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NGC 4725
Why did you delete this artical? — Hurricane Devon  (  Talk  ) 12:20, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The article originally is a redirect page, but I found that the redirect link is empty, i.e. appears red, and so I've placed the "delete" tag.--Wrightbus 12:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

 * sorry! I cleaned it up for you :) —  Hurricane Devon  (  Talk  ) 12:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

thanks
thanks for the edit on my page like couple months ago. Didn't even notice it. --Big Wang 07:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

List of AMD Athlon 64 microprocessors
5200DD do exists http://cpu.zol.com.cn/55/551990.html

Can you find an English-language source? A Chinese page isn't going to be helpful in verifying it for the English Wikipedia. If you can't, we'll have to remove it again. --Vossanova o< 16:26, 8 June 2007 (UTC) While English language sources are preferred, they are not required: material should not be removed solely because its only known source is not in English. Verifiers of such material may find online translation useful, but should bear in mind its limitations.--QuantumEngineer 08:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry but I couldn't find any news articles in English with relevant pics showing its OPN "ADO5200IAA5DD". Anyway, I think the Chinese website I cited is still helpful to verify whether 5200DD exists. In fact, 5200DD is only available in tray. --Wrightbus 11:44, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

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Japanese locomotive article renamings
Hi. I see you have renamed/moved all the Japanese locomotive articles. Don't you think this was rather a bold move to make without any prior discussion, since the existing style was laid out in WikiProject Trains in Japan/Style? DAJF 05:46, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

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Renaming of Chinese locomotive articles
Hi! You renamed (nearly) all Chinese locomotive articles. Please could you *not* rename anymore and rename the others back to the original name. If you really believe that the articles should be renamed, please start a discussion in the Trains project discussion page. Thank you, Poeloq 11:23, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The articles renamed by me were created by me, too. Moreover, I've started a discussion in talk page of the project. --Wrightbus 20:07, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see your discussion before I started a new one at Category talk:Chinese rolling stock. You may wish to participate.--QuantumEngineer 19:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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你好
你好Writhtbus! I see you edit a lot of the same articles as I do, the Chinese (railway) transport related articles. You got any good source links you could share with me or book recommendations? Books would have to be either technical drawings or English language, as my Chinese isn't good enough to get through a whole book without a lot of troube. 谢谢你--Poeloq (talk) 03:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)！
 * Usually, I obtain information about China railways by visiting Chinese railway forums and reading Chinese railway journals/papers. I'm afraid that I couldn't find sufficient English resources about this due to lacking such information in English language. --Wrightbus (talk) 07:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

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meguro population and density
You inserted new figures for Meguro, Tokyo's population and density - but they don't jibe with the area given. 252452/14.7 = 17173, but you give 17708 instead. What's up with that? --moof (talk) 09:22, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Photo details
Re the photo of the captured Israeli tank on M60 Patton, can you say where it is and give a reference? Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 19:34, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Removing your photographs
Hey, I just read what that fool Kaiwhakahaere did to your photographs don't waste your time or energy with Wikipedia, they just have a bunch of dummies that pretend they they know something. Go write a book and sell it on Amazon and forget about Wikipedia, like I wrote they are just a bunch of dummies.
 * Hi Marian. What happened to the photographs. Link/s please. Oh, you haven't got any. Funny thing that. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Ring a bell? Must be my lack of education which makes me do it. Kaiwhakahaere (talk) 03:09, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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 About me...  A photo & poem... from the land I love — Macedonia

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Coelia

Coelia is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae, tribe Epidendreae, subtribe Calypsoinae). It had previously been tentatively classified as the only genus of the subtribe Coeliinae of the tribe Epidendreae.

Species
It contains 5 species, native to Mexico, Central America and the West Indies.

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Henri Didon

Henri Didon (17 March 1840, in Le Touvet – 13 March 1900, in Toulouse) was a famous French Dominican preacher. He was also a writer, educator, and a promoter of youth sports. His outsize personality often put him in conflict with his religious hierarchy.

He coined the term Citius, Altius, Fortius for an 1891 youth sports competition he organized in Arcueil and that his friend Pierre de Coubertin was assisting. The latter proposed it as the official motto of the IOC in 1894.

Education
At the age of nine, Didon entered the petit séminaire du Rondeau, a religious school in Grenoble. There he studied under the French Dominican Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire. Henri was successful in both academics and sports; at the age of 15, he won three titles during the "Olympic Games of Rondeau", a sports tournament held in the school every 4 years.

Didon left the seminary of Grenoble at the age of eighteen, and subsequently entered the Dominican Order. He studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in Rome, graduating in 1862.

Career
Returning to France a lector of sacred theology Didon taught Scripture for a brief time, and in 1868 began a career as a preacher in Paris. A desire to communicate his faith to others, coupled with accomplished art, enabled him to make the most of his oratorial abilities. He had strong features, a large forehead, black eyes, a vibrating voice which he perfectly controlled, and an ease in emphasizing his words by gestures. He was at his best when preaching on social subjects. He delivered the funeral oration of Archbishop Georges Darboy, of Paris, who had been shot by the Communards 24 May 1871. In the following year he preached Lenten and Advent conferences in the principal churches of Paris, many of which he published.

In 1879, critics in the press of Paris opposed Didon for the attitude he took in a series of conferences on the question of the indissolubility of marriage, which he discontinued at the request of the Archbishop of Paris, but published in book form. A year later, critics confronted him while he delivered Lenten conferences on the Church and modern society, and the accusation was made that he was in contradiction with the Syllabus. Although his preaching was orthodox, he was sent by the master general of his order to Corbara in Corsica. There for seven years he labored at a Life of Christ, leaving his retreat for an extended visit in Palestine and again for a sojourn at the University of Leipzig, University of Göttingen, and the University of Berlin. In 1887 he returned to France, where, in 1890, he completed his Life of Christ. It met with a remarkable sale and was soon translated into several languages: two English translations were made in 1891-2.

In January 1892, Father Didon reappeared in the French pulpit when he preached in Bordeaux a religious-political sermon in favor of the Republic. He then delivered at the Madeleine in Paris a series of Lenten conferences on Jesus (tr. Belief in the Divinity of Jesus Christ, 1894). Thereafter he gave only occasional sermons and lectures, his time and energies being devoted to the education of youth. At the Dominican colleges in and near Paris, cultivating educational theories but little developed elsewhere in France, he did away with compulsion as much as possible, taught the students that discipline is the way to liberty, fostered in them a spirit of self-reliance together with a loving reverence for authority, and checked the development of a critical spirit. Some of his educational theories may be seen in his work "Les Allemands" (tr. The Germans, 1884), which is a study of the German universities with application to France; others may be found developed at length in his college addresses published in pamphlet form. The deeply religious character of Father Didon is especially manifest in his "Lettres à Mlle Th. V." (Paris, 1900), which quickly went through thirty editions and appeared in English, in his "Lettres à un ami" (Paris, 1902); and "Lettres a Mère Samuel" (Année Dominicaine, 1907-8). Besides the works mentioned above many of his sermons and addresses have been published in French and some have been done into English.

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Cover of the Marcus Miller album Suddenly.

Licensing
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1510s in architecture

Events

 * 1511 – Dome of Seville Cathedral collapses.
 * 1512: March 5: West tower of Pieterskerk, Leiden, collapses.

Buildings

 * 1510–1520 – Tower ("Stump") of St Botolph's Church, Boston, England, completed.
 * 1510
 * Alcázar de Colón ("Columbus' Palace") in Santo Domingo, the 22-room home of Don Diego Columbus.
 * Sheffield Manor in Yorkshire, England.
 * 1511 – All Saints' Church, Wittenberg (Schloßkirche) completed to a design by Conrad Pflüger.
 * 1513 – Work on New Cathedral, Salamanca, begun.
 * 1514 – St Mark's Campanile in Venice completed in final form.
 * 1515 – Cardinal Wolsey begins rebuilding Hampton Court Palace on the River Thames near London.
 * 1515–1518 – Ancienne Douane (Haguenau) built.
 * About 1515 – In England
 * King's College Chapel, Cambridge completed by John Wastell.
 * Spire of St James' Church, Louth, Lincolnshire completed.
 * 1517 – Shisha Gumbad tomb in Delhi, India, completed.
 * 1518
 * Tomb of Sikandar Lodi, Delhi, India, completed.
 * Town walls of Loreto, Marche, begun by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
 * 1519
 * Belém Tower at the mouth of the Tagus in Portugal completed.
 * St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn in Estonia completed.

