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Hartley Booth

Vernon Edward Hartley Booth (born 17 July 1946) is a former British Conservative Party politician. From 1999 to 2012 he was chairman of the Uzbek British Trade and Industry Council at UK Trade & Investment.

Early life and career
Booth was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, the University of Bristol and Downing College, Cambridge, where he graduated with LLM and PhD degrees. Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1970, he was in legal practice for the next 14 years.

Political career
In 1984 Booth became a special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a member of the Number 10 Policy Unit. During his time there he and Oliver Letwin, a fellow Policy Unit adviser, co-authored a memo which argued that the government ought not to regenerate certain inner cities, claiming that black youths would use the money for the "discotheque and drug trade", and added: "So long as these bad moral attitudes remain, efforts to improve the inner cities will flounder." However, Booth has (unlike Letwin) "largely escaped notice" with regard to co-authoring the memo.

Having stood unsuccessfully for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1983, Booth succeeded Margaret Thatcher as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley from the 1992 general election until the constituency was abolished in the 1997 general election.

Booth resigned in February 1994 as a parliamentary private secretary to Douglas Hogg, then the Foreign Office minister of state, after newspaper reports of a relationship with House of Commons researcher Emily Barr. Despite his resignation, Booth insists that "there was no sexual impropriety" between himself and Barr. This was politically embarrassing to the John Major government of the time, following the backlash of Major's Back to Basics initiative, and in January 2015, the satirical magazine Private Eye criticised Booth for his alleged hypocrisy, saying it went against his recommendations in the newly released 1985 memo that the government should instill values of "personal responsibility, basic honesty, [and respect for] the law and the police" from an early age. Barr went on to be a successful journalist and novelist.

Booth lost a bruising nomination battle with the Hendon South MP John Marshall for the new Finchley and Golders Green constituency, and was unsuccessful in finding another seat before the election. Marshall lost the 1997 general election to Labour's Rudi Vis.

Personal life
A Methodist lay preacher with a wife and three children, Booth is related to the founders of the Salvation Army.

Publication
Booth, with Mark Mallon who had been his constituency election campaign manager, co-wrote and self-published a book on the subject of long-term unemployment and homelessness, titled Return ticket : one hundred and one stories of long-term unemployed people who successfully made the journey back to work (publisher Lennard, isbn 1-85291-123-9.)

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Brian Wesenberg

Brian Wesenberg (born May 9, 1977) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1998–99 season. Wesenberg was born in Peterborough, Ontario.

Playing career
Wesenberg was drafted by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the second round of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. Anaheim traded his NHL rights in March 1996 to the Philadelphia Flyers for Anatoli Semenov and Mike Crowley. Wesenberg signed a contract with the Flyers that offseason and started his professional career with their American Hockey League affiliate, the Philadelphia Phantoms, in the 1997 Calder Cup playoffs. He was a member of the Phantoms’ 1998 Calder Cup championship team.

Wesenberg was called up by the Flyers late in the 1998–99 season and made his NHL debut on April 10 against the Washington Capitals. In what proved to be his lone NHL game, Wesenberg played only two shifts totaling 1 minute and 8 seconds before leaving the game with a mild concussion after fighting Washington’s Trevor Halverson.

Two months into the 1999–2000 season, the Flyers traded Wesenberg to the expansion Atlanta Thrashers for Eric Bertrand. He spent the rest of that and the following season playing for Atlanta’s minor league affiliates before retiring in 2001.

Awards

 * 1994–95 – OHL – Second All-Rookie Team

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Len Wharton

Leonard Thomas Wharton (December 13, 1927 – September 30, 2007) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in one National Hockey League game for the New York Rangers during the 1944–45 season, on March 4, 1945, against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1944 to 1954, was spent in the minor leagues.

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Otis F. Glenn

Otis Ferguson Glenn (August 27, 1879 – March 11, 1959) was a Republican United States Senator from the State of Illinois.

He was born in Mattoon, Illinois on August 27, 1879. After graduating from law school in 1900 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he began practicing law in Murphysboro. He served two terms as the State's Attorney for Jackson County, once from 1906 to 1908 and again from 1916 to 1920. He was elected as a member of State Senate in 1920, serving for one term, until 1924.

In 1928, when Frank L. Smith resigned the U.S. Senate seat he had won in 1926, after twice having his credentials refused by the Senate, Glenn defeated future Chicago mayor and Democrat Anton Cermak in a special election, 54.5 to 44.9 percent respectively, to serve out Smith's term. Glenn served as the U.S. Senator for Illinois from December 3, 1928, to March 3, 1933. When Glenn ran for re-election in 1932, he was defeated by Democrat William H. Dieterich, 46.0 to 52.2 percent respectively. Glenn ran, unsuccessfully, in 1936 as well, being defeated by Democratic incumbent J. Hamilton Lewis, 40.7 to 56.5 percent respectively. Upon returning to Illinois, he established a law practice in Chicago.

Glenn died on March 11, 1959, at Portage Point in Onekama Township, Michigan. Glenn's body was interred at Onekama Cemetery in Onekama, Michigan.

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Rod Willard

Rod Stephen Willard (born May 1, 1960) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger who played in one National Hockey League game for the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 1982–83 NHL season, on November 17, 1982 against the New York Rangers. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1980 to 1985, was spent in the minor leagues.

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Shadower

Shadower may refer to:

 * Fleet shadower (disambiguation), aircraft designed to tail enemy vessels
 * Airspeed Fleet Shadower
 * General Aircraft Fleet Shadower
 * The Shadower 3D, a 2012 experimental art film; see List of 3D films (2005 onwards)
 * The Shadowers, a 1964 novel by Donald Hamilton

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User talk:Echelvan

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Jordan Willis (ice hockey)

Jordan Willis (born February 28, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in one National Hockey League game for the Dallas Stars during the 1995–6 season, on January 17, 1996 against the Edmonton Oilers. He also played for the Nottingham Panthers in the British Ice Hockey Superleague between 1999 and 2001.

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Maha

Maha and MAHA may refer to:

 * Maha (name), an Arabic feminine given name
 * Maha (film), an Indian Tamil-language thriller film
 * MaHa, Nepali comedy duo, Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bansha Acharya
 * Maha Music Festival, an annual music festival held on the riverfront in Omaha, Nebraska
 * Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (MAHA), a microangiopathic subgroup of hemolytic anemia
 * Omaha (tribe), also known as Maha tribe
 * Mahas, a Nubian tribe of the Sudan
 * maha-, a prefix meaning "great" in Sanskrit and Pali honorific titles such as Maharaja, Maharani, Mahathera, Maharashtra

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Edwin Stead

Edwin Stead (1701 – 28 August 1735) was a noted patron of English cricket, particularly of Kent teams in the 1720s. He usually captained his teams but nothing is known about his ability as a player. He was born at Harrietsham in Kent and died in London.

Cricket career
Stead, a landowner, was a compulsive gambler who frequently bet on the outcome of cricket matches. Like other patrons, he sought to improve his chances of winning by underwriting select XIs usually made up of players from several Kent parish teams; his teams were therefore of, or near enough, county strength. Dartford Cricket Club, which featured William Bedle, had arguably the best parish team in the game at the time and it is certain that Stead used several Dartford players in his Kent teams, of which he was also the captain.

Stead's teams are recorded in several significant matches from 1724 to 1731. His first known match was probably at Chingford in 1724 and it became the subject of a court case after the Chingford team refused to play to a finish when Kent had the advantage. The court, presided over by Lord Chief Justice Pratt, ruled that the match must be played out so that all wagers could be fulfilled. The match resumed and was completed at Dartford Brent on 5 September 1726, though it seems that was not the original venue. A week earlier, on 29 August 1726, Kent had played a combined London and Surrey team on Kennington Common for 25 guineas but the result is unknown.

Stead was a strong rival to the two noted Sussex patrons, Sir William Gage and the 2nd Duke of Richmond. He was very successful in 1728 when the report of a game in August said of Kent's latest victory: "the third time this summer that the Kentish men have been too expert for those of Sussex". But Stead was less successful on 28 August the following year when Gage's XI defeated Kent at Penshurst Park, apparently by an innings. There was a return match in September, possibly at or near Lewes, but the result is unknown.

Stead was active in single wicket cricket which became popular during his lifetime. He led a Kent team in three four-a-side matches in 1730. The sources record that "a considerable wager" was at stake in the decider and Kent lost.

The last definite mentions of Stead in a cricket context are in the 1730s concerning his presence at certain matches, although Kent remained prominent in the records for the last five years of his life. Stead's last known involvement in a match was on Saturday, 26 June 1731 when he led a Kent team against Sunbury on Sunbury Common, a game which the home team won.

Personal life and early death
Baptised at Hollingbourne on 11 March 1702, he was the son of Dutton Stead (died 1719) and his wife Alicia Culpeper (died 1710), and the grandson of Sir Edwin Stead (died 1695), who had been knighted by King Charles II. On 29 March 1719 at Harrietsham he married Elizabeth Hamilton, but there is no record of any children.

He inherited the family estate when he was still only eighteen and became a compulsive gambler, being a keen player of dice and cards in addition to cricket, but John Marshall's summary is that "he is said to have lost heavily at all". John Major wrote that Stead lived the "proverbial short life but a merry one". His recklessness caused him financial difficulties in 1723 and he was obliged to mortgage some of his land to settle his debts. Stead was, nevertheless, a "graceful loser" and Major asserts that "his nonchalance" gained him powerful friends including Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Stead's death on 28 August 1735 was reported in the Grub Street Journal on 4 September 1735. The report says there were two accounts of his death: one that he died "near Charing Cross"; the other that he died "in Scotland Yard". He was buried at the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields on 31 August 1735, with his will being proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 1 January 1736.

