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Mario Bettinus

Mario Bettinus (Italian name: Mario Bettini; 6 February 1582 – 7 November 1657) was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Bettinus was named after him by Giovanni Riccioli in 1651.

Biography
Mario Bettinus studied mathematics under the Belgian Jean Verviers and Giuseppe Biancani at the Jesuit College of S. Rocco, in Parma. When Biancani died in 1624, the chair of mathematics went to Bettini, who taught military art, stereometry, and conics theory. He was also responsible for teaching military architecture during the period 1624–1630. Among the students attending his classes were the two sons of Duke Ranuccio, Ottavio and Odoardo. Besides being Ottavio's teacher of military mathematics, Bettinus also served as military consultant to the courts of Parma (1612–1613), Modena (1617–1618) and again Parma (1626–1627), and as a military architect at Novellara (1618–1619), seat of the novitiate of the Jesuit ‘Provincia Veneta’.

Bettinus was primarily a mathematician and mathematical physicist. He labeled himself a philosophus mathematicus, meaning a scholar who relies on mathematics to study natural philosophy. Bettinus was somewhat ambivalent towards Galileo's Copernicanism and his new astronomical observations. Although generally recognizing the importance of Galileo's discoveries, he disagreed with some of the conclusions expounded in Sidereus Nuncius especially over the height of the mountains on the moon. According to Bettini, if there were very high mountains on the Moon, the lunar disk observed with the telescope would appear irregular and jagged, while on the contrary, it looked perfectly round. Bettini's objections echoed the doubts raised in Johannes Kepler's Dissertatio cum Nuntio Sidereo. Giovanni Riccioli, who heard Bettinus lecture at Parma, mentions his attempts to measure the heights of lunar mountains.

Besides being the mentor of Guarino Guarini (1624–1683) and a friend of Christoph Grienberger, Bettinus was also a close friend of Prince Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609–1680)—the latter had even sent him a copy of his work on fortifications from Hohenegg on 15 July 1652. He opposed Bonaventura Cavalieri's method of indivisibles and the theory of the infinitesimal quantities.

Works
Bettinus privileged mathematics, intended as the only discipline abstract enough to allow intellect to approach theology. The Jesuit mathematician held the belief that, precisely because of their abstraction, mathematical theorems and demonstrations lead one away from the mundane and toward the divine. On the contrary, he considered a research based on sense as too bound to human limitations (and, therefore, unreliable). Yet, Bettinus was a skilled astronomer; and clues of experimental knowledge are all but invisible in his work.

His best-known work is Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae 'Beehives of all mathematical philosophy' (1645), an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities. This book, reflecting his many interests, is a collection of scientific mysteries embracing everything from geometrical demonstrations to illusionistic stage sets, perpetual motion machines, anamorphoses and sundials. The second volume has a section on music and acoustics. According to Bettinus, the natural world abounds in mathematical delights such as spider webs and the honeycombs of bees. From these creations of nature can be drawn geometrical principles useful for mechanical, optical, and artistic designs. The Apiaria surveys a staggering array of instruments, machines, and other tangible applications of mathematical principles. It is illustrated with beautiful engravings of these machines, which – Bettini points out – are rough imitations of the great and perfect mechanisms provided by nature. The work included a commentary on the first six books of Euclid, a traditional part of Jesuit mathematical curriculum and a form followed by Clavius a half century earlier.

In his Apiaria military technologies featured prominently. His machines of war were mentioned by Montecuccoli, by the famous Jesuit mathematicians Athanasius Kircher and Jacques Ozanam and by the Polish master of artillery, Casimir Semenowycz. The book was a huge success throughout Europe. It was read by John Collins and Isaac Barrow and a copy of it can be found in the library of the English physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne.

Publications

 * Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, in quibus Paradoxa, et nova pleraque machinamenta ad usus eximios traducta et facillimis demonstrationibus confirmata exhibentur, 3 vols. Bologna: Typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij, Venice: Apud Paulum Baleonium, 1642–55. The 'paradoxes' are of many different kinds—scientific ideas contrary to general opinion, logical and mathematical paradoxes, geometrical problems which had not yielded to solution, curious machines and engines, illusions, games, and tricks. Bettinus tackled the 'learned hallucinations' constellated about the quadrature problem, and about asymptotic lines which go de infinito infinito, as well as those that result from deformation of the rules of perspective. Archimedes' screw (which raised by lowering itself), wedges, levers all make their appearance, magnificently illustrated.

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Talk:Deen (singer)

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I just wanted to say that he is the best singer I have ever listened to.I;m sorry there's too many people who don't understand that.

this article is soooo bad.. deen didn't even admit of being gay, he says he is straight, so his 'role in the gay community' doesn't exist, and neither does a gay community in bosnia and herzegovina. oh, and he wasnt' molested by his father. I don't know who wrote this article, but it sucks.
 * "non existing gay community in Bosnia-Herzegovina" is misleading and untrue information, as well as "his role for gay and lesbian community in B&H". --Marko Jurcic 16:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Deen gay?
Deen doesn't identify as gay, so I have removed the part that says "He's also the most populare homosexuale singer on the Balkan", what is also a bad spelling. Deen gave an interview for Bosnian-Herzegovinian queer/gay portal Queer.ba, and he refered himself as straight. You people could writhe about "Matter of Dispute about his sexual orientation", but giving facts just like this is so wrong. People have rights on self-identification. --Marko Jurcic 16:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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___________________ Deen is not gay. He dates a hot chick and women fall for him easy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.212.54.243 (talk) 20:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eyes on final fantasy

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

The result of the debate was delete. -R. fiend 18:10, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Eyes on final fantasy
Non-notable forum/fansite, very few relevant Google hits.--Sean Jelly Baby? 23:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- ( ☺ drini ♫ | ☎ ) 03:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Alexa ranking in the 115k range, but the forums appear to have over 11k members. --GraemeL (talk) 13:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, although the site's been around for a very long time (and I used to be a member there...), it's simply a message board, and its Alexa rating is mediocre... -- Grev -- Talk 17:47, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn.  Grue   12:56, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

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Steve Holy

Stephen Kyle Holy (born February 23, 1972) is an American country music singer. Signed to Curb Records since 1999, he has released three studio albums: 2000's Blue Moon, 2006's Brand New Girlfriend, and 2011's Love Don't Run. Fifteen of his singles have entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the Number One hits "Good Morning Beautiful" (which was featured in the movie Angel Eyes) and "Brand New Girlfriend".

Early life
Steve was born February 23, 1972, in Dallas, Texas, as the youngest of eight children. He entered a local competition called the Mesquite Opry at age 19. While there, he caught the attention of Wilbur Rimes, the father of country singer LeAnn Rimes. By 1999, Holy was signed to Curb Records. His musical influences include Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Lionel Richie.

1999-2002: Blue Moon
His first single for the label, Don't Make Me Beg, peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard country charts in 2000. By October of that year, Holy's debut album, Blue Moon, was released. Its second and third singles, which were the title track and "The Hunger", respectively, both reached No. 24 on the country charts.

Late in 2001, Holy reached Number One for the first time with "Good Morning Beautiful," a selection from the soundtrack to the film Angel Eyes. This song spent five weeks at Number One on the country charts and reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. Blue Moon eventually went Gold nine years after its release in February 2009.

2002–2010: Non-album singles and Brand New Girlfriend
Holy released his fifth single, "I'm Not Breakin'," in late 2002. This song peaked at No. 27 on the country music charts. This was followed by four more singles over the next two years: "Rock-a-Bye Heart" at No. 37 in 2003, "Put Your Best Dress On" at No. 26 in 2004, "Go Home" and "It's My Time (Waste It If I Want To)" at No. 49 and No. 59, respectively, in 2005. None of these five singles were included on a studio album.

