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Glenn Shorrock

Glenn Barrie Shorrock (born 30 June 1944) is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of rock bands the Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles Shorrock Goble, as well as being a solo performer.

The Twilights had eight consecutive national hit singles including "Needle in a Haystack" and "What's Wrong with the Way I Live". Axiom's top 10 hits were "Arkansas Grass", "Little Ray of Sunshine" and "My Baby's Gone". Little River Band had national and international chart success, including the Shorrock-penned "Emma", "Help Is on Its Way" and "Cool Change".

Shorrock was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1991 and as a member of Little River Band in 2004. In May 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th-anniversary celebrations, named "Cool Change" as one of the APRA Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Early years
Glenn Barrie Shorrock was born on 30 June 1944 in Chatham, Kent, England. His family migrated to Adelaide, South Australia, on the Orcades in August 1954 when he was 10. His father, Harry Shorrock, was a Yorkshire-born fitter and turner at the Weapons Research Establishment in Salisbury, South Australia. The 1954–55 summer had days of 42 °C and Black Sunday bushfires ravaged the Adelaide Hills in January 1955. His London-born mother, Joyce Shorrock, was not impressed with Australia and she took Shorrock and his younger sister back to UK on the Strathmore, only to return to Australia on the Fairsea for a second attempt in 1956. The family settled in Elizabeth, 20 km north of Adelaide.

Shorrock's first public performance took place in 1958 at St Peter's Lutheran church hall in Elizabeth when he mimed to Elvis Presley's recording of "All Shook Up" on a gramophone and strumming on a cardboard guitar. When the record player stopped he was forced to continue singing by himself and realised he had a good voice.

In 1962, Shorrock formed his first band, the Checkmates, with Clem McCartney, Mike Sykes and Billy Volraat. They were a doo-wop harmony group covering the Platters and the Crew Cuts material. Sometimes teaming up with instrumental groups the Vector Men or the Hurricanes, the Checkmates performed in Adelaide cafes and folk clubs. As a result of the Beatles' popularity, members of the Checkmates and the Hurricanes merged to form the Twilights in 1964.

The Twilights
In 1964 Shorrock, with McCartney as co-lead vocalist, formed the Twilights by merging with the Hurricanes' Frank Barnard on drums, Peter Brideoake on guitar, Terry Britten on guitar and John Bywaters on bass guitar. Their debut single, "I'll Be Where You Are", co-written by Shorrock and Britten, was released in June 1965. The band had eight consecutive hit singles, including covers of the Velvelettes' "Needle in a Haystack" and the Hollies' "What's Wrong with the Way I Live" (recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London). With two lead singers, two guitarists and five vocalists, the Twilights performed note-perfect covers of pop-rock songs and were famed for their live prowess. They relocated to Melbourne late in 1965 and were popular with teenage audiences and respected by fellow musicians. In July 1966, they won Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds with the prize including a trip to London. In 1967, shortly after returning from London, the group regularly performed the entire Sgt Pepper's album live in sequence, weeks before it was released in Australia. The Twilights disbanded in January 1969 and Shorrock became band manager for Brisbane pop group the Avengers.

Axiom
In May 1969 in Melbourne, Shorrock formed an early Australian "supergroup", Axiom, with Brian Cadd on keyboards and vocals, Don Mudie on lead guitar (both ex-the Groop), Doug Lavery (The Valentines) on drums and Chris Stockley (Cam-Pact) on guitar. They recorded two highly acclaimed albums, Fool's Gold and If Only ...; and had three top 10 singles, "Arkansas Grass", "Little Ray of Sunshine" and "My Baby's Gone" on the Go-Set national charts. Axiom travelled to the UK but disbanded there in March 1971.

Shorrock remained in the UK to pursue his solo career; he signed with MAM Records and released the self-penned "Let's Get the Band Together" single in October 1971. This was followed by a cover of "Rock and Roll Lullaby" in March 1972. As Andre L'Escargot and His Society Syncopaters, he released "Purple Umbrella" with his backing band being Quartet members Britten, Kevin Peek, Trevor Spencer and Alan Tarney. He joined the multinational progressive rock band Esperanto, which released their debut album, Esperanto Rock Orchestra, in 1973 with the Shorrock-written track "Statue of Liberty". He left Esperanto before their third album was released in 1974 and performed backing vocals for Cliff Richard.

Little River Band
Mississippi was an Australian rock band which was working in the UK, with Beeb Birtles on vocals and guitar, Graham Goble (later Graeham Goble) on guitar and vocals and Derek Pellicci on drums. They contacted Glenn Wheatley (former bass guitarist for the Masters Apprentices) to become their manager. Birtles, previously in Adelaide band Zoot, called Shorrock to take part in the line up. Shorrock returned to Australia in October 1974 and joined Mississippi in January 1975 in Melbourne. They were soon renamed as Little River Band with the original line up of Birtles, Goble, Pellicci, Shorrock and lead guitarist Ric Formosa and bassist Roger McLachlan. The group went on to become one of the most successful bands ever to come out of Australia and the first to achieve major commercial success in the United States. For Little River Band, Shorrock wrote the hits "Emma", "Help Is on Its Way" (Australian No. 1) and "Cool Change".

While still a member of Little River Band, Shorrock released a solo single, a cover of Bobby Darin's 1959 hit "Dream Lover" in April 1979 on EMI, which peaked at No. 8 on the Kent Music Report singles chart. In February 1982, Shorrock left Little River Band and was replaced by John Farnham who was managed by Wheatley. Shorrock returned to Little River Band in 1988 but, despite several quality albums, they did not regain the earlier stellar recognition. He left again in 1991 leaving the naming rights with guitarist Stephen Housden. In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th-anniversary celebrations, named "Cool Change" as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Later solo career
In 1982, Shorrock released the solo album Villain of the Peace and a single, "Rock and Roll Soldier", on Capitol Records recorded in Los Angeles with John Boylan (Charlie Daniels, Little River Band) producing. "Rock and Roll Soldier" reached the Australian top 40 in November but he did not achieve the international success attained with Little River Band. Late in 1982 he toured Australia and then teamed with Renée Geyer to release a duet, "Goin' Back", on Mushroom Records in February 1983. One of his backing singers was Wendy Matthews who had been a session singer in Los Angeles. "We're Coming to Get You", which peaked at No. 6 in October, was recorded with folk group, the Bushwackers. It was the theme for the film We're Coming to Get You. He released "Don't Girls Get Lonely?" in November. In 1984, he recorded "Restless" for the documentary World Safari II: The Final Adventure.

In 1985, Shorrock released The First Twenty Years, which was a double-LP album compilation of his career work with tracks by the Twilights, Axiom and Little River Band as well as solo work. He was compere of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV music series Rock Arena in 1986 and as a breakfast announcer for radio station Magic 11 in Sydney. His solo single, "American Flyers", appeared in July. He performed on the tour of the stage show One for the Money in 1986–87. He appeared in other stage shows including Evita (1989) and his own showcase productions Go Cat Go (1990–91) and Two Up (1996).

On 25 March 1991, Shorrock was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame, alongside contemporary rocker Billy Thorpe, bass-baritone Peter Dawson and jazz musician Don Burrows. In 1993, he re-joined with Axiom bandmate Brian Cadd to record Blazing Salads and three singles for Blue Martin Records as well as a subsequent two-year tour. On tour Shorrock played his hit songs, along with those of Axiom accompanied by Cadd and a backing band of Rex Goh on guitar (ex-Air Supply), Kirk Lorange on guitar (Richard Clapton Band) and Mark Kennedy on drums (Spectrum, Ayers Rock, Marcia Hines Band).

Long Way to the Top was a 2001 ABC TV six-part documentary on the history of Australian rock and roll from 1956 to the modern era. Shorrock provided some interviews, "In Awe of The Beatles", "Being Pop Stars" and "Coming from the UK", about his early years with the Twilights. A Long Way to the Top Tour followed in August–September 2002 with Shorrock appearing with the Twilights in the first set performing "What's Wrong with the Way I Live?" and "Needle in a Haystack"; he returned in the second set with Axiom to perform "Arkansas Grass" and "Little Ray of Sunshine".

In 2002, Shorrock reunited with other Little River Band founders Beeb Birtles and Graeham Goble to form Birtles Shorrock Goble. On 17 October 2004, the 1970s members of Little River Band: Birtles, David Briggs, Goble, George McArdle, Derek Pellicci and Shorrock, were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. The later members, including fellow Australian John Farnham and US-based musicians, were not included in this induction. Due to a 2002 legal ruling on their right to use the band's name, they performed "Help Is on the Way" as the "classic lineup" of Little River Band. Birtles Shorrock Goble recorded a successful DVD and CD, Full Circle (2005), and toured until 2007. In August–September, the trio played a medley of Little River Band hits at the Countdown Spectacular two concert series.

In 2005, Shorrock also undertook his career-spanning "The Reminiscing Tour – Glenn Shorrock & Friends" with invited guest singers including Doug Parkinson and Wendy Matthews. In May–June 2006, he partnered actress Judy Nunn on the first season of a reality TV singing competition, It Takes Two. They were voted off after week three. His first solo CD for seven years, Meanwhile, which contains acoustic versions of his career hits was released in 2007 on the Liberation Blue label. He performed a Beatles tribute show, Let It Be, with Parkinson, Sharon O'Neill and Mark Williams.

In 2008, Shorrock toured with the musical ''Shout! The Legend of the Wild One'' based on the life of Australian rocker Johnny O'Keefe. In July 2010, Shorrock performed a retrospective of his 45 years in the music industry. Currently Shorrock continues to tour Australia performing for public and private events in Australia and promotes new local music artists. In early 2013 he and his band were headlining performers in Macau, New York and London for the media launch of the Titanic II project. This was at the personal invitation of Australian entrepreneur Clive Palmer.

In October 2014, Shorrock was inducted into the South Australian Music Hall of Fame alongside Bon Scott's former band Fraternity, Chris Finnen and David "Daisy" Day.