Births

 * 1511: July 3 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and biographer (died 1574)
 * 1511 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1592)
 * 1512 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (died 1572)
 * c.1513 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect and painter (died 1583)

Deaths

 * 1511 – Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor
 * 1514: March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (born 1444)
 * 1515
 * April 10 – Mateus Fernandes, Portuguese architect
 * Giovanni Giocondo, Italian friar, architect and classical scholar (born c. 1433)
 * c. 1516 – Giuliano da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor, architect and military engineer (born 1443)
 * 1518 – John Wastell, English architect (born 1460)
 * 1519: May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (born 1452)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Keith

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

The result of the debate was keep. H e rmione1980 22:20, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Scott Keith
Don't think this is a speedy, though a Google search only brings up a livejournal which isn't really notable. Haven't looked further into Google results though. Francs2000 10:47, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Looks legit to me. Marcus22 11:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Just a livejournal? He's written three books, which (together with his columns) seem to have gotten quite a bit of attention in the wrestling world. I had never heard of him, but I think he's notable enough. --JoanneB 12:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep He has written several books and is well-known by pro wrestling insiders. ErikNY 12:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Oh lord, my secret affinity for wrestling rises again. Keith is a well-known, somewhat controversial pundit. Xoloz 07:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete' So now it's down to people from a blog saying it's okay whether they admit it or not? This site has went downhill.

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Subjective constancy

Subjective constancy or perceptual constancy is the perception of an object or quality as constant even though our sensation of the object changes. While the physical characteristics of an object may not change, in an attempt to deal with the external world, the human perceptual system has mechanisms that adjust to the stimulus.

Visual
There are several types of perceptual constancies in visual perception:

 * Size constancy is one type of visual subjective constancy. Within a certain range, people's perception of one particular object's size will not change, regardless of changes in distance or the video size change on the retina. The perception of image is still based upon the actual size of the perceptual characteristics. According to optical principles, for the same object, the size of the image on the retina changes as the distance from the object to the observer changes. The greater the distance, the smaller the image is sensed by the retina. When someone is observing an object, although the distance of observation is different, the perceptional size is similar to the actual size. However, sensory and perception systems can be tricked by the use of illusions. Size constancy is related to distance, experience, and environment. Some examples of size constancy are Müller-Lyer illusion and Ponzo illusion. Another illusion experienced every day is the size of the moon – when closer to the horizon, the moon appears larger. See moon illusion. Human perception is largely influenced by the environment; that is, the context in which the object is found.Shape constancy.gif
 * Shape constancy is similar to size constancy in that it relies largely on the perception of distance. Regardless of changes to an object's orientation (such as a door opening), the shape of the object is perceived the same. That is the actual shape of the object is sensed as changing but then perceived as the same. According to Kanwisher & associates, the localized part of the brain responsible for this is the extrastriate cortex.
 * Color constancy is a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the color of an object remains similar under varying conditions and is the result of a very complicated 'calculation' by an unconsciously working mechanism within the central nervous system.

 * Lightness constancy refers to the constancy of an object's lightness regardless of varying amounts of light cast upon it. We detect, in the context of an object's surroundings, the characteristics of the fixed physical property and, from there, the lightness remains constant despite vast changes. See also Luminance.
 * Distance constancy refers to the relationship between apparent distance and physical distance. An illusion example of this would be the moon - when it is near the horizon it is perceived as larger (size constancy) and/or closer to earth than when it is above our heads.
 * Location constancy refers to the relationship between the viewer and the object. A stationary object is perceived as remaining stationary despite the retina sensing the object changing as the viewer moves (due to parallax). Location constancy is largely influenced by the context in which the object is found. An example of this would be looking at a parked car as one walks towards a building; the car is perceived as remaining stationary as one moves forward.

Auditory

 * In music, subjective constancy is the identification of a musical instrument as constant under changing timbre or "conditions of changing pitch and loudness, in different environments and with different players."
 * In speech perception this means that vowels or consonants are perceived as constant categories even if acoustically, they vary greatly due to phonetic environment (coarticulation), speech tempo, speaker's age and sex, speaker's dialect, etc.

Tactile
Rats’ perceptual reports about the relative location of external objects are hardly affected by strong environmental winds. This perceptual report constancy was shown to be achieved via motor control, whereby the perceptually-relevant sensory variables (the ‘proximal stimulus’) is maintained relatively constant.

Research

 * Comparing perception abilities in schizophrenic patients – A study found that distance constancy, being closely related to size constancy, was poorer in the schizophrenia patients than in the control group (labeled "normals"). "The result of poor distance constancy is that visual perception in schizophrenics is lacking in depth and that these patients live in a 'flatter' world."
 * Visual auditory distance constancy – Researchers explored the relationship between visual and auditory responses and how they influence distance constancy. A study found that at a certain distance, when a sound is sensed, the eye is stimulated slightly before the ear is.

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A nomination for this article was made on miscellaneous deletion, but it was withdrawn. See Wikipedia:Miscellaneous deletion/Wikipedia:Misnamed article. Graham 10:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Gorgonzilla/Wikipedia is not Fox News

What? --Mrmiscellanious 10:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

I *think* it means that people should not make articles opinion free when making them NPOV, i.e. its not okay to eliminate discussion of a controversy. It is a sound piece of advice in theory, as it keeps people from weakening articles to push an agenda, but I don't think I've ever seen it actually happen here. It happens a lot on wikipedia I guess. - 130.88.123.188 12:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

this is my interpertation of NPOV -- Wildkitten1205

I think the whole point of the NPOV (from my understanding of it anyway) was to provided a viewpoint in the article that was provide both sides of the debate to get heard in away that could be for what of a better term uncensored (within the rules of policies of wikipedia) there are a lot of checks and balances in wikipedia to stop weaking of articles (as Mrmiscellanious pointed out above) having said that there are so many editors within this community i am sure if there was a contravening edit (or as the case maybe hidden agendas pushed) i am sure the could would be able to fix up the offending article to make it more NPOV.. wildkitten-simsy 00:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC)


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Hertford North railway station

Hertford North railway station is one of two stations serving the town of Hertford in Hertfordshire, England, the other being Hertford East railway station.

Location
Hertford North is about ten minutes walk from the town centre in North Road and opened on 2 June 1924, replacing the similarly named station (known until 1923 as Hertford Cowbridge) on the branch from Hatfield. It is down the line from London King's Cross on the Hertford Loop Line which provides a diversion from the East Coast Main Line from Alexandra Palace to Langley Junction just south of Stevenage. Stations on the line include Stevenage, Watton-at-Stone, Bayford and Cuffley. Trains on this line are run by Great Northern. It has one terminal and two through platforms and features a lift (to platforms 2 and 3), a small shop, two ticket booths and ticket barriers.

Platform layout
Platform 1 is mainly used for trains to Moorgate, originating in Stevenage. Platform 2 is mainly used for trains originating in London proceeding north to Stevenage. Platform 3 is a bay platform used only as a terminus for trains from London.

Services
All services at Hertford North are operated by Great Northern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 2 tph to Moorgate
 * 2 tph to Stevenage

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

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hi!

Packet Telephony
Packet Telephony consists of telephony and data tightly coupled on packet based switched multimedia networks. The packet telephony simply refers to the use of personal computers and a packet data network to produce a voice conversation. The goal of packet switched fabric in both LAN and WAN, the vision in to drive voice and data over a single multimedia (packet based N/W) allowing waves to engage in a media rich communication in a natural and straight-forwarded manner. The packet & based fabric is capable of supporting future applications such as video streaming and video conferencing. The transaction to a new paradigm will take years to complete. However technology matures and new application proliferate packet technology will appear in broader market. There is a major distinction between Intranet telephony and VoIP.