In 2005, Holy released "Brand New Girlfriend," co-written by Jeffrey Steele, Shane Minor and Bart Allmand. This song became Holy's second and to date final Number One on the country charts, and his first since “Good Morning Beautiful” in 2002, reaching the top of the charts in its 36th week and setting a record for the slowest climb to Number One on that chart since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990. (This record was broken one year later by Tracy Lawrence, whose "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" reached Number One in its forty-first chart week.) "Brand New Girlfriend" was the lead-off single to Holy's second studio album, also entitled Brand New Girlfriend. This album also produced the lesser Top 40 country hits "Come On Rain" and "Men Buy the Drinks (Girls Call the Shots)" at No. 35 and No. 38. Also included on the album were a cover version of Hank Williams, Jr.'s "All for the Love of Sunshine" and a song co-written by United States Senator Orrin Hatch.

A thirteenth single, "Might Have Been", was released in mid-2008 and on the chart week of December 27, 2008, debuted at No. 60 on the Hot Country Songs chart.

2011–present: Love Don't Run
In February 2011 Holy released "Love Don't Run". The song became his first Top 20 hit on the country charts since "Brand New Girlfriend" in 2006. Holy's third studio album, also entitled Love Don't Run, was released on September 13, 2011. In 2012, Holy released "Radio Up" written by Ben Glover and Bruce Wallace. In 2013, he parted ways with Curb Records.

Singles

 * A"Blue Moon" did not enter the Hot 100, but peaked at number 20 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.

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Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — Dan | Talk 23:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)              fuck u i will no stop

 * OK, you can't say you weren't warned. Blocked. -- The Anome 23:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Huron–Manistee National Forests

History
Added information expanding and citing sources on the wildfire risk in Huron National Forest. The jack pine barrens ecosystem in fire tolerant and well adapted to recovery from forest fire but also susceptible to fire due to large amounts of available fuel in an unburned ecosystem. This article is likely not the proper location for information covering issues resulting from fire suppression practices in jack pine barrens ecosystem. Camperdad (talk) 17:20, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Removed text that seemed like it was pulled directly from a NFS web page. Andygerber (talk) 01:10, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:Paragraph

Headache

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"A paragraph is 4-5 sentences that are all about the same thing." enuff not to be a stub any more? Some of the ideas need rephrasing to make them clearer. Paraphrasing will make the narrative more convincing.

As it stands its disjointed and lacking direction and focus. From an mature person's POV it's salad days.

More examples of paragraphs in action please. Edgar Allen Poe regularly wrote paragraphs that ran for more than one page.

James 21:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi 2600:1700:16E0:2020:E1D8:AF3B:223B:E1CF (talk) 18:54, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Etymology
"ORIGIN French paragraphe, from Greek paragraphos ‘short stroke marking a break in sense’." from Oxford dictionary. Is Wiki or Oxon correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.151.177.15 (talk) 11:09, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Asterisms etc
Since I see no mention in the article yet, I'm going to add what I've been able to learn about asterisms to separate paragraphs. My knowledge is very shallow so I hope people will correct it. — Hippietrail 16:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks Hippietrail. Essentially yes, most published books (novels and prose fiction in particular) use asterisms to indicate a narrative break or change of scene. The only quibble I have is with the phrase "most". Its a bit weasley, and would be better off as simply "published books use...". Here's a quick rewrite:

 * Published books, especially novels and prose fiction, use a typographic device to separate certain paragraphs further where there is a narrative break or change of scene. Extra vertical space is added, typically containing an asterisk, three asterisks, a special stylistic dingbat, or a special symbol known as an asterism.

 * Your conditional "especially when co-ocurring at a page break" complicates the description, and is an optional detail readers can pursue in either Typography or Typesetting, if we put it there.

 * I appreciate the addition and value it, but the problem we're now facing is the Paragraph article is drifting into typography. Same applies to the section on HTML paragraphs---that's a technical typesetting thing, not literary, and also belongs in Typesetting or Typography.
 * Arbo 17:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * On second thought maybe your Asterisms bit does belong in Paragraph. Leave it in (it can't hurt too much for the moment), update it with my cleaned-up version or your own.
 * Arbo 18:03, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments Arbo. In fact I just found the term yesterday via Google and Wikipedia after wondering for years what the things are. I'm still fuzzy on whether "asterism" refers to a) the symbol, b) the extra space separating some paragraphs, c) the sections or subchapters formed by such, d) the practice of doing this, e) is there a special term when extra division occurs at a page boundary, f) if a special symbol is only used when the division occurs at a page boundary will this be called an asterism whereas those division mid-page will go by some other term or no term.

I had a quick look in a few novels lying about in various languages. My French Harry Potter uses blank lines with no symbol, no doubt in the same places as the English original. Doesn't indicate whether these are used in native French titles. Of 3 Spanish books, 2 never use an extra blank line or symbol anywhere, the 3rd does use them and uses a custom symbol whether at page-end or mid-page. There seem to be many variations and I do not know if any have peculiar names in the publishing or printing jargon etc. — Hippietrail 00:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) and Bringhurst define an asterism as the typographic symbolthe three asterisks. The white space and text before and after the asterism doesn't have a special name, and I've never heard of names for special cases (e) + (f).

 * Technically a break with no asterism symbol is not an asterism. Book typographers refer to that treatment as simply a "break" or "section break".

 * So is a break containing the symbol also an asterism? Your wording above makes it seem so but the defs make it seem otherwise.

Just the symbol is the asterism. A break without the symbol is not an asterism, just a break or section break.Arbo 04:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Let me just make this 100% clear since there is still ambiguity: a break without a symbol is not an asterism, but a break with a symbol is also not an asterism, only the symbol itself is an asterism. Right? — Hippietrail 18:48, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

100% correct. Not an annoying question at all :^) Feel free to ask more questions. Arbo 09:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * "Section" was my first guess but I didn't know if that term also has its own specific definition in publishing which might be different. So a "section break" has the same name and function whether or not it contains an asterism right? — Hippietrail 17:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Not quite. See above.

 * There is a second, commonly used kind of asterisma manual asterism, consisting of three asterisks spaced apart on one line.

 * Yes I tried to cover this when I said "..., three asterisks, ...". — Hippietrail 17:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * To find out the names of the many variations (if they do have names) in publishing or printing jargon, visit http://www.typophile.com and post on the General Discussions forum. Ask for book typographers to answer the question, as graphic designers, typographers working in graphic design and typeface designers aren't neccessarily experts on this (some are, some are not).

 * Thanks. I've created an account. Now I just need to find where to post my question. — Hippietrail 17:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

General Discussions Arbo 04:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * This is drifting further into typography. If we add specific details about asterisms we're really talking about the typography of asterisms :^)
 * Arbo 09:02, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * That's fine. I can't discuss the other terms on their own pages until I know what the other terms are. We can ramble in the talk page but not in the article (-: Thanks for your help. — Hippietrail 17:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I've started an article on sections and section breaks. —Pengo 02:48, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

History?
There's nothing about history in this article. When was the paragraph invented, and by whom? I seem to recall it was invented rather late... I looked at this article to find out more and was disappointed to find nothing. John Baez 02:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Me too! When was the paragraph invented? By whom is probably not known, but there probably was some first occurrence of paragraphs in western hand printing. ... said: Rursus ( m bork³ ) 16:01, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Since added a ton. -- Beland (talk) 22:17, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

I believe that the below not only should help with the history, but also address the global context of the word (in English, paragraph has been narrowly defined by grade school writing assignments). "Historically considered, the word paragraph means (a) a marginal character or note employed to direct attention to some part of the text ; (b) a character similar to (a), but placed in the text itself ; (c) the division of discourse introduced by a paragraph mark or by indentation, and extending to the next paragraph mark or the next indentation ; (d) the rhetorical paragraph, that is, (c) developed to a structural unit capable of organic internal arrangement." http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026640247/cu31924026640247_djvu.txt (posted by a lazy ex-Wikipedian) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.76.53.42 (talk) 15:26, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

XHTML
"In XHTML, the p element marks a block of text as a paragraph - the opening tag <p> marks the beginning of a paragraph, and the closing tag </p> marks the end of a paragraph. The paragraph consists of at least three sentences."

What is this about three sentences? Krum Stanoev 13:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Removed! -- Beland (talk) 22:26, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

order of importance
What is order of importance in logical order?? need it for homework...hehe...

