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Pachychilus

Pachychilus, common name the jute snails, is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Pachychilus is the type genus of the family Pachychilidae.

Distribution
The distribution of species in the genus Pachychilus includes:
 * Cuba (2 species), Venezuela, Belize, Mexico, and others.

Species
Species within the genus Pachychilus include:
 * † Pachychilus anagrammatus Dall, 1913
 * Pachychilus apheles F. G. Thompson, 1967
 * Pachychilus apis (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
 * Pachychilus atratus Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910
 * † Pachychilus caboblanquensis Weisbord, 1962
 * † Pachychilus cancelloides (Aldrich, 1911)
 * † Pachychilus canoasensis Olsson, 1931
 * Pachychilus chrysalis (Brot, 1872)
 * Pachychilus cinereus (Morelet, 1849)
 * Pachychilus conicus (d'Orbigny, 1842)
 * Pachychilus corpulentus F. G. Thompson, 1967
 * Pachychilus corvinus (Morelet, 1849)
 * Pachychilus cumingii I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851
 * Pachychilus dalli Pilsbry, 1896
 * † Pachychilus dimorphica (Woods, 1922)
 * Pachychilus explicatus P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892
 * Pachychilus fuentesi Aguayo, 1936
 * † Pachychilus fulvus Garvie, 2013 †
 * Pachychilus gassiesii (Reeve, 1860)
 * Pachychilus glaphyrus (Morelet, 1849)
 * Pachychilus godmanni (Tristram, 1863)
 * Pachychilus gracilis Tristram, 1864
 * † Pachychilus gracillimus (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935)
 * Pachychilus graphium (Morelet, 1849)
 * Pachychilus hellerii (Brot, 1872)
 * Pachychilus hinkleyi (W. B. Marshall, 1920)
 * Pachychilus humerosus Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910
 * Pachychilus immanis (Morelet, 1851)
 * Pachychilus indiorum (Morelet, 1849)
 * Pachychilus intermedius (von dem Busch, 1844)
 * Pachychilus jansoni H. Adams, 1871
 * Pachychilus lacustris (Morelet, 1849)
 * Pachychilus laevisimus (G.B. Sowerby I, 1824)
 * Pachychilus largillierti (Philippi, 1843)
 * Pachychilus larvatus (Brot, 1877)
 * Pachychilus liebmanni (Philippi, 1848)
 * Pachychilus moctezumensis Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910
 * Pachychilus monachus Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910
 * Pachychilus nigratus (Poey, 1858) - endemic to Villa Clara, Cuba
 * Pachychilus obeliscus (Reeve, 1861)
 * Pachychilus oerstedii Mörch, 1861
 * Pachychilus olssoni Pilsbry, 1950
 * Pachychilus panucula (Morelet, 1851)
 * Pachychilus pasionensis Pilsbry, 1956
 * Pachychilus pilsbryi E. von Martens, 1899
 * Pachychilus planensis (I. Lea, 1858)
 * Pachychilus pleurotoma Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910
 * Pachychilus pluristriatus (Say, 1831)
 * Pachychilus polygonatus (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
 * Pachychilus potomarchus Pilsbry, 1893
 * Pachychilus pottsianus Hinkley, 1920
 * Pachychilus pyramidalis (Morelet, 1849)
 * Pachychilus radix (Brot, 1872)
 * Pachychilus rasconensis Thiele, 1928
 * Pachychilus rivorosai Pilsbry, 1893
 * Pachychilus rubidus (I. Lea, 1857)
 * Pachychilus rusticulus (von dem Busch, 1858)
 * Pachychilus salvini (Tristram, 1863)
 * Pachychilus sargi (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1875)
 * † Pachychilus satillensis (Aldrich, 1911)
 * Pachychilus saussurei (Brot, 1860)
 * Pachychilus schiedeanus (Philippi, 1843)
 * Pachychilus schumoi Pilsbry, 1931
 * Pachychilus subexaratus Crosse & P. Fischer, 1891
 * Pachychilus subnodosus (Philippi, 1847)
 * Pachychilus suturalis Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910
 * † Pachychilus tarataranoides (O. Haas, 1942)
 * † Pachychilus terebriformis (J. Morris, 1859)
 * Pachychilus tristis Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910
 * Pachychilus turati (A. Villa & G. B. Villa, 1854)
 * Pachychilus vallesensis Hinkley, 1907

subgenus Pachychiloides Wenz, 1939
 * † Pachychilus lawtoni Perrilliat, Vega, Espinosa & Naranjo-Garcia, 2008 - fossil from Northeastern Mexico
 * Species brought into synonymy:
 * Pachychilus aquatilis (Reeve, 1859): synonym of Doryssa aquatilis (Reeve, 1859)
 * Pachychilus drakei Arnold & Hannibal in Hannibal, 1912 †: synonym of Goniobasis drakei (Arnold & Hannibal in Hannibal, 1912) † (new combination)
 * Pachychilus glaphyra (Morelet, 1849): synonym of Pachychilus glaphyrus (Morelet, 1849) (incorrect gender of species epithet)
 * Pachychilus indifferens Crosse & P. Fischer, 1891: synonym of Pachychilus corvinus indifferens Crosse & P. Fischer, 1891 (unaccepted rank)
 * Pachychilus lawsoni Hannibal, 1912 †: synonym of Lymnaea lawsoni (Hannibal, 1912) † (new combination)
 * Pachychilus parvum I. Lea, 1857: synonym of Rehderiella parva (I. Lea, 1857) (original combination)
 * Pachychilus pila Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910: synonym of Amnipila pila (Pilsbry & Hinkley, 1910) (original combination)
 * Pachychilus renovatus (Brot, 1862): synonym of Pachychilus cumingii I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 (replacement name for Pachychilus cumingii I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 as a secondary homonym)
 * Pachychilus reticancellata [sic] †: synonym of Pachychilus recticancellata (Kobayashi & Suzuki, 1939) † (incorrect subsequent spelling)
 * Pachychilus suavis Dall, 1913 †: synonym of Goniobasis suavis (Dall, 1913) †
 * Pachychilus tristrami Crosse & P. Fischer, 1892: synonym of Pachychilus gracilis Tristram, 1864 (invalid: unnecessary replacement name for Pachychilus gracilis)
 * Pachychilus violaceus (Preston, 1911) - endemic to the area from Santiago de Cuba to Baracoa, Cuba: synonym of Pachychilus nigratus (Poey, 1858) (junior synonym)
 * Pachychilus vulneratus P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892: synonym of Pachychilus chrysalis (Brot, 1872) (junior synonym)

Human use
One of the Maya peoples, the Lacandon people, now Mexico's native peoples from state Chiapas, use Pachychilus indiorum, known locally as "t’unu", as a type of protein supplement to their diet when animal protein is unavailable. In addition, the shells from this "chuti" snail have great nutritional value, as they provide calcium and slaked lime when burnt. They are often preferred as a lime source over local limestone or other freshwater snail species for their purity as an alkali. The slaked lime is added to maize during the process of making maize dough for tortillas, pozole, and other foods. Slaked lime allows the release of amino acids such as tryptophan and lysine and the vitamin niacin, which would otherwise be unavailable from the maize (unable to be metabolized) if the lime were not added.

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Sunnybank

Sunnybank may refer to:

England

 * The Sunny Bank area of Bury, Greater Manchester is sometimes incorrectly written as Sunnybank
 * The Sunnybank Nature Reserve in Sheffield

Australia

 * Sunnybank, a suburb of Brisbane
 * The electoral district of Sunnybank in Brisbane
 * Sunnybank, a former town that was absorbed into Brisbane
 * Sunnybank, an area of Aberdeen

United States

 * Sunnybank, a historic home in Hot Springs, North Carolina
 * Sunnybank Kennels, founded by writer and dog breeder Albert Payson Terhune in Wayne, New Jersey

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Matti Salminen

Matti Kalervo Salminen (born 7 July 1945) is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired, who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. He is distinguished by an imposing figure and height (6' 5"), a cavernous, heavy, dark voice with an expansive upper register, and an expressive face. According to one reviewer, in his prime Salminen was "... simply the largest bass voice in captivity. It is not just its roar in powering over Wagner's maximum orchestra, but the way he carves the sonority and forms the color."

Salminen has a special gift for playing menacing, threatening characters. He performed as Fafner and Hagen in the PBS video broadcast Ring Cycle from the Metropolitan Opera, for the largest viewing-audience of the Ring in history.

Biography
Salminen was born in Turku. In his youth he earned money for voice lessons by singing Finnish tangos in night clubs. He has published an anthology of Finnish tangos. He first caught public eye as a lucky understudy in the role of King Philip II, when he was just 24 years old. He continued performing this role until (almost) the end of his career; a DVD was released in 2014.

Salminen is a widely video-taped singing actor with three different performances as Hagen available on DVD; also two performances as the Commendatore, several as Sarastro, two as Hunding and two as Daland. Videotaped performances and films are also available as King Phillip II, the Grand Inquisitor, Seneca, Gurnemanz, Pogner, King Marke, Kaspar, Rasputin, Boris Godunov, and Prince Ivan Khovansky.

At the Bayreuth Festival he first appeared in 1976 as Titurel (Parsifal), Hunding (Die Walküre), and Fasolt (Das Rheingold) in the Jahrhundertring (Centenary Ring) in 1976, celebrating the centenary of both the festival and the first performance of the complete cycle, conducted by Pierre Boulez and staged by Patrice Chéreau, recorded and filmed in 1979 and 1980. He continued until 1989 adding Fafner (Das Rheingold, Siegfried), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Heinrich (Lohengrin), Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Landgraf (Tannhäuser) and Hagen (Götterdämmerung) to his roles there. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as King Marke on 9 January 1981, and performed 132 times there in several roles, until 28 March 2008.

