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User talk:Bomac

 MY DISCUSSION ARCHIVES (Please, don't send messages there) 1, 2, 3

Vandalism
I would say that there is vandalism in Macedonia (region) by 62.162.188.110 and user: Andrej Machkovski (sock puppets?). Even though it might be interpreted that they 'edit' in favour of 'ethnic Macedonian' irredentism, I would say they are harming your (?) cause and the article. Politis 15:43, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

3RR
3RR on Petar Poparsov, you know the drill.  /FunkyFly.talk_  22:06, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

and another Poll...
Hi. There's a debate about how much "X-ian" one must be in order to be considered "X-American" (or X-Yian for that matter) and be categorized as such. The poll is here: WikiProject Ethnic groups/Rules for lists of X-Americans. Kindly weigh in! :N i k o S il v e r: 21:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

DeFYROMing
That word's funny ;-) --Tēlex 14:21, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

What is so funny about it? De Fyroming is that ancient family that invented everything there is to know about anything that exists :-). Politis 14:45, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

--Bomac 14:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

FYROM/deFYROMing
As a non-Macedonian/non-Greek, posting that article was a real introduction to the intensity over the M-word!!!!

AWN:)

AWN2 14:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)AWN2AWN2 14:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, and I'm getting the feeling I have headaches from my own country's name ;-) Bomac 14:38, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

"Vardar Macedonia"
Hello :)

I have tried to clarify someone's post of the term "Vardar Macedonia" on my "Jews in the Republic of Macedonia" article. I am not sure if the term is a loaded Greek or Macedonian term -- take a look at the article if ou get a chance and let me know what you think. I have also messaged Telex to get his thoughts...

Cheers :) AWN2 16:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)AWN2AWN2 16:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Macedonia (terminology)
Well, that'll be the first article we're not bitching too much about! :-) :N i k o S il v e r:  22:06, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Pitanje
Sta se uci/govori u Makedoniji kada su Srbi u pitanju. Oni koji znaju o tom najvise su Makedonci i srpski istoricari za Makedoniju (mada ovi drugi uglavnom ukljucuju Srpsku Radikalnu Stranku i druge krugove koji ne priznaju makedonsku naciju; i samo ce mi prikazati velikosrpski makedonski POV, pa otpadaju). Ovde ima mnogo (citaj mnogo) naturalized Makedonaca - ali se oni ponasaju kao obicni Srbijanci - niti znaju ista o Makedoniji, ni njihovom poreklu.

 * Did you have no trouble understanding this, or should I translate to Cyrillic or English? Bye and glad to hear from you! --HRE 17:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Radikali pokusavaju da podignu srpsku manjinu u Makedoniji, i kako kazu, "srpske Makedonce", tj. Makedonce za koje kazu da su etnicki Srbi, a samo Makedonci po nacionalnosti. Dok (hvala Bogu) stranka najzad napusta svoje stavove o tome da su Makedonci u stvari Srbi, i tvrde da ukupno ima preko 200,000 "srpskih Makedonaca". Dok mislim da je to izuzetno previse preterano, oni smatraju tu o Makedoncima koji tvrde da su Makedonci i nista vise - ali priznaju Srpsku Pravoslavnu Crkvu (a koliko sam cuo, ima takvih). Jesi li cuo da su uspeli stvoriti Partiju Srpskoga naroda u Makedoniji (koja ustvari nema podrske kod Srba u Makedoniji)? --HRE 18:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Nego ono sto mene zanima je (bas) srednjovekovna istorija. Ako ne znas sam licno o njoj detaljno, mozes mi i dati neki link (iako donekle, umem ja citati makedonski jezik). --HRE 18:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Do you have anything to do with http://www.bomac.co.nz/? --Kiro Gligorov 11:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

 * OK - how about just saying he was Macedonian? --Kiro Gligorov 11:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, you do have a point. However, he was a member of BMARC. It's not false date, it's incomplete data. At least it does not say he's not an ethnic Macedonian. --Kiro Gligorov 11:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia
Could you keep an eye for a time on Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia? A fanatic newbie, Objectivee, insists in restoring his utterly unsourced and biased edits, and menaces going on until he will have it his way. Bye, --Aldux 16:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Macedonian language
Yo, could you fill out and check the pronouns section? - FrancisTyers · 17:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Dont take things personally. U R lowering the level here friend...
Talking of bad english... This phrase does seem to make sense. Am i not entitle to change it? Seems not.

(In any case between you and me there is no seperate history and if you beleive so please make some reffereces to you sources).

The lack of refferences is quite evident in the whole of the text. I do not see why i should provide bibliography for altering (in good faith) passages that state important but in a way unaccurate facts and do not have any reffences to back them up. In any case, i will do so if anyone asks me for it but i wont lose my time when it seems that certain people are quite satisfied with their wotk and do not accept comments and corrections.(but if this is the case they should not write here, really)

As for the ancient period paragraph. It is quite misleading since it does not refer to ancient times at all. Propably should exclude all the passage from text. It is indeed a controversial article and a very amusing one to follow up, from its creation to the seemingly result. Is like drafting a treaty between hostal tribes. The fact that large parts of the outcome derive from original contributions with very clear, highly nationalistic positions for the one (mostly) and the other side is absolutely charming.

Considering all that, i think that i propably could lower my expectations but of course not abandon them. This article has flaws and can be improved. The fact that is controversial should not be considered a problem. There is no thing like status quo ante in wiki as far as i know. In any case my alterations reffer to comonly accepted facts undisputed by all sides. I will sincerely continue keeping you company in your efforts. Thanks in advance Haas

ps: i am not a freak nationalist. The choice of words should be more carefull. You are lowering the level here Bomac (and may i add: an impresseive page, wow! I wonder if you can tell the same thing for yourself...)

Much ado about nothing...
No, no puppet. I was puzzled seeing the "freak comment", do not really deserve it i think. I could not see to who other than me you reffered to, at the time. So much ado about nothing... See you around Haas

