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From a dead language non-native speaker
Hi, CheerfulPaul, I guess that I selected the "native speaker" WikiBabel label because the software would not let me do grc-3 or below. I wanted to list my proficiency in Greek, so I had to take what it would allow me to put on my user page. Thankyou for stopping by. Cordially, David Boisclair drboisclair 19:09, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Contributing to this page evolved into some discussion on how to create another page and am reminding myself of the process.
As above. Markostri (talk) 19:08, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Deletion discussion
Hello. Just to let you know that I have nominated your user page for deletion, as it seems to have been created by another editor by mistake. Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:CheerfulPaul. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:29, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

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Christo van Rensburg

Christo van Rensburg (born 23 October 1962) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.

Van Rensburg turned professional in 1983. He won his first doubles title on ATP Tour later that year at Cleveland.

Van Rensburg won 20 top-level doubles titles during his career, including one Grand Slam men's doubles title at the Australian Open in 1985, partnering Paul Annacone. He also won two ATP singles titles at Orlando in 1987, and at Johannesburg in 1989. Van Rensburg's career-high rankings were world No. 19 in singles (achieved in 1988) and world No. 5 in doubles (achieved in 1987). He retired from the professional tour in 1995.

Van Rensburg is one of only two men to beat Pete Sampras in straight sets at Wimbledon (doing so in 1990, where Sampras was the No. 12 seed), the other being 1996 champion Richard Krajicek.

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Reanne Evans

Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player who competes on the World Snooker Tour and the World Women's Snooker Tour and works as a pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. Widely recognised as the most successful female player in the sport's history, she is a record 12-time winner of the World Women's Snooker Championship and is the reigning World Mixed Doubles champion (with Luca Brecel). She received an MBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for her services to women's snooker.

Born in Dudley, West Midlands, Evans began playing snooker at age 13. She competed in her first World Women's Snooker Championship in 2002, aged 16, when she reached the semi-finals. She won the women's world title 10 consecutive times between 2005 and 2014 and added further world titles in 2016 and 2019. Her other records on the women's tour include 12 UK Women's Snooker Championships, 58 ranking titles, and 90 consecutive victories between 2008 and 2011. She has achieved the highest break on the women's tour, having made 140 twice.

Granted a wildcard to the professional World Snooker Tour for the 2010–11 season, she became the first woman since Allison Fisher 16 years previously to compete professionally, but was relegated at the end of the season after 18 consecutive defeats. In 2013, she qualified for the Wuxi Classic as an amateur competitor, becoming the first woman to reach the final stages of a professional ranking snooker tournament. Granted wildcards to the World Snooker Championship qualifying rounds in 2015 and from 2017 to 2021, she reached the second qualifying round in 2017 after defeating Finnish player Robin Hull 10–8.

On International Women's Day in 2021, the World Snooker Tour announced that the two top-ranked players on the women's tour—then Evans and Ng On-yee—would receive two-year professional tour cards to begin in the 2021–22 season. Evans's only victory during her first two years on the professional tour came when she defeated Stuart Bingham in the last 128 of the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out, making her the first woman to win a televised match at a ranking event. Despite being relegated from the professional tour at the end of the 2022–23 season, she ended the season as the women's world number one, which secured her a new two-year professional tour card for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 seasons.

Early life
Born on 25 October 1985, in Dudley, West Midlands, Reanne Evans was educated at Bishop Milner Catholic School, Dudley. Her parents and two older brothers all played snooker, and she began playing herself at age 13.

World Ladies Billiards and Snooker/World Women's Snooker
Evans competed in her first World Women's Snooker Championship in 2002, aged 16. She defeated third seed Lynette Horsburgh 4–3 in the quarter-finals but lost 0–4 to eventual champion Kelly Fisher in the semi-finals. She won her first ranking tournament, the Connie Gough Memorial Championship, in 2004. This was the only women's ranking event held in the 2003–04 season.

Evans won her first world championship in 2005 with a 6–4 victory over Horsburgh in the final, which featured one frame that was replayed because of a problem with the scoring. She retained the title in 2006, just six weeks before she was due to give birth, defeating Emma Bonney 5–3 in the final. She also won the 2006 WLBSA mixed doubles title, partnering with Mark Allen to defeat Sonia Chapman and Matthew Couch 3–0 in the final.

