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about user: bod


Hello greetings.

I am a typical average minor contributor, one Bod among many. In real life, I live in England & volunteer at a busy secondhand Amnesty bookshop. I could not read and write until I was ten/eleven, I failed my English exams 5 times before passing, but finished my education with a LLB (Hons). Despite my best efforts, I do make mistakes, which I do my best to correct. Knowing my own failings I appreciate helpful corrections to my wobbly editorial skills in badly spelt English, high typonese & naffogrammar. Luckily in the huge library of Wikipedia I have only contributed to a few articles and helped improve two articles to Good Article status
Berkhamsted and Maisie Williams.
I am deeply passionate about protecting all Civil Liberties and Human Rights. I support the standing up against inequality & discrimination everywhere, including checking any Systemic bias that naturally occur in Wikipedia. If you do not consider yourself biased, or unsure of your own socio-political biases have fun answering the 40 questions the 8values multiple choice quiz
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Countering systemic bias.
People no longer have encyclopedias on their shelves, the world relies on Wikipedia for its information. It has become the first result on search engines. We owe it to world to provide a balanced and reliable resource.
This user is agender.
This user is ace and proud.
Non-binary pride flag
This user is non-binary.
they
them
This user's pronouns are
they / them.


This page is just Bod's Wikipedia Base, BUT You can Help Wikipedia....

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar
None

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.


Odds & Ends
My stockpile of useful Wikipedia resources & tools
(humour)

Help Guides

The Basics'

The Five Pillars are the five fundamental principles of Wikipedia:
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute Editors should treat each other with respect and civility
Wikipedia has no firm rules common sense

We are only Human

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Editing Trickery.

Editing Magic A. Help: Cheatsheet ··· Editing Magic B. Help: Wikitext

A growing collection guides & Tools




 


Can you become the Supreme Leader of the Supreme Cabal?
Wikibreak
Third opinion
$220
Chance
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Request for comment
$220
Arbitration
$240
Jimbo Wales
$200
In the news
$260
On this day
$260
MediaWiki
$150
Did you know
$280
You are banned!
RFA
$200
WIKIOPOLYFPC
$300
PERM
$180
POTD
$300
Community discussionCommunity discussion
Teahouse
$180
FAC
$320
Developers
$200
Rouge admin
$200
Deletion review
$160
Chance
?
AFD
$140
TFA
$350
Wikimedia Foundation
$150
Edit war
(pay $100)
CSD
$140
Main Page
$400
BANNED!
Just browsing
WikiProject Spam
$120
UAA
$100
Chance
?
AIV
$100
Admin cabal
$200
Teh Drahmaz
(pay $200)
AN
$60
Community discussionANI
$60
Go
Collect $200 salary as you pass
Wikiopoly Board by User:MER-C
(humour)
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Bod's Mad Userbox Overload

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An untidy heap of userboxes that vaguely explains my editing failures etc

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lang-0This user cannot read or write any languages. Assistance is required.
MistEYkThis user does not always see their grammar mistakes. It would be nice of you to correct them.
This user often makes mistakes while typing, and would like to take this oppurtunity to aoplogiae.
In an emergency, this user may be slapped with a trout.
Hanlon's RazorThis user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity.
This user reserves the right to completely screw up their own edits.
This user believes that adding relevant links is never a bad thing.
This user believes that userboxes do not divide the Wikipedia community, but rather emphasise its diversity.
This user bites vandals. Hard.
UARThis editor believes that account creation should be required to edit on Wikipedia.
This user does not exist. However, if this user begins to exist, seek shelter immediately.
When editing on Wikipedia, this user trys to be a Wikipedian above all else.
This user uses the "Show preview" button so as to avoid making a great number of useless, successive edits.
This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Editor Retention
big wordsThis user opposes the use of esoteric, abstruse and recondite big words in Wikipedia articles when simple ones will do.
This user contributes using the free, open source operating system Ubuntu and enjoys its freedom and lack of viruses.
incrThis editor is an incrementalist.
This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.
This user spends far too much time editing their user page.
The digit "3" in the International Code of Signals

This Wikipedian recites the Wiki Prayer regularly.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Everyone has points of view with inherent cultural biases - recognition is the first step to achieving NPOV.
This user believes in civility and assuming good faith.
Everyone has points of view with inherent cultural biases - recognition is the first step to achieving NPOV.
UKThis user uses British English.
MixThis user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.
This user doesn't trust Wikipedia as far as they can throw it... but, nonetheless uses it daily.
"It is awfully hard to be b-b-brave, when you are a very small user."
This user is a mental health consumer.
This user does not understand mean people. Please be nice.
vandalsThis user wishes Wikipedia were vandal-free.
This user prefers using userboxes to fill up their user page instead of actually writing something useful.
This user believes that all editors have bias when seeking WP:NPOV.
This user is one of an infinite number of "monkeys" editing Wikipedia right now.
Kindness CampaignThis user is a member of the Kindness Campaign.
This user does not allow personal bias to interfere in any way with their actions within the encyclopedia.
This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.
This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.
This user is NOT known for taking themself too seriously.
This user tried to do the right thing and believed in good faith but got disillusioned and started to believe in bad faith. If this user has become paranoid, please let this user know.
This user believes in freedom of all types of information for all.
This user is a WikiOtter.
This user is a WikiWolfcub.
This Userbox is hungry & likes to eat Wikipedians.
This user has one too many screws loose. We warned you.
This user is best described as Chaos walking on 2 legs.
Yes, the glass is definitely half full!This user is a jaded optimist.
This user's inner love never fades.
This user is sleepy.
This user is principle-centred and wishes everyone else was, too!
This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.
This user advocates WikiPeace.
This user boldly assumes consensus when editing Wikipedia until told otherwise.
This user is a dolphin, or of delphine ancestry.
This user is confused.
mesoThis editor is a mesopedian.
This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.
☹ This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.
This user will get around to being a member of the Wikipedian Procrastination Club. Of course by the time that happens, this user would've grown facial hair. Since this user's female, it's gonna be a while.File:Expanded Facial Hair Types.jpg
This user is confused by every aspect of life, including their own confusion.
This user is one of the 532 left-wing thought police who aggressively force their biased perspective on the rest of the world.

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Wikipedia Editors are Human, everyone has their own political bias, but we all try to be neutral.

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This user's entire personality can be summed up in a few userboxes.
mwhahaha!This user is evil, and frequently says mwhahaha!
This user is a humanist.
This user believes in tolerance for all viewpoints except intolerance.
This user is against cyberbullying.
This user identifies as a leftist.
This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ).
This user opposes racism and admires Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.
This user supports the Occupy Movement, but not uncritically.
This user believes in a foreign policy of non‐interven­tionism, but is not a pacifist.
This user is interested in the
Planet Earth
.
This user is an apatheist and believes there are more important things to worry about than whether or not God exists.
This user knows that the mainstream media is just a brainwashing tool.
This user is a member of Amnesty International.
This user is an internationalist who opposes war.
This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place if everyone respected everyone else's freedom of belief.
UCT
AA
This user is a member of the Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic and doesn't know and doesn't care if God exists.
This user supports the Make Poverty History and ONE campaigns.
This user supports Green politics.
This User is Passionate aboutEveryone's Human
& Civil Rights.
Diversity, Equality
and Empowerment.
This user supports sustainable living.
This user studies at theUniversity of Life: Doctorate in Everything worth knowing" (School of Life), PhD in Living, Loving, Crying, and Laughing with a Minor in Rose Smelling. (School of Life)
♥The Past is History, the Future is a Mystery, but Today is a Gift.Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain: So Have Fun, Live well, Laugh Often, Dont hurt People, Do not accept defeat & Strive to be Happy.
This user supports equality for everyone.
This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education.
VThis user remembers the fifth of November.
This user is a huge fan of the TV series
Game of Thrones.
This UserBelieves we are all equal, whatever our physical or mental differences
This user has been affected by depression and anxiety.
This user accepts all Religious and Scientific claims as viable forms of explaining the Universe, but just thinks they are at different levels of Understanding
This user listens to World Music.
This user believes that the borders of African Countries should be redrawn to reflect the nations and tribes of Africa.
I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.
This user supports the alter-globalisation movement.
This user wants to tax the rich to provide health care, education and welfare for everyone.$ £
¥ €


