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User talk:The Great Veritas

Please discuss your additions in the discussion page. Just because this is free; does not mean you can insert a POV, unless it is properly referenced and worded. - RoyBoy 800 21:06, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Please adhere to our NPOV policy on the article Mao Zedong. Everyking 22:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

3 Revert Rule
You should be aware that there is a three revert rule with Wikipedia. Your reversions of Mao Zedong could result in your account being blocked. Try and resolve the issue on the article's talk page. --PhilipO 22:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Blocked.
You have been blocked for 24 hours for violation of the three-revert rule. If you have any questions about this block, leave them here, and I will answer them as soon as I can. Ral 315   WS  23:25, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, very dissapointing I have to say....There is nothing controversial in what I was saying. It was not a POV. Historian after historian has stated the same thing. That he was indeed a murderer and the torture methods he employed against his enemies was a fact. Therefore you cannot be neutral here. there is no neutral position! What I have ststed here is the truth. Do not allow this dictionary to be dictated by Chinese communist propoganda. There are thousands of students still rotting in jail for stating their beliefs and criticising the government there. Remember that. The Great Veritas 06:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Maybe it wasn't a POV...I have no personal opinion on the contents of your edits. The point is, Wikipedia has a limit of 3 reverts, and you violated it- that's why you were blocked.  Your views had nothing to do with the block.  When your block expires, you may edit as you wish, but make sure to limit yourself to 3 reverts or less, or you will likely be blocked again.   Ral  315   WS  16:11, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Avoiding an Edit War
Hey. I'm hoping I can reach a settlement between you and Yiyu Chen, so as to avoid another edit war; after all, you're both quite new to the project, and frankly, edit wars are annoying to the witnesses as well as to the participants.

The thing to understand is, this is an encyclopedia. All the entries have to sound properly neutral, no matter what they're about. You've added facts and notions, yes, but not in a very effective way.

Here is my suggested version of the text that you wanted to insert and Yiyu Chen wanted to delete.

"Mao has also been criticized for his role in creating a cult of personality. Some analysts believe that he fabricated many myths about his background and youth, to enhance his image as a true "people's hero". It has also been suggested that details relevant to key events in the Long March, in particular the 1935 Battle of Luding Bridge, were falsified.

As well, Mao is widely held responsible for the millions of deaths that occurred during his lifetime - both indirectly, as a result of flawed policies during the Three Bitter Years, and directly, as a result of power struggles and the execution of those who were linked to his opponents and rivals.

Contemporary views about him in the PRC are affected by bans on works that criticise Mao heavily. The controversial "Mao: the Unknown Story", by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, provides a far less flattering picture of Mao than the Chinese authorities would like."

I think you will find this to be more acceptable; I am presenting this text to Yiyu Chen as well, in the hopes that he will likewise agree. DS 13:44, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree to this wording, that is acceptable to me. Thanks for the efforts. The Great Veritas 16:04, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, Yiyu has responded: he has no problem with the second paragraph, and even expanded it, adding details about what the campaigns were. As for the first paragraph, he's worried that you've been trying to imply that the Long March and the Battle of Luding never happened. I don't think you'd argue that, would you? And the third paragraph - well. See for yourself. I think you might be pleasantly surprised.

Veritas stands for truth, remember. DS 23:19, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Just to clarify, I was suggesting that the Luding bridge battle was altered by Mao and supporters and was not as reported by them. So that is now clarified, I have put the ammendments in the main article. There is nothing wrong with the changes now surely. The truth is what I'm trying to ensure gets reported here, not some dubious version as put out by the CPC. The Great Veritas 11:52, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

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Utah Lake sculpin

The Utah Lake sculpin (Cottus echinatus) is an extinct species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This species was endemic to Utah Lake, located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah. The last collected specimen was taken in 1928, and the species is believed to have disappeared sometime during the 1930s, when a severe drought led to a rapid fall in water levels in the lake. This was followed a cold winter that led to the lake freezing, which resulted in overcrowding for the remaining fish. This, along with decreased water quality from agricultural practices, has been identified as the likely cause for the Utah Lake sculpin's extinction.

The Utah Lake sculpin was a benthic species (bottom dwelling), invertebrates constituting its major source of food. It was one of two lake-dwelling sculpins native to Utah, the other being the Bear Lake sculpin.

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User talk:Bry7

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I re-did the photo you put in the Mini-14 article--I scaled it down to a thumbnail (click for a full version) and added a caption, plus I put back the images that you removed from the article, as they were still quite useful. I do have a question--is that a 30 round magazine in the picture you submitted? As I recall, the 20 round magazines are straight, and the 30 round magazines are curved, but I may be confusing the Mini with the AR. scot 21:09, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Durutti Column

 * 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 rmione1980My RfA 22:59, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

The Durutti Column
Does this group meet the minimum requirements for listing? Nv8200p (talk) 21:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a good starting point would be for you to indicate what you think those minimum requirements are, and which of the "Problems that may require deletion" on Deletion_policy you think apply in this case. The Durutti Column were, as the article says, an early act on a notable record label, associates of Joy Division and New Order, and have released recordings regularly over the last quarter-century, many of them on major record labels.  Vini Reilly appeared in the film 24 Hour Party People, and was also portrayed in the film by an actor.  The article could do with filling out, but not deleting.  So that's a keep from me. --  ajn (talk) 22:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Well-known music project, have many releases on significant record label (Factory). And just to be POV for a moment - fantastic music. What "minimum requirements" are you questioning? If it's WP:MUSIC, then Durutti Column most certainly meet these requirements. Cnwb 23:33, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep - significant and widely regarded recording artist. Extraordinary nomination. Terwilliger 23:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per WP:music. According to the Allmusic.com article on this band Vini Reilly worked with Morrissey on his 1988 album Viva Hate. Chris Joyce and Tony Bowers of the band later went on to play with Simply Red. Capitalistroadster 00:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Does this group meet the minimum requirements - most definitely. Keep. Grutness...  wha?  01:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep.  Anything associated with early Factory Records meets "minimum requirements". Edwardian 02:44, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per everyone else. The Land 10:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep, very well-known and historically significant band. Assuming good faith, I can only assume nomination was in error. MCB 23:05, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I obviously made a big mistake. Can we delist this one and call it a day? --Nv8200p (talk) 02:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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Watlington, Oxfordshire

Watlington is a small market town and civil parish about 7 mi south of Thame in Oxfordshire, near the county's eastern edge and less than 2 mi from its border with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the hamlets of Christmas Common, Greenfield and Howe Hill, all of which are in the Chiltern Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,727.

History
The Watlington area is likely to have been settled at an early date, encouraged by the proximity of the Icknield Way. The toponym means "settlement of Waecel's people" and indicates occupation from around the 6th century. A 9th-century charter by Æthelred of Mercia records eight 'manses' or major dwellings in Watlington. The Domesday Book of 1086 referred to the town as Watelintone or Watelintune. Medieval documents indicate that the modern street plan was in existence in the 14th century, as Cochynes-lane (Couching Street), and Brook Street are recorded.

There are records of inns in Watlington since the 15th century. In 1722 the town's market was listed as being held on a Saturday. By the end of the 18th century the town had six inns, all of which were bought up in the next few years by a local brewing family, the Haywards. The number of licensed premises increased until late in the 19th century when George Wilkinson, a Methodist bought six of them and closed them down. Today Watlington has three public houses remaining: The Spire & Spoke (ex-Carriers Arms), The Chequers and The Fat Fox Inn. Parliamentarian troops were billeted at Watlington during the English Civil War. It is thought that John Hampden stayed in the town the night before the Battle of Chalgrove Field.

In 1664–65 Watlington Town Hall was built at the expense of Thomas Stonor. Its upper room was endowed by Stonor as a grammar school for boys, and in 1731 Dame Alice Tipping of Ewelme gave a further endowment to increase the number of pupils. In 1842 the town Vestry established a National School, which shared the same rooms in the town hall. In 1843 a National School for girls was built next to St Leonard's church. In 1872 the boys' and girls' schools were absorbed into a new Board school, which like its predecessors was affiliated to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. In 1927 the school was divided into separate junior and senior schools. In 1956 a new secondary school – the Icknield School – opened for senior pupils and the primary school took over the old premises. The Icknield School is now Icknield Community College.

By 1895 the town hall, which was no longer used as a school, was in disrepair. In 1907 it was restored by public subscription. It is a landmark at the meeting point of three roads in the centre of the town. Since 1990 Watlington has been twinned with the town of Mansle in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. The Watlington Hoard, a collection of silver items dating back to the time of Alfred the Great in the 9th century, was rediscovered in Watlington by James Mather, an amateur metal-detectorist, in 2015. The hoard was subsequently excavated, and eventually purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for £1.35m.

Watlington Hill
The town of Watlington lies at the foot of Watlington Hill, a 240 m peak on the western edge of the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Ridgeway National Trail walking route, which is part of the longer Icknield Way, passes nearby between the town and the hill. Due to its close proximity and easy access to the Chilterns, Watlington is a popular gateway to the many outdoor activities in the area, including hill walking, cycling and birdwatching, especially of the red kite, which is well established in the vicinity.

Watlington Hill is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna, and is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) as part of Watlington and Pyrton Hills. It is managed by the National Trust. The nearby Shirburn Hill is another SSSI in the area. The Watlington White Mark, a spire mark, is cut into the chalk soil of Watlington Hill. This was designed by local squire Edward Horne, who felt that the parish church of St Leonard, when viewed from his home, would be more impressive if it appeared to have a spire. He therefore had this unusual folly cut into the chalk soil in 1764, and it continues to this day to be maintained by the local residents. The mark is 36 ft wide at its base and 270 ft long.

