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Shut Up, Little Man! | Table of Content | Short description, Reception, Documentary film, Popular culture, References, External links |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IFaqeer | Vanity. | Vanity. User:IFaqeer has been notified. --Diberri | Talk 18:17, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)
Nay! I mean nay on the vanity; yay on the deletion. I was trying to make my user page have my name appear as iFaqeer and not IFaqeer and something got funny. Any idea how I can do that? --iFaqeer 18:44, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just a misunderstanding, then. By all mean,s IFageer, put the content on your user page. Delete the article from main space. (Favorite graffiti ever: "Life is a waste of money.") Geogre 19:43, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Let us know when you've done the move and this can then be speedy deleted as user error. -- Jmabel 19:46, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay in sorting this out. Yes, I have fixed that.--iFaqeer 02:13, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC) |
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Vihtori Kosola | Short description | Iisakki Vihtori Kosola (10 July 1884 – 14 December 1936) was a Finnish politician, activist and a farmer who served as the leader of the fascist pro-German and anti-communist Lapua Movement, and later as the leader of the Patriotic People's Movement political party in Finland. |
Vihtori Kosola | Life | Life |
Vihtori Kosola | Early life | Early life
Kosola was born in Ylihärmä, Southern Ostrobothnia to a peasant family. He was the eldest of eight children from his father's second marriage. His family's farmhouse burnt down the next year, and the family moved to Lapua, buying a house at Liuhtarinkylä. His formative years were spent in farming and cattle-breeding following his father's death when Kosola was 17 years old. |
Vihtori Kosola | Political activism | Political activism
During the conscription strikes, Kosola began to become politically active, joining a debate society called Lazy Society in 1902.
Kosola was an active recruiter of Finnish Jäger troops to Germany from Autumn 1915, and was incarcerated in 1916. He was imprisoned in Helsinki, then at the Shpalernaya prison in St. Petersburg among other Finnish activists. He was released after the Russian Revolution and eagerly took part in the Finnish Civil War against the Red Guards and the Russians. After the war Kosola led the Lapua White Guard. He also joined the Agrarian League.
In the 1920s he organized Vientirauha, a strikebreakers' organisation, in Southern Ostrobothnia. He made a speech at the first meeting of the anti-communist Lapua Movement as it was organized in 1929, and was chosen as its leader as the movement radicalized in the following year. He took part in the abortive Mäntsälä Rebellion of 1932 that ended with the dissolution and banning of the Lapua Movement and the brief imprisonment of Kosola.
Kosola was chosen as president of the Lapua Movement's successor, the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL), but as the Movement became more political, Kosola had less time to participate in its affairs in Helsinki. Kosola's political career ended in 1936, when he was deposed from IKL's leadership; he was considered more of a liability than an asset by IKL. Contemporary accounts describe Kosola after being freed from jail as a tired and sick man who drank alcohol to deal with the stress. He was also in excessive debt and his farm was subject to foreclosure and auction. He died of pneumonia in December 1936. Kosola's first son, Niilo, bought the farm and was eventually elected as an MP and briefly as a government minister. Kosola's second son, Pentti, was imprisoned for murdering a political opponent. Pentti fought in the Winter War (1939–40) as a fighter pilot, but was killed in action.Iltalehti Teema Historia: Lapuan liike, Alma Media, 2015, pp. 34–35.
Kosola's radical right-wing politics caused a common saying in the 1930s: "Heil Hitler, meil Kosola," accented Finnish for "They've got Hitler, we've got Kosola". Sometimes also a third stanza, "muil Mussolini" (the others have Mussolini) was added. Kosola had a sobriquet Kosolini after his charismatic and vivid style of speech similar to Benito Mussolini. According to some contemporaries, he was always conceived of as a fascist dictator of Finland. |
Vihtori Kosola | Works | Works
Viimeistä Piirtoa Myöten, Lapua, 1935 (Memoirs) |
Vihtori Kosola | References | References
European Right: A Historical Profile edited by Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber, the "Finland" chapter by Marvin Rintala and
Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 edited by Philip Rees, 1991,
A biography from Eteläpohjalaisia elämänkertoja, 1963 (Finnish)
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Category:People from Ylihärmä
Category:People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
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Vihtori Kosola | Table of Content | Short description, Life, Early life, Political activism, Works, References |
George Owen Squier | Short description |
George Owen Squier (March 21, 1865 – March 24, 1934) was an American general, scientist, and inventor best known for inventing and popularizing what today is called Muzak. |
George Owen Squier | Life and military career | Life and military career
thumb|left|Portrait of Squier, by Harris & Ewing,
Squier was born in Dryden, Michigan. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in the Class of 1887 and received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. He wrote and edited many books and articles on the subject of radio and electricity. An inventor, he and Dartmouth professor Albert Cushing Crehore developed a magneto-optical streak camera "The Polarizing Photo-chronograph" in 1896 to measure the speed of projectiles both inside a cannon and directly after they left the cannon barrel. This was one of the earliest photonic programs. They also worked to develop synchronous AC telegraphic systems. His biggest contribution was that of telephone carrier multiplexing in 1910 for which he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1919. He was also an elected member of the American Philosophical Society.
In September 1900 Squier sailed from New York for Manila on the cable ship USAT Burnside. He was in command of a 25-man Signal Corps detachment that laid the first American telegraph cables in the Philippines.
As executive officer to the Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Signal Corps in 1907, Squier was instrumental in the establishment of the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps, the first organizational ancestor of the U.S. Air Force. He also was the first military passenger in an airplane on September 12, 1908, and, working with the Wright Brothers, was responsible for the purchase of the first airplanes by the US Army in 1909.
From May 1916 to February 1917, he was Chief of the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, the first successor of the Aeronautical Division, before being promoted to major general and appointed Chief Signal Officer during World War I.
In 1922, he created Wired Radio, a service which piped music to businesses and subscribers over wires. In 1934, he changed the service's name to 'Muzak'.
Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was pronounced like the word square.
He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. |
George Owen Squier | Death | Death
He died in Washington, D.C., at George Washington HospitalAssociated Press, "Former Leader of Air Service Dies", San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, 25 March 1934, Vol. 40, p. 1. on March 24, 1934 of pneumonia, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.Burial Detail: Squier, George O – ANC Explorer |
George Owen Squier | Awards | Awards
Distinguished Service Medal
Spanish War Service Medal
Philippine Campaign Medal
World War I Victory Medal
Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commander of the Legion of Honor (France)
Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy |
George Owen Squier | Dates of rank | Dates of rank
No Insignia Cadet, United States Military Academy: 1 July 1883 No Insignia in 1886 Second Lieutenant, Regular Army: 12 June 1887 13px|center First Lieutenant, Regular Army: 30 June 1893 40px|center Captain, Volunteer Army: 1 June 1898(Date of rank was 20 May 1898.) center|40px Lieutenant Colonel, Volunteer Army: 20 July 1898 13px|center First Lieutenant, Regular Army: 7 December 1898(Reverted to permanent rank.) 40px|center Captain, Volunteer Army: 17 April 1899 40px|center Captain, Regular Army: 1 July 1901(Date of rank was 2 February 1901.) 40px|center Major, Regular Army: 2 March 1903 center|40px Lieutenant Colonel, Regular Army: 17 March 1913 33px|center Brigadier General, Temporary: 14 February 1917 66px|center Colonel, Regular Army: 12 April 1917 66px|center Major General, Temporary: 8 October 1917 66px|center Colonel, Regular Army: 14 February 1921(Reverted to permanent rank.) 66px|center Major General, Temporary: 28 March 1921(Date of rank was 6 October 1917.) 66px|center Major General, Retired list: 31 December 1923 |
George Owen Squier | Legacy | Legacy
thumb|right|USS General G.O. Squier (AP-130)
In 1943, the U.S. Navy named troopship in his honor. It was the lead ship of its class, which was known as of transport ships.