Turning to Wikipedia to settle a question about paragraphs, we are unable to reach a concensus. Copied below is the first paragraph of the article

"A paragraph is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea, or the words of an author. The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line and ending without running to the next passage. Sometimes the first line is indented, and sometimes it is indented without beginning a new line. At various times the beginning of a paragraph has been indicated by the pilcrow mark: ¶ "

One issue is what is a new line? Another is we are unclear as to what "ending without running to the next passage".

A little background. I was discussing an email from a coworker and referred to the second paragraph. In this case I used a blank line to delineate the paragraphs. My coworker immediately went to what I considered the third sentence of the first paragraph. The previous sentence ended at the right margin and the new sentence/paragraph started at the left margin. My coworkers position was that a new line was used. I however, cannot see any positive indication that this is simply not a continuation of the paragraph.

So what is a new line defined as. Also what is "indented without beginning a new line"? What does this look like.

I cannot make a recommendation as to how to clarify this intro paragraph but would like to be able to look at the article and get the clarification we needed. --Stan5184 18:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

 * You might want to see Inverted pyramid.

"Structure"
I edited the "Structure" paragraph (at 10:50 on 11/30/07), but I wasn't logged in at the time (darn cookies). I corrected what amounted to a combination of prescriptivism and contradictory redundancy (note this is not a criticism of the editors who have worked on this page; it's natural for a paragraph that's been worked on by dozens of people to develop eccentricities). If anyone has any comments or would like to discuss I'd be happy to hear from you. Richardpaez 03:53, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Insufficient documentation (lack of source citations)
See templates. See WP:CITE. --NYScholar (talk) 12:12, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Other languages?
Do other languages have the same conventions for what makes up a paragraph? In other words, are paragraphs a form of organization determined by English convention, or are they an expression of the universal way the human mind organizes information? A section on the history of paragraphs, as suggested above, might also help answer my question. 138.78.98.196 (talk) 05:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This "short sentences, and 3-7 of them per paragraph" thingy is particularly English. --141.3.167.120 (talk) 01:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi all, is it quite right to state that a paragraph is generally between three to seven sentences? If you read some of the work produced in the New Journalism/Beatnick style of 60's and 70's america (Kerouac, H.S. Thompson, W. Borroughs), you would find that such rules often do not apply. I understand that for the purpose of setting a standard use for a paragraph people may want offer a set of generalised rules(generally, or most often accurate descriptions), but the rules are just this - generalised. I suspect that this is quite a difficult topic to produce a set of definitions or terms that will please everyone. Best Darigan (talk) 13:41, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Use in law
Could s.o. add a paragraph on "use in law". (pun intended :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.236.26.74 (talk) 05:56, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Hanging indent
...redirects to this article, yet no such term is to be found in this article. --Jerome Potts (talk) 07:42, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Hanging indent has since been changed to redirect to Indentation. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:27, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

American Indentation Practice
Although an American in my 60's, I've never indented the first paragraph in a section; for the section mark (a blank line) will almost always be followed by a paragraph. This should be in American stye manuals. Also, though five space indentations were used with double-spaced typescript, and carried over to word processed text, three spaces are more common. Rarely, people indent to make a clear space the shape of a square or the shape of a capital H in the paragraph font. Geologist (talk) 21:36, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Block paragraphs only for business letters?
An oddity, but the section "Indenting" seems to refer only to print media, which is misleading, because it isn't indicated. The information that follows applies only to print media and includes some unusual cases.

One detail (presently needing a citation) states that indented paragraphs, rather than blocked, are preferred in almost all genres. It seems to be a bit of an oversight not to note that almost all electronic media prefer block paragraphs.

I'm inserting the word "print" to distinguish, but I don't think that solves the entirety of the problem. Really, there should be another section on electronic media to explain this difference of style between the media.

Dirk Mcbratney (talk) 17:32, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Since rewritten. -- Beland (talk) 22:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Question...
I'm writing a book, and I plan to publish it someday. Now, I read on the internet that before you publish the book, you have to convert it to something else. (I forgot the name, but you go to a certain site and it does it for you.), then print it. Well, does this formatting thing automatically indent it for you? Or do I have to indent it myself? Also, on OpenOffice, is Default formatting okay to use? Or should I use text body? 24.179.27.28 (talk) 20:45, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

What are “keyboarders” and “typists”?
What are “keyboarders” and “typists”? "Keyboarder" sounds like slang to me. What's the significance of mentioning them? These terms need more explanation, or replacement with more meaningful words. Chris Page (talk) 09:00, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Beland (talk) 21:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

 * Typist use to be several kinds of jobs when typewriters were still primarily used. The term is still often used for certain jobs despite typewriters no longer being used. — al-Shimoni  (talk) 15:19, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Good source
There's almost certainly more to add from The History of the Modern English Paragraph. -- Beland (talk) 22:10, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

In other languages
Folks in this thread seem to think that: "There were other ways to accomplish the same thing, though. Recipes are exactly the sort of self-contained units that need to be separated, so careful writers ended them with a conventional phrase -- perhaps a 'micro-colophon' -- such as 'and it comes out excellently, God willing' or 'eat it in good health.'"
 * Classical Arabic didn't have paragraphs, but modern does, starting in the 1900s; one writes:
 * Korean and Japanese started out without paragraphs
 * Chinese has had paragraphs for a long time

If anyone can track down reliable sources for these claims, that would help fill out this article. We might also have some luck looking at machine translations of Wikipedia articles in other languages, or at primary documents for good examples. -- Beland (talk) 22:29, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Invalid Citation
Hello, I was just browsing and noticed that citation #2 ("A paragraph consists of one or more sentences.[1][2]") now leads to a 404 page. I figure someone who monitors or edits this wiki entry and/or has better knowledge of Wikipedia's citation rules can take care of it. :) 35.40.189.42 (talk) 19:04, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

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Metered reply mail

Metered reply mail, or MRM, is a type of mail in which a business sends pre-printed, self-addressed envelopes or postcards to customers, with postage prepaid on the envelopes or postcards with a postage meter. It is thus similar to courtesy reply mail with a postage stamp already affixed.

Metered reply mail differs from business reply mail in the manner of payment of postage, namely, by the postage meter indicating when the mail is sent, rather than by the permit holder when the mail is received.

In the United States, the United States Postal Service specifies that the envelopes or postcards for metered reply mail should be printed with a FIM A code.

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Jack Ingram

Jack Owen Ingram (born November 15, 1970) is an American country music artist formerly signed to Big Machine Records, an independent record label. He has released eleven studio albums, one extended play, six live albums, and 19 singles. Although active since 1992, Ingram did not reach the U.S. Country Top 40 until the release of his single "Wherever You Are" late-2005. A number one hit on the Billboard country charts, that song was also his first release for Big Machine and that label's first Number One hit. Ingram has sent six other songs into the country Top 40 with "Love You", "Lips of an Angel" (a cover version of a song by Hinder), "Measure of a Man", "Maybe She'll Get Lonely", "That's a Man", and "Barefoot and Crazy".

Biography
Ingram was born in Houston, Texas. He started writing songs and performing while studying psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he was member of Alpha Tau Omega.

Musical career
Jack Ingram began his music career singing at a privately owned bar near the TCU campus of Fort Worth, Texas, which was owned by his friend John Clay Wolfe. Later, during the early 1990s, Jack toured the state of Texas opening for Mark Chesnutt and other acts. His first release was his self-titled album in 1995 via the Rhythmic label, followed by 1995's Lonesome Questions. Warner Bros. Records eventually signed him and released a live album entitled Live at Adair's, and re-issued his first two indie albums.

In 1997 he had his first time on the 22nd season of Austin City Limits. That same year, he released Livin' or Dyin' via Rising Tide Records, which produced his first chart single in the No. 51-peaking "Flutter". Two years later came Hey You via Lucky Dog, a division of Epic Records, which accounted for a No. 64 country single in "How Many Days". In 2000, he collaborated with Charlie Robison and Bruce Robison for the live album Unleashed Live.

Electric, his second album for Lucky Dog, was also his first album to enter Top Country Albums, despite not producing a chart single. This album was supplemented a year later by an EP entitled Electric: Extra Volts before he left Lucky Dog. Two more live albums followed before he signed to Columbia Nashville for the release of Young Man in 2004, which accounted for no singles. Another live album, Acoustic Motel, was issued in 2005.

