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His sixth single, the half-spoken love song "Really Free" reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977.[2] It would be his greatest success for some time and consequently is still easy to track down on the second-hand market. Much scarcer is the picture cover which was only present on a small proportion of the singles. Rarer still, and almost impossible to find, is the advertising sleeve, a die-cut thin paper sleeve printed with an advert for the debut album, snippets of newspaper and magazine reviews and a cut-out "Really Free" body sticker.

Potts auditioned for Simon Cowell's new talent show Britain's Got Talent at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on 17 March 2007. The audition was televised on ITV in the UK on 9 June 2007.[12] Potts sang the full rendition of Giacomo Puccini's "Nessun dorma", which was condensed for broadcast. His rendition of the song brought looks of awe from the judges, including Simon Cowell, an example of emotional contagion. Potts received a standing ovation from the audience of 2,000 people. The YouTube video clip from the show has had more than 105 million views, making it one of the top 100 most watched YouTube videos.

Whoever made that edit is my hero. The link on "emotional contagion" and all.

Does *that* page link back to the Paul Potts one?

unusual phraseology in Wikipedia articles

Music and lyrics
"Disco Mystic" is indeed played in a disco style

<*)))-{ ><(((*> ><>	Fish, something's fishy,[6] Christian fish[4]

Mayor of Toronto[edit]

In 2012, he campaigned to become the Mayor of Toronto, Canada. His slogan was Yes We Canseco, a play on Barack Obama's Yes We Can slogan from the 2008 US Presidential Election. Canseco is not a Canadian citizen, so he's not permitted to become the mayor of a Canadian city.

Almost all protocols give back slaps as a technique to be used before potentially damaging interventions such as abdominal thrusts.[7][8] Henry Heimlich, noted for promulgating abdominal thrusts, claimed that back slaps were proven to cause death by lodging foreign objects into the windpipe.[9] The 1982 Yale study by Day, DuBois, and Crelin that "persuaded the American Heart Association to stop recommending back blows for dealing with choking...was partially funded by Heimlich's own foundation."[10] According to Roger White MD of the Mayo Clinic and American Heart Association (AHA), "There was never any science here. Heimlich overpowered science all along the way with his slick tactics and intimidation, and everyone, including us at the AHA, caved in."[11]

Dr. Heimlich has advocated the use of the technique as a treatment for drowning[24] and asthma[25] attacks. The Red Cross contests his claims that the maneuver could help drowning victims and someone suffering an asthma attack. The Heimlich Institute has stopped advocating on their website for the Heimlich maneuver to be used as a first aid measure for drowning victims. His son, Peter M. Heimlich, alleges that in August 1974 his father published the first of a series of fraudulent case reports in order to promote the use of abdominal thrusts for near-drowning rescue.[26]

Heimlich is the uncle of Anson Williams, who is known for his portrayal as Warren "Potsie" Weber on the 70s hit TV show Happy Days.[7]

Rolo (pronounced "Row-low", referring to the roll-styled candy) is a brand of truncated-cone-shaped or frustum-shaped chocolates with a caramel centre, the shape resembling that of a shallow inverted bucket or tub or a traditional lampshade.

Nail problems

White had a hands-on influence on Ovation. White used to come to the factory. His fingernails were brittle and prone to cracking, a condition that got worse as he grew older. Ovation's subassembly foreman, Al Glemboski, made a cast of White's fingers, from which he made a set of fiberglass nails. White glued on these false nails with a special industrial glue called Eastman 910, which would later be marketed as Super Glue. He returned to the factory every other month for a new set of nails.

Lately, Wikipedia's editors are debating some controversies regarding a possible connection between the real island of Robinson Crusoe and "Cocos Island" (of Costa Rica).