Church of England
The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of St Leonard are Norman, including a diapered tympanum that was over the north door until this was dismantled for the building of the north aisle. The church was extensively rebuilt in the 14th century, and the arcade of the south aisle survives from this period. The south chapel is 15th century, built for Maud Warner as a memorial for her husband Richard, a woolman. The tower is also Medieval. A few Decorated Gothic and Perpendicular Gothic windows survive, but in the 1870s some were moved to different positions within the church. In 1763 Edward Horne, a local landowner, obtained permission to build a burial vault east of the Warner chapel and south of the chancel. In 1877 the architects H.J. Tollit and Edwin Dolby restored St Leonard's. The church is a Grade II* listed building.

The west tower had a ring of six bells until 1909, when two recently cast ones were hung and increased it to eight. Henry I Knight of Reading, Berkshire cast the fourth bell in 1587. Ellis I Knight cast the sixth bell in 1635. Henry II Knight cast the third and fifth bells in 1663. Charles and John Rudhall of Gloucester cast the seventh bell in 1785. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1869 and the treble and second bells in 1905. St Leonard's parish is now part of the Benefice of Icknield, along with the parishes of Britwell Salome, Pyrton and Swyncombe.

Roman Catholic
During the English Reformation Oxfordshire had numerous recusant Roman Catholics. In 1549 William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton was sent to Oxfordshire with 1,500 troops to enforce the Reformation. Grey ordered William Boolar, a Catholic of Watlington, to be hanged as an example. Despite persecution, a number of local landowning families including the Stonors remained Catholic, and they and their chaplains supported small numbers of other Catholics in the area. In 1930 Fr. William Brown, the chaplain at Stonor Park, brought about the building of the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart in Watlington. The present Roman Catholic church in Watlington is dedicated to St Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest who was executed at Tyburn in 1581.

Non-conformist
During the 17th and 18th centuries several nonconformist denominations existed in Watlington, with Quakers, Baptists and Seventh Day Baptists most prominent in different periods. Methodist preachers visited Watlington by invitation from 1764, with John Wesley himself preaching in the town in 1766, 1774 and 1775. The current Wesleyan chapel was built in 1812, and now forms part of the Oxford Methodist Circuit.

Education
Early years and primary education in Watlington is provided by Watlington Primary School. Lower secondary education for students up to the age of 16 from Watlington and many of the surrounding villages is provided by Icknield Community College, a mixed-sex comprehensive school. Icknield Community College does not provide sixth form education, and instead works with three partnership schools in the area, Henley College in Henley-on-Thames, Lord Williams's School in Thame, and Wallingford School in Wallingford, as well as sending students to many other sixth forms and colleges in the area.

Media
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian. Television signals are received from the Oxford TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Oxford on 95.2 FM, Heart South on 102.6 FM, and Greatest Hits Radio South (formerly Jack FM) on 106.4 FM. The town is served by the local newspapers, Henley Standard and Oxfordshire Guardian.

Amenities
Watlington Town FC is a Non-League football club. Its first team plays in North Berks Football League Division 1. Watlington has a cricket club. Its first eleven plays in Oxfordshire Cricket Association League Division 2. The Watlington Club (previously the Watlington Memorial Club) provides facilities for the sports of tennis, squash and lawn bowls. Watlington has a Women's Institute.

Notable people

 * Decathlete Peter Gabbett was born in Watlington in 1941.
 * Actors Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack have a home in Watlington.
 * Eric Parkin, pianist, at Greengates Cottage, High Street.
 * First World War Royal Naval veteran Bill Stone lived in Watlington until he was 106.

Twinning
Watlington is twinned with Mansle, in southwestern France.

In popular culture
Five episodes of the TV series Midsomer Murders have been filmed partly in Watlington, with the library featuring as Midsomer Library. At least one episode of the TV series Inspector Morse was filmed partly in Watlington, with the nearby Shirburn Castle featuring as the Balcombe family home in the episode Happy Families. The 2014 film Fury, starring Brad Pitt, was partly filmed in and near Watlington. The pivotal balloon-accident-scene in the opening chapter of the novel Enduring Love by Ian McEwan takes place on an escarpment of the Chiltern Hills above Watlington.

Transport
The M40 motorway is about 2+1/2 mi from Watlington, with access at junctions 5 and 6. There are frequent coach services to Oxford and London, and to London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, from M40 junction 6 at nearby Lewknor. Bus routes serving Watlington have been reduced in the 2010s because of funding cuts by Oxfordshire County Council. Earlier services to Thame, Wallingford and Reading have been discontinued. The only remaining service is the Oxford Bus Company service city11 between Watlington and Oxford.

In 1872 the Watlington & Princes Risborough Railway was opened. Its Watlington terminus is in fact in Pyrton parish, 1/2 mi from Watlington. In 1883 the Great Western Railway took over control of the line. In 1957 British Railways closed Watlington station and withdrew all passenger services between Watlington and Chinnor, which was still being used by the local Chinnor Cement Works. In 1961 British Railways withdrew all services from the line, the track was lifted and the line left abandoned. Watlington railway station site remains, as does the station building, the corrugated iron carriage shed, and the brickwork of the goods shed.

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Greek life and traditions
This section is unusual for an article about big universities. The contents are completely unreferenced and since it is just a rote list of various fraternities, sororities, buildings, and facilities without any further detail, I question whether there is any useful information being shared here. I propose deletion. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 11:26, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

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Ashur-resh-ishi I

Aššur-rēša-iši I, inscribed maš-šur-SAG-i-ši and meaning “Aššur has lifted my head,” ruled 1132–1115 BC, son of Mutakkil-Nusku, was a king of Assyria, the 86th to appear on the Assyrian King List and ruled for 18 years. The Synchronistic King List and its fragmentary copies give him as a contemporary of the Babylonian kings Ninurta-nādin-šumi, Nebuchadnezzar I and Enlil-nādin-apli, although the last of these is unlikely per the commonly accepted chronology.

Biography
His royal titles included “merciless hero in battle, crusher of the enemies of Aššur, strong shackle binding the insubmissive, one who puts the insubordinate to flight, …murderer of the extensive army of the Ahlamȗ (and) scatterer of their forces, the one who … defeats the lands of […], the Lullubû, all the Qutu and their entire mountainous region and subdues them at his feet…” He styled himself mutēr gimilli māt Aššur, “avenger of Assyria,” and seems to have directed his earlier campaigns to the east, as a broken chronicle records his campaign staged from Erbil into the disputed Zagros mountains where his shock troops (ḫurādu) encountered the Babylonian king Ninurta-nādin-šumi, here called Ninurta-nādin-šumāti, whose forces characteristically “fled,” a recurring motif in Assyrian accounts of their relationship with their southern neighbour.

Pressures from the west, however, were to draw Aššur-rēša-iši’s attention, and that of his successors’, as the widespread (rapšāti) hordes of Ahlamȗ nomadic tribesmen were driven by the deprivations of climate change into the Assyrian hinterland. Here he may also have encountered Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur, who like him claimed victories against the Amorite lands and the Lullubû.

The Synchronistic History has a lengthy passage concerning his conflicts with Nebuchadnezzar I. Initially they established an amicable relationship. However the Babylonian king subsequently besieged the Assyrian fortress of Zanqi and when Aššur-rēša-iši approached with his relief force, Nebuchadnezzar I torched his siege engines (nēpešū) to prevent their capture and withdrew. On a second campaign, he laid siege to the fortress of Idi and the arrival of the Assyrian army resulted in a pitched battle in which he “brought about his total defeat, slaughtered his troops and carried off his camp. Forty of his chariots with harness were taken away and Karaštu, Nebuchadnezzar I's field-marshal, was captured.”

The later king Šulmānu-ašarēdu III credited him with rebuilding the city wall of Assur in his own rededication. His own brick inscriptions from the same city identify him as builder of the temple of the gods Adad and An, Ištar of Assyria and Aššur. He built a palace in Bumariyah, ancient Apqu ša Adad, as witnessed by a baked brick inscription. His most significant construction efforts were witnessed at his capital, Nineveh, the location of his palace, the Egalšaḫulla (“The Palace of Joyfulness”), where he rebuilt the tower-gates of the temple of Ishtar which had been damaged by earthquakes during the earlier reigns of Šulmānu-ašarēdu I (c. 1274–1245 BC) and Aššur-dān I (c. 1179 to 1134 BC), the latter being his grandfather. These were flanked by monumental statues of lions.

His palace edict concerning men fraternizing with palace women gives the penalty of execution, with silent witnesses considered a party to the event and punished by being thrown into an oven. The sequence of limmu officials in the eponym dating system is not known, as column 2 of the only extant list is damaged at this point.

He was succeeded by his son, Tukultī-apil-Ešarra I.

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A picture of Pulborough road in Southfields, picture taken in 1912.

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Ray Thomas

Raymond Thomas (29 December 1941 – 4 January 2018) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member of the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's 1967 hit single "Nights in White Satin" is regarded as one of progressive rock's defining moments. In 2018, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues.

Early years
Thomas was born at an emergency maternity unit set up during the Second World War in Lickhill Manor, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His father's family was from the southwest corner of Wales. His grandfather was a Welsh miner and went on to become a carpenter and a wood-carver, at one stage working on the church where Thomas later got married. His father taught him at the age of nine to play harmonica, and this sparked his interest in music. He joined the school choir a year later. He quit schooling at the age of 14, and briefly left music to work as a toolmaking trainee at Lemarks. By the age of 16 he had embarked on a search for a music band, and within two years had left his trade to pursue a career in music.