On Sunday, February 3, 2013, H-E-B premiered their 'Texas Myths' Super Bowl commercial featuring Jack Ingram.

2005–2011: Big Machine Records
In 2005, Ingram signed to the independent record label Big Machine Records. Under the Big Machine banner, Ingram released a predominantly live album entitled Live: Wherever You Are. His first single release on that record label, "Wherever You Are", became Ingram's first top 40, and later his first and only Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, as well as the first Number One for the Big Machine label. "Love You", the only other studio track on Live: Wherever You Are, was also released as a single, peaking at No. 12 on the charts. This song was also recorded by Trent Summar & the New Row Mob (whose frontman, Trent Summar, co-wrote it) on their 2005 album Horseshoes & Hand Grenades.

In late 2006, Ingram released a cover of Hinder's song "Lips of an Angel". Ingram's cover peaked at No. 16 on the country charts "Lips of an Angel" was the lead-off single to This Is It, his second album for Big Machine. This album also produced the No. 18 "Measure of a Man" (a Radney Foster co-write) and the No. 24 "Maybe She'll Get Lonely".

In 2008, Ingram appeared at the Argyle Education Foundation Black Diamond Affair.

He won the Academy of Country Music award for top new male vocalist on May 19, 2008. Ingram also filled in for radio host Bob Kingsley on the countdown show "Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40" for the week of September 20–21, 2008.

According to CMT, Ingram's Big Dreams & High Hopes album has "more guts" and Ellis Paul's "The World Ain't Slowing Down" may be the song that takes Ingram to the "next level". Ingram says "It'll be fun for me to expose people to a fantastic song from an artist who's had a 20-year career of being a very successful folk artist." The song was cut from the album. Its lead-off single "That's a Man" charted in the Top 20, followed by "Barefoot and Crazy," which became his second Top 10 hit. The album's next three singles all failed to enter the Top 40: "Seeing Stars" (a duet with Patty Griffin), "Free" and a re-recording of "Barbie Doll" with guest vocals from Dierks Bentley.

On August 26, 2009, Ingram set a Guinness record for the most radio interviews in one day, when he was interviewed 215 times.

Ingram and Big Machine amicably parted ways in late 2011.

As a sideline, Ingram does voice imaging for a number of country stations, including KRYS-FM Corpus Christi; WSIX-FM Nashville; WMIL-FM Milwaukee; KWJJ-FM Portland, Ore.; and KSCS Dallas.

Fundraising
In 2013, Jack teamed up with actor Matthew McConaughey and University of Texas at Austin football coach Mack Brown to create a fundraiser for their favorite children's charities. Dubbed Mack, Jack & McConaughey, the affair was held April 11–12 at Austin's ACL Live at the Moody Theater and featured a gala, golf tournament, fashion show and two nights of music. Mack, Jack & McConaughey returned in 2014.

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Tour Eiffel Bridge

The Tour Eiffel Bridge, also known as the Montcalm Street Bridge, is a small but ornate bridge in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

History
There had long been a bridge across Brewery Creek, but by the 1980s it needed to be replaced. Hull and the National Capital Commission were working to turn the Brewery Creek area into a tourist and cultural district.

It was decided to build an ornate structure. Incorporated in the bridge was an original steel girder from the Eiffel Tower, that had been part of a recently disassembled staircase.

The girder was donated to Hull by Paris mayor Jacques Chirac. Architects Paul Martineau and Eric Haar modeled the bridge on Parisian style. It opened in 1990.

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Why "Hiawatha" Forest
Okay, I'm not too proud to ask: why is it called "Hiawatha"?76.106.172.133 (talk) 05:44, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * According to the forest service, it was Named after the Mohawk chief, Hiawatha, who brought about the confederation known as the Five Nations of the Iroquois. He was also the hero of Longfellow's poem, "Hiawatha". HIAWATHA NATIONAL FOREST United States Department of Agriculture, Eastern Region Forest names.  Note the map in Wikipedia article concerning the expansion of the Iroquois. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:16, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

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Scotty Thurman

Scotty Thurman (born November 10, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach, perhaps best known as the Arkansas Razorbacks' shooting guard who hit the high-arcing go-ahead three-pointer with 50.7 seconds left in the 1994 NCAA basketball championship game, helping to secure Arkansas' only national title to date in a 76–72 victory over the Duke Blue Devils. That shot is referred to as the "Shot heard 'round Arkansas".

College career
Thurman was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team in 1993, and was First Team All-SEC in 1994 and 1995. He also received some All-American recognition from the Associated Press and the Basketball Times in 1994 and 1995. Most Razorback fans consider him to be one of the greatest players in school history. His nickname was the "Ruston Rifle", making reference to Thurman's hometown, and his shooting prowess.

After leading Arkansas to the National Championship game in 1995, Thurman, along with teammate and future NBA player Corliss Williamson, left college early to make himself available for the 1995 NBA draft. His agent and coach had told him that he would be a first-round pick, and many fans and analysts agreed with this; surprisingly, he was not drafted. He tried out unsuccessfully with the New Jersey Nets before settling with the CBA's Shreveport Storm (now defunct) in 1995–96.

Professional career
While not making the NBA, Thurman played pro basketball in foreign countries including Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon and North Macedonia, and played for the ABA's professional Arkansas RimRockers in their inaugural season. In 2005, Thurman was with Fastlink of the Jordanian basketball league. Prior to that, he was signed with Riyadi Beirut of the Lebanese league.

Coaching career
Thurman developed a business career with Russ Phillips. He was the director of real estate for Cypress Properties, Inc., in Little Rock, Arkansas. Thurman was named the Director of Student-Athlete Development for men's basketball at the University of Arkansas, and was also the color analyst for the radio broadcasts of Razorback games. In April 2016, Thurman was named an assistant head coach for the Razorbacks by head coach Mike Anderson. Anderson was fired by the university after the 2018–19 season, and Thurman was not retained by the new head coach, Eric Musselman.

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Dandi

Dandi may refer to:

Places

 * Dandi, Iran, a city in Zanjan Province
 * Dandi, Navsari, a village in Gujarat, India, destination of Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March
 * Dandi Census Town, a Census Town in Maharashtra, India
 * Dandi, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Kebbi State

People

 * Dandamis (real name Dandi or Dandi-Swami), 4th century BC Hindu philosopher
 * Daṇḍin or Dandi, 6th-7th century Sanskrit writer
 * Dandi Adigal Nayanar, Hindu saint
 * Dandi Daley Mackall, American Christian author

Other uses

 * The plural of danda, a punctuation character in Indic languages
 * Sticks used in classical Indian dance
 * Dandi, one of three dinosaur mascots of NC Dinos, a Korean professional baseball team

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Noseclip

A noseclip or nose clip is a device designed to hold the nostrils closed to prevent water from entering, or air from escaping, by people during aquatic activities such as kayaking, freediving, recreational swimming, synchronized swimming and waterdance.

A nose clip is generally made of plastic or of wire covered in rubber or plastic. Nose clips may also have a long band to keep the clip around the neck while it is not being used or a cord to attach the nose clip to goggles or kayaking helmet.

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Sky (Canadian band)

Sky was a Canadian R&B-influenced pop rock duo from Montreal, Quebec. It originally consisted of James Renald (1971–2018) and Antoine Sicotte, son of actor Gilbert Sicotte. Both were songwriters, producers, and multi-instrumentalists who met in 1992 at a music engineering school in Montreal. Anastasia Friedman replaced Renald as lead singer after he left, and Karl Wolf was the group's last vocalist.

First iteration
Formed in 1997, Sky created their own record label, Phat Royale, to release their first EP, America, which was completely self-produced and included five songs. In Quebec, 43 radio stations began playing their music, leading to a record deal with EMI Music Canada in 1998.

Sky published their first studio album, Piece of Paradise, in 1999. It was produced by Peter Mokran at Metalworks Studios and Euro-Syndicate Productions at Gallery Studios in New York. The album was preceded by the singles "America" and "Some Kinda Wonderful" and included contributions from such musicians as Wah-Wah Watson, Michael Thompson, and Neil Stubenhaus. Three more singles were issued from the album: "Love Song", "Push", and "All I Want".