In the 2007 world final, Evans was level 3–3 with Kate Henrick before winning the next two frames to claim her third successive title. Evans made the highest of the 2008 tournament, 102, and won 5–2 against June Banks in the final. Evans defeated Maria Catalano in four of the next five world championship finals, including a 5–2 win in 2009, and a 5–1 margin in 2010. A 5–1 victory against Emma Bonney in the 2011 final was Evans's 88th consecutive match win in women's snooker events. Catalano and Evans were level at 2–2 in the 2012 final before Evans went on to win 5–3. In the final against Catalano in 2013, Evans compiled two century breaks during the match, including a 117, the highest of the tournament, and won 6–3. She won her tenth consecutive title in 2014 with a 6–0 defeat of Ng On-yee in the final. In the semi-finals of the 2015 championship, Ng and Evans were level at 2–2, before Ng went on to win 4–2. The pair faced each other again in the 2016 final, when Evans won the first frame, before Ng took the next three. Ng led 4–3 before Evans won three frames in a row to take the match 6–4 for her eleventh world championship win. In 2017, Ng eliminated Evans 5–4 in the semi-finals. Evans lost again in the 2018 semi-finals, after Catalano defeated her 5–4. Evans won the 2019 Women's Tour Championship, held at the Crucible Theatre, defeating Mink Nutcharut in the semi-finals and Ng in the final. She claimed her twelfth world title in 2019, with a 6–3 win in the final against Mink. She was awarded an MBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for her services to women's snooker.

In September 2021, following an 18-month suspension of the Women's Snooker Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Evans won the 2021 UK Women's Championship, defeating Rebecca Kenna 4–0 in the final. In November 2021, she was runner-up to Ng in the Eden Women's Masters, losing the final 3–4 after having led 3–1. In January 2022, she lost 3–4 to Mink in the final of the British Women's Open. At the 2022 World Championship, Evans was the defending champion, but she lost 1–4 to Belgian player Wendy Jans in the quarter-finals, the first time she had not reached at least the semi-finals of the tournament. She retained her number one place in the women's world rankings at the end of the 2021–22 season, although Ng and Mink closed the gap in ranking points. After the 2023 Asia-Pacific Women's Championship, Mink replaced Evans as world number one. Evans lost in the semi-finals of the 2023 World Championship to 19-year-old Chinese tour debutant Bai Yulu, who recovered from 1–3 behind to clinch a 5–3 victory. Bai again eliminated Evans 5–3 in the semi-finals of the 2024 event, taking five consecutive frames after Evans had established a 3–0 lead.

Widely recognised most successful female player in the sport's history, with her ten consecutive Women's Snooker Championship titles from 2005 to 2014, and further titles in 2016 and 2019 for a total of 12 women's world titles, Evans surpassed Allison Fisher's previous record of seven. Evans has also won a record 12 UK Women's Snooker Championships, and recorded the highest break on the women's tour (140 twice). Prior to her loss to Maria Catalano at the 2011 Northern Classic, she won a record 90 consecutive women's snooker matches.

International Billiards and Snooker Federation
Evans won the IBSF Women's Snooker Championship in 2004, 2007, and 2008, with Wendy Jans the losing finalist on each occasion. She did not travel to the 2009 championship in Hyderabad to defend her title as the cost of travelling would have been more than the prize money she could have earned.

European Billiards and Snooker Association
Evans reached the final of the Women's EBSA European Snooker Championship in 2004, but lost 3–5 to Jans. In 2007 she won the title by defeating Jans 5–2 in the final, and retained it in 2008 with a 5–3 victory against Emma Bonney.

World Snooker Tour
After winning 61 consecutive women's matches and defeating reigning world champion John Higgins 4–3 at the 2009 Six-red World Championship, Evans was awarded a wildcard on the professional tour for the 2010–11 season, enabling her to enter all ranking events at the qualifying stage. This made her the first woman to play on the main tour since Allison Fisher in 1994–95. Evans failed to win a match throughout her season on the tour, suffering 18 consecutive defeats. She entered Q-School, but was unable to qualify for the main tour in the 2011–12 season.

In the 2012–13 season, Evans won enough Q-School matches to earn a "top-up" place in the qualifying rounds for the 2013 Wuxi Classic, competing as an amateur. In her qualifying match, she defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 5–4 to become the first woman to reach the final stages of a ranking snooker tournament. Originally scheduled to play world number two Neil Robertson in the last 64, she then became one of four players selected to play an extra wildcard round against local Chinese opponents. She lost 2–5 to Chinese teenager Zhu Yinghui in the wildcard round.