August 2018
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at K. Surendran (politician), you may be blocked from editing. --Let There Be Sunshine 10:47, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

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Barossa Reservoir

Barossa Reservoir is a reservoir in the Australian state of South Australia, built between 1899 and 1902 to supply water to Gawler and other northern country areas. Built at a cost of almost A£170,000 the reservoir was hailed on completion as an engineering marvel, and with the reservoir wall rising to a height of 36 m, it was, at the time of its completion, the highest dam wall in Australia.

Location and features
The thin arch of the dam retaining wall, curved against the pressure of the water, was an innovation considered radical, and attracted the Reservoir international attention. It was featured in the Scientific American and caused the American Engineers News to remark that its "boldness of design deserves to rank with the most famous dams in the world". The dam is notable for its parabola effect, where a voice can be heard clearly from one side to the other – over 140 m, end to end. This unusual acoustic phenomenon is a popular tourist attraction, and has earned the dam the title "Whispering Wall" (see Whispering gallery).

During construction large stones were used in the wall to save concrete and tram rails were used to reinforce the upper section. The Barossa Reservoir was formed by damming the Yettie Creek gorge in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, a feat that took over 400 men. Its water comes through a 2 km tunnel, carved by horse power, from the South Para River and Reservoir, and is supplemented by the Warren Reservoir and the River Murray. In addition to Gawler and country, a filtration plant constructed in 1982 allows the Reservoir to supply the suburbs of Munno Para and Elizabeth.

The dam's vegetated surrounds are also protected. Aside from its acoustic attraction, the Whispering Wall offers great views of both the Barossa Reservoir and the surrounding, well-preserved natural bounty. The area abounds in thick scrub, tall red gums, and pines, and a flourishing bird and animal life. It is a popular destination for picnics and bird-watching.

In 2008, its engineering heritage was recognised by the installation of a marker provided by the Engineers Australia's Engineering Heritage Recognition Program.

Key statistics

 * Capacity: 4515 ML
 * Length of wall: 144 m
 * Height of wall: 36 m
 * Depth at wall: 28.6 m
 * Type of wall: Concrete arch

Incidents
At approximately 4:30 PM on Wednesday 21 April 2021, Henry Shepherdson jumped from the wall with his 9-month-old daughter, Kobi, strapped to him, amongst disturbed onlookers. The father was pronounced dead upon arrival of paramedics and the child later died at the scene. The incident was deemed a murder-suicide as there were witnesses who testify that Henry jumped as opposed to falling. There was a history of domestic violence between Kobi's mother and father.

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Height source?
The article presently says 27 metres and 28.6 metres. There are a sign and a plaque at the reservoir which say 36 metres. I have (not very good, but readable) photos of both. What were the original sources? --Scott Davis Talk 08:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The links in the article :). 28.6 m comes from SA Water, and 27 m comes from Postcards. It could very well be 36 m, but those are the sources I worked from. Looking at the Postcards site, it is ambigious: it states "hundreds of tons of water stacked up to twenty seven metres (nine stories) at the wall". SA Water is pretty clear though: "Height of wall: 28.6m". --cj | talk 10:45, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. It does clearly say 36 metres on both signs. And yet, two other sources say otherwise (well, Postcards doesn't resolutely, but if water was held to 27 m, why need 36 in height?). I'll leave it to you to change if you'd like. --cj | talk 12:13, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The only logic I can make is that the water is 27 metres deep, the wall is 1.6 metres above the water, and 7.4 metres below ground to anchor it. So people who care about building use the big number, people who care about storage use a smaller one. --Scott Davis Talk 12:30, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Logical enough :). Fantastic photographs by the way!--cj | talk 12:31, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I just take happy snaps, and sometimes a good one sneaks into the camera ;-) My wife takes the good photos, with a much better camera than mine. I keep trying to get her to contribute some to Wikipedia, but haven't succeeded yet. --Scott Davis Talk 13:17, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * That might be a blessing in disguise. You know how addictive this place is - you mightn't see her again. 'Cept in wikispace, of course. :)--cj | talk 13:33, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

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Joseph W. Kirwan

Joseph William Kirwan (1796 – 24 December 1849) was an Irish clergyman and educationalist, who served as the first president of Queen's College Galway.

Kirwan was born in Galway in 1796. He entered the National Seminary at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, in 1817, and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1822, having been awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.). Returning to his native Diocese of Galway, he was appointed Parish Priest of Oughterard in 1827, where he initiated construction of a new parish church. He was considered one of the leading candidates for appointment as Bishop of Galway when that office became vacant in 1845.

Kirwan was appointed President of Queen's College Galway on the foundation of the college in December 1845. The college, one of three founded at Belfast, Cork and Galway to provide non-denominational university education in Ireland as an alternative to the Church of Ireland's Trinity College in Dublin, was not regarded with favour by a large number of prominent Catholics, among them many members of the Catholic hierarchy, who continued to press for the foundation of a specifically Catholic university. The institutions became known as the 'Godless Colleges', and Kirwan's position came under severe pressure from several leading bishops, including his own metropolitan bishop, John MacHale, the Archbishop of Tuam. He remained committed to the college, however, and despite failing health presided over its official opening on 30 October 1849.

Kirwan died on 24 December 1849.

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Reconquista, Santa Fe

Reconquista is a city in the north of the, 327 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the General Obligado Department, and it has 99,288 inhabitants according to the.

The city lies on a branch of the Paraná River opposite the city of Goya, Corrientes. As of 2005, the construction of a road link between the two cities is under study; at present there is no way to cross the multiple minor branches, streams and wetlands except by boat.

Reconquista was founded on 27 April 1872 as a military fort, established by Colonel Manuel Obligado, in lands formerly belonging to the Jesuit mission Reducción San Jerónimo del Rey. It was declared a city in 1921.

Climate
The climate of the region is wet subtropical (average 14 °C in winter, 26 °C in summer), with a mean annual rainfall of 1290 mm.

Transportation
The city is served by commercial airlines using the Reconquista Airport, served, as of 2023, by LADE.

History
Reconquista was natively inhabited by the Abipones people according to accounts from Jesuit Martin Dobrizhoffer.

On November 22, 1872, the Governor Simón de Iriondo by Decree No. 430 authorizing the creation of a town a with the name of Reconquista.

In 1998, there were a high number of leptospirosis cases were detected, coming from the area of Reconquista Central Hospital in Reconquista, Santa Fe province.

Notable residents

 * Gabriel Batistuta: retired professional footballer
 * Laura Devetach, writer, was born here in 1936.
 * Juan Gómez Taleb: professional footballer
 * Candela Ferro - television journalist

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Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal

Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal is a 1996 children's fantasy novel by Australian author Emily Rodda. It is the third book in the Rowan of Rin series.

Plot summary
The Keeper of the Crystal – leader of the Maris people – is dying and a messenger brings this news to Rin The Crystal dims. The Chooser is summoned... Rowan of Rin learns that his mother, Jiller, is to choose the new leader from one of the three warring Maris clans. Doss of Pandellis, Asha of Umbray and Seaborn of Fisk are their names. When she falls victim to a strong poison, however, Rowan finds himself in the Chooser's position as well as trying to create the antidote to wake his mother from Death Sleep. Rowan then receives a riddle of how to make an antidote by bonding with the crystal and finding the recipe against the Keeper's will.

To mix the brew that wakes death sleep Fill one spread hand with silver deep. In a hungry pool moons raise their heads: Pluck one and add the tears it sheds. Stir slowly with new fighters quill, Three times, no more, and let it still. Add venom from your greatest fear-- One drop—and then the truth is clear.

They then exit the cavern of the keeper to go to the island where Orin the first keeper went to make the antidote. They think that the water will be the answer to the second line, however Doss says that it is too obvious and that it would not be the sea water. Rowan then sights a slight glint in the trees and runs toward it. They discover that it is a pool of clear water. Seaborn is then asked to retrieve the water but once his hand touches the water, clear tubular leeches then get attached to his hand. He screams in pain and gives Rowan the water. Then a bird swoops down towards them, but is actually diving toward to the pool to grab some leeches. The pool then turns silver as the leeches bury themselves under the silver sand. In the centre of the pool is a moon flower and they decide that they will have to grab the flower with their hands since the "tears" that they need is the sap. Rowan then remembers that in Rin they use scarecrows to scare away crows and they construct a bird like kite using Seaborn's cape and sticks. They fly the kite near the pool and Rowan puts his and in the pool and grabs for the moonflower because all the other refuse to do it.