General Squier Park, a historic district and waterpark in his hometown of Dryden, Michigan, is named in his honor. |
George Owen Squier | Publications | Publications
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George Owen Squier | References | References |
George Owen Squier | External links | External links
George O. Squier (Cullum's Register entry)
Smithsonian West Point: George Squier
National Academy of Science
United States Army Signal Center
About Major General George Owen Squier
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George Owen Squier | Table of Content | Short description, Life and military career, Death, Awards, Dates of rank, Legacy, Publications, References, External links |
Floating Point Systems | Short description | Floating Point Systems, Inc. (FPS), was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of attached array processors and minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad, with partners Tom Prints, Frank Bouton and Robert Carter. Carter was a salesman for Data General Corp. who persuaded Bouton and Prince to leave Tektronix to start the new company. Winningstad was the fourth partner.G.B. Dodds, C.E. Wollner & M.M. Lee, The Silicon Forest, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990, p 46-55. |
Floating Point Systems | History | History
The original goal of the company was to supply economical, but high-performance, floating-point coprocessors for minicomputers. In 1976, the AP-120B array processor was produced. This was soon followed by a unit for larger systems and IBM mainframes, the FPS AP-190. In 1981, the follow-on FPS-164 was produced, followed by the FPS-264, which had the same architecture. This was five times faster, using ECL instead of TTL chips.
These processors were widely used as attached processors for scientific applications in reflection seismology, physical chemistry, NSA cryptology and other disciplines requiring large numbers of computations. Attached array processors were usually used in facilities where larger supercomputers were either not needed or not affordable. Hundreds if not thousands of FPS boxes were delivered and highly regarded. FPS's primary competition up to this time was IBM (3838 array processor) and CSP Inc.
Cornell University, led by physicist Kenneth G. Wilson, made a supercomputer proposal to NSF with IBM to produce a processor array of FPS boxes attached to an IBM mainframe with the name lCAP. |
Floating Point Systems | Parallel processing | Parallel processing
In 1986, the T-Series hypercube computers using INMOS transputers and Weitek floating-point processors was introduced. The T stood for "Tesseract". Unfortunately, parallel processing was still in its infancy and the software tools and libraries for the T-Series did not facilitate customers' parallel programming. I/O was also difficult, so the T-Series was discontinued, a mistake costing tens of millions of dollars that was nearly fatal to FPS. A few dozen T-series were delivered. |
Floating Point Systems | Celerity acquisition; acquisition by Cray | Celerity acquisition; acquisition by Cray
In 1988, FPS acquired the assets of Celerity Computing of San Diego, California, renaming itself as FPS Computing. Celerity's product lines were further developed by FPS, the Celerity 6000 minisupercomputer being developed into the FPS Model 500 series.
FPS was acquired by Cray in 1991 for $3.25 million, and their products became the S-MP and APP product lines of Cray Research.
The S-MP was a SPARC-based multiprocessor server (based on the Model 500); the MCP a matrix co-processor array based on eighty-four Intel i860 processors. After Cray purchased FPS, it changed the group's direction by making them Cray Research Superservers, Inc., later becoming the Cray Business Systems Division (Cray BSD). The MCP was renamed the Cray APP. The S-MP architecture was not developed further. Instead, it was replaced by the Cray Superserver 6400, (CS6400), which was derived indirectly from a collaboration between Sun Microsystems and Xerox PARC. |
Floating Point Systems | Acquisition by SGI and Sun | Acquisition by SGI and Sun
Silicon Graphics acquired Cray Research in 1996, and shortly afterward the Cray BSD business unit along with the CS6400 product line was sold to Sun Microsystems for an undisclosed amount (acknowledged later by a Sun executive to be "significantly less than $100 million"). Sun was then able to bring to market the follow-on to the CS6400 which Cray BSD was developing at the time, codenamed Starfire, launching it as the Ultra Enterprise 10000 multiprocessor server. This system was followed by the Sun Fire 15K and Sun Fire 25K. These systems allowed Sun to become a first tier vendor in the large server market. In January 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation. |
Floating Point Systems | See also | See also
Glen Culler
Cydrome
Multiflow |
Floating Point Systems | References | References |
Floating Point Systems | External links | External links
1986 news about FPS - Daily Journal of Commerce
The History of the Development of Parallel Computing
Howard Thrailkill FPS Computing: A History of Firsts
Gordon Bell. "A Brief History of Supercomputing"
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Commander Cody (disambiguation) | '''[[Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen]]''' | Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is a country rock band.
Commander Cody may also refer to:
George Frayne, known as Commander Cody, lead singer of the band
Commander Cody (Star Wars), a clone trooper from the Star Wars franchise |
Commander Cody (disambiguation) | See also | See also
Commando Cody, titular character of the eponymous 1950s science-fiction serial
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, a Republic Pictures multi-chapter movie serial which began as a proposed syndicated television series
Space Patrol (1950 TV series), whose star character was Commander Corry
Cody (disambiguation) |
Commander Cody (disambiguation) | Table of Content | '''[[Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen]]''', See also |
PlayOnline | short description | PlayOnline is an online gaming service owned by Square Enix as the launcher application and Internet service for many of the online PC, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 games the company publishes. Launched on June 6, 2000, the service hosted games including Front Mission Online, Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion, Tetra Master, and the Japanese releases of EverQuest II, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and JongHoLo. As of 2022, however, the PC version of Final Fantasy XI is the only remaining game supported by the service.
PlayOnline was one of the first cross-platform gaming services, and hosted hundreds of thousands of players at its peak. It was shut down for twelve days during the 2011 earthquake in Japan. The platform was also subjected to denial of service attacks and players attempting to cheat were subsequently banned. Starting with Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix began moving their online games off the service as membership declined. The termination date for Final Fantasy XI and PlayOnline on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 was March 2016, with only the PC version of Final Fantasy XI still supported. |
PlayOnline | History | History |
PlayOnline | Launch | Launch
PlayOnline was originally conceived as an all-in-one solution to house multiple types of game content. At the "Square Millennium" event in Japan in January 2000, Square announced Final Fantasy IX, X and XI, with the last scheduled to release in the summer of 2001, and that they had been working on an online portal called PlayOnline with Japanese telecom company NTT Communications, which would feature online games, chat, email, online comics, Internet browsing, online shopping, sports, and instant messaging. The service was first announced as costing ¥500 for monthly membership, and a ¥1000 monthly user fee. Final Fantasy XI, then nicknamed Final Fantasy Online, was the first game to use the online service. The WonderSwan Color portable gaming system was also planned to be able to connect to PlayOnline through an adapter connected to one of the PlayStation 2's USB ports.