In March 2015, Evans was awarded a place in the qualifying rounds of the 2015 World Snooker Championship. She lost her opening match 8–10 to 1997 world champion Ken Doherty. In the qualifying rounds for the 2017 World Snooker Championship, Evans defeated Robin Hull 10–8 in the first round, calling the victory the best of her career to that point. She lost 6–10 to Lee Walker in the second round of qualifying. In the next four world championships, she exited in the first qualifying round each year, losing 7–10 to Dominic Dale in 2018, 2–10 to Zhang Yong in 2019, and to Andy Hicks by 3–6 in 2020 and 2–6 in 2021.

At the 2019 Champion of Champions, Evans became the first female player to compete in the event. She lost 3–4 to Shaun Murphy in the first round, after coming back from 0–3 down to force a deciding frame.

On International Women's Day in 2021, World Snooker announced that Evans and Ng On-yee, the top-two players in the women's world rankings, would receive two-year invitational tour cards to commence in the 2021–22 snooker season. In the second ranking event of the season, the British Open, Evans was drawn in the first round against Mark Allen, her former partner and father of her daughter, with whom she had a strained relationship following a dispute over child support. Evans refused Allen's offer of a handshake before the match began. She took a 2–1 lead and led 60–22 in the fourth frame, but Allen came back to win 3–2. Evans did not win any matches during her season on the tour, which ended with a 2–6 defeat to Lee Walker in the first round of qualifying for the 2022 World Snooker Championship. Following her loss to Walker, Evans posted on social media that the "last year or so has been tough on and off [the] table" but that she was "working on it". She later revealed that she had experienced an intermittent lack of sensation in her arm while playing, and tremors on one side of her body, which affected her play. At the end of the 2021–22 season, Evans was entered into the Snooker Hall of Fame, along with Allison Fisher, for "outstanding contributions to the growth of snooker".

Evans's only victory during her two years on tour came at the 2023 Snooker Shoot Out (2022–23 season), when she defeated Stuart Bingham by 60 points to 8 in their one-frame encounter in the last-128 round, becoming the first woman to win a televised match at a ranking event.

After losing in the first qualifying round of the 2023 World Snooker Championship, Evans ended the season ranked 126th in the snooker world rankings and was relegated from the professional tour. However, she was runner-up in the 2023 British Women's Open the following month, which enabled her to end the season ranked number one in the World Women's Snooker rankings. This secured her a new two-year professional tour card to begin in the 2023–24 season.

In her qualifying group at the 2023 Championship League, Evans defeated Jimmy White 3–1 and drew 2–2 with Xu Si, but having lost 0–3 to Judd Trump, she missed out on progressing to the next stage. She defeated Jenson Kendrick 5–4 in the qualifying round of the 2023 European Masters, and then lost 1–5 to David Gilbert in the first round. She did not win any other matches on the main tour in the 2023–24 season, although two of her other matches in qualifying rounds went to a deciding frame, as she lost 5–6 to Ryan Thomerson at the 2023 UK Championship, and 4–5 to Tian Pengfei at the 2024 German Masters.

At the 2024 World Mixed Doubles, Evans and teammate Luca Brecel defeated Mark Selby and Rebecca Kenna 4–2 in the final, winning the event for the first time.

Personal life
In 2005, Evans began a relationship with Northern Irish professional snooker player Mark Allen. They had a daughter, Lauren Sophie, born at Russells Hall Hospital in May 2006 when both parents were 20 years old. Evans and Allen ended their relationship in 2008. The end of their relationship was described as acrimonious and led to legal disputes between the two players over child maintenance payments. Allen in 2022 noted that he no longer sees his daughter Lauren, but said "I still think about her all the time".

Evans has been critical of the low prize money in women's snooker, stating that she won as little as £450 for winning one of her women's world titles. In 2015, at age 29, Evans was a ten-time women's world champion, but was still living in her parents' home with her then nine-year-old daughter because she could not afford to move out.

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Ordizia

Ordizia, formerly known as Villafranca de Ordizia, is a town and municipality located in the Goierri region of the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, northern Spain.

The professional cycle road race Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia is held yearly in Ordizia.

