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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Killing Bottle

The result was delete. Tone 21:50, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

The Killing Bottle

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The following films are also being included in this bundle, because they are also part of the same poorly documented film series, and have also been created, moved to draft space, and re-created:

This article has been moved to draft space at least twice and is being repeatedly re-created in article space. This article has no references, and so cannot satisfy film notability, let alone general notability. Google search shows that the 1967 film is listed in IMDB, which probably means that it exists. At this point, Articles for Deletion seems to be either the only way to get rid of this zombie page or the only way to get the film documented. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:45, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:45, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:45, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

 * Delete: Not notable; consider coaching creator of article about recreating articles moved to draft space. Aasim 19:39, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, user is now blocked. Wonder if we can get this speedy closed as "Delete".  Aasim 23:10, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - You presumably mean a snow delete, since this doesn't satisfy any of the criteria for speedy deletion. As nominator, I respectfully disagree with a snow close, and think that this AFD should be allowed to run for seven days.  I couldn't find sources in English, but there might be sources in Japanese.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:40, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per G5. The article represents block evasion by Oliverdrinkstars57 and Special:Contributions/2601:440:C080:36F0:5CCD:B40D:5A45:8CF6. If someone is to write about the topic it should be an editor in good standing. Binksternet (talk) 17:15, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - I respectfully disagree with User:Binksternet as to G5. The author was blocked after creating these articles, and was blocked for persistently creating unsourced content, such as these articles.  These articles are the unsourced content that needs deleting.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:24, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


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Tôn Đức Thắng

Tôn Đức Thắng (August 20, 1888 – March 30, 1980) was the second president of Vietnam under the leadership of General Secretary Lê Duẩn. The position of president is ceremonial and Tôn was never a major policymaker or even a member of the Politburo, Vietnam's ruling council. He served as president, initially of North Vietnam from September 2, 1969, and later of a united Vietnam, until his death in 1980.

Tôn Đức Thắng was a key Vietnamese nationalist and Communist political figure, was chairman of the National Assembly's Standing Committee (1955–1960) and served as the vice president to Hồ Chí Minh from 1960 to 1969. He died at the age of 91; he was the oldest head of a state with the title of "president" (subsequently surpassed by Hastings Banda).

Early life
Tôn Đức Thắng was born to Tôn Văn Đề and Nguyễn Thị Di on Ông Hô Island along the Mekong River, roughly four kilometres from Long Xuyên, the capital of An Giang Province. From 1897 to 1901, Tôn received his education in Nom script, history and Confucian philosophy from a private tutor in Long Xuyên. This tutor, an anti-colonialist, had a major influence on the early development of Tôn's political beliefs. Afterwards, he learned French at an elementary school in Long Xuyên. Tôn lived with his parents until 1906, when he moved to Saigon.

Revolutionary career
Tôn claimed to have participated while a sailor in the French navy, during his time in the Black Sea in 1919, during the Black Sea mutiny a plot with fellow sailors to turn over the French armored cruiser Waldeck-Rousseau to the enemy Bolshevik revolutionaries. Christoph Giebel, an author, claims that Tôn apparently did not participate in a mutiny on a French ship sent to the Black Sea in 1919 to help defeat Bolsheviks. He claims that it was a fabricated story that linked Vietnamese communism with the October Revolution in Russia, which was recounted across the Communist world in the 1950s. Giebel also highlights disagreements over Tôn's involvement with a Saigon labour union in the 1920s and the naval-yard strike there in 1925, though the credibility of the story is unknown.

Tôn Đức Thắng continued to participate in rebellious activities against the French. He joined the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League in 1927 and in 1929, he was imprisoned by the French colonial authority at Saigon, then deported to the famed Côn Sơn Prison. He remained there until 1945 and immediately rose again in the public eye. After Hồ Chí Minh's Viet Minh came to power in August 1945, Tôn became a member of the Cochinchina Party Committee of the CPV, a member of the Administration Resistance Committee of Cochinchina and, in 1946, the presiding member of the National Assembly. In 1947, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Rise to power
Tôn also served as president of the Lien Viet during the rebellion against the French from 1946 to 1954. However, the organization was dissolved after the Geneva Convention in 1954 which gave the Viet Minh sole control over North Vietnam. Tôn then took over another organization, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, a Communist pro-government nationalist group. Tôn led the Fatherland Front in its campaign to draw supporters from South Vietnam. He received the Stalin Peace Award in 1955 as a result.

Tôn's work trying to win over South Vietnam by peaceful means also helped lead him to becoming the Vice President of North Vietnam under Hồ Chí Minh in 1960. In 1967, when he was still vice president, Tôn won the Lenin Peace Prize, an annual prize similar to the Nobel Peace Prize, but given out by the Soviet Union. After Hồ Chí Minh's death in 1969, Tôn succeeded him as president. Most of the real power, however, was vested in Communist Party chief Lê Duẩn.

Fall of Saigon
With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the pro-Communist Provisional Revolutionary Government took control of the South. This allowed for the future reunification of Vietnam as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was formalized on July 2, 1976. Presently, April 30 is recognized as a public holiday in Vietnam known as Reunification Day, even though it was not until July 2 the year after that the two countries became officially united as one nation. Tôn became the first president of the reunified country.

President of reunified Vietnam
With the end of the Vietnam War and with the South Vietnamese government ousted, Tôn was easily able to hold on to his position as president of the unstable new nation during the middle and late 1970s. The unified Vietnam under Tôn experienced early troubles, as political and economic conditions were deteriorating and millions of South Vietnamese were fleeing the country as boat people. As the leader of the united Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Tôn worked hard for several years on a massive reconstruction effort to rebuild both the former North and South Vietnam's industry, infrastructure, and economy.

Deposing of the Khmer Rouge
In early 1978 Tôn approached the Soviet Union for help in deposing the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, which was aligned with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Growing tensions between the PRC and the Soviet Union had drastically escalated the situation in the area, making the Soviet Union anxious about the outcome of a proxy war between Vietnam and Cambodia.

Tôn's proposal may have seemed like a golden opportunity for the Soviet Union because it assumed that the Vietnamese army could easily defeat Cambodian forces. A Vietnamese victory would weaken the only nation aligned with the People's Republic of China in Southeast Asia and demonstrate the superiority of being aligned with the Soviet Union.

On December 25, 1978, after months of growing border conflicts and an influx of Cambodians seeking refuge in Vietnam, the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia. By January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese had easily captured the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, and deposed the Khmer Rouge régime. However, the Soviet Union's diplomatic victory was short-lived, as the PRC was now being backed by the United States, and they increasingly showed signs of being close to war with Vietnam. The Soviets knew that they could not intervene to help the Vietnamese if the PRC decided to invade Vietnam.

On February 15 1979, the People's Republic of China officially announced plans to invade Vietnam, thus ending the crucial and significant Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, which had been signed in 1950. The PRC claimed that the invasion was the result of Vietnam's mistreatment of ethnic Chinese and the Vietnamese presence on the PRC's Spratly Islands.

On February 17, a PRC force of about 200,000 troops had crossed into Vietnam, and they immediately started to invade Vietnamese cities and towns along Vietnam's northern border. Vietnam had left an army of 100,000 men to fight off the PRC and heavy casualties were reported from both sides.

The Chinese started to withdraw their forces less than a month later, on March 16. China's early exit from the country led tomuch confusion to who was the victor of the Sino-Vietnamese War, or if there was one. Tôn proclaimed that Vietnam had won the war, while his counterpart in China, Ye Jianying, proclaimed a Chinese victory. However, one thing is sure about the Sino-Vietnamese War's outcome: Tôn's Vietnam was able to successfully depose the Khmer Rouge from power in Cambodia.

Death and legacy
Tôn Đức Thắng died on March 30, 1980, in Hanoi, a little more than a year after the conclusion of the Sino-Vietnamese War, at the age of 91 from a heart seizure and respiratory failure. He was the oldest ever president of a country in the world. He was succeeded by one of his vice presidents, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ. He is buried in Mai Dịch Cemetery in the section reserved for the graves of government leaders and famous revolutionaries.

Even though Tôn had been the first president of the reunited Socialist Republic of Vietnam, he has not attained the same reverence as his predecessor, Hồ Chí Minh, had received from the Vietnamese people. Tôn served as the nation's leader during the pivotal time when North Vietnam and South Vietnam were reunified as one. However, it was also a time when the country showed signs of exhaustion from 30 years of wars, with the Vietnam People's Army engaged in a long, costly war in Cambodia and Northern border. The economy collapsed in the wake of a failed attempt to collectivize the southern economy, some key party members such as Bùi Tín and Hoàng Văn Hoan defected. It was under his rule that Vietnam survived the subsidy period. Later in 1986, the Sixth Party's Congress passed the Renovation policy which recognized the failure of collectivization and liberalized the economy, opening a new chapter in Vietnam's history.

Tôn Đức Thắng University, a top research university in Ho Chi Minh City, was named after him. Many avenues and roads in major metropolises are also named after him. A Tôn Đức Thắng Museum opened in Ho Chi Minh City in 1988, on the centenary of Tôn's birth.

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Talk:Soil Science

"Technically Soil Science is termed Agronomy or the study of soils..."

I think perhaps this was meant to read Agrology, not Agronomy, since agrology is defined in most (all?) dictionaries as meaning the same as soil science. Except in Canada where 5000 agrologists consider themselves not soil scientists, but agricultural production experts. see Agrology. So rewording Agronomy to Agrology would be wrong for Canada. Would it be okay with folks here to reword the above as:

"Technically Soil Science is termed Agronomy or the study of soils..." ?

 * We probably already know this, but this should have many, many links to wikipedia, and should be broken out into chapters the way the botany wikibook is. <IP_ADDRESS> 14:23, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

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User:Den Zhapiro

My name is Den Zhapiro (not to be confused with Ben Shapiro)

My passion is graphic design and articles related to Maine. I'm currently a student, also living in Maine. I enjoy helping out in minor ways, so we'll see how it goes.