In the 1960s, Thomas joined the Birmingham Youth Choir then began singing with various Birmingham blues and soul groups including The Saints and Sinners and The Ramblers. He was inspired to learn the flute from a grandfather who played the instrument. Again taking up the harmonica, he started a band, El Riot and the Rebels, with bassist John Lodge. After a couple of years their friend Mike Pinder joined as keyboardist. On Easter Monday 1963 the band opened for the Beatles at the Bridge Hotel, Tenbury Wells. Thomas and Pinder were later in a band called Krew Cats, formed in 1963, who played in Hamburg and other places in northern Germany.

The Moody Blues
Thomas and Pinder then recruited guitarist Denny Laine, drummer Graeme Edge, and bassist Clint Warwick to form a new, blues-based band, The Moody Blues. Signed to Decca Records, their first album, The Magnificent Moodies, yielded a No. 1 UK hit (No. 10 in the US) with "Go Now". Thomas sang lead vocals on George and Ira Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" from the musical Porgy and Bess. He shared lead vocals with Laine on "23rd Psalm" which was recorded in 1964 but remained unreleased until 2014.

His flute featured on three songs on the album—"Something You Got", "I've Got a Dream", and "Let Me Go"—as well as the single "From the Bottom of My Heart", after he had more or less pushed himself to learn playing. Thomas said in a 1986 interview that "'I Don't Want to Go On Without You' wasn't finished when it was released; it should've had a flute on it. When we did Thank Your Lucky Stars, I just took a flute on and pretended to play it. I got dozens of letters saying how great the flute playing was and I wasn't even on it. That's auto suggestion."

When Warwick left the band (followed by Laine a few months later) he was briefly replaced by Rod Clark. Thomas then suggested his and Pinder's old bandmate John Lodge as a permanent replacement and also recruited Justin Hayward to replace Laine. With this line-up the band released seven successful albums between 1967 and 1972, and became known for their pioneering orchestral sound.

Although they initially tried to continue singing R&B covers and novelty tunes, they were confronted over this by an audience member, and with their finances deteriorating they made a conscious decision to focus only on their own original material.

Following the lead of Pinder, Hayward, and Lodge, Thomas also started writing songs. The first he contributed to the group's repertoire were "Another Morning" and "Twilight Time" on the 1967 Days of Future Passed. The album is regarded as a progressive rock landmark, and Thomas's flute solo on the single "Nights in White Satin" one of its defining moments. His flute became an integral part of the band's music, even as Pinder began to use the mellotron keyboard. Thomas stated that a number of his compositions on the band's earlier albums were made in a studio broom closet, with himself writing songs on a glockenspiel. Hayward has spoken of Thomas's learning Transcendental Meditation in 1967, along with other members of the group. In a 2015 interview Thomas said that he and Pinder had contributed backing vocals to the song "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles, as well as providing harmonicas for "The Fool on the Hill".

Thomas and Pinder both acted as the band's onstage MCs, as heard on the live album Caught Live + 5 and seen in the Live at the Isle of Wight Festival DVD. Thomas started to become a more prolific writer for the group, penning songs such as "Legend of a Mind"—an ode to LSD guru and friend of the band, Timothy Leary, and a popular live favourite —and "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" for In Search of the Lost Chord, and "Dear Diary" and "Lazy Day" for On the Threshold of a Dream, as well as co-writing "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" with Hayward.

The Moody Blues formed their own record label Threshold Records, distributed by Decca in the UK and London in the US, and their first album on the Threshold imprint was To Our Children's Children's Children, a 1969 concept album about eternal life. Thomas wrote and sang lead vocal on "Floating" and "Eternity Road".

When the band began to realise that their method of heavy overdubbing in the studio made most of the songs very difficult to reproduce in concert, they decided to use a more stripped-down sound on their next album A Question of Balance, to be able to play as many songs live as possible. It was their second UK No. 1 album. Thomas wrote and sang "And the Tide Rushes In", reportedly written after having a row with his wife, and was credited with co-writing the album's final track "The Balance" with Edge, while Pinder recited the story.

The Moodies went back to their symphonic sound and heavy overdubbing with Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, their third UK No. 1 album, and Thomas wrote and sang "Our Guessing Game" and "Nice to Be Here", also singing a co-lead vocal with Pinder, Hayward and Lodge on Edge's "After You Came". All five members wrote "Procession".

The final album of the 'core seven' was Seventh Sojourn, their first album to reach No. 1 in the USA. By this time, Pinder had replaced his mellotron with the chamberlin, which produced orchestral sounds more realistically and easily than the mellotron. Thomas wrote and sang "For My Lady".

Band hiatus and reformation
Thomas released the albums From Mighty Oaks (1975) and Hopes, Wishes and Dreams (1976) after the band temporarily broke up in 1974. During this period he earned his nickname 'The Flute'. Within the band he was also known as 'Tomo' (pronounced tOm-O). The band reformed in 1977 for Octave, which was released in 1978. Thomas provided the songs "Under Moonshine" and "I'm Your Man", and the group continued to release albums throughout the 1980s, with Thomas's "Veteran Cosmic Rocker" and "Painted Smile" being featured on the album Long Distance Voyager. The former song has often been regarded as a theme song for the band itself as a whole and for Thomas in particular, and it again features his use of the harmonica. After contributing "Sorry" and "I Am" (both on the 1983 album The Present) Thomas temporarily stopped writing new songs for the band, for reasons unknown. He took featured lead vocal on Graeme Edge's song "Going Nowhere" (on The Present).

Diminishing role and declining health
During the group's synth-pop era, Thomas's role in the recording studio diminished, partially due to the synth-pop music being unsuitable for his flute and partially because he was unwell. Despite contributing backing vocals on The Other Side of Life and Sur la Mer, he took no lead vocal role and it is unclear how much, if any, instrumentation he recorded for these two albums; but in any case, none of his instrumentation or vocals ended up on Sur la Mer. Although he is included in the childhood photos depicted on the album's inner sleeve and is given an overall 'group credit', he is not given a performing band credit. Patrick Moraz, who had replaced Pinder as the band's keyboardist, objected to Thomas's exclusion from the album and pushed for the band to return to the deeper sound that they had achieved with Pinder. Thomas is credited with tambourine, harmonica or saxophone on The Other Side of Life, but it is unknown how many, if any, instrumental contributions of his ended up on the released version of the album, and at this point he was largely relegated to the role of a backup singer.

Resilience and final years in the band
On The Moody Blues' 1991 release Keys of the Kingdom, Thomas played a substantial role in the studio for the first time since 1983, writing "Celtic Sonant" and co-writing "Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain" with Justin Hayward. He contributed his first ambient flute piece in eight years; however, his health declined, and his last album with the group was Strange Times, to which he contributed his final composition for the group, "My Little Lovely". He also provided a co-lead vocal with Hayward and Lodge on their song "Sooner or Later (Walking On Air)". Thomas permanently retired at the end of 2002. In a 2014 interview with Pollstar.com, drummer Graeme Edge stated that Thomas had retired due to illness. He had been suffering from cerebellar ataxia, which affected his balance and made performing impossible. The Moody Blues – consisting only of Hayward, Lodge and Edge (Edge being the only remaining original member) plus four long-serving touring band members, including Gordon Marshall on percussion and Norda Mullen who took over Thomas's flute parts – only released one further studio album, December, following his departure from the band.

Final years and prostate cancer diagnosis
In July 2009 it became known that Thomas had written at least two of his songs– "Adam and I" and "My Little Lovely"– for his son and his grandson Robert, respectively. It was also revealed that he had married again, to his longtime girlfriend Lee Lightle, in a ceremony at the Church of the Holy Cross in Mwnt, Ceredigion Wales, on 9 July 2009.

Thomas released his two solo albums, remastered, in a boxset on 24 September 2010. The set includes, with the two albums, a remastered quad version of "From Mighty Oaks", a new song "The Trouble With Memories", a previously unseen promo video of "High Above My Head" and an interview conducted by fellow Moody Blues founder Mike Pinder. The boxset was released through Esoteric Recordings/Cherry Red Records.

In October 2014, Thomas posted this statement on his website: After the tragic death of Alvin Stardust and the brave response to Prostate Awareness by his widow, Julie, in following up on what Alvin had intended to say about the disease, I have decided to help in some small way. I was diagnosed in September 2013 with prostate cancer. My cancer was in-operable but I have a fantastic doctor who immediately started me on a new treatment that has had 90% success rate. The cancer is being held in remission but I'll be receiving this treatment for the rest of my life. I have four close friends who have all endured some kind of surgery or treatment for this cancer and all are doing well. While I don't like to talk publicly about my health problems, after Alvin's death, I decided it was time I spoke out. A cancer diagnosis can shake your world and your family's but if caught in time it can be cured or held in remission. I urge all males to get tested NOW. Don't put it off by thinking it won't happen to me. It needs to be caught early. It's only a blood test – a few minutes out your day to save yourself from this disease. Love and God Bless, Ray.

In later years Thomas resumed flute playing with other musicians, one instance of which was for the song "L'urlo nelle ossa", on the 2016 album Eros & Thanatos by Italian band Syndone. He also played flute on the track "Simply Magic" on John Lodge's 2015 album 10,000 Light Years Ago and recorded with Moody Bluegrass.