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Terry Gibbs

Terry Gibbs (born Julius Gubenko; October 13, 1924) is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader.

He has performed or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Alice Coltrane, Louie Bellson, Charlie Shavers, Mel Tormé, Buddy DeFranco, and others. Gibbs also worked in film and TV studios in Los Angeles.

Biography
On being discharged from the armed forces, where he played drums in military bands, Gibbs worked in New York with Bill De Arango and recorded with Tiny Kahn in Aaron Sachs’s quintet (1946).

In the 1950–1951 season, Gibbs was a popular guest on Star Time on the DuMont Television Network. Thereafter, he was a regular in 1953–1954 on NBC's Judge for Yourself.

In the late 1950s, he appeared on NBC's The Steve Allen Show, on which he regularly played lively vibraphone duets with the entertainer and composer. In 1997, he appeared on Steve Allen's 75th Birthday Celebration on PBS. Gibbs was also the bandleader on the short-lived That Regis Philbin Show. As an instrumentalist, together with his big band, the Dream Band, Gibbs has won prestigious polls, such as those of Downbeat and Metronome.

His son is jazz drummer Gerry Gibbs.

The Dream Band
When Gibbs moved from New York to California in 1958 he began planning for his next big band album. In early 1959 he booked extended residencies at two Los Angeles night clubs, the Seville and the Sundown, for what became known as the Dream Band.

The band usually played on a Sunday, Monday or Tuesday night when the cream of Hollywood jazz and studio musicians would be available. The core band - which was already playing as "Jazz Wave Big Band" at the Sundown - always remained stable with Mel Lewis holding down the drum chair.

Some of the key players were lead altoist Joe Maini, tenor saxists Bill Holman and Med Flory, trumpeters Al Porcino and Conte Candoli and trombonists Frank Rosolino and Bob Enevoldsen.

New arrangements were commissioned from Bill Holman, Marty Paich, Med Flory, Manny Albam and Al Cohn, among others, to feature Gibbs’ vibes in front of the band. The band released four albums from 1959 to 1961.

 * 1959: Launching a New Band – some versions are titled Launching a New Sound in Music
 * 1960: Swing Is Here!
 * 1961: The Exciting Terry Gibbs Big Band!!!!!! – reissued as Dream Band, Vol. 4: Main Stem
 * 1961: Explosion! – reissued as Dream Band, Vol. 5: The Big Cat

Four additional albums of unissued live material recorded in 1959 have been released since 1986.
 * Dream Band
 * The Dream Band, Vol. 2: The Sundown Sessions
 * Dream Band, Vol. 3: Flying Home
 * Dream Band, Vol. 6: One More Time

The Music Stop
In the mid 1960s, Gibbs opened a musical instrument store in Canoga Park, California, with former Benny Goodman drummer Mel Zelnick. Terry Gibbs and Mel Zelnick Music Stop was also the first teaching facility of Freddie Gruber and Henry Bellson, brother of Louie.