The 5th line means a quill from the bird that has not been plucked and exposed to air for a long time. They use Asha's cape which is silver as a mirror to attract the bird.

The venom of your greatest fear is the venom from the Great Serpent. They got the venom from the serpent while it was laying its eggs into the pool where Rowan got the moonflower from.

Links to Deltora Quest: Maris is the name given by the people of Deltora to an island that lies in the Silver Sea. The island lies to the west of Deltora, and is home to the village of Rin. To the east of Maris lies the dangerous Land of the Zebak. Deltorans call the island "Maris" because for centuries they have traded with the fish-like Maris people who live on the island's east coast in the village of Maris.

Characters

 * Asha of Umbray, one of the three candidates, tall for a Maris. Rowan could not choose her because she followed every single tradition and would not think differently.
 * Doss of Pandellis, one of the three candidates, youngest of all the candidates. The Zebak controlled him until he became the new keeper because he thought about his people.
 * Seaborn of Fisk, one of the three candidates, taller than Asha. He was not chosen because he thinks too quickly without knowing what his action might bring.
 * Orin of Mirill, the first keeper and the first brewer of the death sleep antidote.
 * Rowan of Rin or Rowan of the Bukshah, a young boy that becomes the Chooser after his mother Jiller is victimized.
 * Jiller, Rowan's mother and the Chooser.
 * Keeper, the keeper of the crystal.
 * Strong Jonn of the Orchard, a strong man from Rin.
 * Star, Rowan's bukshah and the most elite of the bukshah herd.
 * Annad, Rowan's little sister.
 * Timon, the teacher of Rin.
 * Perlain of Pandellis, a Marris man that is the messenger of the Maris.
 * Zebak- Evil people that have tried time and time again to destroy and capture Marris and Rin.

Reception
Kirkus Reviews referred to Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal as a "suspenseful, clever" follow-up to Rowan and the Travellers and highlighted the main character's "generous helpings of wit and courage".

Booklist also reviewed the novel.

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Million Dollar Quartet

"Million Dollar Quartet" is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title "Million Dollar Quartet". The recording was first released in Europe in 1981 as The Million Dollar Quartet with 17 tracks. A few years later more tracks were discovered and released as The Complete Million Dollar Session. In 1990, the recordings were released in the United States as Elvis Presley: The Million Dollar Quartet. This session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll.

Recording session
The jam session seems to have happened by pure chance. Perkins, who by this time had already met success with "Blue Suede Shoes", had come into the studios that day accompanied by his brothers Clayton and Jay and by drummer W.S. Holland, their aim being to record some new material, including a revamped version of an old blues song, "Matchbox". Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records, who wanted to try to fatten this sparse rockabilly instrumentation, had brought in his latest acquisition, Jerry Lee Lewis, still unknown outside Memphis, to play piano (at the time, a Wurlitzer Spinet) on the Perkins session. Lewis's first Sun single would be released a few days later. Sometime in the early afternoon, 21-year-old Elvis Presley, a former Sun artist now with RCA Victor, arrived to pay a casual visit accompanied by a girlfriend, Marilyn Evans.

After chatting with Phillips in the control room, Presley listened to the playback of Perkins's session, which he pronounced to be good. Then he went into the studio and some time later, the jam session began. At some point during the session, Sun artist Johnny Cash, who had recently enjoyed a few hit records on the country charts, arrived as well. (Cash wrote in his autobiography Cash that he had been first to arrive at the Sun Studio that day, wanting to listen in on the Perkins recording session.) Jack Clement was engineering that day and remembers saying to himself "I think I'd be remiss not to record this," and so he did. After running through a number of songs, Elvis and his girlfriend Evans slipped out as Jerry Lee pounded away on the piano. Cash wrote in Cash that "no one wanted to follow Jerry Lee, not even Elvis." Whatever Elvis's feelings may or may not have been in regard to "following" Lewis, Presley was clearly the "star" of the impromptu jam session, which consisted largely of snippets of gospel songs that the four artists had all grown up singing. The recordings show Elvis, the most nationally and internationally famous of the four at the time, to be the focal point of what was a casual, spur-of-the-moment gathering of four artists who would each go on to contribute greatly to the seismic shift in popular music in the late 1950s.

During the session, Phillips called a local newspaper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar. Bob Johnson, the newspaper's entertainment editor, came over to the studios with UPI representative Leo Sora with photographer George Pierce. Johnson wrote an article about the session, which appeared the following day in the Press-Scimitar under the headline "Million Dollar Quartet". The article contained the now-famous photograph of Presley seated at the piano surrounded by Lewis, Perkins and Cash (the uncropped version of the photo also includes Evans, shown seated atop the piano).

Releases
In 1969, Shelby Singleton bought Sun Records. He began a long search of the Sun catalogue, browsing through more than 10,000 hours of tape. At the same time, Singleton licensed much, if not all, of the Sun catalogue to the British Charly label for reissue in Europe. As a result of Singleton's and Charly's searches, a portion of the session came to light. This was issued in Europe in 1981 as "Charly/Sun" LP #1006 The Million Dollar Quartet, and it contained 17 tracks, focusing on gospel/spiritual music from the session.

Several years later, additional material was discovered. This resulted in the release of the 1987 "Charly/Sun" two-LP set #CDX 20 The Complete Million Dollar Session, together with their simultaneous issue in CD format in Europe. In 1990, they were replicated by RCA for US distribution as a CD, Cassette and LP, titled, Elvis Presley: The Million Dollar Quartet (RCA CD # 2023-2-R), the sleeve notes of which were written by Colin Escott of Showtime Music, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In 2006, RCA used a copy of the session recordings owned by Presley to create a 50th-anniversary issue of the session. The new release placed the titles in the original recorded sequence and contained about twelve minutes of previously unavailable material.

According to Ernst Jorgensen, an authority on Elvis who consults for RCA, the published material contains about 95 percent of the master recordings. "We found three reels", he says, "You could always argue that there were more. But in the first you can hear Elvis arriving and in the last you can hear him leaving. I doubt that there are more."

In his liner notes to The Survivors Live, a 1982 album that reunited Cash, Lewis and Perkins, Cash claims that Elvis performed "This Train is Bound for Glory" and "Vacation in Heaven" during the 1956 session, but neither track has surfaced.

The released albums contain 46 musical tracks, most of which are incomplete and are interspersed with chatter between the participants. They are not pristine, well rehearsed studio recordings, which were meant for commercial release, but rather the sound of a group of friends gathered to play old favorites and share the pleasure of making music. Bob Johnson described it as "an old fashioned barrel-house session with barber shop harmonies resulting."

Songs
Country music and country gospel loom large in the choice of songs. The songs of such country and Western legends as Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow and Gene Autry are among those featured. Lewis played most of the piano and Presley took nearly all of the lead vocals. The other participants easily follow Presley's lead with what seems a close familiarity with his choice of songs. Critics have remarked on the irony of this as rock & roll was branded as satanic music at the time.

Carl Perkins took the lead on only "Keeper of the Key" and seemed content to play guitar and supply harmony vocals. He had, however, been singing all afternoon. Clayton Perkins and Jay Perkins and drummer W. S. Holland can be heard on the earliest titles. The rhythm guitar on the earlier songs was played by Charles Underwood, who was a writer for Phillips's publishing companies. Presley also brought with him another aspiring singer, Cliff Gleaves, who might be participating on some of the ensemble parts.

Jerry Lee Lewis can be heard more frequently, often singing in duet with Presley and at the end of the session, when Presley got up to leave, he swiftly took over the piano and whipped off five piano ravers in rapid succession, including a rousing "Crazy Arms" (his debut Sun single) and a soulful make-over of Gene Autry's "You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven".

Colin Escott, author of the sleeve notes for Elvis Presley: The Million Dollar Quartet, reported that according to Sun employee and session participant Charles Underwood, Presley and Phillips went into the control room while Lewis was playing and Presley commented to Bob Johnson that "[Lewis] could go. I think he has a great future ahead of him. He had a different style and the way he plays piano gets inside me."