Crusoe then teaches him English and converts him to Christianity. (Now, the several native words of Friday have been found in a Spanish-Térraba dictionary. Historic facts admit that the Térraba, a.k.a. Naso people lived and still live in Costa Rica. They were the most bellicose nation there that became Christians quickly. How did Defoe learn those "fictional" Térraba words in London in 1719? He must have had a living source, either Crusoe or Friday. Also, Robinson Crusoe is the first English book that mentions the "ironwood" or "iron tree." How did Defoe learn of it if not from Crusoe, a real Brazilian citizen? Some modern maps of Cocos Island show a whole region of "iron trees" in its interior.)

Holsapple and Cowsill divorced in 2001 and Holsapple married, in his new wife's opinion, a trophy wife.

Page edited by Holsapple's new wife.

A later iteration of the project, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Biel and Al Pacino and directed by Terry Gilliam, was set to begin production in 2009, but Thornton vetoed filming in London because of his phobia of antiques.

vetoed pacino for same reason amirite

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oh boy, lots of unusual (and gruesome) details to be had there

Huyton was immortalised in the poem by Thomas Arthur Lumley
Huyton, Huyton, Two dogs fightin’ One was a blackin and the other was a whitin
This recognised the long-standing rivalry within the area between religious factions which notably reached a nadir in the seventies with ‘end of term' fighting between opposing Roman Catholic and Church of England Schools notably St. Augustine’s of Canterbury and Seel Rd School respectively.

I'd heard of 'Two Dogs' used as rhyming slang for 'Huyton' before, but never anything about Thomas Arthur Lumley. When I google his name the only other thing that comes up is this:

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/u/m/Paul-Lumley/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0004.html

Does anyone here know anything about this?

Hitler(edit)

Hitler was one of the Germans detained in Huyton during World World II, as we all know, he then went on to play for Liverpool and amazingly, England.
I am astonished that this fact has been left out of the Huyton page. I will write a section and upload it later.
Many thanks,
Yazooman 82.42.211.143 16:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
This fella really knows his history and has taken time and a great degree of research in his quest for a true depiction of huyton and its sons, its a pity Adolf didnt drink in the eagle and child as this may have prevented the advent of world war II as im sure anyone imbibing in that hostelry with that moustache would have soon made a visit to yew tree. It would be great if he could do further research into other local legends the jam butty mine legend for instance from knotty ash's historical past would be a most interesting sojourn. good luck mate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.163.114.22 (talk) 13:12, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

All I know about the two dogs joke is that it's very similar to the Scottish guy talking about the names of James the Mason and Seamus the Cook, but ye fuck one goat...

George William Sampson (born 29 June 1993)[1] is a British street dancer and actor from Warrington.[2] He won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.[3] He is an official ambassador of the United Dance Organisation.[4]

On the 6th November 2013 it was found that a Boy named River was falsely inputting information to George Sampson's Wikipedia claiming he was his cousin. Police has been contacted and a investigation is ongoing

Allison is a favorite character of the Internet Simpsons fan community and features prominently in fan-produced artwork and scripts.

Butter is a form of dary that if you eat plain it can make you fat. It is a food that if you are over 360 lb. you should not eat.

On 4 April 1876 the entire Uppingham School in Rutland, England, consisting of 300 boys, 30 masters and their families, moved to Borth for a period of 14 months, taking over the disused Cambrian Hotel and a large number of boarding houses, to avoid a typhoid epidemic.

also re: borth

Notable residents

Johnathon Lewis, DJ, teacher and producer of educational videos on the subject of DJing

Other accomplishments
In his youth he loved boxing and has sparred with the Dalai Lama.[16]

After the song's writer, Chrissie Hynde, said in a radio interview she did not mind the use of the song [on the Rush Limbaugh show], an agreement was reached for an annual usage fee of one hundred thousand dollars to EMI,[3] which reportedly is donated to the animal rights organization PETA.[4]

In 1993 an 80-minute documentary film Words For The Dying, directed by Rob Nilsson, was released on DVD.