Shorrock released his autobiography, Now, Where Was I?, in June 2018.

Shorrock was appointed an honorary member of the Order of Australia (AM) on 26 January 2020, awarded for significant service to the performing arts as a singer, songwriter and entertainer.

In 2021, Shorrock appeared in the Australian film A Stitch in Time.

Personal life
Shorrock met his first wife, Sue Doran, a Melbourne nurse, in 1966. The couple married in 1967 but divorced in 1971. In 1975, Shorrock met Jo Swan, a video producer nine years his junior, who worked in the same building (Armstrong Studios) where Little River band was recording its first album. They married in 1980, separated in 2019 and divorced in 2020. Shorrock married Irene Rose, a teacher, on 21 December 2021. He has at times had arthritis, anxiety and stage fright.

ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony which recognises excellence, innovation and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. Shorrock was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1991.

! Ref.
 * 1991
 * himself
 * ARIA Hall of Fame
 * inductee
 * 2014
 * The Story of Sharky and The Caddman (with Brian Cadd)
 * Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album
 * Nominated
 * The Story of Sharky and The Caddman (with Brian Cadd)
 * Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album
 * Nominated

Australian Songwriter's Hall of Fame
The Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 2004 to honour the lifetime achievements of some of Australia's greatest songwriters.

 * 2006
 * himself
 * Australian Songwriter's Hall of Fame
 * inducted
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King of Pop Awards
The King of Pop Awards were voted by the readers of TV Week. The awards began in 1967 and ended in 1978.

 * 1977
 * himself
 * Best Australian Songwriter
 * Won
 * Won

Mo Awards
The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards, commonly known as the Mo Awards, were annual entertainment industry awards held from 1975 to 2016 which recognised achievements in live entertainment in Australia. Shorrock won an award in 2015. (wins only)
 * 2015
 * Glenn Shorrock
 * Hall of Fame
 * inducted
 * inducted

Sources and further reading

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New Barbuda Development Movement

New Barbuda Development Movement is a political party in Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda. NBDM was an offshoot of the Antigua Labour Party. The party contested the March 1997 elections to the Barbuda Council, but won no seats (Barbuda People's Movement won all seats).

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Acacia tetragonophylla

Acacia tetragonophylla, commonly known as curara, kurara or dead finish, is a tree in the family Fabaceae that is endemic to arid and semi-arid parts of central and western Australia.

Description
Curara grows as a tall shrub or small tree up to a height of 1.5 to 5 m and has an intricate and often straggly habit with glabrous branchlets. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are slender and needle-like with a length of 1 to 5 cm and a width of 1 mm. When young they are soft and pliable, but as they mature they become hard, rigid and very sharp. The glabrous phyllodes are formed in groups of two to six on dwarf, knotty and lateral branchlets or singly on new shoots. The phyllodes have a slender linear shape ending in a sharp point and are mostly pentagonal to compressed in cross-section with five to seven prominent nerves. In Western Australia it blooms between May and October producing yellow flowers. The flowers are yellow, and held in spherical clusters. The pods are papery, up to eight centimetres long and about five millimetres wide.

Distribution
It occurs on floodplains and along watercourses in arid and semi-arid areas throughout Western Australia, South Australia, southern Northern Territory, and east to near Charleville, Queensland and Brewarrina, New South Wales and is known to grow in a variety of habitats and soil types. In Western Australia it is found in the Pilbara, Gascoyne, Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions.

Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1863 as part of the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. It was reclassified as Racosperma tetragonophyllum by Leslie Pedley in 2003 then transferred back to genus Acacia in 2006. It is often confused with Acacia sphacelata.

Uses
Aboriginal people in Central Australia collect the seeds to make seedcakes. Its name in Pitjantjajara is Wakalpuka.

Acacia tetragonophylla can be used to treat warts. "'A number of [Acacia tetragonophylla] phyllodes may be inserted into the wart, the main part then being broken off to leave the apices embedded in the wart. After four or five days the wart has shrivelled and may be removed easily.'"

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Kurara

Kurara is a town and a nagar panchayat in Hamirpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Demographics
India census, Kurara had a population of 13,408. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Kurara has an average literacy rate of 83.89%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 90.56%, and female literacy is 72.23%. In Kurara, 12.60% of the population is under 6 years of age. In Kurara (NP), most of the (NP)rs are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 38.24% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.10% of total population in Kurara (NP).

Out of total population, 4,205 were engaged in work or business activity. Of this 3,607 were males while 598 were females. In census survey, worker is defined as person who does business, job, service, and cultivator and labour activity. Of total 4205 working population, 69.77% were engaged in Main Work while 30.23% of total workers were engaged in Marginal Work. A huge jungle of thorny trees like babool also there in jamuna belt

Kurara is also known as a centre for Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Gaytri Parivaar in Hamirpur District. Bhuiyan Rani Mandir is also situated at Jalokhar(Kurara).

General

 * Seismicity: No earthquake has been observed in the district during the last 200 years. The district has experienced a few earthquakes originating in the Himalayan boundary fault zone, the Moradabad fault and the Narmada Tapti fault zones.
 * Climate: The climate of the district is characterised by an intensely hot summer, and a pleasant cold season. The summer season from March to about middle of June is followed by the south-west monsoon season from mid-June to the end of September. October and first half of November constitute the post-monsoon period. The cold season is from mid-November to February.
 * Temperature: May and the beginning of June are generally the hottest period of the year and maximum temperature in May is about 43 °C and minimum about 28 °C. The heat during the summer is intense. The maximum temperature on individual days sometimes reaches 48 °C or more. During the cold season minimum temperature sometimes drops down to about 2 or 3 °C.

History
Early on, Kurara was known for his bravery and courage It is said that Raja Hamirdev, King of Hamirpur Raja Hamiir dev was enmeshed in a very Revalian war and asked the Gaur Thakurs of Kurara for help and with their help won that war. A Vijay Pataka (Jhanda) was given by the king as a symbol of victory to Gaur Thakurs of Kurara and from that day onwards every year on the day after holi a Vijay Pataka and a Rath of Lord Ram and Lakshamana with many other jhankiis are transported from Ramlila Maidan to Jhanda Talab, followed by a crowd celebrating the king's victory.

During British colonial rule Kurara served as a staying point of British officials in the area as the Kothi, or rest house, built by them is still here and currently is in use by the irrigation department.

Schools
1 Dr. V.N. Singh Bundelkhad Education Academy Kurara 2. Bharti Shishu mandir poorv madhymik vidhyalay 3. Jagannath Vidya mandir 4. Gurukulam Public School 5. Shri Ram Krishna Mahavidyalaya 6. Sanskrita Mahavidhyalaya 7. Shri Naubhara Mahavidhyalaya 8. Govt. Inter College 9. Kasturba inter college 10. Vidya Mandir Junior High School 11. Shri Bhuri Devi Mahila Mahavidhyala 12. Bal vidya mandir kurara 13. Saraswati Shishu mandir Kurara 14. R.N Gurukulam 15. Mirabai Junior high school Kurara 16. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Inter college 17. Jankpuri high convent 18. Hans Vahini Gyan Mandir English school beri road

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=Reflections on Wikipedia=

At first, I was excited to see Wikipedia grow as a wonderful constructivist collection of human knowledge. But in recent weeks, I have seen some self styled perfectionists (Scalper, and Madcoverboy to name two) with ill-conceived and inappropriate excuses.

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C. Howard Crane

Charles Howard Crane (August 13, 1885 – August 14, 1952) was an American architect who was primarily active in Detroit, Michigan. His designs include Detroit's Fox Theatre and Olympia Stadium, as well as LeVeque Tower in Columbus, Ohio, which remains that city's second tallest building.

Biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Crane moved to Detroit in 1904. He worked as a draftsman for several architectural firms, including Albert Kahn Associates, Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, and the office of Gustave A. Mueller, before opening his own office in 1908.

Like Thomas W. Lamb and John Eberson, Crane specialized in the design of movie palaces in North America. Crane's career would include some 250 theaters in total, with 62 of them in the Detroit area. His 5174-seat Detroit Fox Theatre was the largest of the Fox Theatres. The 4,500 seat Fox Theatre in St. Louis was its slightly smaller architectural near twin. These were considered to have been his architectural masterpieces. Among the five massive Fox theatres, Crane also designed the Brooklyn Fox (4,088 seats, razed).

Crane also designed Olympia Stadium (Detroit Olympia), which eventually had seating for 13,375 plus standing room for 3,300. Olympia, used by the Detroit Red Wings, was razed in 1987.

Crane also designed many office buildings. Most of his many downtown Detroit movie palaces had attached office towers that he designed (the Fox, United Artists, State, Capitol). However, Crane's office tower masterpiece is the 47 story 555 ft. tall LeVeque Tower in Columbus, Ohio.

Due to the 1929 Great Depression, Crane's theatre and office building commissions dried up. He became disillusioned and in 1930 moved to London, England, although he kept his Detroit office open for many years after moving. Crane designed many cinemas across Britain, but in much tamer designs than his American movie palaces.

Crane's most famous U.K. commission was Earls Court Exhibition Centre, an Art Moderne convention center that opened in 1937. It closed in 2014 and was demolished between 2015 and 2017.

Crane returned to visit Detroit once or twice a year until World War II. He then remained in London, where he died and was buried in 1952. His namesake descendants (C. Howard Crane III, et al.) now live in the Detroit area.

Crane-designed buildings

 * All buildings are located in Detroit, unless otherwise indicated.