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User:<IP_ADDRESS>/sandbox

Article Evaluation:

Emily Graves

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22 September 2017

Data Journalism Response

I picked an article called Sports Journalism. The first thing that got my attention was a textbox at the top of the article that stated the article had included lists of references but sources are unclear because there are insufficient inline citations. This was the first thing that distracted me. The information that it gave was relevant, however I think that the flow of the subtitles could have gone in a better order so this distracted me some.

This article stays neutral. There was one claim that stood out to me the most and it was called sports journalists –toy journalists because what they write about isn’t serious. This was the biggest claim that stood out to me because that isn’t something that is quite proven to factual. The viewpoints that seem to be underrepresented are the work that goes into doing sports journalism and the viewpoints that seem to be overrepresented is that the work isn’t serious.

I think that the information that could have been added would have been information from United States and unlike how it talked mostly about Europe. The links work for some, but it also goes back to the textbox at the beginning of the article that mentioned it. It has a lot of references but not as much citations. There needs to be more citations put it. It gives valuable information, but I think some of it needs to be fact checked and cited so that gives the article more accountability/credibility.

This article is part of multiple Wikiprojects including journalism and sports. In the Talk section, people believe the article should be longer and give more credit to sports journalists and list some notable sports journalists. He believes the article should be redirected into an article about the practice of sports journalism. Someone else would like a section about sports blogs on there as well. The major critic of this article is that it is mostly about British sports journalists and that people want to see more of the American side as well.

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Ada Programming/Types/delta

Description
A fixed point type defines a set of values that are evenly spaced with a given absolute precision. In contrast, floating point values are all spaced according to a relative precision.

The absolute precision is given as the delta of the type. There are two kinds of fixed point types, ordinary and decimal.

For Ordinary Fixed Point types, the delta gives a hint to the compiler how to choose the small value if it is not specified: It can be any integer power of two not greater than delta. You may specify the small via an attribute clause to be any value not greater than delta. (If the compiler cannot conform to this small value, it has to reject the declaration.)

For Decimal Fixed Point types, the small is defined to be the delta, which in turn must be an integer power of ten. (Thus you cannot specify the small by an attribute clause.)

For example, if you define a decimal fixed point type with a delta of 0.1, you will be able to accurately store the values 0.1, 1.0, 2.2, 5.7, etc. You will not be able to accurately store the value 0.01. Instead, the value will be rounded down to 0.0.

If the compiler accepts your fixed point type definition, it guarantees that values represented by that type will have at least the degree of accuracy specified (or better). If the compiler cannot support the type definition (e.g. due to limited hardware) then a compile-time error will result.

Ordinary Fixed Point
For an ordinary fixed point, you just define the delta and a range:

Delta Low .. High

The delta can be any real value — for example you may define a circle with one arcsecond resolution with:

1.0 / (60 * 60) 0.0 .. 360.0

[There is one rather strange rule about fixed point types: Because of the way they are internally represented, the range might only go up to. This is a bit like a circle — the 0° and 360° mark is also the same.]

It should be noted that in the example above the smallest possible value used is not $$\frac{1}{60^2} = \frac{1}{3600}$$. The compiler will choose a smaller value which, by default, is an integer power of 2 not greater than the delta. In our example this could be $$2^{-12} = \frac{1}{4096}$$. In most cases this should render better performance but sacrifices precision for it.

If this is not what you wish and precision is indeed more important, you can choose your own small value via the attribute clause '.

Angle  Pi/2.0**31  -Pi .. Pi; Angle'Small Pi/2.0**31;

As internal representation, you will get a 32 bit signed integer type.

Decimal Fixed Point
You define a decimal fixed point by defining the delta and the number of digits needed:

Delta Num_Digits

Delta must be a positive or negative integer power of 10 — otherwise the declaration is illegal.

10.0**(+2) 12  10.0**(-2)  12

If you like, you can also define the range needed:

Delta_Value Num_Digits  Low .. High

Differences between Ordinary and Decimal Fixed Point Types
There is an alternative way of declaring a "decimal" fixed point: You declare an ordinary fixed point and use an integer power of 10 as '. The following two declarations are equivalent with respect to the internal representation:

-- decimal fixed point Duration  10.0**(-9)  9;

-- ordinary fixed point Duration  10.0**(-9)  -1.0 .. 1.0; Duration'  10.0**(-9);

You might wonder what the difference then is between these two declarations. The answer is:

None with respect to precision, addition, subtraction, multiplication with integer values.

The following is an incomplete list of differences between ordinary and decimal fixed point types.

 * Decimal fixed point types are intended to reflect typical COBOL declarations with a given number of digits.

 * Truncation is required for decimal, not for ordinary, fixed point in multiplication and division (RM ) and type conversions. Operations on decimal fixed point are fully specified, which is not true for ordinary fixed point.

 * The following attributes are only defined for decimal fixed point: T'Digits (RM ) corresponds to the number of decimal digits that are representable; T'Scale (RM, taken from COBOL) indicates the position of the point relative to the rightmost significant digits; T'Round (RM ) can be used to specify rounding on conversion.

 * Package Decimal (RM ), which of course applies only to decimal fixed point, defines the decimal Divide generic procedure. If annex F is supported (GNAT does), at least 18 digits must be supported (there is no such rule for fixed point).

 * Decimal_IO (RM ) has semantics different from Fixed_IO (RM ).

 * Static expressions must be a multiple of the Small for decimal fixed point.

Conclusion: For normal numeric use, an ordinary fixed point (probably with 'Small defined) should be defined. Only if you are interested in COBOL like use, i.e. well defined deterministic decimal semantics (especially for financial computations, but that might apply to cases other than money) should you take decimal fixed point.

Wikibook

 * Ada Programming
 * Ada Programming/Types
 * Ada Programming/Types/range
 * Ada Programming/Types/digits
 * Ada Programming/Types/mod
 * Ada Programming/Keywords/delta
 * Ada Programming/Attributes/'Small

Ada 2005 Reference Manual

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Programación en Ada/Tipos/Coma fija

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Posyolok Ilyicha

Posyolok Ilyicha (Посёлок Ильича) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Zudilovsky Selsoviet, Pervomaysky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 505 as of 2013. There are 5 streets.

Geography
Posyolok Ilyicha is located 24 km north of Novoaltaysk (the district's administrative centre) by road.

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User:Noahcawley1

 Maisie Peters  (born 28th May 2000) who comes from Brighton, West Sussex is a pop singer-songwriter who started her career (in 2007) by posting original song's on her YouTube account such as "toast". Being only 19 (as of 23/9/19), she's had a good start ; After being noticed by Atlantic Records UK, her career took off. Her first song's with the label were "birthday" and "place we were made" and her recently released EP "dressed too nice for a jacket " SHES A SWIFTIE!!!!

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Talk:Drupal/Archives/2019/March

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This page, particularly the criticisms section, reads like a press release by the makers of Drupal. Here's our talking points in response to each of the major criticisms while not exploring why those criticisms exist! — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:23, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I removed a sentence from the security section, that was cited from https://suntecoss.mightybell.com/posts/819662, which doesn't appear to be a good source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:53, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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vahinko

Etymology
From. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) accident, mishap something negative done unintentionally; event caused by human activity with unintentional negative consequences
 * 2) damage abstract measure of something not being intact
 * 3) something that is unfortunate, a shame
 * 1) something that is unfortunate, a shame

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and dialectal 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) mishap, accident

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) accident, mishap
 * 2) damage

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H. B. Tenne

Henry Bernard Tenne (born 11 August 1894) was a politician in British Ceylon and the later Dominion of Ceylon.

Tenne was elected as an independent member at the 1st parliamentary election, held between 23 August 1947 and 20 September 1947, representing the Dambulla electorate, securing 57.5% of the total vote.

He was re-elected to the seat of Dambulla at the 2nd parliamentary election, held in May 1952, representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), with 54% of the total vote. Immediately prior to the 1956 parliamentary elections Tenne switched allegiance to the United National Party (UNP) and subsequently ran as the party's candidate in the Dambulla electorate, where he was defeated by the SLFP's candidate, T. B. Tennekoon, 14,688 votes to 5,533 votes.

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1997–98 Sheffield Shield season

The 1997–98 Sheffield Shield season was the 96th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Western Australia won the championship.

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Robotics/Physical Construction/Resourcefulness

Though many components for a serious robotics project will almost certainly have to be purchased, the total cost of the project can be reduced by harvesting parts from various electronic and electro-mechanical devices. The general rule for selection is "the older, the better," as newer devices are now dominated by specialized ICs and surface mount components that builders might find difficult to use in their robots. SMD (Surface-mounted devices) can be used to create very small robots, if one has the tools and patience to work with them.

An example of a good source of parts would be a printer from the 1980s. Without even disassembling such a printer, one can see all sorts of potentially useful components. Additionally, several metal rods and plates contained in the printer may be used as structural parts for the robot, and even the plastic case itself could be used.

Old floppy disk drives and copy machines are also good sources for parts such as stepper motors, optocouplers or microswitches, regular components, machined metal rods and hardware. Hard disk drives have fewer usable parts but can still be a source.

However stepper motors from printers and copy machines tend to consume a lot of power and may not be as good for battery operated robots.

Note to potential contributors: perhaps there could be a "case studies" section here, with examples of what can be obtained from a variety of devices.


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Stepnoy, Loktevsky District, Altai Krai

Stepnoy (Степной) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Kirovsky Selsoviet, Loktevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2013. There is 1 street.

Geography
Stepnoy is located 13 km east of Gornyak (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kirovsky is the nearest rural locality.

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User:Belsonda

Hi,

Belsonda is village in savargon ghule, tal-sangamner dist-ahmednagar , pin-422620

In this village leaving people in farmer.

Total Population is 200.

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Clive Driskill-Smith

Clive Driskill-Smith (born 1978) is an English organist.