Slavs
Regarding the identification of "ethnic Macedonians" as 'Slavs', what do you make of it? Do you know what the different opinions are in ROM/FYROM? To be honest with you I do not know what to think. The Slavomacedonian Greek Pavlos Koufis, a (deceased?) local historian, is happy with Slavomakedones (see Aegean Macedonia) and I respect his work and the love for his region in norhern Greece. As you realise, it is just about impossible for Greeks to say 'Madedonas' and not to identify the word with the Greeks of Makedonia. Of course, the same applies north of the border. I wish there was something acceptable that Greeks could call 'ethnic Macedonians' in ROM/FYROM. Believe me, the term 'Skopianoi' is not at all offensive, people fall in love and marry 'Skopians', they go shopping and gambling in Skopia (what you would call Macedonia). Politis 13:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Question
Tell me, what do you think about this Serbian POV on Macedonia? this thing. --HolyRomanEmperor 12:28, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
Hi, B. It's nice to see you're back from your wikibreak. --Telex 22:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey Bomac
Re:Template:Geographical Macedonia, kindly read my edit-summary. •N i k o S il v e r• 23:29, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Question
Hi, was this anon. edit accurate?--Tekleni 14:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Ilinden-Preobrazhenie
Now, what was that, "there are reliable sources"? I'm not removing anything, it's User:Vbb-sk-mk who removes a perfectly valid flag which is obviously in the public domain by claiming it's "unlicenced". And that's because he simply doesn't like it. Please don't blindly support such Macedonian nationalist behaviour, but review other users' edits before reverting. We're all trying to be neutral here, so having the two flags is the best we can get. Regards, Todor→Bozhinov 15:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Adam of Macedonia
Здраво Bomac, вака јас ја поставив статијата за Адам, и ја категоризирав како Македонски Артефакти, што беше избришано. Гледам дека сега како скулптури си ја ставил. Јас би препорачал сепак тоа да се Артефакти, бидејќи друго значење би имало скулптура. Поздрав Leks81 08:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Заедно сме појаки
Thank you! :) Indeed we are заедно појаки! --Djordje D. Bozovic

If you remove the disambiguation "Macedonian Slav" from that section, the paragraph simply won't make any sense. I find it silly to keep a badly written article just because some editors can't accept common english terminology. Miskin 16:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * That's intersting cos I have a bunch of anglophone sources which refer to the Slavophones of Macedonia either as Bulgarians or Macedonian Slavs. In fact I've never met with an english source that refers to the historical region of Macedonia and to an "ethnic Macedonian" group without using the term "Slavic" as a disambiguation. The use of "ethnic Macedonian" (which is Macedonian Slavic and Serbian terminology) was introduced in English after FYROM gained independence from Yugoslavia. Greek terminology would be something like "Skopjans" or "Skopje" for FYROM, but trust me, "Macedonian Slav" is very English (and I can re-cite sources anytime). Macedon is irrelevant here. As the article says Macedonians were completely assimilated to Greece by the 3nd c. BC, so whether or not they were Greek before is irrelevant altogether. Miskin 16:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

As Tekleni said. Miskin 17:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Constitution
Is the current Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia the very same from 1990? If not, what are the differences? Could you also please introduce me into the old Communist Constitutions?

Thanks a lot in advance. Поздрав! --PaxEquilibrium 00:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... but a time ago it was:

Во ред, Преамбулата на уставот на република македонија гласи вака:Република Македонија е држава на македонскиот народ,како и на албанците кои живеат vo nea,и на останатите народи во неa како што се срби,турци,власи итн.

As far as I see, Serbs are missing, and Romanies are in there... I don't understand...

What's the difference between 1991 and 1995? Also, is there a viewable version from 1974 (I don't need English version really - I thought you new that ;). --PaxEquilibrium 00:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Хвала! --PaxEquilibrium 16:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

The reason why I was asking all those questions is that I wanted to know which nations were granted constitutional status and which deprived of it in the new Republic of Macedonia (Serbs, Turks, Romas, Vlachs?). I am especially referring to the Albanians, since I heard so many complains from them. Do yah know anythin' 'bout it? --PaxEquilibrium 18:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I've heard complains that Macedonia changed the status of Albanians through the Constitution, depriving them of their rights or something like that (similar to what happened to Serbs in Croatia), in hopes of one way or another removing the Albanian population from Macedonia... I also heard something about a united "Yugoslav Serbo-Macedonian Anti-Albanian Alliance" sponsored by Greece. --PaxEquilibrium 19:04, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

 * ..yea... I believe it was the Albanian Wikipedia... introduced by User:Dan (here known as User:Hipi Zhdripi). --PaxEquilibrium 21:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

ΗΙ
ΗΕΥ !!!!!!! MAKEDONIA IS GREEK ,YOYR NOT MAKEDONIANS, YOYR IS NITHING, YOYR F.Y.R.O.M. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tony esopi patra (talk • contribs)
 * If this was on Francis' page, it surely would have been wiped out. Oh well... Bomac 17:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I would also like to respond to Tony esopi patra's comment that by at first saying "Your not Macedonians" and then adding "You are FYROM" is a contradiction as 'FYROM' has the name Macedonia in it. So when you call us FYROM, you are calling us Macedonia, the FY part is a mere mention of our past, which could easily be used most post-Soviet states. Anyways, hello Bomac, I am also a Macedonian. ;P Attila07 (talk) 23:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Здраво
Типов ZoguShqiptar700 постојано ја вандализира страницата за Македонија, кој може да го блокира? Поздрав --Ditirambo 09:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Сега страницата за Македонија е полузаштитена, но неточните информации од страна на ZoguShqiptar700 се останати, како на пример картата на голема албанија, како и во демографијата и др. --Ditirambo 12:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Здраво Бомац
Hi Bomac :) I have re-worked the Macedonian alphabet article, but before I post it, I want to make sure I haven't got anything wrong or made any cultural mistakes. I started a bit of a Greece-v-Macedonia flame-war about a year ago with an article I wrote, and I want to make sure I don't start another one! Could you look over my article -- I'd be very interested to get your thoughts on it, as I am not Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc! The proposed article is in my sandbox, User:AWN2/sandbox. Cheers, AWN AWN2 06:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Macedonian sentiment
I recently started this article. Thought it may be of interest to you. - AimLook 06:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I thought you might be interested in joining WikiProject R.Macedonia :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_ROMacedonia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Capricornis (talk • contribs) 00:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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Vote Request
Hi Bomac, I saw your comment in talk saint cyril and wanted to ask if you could vote on the subject of merging the three poor articles into one that can be tidied up, this would also make it easier to contain drive-by edits. Thanks for your reply.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Saint_Cyril#MERGE —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xenovatis (talk • contribs) 13:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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Macedonian Canadians deleted
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Main Page
Done.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:58, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Macedonian language naming dispute
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 * Здраво Бомац. Мојот коментар во разговорот за бришење не беше насочуван кон Вас, но кон Avg. Извини ако Ве навредував. Поздрав.  Balkan Fever  11:19, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

November 2008
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Stephen
first of all this name comes from Greek: Stefanos, which is my name. and second it doesn't have anything to do with Makedonski. it's in the Makedonski names as it is in any other Slav names Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian or any other non-Greek names, Japanese, German, English etc. it's borrowed from Greek. so don't put irrelevant categories in names or anything else.CuteHappyBrute (talk) 18:16, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * lol you are confused. you should probably learn the difference between use of a name/word and origin of a name/word. Stephen and any use of it in any language comes from the Greek name Stefanos. if we put a category for every language it is used in, we would put categories for almost all languages. which would be stupid.CuteHappyBrute (talk) 23:44, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi
I would appreciate your input/view on the issue I have raised. Thanks, Polibiush (talk) 23:19, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

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Don't worry
My explanation was aimed at both of view. I saw Jingiby added it back and I removed the whole sentence. Whatever way you put it such a text does not belong there. There are no strict ethnic borders between Serbs, Bulgarians and ethnic Macedonians so someone can say they are represented as such etc. And further if we put it like that: "Ethnic Macedonians represented as Serbs and Bulgarians" we make the conclusion that at the time there definitely were such people and that the map is wrong. Since this is wikipedia and we're plain editors, we cannot make such an assertion, especially in the very article where the question is thoroughly discussed (and has no clear answer). I think that's all. Cheers and happy editing :)-- L a v e o l  T 21:35, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring at Macedonia_naming_dispute
Please don't. Discuss it and get consensus, or accept that consensus is against you, or you may be blocked. S HEFFIELD S TEEL TALK 18:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

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Purple Ribbon All-Stars

Purple Ribbon All-Stars was an American Southern hip hop supergroup under the Purple Ribbon Records (distributed through Virgin Records) label. The group consisted of Big Boi, Killer Mike, Janelle Monáe, Sleepy Brown, Scar, Konkrete, BlackOwned C-Bone, Rock D, and Vonnegutt.