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William H. Dieterich

William Henry Dieterich (March 31, 1876 – October 12, 1940) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Illinois. He was a state legislator, U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator

Biography
He was born near Cooperstown, Illinois. After graduating from Kennedy Business College in 1897 and Northern Indiana Law School in 1901, Dieterich was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Rushville, Illinois. During the Spanish–American War, he served as a corporal.

He was city attorney for Rushville, 1903–1907; treasurer of Rushville Union Schools 1906–1908; and county judge of Schuyler County, 1906–1910.

In 1911 he moved to Chicago, and then in 1912 to Beardstown, Illinois, in Cass County, adjacent to Schuyler, where he continued his law practice.

In 1916, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, and re-elected in 1918, serving from 1917 to 1921.

In 1930, he was elected U.S. Representative from one of Illinois' two at-large seats, finishing ahead of both Republicans and the other Democrat. He served only one term.

In 1932, he declined re-nomination to the House, and instead ran for U.S. Senator. He defeated incumbent Republican Otis Glenn 52% to 46%.

He served one term, from 1933 to 1939. He did not run for re-election in 1938, instead returning to his law practice. He died in Springfield, Illinois during a business trip.

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Sonia Kruger

Sonia Melissa Kruger (born 28 August 1965) is an Australian Gold Logie award-winning television presenter, actress and media personality, who has been a prominent figure in the media for over 20 years. Kruger is currently the host of Big Brother Australia and a presenter on The Voice Australia. She is best known for co-hosting the popular Australian version of Dancing with the Stars and for the role of Tina Sparkle in the dark 1992 film Strictly Ballroom, Kruger has also been a co-host of breakfast program Today Extra.

During her time at the Seven Network, Kruger has reported for numerous other events, including the network's coverage of the Olympics, the Melbourne Cup and the Australian Open. In 2023, she was awarded the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television.

She has attracted criticism for her comments on immigrants and Muslims.

Early life
Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, Kruger attended Beenleigh State High School, completing Year 12 in 1982. She has also completed an Arts Degree at the University of Technology, Sydney and taught dance at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney.

Career
In 1992, Kruger came to prominence in her acting debut as Tina Sparkle in the AFI Award-winning film Strictly Ballroom. She was also a ballroom adviser for the film. This remains her only acting role to date.

Following her film debut she hosted the children's variety show Wonder World! on the Nine Network.

Kruger has been an entertainment reporter for Seven Network shows Today Tonight, Sunrise and 11AM. She previously hosted the morning program on the Sydney-based radio station Mix 106.5 with Dancing with the Stars judges Todd McKenney and Andy Grace.

In 2004, Kruger joined the Seven Network reality dance competition series Dancing with the Stars, the Australian version of the UK BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing. She co-hosted the series with both Daryl Somers and Daniel MacPherson over the course of the eleven seasons in which she appeared. In September 2008, Kruger was confirmed to host the Seven Network makeover reality show 10 Years Younger in 10 Days. Despite high ratings for its series premiere, Seven Network did not renew the series for a second season.

In November 2011, Kruger announced she was leaving both Dancing with the Stars and the Seven Network to pursue other opportunities.

Kruger then signed a development deal with the Nine Network in November 2011. She was confirmed to host her own daytime talk show, Mornings, with singer and actor David Campbell. The series was designed to replace Kerri-Anne, which ended that same month. The series premiered on 6 February 2012 and continued into 2016 rebranded as Today Extra.

Kruger was announced to host the Nine Network's reboot of the competition reality series Big Brother Australia. Kruger replaced Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, who hosted the series on Network Ten in its eighth season, after which the show was cancelled in 2008. Big Brother 9 premiered on 13 August 2012 to 1.6 million viewers, the franchise's highest ratings since the series' third season.

On 22 February 2015, it was announced that Kruger would be joining the fourth series of The Voice Australia as a co-host with Darren McMullen.

In November 2017, Kruger was announced as a co-host of Vision Australia's Carols by Candlelight alongside David Campbell. She replaced Lisa Wilkinson who had resigned from the Nine Network. Kruger was replaced by Allison Langdon after defecting to the Seven Network.

In August 2018, Kruger was announced as a presenter on the Nine Network new travel series, Helloworld, which aired on 7 October 2018. But she, Lauren Phillips, Denis Walter and Steven Jacobs were replaced by Giaan Rooney as a presenter, now on the Seven Network, from series 2 and 3.

In November 2019, Kruger announced her resignation from the Nine Network. She hosted Today Extra for the last time on Friday, 15 November. Seven Network CEO James Warburton confirmed her joining the network and announced that her roles would include hosting their upcoming reality show Mega Mini Golf.

In February 2020, the Seven Network announced that Kruger would host a revival of Big Brother, but due to filming commitments would no longer be hosting the upcoming series Holey Moley. However, in October 2020, Kruger was confirmed as the host of the show.

In 2021, Kruger again hosted The Voice after Seven picked up the rights to the franchise following the Nine Network's failure to renew its contract with the show. Kruger is the current co-host of Channel Seven's Dancing With The Stars, starring alongside her original co-host Daryl Somers.

Kruger was nominated for the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter at the Logie Awards in 2022, 2023, and 2024. She was first nominated for the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television in 2022, and won the award in 2023. Kruger is nominated again in 2024, with the ceremony to take place on 18 August. Kruger won the "Most Overexposed Performer" award at the TV Tonight Awards for four consecutive years from 2021 to 2024.

Personal life
Kruger was married for six years (2002 to 2008) to James Davies, a British-born banker.

After the marriage ended in September 2008, she began seeing her current partner, Craig McPherson, executive producer of Today Tonight. She and McPherson had been trying for a child for years, through both IVF and natural methods. She became pregnant several times, but they ended in miscarriages. In August 2014, she announced she was pregnant, having conceived via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) using a donor egg. In 2015, Kruger gave birth to a daughter.

Controversies
In 2008, during an episode of Dancing with the Stars, Kruger made a comment about a "sweat shop of illegal immigrants" working on her wardrobe for the Melbourne Cup carnival before referring to Chong Lim, the show's Malaysian-born musical director, with the words "How's the family, Chong? All right?" Channel Seven later issued an apology for her statement.

On 18 July 2016, during an appearance on the morning show Today, Kruger called for a complete ban on Muslims entering Australia, in agreement with an opinion piece by commentator Andrew Bolt. Kruger defended her comments, saying: "I believe it's vital in a democratic society to be able to discuss these issues without being labelled racist." The firebombing of a Perth radio station initially linked by media reports to the presenters disagreeing with Kruger's views was later determined by police to be coincidental and to have "nothing to do with the Islam discussion".

A racial vilification complaint against Kruger was made to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal over her statement about Muslim immigration. The Nine Network applied to have the complaint dismissed without a hearing, but this was refused. The complaint was made by Sam Ekermawi, who was described by The Daily Telegraph as a "serial offence-taker". The tribunal heard that Ekermawi had been involved in thirty-two hearings before courts and tribunals. The matter proceeded for directions in June 2018. The Tribunal found that she had vilified Muslims in her comments, but that this was not racial vilification because Muslims are not a race.

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Murray Wing

Murray Alan Wing (born October 14, 1950) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played in one game in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1973–74 season, on April 7, 1974 against the Chicago Black Hawks. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1971 to 1977, was spent in the minor leagues.

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Neptune Towers

Neptune Towers was a dark ambient side project formed in 1993 by Fenriz of Darkthrone. He released two albums under this name, Caravans to Empire Algol (1994) and Transmissions from Empire Algol (1995), both issued by Moonfog Productions. Fenriz began recording a third Neptune Towers album, Space Lab, in 1994, but it was not finished. Both albums were reissued by Peaceville Records in 2012, with excerpts from Space Lab appended to Transmissions from Empire Algol.

Musical style
Fenriz described Neptune Towers as "avant garde astral/alien synth", and credited Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and (former Tangerine Dream member) Klaus Schulze as influences for the music.

Studio albums

 * Caravans to Empire Algol (1994, Moonfog Productions)
 * Transmissions from Empire Algol (1995, Moonfog Productions)

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User:JJay

Interests include urban, financial, military and art history... and taking a bite out of crime.

That last bit about crime was actually added by 24.147.140.120, an early visitor apparently displeased with my speedy tagging of Soup and Sandwich. Oh brave and wise 24.147.140.120, you know me better than I know myself.

Notes to self
I need this kind of thing. Memory going and all that. I'm not quite as young as my colleague BPRoy below.

Articles to create (if I can do the research)

 * A. Scott Berg
 * Sam Bernard
 * Henry Havemeyer
 * Henri Jean Guillaume Martin
 * Leo Stein
 * Vollard

Articles I'd like to add to (if I get motivated)

 * The Great Gatsby
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Maxwell Perkins

Articles to copyedit (if I feel the urge)

 * Leona Helmsley
 * Voltaire

Articles with mistakes needing correction (if I find the time)

 * Pascin
 * Short Selling

Great moments on my user page: messages from BPRoy
Hey JJay! Do you get some kind of rush by criticizing me? Do you like deleting every bit of information that I contribute. Please respond i mean no disrespect. (BPRoy)

Call me crazy JJay, but I'm getting the slightest feeling that you don't like me. Keep in mind, Dispite the fact that I've written some fake articles, I've contributed a lot of good information to this site. So to some degree, respect to this site is much of what I give. The fact that you don't agree with some of my articles doesn't mean you can undermind me into submission. What you are doing to me, a contributer to this site, is also an act of disrespect to this site. Sorry about my "sock puppet" activities on my AFD page, but I must defend my work against people who believe that an 18 year old cannot contribute to this site and constantly criticize me and my efforts to expand the general knowlage of this site. Wikipedia needs age diversity to cover more topics. You are an important contributer to urban, finacial, millitary and art history, something only years of expertise can provide, however my contributions, such as the term "Loser Car" are things that can only be learned by being a member of teenage and college- age society. I mean no disrespect, but please let me contribute my knowlage as you are able to contribute yours. By the way my AFD page for loser car isn't my pesonal chat page. I do have a user site. Signed BPRoy

Hey JJay! I don't give a god damn about your opinions or your vote. How's 'bout you just read and write articles that only intrest you and I'll do the same. By the way, I've read disscussions in a few of your other articles and they show that you seem to be causing headaches for a lot of people on wikipedia. Don't Give me one of my own!