In February, Sky signed a new record deal with Arista for the US, UK, and Japan. The album was re-released later that year, with two tracks being replaced. Sky also opened for Britney Spears on the Canadian leg of her ...Baby One More Time Tour, in July. In 2000, Renald announced his departure from the band, and he did not attend that year's Juno Awards, where Sky won the Best New Group award.

Second iteration
Renald was replaced by Anastasia Friedman, and together with Sicotte as the new version of Sky, they released their first single, "Superhero", in August 2000. It was followed in November by the studio album Travelling Infinity. The second single from the record was "You".

Third iteration
In 2003, the third and last incarnation of Sky came about, with Friedman being replaced by Karl Wolf. Under Sextant Records, the group released a third album, Picture Perfect, which spawned the singles "Dedication" and "Crazy". The band split up in 2005.

After Sky
After leaving Sky, James Renald continued his songwriting and production career in Los Angeles, where he resided until 2017. He notably wrote and produced the 2001 Mandy Moore single "Cry". On 11 August 2018, at the age of 47, Renald died by suicide in Eastman, Quebec.

Antoine Sicotte became a celebrity chef, author of cookbooks, as well as host of the television cooking show Le Cuisinier rebelle, based on his 2009 cookbook of the same name.

Karl Wolf went on to launch a solo career, and as of 2024, he has released ten studio albums.

Awards and recognition

 * 2000: winner, Juno Award for New Group of the Year

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Preputial gland

Preputial glands are exocrine glands in the prepuce in front of the penis. They occur in many mammals, including canids, mice, ferrets, rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates and produce pheromones. The preputial glands of female animals are sometimes called clitoral glands.

Male canids scent-mark their territories with urine and preputial gland secretions. The preputial glands of male musk deer produce strong-smelling deer musk which is of economic importance, as it is used in perfumes.

Human homologues
There is debate about whether humans have functional homologues to preputial glands. Preputial glands were first noted by Edward Tyson and in 1694, fully described by William Cowper who named them Tyson's glands after Tyson. They are modified sebaceous glands located around the corona and inner surface of the prepuce of the human penis. They are believed to be most frequently found in the balanopreputial sulcus. Their secretion may be one of the components of smegma.

Some, including Satya Parkash, dispute their existence. While humans may not have true anatomical equivalents, the term may sometimes be used for tiny whitish yellow bumps occasionally found on the glans corona. The proper name for these structures is pearly penile papules (or hirsutoid papillomas). According to detractors, they are not glands, but mere thickenings of the skin and are not involved in the formation of smegma.

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User:JesseW/deletion thoughts

Concerns about pure wiki deletion
We delete things for various purposes(note I'm not saying reasons, but benefical effects of the deletion) If you know of more, please add.
 * 1) To prevent their access by the general public
 * 2) To allow history merging(i.e. moving a page on top of another page) and a few other technical fixes.
 * 3) To make sure article names with insuffient good material lead to red links.

Pure wiki deletion would handily solve #3, and #2 occurs very in-often, so the big issue is with #1. How would we remove things from general public access if "anyone could delete things"? JesseW, the juggling janitor 23:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

User:Ryan_Delaney says that some things would still go through the conventional process. So, here's a list to work on: Things that would stil be hidden from public view:
 * Copyvios or otherwise illegal material
 * Request by only author
 * Attack pages

Recreated pages would be protected, as now, with deletedpage. What happens to their history is irrelevant.

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Shouning

Shouning County (Foochow Romanized: Sêu-nìng-gâing) is a small county located in the northeast of Fujian province of People's Republic of China, bordering Zhejiang province to the northeast. It is under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, An Eastern Min dialect of Min Chinese (similar to the Fuzhou dialect) is spoken there.

There are a number of covered bridges located there, and of the 100 or so woven timber arch "lounge bridges" throughout China, Shouning County has 19. The county hosted the second international conference on Chinese covered bridges from September 20 to 23, 2007.

Beilu opera (also called Luantan), a variety of Min opera, is popular in Shouning County.

The county spans an area of 1433 km2, and has a population of about 280,000 as of 2019.

History
Shouning County was first established in 1455, under the reign of the Jingtai Emperor of the Ming dynasty.

Administrative divisions
Shouning County comprises eight towns and six townships. These are then divided into 205 administrative villages.

Towns
The county's eight towns are, , Nanyang, , , , , and.

Townships
The county's six townships are, , , , , and.

Economy
As of 2019, Shouning County's gross domestic product totaled ¥10.06 billion, a 7.7% increase from 2018. Of this, animal husbandry and aquaculture comprised ¥2.82 billion, up 4.2% from 2018. The county's retail sales in 2019 totaled ¥3.28 billion, up 11.5% from 2018. As of 2019, the county's urban residents experienced a per capita disposable income of ¥28,023, a 9.1% increase from 2018; the county's rural residents had a per capita disposable income of ¥15,359, up 10.2% from 2018.

Notable people
Feng Menglong, a famous Chinese writer, once served as the county magistrate of Shouning County.

In popular culture
The film "Love on the Covered Bridge" was shot in Shouning County.

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The Weakness in Me

"The Weakness in Me" is a song by Joan Armatrading, from her seventh album Walk Under Ladders, released as a single in the US and Netherlands in November 1981. Despite not charting, the song has become one of Armatrading's better-known songs. Armatrading has said "it's about somebody who has an affair and they've fallen for the person that they're having the affair with, but they love the person they were with whilst they were having the affair."

B-sides
The single featured as its B-side the original songs "Dollars" and "Crying", which remained unreleased on an album until the reissue of Walk Under Ladders.

Track listings
7": A&M / 2381-S (US)

 * 1) "The Weakness in Me" – 3:32
 * 2) "Crying" – 3:28

7": A&M / AMS 9190 (Netherlands)

 * 1) "The Weakness in Me" – 3:32
 * 2) "Dollars" – 3:29

12": A&M / AMS 12.9191 (Netherlands)

 * 1) "The Weakness in Me" – 3:32
 * 2) "Dollars" – 3:29
 * 3) "Crying" – 3:28
 * 4) "Shine" – 3:49

Personnel

 * Joan Armatrading – Vocals, Guitar
 * Hugh Burns – Guitar
 * Ray Cooper – Percussion
 * Thomas Dolby – Synthesiser
 * Tony Levin – Bass
 * Jerry Marotta – Drums
 * Andy Partridge – Guitar
 * Nick Plytas – Organ, Piano

Cover versions

 * In 1986, actress and singer Karla DeVito covered the song for her second album Wake 'Em Up in Tokyo.
 * In 1992, punk rock band Thelonius Monster covered the song for their fourth album Beautiful Mess.
 * In 1993, folk singers Frances Black and Kieran Goss covered the song for their album Frances Black & Kieran Goss.
 * In 1995, Melissa Etheridge covered the song for the compilation album Ain't Nuthin' but a She Thing. The song was then featured on her 2002 DVD concert album Live... And Alone. In 2003, Etheridge was nominated with the song for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
 * In 2000, actress Kassie DePaiva covered the song for her debut album Naked.
 * In 2000, Bob Rowe covered the song for his tribute album Tom Thumb's Blues – A Tribute to Judy Collins.
 * In 2003, folk singer John Wright covered the song for his sixth album That's The Way Love Is.
 * In 2005, British singer Keisha White released an R&B version of the song on her debut album Seventeen. It had been intended to be the third single from the album but it was not released. The song was then released a year later as the first single from her second album Out of My Hands. The song was produced by Lucas Secon and peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Charts.

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Vanity page. Some fictional elements. (ninja cia agent?) Bunchofgrapes (talk) 23:25, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Vanity. --GraemeL (talk) 13:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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Dobie Gray

Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 – December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter. Gray's music spanned multiple genres, including soul, country, pop, and musical theater. His hit songs included "The 'In' Crowd" in 1965 and "Drift Away". "Drift Away" was one of the biggest hits of 1973, has sold over one million copies, and remains a staple of radio airplay.

