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Beetlejuice (entertainer)

Lester Green (born June 2, 1968), better known as Beetlejuice, is an American entertainer, comedian and actor. Green rose to prominence in 1999 due to his appearances on The Howard Stern Show, becoming a member of Stern's Wack Pack. He was named the greatest Wack Packer of all time in 2015. He has also appeared in such feature films as Bubble Boy (2001) and Scary Movie 2 (2001).

Early life
Lester Green was born in Browns Mills, New Jersey, on June 2, 1968. Green was born with dwarfism and microcephaly, a condition that caused his small head relative to his small body and an intellectual disability. He is the second youngest of six children by his mother Lillie and was raised in the Marion Section of Jersey City.

Career
Green was discovered in a neighborhood bar by Sean Rooney who became his manager. He would go on to become an entertainer and joined Rooney's dwarf tossing company where he was given his nickname because of his resemblance to a character in the movie Beetlejuice (1988). Sean Rooney died in 2009 and management of Green's career fell to his brother, Bobby Rooney.

1999–2000: Early appearances and The Howard Stern Show
Green made his debut on The Howard Stern Show on July 14, 1999, making an appearance with Frank "Third Degree" Burns, who also has dwarfism, while Rooney was promoting his dwarf tossing business. Stern immediately took a liking to Beetlejuice and saw his potential for stardom, calling him a "once in a lifetime guest". Green would go on to make numerous appearances on the show and became one of Stern's most popular guests. Despite his popularity, some have been more critical of his appearances on the show due to the belief that Stern exploits developmentally disabled individuals.

In 2000, Stern was invited to the 17th AVN Awards to receive an honorary exclusive achievement award which he sent Green to receive for him. Green gave the acceptance speech with some direction from his manager that had to be stopped due to his lengthy, "incomprehensible rambling". That same year he made an appearance on WCW Nitro where, dressed as Superman, he confronted Jeff Jarrett backstage, who then proceeded to hit Green over the head with a guitar after calling Jarrett "Slap Nuts”. Green then interrupted Jarrett's WCW Championship match before being pummeled by the wrestler in the ring.

2001–2016: Rise to fame
Green portrayed a fictional character in the 2001 cult comedy film Bubble Boy named Lil' Zip, a member of a freak show that Jake Gyllenhaal's character Jimmy Livingston meets. Another member of Stern's Wack Pack, Matthew McGrory, also appeared alongside Green. That same year he would make a cameo appearance as himself in Scary Movie 2, depicted as the brain of Marlon Wayans' stoner character Shorty Meeks.

In 2002, he appeared in rapper N.O.R.E.'s music video for the song "Grimey" and was featured on three songs on the hip-hop group Smut Peddlers' 2001 debut album, Porn Again, on the tracks "Beetlejuice Intro", "Pimpology by Beetlejuice", and "Beetlejuice Outtakes" on Rawkus Records. Green sang "This Is Beetle", also known as "The Beetlejuice Song", on The Howard Stern Show in late 2004. Stern Show producer Richard Christy recorded the song, wrote music to accompany Beetlejuice's raw vocals, and then engineered it into the full song. The key lyrics to the song are, "This is Beetle, he's bad as can, and he knows he's the best." The song, which Green created spontaneously in the recording studio, has been covered by the rock band Staind, who included the song on special editions of their album Chapter V. On September 19, 2005, Blues Traveler played their version of "This Is Beetle" on The Howard Stern Show. Initially, Stern was unable to broadcast this recording on his Sirius Satellite Radio program because CBS Radio owned the copyright to all of Stern's shows from K-Rock. Stern and his production staff recreated many of the more popular segments from his days on K-Rock, but attempts to recreate "This Is Beetle" were unsuccessful. However, in May 2006, Stern, Sirius, and CBS reached an agreement to sell the rights for all his K-Rock broadcasts to Sirius, thus enabling Stern to play the song. There was also a controversy around the share of potential profits from the song, and Green's manager at the time, Sean Rooney, got into an argument with Gary Dell'Abate, the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show, regarding the percentage share of the profits between Green and Christy.

Throughout his career Green also participated in amateur boxing matches with other little people.

In June 2008, film director Michael Bay intended for Green to cameo in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), but Green reportedly was difficult to direct and so Bay opted not to have him appear. In 2009, Green was featured in his own five-episode reality television show entitled This is Beetle on the Howard TV.

Since 2017: Recent appearances
In February 2021, Green made his first appearance on The Howard Stern Show in over five years. He informed Stern that he relocated to Georgia with his mother, and also debuted a remixed version of his 2015 song "Beetle in the House", featuring Snoop Dogg, Sean Paul, and Big Freedia.

In February 2022, Green's manager launched an NFT on the Goldin's Auction platform, which allowed the winning bidder to receive a physical rookie card signed by Green as well as a video of Green telling his life story. It sold for $15,000 after 21 bids.

In 2023, a video clip of Green dubbed "Just Hanging Around" became a viral meme on TikTok and other video sharing sites.

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David Segui

David Vincent Segui, (born July 19, 1966) is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman.

Segui was born in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of former Major League baseball pitcher Diego Seguí. He played collegiate baseball for Louisiana Tech and Kansas City Kansas Community College. During a 15-year baseball career, Segui played with the Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians.

In 1456 games over 15 seasons, Segui posted a .291 batting average (1412-for-4847) with 683 runs, 284 doubles, 139 home runs, 684 RBI, 524 bases on balls, .359 on-base percentage and .443 slugging percentage. He recorded a .995 fielding percentage primarily as a first baseman, but also played 100 games at left and right field.

Segui was identified by Jason Grimsley as one of the players who had taken human growth hormone during his major league career (he was one of the players whose name was redacted on Grimsley's document). Unlike others, however, Segui had a doctor's prescription for HGH to counter a deficiency he had been diagnosed with, and had previously admitted to using them.

Segui has also admitted to using anabolic steroids during his career with the Mets, obtaining them from former clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski. Segui never had any spikes in his performances or home runs, but says he knows about other ballplayers' usage. He was included in the Mitchell Report, which named people who were found using either HGH, steroids, or some other type of PEDs.

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Ken Schrom

Kenneth Marvin Schrom (born November 23, 1954) is a former major league baseball pitcher and current minor league executive.

Selected in the 17th round of the 1976 MLB amateur draft by the California Angels, Schrom pitched for seven seasons in the majors (1980, 1982–1987), for the Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins (1983–85), and Cleveland Indians (1986–87) of the American League. While with Cleveland, he was selected for the American League All-Star team in 1986, but did not play.

During his major league career, Schrom appeared in 176 games with 137 starts and 22 complete games, throwing 900 innings. His record was 51–51 with an ERA of 4.81. His playing career ended in the spring of 1989 with a shoulder injury. Schrom remained in baseball, serving in the front office of several minor league clubs. He spent over fifteen years with the El Paso Diablos, a team he had played with in the late 1970s.

Schrom is currently the president of the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Texas League, the AA affiliate of the Houston Astros.

High school and college
Born and raised in Grangeville, Idaho, Schrom graduated from Grangeville High School in 1973, where he won 11 athletic letters and was an all-state selection in football, basketball, and baseball. Selected in the tenth round of the 1973 MLB amateur draft by the Minnesota Twins, the right-hander opted for college and accepted a scholarship to the University of Idaho in Moscow to pitch for the Vandals in baseball and play quarterback on the football team.

Schrom was the back-up QB as a redshirt sophomore in 1975, coached by offensive coordinator Dennis Erickson under head coach Ed Troxel. An excellent pure passer, he had to forego spring football practice to play baseball. At the time, Idaho ran the veer, an option offense which exposed the quarterback to continual contact with the defense. After hurting his left (non-throwing) shoulder in football, Schrom did not want to hurt his right and turned pro after his junior year of baseball (spring 1976). He is a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity.

Schrom completed his degree in education in increments during the baseball off-season and graduated in 1980.

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Roger H. Martin

Roger Martin (born 1943), also known as Rusty, served as the 14th president of Randolph-Macon College, an independent liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, from July 1997 until January 2006.Today, he is president of Academic Collaborations Inc., a higher education consulting firm. He also serves as executive director of the British Schools and Universities Foundation in New York City.

Education
Martin attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio before graduating from Drew University  in Madison, New Jersey. He then received a B.D. from Yale Divinity School and the D.Phil. from Oxford University where he was a member of Lincoln College.

Achievements and Honors
Martin has spent his entire adult life in higher education, serving institutions like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New York University  before going on to Middlebury College where he was assistant professor of history and assistant to the President from 1976 to 1980. From 1980 to 1986, he was Associate Dean of the Divinity School at Harvard University and Lecturer on British Church History. Then, for the next twenty years, he served as president and professor of history at two liberal arts colleges, Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1997 and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia from 1997 to 2006.

Martin is author of Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again (University of California Press: 2008) which tells the story of his six-month sabbatical at St. John's College, the Great Books School, in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2004 where he enrolled as a 61-year-old freshman. At St. John's he read Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, and Herodotus, and went out for crew, racing at the Head of the Occoquan with eight teenagers.

He is also the author of Off to College: A Guide for Parents (University of Chicago Press: 2015) which provides the parents of first-year college students with a comprehensive view of what their children will experience after leaving high school and home for college, and Brave Noises: Journal of a First-year College President  (Amazon.com: 2015) which tells of the author's first year as a college president including how he got the job.

Dr. Martin is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Lehigh University, Moravian College, Drew University, Randolph-Macon College, and Morningside College.

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List of rail trails

This is a list of rail trails around the world longer than 0.1 miles (160 metres). Rail trails are former railway lines that have been converted to paths designed for pedestrian, bicycle, skating, equestrian, and/or light motorized traffic. Most are multiuse trails offering at least pedestrians and cyclists recreational access and right-of-way to the routes.

Asia

 * Parts of 🇲🇾 🇸🇬, Johor Bahru (Malaysia)-Tanjong Pagar (Singapore) KTM railway, known as the Green Corridor
 * Parts of 🇹🇭 🇲🇲, Thailand-Burma Death Railway

Israel

 * The Jerusalem Railway Park

South Korea

 * Parts of Old Jungang line (Paldang-Yangpyeong)

Taiwan

 * Dongfeng Bicycle Green Way
 * Hou-Fong bike path
 * Tanya Shen Green Bikeway
 * Taolin Bikeway

Austria
A more complete reference can be found at www.bahntrassenradeln.de.