3nd AFD nom for List of Battlefield 1942 mods
You may be interested in the List of Battlefield 1942 mods AFD. Bfelite 14:07, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

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Take a Letter, Mr. Jones

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones is a British sitcom starring John Inman and Rula Lenska that aired for a single series of six episodes produced by Southern Television for the ITV network from 5 September to 10 October 1981. It was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe.

Plot
Graham Jones (John Inman) works as a personal secretary to female executive Joan Warner (Rula Lenska), within a London-based multinational corporation called 8-Star. Although he ably assists her in their busy office, Graham often helps Joan with her equally hectic domestic arrangements as she is a single mother to seven-year-old daughter, Lucy. Miriam Margolyes plays Joan's excitable Italian housekeeper, Maria. The programme featured the Barclays House in Poole.

Context and afterlife
John Inman starred in Take a Letter, Mr. Jones between seasons of the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? Take a Letter, Mr. Jones was never a ratings success (only running for six episodes), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American PBS stations, where Are You Being Served? is also a hit. A UK repeat of the series was shown on Film24 in 2010, and on Talking Pictures TV in 2024.

A US VHS set of the series was released by Questar in 1995. A UK DVD of the series was released in 2009 by Simply Home Entertainment. UK channel Talking Pictures TV reshowed the series in 2015, 2018 and January 2024.

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Daniel Kalinaki

Daniel Kalinaki (born 1980) is a Ugandan journalist working with the Nation Media Group as General Manager in Uganda in charge of Editorial. He was previously the Managing Editor, Regional Content. He is married with three children.

Background and education
Kalinaki was born in 1980. For his primary education, he attended Bat Valley Primary School, and Kamuli Boys Boarding Primary and thereafter joined Busoga College Mwiri for his O'Level certificate. He did his A'levels from Makerere High School and later enrolled at Makerere University, Uganda's oldest and largest public university. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication. Later, he obtained a Master of Arts in International Journalism from the City University of London.

Career
At the age of 18, he joined the Crusader, a tri-weekly in Uganda. When it closed a year later, he started working at the Daily Monitor as a reporter, assistant radio news manager, deputy sports editor, associate editor, foreign news editor, news editor, investigations editor, and managing editor. He is a winner of the Chevening Scholarship, Sports Rookie of the Year, and the inaugural Tebere-Mudin Award for Journalistic excellence. Kalinaki's work has appeared in the Daily Monitor, The EastAfrican, the New Internationalist, Africa Confidential, the Weekly Observer, MS Magazine, and on the BBC World Service radio. He also teaches journalism part-time at Makerere University. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Activism
In 2000, he co-authored with Glen Williams, Joyce Kadowe, and Noerine Kaleeba Open Secret: People Living With HIV And Aids In Uganda. This book, which was published by the UK Charity ActionAid, was the first piece of literature to trace the importance of a candid and open approach to help fight social stigma and discrimination towards HIV and AIDS.

Between 2003-2004, Kalinaki and The Monitor were taken to court by the Ugandan government to stop the publication of a controversial story alleging that government officials had unduly influenced the constitutional review process.

On 12 August 2009, Kalinaki was again questioned by the Ugandan police for about six hours over the contents of Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s controversial 15 July letter on politics in the Bunyoro sub-region. Kalinaki, who swore a charge-and-caution statement under pending charges of forgery and uttering a false document, was later released on non-cash bond of UGX:10 million. That case was dismissed for lack of evidence on 7 February 2012. That was the second time in 2009 that Kalinaki had been summoned to the CID to answer questions over stories published by the Daily Monitor Publication Limited. No charges were referred in the earlier case, which followed a story that was critical of the conduct of the operation against the Lord’s Resistance Army.

Kalinaki has written a book "Kizza Besigye and Uganda's Unfinished Revolution". The book examines Kizza Besigye's "ambitions, ideals, aspirations, illusions and delusions". It also outlines how Museveni has repeated the mistakes made by predecessors Idi Amin and Milton Obote. In the book, the author suggests what Ugandans can and should do about it.

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Jack P. Shepherd

Jack Peter Shepherd (born 14 January 1988) is an English actor. He is known for portraying the role of David Platt on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street since 2000. For his portrayal of David, he has won various awards including the British Soap Award for Villain of the Year in 2008 and Best Actor in 2018, respectively.

Career
Before taking on the role of David, Shepherd had appeared in episodes of ITV's Where the Heart Is and BBC show, Clocking Off, where he starred with his future Coronation Street screen sister Tina O'Brien.

Shepherd has taken time out of Coronation Street to do theatre work, including the role of Riff in a production of West Side Story as part of Stage 84 The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts. He has also appeared in Oliver! at Bradford's Alhambra theatre.

In 2008, Shepherd appeared in Ghosthunting with Coronation Street on the Isle of Man.

Shepherd uses his middle initial in his stage name as there is already a well-known British actor named Jack Shepherd.

He is also a contributor to the topical show Grouchy Young Men, a spin-off of the show Grumpy Old Men, on the British version of Comedy Central.

Personal life
Shepherd was in a relationship with Lauren Shippey for fifteen years from 2002 to 2017 and the couple have two children together: a daughter, born in 2009 and a son, born in 2013.

During his relationship with Shippey, Shepherd fathered a son with Sammy Milewski following a one-night stand. He initially denied paternity of the child at first, however after DNA test proved he was the father, Shepherd began paying child support for his son (born 2011), who has alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC). Shepherd has never made contact with his illegitimate son, and when asked, tends to say he only has two children, those he has with Shippey.

Since 2017, Shepherd has been in a relationship with Hanni Treweek, a script writer whom he met whilst working at Coronation Street. On 23 June 2024, Treweek and Shepherd announced they got engaged on 5 June 2024.

Shepherd is a Leeds United supporter.

Guest appearances

 * This Morning (2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2018, 2019, 2023)
 * Loose Women (2006, 2007, 2020, 2022)
 * Celebrity Juice (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)
 * Xposé (2011)
 * Lorraine (2011, 2016, 2019)
 * All Star Mr & Mrs (2012)
 * Daybreak (2012, 2013)
 * Tipping Point (2013)
 * The Chase (2012, 2019)
 * All Star Family Fortunes (2014)
 * Keep It in the Family (2015)
 * You're Back in the Room (2015)
 * Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2016)
 * Good Morning Britain (2016)
 * Saturday Mash-Up! (2017)

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Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other government departments and service personnel from other nations. The Director General of the Defence Academy is Lieutenant General Thomas Copinger-Symes, a senior Army officer.

Structure
The Defence Academy has its headquarters at what used to be the Royal Military College of Science site at Shrivenham in southwestern Oxfordshire, though the present campus also extends into the neighbouring village of Watchfield; it delivers education and training there and in a number of other sites. The majority of training is postgraduate with many courses being accredited for the award of civilian qualifications.

The formation of the Defence Academy consolidated education and training delivered by a number of different establishments into a single organisational and budgetary structure, intended to improve efficiency, reduce duplication of effort and align delivery to defence requirements. The Defence Academy is also responsible for the maintenance of relationships with the UK academic establishment and with military and naval service educational institutions worldwide.

Non technical research is carried out for the development of doctrine and analysis of the international security environment.

The Chief Executive and Commandant of the Defence Academy is Major General Andrew Roe, a senior British Army officer.

Delivery units and locations
Training is delivered by:

 * Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), Seaford House, Belgravia, London
 * Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC), Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
 * Shrivenham Leadership Centre (SLC), Beckett Hall, Shrivenham
 * Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC), Shrivenham
 * Nuclear Department, HMS Sultan (shore establishment), Gosport
 * Defence Centre of Training Support (DCTS), Shrivenham
 * Technology School, Shrivenham
 * Business Skills College, Shrivenham
 * Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS)
 * Loughborough University
 * Aston University
 * University of Birmingham
 * Newcastle University
 * Northumbria University
 * University of Southampton
 * University of Portsmouth
 * Defence Technical Officer and Engineer Entry Scheme (DTOEES) (part of DSFC and DTUS)
 * International Group, which comprises the Defence Centre for Languages & Culture (DCLC), the Defence Attache and Loan Service Centre (DALSC) and the International Section, with the affiliated Building Integrity section
 * Centre of Air Safety Training (Military Aviation Authority) (CoAST)

Former locations

 * Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire (until 2005)
 * Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College, Leicestershire (2005–2021)
 * Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC), Amport House, Amport, Hampshire (1957–2020)

Governance
The Director General of the Defence Academy was, until 2011, a three-star rank (vice admiral, lieutenant general, air marshal) which can be filled by any of the three armed services.

The Director General of the Defence Academy chairs the Defence Academy Management Board which is composed of the commandants of the constituent delivery units and Chief of Staff, Defence Academy. The commanding officer of Shrivenham Station is a separate post filled by a Royal Air Force Wing Commander.

