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--2602:306:80CE:8C80:8905:379F:DEF1:F338 (talk) 23:11, 7 October 2015 (UTC)== Article About Town! == This article should be about the town, Marathon, not 4 large paragraphs about the history of the sport of marathon. That fact can be mentioned, but putting the info here just dublicates what is already found elsewhere. Wish I had more info about the actual town of Marathon, but since I don't, stripping out the information about the sport would leave a very small article. 138.162.0.46 (talk) 15:10, 4 November 2010 †)Google Chrome

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The distance from Marathon to Athens is not 26.2 miles. The reason why a marathon race is 26.2 miles has nothing to with the distance from Marathon to Athens, which very well may be 26 miles(or not even 26 miles). the .2 came about when the Royal Family, in one of the early olympics wanted a better view of the race at the finish, so they extended it an additional .2 of a mile. The rest, well, as we say, is precedent and history.

Athenian navy defeated the Persians? Was it not the army? or at least both

 * interesting, have any WP:RS for that? MaximusEditor (talk) 21:00, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

The mayor?
Who cares about the mayor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.1.165.201 (talk) 12:55, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

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it says márathon means fennel, but immediately after states that márathon means a place full of fennel. Did it really mean two things for the same word? Nidaana (talk) 01:58, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

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Kastav

Kastav (Italian: Castua) is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia, built on a 365 m high hill overlooking the Kvarner Gulf on the northern coast of the Adriatic. It is in close vicinity of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia, and the Opatija Riviera, one of the popular tourist destinations in the country.

Demographics
The total population of Kastav is 10,265 (census 2021).

The census of 2001 had recorded the following settlements:
 * Brnčići, population 677
 * Ćikovići, population 3,089
 * Kastav, population 2,037
 * Rubeši, population 1,722
 * Spinčići, population 876
 * Trinajstići, population 490

In the 2011 census, all of the settlements were merged into a single settlement; Kastav.

History
The history of Kastav dates back to prehistoric times, which is borne out by numerous archaeological finds. A valuable archaeological site is the Illyrian necropolis found in the Mišinci karst valley at the foot of the town. It is where the Iapodes, one of the Illyrian tribes, buried their deceased. Pieces of jewellery, buttons and needle pins were also found.

It is not known for sure how Kastav gained its name. Some claim the name is derived from the Celtic word kast (rock) while others say it is derived from the Latin word castellum (fort, castle).

Valuable monuments preserved to this day witness the medieval liveliness of the Kastav area. Among them are the town's Kaštel, the Municipal Loggia, the Volta (arched doorway), The Parish Church of Saint Jelena Križarica, Lokvina square, the remains of the Crekvina and the Church of the Holy Trinity and a number of ornaments embedded in the nucleus of the town.

Writings in various books witness the town's rich history. Kastav is mentioned in all the important editions that deal with the history of Croatia as well as in those that deal with the history of this part of Europe.

Geography
Because of its unusual but good position Kastav has really hot summers and very cold winters; during the summer temperatures can rise to 37 C, sometimes even more. In summer evenings Kastav is crowded with walkers who come for the fresh air in the forest and for sport, athletes who have their summer break but want to stay in good shape. In winter Kastav is one of the first places in the Kvarner region to become white with snow.

Economy
The Kastav region has always been known for its high-quality craftsmanship. Even today, the town's economy is marked by small and medium scaled enterprises and just a few larger firms. Besides the fact that those kinds of businesses have good prospects in present day economic conditions, with such an economic structure the Kastav region is preserving its natural and cultural heritage persisting on the development of ecologically acceptable activities in accordance with sustainable development trends.The town of Kastav has signed The Aalbor Charter – a charter for the sustainable development of European cities in the 21st century joining around 400 cities from 35 European countries.

Culture
The town of Kastav has always and with every right took pride in its cultural heritage. Its cultural events are the town's most recognisable feature to this day. During the centuries, the town has preserved a substantial part of its cultural-historical monuments and traditions. Each new generation of Kastav people adds another piece to the complex mosaic of the town's culture. One of the oldest and best preserved Kastav legacies is the tradition of carnival, so-called Pust. From Saint Anthony’s Day on 17 January (Antonja) until Ash Wednesday (Pusna sreda) there are carnival dances every Saturday named pusni tanci. Carnival ends on Ash Wednesday with the burning of the straw effigy (Pust) who serves as the culprit blamed for all the misfortunes that had happened in the past year.

The story of Kastav
As along with many other towns situated at the meeting point of Central Europe and the Mediterranean, Kastav has a rich tradition and a recognisable identity. Throughout its history, Kastav has been an administrative, commercial and cultural hub of Istria and Primorje. It has been and it still is the centre of the Croatian national question, which enabled the town to retain its autonomy, language and customs even when other larger towns started to emerge in its surroundings.

In ancient times, the Kastav region stretched all the way to Mount Učka’s slopes and many feudalists fought for the town. Kastav’s town nucleus was fortified with a medieval wall with nine towers situated on a 365m high hill served, and it still serves as the centre of the area, and it still witnesses the greatness and importance of Kastav from the old days.

The town of Kastav successfully combines its historic values with the contemporary way of life. Since the Republic of Croatia declared its independence and the town of Kastav regained its position as an independent district the bearers of the town's progress have become small and medium-sized enterprises who enjoy favourable conditions for expansion, especially thanks to the vicinity of Rijeka and Opatija - the commercial and tourist centres of the region.

Every summer Kastav hosts various international events such as Kastav Summer of Culture, Guitar Festival and Kastav Blues Festival. They feature performances of world-famous artists and attract numerous tourists from Croatia and abroad.

Kastav is also known for its festival of new wine, the traditional Bela Nedeja which takes place on the first Sunday in October, then its carnival, which starts on 17 January (the Feast of St. Anthony), various concerts of brass bands, meetings of accordionists and winemakers, and numerous art exhibitions.

Associations, societies, clubs, organizations
Kastavsko Kulturno Leto Association, Belica Vines, Grapes and Wine Association, Grad kulture Association, Kanat Association, Sv. Mihovil Association, Rubeši, Cultural and educational Society Istarska vila, Spinčići Music Society, Lisjak Hunting Club, Basketball Club Kastav, Kastavac Auto Sport Club, KIN Inventors Association, Kindergarten Vladimir Nazor, Association Kastavska mavrica, Estavela Speleological Association, Library and Reading Room Kastav, Parish Office, Retired and Seniorss Association Kastav, Volunteer Fire Brigade Kastav,Karate Club Kastav,Tennis Club Kastav, Bocce Club Kastav,Futsal Club Kastav, Athletic Club Maraton Kastav, Za bolji svijet Association, Salsero Dance Club, Zvuk Kastva Arts and Cultural Society, Naša djeca Kastav Association

Ateliers
Atelier POTOČNJAK is where the artist Ante Potočnjak exhibits his distinctive works. In 2006, Croatia's president Mr. Stjepan Mesić awarded him the Order of Croatian Danica inscribed with the figure of Marko Marulić for his extraordinary contribution to Croatian culture. Atelier LOKVINA opened on 6 June 2009 as the working space of the painter Saša Jantolek and the ceramic sculptor Mladen Ivančić, whose works are exhibited here throughout the year

Atelier PAVIĆ is the working and exhibiting space of the artist Željan Pavić from Kastav (born in 1952), who graduated in Visual Arts from the Pedagogic Academy in his hometown of Rijeka.

The Cvetković family fashion boutique was founded in the 1970s as the first art space in Kastav.

Yasna Skorup Krneta: Ambient art installation – objects made of metal and discarded items – displayed in the old town of Kastav, in front of Crekvina.

Recreation
Since the town of Kastav has both rich cultural and architectural heritage and exceptionally attractive landscapes and untouched nature, the tourist board and the town’s government have supported the Let's walk in Loza and Lužina project proposed by The Association of Retired and Elderly Citizens. As a result, with funds provided by The Academy for Educational Development three tracks through Kastav woods of Loza and Lužina were created and opened in 2005 on World Walking Day. Kastav was once both the starting point as well as the destination (depending on the direction from which you start your journey) of the E6 European Walk Way which stretched all the way to Sweden. After Croatia and Slovenia became independent states, the borderline between the two states cut off the authentic walkway which these days ends at the Slovenian port of Kopar. Since it is important to be sound in body and mind the Kastav area does not lag behind when it comes to sports facilities. In addition to the sports hall and ground, Kastav also offers bocce and tennis courts. There are several locations suitable for various types of recreation (yoga, fitness, pilates/medical gymnastics, spinning, zumba, S-faktor, tae-bo, functional mix, body workout, kettlebell workout, basketball, volleyball, handball, karate, five-s-side football etc.)

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Talk:Christian eschatological views

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This article makes almost no sense at all. It reads like abbreviated lecture notes from a graduate level course in Eschatology.