Lower Austria

 * Dampfross und Drahtesel on the former de:Stammersdorfer Lokalbahn
 * de:Traisentalradweg on the former de:Leobersdorfer Bahn

Upper Austria

 * Reichraminger Hintergebirgs on former de:Waldbahn Reichraming
 * Part of de:Steyrtalradweg follows the former de:Steyrtalbahn

Salzburg

 * Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn-Radweg on the former de:Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn between Strobl and St. Gilgen
 * de:Salzkammergut-Radweg on the former de:Ischlerbahn and de:Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn from Salzburg to Bad Ischl

Styria

 * The first 18 kilometers of the de:Feistritztal-Radweg between Ratten and de:Birkfeld on a dismantled part of the de:Feistritztalbahn

Belgium

 * Line 29 from Aarschot to Herentals
 * Line 29 north of Turnhout towards the Dutch border
 * Line 38 from Liège to Hombourg (Ravel 5)
 * Line 62 from Ostend to Torhout
 * Line 108 from Binche to Erquelinnes
 * Parts of line 109 from Chimay to Froidchapelle, from Faurœulx to Estinnes, and from Faurœulx to Thuin
 * Line 142 from Namur to Hoegaarden (Ravel 2)
 * Most of Line 160 from Brussels to Tervuren
 * Part of line 163A from Sainte-Cécile to Muno

Czech Republic

 * Line 257 from Kyjov to Mutěnice
 * Line 302 from Nezamyslice to Morkovice-Slížany
 * Line 326 from Hostašovice to Nový Jičín

Denmark

 * Fodsporet, 40 km between Slagelse and Næstved via Dalmose plus 12 km between Dalmose and Skælskør in the southeastern part of Sjælland opened 2011
 * Himmerlandsstien, 70 km between Viborg and Løgstør in the northern part of Jutland opened 2007 (Danish: da:Himmerlandsstien)
 * Naturstien Horsens-Silkeborg Naturetrail, 60 km between Horsens-Silkeborg in the middle of Jutland

Finland

 * Baana, a 1.5-km (0.93 miles) section of the old Helsinki harbour rail line.

France

 * Avenue Verte between St-Aubin-le-Cauf (near Dieppe) and Forges-les-Eaux
 * The promenade plantée ("walk with trees") (4.5 km) in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France; built on the former railway line between Bastille area and the eastern suburbs of Paris (1859 - 1969)
 * Coulée verte ("green belt") (29 km), on the former railway lines from Amiens and Beauvais (43 km), opened for the traffic between 1874 and 1972 or 1990
 * Coulée verte ("green belt") (1 km), on the former transversal railway line (closed in 1979) between the station of Colombes and the station of "Les Vallées" la Garenne-Colombes
 * The voie verte ("green way") is a former railway line transformed in bicycle trail in the Vosges; it links Remiremont to Bussang and Remiremont to Cornimont
 * Voie verte from Givry to Mâcon
 * Voie verte from Mios to Bazas, a former railway line transformed into a bicycle trail (76 km) in the Aquitaine
 * The Roger Lapébie bike path runs for 57 km from Bordeaux, through Créon and onto Sauveterre-de-Guyenne.

Germany
Germany has 613 rail trails with a total length of 4400 km (as at September 2013). 80 more projects are being planned or under construction. These are some of the longest rail trails in Germany:
 * The Bahnradweg Hessen with a total length of 250 km following old tracks of the Vogelsbergbahn, Vogelsberger Südbahn, Biebertalbahn and Ulstertalbahn.
 * The Bockl-Radweg in Bavaria with a total length of 45 km on the old track, from Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab to Eslarn
 * The Maare-Mosel-Radweg with 39 km on the old rail track
 * The Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg with 44 km on the old rail track
 * The Schinderhannes-Radweg with 36 km on the old track of the Hunsrück Railway
 * The Vennbahn trail is a cross-border trail between Germany, Belgium und Luxembourg, which follows the route of the former Vennbahn railway line for approximately 130 km from the city of Aachen through the High Fens – Eifel Nature Park and the Ardennes to Troisvierges
 * The Nordbahntrasse trail crosses for 23 km the city of Wuppertal, and has so far one of the highest standards of rail trails in Germany.

Hungary

 * Part of line 11 from Szentkirályszabadja to Balatonalmádi
 * Old track of line 25 from Bagod to Zalalövő
 * Part of line 49 from Tamási to Pári
 * Part of line 63 from Pécs to Pellérd
 * Part of line 65 from Harkány to Drávaszabolcs
 * Part of the disused narrow gauge line from Sátoraljaújhely to Pálháza
 * Part of the disused line from Bárdudvarnok to Lipótfa

Ireland

 * Athlone to Mullingar Cycleway
 * Great Southern Trail
 * Great Western Greenway

In planning/under construction

 * Connemara Greenway (under development)
 * Deise Greenway (under development), when completed, this rail trail is planned to follow the route of the former Dungarvan to Waterford railway, passing through Stradbally and Kilmacthomas; initial stage at the Dungarvan end has been completed
 * Tralee-Fenit Greenway (under development)

Isle of Man

 * Isle of Man Steam Heritage Trail: Douglas to Peel (10 miles)

Luxembourg

 * Prince Henri railway in Clemency, converted into a cycle track

Norway

 * Skreia Line

Poland

 * Stary Kolejowy Szlak
 * Żelazny Szlak Rowerowy
 * Ścieżka rowerowa na trasie linii kolejowej Swarzewo – Krokowa

Portugal

 * Ecopista do Rio Minho
 * Ecovia do Rio Lima
 * Ecopista do Tâmega
 * Ecopista do Dão

Slovenia

 * Jesenice to Tarvisio (Italy): (35 km approx.)

Spain

 * Senda del oso, Asturias
 * Vía Verde de la Sierra (mountain's rail track), Cádiz and Seville
 * Vía Verde de la Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos
 * Vía Verde de Ojos Negros, Valencia and Teruel
 * GIRONA - NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY ROUTE I - This 57-km route crosses three regions and twelve towns, following the valleys of the Fluvià, Brugent and Ter rivers. The Narrow-Gauge Railway Route descends smoothly from Olot (440 m) to Girona (70 m).
 * GIRONA - NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY ROUTE II - The Narrow-Gauge Railway Route stretches out 39.7 km. With a smooth incline from Girona to Sant Feliu de Guíxols (15 m), its highest point is at Cassà de la Selva (136 m). Following the old narrow-gauge railway line from Girona to Sant Feliu, you can get to know two of Girona's regions - the Gironès and the Baix Empordà - from the Ter River basin, crossing the Selva depression and ending in the Ridaura valley.

Sweden

 * Banvallsleden (~ 150 km/93 miles)
 * Sjuhäradsrundan Borås to Ulricehamn(45 km/27 miles)
 * Ätradalsleden Falköping to Ambjörnarp (93 km/ 55 miles)

England

 * Addiscombe Railway Park: Addiscombe to Woodside, South London (0.6 miles)
 * Alban Way: St Albans to Hatfield, Hertfordshire (7.5 miles)
 * Angel Walk: Edmonton, North London (0.2 miles)
 * Ashchurch to Tewkesbury: Gloucestershire (approx.1 mile)
 * Auckland Way: Spennymoor to Bishop Auckland, Co.Durham (4.3 miles)
 * Ayot Greenway: Ayot St Peter to Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire (3 miles)
 * Beckton Corridor: Beckton DLR station to Connaught Bridge, East London (0.5 miles)
 * Bedford to Sandy: Bedfordshire
 * Belmont Trail: Stanmore to Harrow, North West London (2.2 miles)
 * Bembridge to Brading: Isle of Wight
 * Bermondsey-Stubbs Drive to Surrey Canal Road: South London (0.5 miles approx)
 * Bingham Linear Park: Nottinghamshire (2 miles)
 * Blackwater Rail Trail: Witham to Maldon, Essex (8 miles)
 * Bowes Railway Path: Jarrow to Tanfield Railway Museum, Tyne and Wear (11.5 miles)
 * Bradley Fold Cycleway: Bolton to Bury, Lancashire
 * Brampton Valley Way, Northampton to Market Harborough Railway, Northamptonshire (14 miles)
 * Brandon to Bishop Auckland Railway Path Broompark to Bishop Auckland, Co.Durham (9 miles)
 * Bridport to West Bay: Dorset (approx 1 mile)
 * Bristol and Bath Railway Path (13 miles)
 * Bubwith Rail Trail: Bubwith to Market Weighton, Yorkshire (8 miles)
 * Buckingham Railway Walk: Buckinghamshire (1 mile)
 * Bungay: Suffolk (1 mile)
 * Bure Valley Railway: Wroxham to Aylsham, Norfolk (9 miles)
 * Camel Trail: Padstow to Wenford Bridge, Cornwall (17.3 miles)
 * Castle Eden Walkway: Castle Eden to Thorpe Thewles, Co.Durham (9 miles)
 * Castleman Trailway: Ringwood to Upton Country Park, Hampshire (16 miles)
 * Centurion Way: Chichester to West Dean, West Sussex (5 miles)
 * Chedworth Nature Reserve: Cheltenham to Cirencester line, Gloucestershire
 * Chippenham to Calne Railway Path: Chippenham to Calne, Wiltshire (6 miles)
 * Chiseldon to Marlborough Railway Path, Wiltshire (7.3 miles)
 * The Cinder Track: Scarborough to Whitby, North Yorkshire (21 miles)
 * Cloud Trail: Worthington to Chellaston (part of National Cycle Route no. 6) Leicestershire/Derbyshire
 * Cole Green Way, Welwyn Garden City to Hertford, Hertfordshire (6 miles)
 * Consett and Sunderland Railway Path: Co. Durham (24 miles)
 * Cotgrave Country Park: Nottinghamshire (2 miles)
 * Cotmanhay Linear Park: Derbyshire (0.4 miles)
 * Crab and Winkle Line: part of Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, Kent (8 miles)
 * Cuckoo Trail: Hampden Park to Heathfield, East Sussex (14 miles)
 * Deerness Valley Way: Broompark to Crook, Co.Durham
 * Delph Donkey Trail: Delph to Moorgate, Greater Manchester.
 * Derwent Walk: Consett to Swalwell, Co.Durham (12 miles)
 * Dousland to Princetown Railway Track: Devon (8 miles)
 * Downs Link: Guildford to Christs Hospital, Steyning and Shoreham-by-Sea, Surrey/West Sussex (36.7 miles)
 * Drakes Trail: Plymouth to Tavistock, Devon (21 miles)
 * Dyke Railway Trail: Hangleton to Brighton & Hove Golf Club, East Sussex (1.25 miles)
 * Ebury Way Cycle Path: Rickmansworth to Watford, Hertfordshire (3.5 miles)
 * Eling Way : Hermitage to Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire (2 miles)
 * Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton: Devon (4 miles)
 * Fallowfield Loop, Fairfield to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester (8 miles)
 * Five Pits Trail: Grassmoor to Tibshelf, Derbyshire (5.5 miles)
 * Flitch Way: Bishops Stortford to Braintree, Essex (18 miles)
 * Forest Way: East Grinstead to Groombridge, East/West Sussex (10 miles)
 * Freshwater to Yarmouth: Isle of Wight
 * Garstang and Knot-End Railway: The Fylde, Lancashire (1 mile)
 * Goathland to Grosmont, along original Whitby and Pickering Railway alignment
 * Gorleston-on-sea: Norfolk (0.5 miles approx.)
 * Gosport to Stokes Bay: Hampshire (0.75 miles approx)
 * Gosport to Fareham: Hampshire (2 miles approx)
 * The Granite Way, Okehampton to Lydford, Devon (11 miles)
 * The Great Central Walk- Leicester: Braunstone Gate to Glenhills, Leicestershire (4.5 miles)
 * The Great Central Walk- Rugby: Rugby to Brownsover, Warwickshire (4.5 miles)
 * The Great Eastern Linear Park: Lowestoft, Suffolk (1.5 miles)
 * The Great Northern railway Trail Cullingworth to Queensbury in West Yorkshire
 * Hadleigh Railway Walk: Hadleigh to Raydon Wood, Suffolk (2 miles)
 * Hamble Rail Trail: Hamble to Southampton Water, Hampshire (4.5 miles)
 * Harborne Walkway: Birmingham to Harborne, West Midlands (2.4 miles)
 * Hart to Haswell Walkway: Monk Hesledon to Hart, Co.Durham.
 * Haverhill, Suffolk (1.5 miles)
 * Hawthorn to Ryhope Way: Seaton to South Hetton, Co.Durham
 * Hayfield to New Mills: Derbyshire (3 miles)
 * Hayling Billy Trail: Havant to South Hayling, Hampshire (5 miles)
 * High Peak: Hurdlow to Cromford, Derbyshire (17 miles)
 * Hincaster Trailway: Hincaster to Arnside, Cumbria