The management board report to a four-star steering board and an advisory board including academic expertise from the private sector and academia. A customer board at two-star level represents the customer community.

Academic provision is delivered through partnering agreements with Cranfield University and King's College London.

List of Directors General:
 * 2002–2005: Sir Roger Jackling
 * 2005–2008: Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, late Scots Guards
 * 2008–2011: Lieutenant General Andrew Graham, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
 * 2011–2014: Peter Watkins
 * 2014–2018: Vice Admiral Duncan Potts
 * 2018–2021: Air Marshal Edward Stringer
 * 2021–present: Air Marshal Ian Gale

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Counts and dukes of Penthièvre

In the 11th and 12th centuries the Countship of Penthièvre (Breton: Penteur) in Brittany (now in the department of Côtes-d'Armor) belonged to a branch of the sovereign House of Brittany. It initially belonged to the House of Rennes. Alan III, Duke of Brittany, gave it to his brother Eudes in 1035, and his descendants formed a cadet branch of the ducal house.

The geographical region of Brittany that constituted the holdings of Penthièvre correlate closely with the territories that constituted the early Breton kingdom of Domnonée.

The history of the title Count of Penthièvre included frequent dispossessions and restorations. Henri d'Avaugour, heir of this family, was dispossessed of the countship in 1235. The Duke of Brittany, Pierre Mauclerc, founder of the Breton House of Dreux, gave it as dowry to his daughter, Yolande, on her marriage in 1238 to Hugh XI of Lusignan, Count of La Marche. John I, Duke of Brittany, Yolande's brother, seized the countship on her death in 1272. After the Breton War of Succession the title was dispossessed twice by the reigning Dukes of Brittany, once by John V and another time by Francis II.

Disputed heirs to the Ducal Crown of Brittany
In 1337 Joan the Lame, Duchess of Brittany, brought Penthièvre to her husband, Charles de Châtillon, Count of Blois. Joan was the daughter of Guy de Penthièvre, the younger full brother of John III.

When John III died a dispute emerged regarding the inheritance of the Duchy of Brittany. John III had tried to prevent the inheritance of the duchy by his half brother John of Montfort. Joan and Charles claimed the ducal crown and were subsequently proclaimed the Duchess and Duke of Brittany, which John of Montfort also claimed. Their dispute prompted the War of the Breton Succession. In 1352, during that war, the Estates of Brittany were established. In 1364, Charles died and John IV, Duke of Brittany, John of Montfort's son, was confirmed as duke. Joan was permitted to keep Penthièvre and use the title Duchess of Brittany until her death.

Under the Treaty of Guerande (1365), Joan recognized John IV as the undisputed duke. When John went into exile in England in 1373, Charles V of France named his brother Louis, Duke of Anjou lieutenant-general of Brittany. Louis was also a son-in-law of Joan de Penthièvre. Under the Second Treaty of Guerande (1381), it was agreed that, in the event the House of Montfort failed to produce a male heir, the senior male heir of Joan would be recognized as duke.

Joan died in 1384 and left Penthièvre to her oldest son, John (1340–1404). In turn, John left the county to his son, Olivier, Count of Penthièvre (1389–1433), who forfeited the title in 1421 after kidnapping and attempting to blackmail John V, Duke of Brittany.

Olivier's brother John II (1393–1454) recovered the county but died childless, passing his titles on to Nicole (1424–1480), daughter of his brother Charles, Lord of Avaugour (1396–1434).

In 1437, Nicole married Jean II de Brosse. She was deprived of Penthièvre by Francis II, Duke of Brittany in 1465, thus undermining the Penthièvre family's position in the duchy. When Francis died in 1488, Nicole's eldest son Jean III de Brosse (d. 1502) asserted his family's claim to the duchy against those of Anne, Duchess of Brittany, who ultimately ascended to the title.

As Dukes of Penthièvre
The countship of Penthièvre was restored to Sébastien de Luxembourg, heir of the Brosse family through his mother, Charlotte de Brosse (1506-1540), great-granddaughter of Nicole de Blois through her son Jean (d. 1502) and grandson Rene (1470-1524). The countship was erected for him into a duchy in the peerage of France in 1569. Afterwards it was held by Sebastian's daughter, Marie de Luxembourg, (1562-1623), who also became Duchess of Mercœur by marriage.

Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, brother-in-law of Henry III of France (last living male-line grandson of Claude, Duchess of Brittany), and a leader of the Catholic League, was made governor of Brittany by the king in 1582. Invoking the hereditary rights of his wife, Marie de Luxembourg, he endeavoured to make himself independent in that province from 1589 onwards, and organized a government at Nantes, proclaiming their young son, Philippe de Lorraine-Mercœur, (d. 1590), "prince and duke of Brittany". He allied with Spain and defeated Henry IV of France's attempts to subjugate Brittany until 20 March 1598 when Mercœur was forced to surrender and subsequently went in exile to Hungary. Philippe died young, leaving his sister, Françoise de Lorraine-Mercœur the duchy of Penthièvre.

Later dukes from various houses
The Duchess of Vendôme's grandson, Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, inherited Penthièvre in 1669, but it was taken from him by decree in 1687 and adjudged to Marie Anne de Bourbon, Princess de Conti. In 1696, it was sold to Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Count de Toulouse, whose son, Louis de Bourbon, bore the title Duke de Penthièvre. This title passed by inheritance to the House of Orléans.

House de Rennes

 * Eudes (1035–1079), son of Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany
 * Geoffrey I (1079–1093), son of Eudes
 * Stephen I (1093–1125), son of Eudes, brother of Geoffrey I
 * Geoffrey II (1125–1148), son of Stephen I
 * Rivallo (1148–1162), son of Geoffrey II
 * Stephen II (1162–1164), son of Rivallo
 * Geoffrey III (1164–1177), son of Geoffrey II, brother of Stephen II
 * Alan I (1177–1212), cousin of Geoffrey III, grandson of Stephen I through his son Henry, called Henry I
 * Henry II of Avagour (1212–1230), son of Alan I, was dispossessed of Penthièvre by Peter I, Duke of Brittany, who gave it to his daughter Yolande on her marriage to Hugh XI of Lusignan

Lords of Avaugour

 * Alan II (1230–1267), son of Henry II
 * Henry III (1267–1301), son of Alan II
 * Henry IV (1301–1334), son of Henry III
 * Joan (1334–1384), granddaughter of Henry IV

Capetian House of Dreux

 * Peter Mauclerc (1230–1237), son of Robert II of Dreux
 * Yolande (1237-1272), daughter of Peter
 * John I (1272–1286), son of Peter
 * John II (1286–1305), son of John I
 * Arthur II (1305–1312), son of John II
 * Guy (1312–1331), son of Arthur II
 * Joan (1331–1384), Countess of Penthièvre suo jure; daughter of Guy, granddaughter of Henry IV of Avagour, married Charles de Blois-Châtillon, lost Breton War of Succession, but retained the county with all rights under the Treaty of Guerande of 1365

House of Blois-Châtillon

 * John I (1384–1404), son of Joan; his widow would join in attempting the abduction and imprisonment of the duke of Brittany, only to be imprisoned herself by the duchess.
 * Olivier (1404–1433), son of John - lost the countship and the rights of Penthièvre to the duke of Brittany after attempting his imprisonment and presumed overthrow in 1420.
 * John II (1433–1454), second son of John - some aspects of Penthièvre were restored.
 * Nicole (1454–1479), granddaughter of John through his third son, Charles. She married Jean II de Brosse

House of Brosse

 * John (1454–1482), husband of Nicole, Count of Penthièvre jure uxoris
 * John III (1482–1502), son of John V and Nicole
 * René (1502–1524), son of John VI
 * John IV (1524–1566), son of René

House of Luxembourg

 * Sebastian (1566–1569), nephew of John VII. Sebastian was son of Charlotte de Brosse, daughter of René.
 * Marie (1569–1623), daughter of Sebastian, married Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine.

House of Lorraine

 * Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine (1576–1602)
 * Françoise de Lorraine (1602–1669), married César de Bourbon

House of Bourbon-Vendôme

 * César de Bourbon (1608–1665), legitimised son of Henry IV of France
 * Louis II de Bourbon-Vendôme (1665–1669), son of César de Vendôme
 * Louis III Joseph de Vendôme (1669–1712), son of Louis II de Bourbon-Vendôme
 * Sold to Marie Anne, légitimée de Bourbon in 1696.

House of Bourbon-Penthièvre

 * Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (1697–1737), Count of Toulouse, Duke of Rambouillet, legitimised son of Louis XIV of France
 * Louis de Bourbon (1737–1793), son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse

Second Restoration

 * Charles d'Orléans (1820–1828), son of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (the future King of the French)

July Monarchy

 * Pierre d'Orléans (1845–1919), son of François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville

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Dutch Gap Canal

Dutch Gap Canal is located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia just north of the lost 17th-century town of Henricus. The canal's construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island that was controlled by Confederate artillery. The canal was completed after the war and is now the main channel of the James River in this area. Today, the area south of the canal is the location of the Dutch Gap Conservation Area and Henricus Historical Park.