Death
Thomas died on 4 January 2018, six days after his 76th birthday, at his home in Surrey. The official announcement, made by his record company, did not give any cause.

Fellow band member John Lodge said, "Ray was my best pal. I met Ray when I was 14. We were two young kids from Birmingham who were reaching for the stars — and I think we got there. I'm really pleased that Ray was around to know we'd be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I spoke to Ray just before Christmas — because his birthday was after Christmas, on the 29th — and we had a long conversation. We're very close friends — or were very close friends. Very sad. Very, very sad."

Thomas was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of The Moody Blues, in April 2018.

Instruments
Although he most commonly played flute, Thomas was a multi-instrumentalist, who also played piccolo, oboe, harmonica, saxophone, and, on the album In Search of the Lost Chord, the French horn. He frequently played tambourine and also shook maracas during the group's R&B phase. The 1972 video for "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" features Thomas playing the baritone saxophone, although Pinder says on his website that this was just for effect in the video and that Thomas did not play saxophone on the recording.

Studio albums

 * From Mighty Oaks (1975) with Nicky James, UK No. 23
 * Hopes, Wishes and Dreams (1976) with Nicky James

Compilations
“Words & Music” (2020)

The Moody Blues

 * 1967: "Another Morning" from Days of Future Passed
 * 1967: "Twilight Time" from Days of Future Passed
 * 1968: "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" from In Search of the Lost Chord
 * 1968: "Legend of a Mind" from In Search of the Lost Chord
 * 1968: "Visions of Paradise" (with Justin Hayward) from In Search of the Lost Chord
 * 1969: "Dear Diary" from On the Threshold of a Dream
 * 1969: "Lazy Day" from On the Threshold of a Dream
 * 1969: "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" (with Justin Hayward) from On the Threshold of a Dream
 * 1969: "Floating" from To Our Children's Children's Children
 * 1969: "Eternity Road" from To Our Children's Children's Children
 * 1969: "Watching and Waiting" (with Justin Hayward) from To Our Children's Children's Children
 * 1970: "And the Tide Rushes In" from A Question of Balance
 * 1970: "The Balance" (with Graeme Edge) from A Question of Balance
 * 1971: "Procession" (with Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Mike Pinder, and Graeme Edge) from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
 * 1971: "Our Guessing Game" from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
 * 1971: "Nice to Be Here" from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
 * 1971: "The Dreamer" (with Justin Hayward): an out-take now added to the Every Good Boy Deserves Favour CD
 * 1972: "For My Lady" from Seventh Sojourn
 * 1978: "Under Moonshine" from Octave
 * 1978: "I'm Your Man" from Octave
 * 1981: "Painted Smile" from Long Distance Voyager
 * 1981: "Reflective Smile" from Long Distance Voyager
 * 1981: "Veteran Cosmic Rocker" from Long Distance Voyager
 * 1983: "I Am" from The Present
 * 1983: "Sorry" from The Present
 * 1983: "Burning Gas, Smoking Grass" unfinished song from "The Present" sessions
 * 1991: "Celtic Sonant" from Keys of the Kingdom
 * 1991: "Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain" (with Justin Hayward) from Keys of the Kingdom
 * 1999: "My Little Lovely" from Strange Times

Solo

 * 1975: "From Mighty Oaks" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "Hey Mama Life" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "Play It Again" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "Rock A Bye Baby Blues" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "High Above My Head" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "Love Is The Key" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "You Make Me Feel Alright" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "Adam And I" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1975: "I Wish We Could Fly" from From Mighty Oaks
 * 1976: "In Your Song" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "Friends" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "We Need Love" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "Within Your Eyes" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "One Night Stand" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "Keep On Searching" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "Didn't I" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "Migration" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "Carousel" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 1976: "The Last Dream" from Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
 * 2010: "The Trouble With Memories" (with Bias Boshell) from From Mighty Oaks/Hopes, Wishes and Dreams box set

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Mutakkil-Nusku

Mutakkil-Nusku, inscribed mmu-ta/tak-kil-d PA.KU, "he whom Nusku endows with confidence," was king of Assyria briefly c. 1132 BC, during a period of political decline. He reigned sufficiently long to be the recipient of a letter or letters from the Babylonian king, presumed to be Ninurta-nādin-šumi, in which he was lambasted and derided.

Biography
He was a younger son of the long-reigning king, Aššur-dān I (c. 1179 to 1134 BC) and succeeded his brother Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur, whom he ousted in a coup and subsequently went on to fight in a civil war that seems to have pitched the Assyrian heartland against its provinces. He appears on the Khorsabad Kinglist which relates that “Mutakkil-Nusku, his (Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur’s) brother, fought against him. He drove him to Karduniaš (Babylonia).” Contemporary evidence suggests that Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur sought sanctuary in the border town of Sišil, where Mutakkil-Nusku’s forces engaged him in battle, the outcome of which is lost.

The fragments of one or perhaps two Middle Assyrian letters exist, from an unnamed Babylonian king, possibly Ninurta-nādin-šumi, to Mutakkil-Nusku, where he is told that "You should act according to your heart (ki libbika).” The text lambastes him for failing to keep an appointment, or a challenge, in Zaqqa and seems to confirm that Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur had reached exile in Babylonia.

His victory was short-lived as ṭuppišu Mutakkil-Nusku kussâ ukta'il KUR -a e-mid, “(he) held the throne for ṭuppišu (his tablet), then died,” perhaps his inaugural year and part way into his first year only. One interpretation suggests this was while his father still nominally ruled. Apart from a brief economic text concerning 100 sheep of Mutakkil-Nusku, without a royal title, and his appearance in the genealogies of his descendants such as one of his sons, Aššur-rēša-iši I, there are no other extant inscriptions.

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Samuel P. Dinsmoor

Samuel Perry Dinsmoor (March 8, 1843 – July 21, 1932) was an American teacher and eccentric sculptor from Lucas, Kansas, United States.

Early life
Dinsmoor was born near Coolville, Ohio. He served in the Civil War for three years in the Union Army, during which he witnessed eighteen major battles, among them the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, he worked as a schoolteacher in Illinois for five years. He later took up farming and moved to Kansas in 1888. He briefly moved to Nebraska in 1890 only to return to Kansas the following year. He retired in 1905 and began a second career as a sculptor.

Garden of Eden
Dinsmoor built and moved into a log cabin on a lot that he named the Garden of Eden in Lucas, Kansas. The cabin is a twelve-room house; the logs are made up of limestone quarried near Wilson Lake. Dinsmoor designed his landscape and spent the rest of his life creating the garden, which contains over 200 concrete sculptures. The sculptures and design of the house reflect Dinsmoor's belief in the Populist movement and his religious convictions, it includes a Labor Crucified figure that is surrounded by the people who put him on the Cross, a doctor, lawyer, preacher and capitalist.

The final resting place for Dinsmoor and his first wife, Frances A. Barlow Journey, is inside the mausoleum in one corner of the lot. As part of a tour, visitors are allowed to view Dinsmoor in his concrete coffin, which is sealed behind a glass wall. Inside the mausoleum is also a double-exposed photo of a live Dinsmoor viewing his deceased body inside the coffin.

The garden is open to the public and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Personal life
Dinsmoor married Frances A. Barlow Journey on August 24, 1870. After she died in 1917, he married Emilie Brozek; he was 81 and she was 22 at the time. They had two children. His son John was a Colonel in the United States Air Force and served in the Vietnam War.

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Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Francs2000 21:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Frederic Jesup Stimson

Frederic Jesup Stimson (July 20, 1855 – November 19, 1943) was an American writer and lawyer, who served as the United States Ambassador to Argentina from 1915 to 1921.

Career
Stimson was a Harvard Law graduate and writer of several influential books on law, and also a novelist specializing in historical romances, sometimes writing under the pen name "J.S. of Dale".

Stimson served as the United States Ambassador to Argentina from 1915 to 1921. He was the first U.S. envoy to Argentina to hold the title "Ambassador", the previous envoys having held the title "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary".

Personal life
Stimson was born in Dedham, Massachusetts on July 20, 1855. He later purchashed the home built by Fisher Ames.

Stimson had two wives: Elizabeth Bradlee Abbot and Mabel Ashhurst. He married Abbot in 1881, and had two children with her: Mildred Stimson (April 23, 1883 – December 17, 1966) and Margaret "Lorna" Stimson (January 3, 1889 – July 12, 1956). Following Abbot's death in 1896, Stimson married Ashhurst in 1902. He died at his home in Dedham on November 19, 1943. He is buried in lot EI3 at the Old Village Cemetery.

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Wilhelm Guddorf

Wilhelm Guddorf (alias Paul Braun; 20 February 1902 – 13 May 1943) was a Belgian journalist, anti-Nazi and resistance fighter against the Third Reich. Guddorf was a leading member of a Berlin anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) by the Abwehr. Guddorf was the editor of the Marxist-Communist Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag) newspaper.

Life
Wilhelm Guddorf came from a middle-class Catholic family. His father, Ludwig Guddorf, taught German, literature, and Greek at the Maison de Melle educational institution in Melle, Belgium for 29 years. In 1899 he became a professor at the commercial college there. At the beginning of World War I, the family was expelled from the country as Reich Germans. They moved to Haselünne with five children without possessions. There Ludwig Guddorf found employment as a teacher at the Lateinschule (secondary school).