 * Honeybourne Line Walk: Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire
 * Hornsea Rail Trail: Hull to Hornsea, East Yorkshire (26 miles)
 * Hudson Way: Market Weighton to Beverley, East Yorkshire (10 miles)
 * Hull to Winestead Rail Trail: East Yorkshire (20 miles)
 * Hurworth Burn to Station Town Railway Path: Hurworth Burn to Wingate, Co. Durham (1.8 miles)
 * Isabel Trail: Stafford, Staffordshire (1.5 miles)
 * Kelloe Way, Kelloe, Co.Durham (1.3 miles)
 * Kenilworth Greenway Linear Park, Warwickshire (4 miles)
 * Keswick to Threlkeld Railway Path, Cumbria (6 miles)
 * Killamarsh to Renishaw part of the Trans Pennine Trail: Derbyshire
 * Kirklees Trail: Bury to Greenmount, Lancashire.
 * Lakenham Way: Norwich, Norfolk (approx 1 mile)
 * Lancaster to Caton: Lancashire (6 miles)
 * Lancaster to Morecambe: Lancashire
 * Lanchester Valley Railway Path: Durham to Consett, County Durham (12 miles)
 * Lavenham to Long Melford railway walk: Suffolk (4.5 miles)
 * Ledbury Town Trail: Ledbury, Herefordshire (1.6 miles)
 * Leicester to Ratby: Leicestershire
 * The Lines Way Garforth to Allerton Bywater, Yorkshire (4 miles)
 * Liss to Liss Forest Road: Hampshire (1 mile approx.)
 * Longdendale Trail: Hadfield to Woodhead, Derbyshire (6.5 miles)
 * Lune Estuary Path: Lancaster to Glasson Dock, Lancashire
 * Manifold Way: Hulme End to Waterhouses, Staffordshire (8 miles)
 * Marriott's Way: Norwich to Aylsham, Norfolk (25 miles)
 * Meon Valley Railway Line: West Meon to Knowle Junction, Hampshire (11 miles)
 * Mercian Way: Ironbridge to near Bridgnorth, Shropshire
 * Merton Park Green Walks: Merton Park to South Wimbledon (0.1 mile)
 * Meltham Greenway: Meltham, Yorkshire (0.8mls)
 * Middlewood Way: Macclesfield to Marple, Cheshire (10 miles)
 * Millennium Greenway: Mickle Trafford, Chester, Cheshire to Connahs Quay, Flintshire (10 miles)
 * Milton Keynes redway system: former Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line, Buckinghamshire
 * Mineral Tramway Trails: mid West Cornwall
 * Monsal Trail: Topley Pike to Bakewell, Derbyshire (8.5 miles);
 * Nailsworth to Stonehouse: Gloucestershire (3 miles)
 * Newark Northgate to Bottesford; Nottinghamshire (4.8 miles)
 * Newport to Wootton: Isle of Wight
 * Nickey line: Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire (8.6 miles)
 * Nidderdale Greenway: Harrogate to Ripley, North Yorkshire (4 miles):
 * North Dorset Trailway: Spetisbury to Sturminster Newton (14 miles)
 * North Liverpool Extension Line: Merseyside
 * Offchurch Greenway: Leamington to Rugby, Warwickshire (1.5 miles)
 * Onny Trail: Craven Arms to Horderley, Shropshire
 * Outwood Trail: Prestwich to Radcliffe, Greater Manchester (2.6 miles)
 * Padiham Greenway: Lancashire (2 miles)
 * Parkend to Cinderford: Gloucestershire
 * Parkland Walk: Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace, London (3.1 miles)
 * Pegasus Way: Okehampton to Halwill, Devon
 * Pentewan Trail: St Austell to Pentewan, Cornwall (8 miles)
 * Perry Way: part of Stafford- Wellington line, Shropshire (3 miles)
 * Phoenix Trail: Thame, Oxfordshire to Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire (7 miles)
 * Pittington Way: Pittington to Hetton-le-hole, Co.Durham (0.9 miles)
 * Plym Valley Cycle Trail: Clearbrook to Marsh Mills, Devon (7 miles)
 * Preston to Bamber Bridge: Lancashire
 * Preston to Grimsagh: Lancashire
 * Princetown Railway Walk: Princetown to Dousland, Devon
 * Raisby Way: Trimdon to Coxhoe, Co.Durham (1.6 miles)
 * Radstock to Frome: Somerset
 * Rea Brook Way: Shrewsbury, Shropshire.(1 mile approx.)
 * Red Squirrel Trail: Cowes to Sandown, Isle Of Wight (14 miles)
 * Red Squirrel Trail: Shanklin to Wroxall, Isle of Wight
 * Ripley Greenway: Ripley, Derbyshire (2 miles)
 * Rodwell Trail: Weymouth to Wyke Regis, Dorset (2 miles)
 * Roe Green Loop: Roe Green to Monton, Lancashire
 * Rowthorne Trail: Bolsover to Pleasley Colliery, Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire.
 * Sandringham Railway Path: King's Lynn (Tennyson Avenue to A1078), Norfolk (1.7 miles)
 * Scarborough & Whitby RailTrail, North Yorkshire
 * Sett Valley Trail: Hayfield to New Mills, Derbyshire (2.5 miles)
 * Parts of the Severn and Wye Railway: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
 * Sewell Cutting Nature Reserve: Stanbridgeford to Dunstable, Bedfordshire (2.2 miles)
 * Shanklin to Wroxall: Isle of Wight
 * Sherburn Way: Sherburn Hill, Co.Durham (1.4 miles)
 * Silkin Way: Malins Lee to Coalport (Ironbridge), Shropshire
 * Skegby Trail: Sutton-in-Ashfield to Pleasley Colliery, Nottinghamshire (5 miles)
 * Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway: Lancashire
 * South Staffordshire Railway Walk: Castlecroft to Wall Heath (5.5 miles)
 * South Tyne Trail: Haltwhistle to Alston: Northumberland/Cumbria (13 miles)
 * Southwell Trail: Southwell to Bilsthorpe: Nottinghamshire (7.5 miles)
 * Spa Trail and Viking Way: Horncastle to Woodhall Spa (4.8 miles)
 * Spen Valley Greenway Oakenshaw to Dewsbury, West Yorkshire (7 miles)
 * Stockley Trail: Bolsover, Derbyshire (2 miles)
 * Stratford Greenway: Stratford-upon-Avon to Long Marston, Warwickshire (4.5 miles)
 * Stroud to Dudbridge: Gloucestershire
 * Strawberry Line Trail: Yatton railway station to Cheddar, Somerset
 * Parts of the Tarka Trail: Braunton to Meeth, North Devon (31 miles)
 * Sudbury to Long Melford: Suffolk (3 miles)
 * Swindon to Rushey Platt: Wiltshire
 * Tees Railway Path: Middleton-in-Teesdale to Cotherstone, Co.Durham (5.5 miles)
 * Tenterden-The Old Railway Path: Tenterden to St. Michaels, Kent (approx 1 mile)
 * Testway: Stonymarsh to Stockbridge, Hampshire (5 miles)
 * Tetbury Trail: Tetbury to Trouble House (2 miles approx.), Gloucestershire
 * Teversal Trail: Ashfield to Pleasley Colliery, Nottinghamshire.
 * Thornhill Trail: Bamford, Derbyshire (2 miles)
 * Tissington Trail: Parsley Hay (High Peak Trail) to Ashbourne, Derbyshire (13 miles)
 * Trans Pennine Trail: Hadfield to Stocksbridge, Derbyshire/South Yorkshire
 * also Latchford to Broadheath, Cheshire
 * Two Tunnels Greenway (3.5 miles & Colliers Way (2.5 miles): Bath to Wellow
 * Tyne Riverside Country Park: Newcastle to Wylam (4 miles)
 * Varsity Way: Bedford to Sandy, Bedfordshire
 * Walker Riverside Park: St.Peters to Carville, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear
 * Waskerley Way: Consett to Stanhope, Co.Durham (9.7 miles)
 * Water Rail Way: Lincoln to Boston (33 miles)
 * Weavers Way: Bengate to Stalham, Norfolk (4.5 miles)
 * Weavers Way: North Walsham to Aylsham (4.5 miles)
 * West Auckland to Ramshaw: Co.Durham
 * West Bridgford Green Line: Nottinghamshire
 * Wetherby to Thorp Arch: Yorkshire
 * Wetherby to Spofforth: Yorkshire
 * Whitegate Way: Winsford to Cuddington, Cheshire (6 miles)
 * Whitehaven to Ennerdale Cyclepath: Cumbria (10 miles)
 * Wirral Way: West Kirby, Merseyside to Hooton, Cheshire (13 miles)
 * Worth Way: Three Bridges to East Grinstead, West Sussex (7 miles)
 * Wray Valley Trail: Moretonhampstead to Bovey, Devon (7 miles)
 * Wye Valley Greenway: Chepstow to Tintern, Gloucestershire (5 miles)
 * Yeovil Country Park: Yeovil Pen Mill to Hendford, Somerset.(1.5 miles)
 * York to Osbaldwick: Yorkshire
 * York to Riccall Railway Path: Yorkshire (14 miles)

Northern Ireland

 * The Comber Greenway (7 miles)
 * Foyle Valley Cycle Route Derry to Strabane (21 miles)