Discography

 * Good Vibes (Savoy, 1951)
 * Terry Gibbs Sextet (Savoy, 1954)
 * Terry Gibbs (Emarcy, 1956)
 * Mallets a-Plenty (Emarcy, 1956)
 * Vibes on Velvet (Emarcy, 1956)
 * Swing...Not Spring! (Savoy, 1956)
 * Harry Babasin and the Jazz Pickers/Terry Gibbs (VSOP, 1957)
 * Jazz Band Ball (VSOP, 1957)
 * Swingin'  (Emarcy, 1957)
 * Terry Gibbs Plays the Duke (Emarcy, 1957)
 * More Vibes on Velvet (EmArcy, 1958) with the sax section from the Dream Band
 * Launching a New Band, aka Launching a New Sound in Music (EmArcy, 1959)
 * Dream Band (Contemporary, 1959)
 * The Dream Band, Vol. 2: The Sundown Sessions (Contemporary, 1959)
 * Dream Band, Vol. 3: Flying Home (Contemporary, 1959)
 * Vibrations (Interlude, 1959)
 * Dream Band, Vol. 6: One More Time (Contemporary, 1959)
 * Swing Is Here (Verve, 1960)
 * Music from Cole Porter's Can Can (Verve, 1960)
 * Steve Allen Presents Terry Gibbs at the Piano (Signature, 1960)
 * The Exciting Terry Gibbs Big Band (Verve, 1961) – reissued as Dream Band, Vol. 4: Main Stem (Contemporary)
 * Explosion! (Mercury, 1961) – reissued as Dream Band, Vol. 5: The Big Cat (Contemporary)
 * That Swing Thing! (Verve, 1962)
 * Straight Ahead (Verve, 1962)
 * Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime (Mercury, 1963)
 * El Nutto (Limelight, 1963)
 * Gibbs/Nistico (Time, 1963)
 * Hootenanny My Way (Time, 1963)
 * Take It from Me (Impulse!, 1964)
 * Latino (Roost, 1964)
 * It's Time We Met (Mainstream, 1965)
 * Terry Gibbs Quartet (1965)
 * Reza (Dot, 1966)
 * Bopstacle Course (Xanadu, 1974)
 * Sessions Live: Terry Gibbs, Pete Jolly, and Red Norvo (Calliope, 1976)
 * Live at the Lord (Jazz a la Carte 1978)
 * Smoke 'em Up (Jazz a la Carte 1978)
 * Jazz Party: First Time Together with Buddy DeFranco (Palo Alto 1981)
 * Air Mail Special (Contemporary, 1981)
 * Now's the Time with Buddy DeFranco (Tall Tree, 1984)
 * The Latin Connection (Contemporary, 1986)
 * Chicago Fire with Buddy DeFranco (Contemporary, 1987)
 * Holiday for Swing with Buddy DeFranco (Contemporary, 1988)
 * Memories of You: A Tribute to Benny Goodman with Buddy DeFranco, Herb Ellis (Contemporary, 1991)
 * Kings of Swing with Buddy DeFranco (Contemporary, 1992)
 * Play That Song: Live at the 1994 Floating Festival (Chiaroscuro, 1994)
 * Wham (Chiaroscuro, 1999)
 * Terry Gibbs and Buddy DeFranco Play Steve Allen (Contemporary, 1999)
 * From Me to You: A Tribute to Lionel Hampton (Mack Avenue, 2003)
 * 52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Bebop Era (Mack Avenue, 2004)
 * Feelin' Good: Live in Studio (Mack Avenue, 2005)
 * Findin' the Groove (Jazzed Media, 2006)
 * 92 Years Young: Jammin at the Gibbs House (Whaling City Sound, 2017)

With Leonard Cohen
 * Death of a Ladies' Man (Columbia, 1977)

With Dion DiMucci
 * Born to Be with You (Phil Spector, 1975)

With Morgana King
 * Sings the Blues (Mercury, 1957)

With John Lennon
 * Rock 'n' Roll (Apple, 1975)

With Liza Minnelli
 * Gently (Angel, 1996)

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Talk:Leo McKern

Request to clean up this article?
Hi I've never done this before so excuse me if this is outside of protocol or anything. But would someone please take the time to rearrange his film roles into chronological order? That would be nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.137.98.39 (talk) 10:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Rumpole starting year
In the biography, it says, "In 1975 he made his first appearance as his most famous character, Horace Rumpole..." That's wrong. He first appeared as Rumpole in the late 60's. I have a tape announcing the year followed by the episode itself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mike8s2 (talk • contribs) 16:05, 17 February 2006.

 * Are you sure that isn't the year in which the episode is set? The first ITV episode, "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" (from 1978), was set in 1967, which is displayed on screen near the beginning.  --Mrwojo 00:38, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

 * That is correct Mrwojo. Each of the six episodes of the first season had a year date given at or near the beginning of their story. The events of the first two or three episodes actually predate the action of the Play for Today episode "Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt" which was made for the BBC and aired in December of 1975.User:MarnetteD | Talk 14:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Rumpole created for McKern or Sim? Or Michael Hordern?
The article also states that John Mortimer created Rumpole with McKern in mind. Yet Mortimer has stated that his first choice for the role was Alistair Sim. Sim was unable to take the role. After Mortimer saw McKern as Rumpole he realized how suitable he was and then wrote future stories with him in mind. Mortimer also stated that he would no longer countenance having any other actor to play Rumpole. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.179.38.130 (talk) 16:44, 3 October 2006.