Biography
Winner of the Royal College of Organists’ Performer of the Year Competition in 2000 and the Calgary International Organ Competition in 2002, Clive performs throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. In the UK he has played at the BBC Proms, the Royal Festival Hall, Symphony Hall and Bridgewater Hall, and in the US he has played at Regional and National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists. His CDs have received critical acclaim and his performances have been broadcast on radio and television worldwide.

A pupil of David Sanger and Hans Fagius, Clive was successively a Music Scholar at Eton College, Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College, and then Organ Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford where he was Sub-Organist. He played for the daily services in the Cathedral and for the choir’s many concerts, recordings, broadcasts and tours under the direction of Stephen Darlington.

Clive teaches the organ at the Royal Academy of Music and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

He performs with the American percussionist Joseph Gramley in the duo Organized Rhythm.

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The Saddest Music in the World

The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin. Budgeted at $3.8-million and shot over 24 days, the film marks Maddin's first collaboration with actor Isabella Rossellini.

Maddin and co-screenwriter George Toles based the film on an original screenplay written by British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, from which they kept "the title, the premise and the contest – to determine which country’s music was the saddest" but otherwise re-wrote. Like most of Guy Maddin's films, The Saddest Music in the World is filmed in a style that imitates late 1920s and early 1930s cinema, with grainy black-and-white photography, slightly out-of-sync sound and expressionist art design. A few scenes are filmed in colour, in a manner that imitates early two-strip Technicolor.

Plot
During the Great Depression in 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, beer baroness Lady Helen Port-Huntley announces a competition to find the saddest music in the world, as a publicity stunt to promote her company, Muskeg Beer, as Prohibition is about to end in the United States. The prize is $25,000 "Depression-era dollars" and musicians from all over the world pour into Winnipeg to compete. Chester Kent, a failing Broadway producer, decides to enter the contest representing America, even though he is Canadian and originally from Winnipeg. An old fortune teller predicts his doom, but Chester mocks this prediction by having his nymphomaniac amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa, masturbate him. Also entering the contest are Chester's father Fyodor, representing Canada, and his brother Roderick, representing Serbia as "Gavrilo the Great" (even though he is also Canadian).

It is revealed that Fyodor is in love with Helen, who he had once hoped to marry. However, Helen and Chester had an affair, and an accident involving the three occurred when Fyodor stepped out in front of Chester's car as Helen was performing oral sex on Chester. Helen's legs were both amputated as a result, and Fyodor became an alcoholic, while Chester left for Broadway. With Chester returned, and his relationship with Helen renewed, Fyodor swears off drink and fashions prosthetic legs filled with beer in an attempt to earn Helen's love.

Roderick meanwhile discovers that Chester's girlfriend Narcissa is his missing wife, who has forgotten both their marriage and their son after the boy's death (Roderick carries the boy's heart in a jar, preserved in his own tears). Helen rigs the contest to favour Chester/America, and Fyodor/Canada quickly loses after singing "Red Maple Leaves," although Roderick/Serbia advances. Although Roderick and Narcissa have sex, she still doesn't remember their marriage, and he accidentally breaks the jar containing his son's heart (which is pierced by a glass shard), and although Helen loves her new glass beer legs, she still hates Fyodor. Fyodor then drinks a leg's worth of beer and falls through the concert hall rooftop to his death.

Helen appears in Chester's final performance, but her legs leak and explode when Roderick plays. Roderick then changes his tune to play "The Song Is You," which he had sworn not to perform until reunited with his wife. The song recovers Narcissa's memory and Chester, meanwhile, is stabbed to death by Helen (using a long shard from her glass legs). Chester refuses to let this sadden him, and staggers away, accidentally setting the building on fire with his victory cigar. Chester dies playing "The Song Is You" on the piano as the building burns.

Cast

 * Mark McKinney as Chester Kent
 * Isabella Rossellini as Lady Helen Port-Huntley
 * Maria de Medeiros as Narcissa
 * David Fox as Fyodor Kent
 * Ross McMillan as Roderick Kent / Gravillo the Great
 * Louis Negin as Blind Seer
 * Darcy Fehr as Teddy
 * Claude Dorge as Duncan Elksworth
 * Talia Pura as Mary
 * Jeff Sutton as Young Chester
 * Graeme Valentin as Young Roderick
 * Maggie Nagle as Chester's Mother

Release
The Saddest Music in the World was released theatrically in Canada on September 7, 2003, to the UK on October 25, 2003, and to the US on February 14, 2004. MGM released it to home video on DVD on November 16, 2004. The DVD contains three short films: A Trip to the Orphanage, Sombra Dolorosa and Sissy Boy Slap Party.

Awards and honors
Directors Guild of Canada:
 * Win: Outstanding Achievement in Production Design, Feature Film - Matthew Davies
 * Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Feature Film - Guy Maddin
 * Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Picture Editing, Feature Film - David Wharnsby

Genie Awards
 * Win: Best Achievement in Costume Design - Meg McMillan
 * Win: Best Achievement in Editing - David Wharnsby
 * Win: Best Achievement in Music, Original Score - Christopher Dedrick
 * Nominated: Best Achievement in Direction - Guy Maddin

U.S. Comedy Arts Festival
 * Win: Film Discovery Jury Award, Best Director - Guy Maddin

Critical reception
The Saddest Music in the World was well received by critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 79% based on 103 reviews, and an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Guy Maddin perfectly recreates the look and feel of a 1930s in this bizarre picture." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The Christian Science Monitor drew attention to "Maddin's unique style ... [which] carries old-movie nostalgia past the breaking point, making the picture look and sound like a long-ago production that's been stored under somebody's bed for the past few decades, and now reaches the screen replete with often-spliced frames and a fuzz-filled sound track. This is no mere gimmick but a core ingredient of Maddin's aesthetic, which bestows affection and regard on everything we overlook and undervalue in our daily lives."

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 1/2 out of 4 stars, calling it "entirely original" and noting that "You have never seen a film like this before, unless you have seen other films by Guy Maddin."

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Gangshanoceras

Gangshanoceras is a fossil nautiloid cephalopod genus included in the orthocerid family Proteoceratidae. It has been found in Ordovician rocks dated from about 478.5 to 468 Ma in China, and from rocks dated slightly younger, about 468 to 461 Ma in Argentina. It has five described species. The type is Gangshanoceras jurongense.

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Persian/Lesson 9

In this lesson, you will learn how to create and use plurals of nouns in Persian.

Dialogue:
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Explanation
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Vocabulary

 * Fa-امروز.ogg – vandaag (today)
 * Fa-د يروز.ogg – gisteren (yesterday)
 * Fa-د بستان.ogg – basisschool
 * Fa-بودن.ogg – zijn (be)
 * Fa-آمدن.ogg – komen (come)
 * Fa-اسم.ogg – naam (name)
 * Fa-باريد ن.ogg – regenen,sneeuwen
 * Fa-من.ogg – ik (I)
 * Fa-نام.ogg – naam
 * Fa-نادر.ogg – Nader (jongensnaam) (boys name)
 * Fa-كتاب.ogg – boek (book)
 * Fa-امين.ogg – Amin (jongensnaam) (boys name)
 * Fa-پس دادن.ogg – teruggeven
 * Fa-پس داد.ogg – hij geeft, zij geeft
 * Fa-امروز باران باريد.ogg – vandaag regent het (today it rains)
 * Fa-من از دبستان آمدم.ogg - ik kom uit school (I come from school)
 * Fa-من از د بستان تند آمدم.ogg – ik kom snel uit school (I come fast from school)

Plural nouns
The usual way to make a plural in Persian is to add the suffix to the noun. The suffix is typically written immediately after the noun with with a ZWNJ.

Colloquially, is pronounced ‹â›.

Many words have an alternative plural form that may be used instead of the colloquial Persian form. For example, animate nouns (those that denote humans or things with human-like characteristics) and nouns that denote paired body parts (e.g. eyes, ears, and hands) have an alternative plural form made with the suffix :

Many Arabic words have different plural forms that may be used in Persian. Some are created by adding suffixes:

Others are called “broken plurals”:
 * , ,کتاب
 * , (govt.)
 * , (govt.)
 * , (govt.)
 * , (govt.)
 * , (govt.)
 * , (govt.)

To pluralize a noun phrase, only the main noun is changed. Adjectives and demonstrative adjectives are not, as shown on the right.

Numbers
After 20, Persian numbers use between digit, as shown in the example on the right.

Exercises

 * Translate the following phrases into Persian.

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Wikipedia:Admin recall/UnWikiVersion

NOTE: This streamlined, de-wiki'd version for ease of reading is based on this version of the policy proposal.

About Administrators
The community grants administrator status to trusted users who are familiar with Wikipedia policies. Administrators are held to high standards of conduct, as they are often perceived as the "official face" of Wikipedia. Administrators must be courteous and must exercise good judgment and patience in dealing with others. Nominees must have been on Wikipedia long enough for people to see whether they have these qualities. Almost all administrator actions are reversible. Adminship is primarily an extra responsibility as there are rules and policies that apply only to administrators.

About Admin Recall (WP:RECALL)
Admin Recall is a proposed process by which an administrator (sysop) can be recalled for a renewal of their administrator/sysop status no more often than once every nine months at most, should the community feel that their conduct, behavior, or actions might warrant such a review. If an admin has already been called for Recall previously, they cannot be called until nine calendar months have passed from the final closing of their preceding one. A new admin cannot be called for Admin Recall until they have been empowered as an administrator for a minimum of six consecutive months' time. I.e., if a person receives Admin access on January 1st, they cannot be subject to community recall until at least July 1st. There is no limitation on how often an admin may be recalled as a part of good faith community oversight, so long as the nine month limitation has expired. The goal of this proposed policy is to create a fair, balanced, and difficult to abuse level of community oversight of administrators by regular editors and other administrators.