He sang in the premiere of Sallinen's Kuningas Lear in 2000 (King Lear, title role), and Jukka Linkola's Robin Hood in 2011 (Sheriff).

Aside from operatic roles, Salminen also performs in sacred music and concert recitals. He gave a farewell concert at the Zürich Opera House in December 2016.

Awards and honors

 * Salminen has won two Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording, in 1982 and 1991, both for recordings of Wagner.
 * In 2017, Salminen received the ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award.
 * In 1988 he received the Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
 * He was recognized with the title Kammersänger in three times: in Berlin in 1995, and in Bavaria and Austria in 2003.

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Tidju Boxing
Tidju Boxing might be real, but the iron fist art, which is the entire subject of this article, is OR, nn, and has apparently been speedied before. — brighterorange  (talk) 15:03, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
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Peter Robinson (poet)

Peter Robinson (born 18 February 1953, full name: Peter John Edgley Robinson) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire.

Life and career
Born Salford, Lancashire, the son of an Anglican curate and geography teacher, Peter Robinson grew up, with the exception of five years spent in Wigan (1962-1967), in poor urban parishes of north and south Liverpool. He graduated from the University of York in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine Perfect Bound and helped organise several international Cambridge Poetry Festivals between 1977 and 1985, acting as festival coordinator in 1979. He was awarded a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1981 for a thesis on the poetry of Donald Davie, Roy Fisher and Charles Tomlinson. Among the most decisive events for his creative life, a sexual assault in Italy upon his girlfriend in 1975 — which he witnessed at gunpoint — formed the material for some of the poems in This Other Life (1988) and provided the plot outline for September in the Rain, a novel published in September 2016.

During the 1980s he was one of the organisers of the exhibition Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy at Kettle's Yard and the Tate Gallery, co-edited the magazine Numbers and was advisor to the 1988 Poetry International at the South Bank Centre, London. After teaching for the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at the University of Cambridge, he held various posts in Japan including teaching English Literature and English as a second language at Tohoku University in Sendai from 1991 to 2005. He underwent a successful brain tumor operation in 1993. He married Ornella Trevisan in 1995 and they have two daughters. In 2007 he returned to the UK to take up a post as Professor of English and American literature at the University of Reading. There he founded Creative Writing at Reading and collaborated in its development into a full joint degree program with English Literature and a number of other arts subjects, to which an MA degree was added for the 2022-23 academic year. Robinson organised a centenary conference on the work of the poet Bernard Spencer (1909–1963) which resulted in his editing a new collected edition in 2011, and helped found the Reading Poetry Festival (2013–17). He is poetry editor for Two Rivers Press, a poetry editor of The Fortnightly Review and literary executor for the estates of the poets Roy Fisher (1930–2017) and Mairi MacInnes (1925–2017).

Critical reception
Peter Robinson's earliest published poetry received numerous notices, including one in which the poet and novelist James Lasdun observed that ‘he is a poet, and one with a sensibility which, if attuned only to a somewhat limited range of experience, is unusually refined’ in Siting Fires 1 (1983). Eric Griffiths’ in PN Review 35 (1983), described Robinson as ‘in my judgement, the finest poet of his generation’. On the publication of This Other Life (1988) Martin Dodsworth in the Guardian (Friday 13 May 1988) described the book as ‘grave and deliberated…beautiful and mysterious too’. Rachel Billington singled it out in the Financial Times (20 Feb 1988), and it was named a ‘Book of the Year’ in the Sunday Telegraph (4 Dec 1988). Stephen Romer described it as ‘love poetry of an exemplary kind’ in the Times Literary Supplement (19 Aug 1988) and John Kerrigan found in it ‘a miracle of balance’ in the London Review of Books (13 Oct 1988). Four years later, Nicholas Tredell observed, of his first poems written from Japan, that 'he thus joins a line of expatriate poets which includes Empson and Enright. The challenges for such a poet are threefold: how to negotiate with cultural difference – an especially complex problem today, when Eurocentrism has been strongly challenged; how to relate to the world he has left; and how to distinguish himself from his poetic predecessors. Robinson meets these challenges with tact and skill.'

John Ashbery characterised his poetry as ‘curiously strong’ in PN Review (1993), while Peter Swaab, again in the TLS (4 Sept 1998) noted its ‘staying power’. James Keery articulated underlying themes in ‘Marred in a way you recognize’ in PN Review 126 (Mar-April 1999). The first appreciation in a critical study came with Sumie Okada's ‘A Sense of Being Misplaced’, Western Writers in Japan (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999). Robinson's work continued to receive attention, and the publication of his Selected Poems (2003) prompted a number of reviews including a welcome by Patrick McGuinness in the Poetry Review (Winter 2005), a review in The Japan Times (20 Oct 2003) by David Burleigh, and one in Romanian by Catalin Ghita.

His critical standing was underlined by The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson, a collection of fourteen essays with a bibliography (1976–2006), edited by Adam Piette and Katy Price. The volume includes a preface by Roy Fisher in which he observes: ‘Thus the life-events don’t provide the driving force of the poems; rather they make up the terrain, a varied surface across which the poet travels, living his life but always exercising a strong disposition to make poems from somewhere close to everyday events. It’s as if he carries a listening device, alert for the moments when the tectonic plates of mental experience slide quietly one beneath another to create paradoxes and complexities that call for poems to be made. These are not the ordinary urgencies of autobiography, but they are the urgencies of new creations’ (p. 22).

Responses to The Look of Goodbye include Ben Hickman's in Jacket, and Tom Phillips’ in Eyewear, while Ian Brinton features his observations on the art in Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). A review of The Returning Sky (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for the Spring quarter) in the Autumn 2012 issue of Poetry Review (102/3)described Robinson as 'a major English poet', and Peter Riley noticed that his 'poems exploit a paradox: the sense of meticulously careful writing which places the poet in complete control, reinforced by his access to formalities of metre and rhyme when he needs them, work to undermine his self-security, his sense of standing firmly on the ground.' His Collected Poems 1976-2016 appeared in February 2017 and was noticed in a number of reviews including those by Ian Pople in The Manchester Review and Will May in Journal of Poetics Research. More recently, his support for the remain side in the 2016 EU Referendum found poetic voice in Ravishing Europa, and friendship with the painter David Inshaw in Bonjour Mr Inshaw. Individual poems by Peter Robinson have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Romanian, and Spanish.

Robinson's other writings have also received critical attention. The translations of Vittorio Sereni, made in collaboration with Marcus Perryman, were described by Charles Tomlinson in The Independent (1990) as 'versions that possess an uncanny accuracy, true to the fragmented, self-communing, smoldering and combustible humanity of Sereni's work'. Choosing The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems (2002) as a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, Douglas Dunn wrote that 'the range is eclectic without being scattered confusingly across too many languages and cultures. For me at least, much of this work is new' while Glyn Pursglove, reviewing the book in Acumen, found that Robinson's 'attempted fidelity is not allowed to distort his own use of English and English verse and there is a great deal to admire and enjoy here. Indeed, one could wish the book a good deal longer.' John Welle recommended the translations of Luciano Erba (2007) in a jacket comment as 'marvelously attuned … accurate, carefully crafted, and in harmony with the idiom and spirit of the originals.' They were awarded the 2008 John Florio Prize.

Donald Davie reviewed In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets (1992) in the London Review of Books noting that 'Robinson deserves every credit for forcing his way into the thickets.' Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen (2002) was found by Andrea Brady in Poetry Review to show 'The conviction, pleasures and gratitude of committed reading are evident in this affirmation of the poetic contract between readers and writers. 'Angela Leighton wrote for the Times Literary Supplement of Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations (2005) that 'Robinson has been a generous promoter of contemporary poetry for decades, and this collection of essays bears witness to his dedication and energy. He writes with an unformulaic enthusiasm, moving easily from biographical, political and poetic context to the nitty-gritty of close reading, while also striking an easy, readable tone'. Five years later, in the same journal, Justin Quinn found that Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible (2010) was 'Vigorously and wittily argued … an excellent and provocative contribution to a complex debate.' Reviewing Poetry & Money: A Speculation in Essays in Criticism, Adrian Grafe wrote that 'One comes away from Poetry & Money not only stimulated (and sometimes taxed), but above all glad and grateful to have encountered such unfailing enthusiasm for, and commitment to, the art of poetry.'

Robinson has published a selection of aphorisms called Spirits of the Stair in 2009, Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories in 2013, a collection of prose poetry and memoirs entitled The Draft Will (2015) and a novel, September in the Rain in 2016. His fiction has been noticed, with David Cooke writing in The London Magazine that the collection of short stories is 'an impressive body of work that deserves to gain a wider readership', while Paula Byrne wrote that 'September in the Rain is a novel of extraordinary beauty and courage', Jonathan Coe found in it 'a kind of redemption thanks to the tone or rueful, quizzical honesty', and Giles Foden saw it as 'a triumph of style, its sentences being assayed with a poet's feeling for the weight of each word.' Ian Brinton described it on his Tears in the Fence blog for 29 August 2016 as 'a stunningly moving novel'. Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work appeared in October 2021 edited by Tom Phillips and with chapters on many aspects of his writings by Ian Brinton, Peter Carpenter, Tony Crowley, Martin Dodsworth, Andrew Houwen, Miki Iwata, James Peake, Piers Pennington, Adam Piette, Elaine Randell, Anna Saroldi, Matthew Sperling and Alison Stone, with an up-to-date Bibliography by Derek Slade.

Archives
A small portion of Peter Robinson's literary manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs, autograph correspondence, signed editions, and sound recordings are held by the British Library, the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester, the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds, the Centro Manoscritti at the University of Pavia, the University of Sheffield Library, Hull History Centre, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, and the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. In September 2021 a first tranche of Robinson's archive, composed of publications, correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and related papers was deposited at the University of Reading's Special Collections. A symposium to explore the acquisition, organised by Steven Matthews, was held on 9-10 July 2023.