This user supports sustainable living.
This user, with Greg Epstein, supports The New Humanism ideal of being the best human beings we can be, without a God.
firemanfighter
mankind
This user supports the use of gender-neutral language when it reasonably exists as an alternative to a common gendered word.
This user is an internationalist.
 ? This user believes the existence of God or gods to be unknowable.
This user is a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community.
This user believes in Gandhism.
This user supports the right of all people to resist occupation, colonialism and imperialism by any means necessary.
This user supports equal rights for queer people.
This user is working towards a Ph.D from the School of Hard Knocks.
This user is a Buddhist humanist.
This user has been assimilated. Resistance is futile.
X This user does not believe in the existence of human races, except as a social construct. X
RL Life as we know it.It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. Listen to your heart, trust in your dreams and inspirations, and never...NEVER give up!!!
This User Knowsthe Difference between artificial 'race', and real ethnicity and culture
This user is a fan of Orphan Black.
This user believes that capitalism is an inherently unjust system, and that humans can do better.
The TARDIS, from Doctor WhoThis user is a Doctor Who fan.
This user supports racial equality.
STAR TREKBodney is a fan of Star Trek: Voyager.VOY
BM This user is repulsed by most forms of body modification.
This user is a Monty Python fan.
This user has social anxiety.
This user is a vegetarian to be environmentally responsible.
This user supports arms control.
We shouldn't build any more nukes until we get more use from the ones we already have.
This User mostly listens toRoots Reggae
& Dub Music.
This user thinks no outfit is complete without cat hair.
This user is owned by one or more cats.
This user remembers when pocket calculators made slide rules obsolete.
This user contributes using a typewriter, and sends all contributions via snail mail.
This user's first computer was a BBC B
This user supports illegal immigrants and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. (S)he strongly opposes mandatory detention for refugees.
This user is a secular humanist.
This user is a socialist.
This user is a fan of the Vikings TV series.
This user supports the independence of any nation that wants it.
This user is an Eco-warrior.
This user is
functionally insane!
This user is part of the International Penguin Conspiracy.
This user supports affirmative action.
DON'T PANICThis user attempts not to panic with the aid of several towels.
This user is asexual.
This user believes that sweatshops in poor countries do more harm than good.
This user enjoys ska.
This user is a resident of Second Life and their avatar name is Zoebug Agrawal.
This user enjoys reggae.
This user supports
universal health care.
This user supports animal rights, but believes human rights are more important.
Blade Runner This user thinks Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction films ever made.
According to The Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (−9.88) and
Social Libertarian (−7.59)
DISLIKESBigots, Hate-mongers, Back-Stabbers, Bullies, Belittlers, Hypocrites, 2faced Liars, Manipulators, Jackasses, All Prejudice
This user thinks we should tax pollution.
This user is a resident of the European Union.
BBCThis user supports the BBC.
This userLoves Funky House
This user is a transfeminist.
This user transcends gender boundaries, and so may be either male, female, transgender, or any combination of them. (Or none!)
This user doesn't care what your "ancestries" are; this user likes people for what they are and not because of a place of birth!
This user knows about ignosticism, the belief that the existence of God is not a useful topic of discussion.
This user thinks nationalism is outdated.
OCDThis user lives with obsessive–compulsive disorder.
This user supports equality for everyone.
This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.*
This user is interested in fantasy.
This user is a
Citizen of the Galaxy
and nothing else matters.
This user does not believe in Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, but agrees it is as likely as creationism.
This user is highly against nazism.
This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share.
This user is a strong supporter of the LGBT community, and sees nothing wrong with being queer.
This user believes race does not exist except as an oppressive social construct and will oppose racism by any means necessary.
This user is against
monarchism and nobility titles when they were abolished, because they are not democratic and give no respect to the freedom of the peoples.
This user believes that both capitalism and state socialism a.k.a. state capitalism are inherently unjust and oppressive and that humans can do better.
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24 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
Deir ez-Zor offensive, Eastern Syria insurgency
ISIS cells launch attacks on the town of al-Hawayej in Rojava, Syria, against Asayish forces. (SOHR)
Protests occur after a Christmas tree was set on fire in Al-Suqaylabiyah, Hama Governorate. (The Week)
Turkey's interior minister announces that more than 25,000 Syrian refugees have returned to Syria since former president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by rebels. (Al Arabiya)
Syrian opposition factions announce that they will dissolve and merge under the authority of the Ministry of Defense. (Reuters)
24 December 2024 –
At least 15 people are killed in a series of airstrikes by the Pakistan Army against alleged Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (NDTV)
U.S. President Joe Biden signs a bill making the bald eagle the official national bird of the United States. (NBC News)
24 December 2024 – 2024–25 Australian bushfire season
Residents of the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia, evacuate due to bushfires, with more than 41,000 hectares (100,000 acres) already burnt by the bushfires. (BBC News)
24 December 2024 – 2024 Lobitos oil spill
Residents of Lobitos and Cabo Blanco, Peru, demonstrate against Peruvian state-owned oil company PetroPerú following an oil spill that contaminated six beaches. (La República)
24 December 2024 –
Twelve people are killed and four others are injured in an explosion at an explosives factory in Kavakli, Balıkesir Province, Turkey. (Al Jazeera)
The Russian cargo ship MV Ursa Major, allegedly used to evacuate military personnel and equipment from Russian bases in Syria, sinks in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain following an explosion in the ship's engine room. The Russian Foreign Ministry says that 14 of the 16 crew members have been rescued, with the two others missing. (Politico)
24 December 2024 – Denmark–United States relations
The Danish government announces an increase in defense spending for Greenland hours after US president-elect Donald Trump repeated his interest in purchasing Greenland. (BBC News)
24 December 2024 – Russia–United States relations
Gene Spector, an American citizen of Russian descent, is sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Russian court for espionage. (CNN)
24 December 2024 –
Irish Tánaiste Micheál Martin calls for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan and the Gaza Strip. (Irish Times)
24 December 2024 – Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
Human rights organization Reprieve reports that Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year. (First Post)
24 December 2024 –
At least 21 people are killed and 25 others are injured in a series of violent incidents in Mozambique following the previous day's confirmation by the high court of Daniel Chapo as the winning presidential candidate in the recent election. (ABC News)
Hong Kong offers bounties of HK$1 million (US$128,728) each for six foreign pro-democracy activists accused of violating the national security law, including Tony Chung, and also revokes the passports of seven others, citing actions such as incitement to secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces. (Reuters)
Five people accused of being Al-Qaeda supporters are arrested in four cities in Italy. (Il Gazzettino)
ʻAisake Eke is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Tonga. (RNZ)
24 December 2024 – NASA large strategic science missions
The Parker Solar Probe attempts its closest-ever approach to the Sun to study the sun's temperatures, radiation, and magnetic field. (BBC News)
23 December 2024 – Somali Civil War
Constitutional crisis in Somalia
Jubaland crisis
Violent clashes occur between the Ethiopia-backed Jubaland forces and the Somali Armed Forces in Dolow, Gedo Region, Somalia, with Jubaland forces later taking control of the town. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)
The mayor of Badhadhe District, Lower Juba, Hassan Nuur Cabdi, survives an ambush attack which killed at least five of his security personnel. (Idil News) (Hiiraan Online)
23 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
Operation Dawn of Freedom
Manbij offensive
The pro-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces launch a counter-offensive on recently captured pro-Turkish faction positions in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, and recapture several villages. (SOHR)
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi meets with de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus to discuss the support of the Syrian transitional government. (Al Jazeera)
23 December 2024 – Haitian crisis
Gang war in Haiti
2024 Cité Soleil massacre
The death toll from the mass killing by a gang in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, increases to 207, according to the United Nations. (Al Jazeera)
23 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
For the first time, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz claims responsibility for the July 2024 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran. (Reuters)
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Attacks on protected zones and civilians in Gaza
At least seven people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a safe zone in al-Mawasi, Gaza. Several other attacks across the Gaza Strip kill at least 43 others. (Al Jazeera)
23 December 2024 – Mexican drug war
Seventeen people are killed in a string of attacks over the past 48 hours across the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. (El País)
23 December 2024 – Student loans in the United States, Economic policy of the Joe Biden administration
The Biden administration officially withdraws two major legislative plans that would have granted student loan forgiveness to more than 30 million Americans. (Forbes) (CNBC)
23 December 2024 –
Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda announce plans to for a merger by 2026, potentially forming the third-largest automotive company in the world. (Al Jazeera) (Nikkei Asia)
23 December 2024 – 2024 famine in Sudan
The Government of Sudan suspends participation in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification hunger monitoring system, in advance of a new report about famine occurring in the nation. (Reuters)
23 December 2024 –
Three people are killed and another is injured in severe storms in Rome, Italy, while two people go missing on the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif. (Roma Today) (Il Messaggero)