If an admin recall request is properly certified, it will go to a full Recall Vote as per normal RfA rules, with two exceptions:
 * 1: WP:SNOW cannot be used or applied to the Recall process at any time, and the Recall vote shall remain open for the mandatory seven days at all times, to protect the admin and give them the benefit of the doubt in the event the votes are going 'against' them.
 * 2: Votes are not "support" or "oppose" but shall be either Recall, to desysop the admin; Keep, to not desysop the admin; or Comment to leave a note, opinion, or evidence.

 * Short short version (for proposal readers)
 * (This is the policy, basically. The great depth of detail beyond and below this was to just try to address every possible concern I could think of pre and post drafting and proposing the initial version, and each section is just a clarification and expansion. Extra short version: 26 tenured people think an admin is unfit to serve, and agree thus. The community then votes on that fact, in another RfA).

Editor (regular or admin) with 5 months' experience and 500+ edits determines an admin should be recalled. He writes up the basis for this plus evidence and posts it to the to-be-recalled admin's talk page. 24 hours later, the nominator can file a recall request that lasts seven days. The recalled admin can enter a response at any time after the request is filed. If 25 additional people that meet the certification requirements are listed as signing agreement at the end of the seven days, the filing moves to be an RfA recall vote. The same as a normal RfA, but a support or "Recall" vote is to desysop, while an Oppose or "Keep" vote is to not desysop. The original filing, complaint, evidence, response, and certifiers will be listed at the top of the RfA recall page. Votes and questions for the admin below. If a consensus is "support recall", the admin is immediately desysopped after 7 days. No consensus for desysopping purposes is the same as a "failed" vote.

Consensus shall be approximately 65% to 70% or more of the votes cast saying Recall. Certification and RfA recall vote cannot be closed early for any reason, WP:SNOW/WP:IAR is not applicable or any derivative here unless WP:OFFICE intervenes for some reason. If either the certification or RfA recall vote fails at the end of it's respective 7 day window, it is permanently filed and archived. No records of the filing or Recall are to be deleted by any admin at any time unless authorized by WP:OFFICE. "New" admins can only be Recalled after six months of active service. No admin can be Recalled more than once per nine months. Desysopped admins who re-run for RfA and get reinstalled by admins by the will of the community are not "new" admins for this purpose, and have nine-month window from reinstallation instead of six.

Basics

 * Exclusions
 * Jimbo Wales, Danny Wool, Brad Patrick, Stewards, and any active member of the Board of Directors, are all excluded from this policy. Arbitrators or any current or future "higher than administrator" users (arbitrators, beaurocrats currently) may be called in this fashion for administrative recall, but their removal should it reach completion must be approved by the Board of Directors, Jimbo, or an official WP:OFFICE action as determined by and seen fit by them. Recall of other administrators will be as per this policy. Normal "admins" for this policy shall encompass anyone from "basic" admin level up to and including those who are regular admins with additional privileges and duties, such as Check User and Oversight.

 * Nomination standards
 * There are no official prerequisites for nomination or filing an Admin Recall, beyond the official filing itself. The filing user or administrator must be in good standing, have have been a member of Wikipedia for at least five months from the time of their first edit, and have at least 500 edits under "any" Wikipedia name space. The nomination statement and responses to questions should indicate that the user is familiar with the tools and roles of administrators. Any administrator may be nominated in good faith.

 * Limitations
 * 1. Self-nominations under this policy will not be allowed at any time. If an admin wishes to completely de-sysop he can follow normal procedure for that; or if he wishes to put his standing to a community test for some reason, he can reapply for WP:RfA per policies there.
 * 2. No admin can be submitted for recall earlier than nine months after the conclusion of any previous request.
 * 3. No new admin can be submitted for recall earlier than six months into their tenure as an admin.

Prevention of potential admin abuse in process
Per this policy, any attempt to delete votes, the filing request, vote, or otherwise manipulate the procedure by use of admin-level abilities by anyone would be a bannable offense. Any improperly manipulated Admin Recall shall be restarted if for any reason it is non-recoverable, and all previous certifying users allowed to have the opportunity to recertify after being notified. Given the nature of this process and policy, any attempts at subversion by the nominated admin shall be taken as the highest level of importance by any observing administrators.

The admin being nominated shall abstain from taking any direct administrative action towards any of the valid users who are listing as certifiers, for the duration of the certification process. Should the admin need to pursue any action towards one of the users for a matter that requires use of admin privileges (such as blocking, Check User, locking, page protection, or any other possible scenario that a "normal" editor would not have acccess to), that same nominated admin must get another admin to take the needed action to prevent a conflict of interest. Use of admin level privileges vs. a certifier or nominator during the nomination procedure is a bannable offense. Any admin actions taken by the nominated admin are to be reversed, and community reviewed. Any such actions by the nominated admin are to be clearly added to both the filing page, and to the top of the RfA vote page with explicit details of the action, for review and consideration.
 * Actions by nominated admin vs. participants

To ensure that no admin under community review will take inappropriate actions vs. nominators or certifiers, a mandatory set of steps will be enforced by any other admin to protect the integrity of the system. Any admin may implement these conditions if abuse by the nominee is observed from the time the initial 24 hour notice is posted on the admin's Talk page, to the conclusion of the certification process. If an admin violates the integrity of the recall during it's process, he will likely find himself excluded from further participating in it. Should the certification or RfA recall vote be "unsuccessful", the duration of the blocking shall remain in place for the previous violations of subverting process and the integrity of the system. These time based blocks are not to be removed or undone by any admin; if the nominee does violate this usage policy during their time frame, they will need to be aware of the repercussions of this, and will need to held accountable for abusing the community trust. Any subversion as determined by other admins per this policy will result in the subverting admin getting a 24 block for each offense (cumulative).
 * Enforcement

Filing for Admin Recall
Any user or administrator in good standing may file a Request for Admin Recall. To do so, they will file a request at WP:RECALL, using a similar formatting to the initial filing of an RfC.

 * First step, Filing for Admin Recall

Format for filing
The formatting will be simple:

 * Filing user: (name/signature)
 * Administrator being recalled: (name/link to their User space)
 * Basis of Recall: (description of why the recall is being filed)
 * Evidence: (evidence--diffs, citations, etc.)
 * Administrator response: (response by the admin)
 * Those supporting creation of the recall: (signatures of 25 users--see criteria below)

Procedure
When a Request for Admin Recall is desired, the filer must post the above formatted as a notice on the Talk page of the admin in question at least 24 hours prior to filing the request. This is to give the admin adequete time to prepare a response. Once 24 hours have passed, the filer will then post a request at a URL such as WP:RECALL/AdminName. Once the request is filed, the admin is free to answer his response. The Request for Admin Recall will be listed on the parent page of WP:RECALL.
 * Filing

From the time of nomination and filing, a minimum of 25 other users must sign on as co-signers of the nomination within seven days of the nomination's filing; this sets the required certification as a total of 26 users with experience, tenure, and good standing. The certification will be closed seven days from the time of filing. Certification signatures are only considered from Registered Users, and at no time from anonymous users. To prevent abuse of process, the admin in question, or the system, any user may sign on as co-signer if they have been a member of Wikipedia for at least five months from the time of their first edit, and have at least 500 edits under "any" Wikipedia name space.
 * Obtaining Certification

The purposes of the restriction are to prevent abuse of the system or administrators, and to prevent certification stacking with the use of sock and/or meat puppets. The certifying user must meet the minimum requirements for tenure and edit count at the time of certification. Comments on the certification page itself are not permitted at any time--the certification as seen on the front page of the Admin Recall itself should be based on the merits of the filing complaint, and the response of the admin in question. Normal Talk page discussion of course is allowed.

The pending certification shall be clearly linked to for the community's review on both the Recall section, and on the normal WP:RfA section.

Should certification fail, the particular Request for Admin Recall is thus archived, and that admin cannot be recalled for nine calendar months by any user.
 * Failed Certification

Even if the 25 user threshold is reached, the Certification will remain open for the full seven days, at all times, to allow possible discussion on the Talk page to continue, and to allow certifiers to remove their certification should they so desire. If successfully certified, within 24 hours of it's seven day completion the admin's Recall vote is to be initiated.
 * Successful Certification

Second step, the recall vote
The initial filer's basis for the Recall and his evidence will be presented as the nomination for the actual RfA recall vote, with the response from the admin being recalled present directly below it; as a normal RfA votes and the tally are then listed below this, along with all discussion and questions for the admin.
 * Actual admin recall vote - process

This recall shall follow all rules and procedures as defined under WP:RfA, with the following exceptions/differences:
 * Changes to "normal" RfA rules for recall
 * 1. WP:SNOW or early closing is not allowed at any time at all--the vote in every case is to run the full seven days in every single case to give the admin in question the benefit of the doubt, and to allow people to change their votes.
 * 2. Unlike normal WP:RfA votes, a vote of support here shall be to de-sysop the admin in question. A prominent notice of this shall be displayed on the pages in question to avoid confusion.
 * 2a. Votes shall be Recall to desysop, or Keep to not desysop.
 * 3. The restrictions on users from the certification phase shall not apply to the recall vote, which will be conducted under otherwise normal WP:RfA rules.
 * 4. A consensus will be required to de-sysop an admin per this vote. A failed vote, or a no consensus, shall be considered an unsuccessful recall that should be closed and archived. Ideally, consensus to de-sysop should be approximately 65% to 70% or more of the people contributing voting to "support" the removal and recall. As the recall process is two tiered to eliminate abuse and frivolous filings, Consensus shall be binding on the recall vote unless overruled by WP:OFFICE.
 * 5. The recall vote shall be clearly linked to for the community's review on both the Recall section, and on the normal WP:RfA section.
 * 6. Where the normal RfA rules state, "In exceptional circumstances, bureaucrats may extend the deadline or call for a revote if this will make the consensus more clear," this shall not apply in the case of a recall vote. A no consensus result shall result in closure of the Recall as unsuccessful. Again, this is to give the admin in question the benefit of the doubt.