 * Could we get some complete sentences, maybe even a vague overview of what's being discussed?

 * Insertions of phrases such as 'biblically inerrant' about particular groups of Christians indicates a measure of bias by the original author.

 * Biblical Inerrancy refers to a stance on the trustworthiness of the scripture. It is a precise definition within the theological community.

 * Actually, the article does make sense, at least to me, as a 3rd year seminary student. It seems generally accurate, and the use of the phrase "biblically inerrant" does not necessarilly suggest author bias, as it is how most of those denominations so described would describe themselves.

 * Well, as a 3rd year seminary student you're probably not the target demographic for the article, as you're already probably quite familiar with the material. I, on the other hand, am not familiar with the material and I just agree that the article is poorly written. I don't have any problem with the content or POV, just the presentation. The first two comments are valid.

 * I also agree that people holding to the stated theological positions within the article would certainly describe themselves as indicated by the article, and while I would see potential problems with the use of the phrase 'biblically inerrant,' I see no problem with the use of this phrase in this article. Meng.benjamin 17:29, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Also, Thank you for pointing out the possibility of bias in this article. Keep up the work hunting down true bias. It is definitely appreciated. Meng.benjamin 17:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Merger, etc
I think this is a good article. It's meant to be a reference - the Christian eschatology article is very thorough as it is. I'm going to remove the "cleanup" and "merger" tags; it's pretty well laid-out as-is, and the main article is certainly too large already to merge.

Just my $0.02, David Schroder 16:51, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Biblical theological view
The Biblical theological view as exemplified in works such as Graeme Goldsworthy's Gospel and Revelation and believed by groups such as the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. It is similar to the Covenantal system but different in a few key ways, and so I've added an additional section. I'm not a theologian, so my use of language may be inprecise - I'll just write what I've been taught and read. Happy for help. Journeyman 03:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

in dispensational premillenialism the rapture is called "secret" is this the most popular view?

 * Post-tribulation rapture proponents refer to the pre-tribulation rapture as the "secret rapture." I have never heard the term used by a pre-trib proponent.  It should be noted that both these views are premillennial, only differing on the timing of the rapture.

 * On another note, I think this article should be expanded and merged with Christian eschatology. Kristamaranatha (talk) 06:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Prewrath/Midtrib
While prewrath is a comparatively minority viewpoint with respect to premillennial escatology, both prewrath and midtrib both bear mentioning as another perspective. Since there are books on the subject, they wouldn't constitute as original research. Neither fall under pretrib or posttrib, and so I feel it'd be better to add another one.Sugaki (talk) 05:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Eschatology-oriented edits
A lot of the content of all these eschatology pages was getting duplicated, because each of the views had to be heard on each of the pages. I've moved much of the interpretations to their respective view pages (for example, taken the Futurist view of the Book of Revelation and put it on the Futurism (Christianity) page), in the hopes of minimizing duplication, keeping source pages unimpeded by eschatological disputes, and making it more clear what comprises each of the eschatologies. I've moved some of the comparisons among these views to the Christian eschatology page, so that the core differences can be contrasted in one place. After all that, there really wasn't a need for a separation between Christian eschatology and Christian eschatological views; thus the redirect. Skinrider (talk) 14:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

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Just delete this
It's terrible. Dispensationalism is all wrong. Historic/Post Trib? That's going to confuse people and it ain't right. Supersessionism=covenant theology? No!

Honest question: did a Dallas undergrad write this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.167.133.136 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:Ghost Stories (Japanese TV series)

Postponement?
Acorrding to the japanese page of this,it says that an episode was postponed

放映中止問題

2000年11月5日に放映予定だった第3話「あたしきれい? 口裂け女」が口唇口蓋裂の障害者団体 からの抗議を受け、急遽第1話・第2話の総集編「特別編!!霊眠の恐怖」に差し替えられた.

Do you know why it was postponed??

Subpar series ?
"Though considered a fairly subpar series by many critics and fans"

I think this is a very subjective statement as I haven't seen that many negative reviews, and on the contrary fans of anime horror like this show (as seen on the "Black Moon" critic). Could you propose some links to reviews that support this statement, please ?

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

move to Ghost Stories (anime) with Ghost Stories redirecting to Ghost Story. Joelito (talk) 03:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Ghosts at School → Ghost stories – Official English title --TheFarix (Talk) 14:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Survey

 * Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with  ~ ''

 *  Support Rename to Ghost Stories (anime) The official name of the anime series given by ADV Films, the holder of the English language rights, is Ghost Stories. --TheFarix (Talk) 14:49, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Rename to Ghost Stories (anime), "Ghost Stories" is too generic. 132.205.45.148 17:50, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Rename to Ghost Stories (anime), considering this was moved just the other day without discussion or request. Papacha 17:56, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Ghost Stories currently redirects here. Adding the (anime) is completely unecessary. But always use the official English title for a translated work Jay32183 19:38, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Whether you like it or not, the official English translation should be used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MightyAtom (talk • contribs)
 * Rename to Ghost Stories (anime) per discussion. Voice of Treason 14:18, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Sorry, Ghost Stories should redirect to Ghost story, and disambiguation can occur from there. Kevin_b_er
 * Oppose - The official and more well-known English title of this series is Ghosts at School, as translated and dubbed into English by the anime network Animax and broadcast across over tens of millions English-speaking audiences (reference) across Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent - see Animax East Asia's page for Ghosts at School and Animax South Asia's page for Ghosts at School for more information - this series was dubbed and adapted into English by Animax and broadcast across millions of English-speaking audiences in Asia, therefore being the more widely-known English title, long before ADV's North American licensing. - Ganryuu 09:19, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

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 * Comment - Ghost Stories is far too generic, especially as a film/anime title. That page should redirect to the disambig Ghost Story, a hub where like-minded articles (some even by the same name) are credited. I believe Ghost Stories (anime) would be the proper referral in this case. Papacha 20:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ghost Stories (anime) would work and Ghost Stories can be redirected to the Ghost Story disambig page. --TheFarix (Talk) 00:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * While I'm not going to propose an opinion about the move itself, I'd like to object to the specific rationale that the new title should be used because it's the official English title. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles).  "This is an official title" is not a proper reason to rename an article.  You are supposed to use the most well-known title.  Even if in this case the official title is most well-known, it should be used because of that, not just because it's an official title. Ken Arromdee 16:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This series has been translated, dubbed and adapted into English by Animax, whose official version is entitled Ghosts at School, and broadcast across over 25 million English-speaking audiences (reference) across Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, long, long before ADV Films even licensed this series for North American distribution - see Animax East Asia's page for Ghosts at School and Animax South Asia's page for Ghosts at School. To humbly correct the nominator, ADV does not hold the "English-language rights", it holds the North American distribution rights - whereas Animax has already long before adapted this series in English, and distributed this series across millions of English-speaking audiences across Asia, therefore being the more widely-known English title. - Ganryuu 09:19, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
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Racist humor in the ADV dub?
Well, I only saw this cartoon in Japanese, but this article made me wonder about the humor employed by ADV in their dub. I thought Americans were more sensitive to these kinds of racist jokes... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.38.101.16 (talk) 21:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

 * We both are and aren't. As the South Park boys have pointed out, only black people can really get away with using the n-word, for one thing, but black comedians use it all the time. Jewish jokes are usually tolerated up to a point, I think largely because it's self-deprecating Jews that propagate a lot of them (for instance, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, or some o f Fran Drescher's humor on The Nanny). Also, poking fun at racists is almost universally acceptable, including poking fun at "Christian" fundamentalists who're well, a little less than tolerant (and who are a very vocal minority in the U.S., unfortunately. Just look at Jack Chick and Fred Phelps). It sounds like the latter two are the only "racist" or racism-related humor included in this dub, in which case it might very well not be considered offensive by American standards (depends on how horribly stereotypical "Leo"'s portrayal is). I mean, poking fun at anime cliches does not sound "racist" - it did just occur to me that poking fun at Japanese culture might seem "racist" to some, but to be frank, the Japanese themselves do it all the time in animation; and Americans will just as gleefully poke fun of American culture and cultural values (see: The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, South Park, Drawn Together, Daria and many more) in much the same way. So unless it goes past a certain limit, it probably would not be considered "racist" by current American standards. Especially when you keep in mind that it would probably be by people who like Japanese culture, and thus would be much like the South Park guys' parodies of many movies (like 300): irreverant, but still somehow affectionate. (I still haven't seen the series though, so I can neither confirm nor deny whether the series comes off as offensively racist to me)Runa27 09:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Re-merging list of ghosts.
I do not agree with the creation of a separate article for the list of ghosts and would like to see it merged back into the article. The original size of 20 KB is only two thirds of the recommended article size limit. I see no benefit to the separate list. LittleOldMe 12:38, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Agree here. Keep it separate. Ominae 08:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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Transwiki
Greetings, people. I notice there is information about the Spanish dub of the series in this article. What I'll do after writing this is to merge that information to that of the Spanish version of the article; meanwhile, the information in the infobox still can be there. --Twicemost (talk) 13:50, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

EDIT (six minutes later): The change has been done, but if you think there was something I missed or did wrong, you can go to the history of the article to fix it. Have a great morning ^_^. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Twicemost (talk • contribs) 13:57, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Possible source to add to article with
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1736 It's pretty good I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuvaco (talk • contribs) 04:44, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * ANN's encyclopedia section is not a reliable source because the information is user-generated and there is little oversite to verify it on their end. —Farix (t | c) 10:32, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Misconception that the show was a failure in Japan
The show actually wasn't a failure. This Reddit post with links by Shigofumi provides proof I am going to remove text from the page that says the show failed in Japan. 86.41.149.16 (talk) 15:29, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole

"Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole" is a single by Los Angeles, California rock band Scarling. It was released in the USA on 7" vinyl on March 19, 2003, on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label, and on compact disc on December 16.