 * Majestic Theatre, 1915
 * Liberty/Paramount Theatre, Youngstown, Ohio, 1918
 * The Metropolitan, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1919
 * Orchestra Hall, 1919
 * Old Walkerville Theatre, Walkerville, Ontario, Canada, 1920
 * Macomb Music Theatre, Mount Clemens, Michigan, 1921
 * Palace Theatre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1921
 * Virginia Theatre, Champaign, Illinois, 1921
 * Detroit Opera House, 1922
 * Temple Beth-El conversion to theatre, 1922
 * World Theater, Omaha, Nebraska, 1922, renamed in 1935 to Omaha Theater, razed in 1980
 * Detroit Institute of Arts (as consulting architect), 1923–27
 * Lafayette Building, 1923 (razed, 2010)
 * Warner Theatre (formerly the Earle Theatre), Washington, D.C., 1924
 * August Wilson Theatre (formerly the Guild Theatre and the Virginia Theatre), New York City, 1925
 * The Fillmore Detroit (formerly the State Theatre), 1925
 * Film Exchange Building, 1926
 * Detroit Olympia, 1927 (home to the Detroit Red Wings until 1979; razed, 1987)
 * United Artists Theater, Los Angeles, 1927
 * LeVeque Tower, Columbus, Ohio, 1927
 * United Artists Theatre Building, 1928
 * Fox Theatre, 1928
 * Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 1929
 * Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England, 1937 (demolished 2014)
 * Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd headquarters, Brooklands, Weybridge, England, 1938

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Alawa people

The Alawa people are an Indigenous Australian people from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The suburb of Alawa in the Darwin's north, is named in their honour.

Language
The Alawa language is a non Pama-Nyungan language, classified by Jeffrey Heath as one of three of a subgroup, together with Marra and Warndarang, though this is now contested. It had only 18 speakers in a report dated 1991 (Ethnologue). That number was reduced to 12 by 2013. The speakers of Alawa are mainly adults, and most of the Alawa speak Kriol, though there are Alawa language revival efforts at the Minyerri School in the Alawa community.

Country
Traditional Alawa territory covered some 1,600 mi2 and extended from the southern tributaries of the Roper River upstream from the mouth of the Hodgson River west to Roper valley; south to Mason Bluff (Mount Mueller) and Hodgson Downs; east to the headwaters of Mountain Creek.

Lifestyle
The traditional lifestyle of the Alawa consisted of harvesting and hunting the abundant food resources provided by their land, which was rich in species of turtle, duck, crocodiles and fish. They had a technique of conserving foods for considerable periods. Norman Tindale was shown in 1922 a refuge cave they maintained at Mountain Creek well stocked with buried stores of water lily seeds, and roots, which were first sun-dried, then rubbed with red ochre before being wrapped and packed in paperbark sheets. After the loss of their lands they specialized in working as jackaroos on pastoral stations.

History
The Alawa tribe, like many others in the Roper River region, were hunted down in an extermination policy developed by the pastoral company that took over the Hodgson Downs in 1903, and remnants took refuge from the killing teams by seeking the protection of pastoralists who would employ them, or on church missions.

Native title
Together with the Ngandji people, the descendants of the Alawa have laid a native title claim to the Cox River block.

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Mercedes-Benz Fintail

Mercedes-Benz Fintail (Heckflosse) is a nickname for saloon cars of the W110, W111, and W112 series produced by Mercedes from 1959 to 1968. These replaced the Ponton-series saloon cars introduced in 1953.

These series' modest tailfin-era styling reflected the US-led trend. In Mercedes terminology, the short rear fins were designated Peilstege (lit. 'bearing bars', from ‘take a bearing, find the direction’ +   ‘bar’),  parking aids which marked the end of the car for aid in backing.

The production series included:
 * Four-cylinder saloon cars
 * 1961–68 Mercedes-Benz W110 — 190c, 190Dc (1961–65), 200, 200D, 230 (1961–65)
 * Six-cylinder saloon cars
 * 1959–68 Mercedes-Benz W111 — 220b, 220Sb, 220SEb, 230S
 * 1961–65 Mercedes-Benz W112 — 300SE

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Scicli

Scicli is a town and municipality in the Province of Ragusa in the south east of Sicily, southern Italy. It is 25 km from Ragusa, and 188 km from Palermo, and has a population (2017) of 27,051. Alongside seven other cities in the Val di Noto, it has been listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

The municipality borders with Modica and Ragusa.

History
Settlements of the area of Scicli dates back to the Copper and Early Bronze Ages (3rd millennium BC to the 15th century BC).

Scicli was founded by the Sicels (whence probably the name) around 300 BC.

In 864 AD, Scicli was conquered by the Arabs, as part of the Muslim conquest of Sicily. Under their rule it flourished as an agricultural and trade center. According to geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, "shipping reached Scicli in Sicily from Calabria, Africa, Malta and many other places."

In 1091, it was conquered from the Arabs by the Normans, under Roger I of Hauteville, after a fierce battle. Scicli was one of the garrison which rebelled against the Angevine domination in the Sicilian Vespers (April 5, 1282). The ruling Aragonese-Spanish kings formed the County of Modica and initially placed it under the rule of the Chiaramonte family. From there it became a feud of the Cabrera family until nearly the mid-18th century. A number of counts from the House of Alba nominally held possession until the county the Kingdom of Italy in the mid 19th century.

Following a catastrophic earthquake in 1693, much of the town was rebuilt in the Sicilian baroque style, which today gives the town the elegant appearance which draws many tourists to visit it.

Main sights

 * San Matteo: this was the local "mother church'' of the town until 1874. It is located on the eponymous hill in the old city, where there is also the ruin of an Arab/Norman castle.
 * Santa Maria la Nova: church with a large Neoclassic façade. The interior houses a cypress-wood statue of Madonna della Pietà, probably of Byzantine origin.
 * San Bartolomeo baroque church
 * Sant'Ignazio (Mother Church of St Ignatius of Loyola), houses the highly venerated image of Madonna dei Milìci (see Culture section).
 * San Michele Arcangelo
 * Palazzo Fava, one of the first and largest Baroque palaces in the town. Notable are the late-Baroque decorations of the portal and the balconies, especially the one on the Via San Bartolomeo.
 * The Town Hall, the Palazzo Spadaro and the Palazzo Beneventano, all boast Baroque decorations.

Culture
Scicli is frequently used as a film set, most recently for Marco Bellocchio's Il regista dei matrimoni and is popular in Italy as the location of the police station (Commissariato) of Il Commissario Montalbano, the popular television series broadcast by RAI.

The town is also notable for its religious processions which includes "Presepe" (nativity scenes) enacted in the caves surrounding the city at Christmas time. These caves, known as the Chiarafura caves, were dug out in the tuff cliffs, and some were inhabited by the local poor as recently as 1958.

At Easter, the town celebrates with the "Uomo Vivo" parade which involves a long religious procession through the city. A decorated horse parade takes place in March, from Scicli to the neighbouring town of Donnalucata. The most spectacular religious festival, the A Maronna i Milici occurs in May, commemorating the appearance of the Madonna on a white horse holding aloft a sword, described as "probably...the only armed Holy Virgin in the world." This encouraged the Christian Normans to defeat the Saracens in 1091. However, the story itself is believed to have been first promoted no earlier than the 15th century.

Economy
The economy of Scicli is mostly agricultural, and the area is renowned for its many greenhouses producing the primizie ("early fruits") that are exported all over Italy.

Sport
The local association football club is the U.P.D. Scicli; and the futsal club is the Pro Scicli, that also played in Serie A. The town plays host to an annual road running race, Memorial Peppe Greco, which traces its route through the city centre.

Transport
Scicli has a railway station on the Canicattì-Gela-Ragusa-Syracuse line. Another station serves the frazione of Sampieri.

The town will be served by the planned extension, to Ragusa and Gela, of the A18 motorway.

People

 * Giuseppe Drago (1955–2016), physician and politician, President of Sicily in 1998
 * Severino Santiapichi (1926–2016), magistrate and writer

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Bishopsgate Institute

Bishopsgate Institute is a cultural institute in the Bishopsgate Without area of the City of London, located near Liverpool Street station and Spitalfields market. The institute was established in 1895. It offers a cultural events programme, courses for adults, historic library and archive collections and community programme.

History
The Grade II* listed building was the first of the three major buildings designed by architect Charles Harrison Townsend (1851–1928). The other two are the nearby Whitechapel Gallery and the Horniman Museum in south London. His work combined elements of the Arts and Crafts movement and Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style), along with the typically Victorian.

Since opening on New Year's Day 1895, the Bishopsgate Institute has been a centre for culture and learning.

The original aims of the institute were to provide a public library, public hall and meeting rooms for people living and working in the City of London. The Great Hall, in particular, was erected for the benefit of the public to promote lectures, exhibitions and otherwise the advancement literature, science and the fine arts.

The Bishopsgate Institute was built using funds from charitable endowments made to the parish of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate. These had been collected by the parish for over a period of 500 years, but a scheme agreed by the Charity Commissioners in 1891 enabled these to be drawn together into one endowment. Reverend William Rogers (1819–1896), rector of St Botolph's and a notable educational reformer and supporter of free libraries, was instrumental in setting up the institute and ensuring that the original charitable aims were met.

Bishopsgate Library
Bishopsgate Library is a free, independent library, open every weekday and late night on Wednesdays.

The Special Collections and Archives beneath the library hold important historical collections about London, the labour movement, free thought and co-operative movements, as well as the history of protest and campaigning.

There are over 250,000 images in the collections – including the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) Glass Slide Collection, the London Co-operative Society and the London Collection Digital Photographs – as well as ephemera, papers, publications and letters. They have shared some of their images from LAMAS in 1977 on Historypin. This collection contains images of many of London's famous landmarks, including churches, statues, open spaces and buildings, as well as images showing social and cultural scenes from the early 20th century.

Its librarian between 1897 and 1941 was Charles Goss, who argued against the trend to create open access libraries and innovated descriptive cataloguing to improve closed access discovery. His papers are held at the institute's archive. He established their special collections in London history, labour history, free-thought and humanism.

The library hosts the Great Diary Project, founded by Dr Irving Finkel, which by 2020 had collected more than 9,000 unpublished diaries.

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CyKey

CyKey (pronounced "sai-ki" or "psyche") is a one-handed chorded keyboard, catering to both left- and right-handed users. It features nine keys, grouped into three sets of three.