In the event of an unsuccessful recall (failed, or no consensus), the vote shall be closed after seven days, and the particular Request for Admin Recall is thus archived, and that admin cannot be recalled for nine calendar months by any user.
 * Unsuccessful recall vote

In the event of a successful recall, the admin in question after the conclusion of the second seven day time frame is to be immediately de-sysoped, and removed of any "admin type" or "admin level" additional access privileges per the community's consensus will and decision.
 * Successful recall vote - final step, and "de-sysop"

After the Recall RfA
Should the recall vote succeed, the removal of sysop status is to occur within 24 hours of it's conclusion.
 * Enforcement

Any previous admin who was removed by the community is free to reapply as an administrator again at their own discretion, per normal WP:RfA guidelines. Should they become recertified by the community as an admin at a later date, they will be subject to the recall process not as a "new" admin with the six month limitation, but under a "nine" month limitation instead.
 * Reapplication as an admin

Sample Timeline, explanation
Just to clarify/expand on how it would work.

 * Day 1: A user determines he should file an Admin Recall. He posts the above notice of his complaint with full basis/evidence sections on the admin's personal Talk page, to give the admin 24 hours' notice.
 * Day 2: The user files the Admin Recall for certification.
 * Days 2-9: Certification window
 * Day 9: certification closes. If not met, Recall request closes. If met, within 24 hours the recall vote must be initiated.
 * Days 9-16: Recall vote.

Rationales for requirements/limiting abuse or maliciousness

 * 25 threshold: Most normal RfCs seem to get around/at most about 25 people signing on in support of a given outside view; this number was based on that.
 * criteria for certification for users: The 500 edit and 5 months' experience is deliberate, and to eliminate frivolous certification or nomination by bogus usernames such as sock or meat puppets.
 * Those combined: Serve to weed out the proverbial nonsense as some might say from nominations and certifications.
 * Six months wait for new admins: Deliberately shorter than the nine months for seasoned admins--to give new admins time to establish a track record. The shorter time frame is because if an admin hypothetically would be a problem, it would hopefully be apparently fairly swiftly.
 * Nine months' delay for renom: Intended to curb frivolous filing. It would be silly and ripe for abuse for an open window of nominations.

Summary
If 26 users in good standing with established time and editing track records (5+ months experience, 500+ edits each) agree that an admin is due for recall based on their actions or activities (1 filer, 25 certifiers) that admin is then subject to a binding RfA recall vote.

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P. G. Wodehouse locations

The following is a list of recurring or notable fictional locations featured in the stories of P. G. Wodehouse, in alphabetical order by place name.

Angler's Rest
The Angler's (or Anglers') Rest is the fictional public house frequented by irrepressible raconteur Mr Mulliner.

Actually, P. G. Wodehouse gives us few details about this public house. At the beginning of each short story of the Mulliner's collection, we find Mr Mulliner sipping his hot Scotch and Lemon in the bar-parlour of the establishment, while his pub companions are drinking their own beverages. In most stories, a conversation between these companions induces Mr Mulliner to a recollection of a similar event introducing some new members of the very large Mulliner family. We then leave the pub to enter into the narrator's world.

We know that the popular landlord of the place is named Ernest Biggs ("The Juice of an Orange"), and that his very amiable barmaid is named Miss Postlethwaite. Even though she appears in most of the stories, she is never given a first name, but we do know that she is very fond of motion pictures, and of romance novelettes. Every Sunday afternoon, she retires to her room with a box of caramels and a novel from the circulating library, and on the following night, she places the results of her literary researches in front of the habitués of the Angler's Rest and invites their judgment ("The Castaways").

The Angler's Rest happens to take residents for longer stay: In "Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court", a poet is spending the summer at the place. We also know that, across the passage, there is a larger room, where they sometimes give smoking-concerts ("The Knightly Quest of Mervyn").

The Angler's Rest seems to be located in a small English town. In this town, we know there is a Bon Ton Drapery Stores in the High Street, whose efficient sales assistant is named Alfred Lukyn ("The Story of Cedric"). In the same High Street, we find a cinema named the Bijou Dream ("A Slice of Life", "The Nodder" and "The Rise of Minna Nordstrom"). The village also contains a resident doctor ("The Truth About George"), and of course a church ("Anselm Gets His Chance"), with its inevitable Choral Society ("Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo"). About a mile or two up the river from the Angler's Rest, stands an ancient and historic public-school ("The Voice from the Past"). In the neighbourhood of the town, there seems to be a golf course ("Those in Peril on the Tee"), and also a racecourse ("Gala Night").

Mr Mulliner's pub companions never have a real name. They are named after the beverage they are drinking. Here is a list of some of these names:

 * Gin-and-Ginger-Ale
 * Draught Stout
 * Small Bass
 * Double-Whisky-and-Splash
 * Lemon Squash
 * Tankard of Ale
 * Pint of Stout
 * Pint of Bitter
 * Pint of Half-and-Half
 * Whisky Sour
 * Mild and Bitter
 * Rum and Milk
 * Lemonade and Angustura
 * Port from the Wood
 * Eggnog

Aspinall's
Aspinall's is a fictional jewellery store in New Bond Street, London, and is referenced in Joy in the Morning (chapter 5), Full Moon (chapter 2), and Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (chapter 8). Aspinall's was based on Asprey's store in New Bond Street.

Barribault's Hotel
Barribault's Hotel is a fictional hotel in London. It is a posh, dignified establishment, and may have been modeled on Claridge's. Barribault's first appears in Full Moon, in which it is located in Brook Street. In Spring Fever, the hotel is in Duke Street. In Ice in the Bedroom, it is in Clarges Street. Bertie Wooster has lunch there with Ginger Winship in Much Obliged, Jeeves. Barribault's also features in other novels including Something Fishy and Frozen Assets. It is also featured in Uncle Dynamite.

Beckford
A fictional school, setting of the novel A Prefect's Uncle, and several short stories.

Belpher
A fictional small coastal-village in Hampshire, and the setting for the novel A Damsel in Distress. Belpher was once a prosperous fishing-town made famous by the oyster trade, until it was discovered that the local bay had been polluted, thus driving away much of the tourist and fishing trade.

Local points of interest mentioned in the novel include The Belpher Arms, the village tavern, and Belpher Castle, the home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family since the Wars of the Roses.

Berkeley Mansions
Berkeley Mansions, Berkeley Square, London W1, is a fictional Mayfair residential building in the Jeeves stories, being the residence of Bertie Wooster. In an early story, Bertie lives at 6A, Crichton Mansions, Berkeley Street, W. but is later residing at Berkeley Mansions in Thank You, Jeeves, though he is obliged to leave after making noise with his banjolele. Bertie apparently returns to the building, as he is residing in Berkeley Mansions in the later novel The Code of the Woosters and specifies that he lives in 3A Berkeley Mansions in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. In the 1979 What Ho! Jeeves radio adaptation of Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, the telephone number for Bertie's flat is Mayfair 2631 (as spoken to a telephone operator), though no telephone number is given for the flat in the original stories.

In A Pelican at Blandings, Galahad Threepwood lives in Berkeley Mansions, on the fourth floor. Galahad had previously lived in a flat in Duke Street, St James's.

Wodehouse briefly lived in a flat in Berkeley Street in 1922, the same year that the story showing Bertie living in Berkeley Street (in Crichton Mansions), "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch", was published.

Blandings Castle
Blandings Castle is a fictional location central to many P. G. Wodehouse stories. It is an idyllic country house.

Blandings Parva
A small fictional hamlet near Blandings Castle. The people of the village enjoy much revelry at the annual School Treat, held on August Bank Holiday every year in the grounds of the Castle, much to Lord Emsworth's horror (not only does his garden become an inferno of children, tents and paper bags, but he is required to wear a top hat and make a speech). Blandings Parva is also known for taking in children from London in need of fresh air, such as Gladys and her brother Ern.

Brinkley Court
The fictional country house of Tom and Dahlia Travers, Brinkley Court is located near Market Snodsbury in Worcestershire, near Droitwich, eight miles from Pershore and about a hundred miles from London. In one instance, it takes Dahlia Travers about three hours to travel from London to Brinkley Court. The residence of the Traverses' children Angela and Bonzo, Brinkley Court is also a popular destination for Bertie Wooster, Dahlia's beloved nephew. Brinkley's butler is named Seppings and its chauffeur Waterbury. Its most famous domestic employee is the gifted French chef Anatole. The Travers family also owns a house in London, located at 47 Charles Street, Berkeley Square.

Brinkley Court is the primary setting of "The Love That Purifies", Right Ho, Jeeves, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Jeeves in the Offing, and Much Obliged, Jeeves. Jeeves works there temporarily in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.

Brinkley is said to be modeled on Severn End, Hanley Castle, in Worcestershire. In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, exterior shots of Brinkley Court were filmed at Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire in series 1 and Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire in series 4. All interior shots of Brinkley Court were filmed at Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire.

The Travers family's address in London, 47 Charles Street, was the same address where Ian Hay, who collaborated with Wodehouse on three plays, lived in 1926.

Bumpleigh Hall
Bumpleigh Hall is a fictional location appearing in Joy in the Morning, being the Hampshire residence of Bertie Wooster's Uncle Percy (Percy Craye, Lord Worplesdon) and Aunt Agatha. It is located near the village of Steeple Bumpleigh. Usual residents include Lord Worplesdon's children Florence Craye and Edwin Craye.

Chuffnell Hall
Chuffnell Hall is the fictional country house of "Chuffy" Chuffnell, located near Chuffnell Regis in Somerset. The house is featured in Thank You, Jeeves. Eventually, Sir Roderick Glossop opened his clinic at the Hall, after his marriage to Lord Chuffnell's aunt.

Bertie Wooster stayed in the nearby cottage called Seaview Cottage, which was burnt down because of Brinkley.

Chuffnell Regis
Chuffnell Regis is a fictional village featured in Thank You, Jeeves. The nearest village to Chuffnell Hall, it is located in Somerset ("Somersetshire" in the novel). In the village is the Seaview Hotel, which has the telephone number Chuffnell Regis 294.