Albums

 * Got That Purp (2004)
 * Got Purp? Vol. 2 (2005)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Purple Ribbon All-Stars


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Helen Simpson

Helen Simpson may refer to:
 * Helen Simpson (lecturer) (1890–1960), New Zealand teacher, university lecturer and writer
 * Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897–1940), Australian novelist
 * Helen Simpson (author) (born 1957), British short story writer

title: Helen Simpson


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Talk:Sloggi

— J I P | Talk 12:43, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Area + Length
'The area the size of a football pitch length' How can you express length in area? It doesn't make any sense!!! Lkleinjans 20:20, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Must have been a typo, its "worth", not "length", checked it on their homepage & corrected the page here.209.93.238.10 05:43, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Do we need the Trivia section?
To me it looks like marketing, probably these facts are also found on the official website.

Male underpants?
The underpants do not have a sex - see male - should it not read "men's underpants'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.8.10 (talk) 13:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Retailers
I've removed the redlinked websites which claim to be the most popular retailers. When they get themselves notable and entried and can cite their superiority in sales, then fine, they should then go back up. In the meantime, John Lewis Ltd have traditionally been the stockist most commonly associated with the brand among afficionadoes in the UK and I'll try have this cited if at all poss. Plutonium27 (talk) 18:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Bad Form
This article reads like an advertisement —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.87.119 (talk) 11:10, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

I must agree with the anonymous poster above. I honestly could not believe what I read as I read this article, as I progressed reading, it sounded more and more like an advertisement and not even one negative mention about the Sloggi products are included. There are huge amounts of what seems to be unfounded claims, e.g. "the largest manufacturer of branded briefs worldwide" and "sloggi is the largest European manufacturer of branded briefs". Even this I must admit that I have problems believing, since most of the large chain stores that probably sell the most of this type of clothing, do not even sell this brand. It seems obvious that they themselves most likely are the authors of this article (information below the image files indicate that the PR department at Sloggi is the source of the images and my guess is that they are also the authors of this article). Articles like this, which are so obviously biased and only present positive views about a line of products and it's manufacturer, written by the manufacturer themselves, should not be worthy space on Wikipedia unless it can be balanced in some way. Businesses should of course be held to the same standards other authors/articles are in general on Wikipedia. It would be great if somebody would be able to balance this article with information making the article come across as reasonable and impartial instead of totally biased.

Anecdotally I might add that I know of many who have had negative experiences with these products (including myself). I can't imagine that we are the only ones.

Anyway, this is just my subjective, impression of the article. I wish I was able to add to it.

Maybe it would be better to remove the article than letting it stand as it is? If not, could it be tagged in some way to reflect the bias?

Peapeam (talk) 15:51, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

It certainly appears to be something written by company employees. Is there someway to tag or headline it with "appears to be advertising" or some such? There is no real factual information related to the company, for example, related to anything other than the stuff it sells. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onejenu (talk • contribs) 02:02, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Advert tag added. but I suspect this is lifted totally from somewhere, which also makes it a violation of copyright. Emeraude (talk) 17:35, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

title: Talk:Sloggi


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Leosthenes

Leosthenes (Λεωσθένης Λεωσθένους Κεφαλῆθεν; died 323 BC) was an Athenian who was commander of the combined Greek army in the Lamian War. Leosthenes was the son of his namesake father Leosthenes who had suffered exile in 362/1 BC and who had fled to the court of Philip II. It is unknown by what means he had obtained the high reputation he had when he first makes his appearance in history. It has been inferred from a passage in Strabo, that he had first served under Alexander the Great in Asia; but it now seems certain that this is a mistake, and rather the reference should have been to Leonnatus.

Military activities
It is certain that when Leosthenes is first the subject of distinct mention, he was an officer of acknowledged ability and established reputation in war, but a proponent of Greek freedom and vehement opponent of Macedonian rule. Inscriptions show that in 329/8 BC, he served as General of the Countryside, responsible for the garrisons and border patrols of Attica. In 324/3 and 323/2 BC he was involved in the maintenance of the Athenian navy. Shortly before the death of Alexander, Leosthenes collected and brought over to Cape Taenarum a large body of the Greek mercenaries that had been disbanded by the different satraps in Asia, following Alexander's orders.

As soon as the news of Alexander's death reached Athens, Leosthenes was despatched to Taenarus to engage the services of these 8,000 troops. Along with Athenian envoys who addressed the assemblies of many city-states, Leosthenes was instrumental in recruiting many Greek cities to the cause of Greek liberation. He first hastened to Aetolia, and persuaded the people of that region to join in the Greek war of liberation against Macedonia. Under the influence of such brilliant orators as Demosthenes, their example was followed by the Locrians, Phocians, Dorians, and many of the Thessalians, as well as by several of the states of the Peloponnese. Leosthenes, who was by common consent appointed commander-in-chief, assembled these combined forces in the neighbourhood of Thermopylae. The Boeotians, who, through fear of the restoration of Thebes and loss of their newly-acquired land, remained allied to the Macedonians, collected a force to prevent the Athenian contingent from joining the allied army. However, Leosthenes hastened with a part of his forces to assist the Athenians and totally defeated the Boeotian army.

The Macedonian general, Antipater, now advanced from the north with a force very inferior to that of the confederates. He was defeated in the first action near Thermopylae and compelled to retreat into the small town of Lamia. Leosthenes, keen to finish the war with one blow, prosecuted the siege with the utmost vigour. However, lacking battering machines or engineers, his assaults were repulsed and he was compelled to resort to the slower method of a blockade. While he was engaged in forming the lines of circumvallation, the besieged made a vigorous sally, during which Leosthenes received a blow on the head from a stone and died three days later. His death greatly discouraged the allied Greek cause and Pausanias is probably right in regarding it as the main cause of their ultimate failure. Phocion's remark, on the other hand, is well known, that Leosthenes "was very well fitted for a short course, but not equal to a long one."