CyKey was introduced in 1996 by Bellaire Electronics. It was a follow-on to the Microwriter, meant to be used with personal computers and Palm PDAs. It was named after Cy Endfield, co-inventor of the Microwriter.

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User talk:William Idol

Idol, William, (Professor of genetics at Rolland Universtiy, MA) Ph.d in Political Science and Animalia sciences.

Contrary to Popular Belief, the Avian Bird Flu is not as severe as everyone thinks. In Fact, Avian Influenza is a complete and utter myth. Bird Flu is a complete falacy produced by certain governments, specifically Eastern Asian countries. Proof exists that this flu was thought up durring a secret meeting of Embassadors. By starting this "disease", they completely put the world's focus on themselves. China's gains are massive. By recognizing that this "disease" exists, one would be fanning the flames of communism, turning China into the world super-power that it is already been feared of becoming.

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Great Southern Rail Trail

The Great Southern Rail Trail is a 109-kilometre rail trail from Nyora to Welshpool in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Sections of the trail are flat or gently undulating trail through lush dairy farmland, areas of remnant bush and lowland scrub. There is a big climb on the section between Loch and Leongatha. The section between Fish Creek and Foster climbs past Mount Hoddle and goes through dense forest with occasional magnificent views of Wilsons Promontory and Corner Inlet.

The trail is well maintained with a surface of compacted gravel. Koalas, Wombats, wallabies and Echidnas can often be seen from the trail particularly in the early mornings and evenings.

The 10km Toora to Welshpool section was opened on 7 February 2015. The section from Koonwarra to Minns road was opened in March 2016, incorporating what had been three very dilapidated wooden trestle bridges and replacing a three-kilometre diversion to the nearby South Gippsland Highway. That made the trail continuous from Leongatha to Welshpool, and users can link to the 6km pathway to Port Welshpool and its picturesque Long Jetty.

Two trestle bridges north of Loch were surfaced in late 2022. That completed the trail between Nyora and Loch, bringing the total trail length from Nyora to Welshpool to 107km.

The trail is being progressively extended and is planned to eventually reach Port Albert and Yarram.

History
The original South Gippsland line opened in 1892, joining Dandenong to Port Albert, with branch line to Woodside, Strzelecki, Outtrim and Wonthaggi. The railway was important for the settlement and development of the area, particularly providing transport for forestry and dairy products to Melbourne.

The line was closed to all rail traffic on 30 June 1992, a century after opening, when rail freight services to the Esso Mobil Barry Beach Marine Terminal, situated on Corner Inlet, ceased operation. Almost two weeks prior, on 17 June 1992, superphosphate rail freight services along the line to Buffalo ceased, which was the last 'mixed goods service' in the region and a distinctive feature of the line during its existence.

The line beyond Leongatha, to Yarram and Barry Beach, was dismantled in stages until 14 December 1994, when a V/Line 'rail recovery' train removed the last of the tracks, which were subsequently reused for the Melbourne to Adelaide railway line gauge standardisation project throughout 1995. The same day also saw the closure of the South Gippsland railway line from Nyora to Leongatha, but, two weeks later, that section of the line was reopened by the South Gippsland Railway tourist railway, which operated heritage rail services until December 2015.

The establishment of the South Gippsland Railway, and the electrification of the Cranbourne line in March 1995, thwarted the original plan by the Victorian state government to dismantle the entire line as far back as Cranbourne. The South Gippsland Railway formally ceased operations on 16 January 2016.

Nyora to Leongatha via Korumburra
Construction of sections of the trail from Nyora to Leongatha are in progress in 2021.

The following sections were open as at November 2021:
 * Trail through Leongatha
 * Leongatha to Lows Road
 * O’Neills Road to Korumburra
 * Trail through Korumburra
 * Bena to Loch
 * Berrys Road to Nyora

In late 2022 two high trestle bridges north of Loch (over Allsop Creek and the Bass River) were surfaced which completed the trail between Nyora and Loch.

The section from Korumburra to Leongatha was completed in April 2022.

Leongatha to Koonwarra (8km)
Leongatha is located in the foothills of South Gippsland's Strzelecki Ranges with a population around 5,000. The trail passes through wide-open spaces of lush dairy country before entering teatree and eucalypt bushland near Koonwarra.

Koonwarra to Minns Rd (3km)
Incorporating a new section of trail covering three old wooden trestle bridges. The path winds its way around hills and over river flats with wonderful views of the local area.

Minns Rd to Meeniyan (6km)
This is a fairly rough section of the track, and there is an old timber bridge alongside the new bridge over the Tarwin River near Meeniyan.

Meeniyan to Foster, via Buffalo and Fish Creek (32km)
This section of the trail has a fine gravel surface and passes through bushland, swamp scrub and lowland forest. There is abundant local wildlife; kangaroos, wallabies and bird life thrive in this area. At the foothills of the Hoddle Range, there are steeper parts of the trail and a number of cuttings and embankments.
 * Meeniyan to Stony Creek (3.5 km)
 * Stony Creek to Buffalo (8 km)
 * Buffalo to Fish Creek (8 km)
 * Fish Creek to Lowrys Rd (5 km)
 * Lowrys Rd to Foster (7.5 km)

The quirky town of Fish Creek has a strong arts scene and plenty of options to eat and restock supplies. There is a climb from Fish Creek to Hoddle Summit where there are views over Corner Inlet and Wilsons Promontory from the peak.

Foster is a small regional town but caters well for visitors and there are plenty of accommodation options.

Foster to Welshpool (18km)

 * Foster to Charity Lane (1 km)
 * Charity Lane to Toora (7 km)
 * Toora to Welshpool (10 km)

Welshpool to Port Welshpool connecting trail (5 km)
A trail connects Welshpool with Port Welshpool on the coast. The trail is initially an off-road bike path, then joins a quiet unsealed road which follows the alignment of the former horse-drawn Port Welshpool Tramway. Port Welshpool has views of Corner Inlet, Snake Island and the northern section of Wilsons Promontory National Park, and the Port Welshpool Long Jetty.

Welshpool to Alberton
Funding for the extension of a section of the trail from Welshpool to Alberton was announced on 7 July 2021.

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Acacia subtessarogona

Acacia subtessarogona, commonly known as spreading gidgee, is a tree in the family Fabaceae and the subgenus Juliflorae that is native to a small area in western Australia.

Description
Spreading gidgee grows as an upright tree to a height of up to 8 m and has ribbed branchlets that are densely hired between each of the ribs. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are flat, curved, and have a length of about 7 to 13 cm and a width of 4 to 9 mm and have longitudinal striations. When it between July and October it produces simple inflorescences that occur in groups of one to five in the axils on 4 to 8 mm long stalks. The flower-heads are a short cylindrical shape with a length of 6 to 12 mm and densely packed with yellow flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering have a length of 6 to 12 cm with a distinctive groove along each edge. The seeds insode are 5 to 6.5 mm long and have an obloid shape.

Distribution
Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs only in a small area of the Gascoyne River catchment near Carnarvon with outlying population near Wiluna. It is often found situated in low-lying area, along creeklines or on rocky ground growing in red loamy soils and is commonly associated with Acacia sclerosperma and Acacia tetragonophylla and sometimes with Acacia ancistrocarpa.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Can You Spare a Dime?

 * 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 (no consensus). Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:38, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Can You Spare a Dime?
This afd nomination was incomplete. Listing now. Apparently a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, so keep and cleanup. —Cryptic (talk) 13:05, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep emerging consensus is generally to keep TV episodes. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 16:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep TV episodes per wiki is not paper. Kappa 18:04, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Very poor summery of an unnotable episode, that doesn't need it's own private page. A list of episodes would be enough. Coolgamer 18:59, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Create List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes and then merge this there. --Angr/undefined 07:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep tv episode. Xoloz 15:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Start from scratch. Gamaliel 18:26, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, tv episodes are notable. Meelar (talk) 18:42, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I just re-wrote it, it's better now.
 * Delete. Neutralitytalk 04:16, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:193.108.73.47

January 2019
Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Birth flower— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 14:38, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Praxidicae (talk) 15:58, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Microsoft

Microsoft
There's a lot of history behind this - for those who want to check my early edits - you'll see I made a rant last march on the talk page about how biased it was etc.. Well, of course as one might guess nothing happened for months, so for the past months I've been working countless hours bringing it up bit by bit to featured standard, and I think its finally there.

Well, and for the article itself, its an extremely comprehensive article on the controversial company that everyone loves to hate, otherwise known as Microsoft. Its written in a painstakingly NPOV manner, and was written, well, pretty much by me (with copyedit assistance from Wayward and random tidbits added mostly by anons :)) - there isn't really anything at all left over from the version from march, sans the business culture stuff. Its surprisingly stable given the subject matter, and I'd like to think the writing is good on it as its probably the best I can do.

The peer reviews are here(2nd) and here(1st). Hopefully the comments on those are resolved. Anyway, any comments etc. appreciated :).