Corven Abbey
See Dreever Castle below.

Demosthenes Club
The Demosthenes Club is a fictional gentlemen's club in Cocktail Time and Ice in the Bedroom. A respectable and dignified institution, it is located across the street from the more boisterous Drones Club. Members of the Demosthenes include Sir Roderick Glossop and John Shoesmith, Freddie Widgeon's employer.

It was based on the Athenaeum Club in London.

Deverill Hall
Deverill Hall is a fictional country house with Tudor architecture, located in Hampshire, in the village of King's Deverill. The setting of The Mating Season, Deverill Hall is the residence of Esmond Haddock, Dame Daphne Winkworth, and her sisters, Emmeline, Charlotte, Myrtle and Harriet, as well as Dame Daphne Winkworth's daughter Gertrude.

Jeeves's uncle Charlie Silversmith is butler at Deverill, and Silversmith's daughter Queenie is the parlourmaid there.

In the Jeeves and Wooster television series, Deverill Hall was filmed at Joyce Grove.

Ditteredge Hall
Ditteredge Hall is the fictional residence of the family of Sir Roderick Glossop in Hampshire in "Scoring off Jeeves".

Dreever Castle
The fictional setting of much of A Gentleman of Leisure, Dreever is a large old place in Shropshire, with heavy grey walls to defend against Welsh marauders, but a comfortable interior. It is owned by Spennie, Lord Dreever, but run by his rich uncle Sir Thomas Blunt. One of the oldest and grandest houses in England, Dreever is famed for an old ghost story, handed down from generation to generation. There is a picturesque rose-garden, and a lake with an island, ideal for young lovers.

In The Gem Collector, an earlier version of the story, the house is called Corven Abbey, and owned by former New York policeman McEachern.

Drones Club
The Drones Club is a fictional gentlemen's club for feckless youth, located in Dover Street, London.

Easeby Hall
Easeby Hall is the fictional Shropshire seat of Bertie Wooster's Uncle Willoughby in "Jeeves Takes Charge".

Eckleton
A fictional school, setting of the novel The Head of Kay's, and several other school stories.

Emsworth Arms
A fictional inn on the High Street in Market Blandings, the Emsworth serves fine ale and makes an ideal meeting-place for conspirators not wishing to be overheard, as well as providing accommodation for anyone wishing to be near Blandings Castle but lacking an invitation.

There is a busy bar downstairs, and a more genteel dining-room on the first floor, with comfortable armchairs ideal for anyone in need of a nap. The garden stretches down to the river, with many shady nooks and summer-house, seemingly ideal for conspirators not wishing to be overheard and weary minds and bodies needing rest. The proprietor, G. Ovens, makes excellent home-brewed ale.

Halsey Court
Halsey Court is a fictional London cul-de-sac that is not fashionable despite being located in Mayfair. It is featured in several stories, including Galahad at Blandings, Money in the Bank, and Frozen Assets. In Frozen Assets, Halsey Court is said to be located just round the corner from Barribault's.

Heath House
The fictional home of Ukridge's Aunt Julia, Heath House is a large mansion near Wimbledon Common, set back from the road in the seclusion of spacious grounds. Ukridge lives there from time to time, in between being thrown out by his aunt for his misdeeds. The grounds are in much demand for dancing societies and charitable fetes. Among the staff of the house have been, at times, the likes of Oakshott the butler, and "Battling" Billson, a temporary handyman, and James Corcoran is rarely welcome there.

The house is occasionally called "The Cedars" in later stories.

Ickenham Hall
The fictional Hampshire seat of Frederick Twistleton, Earl of Ickenham, where he lives much of the time, his wife Jane (Countess of Ickenham) having forbidden him to visit London lest he wreak his usual havoc. Polly Pott gambolled in the grounds as a child; there are too many statues there.

Junior Ganymede Club
The Junior Ganymede Club is a fictional club for valets and butlers, of which Jeeves is a member. The club is located in Curzon Street in Mayfair, as stated in three novels and one short story. In Much Obliged, Jeeves, while Bertie and Jeeves are in Curzon Street, Jeeves says that the club is "just round the corner". (Curzon Street is not straight, so the club could be "round the corner" and still on the same street.)

Aside from socializing, the club's main activities are bridge and the writing and perusal of the club book, which has been in existence for more than eighty years and has reached its twelfth volume. According to Rule Eleven of the club's constitution, every member must record information about their employers in the club book. Information in the club book about Roderick Spode proves crucial in The Code of the Woosters. The club book was said to have eleven pages on Bertie Wooster. The total eventually ballooned to eighteen pages, before Jeeves agrees to destroy the pages on Bertie in Much Obliged, Jeeves.

A monthly luncheon is held at the Junior Ganymede. Jeeves is asked to chair the luncheon, which entails delivering a speech, in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Bertie visits the club in Much Obliged, Jeeves. He is not surprised that Jeeves spends so much time there, noting that the Junior Ganymede, while lacking the sprightliness of the Drones Club, is a very cosy and comfortable establishment. It appears that members are not required to resign after relinquishing their positions in service, since one valet, Bingley, retains his membership after retiring.

According to Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy, the club was inspired by The Running Footman, a pub that was frequented by butlers, valets, and other servants in Mayfair in the 1920s, located in Charles Street (not far from the eastern end of Curzon Street). The pub is now named The Only Running Footman, or The Footman for short.

King's Deverill
King's Deverill is a fictional village near Deverill Hall. The village is featured in The Mating Season.

Malvern House Preparatory School
Malvern House Preparatory School is the preparatory school at Bramley-on-Sea where Bertie Wooster, Kipper Herring, Bingo Little, Freddie Widgeon, Gussie Fink-Nottle and Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright studied in their earlier years. During their education, the school was presided over by the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn. The name comes from the real school which P. G. Wodehouse attended from 1891 to 1893.

Mammoth Publishing Company
A fictional company owned and run by Lord Tilbury, the Mammoth is based at Tilbury House, Tilbury Street (off Fleet Street). The company's output is large and varied, from the gossipy Society Spice to the children's Tiny Tots, and includes newspapers such as the Daily Record, magazines like Home Gossip, and book imprints like the British Pluck Library, home to the adventures of Gridley Quayle, Investigator.

Employees at various times include Tilbury's timid son Roderick, briefly editor of Society Spice, Percy Pilbeam, Roderick's capable assistant who later takes over as editor, Ashe Marson, the writer of the Gridley Quayle stories, Joan Valentine, sometime editor of Home Gossip, and Sam Shotter, who worked for his neighbour Mr Wrenn, editor of Pyke's Home Companion. Monty Bodkin is deputy-editor of Tiny Tots at the start of Heavy Weather, thanks to his uncle Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe meeting with Tilbury at a public dinner; Archie Gilpin was an occasional contributor. Lavender Briggs and Millicent Rigby have both acted as Tilbury's secretary.

Mario's Restaurant
A fictional restaurant appearing in several novels, including Bill the Conqueror, Summer Lightning, and Big Money. Mario's was inspired by the Café de Paris. According to Richard Usborne, Bill the Conqueror was Wodehouse's first novel to feature Mario's Restaurant, "where Society dines and has fracas and where – as at the old Café de Paris – diners downstairs (Must Dress) cannot see the diners upstairs (Needn't Dress) who can see them".

Market Blandings
Market Blandings is a fictional town, being the closest town to Blandings Castle. It is the site of the Emsworth Arms and a host of other hostelries (such as the Beetle and Wedge, the Blue Boar, the Blue Cow, the Blue Dragon, the Cow and Grasshopper, the Goat and Feathers, the Goose and Gander, the Jolly Cricketers, the Stitch in Time, the Wheatsheaf, and the Waggoner's Rest), as well as a useful railway station, from where a fast train can get you to Paddington in under four hours.

A sleepy old place, Market Blandings is one of England's most picturesque towns, and has an air of having been the same for centuries; the lichened church has a four-square tower, the shops red roofs, and the upper floors of the inns bulge comfortably outward. The most modern thing there is the moving-picture house, which calls itself an "Electric Theatre", is covered in ivy and features stone gables; the only other up-to-date location is the shop of Jno. Banks, hairdresser. The only taxi cab in town is the station taxi, driven by Mr Jno. Robinson; the chemist's is run by a Mr Bulstrode.

Market Snodsbury
Market Snodsbury is a fictional town, about two miles from Brinkley Court and near Droitwich. It is at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School that, in Right Ho, Jeeves, Gussie Fink-Nottle gives his immortal drunken prize-giving speech. Market Snodsbury is also home to an inn called the Bull and Bush, which is praised highly in the Automobile Guide and to which Aubrey Upjohn went to stay in Jeeves in the Offing.

Marling Hall
A fictional house in the neighbourhood of Blandings Castle, Marling is the home of Colonel Fanshawe, his wife and their attractive daughter Valerie. The butler there is a friend of Beach, and the two of them occasionally share a glass or two in the evenings. The house's coal cellar has, on at least one occasion, served as a makeshift prison.

Marvis Bay
Marvis Bay is a fictional coastal resort, with smooth firm sands and a long pier at the northern end of the beach, which provides excellent fishing. The Beach View Hotel lies just by the beach, and the Beach Theatre is not far away. Marvis is the peaceful seaside spot par excellence, the ideal place for a quiet week for those not up to the excitements of Roville

The beach is the main setting for the events of "Deep Waters" and "Fixing it for Freddie", while Marvis Bay Golf and Country Club has a charming links and a comfortable clubhouse, from where the club's Oldest Member dispenses his wisdom in the form of his inexhaustible golf stories.

Marvis Bay is variously reported to lie in Dorsetshire ("Fixing it for Freddie") and Cornwall (Uneasy Money).