It is considered that Leosthenes did demonstrate that he had great energy and ability during the short period of his command and his loss was mourned by the Athenians as a public calamity. He was honoured with a public burial in the Ceramicus and his funeral oration was pronounced by Hyperides. His death took place before the close of the year 323 BC. While he was still quite a young man, it appears that he left children, whose statues were set up by the side of his own in the Piraeus.

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Helen de Guerry Simpson

Helen de Guerry Simpson (1 December 1897 – 14 October 1940) was an Australian novelist and British Liberal Party politician.

Youth and education
Simpson was born in Sydney into a family that had been settled in New South Wales for over 100 years. Her great-grandfather, Piers Simpson, R.N., was associated with Sir Thomas Mitchell and her maternal grandfather, the Marquis de Lauret, settled at Goulburn some 50 years before her birth. Her father, Edward Percy Simpson, was a well-known solicitor at Sydney who married Anne de Lauret. Helen Simpson was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Rose Bay (now called Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart) and at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga and, in 1914, she went to France for further study. On returning to England she went to Oxford, reading French (1916-1917), at a time when women could study at Oxford but not receive degrees. in April 1918, she joined the WRNS to work in decoding as a senior section officer. In September 1919 she returned to Oxford to study music, and there became intensely interested in theatre, founding the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society and writing and publishing several plays. She was sent down in 1921 without completing her degree, apparently for breaking regulations prohibiting men and women students from acting together.

Career as a writer
Her first appearance in print was a slight volume of verse, Philosophies in Little, published at Sydney in a limited edition in 1921. It attracted little notice but was included by Percival Serle in his list of the more important volumes in his Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse, published in 1925. Her play, A Man of His Time, based on the life of Benvenuto Cellini and written partly in blank verse, was performed by McMahon's repertory company at Sydney and published there by Angus & Robertson in 1923. Her first novel, Acquittal, appeared in London in 1925 and was followed by The Baseless Fabric (short stories) in 1925 and Cups, Wands and Swords (1927). The Women's Comedy (a play) was privately printed in 1926.

Simpson visited Australia in 1927 and, in the same year, married Denis John Browne, F.R.C.S., a children's surgeon and a fellow Australian; Browne was a nephew of Thomas Alexander Browne, "Rolf Boldrewood". Mumbudget, a collection of Irish fairy stories, appeared in 1928 and was serialised on the BBC the following year. It was followed by The Desolate House (1929) and Vantage Striker (1931). These books were all capably written, but had comparatively little success.

She was a member of the Detection Club and contributed to two of their round-robin works The Floating Admiral (1931) and Ask a Policeman (1933) and the creative non-fiction The Anatomy of Murder (1936).

Boomerang, published in 1932, was her first big success. Its plot begins in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, wanders all over the world, including Australia, and ends in the trenches in France during World War I. It was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and serialised for radio by William Power in 1937. It was followed by The Woman on the Beast in 1933, which consisted of a prologue, three books and an epilogue. The three books have no connection with each other; in reality they form three separate short novels with the common basis that the most hateful things may be done for apparently the best of reasons. An historical novel, Saraband for Dead Lovers (filmed in 1948) came out in 1935, as did The Female Felon, a long short story.

Simpson was also the author of two pieces of historical biography, The Spanish Marriage (1933) and Henry VIII (1934). The Happy Housewife, a book of household management, was published in 1934. The Waiting City, which appeared in 1933, is her translation of a selection from Louis-Sébastien Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris. Three novels, Enter Sir John (1929), Printer's Devil (1930) and Re-enter Sir John (1932), were written in conjunction with Clemence Dane. Enter Sir John was filmed as Murder! (1930) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who later directed the film version of Under Capricorn (1949). Helen Simpson also wrote portions of the dialogue for Hitchcock's movie Sabotage (1936).

In 1937 Simpson went to Australia under engagement to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. She gave a series of lectures and, while in Australia, collected material for the novel Under Capricorn, which appeared in 1937 and was set in Sydney about 100 years earlier. In 1938, she published A Woman Among Wild Men, an account of Mary Kingsley. This was later published in 1950 as a Puffin Story Book under the title A Woman Among Savages.

Political career
In 1939 she was selected by the Isle of Wight Liberal Association to be their parliamentary candidate at the UK General Election which was expected to take place in 1939 or 1940. The seat was held by the Conservatives but the Liberals were expected to challenge strongly to recapture the seat they last won in 1923. She attended the Liberal Party Assembly at Scarborough in June 1939 and travelled around England speaking for the Liberal Party.

Personal
She became ill and underwent a surgical operation in 1940, but died from cancer after months of suffering on 14 October 1940. Her husband, Sir Denis Browne, survived her with their daughter Clemence, who was named after Simpson's collaborator Clemence Dane. Simpson's last novel, Maid No More, was published in 1940.

Novels

 * Acquittal (1925)
 * Cups, Wands and Swords (1927)
 * Enter Sir John (1929), with Clemence Dane. Serialised in Nash's Magazine in 1928
 * The Desolate House (1929)
 * Printer's Devil (1930), with Clemence Dane. Also known as Author Unknown
 * Vantage Striker (1931)
 * Boomerang (1932). Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the Best Novel Published in 1932
 * Re-enter Sir John (1932), with Clemence Dane
 * The Woman on the Beast: Viewed from Three Angles (1933)
 * Ask A Policeman (1933), with members of The Detection Club (Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy, Gladys Mitchell, John Rhode, Dorothy L. Sayers and Simpson each contributed a chapter)
 * Saraband for Dead Lovers (1935)
 * Under Capricorn (1937)
 * Maid No More (1940)

Collections

 * Philosophies in Little (1921) original verse and translations
 * The Baseless Fabric (1925) 11 short stories
 * Mumbudget (1928) 6 short fairy stories for children
 * Heartsease and Honesty: Being the Pastimes of the Sieur de Grammont (1935). Translation from the French

Biographies

 * The Spanish Marriage, 1554 (1933)
 * Henry VIII (1934)

Non-fiction

 * The Waiting City: Paris 1782-1788 (1933), an abridged translation of Le Tableau de Paris by Louis-Sebastien Mercier
 * Has Russia Hoaxed the Worker?. Billings Gazette, 15 January 1933
 * What Communism Does to Women. Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1933
 * The Happy Housewife (1934)
 * The Witch Unbound. Collected in The Boat Train (1934), edited by Mary Agnes Hamilton
 * What's Wrong with Our Hospitals?. Time and Tide, 1934
 * The Female Felon (1935)
 * Death of Henry Kinder (1936), included in The Anatomy of Murder by The Detection Club

Drama

 * A Man of His Time (1923)
 * Pan in Pimlico, collected in Four One Act Plays, edited by AP Herbert (1923)
 * The Women's Comedy (1926), a translation of L'ecole des Femmes by Moliere
 * Gooseberry Fool (1929), with Clemence Dane
 * Oxford Preserved (1930), with music by Richard Addinsell

Short fiction

 * [Title unknown]. Nash's Magazine, December 1928
 * My Daughter's Daughter. Sphere, 1 December 1929
 * London in June. Sphere, 14 June 1930
 * Death Versus Debt. Broadcast as a reading by Simpson. BBC National Service, 29 June 1934
 * Puss in Boots. Collected in The Fairies Return (1934)
 * No Jewel Is Like Rosalind (1938). Broadcast as a reading by Simpson on the BBC (1938)

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Albanian National Reconciliation Party

Albanian National Reconciliation Party (in Albanian: Partia e Pajtimit Kombëtar Shqiptar) is a political party in Albania, led by Spartak Dobi. The party was founded in 1998. It had 0.02% of the votes in the National Lower House Elections in 2001.