PlayOnline opened on June 6, 2000, to both Japanese and English speaking countries with news about upcoming software titles, interviews, and wallpapers. The site's merchandise included pieces from Parasite Eve, Vagrant Story, Chocobo Racing, Front Mission, Chrono Cross, and Final Fantasy.
To encourage early adoption prior to the release of Final Fantasy XI, Square partnered with BradyGames to publish a paperback strategy guide for Final Fantasy IX. The guide became notorious for barely containing any actual guidance. Instead, it asked players multiple times on each page to visit PlayOnline to obtain the solutions to puzzles, etc. Initial plans to utilize PlayOnline with Final Fantasy X were eventually scrapped. |
PlayOnline | Service | Service
PlayOnline was seen as part of Sony's strategy to turn the PlayStation 2 into an Internet set-top box. Accordingly, Sony brought broadband equipment and a hard drive to the PlayStation 2. The quality of the browser was noted in its "clean" graphics, excellent page layouts, and "high quality sound". The browser was not a general purpose Internet tool, but only accessed Square content, such as news about Square products and a comic-strip walkthrough of Final Fantasy XI.
Porting Final Fantasy XI to the Xbox proved difficult due to compatibility issues greater than was hoped for between Xbox Live and PlayOnline, likely because the latter was designed first. After negotiation, Xbox 360 players were able to play the game through PlayOnline's servers exclusively, despite Microsoft's initial wish that Square Enix would use its own platform. Downloadable content was also not available on the platform since the game played through PlayOnline. It was hoped that content would eventually be offered through the Xbox Live Marketplace. Final Fantasy XII started out as a game designed for the PlayOnline game platform. |
PlayOnline | Security and outages | Security and outages
In February 2005, 800 players were banned from Final Fantasy XI and the card game Tetra Master for monopolizing areas where high level items and monsters would spawn, making it impossible for other players to become stronger.
On April 9, 2005, a distributed denial of service attack against PlayOnline's servers shut down Final Fantasy XI access for players in North America and Europe for three hours: the attack continued for over a week, leading Square Enix to involve law enforcement. At the time, Square Enix did not reveal if the Japanese server which hosted Front Mission Online, Fantasy Earth, and Japanese players of EverQuest II were affected.
A new security system for players by Square Enix began on April 6, 2009, involving a security token that players could purchase for $9.99 and including an in-game bonus called a "Mog Satchel".
After Japan's 2011 earthquake, Square Enix disabled servers to conserve energy due to the incapacitated state of the region's nuclear power plant. This led to a temporary halt of the Final Fantasy XIV, XI and PlayOnline games and services from March 13 to 25. During the power shortage, air conditioning and lighting was reduced, and the subscription fees for Final Fantasy XI were waived for the month of April. |
PlayOnline | Decline | Decline
In June 2009, Square Enix decided not to use PlayOnline for Final Fantasy XIV due to the marked decrease of content on the service. Instead, they migrated to a new service that still allowed cross-platform gameplay, including the use of a universal Square Enix ID that would allow players to play from wherever they left off. Two years later, Square Enix merged the account management portion of the PlayOnline service into Square Enix accounts from July and culminating on August 31. However, PlayOnline is still required in order to actually play Final Fantasy XI. Square Enix replicated the idea of the friends list from Final Fantasy XI in XIV. The termination date of service for Final Fantasy XI and PlayOnline for PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 was March 2016. |
PlayOnline | Reception | Reception
In December 2001, Square Enix projected it would have 250,000 users by the end of the year, and 400,000 by the end of 2002. The service charged $10 per person, and thus needed 200,000 participants to break even.
By January 2004, PlayOnline had over 500,000 registered users, and slightly under one million active players. By September, the service had 1.2 million characters, with most players having two to three characters. In May 2005, Front Mission Online became the second game to utilize the service, retailing at ¥7,140 with a monthly subscription price of ¥1,344. In June 2009, a San Francisco resident sued Square Enix for "deceptive advertising, unfair competition, and unjust enrichment" from Final Fantasy XI, and sought a $5 million settlement.
Composer Nobuo Uematsu said that Square's efforts to push forward with online gaming was important to the video game industry's development. The PlayOnline Viewer was criticized as being nothing more than a longer way to get to Final Fantasy XIs content. The game also had unmoderated chat rooms that ended up with explicit content. The interface was also described as "clunky" with "strange functional restrictions". |
PlayOnline | References | References |
PlayOnline | External links | External links
PlayOnline
Original site (Web Archive)
Category:Online video game services
Category:Square (video game company)
Category:Square Enix |
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Hanaukyo Maid Team | Short description | is a Japanese manga series created by Morishige.
Hanaukyo Maid Team is about a young boy, Taro Hanaukyo, who has inherited a vast family fortune and, more importantly, the hundreds of employees working at the family mansion. While dressed and referred to nominally as 'maids', there are discrete albeit sometimes unusual departments for most of the employees (including Defence, Science, Catering, etc.). Presumably the various extensive projects in the house pay for most of its expenses.
The original anime, which aired as part of the omnibus program Anime Complex, was cut short when the series ran into production issues. Continuity was later rebooted for the new series Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite (Hanaukyō Maid Tai - La Verite in Japan). Many of the early episodes mirror each other closely, with some variations. Both anime versions use the same voice actors.
The English La Verite anime was originally licensed by Geneon Entertainment in North America, but Sentai Filmworks acquired the license in 2016 after Geneon's license expired. Studio Ironcat licensed the manga in North America; Ironcat as of 2005 went out of business having only released the first three volumes of the manga in English. There are currently no plans for another company to pick up the license and release the remaining volumes. |
Hanaukyo Maid Team | Characters | Characters
Voiced by: , Yuri Lowenthal (English)
A short, quiet, patient and persuasive middle school boy who inherits his mysterious grandfather's home at the age of 14. A common source of humor is his dealing with the overeager work ethic of the maids. He is put off by fawning women. (In the original anime series, this was exaggerated into a near-allergic reaction to any contact with a woman except one.) He thinks of his maids as friends and family rather than servants, and treats them as such, much to the consternation of some. He is rather blatantly attracted to Mariel. His name is spelled as "Tarou Hanaukyo" in the first English volume of the manga. As a point of interest, Tarou is shown cosplaying as Mahoro from Mahoromatic, even saying her catchphrase 'I think all dirty thoughts are very bad'.
Voiced by: , Karen Strassman (English)
Mariel is informally seen as the "head" maid of the house. She is essentially the "perfect" maid—attentive, polite, demure, intelligent, and beautiful. Her devotion is alluded to border on obsessiveness and becomes a major plot point later. (In the original anime series, she had purple hair rather than blue). She is eventually revealed to have been the product of Project: Blue Silent Bell, a genetic engineering project aimed at creating the ideal maid for Tarou. Her true feelings and emotions are buried underneath layers of emotional programming, and at the end of the series Tarou commits himself to bringing them out. (At any rate, her devotion to and affection for Tarou appear to be sincere, despite the programming.) As a point of interest, in one episode, Mariel is shown cosplaying as Chi from Chobits, who was also voiced by Rie Tanaka.