Origin of Name
The Dutch Gap Canal was named for its location at Dutch Gap, which was formerly a neck of land that joined Farrar's Island to the mainland. The James River around Farrar's Island, from Drewry's Bluff to the confluence of the Appomattox River below Bermuda Hundred, originally had a number of meandering loops. The Dutch Gap was the isthmus between the narrowest of these loops. Here, the James River on the west bank of the isthmus created what was called the "Seven Mile Loop" that formed Farrar's Island before returning to the east bank. However, the distance between the east and west banks at this point was less than 200 yards wide. and the elevation ranged from 3 feet to 39 feet above the level of the river. The name "Dutch Gap" has been historically associated with the founding of Henricus by the Virginia Company of London in 1611 by Sir Thomas Dale, and it was also known as "Dale's Dutch Gap". The name is attributed to a palisaded fosse that Dale is thought to have built across the neck to protect the town from attack on the north side of the river. It is claimed to have been named the "Dutch Gap" because Dale is thought to have learned the fortification technique when he served as a mercenary for the Dutch Republic prior to his employment with the Virginia Company. Between 1619 and 1624, Dutch Gap was part of the City of Henrico. In 1637, it became part of a patent claimed as an inheritance by the son of councillor and commissioner, William Farrar. As a result of this patent, the land enclosed by the loop of the James just below Dutch Gap eventually got its name, Farrar's Island.

Civil War History
During the American Civil War in late August, 1864, General Benjamin Butler, commander of the Union Army of the James, ordered the construction of a canal at Dutch Gap. One purpose of the canal was to allow ships to bypass the loop of the James river around Farrar's Island, which was controlled by Confederate batteries. Of particular threat was Battery Dantzler at the northern end of the Howlett Line where Confederate forces had installed two seven-inch Brooke rifles, two ten-inch Columbiad guns, and two siege mortars that had a half mile field of fire on the James River that lay on the east side of Farrar's Island. Another purpose was to continue military activity as part of the larger Petersburg Campaign to ensure that Confederate manpower resources remained strained in Eastern Virginia and unable to redeploy to other sectors.

Due to the geography of the area, the canal was dug just south of the narrowest point of Dutch Gap, and was about 175 yards long when completed. The construction was often performed under fire, as batteries from both sides engaged in daily duels. At times, the Confederate artillery was effective in slowing down the rate of construction with indirect fire, as when it sank the Union dredge being used to deepen the canal. In January 1865, the cut across the isthmus was complete, but the explosion used to remove the bulkhead to open the canal threw much of the bulkhead's earth back into the canal. Dredging had to continue to the end of the war and the canal remained unusable for armed ships.

Role of African-Americans at the Dutch Gap Canal
The greater part of the construction of the Dutch Gap Canal was done by United States Colored Troops (USCT), many of whom were freedmen. Up to 40% of the personnel in the Army of the James were in USCT units, which was the highest percent of any command military in the Civil War. At least seven USCT infantry regiments were engaged in military, excavation and fatigue duties specifically related to action at Dutch Gap. In general, the Union army often treated the men of USCT units as second-class citizens relegating them primarily to fatigue duty, and this was also a concern during the building of the Dutch Gap Canal. However, the Army of the James was noteworthy in striving to ensure that soldiers in USCT units were treated similarly to other soldiers in the army. Initially, General Butler recruited both African-American and white soldiers for excavation duty for the canal, which required 7 and a half hours of hard labor daily; but all volunteers were compensated by pay that nearly doubled their salary and a daily ration of whiskey or its cash equivalent.

However, Butler underestimated the time and resources needed to complete the canal, and he had abandoned the volunteer system as well as seek addition labor from other sources. This additional need often led to inequities in the treatment of men USCT units, who were frequently assigned more fatigue duties than white soldiers. The need to acquire labor for the canal created other inequities, including the treatment of African-American laborers from the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island. Initially, these men had been freed by Union forces, but then they unwillingly taken from North Carolina and impressed into service excavating the canal. They wrote a letter protesting their impressment, as well as a failure to receive promised pay. Due to their protest, the freedmen did eventually get paid; however, their compensation as civilian laborers was small and less regular than men doing similar work in the USCT units

Dutch Gap Canal Affair
The Dutch Gap Canal also became a focal point for negotiating the treatment of black soldiers captured by the Confederates during the Petersburg Campaign. In 1863, A joint resolution by the Confederate Congress declared captured black soldiers agents of servile insurrection who were subject to execution or enslavement. In response, the Lincoln administration ordered that an equal number of Confederate soldiers be put to death for each black soldier executed and that for every black soldier enslaved, a Confederate soldier forced into menial labor. In October 1864, When Benjamin Butler found out that captured black Union soldiers were being enslaved to build Confederate emplacements that were under Union artillery bombardment, he ordered Confederate prisoners to be forced to work on the Dutch Gap Canal even as it was being bombarded by Confederate artillery. In response to Butler's action, General Robert E. Lee informed General Ulysses S. Grant a week later that captured African-American soldiers who were not originally freedmen would be treated as regular prisoners of war. Lee also informed Grant that captured African-American soldiers were no longer working on the fortifications; in turn, Grant ordered Butler to release the Confederates from digging the canal.

Post-Civil War Development
Even during the Civil War, the positive economic impact of the canal on water transportation to Richmond was foreseen. However, immediately after the war, the canal was so undeveloped that it was called a "One Horse Ditch" by one traveler. Even so, the commercial potential of the Dutch Gap Canal was demonstrated when the steamer Clyde passed through it on a journey from Fort Monroe to Richmond in May 1865. Nevertheless, the canal remained undeveloped for the next five years because the owner of Farrar's Island filled in the canal's northern end to create a causeway; however, a flood in 1870 washed out the causeway, allowing the canal to be further developed and converted into the main channel of the James River. After 1871, improvements to the canal, such as deepening and widening, began under the oversight of the Army Corps of Engineers, and continued at least through to the end of the 1870s. The challenges with improving the canal and the rest of the James River to accommodate larger ships may have played a role in hindering Richmond's post-Civil War development as an inland port.

In the twentieth century, the canal has continued to be improved. By 1916, the channel of the James, including the Dutch Gap Canal, was 22 feet deep; since 1940, it had obtained its current depth of 25 feet. Currently, the canal's commercial traffic consists of primarily of container barges and feeder ships transporting goods between Hampton Roads and Richmond.

Dutch Gap Canal and Paleobotany
The excavation of the Dutch Gap Canal exposed an accessible area of Potomac Formation, which contains many fossils dating to the Cretaceous period has made it a site for the study of paleobotany In 2013, the fossil of a previously unknown flowering plant, Potomacapnos apeleutheron from the Early Cretaceous age was discovered. This fossil may be one of the earliest eudicots found in North America, as the geological deposits it was embedded in were about 120 million years old. The ancient flowering plant was named, Potomacapnos apeleutheron, in honor of the freedmen who dug the canal: Potomacapnos defines the area where the fossil was found apeleutheron is the Greek for freedmen.

Dutch Gap Canal Area Today
Farrar's Island, which is just south of the Dutch Gap Canal, is now the site of the Dutch Gap Conservation Area and Boat Landing and the Henricus Historical Park. An electricity-generating facility owned by Dominion Energy is located nearby on the south shore of the James River near an extension of the canal, the Dutch Gap Cutoff, that created Hatcher Island out of another, wider bend.

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Talk:Daimler Dingo

Daimler Dingo 1944-45 11th Hussars used Dingos with front mounted twin vickers K .303 as forward scouting units.

It seems much of this article was lifted from: http://www.d-daytanks.org.uk/exhibits/dingo.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.71.95.101 (talk) 15:16, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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Alex Woods

Alex Woods may refer to:
 * Alex Woods (soccer) (born 1986), American soccer player
 * Alexx Woods, character on television show CSI: Miami

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Jack Blades

Jack Martin Blades (born April 24, 1954) is an American rock musician. He has worked in the bands Rubicon, Night Ranger (as bassist and one of the lead vocalists), and Damn Yankees (as one of the founding members). He has also recorded with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw Blades and has done work alongside the Tak Matsumoto Group. Blades' most recent efforts include a second solo album and three albums with Revolution Saints, which he was a member of until 2022.

Personal life
Born in Palm Desert, California, Blades started playing guitar at eight years old when his parents gave him a plastic ukulele. He attended Arcadia High School (1968/69) in Scottsdale, Arizona, then graduated from Indio High School in 1972, where he was the senior class president. While attending College of the Desert in Palm Desert, he met and jammed with Pat Rizzo, the then the sax player for Sly and the Family Stone, who introduced him to Jerry Martini, the original sax player for Sly. Blades went to college at San Diego State University as a pre-med student but dropped out in 1975 to move to San Francisco. Martini and Blades, as well as Brad Gillis, formed the band Rubicon.

One of Blades' sons, Colin, has co-written and performed songs with him and has also released his own solo material. Blades also has another son, James.

Career
Blades has released two solo albums and has written or co-written songs for Aerosmith, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey, and other artists. Blades has also produced or co-produced albums for Night Ranger, Shaw Blades, and several other artists including Great White, Ted Nugent, and Samantha 7, among others. Blades appears on Mötley Crüe's Dr. Feelgood album, which was released in 1989. In the 1990s, Blades co-wrote four Aerosmith songs with Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Tommy Shaw – "Shut Up and Dance" (1993), "Can't Stop Messin'" (1993), "Walk on Water" (1994), "What Kind of Love Are You On" (1998). In 1998, Blades was asked by Ringo Starr to play bass in Starr's VH1 Storytellers with Joe Walsh and Simon Kirke.

Rubicon
Former Sly and the Family Stone saxophonist Jerry Martini formed the funk band Rubicon with Blades as bass player and future fellow Night Ranger member Brad Gillis on guitar. The band recorded two albums on 20th Century Fox Records – Rubicon, and American Dreams. They had one hit single titled "I'm Gonna Take Care of Everything". They played Cal Jam 2, held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in California before 250,000 people. Rubicon broke up in 1979 and Blades formed the short-lived club band Stereo with Gillis and drummer Kelly Keagy, the latter of whom had joined as touring drummer for Rubicon.