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Talk:Booth capturing

Untitled
"Primarily India" and "Uniquely Indian" Could this be worded a little better? If the practice is unique to India then lets says so, if it is practiced elsewhere, where else? I have no knowledge of the subject, so can't make that choice. Thanks Jimaginator 16:59, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * done Idleguy 17:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Any other country it is known in? Jimaginator 19:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Nepal has reports of booth capturing happening and if my memory serves me right, bangladesh too has in recent times witnessed a couple. Idleguy 11:36, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Albanian National Reconciliation Party

I found the following newstext from 1998:
 * Partia e Pajtimit Kombetar insiston ne tryezen e partive politike
 * TIRANE, 28 Shtator /ATSH-P.Shuteriqi/.- Vazhdojme te
 * mbetemi konseguente ne thirjen e tryezes se partive politike per
 * te realizuar nje zgjidhje te pershtatshme ne dobi te interesave
 * kombetare, deklaroi te henen per ATSH-ne Spartak Dobi, kryetar i
 * Partise se Pajtimit Kombetar Shqiptar (PPKSH).
 * Kjo parti, vijoi me tej Dobi, vlereson mesazhin e
 * Presidentit Meidani drejtuar deputeteve te Kuvendit Popullor me
 * 25 shtator dhe po ndjek me shqetesim te madh situaten teper te
 * trazuar politike ne vend si dhe zhvillimet me te fundit ne
 * Kosove. Sipas kryetarit te kesaj partie, te miratuar ne dhjetor
 * te vitit te kaluar, forca te caktuara qe jane kunder pajtimit
 * kombetar "po ndermarrin veprime antidemokratike dhe antiligjore",
 * prandaj vijoi me tej ai, "kerkojme venien para pergjegjesise
 * ligjore te vrasesve te Azem Hajdarit, si dhe denojme zdo
 * nderhyrje politike ne punen e pavarur te organeve te drejtesise".
 * Persa i perket situates aktuale ne Kosove, PPKSH-ja u
 * shpreh sot nepermjet zedhenesit te saj se "pershendet qendrimin
 * e Keshillit te Evropes, NATO-s dhe te SHBA per nje nderhyrje te
 * menjehershme ushtarake per nderprerjen e luftes".
 * /y.pa/

if anyone can read it, maybe some parts (for example position on EU, NATO) maybe incorporated into the article. --Soman 12:47, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


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Marcus Goldstein

Marcus S. Goldstein (August 22, 1906 – December 1, 1997) was one of the forefathers of dental anthropology and was also a public health analyst. He was an active researcher with a broad interest in the field of anthropology, writing over one hundred scientific publications during his lifetime.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Goldstein received a bachelor's and master's degree in anthropology from George Washington University, and his doctorate from Columbia. His professional career in anthropology began in 1927, when he obtained a position as aide to Ales Hrdlicka in the U.S. National Museum Division of Physical Anthropology. During World War II, he worked for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, and in 1946, joined the U.S. Public Health Service as an analyst.

His government career included posts at the Division of Public Health Methods, National Institutes of Mental Health Administration on Aging, and the Office of Research and Statistics in the Social Security Administration, from which he retired in 1971.

As an active researcher, Goldstein's publications include a number of key works on dental variation and pathology, growth, development, aging, and skeletal pathology in past populations of Israel.

Following his retirement, Goldstein, and his wife, Lea, immigrated to Israel, where he joined Tel Aviv University and played an important role in developing research in the newly formed Department of Anatomy and Anthropology. Goldstein was also responsible for founding the "Israel Association of Anthropology", which now has well over 150 members. He brought together scientists from archaeology, biological, and social anthropology — no easy task in a country where the three disciplines are taught in separate faculties. In 1987, he was honored with that Association's Distinguished Service Award.

Goldstein summed up his career in his monograph, "An Odyssey in Anthropology and Public Health" (1995), in which he gave a warm portrayal of the people who had helped him in his works. He died in Jerusalem, Israel, aged 91.

Publications
Goldstein's major publications include:
 * "The Cusps in the Mandibular Molar Teeth of the Eskimo," American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1931, 16);
 * Demographic and Bodily Changes in Descendants of Mexican Immigrants with Comparable Data on Parents and Children in Mexico (1943);
 * "Physical Status of Men Examined through Selective Service in World War II", Public Health Reports (1951, 66);
 * "Some Vital Statistics Based on Skeletal Material", Human Biology (1953, 25);
 * "Longevity and Health Status of Whites and Nonwhites in the United States", Journal of the National Medical Association (1954, 46); and
 * "Theory of Survival of the Unfit", Journal of the National Medical Association (1955, 47).

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User talk:Mohammedies

a man whom say it is a space one!!!

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User:JohJak2

For you to know, for me to find out.

Vandalised
IP: 213.189.93.248; Country: Kuwait; City: Kuwait, Al Kuwayt
 * 08:18, 23 October 2006 213.189.93.248

Which or that? (stolen from User:Ground Zero)
Many Wikipedians use which and that interchangeably. Each of these words has a specific use that conveys different meanings to the reader. Here are a couple of examples to illustrate the difference:

 * A1. My car that is blue needs painting.
 * A2. My car, which is blue, needs painting.

Each sentence tells us something about the car, but the choice of which or that changes the meaning of the sentences.

In sentence A1, the use of that suggests that I own more than one car and therefore must specify that I am talking about a particular car—the blue one. If I left out "that is blue", the reader would not know which of my cars I was talking about.

In sentence A2, I am telling you that I own only one car, and that it needs painting. The fact that it is blue is incidental. I am only adding that in as additional information. I could leave out that information and the sentence would still make sense.

 * B1. The studies that were written by graduate students are well-researched.
 * B2. The studies, which were written by graduate students, are well-researched.

In sentence B1, the reader understands that only some of the studies were written by graduate students. If I were to omit "that were written by graduates students", the sentence tells the reader, "The studies are well-researched". This would be inaccurate, because not all of the studies were well-researched—only those written by graduates students. "[That] were written by graduate students" is essential to the meaning of the sentence.

On the other hand, in sentence B2, the information that the studies were written by graduates students is not necessary for the sentence to convey the correct meaning; in this case, all of the studies were well-written. The fact that they were written by graduates students may be interesting, but the central point of the sentence, that the studies were well-written, would still be clear even without that additional information.