Scotland

 * Ayr to Greenan: Ayrshire
 * Ballachulish to North Connel (sections now National Cycle Route no. 78)
 * Corstorphine to Balgreen: Edinburgh
 * Dava Way Forres to Grantown-on-Spey (24 miles)
 * Deeside Way Aberdeen to Ballater (41 miles)
 * Devon Way Dollar to Tillicoultry (3.25 miles)
 * Elgin to Lossiemouth
 * Formartine and Buchan Way Dyce to Fraserburgh and Peterhead (53 miles)
 * Haddington to Longniddry Railway Walk
 * Hillend Loch Railway Path (15 miles) Airdrie to Bathgate (14 miles)
 * Hopeman to Burghead
 * Innocent Railway Cycle Path Edinburgh (Newington) to Brunstane (8$1/4$ miles)
 * Old Fordell Train Line Trail: Cowdenbeath (5 miles)
 * Paisley & Clyde railway path
 * Pencaitland Railway Walk, East Lothian (6.5 miles)
 * Rob Roy Way Callander to Killin
 * Speyside Way Craigellachie to Grantown-on-Spey (31 miles)
 * Strathkelvin Railway Path Gartcosh to Strathblane (6 miles)
 * Tweed Valley Railway Path Peebles to Inverleithen (5 miles)
 * Water of Leith Walkway Edinburgh to Balerno (5.25 miles)

Wales

 * Aberaeron Cycle Path (2.8 miles)
 * Brunel Trail: Johnston to Neyland
 * Bryngwyn to Tryfan Junction: Gwyneth
 * Cilgerran to Cardigan
 * Clyne Valley Country Park (5 miles)
 * Elan Valley Trail Rhayader to Craig Goch Dam (9 miles)
 * Lôn Eifion (12 miles)
 * Milford Haven (0.5 miles)
 * Lôn Las Cymru (National Cycle Route 8)
 * Lôn Las Menai (4.0 miles)
 * Part of the Lôn Las Ogwen (4 miles)
 * Mawddach Trail Morfa Mawddach to Dolgellau (8 miles)
 * Prestatyn to Dyserth (2.5 miles)
 * Swansea to Gowerton
 * Swiss Valley Cycle Route: Llanelli to Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire (10.8 miles)
 * Parts of the Taff Trail
 * Ystwyth Trail Aberystwyth to Tregaron (21 miles)

Jersey

 * Jersey Railway (3.75 miles)

In planning/under construction

 * Wharfedale Greenway: Burley in Wharfedale to Pool in Wharfedale

Bermuda

 * Bermuda Railway

Mexico

 * The abandoned Mexico City to Cuernavaca line (Linea C), transformed into a "ciclopista" or "ciclovía" (bicycle trail)

Australia
Rails trails of significant length in Australia include:

New Zealand

 * Dun Mountain Trail
 * Little River Rail Trail
 * Otago Central Rail Trail
 * Remutaka Rail Trail

Pipeline trails
Trails similar to rail trails can follow other infrastructure, such as water pipelines.
 * Greenway, London
 * Syndal Heatherdale Pipe Reserve Trail
 * Tolt Pipeline Trail

Canal trails

 * C&O Canal towpath
 * Long Level on the Erie Canal

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Lenn Sakata

Lenn Haruki Sakata (born June 8, 1954) is an American former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as a utility player from 1977 to 1987 and was a member of the Baltimore Orioles 1983 World Series Championship team. He was the second Asian American to play Major League Baseball. He is Yonsei (fourth-generation American of Japanese ancestry). Sakata graduated from Kalani High School in 1971. Sakata played college baseball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.

Sakata was acquired by the Orioles from the Brewers for John Flinn on December 6, 1979. He began 1981 as a reserve and missed time in May due to a sprained ankle. In September, he took over the shortstop position, replacing longtime Oriole shortstop Mark Belanger. Sakata was humble about this, saying, "I never looked at myself as the next Mark Belanger. It would have been pointless and arrogant for anybody to feel that way." He was the starting shortstop for the Orioles when Cal Ripken Jr., began his consecutive games played streak. When manager Earl Weaver decided to shift Ripken to short at the beginning of July 1982, he moved Sakata to second, keeping Sakata in the lineup.

Sakata is remembered in Orioles lore during the 1983 pennant race when he substituted to play catcher, a position he had not played since childhood, in the tenth inning of the August 24, 1983, game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. The Orioles had replaced their starting catcher and his backup while rallying to tie the game in the ninth inning. Three Toronto Blue Jays hitters reached first base; each one took a big lead, thinking it would be easy to steal a base on Sakata. Tippy Martinez proceeded to pick each Blue Jays base runner off first base. Sakata then hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the tenth to win the game.

After his playing career ended, Sakata began coaching in the minor league system. He has served as manager of the Modesto A's (1989), San Jose Giants (1999, 2001, 2004–2007), Bakersfield Blaze (2000), and Fresno Grizzlies (2002). On May 31, 2007, Sakata notched his 527th victory as a California League manager, setting the record for lifetime wins. Sakata became the farm team manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan in 2008. He returned to American baseball in 2011, becoming the hitting coach for Asheville Tourists (Low-A). After managing the Modesto Nuts from 2012 to 2013, Sakata rejoined the San Jose Giants in 2014 and was succeeded on January 10, 2015, by Russ Morman taking over as manager beginning the 2015 season. In 2020, Sakata was named the new manager of the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. Sakata has returned to the San José Giants for the 2021 season.

Sakata was selected by CNN Sports Illustrated as one of the 50 greatest sports figures in Hawaii's history and is a member of the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame located in the Bishop Museum. Sakata is also a member of Gonzaga University's Sports Hall of Fame. In 2018 he was inducted to the California League Hall of Fame for his success as a manager.

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Combination of Introduction, Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas

Introduction Basilica Minore del Santo Niño The conquering troops of Legazpi, upon landing in Cebu, in April 1565, discovered an image of the Christ Child inside a burning house. The soldier Juan Camus, a Basque, found the image still inside a wooden box. The image was clearly the Santo Niño done in the style of Flanders. The Augustinians in Legazpi’s expedition regarded the finding as an omen of good things to come. Thereupon the Augustinians established their first house. It was 28 April 1565. On 8 May Legazpi and his men drew up plans for the urbanization of Cebu and a site was allotted for a church and convent dedicated to Saint Augustine. A chapel of wood and nipa was hastily built and with appropriate ceremonies the image was enthroned in the chapel. On 1 June, Fr. Diego de Herrera, OSA was appointed as the first prior of the convent. Utilitas The convent of the Sto. Niño de Cebu was founded by Fr. Andres de Urdaneta on April 28, 1565, the very day the Legazpi-Urdaneta expedition arrived in the island. On May 8 of the same year, when Legaspi and his men planned the urbanization of the city, they allotted a “place for the church and the convent of San Agustin, “where the Santo Niño image had been found.” In 1599, the convent was made a house of studies of grammar, headed by the Visayan linguist, Fr. Alonso de Mentrida. It also served as a rest house for missionaries working in the province and as a retirement home for the aged and the sick, usually attended to by a lay brother. The church has always been the Sanctuary of the Sto. Niño, under the custody of the Augustinians. The number of priests assigned to the church varied from three to five aside from one or two lay brothers. The Chapter held on August 6, 1578 recommended to all the fathers “that prayers to the Sto. Niño be offered every month as was the custom before.” In 1641, the father provincial ordered that the feast of the Sto Niño be celebrated on January 14 “with all the possible solemnity, mass and sermon, since He deserves all the affection from us, being the Dulcisimo and most affectionate patron of our province.” Fr. Nicolas de la Cuadra (1731) was very instrumental in spreading the devotion of the Sto. Niño. He led an exemplary life, had writings and solemn rites which he established in the sanctuary, and acquired many jewels for the decoration of the statue. The first novena to the Santo Niño was introduced by Fr. Mateo Diez, rector of the sanctuary in 1889, under the Cebuano title Novena ug pagdayeg sa Ssmo. Niño Jesus nga guisimba sa cyudad sa Sugbu, printed in Mandaluyong, Asilo de Huerfanos, 1888. This novena has been reprinted countless times. Up to this time, the number of Sto. Niño devotees who follow the novena and attend mass every Friday keeps on increasing. The church is cruciform. The facade, made of cut coral is decorated with niches in which images of saints are placed. The church portal shows Moorish influence in its use of the trefoil arch. Above this portal is high relief of the Santo Niño defeating the devil. To one side of the facade is a quadrilateral bell tower. The same program of decoration found in the facade--arches and saints--is repeated in the bell tower. Two stone Chinese-style lions lead to the church interior, made more spacious, during the 1965 renovations. The interior comes to a focus at the main retablo. Its design is unusual because of the many niches and saints adorning it. More than a dozen statues are found on the retablo. The whole rests on a high plinth decorated with bas relieves of griffins. Worth noting in the interior are the carved lattice screens of the choir loft, the stained glass windows and the corn motif decorating the capitals along the nave. The image of the Santo Niño is on a side altar by itself. Except during church ceremonies, when it is discouraged, long lines of pilgrims come to touch the Santo Niño’s cape. The lines form outside at the ambulatory between church and convento and winds behind the altar. Follow the line if you want to touch this beloved icon of Cebu. Candles are not allowed inside the church, however, devotees may light candles at designated places in the ambulatory.

Convento del Santo Niño: Built around an atrium, the adjacent convento is still a residence for the priests. Parish offices now occupy the first story while the friars’ living quarters is on the second. An intricately carved stairway decorated by a carved newel post with Chinese-style lions leads to the spacious aula or living room, where a 19th century painting of Augustinian saints is displayed. A copy of this painting can be seen in the San Agustin Museum in Manila. Permission to enter the second story is needed. A museum to the Santo Niño of Cebu, formerly housed in one of the rooms on the first story, has been transferred to the bleachers constructed in front of the church for the Sinulog festivities and for the overflow crowd during church holydays.