Wilhelm Guddorf, the eldest son of the family, attended the Latin School in Haselünne from 1915 to 1917, then the Royal Grammar School in Meppen and dropped out of school in the 12th grade because he had fallen out with his parents because of his "religious and moral views". The highly gifted student worked temporarily as a tutor on an estate in West Prussia. Nevertheless, he passed his school-leaving examination in Meppen in 1921 and began studying philology, philosophy, history, literary history and musicology in Münster. He later mastered all the major European and Slavic languages, plus Arabic, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

In 1922 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He worked for several communist newspapers and translated the foreign press for them. In autumn 1923, he was arrested for "preparation for high treason" and "violation of the Law for the Protection of the Republic". In November 1923 he managed to escape from the Sennestadt protective custody camp. In May 1926 he was caught, served a prison sentence and was released in August 1927. From 1923 he lived under the name Paul Braun. He also used this pseudonym to sign the articles he wrote, first for the KPD newspaper Freiheit in Düsseldorf, and from 1926-1933 for the official KPD party organ Rote Fahne - latterly as editor-in-chief of foreign affairs.

From 1933, using his pseudonym, he distributed illegal writings against the Nazi regime and was a member of the KPD district leadership of Berlin-Brandenburg. In April 1934 he was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison (in Luckau) for preparing for high treason. He was then placed in protective custody for two more years in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

After he was released from Sachsenhausen, Guddorf developed contacts with members of a Berlin based anti-fascist group that was later called the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle"), particularly around the groups associated with Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack in spring of 1940.

He was arrested once again in 1942 and in February 1943 was sentenced to death. He was executed at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 13 May 1943. In 1972, a street in Lichtenberg, a Berlin borough, was named after Guddorf.

Leafletting
Guddorf was known to have cowritten some of the Agis leaflets along with John Rittmeister, Schulze-Boysen and others. The leaflets were produced by the Harnack and Schulze-Boysen Groups and had names like What is a Majority, Freedom and Violence and Call to the workers of the mind and fist not to fight against Russia. The Agis was a reference to the Spartan King Agis IV. The leaflets were distributed in Berlin and across Germany.

Arrest
Guddorf was arrested on 20 October 1942. Under torture, Guddorf revealed the names of resistance members in Hamburg to the Gestapo, that lead to the arrest of some 85 people in the North Sea dockyards.

Award and honours

 * In 1972, the Berlin district of Lichtenberg named a street after Guddorf. The street is known as Wilhelm-Guddorf-Straße. The street is one of many that were renamed to honour the Rote Kapelle members e.g. Mildred-Harnack-Straße, Schulze-Boysen-Straße.
 * In 1971, in the Berlin district of Köpenick a school in Rahnsdorf was renamed to Wilhelm Guddorf High School, Wilhelm-Guddorf-Oberschule The name remained in place until the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was dissolved and the German reunification commenced and by 1992 the parents, teachers and students decided to rename the school to Elementary School on the Püttbergen.

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Talk:Drax the Destroyer

Skullcap
he always wears a purple skullcap; it has been suggested that the skullcap is non-removable

i could be mistaken, but it appears that in the recently released 1st issue of the new Drax mini-series, the big man is sans skullcap, sporting simply a bald green head.12.47.223.8 21:15, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Pictures
Isn't there a Starlin picture we could use to show his original appearance ? -- Beardo 16:13, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Drax's Powers and abilities: Erroneous Posting??
There is a paragraph in the "Powers and Abilities" section whereby the poster claims that Drax can rip apart planets.

I don't EVER remember Drax having that kind of power in any of his incarnations. Did these events ever actually happen with Drax...and more importantly, did he perform these feats with the aid of the Power Gem??

In Iron Man #55 which was his first appearance he and Thanos destroyed a planet by fighting on it. No power gem involved.

Please respond, as I wish to alter the entry in the near future to both correct the error, if it is indeed one, and to update the entry. Thanos777 16:13, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Drax was recently in the Legion of Super Heroes (animated series), but Legion of Superheroes is DC Comics, and Drax is from Marvel. Brigid 18:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Being sort of a geek about character strength levels I remember very specifically in an issue of "Infinity Watch" or whatever it was called, that Drax was tested, and WITH the aid of the power gem had strength that was comparable to the Hulk. The Hulk is very consistently regarded as the strongest of humanoid creature in the Marvel Universe. The only character I recall ever being definitively stronger was the original Abomination. (Samu0034 03:09, 12 November 2007 (UTC))

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Avengers Assemble
Yes, the book stars the cast of the movie, but no, it is not movie continuity. See Iron Man's armor, the ultimate nullifier, the mentions of past history between the Avengers and the Guardians, the cosmic cube not being called a "Tesseract", or just about any of the content. Shoot, look at the logo on the cover. It's the comic logo, not the movie logo, which was used on movie continuity comics like Fury's Big Week, or the Black Widow mini.

To boot, the solicit for #8, the final issue, mentions it's setting up events for the new Avengers series starting in November.

If you have any source, or even just a reason, to believe AA is movie continuity, please provide it. Otherwise, please stop removing sourced info from the various pages. Argento Surfer (talk) 13:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

 * It cant be in the 616 continuity either so I just assume it was from the movie world. --98.216.246.173 (talk) 17:24, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Why can't it be in 616? Terrible writing aside, the characters are all in current 616 uniforms, and there are numerous references to other 616 events, like the Ultimate Nullifier or Avengers Mansion being repeatedly destroyed. Argento Surfer (talk) 18:44, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

 * some of the members they are using are dead plus thanos, and some members that was last seen on the team are not on the team. I dont know about Star Lord's uniform isn't he suppose to wear a mask? Also the Avengers I think act more like from the movie. --98.216.246.173 (talk) 23:45, 16 August 2012
 * No, some of the members just haven't explained how they came back. ;) The roster change I chalk up to Rocket gathering those he could find after Annihilators: Earthfall. The acting, well, Bendis is doing a terrible job writing. Issue 9 has been confirmed as part of Marvel NOW!, so that should dispel any doubt about it being in 616. Argento Surfer (talk) 13:08, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Contradiction...
Having just read the entry on Drax's history, it says in one section that his mind was restored at Moondragon's request 1996, then in another that it happened when his body was remade in 2006. Which is it? Or did the 2006 author just not know about the previous story? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loomborn (talk • contribs) 14:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It's both. The 1996 story had poor sales, so relatively few people knew his mind restored. The writer of the 2006 story (and the book's editor) may have been unaware of the event, or they may have decided to ignore it since it wasn't done very well anyway. It's also possible Drax was re-damaged in some untold event. Argento Surfer (talk) 21:41, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

any inspiration from the 1940s character?
I've been reading the original Jim Starlin issues of Iron Man and Captain Marvel that introduced this character: his original costume looked very familiar, and I realised it is almost identical to the Golden Age Destroyer ... compare the covers of Mystic 6 with Captain Marvel 58, in these pages ... also the other characters hardly ever call him Drax, just "The Destroyer"

I don't know about Starlin, but Roy Thomas was the editor for all these issues, and he of course created the (Silver Age) Vision, inspired by the Golden Age Vision, and was generally obsessed with reviving Golden Age characters...

have either Thomas or Starlin ever commented on any intention to make Drax a modern update of the Golden Age character?

J Edward Malone (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Roy's introduction to the Captain Marvel masterworks discusses the origins of Thanos in detail, but I don't recall any mention of Drax. This indicates Starlin was designing the character prior to working for Marvel. I always thought he looked similar to Phantom. Argento Surfer (talk) 18:14, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

I agree, the two destroyers are obviously versions of the same character. Identical looks and costumes (the skull brooch in particular is revealing); both have been part of the Guardians of the Galaxy. I think the pages should be merged. Or at least, they should mention the existence of each other. Nicolas Le Novère (talk) 22:13, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

The name "Arthur Douglas" combines the first names oF Douglas Adams and his main character, Arthur Dent.
 * This is just coincidence - Drax the Destroyer appeared five years before Douglas Adams started HHGG Argento Surfer (talk) 18:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

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Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur

Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur, inscribed mdNinurta2-tukul-ti-Aš-šur, was briefly king of Assyria c. 1132 BC, the 84th to appear on the Assyrian Kinglist, marked as holding the throne for his ṭuppišu, "his tablet," a period thought to correspond just to the inauguration year. He succeeded his father, the long-reigning Aššur-dān I, but the throne was very quickly usurped by his brother, Mutakkil-Nusku, and he was driven from Assur and sought refuge in the city of Sišil, on the Babylonian border, the scene of the final dénouement.

Biography
There is some conjecture that he may have ruled jointly with Aššur-dan I during Aššur-dan's declining years or perhaps shared some regnal duties as there is a significant archive of administrative texts concerning agricultural products, (from cities such as Arrapha), food distribution, and ritual offerings in the royal palace referencing him and his wife Rimeni on seals, one of which provides an early Assyrian chariot scene, but only three of these texts call him king. Among these there is a reference to the partial demolition of a number of buildings in Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, during his reign, and also a harem list. The Chronicle P which names him mTukul-ti-Aššur, relates that during his reign, the statue of Marduk was returned to Babylon having languished in Assyria for sixty (?)-six years, something of an underestimate if the reading of this number is correct and a reconciliatory move likely to test his subjects' loyalty.