Voiced by: /Jessica Straus (English)
One of Taro's friends, a 17-year-old maid with thick glasses and often sporting a sly mischievous look. She is the head of the Technology Department, and specializes in mechanics and odd inventions, some of them blowing up or otherwise malfunctioning in rather hilarious ways. Rather oddly enough, she is also an otaku. In one episode rife with nods to other anime, she brings several other characters to the world-famous "Comic Market" ("Komiketto" for short in Japanese) in Tokyo with her self-made dōjinshi.
Voiced by: /Michelle Ruff (English)
The 21-year-old head of the Security department, she wears a military uniform under her maid apron. She has a severe personality but usually has everyone's best interests at heart. She has a soft spot for dogs, one of the rare times she breaks her overserious visage. The "we" part of Konowe is actually the katakana character "we" (ヱ). She takes her job as both head of security and Taro's personal bodyguard very seriously, which initially causes tensions between her and Taro due to his seeming lack of caution. Later she learns to 'lighten up' but is still very protective of Taro.
Voiced by: (original anime) and (La Verite)/Kate Higgins (English)
A dark-skinned 15-year-old maid who serves as Konoe's adjutant, she originally appears in the first series (with a different hair color, lighter skin and no name). She becomes a fully fleshed out character in the later Hanaukyo Maid series. She specializes in hand-to-hand combat but unfortunately is rarely taken seriously by the other maids who she reprimands often. She also has to constantly correct other people, insisting that Sanae (typically a first name for girls) is her last name. While Konoe sees her as a pupil, Yashima herself is hopelessly and rather blatantly in love with Konoe. This often has her daydreaming up various lesbian fantasies with Konoe returning her feelings, resulting in rather embarrassing moments.
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Voiced by:/Sandy Fox (English)
A silent, 10-year-old blonde girl who was praised, exploited, and subsequently shunned for her genius. She seemed to develop another personality named 'Grace': a vocal, stubborn, and tougher personality to protect herself. They apparently take turns at being 'aware' while the other sleeps, although they can speak to each other. It was later implied this arrangement is physically detrimentalHanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite Episode 3 and exacerbated by Grace's tendency to overwork. As Grace, she is in charge of the Computer Security department, and is in charge of Hanaukyo Mansion's cyber-heart, the MEMOL supercomputer.
Voiced by: /Wendee Lee (English)
Would-be master of an equally wealthy rival house to the Hanaukyos, annoyed with the condition she would become master of her house if she married the head of the Hanaukyo family. She was even more enraged to find the current head to be a 'whiny midget,' but later grows to like him somewhat. She is a military fan and later strikes up an obsessive competition to beat Mariel and prove herself, to the point of joining the household as a maid, and eventually taking over the Physical Health Department. Her bluntness and short temper sometimes comes in handy. Naturally, Ryuuka's home seems to also have a vast staff, but of handsome men rather than cute maids.
Voiced by: Jouji Yanami/Sean Roberts (English)
Taro's grandfather. He only appears twice in the later series, as a not-very-visible video image. He is the main villain of the series.
, , and
Voiced by: Kozue Yoshizumi/Rebecca Forstadt (Lemon), Mai Kadowaki/Stephanie Sheh (Marron), and /Kim Mai Guest (Melon)
Identical triplets who work for the . Because of their questionable imaginations, this usually consists of them attempting various lewd acts on Taro around and during bedtime, which he nonetheless seems to avoid (in the first anime his attempts to dodge them are much less successful, the easiest example being the three of them cornering him in bed at the end of the first episode. In the manga, he managed to escape, in the anime, one of the girls shuts off the light and three hearts pop up, and we hear Taro calling for help). One possible explanation for this is the fact that all three are rather blatantly in lust with him.
Note: In the original anime series, their differing uniform colors made them marginally more distinguishable from each other. They are known as , , and in the original anime series. Ichigo is voiced by , Ringo by , and Sango by . |
Hanaukyo Maid Team | Reboot | Reboot
Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite is a remake of the series featuring the same studio with different production staff. |
Hanaukyo Maid Team | Music | Music
Original series
Opening Theme: "Hanaukyo Meido-tai no Uta" (花右京メイド隊の歌) by Rie Tanaka, Moyu Arishima, Tomoko Kaneda and Akiko Hiramatsu (as the Hanaukyo Maid Team)
Ending Theme: "Sanshoku no Himitsu" (三色の秘密; "Secret of the Three Colors") by Ema Kogure (as Ringo), Hazuki Kagawa (as Ichigo), and Yuki Watanabe (as Sango)
La Verite
Opening Theme: "Voice of Heart" by Rie Tanaka (as Mariel)†
Ending Theme: "Osewashimasu!" ("You Take Care of Yourself!") by Kozue Yoshizumi (Lemon), Mai Kadowaki (as Marron) and Yuuya Yoshikawa (as Melon)
† An instrumental version of "Voice of Heart" is also used as a background music for a series of travel guides produced by TV Tokyo and PROTX. |
Hanaukyo Maid Team | References | References |
Hanaukyo Maid Team | Further reading | Further reading
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Hanaukyo Maid Team | External links | External links
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Hanaukyo Maid Team | Table of Content | Short description, Characters, Reboot, Music, References, Further reading, External links |
The Thorns (band) | Short description | The Thorns were an American acoustic rock band formed in 2002 as a project of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins.TheThorns.com Bios
The band toured the United States and Europe throughout 2003 in support of their eponymous debut album.Tour Schedule 2003–2004 The band toured supporting a number of acts, including The Jayhawks and The Dixie Chicks.
The band had scored radio airplay with their cover of The Jayhawks song "Blue", and their only album charted at #62 on the Billboard charts. The album was later reissued the following year with a second disc of acoustic re-recordings of the album.
That same year, the band was featured on the television series American Dreams performing a cover of the Beach Boys' "Warmth of the Sun". The band broke up in 2004 with each member resuming their solo careers.
The band's song "Among the Living" was featured in the 2019 Netflix series After Life. |
The Thorns (band) | Discography | Discography
The Thorns CD – Aware Records, 2003 – UK #68 |
The Thorns (band) | References | References
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The Thorns (band) | Table of Content | Short description, Discography, References |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Short description | The German men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Germany and is controlled by the German Ice Hockey Federation. It first participated in serious international competition at the 1911 European Hockey Championship. When Germany was split after World War II, a separate East Germany national ice hockey team existed until 1990. By 1991, the West and East German teams and players were merged into the United German team. The team's head coach is Harold Kreis.
Germany has won several medals at the World Championships, including three silver medals in 1930, 1953 and 2023, as well as a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the team's biggest success in the 21st century. |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | History | History |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | West Germany | West Germany
The West German team's greatest success came in 1976 at the Winter Olympics, when the team went 2–3–0 and won the bronze medal. The Swedish and Canadian teams, traditionally two hockey powerhouses, had boycotted the 1976 Games in protest of the amateur rules that allowed Eastern Bloc countries to send their best players while keeping Western nations from doing the same.