The lyric "Say hello to my little friend" on the chorus of the title track "Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole" is a line from the film Scarface.

Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole (the song) has two different versions and the one released on this single has a one word change. "Robots steal emotions", later changed to "Robots steal narcotics" for the album Sweet Heart Dealer. The CD features an additional track, a cover of Radiohead's "Creep".

On March 12, 2006, an episode of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy titled "Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole" was aired.

Track listing

 * 1) "Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole" – 3:32
 * 2) "H/C" – 2:29
 * 3) "Creep" – 3:52 (CD single only)

Personnel

 * Jessicka – vocals
 * Christian Hejnal – guitar, vocals, bass
 * Rickey Lime – guitar
 * Garey Snider – drums
 * Chris Vrenna – producer
 * Erik Colvin – mixing
 * Mark Ryden – cover artwork

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Ed Welch

Edward William Welch (born 22 October 1947) is an English songwriter, composer, conductor and arranger.

Early life and education
Ed Welch had a classical music upbringing. He attended Christ Church Cathedral School from 1957–1961, where he was Head Chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then a first music scholar at Ardingly College in Sussex. He gained a scholarship to Trinity College of Music London, studying composition with Arnold Cooke. Upon graduating in 1965, he joined United Artists Music where he learned the various branches of the music business. He wrote arrangements, composed B-sides, and plugged the UA catalogue at the BBC.

Songwriting
In 1971, Welch recorded an album, Clowns, including songs he had co-written with Tom Paxton and session musicians such as Mike de Albuquerque and Cozy Powell. In 1972, he acted as producer on a version of "I Don't Know How to Love Him" by Sylvie McNeill on a UK 45 on United Artists UA UP35415 released in time for the first UK Stage Musical of Jesus Christ Superstar. In 1973, he wrote the title song to Spike Milligan's film Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, which marked the start of a 25-year collaboration with Milligan.

Welch made his television debut in 1972, on The Old Grey Whistle Test. In 1978 and 1979, he appeared in the Spike Milligan BBC series Q8 and Q9, performing his own songs (including "The Carpet is Always Greener Under Someone Else's Bed" and "Love to Make Music by") and songs co-written with Milligan, including "I've Got This Photograph of You!" and "Silly Old Baboon". This unlikely duo released an album in 1979 on the United Artists label, Spike Milligan and Ed Welch Sing Songs from Q8. In 1976, he composed the score for Milligan's adaptation of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose. Narrated by Milligan and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Welch conducting, the RCA recording was such a success that it entered the pop LP charts and has been performed at many concerts since.

Welch's songs have been recorded by artists including Cilla Black, Davy Jones, Shirley Bassey,   Matt Monro, Design, and Tina Reynolds, whose recording of 'When Morning Has Come' reached number 20 on the Irish charts in 1973.

Welch co-wrote the 1995 Icelandic entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, "Núna", (with Björgvin Halldórsson).

Compositions for stage, screen and recorded narrations
His film work included the scores to British sex comedies such as the Confessions series (Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975), Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976), Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977), and Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse (1978). Also in 1978, he composed the score for the remake of The Thirty Nine Steps, including an extended piano piece entitled The Thirty-Nine Steps Concerto (a nod to Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto), later recording it with Christopher Headington as soloist. In the same year, he moved to the West Country, where he was appointed Musical Director for Television South West (TSW). He composed the station identification music for TSW as well as scores for TSW films such as the musical Doubting Thomas (1983; written by John Bartlett, starring Paul Nicholas and Stephanie Lawrence), and numerous local programmes, including Gus Honeybun in 1987. Welch also composed and conducted music for Television South (TVS), from 1987 until the channel disappeared on 31 December 1992. His credits at TVS included conducting a live two-and-a-half-hour New Year's Eve show, with 56 musical items, some of which he had also arranged.

In 1982, Welch composed the score for the play Private Dick, by Richard Maher and Roger Michell. He also composed the score to the Cannon and Ball comedy film The Boys in Blue. The following year he wrote the theme to the popular ITV, BBC Two and Sky1 quiz show Blockbusters, which ran from 1983 to 2001; the tune soon became one of the most recognisable television themes of all time.

Among his work for children, Welch composed the score for Andrew Bailey's Aesop in Fableland (Arista Records, 1979), which was narrated by Arthur Lowe and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. He adapted fairy tales and wrote the scripts for a 1982 LP with Spike Milligan, later developed into a children's cartoon series of the same name, Wolves, Witches and Giants, which ran from 1995 to 1999. He is credited for the music in the 2001 cartoon series Binka. He wrote songs for the new format of Thomas & Friends from 2004 to 2008.

Other work
With Roger Messer, Welch ran South Western Studios in Torquay, a company which produced professional demonstration tapes for aspiring songwriters. In 2004, he composed a piece of music for Liberal Democrat candidate, Mike Treleaven.

Composed
Ed Welch also composed over 300 pieces, including pieces for a music library and a number of local programmes for a number of ITV contractors, mainly TVS and TSW
 * The $64,000 Question
 * All Clued Up
 * Blockbusters (1983–2001)
 * Catchphrase (1986–1994)
 * Connections (1988–1989)
 * Construction Site (1999–2002)
 * Crosswits
 * Doctor at the Top (1991)
 * Family Catchphrase (1994)
 * Frootie Tooties (1992)
 * Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2000–2012)
 * Funky Valley
 * The Hoobs (2001–2003)
 * Knightmare (1987)
 * Mopatop's Shop (1999–2005)
 * The National Lottery (1998)
 * New Faces (1986–1998)
 * North Tonight (1988–1990)
 * One Foot in the Grave (incidental music)
 * Parallel 9 (1992)
 * Shillingbury Tales (1981)
 * Sweethearts (1987)
 * The Dodo Club (1987–1989)
 * That's Showbusiness (1989–1991)
 * The Ratties (1987)
 * Thomas and Friends (2004–2008)
 * That's My Dog!
 * Wolves, Witches and Giants (1995–1998)

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Cliff Gladwin

Clifford Gladwin (3 April 1916 – 10 April 1988) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1939 to 1958 and in eight Tests for England from 1947 to 1949. He took over 1,600 first-class wickets.

A tall right-arm medium-fast seam bowler of great accuracy and consistency, Gladwin formed, with Les Jackson, the most feared new ball attack in the English first-class game for a dozen years after World War II. Gladwin was both penetrative and mean, with around a third of his overs being maidens, and in thirteen full seasons he took 100 or more wickets twelve times, usually at an average of under 20 runs per wicket.

Cricket writer, Colin Bateman noted that "Gladwin was so proud of his miserly bowling, that he would correct the scorers at the close of play if there was an error in their figures".

Life and career
Gladwin was born 3 April 1916 at Doe Lea, Derbyshire, the son of Joseph Gladwin who also played for Derbyshire. He made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1939 season and played a handful of games that year.

After World War II, Gladwin returned to the county in the 1946 season, taking over 100 wickets and leading an attack weakened by the absence of Bill Copson. With the return of Copson and George Pope the following year, Gladwin formed the only pace attack of even reasonable quality in an era when most counties relied largely on spin. All three played Test cricket against South Africa the following year. Gladwin at Old Trafford conceded only 58 runs in a marathon stint of 50 overs.

Although Gladwin headed the first-class averages in the 1948, he did not play against the 1948 Australians, the team dubbed "The Invincibles". He did, however, play five Tests on the tour to South Africa in 1948–49 under George Mann. There he became a national hero, by running the leg bye that won the Durban Test for England, to achieve the only last-ball victory in the history of Test matches.