Summary:

 * Use that when the information is essential to the meaning of the sentence.
 * Use which when it is not essential.

Mapping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Links#Maps

Text
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Spam?
Thanks for your awareness. Wikipedia has a policy against wikispam (i.e. advertisements masquerading as article, and/or placing inappropriate external links). Whenever you suspect a user is trying to use Wikipedia as a vehicle to advertise a certain company/product/service/solution/website, you are free to remove it from the article. Please use a clear edit summary to indicate that you're removing wikispam. It is also advisable to contact the spammer via his/her talk page, for instance by placing one of the standard anti-spam templates, spam, spam2, and spam3. Thanks again, RexNL 16:45, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I am not aware of any prohibition of listing company names in related articles. Why is it not fair to say that Shimano makes Flight Deck for STI, or Campagnolo makes Ergo Brain for Ergopower? Polar was linked because they make the heart-rate type. Removing Cat Eye makes some sense, as it doesn't have any other mention in the article.
 * I looked through WP:SPAM and WP:EL and didn't see any clear indication against mentioning companies. I noticed you asked RexNL about it. For future reference, the Help Desk has a helpful and knowledgeable bunch. Let me know your thoughts. Christopherlin 19:47, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

More spam info
It's usually either pretty obvious spam or a subjective look at all of the links on an article. The obvious stuff is a single user/IP adding links to the same site across multiple articles (Especially if the site being linked has a high value adword like Mesothelioma). Where there are lots of links, I usually take a look at them all and try to decide if the page being linked to adds to the value of the article. Look out for blogs, forums with less than a few thousand posts and anything with little content and lots of ads. Taking a look at the Spam WikiProject might help you get a feel for things. --GraemeL (talk) 19:22, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Ale-8-One

Neutrality & Competition
How is this page not neutral? Youngamerican 12:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm with Youngamerican on this one. I really don't see how this violates the NPOV requirement. Generally the POV check (in contrast to the neutrality dispute template), is used only by the author of the article. TheRingess, if you think the article is not neutral, I would encourage you to make some small changes that would fix it or at least offer an explanation for why the article is non-neutral. In the meantime, I have removed the POV check. Also, I removed reference to the beverage being "extremely" popular in central Kentucky and how it "easily competes" with Coke and Pepsi. A quick look at the store shelves in this area would indicate that that's something of an exaggeration. Ale-8 has a committed (some would say cult) following, but it certainly isn't a great threat to the big two soft drink companies. --Tom Allen 13:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Ale-8, being a ginger ale, competes with other ginger ales more readily than colas. It does enjoy more shelf space than Canada Dry in Lexington Kroger and Walmarts.

 * Uh, nah guys you are wrong. I live in the heart of Ale-8's sphere of popularity and Ale-8 sales here surely compete well with colas. I'm drinking one now lol.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.147.10.188 (talk) 06:47, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Actually when I was in Kentucky for the first time ever a few weeks ago and was introduced for the first time to this soda, I stopped at Walmart on the way out and picked up a case to take home for friends. I was suprised to see that Ale-8-One and it's diet counterpart, took up a full sixth of the shelf space for sodas.  Far more space then any other soda.  In fact no other soda was even close in terms of shelf space.  I was quite shocked at this.  Just a neutral osbservation.  Deepintexas (talk) 04:09, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

eccentric old man?
"eccentric old man" -- not for most of his life, he wasn't.

NuGrape
A bit of looking around on the web indicates that the statement about Ale-8 "coming out with a grape soda called NuGrape" is wrong. Not only is there no information about the drink on Ale-8's website, NuGrape itself is owned by the Big Red company. I deleted the reference. - Agentseven (talk) 17:00, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Bottling/Distribution
I live in SW Ohio and purchased myself an Ale-8 today, and the bottle states "Bottled under authority of Ale-8-One of America, Winchester, KY 50392 by Pepsi-Cola of Corbin, KY 40702." The article states that Ale-8 is distributed by Coca-Cola. Could anyone clarify? 207.250.126.186 (talk) 19:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I can verify. It is distributed by Pepsi. I remember when they switched the glass bottles to the twist off caps and only the bottles sold by pepsi were twist offs (at that time, all are now) 157.89.71.230 (talk)

Uncited Rumor
Removed a reference to a rumor that claimed a possible buy out of Ale-8 by Coca-cola. Uncited, and I've lived in Kentucky all my life and drank ale-8 that duration and have never heard of this 157.89.71.230 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:48, 19 March 2009 (UTC).

Distribution
I recently found this product in a grocery store display here in St. Louis. Not sure if this represents an expansion of distribution, but if anyone knows how to find out if distribution has expanded it would make a great addition to the article. Also I love the product. —     Bill W.       (Talk)  (Contrib)   (User:Wtwilson3)   — 16:22, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Yea, I know "Ale-8" from when my parents lived in Eastern Kentucky. I recently noticed it's available in some grocery stores in Charlotte, North Carolina. Eric Cable ! Talk 18:47, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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Space Rangers (video game)

Space Rangers (Russian: Космические рейнджеры) is a multi-genre (turn-base strategy, text quest, arcade) computer game by the Russian company Elemental Games, released by 1C Company in 2002. It is critically acclaimed and popular in its home country, Finland and parts of Eastern Europe, although not so popular elsewhere due to lack of marketing. In 2004, 1C Company published a sequel, Space Rangers 2: Dominators.

The game is dynamic and open-ended in a fashion that has been compared to Elite and Star Control 2. Trade prices on planets follow supply and demand, the wars are ongoing non-scripted conflicts, computer-controlled ships have individual capabilities, goals and relations, etc. There are even several ways to complete the storyline. The games have turn-based space travel and combat, optional shoot 'em up sequences and occasional bits of text adventure. This game was not released in America in its own box, but in some special edition containers of Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators.

Plot
In Space Rangers, a relatively peaceful interstellar coalition is invaded by a powerful enemy; the organic  warships of the Klissans. The player is a Ranger, one of a group of non-military volunteers who are given small ships, free rein and the task of helping  to battle, understand and ultimately defeat the menace.

Background
Long ago, the now wise and peaceful Gaal race was very aggressive and was creating a huge number of colonies. Due to large space distances it created a hyperjumper which could make holes in the galaxy. Soon one of the colonies met with the Klissan fleet. Although Gaal colony ships tried to communicate with these Klissan ships they failed to do so and were destroyed. Soon Makhpella, the mothership of all Klissans and Klissan fleet, invaded all outer Gaal colonies. The Gaal colony fleet was completely helpless and in order to save the original Gaal territories and the Gaal motherland itself from invasion, they decided not to jump back which would have given the Makhpella an opportunity to trace their route, but to blow up the remaining other colonies using the hyperjumper instead.