Background
Gray was born in Simonton, Texas. His birth name was most likely Lawrence Darrow Brown, listed in Fort Bend County birth records as being born in 1940 to Jane and Jethro C. Brown. Other sources suggest he may have been born Leonard Victor Ainsworth, a name he used on some early recordings.

His family sharecropped. He discovered gospel music through his grandfather, a Baptist minister.

Career
In the early 1960s Gray moved to Los Angeles, intending to pursue an acting career while also singing to make money. He recorded for several local labels under the names Leonard Ainsworth, Larry Curtis, and Larry Dennis, before Sonny Bono directed him toward the small independent Stripe Records. They suggested that he record under the name "Dobie Gray", an allusion to the then-popular sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

His first taste of success came in 1962 when his seventh single "Look At Me", on the Cor-Dak label and recorded with bassist Carol Kaye, reached No. 91 on the Billboard Hot 100.

However, his first album Look! failed to sell. Greater success came in early 1965 when his original recording of "The 'In' Crowd" (recorded later that year as an instrumental by Ramsey Lewis and also covered in 1965 by Petula Clark) reached No. 13. Written by Billy Page and arranged by his brother Gene and produced by Fred Darian, Gray's record reached No. 11 on the US R&B chart and No. 25 in the UK. The follow-up, "See You at the Go-Go", recorded with such top session musicians as Kaye, Hal Blaine, and Larry Knechtel, also reached the Hot 100, and he issued an album, Dobie Gray Sings for 'In' Crowders That Go 'Go Go,' which featured some self-penned songs.

Gray continued to record, albeit with little success, for small labels such as Charger and White Whale, as well as contributing to movie soundtracks. He also spent several years working as an actor, including two and a half years in the Los Angeles production of Hair.

In 1970, while working there, he joined the band Pollution as singer and percussionist. They were managed by actor Max Baer Jr. (best known as "Jethro" in The Beverly Hillbillies) and released two albums of soul-inspired psychedelic rock, Pollution I and Pollution II. The band included singer Tata Vega and guitarist/singer James Quill Smith. He also worked at A&M Records on demo recordings with songwriter Paul Williams.

In 1972, he signed a recording contract with Decca Records (shortly before it became part of MCA) to make an album with producer Mentor Williams—Paul's brother—in Nashville. Among the songs they recorded at the Quadrafonic Sound Studios, co-owned by session musicians Norbert Putnam and David Briggs, was Mentor Williams' "Drift Away", featuring a guitar riff by Reggie Young. Released as a single, the song rose to No. 5 on the US pop chart and remains Dobie Gray's signature song. It placed at No. 17 in the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973, sold over 1 million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on July 5, 1973. The follow-up, a version of Tom Jans' much-covered song "Loving Arms", hit No. 61. Gray also released three albums with MCA, Drift Away, Loving Arms, and Hey, Dixie, but later stated that MCA were unsure of how to market the albums -- "They didn't know where to place a black guy in country music."

In the mid-1970s, he moved permanently to Nashville and signed with Capricorn Records, writing songs in collaboration with Troy Seals. His last solo hit singles were "If Love Must Go", No. 78 in 1976, and "You Can Do It", No. 37 in 1978. He increasingly concentrated on songwriting, writing songs for a variety of artists including Ray Charles, George Jones, Johnny Mathis, Charley Pride, and Don Williams. He also toured in Europe, Australia and Africa in the 1970s. He performed in South Africa only after persuading the apartheid authorities to allow him to play to integrated audiences, becoming the first artist to do so. His popularity in South Africa continued through numerous subsequent concert tours.

In 1981, Dobie Gray was included on a Word Records/Myrrh Contemporary Christian Music showcase called Premier Performance. Dobie was featured on two selections: "Everything To Me" and Walter Carter's "Last Train to Glory".

Dobie Gray re-emerged as a recording artist for Capitol Records in the mid-1980s, recording with producer Harold Shedd. He placed two singles on the US country chart in 1986–87, including "That's One to Grow On" which peaked at No. 35. His country albums included From Where I Stand in 1986, and he made several appearances at Charlie Daniels' popular Volunteer Jam concerts. He also sang on a number of TV and radio jingles. Gray sang the song "Paradise Road", which appeared in the 1988 film Blind Justice, starring Christopher Cazenove, Patrick Shai, Oliver Reed and Edita Brychta.

In 1997, he released the album Diamond Cuts, including both new songs and re-recordings of older material.

In 2000, Wigan Casino DJ Kev Roberts, compiled The Northern Soul Top 500, which was based on a survey of Northern soul fans. Gray's "Out on the Floor", a 1966 recording which would become a British hit in 1975, peaking at No. 42.

"Drift Away" became a hit again in 2003, when he covered the song as a duet with Uncle Kracker on the latter's No Stranger to Shame album. The re-recording peaked at No. 9 one week to the day after Gray's 63rd birthday and placed at No. 19 in the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2003 as well as logging a record-setting 28 weeks atop the Adult Contemporary chart in 2003–04.

Death
Gray died on December 6, 2011, of complications from cancer surgery in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 71. His remains were buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park And Mausoleum in Nashville. Upon his passing, he bequeathed 100% of his musical assets and royalties in trust to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Tennessee School for the Blind.

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No Doubt discography

American rock band No Doubt has released six studio albums, five compilation albums, three video albums, 22 singles, five promotional singles, and 21 music videos. The band was formed in Anaheim, California in 1986. After many line-up changes, it released its self-titled debut album in 1992, but its ska-pop sound was overshadowed by the popularity of the grunge movement. Following the self-released The Beacon Street Collection, Tragic Kingdom was released in 1995 and rode the surge of ska punk to become one of the best-selling albums, largely due to the international success of its third single "Don't Speak".

No Doubt's follow-up, Return of Saturn, was released nearly five years later and was quickly certified Platinum in the US, but failed to match the success of Tragic Kingdom. The band collaborated with many producers and other artists to record Rock Steady in under a year, mixing the band's new wave and pop sounds with ragga music. The album was a comeback for the band, selling well and yielding career-highest singles chart positions. After Rock Steady, the band released several compilations and went on hiatus. Singer Gwen Stefani released three solo albums and a Christmas album, and guitarist Tom Dumont's side project Invincible Overlord, a collaboration with Ted Matson, released The Living Album and a remix of No Doubt's "Bathwater" on its website. After reforming, No Doubt released their sixth album, Push and Shove, in 2012: two singles, "Settle Down" and "Looking Hot" were released from the album.

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List of Spirit Airlines destinations

This is a list of destinations that Spirit Airlines serves or has previously served.

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Hello,

Thank you for your interest in the American football article. However, please stop it with the "ameriball" nonsense. My reasoning for reverting your changes is spelled out clearly on the article's talk page. If you feel your version of the paragraph is better, please explain why on the talk page. Otherwise, please stop making those changes. Thanks. -- Mwalcoff 23:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Powder-puff football
Hello,

I have put the following explanation of my reverting on Talk:American football:

''I have removed the line about powder-puff football for two reasons:

 * 1) We don't explain what it is or link to an article that does.
 * 2) It is a very minor phenomenon in the scheme of things.

If you want to write about powder-puff article, why not start an article on it and then link to it in the "Professional, college, and other leagues" section?''

If you think your section should be included in the American football article, please make your case on the talk page, and the editors of the page can try to come to a consensus.

Thank you. -- Mwalcoff 23:19, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

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Fictocriticism

Fictocriticism is a postmodern style of writing which can be described as "Gonzo [in reference to the journalism style] Anthropology". Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir.

Professor Carl Rhodes defines fictocriticism as "a writing engaged in genre-bending as a literary and theoretical engagement with existence and selfhood." It is a new sub-categorization and therefore still being defined and redefined.

The tradition of division among the practices of fiction, theory and criticism into single narrative stories, essays and critiques tend to merge in fictocriticism which combines elements into a single text. These texts thus often tell a story while making an argument. They range from avant-garde prose poetry to discursive meta-fictional inventions.

Once Jacques Derrida asked for a name: We must invent a name for those "critical" inventions which belong to literature while deforming its limits. The name one could have given him was fictocriticism, but he went on anyway to write, and perform, critically, and sometimes fictionally, for instance by telling stories while making his philosophical arguments.