West Germany's wins in the 1976 Games came against the United States (4–1) and Poland (7–4).
In 1980, the team didn't do as well and only won one game in the preliminary round, which kept them from advancing. They finished 10th out of 12.
In 1984, the team was invited to the Canada Cup. By 1991, the reunification of East and West Germany meant the inclusion of players from the former East Germany. |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Post-unification | Post-unification
The team is not considered to be as elite as Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden or the United States; they are ranked 9th in the world (2022) by the IIHF. Since re-unification, their best recent results include finishing 6th place at the 2003 World Championships where they lost a close quarter-final match in overtime to Canada, and 4th at the 2010 World Championships where they lost to Sweden in the bronze medal game. Previously, they finished third in the European Group and qualified for the quarter-finals at the 1996 World Cup after a surprising 7–1 victory against the Czech Republic. In the 1992 Olympics, they lost to Canada 4–3 in an overtime shoot-out in the quarter-finals.
Germany has never won an international competition, and their most recent medal was silver in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, when they lost to the Olympic Athletes From Russia 4–3 in overtime. It was the first time that Germany had reached the Gold Medal Game at the Winter Olympics. This was their best result, tied with a silver medal at the 1930 World Championships.
There are 25,934 registered players in Germany (0.03% of its population).
Team Germany finished in 4th place at the 2010 IIHF World Championship, their best placement since 1953. |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Competition results | Competition results |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Olympic Games | Olympic Games
Games Coach Captain Finish 1928 St. Moritz Erich Römer Walter Sachs 9th 1932 Lake Placid Erich Römer Gustav Jaenecke 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Val Hoffinger Rudi Ball 5thIn 1949, Germany was split and was succeeded by West Germany and 1948 St. Moritz did not compete 1952 Oslo Joe Aitken Herbert Schibukat 8th 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo As United Team of Germany Frank Trottier Paul Ambros 6th 1960 Squaw Valley As United Team of Germany Karl Wild Heinz Henschel 6th 1964 Innsbruck As United Team of Germany Egen, Holderied, Unsinn Ernst Trautwein 7th 1968 Grenoble Ed Reigle Heinz Bader 7th 1972 Sapporo Gerhard Kießling Alois Schloder 7th 1976 Innsbruck Xaver Unsinn Alois Schloder 1980 Lake Placid Hans Rampf Rainer Philipp 10th 1984 Sarajevo Xaver Unsinn Erich Kühnhackl 5th 1988 Calgary Xaver Unsinn Udo Kießling 5thIn 1990 West and East Germany united back to 1992 Albertville Luděk Bukač Gerd Truntschka 7th 1994 Lillehammer Luděk Bukač Uli Hiemer 6th 1998 Nagano George Kingston Dieter Hegen 9th 2002 Salt Lake City Hans Zach Jürgen Rumrich 8th 2006 Turin Uwe Krupp Marcel Goc 10th 2010 Vancouver Uwe Krupp Marcel Goc 11th 2014 Sochi did not qualify 2018 Pyeongchang Marco Sturm Marcel Goc 2022 Beijing Toni Söderholm Moritz Müller 10th 2026 Milan / Cortina To be determined
Totals Games Gold Silver Bronze Total 16 0 1 2 3 |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | World Championship | World Championship
Year Location Coach Result 1930 Chamonix, / Vienna, / Berlin, ? Silver1931 Did not participate 1933 Prague, ? 5th place 1934 Milan, ? Bronze 1935 Davos, ? 9th place 1937 London, ? 4th place 1938 Prague, ? 4th place 1939 Basel / Zürich, ? 5th place1947-1951 Did not participateIn 1949, Germany was split and was succeeded by West Germany and 1953 Basel / Zürich, ? Silver 1954 Stockholm, ? 5th place 1955 Düsseldorf / Dortmund / Krefeld / Cologne, ? 6th place1957-1958 Did not participate 1959 Prague / Brno / Ostrava, ? 7th place 1961 Geneva / Lausanne, ? 8th place 1962 Colorado Springs / Denver, ? 6th place 1963 Stockholm, ? 7th place 1965 Turku / Rauma / Pori, ? 11th place (3rd place in Group B) 1966 Zagreb, ? 9th place (1st place in Group B) 1967 Vienna, ? 8th place (Relegated) 1969 Ljubljana, ? 10th place (4th place in Group B) 1970 Bucharest, ? 8th place (2nd place in Group B) 1971 Bern / Geneva, ? 5th place 1972 Prague, ? 5th place 1973 Moscow, ? 6th place (Relegated) 1974 Ljubljana, ? 9th place (3rd place in Group B) 1975 Sapporo, ? 8th place (2nd place in Group B) 1976 Katowice, ? 6th place 1977 Vienna, ? 7th place 1978 Prague, ? 5th place 1979 Moscow, ? 6th place 1981 Stockholm, ? 7th place 1982 Helsinki / Tampere, ? 6th place 1983 Munich / Dortmund / Düsseldorf, ? 5th place 1985 Prague, ? 7th place 1986 Moscow, ? 7th place 1987 Vienna, ? 6th place 1989 Stockholm / Södertälje, ? 7th place 1990 Bern / Fribourg, ? 7th placeIn 1990 West and East Germany united back to 1991 Turku / Helsinki / Tampere, Erich Kühnhackl 8th place 1992 Prague / Bratislava, Luděk Bukač 6th place 1993 Dortmund / Munich, Luděk Bukač 5th place 1994 Bolzano / Canazei / Milan, Luděk Bukač 9th place 1995 Stockholm / Gävle, George Kingston 9th place 1996 Vienna, George Kingston 8th place 1997 Helsinki / Turku / Tampere, George Kingston 11th place 1998 Zürich / Basel, George Kingston 11th place (Relegated) 1999 Odense / Rødovre, Hans Zach 20th place (4th place in Pool B) 2000 Katowice / Kraków, Hans Zach 17th place (Won Pool B) 2001 Cologne / Hanover / Nuremberg, Hans Zach 8th place 2002 Gothenburg / Karlstad / Jönköping, Hans Zach 8th place 2003 Helsinki / Tampere / Turku, Hans Zach 7th place 2004 Prague / Ostrava, Hans Zach 9th place 2005 Innsbruck / Vienna, Greg Poss 15th place (Relegated) 2006 Amiens, Uwe Krupp 17th place (Won Division I, Group A) 2007 Moscow / Mytishchi, Uwe Krupp 7th place 2008 Quebec City / Halifax, Uwe Krupp 10th place 2009 Bern / Kloten, Uwe Krupp 15th place 2010 Cologne / Mannheim / Gelsenkirchen, Uwe Krupp 4th place 2011 Bratislava / Košice, Uwe Krupp 7th place 2012 Helsinki, / Stockholm, Jakob Kölliker 12th place 2013 Stockholm, / Helsinki, Pat Cortina 9th place 2014 Minsk, Pat Cortina 14th place 2015 Prague / Ostrava, Pat Cortina 10th place 2016 Moscow / Saint Petersburg, Marco Sturm 7th place 2017 Cologne, / Paris, Marco Sturm 8th place 2018 Copenhagen / Herning, Marco Sturm 11th place 2019 Bratislava / Košice, Toni Söderholm 6th place 2020 Zürich / Lausanne, Cancelled 2021 Riga, Toni Söderholm 4th place 2022 Tampere / Helsinki, Toni Söderholm 7th place 2023 Tampere, / Riga, Harold Kreis Silver 2024 Prague / Ostrava, Harold Kreis 6th place 2025 Stockholm, / Herning, |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | European Championship | European Championship
Year GP W T L GF GA Finish Rank 1910 Les Avants 3 2 0 1 17 5 Round-robin 1911 Berlin 3 3 0 0 20 1 Round-robin 1912 Prague* 2 1 1 0 6 3 Round-robin 1913 Munich 3 1 0 2 21 16 Round-robin 1914 Berlin 2 1 0 1 4 3 Round-robin 1915–1920 No Championships (World War I). 1921-1926 Did not participate. 1927 Wien 5 3 0 2 10 7 Round-robin 1929 Budapest 2 0 0 2 1 3 First round 8th 1932 Berlin 6 1 4 1 5 5 Final round 4th1933–1991 After 1932, the European Championship medals were awarded based on the results of the Ice Hockey World Championships, with Germany receiving in 1930 and 1934.