By the 1949 season, Gladwin had developed so much as a batsman that he made 124 against Nottinghamshire and scored over 900 runs. However, he did not maintain this standard and only made one score over fifty in his last six seasons. However, as a bowler, Gladwin was always near the top of the averages until he retired in 1958 – though the return of England's pace bowling to more reasonable strength meant that he was out of the running for a Test berth during the 1950s. At times, owing to Derbyshire's shortage of spin, Gladwin actually bowled off-breaks when conditions were favourable.

Gladwin's career total of 1,653 wickets puts him 60th on the all-time list of wicket-takers, and his 1952 match performance of 16 for 84 against Worcestershire is the second best in post-World War II county cricket, being bettered by only one run by Tony Lock four years later. His bowling average was 18.30, and his best innings performance 9 for 41.

Gladwin was a right hand batsman and played 510 innings in 374 first-class matches at an average of 17.35, and a top score of 124 not out. His batting performance stands out in comparison with fellow Derbyshire pace bowlers Bestwick, Copson, Jackson, Rhodes, Ward and Hendrick – who did not make a single fifty between them in 2,195 first-class innings.

Gladwin retired in 1958 and returned to league cricket in Staffordshire and Yorkshire, remaining a popular and respected professional.

Gladwin died 10 April 1988 in Chesterfield, seven days after his 72nd birthday.

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Carl Malamud

Carl Malamud (born July 2, 1959) is an American technologist, author, and public domain advocate, known for his foundation Public.Resource.Org. He founded the Internet Multicasting Service. During his time with this group, he was responsible for developing the first Internet radio station, for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on-line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition.

Malamud is the author of eight books, including Exploring the Internet and A World's Fair. He was a visiting professor at the MIT Media Laboratory and is the former chairman of the Internet Software Consortium. He also is the co-founder of Invisible Worlds, was a fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was a board member of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

Public domain activism
Malamud set up the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org, headquartered in Sebastopol, California, to work for the publication of public domain information from local, state, and federal government agencies. Among his achievements have been digitizing 588 government films for the Internet Archive and YouTube, publishing a 5 million page crawl of the Government Printing Office, and persuading the state of Oregon to not assert copyright over its legislative statutes. He has also been active in challenging the state of California's copyright claims on state laws by publishing copies of the criminal, building, and plumbing codes online.

He has also challenged the information management policy of Smithsonian Networks, convinced C-SPAN to liberalize its video archive access policy, and begun publishing court decisions. In 2009 he proposed, through the "Yes We Scan" campaign, that he serve as the Public Printer of the U.S., the head of the Government Printing Office. He is leading an effort, under the banner of Law.gov, to bring online all primary legal materials (including legal codes and case law) for open public access.

An early Internet pioneer, he is the author of many early books about networking such as Analyzing Novell Networks and DEC Networks and Architectures.

In September 2015, Malamud published a petition to the Government of the United Kingdom, calling for it to make the safety standards published by the European Union for toy safety freely available, rather than allowing them to continue being only available at high cost and subject to restrictive terms of use.

PACER
In 2008, Malamud contended that the federal court archive Public Access to Electronic Court Records, which was charging 8 cents per page, should instead be providing the information for free, because government documents are not protected by copyright. The fees were "plowed back to the courts to finance technology, but the system [ran] a budget surplus of some $150 million, according to court reports," reported The New York Times. PACER used technology that was "designed in the bygone days of screechy telephone modems ... put[ting] the nation's legal system behind a wall of cash and kludge." Malamud appealed to fellow activists, urging them to visit one of 17 libraries conducting a free trial of the PACER system, download court documents, and send them to him for public distribution.

After reading Malamud's call for action, Aaron Swartz used a Perl computer script running on Amazon cloud servers to download the documents, using credentials belonging to a Sacramento library. From September 4 to 20, 2008, Swartz's software accessed documents and uploaded them to a cloud computing service. He released the documents to Malamud's organization.

The Huffington Post characterized his actions this way: "Swartz downloaded public court documents from the PACER system in an effort to make them available outside of the expensive service. The move drew the attention of the FBI, which ultimately decided not to press charges as the documents, were, in fact, public."

On September 29, 2008, the GPO suspended the free trial, "pending an evaluation" of the program. Swartz's actions were subsequently investigated by the FBI. The case was closed after two months with no charges filed. Swartz learned the details of the investigation as a result of filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and described their response as the "usual mess of confusions that shows the FBI's lack of sense of humor." PACER still charges per page, but customers have the option of saving the documents for free public access with a browser extension called RECAP.

At a 2013 memorial for Swartz, Malamud recalled their work with PACER. They brought millions of U.S. District Court records out from behind PACER's "pay wall", he said, and found them full of privacy violations, including medical records and the names of minor children and confidential informants. We sent our results to the Chief Judges of 31 District Courts ... They redacted those documents and they yelled at the lawyers that filed them ... The Judicial Conference changed their privacy rules. ... [To] the bureaucrats who ran the Administrative Office of the United States Courts ... we were thieves that took $1.6 million of their property. So they called the FBI ... [The FBI] found nothing wrong ...

Malamud penned a more detailed account of his collaboration with Swartz on the Pacer project in an essay.

Writing in Ars Technica, Timothy Lee, who later made use of the documents obtained by Swartz as a co-creator of RECAP, offered some insight into discrepancies in reporting on just how much data Swartz had downloaded: "In a back-of-the-envelope calculation a few days before the offsite crawl was shut down, Swartz guessed he got around 25 percent of the documents in PACER. The New York Times similarly reported Swartz had downloaded "an estimated 20 percent of the entire database". Based on the facts that Swartz downloaded 2.7 million documents while PACER, at the time, contained 500 million, Lee concluded that Swartz downloaded less than one percent of the database.

State of Georgia statutes copyright decision
On October 18, 2018, a federal appeals court decision struck down the State of Georgia's attempt to claim that its officially published statutes were protected by copyright due to the addition of annotations. Although the state's Code Revision Commission did not claim that the statutes themselves were copyrighted, they believed that their annotated work could only be distributed by the state's chosen commercial publisher, Lexis-Nexis.

Carl Malamud initiated the copyright challenge by purchasing the official printed works for more than $1200, digitally scanning the contents, and mailing the digital copies on USB flash memory drives to every Georgia legislator.

In 2013, the State of Georgia sued Malamud for providing the Official Code of Georgia Annotated on his website, borrowing his own word to describe it as "a successful form of 'terrorism.

The appeals court decision states:
 * "... we conclude that the People are the ultimate authors of the annotations. As a work of the People the annotations are inherently public domain material and therefore uncopyrightable. Because we conclude that no copyright can be held in the annotations, we have no occasion to address the parties’ other arguments regarding originality and fair use."

In 2019 Malamud expressed a wish for the matter to advance to the Supreme Court for clarification, despite the appellate court ruling in his favor.

Other pending lawsuits
Carl Malamud is currently involved in several lawsuits through his organization Public.Resource.Org.

Malamud's campaign to become US Public Printer
In 2009 Malamud announced his candidacy to become Public Printer of the United States and asked for the public to endorse him for the position. The role is filled by an appointment by the president and it is unusual that it would be the subject of a public campaign. Malamud sought the position on a platform of promising to "make all primary legal materials produced by the U.S. readily available" and to include "principles of bulk data distribution in legislation."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation said that his agenda was "ambitious and impressive" and that if President Barack Obama granted him the position that it would be an excellent step toward fulfilling his promise to introduce "an unprecedented level of openness in Government."

Recognition
In 2009 Malamud received the EFF Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for being a public domain advocate.

Works
Malamud authored eight books as of 2009, including Exploring the Internet and A World's Fair.

10 Rules for Radicals
10 Rules for Radicals is Malamud's keynote at the 19th World Wide Web Consortium conference in April 2010. It's a slim and often humorous account of interaction with various bureaucracies and how to make public sector information more accessible.

It sums up: "*Rule 1: Call everything an experiment.
 * Rule 2: When the starting gun goes off, run really fast. As a small player, the elephant can step on you, but you can outrun the elephant.
 * Rule 3: Eyeballs rule. If a million people use your service, and on the Internet you can do that, you’ve got a lot more credibility than if you’re just issuing position papers and flaming the man.
 * Rule 4: When the time comes, be nice.
 * Rule 5: Keep asking until they say yes. Gordon Bell, the inventor of the VAX, once said that you should keep your vision, but modify your plan.
 * Rule 6: When you get the microphone, get to the point. Be clear about what you want.
 * Rule 7: Get standing. Have some skin in the game, some reason you’re at the table.
 * Rule 8: Get them to threaten you.
 * Rule 9: Look for overreaching, things that are just blatantly, obviously wrong or silly.
 * And finally, rule 10, which is don’t be afraid to fail. It took Thomas Edison 10,000 times before he got the lightbulb right, and when he was asked about those failures, he said “I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Fail. Fail often. And don’t forget, you can question authority."