The Assyrian King List relates that "Mutakkil-Nusku, his brother, fought with him (and) carried him off to Karduniaš. Mutakkil-Nusku held the throne for 'his tablet' (and then) passed away." A fairly recently recovered source provides additional insight into these events. From it we learn Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur seems to have kept the loyalty of provincial regions, while the heartland of Assyria sided with Mutakkil-Nusku, fueling a civil war. Into this milieu comes fragments of one, or perhaps two letters, from a Babylonian king, tentatively identified as Ninurta-nādin-šumi, although his predecessor Itti-Marduk-balāṭu or his successor Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur I could also conceivably be the author, addressed to and lambasting Mutakkil-Nusku and threatening to reinstate Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur. His Babylonian contemporary is not certain and the Synchronistic Kinglist gives a counterpart whose name begins with, or contains, the theophoric element Marduk-, with other fragmentary copies providing no further insight. The text of the letter(s) is poorly preserved, and difficult to interpret, but the Babylonian quotes the Assyrian in his description of his brother as ku-lu-'-ú la zi-ka-ru šu-ú, "a kulu'u, not a man," where the term may mean a 'feminized castrato cultic performer'. The deadlock was apparently broken by the attack by Mutakkil-Nusku's forces on Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur's border stronghold of Sišil, after which both brothers disappeared from history, perhaps falling in their fratricidal battle – and Mutakkil-Nusku's son Aššur-reš-iši I assumed the throne.

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Gaelic Games: Football

Gaelic Games: Football is a video game developed by IR Gurus and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released on 11 November 2005. It is based on Gaelic football and was developed by an Australian company that (at the time) made the AFL video game series. No player names are featured.

Gaelic Games: Football is the first GAA video game to be released on a home console.

Gameplay
The game features the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and NFL with commentary by Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh.

Critical reception
Despite being commercially successful, Gaelic Games: Football received poor reviews from critics and fans who claimed it was nowhere near the standard of gameplay with games like PES and FIFA 06 had produced.

Sequel
A follow-up game, Gaelic Games: Football 2, was released in November 2007. It was given very poor reviews by critics due to little improvement from the first.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Carr & Richard Taylor

 * 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 Delete Ryan Norton T 07:33, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

David Carr & Richard Taylor
Aside from the peculiar title, and the fact that only one of the two people seems to be mentioned, there's nothing in the article to indicate why this person is (these people are) notable — or very much else (thought there's a vague but PoV encomium). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 21:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete — to keep things clear. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 21:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable. No encyclopedic value.Cpaliga 21:18, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Borderline Speedy for CSD:A7 as there is no real contention of notability in the article.--Isotope23 21:37, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete They're leaders of the Renewal Christian Centre in Solihull. While it may be marginally notable I don't see that they are.  Article is unencyclopedaic anyway.  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   21:40, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if it had been searchable, I'd say redirect, but it's not. --Doc (?) 22:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Can we at least wait a few more days to see if any information about Mr. Carr goes up to find out if he is notable? I doubt that he is, but it seems we should at least find out. Articles often take more than one post to put up in full. --CastAStone 22:37, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's got 5 days - --Doc (?) 22:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Current article is an unverifiable hagiography, plus a (broken) link. -- Sliggy 23:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * (link now working) -- Sliggy 18:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Unless something magic happens here...--Daniel Lotspeich 08:43, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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Gerald W. Abrams

Gerald William Abrams (born September 26, 1939) is an American television producer who has produced many TV movies starting in the mid-1970s.

Early life
Abrams was born on September 26, 1939, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Samuel David Abrams (1908–1990), who was of Polish-Jewish descent, and his wife Lilian (1909–1998).

Career
Abrams graduated from Penn State University and began his television career with WCBS-TV as an account executive. He worked his way up through CBS Television national sales to head the West Coast Sales. Shortly after that, he was appointed general sales manager of KCBS-TV, the CBS-owned station in Los Angeles.

In 1976, Abrams executive produced The Secret Life of John Chapman. The film stars Ralph Waite, Susan Anspach, and Richard Arnold. It is inspired by the true story of John Royston Coleman, a college president. He took a sabbatical and went out and got jobs as a general laborer to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment. The Secret Life of John Chapman was produced for CBS and generated a 44 share.

The Defection of Simas Kudirka was executive produced by Abrams in 1978. It is based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U.S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U.S. citizen and, in 1974, released by the Soviets. The Defection of Simas Kudirka was nominated for five Emmys; David Lowell Rich won for Outstanding Directing in a Special Program, and John A. Martinelli won for Outstanding Film Editing for a Special.

Abrams formed his own company, Cypress Point Productions, in 1978. Through Cypress Point, he executive produced Letters From Frank, starring Art Carney and introducing Michael J. Fox, The Gift, starring Glenn Ford and Julie Harris, Act Of Love, starring Ron Howard and Mickey Rourke, Marian Rose White, starring Katherine Ross and Valerie Perrine, the CBS series Cutter To Houston, starring Alec Baldwin, Found Money, starring Dick Van Dyke and Sid Caesar, Scorned And Swindled, starring Tuesday Weld, Florence Nightingale, and the Emmy Award-winning A Woman Called Golda, starring Ingrid Bergman for Operation Primetime.[3]

Flesh & Blood was executive produced by Abrams in 1979, starring Tom Berenger, Denzel Washington, and John Cassavetes. The film is about a convict that takes up boxing in prison, which brings a new meaning to his life. Once out, his trainer motivates him to become a professional boxer. He cares about only two other things, his uncomfortably close mother and absent father. Cassavetes was nominated for an Emmy as an Outstanding Supporting Actor.

Berlin Tunnel 21 was executive produced by Abrams in 1981. The film starred Richard Thomas, Horst Buchholz, and José Ferrer. An American soldier and a German engineer joined forces in Berlin in 1961 to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

Abrams formed Phoenix Entertainment Group with Gerald Isenberg in July 1985. In February 1989, Phoenix was acquired by The Hearst Corporation and initially renamed King Phoenix Entertainment. Still, it was later renamed Hearst Entertainment Productions, where he served as the co-chairman for eight years.

In 1996, Jennifer Alward, who was of Morgan Hill Films and Gerald W. Abrams, formed Evolve Entertainment, folding Morgan Hill Films. They later part ways in 1999.

Based on the best-selling novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen, Abrams executive produced Black and Blue. The film was written and adapted by April Smith, starred Mary Stuart Masterson and Anthony LaPaglia for CBS, and debuted in 1999. The film is about Frances Benedetto, a victim of domestic violence. The movie follows Frances's relationship with her increasingly abusive NYCPD officer husband, who has the police force on his side and her eventual escape to Florida with her son.

In 2003, Abrams executive produced 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out, the FX Network's highest-rated show in its nine-year history.

In 2003, Abrams executive produced the Emmy-nominated television movie Out of the Ashes for Showtime, shot in Vilnius, Lithuania, starring Christine Lahti and directed by Joseph Sargent. Based on a true story, the film follows the journey of Gisella Perl, a Hungarian-Jewish doctor who survived Auschwitz but was later accused of collusion with the Nazis while applying for U.S. citizenship.

In March 2004, ABC aired The Mystery of Natalie Wood shot in Sydney, Australia, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, executive produced by Abrams, and based on Suzanne Finstad's biography of Natalie Wood. Additionally, Abrams made See Arnold Run about the historic California recall election for A&E.

In 2005, Abrams and Bud Greenspan produced Four Minutes for ESPN, written by legendary Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford. It starred Christopher Plummer, which chronicled Roger Bannister's feat of running the mile in under four minutes. Four Minutes was nominated for an Emmy and an ESPY award.

Abrams also executive produced Daniel's Daughter starring Laura Leighton in 2008 and Fairfield Road starring Jesse Metcalfe in 2010 for the Hallmark Channel; both were written by his daughter, Tracy Rosen. In 2011 he executive produced The Pastor's Wife, starring Rose McGowan, for Lifetime Television and The National Tree, starring Andrew McCarthy, and Duke, starring Steven Weber, for the Hallmark Channel in 2009 and 2012, respectively.

Gerald W. Abrams has executive produced over 70 films, most recently Love, Again, Christmas Shepherd, and Houdini, cable television's top-rated miniseries of 2014. Houdini, a two-part, four-hour miniseries for History, was written by Academy Award-nominated Nicholas Meyer and directed by Uli Edel. It premiered on September 1, 2014, starring Adrien Brody as Harry Houdini and co-starring Kristen Connolly (House of Cards) and Evan Jones. The film tells the story of the legendary illusionist and escapes artist who rose from poverty to worldwide fame and fortune.

Love, Again is Abrams' next TV movie to debut. It was shot for the Hallmark channel in 2015 and starred Teri Polo.

Abrams produced the four-hour miniseries Monte Carlo, shot entirely on location in France and was executive producer of A Father's Revenge for ABC, filmed in Berlin, starring Brian Dennehy and Joanna Cassidy. He executive produced the two-hour movie for ABC and London Weekend Television, Jekyll & Hyde, starring Michael Caine and Cheryl Ladd, filmed on location in England, followed by Daughter Of Darkness, starring Anthony Perkins, which was filmed in Budapest, Hungary, for CBS.

Second Honeymoon was produced with his late wife, Carol Abrams, and starred Roma Downey and Tim Matheson for CBS and was shot in Puerto Rico. Following the critical success of those films, Abrams executive produced the Hallmark Channel's A Christmas Visitor.

In addition to his television credits, Abrams was also the executive producer of Hearts Of Fire, a theatrical film for Lorimar, starring Bob Dylan and Rupert Everett.

Emmy nominations
Abrams has been nominated for two Emmys; the most recent was for Nuremberg, a dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Nuremberg was a four-hour mini-series for Turner Network Television starring Alec Baldwin and Christopher Plummer and directed by Yves Simoneau. Premiered in July 2000, the film was one of the highest-rated cable mini-series in history; it won four Emmy Nominations, Brian Cox won for the Best Performance by a Supporting Actor, and it received three Golden Globe nominations and a Producer's Guild Golden Laurel nomination. The film won a Gemini Award, Canada's equivalent of an Emmy.