Matchingham Hall
Matchingham Hall is a fictional location, being the seat of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. The hall neighbours Blandings Castle and lies near the village of Much Matchingham. In its grounds resides the "Pride of Matchingham", Sir Gregory's pig and rival to Lord Emsworth's mighty Empress of Blandings, and later the "Queen of Matchingham", replacement for the Pride. The telephone number there is Matchingham 8-3.

Mervo
A small fictional Mediterranean island, Mervo is the smallest independent state in the world, smaller even than Monaco. It is mentioned that "Jason went there in search of the Golden Fleece", which would place Mervo in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a sleepy little place, with an army of one hundred and fifteen, a small harbour, a small town and a few scattered fishing hamlets. The last prince, Charles, was driven out in 1886, when the place became a republic, but when Mervo is purchased by Benjamin Scobell in order to build a casino and resort, in The Prince and Betty, John Maude is revealed to be heir to the princedom.

Much Matchingham
The fictional village adjacent to Matchingham Hall. "Beefy" Bingham inhabits the Vicarage there, the living being in the grant of Lord Emsworth, and his dog Bottles is well known from the Blue Boar on the High Street to the distant Cow and Caterpillar on the Shrewsbury Road.

Much Middlefold
A fictional village located in Shropshire, similar in name to the real town Much Wenlock. It is the home of cricket enthusiast Joan Romney in five short stories published between 1905 and 1909, of Wilmot "Motty", Lord Pershore, in "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest", and of Bruce Carmyle in The Adventures of Sally. It is also the birthplace of Jeremy Garnet in Love Among the Chickens (spelled Much Middleford in some editions), Ashe Marson in Something Fresh, and Sally Fitch in Bachelors Anonymous. Psmith is from Corfby Hall, near Much Middleford, in Leave it to Psmith. Much-Middlefold-on-the-Hill and Lesser-Middlefold-in-the-Vale are located near Beckford College in A Prefect's Uncle. The prefect of the title, Alan Gethryn, is recruited to play cricket for Much Middlefold in the Joan Romney story "Personally Conducted".

New Asiatic Bank
A fictional organisation, the austere and serious New Asiatic is run by John Bickersdyke. Former employees include Mike Jackson and Psmith, employed there for a spell in Psmith in the City. It has the atmosphere of a public school, with the heads of department as autocratic as masters - the Postage Dept. is run by Mr Rossiter, the Cash Dept. by Mr Waller, and the Fixed Deposits Department by a Mr Gregory. The London branch is seen as something of a training ground for new blood - once a period of probation has been completed, most employees head out East.

At some point, the bank was successfully robbed of around two million dollars' worth of transferable bonds, by a man by the name of Edward Finglass, a friend of Alexander "Chimp" Twist and Thomas "Soapy" Molloy; though Finglass escaped, his haul was eventually recovered, thanks to Sam Shotter, in Sam the Sudden. On another occasion, a Mr John Benyon robbed the bank of $100,000, according to a story in The Man with Two Left Feet.

The bank is perhaps inspired by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, where Wodehouse himself worked for a time before his writing career took off, and is mentioned in passing in many other stories and novels. It is described in the chapter 4 of Psmith in the City that the London branch of the New Asiatic Bank is situated somewhere around the Mansion House and Queen Victoria St in the City of London.

Pelican Club
A riotous gentlemen's club back in the 1890s, the Pelican was that happy era's equivalent to the Drones. Galahad Threepwood and Uncle Fred were both prominent and popular members; others include "Dogface" Weeks, champion liar, and Galahad's friends "Plug" Basham and "Puffy" Benger. The club was a real gentlemen's club of the era from 1887–1892.

Pen and Ink Club
The Pen and Ink Club is a fictional club for writers referenced in several stories, including the 1916 novel Uneasy Money (chapter 2) and the 1961 novel Ice in the Bedroom (chapter 10), as well as the short story "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure". Ukridge's Aunt Julia is president of the club, and it is featured in several Ukridge stories such as "Ukridge Sees Her Through". Rosie M. Banks appears to be a member, since she attends the club's annual dinner in the Drones Club story "Leave it to Algy".

Wodehouse may have drawn inspiration for the club from the Authors' Club, since he played cricket for its associated cricket team, the Authors XI. According to Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy, the writers association PEN International may have been a source of inspiration for the club. Wodehouse references this organization in his 1971 novel The Girl in Blue, in which amateur poet Homer Pyle attends a PEN conference in Brussels. The first PEN Club was founded in London in 1921; the Pen and Ink Club debuted before this in Uneasy Money but is developed further in later appearances.

Roville-sur-Mer
Roville-sur-Mer is a fictional resort in Northern France, 'in Picardy' (French Leave) and the setting of the likes of The Adventures of Sally and French Leave; the name, however, is reminiscent of Deauville and Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the Channel.

It first appeared in two of the short stories collected in the book The Man Upstairs, published in the U.K. in 1914: Ruth in Exile and The Tuppenny Millionaire. It also appears in the short story, "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count" (in The Inimitable Jeeves).

Rowcester Abbey
Rowcester Abbey is the fictional 147-room home of impoverished aristocrat Bill Belfry, Lord Rowcester. The abbey is the setting for the novel Ring for Jeeves. The abbey dates as far back as the thirteenth century, around the time of Sir Caradoc Belfry, with fifteenth century and Tudor additions, and is alleged to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Agatha, who was Sir Caradoc Belfry's spouse. In the 1950s, the house has fallen into disrepair. Bill manages to sell the house to Rosalinda Spottsworth, who planned to take it down and reconstruct it in California.

Rowcester Abbey is located in the fictional county of Southmoltonshire, though in early editions it was the real Northamptonshire. The name was apparently changed due to a complaint from the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire over objections to one of the novel's characters, Colonel Wyvern.

Sanstead House
Sanstead is a fictional school, setting for much of the action in The Little Nugget. An imposing Georgian building in around 9 acre of land, Sanstead was formerly the private home of a family called Boone, but when the family's fortunes declined and the house became too large and expensive to maintain, one Colonel Boone keenly leased the place out as a school.

The place is perfect for the purpose, with ample grounds for cricket and football, and plenty of rooms of various sizes ideal for classrooms and dormitories. Its stables, with their thick walls and iron-barred windows, have been put to use as a gymnasium, carpenter's shop and general storage area, but also make a handy fortress in event of a siege. It is two miles (3 km) from the village, where the principal watering-hole is the Feathers, the barmaid of which, a Miss Benjafield, is a stately type who disapproves of Americans.

Run by the somewhat ineffectual Arnold Abney, Sanstead's staff includes the gloomy teacher Mr Glossop, White the smooth mannered butler, and Mrs Attwell the Matron, as well as a cook, an odd-job-man, two housemaids, a scullery-maid and a parlour-maid, before it is enhanced by the arrival of Peter Burns. The boys, who number some twenty-four in total, include Augustus Beckford, are augmented by the Nugget himself, Ogden Ford, who brings all manner of drama and bad behaviour to the school.

Sedleigh
A fictional, very minor school, which achieves some cricketing success thanks to the arrival of Mike Jackson and Psmith, in Mike and Psmith. Set in pretty countryside, the school has some two hundred boys. The houses, a row of three, lie across the cricket field from the main school; Outwood's, of which Mike and Psmith become members, is the middle one.

The school has a thriving archaeological society, thanks to Outwood, and also a fire brigade, run by his colleague Downing but treated as an excuse to mess around by the boys. The drainpipes are sturdy, and there is a fire bell, in an archway near the school, which proves useful to Mike on one occasion; when it is rung, the boys get to flee the building via canvas chutes.

Senior Conservative Club
A fictional gentlemen's club, the Senior Conservative Club is staid and old-fashioned. The Senior Conservative is a calm and quiet place with discreet staff and excellent dining. Opposite the wide windows of the lower smoking-room is an excellent flower shop, and there is a Victorian Turkish bath (based on Nevill's Charing Cross branch) not twenty-five yards from the doors, in Cumberland Street.

Its numbers (increasing from three thousand, seven hundred and eighteen at the time of Psmith in the City to six thousand, one hundred and eleven by the time of Leave it to Psmith) are all respectable, mostly bald men, who look like they could be politicians or important figures in the City; they include Lord Emsworth, who joined as a country member in 1888, and Psmith, put up for the club by his father.

It was based on the Constitutional Club, a London club which has since been dissolved. Wodehouse was a member of a number of London and New York clubs at various times, including the Constitutional Club.

Senior Liberal Club
A fictional gentlemen's club, the Senior Liberal Club is where Bertie Wooster and Bingo Little dine while the Drones Club is closed for cleaning in "Bingo and the Little Woman" (in The Inimitable Jeeves).

St. Austin's
A fictional public school, setting of several early shorts (many of them collected in Tales of St. Austin's), as well as Wodehouse's first published novel The Pothunters. In the Jeeves short story "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy", it is revealed that Tuppy Glossop is an Old Austinian.

Steeple Bumpleigh
Steeple Bumpleigh is a fictional location, being a small village in rural Hampshire and the location of Bumpleigh Hall. It is near the market town of East Wibley, where a fancy dress dance is held in Joy in the Morning. In Much Obliged, Jeeves, Bertie states that Steeple Bumpleigh is in Essex instead, perhaps because of the real Steeple Bumpstead.

Tilbury House
The fictional home of the Mammoth Publishing Company lies on Tilbury Lane near Fleet Street, a narrow lane that smells somewhat of cabbage. The Mammoth's premises spill out from the main HQ at Tilbury House to various other buildings in the street. For a time, opposite Tilbury House on the fourth floor are the offices of J. Sheringham Adair, Detective, also known as Alexander "Chimp" Twist.

Totleigh Towers
Totleigh Towers is a fictional location in two Jeeves stories, being the setting of The Code of the Woosters and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. The country house of Sir Watkyn Bassett, Totleigh Towers is located in Totleigh-in-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. Sir Watkyn's daughter Madeline Bassett also resides there. The butler at Totleigh is Butterfield.