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Diego de Montemayor

Diego de Montemayor (c. 1530 – 1611) was a Spanish conquistador, explorer, officer, and the governor of Nuevo Reino de León.

Early life
Historians dispute his date of birth, place of birth, and the identity of his parents. However, Antonio Morales Goméz and Carlos Pérez Maldonado have stated, without proving it, that Montemayor was born in the year 1530. In the Catalogo de Pasajeros a Indias, a certain "Diego de Montemayor" appears to have sailed toward New Spain from Sevilla, he is described to be a resident of Málaga, son of Juan de Montemayor and Mayor Hernández, and the husband of Inés Rodríguez.

Founding of Monterrey
Montemayor is credited with the founding of Monterrey, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, on September 20, 1596. The establishment was officially called Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey ("Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey," partly to curry favor from the Viceroy of the time, the Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey. Montemayor's founding was the third effort. The two previous ones bore the names Santa Lucia and San Luis Rey de Francia and were headed by Alberto del Canto, the future arch-enemy of Montemayor, and the second by Luis de Carabajal y Cueva. Montemayor brought forty people with him from Saltillo to populate Monterrey; nine married couples, three men without families, fourteen boys, four girls, and one Indian named Domingo Manuel.

Personal life
Montemayor served as governor of Nuevo León from 1588 to 1610 after he reconquered the province. He may have been married three times. His probable first wife was Inez Rodríguez, who came with him from Spain to the New World in 1548; then second María de Esquivel, and third Juana Porcalla de la Cerda. Montemayor had three children, one from each of his wives. His children were Inez, Diego, and Estefanía.

During the Chichimeca War in 1550, Montemayor was often away from his third wife, Juana Porcallo de la Cerda, and her attention soon focused on Alberto del Canto, only a few years her elder. When Montemayor later confronted her about the ongoing affair, an argument ensued, he drew his sword and killed her. Montemayor fled into the wilderness to the north, but was eventually cleared of all charges (perhaps because a law at the time allowed a man to kill his unfaithful wife). His daughter with Juana Porcallo, Estefanía, later married Alberto del Canto and had three children with him, though the two separated in 1596. Estefanía moved back to Monterrey with her father, and her children took the last name of Montemayor. Montemayor never met his vow to kill Alberto del Canto.

He died about 1611 in Monterrey, and is believed to be buried in the place where the Convento de San Francisco previously was, in the city of Monterrey.

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Talk:Concerto per Theremin. Live in Italy

Both the theremin and Lydia Kavina have their own pages. Why is that info duplicated here? Radioflux 20:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Added NPOV flag. You can't just say she's the best in the world without a citation. NeverWorker (Drop me a line) 01:21, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Knight Online

Needs to be cleaned up
Is it just me or do half of the letters on the class descriptions not even english,and why does it say that the warriors defense=suks?I can't even read the rogues description,this needs to be improved.I changed a few things to the article,nothing big,just a few errors,im assuming those letters on the class section are in turkish,since this is an english article it would be great if someone translated it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.235.184.195 (talk) 16:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:KOScreenShot.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

New Server
I honestly think that they should make a turkish server so that the games not so crowded in other servers because most of the people in the game are Turkish.In Turkey almost every kid between 9-15 who posesses a computer plays the crap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.228.216.196 (talk) 12:00, 27 July 2008

a good game
a good game Hi I really like the game. Knight Online is a fully 3D dowloadable MMORPG with a vast world to explore, and a chaotic realm to explore. The Free-To-Play version of Knight Online gives players the opportunity to purchase unavailable in-game scrolls which will greatly help the players in their clan war, player versus player, hunting and levelling up by boosting the players characters in many ways. The scrolls are able to increase attack power, boosting defence rating, increasing maximum hit points etc. The grafics aren't so good but i liked the easy gameplay and the caracteristic of the game has good hints about monsters and its locations. And there is only a thing i dont like the bugs and dificulty to find items for mage and warrior at begin levels.But i give 4 stars. By the way,I believe that many guys will be tired of getting gold by killing monsters, and me too although I love this game very much. So I have to look for some good sites to buy gold. Luckily, I have found one--gkplayer dot com which I think is not a scaming site at least. their service and price are reasonale too.I trust it and I am often buy gold from the site. I think maybe you guys can have a try. It does no bad, I think.Currently they have a 5% free point promotion. After you have tried, you may agree with me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssapple01 (talk • contribs) 20:33, 13 June 2009

Sorry, but the game is overrun by bots and hackers. Sure, go buy gold from an online site; all you are doing is giving botters and hackers incentive to keep cheating. Mgames and K2 do very little to get the cheating under control, yet routinely have promotions in the power up store (PUS) to lure you into spending real cash. It is suspected by legitimate players that Mgames and/or K2 are behind the cheat programs, hence the lack of security in-game. Besides the enormous amount of cheating, more and more accounts are being hacked; people attempt to log on, only to find out their info has been changed, or they get to log in to find out all their items are gone. They make minor changes which I consider "window dressing" - a change in the pointer, more items in the PUS, etc., but fail to address all the bugs and hacks that are rampant in the game. Since the Forgotten Frontiers update, clan listings have been bugged, some areas disabled, a new security program promised but never delivered; recently, changes to quests have resulted in bugged quests (cannot complete quest, and some you cannot even obtain). Opinion: Don't Waste Your Time On This Game! If you don't pay real money to purchase premium and PUS items, you most likely will not be able to log the main servers to participate in events. Additionally, attempts to complete some quests will leave you frustated due to the botters and hackers that deny you the kills needed (try hunting 50, 200 monsters only to have a macroer 1 hit everything in site!). Go play WoW or Guild Wars; at least they are proactive in keeping cheating at minimum levels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matron58 (talk • contribs) 16:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

BBB
BBB reports seldom work as they are not actually monitored except in instances of mass reports. Even when a report is finally acknowledged, The responses made by KOL will be fully fabricated. the following is an actual copy of such a report that went the whole course of filing:

Better Business Bureau • For Consumers • For Businesses • For Charities and Donors • About Us • News Center

Better Business Bureau Start With Trust Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties of Southern California Complaint Details

K2 Network 14252 Culver Drive, Suite A-355 Irvine, CA 92604 Contact: Guthrie, Justin Phone: (949) 870-3100

Info here about me was removed because it’s nobodys business

We have closed our file and we appreciate your using the Better Business Bureau. This complaint will remain in our file on this company and will be a part of the report we issue to the public.

If we can assist you in the future, please contact us.

Thank you.

Complaint ID: 98420216 Complaint Classification: Complaint Description - Posted 6/10/2009 10:48:55 AM For at least 4 weeks there have been many attempts to receive compliance from K2 networks/Knight online in regards to advertisements on their Official Log out Page in Non US zones. These advertisements link and share source IPs with various websites that sell Illegal virtual Items, characters, ingame money, and cheat programs for Real money. All the things listed above are in direct violation of the Terms of service agreement that all players MUST agree to upon registration for an account. Compliance has been met with denial, misdirection, and avoidance.

Complaint Summary Failure to remove advertisments that are in direct violation of their own terms of service

Resolution Sought Comply with consumer demand to remove any affiliation with services and websites that in any way violate their own TOS.

Additional Information Date Problem First Occurred: 4/13/2009 Product or Service: provider for online MMO games. Model Name or Number: Date Purchased: Order Number: Amount In Dispute: $0.00

Company's Response Company's Initial Response - Posted 07/21/2009 Hi Rick. Thanks for your attention to this matter. The "exit" page of Knight Online is a place where we do sell ad space to trusted partners. However, what we experienced was that these partners would suddenly change their ads (by swapping out content from the URLs on their end) to point to services we do not agree with, and are against the Terms of Use. Once we discovered our advertising customers were doing this, we immediately severed the ties between them and ensure all advertisements are checked regularly to ensure this doesn't happen again. Initial Response Summary Explained our temporary issue with the ad space being sold on Knight Online's exist page.

Consumer's Rebuttal Consumer's Rebuttal - Posted 07/23/2009 Multiple sources from the KOL Turkish IP player base have informed me that the ads that link to sites that sell illegal items, characters, ingame currency, and cheat programs are still on the official KOL non US exit page. I am offering a recommendation that advertisments be removed all together to keep a consistancy with the US KOL exit page. And allow only a link that directs to the official KOL site. This act would eliminate much of the confusion by players who do not speak english as a primary language from thinking that these things that are in violation of the KOL TOS are legal since they are represented on an official game page. There are still many honest players that continue to be disheartened by the minimalistic actions presented toward the problem of cheating, that has continued to grow at an alarming rate within the structure of KOL.

Company's Final Response Company's Final Response - Posted 07/24/2009 Hi Rick. I just spoke with our marketing department and have confirmed that we are very selective about what banners are displayed there. Beyond that, we have internal Turkish-speaking resources that are continually checking the sites linked from these banners to ensure no ToS-breaking items are present (such as gold selling, power leveling, or hack tool sales).