Night Ranger
Blades' roommate at the beginning of the '80s was Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald, bass player for Montrose and Gamma and keyboard player for Sammy Hagar. He suggested they form a band. Fitz knew another guitar player in Sacramento, Jeff Watson, along with guitarist Gillis and Keagy, and Ranger was formed in 1980. The band recorded demos and played shows around the Bay area for two years. They were signed to Boardwalk Records and released their first album, Dawn Patrol in 1982. Prior to the release, it was discovered that there was a country band by the name of The Rangers. Blades had written the song "Night Ranger" for the album, so the band changed their name to Night Ranger to avoid any potential problems. Night Ranger went on through the '80s releasing albums that sold by the millions, as well as several hit singles. The band toured constantly both in the US and in Japan, where they continue to be popular today. In 1989, Blades left Night Ranger and formed the Damn Yankees. Blades re-formed Night Ranger with the original members in 1996. They recorded three albums – Neverland in 1997, Seven in 1998, and Hole in the Sun in 2008. Night Ranger continues to tour today.

Damn Yankees
In 1989, Damn Yankees was co-founded by Blades, Ted Nugent, and Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw. The band had multi-platinum success with two albums, Damn Yankees, Don't Tread, and a gold-selling single, "High Enough". They recorded and toured non-stop for four years. In 1996, Ted Nugent left the band to revive his solo career. Blades and bandmate Tommy Shaw continued to produce music as Shaw Blades. Although they have not released any new music since 1992 and have made sporadic appearances through the 2000s onstage, the band is considered to be on hiatus but "has met multiple times to meet and write over the years."

Shaw/Blades
After the Damn Yankees decided to take a break in 1994, Blades and Shaw decided to record together under the name Shaw Blades. They wrote and recorded the first album together, Hallucination, which was released in 1995. In 2007, they released Influence, which is a collection of cover songs that influenced them. Shaw Blades have toured acoustically across the US.

TMG (Tak Matsumoto Group)
In 2004, Blades recorded an album and toured Japan with Tak Matsumoto Group (TMG), formed by guitarist Tak Matsumoto of the Japanese band B'z. TMG scored a top 10 single ("Oh Japan ~Our Time Is Now~") and a No. 1 album (TMG I) on Oricon's domestic chart. With TMG, Blades performed "Never Good-Bye", the ending credits theme for the 2004 film Ultraman (a.k.a. Ultraman: The Next). The song appears on the 2005 soundtrack album for the movie and on TMG I. On February 28, 2024, in an interview with Rockpages.gr, Blades revealed that the band would be reforming. A week later, on March 8, the band officially announced its reformation, with a second album and a nationwide tour across Japan in the works.

Solo
Blades released his first solo album in 2004, Jack Blades. His second solo effort, Rock n' Roll Ride, followed in 2012.

Revolution Saints
In 2014, he formed the band Revolution Saints with Deen Castronovo of Journey and Doug Aldrich of Whitesnake. He performed on their first three albums, Revolution Saints, Light in the Dark, and Rise, but left in 2022, along with Aldrich.

Recent times
Blades continues record new material with Night Ranger as they also still tour around the world. He also played at the Republican National Convention on August 29, 2012.

Solo albums

 * Jack Blades (2004)
 * Rock 'n Roll Ride (2012)

with Rubicon

 * Rubicon (1978)
 * America Dreams (1979)

with Night Ranger

 * Dawn Patrol (1982)
 * Midnight Madness (1983)
 * 7 Wishes (1985)
 * Big Life (1987)
 * Man in Motion (1988)
 * Neverland (1997)
 * Seven (1998)
 * Hole in the Sun (2007)
 * Somewhere in California (2011)
 * High Road (2014)
 * Don't Let Up (2017)
 * ATBPO (2021)

with Damn Yankees

 * Damn Yankees (1990)
 * Don't Tread (1992)

with Shaw Blades

 * Hallucination (1995)
 * Influence (2007)

with Tak Matsumoto Group

 * TMG I (2004)

with Revolution Saints

 * Revolution Saints (2015)
 * Light in the Dark (2017)
 * Rise (2020)

Guest appearances

 * California Jam II
 * A Classic Rock Christmas
 * Bat Head Soup: A Tribute to Ozzy
 * Teachers
 * Sixteen Candles
 * Out of Bounds
 * The Secret of My Success
 * Nowhere to Run
 * Nothing But Trouble
 * Tommy Boy
 * Ultraman

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High School Attached to Beijing University of Technology

High School Attached to Beijing University of Technology is a high school located in Chuiyangliu Middle Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. It is one of the beacon high schools accredited by Beijing municipal Government.

Established in 1957, the school has four (formerly three) locations in the Beijing central business district. In 1989 it was designated a key secondary school by the Chaoyang District government. It has over 2,000 students and 277 employees.

In 2002, the school's incoming class was split into five classes of male students and five classes of female students in the aim of preventing puppy love among the students. The school administration conducted the experiment, stating they would implement changes depended on how students' grades compared to before the gender division. The experiment was inspired by the single-sex education done by foreign schools.

Principal Li Jun (李军), who entered the role in 2004, has played a significant role in shaping the school's development in the early 21st century.

Faculty member Li Fazhao (李发兆) was recognized as a national key teacher (国家级骨干教师).


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Talk:Training Day

These new revisions suck
I read this Wikipedia article like a year or two ago and it was great -- it talked about the LAPD's Rampart scandal and how Denzel Washington decided to grow a goatee to look like Rafael Pérez, the central figure in the police corruption case. Now, all of that relevant and interesting info has been removed and a huge, lengthy summary of the entire plot is here. Why? This article sucks now and doesn't even mention any connection to the real-life events that inspired aspects of this great film. You know, maybe when an article is good, you can try to keep it at that standard instead of letting people remove whole sections and add cliff notes. This article reads like a 3rd grade book report. Bring back the old content that people took the time to research and source -- this is one of the things that really frustrates me about Wikipedia. This movie has been out for years and little if any new information has come or is coming out about the film. There is no reason I should come back here and see a radically different, poorer quality article. Sometimes I think Wikipedia should pay real editors to oversee content. Awful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.231.207.235 (talk) 17:02, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * "Took time to research and source?" I checked and it was not cited; that's why it was removed. I have found a citation and added it back. Connor Behan (talk) 02:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Objectivity
I'm a pretty big fan of this movie too, but the thing that is so great about it isnt the detail of the story by the premise it creates in relation to the power police hold, expecially in the grim world depicted within the film. Because of this ive totally scrapped that huge bit about the specific twists and turns of the movie and broken it down to (hopefully) its core without spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, and also to respect that this is an encyclopaedia, not a fan-site.

This article was clearly written by a big fan of this movie, and, quite frankly, it reads a bit immaturely in comparision to Wik standards. Hey, I loved this movie, too. Denzel was amazing, kept me wondering at every turn, I think I probably enjoyed this movie as much as whoever wrote this. But a Wik article should not betray the writer's giddiness over a movie (or anything else, for that matter).

One other thing: for the life of me, I can't figure out what purpose the "Quotes" section serves here. Some fan thought that there was some cool dialogue, and so therefore included it. I'm going to come back in a few days. Without finding an adequate explanation of that sections, I'm just going to delete it as irrelevant. Unschool 13:37, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * "The Story" section is badly in need of paragraph breaks. mhunter 07:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I changed the story section to reflect the outline of the story, while trying to maintain an NPOV view of the movie. Sledgeh101 02:54, 20 February (UTC)

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There seems to be way to much unsourced apparant OR in the "Best Actor Academy Award controversy" section. Could someone knowledgeable please source it or delete it? 84.238.28.62 23:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Correctamundo, there is unsourced OR here -- Delete this section. If someone wants to accuse Hollywood of being racist let them do it in the Hollywood page, or in the Racism page, or in the Nappy Headed Ho page or someplace else. This section adds little, if anything to the fine movie, Training Day.

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“Infuriated at being set up”

I merely want to remark on this particular sentence. Is it a fair assumption to assert that Jake was fueled by his rage of being set-up? Because I can easily advocate that the reason behind Jake’s desire to catch Alonzo was just to defy everything that he had taught him that day. Jake looks like the typical family guy who will not put his life in danger for revenge; this is just a theory that I firmly believe it should be considered.