Ryan Norton T 13:05, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Ryan Norton T 01:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Was about to support, but I found a minor quibble: the facts & trivia section shouldn't be there, especially given its shortness and its only content being a two-bullet point list. The puzzle hunt could be moved to business culture, and the home computer system...well, I'm sure there must be some place for MSX in there. (Or maybe not? After all, it's already quite crowded.) Johnleemk | Talk 14:37, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I merged them into the appropriate places. In truth though the MSX thing was so minor to microsoft that they don't even mention it in their own timeline- maybe it should be just listed in see also instead? Currently merged in the history section. Ryan Norton T 21:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: From first glances and fleeting scans it seems like a good, supportable article - I should be able to tell you either way if I get round to reading it tonight. Perhaps one odd point is that there are no pictures of any of the "key people" (Bill Gates seems like the logical choice) or any of its products (Windows XP perhaps? X-box?) except the blue screen of death... The current photos are good but I would consider a corporations key people and products an important item as a picture. --Oldak Quill 14:58, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, the problem is that none of those photos are "free" and would have to be fair use.... Ryan Norton T 21:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I think fair use is quite justifiable in this instance. 14:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair use would be fine for this article. Microsoft as an entity can only be put into image form by using pictures of its key people, key products, or maybe headquarters. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-10-15 22:32
 * Nothing on their videogame system in the 2000-2005 when it played a large part in their effort to win the livingroom "war".
 * Well, it is mentioned in the product divisions section (perhaps it deserves a brief mention in the history section as well? I'm not sure if its "major" enough though - what do others think?).
 * It was their first major entry into the hardware buisness.I don't know but the history section misses something about their hardware stuff and their effort to diversify.
 * Support it looks good, I added in the Xbox photo and the MSN homepage to illustrate their sections, I believe it would be nice if an MCP/MCSE would scan/photograph their card/certificate for the article... but other than that I think its good.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 00:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * There are a couple fo pics of Gates on the commons.--nixie 01:48, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment: "A great deal of time and money is spent each year on recruiting young university-trained software developers who meet very exacting criteria" —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 04:03, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure, I mean take a look at or  for an example of an "interview" there for the kind of criteria they want. I suppose maybe it could give an example or reword a bit though. Ryan Norton T 04:44, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Support—Good article; the plethora of useless links has been pruned, making it much easier to read, and focusing readers on the many high-value links. Tony 04:30, 19 October 2005 (UTC) PS Can the photo of the Indian headquarters be shifted up to the end of the previous section, where it's mentioned in the text?


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Talk:Sacred Books of the East

So when it says "Vedic hymns" does that mean the Vedas themselves? --Tydaj 13:06, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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George Morikami

Sukeji "George" Morikami (November 4, 1886 – February 29, 1976) was a Japanese immigrant to the United States who farmed in Palm Beach County, Florida, for more than 65 years. He donated his 200 acres (80 hectares) of farm land to Palm Beach County in 1973.

Morikami was born in Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan. He was 19 years old when he immigrated to the United States on May 3, 1906, to join the Yamato Colony, a Japanese farming community in what is now Boca Raton, Florida. He paid $150 and was indentured for three years in return for his passage to America and spending money. He was to receive $500 and some land at the end of the three years. He intended to take the money and return to Japan. However, Morikami's sponsor died in 1906, and he did not receive any cash or land, and was unable to return to Japan.

Although the Yamato Colony ultimately failed, George Morikami stayed on and eventually prospered. He and other remaining Yamato colonists had their land seized by the United States as the U.S. entered World War II, when their land was taken to create an Army Air Corps training base (see also: Boca Raton Airport). Near the end of the war, Morikami bought land in Delray Beach, Florida, and he would farm it for almost 30 years.

He died at age 89 in 1976, a year after the groundbreaking for Morikami Park, a county park built on the land he donated to Palm Beach County. His ashes were eventually returned to Miyazu. There is a monument to him in the Japanese gardens in the park. Delray Beach is a sister city to Miyazu in honor of George Morikami.

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British National Formulary for Children

BNF for Children (BNFC) is the standard UK paediatric reference for prescribing and pharmacology.

It contains a wide range of information and advice on prescribing for children - from newborn to adolescence. The entries are classified by group of drug, giving cautions for use, side effects, indications and dose for most of the drugs available for children in the UK National Health Service. It also includes information on the unlicensed uses of certain drugs. Though published in and for the United Kingdom, the vast bulk of the clinical information will apply in any country.

Authorship and Publication
The BNFC is jointly published annually by BMJ (owned by the BMA), Pharmaceutical Press (owned by the RPS), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group. The principal contributors are acknowledged in the front pages.

It is overseen by the BNFC Paediatric Formulary Committee and edited by a team of pharmacists.

History
The BNF for Children developed from the British National Formulary (BNF), which prior to 2005 had provided information on the treatment of children, with the doses largely determined by calculations based on the body weight of the child. The guidance was provided by pharmacists and doctors whose expertise was in the care of adults.

This was an anomaly, as in relation to responses to medicines, the difference between a newborn and a sixteen-year-old is greater than the difference between a sixteen-year-old and a sixty-year-old. Starting in 2002, Prof Martin Kendall, then chairman of the BNF Joint Formulary Committee worked to get things changed.

The UK Department of Health (now the DHSC) agreed to fund the BNFC, as it does the BNF, to ensure that NHS clinicians can have up-to-date information in their pockets.

The first edition was published in 2005, with George Rylance chairing the Paediatric Formulary Committee and Dinesh Mehta as the first executive editor. Anne, the Princess Royal attended the launch on 14 July.

Editions
The BNFC is published annually, but electronic updates are produced monthly. The current 2022-2023 edition was published in September 2022.

Availability
Though not aimed at the general public, the BNFC, like the BNF, is available for purchase.

It is provided to NHS staff - usually through their employer, but may be accessed online through MedicinesComplete.

The app is available through the usual app stores.

Contents

 * How BNF publications are constructed
 * How to use BNF Publications in print
 * Changes
 * Guidance on Prescribing
 * Prescription writing
 * Supply of medicines
 * Emergency supply of medicines
 * Controlled drugs and drug dependence
 * Adverse reactions to drugs
 * Guidance on intravenous infusions
 * Prescribing in hepatic impairment
 * Prescribing in renal impairment
 * Prescribing in pregnancy
 * Prescribing in breast-feeding
 * Prescribing in palliative care
 * Drugs and sport
 * Medicines optimisation
 * Antimicrobial stewardship
 * Prescribing in dental practice
 * NOTES ON DRUGS AND PREPARATIONS
 * 1 Gastro-intestinal system
 * 2 Cardiovascular system
 * 3 Respiratory system
 * 4 Nervous system
 * 5 Infection
 * 6 Endocrine system
 * 7 Genito-urinary system
 * 8 Immune system and malignant disease
 * 9 Blood and nutrition
 * 10 Musculoskeletal system
 * 11 Eye
 * 12 Ear, nose and oropharynx
 * 13 Skin
 * 14 Vaccines
 * 15 Anaesthesia
 * 16 Emergency treatment of poisoning
 * APPENDICES AND INDICES
 * Interactions
 * Borderline substances
 * Cautionary and advisory labels for dispensed medicines
 * Dental Practitioners’ Formulary
 * Nurse Prescribers’ Formulary
 * Non-medical prescribing
 * Index of manufacturers
 * Special-order Manufacturers
 * Index
 * Medical emergencies in the community

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Carl Gustav Jablonsky

Carl Gustav Jablonsky (1756 – 25 May 1787) was a Berlin naturalist, entomologist and illustrator. He was also the private secretary to the Queen of Prussia, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern. He died at the age of 31. He willed his works to his colleague, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, who became a naturalist and entomologist. Jablonsky's Natursystem is one of the first attempts at a complete survey of the order Coleoptera.

Works
With Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, ''Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten, als eine Fortzetsung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte. Nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet: Käfer''

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pakistan Earthquake Casualties List

 * 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. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:30, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Pakistan Earthquake Casualties List
I'm not quite sure where this belongs. It should be somewhere, yes, but not on Wikipedia. Any suggestions? DS 13:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Reluctant delete. You're talking about a list that could in theory exceed 40,000 names. Unmaintainable. Also the current wording seems to suggest POV and that the creator is trying to start some sort of victim blog which violates WP:NOT. 23skidoo 13:52, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. WP:NOT a memorial. --Last Malthusian 14:31, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per 23skidoo. *drew 16:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a memorial. --Carnildo 22:32, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Respectfully Delete. There is also a practical reason to delete: we simply cannot verify the names in this list, and the risk of error is high. An official/Ngo website would be a good place for such a list. --Vsion 23:15, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WP is not a memorial, and there is an incredible verifiability problem also. Xoloz 15:36, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. While the seriousness of the topic makes it more than listcruft, unlike List of red-haired British surgeons or whatever, it clearly cannot be a Wikipedia article. MCB 22:01, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Paul Morgan (engineer)

Paul Jonathan Morgan (29 July 1948 – 12 May 2001) was a British engineer who co-founded Ilmor Engineering with Mario Illien in 1983. Ilmor had major successes providing engines for motorsport and won three Queen's Awards for Export Achievement. He was killed in a plane crash at Sywell, Northamptonshire on 12 May 2001.

Morgan was an engineer at Cosworth from 1970 to 1983. In 1983 he left Cosworth to form Ilmor with fellow engineer Mario Illien. Ilmor was set up with backing from Roger Penske and achieved its first race win powering Mario Andretti's Lola at the Long Beach Grand Prix. In 1989, Morgan and Illien decided to enter Formula One.

Paul Morgan was killed instantly when his Hawker Sea Fury overturned on landing. David Coulthard won the the day after Morgan's death in a Mercedes-Ilmor powered McLaren. Coulthard opted not to participate in the traditional champagne celebration as a mark of respect.

Morgan's widow reduced her shareholding of Ilmor in 2002, selling 10% to DaimlerChrysler. In 2005,

DaimlerChrysler acquired all the remaining shares from Mrs. Morgan, Mario Illien, and Roger Penske.

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Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg

Felix Ludwig Johann Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg (Felix Ludwig Johann Friedrich Prinz zu Schwarzenberg; Felix Ludvík Jan Bedřich princ ze Schwarzenbergu; 2 October 1800 – 5 April 1852) was a Bohemian nobleman and an Austrian statesman who restored the Austrian Empire as a European great power following the Revolutions of 1848. He served as Minister-President of the Austrian Empire and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire from 1848 to 1852.

Life
Felix was born at Český Krumlov Castle (Böhmisch Krumau) in Bohemia, the second son of Prince Joseph of Schwarzenberg (1769–1833) and his wife Pauline of Arenberg. The House of Schwarzenberg was one of the most influential Bohemian noble families; his elder brother Prince Johann Adolf II of Schwarzenberg later initiated the building of the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway line from Vienna to Plzeň (Pilsen), while Felix' younger brother Frederick became Archbishop of Salzburg in 1835 and Archbishop of Prague in 1849.