• Privacy Policy

• Trademarks • Terms of Use © Copyright 2009 The Better Business Bureau of the Southland, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

As of today, despite statements made by K2 representatives, the illegal sites are still being advertised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.157.165.152 (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Seems biased
I read most of this page, and i believe that it was written by someone who works for Knight Online. The broken english here seems to be very similar to all the broken english in the game. Also, its constantly praising the game, which is ridiculous. It's one of the worst games i've ever played. Their website barely works, game constantly glitches, is rarely updated, servers are down a lot, and its very bland and boring. They also make you pay to have at least an okay character. Leveling up without one of their paid packages is hard and incredibly repetitive. I think this page should be deleted... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oxi1337 (talk • contribs) 07:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Update the game requirements with the real ones, added actual game situation
The information about game requirements on kol official site are all wrong. The game don't even run on a pc with the minumum game requirements on kol official site (good luck making this game run under windows 98/me as it say on the official page). I update with the real game requirements that are enough to make the game run and you can actually play it (i doubt someone can play a game with under 15 fps). I added a couple of information about the game situation. This is more for new players to know what problems they will have there. Better say how they will not enjoy at all cause the vast majority of kol players are cheaters. Not to mention that several times legit player end up banned due to game bugs (apr.sys autobanning legit players, the fail antiwall hack system sending legit player in jail and funny the cheaters that passed the same coordinates were not send to jail...). Lack of customer support, it just fails to answer in the timeframe they say they will answer and if you actually get an answer that answer seams not to be connected with the problem you had. forgot to sign lol.Thedukesd (talk) 08:44, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Unless you can back any of this up with a reliable source, none of this info belongs in the article. Eik Corell (talk) 10:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok. I will come with some reliable sources. I will back it up with what someone from KOL staff is saying. Also some movies with some cheaters in action. Also proofs that legit players are banned, they received an answer, then customer support provide them another answer and still fails to answer what character was observed cheating, at what hour. I will even post screenshot showing how you can ask something at customer support and they answer something that has nothing to do with what was asked. Thedukesd (talk) 18:39, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

 * None of the above counts as a reliable source...  Nik the stoned  08:26, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

 * Whatever, you can keep the wrong and misleading information from reliable sources in this article and in several other wiki articles. Wiki is not considered a source of reliable information anyway, and it's not me saying this, just try to use wiki to back up your affirmations and see what happens. Thedukesd (talk) 20:49, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Several attempts to add inappropriate external links

 * Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2014

Hello, Knight in the online page 'Knight Online Europe Official site for routing link: please give authority to http://www.knightonlinepvp.eu regulation. Thank you.

Euknight (talk) 20:51, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 21:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The user wants to add the url they mentioned above. The reason the article is semi-protected is because they've been spamming the article with it for over a year. Eik Corell (talk) 05:04, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

 * Semi-protected edit request on 11 December 2014

Orginal europe web site : http://www.knightonlinepvp.eu friends.

External links ADD : Knight Online Europe

Euknight (talk) 13:21, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * ❌ per the above section. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 14:00, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

 * Semi-protected edit request on 11 December 2014

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Knight Online is an MMORPG developed by MGame Corporation.

The original game is hosted by MGame in Korea, and requires players to enter their Korean resident registration numbers to register. There are three other official versions: Knight Online Xross (usually called "JPKO") is hosted in Japan, while Knight Online World (usually called "USKO") is hosted in the United States, and Knight Online Europe (usually called "EUKO"). All of these versions accept registration from any location.

Knight Online is officially free-to-play (although to connect to the utmost of the servers during prime time, paid premium is required), but there are some features that must be paid for. In addition, there is an in-game Powerup Shop or Store which contains various items that one can purchase such as premium packages. Paid services include exclusive items and Premiums which are a limited-time subscription providing many benefits.

Gameplay
The player controls a virtual character. After connecting to a server for the first time, players must take sides, choosing either El Morad or Karus. The two nations are equivalent but have different appearance. Once the nation is decided, it's a difficult and expensive process to switch nations. To create a character, the player must choose (depending on the nation) a race, from Barbarian, male/female El Moradian, and the four Tuarek races that inhabit Karus. Following that, a class must be selected for the character along with a few appearance options. Finally the character is named and given its first 10 Stat Points.

The newly created character starts out in Moradon, a neutral trade city where El Morad and Karus live in peace. The player may acquire a virtual helper (named Seed or Max) by rescuing him from the clutches of an earthworm. The helper will then give the player information about the game and also allows them to change the options.

To advance in the game, the player must collect experience points to gain levels and items that boost the stats of the character. The monsters that inhabit the game world can be attacked using melee attacks or skills. Once a monster is killed, the killing player gains experience points and the monster leaves behind a loot box which may contain Noahs (in-game currency) and other items. The drop box is only accessible to the player or party that did the most damage to the monster. However, in case of kill stealing, the experience is divided according to the amount of damage done.

There are many quests in the game. These may require the player to kill a certain amount of a monster or to collect certain items (quest items). The squire will warn the player about any quests that may be completed at the current level. Quests are given out by certain NPCs who are usually found in towns. The reward for the quests may include experience, Noahs, weapons and armor, or even the ability to use certain skills. Players are encouraged to be patient with collection of the reward because as they level up it becomes more difficult to accumulate experience.

Players lose experience if they die from a monster. The amount lost depends on the character's level and it's also possible to lose a level upon losing experience. However, a death that results in a loss of a level will not allow the player to complete quests of the lower level.

When leveling up, the players gain stat points which can be distributed into Strength, Health, Dexterity, Intelligence and Magic Power stats. Levels 2~60 will give the player 3 stat points, while level 61 and beyond will give 5. Starting at level 10, two Skill Points are also awarded for each level. Characters may undergo the first job change at level 10 and the second job change at level 60. The job changes unlock new skills for the character, depending on its class.

Most items can be traded between players. The game's merchant feature allows the player to set up a kiosk to sell or buy items for Noahs. If a player has enough Noahs or the item sought for, he can enter the kiosk and perform the exchange. The transaction is done automatically, so the merchant doesn't have to be at the computer when the item is sold or bought. Bartering is also permissible using the trading option. This allows two players to exchange multiple items and/or Noahs between each other. Since a player can't hold more than 2.1 billion Noahs, players often exchange several items for a very valuable item. Each server has specific economies and equilibrium point for most valuable items.

Jobs (character classes)
Each character belongs to one of the two nations of the game: El Morad (humans) or Karus (orcs, although the game calls them "Tuareks").

Knight Online has four character classes available for both nations: Warrior, Rogue, Mage, and Priest. Each class has a basic skill set, three main skill sets (after 1st job change), and one master skill set (after 2nd job change).

Parties
As in most MMORPGs, Knight Online enables players to group together and complete objectives. Parties in Knight Online range between having two to eight players. The characters must be in a certain level range of the party leader in order to be in the same party. (However, a clan member may invite any other clan member regardless of level difference.) Party-members gain experience in accordance to their level. Knight Online encourages parties, since parties can collectively complete monster-killing quests.

In general, players receive experience from monsters in accordance to their contribution of level within a party, e.g. in a party of a level 35 character and a level 45 character, the level 45 character will receive significantly more experience than the level 35 character per kill of a monster. The level 35 character will receive less experience than they might by killing the monster by themselves, and the level 45 character will get more experience than if he killed the monster by himself (nevertheless, the level 45 character will most likely receive more experience in general because the level 45 character will likely kill monsters much faster than the level 35 character could by themselves).

Noahs are split fairly evenly among players, and the total number of Noahs a monster drops, is to some extent determined by the number of party members killing the monster. If the player doing the most damage to the monster is no longer eligible to receive Noahs from a monster (because their level is higher than a certain threshold) then no Noahs are dropped by the monster. For instance, a level 55 character will no longer receive Noah drops by killing "Lycan s" (a level 35 monster) so if that character does the majority of damage to the Lycan in a party, the party members will not receive any coin drop (if a level 20 character does most of the damage then Noahs will be distributed once clicked on).

Items are distributed in rotation among players, e.g. if a "crystal" is picked up by any member of the party then whose ever turn it is to receive the item will get it. This results in party members deliberately picking up unnecessary or cheap items during other party member's turns to pick up, or in some cases, players leaving the party while the treasure chest is open, and taking the item while not in the party if it is particularly valuable.

Captains and bosses
Many groups of monsters have particularly large and powerful monsters, which spawn less often than the others in the same group, these are Captains or leaders. By accessing the map (pressing M), spawn points of Captains may be located. Captains often drop leader accessories, which are a form of beginner friendly gear, or even somewhat valuable objects.