23 December 2024 – Panama–United States relations
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino rebuffs U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s recent threat to reimpose U.S. control over the Panama Canal, saying its shipping tolls aren't inflated and that Panamanian sovereignty over the waterway isn't negotiable. (Bloomberg)
23 December 2024 – 2024 New York City Subway immolation
A man is arrested after fatally burning a woman yesterday on a Subway train in New York City, United States. (Al Jazeera)
23 December 2024 – Capital punishment by the United States federal government
U.S. President Joe Biden commutes the death sentences of 37 out of the 44 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment. The exceptions are Dylann Roof, Robert Gregory Bowers, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who received death sentences for terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder-related crimes, as well as all four prisoners on US Military death row. (CBS News)
23 December 2024 – Minas Gerais road crash
The suspected truck driver that caused a multiple-vehicle collision and killed at least 41 people in Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, turns himself in to local authorities. (R7) (G1)
23 December 2024 –
A man is arrested and charged with animal cruelty for shooting and killing 98 kangaroos on a military base in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. (news.com.au)
Guatemalan police rescue at least 160 children and 40 women held by the Lev Tahor Jewish sect and accuse the group of child sexual abuse, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Members of Lev Tahor broke into the care center in Oratorio, Santa Rosa Department, where the children were being held on Sunday. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel) (The Independent)
23 December 2024 – 2024 French political crisis
Following the collapse of the Barnier government, French President Emmanuel Macron announces a new administration led by François Bayrou as the new Prime Minister. (DW)
23 December 2024 – Second presidency of Donald Trump
The United States House Committee on Ethics releases a report on former Florida representative and Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz, revealing that Gaetz paid women for sexual activity, committed statutory rape with a 17-year-old, possessed and used illegal drugs, accepted financial gifts beyond House limits, and assisted a woman in obtaining a passport. (BBC News)
Joel Greenberg, a former IRS employee of Florida is sentenced to 11 years in prison on 6 federal charges for underage sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking, identity theft, producing a fake ID card, and conspiring to defraud the US federal government, receiving a reduced sentence after testifying against eight other men including Gaetz, after initially facing 33 federal charges. (CNN)
23 December 2024 –
The Greek government restores citizenship to 10 members of the former royal family, including the children and grandchildren of King Constantine II, following their agreement to adopt the surname "De Grece", renounce royal claims, and formally recognize Greece's status as a parliamentary democracy. (AP)
A team of scientists at the North-Eastern Federal University in Sakha Republic, Russia, unveil the highly preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old female juvenile woolly mammoth named Yana. The researchers say Yana was roughly about one-year-old when she died, likely from drowning, and was discovered in the Batagaika crater by locals. (BBC News)
22 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
Fall of the Assad regime
Syrian mass graves
An Assad regime mass grave containing the remains of 93 civilians, including several women and children, is discovered in Qarfa, Daraa Governorate, Syria, with all of the bodies reportedly burnt alive. (SOHR)
In the highest-ranking state visit since the regime change, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan holds a meeting with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus to support the transitional government. (Reuters)
22 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill at least 28 people. (France 24)
22 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis
The US military states that the USS Gettysburg guided-missile cruiser accidentally shot down a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and injured one of its pilots in a friendly fire incident following a series of airstrikes on Yemen. However, the Houthis claim that they shot down the fighter jet. (CNN) (Middle East Monitor)
22 December 2024 –
Residents of Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, win the world's biggest lottery, the Spanish Christmas Lottery's El Gordo 2.7 billion prize. (DW)
22 December 2024 – 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
The death toll from Cyclone Chido in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, increases to 94. (DW)
22 December 2024 – 2024 Gramado Piper PA-42 crash
Ten people are killed and seventeen others are injured when a Piper PA-42 Cheyenne crashes into shops and a hotel while taking off from the Canela Airport in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (CNN) (ASN)
22 December 2024 –
The death toll from the stampede at two food distribution events in Abuja and Okija, Nigeria, increases to 32. (DW)
Seven people are killed when a private Cessna 207 crashes into a hill in El Montoso, Jalisco, Mexico. (Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archive)
An Airbus EC135 ambulance helicopter crashes near a hospital in Muğla, Turkey, killing all four people onboard. (AP)
Four people are killed and 13 others are missing when a highway bridge across the Tocantins River between Estreito, Maranhão, and Aguiarnópolis, Tocantins, Brazil, partially collapses. (Xinhua) (G1)
22 December 2024 – Russia–Slovakia relations
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico holds a previously unannounced meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (The Moscow Times)
22 December 2024 – 2024 Novi Sad protests
Around 100,000 people gather at the Slavija Square in Belgrade, Serbia, to protest against the government response to the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse and demand the resignation of President Aleksandar Vučić and the ruling Serbian Progressive Party. President Vučić is dismissive of the protests and accuses the opposition of manipulating the protestors to gain political power. (Al Jazeera) (DW) (N1)
22 December 2024 –
New Zealand rejects the Cook Islands' proposal to establish its own passports and citizenship but expresses willingness to discuss independence if initiated by Cook Islanders. (Reuters)
21 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
At least seven Ukrainian drones strike Kazan, Russia, six of which reportedly hit residential areas, including a 32-story apartment building. (Ukrainska Pravda) (Reuters)
21 December 2024 – Haitian crisis
The Haitian government declares a one-month state of emergency amid the escalating gang violence and the deepening security crisis. (Caribbean National Weekly)
21 December 2024 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Sixteen Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are critically injured when Pakistani Taliban militants launch an overnight raid on an army post in Makeen, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Arabiya)
21 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis
Sixteen people are injured in a Houthi missile attack on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in Israel. (CNN)
21 December 2024 – Constitutional crisis in Somalia
The Puntland region of Somalia announces that it will introduce a new regional currency in 2025. The region had previously shifted to use of the United States dollar in 2021, due to severe inflation of the Somali shilling. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online) (Horseed Media)
21 December 2024 – Minas Gerais road crash
Forty-one people are killed when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil. (The Guardian) (G1) (O Globo)
21 December 2024 –
Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP)
Nine people are killed and 13 more injured when a bus plunges into a ravine in Pa Alam, Lorestan, Iran. (AP)
Two people are killed and three others are missing when an under-construction six-story building collapses in Sohana village, Mohali district, India. (Zee News)
21 December 2024 – Censorship of TikTok
The Albanian government announces a one-year ban on the social media platform TikTok beginning in 2025, following a fatal stabbing of a teenager in November in connection to a confrontation on the platform. (Al Jazeera) (Türkiye Today)
21 December 2024 – 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election
The Social Democratic Alliance, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, forms a coalition government in Iceland's Althing with the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party. Kristrún becomes Iceland's youngest prime minister at 36 years old. (CNA)
21 December 2024 – 2025 United States federal budget, Government shutdowns in the United States
The United States Senate passes a funding bill, with President Joe Biden subsequently signing the bill into law, thereby averting a government shutdown. (CBS News)
20 December 2024 – Sudanese civil war
Darfur campaign
Siege of El Fasher
The United Nations Human Rights Office reports that the Rapid Support Forces have killed over 782 civilians and wounded over 1,143 others in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, since May, and urges the RSF to halt their incursions into the city. (Al Jazeera)
At least 50 people, mostly from the Zaghawa ethnic group, have been killed by the Rapid Support Forces in the past week in El Fasher, North Darfur State, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
20 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
2024 Israeli invasion of Syria
Israeli soldiers injure a Syrian man protesting against the soldiers' presence in Ma'ariya, Daraa Governorate. (Al Jazeera)
Fall of the Assad regime
The United States drops the $10 million terrorism bounty offered for capture of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani who ousted Assad. (AP) (Times of Israel)
US intervention in the Syrian civil war
U.S. forces kill regional ISIS leader Abu Yusif, also known as Mahmud, in an airstrike in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (US CENTCOM)
20 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2024 Kursk offensive
A Ukrainian missile strike kills six people and injures 10 others in Rylsk, Kursk Oblast, Russia, according to acting Kursk Oblast governor Alexander Khinshtein. Russia says that it will raise the issue of the missile strike at the United Nations Security Council. (Reuters)
Kryvyi Rih strikes, Kyiv strikes
At least one person is killed and eight others are injured in Russian missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih and Kyiv, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)
20 December 2024 – Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
Mali War
At least 20 people are killed in attacks on six villages in Mali's Mopti Region by suspected jihadists linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, who also destroy property during the assaults. (Reuters)
20 December 2024 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war, Israeli settler violence
Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in Marda, Salfit Governorate in the occupied West Bank and deface the building's facade with anti-Arab statements, including "Death to Arabs". (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's)
20 December 2024 – Terrorism in Germany
2024 Magdeburg car attack
Five people are killed and over 200 others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The suspected perpetrator is arrested. (Al Jazeera) (Blick)
20 December 2024 – Myanmar civil war
The Arakan Army claims to have captured the Tatmadaw's regional headquarters in Rakhine State. (AP)
20 December 2024 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke announces a new search effort for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing in March 2014, to be conducted by American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity. (DW)
20 December 2024 – Rohingya genocide
The Sri Lanka Navy rescues 102 Rohingya refugees, including 25 children, that were found adrift on a fishing trawler and takes them to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. (Al Jazeera) (The Independent)
20 December 2024 –
Thirty-eight people are killed, 20 people are rescued, and over 100 others remain missing after a ferry capsizes while crossing the Busira River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
Eleven people are killed, 45 others are injured and 37 vehicles are destroyed after an LPG tank truck catches fire and explodes after a speeding truck crashed into it in Jaipur, India. (The Statesman)
Eight people are killed and 18 others are rescued when a speedboat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Rhodes, Greece. (AP)
20 December 2024 – Australia–Solomon Islands relations
Australia agrees to provide Solomon Islands with financing, training, and infrastructure support worth AU$190 million (US$118 million) over four years to strengthen its police force as part of a renewed security partnership between the two countries. (France 24)
20 December 2024 – Hungary–Poland relations
Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Hungary's ambassador to protest the Hungarian government's decision to grant asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted under the European Arrest Warrant for alleged corruption. Poland also recalls its ambassador to Hungary Sebastian Kęciek for consultations. (AP)
20 December 2024 – 2024 Zagreb school stabbing
A child is killed and seven other people are injured in a mass stabbing at a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old perpetrator is arrested. (BBC News)
20 December 2024 –
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules that El Salvador violated the human rights of a woman denied an abortion during a high-risk pregnancy in 2013 and orders the country to implement measures allowing abortions in cases where the woman's life is at risk. (The Guardian)
Guatemalan authorities rescue 160 minors from the Lev Tahor sect in Oratorio, Santa Rosa, amid allegations of human trafficking, forced marriage, and child abuse. (Reuters)
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau files a lawsuit against banks JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo for failing to protect consumers against alleged widespread fraud on the built-in payment system Zelle equating over $870 million. (Al Jazeera) (Detroit Free Press)
20 December 2024 – 2025 United States federal budget
Government shutdowns in the United States, National debt of the United States, United States debt ceiling
A funding bill ensuring full operation of the U.S. federal government service with an amendment supported by President-elect Donald Trump that would enforce a two-year suspension of the federal debt ceiling is rejected in the Republican-majority House of Representatives, with multiple Republicans and nearly all Democrats opposing the bill. A government shutdown is expected to occur if no bill is passed by midnight. (BBC News)
House Speaker Mike Johnson reintroduces a funding bill without Trump's debt ceiling suspension, stating that "we will not have a government shutdown". The bill, which will fund the government until March 2025, passes the House by a vote of 336–34 and will now go to the Senate. (The Washington Post)
20 December 2024 – 2025 Belarusian presidential election
Estonia says that it will not recognize the results of the upcoming presidential election in Belarus, which it claims has already been rigged to ensure that President Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected. (ERR)
20 December 2024 –
In Italy, the Meloni government survives a confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies on the 2025 budget. (Reuters)
Sam Hou Fai is sworn in as Chief Executive of Macau, succeeding Ho Iat Seng. (RTHK)
19 December 2024 – Syrian civil war
Fall of the Assad regime
Deir ez-Zor offensive, Eastern Syria insurgency
Iraqi foreign minister Fuad Hussein warns that ISIS cells in Syria have begun reorganizing and taking new land following the collapse of the Syrian Armed Forces and subsequent abandonment of weapons depots. (Asharq News)
The Baniyas Refinery, Syria’s largest oil refinery, stops operating after ceasing to receive the crude oil from Iran that previously made up the majority of the country’s input. (Financial Times)
Operation Dawn of Freedom, Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
2024 Kobani clashes
U.S.-backed SDF forces vow to fight Turkey and pro-Turkish rebel groups in Kobani, Aleppo Governorate. (Reuters)
2024 Syrian opposition offensives
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the emir of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, makes an announcement claiming that the country is exhausted by perpetual warfare and is no longer a threat to its neighbors or the Western world. (BBC News)
The Military Operations Command forces take control of several towns in Raqqah Governorate, Syria. (SOHR)
Iraq announces the repatriation of members of the Syrian Armed Forces who fled after the fall of the Assad regime through the Al-Qa'im border crossing, back to Syria. (Al Arabiya)
Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war
Satellite imagery reveals that Russian forces are mobilizing heavy planes at Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia Governorate and are also mobilizing ships at Tartus naval base, indicating a potential withdrawal. (BBC News)
Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, the Prime Minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity of Libya, denounces the entry of Russian forces from Syria into the eastern part of Libya. (The Libya Observer)
Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Russia helped evacuate 4,000 Iranian fighters from Syria. (Anadolu Agency)
Prosecution of Syrian civil war criminals
The Syrian Interim Government announces that they have begun preparing lists of people from the former regime who were involved in war crimes, torture, and murder. (The Jerusalem Post)
19 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis
December 2024 Israeli airstrikes in Yemen
Israel carries out a series of airstrikes against the Houthis in western Yemen, damaging the Ras Isa oil facility, the port of as-Salif and several power stations in Sanaa, and killing at least nine people. (Al Jazeera)
The United States Department of the Treasury announces sanctions on the governor of the Central Bank of Yemen in Sanaa, Yemen, and several Houthi officials and associated companies and vessels, accusing them of trafficking dual-use weapon components and Iranian petroleum to the Houthis. (Al Jazeera) (JNS)
19 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war
Gaza genocide, Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of committing "acts of genocide" in Gaza by damaging water supply infrastructure and depriving civilians of clean water. (DW) (Reuters) (Human Rights Watch)
19 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
Military aids during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, United Kingdom and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
British defence secretary John Healey announces a proposal to send military advisors to train Ukrainian forces. (BBC News)
19 December 2024 – 2024 Parliament of Abkhazia shooting
A lawmaker is killed and another is injured in a shooting inside the Parliament in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. The perpetrator, identified as MP and former Sukhumi mayor Adgur Kharazia, flees the scene. (Al Jazeera)
19 December 2024 – Mexican drug war
Two soldiers are killed after an explosion caused by a improvised landmine at a drug laboratory in Michoacán, Mexico. Three days ago, two other soldiers were killed and three more injured in Michoacán during a similiar incident. (AP)
19 December 2024 – 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
The death toll from Cyclone Chido in Mozambique increase to 73, including 66 in Cabo Delgado Province. (Al Jazeera)
19 December 2024 –
Nine people are killed during a fire at a warehouse building of PX Mart under construction in Taichung, Taiwan. (AP)
19 December 2024 – China–India relations
Sino-Indian border dispute
Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi meet in Beijing, China, and reach a six-point consensus to maintain peace along the border, refine border management rules, resume cross-border exchanges, and work toward resolving border disputes. A follow-up meeting is planned to be held in India next year. (CNN)
19 December 2024 – Georgia–United Kingdom relations, Georgia–United States relations, 2024 Georgian post-election protests
The United Kingdom and the United States impose sanctions on Georgian officials, including Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri, in response to alleged violent crackdowns on pro-European protests. (EFE)
19 December 2024 – Hungary–Poland relations
Hungary grants political asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who faces allegations of corruption in Poland. (Reuters)
19 December 2024 –
France's Directorate-General for External Security reports that four French nationals detained in Burkina Faso on allegations of being foreign intelligence agents have been released following mediation by Morocco. (ABC News)
19 December 2024 – 2024 Northeastern United States drone sightings
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration bans the flying of drones over multiple cities in New Jersey citing "special security reasons". (WPVI-TV)
19 December 2024 – Deportation and removal from the United States
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reports 271,484 deportations in the past fiscal year, the most since 2014 and almost double of the previous fiscal year. (AP) (FOX News)
19 December 2024 – Mazan rapes
The Judicial Court in Avignon, France, finds Dominique Pelicot guilty of the aggravated rape of his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot, and imposes the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The 50 other defendants in the case are also convicted of crimes ranging from attempted rape to aggravated rape, and receive prison sentences ranging from three to 15 years. (Reuters)
19 December 2024 –
A Malaysian high court acquits Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, of 17 charges of money laundering and tax evasion due to insufficient evidence. (Reuters)
Aleksandar Šapić, the mayor of Belgrade, Serbia, announces the city will make all public transit free on January 1, 2025. (DW) (Novinite)