Not very long ago, everything was started by a Peleng captain called Rachekhan, one of the commanders of the Peleng fleet. He was thrown out of the fleet and became a pirate. Since he had access to secret documents and weaponry he stole a hyperjumper. While travelling with it he met Makhpella. It considered Rachekhan's pirate fleet an enemy and started chasing it. During this chase, Rachekhan and the Klissan fleets went through sectors colonized by the interstellar coalition which enabled Makhpella to spot the IC sectors, gaining knowledge of its locations, and identify all IC races as foes. So the war started.

Races
Space Rangers features 6 races in total: the Interstellar Coalition races and the Klissans. The Interstellar Coalition consists of 5 races: Maloqs, Pelengs, Humans, Faeyans and Gaals. The Klissans are the new and unresearched form of life.

 * Maloq
 * The Maloq race is very strong physically, but mentally weak. They are physically very big and eat a lot of food. Their equipment is the cheapest but it is also the most delicate, and deteriorates much quicker than other races'. The race is named after the C standard library function malloc.

 * Peleng
 * The four handed Pelengs are usually very artful and Peleng criminals are the most successful. Also Pelengs have the strongest intelligence agency called "Dzuhallag". Peleng equipment is the 2nd cheapest and the 2nd most delicate.

 * Human
 * Humans are the best economists. If not for the humans there would be no unified interstellar currency called "credits". Human equipment is in the middle of the spectrum for both price and robustness.

 * Faeyan
 * Faeyans are very good technicians and scientists. Faeyans are hermaphrodites. Their equipment is the 2nd most expensive, and 2nd only in robustness.

 * Gaal
 * The three eyed Gaals are leading philosophers and scientists. This race is the wisest compared to the other Interstellar Coalition races. Their equipment is the most expensive and the most robust.

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User:Phi-Gastrein~enwiki

I'm a french PhD student. My main interest are neuroscience, cuisine and philosophy.

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Jason Jackson (reporter)

Jason Jackson (born May 12, 1972) is an American sportscaster and writer. He worked for ESPN from 1995 until 2002 before being dismissed for sending inappropriate messages to a female co-worker. He was best known as the host of NBA 2Night. Jason is currently the TV Host/Courtside Reporter for the Miami Heat on Bally Sports Sun and is a talk show co-host/analyst on SiriusXM NBA Radio.

In 2003, he hosted his own sports talk radio show in Hartford, Connecticut, called The Jax Show, and in September 2007, he returned to hosting The Jax Show weekday afternoons on WQAM in Miami. From January through October 2012, The Jax Show reappeared in the afternoons from 1-3 PM on the Miami Heat's flagship station WAXY.

Kelly Dwyer of SI.com wrote in his 2006 "NBA Announcers Report Card" that Jason Jackson might be the best side-line reporter in the business.

Jackson graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1994, where he had served as a resident advisor at Bromfield Hall and as President of the Undergraduate Student Government.

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Lakhpat

Lakhpat is a town in Kachchh district in the Indian state of Gujarat located at the mouth of the Kori Creek. The town is enclosed by 7km-long, 18th century fort walls.

Etymology
The town is named after Rao Lakha who ruled in Sindh about the middle of the thirteenth century.

History

Historically Lakhpat has been a very important trading post connecting Gujarat to Sindh. The waters of the Sindhu River used to flow into Lakhpat and further on to Desalpar Gunthli. In historic times, Lakhpat had only one very short period of prosperity. Rice used to be cultivated there, which was the source of 800,000 Koris in annual revenue. It is also said that Lakhpat used to generate an income of 100,000 Koris everyday from maritime activities. Fateh Muhammad, about the close of the eighteenth century (1801), enlarged and rebuilt its wall, and for a time it was a center of trade in Sindh. Though he thought it one of the chief supports of his power, Lakhpat declared against Fateh Muhammad when he opposed the Rao of Cutch State in 1804. A few years later (1809), the commandant of the fort, Mohim Miyan, drove out the agents of Hansraj and governed the town on his own accounts. In 1818, Lakhpat had 15,000 people and yielded a yearly revenue of £6000 (₹ 60,000). After the earthquake of 1819 a natural dam known as the Allahbund was formed, and the Indus River changed its course of flow and started flowing into the Arabian Sea further north. Thus Lakhpat lost its importance as a port. By 1820, the population reduced to 6000 inhabitants, consisting chiefly of mercantile speculators from other countries and families of Hindus that migrated from the Sindh province. The walls were in good repair, but the houses were ruined and did not fill one-third of the area. By 1851, all trade had left the town, and it has since remained poverty-stricken and half deserted. The population reduced to 2500 by 1880.

Today it is a sparsely populated ghost town, a city of ruins of buildings and a magnificent fort surrounding them. The population was 463 in 87 households 2001 which increased to 566 in 108 households in 2011.

During the period of Muslim rule, some Hindus who had not converted to Islam under the Ghaznavids moved to Vighokot and Lakhpat around 1028 AD from Sindh. They migrated to live peacefully under Jadeja Rajput Hindu rulers as the Samma Muslim rulers were oppressing them.

Fort
The fort, rebuilt and expanded in 1801 by Fateh Muhammad, is an irregular polygon, defended by round towers and built of hard brown stone. The 7km-long walls are of considerable height but not thick.

Pir Ghaus Muhammad tomb
Pir Ghaus Muhammad, a Sufi saint and Syyed of Lakhpat, half-Muslim and half-Hindu in his customs, who was believed to have supernatural power. Dying in 1855, his brother Bava Mia or Sa Saheb, from contributions made by Gosh Muhammad's followers, began to build a tomb locally known as Kubo. This tomb, of black stone, on a platform fifty-four feet square and seven high, rising in a conical dome 63 feet 3 inches high, is octagonal in shape, with four side doors arched and richly carved, and the walls decorated with patterns of flowers and leaves. Inside, the floor is paved with white and black marble, and the grave is covered with a white marble canopy. On the walls are passages from the Quran. It is still unfinished. The water tank opposite the tomb is believed to have healing characteristics for skin diseases.

Other
Sayyed Pir Shah Dargah has nine-domed with intricate carvings. Nani Mai Dargah, Hatkeshwar Temple amongst others in the old town are reminisces of the past.

BSF Post
The seaward side of the fort is guarded by Border Security Force (BSF) of India soldiers as it is not far away from international border between India and Pakistan marked in salt marsh land. There are BSF guards posted on the fort's fortifications and the nearby Border Outpost.

In popular culture

 * The 2000 Hindi film Refugee directed by J P Dutta featured Lakhpat fort as a fictitious town located across the international border in neighboring Pakistan.

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Source of names
Some information to complete this article could probably be gathered from www.stephenrdonaldson.com. In particular the "gradual interview", where some quick searching for "Hashi" turned up this:

And throughout the life of the GAP books as I considered and wrote them, names played crucial roles as sources of inspiration and insight. Angus (bullheaded) Thermopyle (famous battle where a few warriors struggled against insurmountable odds). Morn (morning) Hyland (the Highlands of Scotland). Warden Dios (the caretaking, defending, imprisoning god). Godsen Frik (Hagen in my favorite recording of "The Twilight of the Gods" is sung by Gottlob Frik, and Godsen Frik is the "dark and hungry god" Holt Fasner's moral son). Lane Harbinger. Koina Hannish. Hashi Lebwohl. Sorus Chatelaine. Min Donner. Marc Vestabule. Vector Shaheed. The names positively *sing* to me, telling me who these people are, where they come from, what they care about.