Abram's second Emmy nomination was for Family of Spies. Family of Spies is a fact-based story of John A. Walker, Jr., a Navy chief warrant officer with access to top-secret cryptographic communications. As a result of mounting debts, he sold secrets to the Soviets in 1967, continuing after that. He further sought to involve his four children in the espionage until his wife caught on to his activities. The film was shot in Vienna, Austria, and it starred Powers Boothe and Lesley Ann Warren. Warren was nominated for an Emmy as well.

Awards
In 2023 Abrams was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Penn State and the Center County Film Festival for being a pioneering film producer with over 70 films and TV specials among his credits.

Personal life
His late wife, Carol Abrams, was a Peabody Award-winning producer and co-author of Shared Memories. They have two children: director-producer-screenwriter J. J. Abrams and Tracy (née Abrams) Rosen, a screenwriter who has written TV movies and series television. He has five grandchildren.

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The Tribe
I am from the Order of the Arrow. It's Leni Lenape, the tribe along the Delaware River.

Bac Jedimasterbac 18:18, 9 November 2005 (EST)

Which tribe(s)?
Which tribes does this apply to? Is the term in a particular language? RJFJR 21:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The term applies to the Delaware tribe, also known in their own language as the Leni Lenape (which means "first men"). The language is known as "Lenape." It is similar to other Algonkian languages such as Abnaki, Algonquin, Chippewa, Fox, Illinois, Kickapoo, Menominee, Ottawa, Penobscot, Potawatomi, Powhatan, Sauk, and Shawnee. The word "Illinois," meaning "first," is essentially the same word as "Leni," and even sounds similar. The two were probably much closer in pronunication before French and English settlers heard them and recorded them in two different European languages.PGNormand 06:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

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Nephthytis

Nephthytis is a genus of five species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical western and west-central Africa, ranging from Guinea to the Republic of the Congo.

They are herbaceous plants growing from a rhizome. The leaves are evergreen, light and dark green, 15–35 cm long, and are usually arrowhead-shaped, with three lobes. The leaf shape can vary depending on the age of the plant.

Cultivation
Some species are popular houseplants. If so, they must be kept away from any pets, as they are poisonous. When grown indoors as a decorative houseplant, it needs frequent watering to keep the soil moist. It prefers temperatures that are comfortable to humans, as with most plants. It functions well as a hanging or terrarium plant. The most common of its problems is root rot and can be avoided by providing adequate drainage. This can also be caused by allowing the plant to sit in water. As for other problems, scale insects can also affect it. If this happens, scrape them off and isolate the plant. For this kind of problem, pesticides and sprays do not always work as the shell of the insect protects it. If this becomes a severe problem, you will have to get rid of the plant. Also if this happens, make sure it is moved away from any other surrounding plants because the bugs could infect them as well. Other than that, this plant is very easy to take care of and thus, it is good for beginners. Propagation of Nephthytis is fairly easy as well. It can be propagated by layering and from cuttings.

Certain Nephthytis species are poisonous to cats and dogs. Symptoms are oral irritation and vomiting.

Syngonium podophyllum
An unrelated American species, Syngonium podophyllum, commonly grown as a houseplant, was originally confused with the similar-looking Nephthytis. It still retains Nephthytis as a common name, though it was given its own genus in 1879.

Species
Five species are accepted.
 * 1) Nephthytis afzelii Schott - West Africa from Congo-Brazzaville to Sierra Leone
 * 2) Nephthytis hallaei Bogner - Gabon
 * 3) Nephthytis mayombensis de Namur & Bogner - Congo-Brazzaville
 * 4) Nephthytis poissonii (Engl.) N.E.Br. - Congo-Brazzaville, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria
 * 5) Nephthytis swainei Bogner - Ivory Coast, Ghana, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Cameroon

Formerly placed here

 * Boycea bintuluensis (A.Hay, Bogner & P.C.Boyce) A.Hay (as Nephthytis bintuluensis A.Hay, Bogner & P.C.Boyce )

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Zandar

Zandar is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and animated series. He is affiliated with Cobra as a member of the Dreadnoks. He is portrayed by Matt Gerald in the 2013 film G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Profile
Zandar is the younger brother of Zartan and fraternal twin of Zarana. Zandar excels at his specialty as a master of camouflage and covert movement as an infiltrator and assassin. Zandar has also used disguise in his repertoire and can disguise himself as anyone. He is a master of silent weapons, including harpoons, crossbows, Bowie knives and silenced handguns, and is capable of remaining motionless for long periods.

Zandar is the secondborn of twins; his sister Zarana often the unequivocal leader of the two, and he dresses in blues and pinks, similar to Zarana, and wears a torn scarf which resembles her tattered pink shirt. Like his sister, Zandar has naturally auburn hair.

Zandar speaks between himself and his sister privately with a shared language between them as twins. Zandar is deeply psychologically and emotionally attached to and dependent upon his twin, refusing to be separated from and loyal to her above all else.

The Dreadnoks are frightened of Zandar for an undisclosed reason—one of them was late for patrol and another commented "Get goin mate, Zandar's supervising tonight. If he's on your bad side you better hope the gators get you first." Zandar is the only other Dreadnok that Road Pig has obeyed besides Zarana.

Action figure
Zandar and his twin sister Zarana were introduced in 1986, along with the second wave of Dreadnok action figures. Zandar and Zarana were made of the same UV reactive plastic as Zartan, and when exposed to direct sunlight, their skin would turn dark blue.

The Zandar figure had a punk appearance with orange hair, a blue bandana, earrings, red facial markings, a shirtless torso with jagged tattoos, and a pink neck kerchief. The torn neck kerchief resembles Zarana's torn pink shirt, which was a design choice by Hasbro designer, Ron Rudat in order to "tie these characters together." For accessories he carried a speargun and had a pack of spears on his back.

Marvel Comics
Zandar and Zarana operated several scams and schemes for Cobra, using their advanced skills as con artists. Later Zarana spent a lot of time with Cobra Commander and Zandar was nowhere to be seen.

In the Marvel Comics G.I. Joe series, he first appeared in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #51 (September 1986) as part of a successful rescue attempt of Zartan. Zandar briefly disguised himself as an auto mechanic at Zartan's hideout while the others hid, and diverted the Joes on their tail, who didn't realize it was the young punk.

During the first Cobra civil war (which takes place on Cobra Island) Zandar and his siblings commanded troops on the side of Cobra Commander. A few issues later, Zandar is seen helping a squad of Dreadnoks oversee the new Cobra stronghold of Broca Beach, New Jersey.

Zandar helps successfully create a new call center for Cobra marketing schemes; this despite interference from a G.I. Joe squad.

Devil's Due comics
Zandar and his siblings grew up in a Catholic orphanage. He was small for his age and was bullied by other children. His older brother accidentally killed a boy for bullying young Zandar. As teenagers, the twins grew up on the streets of London rather than be separated to different foster homes. He and his sister searched out their brother and found themselves in the outback of Australia as members of the Dreadnok biker gang.

Zandar fights against invading Joe forces when Zartan's expanded Everglades headquarters comes under attack. He and Road Pig capture Scarlett and Snake Eyes.

Zandar turned up alongside the Baroness when Cobra made a deal with radical terrorist Tyler Wingfield in Devil's Due's G.I. Joe: Frontline. He and the Baroness kill four agents guarding a safe house.

Civil war took over Cobra Island once again. As a masked member of the Coil, Zandar fought Zartan, but the younger brother lost, taking a knife in the gut. Zandar removed his mask, revealing himself to Zartan, who hadn't realized until that moment it was Zandar fighting him. Zartan pulls all his forces, which would have lost the battle for Cobra if Cobra Commander hadn't personally seen to Serpentor himself being taken down. Without a leader, the Coil fell to Cobra's newest troopers, the Neo-Vipers.

Zandar's actions come back to affect him when Duke and former Joe commander, Phillip Rey, arrive at a Dreadnoks HQ to confront him for information. Zartan literally throws Zandar at the pair, saying that apart from killing him, the two can do what they wish; this is Zandar's punishment for betraying Cobra.

IDW
Zandar and Zarana make an appearance supplying weapons to the Heathens motorcycle gang, who are working under "The One's" program. Concerned only with their money, not the gang's politics or goals, the twins demand their payment, but not before a G.I. Joe strike team attacks and orders them to surrender. The twins flee on their motorbike, but not before realizing neither one of them collected their fee. They also realize "The One" considers them expendable and vow to put an end to "The One." Shipwreck follows them as they speed away, informing them he's got them outgunned. Zandar and Zarana use holography to conceal themselves and their bike. The Dreadnok twins were apprehended shortly thereafter and taken into custody.

IDW post-Revolutionaries
The Dreadnok Twins, disguised as inner Mongolian locals, Ying and Yong, lead a strike team of GI Joes to Crystal Ball's cult stronghold, where they were ambushed by Crystal Ball and the Dreadnoks. Zandar and Zarana sneak away some time during the battle.

During the Dreadnoks' pursuit of the Joes, they were snatched away underground by Crystal Ball's summoned, large "Fatal Fluffies". Zandar and Zarana appear again with the Dreadnoks, ambushing Duke in the underground, with the intention of taking the Joes' prisoners, the Baroness and Crystal Ball.