1912 Championship was later annulled because Austria was not a member of the IIHF at the time of the competition. |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | World Cup of Hockey | World Cup of Hockey
1996 – lost in quarterfinals
2004 – lost in quarterfinals
2016 – Won (as part of Team Europe) |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Canada Cup | Canada Cup
1984 – Finished in 6th place |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Other tournaments | Other tournaments
Deutschland Cup: Gold medal (1995, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Nissan Cup: Gold medal (1993) |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Team | Team |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Current roster | Current roster
Roster for the 2024 IIHF World Championship.
Head coach: Harold Kreis
No.Pos.NameHeightWeightBirthdateTeam 5 D Tobias Fohrler HC Ambrì-Piotta 6 D Kai Wissmann Eisbären Berlin 7 F Maximilian Kastner Red Bull München 17 F Tobias Eder Eisbären Berlin 19 F Wojciech Stachowiak ERC Ingolstadt 27 D Maksymilian Szuber Arizona Coyotes 30 G Philipp Grubauer Seattle Kraken 33 F JJ Peterka Buffalo Sabres 35 G Mathias Niederberger Red Bull München 38 D Fabio Wagner ERC Ingolstadt 40 F Alexander Ehl Düsseldorfer EG 41 D Jonas Müller Eisbären Berlin 42 F Yasin Ehliz – A Red Bull München 45 G Tobias Ančička Kölner Haie 49 D Lukas Kälble Adler Mannheim 62 F Parker Tuomie Kölner Haie 65 F Marc Michaelis Adler Mannheim 72 F Dominik Kahun – A SC Bern 73 F Lukas Reichel Chicago Blackhawks 77 F Daniel Fischbuch Adler Mannheim 78 F Nico Sturm San Jose Sharks 79 F Colin Ugbelike Iserlohn Roosters 83 F Leonhard Pföderl Eisbären Berlin 91 D Moritz Müller – C Kölner Haie 95 F Frederik Tiffels Eisbären Berlin |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Retired numbers | Retired numbers
20 – Robert Dietrich
80 - Robert Müller |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Notable players | Notable players
Leon Draisaitl
Rudi Ball
Christian Ehrhoff
Karl Friesen
Marcel Goc
Thomas Greiss
Philipp Grubauer
Jochen Hecht
Dieter Hegen
Gustav Jaenecke
Udo Kießling
Ralph Krueger
Patrick Reimer
Olaf Kölzig
Erich Kühnhackl
Uwe Krupp (also former head coach)
Robert Müller
Helmut de Raaf
Hans Rampf
Dennis Seidenberg
Alois Schloder
Marco Sturm (also former head coach)
Xaver Unsinn (also former head coach) |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Notable executives | Notable executives
Heinz Henschel, president of the German Ice Sport Federation
Wolf-Dieter Montag, team physician
Roman Neumayer, sport director for the German Ice Hockey Federation |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Uniform evolution | Uniform evolution |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | All-time record | All-time record
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Opponent Played Won Drawn Lost GF GA GD 1 1 0 0 15 1 +14 54 36 4 14 177 84 +93 29 10 2 17 69 83 -14 14 9 1 4 69 32 +37 4 0 1 3 5 12 -7 1 1 0 0 13 1 +12 132 19 7 106 251 674 -423 1 1 0 0 3 2 +1 58 8 2 48 117 238 −121 65 10 6 49 120 364 −244 29 19 0 10 89 65 +24 20 12 4 4 73 54 +19 10 6 1 3 40 23 +17 2 2 0 0 7 3 +4 122 26 14 82 309 537 −228 47 27 4 16 138 97 +41 15 11 1 3 65 26 +39 22 17 4 1 72 32 +40 1 1 0 0 11 2 +9 59 33 9 17 230 157 +73 23 21 0 2 138 57 +81 11 6 0 5 36 26 +10 41 22 4 15 105 96 +9 11 10 1 0 79 23 +56 49 33 2 14 238 145 +93 54 31 7 16 192 161 +31 Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1 0 0 1 1 5 −4 21 17 0 4 100 57 +43 33 5 3 25 62 111 −49 1 1 0 0 14 0 +14 87 38 2 47 206 234 -28 11 8 2 1 41 15 +26 2 2 0 0 10 4 +6 71 0 1 70 111 581 -470 112 12 5 95 200 523 −323 160 72 16 72 527 451 +76 7 3 2 2 18 15 +3 113 31 9 73 311 446 −135 33 21 5 7 173 111 +62Total 1 526 581 119 826 4 431 5 537 -1 106 |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | See also | See also
Germany men's national ice sledge hockey team
East Germany national ice hockey team |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | References | References |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | External links | External links
IIHF profile
National Teams of Ice Hockey
Category:Ice hockey teams in Germany
Category:National ice hockey teams in Europe
Category:Men's national ice hockey teams |
Germany men's national ice hockey team | Table of Content | Short description, History, West Germany, Post-unification, Competition results, Olympic Games, World Championship, European Championship, World Cup of Hockey, Canada Cup, Other tournaments, Team, Current roster, Retired numbers, Notable players, Notable executives, Uniform evolution, All-time record, See also, References, External links |
Francis Godschall Johnson | short description | Sir Francis Godschall Johnson (January 1, 1817 – May 27, 1894) was a Canadian office holder. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba on April 9, 1872, but had his commission revoked before he was sworn in. In 1889, he was appointed the 4th chief justice of the Superior Court of Quebec. |
Francis Godschall Johnson | Early life | Early life
Born New Year's Day, 1817, at Oakley House in Bedfordshire. He was the son of Captain Godschall Johnson (1780–1859), formerly of the 10th Royal Hussars, and his wife Lucy (died 1823), daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp (1753–1828) 8th Bt., of Parham Park, West Sussex; 12th Baron Zouche. He was a nephew of Colonel Cecil Bisshopp. Francis Johnson was educated at Harrow and afterwards at Saint-Omer and Bruges. In his early life he had the reputation of an excellent athlete, and in later life he was remembered as a renowned wit.