The Firmitas of Basilica del Santo Nino •	Construction of the Church •	1566 - the first church believed to be built on the site where the image of the Holy Child was found was destroyed by fire. It was said to be built by Fr. Diego de Herrera using wood and nipa. •	1605 - Fr. Pedro Torres started the construction of a new church, again made of wood and nipa. It was finished in 1626 but was again burned in 1628. •	1628 - Fr. Juan Medina started the construction of another church, using stone and bricks, a great innovation at that time. The construction was stopped because the structure was found to be defective - the bricks used seemingly “melted” upon contact with air. •	February 29, 1735 - Father Provincial Bergaño, Governor-General Fernando Valdes, Bishop Manuel Antonio Decio y Ocampo of Cebu and Juan de Albarran Prior of the Santo Niño, started the foundations of the present church, using stone. A lot of help came. Fr. Antonio Lopez, prior of San Nicolas, assisted also together with the people of his district. The residents of Talisay also did four weeks of work and Fr. Francisco Aballe also tried to help with his parishioners from Mactan. The materials used : The stones were quarried from Capiz and Panay by an army of bancas. The molave wood came from the mountains of Talisay and Pitalo and was transported in bancas hired in Argao and Carcar. Fr. Albarran confessed that there was much difficulty in quarrying the stones. Despite the seemingly impossible task, Fr. Albarran was not discouraged. He used white stones to make the lime, with one banca transporting some 400 pieces of stones. There was also another obstacle: the lack of chief craftsmen and officers which forced Fr. Albarran to acquire some knowledge of architecture. The church was finished not later than 1739. According to an author named Vela, “the church has all the characteristics of a solid construction to withstand all the earthquakes…….” And true enough, the church withstood all earthquakes. The original features of the church have been retained except for the windows added by Fr. Diez in 1889. In 1965, both church and convent underwent a bigger restoration on the occasion of the fourth centennial of the Christianization of the country. The face lifting was made with utmost respect for the historical character of the old structure. Cardinal Hildebrando Antoniutti, Papal Legate to the Philippines, conferred upon the church the title of Basilica minore, a special privilege granted to the Augustinian Order by the Pope Paul VI. On the other hand, the former President Ferdinand Marcos declared the Sto. Niño Basilica a national shrine because of its historical significance. In 1578, the convent was authorized to accept novices and in 1599 became a house of studies. Here Fr. Alonso de Mentrida studied and taught the Visayan language. The convent also served as an infirmary and rest house for other Augustinians working in the Visayas. This makeshift chapel built in 1565 by Herrera was gutted by fire in 1566. In 1605, Fr. Pedro Torres started a church of similar material. It was finished in 1626 but burnt after two years. Fr. Juan Medina started a church of stone in 1628. The next report we have about the church comes in 1729, it says that the church was in danger of collapsing and hand to be replaced. Demolition of the old church began in 1731, and work on a new one of brick was undertaken. However, the following year work was stopped because of the inferior quality of the brick which deteriorated quickly. On 29 February 1735, foundations for the present church was begun. Supervised by the prior of the convent, Juan de Albarran, OSA, the new church was built of coral blocks quarried from Panay and Capiz, and molave wood from Talisay and Pitalo in Cebu. The church was completed not later than 1739. This year Fr. Albarran wrote a full report on the construction of the church, which according to some historians served as a manual of church construction for other friar builders. In 1740, the image of the Santo Niño was solemnly installed in the church. The church was restored in 1782 and in 1889. Fr. Mateo Diez was responsible for the work in 1889. He had the interior and the main altar repainted, installed side altars, improved the windows, and had a marble floor laid out. The church underwent major renovation for the quadricentennial of Christianity, celebrated in 1965. Marble was laid on the floor, stained glass windows added and the interior refurbished. The side altars, the pipe organ and parts of the convento were removed. The windows placed by Diez were replaced with stained glass depicting the history of Christianity in the Philippines. In the 1980s, the sacristy suffered an electrical fire, affecting the even the retablo, but all traces of damage have been removed. Pope Paul VI raised the church to the status of basilica minore. The papal legate, Cardinal Hildebrando Antoniutti, conferred the title on the church.

Venustas Style of the Church •	Façade - a blending of Muslim, Romanesque and neo-classical features - all set in what has otherwise been described as a high degree of integration. The façade is preserved in its original stone texture and natural color, conveying an air of simplicity of line and elegance. •	Bell tower - serves as a counterbalance to the convent located on the opposite far end. It has two blind and open windows alternating in shape, ending up in triangular pinnacles with a circular disc crowned by balusters and a bulbous dome of Muslim influence. •	Center section - the focus of attention. The arched main entrance is balanced by the side rectangular corners. A double-edged triangular pediment crowns the façade.

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User talk:Highbreed

I suspect that if people leave messages at the destination of the redirect, you will not get the "you have messages" message. So I am turning off the redirect for the moment.

I saw your comment in MMORPG research. There never has been an article with that title. In case you have forgotten, the article is at User:MMORPG research. -- RHaworth 02:42, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

See also User talk:MMORPG research

I DID NOT ASK THAT MY PAGE BE DELETED I gave away my username and password away so that they can either disambiguate or split my article but It seems they've used it to go to protected restricted areas of my page to vandalize what I have said and now it has been deleted. /sob /sob GOODBYE TO MY HARDWORK AND LABOUR OF GATHERING THAT VALUABLE INFORMATION All the hardwork and sacrifice gone in a flash! I guess it can't be retrieve again. Bye bye to wikipedia. So long. It's been nice meeting yah all. Say hi to all the Cambridge professors for me okay. Bye Oyasumi Nasai

 * I have replied at User talk:RHaworth. -- RHaworth 08:41, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Final Fantasy
Highbreed, an anonymous editor added your name to the list of participants at the Final Fantasy WikiProject. I know it could well have been you, having forgotten to log in or some such, but in light of some of the confusion about whether or not you are actually still an active participant on Wikipedia, I wanted to check and make sure. If I don't hear from you in a week or so, I'll remove your name (though, obviously, you can feel free to sign back up if and when you return). – Seancdaug 17:09, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeah It's me I just forgot to Log - in ahehehe

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William Robert Graham

William Robert Graham (born June 15, 1937) is an American physicist who was chairman of President Reagan's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control from 1982 to 1985, a deputy administrator and acting administrator of NASA during 1985 and 1986, and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and concurrently science adviser to President Reagan from 1986 to 1989. He then served as an executive in national security-related companies.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Graham received a B.S. degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology with Honors in 1959. In addition, he earned an M.S. degree in engineering science in 1961, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1963, both from Stanford University.

Graham served three years active duty as a project officer with the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, directing a group conducting experimental and theoretical research on strategic system survivability. Graham later spent six years with the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and jointly founded R&D Associates in 1971.

In 1980, Graham served as an adviser to presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and was a member of the President-elect's transition team. From 1982 to 1985, he served as chairman of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, having been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate in 1982. While chairing the General Advisory Committee, he led the preparation of the report "A Quarter Century of Soviet Compliance Practices Under Arms Control Commitments: 1958-1983", which was submitted to the President and to Congress in 1984.

On September 12, 1985, Graham was nominated by President Reagan for the position of Deputy Administrator of NASA. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 18, and sworn in on November 25, 1985. For a period from December 4, 1985, to May 11, 1986, Graham served as acting Administrator of NASA following the resignation of James M. Beggs. It was on his watch as acting administrator that the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched in frigid weather, causing o-rings to fail and destroy the ship. Graham left NASA on October 1, 1986, to become director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). On October 16, 1986, he was sworn in as director of OSTP and concurrently as science adviser to President Reagan, positions he held until June 1989, when he left government service to join Jaycor, a high-technology company headquartered in San Diego, California. He later served as the chairman and CEO of National Security Research, Inc. from 1997 to 2005.

Graham has also been a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and served on many international and national boards and advisory groups, including the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committee on Undersea Warfare and Board on Army Science and Technology, the Air Force Science Advisory Board Task Force on Manned Strategic System Vulnerability, the U.S.-U.K. Joint Working Group on Atomic Weapons, the Defense Nuclear Agency Scientific Advisory Group on Effects, and the Defense Science Board System Vulnerability Task Force and Associated Task Forces. He was a member of the Defense Science Board from 2001 through 2008 where he led several studies, and was also a member of the State Department's International Security Advisory Board from 2006 through 2008.

In 1998, Graham served on the Rumsfeld Commission, which investigated the ballistic missile threat to the United States for the Congress, and in 2000 served on the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, also mandated by Congress. He chaired the statutory Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack from 2001 through 2008, which issued several reports, including a report entitled "Critical National Infrastructures" in 2008.

EMP Warnings
Graham warned several times about the dangers of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP).

In a Congress hearing in 2008 he affirmed that about 90 percent of the US population could perish during such an attack: "We think that is in the correct range. We don't have experience with losing the infrastructure in a country with 300 million people, most of whom don't live in a way that provides for their own food and other needs. We can go back to an era when people did live like that. That would be - 10 percent would be 30 million people, and that is probably the range where we could survive as a basically rural economy."

In a 2017 article he warned about the strategic significance of North Korean satellites' ability to generate an EMP attack, as well as widespread ignorance about an EMP.

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Wikipedia talk:List of missing Africa topics

Abidjan-Ouagadougou Railway
I just created this article, prompted by the list of missing Africa topics, only to find when I'd finished that a much fuller version already exists under the title "Régie du Chemin de Fer Abidjan-Niger". The title of the existing article is in French, which is inappropriate in an English Wikipedia and can easily lead to this kind of reduplication. Also it is misleading because the word "régie" refers to state control, whereas the railway has been in the private sector for the past 25 years. I therefore recommend that the two articles be merged and the English title retained. Gnangbade (talk) 09:16, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Update: the articles have now been merged, following discussion on the relevant page Gnangbade (talk) 07:48, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Re: Stubs
I've gone ahead and put Igala and Imbangala back on the list, as they have only one sentence each to their names; it seems a shame to remove them until we at least have a stub. If this strikes anyone else as inimical to the spirit of this list, though, I'd be happy to remove them again. --Dvyost 06:04, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It was I who removed them, figuring that they wouldn't be lost since the stub templates place them in some category. But I'd say leave them on the list, after all: the more visible, the better the chances they'll expand. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:42, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I have removed a number of stubs, but have included a link to Category:Africa stubs in the article's introduction. --(Mingus ah um 22:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC))

Some assumptions?
Can we assume that Recadaire de Behanzin is Behanzin and St. Lois is Saint-Louis, Senegal? There seems to be a number of these with archaic spellings, which may explain why they're left.T L Miles 21:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * You're likely right. It's probably worth creating redirects and deleting the items from this page. — Brian ( talk ) 00:10, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about the first one. This webpage lists le Recadaire Behanzin as a newspaper, actually. Picaroon (Talk) 00:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's clearly the newspaper! named after the leader. I'll see if I can dig up more (I know so little about Benin/Dahomey, or Togo for that matter...)T L Miles 13:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

"For the western-trained, educated local elite (called Dahomeens) on the other hand it took the form of newspaper campaigns demanding modifications rather than revolutionary changes in their way of life. Some of the popular newspapers included Louis Hunkarin’s Le Messager Dahomeen, started during the First World War and le Recadaire Behanzin. Although their tactics appeared very subtle, their critique of the French and its resultant success rate was remarkable, a situation only comparable to that of the Senegalese"
 * It appears now to be known as just "Le Recadaire": is that creole, or just a neologism? All the info I can find is http://www.panos-ao.org/spip.php?article10124 and list of Benin Media says that a Hunkarin is still director. I fear it will take a trip to the NYPL for me to get much more...T L Miles 13:35, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Primary School: first Calls for Articles!
Hi everybody, I'm quite excited to announce the first two articles selected to kick-start the content phase of the Wikipedia Primary School project! This research project focuses on the South Africa primary school curriculum: the involved teams have selected a list of 100+ relevant articles which will undergo review (or creation) by Wikipedians, scholars/experts, or journals. We thought that involving the Wikipedia community was the obvious first step in the process, which is going to last for the next couple of years. So the articles we'd like to suggest for creation are: Please see the project pages for more information and instructions, and thanks in advance for your invaluable help. Best, --Elitre (WPS) (talk) 13:06, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Makhonjwa Mountains;
 * 2) Stone-walled town of Kaditshwene.