(No information about where the name "Hashi Lebwohl" came from, though.)

Given Donaldson's own explanation as to the origin of the names of Angus, Morn, and Nick (he made them up and kept them because they sounded catchy and emotional), I think that their analysis is somewhat superfluous. This is not to say that they don't "sing" in the manner he describes, but I doubt they were synthesized to have the claimed meanings. --Eyrian 19:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Totally agree, and I'd go further. I think all the speculation and essay-style stuff in the article is original research and should go. The quote from Donaldson himself is a much better reference. Since the Gap/Ring comparison is about half the article and removing it is quite a large step, before I go ahead, comments are welcome. --Telsa 21:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems unfortunate to remove the entire analysis, as it seems to be good stuff. But given the policy against original research, it may need to. The connection to Wagner's Ring is not entirey original, as Donaldson goes on about it at length in my edition of the book. However, many of the connections here seem original, and I cannot find any corroborating sources.--Eyrian 21:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

One thing. I'm kinda new to wiki. But is very solid original research allowed? I mean, the stuff about Warden Dios seems pretty dead on, especially the eye part. Except maybe this: "'Also, 'Warden' is an obvious and deliberate mis-pronunciation of 'Wotan'" Which seems like a possible explanation, a good interpreatation, but "a deliberate and obvious" is way too much. I haven't read everything Donaldson has said in public, but I know that every time I see something about Dios' name, the "Warden" refers to his role rather than his connections to Wotan.Mr Bucket 22:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Tags
I have added the npov and unencyclopedic tags to this article due to concerns about the style. It seems unencylopedic in tone and similarly not neutral-point-of-view. There is also a lack of citations, particularly in the contrast section.Michaelbusch 21:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Does wikipedia require page by page citation of points? If not, I'll get up a citation for the name stuff when I get my copy of The Real Story back from a friend (he should be done already, but give me till Saturday). Many of the name stuff is backed by Donaldson's own words in the afterward of the first novel.
 * However, there's a fair amount that's clearly idle speculation because it directly contradicts Donaldson's own explanation of the names. I took the liberty of trimming all that, and the most informal parts of the article as well.--Mr Bucket 21:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

The "unencyclopedic" tag is for subject matters which are inherently unencyclopedic, not for unencyclopedic articles on a subject which is in fact worthy of an article. Therefore removing tag. AnonMoos 00:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

A Source!
For those of you really interested in the relations between The Gap Cycle and The Ring Cycle, there's a nice little source to look at:. Although I personally find the review to be full of poorly made content, praises and criticisms alike, it is a source! And he/she is a fairly entertaining author. Read under the "Pull the Wagons in a Circle" heading for good info on Wagner/Donaldson comparisons.--Mr Bucket 22:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Plot
Perhaps the plot should be broken down into sections for each novel (and that information also copied to the individual articals for each novel that I just created) RoyBatty42 23:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Articles for Each Novel Created
I just created articles for each book of The Gap Cycle and they are in dire need of plots, images of the cover art and other useful info RoyBatty42 23:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm in the process of reading them so I wrote a section on the second book (there was already one for the first book). I'll continue to write plot summaries (assuming the others haven't been done already, I haven't checked). It would be helpful if people interested in this series would look over what I wrote and fix the plot points\grammar\etc. I'm not exactly a writer. --Thaddius (talk) 13:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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Scripts/Movies in Pre-Production?
Does anyone know if the Gap Cycle's feature rights have been taken up? Twobells (talk) 14:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, according to Donaldson's official website a film company called "Fully Loaded Pictures" has purchased and holds the rights. However, he states nothing about the status of the film as he takes no personal involvement in ANY options, the same was true when The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant was optioned. I have searched for info on the production company itself, but there is absolutely nothing... So far, it looks like no progress is being made. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lazarus Abraham (talk • contribs) 08:27, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Scientific Credibility section
It is mentioned that Stephenson uses some 'real science' but uses them incorrectly, then goes on to mention three examples, but doesn't explain how they're used incorrectly... this is all original research anyway, but can someone maybe mention how they're used incorrectly? --Thaddius (talk) 13:15, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Seems like it'd be fair to also mention what 'real science' was used correctly. Excise (talk) 04:10, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

My physics is a bit rusty but (based on our current understanding of the Universe): Conversely I like his description of how unimaginatively vast (slower than light) space is, and some of the descriptions around spinning ships for pseudo-gravity and sound during EVA NeilRickards (talk) 14:35, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The singularity grenades featured in Chaos and Order would have the same gravitational attraction in black-hole form as they would in grenade form. According to the book "The grenade weighed five hundred kg".  You might get some additional effect from the energy used to detonate it, but that would be governed by E = mc^2, so not much
 * The ships get compressed near a black hole, whereas (counter-intuitively) they should actually be stretched
 * Any transfer of information faster than light should break causality, although this is clearly a deliberate plot device
 * At one point he describes a laser traveling more slowly away from a ship that is doing a meaningful fraction of the speed of light. This is contrary to a central tenet of Einstein's theory of Relativity.  Several paragraphs describing the effects of a high velocity on a ship and its crew also suggest a total lack of understanding of special relativity
 * This is covered - the singularity has to be opened in an open energy source or it just fizzles out.
 * Don't think it says this. We don't directly see what happens to the ship.
 * Fair enough of course many sci-fi stories do this. It wasn't that important a plot point either, and the range chosen for the device is arbitrary.  He could have achieved the same effect without it.
 * Yes this bit was very odd. The faster they go the less "traction" they get from their engine.  However how their engines work is not explained at all either.  I chose to read this as, "this is how their engines work" and "they use terms suggesting they are some type of magic rocket because Reasons".  (As you approach light speed in RL, you do get more massive.  But here they can't get beyond about 0.5C.  Just go with it, since it is another important plot point.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.150.63 (talk) 06:27, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Publication Dates
The publication dates were incorrect, so I adjusted them. The original writer seems to have been using the US publication dates, when some of the books were published earlier in the UK.--Werthead (talk) 15:36, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Needs a Lot of Cleanup
This article needs to be almost completely rewritten. The plot section is not even half-finished, and we have a long essay which I'm not entirely sure belongs on Wikipedia. Anyway, I've read part of the series, and when I finish it (knowing me, in a few months), I'll give this article a nice big makeover.122.106.160.244 (talk) 00:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Copy?
This article is a copy of http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/The_Gap_Cycle but which came first? Also http://www.search.com/reference/The_Gap_Cycle The more I google the more copies I find Mtpaley (talk) 00:27, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Looking at the absoluteastronomy.com page, this wikipedia article is clearly credited as the source at the bottom. DonVincenzo (talk) 01:27, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

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