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Williams stuck on the story’s margins has little to do but brings her "formidable screen presence" as the "untouchably cool" real-life punk fashion pioneer and punk political icon Jordan (Sex Shop employee and designer Vivienne Westwood muse), "with a vertical sheet of peroxide blonde hair"


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/fx-hulu-pistol-tv-review-1235153178/ https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/pistol/ https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/fx-pistol-review-sex-pistols-1235278715/ https://www.slashfilm.com/857390/pistol-review-a-punk-rock-miniseries-as-raw-and-powerful-as-the-band-that-inspired-it/

Williams embraced Punk-Rock style for her Pistol press tour, What she love about Jordan was the way that she used clothing as a political statement. Williams was inspired by the way Jordan mixed "form and structure with flesh and her own body." Jordan used her body and fashion as a confrontational presence that “turn the male gaze in on itself in an overtly sexual way that made the onlooker feel uncomfortable, rather than herself.”


https://www.vogue.com/article/maisie-williams-pistol-punk-rock-style https://www.indiewire.com/2022/04/maisie-williams-resented-game-of-thrones-puberty-1234716099/

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“You’re in a position of playing a role that is very strong, a strong woman, and a woman set apart, really. I decided that I wanted to be me, like a walking work of art, if you like, and I was totally and utterly unshakable.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/04/pamela-rooke-punk-rock-fashion-icon-jordan-dies-aged-66

https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/tv/pistol-disney-plus-series-sex-pistols-drama-maisie-williams/642575


Williams sparkles as the late Jordan in the glorious cold open but is otherwise underutilized

Williams sparkles in a glorious episode cold opening, when she recreates Jordan's journey through her seaside home town and by train wearing clear PVC top, to the horror of the more conservative folk around her. showing what punk did, rather than telling it, which the Guardian considered the best scene in the series.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/31/pistol-review-danny-boyle-wonky-sex-pistols-show-is-like-punk-t he-panto

https://time.com/6182800/pistol-review-hulu-fx/

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Perhaps it’s understandable that biopics of singularly influential artists so rarely live up to the creative brio of their subjects

Williams has little to do but sit around looking "untouchably cool" as Jordan, one of the style icons of the punk movement. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/fx-hulu-pistol-tv-review-1235153178/

It’ll settle for delivering established facts with entertaining swagger, and it’s successful enough in those aims to make for a breezy watch. But Pistol is too busy admiring the youthful rebellion of the past to recognize that, in doing so, it’s become the very thing its subjects once sneered at: a safe, mainstream crowd-pleaser.


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What Boyle manages to capture, through his naturally disorderly directing, is the rage accumulating within this safety-pinned cross-section of British youth.

Maisie Williams brings her "formidable screen presence" as Jordan, "with a vertical sheet of peroxide blonde hair and appetite for controversy.

https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/pistol/

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and the mononymous muse Jordan (Maisie Williams) stuck on the story’s margins.

Amid the chaos of the dance floor, the Sex Pistols yearn to obliterate themselves, each other and their listeners. Even if what’s around these moments doesn’t consistently work, “Pistol” nails the thrill of learning to disappear into sound.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/fx-pistol-review-sex-pistols-1235278715/

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fashion and punk political protester Jordan (Maisie Williams),


Pistol" is a wildly kinetic, often brutal depiction of the three years of the Sex Pistol's reign, showcasing the highs and lows of leading the punk revolution. It's loud, chaotic, and extremely messy, just like the Pistols themselves. https://www.slashfilm.com/857390/pistol-review-a-punk-rock-miniseries-as-raw-and-powerful-as-the-band-that-inspired-it/

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and the live performance scenes give a desperately needed shot of energy. It sounds great, and hints at how thrilling it must have been to be in the room. A scene of the band’s gig at Chelmsford prison, in 1976, is genuinely tense, then strangely joyful. The other is MaisieWilliams as the late Jordan, who gets the best scene in the series, when she struts through her seaside home town wearing nothing but clear PVC, to the horror of the stuffy commuters and passersby. “Provocateuring does make one quite hungry,” she drawls. Her character is what could have been. She shows what punk did, rather than telling it. There’s a lot of ambition in Pistol, a lot of provocateuring, but it doesn’t spark.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/31/pistol-review-danny-boyle-wonky-sex-pistols-show-is-like-punk-t he-panto

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Maisie Williams Embraced Punk-Rock Style For Her Pistol Press Tour

The actor plays Jordan, née Pamela Rooke, a real-life punk pioneer from the 1970s who often styled the Sex Pistols for performances and served as muse to the designer Vivienne Westwood, another fixture of the decade.

What I love so much about Jordan was the way that she used clothing as a political statement,” says Williams. Rooke rebuked the groovier clothes of the decade in favor of pieces with an edge.

“Throughout my entire life, I’ve felt that the way that I look is different to the way that I am,” says Williams. “People think I’m smaller personality-wise based on my exterior—but with Jordan, she had such a grand exterior, and with such nuance behind that.”


“It took many hands to get the wardrobe correct,” says Williams of her character’s look. “It was really exciting to me—every day was like dress-up, getting locked into these rubber outfits and materials that I’ve never worn before. It felt like I was becoming someone new.” Some of her favorite looks on the show included an all-yellow PVC look—with “rubber knickers and latex stockings”—as well as a skirt and top that reminded her of a memorable story Jordan once told her. “Jordan told this incredible story of one summer in London, where they were having the most outrageous heatwave,” says Williams. “She was wearing this rubber top and skirt, and it was so hot that the skirt basically just disintegrated and melted off of her body.” (Jordan served as a consultant on the series before her death in April.)