Primary bibliography
(organized under the following sub-headings)

Poetry

 * The Benefit Forms (Lobby Press: 1978)
 * Going Out to Vote (Many Press: 1978)
 * Overdrawn Account (Many Press: 1980) ISBN 0-9504916-9-1
 * Anaglypta (Many Press: 1985) ISBN 0-907326-11-0
 * This Other Life (Carcanet: 1988) Winner of the Cheltenham Prize ISBN 0-85635-737-5
 * More about the Weather (Robert Jones: 1989) ISBN 978-0-9514240-0-1 (hardback) ISBN 0-9514240-1-7 (paperback)
 * Entertaining Fates (Carcanet: 1992) ISBN 0-85635-975-0
 * Leaf-Viewing (Robert Jones: 1992) ISBN 0-9514240-2-5
 * Lost and Found (Carcanet: 1997) ISBN 1-85754-176-6
 * Via Sauro Variations (Ridgeback: 1999)
 * Anywhere You Like (Pine Wave: 2000)
 * About Time Too (Carcanet: 2001) ISBN 1-85754-510-9
 * Selected Poems 1976-2001 (Carcanet: 2003) ISBN 1-85754-625-3
 * Ghost Characters (Shoestring: 2006) ISBN 1-904886-25-6
 * There are Avenues (Brodie: 2006) ISBN 0-9542649-5-9
 * The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2006 (Shearsman Books: 2008) ISBN 978-1-905700-45-5
 * Ekphrastic Marriage (Pine Wave Press: 2009) with artworks by Andrew McDonald
 * English Nettles and Other Poems (Two Rivers Press: 2010) illustrated by Sally Castle ISBN 978-1-901677-65-2 (hardback)and second, revised edition (Two Rivers Press: 2022) ISBN 978-1-901677-65-2 (paperback)
 * The Returning Sky (Shearsman Books: 2012) Poetry Book Society Recommendation ISBN 978-1-84861-186-3
 * Like the Living End (Worple Press: 2013) ISBN 978-1-915048-02-8
 * Buried Music (Shearsman Books: 2015) ISBN 978-1-84861-389-8
 * An Epithalamium (Pine Wave Press: 2016)
 * Collected Poems 1976-2016 (Shearsman Books: 2017) ISBN 978-1-84861-524-3
 * Ravishing Europa (Worple Press: 2019) ISBN 978-1-905208-43-2
 * Bonjour Mr Inshaw: Poems by Peter Robinson, Paintings by David Inshaw (Two Rivers Press: 2020) ISBN 978-1-909747-56-2
 * Retrieved Attachments (Two Rivers Press: 2023) ISBN 978-1-915048-059
 * Ligurian Diary (Pine Wave Press: 2023)

Poetry in translation

 * After Chardin: Selected Poems translated by Takao Furukawa (Okayama: 1996)
 * L'attaccapanni e altre poesie translated by Peter Robinson and Ornella Trevisan (Moretti e Vitali: 2005) ISBN 978-88-7186-267-5
 * Approach to Distance: Selected Poems from Japan translated with an introduction by Miki Iwata (Isobar Press: 2017) ISBN 978-4-907359-18-8
 * L'apprendista libraio e altri versi parmigiani translated by Pietro De Marchi, the author and Ornella Trevisan (Silva Editore: 2023) ISBN 978-88-7765-238-6

Prose

 * Untitled Deeds (Salt Publishing: 2004) ISBN 1-84471-044-0
 * Spirits of the Stair: Selected Aphorisms (Shearsman Books: 2009) ISBN 978-1-84861-062-0
 * Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories (Two Rivers Press: 2013) ISBN 978-1-901677-93-5
 * The Draft Will (Isobar Press: 2015) ISBN 978-4-907359-11-9
 * September in the Rain: A Novel (Holland House Books: 2016) ISBN 978-1-910688-10-6
 * The Constitutionals: A Fiction (Two Rivers Press: 2019) ISBN 978-1-909747-48-7

Translations

 * Six Poems by Ungaretti (Plain Wrapper: 1981) with Marcus Perryman
 * The Disease of the Elm and Other Poems by Vittorio Sereni (The Many Press: 1981) with Marcus Perryman ISBN 0-907326-08-0
 * Selected Poems of Vittorio Sereni (Anvil: 1990) with Marcus Perryman ISBN 0-85646-204-7
 * When I was at my most beautiful and other poems by Noriko Ibaragi (Skate: 1992) with Fumiko Horikawa ISBN 0-9515145-2-0
 * The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems (Worple: 2002) Poetry Book Society Recommendation ISBN 978-0-9539477-4-4
 * Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni (Chicago UP: 2006) with Marcus Perryman ISBN 978-0-226-74878-8 (hardback) and (Chicago UP: 2013) ISBN 9780226055541 (paperback)
 * The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba (Princeton UP: 2007) Winner of the John Florio Prize ISBN 978-0-691-12763-7 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-691-12764-4 (paperback)
 * Poems by Antonia Pozzi (One World Classics: 2011) ISBN 978-1-84749-185-5
 * Reports after the Fire: Selected Poems of Pietro De Marchi (Shearsman Books: 2022) ISBN 978-1-84861-798-8
 * The Collected Poems of Giorgio Bassani (Agincourt Press: 2023) with Roberta Antognini ISBN 978-1-946328-36-6

Criticism

 * In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets (Oxford University Press: 1992) ISBN 978-0-19-811248-8
 * Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen (Oxford University Press: 2002) ISBN 978-0-19-925113-1
 * Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations (Oxford University Press: 2005) ISBN 978-0-19-927325-6
 * Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible (Liverpool University Press: 2010) ISBN 978-1-84631-218-2 and (Liverpool University Press: 2021) ISBN 978-1-80085-970-8 (paperback)
 * The Sound Sense of Poetry (Cambridge University Press: 2018) ISBN 978-1-108-42296-3
 * Poetry & Money: A Speculation (Liverpool University Press: 2020) ISBN 978-1-78962-253-9
 * The Personal Art: Essays, Reviews & Memoirs (Shearsman Books: 2021) ISBN 978-1-84861-743-8

Interviews

 * Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Shearsman: 2006) ISBN 978-1-905700-04-2

As editor

 * With All the Views: Collected Poems of Adrian Stokes (Carcanet Press and Black Swan Books: 1981) ISBN 0-85635-334-5
 * Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work (Open University Press: 1985) ISBN 0-335-10588-2
 * Liverpool Accents: Seven Poets and a City (Liverpool University Press: 1996) ISBN 978-0-85323-671-9
 * The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Studies (Liverpool University Press: 2000) with John Kerrigan ISBN 978-0-85323-525-5
 * News for the Ear: A Homage to Roy Fisher (Stride Publications: 2000) with Robert Sheppard ISBN 1-900152-67-3
 * Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute (Shoestring Press: 2005) ISBN 978-1-904886-10-5
 * An Unofficial Roy Fisher (Shearsman Books: 2010) ISBN 978-1-84861-120-7
 * Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose of Bernard Spencer (Bloodaxe Books: 2011) ISBN 1-85224-891-2
 * Reading Poetry: An Anthology (Two Rivers Press: 2011) ISBN 978-1-901677-72-0
 * A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens (Two Rivers Press with the English Association: 2012) ISBN 978-1-901677-78-2
 * Bernard Spencer: Essays on his Poetry & Life (Shearsman Books: 2012) ISBN 978-1-848612-54-9
 * The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press: 2013) ISBN 978-0-19-959680-5 and (Oxford University Press: 2016) ISBN 978-0-19-877854-7 paperback
 * The Arts of Peace: An Anthology of Poetry (Two Rivers Press: 2014) with Adrian Blamires ISBN 978-1-909747-04-3
 * Roy Fisher, An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013 (Shearsman Books: 2014) ISBN 978-1-84861-300-3
 * Thomas Hardy, Places and Other Poems chosen and with an afterword by Peter Robinson (Two Rivers Press: 2014) ISBN 978-1-909747-06-7
 * F. T. Prince, Memoirs of Caravaggio (Perdika Press: 2015) ISBN 978-1-905649-19-8
 * The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Others (Two Rivers Press: 2015) with John Pilling ISBN 978-1-909747-12-8
 * Henry James Poems: A Keepsake of Samples (The British Library: 2016)
 * Roy Fisher, Slakki: New and Neglected Poems (Bloodaxe Books: 2016) ISBN 978-1-78037-322-5
 * Roy Fisher, A Furnace (Flood Editions: 2018) ISBN 978-0-9981695-5-2
 * Roy Fisher, The Citizen and the Making of City (Bloodaxe Books: 2022) ISBN 978-1-78037-596-0

Secondary bibliography

 * The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson edited by Adam Piette and Katy Price (Salt Publishing: 2007) ISBN 978-1-84471-244-1
 * 'Peter Robinson at Sixty' edited by Adam Piette, Blackbox Manifold no. 9 (2012): http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/index.html
 * Martin Dodsworth, "Dormiveglia in Peter Robinson's Poetry", English: The Journal of the English Association vol. 67, no. 259 (Winter 2018): https://academic.oup.com/english/article-abstract/67/259/321/5238806
 * Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work edited by Tom Phillips (Shearsman Books: 2021) ISBN 978-1-84861-744-5

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Little Paxton

Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village and civil parish that lies 5 mi south of Huntingdon and 1.7 mi north of St Neots. It is in the district and historic county of Huntingdonshire. Until the 1970s it was a minor village and the church was under threat of closure. The building of a housing estate and a junior school revived its fortunes and the establishment of the Paxton Pits Nature Reserve around part of the nearby gravel pits has brought visitors to the village.