The nephew of Prince Karl Philipp of Schwarzenberg (1771–1820), commander of the Austrian armies in the last phases of the Napoleonic wars, Schwarzenberg after a short military interlude entered the diplomatic service, where he became a protégé of State Chancellor Prince Klemens von Metternich and served in several Austrian embassies at Saint Petersburg, London, Paris, Turin, and Naples. During his time as a London attaché in 1828 he had an affair with Jane Digby, whom he deserted after causing her then-husband – Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough – to divorce her, and making her pregnant. This episode led to the nickname of "Prince of Cadland" being applied to him in London.

Upon the outbreak of the 1848 Revolutions, he rushed to the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia to join Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky defeating the Italian rebel forces of King Charles Albert of Sardinia in Milan. For his role as a close advisor to Radetzky, as well as his status as brother-in-law to Marshal Prince Alfred of Windisch-Grätz, who had suppressed the Czech "Whitsun Riot" in Prague and the Vienna Uprising in October, Schwarzenberg was appointed Austrian minister-president—the sixth within a year—and foreign minister on 21 November 1848. In these offices, which he both held until his premature death, his first step was to secure the replacement of incapacitated Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria by his nephew Francis Joseph. After heir presumptive Archduke Franz Karl had renounced the succession, Ferdinand abdicated in Olomouc on December 2.

Schwarzenberg formed a new government with conservative politicians like Interior Minister Count Franz von Stadion but also liberal allies like Baron Alexander von Bach, Karl Ludwig von Bruck and Anton von Schmerling as well as the Bohemian federalist Education Minister Count Leopold von Thun und Hohenstein. Learning from Metternich's fate, Schwarzenberg was determined not only to fight, but overcome revolution. Against the perceptions in the Frankfurt Parliament concerning the German question, he advocated the idea of an Austrian-German federation, including all Austrian crown lands in and outside the German Confederation. He delegitimized the Frankfurt assembly by recalling the Austrian delegates and preempted the federalist ideas of the Austrian Kremsier Parliament with the promulgation of the March Constitution in 1849.

Together with the new Emperor, Schwarzenberg called in the Imperial Russian Army to help suppress the Hungarian revolt, and thus give Austria free rein to attempt to thwart Prussia's drive to dominate Germany. He undid democratic reforms and re-established monarchist control in Austria, with the 1849 March Constitution that transformed the Habsburg Empire into a unitary, centralized state. In matters of German dualism, he was able to impose the Punctation of Olmütz on Prussia, forcing it to abandon, for the moment, its plan of unifying Germany under its own auspices, and to acquiesce in the reformation of the old German Confederation. At the same time his government initiated substantial administrative, juridical, and educational reforms.

Schwarzenberg died in office at Vienna, suffering a stroke in the early evening of Monday, April 5, 1852.

Legacy
Schwarzenberg achieved substantial respect in Europe as an able statesman (some called him the "Austrian Bismarck"), although he was not much trusted, even by his emperor. His own statement (or alleged statement: according to historian Edward Crankshaw, it is apocryphal) following the Russian intervention in Hungary, that Austria would "shock the world by the depth of its ingratitude" was bitterly remembered in the Crimean War, a war which had the effect of marring his posthumous reputation. Varying between the ideas of constitutionalism and the revival of an absolute monarchy, Schwarzenberg managed to disappoint both liberal and conservative circles. Nevertheless, his intelligence and powers of application were great; and his sudden death has generally been seen by historians as a grave setback to Austria, given that none of his successors in the emperor's reign possessed his European renown or political skill.

The honorary citizenship of Budapest bestowed on Schwarzenberg during his lifetime was officially revoked in 2011 by the local government under Mayor István Tarlós.

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Mercedes-Benz W111

 * See Mercedes-Benz S-Class for a complete overview of all S-Class models.

The Mercedes-Benz W111 was a chassis code given to a range of Mercedes-Benz vehicles produced between 1959 and 1971, including four-door saloons (1959–1968) and two-door coupés and cabriolets (1961–1971). Their bodywork featured distinctive tailfins that gave the models their Heckflosse nickname — German for "fintail".

Introduced with a 2.2-litre inline 6-cylinder engine, the W111 spawned a pair of variant lines which bracketed it in 1961: downscale entry-level inline 4-cylinder engined vehicles sharing the W111 chassis and bodies, designated the W110; and the W112, a high-end luxury saloon built on the W111 chassis with its body but exclusive features, elaborate appointments, and the Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer's fuel-injected 3-litre M189 six-cylinder engine – at the time the company's largest.

Somewhat confusingly, both the W111 and W112 lines included vehicles with different Paul Bracq-designed bodywork, the 2-door coupé and cabriolet.

Design
Mercedes-Benz emerged from World War II as an automaker in the early 1950s with the expensive 300 Adenauers and exclusive 300 S grand tourers that gained it fame, but it was the simple unibody Pontons which comprised the bulk of the company's revenues.

Work on replacing the Pontons began in 1956 with a design focused on passenger comfort and safety. The basic Ponton cabin was widened and squared off, with a large glass greenhouse improving driver visibility. A milestone in car design were front and rear crumple zones for absorbing kinetic energy on impact. The automaker also patented retractable seatbelts.

Saloon
Series production of the 4-door saloon began in August 1959, which made its debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show in the autumn. Initially the series consisted of the 220b, 220Sb, and 220SEb. These replaced the (W105) 219, the (W180) 220S and the (W128) 220SE Ponton saloons respectively. The 220b was an entry-level version with little chrome trim, simple hubcaps, and basic interior trim that lacked pockets in the doors. Prices were DM16,750, 18,500 and 20,500, with a rough sales ratio of 1:2:1.

All models shared the 2195 cc M127 straight-six engine carried over from the previous generation, producing 95 hp at 4800 rpm and capable of accelerating the heavy car to 160 km/h (155 if fitted with optional automatic gearbox). The 220Sb featured twin carburettors and produced 110 hp at 5000 rpm, raising top speed to 165 km/h (160 km/h) and improving 0–100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration to 15 seconds (16 on the 220b). The top of the range 220SEb featured Bosch fuel injection producing 120 hp at 4800 rpm, with a top speed of 172 km/h (168 km/h for auto) and a 0–100 km/h (62 mph) time of 14 seconds. In 1961, the W111 chassis and body were shared with the even more basic 4-cylinder W110 and a luxury W112 version built on the W111 chassis with its body and the Type 300 series' 3-litre M189 big block 6-cylinder engine, many standard power features, and a high level of interior and exterior trim. The body of the W110 featured a shorter bonnet, compared to the W111.

In May 1965, the 220Sb and 220SEb were replaced by the new 230S. It was visually identical to the 220S, with a modernised 2306 cm3 M180 engine with twin Zenith carburettors producing 120 hp at 5400 rpm. Top speed is 176 km/h (174 km/h for the auto), acceleration from 0-100 km/h (62 mph) is 13 seconds (15 with automatic transmission). As a successor to the 220b, Mercedes-Benz also introduced the 230, with the 2306 cm3 engine fitted into the W110 series car. A total of 41,107 230S models were built through January 1968, when the last of 4-door fintails left the production line.

During its almost ten-year run, a total of 337,803 W111 saloons were built between 1959 and 1968.

Coupé and cabriolet
Design of a replacement for the two-door Pontons began in 1957. Since most of the chassis and drivetrain were to be unified with the saloon, the scope was focused on the exterior styling. Mercedes chose the work of engineer Paul Bracq, which featured a more square, subtle rear-end treatment, more evocative of the later squarish styling of the subsequent W108/W109 than the sharp-edged tailfins of the saloon.

Production began in late 1960, with the coupé making its debut at the 75th anniversary of the opening of Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart in February of the next year. The convertible followed at the Frankfurt Auto Show a few months later. Almost identical to the coupé, its soft-top roof folded into a recess behind the rear seat and was covered by a tightly fitting leather "boot" in the same color as the seats. Unlike the previous generation of two-door ponton series, the 220SE designation was used for both the coupé and convertible; both received the same version of the 2195 cc M127 engine. Prices in 1962 were 32,500 for the coupé and 36,000 Dutch Guilders for the cabriolet. Options included a sliding sunroof for the coupé, automatic transmission, power steering, and individual rear seats.

In March 1962, Mercedes-Benz released the exclusive two-door M189-powered 300SE. Like the 300 saloon, it was based on the W111 chassis but shared both Daimler's top-range 2996 cm3 fuel-injected engine and the unique W112 chassis designation, efforts on Mercedes' part to distance it from the maker's modest W110 and W111 lineups and link it to the prestigious W188 300S two-door luxury sports tourer. It was distinguished by a chrome strip, and featured air suspension and a higher level of interior trim and finish. Prices were 45,000 and 48,500 for the hard and soft roofs respectively.

In the summer of 1965, Mercedes-Benz launched replacements for both W111 and W112 saloons, the W108 and W109 respectively. With the tailfin fashion well eroded by the mid 1960s, the new design was based on the restrained W111 coupé, widened and squared off. Work on a future new chassis that would fully replace the Ponton-derived W111/W112 and W108/W109 was well under way. With a concept car of the first S-Class was shown in 1967, Daimler declined to develop a two-door W108/W109 vehicle, instead continuing production of the aging W111/W112 with modest changes. The 220SE was superseded in early autumn 1965 by the 250SE, which featured the new 2496 cm3 M129 engine. Producing 150 hp at 5500 rpm, it gave the vehicle a significant improvement in top speed, 193 km/h (188 km/h with automatic transmission), and 0–100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration time of 12 seconds (14 with automatic transmission). Visible changes include new 14-inch wheels, which came with new hub cabs and beauty rings accommodating the larger disc brakes and new rear axle from the W108 family.