Differing from Captains are bosses, these extremely rare creatures spawn extremely infrequently (around every 12 hours). Bosses may drop unique items endemic to their species of monsters, or other extremely valuable items.

Servers and worlds
The game is hosted on a couple of servers in each version. Servers are grouped into worlds. No characters or items may be transferred across worlds, but a character created in a world is available on all servers of the world.

A player may create up to 4 characters per world on the same account. These characters have a common "bank" which can be used for storing items and Noahs.

The Korean and Japanese version of the game have only one server per world, while the Knight Online World version has 2 servers, which take the name of the world suffixed by the number 1 or 2 (for example, the world Ares has 2 servers: Ares1 and Ares2). In this version, some zones and events including War, Delos, the Abyss, and Ardream can only be accessed from server one in each world, which typically has the most users logged in at any given time.

The Carnac-West server (Knight Online World) allows players from North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and a few other countries to have an isolated access to this server. By preventing players with IPs from other countries, the server population of Carnac-West was greatly reduced, drastically eliminating the login issues for players of the permitted geographic regions.

PvP
Knight Online allows players to fight against each other in various zones. Some of these provide no rewards or risks, while in others players gain National Points and Leader Points (also called Ladder Points) for killing enemies, but the defeated player loses some of these points. When killing in solo, 50 NP is awarded for killing, but when in a party, the points gained are distributed among the party members (still, the total amount of points gained is higher with more players in the party). Dying results in the loss of 50 NP. Leader point gains and losses depend on whether the involved players have a Leader or National ranking. Additionally, 50% of the defeated player's coins is transferred to the victor, although losing coins can be prevented by placing the coins into the bank.

The 50 players with the most National Points and the 200 players with the most leader points of each nation are ranked and are eligible for a "knight stipend", a small cash bonus. Leader points are reset to zero each month.

Other than arenas, players can only attack others from the opposing nation.

Knight Online PvP is notable for requiring a lot of skill in addition to good items. There are possibilities for doing combos, and quick reflexes for using healing items or skills is also important.

The game has the following PvP areas:
 * Arenas are battlefields where players may battle each other without risking National Points. There are arenas for free-for-all combat, fights between parties or clans. Arenas are a good place to practice one's PvP skills.
 * Abyss Dungeon, Krowaz's Dominion and the clan promotion quest areas are locations where fighting among players is not the main purpose, but nevertheless enabled. There are no rewards and losses for fighting in these zones.
 * Ardream, Ronark Land Base and Ronark Land are open battle zones. National and Leader points are awarded. These are considered the primary PvP locations in the game.
 * There are certain events where players can battle each other, such as wars and Juraid Mountain. These events are scheduled and a limited number of players can enter.

Items
There are many types of items in the game, such as weapons, armor, accessories, quest items and consumable items. There are also materials for crafting items.

Armor classes
A character can wear 5 pieces of armor: helmet, pauldron, pads, boots and gauntlets. Each piece of armor is specialized for a class, and only characters of that class may wear it. Armors come in different tiers, a higher tier armor granting more defense ability than a lower tier one, while requiring more stat points to wear. Character builds exist for most tiers of armor, as the stat requirements determine which weapons can be used and whether an offensive or supporting role fits the character.

There are 6 basic tiers of armor: basic ("Paper", sacrifices defense for attack), half-plate, plate, full-plate/crystal, chitin/crimson and chitin shell/complete. (The name after the slash is used for mages only.) There are special set items which have the same properties as Tier 6 armor, but when multiple pieces are worn (i.e. a set of these armors), various bonuses will appear. Wearing 5 pieces of the "set" gives the greatest bonus. In the Forgotten Frontiers expansion, a manufacturing method for set armors was introduced. Set items may also be achieved through national ranking and from Knight Medals.

Weapons
A player can use a variety of weapons, not all weapons are for set classes. Any character can use almost any weapon, as long as they have the required stats. Using weapons that don't require class stats or skills is almost useless, as they do not confer any bonuses. The only exceptions for the most part are bows, which are only available to rogues.

The game also includes several unique weapons, which may drop from bosses or have a chance of dropping from reward items collected in certain events.

Crafting
Items labeled "Upgrade item" or "Unique item" can be upgraded by taking them to the Magic Anvil with the compatible scrolls. There is a chance that the item will be destroyed during the upgrade.

Rebirth system
Since the release of the Reign of the Fire Drake, a new system of upgrading was implemented. The Rebirth System gives players a new upgrading option when it comes to armor and weapons. This system of upgrading allows better probabilities when upgrading.

Manufacturing
The Forgotten Frontiers expansion introduced a new concept of manufacturing: by collecting materials from various locations and events, powerful weapons and armor may be created. There is a chance that the manufacturing won't succeed. Weapons produced this way are called Satanism (Cursed weapons in the English version), and can have various added effects when attacking, such as shrinking the enemy and making them weaker. Set armors are also manufactured using this method.

Zones
There are many maps in which players of Knight Online may find themselves in. Players usually travel between them using a set of Warp gates for a price. Some zones have a different way of entering, such as by talking to a NPC.

Events
Scheduled events happen on a regular basis for each server. These are one of the main focal points of Knight Online.

Gameplay updates
MGame releases updates for the game. The Korean version receives updates in every one or two weeks. The other versions only get major updates roughly once a year, called expansions. These include most of the updates from the Korean version. The following expansions apply to Knight Online World.

Knight Empire
In September 2005, a major update known as Knight Empire was released that changed a few maps, added new item upgrading systems, and introduced the King system into the game.

Reign of the Fire Drake
On August 3, 2006 a new expansion called The Reign of the Fire Drake was released. This update added the Bifrost, Nereidth Island, Ardream, Dragon Cave and Monster Suppression zones, many new quests, monsters, and bosses; changed the user interface, introduced the Post-Office system and Chaotic Generator, and increased the maximum level cap to 80.

Moradon: The Resurrection
Released in late 2007 as Moradon: The Resurrection. This expansion added a couple of new things to the starter city, Moradon. The map was totally modified, with a new city and large hunting areas. It also introduced the requirement of level 35 for leaving the map and level 30 for trading other players. This expansion included the ability to raise pets(with premium), acquiring the Accredited Knight and Royal Knight ranks, buying Medals for National Points and the Border Defense War and Juraid Mountain events.

Forgotten Frontiers
Released on 21 Oct 2008. This expansion raised the maximum level to 83, adding one or two skills for each class. A system for manufacturing weapons and armors was added. Ronark Land was modified to accommodate new monsters which drop materials for manufacturing. New zones introduced are Krowaz's Dominion, Ronark Land Base and the Oreads war map. Many new quests were added and existing ones were modified to become easier. A buying merchant mode was added (previously merchants could only be used for selling items) and the help request system also debuted in this version.

The Chaos
Released in Japan on 13 Aug 2009 and to Knight Online World on 10 Dec 2009.

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Miami, Queensland

Miami is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the, Miami had a population of 7,445 people.

Geography
Miami is located along the Gold Coast Highway, 9 km south of Surfers Paradise and 17 km north of the Queensland / New South Wales border at Coolangatta/Tweed Heads.

The town of North Burleigh is located within the suburb (-28.0652°N, 153.4427°W).

Miami has the following mountains:

 * North Nobby (-28.0619°N, 153.4406°W) 46 m
 * South Nobby (Little Burleigh) (-28.0721°N, 153.4465°W) 7 m

Miami has the following beaches:

 * Nobby Beach (-28.0618°N, 153.4431°W) extending north to Mermaid Beach
 * Miami Beach (-28.0695°N, 153.4453°W)
 * North Burleigh Beach (-28.0748°N, 153.4472°W) extening south to Burleigh Heads

Its commercial activity is mainly confined to the Gold Coast Highway and there is some light industry around Christine Avenue.

The Gold Coast Highway runs north to south through Miami, with Christine Avenue and Pacific Avenue connecting to the west.

History
The history of Miami can be dated back to the early 1920s when prospective investors were looking over plans for a new real estate development called Miami Shore at North Burleigh. The name "Miami Shore" was chosen as a reference to Miami Shores, Florida. The investors built their wooden or fibro bungalows on estates such as this, or rented their cottages to holiday makers. They could also stay in the Hotel Miami which opened in 1925 by E. H. Berry. In 1953, tennis courts were constructed. Pizzey Park Sporting Complex was established on 60 ha in 1969.

Miami State High School opened on 1 January 1963. Because there was a visible rock face remaining from an earlier quarry, the school principal William Callinan covered it up with a set of huge yellow letters saying "HI MIAMI HIGH". It now says just "MIAMI HIGH".

On Sunday December 22, 1963, Calvary Memorial Catholic Church was officially opened and dedicated by Archbishop James Duhig. It commemorates those who served in the Korean War.

Miami State School opened on 30 January 1979; it is now within the suburb boundaries of Mermaid Waters.