The nature reserve features lakes, woodland and part of the Ouse floodplain and is home to large numbers of cormorants and many summer visitors such as nightingales and a large number of passerine birds. Grebes, ducks and geese have colonised the lakes.

The population of the village of Little Paxton is now much larger than that of Great Paxton.

History
Little Paxton is not explicitly mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 but is covered by the entry for Great Paxton (or Pachstone as it was then). At that time the settlement of Pacstone had 69 households, which is considered to be a very large settlement for that period, and contained 3 mills and a church (presumably the church at Great Paxton). All of the lands at Little Paxton were held by Countess Judith who was a niece of William the Conqueror. There were a number of fisheries on the river Great Ouse at Little Paxton, the earliest of which can be traced back to 1544. The open fields in the parish were enclosed by an Act of Parliament in 1811–12.

The quarrying of gravel has been an important industry in Little Paxton since the 19th century when gravel from Paxton Park was used in local housing. It was in the 1940s that a much large scale quarrying operation began in the area to the north of Little Paxton village. In 1989, the Paxton Pits Nature Reserve opened on the site of those quarries which by then were no longer used.

Government
As a civil parish, Little Paxton has a parish council. The parish council is elected by the residents of the parish who have registered on the electoral roll; the parish council is the lowest tier of government in England. A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields. The parish council reviews all planning applications that might affect the parish and makes recommendations to Huntingdonshire District Council, which is the local planning authority for the parish. The parish council also represents the views of the parish on issues such as local transport, policing and the environment. The parish council raises its own tax to pay for these services, known as the parish precept, which is collected as part of the Council Tax. The parish council consist of fourteen councillors.

Little Paxton was in the historic and administrative county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, the village was part of the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. Then in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, Little Paxton became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire.

The second tier of local government is Huntingdonshire District Council which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and has its headquarters in Huntingdon. Huntingdonshire District Council has 52 councillors representing 29 district wards. Huntingdonshire District Council collects the council tax, and provides services such as building regulations, local planning, environmental health, leisure and tourism. Little Paxton is a district ward and is represented on the district council by one councillor. District councillors serve for four-year terms following elections to Huntingdonshire District Council.

For Little Paxton the third tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge. The county council provides county-wide services such as major road infrastructure, fire and rescue, education, social services, libraries and heritage services. Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions. Little Paxton is part of the electoral division of Little Paxton and St Neots North and is represented on the county council by two councillors.

At Westminster Little Paxton is in the parliamentary constituency of Huntingdon.

Geography
Little Paxton lies on the western side of the Great Ouse river valley between 14 m and 32 m above ordnance datum and the parish covers an area of 1150 acres. The boundary of the parish to the south and east is the Great Ouse and to the west is the River Kym.

The A1 road follows the route of the Great North Road and lies to the west of Little Paxton; it runs roughly from south-west to north through the parish. There is a restricted access junction at the northern edge of Little Paxton (cannot join A1 southbound) and a restricted access junction that only allows southbound access to the A1 to the south-west of the village. The A1 Road is Northbound traffic to Peterborough and Southbound to London but this only happens from the South-West of Little Paxton

On the eastern side of the parish are a number of disused and working gravel pits. The disused gravel pits are now lakes and the largest of these are Heronry South Lake and Sailing Lake while the smaller lakes are Weedy Lake, Rudd Lake, Cloudy Lake and Hayling Lake.

The village and parish lies on a bedrock of Oxford Clay and in regions there are superficial Glaciofluvial and River Terrace deposits of sand and gravel from the Quaternary period, together with alluvium (clay and silt) from the same period. The land in the north of the parish is characterised as Oadby Member Diamicton, again from the Quaternary period, with rocks formed during Ice Age conditions by glaciers scouring the land. On the western side of the parish, the soil has been classified as a freely draining and slightly acid loamy soil. On the eastern side of the parish, the soil is classified as freely draining and slightly acid but a base-rich loamy soil. The main agricultural land use within the parish of Little Paxton is grassland, but to the north-west of the parish there is a wooded area

Demography
The usual resident population of Little Paxton (including Eynesbury) in the 2011 census was 3,244 of whom 49.6% were male and 50.4% female; the population density was 1,832 persons per square mile (706 per km2). There were 1,361 households; 23.7% of these households consisted of one person, 72.5% contained one family group and there were 3.8% of other household types. The census showed that 15.7% of households had one or more dependent children under the age of 18, and 22.6% of households consisted of people who were all over the age of 65. The mean average number of people per household was 2.4 people.

Of the usual resident population, 19.2% were under the age of 18 years, 61.5% were between 18 and 65 years old, and 19.4% were over the age of 65 years. The mean age was 42.9 years and the median age was 45 years. In 2011, 53.2% of the residents of Little Paxton were involved in part-time, full-time or self-employment. The three major industry areas for residents of Little Paxton were 16.9% in Wholesale and Retail (including repair of motor vehicles), 12.3% in Manufacturing, and 11.5% employed in Human Health and Social Work.

The 2011 census showed that 94.9% of the residents of Little Paxton were born in the United Kingdom, with 1.8% of residents coming from other European Union countries, and 3.3% coming from the rest of the world. At the same time, 97.7% of people in Little Paxton described themselves as white, 0.9% as having mixed or multiple ethnic groups, and 0.8% as being Asian or British Asian, with the remainder in another ethnic group. In that same census, 62.6% described themselves as Christian, 28.5% described themselves as having no religion, 7.7% did not specify a religion, and 1.2% described themselves as having another religion.

Historical population
The population of Little Paxton from 1801 to 1901 varied between 225 and 310 people.

Census: Little Paxton 1801–1931, 1961 Census: Little Paxton 1951, 1971, 1991 Census: Little Paxton 2001, 2011

Culture and Community
The village has a public house called The Anchor. Gravel extraction remains an important industry in and around the village. There is also a fencing company, a tool hire and a conservatory village. On the edge of the village, a derelict industrial site has been redeveloped to provide modern housing on an island in the middle of the River Great Ouse, between the lock and the weir stream. Little Paxton playing field has two football pitches, a cricket pitch and a floodlit multi-purpose games area. A variety of water sports including waterski, jet ski, and sailing are available on the lakes at Little Paxton. With suitable permits, fishing is allowed in some of the gravel pits and on the river Great Ouse in Little Paxton.

Transport
The Ouse Valley Way is a 150 mi long footpath that follows the River Great Ouse from its source near Syresham in Northamptonshire to its mouth in The Wash near King's Lynn and passes through the village. Route 12 of the National Cycle Network is a 121 mi route from Enfield Lock to Spalding and passes through the west of the parish.

It is 1.7 mi from Little Paxton to the railway station at St Neots which is on the East Coast Main Line where regular services run south to London and north to Huntingdon and Peterborough.

Little Paxton also has a Number 66 Bus Service run by Whippet (bus company) which runs South to St Neots and North to Huntingdon and Fenstanton.

Education
Little Paxton Primary School opened in 1972 and has around 360 pupils aged from four to eleven as of December 2022. Senior school pupils attend Longsands Academy or Ernulf Academy in St Neots.

Landmarks
Following the designation of 325 acre of disused gravel quarries as a Site of Special Scientific Interest by the Nature Conservancy Council, a nature reserve on a part of the site at Little Paxton Pits was opened in 1989. The nature reserve has a number of walking trails and animal observation hides, together with a visitor centre and a small car park. With the acquisition of further land after 2001, the nature reserve was extended to 192 acre. In 2007 Huntingdonshire District Council announced a plan to extend the nature reserve to more than 700 acre as part of the approval for further extraction of gravel from the Paxton Pits by the Aggregate Industries.

Little Paxton Hall is a Grade II* listed building, close to the church, that was re-built c.1738 but incorporates features that are probably from a 17th-century building on the site. The house has a west facing 18th century facade and was extended to the south in the 19th century.

Religious sites
The Church of England parish church at Little Paxton is dedicated to St James and is a Grade II* listed building that consists of a chancel, nave, south aisle, west tower and a north porch. The church was not mentioned in the Domesday Book, but there is evidence that there was a stone church on the site by the end of the 12th century. The west tower was built c.1400 and the south aisle c.1500. The west tower had just four bells but these had not been rung since 1899 when it was decided that they needed re-hanging. A refurbishment project in 2010–11, which had some National Lottery funding, saw the original bells restored, the acquisition of two-second hand bells, and a new bell cast. The church now has a clock striking bell and a peal of six bells; the new bells were rung for the first time in November 2011. The Church of St James, Little Paxton, is in the deanery of St Neots in the diocese of Ely.

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Alexander Poynton

Alexander Poynton OBE (8 August 1853 – 9 January 1935) was an Australian politician. He held ministerial office under Prime Minister Billy Hughes, serving as Treasurer (1916–1917), Minister for Home and Territories (1920–1921), and Postmaster-General (1921–1923).

Poynton was a shearer and union leader before entering politics. He served in the South Australian House of Assembly (1893–1901) as a supporter of the labour movement before winning election to the House of Representatives at the 1901 federal election. Following the Australian Labor Party split of 1916 he followed Hughes into the Nationalist Party. He lost his seat at the 1922 election.

Early life
Poynton was born on 8 August 1853 in Castlemaine, Victoria. He was the son of Rosanna (née McFadden) and Alexander Poynton; his mother was Irish and his father was from Liverpool, England. He left school at the age of 14 and subsequently worked as a miner, station-hand, and shearer. He married Harriet Brown in Ballarat in 1880.

Poynton was involved in the Australian labour movement from its beginnings. He was president of the Creswick branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association and in 1886 became the inaugural treasurer of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia (ASU). The following year he moved to Port Augusta, South Australia, to work as an ASU organiser. He was secretary of the local branch.