In November 1967, the 250 SE was superseded by the 280 SE. It was powered by the new 2778 cc M130 engine, which produced 160 hp at 5500 rpm. Top speed was hardly affected, but acceleration from 0-100 km/h (62 mph) improved to 10.5 seconds (13 with automatic transmission). Inside, the car received a wood veneer option on the dashboard and other minor changes, including door lock buttons and different heater levers. The hubcaps were changed yet again to a new one piece wheelcover, and the exterior mirror was changed.

Despite its smaller engine, the 280 SE could outperform the early 1950s M189 powered 300 SE, resulting in the more expensive model's retirement.

The 280 SE 3.5
A final model was added in August 1969, the 280 SE 3.5, the first Mercedes post-War coupé with more than 3 litres. The car was fitted with the brand-new M116 3499 cc V8. It produced 200 hp at 5800 rpm, and a top speed of 210 km/h (205 km/h with automatic transmission) and a 0-100 km/h (62 mph) at 9.5 seconds (11.5 for the automatic transmission). As one of several changes to modernize the aging design a lower, wider grille was incorporated and the facelifted model is often by the Germans referred to as the The new grille was not a side-effect of enlarging the engine compartment to accommodate the V8 despite popular belief. Front and rear bumpers were also modified with the addition of rubber rub strips; the rear lenses changed to a flatter cleaner design. This change was carried across to the standard 280 SE. As the top of its range, the 280 SE 3.5 is seen as an ideological successor to the W112 300 SE, though it lacked the W112's air suspension.

There were plans to place the larger M117 V8 engine in the W111 (the model would have been called 280 SE 4.5).

The last 280 SE was produced in January 1971, with the 280 SE 3.5 ending in July. The total production over the decade was: 220 SEb - 16,902, 250 SE - 6,213, 280 SE - 5,187, and 280 SE 3.5 - 4,502 units. The grand total of 2-door W111 models was 32,804 of which 7,456 were convertibles. Total production of W112 300 SE models was 3,127.

The indirect replacement for the coupé was the C107 SLC, which was a hardtop coupé version of the SL roadster, with no link with the S Class range. The true successor of the W111/12 coupé was the C126 (SEC) coupé of 1981. As the R107 SL grew bigger and more luxury oriented, it assumed the position of the top of the range convertible, which meant the true four-seater convertible would disappear from Mercedes-Benz's lineup for nearly two-decades, until the A124 in 1992.

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Podpraporshchik

Podpraporshchik (подпра́порщик, ) was a Russian non-commissioned officer (NCO) rank (у̀нтер-офице́р ранг), originally below the Sergeant and Feldwebel. From 1826 to 1884 it became the highest NCO rank of the infantry, cavalry, and Leib Guard. From 1884, podpraporshchik ranked below the newly introduced NCO-grade zauryad-praporshchik (зауря̀д-пра́порщик, ).

Branch of service, rank and rank insignia

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 * History of Russian military ranks
 * Ranks and rank insignia of the Imperial Russian Army until 1917

 * See also:
 * History of Russian military ranks
 * Ranks and rank insignia of the Imperial Russian Army until 1917

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Talk:Loser

Definitions
A loser is kind of like someone who doesn't have many people in their life. Someone who doesn't have many friends. Someone who is always at the bottom of the social food chain. The word "Loser" has an important meaning in modern culture that has not been adequately described in the list of meanings of disambiguation of the word "Loser" on the Loser main page. "Failure" has been listed, but this is too wide and covers every form of failure, where as, "Loser" means specifically a social outcast, someone who through their personal attributes proves to be anticharismatic. Why hasnt this been included in the main page by those with the authority to change the page? I note there is the hand gesture "Loser" listed there - the hand symbol that relates to the meaning I describe above for "Loser", but the underlying cause of the gesture is not accomodated on the main page and it ought to be. www.anticharisma.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.211.153 (talk) 10:19, 7 June 2009 (UTC) The meaning of loser has yet to reach full maturity. However as time goes on, the public consciousness of loser will be realised. A loser is a person, and the notion of a Loser is a social phenomenon. Not simply abstractly the one who did not win. Many never try only to succeed and many never try and their fate is to fail. However when we talk of the loser, we deal with the experience of those unfortunate individuals: the losers, who try as they might can not succeed in their dreams. The main thing to bear in mind regarding a loser, is that a loser always does the right thing, always does their home work, always refrains from unhealthy living, but fails high school despite their best efforts and is diagnosed with cancer of the lung despite refraining from smoking. A loser tries hard but fails non the less. This ties in the notion of the try-hard. Try-hard is an insult used to describe someone who just doesnt have it just doesnt pull off the desired effect despite their best efforts. To avoid definition problems, can I just say that a loser is not someone who lives recklessly and suffers the consequences, as mentioned above a loser is the one who never smoked but got cancer anyway, the one who suffers from incessant bad fate bad luck and misfortune. A loser is someone without potential without noticeable talent, someone who is thouroughly average or below average and who is incapable of "making their own luck". This notion of making one's own luck is tied in with both winners, cool people, popular people, talented people, and those who have potential to rise either through physical attractiveness or by intelligence or a combination of the two factors. This topic of the loser ought to be placed in top priority in this loser catagory in the way that I have stated it here and it is a real thing it is not a fad or a whim, its the black dark side to the meritocracy in which we are emmerced, its the dark to the light its the skeleton in the closet that rarely gets a mention owing to its ultimate taboo in society. For a final example of this taboo, society in general will emphasise the importance of putting in maximum effort and "giving it a go" but the unspoken reality is that for the winner to win, many must fail and they by the rules of our society must remain quiet lest they brake the taboo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nerdstar loser no.1 (talk • contribs) 11:53, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

There is an acronym for a coherent light source better know as "LASER." Laser as many already know is Light amplification of Light by stimulated emission of radiation. This is a great acronym but.... In 1959, a year before anyone had built a laser, physicist Arthur Schawlow pointed out that since the amplification is achieved by bouncing the photons back and forth within a resonant cavity, the process would be better described as "light oscillation." Soooooo... The acronym really should be "LOSER" Light Oscillation Stimulated emission of radiation. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.182.158.153 (talk) 16:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * You need find a few reliable sources as references that says that. It sounds a bit fringe and apocryphal. Ttiotsw (talk) 20:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm a bit fed up seeing this page being vandalised all the time. So I've "vandalised" it myself. Wonder if this will help deter? Opinions anyone? --Plumbago 13:14, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't think it will deter much vandalism, and it is probably not suitably NPOV. - SimonP 13:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * And more practically there's the whole thing about WP:POINT, but no harm done. Sirmob 12:34, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It's a fair cop. Especially the WP:POINT.  As it happens, my vandalism was removed by a vandal, answering my question (posed above) firmly in the negative.  Thanks for your comments though.  Cheers, --Plumbago 14:06, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * This is all actually an inappropriate topic for Wikipedia. Should we really be wasting our time explaining to others what a loser is? Let's just define it as the antonym of a winner. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.209.129.131 (talk) 00:22, 20 December 2006 (UTC).

"Loser" song
Of course there's a reason to put the Beck song first, it's much more: Important, popular, critically accalaimed, and easily recognized. Oh, and of course they popularized the phase and started the whole slacker generation (accidentily). The 3 Doors Down song is nothing.

This page has an omission and error: Loser is a well-known song performed by the Grateful Dead written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. The listed "Loser" by Cracker is an (exceptional) cover of that song. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.229.198.97 (talk) 02:48, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Beck's song should be on top of the list, the other songs are obscurein comparison. Just google 'loser' and see what comes up first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.104.87 (talk) 22:16, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

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Acacia sclerosperma

Acacia sclerosperma, commonly known as limestone wattle or silver bark wattle, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs on floodplains and along water-courses throughout the arid north-west corner of the State.

Description
Limestone wattle grows as a spreading, tall shrub up to 4 m and 6 m wide. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are bright green, oval in cross-section, and may be up to 7 cm long. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters about five millimetres in diameter and continuing 15 to 20 flowers. The pods are up to 4 cm long, with constrictions between the seeds. It can bloom between May and August with most flowers produced between June and July.

Taxonomy
There are two subspecies: Acacia sclerosperma subsp. sclerosperma and Acacia sclerosperma subsp. glaucescens. The latter is commonly known as billy blue, and is currently considered under threat, though not yet endangered. It belongs to the Acacia bivenosa group but unlike the rest of the group it has large woody seedpods. The type specimen was collected from along the Murchison River in 1881 by O.Jones.

Distribution
It is found throughout the Pilbara, Midwest and northern parts of the Wheatbelt in Western Australia. The range extends from the Pilbara south to around Mingenew and Mount Magnet in the south with isolated populations found around Lake Carnegie and Wongan Hills. It grows in a variety of soil types usually as a part of shrubland and riparian woodland communities.

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The Suntones

The Suntones were a barbershop quartet from Miami, Florida, USA, and the 1961 SPEBSQSA international champions. At the time it won gold, the quartet featured Gene Cokeroft as tenor, Bob Franklin as lead, Harlan Wilson as baritone, and Bill Cain as bass.

The Suntones are notable among the barbershop community because they were one of the first quartets to perform show tunes and make use of hand-held microphones.

History
After winning the 1961 SPEBSQSA championship, the Suntones became more active touring, performing and recording. In 1966, Jackie Gleason moved his popular TV variety show to Miami and hired the Suntones to sing both as a barbershop quartet and as backing singers.

In addition to barbershop standards, the Suntones introduced many contemporary songs into their performances including medleys of songs from Broadway musicals (West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, etc.) arranged by Walter Latzko.

In 1979, Bob Franklin left the group, and Drayton Justus became the new lead singer. The group's "final" performance was in early 1985 in Montclair, New Jersey, during a special tribute to arranger Walter Latzko. Bill Cain died in 2004, but Franklin later returned to join Cokeroft, Harlan Wilson, and Todd Wilson (Harlan's son) on bass for limited performances.