Johnson moved to Montreal, Lower Canada, in the 1830s, where he studied law. From 1834 to 1836, he articled under Henry Pearce Driscoll of Montreal. He was called to the bar in 1839, and became known as a leading figure in criminal law. His career was undoubtedly helped by his bilingualism. On February 11, 1848, he was appointed a queen's counsel (QC).
Politically, Johnson was a Conservative. He was elected a vice-president of the British American League in 1849, and opposed the Rebellion Losses Bill later in the same year. He also signed the Annexation Manifesto, for which he was stripped of his QC (which was not restored until 1853).
On March 4, 1856, at St John's Church, Red River, he married Mary Louisa Mills, eldest daughter of Thomas Milliken Mills of Taunton, Somerset. |
Francis Godschall Johnson | Legal career | Legal career
In 1854, Johnson was commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company to work as a legal administrator in Assiniboia. He was soon recognized as one of the most competent figures in the Company, and became Assistant Governor of Assiniboia on July 19, 1855. On November 26, he succeeded William Bletterman Caldwell as governor, also retaining his legal portfolio. He appears to have been popular and respected during his time in the territory.
Johnson returned to Montreal in 1858, and resumed his legal practice. He was appointed a judge in 1865.
In 1870, he was commissioned by George-Étienne Cartier to become the first legal recorder in the new province of Manitoba. He was sworn in on October 19, and sought to develop a functioning legal system in the province. |
Francis Godschall Johnson | Political career | Political career
On October 21, 1870, Lieutenant Governor Adams George Archibald appointed Francis as a legislative councillor in the North-West Territories. This appointment made him the first councillor and member of the Executive Council in the territory. The appointment to the Temporary North-West Council was quickly revoked by the federal government, however, which ruled that Archibald had overstepped his authority in granting it.
On April 9, 1872, Johnson reluctantly agreed to replace Archibald as lieutenant governor of the territories. This appointment was also revoked, following opposition in the House of Commons of Canada to a government appointee holding two paid positions. Johnson was never sworn into office, despite his continued popularity in the region. |
Francis Godschall Johnson | Judicial career | Judicial career
Johnson returned to Montreal later in 1872, and was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec. On December 9, 1889, he was appointed its chief justice. |
Francis Godschall Johnson | External links | External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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Sword and shield | '''Sword and shield''' | Sword and shield may refer to:
Sword and Shield, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure module
Sword and Shield (film), a 1926 German silent film
Sword and shield theory, a historiographical view of post-World War II France
The Shield and the Sword, a song by Clare Maguire
The Shield and the Sword (film), a 1968 Soviet spy series
Pokémon Sword and Shield, 2019 games in the Pokémon video game series
Order of the Sword & Shield, an American honor society for college students in security disciplines
The Sword and the Shield, a book about the Mitrokhin Archive
Shield and Sword of the Party (), motto of the Stasi |
Sword and shield | See also | See also
Sword (disambiguation)
Shield (disambiguation) |
Sword and shield | Table of Content | '''Sword and shield''', See also |
Mayfair (magazine) | Short description | Mayfair is a British adult magazine published monthly by Paul Raymond Publications. Founded in 1966, it was designed as a response to US magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse, the latter of which had recently launched in the UK. For many years, it claimed the largest distribution of any men's magazine in the UK. It is a softcore magazine, and thus is available in newsagents, although some larger retailers require a modesty bag to hide the cover. |
Mayfair (magazine) | Fisk Publishing era | Fisk Publishing era
Mayfair was launched by Fisk Publishing Ltd in 1966 with an August cover date. The company was controlled by Brian Fisk. Its first editor was David Campbell, and its first deputy editor was Graham Masterton. Its second editor was Woman's Own veteran Kenneth Bound. As well as nudes, Mayfair featured short stories and serious articles on such "male" interests as classic cars, trains, and military history. In its early years, one regular contributor of fiction and nonfiction was American author William S. Burroughs (who became an associate of Masterton's; Masterton later gave Burroughs a posthumous co-author credit on his novel Rules of Duel ).
A regular feature for many years was Quest, "the laboratory of human response", interviews purportedly with ordinary people (each issue featuring separate conversations with two women and one man, and occasionally couples) about sex matters, and graphic descriptions of sexual encounters. Graham Masterton initially wrote Quest as fiction, but later interviewed real people to inform the article. Another regular feature was a long-running cartoon strip featuring the misadventures of Carrie, a nubile blonde who lost her clothes in various embarrassing situations.
In 1968, Mayfair took over rival King, which had been launched in 1964, initially with backing from Paul Raymond.
The December issue of each year was usually double-sized, and featured a "review" of the models seen in previous issues. For many years, this was from the previous year, e.g. the review in Volume 16, Number 12 (December 1981) featured the models seen throughout Volume 15 (January to December 1980). In 1982, a separate and nominally annual Best of Mayfair supplement was introduced, reprinting the full photo sets and other items. This was followed in 1988 by a similar Girls of Summer supplement.
In August 1972, Mayfair featured the regular comic-strip adventures of "Carrie" with story and fully painted artwork by Don Lawrence. The strip ran for two pages a month for most issues over the next 17 years. Don Lawrence left at the end of 1975, and Mario Capaldi drew the strip from January 1976 to May 1977. In June 1977, Steve Kingston took over.
Most of the models featured were "girl next door" types whom the accompanying text claimed to be new to such work. Their pictures would be accompanied by descriptions of their everyday lives and jobs, including that of telephonists, secretaries, shopkeepers, etc. Page 3 girls were also regular features. Some of the early ones would appear full frontal (tabloid papers such as The Sun only featured topless images), but in the late 1980s most such as Samantha Fox and Maria Whittaker would only do topless appearances.
Occasionally couples, male and female models and sets of two or more girls together (though lesbianism was usually implied rather than made obvious) were featured.
In March 1982, Robert Maxwell reached an agreement to buy Mayfair from Yvonne Fisk (widow of founder Brian). However, Bound persuaded Maxwell to let him mount a management buyout, instead.
Many aspects of the magazine changed when Kenneth Bound agreed to sell the magazine to Paul Raymond Publications. The last issue from Bound/Fisk was Volume 26 Number 1 (January 1991), at which time the magazine had a net paid circulation of 295,646 according to the UK Audit Bureau of Circulations. |
Mayfair (magazine) | Paul Raymond Publications era | Paul Raymond Publications era
The change of ownership and the appointment of Stephen Bleach as editor led to more explicitness, more girl-on-girl material, and a focus on established models, mostly with large-breasted figures. The detailed description of the girls' "everyday lives" gave way to explicit descriptions of their sex lives.
The serious content was gradually dropped in favour of an approach more akin to mainstream magazines such as Loaded, while the male interviewees in Quest were dropped in favour of more extreme female-only contributions, including lesbianism.