In 1988, Australian musician John Farnham's music video for the top-10 song "Two Strong Hearts" was filmed outside the famous "Miami Ice" factory at 2015 Gold Coast Highway.

Demographics
In the, Miami had a population of 6,843 people.

In the, Miami had a population of 7,445 people.

Heritage listings
Miami has a number of heritage sites, including:

 * 2171 Gold Coast Highway (-28.0633°N, 153.4406°W): Miami State High School Sign

Education
Miami State High School is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at 2137-2205 Gold Coast Highway (-28.0628°N, 153.4378°W). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 1,255 students with 103 teachers (100 full-time equivalent) and 62 non-teaching staff (45 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program certified through the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Facilities
Miami Day Hospital is a private day hospital at 24 Hillcrest Parade (-28.0631°N, 153.4369°W).

Amenities
Pizzey Park is a major Gold Coast sporting and recreational located at 80 Pacific Avenue (-28.0638°N, 153.4263°W).

Calvary Catholic Church is at 50 Redondo Avenue (-28.0649°N, 153.4411°W). It is part of the Burleigh Heads Catholic Parish within the Archdiocese of Brisbane.

Burleigh Bears Rugby League Football Club is at 80 Pacific Avenue (-28.0633°N, 153.4306°W).

Gold Coast Burleigh Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course at 114 Albion Street (-28.0672°N, 153.4348°W).

There are two surf life saving clubs in Miami:

 * Miami Beach Surf Life Saving Club, 2 Hythe Street (-28.0692°N, 153.4443°W)
 * North Burleigh Surf Life Saving Club, 293 The Esplanade (-28.0741°N, 153.4463°W)

Other sporting teams include the Eastern Cobras, and the Bond Pirates Rugby Union Club in Pizzey Park, which fields teams in juniors, seniors, women and Over 35s competitions. Bond Pirates have provided Wallabies players Tai McIsaac and James Slipper, and several members of the Croatian and Tongan national teams. Bond Pirates is an amalgamated Club, consisting of the original Bond University Club and the original Pirates Club.

Transport
Miami has two high frequency bus services that run at intervals of 8–15 minutes during peak times. Buses that travel through the suburb are: 700 Broadbeach South - Tweed Heads (the 700 gets extend to the Gold Coast University Hospital between 12am-5am weekdays), 777 Broadbeach South - Gold Coast Airport (777 is an express bus route) and the TX1 Tweed Heads - Dream World (TX1 is a theme park express service only). All bus services on the Gold Coast are provided by Kinetic Group under contract by Translink, a subsidiary of the Department of Transport and Main Roads.

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Argyraspides

The Argyraspides (Ἀργυράσπιδες) were elite Macedonian soldiers who carried silver-plated shields, hence their name. The original unit were hypaspists serving in the army of Alexander the Great. During the Wars of the Diadochi, they initially served Eumenes, but betrayed him to Antigonus I Monophthalmus at the Battle of Gabiene in 316. After their dispersal under Antigonus, later units of the Seleucid Empire and Roman Empire would be modeled after them.

Alexander the Great
They were a division of the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great. They were picked men commanded by Nicanor, the son of Parmenion, as well as Seleucus, and were held in high honor by Alexander. They were hypaspists, having changed their name to the Argyraspides whilst in India under Alexander.

Wars of the Diadochi
After the death of Alexander in 323 BC, they followed Eumenes. They were veterans, and although most of them were over sixty, they were feared and revered due to their battle skills and experience. At the Battle of Gabiene in 316 BC, they settled with Antigonus I Monophthalmus after he managed to take possession of their baggage train (consisting of their families and the result of forty years of plunder). One of their commanders, Teutamus, negotiated with Antigonus to obtain the return of their possessions, but in exchange delivered their general Eumenes to him.

Antigonus soon broke up the corps, finding it too turbulent to manage, also executing their other commander, Antigenes. Over the course of the Wars of the Diadochi, Antigonus had developed a severe hatred of the veteran unit due to almost dying in a mutiny caused by them, and also being crushed in battle by them multiple times. He sent them to Sibyrtius, the Macedonian satrap of Arachosia, with the order to dispatch them by small groups of two or three to dangerous missions so that their numbers would rapidly dwindle. However, others may have been retired to live in Macedonian settlements in Asia.

Polyaenus write that Antigonus liberally rewarded the Argyraspides who brought him Eumenes as prisoner. But, in order to protect himself from future acts against him, he ordered a thousand of the Argyraspides to serve under Sibyrtius, while he isolated others by having them remain in garrisons in remote, uncultivated countries, eventually managing to get rid of them all this way.

Plutarch wrote that after Antigonus killed Eumenes, he sent the Argyraspides to Sibyrtius and ordered him to destroy them in every possible way.

Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid kings of Syria employed an infantry phalangite corps of the same name. At the Battle of Raphia in 217 BC, the 10,000 men-strong Argyraspides took up positions opposite the Ptolemaic phalanx. They were men chosen from the whole kingdom and armed in the Macedonian manner. Their position beside the king at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC suggests that they were the premier infantry guard unit in the Seleucid army. At the Daphne parade held by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 166 BC, the Argyraspides were 5,000 strong. However, the corps of men described by Polybius as being armed and dressed in the "Roman fashion" numbered 5,000, and Bar-Kochva suggests that these men, who are described as being in the prime of life, might have also been a division of the Argyraspides, putting the number of the corps back up to 10,000 strong. Livy mentions a cavalry corps called argyraspides as a royal cohort in the army of Antiochus III the Great at Magnesia.

Rome
The Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, among other ways in which he imitated Alexander the Great, had in his army men who were called argyraspides and chrysaspides (i.e. "golden shields").

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West Branch Wading River

The West Branch Wading River is a 22.7 mi tributary of the Wading River in Burlington County in the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens in the United States.

The confluence of Tulpehocken Creek and the West Branch Wading River create the Wading River.

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Corfu International Airport

Corfu International Airport "Ioannis Kapodistrias" (Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κέρκυρας "Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας") or Ioannis Kapodistrias (Capodistrias) International Airport is a government-owned airport on the Greek island of Corfu at Kerkyra, serving both scheduled and charter flights from European cities. Air traffic peaks during the summer season, between April and October.

The Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport, named after Ioannis Kapodistrias, a distinguished Corfiot diplomat and the first governor of Greece, is located around 2 kilometres south of Corfu Town, and half a kilometre north of Pontikonisi. A 2021 study found that Corfu International Airport was one of the top 20 most vulnerable airports to climate change caused sea level rise.

History
The airport was founded in 1937. During the Second World War, it was used by German and Italian forces as a base for transport and fighter aircraft. During the war the runway length was 600 m. By the end of April 1949, the length had reached 800 m. A further extension to 1,260 m took place by the end of 1951 to meet the then larger aircraft needs. The next and last extension of the runway began in 1957 and was completed in 1959, with a length of 2,373m. The first commercial flight took place on 19 April 1949 from Athens operated by TAE Greek National Airlines. On 2 September 1950, HELLAS also started flights to Corfu. In 1962, a small passenger terminal was built, which today accommodates the Corfu Aeroclub. In April 1965, the airport became International, with the inaugural overseas flight being operated by Olympic Airlines. The construction of the new passenger terminal began in 1968 and was completed in 1972.

In December 2015, the privatisation of Corfu International Airport and 13 other regional airports of Greece was finalised with the signing of the agreement (as a joint venture) between Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group and state privatisation fund Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund. "We signed the deal today," the head of Greece's privatisation agency HRADF, Stergios Pitsiorlas, told Reuters. According to the agreement, the joint venture will operate the 14 airports (including Corfu International Airport) for 40 years as of 11 April 2017.

Fraport Greece's investment plan
On 22 March 2017, Fraport Greece presented its master plan for the 14 regional airports including Corfu International Airport.

Immediate actions that were implemented as soon as Fraport-Greece took over operations included a general clean-up of the airport, improving lighting and sanitary facilities and the markings of airside areas, as well as offering free WiFi and ensuring fire safety standards are met throughout the airport and surrounding property.

The master plan also included changes which will be implemented under Fraport-Greece's investment plan prior to 2021. These changes include the remodeling and expansion of the current terminal as well as the construction of a new terminal. A Hold Baggage inline Screening System (HBS) will improve safety and efficiency, along with the refurbishment of the airport fire service, which will benefit from the reorganization of the airport apron area including the replacement of paving in this area. Also planned is the increase in the number of check-in desks from 22 to 28, and the number of departure gates to 12, as well as reorganisation of the security check lanes in the terminal.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Corfu Airport:

Traffic figures
The data are from the official website of the airport.

Traffic statistics by country (2023)
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Ground transport
By car or taxi, Corfu Airport is located 2.7 km from the city of Corfu and takes about 10 minutes. Bus services are provided between the airport and the city centre.

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