“I was inspired by the way Jordan mixes form and structure with flesh and her own body,” says Williams. “Growing up in this industry, I feel like I was sexualized from quite a young age, and for that reason, it made me want to hide my body. But with Jordan, she fixed the male gaze in on itself; She’s so confrontational in the way that she reveals her body, that it actually makes other people feel uncomfortable, rather than herself.”

https://www.vogue.com/article/maisie-williams-pistol-punk-rock-style https://www.indiewire.com/2022/04/maisie-williams-resented-game-of-thrones-puberty-1234716099/ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz


who sparkles in one episode’s glorious cold open but is otherwise underutilized



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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/maisie-williams-image-pistol-b2060675.html

Williams said she had got “lost” in external expectations of what is attractive.

post Game Of Thrones she has been seeking roles that “connect with all sides of my personality”.

Arya was written as hot-headed

“For the longest time, I was battling with wanting to look traditionally like what people picture as beautiful and I was getting really lost in that.

She rebelled against that and decided to do what suited her

Williams lives with boyfriend Reuben Selby in rural west Sussex


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-1235129398/

“I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming,” she tells the outlet. “And then I also resented my body, because it wasn’t aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated.”

“Can I say none of it?” The actress clarifies that, although she “loved” her time on the fantasy series, she does not explicitly miss that period of her young life.

Williams likened the Game of Thrones aftermath to “being born again” and shared with the outlet that now is the time to embrace new characters.

“I think that sometimes other people need a helping hand to see that you’re a different person.”

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/maisie-williams-resented-arya-doesnt-miss-game-of-thrones-1235231174/

Williams said a tension was created between the world expecting her to look and act like her character and what her own form of self-expression looked like in the real world.

“I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming,” Williams said. “And then I also resented my body, because it wasn’t aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated.”

https://ew.com/tv/maisie-williams-resented-game-of-thrones-character-womanhood/

"I look at it so fondly, and I look at it with such pride.

I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn't express who I was becoming," she said. "And then I also resented my body, because it wasn't aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated."

Around season 2 or 3, my body started to mature and I started to become a woman," Williams said. "But Arya was still very much trying to be disguised as a boy. I had really short hair and they'd constantly cover me in dirt and shade my nose so it looked really broad and I looked really manly. They'd also put this strap across my chest to flatten any growth that had started. I don't know, that just felt horrible for six months of the year, and I felt kind of ashamed for a while."

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/04/maisie-williams-resented-game-of-thrones-puberty-1234716099/

Arya’s adolescence, “Game of Thrones” had to slow down actress Maisie Williams’ puberty to mirror her character.

she “resented” her iconic “GoT” character during her teen years.

“I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming,” Williams said. “And then I also resented my body because it wasn’t aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated.”

a “strap to reverse puberty” when Arya pretended to be male. “I was about 15 years old — like, I kind of just want a boyfriend, honestly,” Williams said at the time. “I don’t want to wear this.”

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And she is fully embracing her femininity in the upcoming FX for Hulu series “Pistols,” directed by Danny Boyle. The Sex Pistols origin story is set in 1970s London, where Williams plays punk model Jordan (i.e. Pamela Rooke). The role requires nudity, and Williams admitted she was hesitant to audition, “just because of everything that happens in the industry and all the horror stories I’ve heard…I want to be in this show because I’m the best person to do this, not because I’m the only girl who’ll take her top off.”

She said that director Boyle told her that “Jordan was a political statement” who worked to “turn the male gaze in on itself in an overtly sexual way that made other people feel ashamed.”

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User:Crossroads is totally correct in that her essay and tweets were not just about about security in bathrooms/changing rooms. However the majority approach of the RS news sources listed at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/J. K. Rowling/archive1/Archive 3#Best sources for Transgender people section mostly concentrated her views on trans people and their rights, especially concerning women only spaces. . The RS would not have published pieces on her empathy alone.



The section name was the result of several discussions, I do not support a change. It is already neutral. When covering a individual's (controversial) opinions regarding a minority of or other specific group of people (especially their civil and human rights) we should treat that group respectfully and not as some issue or topic. If the group in question were Jewish, Muslim, Black, Lesbian I do not think we would have a heading like Jewish topics, Muslim issues, Black probl.... (using a simple synonyms). Some sources use the word "Comments" in their heading ~ NYT "Ms. Rowling’s anti-transgender comments", BBC "comments about transgender people", Associated Press "JK Rowling’s tweets on transgender people", NBC "her controversial stance on the transgender community", USA Today "her recent anti-transgender comments." Due to the fact Rowling's publicly expressed opinions very clearly targeted at and affect trans people as a whole not just their civil rights but she also questions the very validity of both trans men and trans women. The section heading would remain more neutral as simply Transgender people.

When discussing a person's views on a section of society, especially their civil and human rights it is not OK to merely say gay issues, lesbian issues, black problem, disability issues, Jewish problem, women's issues in the title etc. Lets us be respectful, neutral and call, when referring to people and simply not call discussions about them 'issues' or 'problems'. To call someone an Issues in Wikipedia's voice (which a heading is) is not neutral and suggests that the is a problem with them.

The section heading would be far more neutral if it was just simply Transgender people. Because Rowling's tweets and political essay are very clearly targeted at and affect trans people as a whole not just their civil rights but she also questions the very validity of their existence, both trans men and trans women (quotes from her essay are available).

As Rab V points out on the other page - "Here is how some reliable sources do refer to Rowlings' comments; NYT "Ms. Rowling’s anti-transgender comments", BBC "comments about transgender people",Variety "Anti-Trans Tweets", Associated Press "JK Rowling’s tweets on transgender people", NBC "her controversial stance on the transgender community", The Guardian "her beliefs on transgender rights", USA Today "her recent anti-transgender comments." It seems like RS support that het comments pertain to transgender people and transgender rights."


International tours and success

Hester Goodman, Will Grove-White, Jonty Bankes, Peter Brooke Turner all joined the orchestra during the early 1990s.[1] In 1995 the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performed at the 50th anniversary of the Victory in Europe Day celebrations in Hyde Park before an estimated audience of 170,000.[2] Leisa Rea joined in 2003.[1] In 2005 the Orchestra planned to release their popular reinterpretation of Kate Bush's classic avant-garde pop song Wuthering Heights, reworked as a swinging jazz number - complete with a Cab Calloway-style "Heathcliffe!" call and response,[3][4]as a single but were prevented from doing so, instead they released a prohibition-era honky-tonk rendition of Dy-Na-Mi-Tee (a 2002 hip hop song by Ms. Dynamite) the UOGB cover reached No. 78 in the official UK pop charts.[5][6][7]

For most of its existence the orchestra has been on actively touring the world from places ranging from Spitsbergen, Svalbard in the Arctic Circle to Chongqing Taindi Theatre in China. 1 [8] 2 [9] 3 [10]

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They have performed at diverse venues and events from local village halls to world famous venues including Ronnie Scott's jazz club, The Royal Festival Hall, the UK Houses of Parliament, Cambridge Folk Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Hay Festival, Glastonbury Festival, New York's Carnegie Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. A [2] B [13] C [14] D [15] E [16] F [17]

On Tuesday 18 August 2009 the UOGB performed a prom a concert as part of the BBC Proms 2009 Season at London's Royal Albert Hall, where they were the fastest selling late night prom in history.[18] [19] [20]

The concert included a version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy in which at least 1000 audience members with Ukuleles participated.[21][22]  The performance was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and received critical acclaim. They returned to the Albert Hall in 2012.[23][24][2] Ben Rouse joined the UOGB in 2014.  For their 2014 tour of China, the British Council described the UOGB as an orchestra "celebrated for its rapport with audiences, and eliciting a joyous feel-good reaction".[10] In 2015 Kitty Lux retired from touring with the orchestra due to chronic ill health and died in 2017.[1] In 2016 the UOGB entertained Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle at a private party to celebrate the queen's 90th birthday.[2]

The Orchestra has appeared on a wide range of television and radio programs both in the UK and internationally.[25][26] Collaborations have included with David Bowie, Madness, Robbie Williams, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), the Kaiser Chiefs, the Ministry of Sound, the film music composer David Arnold and in 2013 they issued a special collaboration with a music group called Ibiza Air for their cover of the song Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) with Kitty on vocals.[21][27] They released an EP (extended play) with 4 Remixes in different styles like Tech house and Chill-out.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing in 2014, with co-founder Kitty Lux
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing in 2014, with co-founder Kitty Lux

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Rowling's essay was criticised by, among others, the children's charity Mermaids (which supports transgender and gender non-conforming children and their parents), Stonewall, GLAAD and the feminist gender theorist Judith Butler.


