.

Oligotrophs have acquired survival mechanisms that involve the expression of genes during periods of low nutrient conditions, which has allowed them to find success in various environments. Despite the capability to live in low nutrient concentrations, oligotrophs may find difficulty surviving in nutrient-rich environments.

Antarctica
Antarctic environments offer very little to sustain life as most organisms are not well adapted to live under nutrient-limiting conditions and cold temperatures (lower than 5 °C). As such, these environments display a large abundance of psychrophiles that are well adapted to living in an Antarctic biome. Most oligotrophs live in lakes where water helps support biochemical processes for growth and survival. Below are some documented examples of oligotrophic environments in Antarctica:

Lake Vostok, a freshwater lake which has been isolated from the world beneath 4 km (2.5 mi) of Antarctic ice is frequently held to be a primary example of an oligotrophic environment. Analysis of ice samples showed ecologically separated microenvironments. Isolation of microorganisms from each microenvironment led to the discovery of a wide range of different microorganisms present within the ice sheet. Traces of fungi have also been observed which suggests potential for unique symbiotic interactions. The lake’s extensive oligotrophy has led some to believe parts of the lake are completely sterile. This lake is a helpful tool for simulating studies regarding extraterrestrial life on frozen planets and other celestial bodies.

Crooked Lake is an ultra-oligotrophic glacial lake with a thin distribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic microorganisms. The microbial loop plays a big role in cycling nutrients and energy within this lake, despite particularly low bacterial abundance and productivity in these environments. The little ecological diversity can be attributed to the lake's low annual temperatures. Species discovered in this lake include Ochromonas, Chlamydomonas, Scourfeldia, Cryptomonas, Akistrodesmus falcatus, and Daphniopsis studeri (a microcrustacean). It is proposed that low competitive selection against Daphniopsis studeri has allowed the species to survive long enough to reproduce in nutrient limiting environments.

Australia
The sandplains and lateritic soils of southern Western Australia, where an extremely thick craton has precluded any geological activity since the Cambrian and there has been no glaciation to renew soils since the Carboniferous. Thus, soils are extremely nutrient-poor and most vegetation must use strategies such as cluster roots to gain even the smallest quantities of such nutrients as phosphorus and sulfur.

The vegetation in these regions, however, is remarkable for its biodiversity, which in places is as great as that of a tropical rainforest and produces some of the most spectacular wildflowers in the world. It is however, severely threatened by climate change which has moved the winter rain belt south, and also by clearing for agriculture and through use of fertilizers, which is primarily driven by low land costs which make farming economic even with yields a fraction of those in Europe or North America.

South America
An example of oligotrophic soils are those on white-sands, with soil pH lower than 5.0, on the Rio Negro basin on northern Amazonia that house very low-diversity, extremely fragile forests and savannahs drained by blackwater rivers; dark water colour due to high concentration of tannins, humic acids and other organic compounds derived from the very slow decomposition of plant matter. Similar forests are found in the oligotrophic waters of the Patía River delta on the Pacific side of the Andes.

Ocean
In the ocean, the subtropical gyres north and south of the equator are regions in which the nutrients required for phytoplankton growth (for instance, nitrate, phosphate and silicic acid) are strongly depleted all year round. These areas are described as oligotrophic and exhibit low surface chlorophyll. They are occasionally described as "ocean deserts".

Oligotrophic soil environments
The oligotrophic soil environments include agricultural soil, frozen soil, et cetera. Various factors, such as decomposition, soil structure, fertilization and temperature, can affect the nutrient-availability in the soil environments.

Generally, the nutrient becomes less available along the depth of the soil environment, because on the surface, the organic compounds decomposed from the plant and animal debris are consumed quickly by other microbes, resulting in the lack of nutrient in the deeper level of soil. In addition, the metabolic waste produced by the microorganisms on the surface also causes the accumulation of toxic chemicals in the deeper area. Furthermore, oxygen and water are important for some metabolic pathways, but it is difficult for water and oxygen to diffuse as the depth increases. Some factors, such as soil aggregates, pores and extracellular enzymes, may help water, oxygen and other nutrients diffuse into the soil. Moreover, the presence of mineral under the soil provides the alternative sources for the species living in the oligotrophic soil. In terms of the agricultural lands, the application of fertilizer has a complicated impact on the source of carbon, either increasing or decreasing the organic carbon in the soil.

Collimonas is one of the species that are capable of living in the oligotrophic soil. One common feature of the environments where Collimonas lives is the presence of fungi, because Collimonas have the ability of not only hydrolyzing the chitin produced by fungi for nutrients, but also producing materials (e.g., P. fluorescens 2-79) to protect themselves from fungal infection. The mutual relationship is common in the oligotrophic environments. Additionally, Collimonas can also obtain electron sources from rocks and minerals by weathering.

In terms of polar areas, such as Antarctic and Arctic region, the soil environment is considered as oligotrophic because the soil is frozen with low biological activities. The most abundant species in the frozen soil are Actinomycetota, Pseudomonadota, Acidobacteriota and Cyanobacteria, together with a small amount of archaea and fungi. Actinomycetota can maintain the activity of their metabolic enzymes and continue their biochemical reactions under a wide range of low temperature. In addition, the DNA repairing machinery in Actinomycetota protects them from lethal DNA mutation at low temperature.

title: Oligotroph