Colonial politics
With his support in the labour movement, Poynton unsuccessfully stood for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Newcastle at the 1890 election, before his election to the adjacent seat of Flinders at the 1893 election, serving as an Independent Labor MP. As an Independent Labor MP he attended the United Labor Party caucus meetings without being bound by its decisions, but supported it in divisions.

By 1899, however, disaffection with Premier Charles Kingston led him to cross the floor with four others to defeat his ministry, citing Kingston's overbearing nature and his tardiness in implementing adequate land reforms as motives. His actions earned him a place as Commissioner for Crown Lands in the Solomon ministry in 1899, which lasted only eight days. Poynton's decisive role in ousting Kingston lost him many Labor friends.

He served in the House of Assembly until 1901.

Federal politics
In 1901 Poynton successfully stood for the Australian House of Representatives in the inaugural federal election as a Free Trade Party member for the Division of South Australia (which was not divided into electorates). Though labelled a Free Trader, he was actually an Australasian National League (National Defence League) candidate. At the 1903 election, South Australia was split into single-member electorates, and Poynton was elected as the first member for the Division of Grey in the vast northern region of South Australia. In May 1904 he became a pledged Labour member.

During his time in parliament Poynton served variously as a member of the royal commission on stripper harvesters, chairman of committees, Treasurer, Minister for Home and Territories and Postmaster-General. Among his political achievements was the establishment of a railway between Port Augusta and Western Australia, for which he lobbied nearly 18 years.

During fiery internal party debates on the issue of conscription during World War I, Poynton became a strong conscriptionist. Along with several other pro-conscription Labor members, he left the party in November 1916 in support of Labor leader and Prime Minister Billy Hughes to help found first the National Labor Party and later the Nationalist Party. Appointed OBE in 1920 for his work on repatriation issues, Poynton was defeated at the 1922 election.

Death
He died in Toorak Gardens and was buried in North Road Cemetery. His wife, a son and four daughters survived him.

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Great Paxton

Great Paxton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. It is in Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England. The village lies 2.6 mi north of St Neots in the Great Ouse river valley.

The population was 1,007 in the 2011 census. Despite its name, Great Paxton's population is much smaller than the neighbouring parish of Little Paxton.

History
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.

Great Paxton was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Toseland in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Pachstone and Parchestune in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Great Paxton; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £29.2 and the rent had increased to £33.5 in 1086.

The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 69 households at Great Paxton. There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Great Paxton in 1086 is that it was within the range of 241 and 345 people.

The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands. In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to 120 acre; this was the amount of land that was considered to be sufficient to support a single family. By 1086, the hide had become a unit of tax assessment rather than an actual land area; a hide was the amount of land that could be assessed as £1 for tax purposes. The survey records that there were 39 ploughlands at Great Paxton in 1086 and that there was the capacity for a further two ploughlands. In addition to the arable land, there was 80 acre of meadows, 1043 acre of woodland and three water mills at Great Paxton.

The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland. It was originally a way of collecting a tribute to pay off the Danes when they attacked England, and was only levied when necessary. Following the Norman Conquest, the geld was used to raise money for the King and to pay for continental wars; by 1130, the geld was being collected annually. Having determined the value of a manor's land and other assets, a tax of so many shillings and pence per pound of value would be levied on the land holder. While this was typically two shillings in the pound the amount did vary; for example, in 1084 it was as high as six shillings in the pound. For the manor at Great Paxton the total tax assessed was 25 geld.

By 1086 there was already a church and a priest at Great Paxton.

The manor of Great Paxton was held by Countess Judith who was a niece of William the Conqueror. The manor lands were held by the Earls of Huntingdon until c.1192 and shortly afterwards the manor was split into two-halves, de la Haye's manor and Great Paxton manor. There were fisheries on the Great Ouse at Great Paxton belonging to both manors from before 1279.

Government
As a civil parish, Great Paxton has a parish council. The parish council is elected by the residents of the parish who have registered on the electoral roll; the parish council is the lowest tier of government in England. A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields. The parish council reviews all planning applications that might affect the parish and makes recommendations to Huntingdonshire District Council, which is the local planning authority for the parish. The parish council also represents the views of the parish on issues such as local transport, policing and the environment. The parish council raises its own tax to pay for these services, known as the parish precept, which is collected as part of the Council Tax. The parish council has eight councillors and normally meets six times a year.

Great Paxton was in the historic and administrative county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, the village was part of the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. Then in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, Great Paxton became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire.

The second tier of local government is Huntingdonshire District Council which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and has its headquarters in Huntingdon. Huntingdonshire District Council has 52 councillors representing 29 district wards. Huntingdonshire District Council collects the council tax, and provides services such as building regulations, local planning, environmental health, leisure and tourism. Great Paxton is a part of the district ward of Gransden and The Offords and is represented on the district council by two councillors. District councillors serve for four-year terms following elections to Huntingdonshire District Council.

For Great Paxton the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge. The county council provides county-wide services such as major road infrastructure, fire and rescue, education, social services, libraries and heritage services. Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions. Great Paxton is part of the electoral division of Buckden, Gransden and The Offords and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

At Westminster Great Paxton is in the parliamentary constituency of Huntingdon, and elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Great Paxton is represented in the House of Commons by Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative). Jonathan Djanogly has represented the constituency since 2001. The previous member of parliament was John Major (Conservative) who represented the constituency between 1983 and 2001.

Geography
The village lies on the eastern side of the Great Ouse river valley on a subsoil that is mainly Oxford clay.

The village stands on the B1043 that runs between St Neots in the south and Offord D'Arcy in the north.

Population
In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Great Paxton was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 201 (the lowest was in 1811) and 415 (the highest was in 1841).

From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the Second World War).

All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight.

In 2011, the parish covered an area of 1406 acre and so the population density for Great Paxton in 2011 was 458.4 persons per square mile (177 per square kilometre).

In 2011, 96.3% of people described themselves as white, 2.2% as having mixed or multiple ethnic groups, 1.1% as being British Asian and 0.1% as having other ethnicity. 64.7% described themselves as Christian, 27.4% described themselves as having no religion, 6.7% did not specify a religion and 1% described themselves as having another religion.

Culture and Community
There is one public house in the village called The Bell.

The village is a multiple winner of the prestigious East Anglia Village of the Year competition, held every 3 years since 1955.

Transport
The East Coast Main Line between London and Edinburgh passes through the parish of Great Paxton. The nearest railway station is 2.6 mi away at St Neots.

Education
There is a primary school which is a Church of England school and has around 120 pupils aged from 4 to 11. Senior school pupils attend Longsands Academy in St Neots.

Church
The Minster Church of the Holy Trinity, Great Paxton is a Grade I listed cruciform Anglo-Saxon church dating from the 11th century. It is one of only three Anglo-Saxon aisled churches to be found today in England. The church was extended and much of it reconstructed in the 13th and 14th centuries when the current tower was built. The church was restored again in 1880 when the vestry was added. Holy Trinity Great Paxton is part of the Benefice of Little Paxton, Great Paxton and Diddington in the St Neots' Deanery and the Diocese of Ely. There is a canonical sundial on the south wall.

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John F. Schermerhorn

John Freeman Schermerhorn (September 24, 1786 – March 16, 1851) was an American minister and commissioner for Indian Affairs during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, a friend of his.

Early life
John Freeman Schermerhorn was born on September 24, 1786, in Schenectady, New York. He was the son of Barnard Freeman Schermerhorn and Ariaantje Van der Bogart. In 1809, he graduated from Union College with the degree of A.B.

Career
Immediately after graduation he was sent out by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. His report to the Trustees of the Missionary Society of Connecticut was published in pamphlet form in Hartford in 1814, and was entitled: "A Correct View of that Part of the United States which lies West of the Allegheny Mountains, with regard to Religion & Morals"; by John F. Schermerhorn and Samuel J. Mills.

He entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, which he left in 1813 for the Dutch Reformed Church. He first settled at Middleburgh, Schoharie County, New York, where he was pastor of the Reformed Church there from 1816 to 1827. In 1816, he was Chaplain of the 9th Regiment New York Infantry.

In 1817, he visited upper Canada with Reverend Jacob Van Vechten and worked three months among the Dutch Churches there. In 1819, he was constituted a Life Member of the American Bible Society, by subscriptions raised by his congregation in Middleburgh. He preached his first Protestant sermon in New Orleans, where he went with a letter of introduction to Pére Antoine, a well loved priest of that city. He made most of the trip to New Orleans on horseback. As well as being a personal friend of President Andrew Jackson, he visited him on more than one occasion at "The Hermitage," Jackson's home, a few miles outside the city of Nashville, Tennessee.

In 1828, he was appointed Secretary of Domestic Missions by the Northern Board of the Missionary Society of the Reformed Church, which resulted in the organizations of Reformed Churches in Utica, Ithaca and Geneva, among others. Serious difficulties embarrassed his administration and though they were eventually amicably adjusted, he resigned the office in 1832. He never afterwards held a pastoral charge, but was frequently a leading member of the ecclesiastical assemblies, and continued to interest himself in the benevolent movements of the Church.

Indian Commissioner
In 1832, President Andrew Jackson appointed him one of a Commission to remove the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians beyond the Mississippi River (later to be known as the Trail of Tears). Schermerhorn helped negotiate the Treaty of New Echota, proposing that in exchange for all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River, the Cherokees would receive $5,000,000 from the U.S. (to be distributed per capita to all members of the tribe), an additional $500,000 for educational funds, title in perpetuity to land in Indian Territory equal to that given up, and full compensation for all property left behind. The treaty included a clause to allow all Cherokees who so desired to remain and become citizens of the states in which they resided, on individual allotments of 160 acre of land. With that clause, it was unanimously approved by the contingent at New Echota, then signed by the negotiating committee of twenty, But that clause was struck out by President Jackson. The treaty was concluded at New Echota, Georgia, on 29 December 1835 and signed on 1 March 1836.