Shotgun
Does anyone know what kind of shotgun is used in the film? —Preceding unsigned comment added by STiLL DRE (talk • contribs) 02:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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Villian?
Why is Alonzo considered a villain? It seemed to me like he was a good guy. Alonzo Harris is no more of a villain than Severus Snape is. Or Han Solo. Or Robin Hood. Come on now, what are you people thinking. 71.228.50.12 (talk) 06:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

 * You don't seem to get the point of the movie.. He killed the drug dealer Roger not to get the the money he owed the Russians. He was a crooked cop. He killed Roger without provocation, he stole evidence, he routinely broke the law, the implication was the he used his position as a law enforcer not to uphold the law and make LA a better place, but to make his life comfortable. 70.73.59.208 (talk) 18:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

 * I would agree that Alonzo was a villain, but I can see why some people might argue otherwise. He was crooked to the core, no doubt, but he perceived that he was doing good, by fighting an underworld he believed was depraved. He is not all that different, really, from some "heroes" in other films (like Dirty Harry, for example). The difference is that the movie itself seems to present him as the villain. In short, whether a character is a hero or a villain has a lot to do with the movie's point of view. (Han Solo, Robin Hood, and Severus Snape are poor examples, firstly because the systems they defy are far more corrupt than the one Alonzo Harris works in, and secondly because they have some standards--they don't believe the end justifies the means.) marbeh raglaim (talk) 13:13, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Murdering some Russian because he couldn't control his temper. Murdering Roger to try to get away with the first murder. Attempting to have his new partner murdered to cover up the second murder. That pretty much says villain to me...Christopher White 1982 (talk) 20:22, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Alonzo was a villian because, ultimately, he had become a part of the problem, and if anything was making the problem worse.John ISEM (talk) 18:41, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this is the important part about this character and the movie.he is neither a villain nor a good guy!maybe even once he was like Jake but people like Roger put him in wrong way and he lost his way of being a good cop.Sure he done terrible things in the movie but from his talks you can find out that he had some good things in him one day...--WikiBahal (talk) 19:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Alonzo is a villain in the context of the movie. Whether or not his actions are justified is another topic of debate. In the context of the movie, Alonzo is the antagonist and Jake is the protagonist. Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 07:25, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

 * Alonzo is definitely the antagonist/bad guy. He does not do or think he's doing the right thing. He misuses his position in the LAPD, his size, demeanor etc to get what he wants. He is highly selfish, intimdating to his colleague and easily meets the ASPD criteria. Jim Michael (talk) 03:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Having found the article Alonzo Harris, I suggest it be merged into this page. We generally only have separate articles on particularly important fictional characters, where there's so much to say about them that they need their own page; that's not the case here, where all the information on Alonzo can be included in this article. Please discuss this merge below; if no one objects, I will carry it out myself. Terraxos (talk) 16:35, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I support the proposed merge. If the character was is more than one movie, or had an existence outside Training Day, he might warrant his own article, but that is not the case. --Evb-wiki (talk) 18:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Merge. Character is not notable outside this singular movie, and does not warrant his own in-universe article. WikiKingOfMishawaka (talk) 22:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge Kuralyov (talk) 18:38, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

I changed the Alonzo Harris article to a redirect to this page. I did not move information as almost all of that information is present in the article already. Pejorative.majeure (talk) 05:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Support Merge - the information here is almost a duplicate copy of the main film article, and the character is not noteworthy outside the movie itself.159.18.26.96 (talk) 18:38, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

 * Merge and do it now The character only appears in this one film and there is nothing here that couldn't -- and shouldn't -- be merged into the article for the film. Alansohn (talk) 17:10, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Agreed and ✅ Klbrain (talk) 16:36, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Connection to the Rampart Scandal
While the Rampart Scandal was about CRASH anti-gang units, and Training Day was about narcotics agents, it is hard not to see the movie as being heavily influenced by the Rampart Scandal and the LAPD culture it exposed. When Alonzo's team invades the house and finds the money, they seem to be operating just like a CRASH unit. If anyone has more info about whether Fuqua or anyone else commented on a connection between the movie and the scandal, it should be included in the article. Of all the odd things, I was not aware of the Rampart Scandal until I saw info about it on the Cellular DVD, but even though Cellular involved corrupt cops, it seemed to remind me a lot more of Training Day than Cellular.John ISEM (talk) 18:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Sara is not Alonzo's wife
This article says "Alonzo visits his wife Sara (Eva Mendes) and their young son." Sara is not Alonzo's wife. She is one of his mistresses.

In a deleted scene, after they leave Sara's apartment, Jake asks Alonzo, "What about your queen?" Alonzo says, "Sara's my princess."

When Jake remarks "I like her. She's a really cool lady," Alonzo adds "So are her two sisters. They look damn good and they party. How'd you like to be in the middle of a bitch sandwich? Come to Vegas with us."

Jake asks if Sara's son is "Number Five." Alonzo says the boy is "Number Six." Jake says, "Six kids. That's all? Or you holding royal court in a few more houses?"

Anyway, if Sara were Alonzo's legitimate wife, he wouldn't set her up in an apartment in one of the most dangerous areas of LA, a place where he even warns Jake "Never come up in here without me. For your safety. I'm serious."

 * Fascinating but your conclusion is pure conjecture. She's listed in the IMDb credits with the same last name. So, unless you can come up with a reputable source that says otherwise, it remains "wife".--Bbb23 (talk) 23:46, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

IMDB information is user provided, and in some sections, user-edited. Its details do not solely flow from some official authoritative source. IMDB makes sure to give the usual accuracy disclaimer about errors it makes. http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?infosource

In the actual cast credits (time index: 1:59:57), Eva Mendez is only credited as "Sara" with no surname.

Alonzo says, "I'm married. I got my queen too.  I remember what it was like to have a pretty young bride" (time index: 11:30). If Sara is his actual current wife, why does he refer to "pretty" and "young" in the past tense? It's also strange for Alonzo to only refer to his wife as "Just one of my lovelies, you know, one of my dimes, a loving touch, you know, don't worry about it." (time index: 51:43).

And since Alonzo has referred to his wife as "my queen," that lays the ground for the later deleted scene exchange when Jake asks Alonzo "What about your queen?" and Alonzo corrects Jake by saying, "You talking about Sara? Sara's my princess." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.233.197.98 (talk) 04:39, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Play the DVD with Antoine Fuqua's commentary and watch the meeting with Sara scene. Beginning at 52:22, Fuqua says "What we discovered is that a lot of these guys meet these women right off the boat, so to speak, you know when they're sixteen years old and they 'raise them.' It's the term they use.  They manipulate them and a lot of these girls don't know much, and they put them up in an apartment, you know, they make babies with them, and its like these guys are living two or three different lives, even more.  She probably doesn't even have her green card.  So, you know, what's she going to do?  Who's she going to tell?  Send her back to El Salvador.  So, Alonzo has a family somewhere else, but he makes his stops here.  He keeps his guns here.  It's an escape.  He also can keep his eye on everybody around."

So Alonzo's legitimate, legal wife is an exploited immigrant woman who could be deported if ever she were to report anything to the authorities? And Alonzo keeps his loaded guns and stolen drug money in the home of his legitimate wife?

And in the final scene, when Jake is walking to his house, we hear the radio broadcast about Alonzo's death. At 1:55:18, the broadcaster says, "A Los Angeles Police Department narcotics officer was killed today, serving a high risk warrant near LAX. An LAPD spokesperson said Officer Alonzo Harris was survived by his wife and four sons."

If Sara is Alonzo's legitimate wife, where are the three other sons? Even IMDB includes the quotation about "his wife and four sons" though it does not get the statement exactly right.

"Newscaster: Spoiler! A Los Angeles Police Department Narcotics officer was killed today serving a high-risk warrant near LAX. An LAPD spokesperson says that Detective Alonzo Harris is survived by his wife and four sons." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139654/quotes

At least three academics believe Sara to be Alonzo's mistress:

Leonard, David J. Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2006. (Chapter 2: The Ghettocentric Imagination)

"Out of harm's way, the men move onto another neighborhood known as the Jungle, a place where Jake is not to go without Alonzo by his side. This neighborhood is not only the home of Alonzo's mistress and son, but a place where Alonzo reins as alpha wolf due to his coercion of the black and Latino male population; he boasts that he'll jail any who cross the line." (page 52)

"Jake tracks Alonzo down, intending to keep him from his meeting and bring some justice to the corrupt day. A fight ensues, which includes a gun battle that endangers Alonzo's mistress and his son." (page 53)

http://books.google.com/books?id=MSXEVLq_Jz8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=%22alonzo's%20mistress%22&f=false

Coleman, Robin R. Means and Jasmine Nicole Cobb. "Training Day and The Shield: Evil Cops and the Taint of Blackness. The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television.  Ed. Martin F. Norden.  Amsterdam: Éditions Rodopi, 2007.  Pages 101-124 (Chapter 7)

"This theme of pitiless disregard for children's lives within the context of warlike cruelty is accentuated when Alonzo, in the home of his mistress, engages in a gun battle with Jake, while Alonzo's own son, Alonzito, is caught in the crossfire" (page 106)

"In Training Day, Alonzo is not only defined by his remorseless savagery but also by an equally volcanic sexual identity. In one scene, Alonzo stops by his mistress' house for a mid-day tryst.  He never asks for sex; rather, he expects she be at the ready whenever he stops in." (page 108)

"A shootout instigated by Alonzo, too, leaves his mistress' home damaged by gunfire." (page 108-109)

"...has little regard for his unseen wife and four children, and as he sexually consumes his mistress with no doting or care." (page 110)

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ck5Nci7dMYwC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=%22training+day%22+alonzo's+mistress&source=bl&ots=4i-i-yHaZo&sig=_BSclwrz6wXvN-se3MZG0zh-6Ck&hl=en&ei=-5nETJmHJcKclgeh6JgD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAg#v=snippet&q=mistress&f=false

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Shouldn't this page have "(film)" follow the title? I don't know how to make that change but if someone could, that would help distinguish it as a motion picture. Jamodalamo (talk) 02:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

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An Aspin valve consists of a cone-shaped metal part fitted to the cylinder head in internal combustion. Aspin valves were first patented by Frank Metcalf Aspin in 1939, although the idea was devised before this time.

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Bill Wylie

William Vance Wylie (July 15, 1928 — November 24, 1983) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played in one National Hockey League game for the New York Rangers during the 1950–51 season, on January 20, 1951 against the Montreal Canadiens. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1948 to 1963, was spent in various minor leagues. Wylie was also a member of the Galt Terriers senior amateur team that won the Allan Cup in 1961 and represented Canada at the 1962 World Championships.