Johnny Cash's voice does not seem to appear on any of the released tracks. Since his voice is not obvious on the tracks, the point at which Cash arrived at the studio has been a matter of discussion. Carl Perkins and others have stated that Cash was already at the studios when Presley arrived, with Perkins adding that Cash had stopped into the studios to "get some money".

Colin Escott reports that according to attendee Bob Johnson (whose article was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar the day after the session), Cash joined Presley, Perkins and Lewis on "Blueberry Hill" and "Isle Of Golden Dreams". This was confirmed by Carl Perkins in a 1972 interview, when he stated that "we did things like 'Blueberry Hill', 'Island Of Golden Dreams', 'I Won't Have to Cross the Jordan Alone', 'The Old Rugged Cross', 'Peace in the Valley', 'Tutti Frutti', and 'Big Boss Man'." Of these, only "Peace in the Valley" has been released.

Cash himself, in his 1997 book Cash: The Autobiography commented, "I was there—I was the first to arrive and the last to leave, contrary to what has been written—but I was just there to watch Carl record, which he did until mid-afternoon, when Elvis came in with his girlfriend. At that point the session stopped and we all started laughing and cutting up together. Then Elvis sat down at the piano, and we started singing gospel songs we all knew, then some Bill Monroe songs. Elvis wanted to hear songs Bill had written besides "Blue Moon of Kentucky", and I knew the whole repertoire. So, again contrary to what some people have written, my voice is on the tape. It's not obvious, because I was farthest away from the mic and I was singing a lot higher than I usually did in order to stay in key with Elvis, but I guarantee you, I'm there."

Other reports, including one in a very detailed account in Peter Guralnick's book, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, suggest that Cash stayed for only a short time and then left, possibly to do some Christmas shopping. Colin Escott also reports that Cash might have been brought in for the last part of the session, after Sam Phillips had decided to call the Memphis Press Scimitar.

Cash's presence for the entire session might be confirmed, or denied, by four pieces of "chatter" caught on the tapes. In the first, another Sun artist, Smokey Joe Baugh, came by and his gravelly voice can be heard after "I Shall Not Be Moved", saying "You oughta get up a quartet", which could either mean that they should add a fourth, or could also mean that the four of them should become an official quartet. In the second, a female voice can be heard asking if "This Rover Boys Trio can sing 'Farther Along'?", which could imply that only three (trio) were present at that point. (Elvis' then-girlfriend, Marilyn Evans, confirmed in 2008 that the voice was not hers, though she is later heard requesting the song "End of the Road".) Yet on the track prior to this Elvis can be heard saying "take it easy, boy" as someone exits the session. In the third piece of chatter, Elvis is plainly heard mentioning Cash by name on the track "As We Travel Along the Jericho Road", at the 0:07 mark, although the form of the reference leaves it ambiguous as to whether Cash was on premises at that point. Finally, Elvis can also be heard saying goodbye to someone named Johnny during the "Elvis Says Goodbye" track that closes the 50th anniversary release which seems to indicate that Presley was present when Cash left the session.

Country music was not the only choice of the participants; they performed "Home! Sweet Home!", a sentimental ballad as an energetic rockabilly clip. They can also be heard turning their attention to the hit parade of the day. Presley led the session with "Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind", an R & B song popularized by the Five Keys. Meanwhile, Lewis sings one line of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" which leads into Lewis and Presley experimenting with snippets of Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man". Elvis can also be heard singing a snippet of Little Richard's "Rip It Up" (with a ribald change in the lyric) and Pat Boone's hit of the day, "Don't Forbid Me" which Elvis on the tape claims was first offered to him but the demo "sat around my house" without being played.

In addition, Presley previewed material that he was considering for up-coming RCA Victor sessions in January and February 1957. He sang "Is It So Strange", "Peace in the Valley", and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin", which he acknowledges on the tape as having been one of the songs he recorded for Sun during his demo session a couple of years earlier, and which he would record again for RCA Victor a month later. In the case of "Is It So Strange", he comments, "Ol' Faron Young wrote this song sent to me to record."

The title which most critics seem to highlight is Presley's rendition of "Don't Be Cruel", one of his major hits of 1956 (see 1956 in music). This is not Presley singing Presley, but his imitation of Jackie Wilson, then the lead singer with Billy Ward and His Dominoes, imitating him. It appears as though the Presley entourage spent a few days in Las Vegas (most likely during Presley's short-lived tenure earlier in the year at the Frontier Hotel) and went to watch Wilson, who had obviously built an impersonation of Presley into his act.

Presley describes Jackie Wilson tearing up Las Vegas audiences with a house-on-fire rendition of "Don't Be Cruel". He goes on to say that, "He tried so hard until he got much better, boy, much better than that record of mine.... I went back four nights straight and heard that guy do that," he says, imitating Wilson's bluesy smolder and big finish.

"He sung the hell out of the song," Elvis can be heard saying with admiration, adding with a laugh, "I was on the table lookin' at him, 'Get 'im off, get 'im off! Obviously on a roll, Presley, then ripped into a slower, sassier version of "Paralyzed", a song recorded for his second album and also released on an extended play 45. He was backed up by Perkins and his trio.

According to the Rolling Stone review of the album, The Complete Million Dollar Session' provides a rare post-Sun glimpse of Elvis Presley momentarily free of the golden shackles of stardom and the manipulative grasp of his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. His singing, especially on the gospel numbers, is natural and relaxed, minus some of the trademark mannerisms of his official RCA releases."

Colin Escott has said, "They mixed and matched their disparate styles – and their innate musicality ensured that what emerged had the rarest of all musical qualities: originality."

The surviving members of the Quartet session would reunite several times in years to come, with Cash, Lewis and Perkins uniting in 1982 for the concert album The Survivors Live and again, in 1985, Perkins, Lewis, Cash and Roy Orbison, also a Sun recording artist in 1956, went back into the Sun Studios to record the album Class of '55.

Reunions

 * In 1977, Cash, Perkins, Lewis, and Roy Orbison performed "This Train is Bound for Glory", in tribute to Elvis, on the televised Johnny Cash Christmas Special.
 * The Survivors Live - a 1982 live album featuring Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins during Johnny Cash's 1981 tour of Europe.
 * Class of '55 - a 1986 reunion of the surviving members of the "Million Dollar Quartet", this time adding another Sun Records alumnus, Roy Orbison; this was actually recorded at the original Memphis Recording Service building.
 * Interviews from the Class of '55 Recording Sessions - an album featuring interviews and chatter during the recording of Class of '55, which won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album in 1987.

Members

 * Elvis Presley – vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, piano (1956; died 1977)
 * Johnny Cash – vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar (1956, 1977, 1981, 1985; died 2003)
 * Carl Perkins – vocals, lead guitar (1956, 1977, 1981, 1985; died 1998)
 * Jerry Lee Lewis – vocals, piano (1956, 1977, 1981, 1985; died 2022)
 * Roy Orbison – vocals (1977, 1985; died 1988)