While Indian Commissioner, he acquired large tracts of land in Highland, Grayson, Bath and Wythe Counties, Virginia, in all about 400,000 acres (1,600 km2). After long litigation the disposition of this property finally resulted in favor of his heirs. John F. Schermerhorn moved to Carroll County, Indiana, in 1840.

Personal life
He married twice, first on August 6, 1813, to Catharine Yates (1788–1835), the daughter of Revolutionary Col. Christopher Peter Yates (1750–1815), who served on the Vigilance Committee and was a member of the First Provincial Congress who raised a company of rangers and was with Montgomery in Canada. Col. Yates was the nephew of Abraham Yates Jr. (1724–1796), the New York State lawyer and politician, and cousin of Robert Yates (1738–1801). With his first wife, he had eight children:
 * Christopher Schermerhorn (b. 1814)
 * Harriet Adriana Schermerhorn (1815–1886)
 * Mary Yates Schermerhorn (b. 1817)
 * Catherine Yates Schermerhorn (1819–1839)
 * Bernard Schermerhorn (1821–1883), who married Josephine Case
 * John Ingold Schermerhorn (1824–1876), who married Louisa Turner
 * Sarah Ingold Schermerhorn (b. 1826)
 * Susan Yates Schermerhorn (1828–1912), who married James Orr (1805–1876)

After the death of his first wife, he married again to Elizabeth "Eliza" Louisa (Hening) Spottswood of Virginia on April 6, 1837. Together, they had three children:
 * William Waller Schermerhorn (b. 1838)
 * Catherine Virginia Schermerhorn (b. 1841)
 * Janette Egmont Schermerhorn (b. 1844).

Schermerhorn died on March 16, 1851, in Richmond, Virginia.

Descendants
Harriet, a daughter by his first wife, lived in Buffalo, New York, and after the death of her husband, Aurelian Conkling son of Alfred Conkling and brother of Roscoe and Frederick A. Conkling, went abroad and remained four years, most of the time in Paris, France. She travelled extensively through Spain, Germany, and Switzerland. During the Franco-Prussian War, she was in Paris, and was Directress of the Woman's Department of the American Ambulance Corps, organized by Dr. Evans, dentist to the Emperor. It was to his house that the Empress Eugenie fled when she left the Tuileries Palace. Mrs. Conkling assisted Dr. Evans in effecting the escape of the Empress, whom he took in his private carriage to the coast. She remained in Paris during the reign of the Commune and witnessed many blood-curdling scenes.

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Snowrider

A snowrider is a winter sports enthusiast.

Snowriders may refer to:
 * Skiers
 * Sledders
 * Snowboarders

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Steiglitz

Steiglitz may refer to:
 * Steiglitz, Queensland
 * Steiglitz, Victoria
 * Stieglitz, the former German name of Siedlisko, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

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TODO

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A-Z links

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Category links

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Aphakia

Aphakia is the absence of the lens of the eye, due to surgical removal, such as in cataract surgery, a perforating wound or ulcer, or congenital anomaly. It causes a loss of ability to maintain focus (accommodation), high degree of farsightedness (hyperopia), and a deep anterior chamber. Complications include detachment of the vitreous or retina, and glaucoma.

Babies are rarely born with aphakia. Occurrence most often results from surgery to remove a congenital cataract. Congenital cataracts usually develop as a result of infection of the fetus or genetic reasons. It is often difficult to identify the exact cause of these cataracts, especially if only one eye is affected.

People with aphakia have relatively small pupils and their pupils dilate to a lesser degree.

Causes
Surgical removal of a lens, mainly in cataract surgery, is the most common cause of aphakia. Spontaneous traumatic absorption or congenital absence of lens matter is rare. Traumatic subluxation or dislocation of a lens may cause it.

Signs and symptoms

 * Hypermetropia: Without the focusing power of the lens, the eye becomes very farsighted.
 * Loss of accommodation: Since the lens and its zonules are responsible for adjusting the focus of vision to different lengths, patients with aphakia will have a total loss of accommodation.
 * Defective vision: High degree hypermetropia and total loss of accommodation cause defective vision for both distance and near.
 * Cyanopsia: Absence of lens cause cyanopsia or blue vision. Some individuals have said that they perceive ultraviolet light, invisible to those with a lens, as whitish blue or whitish-violet.
 * Erythropsia: Sometimes, objects appear reddish.
 * Deep anterior chamber: Since the lens is absent, anterior chamber will be deep.
 * Iridodonesis: Iridodonesis is the vibration or agitated motion of the iris with eye movement.
 * Purkinje test shows only two images; the reflection from anterior and posterior corneal surfaces.
 * Iridectomy mark may be seen in surgical aphakia.
 * Astigmatism: With-the-rule astigmatism due to corneal wound healing may occur in surgical aphakia, mainly after intracapsular cataract extraction or extracapsular cataract extraction.

Complications
Main complications of surgical aphakia include:

 * Spectacle intolerance: Due to image magnification (up to 30%), optical aberration, prismatic effect and roving ring scotoma, spectacles are not well tolerated by aphakic patients. Due to unequal refractive power between the eyes, wearing spectacles with single-eye aphakia may cause double vision.
 * Glaucoma: Secondary angle closure glaucoma may occur due to vitreous prolapse.
 * Retinal detachment
 * Aphakic bullous keratopathy

Treatment
Aphakia can be corrected by wearing glasses or contact lenses, by artificial lens implantation, or by refractive corneal surgeries. Eyes with artificial lenses are described as "pseudophakic".

Etymology
From Ancient Greek a-, privative prefix + phakós, lentil, anything shaped like a lentil, e.g. a lens, via New Latin.

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Previous question

In US parliamentary procedure, the previous question (also known as "calling for the question", "calling the question", "close debate", "calling for a vote", "vote now", or other similar forms) is generally used as a motion to end debate on a pending proposal and bring it to an immediate vote. The meaning of this specialized motion has nothing to do with any question previously considered by the assembly.

In the United States Senate and Commonwealth parliaments, a motion for "cloture", or "closure", is used instead to end debate. In those bodies, the "previous question" has a different use and is rarely used or not used at all.

English Parliament
The first instance of the "previous question" being used in the English Parliament dates back to 25 May 1604. At that time, use of this motion was intended not to end debate, but to suppress the main question for the rest of the sitting (similar to an objection to the consideration of a question). It could be debated and when put to a vote, an affirmative vote on the previous question would put the main motion to an immediate vote, while a negative vote on the previous question would end consideration of the main motion altogether for the day.

House of Representatives
In the United States House of Representatives, the previous question originally served the same purpose as it did in the English Parliament. In the 1800s, the House of Representatives altered the rules governing the way the previous question could be used: in 1805, it was rendered undebatable, and in 1841, the fraction of votes needed to pass it was lowered from 2/3 to 1/2, allowing for it to be invoked by a simple majority. These changes made it effectively equivalent of a motion of closure.

Senate
In 1806, the United States Senate eliminated the previous question motion as part of a rules consolidation suggested by Aaron Burr.

Explanation and use
To end debate, a motion for the previous question could be adopted. It is often proposed by a member saying, "I call [for] the question", although the formal wording is, "I move the previous question." The motion for the "previous question" has nothing to do with the last question previously considered by the assembly.

Another use of this motion could be to stop the moving of amendments on any amendable motion. It also prevents the making of other subsidiary motions like commit or postpone.

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR)
Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (the book used by most organizations in the United States), when a motion for the previous question is made (whether formally or in a nonstandard form such as "calling the question", "close debate", or "calling for a vote"), a two-thirds vote (or unanimous consent) is required to end debate. A single member cannot force the end of debate. Also, interrupting someone by yelling out "Question!" or "Call the question!" is not appropriate (it has to be made by obtaining the floor like other motions).

This motion is not debatable because having debate on such a motion would defeat its purpose.

In ordinary societies, the rationale for a two-thirds vote to end debate and move to a vote on the pending question is to protect the rights of the minority (and it may protect the rights of the majority if only one person was improperly allowed to stop debate).

Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure
Most state legislatures in the United States use Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure. This book also provides for the motion of the previous question.

The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure
The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure does not have the "previous question". Instead this book has the motion to "close debate", the motion to "vote immediately", or the motion to "close debate and vote immediately". Regardless of the terminology, a two-thirds vote is required to end debate.

Use in the United States Congress
The previous question may be used to end debate on the proposal under consideration at the time the motion is made. If any Member moves the previous question, the Speaker must immediately put the question on such motion. If a simple majority of Members present and voting votes in favour of the previous question, the main motion is immediately put up to a vote.

Instead of a motion for the previous question, the United States Senate uses a motion to limit debate, called cloture. This requires three-fifths of the total number of Senators. It does not immediately end debate on the pending question, but rather imposes strict limitations on debate.

Use in other legislative bodies
In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, in the Senate of Australia and in the Parliament of Canada, the previous question is used for its original purpose (that is, to postpone consideration of the question), while motions which have the aim of immediately ending debate are called closure motions.

United Kingdom
In the House of Commons, the previous question takes the form of a motion "that the Question be not now put"; its adoption results in debate on the main motion being postponed, while its rejection results in the main motion being immediately put up to a vote. A motion "that the question be not now put" is debatable and may be itself subject to a motion of closure. The Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons criticized this procedure as "totally incomprehensible", and proposed in its place a simplified motion to "proceed to the next business". As of 2023, the previous question has only been used three times since the end of the second world war.