Tagbaladougou Falls, Burkina Faso
Is this the same location as Cascades de Karfiguéla otherwise know as Banfora Falls or Karfiguela Falls? This page seems to indicate so.Gnangbade (talk) 15:33, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Kabre-Losso
I have deleted this topic from the list, because the name is meaningless. "Kabre" is an archaic spelling for Kabiye; no current linguists or anthropologists use it. "Losso" is a vague local term, never employed by linguists or anthropologists, to refer, confusingly, to both the Nawdm and the Lamba people. The Kabiye, Nawdm and Lamba are three distinct ethnic groups, each with their own language (and Wikipedia pages). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnangbade (talk • contribs) 16:34, 26 March 2017 (UTC)


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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 in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate wasSpeedy delete as single-person vanity

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NN / Vanity ≈ jossi ≈ 06:04, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. Jwissick  (t)  (c)  06:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Going bye-bye as a speedy. Complete vanity. - Lucky 6.9 06:09, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

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Districts of Afghanistan

The districts of Afghanistan, known as wuleswali (ولسوالۍ, wuləswāləi; Dari: ولسوالی, wuləswālī), are secondary-level administrative units, one level below provinces. The Afghan government issued its first district map in 1973. It recognized 325 districts, counting wuleswalis (districts), alaqadaries (sub-districts), and markaz-e-wulaiyat (provincial center districts). In the ensuing years, additional districts have been added through splits, and some eliminated through merges. In June 2005, the Afghan government issued a map of 398 districts. It was widely adopted by many information management systems, though usually with the addition of Sharak-e-Hayratan for 399 districts in total. It remains the de facto standard as of late 2018, despite a string of government announcements of the creation of new districts.

The latest announced set includes 421 districts. The country's Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) came up with a joint, consolidated list of Afghan districts. It has handed this list over to the Independent Election Commission (IEC), which has used it in preparing the elections. The set contains 387 "districts" and 34 "provincial center districts" for 412 districts in total.

This article does not correspond with any particular district set; it lacks a number of districts currently recognized by the Afghan government, and some others that are popularly, but not officially, recognized.

Badakhshan Province

 * Arghanj Khwa – formerly part of Fayzabad District
 * Argo – formerly part of Fayzabad District
 * Baharak
 * Darayim – formerly part of Fayzabad District
 * Fayzabad
 * Ishkashim
 * Jurm
 * Khash – formerly part of Jurm District
 * Khwahan
 * Kishim
 * Kohistan – formerly part of Baharak District
 * Kuf Ab – formerly part of Khwahan District
 * Kuran wa Munjan
 * Maimay – formerly part of Darwaz District
 * Nusay – formerly part of Darwaz District
 * Ragh
 * Shahri Buzurg
 * Shekay – formerly part of Darwaz District
 * Shighnan
 * Shuhada – formerly part of Baharak District
 * Tagab - formerly part of Fayzabad District
 * Tishkan – formerly part of Kishim District
 * Wakhan
 * Wurduj – formerly part of Baharak District
 * Yaftali Sufla - formerly part of Fayzabad District
 * Yamgan – formerly part of Baharak District
 * Yawan – formerly part of Ragh District
 * Zebak

Baghlan Province

 * Andarab
 * Baghlan – now part of Baghlani Jadid District
 * Baghlani Jadid
 * Burka
 * Dahana i Ghuri
 * Dih Salah – formerly part of Andarab District
 * Dushi
 * Farang wa Gharu – formerly part of Khost Wa Fereng District
 * Guzargahi Nur – formerly part of Khost Wa Fereng District
 * Khinjan
 * Khost wa Fereng
 * Khwaja Hijran – formerly part of Andarab District
 * Nahrin
 * Puli Hisar – formerly part of Andarab District
 * Puli Khumri
 * Tala wa Barfak

Kunduz Province

 * Aliabad
 * Archi
 * Char Dara
 * Imam Sahib
 * Khan Abad
 * Kunduz
 * Qalay-I-Zal
 * Aaqtash
 * Gul Tepa
 * Kalbaad

Takhar Province

 * Baharak – formerly part of Taluqan District
 * Bangi
 * Chah Ab
 * Chal
 * Darqad
 * Dashti Qala – formerly part of Khwaja Ghar District
 * Farkhar
 * Hazar Sumuch –formerly part of Taluqan District
 * Ishkamish
 * Kalafgan
 * Khwaja Bahauddin – formerly part of Yangi Qala District
 * Khwaja Ghar
 * Namak Ab – formerly part of Taluqan District
 * Rustaq
 * Taluqan
 * Warsaj
 * Yangi Qala

Balkh Province

 * Balkh
 * Chahar Bolak
 * Chahar Kint
 * Chimtal
 * Dawlatabad
 * Dihdadi
 * Kaldar
 * Khulmi
 * Kishindih
 * Marmul
 * Mazar-e Sharif
 * Nahri Shahi
 * Sholgara
 * Shortepa
 * Zari – formerly part of Kishindih District

Faryab Province

 * Almar
 * Andkhoy
 * Bilchiragh
 * Dawlat Abad
 * Gurziwan – formerly part of Bilchiragh District
 * Khani Chahar Bagh
 * Khwaja Sabz Posh
 * Kohistan
 * Maymana
 * Pashtun Kot
 * Qaramqol
 * Qaysar
 * Qurghan – formerly part of Andkhoy District
 * Shirin Tagab

Jowzjan Province

 * Aqcha
 * Darzab
 * Fayzabad
 * Khamyab
 * Khaniqa – formerly part of Aqcha District
 * Khwaja Du Koh
 * Mardyan
 * Mingajik
 * Qarqin
 * Qush Tepa – formerly part of Darzab District
 * Shibirghan

Samangan Province

 * Aybak
 * Dara-I-Sufi Balla – part of the former Dara-I-Suf District
 * Dara-I-Sufi Payan – part of the former Dara-I-Suf District
 * Feroz Nakhchir – formerly part of Khulmi District; shifted from Balkh Province
 * Hazrati Sultan
 * Khuram Wa Sarbagh
 * Ruyi Du Ab

Sar-e Pol Province

 * Balkhab
 * Gosfandi – formerly part of Sayyad District
 * Kohistanat
 * Sangcharak
 * Sar-e Pul
 * Sayyad
 * Sozma Qala

Bamyan Province

 * Bamyan
 * Kahmard - shifted from Baghlan Province
 * Panjab
 * Sayghan - formerly part of Kahmard District; shifted from Baghlan Province
 * Shibar
 * Waras
 * Yakawlang

Kabul Province

 * Bagrami
 * Chahar Asyab
 * Deh Sabz
 * Farza - formerly part of Mir Bacha Kot District
 * Guldara
 * Istalif
 * Kabul
 * Kalakan
 * Khaki Jabbar
 * Mir Bacha Kot
 * Mussahi
 * Paghman
 * Qarabagh
 * Shakardara
 * Surobi

Kapisa Province

 * Alasay
 * Hesa Awal Kohistan - part of the former Kohistan District
 * Hesa Duwum Kohistan - part of the former Kohistan District
 * Koh Band
 * Mahmud Raqi
 * Nijrab
 * Tagab

Logar Province

 * Azra - shifted from Paktia Province
 * Baraki Barak
 * Charkh
 * Kharwar - formerly part of Charkh District
 * Khoshi
 * Mohammad Agha
 * Puli Alam

Panjshir Province

 * Anaba - part of the former Panjsher District
 * Bazarak - part of the former Panjsher District
 * Darah Abdullah khail - part of the former Hisa Duwum Panjsher District
 * Khenj - part of the former Hisa Awal Panjsher District
 * Paryan - part of the former Hisa Awal Panjsher District
 * Rokha - created from parts of the former Hisa Duwum Panjsher and Panjsher Districts
 * Shotul - part of the former Panjsher District
 * Darah Abshar - part of the former Hisa Duwum Panjsher District

Parwan Province

 * Bagram
 * Charikar
 * Ghorband
 * Jabul Saraj
 * Kohi Safi
 * Salang
 * Sayed Khel - formerly part of Jabul Saraj District
 * Sheikh Ali
 * Shinwari
 * Surkhi Parsa

Maidan Wardak Province

 * Chaki
 * Day Mirdad
 * Hisa-I-Awali Bihsud
 * Jaghatu - shifted from Ghazni Province
 * Jalrez
 * Markazi Bihsud
 * Maydan Shahr
 * Nirkh
 * Saydabad

Kunar Province

 * Asadabad
 * Bar Kunar
 * Chapa Dara
 * Chawkay
 * Dangam
 * Dara-I-Pech
 * Ghaziabad - formerly part of Nurgal District
 * Khas Kunar
 * Marawara
 * Narang Wa Badil
 * Nari
 * Nurgal
 * Shaigal - formerly part of Chapa Dara District
 * Shultan - formerly part of Chapa Dara District
 * Sirkanai
 * Wata Pur - formerly part of Asadabad District
 * Shultan - formerly part of Shaygl District

Laghman Province

 * Alingar
 * Alishing
 * Baad Pakh - formerly part of Mihtarlam District
 * Dawlat Shah
 * Mihtarlam
 * Qarghayi

Nangarhar Province

 * Achin
 * Bati Kot
 * Behsud - formerly part of Jalalabad District
 * Chaparhar
 * Dara-I-Nur
 * Dih Bala
 * Dur Baba
 * Goshta
 * Hisarak
 * Jalalabad
 * Kama
 * Khogyani
 * Kot - formerly part of Rodat District
 * Kuz Kunar
 * Lal Pur
 * Muhmand Dara
 * Nazyan
 * Pachir Wa Agam
 * Rodat
 * Sherzad
 * Shinwar
 * Surkh Rod
 * Haska Meyna

Nuristan Province

 * Bargi Matal
 * Du Ab - created from parts of Nuristan and Mandol Districts
 * Kamdesh
 * Mandol
 * Nurgaram - created from parts of Nuristan and Wama Districts
 * Parun - formerly part of Wama District
 * Wama
 * Waygal

Badghis Province

 * Ab Kamari
 * Ghormach
 * Jawand
 * Muqur
 * Bala Murghab
 * Qadis
 * Qala-I-Naw

Farah Province

 * Anar Dara
 * Bakwa
 * Bala Buluk
 * Farah
 * Gulistan
 * Khaki Safed
 * Lash wa Juwayn
 * Pur Chaman
 * Pusht Rod
 * Qala i Kah
 * Shib Koh

Ghor Province

 * Chaghcharan (Firozkoh)
 * Marghab District - formerly part of ferozkoh.
 * Charsada
 * Dawlat Yar
 * Du Layna District
 * Lal Wa Sarjangal
 * Pasaband
 * Saghar
 * Shahrak
 * Taywara
 * Tulak

Herat Province

 * Adraskan
 * Chishti Sharif
 * Farsi
 * Ghoryan
 * Gulran
 * Guzara
 * Hirat
 * Injil
 * Karukh
 * Kohsan
 * Kushk
 * Kushki Kuhna
 * Obe
 * Pashtun Zarghun
 * Shindand
 * Zinda Jan (Pooshang)
 * Turghandi
 * Islam Qala