Fictocriticism might trace its origins to Montaigne, continuing through Barthes and making a different appearance in the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe or Joan Didion. Tending towards the laid-back narrative, the inclusion of the local and singular; the embrace of contemporary culture and media, the name, and the style, have been adopted enthusiastically in Australia and Canada.

Fictocriticism may also take alternative forms, such as art work. Artists such as Patricia Piccinini has been described as operating in a fictocritical dialogue, creating fictional futuristic creatures and companion species of a possible future.

A prominent practitioner of fictocriticism today is Michael Taussig, an anthropologist currently working at Columbia University, who lectures on the subject of fictocriticism extensively.

In popular culture
The 2015 romantic comedy film Maggie's Plan features two university professors, portrayed by Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore, who produce fictocritical essays and books.

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Talk:Ted Swales

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I added a cleanup tag today. This article has a lot of good stuff in it but its totally unwikified and needs some serious help. I'll try and wikify when I can.

Unless anyone objects, I'm going to remove the copyright info. By submitting to wikipedia all of this is covered by GNU now. At the most we should cite the origional source article. --circuitloss 23:30, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents and Scope of Article
Should this article really include so many different accounts of the paticular raid he was involved in? Shouldn't this be the subject of a seperate article specific to the events themselves? Please enlighten me. My vote is to cut the whole section about the RAF account of the raid. --circuitloss 01:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The information should stay in this article. There is now a detailed account of the Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II but his part in it will always be less than is needed in a biography article. --Philip Baird Shearer 13:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Research

 * My research, has shown that in 1958, the British Air Ministry wrote to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission informing them that the South African Air Force authorities had confirmed that at the time of his death, Edwin Swales had in fact held the rank of Major. Indeed, the front page of the program for the opening of the S.A.A.F. Memorial in Pretoria on 31 May, 1950, Mrs. Olive Swales (who opened the Memorial) was described as being the “mother of the Late Major Edwin Swales, DFC, VC”.

I have altered this but who is MY as it would be useful to credit the research to someone as a footnote. --Philip Baird Shearer 13:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Dear Philip; - The "My research" refers to me, David Richard Bennett, Durban South Africa. (david@burvest.com). I am the original author of the Swales article (under the user name IGS1895). Since that time - about 2002/2003 I have done further research of Swales, togther with the local Chairman of the S.A. Military History Society - Natal Branch - Paul Kilmartin, who is an expert on Swales, and has done massive amounts of work of Swales. All the facts in my submission have been checked by Kilmartin. My interest in writing about Swales was two-fold: There was not a specific internet article on the Life of Swales, nor of his VC action; and secondly, both Swales and myself attended Durban High School - he, of course, about 35 years before I did. - David Bennett, Durban. 30 May 2006. P.S.: I think that the "Layout" changes made to my orignal submission to make it more "Wiki - friendly" are excellent. These changes seem to have been done mainly by yourself and "Circuitloss", for the better, I should add !!

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Delaney & Bonnie

Delaney & Bonnie was an American duo of singer-songwriters Delaney Bramlett and Bonnie Bramlett. In 1969 and 1970, they fronted a rock/soul ensemble, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, whose members at different times included Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Bobby Whitlock, Dave Mason, Steve Howe, Rita Coolidge, and King Curtis.

Background
Delaney Bramlett (July 1, 1939, Pontotoc County, Mississippi – December 27, 2008, Los Angeles) learned the guitar in his youth. He moved to Los Angeles in 1959, where he became a session musician. His most notable early work was as a member of the Shindogs, the house band for the ABC-TV series Shindig! (1964–66), which also included guitarist and keyboardist Leon Russell. He was the first artist signed to Independence Records. His debut single "Guess I Must be Dreamin" was produced by Russell.

Bonnie Bramlett (née Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell, born November 8, 1944, in Granite City, Illinois) was an accomplished singer at an early age, performing when she was 14 years old with blues guitarist Albert King and in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue—the first white Ikette. She moved to Los Angeles in 1967 and met and married Bramlett later that year.

Beginnings and Stax contract
Delaney Bramlett and Leon Russell had many connections in the music business through their work in the Shindogs and formed a band of solid, if transient, musicians around Delaney & Bonnie. The band became known as "Delaney & Bonnie and Friends", because of its regular changes of personnel. They secured a recording contract with Stax Records and completed work on their first album, Home, in 1968. In his 2007 autobiography, Eric Clapton erroneously states that Delaney & Bonnie and Friends were the first white group to sign a contract with Stax. Despite production and session assistance from Donald "Duck" Dunn, Isaac Hayes, and other Stax mainstays of the era, the album was not successful—perhaps because of poor promotion, as it was one of 27 albums simultaneously released by Stax in that label's initial attempt to establish itself in the album market.

Elektra and Apple contracts
Delaney and Bonnie moved to Elektra Records for their second album, The Original Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (Accept No Substitute) (1969). While not a big seller either, it created a buzz in music industry circles when, upon hearing pre-release mixes of the album, George Harrison offered Delaney and Bonnie a contract with the Beatles' Apple Records label—which Delaney and Bonnie signed despite their prior contractual commitment to Elektra. The Apple contract was subsequently voided, but this incident began a falling-out between Delaney and Elektra. Delaney and Bonnie were released from their Elektra contract in late 1969, after Delaney threatened to kill Elektra founder Jac Holzman because their album wasn't on sale in the town where his father lived.

Atco contract and chart success
On the strength of Accept No Substitute, and at his friend Harrison's suggestion, Eric Clapton took Delaney & Bonnie and Friends on the road in mid-1969 as the opening act for the supergroup he had formed, Blind Faith. Clapton quickly became friends with Delaney, Bonnie and their band, preferring their music to Blind Faith's. Impressed by their live performances, he would often appear on stage with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends during this period, and he continued to record and tour with them following Blind Faith's August 1969 breakup. Clapton helped broker a new record deal for Delaney and Bonnie with his then-US label, Atco (Atlantic) Records, and performed (with Harrison, Dave Mason, and others) on Delaney and Bonnie's third album, the live On Tour with Eric Clapton (Atco; recorded in the UK, December 7, 1969, and released in North America in March 1970). This album would be their most successful, reaching No. 29 on the Billboard 200, and achieving RIAA gold record status. Clapton also recruited Delaney and Bonnie and their band to back him on his debut solo album, recorded in late 1969 and early 1970 and produced by Delaney.

Delaney and Bonnie continued to make well-regarded, if modest selling, albums over the rest of their career. "Soul Shake" (a cover of Soulshake by Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson from 1969) from To Bonnie from Delaney (1970) peaked at number 43 on the Hot 100 on September 19, 1970, and "Never Ending Song of Love", from the mostly acoustic album Motel Shot (1971), reached number 13 on the Hot 100 from July 24 to 14, 1971, and was Billboard's number 67 single of 1971. The band's other notable activities during this period include participation (with the Grateful Dead, the Band and Janis Joplin) on the 1970 Festival Express tour of Canada, with an appearance at the Strawberry Fields Festival; an appearance in Richard C. Sarafian's 1971 film Vanishing Point, contributing the song "You Got to Believe" to its soundtrack; and a July 1971 live show broadcast by New York's WABC-FM (now WPLJ), backed by Duane Allman, Gregg Allman and King Curtis. (A song from the latter set, "Come On in My Kitchen," is included on the 1974 Duane Allman compilation album An Anthology Vol. II.)

CBS contract and breakup
By late 1971, Delaney and Bonnie's often tempestuous relationship began to show signs of strain. Bonnie described their relationship as abusive due to their cocaine addictions, and they fought often. Their next album, Country Life, was rejected by Atco on grounds of poor quality, and Atco/Atlantic elected to sell Delaney and Bonnie's recording contract—including this album's master tapes—to CBS Records. Columbia released this album, in a different track sequence from that submitted to Atco, as D&B Together, in March 1972. It was Delaney and Bonnie's last album of new material. They divorced in 1972.