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Talk:Scotland Yard

WikiProject British Crime

 * For those interested, a WikiProject regarding crime in Great Britain has been proposed. MadMax 19:16, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

-- sorry, i couldn't figure out how to create a new post. anyway this sentence (under history) doesn't make much sense:

"From 1649–1651, the poet John Milton lived there during the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell's rule in 1986 during the year of love between apes" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.226.250.100 (talk) 19:01, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Name
Surely the origin of name (so I'd always heard) is that it was the point of departure for the Scotland coaches? Certainly Edinburgh has an equivalent area: London Road is still visibly the natural head of the M1 (despite traffic changes and the construction of a bridge and new ceremonial route straight to Princes Street). Will research this. JackyR 17:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe the name was a result of being built upon land owned by Adam Scot.I may have read this in Roy Porter's London, I am not sure.

 * I believe that the derivation of the name as currently stated in the article is correct, and indeed is more than 'a popular explanation'. It was referred to as "a parcel of land late of the king of Scotts" in 1440, and "Kyng of Scottis" ground in 1462. Russ London 01:52, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * That's the version I've read as well, and I agree it's probably more substantiatable than suggested in the article. A cited source needs to be here in any case. Bobanny 20:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

There is a lot of information on this matter in the booklet "The Story of 13-15 Great Scotland Yard" by Norman Seymour. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.7.93 (talk) 17:59, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The names "Scot" and "Scott" are entirely different from the name "Scotland." To say that Scotland Yard was named after Scott is scarcely credible.Lestrade (talk) 21:51, 2 February 2010 (UTC)Lestrade

Yet another explanation for the name http://www.smoothhound.co.uk/tourism/london/new-scotland-yard.html Bizzybody (talk) 09:53, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whitehall1680.jpg The above link comes from the link below. Scotland Yard/s are on the right of this map image of Whitehall drawn in 1680. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Whitehall NotAtlas (talk) 18:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

The first three paras of the intro are in conflict. To add to the folklore; the original SY was effectively the Scottish embassy in London. It was the site of the negotiations for unification in 1707. The SY building was demolished after 1800.220.244.85.176 (talk) 23:40, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

What does it do?
the article is focused on the name and address. It's not clear to me, an American, what are Scotland Yard's responsibilities, and/or the limits on those responsibilities, etc. Probably, non-Americans don't know the difference between American "state police", sheriff's departments, FBI, etc., but that's basically what I'm wondering. For instance, who does what Scotland Yard does outside of greater London?

 * County police forces. The information you're looking for is under Metropolitan Police Service. The Wednesday Island 14:07, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I've added a new section to this article which will hopefully make this clearer. -- ChrisO 07:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I have added a 2nd hat-note: "For activities, see: Metropolitan Police Service" - at the top of the article to direct readers looking for details about "What it does" (topic). -Wikid77 10:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Name
Shouldn't this be moved to "New Scotland Yard" ? Niall123 21:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Quite right. Scotland Yard should be reserved for information about the various Scots legations that resided there prior to the act of Union, and then on the home of the early police, following their time at Bow street.Brendandh 17:14, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Is not the term Scotland Yard (and the Yard) also used for the Metropolitan Police Service itself ("They called in Scotland Yard/the Yard")? User:Shulgi 18 December 2006, 18:00 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia naming conventions are to use the most commonly used name, which in this case is "Scotland Yard." Bobanny 20:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

This article states: "In much popular fiction and cinema, the term New Scotland Yard is used incorrectly instead of Metropolitan Police to describe the police force in London." Clearly, when "Scotland Yard" is used in popular media they are referring to what exists at Scotland Yard, not that Scotland Yard is actually something that itself functions as a law enforcement force. Langley mean CIA; Foggy Bottom mean US State Department; the White House means the US President; the Kremlin means the Russian President; Scotland Yard means the Metropolitan Police Service. It's not incorrect, as the article states, but is a figure of speech to denote the place where specific things exist... like the Metropolitan Police. Jordinho (talk) 16:37, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

I remember hearing that Scotland Yard(New SY or "old" SY I know not) was built on the sit eof an unsolved murder. I'm not sure where this information would best be placed, but it would be a welcome addition if any of you are privy to the information. - L Spencer  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.231.61.163 (talk) 01:36, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

 * It was the first New Scotland Yard on 1888 - see Whitehall Mystery -- Beardo (talk) 21:39, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Sûreté
ESC101010

Bad link
The YouTube video of the rotating sign has been "removed by user."

L K Tucker 69.1.46.40 (talk) 22:11, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Spam
Hi, I noticed a large amount of spam at the beginning of this article, and deleted it as it had no relevance whatsoever to the article in question. 91.108.114.238 (talk) 22:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks for doing that. The spammer has been blocked. -- ChrisO (talk) 23:40, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

New Scotland Yard building
I came here looking for information on the New Scotland Yard building, but the article contains almost nothing despite 'New Scotland Yard' redirecting here. In everyday usage 'Scotland Yard' is a synonym for the Met both in Britain and abroad (though this usage is declining in Britain), but nobody uses 'New Scotland Yard' in this way. It's the building. --Ef80 (talk) 13:33, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

The account of the original Scotland Yard building does not make sense
The account of the original Scotland Yard building does not make sense.

If you look at a street map, Whitehall Place is the road that runs roughly parallel to Great Scotland Yard.

If the original Scotland Yard building occupied by the Metropolitan Police was 4 Whitehall Place, then the back of the building could have been roughly opposite the current Metropolitan Police stables in Great Scotland Yard. But the building that used to be the MoD Library is next door to the stables, not opposite.

There needs to be proper citations for this, because something in the article is not true - but I do not know what.--Toddy1 (talk) 14:03, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You're right, it can't be the same building. The misinfo about "the stables next door" is all over the web - probably picked up from WP. If you go into Street View in Google Earth, you can see the "Scotland Yard" blue plaque on the face of 4 Whitehall Place. So, the error must be in equating that building with the one at 7-9 Great Scotland Yard. WCCasey (talk) 18:54, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Removed the incorrect ID. WCCasey (talk) 20:02, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Add "Prime Suspect" TV series to "Popular Culture" section?
Shouldn't the "Popular Culture" section be updated to include the highly successful and critically acclaimed "Prime Suspect" TV series (broadcast in both the U.S. and U.K., and possibly in other English-language countries, as well)? Granted, DCI Jane Tennison's character was attached to various local precincts ("nicks"?) of the Met (except in Series 5), not to the New Scotland Yard building per se, but the 1st sentence of the "Overview" section of the article on the series states, she was "attached to the Metropolitan Police division, which is also known as Scotland Yard." The article should also address the history of women in the Met, particularly the rise of women to senior positions of authority. --Jackftwist (talk) 16:47, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Also Commander Adam Dalgliesh of the P. D. James novels and TV series? (His office is on the 5th floor) : Murder Room ch 2. Alanf777 (talk) 22:35, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

 * There was a 1970s ITV police drama series called New Scotland Yard IIRC, some time before The Sweeney. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.24.217.122 (talk) 20:21, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Reference to 1888 construction needs clarification
The last sentence of the second paragraph in the section "History: The Metropolitan Police" concerns construction that occurred in 1888, yet the sentence comes after references to the 1908 and 1947 expansions. Presumably, the 1888 construction was connected to the building the Yard moved to in 1890, which is discussed half of a (long) paragraph earlier, although the current sequence of these two events in that paragraph leaves that far from clear. If the 1888 construction doesn't refer to the 1890 building, then what it does refer to should be clarified. At the very least, having the 1888 reference so far out of sequence in the paragraph forces the reader to pause and search back in the article to attempt to place the discussion in its proper context. One of the primary functions of good editing is to make the flow of text easier for the reader to follow, not harder.

Serious consideration should also be given to moving the reference to the Norman Shaw Buildings in the second paragraph to the final paragraph in that section, where that complex is also mentioned. In its current position, the first reference to these buildings interrupts the historical sequence of events of the Yard's expansion, which is the primary focus of that paragraph. --Jackftwist (talk) 17:27, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

 * I have made it clearer that the construction referred to was the construction of New Scotland Yard.

 * I think it would be very confusing to move the mention of the Norman Shaw Buildings to the second paragraph. Until the replacement building was built in 1960s, they were called "New Scotland Yard.  They were only renamed, when their name was moved to a new building.--Toddy1 (talk) 19:54, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Fenian bombing campaign
The paragraph about the Fenian bombing campaign does not belong in the section "Current Location of the Met". Perhaps it should be in the previous section? Vikingurinn (talk) 05:39, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Name
I seem to recall, growing up in the 50's and 60's in England, that the term "Scotland Yard" had always been used for the Metropolitan Police, and that the name "New Scotland Yard" was brought into play when the met moved from its Victoria Embankment premises to the current Broadway site. It was at this time that the new triangular sign was erected and became the image broadcast on TV instead of the earlier "Scotland Yard" plaque. The latter is not referred to in the article, but I'm sure was the image familiar to earlier TV viewers.122.57.230.217 (talk) 10:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)DMWaldron

I'm not sure if the change of the address section was right, but the Scotland Yard isn't. Alanf777 (talk) 02:31, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Railroad Murder of Thomas Briggs
I recommend that the history section include a statement on the Railroad Murder of Thomas Briggs described on the page Franz Muller with the work done by Detective Inspector Richard Tanner of Scotland Yard. More details in Trial Of Franz Muller - DutchTreat (talk) 12:06, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Future name change
I would like to hear what others think about a future name change of this article. In my opinion, Scotland Yard should only be used for the current building in which the Met are based. I think that as and when the Met move, this article should then be renamed "Ten, Broadway" as opposed to "Scotland Yard". As I'm sure other's know, the force are moving out of the current building and into the Curtis Green Building towards the end of this year and into the next. When that happens, I would expect the Curtis Green Building article (which I created today) to then be renamed to "Scotland Yard".  Cassianto Talk   17:25, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