Tracks, writers and duration

 * 1) "Instrumental" (Unknown) - 1:44
 * 2) "Love Me Tender - Instrumental" (Presley/Matson) - 1:02
 * 3) "Jingle Bells - Instrumental" (James Lord Pierpont) – 1:57
 * 4) "White Christmas - Instrumental" (Berlin) - 2:05
 * 5) "Reconsider Baby" (Fulsom) - 2:45
 * 6) "Don't Be Cruel" (Presley/Blackwell) - 2:20
 * 7) "Don't Be Cruel" (Presley/Blackwell) - 2:12
 * 8) "Paralyzed" (Presley/Blackwell) - 3:00
 * 9) "Don't Be Cruel" (Presley/Blackwell) - 0:36
 * 10) "There's No Place Like Home" (Payne/Bishop) - 3:36
 * 11) "When The Saints Go Marchin´ In" (Traditional) - 2:18
 * 12) "Softly and Tenderly" (Will Lamartine Thompson) - 2:42
 * 13) "When God Dips His Love in My Heart" (Derricks) - 0:23
 * 14) "Just a Little Talk with Jesus" (Derricks) - 4:09
 * 15) "Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley" (Traditional) - 3:28
 * 16) "I Shall Not Be Moved" (Traditional) - 3:49
 * 17) "Peace In The Valley" (Dorsey) - 1:33
 * 18) "Down By the Riverside" (Traditional) - 2:26
 * 19) "I'm with a Crowd But So Alone" (Tubb/Story) - 1:16
 * 20) "Farther Along" (Fletcher/Baxter) - 2:08
 * 21) "Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand)" (Traditional) - 1:26
 * 22) "On the Jericho Road" (Traditional) - 0:52
 * 23) "I Just Can't Make It By Myself" (Clara Ward) - 1:04
 * 24) "Little Cabin Home on the Hill" (Bill Monroe/Lester Flatt) - 0:46
 * 25) "Summertime Is Past and Gone" (Monroe) - 0:14
 * 26) "I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling" (Monroe) - 0:36
 * 27) "Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong" (Monroe) - 0:28
 * 28) "Keeper of the Key (Carl Lead)" (Stewart/Howard/Devine/Guynes) - 2:08
 * 29) "Crazy Arms" (Mooney/Seals) - 0:17
 * 30) "Don't Forbid Me" (Singleton) - 1:19
 * 31) "Too Much Monkey Business" (Berry) - 0:05
 * 32) "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (Berry) - 1:14
 * 33) "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (Hunter/Otis) - 0:37
 * 34) "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (Berry) - 1:53
 * 35) "Don't Forbid Me" (Singleton) - 0:50
 * 36) "You Belong to My Heart" (Gilbert/Lara) - 1:10
 * 37) "Is It So Strange" (Young) - 1:21
 * 38) "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" (Hill/Fisher/Raskin) - 4:58
 * 39) "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (Berry) - 0:17
 * 40) "Rip It Up" (Blackwell/Marascalco) - 0:23
 * 41) "I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye" (Snow) - 0:55
 * 42) "Crazy Arms" (Mooney/Seals) - 3:36
 * 43) "That's My Desire" (Loveday/Kresa) - 2:02
 * 44) "End of the Road" (Lewis) - 1:44
 * 45) "Black Bottom Stomp" (Morton) - 1:11
 * 46) "You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven" (Autry) - 1:12
 * 47) Elvis Says Goodbye - 0:40

Musical
The stage musical Million Dollar Quartet, with a book by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott, dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet session. It premiered at Florida's Seaside Music Theatre and was then staged at Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington (a Seattle suburb) in 2007, breaking box office records. The musical opened for a limited run at Chicago's Goodman Theatre on September 27, 2008. Mutrux co-directed the Chicago production with Eric D. Schaeffer, of Virginia's Signature Theatre. The show transferred to Chicago's Apollo Theater where it opened on October 31, 2008.

The Broadway production opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 11, 2010. The Broadway production closed on June 12, 2011 after 489 performances and 34 previews, and then re-opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages. Million Dollar Quartet then opened in the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre on February 28, 2011, with previews from February 8. The production closed on January 14, 2012.

The Broadway play was nominated for three Tony Awards in 2010: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical for Escott and Mutrux, and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Levi Kreis. Kreis won, marking the show's sole Tony win.

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1580s in architecture

Buildings

 * 1580 – Old City of Zamość, designed by Bernardo Morando, is established in Poland.
 * 1580–1588 – Wollaton Hall near Nottingham in England, probably designed by Robert Smythson, is built.
 * 1581
 * Uffizi in Florence, designed by Giorgio Vasari and continued by Alfonso Parigi the Elder and Bernardo Buontalenti, is completed.
 * Litomyšl Castle in Bohemia, begun in 1568, is completed.
 * c. 1582 – Dome and lantern of the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, Rome, completed by Giacomo del Duca.
 * 1583
 * Allahabad Fort, built by Emperor Akbar, is completed.
 * Quirinal Palace in Rome, designed by Carlo Maderno and Domenico Fontana, is begun.
 * New Basilica of Our Lady of Humility, Pistoia, Tuscany, is consecrated.
 * 1584
 * El Escorial palace at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain (begun 1563), designed by Juan de Herrera, is completed.
 * Church of the Gesù in Rome, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1568 and completed by Giacomo della Porta with "the first truly baroque façade", is consecrated.
 * 1585 – Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is opened.
 * 1585 – Neubau in Strasbourg, begun in 1582, is inaugurated.
 * 1586 – Golden Tea Room first recorded in use in Japan.
 * 1587–1588 – Fort Al Jalali at Muscat, Oman, is built by Portuguese naval captain Belchior Calaça.
 * 1588
 * Court theatre at Sabbioneta, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is begun (completed 1590.)
 * Roselius-Haus in Bremen is completed.
 * Villa Barbarigo, Noventa Vicentina is commissioned.

Publications

 * 1584 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo produces his treatise Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura.

Births

 * 1585 – Pietro Paolo Floriani, Italian architect and engineer (died 1638)
 * 1586–1587 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (died 1647)
 * 1587
 * Fabio Mangone, Italian architect (died 1629)
 * Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger, Flemish/Danish architect (died 1639)

Deaths

 * 1580: August 19 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (born 1508)
 * 1583: October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (born 1510)
 * 1588: July 17 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (born 1489)

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Charsadda

Chārsadda (چارسده; ; ; ) is a town and headquarters of Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is the eighty fifth-largest city of Pakistan, according to 2017 census. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Charsadda lies about 29 km from the provincial capital of Peshawar at an altitude of 276 m. The total area of Charsadda District measures about 996 square Km. The district is geographically organized into two primary parts: Hashtnagar (Pashto: Ashnaghar) and Do Aaba (Pashto: Duaba).

Name
The name Chārsadda means "four roads", from the words chār ("four") and sadda ("road"). An alternate explanation, given by Munshi Gopaldas in the 1874 Tawarikh-i Peshawar, is that the city was named after one of the sons of the Pashtun conqueror Ilyas Khan Muhammadzai.

History
The earliest archaeological deposits recovered at Charsadda, in Bala Hisar, are dated to c. 1400 BCE, when a small community was established on a low natural mound of clay above the floodplain of the Kabul and Swat rivers, constructing structures of timber posts slotted into postholes, in association with ceramic sherds and ash. Subsequent periods indicate that more permanent structures were built at Charsadda, including stone-lined pits. Between the 14th century BCE and the 6th century BCE, when an Achaemenid presence is represented at the site (see below), the inhabitants of Charsadda developed an iron-working industry and used ceramics that are typical for this period in the Vale of Peshawar, Swat and Dir. The later history of Charsadda can be traced back to the 6th century BCE. It was the capital of Gandhara from the 6th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The ancient name of Charsadda was Pushkalavati.The city hosts the ruins of what was once the ancient Gandharan capital city of Pushkalavati (meaning Lotus City in Sanskrit), and The father of Sanskrit grammar, Pāṇini was from this area and lived around 4th century BCE. Many invaders have ruled over this region during different times of history. These include the Maurya Empire and the Gupta Empire, Alexander the Great's Macedonians, the Greco-Bactrians, the Indo-Greeks, the Indo-Scythians, the Indo-Parthians, the Kushans, the Huns, the Turks, Durranis and more recently the British Empire Charsadda is contiguous to the town of Prang; and these two places were identified by Alexander Cunningham with the ancient Pushkalāvati, capital of the region at the time of Alexander's invasion, and transliterated as Peukelaus or Peukelaotis by the Greek historians. Its chieftain (Astes), according to Arrian, was killed in defence of one of his strongholds after a prolonged siege by Hephaistion. Ptolemy fixes its site upon the eastern bank of the Suastene or Swat. The region was later conquered by Chandragupt Maurya The Great from the Macedonian satraps.

The present town of Charsadda is of more recent origin.

Rivers
There are three rivers flowing in Charsadda: the River Jindi, the Kabul River and the Swat River; these are the main source of irrigation for Charsadda. The three rivers then merge and join the Indus River.

Administration
The district is administratively subdivided into three tehsils – Charsadda, Tangi, and Shabqadar which contained a total of 49 Union Councils.

Education
Bacha Khan University is a public university situated in Charsadda, named after Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan). In January 2016, the university was attacked by gunmen.

Cemetery
Charsadda's huge cemetery lies south of the tehsil bazaar. It currently occupies an area of 3x4 km, but it used to be bigger — a lot of the current town has been built on top of the old cemetery, often illegally. Two major roads (the Khushal Khan Khattak and Ali Khan roads) cut across the cemetery from north to south, connecting Charsadda with areas to the south like Prang and Babara. Various other roads also cross over the cemetery, connecting other villages and towns. Heavy traffic like trucks and trailers use these roads, which causes additional stress on the underlying graves.