Characters are described, according to the newspaper, Wilmington Morning Star.[1]

Jeff Conaway – Prince Erik Greystone, a protagonist
Walter Olkewicz – Marko, Prince Erik's sidekick
Duncan Regehr – Prince Dirk Blackpool, "handsome" but a "villain"
Julia Duffy – Princess Ariel, a "spoiled princess", who craves for "furs, jewels, and leather pants" and has a horse named Pumpkin
Clive Revill – Wizard Vector, an "evil wizard"
Thomas Hill – King Baaldorf
Ian Wolfe – Wizard Tranquil, an aging wizard
Tim Dunigan – Geoffrey Blackpool
Jay Kerr – Justin Greystone
Julie Payne – Queen Lattinia
Randi Brooks – Witch Bethel
Phyllis Katz – Cassandra
Lonnie Wun – Oriental Guard

Stephen Potter (author/humourist):

In 1930 he wrote D. H. Lawrence: A First Study, the first book-length work on Lawrence, which appeared in print within a few days of the death of its subject, unfortunate timing because it seemed like an inadequate memorial rather than what it was intended to be, a critical reappraisal. It also suffered from a regrettable misprint, rendering the heading "Sea and Sardinia", as "Sex and Sardinia". This was soon amplified by rumour into "Sex and Sardines", none of which helped Potter's reputation as a serious writer.

"Giving It All Up for Love" is a cover of a Phil Lynott song. Lynott was best known as the singer and bassist for the hard rock group Thin Lizzy, and Huey Lewis played harmonica on Lynott's first two solo albums, as well as Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous album.

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He is commonly known by his Chinese nickname Xiao Zhu (Little Pig), because he was heavily weighted and tanned during his middle school years, but also he keeps a 'little pig' in his parental home (he was conned by the hawker, it turned out to be a wild boar as it grew up).

The introduction of Burger King in Tórshavn was widely publicized as a sign of the globalization of Faroese culture.

"This article is about the ethnic group from the Philippines. For the snack food in Spain and Portugal, see Filipinos (snack food)."

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"Stop! Wait! We followed the links and they both went back to the same page!"

"Tony Lewis took a year off between albums in the 90's to throw screws around a computer workshop with a dysfunctional team at Metrologie Limited in High Wycombe, and generally prat around."

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In 2004, a remake was planned for the Fox network, with Sherman Hemsley as the voice of Mister Ed, David Alan Basche as Wilbur, Sherilyn Fenn as Carol, and Sara Paxton. The pilot was filmed, but was not picked up by Fox. The show's writer and producer, Drake Sather, committed suicide shortly before the pilot's completion.

Also:

In 2007, it was reported that a housing developer intended to create a community near Tahlequah, Oklahoma built around the supposed final resting place of Mister Ed. It is intended to be themed to the style of the show and its period.[10]

wow, dc.

In April 2011, Warren G and Chris Kanik teamed up to promote a new natural male enhancement supplement called Affirm XL.[citation needed]

Coke II[edit]

In 1985, New Coke was sold only in Canada, the United States, and United States territories, while the original formula continued to be sold in the rest of the world (had the new version been a success it would presumably have been introduced worldwide). New Coke was eventually returned to the company's product portfolio; it was test-marketed in certain U.S. cities under the name Coke II in 1990 and officially renamed Coke II in 1992, despite the company's original intention not to create a second brand. Filmmaker Miranda July is said to have suggested the name of Coke II while working as a tastemaker for an ad agency.[54]

Only teenage tastemaker Miranda July could have come up with such a punchy, happening name.

room full of corbin bernsen types scribbling stuff on pieces of paper, staring at the paper, and then balling it up and tossing it aside. hours of this and then finally from a corner of the office the wunderkind july, "the kid" they call her, looks up from an issue of sassy and says 'hey guys - how's abouts coke II?'. history is made.

See also

List of films featuring space stations
List of films featuring powered exoskeletons

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The character has appeared in the music video for Peter Kay's 2005 charity single "Is This the Way to Amarillo", where he was played by actor Martin Jarvis.

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(holding the Guinness World Record for most critically polarizing survival horror game)