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William Lorimer (politician)

William Lorimer (April 27, 1861 – September 13, 1934) was an American Republican politician who represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate. In 1912, however, the Senate expelled Lorimer, holding that his election was invalid due to his use of corrupt methods and practices, including bribery of state legislators. Lorimer was known as the "Blond Boss" of Chicago.

Biography
Lorimer was born in Manchester, England. His family immigrated to the United States in 1866, first settling in Michigan and then moving to Chicago in 1870. Lorimer was self-educated. He had been apprenticed to a sign painter when he was ten. He worked in the Chicago meat-packing houses and for a street railroad company.

In 1894, Lorimer was elected to the first of two non-consecutive tenures (1895-1901, 1903–1909) in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1909, he helped to engineer the blocking of the re-election of U.S. Senator Albert J. Hopkins, a Republican who had been Lorimer's ally but was now a political foe. With Hopkins's re-election bid finished, Lorimer seemed surprised when a coalition of 55 Illinois State House Republicans and 53 State House Democrats pushed his name to fill the now-vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. At the time, U.S. Senators were elected by state legislatures. Lorimer's name went before the State Senate, and, after a contentious campaign, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He took his seat in March 1909.

In 1910, The Chicago Tribune published an admission by Charles A. White, a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, that Lorimer had paid $1,000 for White's vote in the election.

On July 13, 1912, after two Senate investigations and acrimonious debate, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution declaring "that corrupt methods and practices were employed in his election, and that the election, therefore, was invalid." Lorimer was expelled from office.

Many in Chicago believed that Lorimer's ouster was politically inspired and that he was wrongfully deprived of his seat. Such corruption nationwide led to the passage, in May 1912, of the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for direct election of U.S. Senators. When he returned to Chicago, he was greeted by a parade and a throng at a meeting in Orchestra Hall. One of the speakers at the meeting was attorney Charles Lederer of Adler & Lederer (now known as Arnstein & Lehr, LLP) and a former member of the Illinois General Assembly. He presented a resolution to the meeting reciting the wrong done to Mr. Lorimer, his fight for his seat and the faith of his friends in him.

Lorimer served as president of La Salle Street Trust & Savings Bank from 1910 to 1915, and then entered the lumber business. He died in Chicago at age 73, and was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston.

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Dødheimsgard

Dødheimsgard (also known as DHG) is a Norwegian extreme metal band formed in 1994. Dødheimsgard originally played black metal, but 1999's 666 International saw them change their style into experimental and avant-garde/industrial metal. In 2000, they shortened their name to DHG.

Their name,"Dødheimsgard" is a contraction of three words: Død which means 'death', heim which means 'home' and gard which means (at least in this context) 'realm'. A natural translation into English would be "Realm of Death".

Founding of the band and Kronet til Konge (1994–1995)
The band was founded in 1994. At the time they consisted of three members: Vicotnik (drums, backing vocals), Fenriz (bass, additional vocals) and Aldrahn (lead vocals and guitar). This line up recorded a promotional demo before releasing their debut album Kronet til Konge on Malicious Records in 1995. After the release of the album they recorded another promotional demo.

Monumental Possession, Satanic Art and 666 International; Aldrahn's first departure (1995–1999)
Some time after the release of their second promo Fenriz had left the band and was replaced by Alver (bass), and Apollyon (guitar and vocals). This line up recorded the album Monumental Possession in December 1995, and released it in 1996.

For their follow up effort, an EP named Satanic Art was released in 1998. The band was joined by new members Galder (guitars), who at the time was a member of Old Man's Child and would later go on to join Dimmu Borgir, and Cerberus (bass), who replaced Alver, and Zweizz (keyboards and effects). On this release, Apollyon switched to playing the drums instead of guitar. Some time after the release of the EP, Galder and Cerberus would depart from the band.

The following year Dødheimsgard recorded their next album entitled 666 International, which was released in 1999. For this album the band had a new member, Czral, on drums, as Apollyon once again switched instruments and played bass.

Some time after the band had released their previous album, Aldrahn, Zweizz and Apollyon had departed from the band's ranks.

Supervillain Outcast (2004–2011)
The band had been working on new material and featured new members Kvohst (vocals), Thrawn Hellspawn (guitars) and Clandestine (bass). When recording the new album the band featured Mort (samples), Czral (drums) and Bliss (programming). Aldrahn made a guest appearance on the album as well.

In 2006, they completed the album Supervillain Outcast, which was released in April 2007 by Moonfog Productions and The End Records. On 4 January 2008, it was announced that vocalist Kvohst had left the band. However, in October 2010, he had rejoined and new members Terghl (drums) and Blargh (guitars) had joined the band.

Some time during 2011, the band announced that Kvhost had once again left. In the period following Kvhost's departure it appeared that members Blargh, Thrawn Hellspawn and Clandestine had also departed from the group.

Aldrahn's return and A Umbra Omega (2013–2016)
In 2013, original vocalist, Aldrahn, was announced to have made his return to the group and that the band were working on a new album. The band released their fifth studio album, A Umbra Omega, on 16 March 2015. After the release of the album new members Thunberg (guitar) and L.E. Måløy (bass) had joined the group.

Aldrahn's second departure and Black Medium Current (2016–present)
In June 2016 Vicotnik announced that Aldrahn had once again left the band due to strains on their personal relationship. The band continued to tour despite Aldrahn's absence with Vitcotnik performing lead vocals for the entirety of the shows during their arranged performance dates.

In February 2023, the band announced that Black Medium Current, their sixth studio album, would be released on 14 April 2023.

Members

 * Current line-up
 * Yusaf "Vicotnik" Parvez – guitars (1997–present), vocals (1996–1998, 2011–2013, 2016–present), keyboards (2007–present), drums, backing vocals (1994–1996)
 * Tommy "Guns" Thunberg – guitars (2015–present)
 * Lars-Emil Måløy – bass (2015–present)
 * Øyvind Myrvoll – drums (2019–present)

 * Former members
 * Bjørn "Aldrahn" Gjerde – guitars (1994–2004), vocals (1994–2005, 2013–2016)
 * Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell – bass, vocals (1994–1995)
 * Jonas Alver – bass (1996)
 * Ole "Apollyon" Moe – guitars, vocals (1996), drums (1996–1998), bass (1999)
 * Kai "Cerberus" Halvorsen – bass (1996–1998)
 * Svein "Zweizz" Hatlevik – keyboards, samples, programming (1997–2003)
 * Tom "Galder" Andersen – guitars (1998)
 * Carl-Michael "Czral" Eide – drums (1999–2003)
 * Mathew "Khvost" McNerney – vocals (2005–2008, 2010–2011)
 * Tom "Thrawn Hellspawn" Kvålsvoll – guitars (2005–2011)
 * Christian "Clandestine" Eidskrem – bass 2005–2011)
 * John "Sekaran" Vooren – drums (2005–2018)
 * Ole "Jormundgand" Teigen – keyboards (2006–2011)
 * Stian "Blargh" Hammeren – guitars (2010–2015)
 * "Void" – bass (2011–2015)

 * Touring members
 * Sigmund "Inflabitan" Hansen – guitars, bass (1999)
 * Kjetil "Darn" Dahlen – drums (2007–2009)
 * Øyvind Myrvoll – drums (2013, 2018–2019)
 * Camille Giraudeau – guitars (2019)
 * Matt "OCD" Jarman – guitars (2019)

Discography

 * Kronet Til Konge (1995)
 * Monumental Possession (1996)
 * Satanic Art (MCD) (1998)
 * 666 International (1999)
 * Supervillain Outcast (2007)
 * A Umbra Omega (2015)
 * Black Medium Current (2023)

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Treaty of London (1518)

The Treaty of London (Verdrag van Londen, Traités de Londres, Trattato di Londra, Tratado de Londres) in 1518 was a non-aggression pact between the major European states. The signatories were Burgundy, France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, the Papal States and Spain, all of whom agreed not to attack one another and to come to the aid of any that were under attack.

The treaty was designed by Cardinal Wolsey and so came to be signed by the ambassadors of the nations concerned in London. Pope Leo X originally called for a five-year peace while the monarchs of Europe helped him fight back the rising power of the Ottoman Empire, which was encroaching into the Balkans. Wolsey was very keen on instead making lasting peace and persuaded Henry VIII to avoid war and to take a more diplomatic route in foreign affairs.

Background
In the 15th century, peace was established for 50 years in the Italian Peninsula, which was divided into many small city-states. Only the small War of Ferrara between the Republic of Venice and the Papal States for the control of Ferrara caused a temporary lapse in the peace.

The mostly-peaceful period came to an end with the French invasion of 1494. A succession of small wars followed, and in 1518, the political possibilities of a peace treaty seemed a realisation.

Terms
All European countries were invited to London (the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ottoman Empire were considered to be in Asia, not Europe). The treaty hoped to bind the 20 leading states of Europe into peace with one another and thus end warfare between the states of Europe.

In October 1518, the Treaty was initiated between representatives from England and France. It was then ratified by other European states and the Pope. The agreement established a defensive league based upon certain terms. The central tenet was that states with an active foreign policy needed to commit to a stance of non-aggression. As a corollary tenet, signatory states also needed to promise to make war collectively upon any state that broke the terms of the treaty.

At the time, the Treaty was considered a triumph for Thomas Wolsey. It allowed Henry VIII to increase his standing so greatly in European political circles that England became seen as a third major power, albeit still well behind the Holy Roman Empire and France.

Legacy
The peace the treaty brought was very brief. Wars broke out in a few years, including wars between Denmark and Sweden and also an alliance of England and Spain against France. The peace movement, however, continued for next centuries and became part of the Enlightenment movement in the 18th century.

title: Treaty of London (1518)


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