First motor car
It was mentioned on Yesterday tonight (October 19 2017) that the first motor car arrived at Scotland Yard in 2017. This could be mentioned in the article, in its history section. Vorbee (talk) 19:53, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I don't understand. I'm sure there's been many motor cars arrive there over the years.  What motor car? What relevance is this to the name, "Scotland Yard"? Also, did you know this is for the name "Scotland Yard", and not a specific building?   Cassianto Talk   20:12, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Policemen
How come you're policemen are always sexy looking 95.44.178.169 (talk) 03:59, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Milston

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The result of the debate was delete. --Phroziac(talk) 00:32, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Joshua Milston
This article is pure fiction! Please refer to Dane Stern and Nathan Jacob Samuels who all attended the same school Vivenot 15:09, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete hoax, per nom. Sam Vimes 15:30, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax per nom. Loganberry (Talk) 15:33, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. Stephen Turner 15:53, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as hoax. Hall Monitor 23:40, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Rejectors

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The result of the debate was DELETE.  Rob e  rt  16:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

The Rejectors
blatant advertising for a band, which probably also does not meat WP:MUSIC. — brighterorange  (talk) 15:09, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Nothing left after advertorial content has been removed. - Andre Engels 08:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Andre Engels CLW 06:54, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
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User:TMan~enwiki

Not yet a personal page. Maybe soon...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Videocardforum

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The result of the debate was delete · Katefan0(scribble) 04:11, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Videocardforum
Delete, nonnotable website. (Not exactly advertising, though, since the website is allegedly free. Angr/undefined 15:10, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no content except self-promotion. -- SCZenz 22:35, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * delete as above, Pete.Hurd 16:59, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Filthy Rich

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what is up with fabian

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Homelander Generation

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 10:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Homelander Generation
Neologism. Tagged for speedy delte, but doesan't fit under any of the WP:CSD IMO. Speedy tagger also saud "original research" bug a source is cited. Weak delete keep if widspread useage is shown. DES (talk) 15:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom (and no it doesn't appear to meet WP:CSD. I can't find any usage of this term outside the wiki article for Generation Z.  I'd say redirect, but the Gen Z article is crap right now...--Isotope23 19:23, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. All it says is contained within Generation Z. Redirect.
 * Redirect to Generation Z. — [[User:JonMoore|—Jo nMo ore  20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 01:49, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Gen. Z. --Army1987 12:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
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Thieves and Kings

Thieves and Kings (stylized as Thieves & Kings) is a Canadian comic book series written, penciled and published independently and irregularly by Mark Oakley.

The first issue was published in September 1994, with the creator planning on publishing a complete saga comprising 100 issues and about 2000 pages. The series is available as individual comic issues and in trade paperback form.

Thieves & Kings is high fantasy set in a land called Oceansend, with most of the story focused in and around the capital city of Highborn. The story follows the life of a young thief named Rubel and a young sorceress named Heath, but features a larger cast of characters.

Thieves & Kings is distinct from most other comics in that the creator makes extensive use of illustrated story pages in addition to the traditional sequential art found in most comics.

Plot
Steve Raiteri gives this summary of the Thieves & Kings story: " In this thoroughly engrossing self-published black-and-white fantasy saga, a multi-faceted conflict plays out between the evil Lady Locumire, who supports a power-hungry prince in his war of conquest, and a loose group of friends and factions opposing her. Among the cast are 12-year-old Heath Wingwhit, a powerful sorceress living through successive reincarnations, brought 1000 years into her future to learn magic; Rubel, a teenage thief with special abilities and charisma; Soracia, a beautiful 10,000-year-old sorceress attempting to reclaim herself from evil; Princess Katara, Heath’s current incarnation, who’s hatching a still-obscure but ambitious plot with her friends the trolls; and the immortal wizard Quinton Zempfester, who provides hilarious comic relief on-panel but holds great power behind the scenes."

Characters

 * Rubel (pronounced "rue-bell"): Thieves & Kings' protagonist, Rubel is a combination of hero and everyman. The story opens with Rubel as a boy of 14, (he ages as the story progresses) returning home from an apprenticeship at sea. Rubel was born in the "Sleeping Wood," a magical forest that borders Highborn, and was raised by his grandfather, with additional influence from Quinton the wizard and some local townspeople. At a very young age (recounted in the book as a flashback) Rubel declared himself to be a "thief," a vocation in Oceansend that means a lot more than just one-who-steals, and seems to be closer to paladin. Rubel has proven himself to be capable of very decisive action, while maintaining an innocent, almost naive, view of the world.

 * Heath Wingwhit : Heath is a few years younger than Rubel. She enters the story as a young orphaned girl living in the small village of Millbrook, in the past. She apprentices herself to the wizard Quinton, despite the fact that most in Millbrook believe him to be a fraud. She eventually travels to Highborn, where she meets Rubel and becomes a powerful sorceress in her own right.

 * Quinton Zempfester (a.k.a. Kaluvinar) : Quinton is a wizard. He is immortal, and seems to be very adept at planning for events many years in advance. While he frequently appears to be scatter-brained and even foolish, he seems to have the respect of many of the mystical and powerful beings in Oceansend. Quinton very rarely displays any magical abilities directly.

 * Cespinarve Rogue : A dragon. He is smaller and younger than other dragons, and thus they ignored him until he felt he needed to prove himself by defeating Kath. He failed, and ran away to hide. He now sleeps, and his dream is open to those who know how to get in. He hates thieves.

 * Soracia (a.k.a. The Shadow Lady, Queen of Halves, or Lady Salina) : Soracia is an immortal sorceress. While she seems to be evil, her motivation is mysterious and she frequently seems to be in conflict with her own nature. She appears to love Rubel, which contributes to her internal struggle. Soracia has two long, black magic swords, which are able to fight on their own when summoned.

 * Varkias : Varkias is a winged imp, who may be immortal, but has a short memory. He is Rubel's companion, and is far more sensible.  Varkias was once the companion of the Red Sorceress.

 * Katara (Pronounced Ka-tar-a) : Katara is the princess of the kingdom, and a sorceress in her own right. She abandoned the palace for the forest, where she joined a band of trolls as leader, and seems to be assembling an army of the Trolls living in the forest.  Rubel is officially Katara's thief.  Katara may or may not be going insane, perhaps due to the presence of Heath in the modern era.

 * Loe : Katara's second in command. He was living under a bridge in the Sleeping Wood when she ran away, and so became the first of her Troll recruits.

 * Locumire : Locumire is a fairly old evil sorceress who is currently, along with the prince, running the kingdom. She has a cabal of young apprentices who work with her.

 * Kimithin (a.k.a. Jale) : An apprentice of Locumire, she has fallen in love with the thief Rubel.

 * Leahanna (a.k.a. Morthalanue) : An apprentice of Locumire and Kimithin's best friend. She acts power crazed and violent most of the time, but according to Kimithin "It's less when she's playing with her kitten."

 * Red Sorceress : The Red Sorceress is the Shadow Lady's sister. Whereas Soracia has been immortal since they were born, the Red Sorceress is sequentially immortal—she is reborn in each generation.  Heath is the Red Sorceress for her generation; Katara is the Red Sorceress for the current generation.  There may have been a love triangle between Soracia, the Red Sorceress, and Quinton in the past; historically, the Red Sorceress and her sister have a combative relationship.  Locumire was once made Quinton's protégé under the erroneous assumption that she was that generation's Red Sorceress.

 * Ramanious (a.k.a. Kath) : The major villain. Locumire's boss, and perhaps Soracia's as well, he is barely mentioned, but is the force that opposes Kaluvinar.  As Shadow Lady and the Red Sorceress stand to one another, so do Kath and Kaluvinar.  The interactions between these grand underlying aspects are mirrored in the play of their more human aspects.

 * Jurid : A nasty monster. Jurid is Kath's shadow. He has fought Heath, Quinton, and Rubel, at least; Locumire has some control over him.

 * Klachilies : Another monster created by Kath. Also known as the Gorgon. He was Jurid's partner in guarding the Black Tower, apparently Kath's stronghold, until Cespinarve Rogue came to prove his worth to the other dragons by defeating Kath. Jurid and Klachilies won the fight, but Rogue bit Jurid and thus Kath through him. With his "last breath" (According to Klachilies) Kath ordered the Gorgon to chase Rogue. Klachilies did so, and when Rogue went to sleep he entered the dragon's dreams with the intent of getting revenge for his master. Later Soracia captures Klachilies.

 * Dyme Dun Tate : The Knight in Rubel's childhood club, the Monster Slayers.

 * Islen Porter : One of Rubel's childhood friends. She was the sorceress in their group, but when Rubel came back from the sea she had married the baker's son, who was an enemy to the cause.

 * Jennifer Porter : Islen's mother. She likes Rubel very much, and when Heath arrives she lets her stay at her house.

 * Vale Porter : Jennifer's mother. She is a very bitter old woman, and doesn't like any of Rubel's friends on principle.

 * Baily : Rubel's dog. He was the Hound in the Monster Slayers. He lived in Jennifer Porter's house until, a few months before Rubel came back, Vale choked Baily with a chicken bone.

 * Smith Robins : A good friend of Jennifer's. He is a member of the Prince Guard, but doesn't like the way things are turning out. He is friendly towards Heath. His family is corrupt so he joined the Prince Guard to try and break away from them.

 * Geof Perkinson : A rich, if highly incompetent, man. He likes Jennifer, and Vale wants her to marry him. Jennifer does not like Geof.

 * The Lamp Knights (a.k.a. the Iron Guard) : Undead constructs, made by Kath. They have superhuman strength, and are almost immortal. There are a few who are loyal to Soracia.

 * The Clockwork Knights : Creations of Quinton. He made them to combat the Lamp Knights, but destroyed them within fifteen years, because they were nearly unstoppable and killed all in their path. Katara wants to use them against the Lamp Knights when she overthrows Oceansend.

title: Thieves and Kings