The house is initially the residence of Sir Watkyn's niece and ward Stiffy Byng, and is frequently visited by Sir Watkyn's friend Roderick Spode. When he first appears in the stories, Harold Pinker is the curate of Totleigh-in-the-Wold. Constable Oates is the local police officer.

In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, Totleigh Towers was filmed at Highclere Castle. Totleigh Towers plays a larger role in the television series than in the original Jeeves canon, as it is used as a setting more frequently. In the television series, Totleigh is used as the setting for episodes adapting some of the events of "Jeeves Takes Charge", The Mating Season, and Much Obliged, Jeeves, though these stories originally had different settings (Easeby Hall, Deverill Hall, and Brinkley Court, respectively).

Twing Hall
Twing Hall is the fictional Gloucestershire home of Lord Wickhammersley in "The Great Sermon Handicap", "The Purity of the Turf", and "The Metropolitan Touch".

Valley Fields
A fictional suburb in London. Valley Fields is one of London's quiet, leafy suburbs, in the SE21 postal district. The setting of much of Sam the Sudden, it is home to Matthew Wrenn, whose friend Mr Cornelius is the local estate agent and historian; he has many a tale to tell of the suburb, the most exciting being that of Edward "Finky" Finglass, the notorious bank robber, who lived for a time in the house later inhabited by Sam Shotter.

In Uncle Fred in the Springtime, we learn that part of the suburb was formed from the old estate of Lord Ickenham's Uncle Willoughby, known as Mitching Hill, setting of the drama related in "Uncle Fred Flits By". It is also home to Maudie, niece of Blandings Castle butler Beach.

The suburb is a setting in many non-series novels, including Ice in the Bedroom, which has a similar plot to that of Sam the Sudden. In the preface to the 1972 edition of Sam the Sudden, Wodehouse wrote: "It was the first thing of mine where the action took place in the delectable suburb of Valley Fields, a thin disguise for the Dulwich where so many of my happiest hours have been spent." In his youth, Wodehouse attended Dulwich College in the London suburb of West Dulwich.

In Big Money, Berry Conway, friend of Lord Biskerton, lives with his childhood nurse at 'The Nook, Mulberry Grove, Valley Fields, SE21'. He passes through Herne Hill and Brixton on his way to work so Valley Fields Station is analogous to West Dulwich railway station.

Wee Nooke
The name Wee Nooke was given to two different fictional cottages that Bertie Wooster stays in. The first Wee Nooke, located in Steeple Bumpleigh, appeared in Joy in the Morning, though this cottage was destroyed by Edwin Craye. The second Wee Nooke, located in the town of Maiden Eggesford, appears in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen.

Wrykyn
A fictional minor public school with a strong cricketing tradition, Wrykyn is most closely associated with Mike Jackson, hero of Mike at Wrykyn. It also features in the earlier school novels The Gold Bat and The White Feather, as well as a number of early school shorts.

The school is an imposing place, especially to new boys; the grounds are in the form of a series of terraces cut from a hill, with the school at the top, training grounds on the next step and on the next the cricket field, from the pavilion of which one can see three counties. The houses are run by the likes of Wain, Donaldson and Seymour, and the school's reputation for cricket is fearsome. The public schools "Geddington" and "Ripton" are sporting rivals.

Many characters in later works are old boys, including Ukridge and his friends James Corcoran, George Tupper, and "Looney" Coote, as well as other characters like Sam "The Sudden" Shotter and his friend Willoughby Braddock.

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Richard J. Sauer

Richard J. Sauer (born on November 15, 1939) is an American academic and academic administrator. Sauer was interim president of the University of Minnesota in 1988.

Richard Sauer grew up in Walker, Minnesota, and graduated from high school in 1957. He attended St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. Sauer went to the University of Michigan for a master's of science in zoology and high school teaching qualification. Instead of teaching, Sauer chose a National Defense Education Act fellowship to attend North Dakota State University for a Ph.D. in entomology with a thesis on the crab spiders of North Dakota. He earned his doctorate at age 27.

Sauer began teaching biology at St. Cloud State College in the mid-1960s and then teaching biology to teachers, teaching entomology through the university extension program, and then working in the mid-1970s with the federal Department of Agriculture. He became acting associate director of the Experiment Station at Michigan State University, then head of the entomology department at Kansas State University. Sauer was hired as head of the Agriculture Experiment Station at the University of Minnesota.

Sauer was deputy vice-president of the University of Minnesota, vice president of agriculture, forestry, and home economics, and then interim president. He succeeded Kenneth Keller and was succeeded by Nils Hasselmo.

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1980 Kansas Jayhawks football team

The 1980 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth season under head coach Don Fambrough, the Jayhawks compiled a 4–5–2 record (3–3–1 against conference opponents), and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 208 to 171. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.

The team's statistical leaders included Frank Seurer with 797 passing yards, Kerwin Bell with 1,114 rushing yards, and David Verser with 576 receiving yards. Harry Sydney and Frank Wattlelet were the team captains.

In October 1982, an NCAA investigation revealed that running back Kerwin Bell was not an eligible player for the 1980 and 1981 seasons due to not surpassing the 2.0 minimum high school GPA. The Big Eight Conference ruled that all Kansas games in which Bell played were to be forfeited, bringing their conference record to 1–6 on the year. However, Kansas still records these games as victories in their record book, including their 20–18 victory over rival Kansas State. The two schools dispute the overall series record because of this.

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 * Add a little to affirmative action opposition
 * Add to racism (most prevalent form today)

Stereotype? Discrimination? Four million sub-articles?

Factors Leading to Discrimination
All from Whitley & Kite ch.4

1. Categorization First step in application process Gender, race, age Which of these gets the most attention? Ie: which stereotype gets activated? Prototypicality influences speed/ease of categorization Likeability = more quickly associated with your own group Situational influences (woman v. businesswoman) Black woman - woman in an all-male group, black in all-white group Prejudiced people overclassify people as belonging to outgroup (ingroup overexclusion)

2. Stereotype activation – extent to which a stereotype is accessible in one’s mind Activated in interactions with stereotyped group Dormant stereotype becomes active, ready for use 2 types of processes: Automatic processing – observing stimuli associated with stereotyped group Motivated processing – activating stereotype helps fulfill goals and needs Stereotypes associated with situation are activated. (Job hiring – laziness stereotypes)

AUTOMATIC Activation and categorization both automatic Subliminal cues activate these Greater amygdala activity in flash of black face Difference reduced in longer image exposure Frontal cortex activation was greater. Controlling biased response. See Harris and Fiske article
 * Evolutionarily advantageous to first see outgroup as a threat? Support for Evolutionary Theory?

Category-stereotype link conditioned Greater prototypicality - greater activation of stereotype. Context influences which aspects of stereotype are activate (alley v. church) Categorization occurs at SUBTYPE level (black athlete, not black person) More prejudiced people develop stronger link between category and stereotype Used more consistently -> more easily accessible Cognitive busyness reduces working memory, harder to call up stereotype

MOTIVATED ACTIVATION Comprehension goals – form impressions of what others are like, understand why events happen If you can predict a person’s responses, minimize problems. Members of other groups hold different opinions from my group.

Self-enhancement goals See others negatively so you look more positive. Black doctor gives bad news: negative stereotype of blackness is activated, positive doctor stereotype in inhibited. Vice versa with good news. Reduce threat of negative information about myself by applying negative trait to another stereotypically viewed as having that trait.

Social adjustment goals Adjust behaviors to fit into situations, adhere to norms/rules of the setting. More likely to say prejudiced things to ingroup members than target members to avoid conflict

Motivation to control prejudiced responses Prejudice contrary to personal values OR prejudice is socially unacceptable

Stereotype relevance – when asked to predict what major a kid is, Asianness trumps fatness.

3. Stereotype application – active stereotype used to judge, applied to person

STEREOTYPE APPLICATION INHIBITION More strongly activated = more likely to applied Lots of characteristics of stereotype application. Easy to inhibit verbal, but little physical cues, not so much (avoid eye contact)

More motivated to control prejudiced responses = less likely to use stereotypes For comprehension goals, people use individuating information. Info specific to person, not group Four times more weight than stereotypes BUT unless motivated to do otherwise, we conserve mental resources by not seeking out individuating info More relevant to life, more in control of something I want = more individuated

Stereotypes can still function in face of individuation Avoid seeking info about members of stereotyped groups Information sought tends to support stereotype Stereotypes affect how we interpret individuating info External motivations to ignore stereotypes: accuracy, accountability

Cognitive Style – differences in motivations to acquire and use info People low in need for cognition = stereotypes simple way of judging people Causal uncertainty – need to understand how the world, other people operate More certainty = more stereotype use Need for closure - high = simple definite answers = more likely to stereotype

Having power over people, control of their reward/punishment facilitates stereotype of controlled. Entitlement to judge -> overestimation of accuracy of simple systems like stereotypes Holding negative stereotypes justifies/maintains power. No motivation to individuate controlled

ABILITY TO INHIBIT STEREOTYPING Cognitive Resources – If stereotype already activated, cognitive busyness takes away resources for individuation Cognitive busyness inhibits stereotype activation, but if it’s already activated CB facilitates application People pay more attention to stereotypic info than individuating when busy. Can undermine motivation to inhibit stereotype.

EFFECTS OF ACTIVATED STEREOTYPES Biased interpretation of behaviors – ambiguous behaviors assimilated into stereotype Biased evaluation of members of stereotyped group Asian woman more qualified for job if Asian is emphasized over woman.

Shifting standards model One resource: those stereotypes as more competent are more likely to get it Unlimited resources: members of negatively stereotyped group get more after equal performance

Cultural Artifacts - Stereotypes affect evaluation of group’s individual members AND group’s culture as a whole Violent lyrics rated as more negative when from a rap song than a folk song

HARRIS AND FISKE ARTICLE Social Cognition activates the medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) No activation to objects or low-low stereotype content model (SCM) outgroups Activation of amygdala, insula (related to disgust) Low, low are dehumanized

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