Sunbow
Zandar appeared in the second season of the Sunbow G.I. Joe cartoon voiced by Peter Cullen and understudied by Milton James in "Arise Serpentor, Arise" Pt. 5. In the five-part episode "Arise Serpentor, Arise," Zandar and Zarana join Zartan in finding new recruits for the Dreadnoks. During this five-part episode, Roger C. Carmel voiced Zandar in the second part and Milton James voiced Zandar in the fifth part when Peter Cullen was unavailable for those two episodes.

In "Raise the Flagg!", Cobra attempts to salvage an antimatter pod from a crashed helicarrier of theirs. Cobra soldiers under the command of Zartan, Zandar and Zarana use an oil platform for the operation. The three Dreadnoks flee during a battle with the Joes and are sent by Cobra Commander to recover the antimatter pod before the Joes. They are taken prisoner alongside Roadblock, Leatherneck and Wet-Suit by an insane Cobra chef named B.A. LaCarre and his B.A.T.s, who force them into labor. The Joes, Dreadnoks and LaCarre eventually put aside their differences and hook the antimatter pod to the helicarrier's rotors, rising them out of the water. Cobra Troopers take the Dreadnoks to a chamber to recover from decompression sickness.

G.I. Joe: The Movie
Zandar also appeared briefly in the 1987 animated film G.I. Joe: The Movie.

Live action film
Zandar appears in the 2013 film G.I. Joe: Retaliation, portrayed by actor Matt Gerald. In the film, Zandar is a member of Cobra, and the head of the detail for the President of the United States (his brother Zartan in disguise). He was shot and killed by General Joseph Colton, when he was holding the real President of the United States hostage.

Other works
Zandar's figure is briefly featured in the fiction novel 6 Sick Hipsters. In the story, the character Paul Achting spent four years collecting G.I. Joe figures to set up a battle scene between the Joes and Cobra. As he imagined the characters in his head, he described the Dreadnoks as "an elite team of maniacal mercenaries allied with Cobra for this battle", with the figures lying in the thick of the shag carpet, and sitting next to Monkeywrench was Zandar, "the leader of the Dreadnoks and master of disguise though he looked more like a member of Duran Duran circa Arena than a crazed killer".

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Talk:The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Proposed change in article
The article states: "According to Benjamin older cultures can generate auras around particular objects of veneration, while capitalist culture has the opposite effect, causing the decay of the aura due to the proliferation of mass production and reproduction technologies."

I don't think that this is why Benjamin is saying. At least not exactly. The way I see it Benjamin states that art, while it existed as a privilege of the few, was characterised by 'aura'. By 'aura' he meant the authenticity, the line of ownership, the way it was exhibited. For Benjamin art's 'aura' is a negative trait, a characteristic of its bourgeois connections. Benjamin envisioned the mechanical reproduction of art, for example by means of photography, and its distribution to the masses. He states: "Mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the masses toward art (...) The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public" [as found in http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm]

Interestingly Benjamin believes that access to art by the masses will shift the balance: "The mass is a matrix from which all traditional behaviour toward works of art issues today in a new form. Quantity has been transmuted into quality. The greatly increased mass of participants has produced a change in the mode of participation" [as found in http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm]

For Benjamin, the politicizing of art, bringing it to the masses and applying political meaning to it, should be the goal of Communism; in contrast to Fascism which anesthetizes politics, maintaining art's aura and using it for propaganda.

I really don't know were "capitalism" is in his essay; it only appears in his noting Marx's theory.

I propose a change in the article as follows:

Aura Walter Benjamin used the term "aura" to refer to the feeling of awe created by unique or remarkable objects such as works of art or relics of the past. According to Benjamin this aura is obvious not only in the object itself but other attributes such as its ownership, the way it is exhibited, its authenticity, its price etc. This aura is indicative of art's association with the bourgeoisie. With mechanical reproduction the shattering of the aura is possible and art can finally reach the masses. In further analysis Benjamin accuses Fascism of using aesthetics in politics as a means of control while it credits Communism with politicizing art.

On the other hand maybe i am very wrong. Any ideas?

Sofiagk 15:07, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Definition of "aura"
I though Sofiagk's suggestion for revising the "aura" paragraph was awesome - perceptive and clear - and so I've revised the entry to incorporate most of that. In some places I liked how she phrased things even better in her discussion leading up to the suggested paragraph, and so where that was the case I incorporated some of that phrasing.

Year of publication 1935 or 1936
The article says that the original essay in German was first published in a journal but also first published in his collected works. So which is it?

The article I read said 1935 not 1936 as shown here. A Google Search shows articles with both years? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.80.218.66 (talk) 23:38, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

1935 was version 2, 1936 was version 3. I don't know what the difference between the two is, where the 1st version is, or if 2 or 3 is the more common version. 20:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by White Lightning (talk • contribs)

Unreferenced/speculative content
I removed the following and bring them here for discussion:

Aura

Benjamin used the word "aura" to refer to the sense of awe and reverence one presumably experienced in the presence of unique works of art. According to Benjamin, this aura inheres not in the object itself but rather in external attributes such as its known line of ownership, its restricted exhibition, its publicized authenticity, or its cultural value. Aura is thus indicative of art's traditional association with primitive, feudal, or bourgeois structures of power and its further association with magic and (religious or secular) ritual. With the advent of art's mechanical reproducibility, and the development of forms of art (such as film) in which there is no actual original, the experience of art could be freed from place and ritual and instead brought under the gaze and control of a mass audience, leading to a shattering of the aura. "For the first time in world history," Benjamin wrote, "mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual."

Politics of Art

Other Frankfurt School writers, most notably Benjamin's friend Theodor Adorno, worried about the resulting "distracted" relation to art characteristic of mass consumption, and argued that in losing the aura, we had also lost a space for potentially revolutionary reflection and imagination. In contrast, Benjamin argued that the withering of the aura was a more complicated historical development, an ambiguous force that also had the potential for democratizing both access to cultural objects and a critical attitude toward them. "Instead of being based on ritual, [art] begins to be based on another practice – politics." For Benjamin, the politicization of art should be the goal of Communism; in contrast to Fascism which aestheticized politics for the purpose of social control.

None of this is referenced, even the quotes are given without page numbers or any other information. As such, this has to remain out until it is properly sourced. ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive' 02:22, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Typo or mis-translation section question
Is this information important enough to warrant a section, or at least a section of that size and detail? It seems to me this article needs to go into more depth about Benjamin's ideas before delving into issues of translation. Aristophanes 68  (talk)  21:03, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * If that's the case, isn't it more that the rest of the article should be expanded, rather than this section excised? Personally, I think there needs to be a little context; when was this translation published, and how widespread and influential was it? 86.162.214.214 (talk) 09:26, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * But it is a useful bit of information. I agree that emphasis is too great, but just don't lose it.
 * Just to point out, in the Pimlico edition of 'Illuminations' (1999), the standard English edition, this mistake has long been corrected. I assume this section isn't relevant to many people and would suggest a small note with a reference for those who want to check their editions.Jamal (talk) 18:38, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I disagree wholeheartedly. I am currently an Art History student at McGill and we had the uncorrected text in the coursepack. I Brought it up in class and my teacher was unaware of any discussion regarding this issue. I think it is very interesting and relevant. But this article should really be expanded...Adrianturcato (talk) 18:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Without questioning that the dropped line concerned here has caused mischief over the years in the UK and perhaps elsewhere, the first edition of Illuminations was published in 1968 (not 1972) in New York by Harcourt, Brace (not Cape in London), and is wholly free from error. The quote comes not from the essay's "Introduction" (it has none) but from its "PREFACE," and the translator for the volume is readily identified as "Harry Zohn" (with nothing to imply that this particular essay within it was translated by someone else). The more likely inference is error was entirely due to a careless typesetter at Jonathan Cape, and as such the section ought to be wholly excised, and the essay's influence and rather more important debates about "misreadings" explored.Guiless (talk) 21:18, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Translator (was "lead and 'Influence' section")
Some previous wikipedians appears to have accepted at face value Scannell's (see the 'References' section of article) identification of Arendt as the English translator of Illumuniations. But surely this is the eccentric view - =any= other edition and authority I can consult cites Harry Zohn. Those who would advance Scannell's implicit claim need to provide a deeper level of proof than his unexplained (and inexplicable) attribution. Note that in Scannell's subsequent (2007) Media and communication, the question of Illuminations' translator is simply elided.

70.49.168.227 (talk) 22:03, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Marxist?
In what sense exactly is this a Marxist essay? The assertion is made but is unsourced and appears to be original research (the domain name of the quoted website is not enough evidence to support the point). How does this relate to the ideas of Marx either the early humanist ones or the later more economically focussed ones? It is not enough for Benjamin to talk about masses and Fascism and make passing reference to the Soviet Union without spitting on the floor for the essay to be described as Marxist. 110.33.150.245 (talk) 09:28, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

-- Read the framing Prologue and Epilogue of the essay: The former makes explicit reference to Marx, the latter to Communism, and both use Marxist terms of analysis. http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm --143.167.78.169 (talk) 12:47, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

mcluhan influence
this article as-is states that "Ideas initially presented in this article also inform Marshall McLuhan's famous slogan or conception that "the medium is the message"., and although the citation for this article mentions both mcluhan and benjamin on the same page, the mcluhan reference is from a prior article, and the benjamin part has no mention of mcluhan or any influence. is there a better source for this supposed link, or is there perhaps no link at all? Jhd9x (talk) 17:58, 30 March 2024 (UTC)