Studio recordings
Originally released on Sunrise Records:
 * A Touch of Gold (1962)
 * Afterglow (1966)
 * Watch What Happens (1967)
 * Somewhere (1971)
 * Keep America Singing (1972)
 * A Touch of Old (1972)
 * Fiddler (1973)
 * As Time Goes By (1976)
 * Where is Love (1978)
 * My Fair Lady (1982)

Live recordings

 * A Touch of Live (2003) – from a 1972 performance

Compilations

 * Suntones (1992) AIC Masterworks Series – 1 CD
 * The Complete Works (1999) AIC – 5-CD boxed set
 * Volume 1 (1962–66)
 * Volume 2 (1967–71)
 * Volume 3 (1972)
 * Volume 4 (1973–76)
 * Volume 5 (1978–82)

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User talk:Samantha Day

 * Buddy Love created this account.

Sam Day (of Green) is a gold-digger.

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User:Samantha Day

 * Buddy Love created this account.

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Forkhill

Forkhill or Forkill is a small village and civil parish in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the Ring of Gullion and in the 2011 Census it had a recorded population of 498. The population increased to 550 at the time of the 2021 Census. Its name, deriving from the Irish word foirceal may refer to the village's position on flat land between the large hills of Tievecrom (to the east) and Croslieve (to the west).

History
The land in the parish was awarded by Elizabeth I to Capt. Thomas Chatterton and by James II to Lord Audley on condition of English settlement, but by 1659 it was still almost entirely occupied by native Irish people. Following the terms of a trust set up by a subsequent owner, Richard Jackson, much of the property was declared waste and resettled in 1787–91 with a view to encouraging the linen industry, most of the new settlers being Protestants. This was followed by serious breaches of the peace, which have been attributed not to sectarianism but by L. M. Cullen to political disputes among the gentry, and by David Millar to weakening social disciplines on the increasingly independent class of skilled linen weavers, both Protestant and Catholic.

The Defenders emerged around Forkhill in the early 1790s, and were responsible in 1791 for an attack on the family of the local schoolmaster, Alexander Berkley, which was so savage as to be remembered with horror and indignation for over hundred years, both in the village and (although the Berkley attack was not provoked by sectarian motives) more widely across the Orange community. Belmont, a military barracks, was set up in the parish in 1795, and a Forkhill Yeomanry in 1796; and a clash with United Irishmen in May 1797 along with the torching of Forkhill Lodge was followed by a policy of military terror which locally undermined the planned 1798 rising to the point of paralysis.

1821 saw the first successful census of Forkhill. About 10% of the 7,063 inhabitants were Protestant; and between the denominations the average family size was identical at just over 5 persons, both employed servants in roughly equal proportions, and both were for the most part situated on small farms. In a national survey in 1835 three local residents responded for Forkhill: Rev. William Smith (Church of Ireland), Rev. Daniel O’Rafferty (Catholic) and Maj. Arthur A. Bernard (Resident Magistrate). They reported that most families were engaged in labouring work, often seeking seasonal jobs elsewhere in the UK, and women no longer worked in the linen trades; rents were £1 a year for a small cabin, or £2 if it had a potato garden. The 1851 census covered language, and found that about a third of the people in the barony spoke Irish (though almost all had at least some knowledge of English).

Richard Jackson's will had provided for free schooling of a Protestant character for the poor children of the parish. In 1825 about a quarter of the parish children were enrolled, of whom about two-thirds were Catholic. Following an intensification of sectarian feeling in the 1820s, Fr Daniel O’Rafferty, the parish priest, applied in 1834 for a national school in the parish, which opened in Maphoner in August. Jackson's legacy also saw a dispensary set up in Forkhill in 1821, a two-storey building attended by a doctor, Samuel Walker, three days a week and for emergencies.

In 1832 violent opposition to the system of tithes reached Forkhill and became associated with Ribbonism, continuing with a series of affrays, attacks and murders until the passage of the Tithe Rent Charge Act 1838 made the tithe payable by landlords. However, this source of resentment soon became overtaken by issues of rent and security, with persistent claims for proper leases being refused in the early 1840s, the Forkhill Estate preferring to deal with tenants-in-chief who sublet on difficult terms, a system giving rise to widespread intimidation and violence without regard to religious affiliation. The famine of the late 1840s, when death and migration reduced the population of the parish by about a quarter, eventually reduced the pressure on land; but before long problems returned, and the nearly-successful assassination of the Killeavy magistrate Meredith Chambré on 20 January 1852 while leaving Forkhill village gave rise to a denunciation by Queen Victoria and the constitution of a Parliamentary Select Committee on Outrages. By the late 1850s pressure by the authorities and by the Catholic Church, the constitution of a petty sessions court in Forkhill, and the Irish Reform Act of 1850 which extended the franchise had all conspired to relieve the situation.

Forkhill, along with the rest of South Armagh, would have been transferred to the Irish Free State had the recommendations of the Irish Boundary Commission been enacted in 1925.

Sport
Forkhill is the home of Forkhill Peadar Ó Doirnín GAC, which is one of the oldest clubs in Armagh GAA, having been founded in 1888. The name of the Gaelic football club commemorates the 18th-century poet Peadar Ó Doirnín.

Education
St. Oliver Plunkett's Primary School is the local primary school and, as of 2018, had over 130 pupils enrolled.

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Sonorism

Sonorism (Polish: Sonoryzm) is an approach to musical composition associated with a number of notable Polish composers. The scholar Józef Michał Chomiński coined the term "sonoristics" (Polish: sonorystyka) to describe the urge to explore purely sonic phenomena in composition, and from this term derived "sonorism" to describe an avant-garde style in Polish music of the 1960s that focused on timbre. As a movement, sonorism was initiated in the 1950s in the avant-garde of Polish music. Music that emphasises sonorism as a compositional approach tends to focus on specific characteristics and qualities of timbre, texture, articulation, dynamics, and motion in an attempt to create freer form. The style is primarily associated with an experimental musical movement which arose in Poland in the mid-1950s and flourished through the 1960s.

Sonorism emphasizes discovering new types of sounds from traditional instruments, as well as the creation of textures by combining different, often unconventional instrumental sounds in unusual and unique ways. The term sonoristics is used to describe this novel approach, which went beyond merely injecting individual color, quirks, and experimentation. It aimed to establish new structural functions in a composition, such as employing non-functional chords for sonorous effects, and emphasizing the sonic aspect of texts in vocal music.

History
Sonorism is rooted in the nationalistic movement of the 1920s called "Polish colourism", whose best-known exponent is Karol Szymanowski. Sonorism as such was developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a means of gaining freedom from strict serialism, particularly by Krzysztof Penderecki, but also in a number of compositions by Grażyna Bacewicz, Henryk Górecki, Kazimierz Serocki, Wojciech Kilar, Witold Szalonek, Witold Rudziński, Zbigniew Bujarski, Zbigniew Penherski, and Zygmunt Krauze, amongst others.

Composers associated with sonoristic composition

 * Tadeusz Baird
 * Zbigniew Bujarski
 * Andrzej Dobrowolski
 * Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
 * Wojciech Kilar
 * Witold Lutosławski
 * Krzysztof Meyer
 * Krzysztof Penderecki
 * Bogusław Schaeffer
 * Kazimierz Serocki
 * Witold Szalonek

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Talk:Gitche Manitou

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I wonder if anybody believes in this stuff anymore? (preceding unsigned soliloquy by 14:18, 14 October 2005)
 * Probably. 128.6.176.39 21:54, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes. The official Tribal government-sanctioned Religion of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is Midewiwin and Gichi-manidoo is the primary Manidoo in that faith-system. CJLippert 02:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Related Names?
"The name of the Province of Manitoba, or Manitou-abah, in Canada, is obviously related to this Algonquian or Ojibway word for Spirit, Creator, or even Great Spirit."

Can this be verified? There may be no reason to doubt it, except that I always hear alarm bells when a statement says "obviously". It usually seems to mean "this is what I think, please don't question it". And similarly, at first glance you'd think that the name for Romania was 'obviously' related to the Romans - but it's not. - 86.137.181.158 14:19, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You make a good point, I think; even if it's correct, there's no real need for that "obviously"--"the name of the Canadian province Manitoba is etymologically related to the term manitou" would be fine. The Government of Manitoba's website says it probably comes from Cree or Ojibwe, and is connected to the word "manitou", so for now I think I'll cite that source in the article. Until I can find something better? --Miskwito 18:39, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Either way, I moved it to Manitou, where I think it's more relevant. --Miskwito 19:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Oral traditions
Ok so is Wikipedia eurocentric? Many aboriginal stories are orally tradition - that is passed down verbally from generation to generation from time immemorial. In some cases there may not be an official documented source for this information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.254.70.162 (talk) 21:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Christian Bias
Why on earth does every section of this article except the last one tell us what Christians have done with these terms? How is that relevant to these topics at all? At most, shouldn't all that information be gathered into its own section as an appendix? Some of these sections have little more to say about their alleged topic than what the Christian reimagining is. 98.240.35.246 (talk) 13:04, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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Manitou as mystical term
Thank you for your explanations in the above-mentioned section! Very interesting. But where is the scientific basis for this? How does one arrive at the interpretation of Manitou as a kind of qi ('force') and in which literature can I find informations about this...? Thank you again! HilmarHansWerner (talk) 08:16, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

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Kilarrow Parish Church

Kilarrow Church (Eaglais Cill an Rubha) is a Church of Scotland parish church, overlooking and serving Bowmore on the island of Islay.

The "Round Church", as it is often known, was built in 1767. It has a highly unusual circular design, copied by some churches built in the 1960s. It has been suggested that the circular design was intended to ensure that there were no corners in which the devil could hide. The roof is supported by a single massive central pillar.

The Church also contains some artifacts belonging to the Bowmore-born Rev Donald Caskie (1902–1983), former minister of The Scots Kirk, Paris and notable as the "Tartan Pimpernel" for aiding over 2,000 Allied personnel in their escape from occupied France.

The linked parishes of Kilarrow and Kilmeny are vacant following a reallocation of Ministers.

title: Kilarrow Parish Church