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Repertoire and artistic style

Audience participation during UOGB's performance at the Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on 19 July 2009 (picture taken by Matt Perdeaux) Hinchliffe at the time announced from the stage: "a fragment of Beethoven for 1,008 ukuleles".[24]
Five Members Of the UOGB playing one Ukulele

A typical UOGB concert according to the New York Times is a "genre bending array" of musical covers. The orchestra is according to the Chicago Tribune "happy to pillage anything from the rich pageant of western music" as it roams freely across the wide range of Popular Music and Art musical genres .[32][24][33][34][35][36] Classic FM described the orchestra's performance of Ennio Morricone's The Good, The Bad And The Ugly "sprightly" and a "delightfully delicate rendition" that remained true to the epic composition, while the Australian Stage.com called it "jaw-dropping rendition".[37][32][14] The unofficial release of their cover of which on the internet was partially responsible for the orchestra’s international fame.[38]

The Ukulele Orchestra is known for reworking popular song classics, sometimes changing tunes' music genres so that the expectations of the audience are subverted.[24][16] For instance, the power pop Pinball Wizard turns into a harmonized a cappella with a vaudevillian lead vocal by Hinchliffe,[33] while the Sex Pistol's Anarchy in the UK is performed in the style of a Simon & Garfunkel cosy campfire sing-along folk song were the audience is encouraged to join in.[24][39][40] The group takes George Formby 1937 song Leaning on a Lamp-post, but turned it into "Lenin On A Lamppost" performed in a Russian Cossack style.[7][41]

The Kansas City Star considered the UOGB's medleys as "perhaps their most impressive feats, layering lyrics from disparate sources over a chord progression."[42] Several songs from different genres are combined in one "soup of contrasts" – for example, David Bowie's Life on Mars? is melded seamlessly with My Way, For Once in My Life, Born Free, Substitute, and more. In another piece after a mock argument about what to play next Hinchliffe plays a solo Handel's G Minor Suite No.7 for the Harpsichord," while all the other members sing in turn different songs on top the Handel base Fly Me To The Moon, Love Story (Where Do I Begin), Autumn Leaves, Killing Me Softly with His Song, Hotel California and I Will Survive, ending with all genre variations performed simultaneously in harmony together.[43][44][45]

All members generate ideas for new pieces and all play around with ways the piece work.[24] The limitations of the ukulele causes the orchestra to rethink creatively about how to cover a musical piece, popular tunes are broken down to their constituent parts and then with each musician sticking a distinct part, the combination of different soprano, tenor, baritone and base registers of ukuleles are used (with seperate members playing the melody, others the rhythm, others chords on the beat and offbeat etc) to recreate the musical piece anew.[16][2][17][38] the Australian stage described the UOGB cover of Wheatus' pop rock Teenage Dirtbag as the "same delicacy and finesse as Ludwig's 9th, giving it a whole new complexion"[14] Differentiation during a concert is further created by the fact that each member of the orchestra, each with their own singing style, takes turn to be vocal lead on a cover.[26] The Ukulele Orchestra will adapts its programme to match the location of the venue or the occasion, musical numbers with a regional flavour are often included especially when touring overseas, for instance. SibeliusFinlandia when they perform in Finland.[46][38]

The comedy element is of the old fashioned British dry and self-depreciating kind, supported by orchestra's musical close chemistry and their good timing.[14]The orchestra often light-heartedly mock the "ludicrousness and pretentiousness" of famous tunes with deadpan humour and pun-filled banter with numbers introduced with a light hearted humour, alternatively physical comedy is incorporated with the musicianship, for instance when up to five members bunch together to play a single small ukulele.[24][33][47][39]



Critical reception and legacy

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has received praise from press for its concerts.[24][48][49]Manchester Evening News said of the orchestra that it had "a beautiful chemistry that represents fun, innocence, daftness and a genuinely enjoyable showcase of unique talent."[50] The Kansas City Star considered the orchestra had "taken the comic aspects and musical capabilities of the ukulele and molded them into a well-honed act, delivered with marvellous nonchalance and impressive versatility."[42] The Financial Times Laura Battle applauded the orchestra members’ "consummate skill" and said that the "sophisticated sound they make both percussive and melodic is at once hilarious and heartfelt."[24]

BBC Radio 4 and the Canadian Now described the Ukulele Orchestra as a union of skilful musicianship with a subversive post punk delivery[51] [52] and the The Press (York) added that they used the limitations of the ukulele "to create a musical freedom that reveals unsuspected musical insights".[53] The Guardian and Gisewise noted that the orchestra's deadpan delivery had the ability to dismantle the pretensions the might be connected to a musical piece.[9][54]

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has been described by the Daily Telegraph, Guardian and others as a "much-loved" British institution" that has become a "worldwide phenomenon" with a "international cult status".[55][56][23][2][57][58] The Independent pointed out that orchestra is "often blamed for the current ukulele revival which is sweeping the globe", with other ukulele orchestras and groups, following UOGB's lead, have "spawned" over the years in most major cities around the world. The UOGB began the approach of orchestrating songs so that each ukulele played a separate part ~ “since then we’ve seen the concept of ensemble ukulele playing flourish right across the world.”[59][21][60][61][26][56][62][63] Asked by the Sydney Morning Herald to explain the success of his orchestra, Hinchcliffe replied "the world has gone ukulele mad".[64] The question Why is everyone suddenly playing the ukulele? is asked by a Daily Telegraph article. Research by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music), the exam board of the Royal Schools of Music, has found that the ukulele is replacing the recorder as the instrument of choice for school ensemble music lessons.[59] The are a multiple reasons for this, the ukulele has become a popular instrument to take up, with Hinchcliffe pointing out that the ukulele lends itself to social music making. The UOGB itself has donated large batches of ukuleles to schools over the years. The orchestra also often run Ukulele workshops for fellow ukulele players and school children in the afternoons before gigs, including playing with “thousands of aspiring young players in a stadium in New Zealand". Prior to gigs the orchestra also gives out advance notice of an audience participation tune so that those that wish to participate can bring along their own ukulele and play along with the orchestra.[22][65][66][67]

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WP:FRINGEIn Wikipedia parlance, the term fringe theory is used in a very broad sense to describe an idea that departs significantly from the prevailing views or mainstream views in its particular field. .... We use the term fringe theory in a very broad sense to describe an idea that departs significantly from the prevailing views or mainstream views in its particular field. For example, fringe theories in science depart significantly from mainstream science and have little or no scientific support. It is the stated goal of Wikipedia to mirror the current consensus of mainstream scholarship – in the words of WP:NOT, "accepted knowledge". Claims of "ROGD", especially in the context of this book, have been dismissed or outright rejected by practically every relevant medical organization. You appear to be grandstanding, requesting citations for a exact word when evidence is so abundantly clear that the concept has been totally rejected by the relevant scientific community ""...not recognized by any major professional association as a valid mental health diagnosis"" working in the field.