Ghazni Province

 * Ab Band
 * Ajristan
 * Andar
 * Dih Yak
 * Gelan
 * Ghazni City
 * Giro
 * Jaghatū District
 * Jaghuri
 * Khugiani - created from parts of Waeez Shahid and Ghazni Districts
 * Khwaja Umari - formerly part of Waeez Shahid District
 * Malistan
 * Muqur
 * Nawa
 * Nawur
 * Qarabagh
 * Rashidan - formerly part of Waeez Shahid District
 * Waghaz - formerly part of Muqur District
 * Zana Khan

Khost Province

 * Bak
 * Gurbuz
 * Jaji Maydan
 * Khost (Matun)
 * Mandozai
 * Musa Khel
 * Nadir Shah Kot
 * Qalandar
 * Sabari
 * Shamal - shifted from Paktia Province
 * Spera
 * Tani
 * Tere Zayi

Paktia Province

 * Ahmad Aba - formerly part of Said Karam District
 * Ahmadkhel
 * Dand Aw Patan
 * Gardez
 * Janikhel
 * Lazha Mangal
 * Said Karam
 * Shwak
 * Tsamkani
 * Zadran
 * Zazi
 * Zurmat
 * Rohani Baba
 * Mirzaka
 * Gerda Serai

Paktika Province

 * Barmal
 * Dila
 * Gayan
 * Gomal
 * Janikhel - formerly part of Khairkot District
 * Khairkot
 * Mata Khan
 * Nika
 * Omna
 * Sar Hawza
 * Surobi
 * Sharan
 * Terwa - formerly part of Wazakhwa District
 * Urgun
 * Wazakhwa
 * Wor Mamay
 * Yahya Khel - formerly part of Khairkot District
 * Yusufkhel - formerly part of Khairkot District
 * Ziruk

Daykundi Province

 * Ishtarlay - part of the former Daykundi District; shifted from Uruzgan Province
 * Kajran - shifted from Uruzgan Province
 * Khadir - part of the former Daykundi District; shifted from Uruzgan Province
 * Kiti - formerly part of Kajran District; shifted from Uruzgan Province
 * Miramor - formerly part of Sharistan District; shifted from Uruzgan Province
 * Nili - part of the former Daykundi District; shifted from Uruzgan Province
 * Sangtakht - part of the former Daykundi District; shifted from Uruzgan Province
 * Shahristan - shifted from Uruzgan Province

Helmand Province

 * Baghran
 * Dishu
 * Garmsir
 * Grishk
 * Kajaki
 * Khanashin
 * Lashkargah
 * Majrah - formerly part of Nad Ali District
 * Musa Qala
 * Nad Ali
 * Nawa-I-Barakzayi
 * Nawzad
 * Sangin
 * Washir

Kandahar Province

 * Arghandab
 * Dand
 * Arghistan
 * Daman
 * Ghorak
 * Kandahar
 * Khakrez
 * Maruf
 * Maiwand
 * Miyan Nasheen - formerly part of Shah Wali Kot District
 * Naish - shifted from Oruzgan Province
 * Panjwaye
 * Reg
 * Shah Wali Kot
 * Shorabak
 * Spin Boldak
 * Zhari - created from parts of Maiwand and Panjwaye Districts

Nimruz Province

 * Chahar Burjak
 * Chakhansur
 * Kang
 * Khash Rod
 * Zaranj

Orūzgān Province

 * Chora
 * Deh Rawood
 * Gizab
 * Khas Uruzgan
 * Shahidi Hassas
 * Tarinkot

Zabul Province

 * Argahandab
 * Atghar
 * Daychopan
 * Kakar - formerly part of Argahandab District
 * Mezana
 * Naw Bahar - created from parts of Shamulzuyi and Shinkay Districts in Zabul Province.
 * Qalat (technically only a municipality, not a district)
 * Shah Joy
 * Shamulzayi
 * Shinkay
 * Tarnak Wa Jaldak
 * Suria

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of songs about disasters

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

The result of the debate was KEEP. — J I P | Talk 07:57, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

List of songs about disasters
Disaster has rather flexible nomenclature. Thereby rendering this list unmaintainable.
 * Delete lists of disaster. --SuperDude 06:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- flexible nomenclature will mean the list gets large, eventually, yes, but at such point it can be split, too. --Mysidia (talk) 06:09, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - yet another unencyclopaedic, unlikely-to-be-maintained list. --Daveb 13:32, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, users should be able to find examples of songs about disasters. Can be refined if necessary. Kappa 14:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and refine. --Jacquelyn Marie 15:01, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I am starting to think about some of the subtopics that could be included... songs about natural disasters could be one, songs about environmental disasters could be another, and so on. --Jacquelyn Marie 15:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - worthy topic. Can be split up when number of listings warrant. 23skidoo 16:13, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable list OmegaWikipedia 18:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete the word Disaster isn't even clearly defined. If I broke up with my lover, I might consider that a disaster. Unverifiable and unmaintainable list. —Wahoofive (talk) 22:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Everyone is welcome to contribute to Centralized discussion/Lists of songs so we can find a consensus on such things. —Wahoofive (talk) 22:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful and interesting list. --Centauri 06:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. List of songs on a subject which is not too broad, nor too trivial. I think most people will interpret "disaster" as "major fatal catastrophe" and not a wrecked love relationship. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:26, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is an encyclopædia, not an indiscriminate collection of information. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:17, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep a useful crosslinking of related songs...dave souza 22:10, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Categorize Lists should be used instead of categories only if there is a definable set of members that can reasonably be expected to have every member listed. This list is by its nature uncompletable, so a category, with appropriate subcategories is the way to go. Caerwine 00:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete More useless listcruft --JAranda | yeah 04:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Henry Winstanley

Henry Winstanley (31 March 1644 – 27 November 1703) was an English painter, engineer, and merchant who constructed the first Eddystone Lighthouse after losing two of his ships on the Eddystone rocks. He died while working on the project during the Great Storm of 1703.

Early life and career
He was born in Saffron Walden, Essex, and baptised there on 31 March 1644. His father, Henry, became land steward to the Earl of Suffolk, owner of Audley End House, in 1652, and young Henry also worked at Audley End, first as a porter and then as a secretary. In 1666, Audley End House was bought by Charles II for use as a base when attending Newmarket races, and it became effectively a royal palace. Winstanley developed an interest in engraving after a grand tour of Europe between 1669 and 1674, where he was impressed by Continental architecture and the engravings in which it was portrayed. On his return, he is believed to have studied engraving with Wenceslas Hollar and was employed at Audley End House as assistant to the Clerk of Works. In 1676, he embarked on a detailed set of architectural engravings of Audley End House, which took him ten years to complete and is a vital early record of English manor house architecture. He also designed a set of playing cards, which became very popular and sold well. He was appointed Clerk of Works at Audley End in 1679 on the death of his predecessor and held the post until 1701.

Winstanley was well known in Essex for his fascination with mechanical and hydraulic gadgets. He had a house built for him at Littlebury, which he filled with whimsical mechanisms of his design and construction, and the "Essex House of Wonders" became a local landmark that was popular with visitors. In the 1690s, he opened a Mathematical Water Theatre known as "Winstanley's Water-works" in London's Piccadilly. This commercial visitor attraction combined fireworks, perpetual fountains, automata, and ingenious mechanisms, including "The Wonderful Barrel" of 1696, serving visitors hot and cold drinks from the same equipment. It was a successful and profitable venture, operating for years after its creator's death.

Construction of the Eddystone lighthouse
Winstanley became a merchant, investing some of the money he had made from his work and commercial enterprises in five ships. Two of them were wrecked on the Eddystone Rocks near Plymouth, and he demanded to know why nothing was done to protect vessels from this hazard. Told that the reef was too treacherous to mark, he declared that he would build a lighthouse there himself, and the Admiralty agreed to support him with ships and men.

Construction started on 14 July 1696. The octagonal tower was to be built from Cornish granite and wood, with ornamental features and a glass lantern-room in which candles would burn to provide the light, and was to be anchored to the rock by 12 huge iron stanchions. One notable incident during its construction occurred in June 1697. Britain and France were at war, and a naval vessel had been assigned to protect the workers whenever they were on the reef. On this particular day, the commissioner at Plymouth, George St Lo, ordered the ship to join the fleet and did not provide a replacement. Instead, a French privateer destroyed the work done on the foundations and carried Winstanley off to France. Louis XIV, however, ordered his immediate release, with the words: "France is at war with England, not with humanity". Winstanley returned to the Eddystone Reef, construction resumed, and the first Eddystone Lighthouse was completed in November 1698.

The lighthouse suffered some weather damage during the winter of 1698 - 1699, and the light was often obscured by spray breaking over the top of the tower. Winstanley, therefore, had it rebuilt the following spring on a larger scale, with extra stonework and even more elaborate decoration. Both lighthouses fulfilled their function. During the five years of their operation, no ships were wrecked on the Eddystone.

Death
Winstanley was recorded as having expressed great faith in his construction, wishing he might be inside it during "the greatest storm there ever was". The tower was destroyed on the night of 27 November 1703, during the Great Storm of that year. Winstanley was visiting the lighthouse that night to make repairs, and he lost his life.

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Nunt is not a pastry, it is a a literary result of a man's journey through life.

I also don't see how nunt is a pastry, according to the Wiki definition which is: "Pastry is the name given to various kinds of dough made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs." Nunt sound delicious but they do not sound dough-based.

 * Part of the article is in German, suggesting it was translated from German Wikipedia? Perhaps it is a traditional German-Jewish thing? I am of German-Jewish descent, but I have never heard of this. --D. Breslauer (talk) 15:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Und jawohl: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunt . See also the article creation summary. --D. Breslauer (talk) 15:45, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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Gosh. I hadn't realized this was closing so soon. Dragons flight or Jaxl (or anyone else), if you disagree with my belated comments and would like to reply despite the closure, please reply here or on my talk page. I should have noted the time before posting—would probably have commented on Df's page instead. Very sorry.— enceph alon  06:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


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Oscar Redding

Oscar Redding (born c. 1974) is an Australian actor, screenwriter and director.

Biography
Portrayed Alexander Pearce in Van Diemen's Land (2009). He also co-wrote the film with director Jonathan auf der Heide.

Redding directed the Australian film The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (2007), which he also adapted from the stage version that he directed. A modern version of Shakespeare's play. It was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in early August 2007.

Television credits include, but are not limited to, The Secret Life of Us, SeaChange, Stingers, Last Man Standing, Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Ponderosa, Backlands, Top of the Lake and Puberty Blues.

Personal life
Oscar Redding lives in Melbourne.

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Paddy Japaljarri Stewart

Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (30 June 1935 – 30 November 2013) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from Mungapunju, south of Yuendumu. He was chairman of the Warlukurlangu Artists Committee. Stewart was one of the artists who contributed to the Honey Ant Dreaming mural on the Papunya school wall in 1971, said to be the genesis of the modern Aboriginal art movement.