The age of the cemetery is not known. One local tradition holds that Ahmad Shah Durrani originally endowed the land to the locals as a reward for their military support during his Indian campaigns. Another tradition places it in the 15th century, when there was widespread migration of Pashtun tribes into the Peshawar valley. These migrations would have been accompanied by violent conflict, and the battlefields were supposedly seen as unfit for cultivating or living on after they had been "stained with human blood". According to Qasim Jan Mohammadzai, the cemetery likely originated when the local population converted to Islam and thus began to bury their dead close to their villages. The site chosen for the cemetery would have originally been communal land, known in Pashtun as Shamilat, that had previously been used for cattle grazing.

Different clans (Khels) each have different sections of the cemetery to bury their dead in. The boundaries between these sections are marked by shallow trenches or brick walls. The Durrani tribe, for example, has their section in the northeast; it is marked off by barbed wire and shaded by tall trees. Most of the graves in this section are decorated with marble slabs; many of them belong to the period of Durrani rule. There are also separate sections for Christians and Ahmadis near the main Janazgah, as well as a separate section for non-locals in the southeastern part of the cemetery. In this section, called the Musafirkhana, anyone may bury without needing prior permission.

Although not as large as the Makli necropolis near Thatta, the Charsadda cemetery has a much higher density of graves. Whereas Makli primarily houses the graves of the ruling class and prominent holy men, Charsadda is used mostly by ordinary people. That said, there are several prominent saints' tombs at Charsadda, as well as royal Durrani graves from their time in power.

Among the saints' tombs at Charsadda are those of Ghazi Gul Baba, Mullah Shah Alam Baba, Mian Sayed Noor Baba, Baba Sahib (aka Ali bin Yousaf Dalazak), Jhare Baba, and Shaheed Baba. These tombs are sites of pilgrimage; annual urs are held where thousands of devotees gather at night to hear qawwals sung in the saints' honour.

South of the main Janazgah, on the right side of the Ali Khan Baba road, there are two prominent enclosures, each marked off with a brick wall and accessed by a gate on the west side. This area is known as the Chardewarai. The larger enclosure houses eight tombs of the Ali Khel clan, who were the local rulers at the time of the Durrani hegemony; its gate is ornately decorated. The other one has the grave of the 18th-century poet Ali Khan. Southwest of these two enclosures is a (now ruined) domed brick mausoleum on a raised platform, said to belong to a holy woman. None of these tombs have any inscriptions providing a specific date for their construction.

One of the most distinct features of the Charsadda cemetery is the way its graves are decorated. About 90% of the graves are decorated with small black and white stones arranged to form geometric or floral designs. This type of decoration is locally known as Da Kanro Gulkari, and the style of grave is known as a Hashtnaghri Qabroona or a Hashtnaghri grave. Some wealthier people's graves are made of brick or marble, but Hashtnaghri graves remain popular because they are cheaper, quickly made, and durable.

Another tradition associated with the Charsadda cemetery is the annual family visits to deceased relatives' graves. These take place both on Ashura, when any necessary repairs to the grave are done, and on the first day of Eid al-Adha celebrations. During the Eid visit, family members arrive early in the morning to recite the Fatiha and the Tilawa; this visit is considered compulsory if the buried person died recently.

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Pückler

The House of Pückler, with branches named Pückler-Muskau, Pückler-Burghauss (Pückler-Burghauß), Pückler-Limpurg and Pückler-Groditz, was the name of an old and influential German noble family which originated from Silesia.

History
The family was first mentioned in the 13th century. They obtained the title of Count in 1690, while they were rewarded with the title of Imperial Count in 1740 by Charles VI. There was one princely line created in 1822 by Friedrich Wilhelm III for Hermann, Count von Pückler-Muskau and several comital branches of the family. The Imperial County of Pückler-Limpurg was mediatized by Württemberg when the Holy Roman Empire came to an end in 1806. As immediate, that branch belonged to the high nobility, but it became extinct in the male line in 1963.

Notable members

 * Count Carl Friedrich of Pückler-Burghauss, Baron of Groditz (born 1886, Friedland, Silesia, died 1945, Tschimelitz)
 * Erdmann Graf von Pückler-Limpurg (1792–1869)
 * Erdmann von Pückler (1832–1888)
 * Heinrich von Pückler (1835–1897)
 * Hermann, Prince von Pückler-Muskau (1785, Muskau Castle, Bad Muskau - 1871), German nobleman, artist, famous for the Muskau Park (Park Mużakowski)
 * Karl von Pückler-Burghauß (1817–1899)
 * Walter von Pückler (1860–1924), antisemitic agitator

title: Pückler


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Party for Defence of Workers Rights

Party for Defence of Workers Rights (in Albanian: Partia për Mbrojtjen e të Drejtave të Punëtorëve) is a political party in Albania. The party chairman is Kadri Mehmet Isufaj.

Ahead of the 2005 elections the party joined the coalition "Parties of the Social Spectrum of Albania - National Unity Party". The coalition presented Isufaj as its candidate in the single-member constituency Zone 43, near Tirana. He received 44 votes (0.3%).

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Lakki Marwat

Lakki Marwat or Lakki (Urdu and ) is the headquarters of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Lakki Marwat has become one of the fastest growing cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Lakki Marwat is also the 20th most populous city in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Origins
Lakki was first called by the name of "Thal Daman", which means an open sandy plain. The first evidence of civilization in the plains of Thal Daman and the spread of Islam in Bannu is indicated by the graves of Ashaab on the left bank of the Kurram River. In addition, contemporary historians write about Bannu in their works. Al-Baladuri wrote that "In the year 44 H. [664 AD], and in the days of the Khalif Muawiya, Muhallib son of Abu Safra made war upon the same frontier, and advanced as far as Banna and Alahwar which lie between Multan and Kabul.”

The tribes of Lakki Marwat, such as the [Bannuchi] are mentioned in the memoirs of Mughal Emperor Babur. He considered the whole of the valley which is now the Tahsil of Bannu and Marwat, as 'Bannu territory'. Babur also stated that when he came to Bannu in 1505, the Niazis were settlers in what now is Marwat. In 1602, the Niazis were driven out by Marwat towards Isakhel.

In 1756, Ahmad Shah Durrani incorporated the whole of the Bannu territory into the Durrani Empire centred at Kandahar (later Kabul).

In 1818, the Nawab of the area, Hafiz Ahmed Khan Sado Zai, annexed Isakhel. The following year, he was invited by the White Gund of Marwats to aid him against the Black Gund of Marwats. After doing this, the Nawab, took possession of the whole Marwat area.

In 1836, Maharaja Ranjit Singh formally annexed Marwat and leased it for an annual sum of Rs. 40,000 to a tax collector called Dewan Lakki Mull. Dewan Lakki Mull then settled some of the Hindu inhabitants across the Gambila River towards the north. Eventually, these settlements turned into a small town known as Lakki. It was through Dewan Lakki Mull that the area derived its name 'Lakki'.

After Dewan Lakhi Mull, Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana became the area's tax collector. He belonged to the Tiwana family and was an ancestor of Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana. In 1844, he built and garrisoned a fort in the heart of Marwat which he called Ihsanpur. A town grew up under its walls and became the capital of Marwat. He induced many of the leading classes to settle near it, so a number of families that had moved to Isakhel returned to the region.

British rule
On 20 March 1849, the Punjab region was annexed by the East India Company. The province was divided into the districts of Leiah and Dera Ismail khan. The Isakhel and Marwat, was put into the Dera Ismail Khan District. On 1 January 1861, the Leiah District was broken up and the Dera Jat District was formed with Bannu as its most northern area.

In 1862, Bannu district was expanded to include parts of Mianwali District, such as Pakhar Kalabagh, a tract lying along the eastern base of the salt range, and the villages of Harnoli and Wan Bhachran. Therefore, the whole of the North-West Frontier Province, including Bannu, Peshawar, Hazara and Kashmir remained part of the Punjab Province until 1901. Malik Fateh Khan Tiwana's old fort town of Ihsanpur continued to be the capital of Marwat until 1864. That year, it had to be abandoned when the Gambila River flooded the area making it into a marsh. The District Officer, Major Urmston, allowed the inhabitants to move across to the right bank of the Gambila and settle amongst a cluster of villages consisting of Mina Khel, Khoedad Khel and Sayed Khel.