Today, Mayfair is published every four weeks along with fellow Paul Raymond adult titles such as Club International, Escort, Men Only, Men's World, and Razzle.
Paul Chaplin, also known as Paul Baxendale-Walker, acquired ownership of the Paul Raymond Publications titles in August 2012.
Mayfair is also sold in digital format. Initially this was via the Paul Raymond digital newsstand from 2013 until that website closed. Subsequently it has been available digitally from the main Paul Raymond website. |
Mayfair (magazine) | Bans | Bans
In common with many soft-core publications, Mayfair was specifically banned in Ireland in 1968, and remained so until successfully appealed along with four other Paul Raymond titles on 21 November 2011.
The March 1987 issue featured a model named Tina Reid, stating she had only recently turned 17 when the pictures were taken.Mayfair, Vol. 22 No. 3, March 1987 When it emerged that she was 15, all copies were withdrawn from UK shops. Nevertheless, Reid later appeared in a number of other glamour magazines (sometimes using the pseudonym of "Trixie Buckingham"), as well as acting under the name Louise Germaine, notably in Dennis Potter's Lipstick on Your Collar and Midnight Movie.Louise Germaine at IMDB |
Mayfair (magazine) | Contents | Contents
Current issues of the magazine (2011) follow a common monthly format consisting of several regular sections and seven photo shoots, six of which are brand new to print in the UK and the last being a rerun of a classic photo shoot from yesteryear. The contents belowContents derived from Mayfair Magazine Vol 46 No. 9 is representative of this format:
Mayfair Male – This section contains letters from readers.
Mayfair Presents – A profile of a model or porn star, looking at how she got into the industry, and how (and who!) she has been doing since
21st Century Toys – This is a light-hearted review of electronic gadgets and gizmos
Mayfair Movies – A review of the latest batch of pornographic movies
Mayfair Motors – A double-page review focusing on a new car – often featuring high-performance vehicles
Quest – Stories about the sexual activities of a trio of young women, each following a general theme given in the previous month's issue
Scene – A section containing reviews and write-ups about various differing new releases – typically DVDs and books
Gentlemen.. – A page of jokes, generally of a groan-inducing nature
Mayfair Intelligencer – A round-up of weird and mysterious facts, coupled with askew glances at the world of celebrity and Hollywood and guides to modern etiquette
Nude photo shoots are scattered between these sections; each photo shoot generally consists of six or seven pages of photographs along with a short write-up about the model. Often, the model starts the set fully dressed and ends up fully naked.
The final photo shoot in the magazine is a classic shoot that is taken from a previous issue of the magazine, typically from the 1980s or early '90s.
A single-page comic strip, "Ms. Fortune" by Gabrielle Noble, has featured since 2011.
Since acquiring ownership in August 2012, Paul Chaplin writes the monthly editorial column, complemented by his own photo shoot of current glamour models. Chaplin has also implemented an editorial change in bringing in more mainstream tabloid page 3 models for shoots. |
Mayfair (magazine) | Featured models past and present | Featured models past and present
Joanie Allum (wife of photographer John Allum, she later became a glamour photographer)Mayfair Vol. 17, No. 8 (August 1982)
Mel Appleby (of Mel and Kim)Mayfair Vol. 22, No. 1 (January 1987)
Debee AshbyMayfair Vol. 24, No. 10 (October 1989)
Brigitte BarclayMayfair Vol. 24, Nos. 7, 10 & 12 (1989), Vol. 25, No. 8 (1990), Vol. 26, No. 14 (1991), Vol. 27, No. 10 (1992)
Paula Ann BlandMayfair Vol. 23, No. 3 (March 1988)
Claire CassMayfair Vol. 31, No. 12 (1996), Vol. 35, No. 5 (2000)
Donna EwinMayfair Vol. 24, No. 10 (1989), Vol. 25, Nos. 3 & 11 (1990)
Samantha FoxThe Best of Mayfair No. 5 – Vol. 20 Supplement (1985)
Jo GuestMayfair Vol. 27, Nos. 6, 7, 9 & 12 (1992), Vol. 28, Nos. 6 & 7 (1993), Vol. 29, No.1 (1994)
Kirsten ImrieMayfair Vol. 24, Nos. 9 & 12 (1989), Vol. 25, No. 9 (1990), Vol. 26, Nos. 5 & 11 (1991)
Linda LusardiMayfair Vol. 19, No. 2 (February 1984)
Barbara LidfordMayfair Vol. 11, No 1 (January 1976)
Sabrina SalernoMayfair Vol. 23, No. 8 (1988)
Joan Templeman (wife of Richard Branson)Early photographs reprinted in Mayfair Vol. 22, No. 10 (October 1987)
Tula (Caroline Cossey)Mayfair Vol. 25, No. 9 (September 1990)
Maria WhittakerMayfair Vol. 23, No. 6 (1988), Vol. 24, Nos. 7 & 11 (1989)
Marina Larsen Described on cover Vol.17, No.12 (December 1982) as '...the most beautiful girl we've ever seen'
Lesley-Anne DownMayfair Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 1975)
Penny IrvingMayfair Vol. 7, No. 12 (December 1972)
Gail Harris (Gail Thackary)
Nina Carter"Mayfair" Vol. 4, also credited as Penny Mallett |
Mayfair (magazine) | Featured photographers | Featured photographers
Peter Flodquist
John Allum (whose wife Joanie Allum appeared in some issues of Mayfair)
Donald Milne
Ed Alexander
Jean Rougeron
Michael Ancher
Robert Redman |
Mayfair (magazine) | See also | See also
Outline of British pornography
Pornography in the United Kingdom |
Mayfair (magazine) | References | References
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Category:British brands
Category:Pornographic magazines published in the United Kingdom
Category:Softcore pornography
Category:Men's magazines published in the United Kingdom
Category:Magazines established in 1966 |
Mayfair (magazine) | Table of Content | Short description, Fisk Publishing era, Paul Raymond Publications era, Bans, Contents, Featured models past and present, Featured photographers, See also, References |
USS Daniel Webster | short description | +USS Daniel Webster (SSBN-626)
USS Daniel Webster (SSBN-626), a ballistic missile submarine (FBM), was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Senator Daniel Webster. |
USS Daniel Webster | Construction and commissioning | Construction and commissioning
The contract to build Daniel Webster was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 3 February 1961 and her keel was laid down there on 28 December 1961. She was launched on 27 April 1963, sponsored by Mrs. Mary Ernestine (Appleton) Goodrich, great-great granddaughter of Daniel Webster and wife of W. Osborn Goodrich, Jr., and commissioned on 9 April 1964, with Commander Marvin S. Blair in command of the Blue Crew and Commander Lloyd S. Smith in command of the Gold Crew.
Daniel Webster was originally built with diving planes mounted on a "mini-sail" near the bow, leading to her nickname "Old Funny Fins". This configuration, unique to US submarines, was an attempt to reduce the effect of porpoising. While successful, the "mini-sail" required to contain the operating mechanism reduced hydrodynamic efficiency and lowered her overall speed.
During a mid-1970s overhaul, these unusual planes were removed and standard fairwater planes were installed.Daniel Webster at NavSource.org |
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