 * The text in question is based on the BBC's obituary for McKern (23 July 2002), as referenced in the article. The BBC obit is probably wrong here.  --Mrwojo 03:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. There seems to be another possibility. The entry for Rumpole of the Bailey says "Mortimer was keen on Michael Hordern for the role of Rumpole, but when Hordern proved unavailable the part went to Australian-born actor Leo McKern." Looks like there's some additional sorting out needed.

My vote is for Hordern, since the reference cited is from the book by Irene Shubik, who produced the original plays. She's much more likely to have the right information. GuiderBob (talk) 22:35, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Number Two - Leo McKern.jpg
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Australian-born English actor?
This phrase in the lede needs a rethink. He wasn't just Australian-born, he remained an Australian his entire life. He was honoured by appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia, but was never given any awards by the UK government. Now, it's true he did move to the UK and spent most of the rest of his life there. That might qualify him to be called a "British actor", but not an English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish actor. Had he taken out UK citizenship (he didn't), he would have been a British citizen, not an English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish citizen. Comments? --  Jack of Oz   [your turn]  22:29, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

 * McKern didn't need to take out British Citizenship. He was born in Australia before that country had separate citizenship (which wasn't until around 1948), he was therefore born a British Subject and had therefore no need to acquire British nationality, as he already possessed it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.68.219 (talk) 16:04, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

 * All Australians who were alive as at 26 January 1949 automatically became Australian citizens and ceased to be British subjects. They never had British nationality merely by virtue of being technically British subjects.  Their nationality was always Australian.  Leo McKern was an Australian national who lived for most of his life in the UK.  That qualifies him to be considered a British actor, but it does not qualify him to be considered an English actor.  That's my point.  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  09:14, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Personally I wouldn't call him a British OR English actor - but an Australian actor, who spent most of his adult life in Britain. That to my eyes makes him an "actor in Britain" but not a "British actor". I believe he didn't come to Britain until he was 26, so all his formative years were Australian, and if he remained an Australian citizen, then for me he is Australian, not British. E.g. David Niven spent most of his career based in the USA, but never ceased to be regarded as British (indeed quintessentially British). So with McKern, an Australian who worked in Britain - but not British! DoctorMartin (talk) 18:42, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

The Prisoner and health problems
In 1967, Leo McKern starred as Number 2 in The Prisoner TV series. The episode was meant as number six but McGoohan saw something in it and kept it so it was eventually shown as episode 16 which lead into the final episode, episode seventeen. In it, Bernie Williams (who was Production Manager on the show, which meant he was responsible for about everything) in an interview on The Prisoner DVD set said in that episode that the duel between McGoohan's character and McKern's character became so intense on a personal level that he had to stop production because McKern had heart problems and he feared he might have a heart attack.(80.30.191.121 (talk) 16:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC))

Assessment comment
Substituted at 21:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Personal life
I've removed the claim that McKern's wife died in the 2004 tsunami alongside “great-granddaughter Lucy and Jane (Attenborough), grandson Michael's wife”; this was not supported by the sources given (which refer to the Attenborough's but make no mention of any connection to McKern) or by logic (the sources, which refer to “mother-in-law” Audrey, (and not to the husband's "grandmother") give her age as 81, making her a contemporary of JA's (and her husband's) parents, not their grandparents). The text also names McKern's wife as "Jane Holland" (which is confirmed by IMDb) and then as "Audrey Jane" (which is not). This was added in Nov 2015 with this edit; removed by Nasnema as "a goodfaith edit" which was "too far removed from the subject" (here); the removal was then undone as "possible vandalism" (here) by another 2-edit contributor. I am removing it yet again, for the reasons given; if anyone feels it should be replaced they will need a source that actually supports the contention. Swanny18 (talk) 15:08, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Orendain

Orendain (Orendáin) is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

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Billesdon Rural District

Billesdon was a rural district of Leicestershire, England. It originated with the Billesdon Poor Law Union, formed in 1835. In 1894 the area became a rural district. It was named for the village of Billesdon.

In 1935 the rural district was decreased by the annexing of Humberstone, most of Evington, and some of Thurnby civil parishes to Leicester (with some small parts going to Oadby in 1936). It was further reduced in 1966 by the annexation of part of Scraptoft, Stoughton and Thurnby parishes. In 1974 it became part of the Harborough non-metropolitan district, along with the Lutterworth Rural District, Market Harborough Rural District, and Market Harborough urban districts.

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Orexa

Orexa (Spanish, Oreja) is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

title: Orexa