The people of Yuendumu in the early 1980s began transferring their traditional ochre ground paintings to canvas, and then to the doors. In 1983, Stewart along with four other artists painted 30 of the Yuendumu school doors with Dreaming designs, creating what became known as the Yuendumu Doors. The painted doors were also intended to remind the Yuendumu schoolchildren of a web of sites and obligations extending across their country. The entire series of Yuendumu Doors was acquired and restored by the South Australian Museum after the school was upgraded in 1995. Twelve of the best doors were selected for a travelling exhibition that toured Australia for three years; the Yuendumu Doors are now at the South Australian Museum.

In 1985 the Warlukurlangu Artists Association was established in Yuendumu, and the cooperative held its first major exhibition that year.

In May 1989, Stewart travelled to Paris to create a painting at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

In 2004 Stuart Macintyre wrote in a A concise history of Australia that Stewart recorded his testimony in his own language in 1991. "He evokes the continuity of dreaming from Grandfather and father to son and grandson, down the generations and across the passages of time; yet the insistence on the obligation to preserve and transmit his three jukurrpass attest to the corrosive possibility of secular change. He goes on to aver that the maintenance of Dreaming has to be really strict', so that his family will not lose it like paper, or throw it away or give it away to other families.

"My father's grandfather taught me first, and after a while my father taught me the same way as his father told jukurrpa [Dreaming], and then my father is telling the same story about what his father told him and now he is teaching me to live the same kind of jukurrpa and follow the way what my grandfather did, and then teach what my father did, and then I'm going to teach my grandchildren the same way as my father taught me.

When my father was alive this is what he taught me. He taught me the traditional ways like the traditional designs in body or head of kangaroo Dreaming (that's what we call marlu Dreaming) and eagle Dreaming. He taught me to sing song for the big ceremonies. People who are related to us in a close family, they have to have the same sort of jukurrpa Dreaming, and to sing songs in the same way that we do our actions like dancing, and painting on our bodies or shields or things, and this is what my father taught me. My dreaming is the kangaroo dreaming, the Eagle Dreaming and the budgerigar Dreaming, so I have three kinds of Dreaming in my jukurrpa and I have to hang onto it. This is what my father taught me, and this is what I have to teach my sons the same way my father taught me, and thats way it will go on from grandparent to sons, and follow that jukurrpa. No-one knows when it will end."

Hanging on to tradition was key in his life. Early in his life he worked as a chef in Papunya, and since retained his nickname "Cookie". Japaljarri's work is one of the most plagued by fake copies, and was centre to one of the first art forgery cases to be heard in Australia. He is also one of the first Aboriginal artists to achieve a high international profile in the late 1980s. Stewart taught the children Jukurrpa (dreaming) art. It taught young artists that painting can be your own free expression.

In 1995, the Canberra Medical Society, specifically doctors Martin Duncan and Cam Webber, went to the remote Yuendumu settlement where they removed cataracts from five Aboriginal artists, including Stewart who had one of the most difficult conditions.

In 2001 Stewart and Paddy Japaljarri Sims, won the $4,000 Telstra Work on Paper Award from the National Aboriginal Art Award (now Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award).

Stewart died on 30 November 2013.

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Guba

Guba may refer to:

 * Guba (surname)
 * Quba, Azerbaijan, a city also spelled as Guba and Kuba
 * Guba River, a river near Indwe, Eastern Cape, South Africa
 * Guba (woreda), a woreda in Ethiopia
 * Abba Guba, one of the Nine Saints of Ethiopia
 * Cyclone Guba, a 2007 tropical cyclone in Australasia
 * Gubguba, also known as guba, an Indian percussion string instrument
 * a Hungarian prehistoric coat made of coarse knotted cloth
 * a mourning chant sung by guests at an ancient Irish Aonach
 * Ghana UK-Based Achievement Awards (GUBA Awards), an annual British award that recognises the contributions of British-Ghanaians to society

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SK Hynix

SK hynix Inc. (에스케이하이닉스 주식회사) is a South Korean supplier of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. SK Hynix is one of the world's largest semiconductor vendors.

Founded as Hyundai Electronics in 1983, SK Hynix was integrated into the SK Group in 2012 following a series of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring efforts. After being incorporated into the SK Group, SK Hynix became a major affiliate alongside SK Innovation and SK Telecom.

The company's major customers include Microsoft, Apple, Asus, Dell, MSI, HP Inc., and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Hewlett-Packard). Other products that use Hynix memory include DVD players, cellular phones, set-top boxes, personal digital assistants, networking equipment, and hard disk drives.

Hyundai Electronics
Hyundai Electronics was founded in 1983 by Chung Ju-yung, the founder of Hyundai Group. In the early 1980s, Chung recognized the growing importance of electronics in the automobile industry, one of Hyundai's primary business areas. He saw the potential for Hyundai to expand beyond its core operations in automobiles, shipbuilding, and heavy industries and wanted to establish a presence in the promising electronics industry. The company's primary focus was on semiconductor production and industrial electronics.

Hyundai had to pay a very high entry price to set up an efficient production system and to stabilize the yield rate compared to its rival Samsung, who at least had prior experience in semiconductor manufacturing. Hyundai's decision to produce SRAMs was later proven to be a mistake, as the technological sophistication of SRAMs made it difficult for Hyundai to achieve a satisfactory yield rate. In 1985, Hyundai altered its strategy for DRAM manufacturing by subcontracting from foreign firms and importing their chip designs, as it had lost time developing its own chips. Hyundai's DRAM chip, produced by importing Vitelic Corporation's design and technology, again failed in mass production due to a low yield rate.

Hyundai's approach to manufacturing memory chips as a foundry for foreign firms under OEM agreements was successful. The OEM agreements between General Instruments and Texas Instruments were helpful to Hyundai, which was facing technological and financial difficulties. By 1992, Hyundai had become the world's ninth DRAM manufacturer, and by 1995, it ranked among the world's top 20 semiconductor manufacturing companies. In 1996, Hyundai acquired Maxtor, a U.S.-based disk-drive manufacturer.

LG Semicon
GoldStar, which later became LG Electronics, entered the semiconductor business by acquiring a small company from Taihan Electic Wire in 1979. The company was subsequently renamed GoldStar Semiconductor. LG Semicon was established as Goldstar Electron in 1983 by merging the semiconductor operations of Goldstar Electronics and Goldstar Semiconductors. In 1990, Goldstar Electron commenced operations at Cheongju Plant I, followed by the completion of Cheongju Plant II in 1994. The company underwent a name change to LG Semicon in 1995. LG Semicon operated from three sites, including Seoul, Cheongju, and Gumi.

Merger
During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the South Korean government initiated the restructuring of the nation's five major conglomerates, including their semiconductor businesses. Among five chaebols, Samsung, LG, and Hyundai were engaged in the semiconductor business. Samsung was exempt from the restructuring due to its competitive position in the global market. However, LG and Hyundai were pressured by the government to merge, as both companies faced significant losses during the semiconductor recession of early 1996. In 1998, Hyundai Electronics acquired LG Semicon for US$ 2.1 billion, positioning itself in direct competition with Micron Technology. Subsequently, LG Semicon was rebranded as Hyundai Semiconductor and later merged with Hyundai Electronics.

Hynix
Although the South Korean government aimed to merge the two companies to alleviate the supply glut in the global market, competition in the semiconductor industry had intensified. Hyundai faced near collapse during the chip industry's downturn in 2001, when global memory chip prices dropped by 80 percent, resulting in a 5 trillion won annual loss for the company. Creditor banks, many of them under government control at the time, intervened to provide assistance.

In 2001, Hyundai Electronics rebranded as Hynix Semiconductor, a portmanteau of "high" and "electronics". Alongside this change, Hynix began selling or spinning off business units to recover from a cash squeeze. Hynix separated several business units, including Hyundai Curitel, a mobile phone manufacturer; Hyundai SysComm, a CDMA mobile communication chip maker; Hyundai Autonet, a car navigation system producer; ImageQuest, a flat panel display company; and its TFT-LCD unit, among others. The divestiture was part of a bailout plan requested by the major creditor, Korea Development Bank, to provide fresh funds to the insolvent semiconductor maker.

In 2003, Hyundai Group affiliates, including Hyundai Merchant Marine, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Elevator, and Chung Mong-hun, the chairman of Hyundai Asan, consented to forfeit their voting rights and sell their stakes in Hynix. Hynix was then formally spun-off from the Hyundai Group in August 2003.

SK Hynix
The Hynix creditors, including Korea Exchange Bank, Woori Bank, Shinhan Bank and Korea Finance Corporation, attempted to sell their stake in Hynix several times but failed. Korean companies such as Hyosung, Dongbu CNI, and former stakeholders, including Hyundai Heavy Industries and LG, were considered potential bidders but were either denied or withdrew from the bidding. In July 2011, SK Telecom, the nation's largest telecommunication company, and STX Group officially entered the bid. STX dropped its deal in September 2011, leaving SK Telecom as the sole bidder. In the end, SK acquired Hynix for US$ 3 billion in February 2012. As Hynix was incorporated into SK Group, its name was changed to SK Hynix.

In 2021, Hynix acquired Intel's NAND business for $9 billion, resulting in the establishment of Solidigm.

Operations
SK Hynix has production facilities in Icheon and Cheongju, South Korea, and in Wuxi, Chongqing and Dalian, China.

Products
Hynix produces a variety of semiconductor memories, including:
 * Computing memory
 * Consumer and network memory
 * Graphics memory
 * Mobile memory
 * NAND flash memory
 * CMOS image sensors
 * Solid-state drives (SSDs)
 * High Bandwidth Memory: SK Hynix supplies high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that are used in AI. The company also supplies the HBM3E, a fifth-generation HBM, to Nvidia.

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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 NO CONSENSUS. — J I P | Talk 08:03, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Autobiographical songs
Any song can be autobiographical to a certain degree.
 * Delete. This could be every song ever made (excluding instrumentals). --SuperDude 06:12, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Verification of this list would be nearly impossible. Quale 07:09, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Surprise here... weak keep iff the list is revised to include only songs with sources that substantiate claims to their autobiographical nature. This is a list I support as valuable, when it appropriately scholarly. Xoloz 08:32, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, per Xoloz, but the sources better be pretty darn strong (e.g. the artist himself says that it's an autobio song, like Loretta Lynn's Coal Miner's Daughter.) -- BD2412 talk 14:34, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Xoloz. Kappa 14:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Xoloz. --Jacquelyn Marie 15:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Xoloz though sometimes the songs themselves will qualify as sources. 23skidoo 16:12, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Xoloz OmegaWikipedia 20:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as the criterion specified by Xoloz is not in the article and will be routinely violated. But at least this has potential to be verifiable, unlike some other lists.—Wahoofive (talk) 22:46, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This might relate to the proposed policy mentioned at Centralized discussion/Lists of songs —Wahoofive (talk) 22:46, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as preposterous listcruft. MCB 07:08, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is an encyclopædia, not an indiscriminate collection of information. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:19, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Mel Etitis --JAranda | yeah 04:11, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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