Live success
Delaney and Bonnie are generally best remembered for their albums On Tour with Eric Clapton and Motel Shot. On Tour was their best-selling album by far, and is (except for their version of "Come On in My Kitchen" with Duane Allman, released after Delaney and Bonnie's breakup and Allman's death) the only official document of their live work. Delaney and Bonnie were considered by many to be at their best on stage. In his autobiography, Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler stated that the studio album he produced for the band, To Bonnie from Delaney, "didn't quite catch the fire of their live performances." Clapton makes an even stronger statement in his autobiography: "For me, going on [with Blind Faith] after Delaney and Bonnie was really, really tough, because I thought they were miles better than us." Motel Shot, although technically a studio album, was largely recorded "live in the studio" with acoustic instruments — a rarity for rock bands at the time.

Influence
In addition to having produced a rich recorded legacy, Delaney and Bonnie influenced many fellow musicians of their era. Most notably, Clapton has said: "Delaney taught me everything I know about singing," and Delaney has been cited as the person who taught George Harrison how to play slide guitar, a technique Harrison used to great effect throughout his solo recording career. Bonnie, for her part, is credited (with Delaney, Clapton and/or Leon Russell) as co-author of various popular songs, including "Groupie (Superstar)" (a Top 10 hit for The Carpenters in 1971; also covered by ex-Delaney and Bonnie backing vocalist Rita Coolidge, Bette Midler, Sonic Youth, and many others) and Clapton's "Let It Rain." (Bonnie's song authorship became a matter of dispute in the last years of Delaney's life, with Delaney claiming he wrote many of these songs but assigned ownership to Bonnie to dodge an onerous publishing contract - an assertion supported, indirectly, through statements made by Clapton.  Many songs that Bonnie Bramlett contributed to during the band's tenure, but for which Delaney Bramlett was not originally credited, now list both Bramletts as co-authors in BMI's Repertoire database.)

Friends
Delaney and Bonnie's "Friends" of the band's 1969-70 heyday also had considerable impact. After the early 1970 breakup of this version of the band, Leon Russell recruited many of its ex-members, excepting Delaney, Bonnie and singer/keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, to join Joe Cocker's band, participating on Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen recording sessions and North American tour (March–May 1970; Rita Coolidge's version of "Groupie (Superstar)" was recorded with this band while on tour). Whitlock meanwhile joined Clapton at his home in Surrey, UK, where they wrote songs and decided to form a band, which two former "Friends"/Cocker band members, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon, would later join. As Derek and the Dominos, they recorded the landmark album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) with assistance on many tracks from another former "Friend," lead/slide guitarist Duane Allman. Derek and the Dominos also constituted the core backing band on George Harrison's solo debut album All Things Must Pass (1970) with assistance from still more former "Friends": Dave Mason, Bobby Keys and Jim Price.

Albums

 * Home (Stax, 1969)
 * Accept No Substitute, previously entitled The Original Delaney & Bonnie (Elektra, 1969)
 * On Tour with Eric Clapton (Atco, 1970)
 * To Bonnie from Delaney (Atco, 1970)
 * Motel Shot (Atco, 1971)
 * Country Life (Atco, 1972)
 * D&B Together (Columbia, 1972), reissue of Country Life
 * The Best of Delaney & Bonnie (Atco, 1972)
 * The Best of Delaney & Bonnie (Rhino, 1990)

Singles
In addition, GNP Crescendo Records (US) and London Records (UK) released an album of 1964–65 and 1967 recordings by Delaney Bramlett in 1971 as Delaney & Bonnie: Genesis. While not a Delaney & Bonnie album per se, Bonnie Bramlett does appear with Delaney on three of this album's twelve selections.

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I Want You to Want Me

"I Want You to Want Me" is a song by the American rock band Cheap Trick. It is originally from their second album In Color, released in September 1977. It was the first single released from that album, but it did not chart in the United States in its original studio version, which was influenced by music hall styles.

Eleven months later, a more rock-oriented live version from the band's successful Cheap Trick at Budokan album was released as a single and became one of their biggest hits, peaking at number seven in the US, number two in Canada, and number one in Japan. It has since become Cheap Trick's signature song.

Background
"I Want You to Want Me" was a number-one single in Japan. Its success in Japan, as well as the success of its preceding single "Clock Strikes Ten", paved the way for Cheap Trick's concerts at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in April 1978 that were recorded for the group's most popular album, Cheap Trick at Budokan. A live version of "I Want You to Want Me" from the album Cheap Trick at Budokan was released in 1979 and became their biggest-selling single, reaching No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing sales of one million records. In Canada, it reached No. 2 in on the RPM national singles chart, remaining there for two weeks and was certified gold for the sale of 500,000 singles in September 1979. It was also the band's highest charting single in Britain, where it reached No. 29.

Years later, Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson criticized the lightweight production of "I Want You to Want Me" as it originally appeared on their second album, In Color. Cheap Trick went as far as to mostly re-record that album in 1997, though this version has not been officially released. Producer Tom Werman explains:

"I Want You To Want Me' was a fabulous dance hall type of song, and a perfect pop tune, and it was meant to be a little campy. I put the piano on—a guy named Jai Winding played it. I remember asking the band what they thought of it, and Rick Nielsen kind of shrugged and said, 'You're the producer. Further: 'It was a burlesque song, like a 30s number. That is what they wrote it as.'"

Version differences
The live version has a faster tempo than the album version, which contributed to its success. However, the album version features an echo at the verse "Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin' (cryin)". This echo does not appear in the live version. The crowd, however, emulates the echo by chanting "cryin'". The studio version features guitar by Jay Graydon. The live version consists of two guitar solos, while the studio version has a piano fill as a second instrumental. In early 1977, Cheap Trick recorded a version played in the style they played in concerts. It was played with dramatic vocals, high tempo and two guitar solos. It was later released in 1998 and is almost identical to the "alternate" version, with a slightly different song structure, that was released two years earlier in 1996, from "Sex, America, Cheap Trick". In 1997, the band recorded another version as part of a complete remake of In Color with producer Steve Albini. This version generally follows the live arrangement as heard on At Budokan.

33 years after the Budokan version became Cheap Trick's first top ten hit, the band recorded a festive version of the song with the same arrangement, but with slightly modified lyrics, called "I Want You for Christmas", included on A Very Special Christmas: 25 Years Bringing Joy to the World, in 2012.

Critical reception
Cash Box said that it's "a slick piece of pop-rock written by its goofy guitarist, Rick Nielsen" and "though the lyrics are terribly original [sic], it's a pleasant tune, impeccably produced by Tom Weman."

Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated it as Cheap Trick's greatest song, saying that although Nielsen conceived it as "an overblown pop parody" it became "a true pop rock classic." Classic Rock History critic Michael Quinn also rated it Cheap Trick's best song.

In the 2007 book Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide, a section on Cheap Trick featured reviews on the top 20 stand-out tracks from the band. One track included was "I Want You to Want Me", where author John M. Borack wrote "the In Color version lacked anything resembling balls, but that was remedied on the hit version from the groundbreaking Cheap Trick at Budokan disc. A piece of history and a darned cool tune, to boot." Billboard magazine found the live version to be "high energy" with "an infectious melody and raspy guitar work." Record World said it "has a catchy hook over a powerful rock rhythm line."

"Oh Boy"
The studio version single is backed with the non-album track "Oh Boy (Instrumental)", which was later re-worked with vocals and released on a promotional single.

All appearances

 * 1977: In Color
 * 1978: From Tokyo to You
 * 1979: Cheap Trick at Budokan (Recorded April 28, 1978)
 * 1991: The Greatest Hits
 * 1991: Queens Logic soundtrack
 * 1996: Sex, America, Cheap Trick compilation (Alternate Version)
 * 1997: Private Parts soundtrack
 * 1998: Cheap Trick (1998 Reissue) (Early Version)
 * 1998: Cheap Trick at Budokan: The Complete Concert
 * 1999: That '70s Album (Rockin')
 * 1999: Music for Hangovers
 * 2000: Authorized Greatest Hits

Letters to Cleo version
Letters to Cleo recorded a version in 1999 for the 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack. It was released as a single but failed to chart.

Track listings and formats

 * CD single
 * 1) "I Want You to Want Me"  – 3:24
 * 2) "Cruel to Be Kind"  – 3:01

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