The municipality was constituted in 1874. On 9 November 1901, the Mianwali District was formed out of the tehsils of Isa Khel and Mianwali from the Bannu District and Bhakkar and Leyyah from Dera Ismail Khan District. The population in 1901 was 5,218.

Post-Independence
A Narrow gauge (762 mm or 2 ft 6 in) railway line was linked it with Mari Indus, Bannu and Tank, Pakistan, was closed in 1991.

On 1 January 2010, at least 99 people were killed in the nearby village Shah Hassan Khel when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a volleyball game.

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Talk:Loony left

NPOV
The title of this article certainly isn't NPOV. It's a pejorative term, but on the other hand, it's factually and indisputably true that people use the words "loony left". Richard W.M. Jones 10:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input Richard. I originally put up the tag because the title wasn't NPOV and I wanted the community to check it out, but now that I've seen the pejorative article, I've come to the opinion that it's ok to have a pejorative term as an article title, as long as the article itself merely explains the term and it's written in NPOV. It appears that this article meets that criteria. I'll check some of the Wikipedia policy articles to make sure this is ok and then I'll remove the tag. Solarusdude 15:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, no problem :-) Richard W.M. Jones 22:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I still think that there are problems with the article, as opposed to the title. The only substance of the article are examples of "loony left" councils, and the only link is to a very biased page against the "loony left".  There is no discussion in the article about the way the phrase and the select examples were/are used as as political tools, whether in Britain or the United States.  Without this, this article reads as both biased and not very informative.  I would definitely nominate it for clean-up, with some note that it needs work for NPOV. - Jb? 08:57, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The source looks very biased. I'm sure we can do better than this. Secretlondon 17:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

It probably does look biased- but it's up to you to show that the examples quoted are false/exagerrated. It was also once held that a council discussed changing the colour of black bin bags incase blacks got offended!--80.229.27.251 18:17, July 24, 2007.

Well Peter Jenkins was a left-wing journalist, but I think he is a reliable source.--Johnbull (talk) 03:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

All of these points and more besides (including debunking the false assertion made by 80.229.27.251 above) can be, and have been, fixed by the normal editing process of using more and better sources. See Articles for deletion/Loony left for more on this. Uncle G (talk) 02:10, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

This is about UK politics, and thus the heading should reflect--otherwise it would seem a universal category of leftism, which it is NOT. I suggest the heading should be "Looney Left (UK politics)". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.60.225 (talk) 19:44, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Instil (Instill?) and inflame?
No opinion about the article as a whole, but surely this: "Its purpose was to instil and inflame fear in voters' minds, of political extremism, trade unions, and the hard left." could be reconsidered? Do I need to say why? Maybe so. It seems to be automatically casting the term as "something bad" invented for reasons described with very emotive terms (instil and inflame fear) "promote or exploit anxiety, among the voting public," instead might improve it for me, but not much.Bacrito (talk) 22:12, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Good remark! My question is what exactly was critizised by the term? Ideologically overloaded or absurd speeches performed by leftist polititians? Politically or spiritually surrendering to foreign extremists such as islamists, nationalists etc. in Britan, or supporting red dictators somewhere around the globe? Insane political acts? What exactly could justify or explain the term, regarding real-world political action? 139.139.67.69 (talk) 10:34, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Dates
Should someone go through and changed the dates from US format to UK format, since this is an article about the UK, and my reckoning would be that the vast majority of visitors to this page would be from the UK? That date format is incredibly confusing when you don't use it. I attempted to do it myself but ended up in a minefield almost immediately! 81.157.75.34 (talk) 13:22, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Loony left is not just a British term
Republicans in the U.S. have used the term "loony left" to refer to very left-wing cities in the U.S. such as San Francisco, California. Here are sink links to examples of the terms used in American politics: http://www.theloonyleft.com/ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/370rzvqg.asp http://www.manufacturing.net/News/Feeds/2011/05/mnet-mnet-industry-focus-facilities-and-operations-the-economist-president-should-condemn-the-loony/ http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Paul_blames_loony_left_for_civil_rights_focus.html http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90005953 http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2007/11/25/defining-loony-left-thanksgiving-hatred

--Cab88 (talk) 06:19, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

So what? This isn't wiktionary! It's a pejorative term and doesn't refer to any particular political phenomenon. At least in the American context. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.60.225 (talk) 19:46, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Just in London?
I was born in 1985 in Britain. From reading this article, I get the impression that the loony left was just in London. However, weren't there very left-wing councils in Liverpool and Sheffield as well. The Peace Gardens in Sheffield were opened by somebody who survived the bombing of Hiroshima and there's a plaque there to those who died in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. Was this a different sort of local left-wing politics from the loony left? 94.0.180.250 (talk) 19:07, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

 * As we rely on what reliable sources have to say about a subject, we can't use our own opinions as to what loony left means. Dougweller (talk) 21:27, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Verbiage to trim
I wanted to learn about concrete examples of the alleged "looniness". Instead, I had to read thru the spurious "black sheep" non-issue. Such sections should be trimmed down and more encyclopedic meat provided instead. Zezen (talk) 16:12, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Remove misleading phrase
"introduced courses on homosexuality into its nursery and primary schools" is now outdated in my opinion, and more often are referred to as LGBT-inclusivity lessons. The phrase used sounds like state intervention / brainwashing which is misleading. -Internet is Freedom (talk) 20:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

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Chestnut-mandibled toucan

The chestnut-mandibled toucan or Swainson's toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus swainsonii) is a subspecies of the yellow-throated toucan which breeds from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia to western Ecuador.

Taxonomy and systematics
The scientific and alternative English names commemorate the English ornithologist and artist William Swainson. Since 2009, the chestnut-mandibled toucan has been considered a subspecies of the yellow-throated toucan.

Description
Like other toucans, the chestnut-mandibled is brightly marked and has a large bill. The male is 56 cm long, while the smaller female is typically 52 cm long. Weight ranges from 599 to 746 grams (1.3–1.6 lbs).

The sexes are alike in appearance, mainly black with maroon hints to the head, upper back and lower breast. The face and upper breast are bright yellow, with narrow white and broader red lines forming a lower border. The upper tail is white and the lower abdomen is red. The legs are blue. The body plumage is similar to that of the smaller keel-billed toucan, but the bill pattern is quite different. The chestnut-mandibled toucan's bill is diagonally divided into bright yellow on top and maroon on bottom.

Juvenile birds are sooty-black, and have duller plumage, particularly with respect to the bib, red border, and lower mandible. They are fed by the parents for several weeks after leaving the nest.

The call of the chestnut-mandibled toucan is a yelping yo-YIP, a-yip, a-yip, or a Dios te dé, Dios te dé (Spanish for "God give you..."). It is given to maintain contact as the flock travels in "follow-my-leader" style through the trees, but also in chorus at the evening roosts.

Behavior
Small flocks, usually consisting of 3–12 birds, move through the forest with an undulating flight, rarely travelling more than 100m at a time. This species is primarily an arboreal fruit-eater, but will also take insects, lizards, eggs, and frogs. Flocks will follow keel-billed toucans to exploit their sources of food.

Reproduction
The chestnut-mandibled toucan is a resident breeder in moist lowland forest. The 2–4 white eggs are laid in an unlined cavity high in a decayed section of a living tree, or occasionally in an old woodpecker nest in a dead tree.

Both sexes incubate the eggs for at 14–15 days, and the toucan chicks remain in the nest after hatching. They are blind and naked at birth, and have short bills and specialised pads on their heels to protect them from the rough floor of the nest. They are fed by both parents, and fledge after about 6 weeks.

Aviculture
Chestnut-mandibled toucans are sometimes kept as pets. They are the most readily available 'large toucan' species available in aviculture in the USA; but are considered noisy when compared to other species of toucans. It is illegal to take toucans or any other protected wild bird species from their nests.

title: Chestnut-mandibled toucan