    • The relevant expert associations "...supports eliminating the use of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria"
    • "...there are no sound empirical studies of ROGD and it has not been subjected to rigorous peer-review processes that are standard for clinical science. Further, there is no evidence that ROGD aligns with the lived experiences of transgender children and adolescents."
    • "'methodologically flawed and unethical'... [proceeding] from 'an overt ideological bias'"
    • "Empirical evidence consistently refutes claims that a child’s or adolescent’s gender can be ‘directed’ by peer group pressure or media influence, as a form of ‘social contagion’"
    • "...associations between more recent gender knowledge and factors hypothesized to be involved in rapid onset gender dysphoria were either not statistically significant, or were in the opposite direction to what would be hypothesized"
    • "Circumventing science through pseudoscience"

It is therefore outside "the prevailing views or mainstream views in its particular field". Normally the key threshold for including material in Wikipedia is that it is verifiable. This is only here because it is verified because as a unscientific theory it has became notable not that it has any scientific merit. The are ZERO reliable and independent sources substantiating claims that ROGD exists. There is not one such source. There are no serious scholars and reporters with reputations of responsibility and reliability in the field that support the ROGD. In an article on a fringe topic, if a notable fringe theory is primarily described by amateurs and self-published texts, then verifiable and reliable criticism of the fringe theory need not be published in a peer reviewed journal. No where does it say the exact word Fringe must be used. Fringe is a reasonable accurate one-word summary of all the high quality mainstream expert academic sources available working in the field. All that is required for it to be called "fringe" is that it be outside those mainstream specialists. WPATH, AusPATH, and the APA all reject the hypothesis. The clearest way to explain the concept to the reader is to present it explicitly as a fringe concept, to suggest that this political false theory is anything but Fringe ill informs the reader, it is a FALSEBALANCE position, that amounts to a betrayal of Wikipedia's core function.


This seems like a rather straightforward case where 1) a concept is considered fringe by mainstream science, and 2) the clearest way to explain the concept to the reader is to present it explicitly as a fringe concept

)))))))))))))))))))))) claim that "fringe" is WP:OR, which it manifestly isn't. The burden of proof lies on those making the claim that ROGD is an actual phenomenon. You can't just dismiss peer reviewed clinical trials out of hand simply because you personally believe them to be biased or that it is somehow an open question still under debate, which is absolutely not true and is unsupported by the article's sources.

You appear to be unreasonably attempting to water down language and push a minority view beyond the requirements of NPOOV, and giving undue equal weight to ROGD .


{{tq|There is no reason, other than political motivation, to believe a study, with a larger sample size or some variation of experimental design would not confirm a separate etiological subpopulation exists.}} Sounds like something a Fringe Theorist might say
Just because it is new and "Unproven", certainly does not mean it that it can not be correctly identified as Fringe, medical science is not proven true until confirmed  to be false, especially when the existing supposed research behind the theory utterly  failed to meet basic "evidence-based clinical guidelines," but is based on unscientific political/moral  opinions of a selected sample that was known to have "an overt ideological bias"  who are not even the subjects  of the theory. [[WP:FRINGELEVEL]] [[WP:CRYSTALBALL]] Topics that {{tq|"cover controversial, disputed, or discounted ideas ...should document...the current level of their acceptance among the relevant academic community"}} not what we as editors think...ROGD is absolutely contrary to all known qualified expertise opinion in the field.
"Wikipedia primarily focuses on the state of knowledge today".


  • Comment Wikipedia is clearly lost in anti scientific Orwellian 1984, the discussion ought to be short when the evidence is so abundantly straightforward when the scientifically, medically and socially unproven ROGD theory is overwhelmingly " not recognized as a medical diagnosis by any major professional institution," leading associations or group of medical experts, or any international medical bodies working in the field. It is therefore outside "the prevailing views or mainstream views in its particular field" and therefore is undoubtly WP:FRINGE.

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Just because it is new, certainly does not mean it can be correctly identified as Fringe, medical science is not proven true until confirmed to be false, especially when the research behind the theory utterly failed to meet basic "evidence-based clinical guidelines," but is based on unscientific political/moral opinions of a selected sample that was known to have "an overt ideological bias" who are not even the subjects of the theory.


that failed to meet "evidence-based clinical guidelines," based on opinions of a disconnected sample selected only from sources that are The is zero evidence xxxxxx                                                                      


  "there is no evidence that aligns with the lived experiences of transgender children and adolescents".

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reported that it was trans women who receieved intense hostility

The lead section of MOS:LEAD clearly states that we should summarize the most important points of an article, including any prominent controversies. The notability of the article's subject is usually established in the first few sentences. As in the body of the article itself, the emphasis given to material in the lead should roughly reflect its importance to the topic, according to reliable, published sources (note: not simply the amount of words in the article itself). The argument for WP:DUE is based on the WP:SUSTAINED and widespread coverage in the leading high quality global reliable news media that has gone well beyond a brief burst of news coverage in those WP:RSP. Further if we go back to those simple size comparisons i.e. the Trans section compared to other sections, the Trans section has been kept short in this article simply because of WP:SPLIT , the topic it is more fully covered in the [[Politics of J. K. Rowling]] article were it accounts to close to half of that articles content, with only a brief summary kept in the main article. The volume of RSP sources on this issue compared to any other 'controversy' clearly means the topic satisfies WP:WEIGHT to be in the lead.

Old currant

Following the signing of Magna Carta (1215), King John’s reneging on the royal charter, the castle was besieged during the ensuing civil war, known as the First Barons' War, between King John and barons supported by Prince Louis (the future Louis VIII of France}, the French laid siege to Berkhamsted Castle in late December 2016. The king's constable of the castle was the German Walerand Teutonicus
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“After reducing the castle of Hertford, Louis marched on St Nicholas’s day (6 December) to the castle of Berkhamsted and surrounded it with his engines of war. Whilst the English barons, after pitching their tents, were employed in setting them in order, the knights and soldiers of the garrison made a sally, seized the baggage and conveyances of the barons and gained possession of the standard of William de Mandeville, with which they returned to the castle, regretting that they could do no further injury to them.  On the same day, whilst the barons were sitting at table, the knights and soldiers of the garrison again made a sally, and, in order to put the barons in confusion, they carried before them the standard which they had taken a short time before, and thought to come on them unawares, but the latter were forewarned of this, and drove them back to the castle.  When the following day dawned Louis ordered  the petrarie (stone-throwing machines) and other engines of war to be erected around the city, which being done, they kept up a destructive shower of stones: but Waleran, a German, well tried in warfare, made a brave resistance against them and caused great slaughter amongst the excommunicated French. }}
However, Prince Louis introduced a new destructive siege engine to England and first used it at Berkhamsted: the counterweight trebuchet (or mangonel). After twenty days Walerand, after a protracted siege, by command of the King (the young King Henry III) ordered his constable to surrender surrendered the castle to Louis on the 20 December. After the siege Louis suffered numerous defeats until on 11 September 1217, Louis signed the Treaty of Lambeth, relinquishing his claim to the English throne and surrendering French-held castles including Berkhamsted. Walerand went on to hold several other posts including the senior position of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
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  2. "A person whose sex assigned at birth was male but whose gender identity is female" Planned Parenthood - Transgender Identity Terms and Labels
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  4. "a woman who was identified as male at birth" Merriam Webster - Trans Woman
  5. "A transgender woman lives as a woman today, but was thought to be male when she was born" National Center for Transgender Equality - Frequently Asked Questions about Transgender People
  6. "A child or adult who was born anatomically male but has a female gender identity" Princeton University: LGBT Center - The Language of Gender
  7. "Someone assigned the male gender at birth who identifies on the female spectrum." Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine - Glossary of Transgender Terms
  8. "A person whose sex assigned at birth was male, but who identifies as a woman" American Psychological Association - Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People
  9. "Generally refers to someone who was identified male at birth but who identifies and portrays her gender as female." Glossary of Gender and Transgender Terms - Fenway Health
  10. "A male-to-female transsexual." Lexico - Powered by Oxford
  11. "people who were assigned the male sex at birth but identify as women" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  12. "Children assigned male at birth who identify themselves as girls" American Academy of Pediatrics
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  24. "Transgender Woman or Male-to Female (MTF): A person who transitions from male to female, meaning a person who was assigned male at birth, but identifies and lives as female or as a woman." Seattle Police Department Manual
  25. "The term transgender woman typically is used to refer to someone who was assigned the male sex at birth but who identifies as a female." U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: "Fact Sheet: Bathroom Access Rights for Transgender Employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964"
  26. "A trans woman is a woman assigned male at birth."American Society for Engineering Education
  27. "MtF: an abbreviation for male-to-female. It refers to a transgender person who was assigned male at birth, and whose gender identity is that of a woman. This person would also be known as a transwoman. Egale Human Rights Trust (Canada)
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  34. "Transgender woman/transwoman/transfeminine individual - Person with a feminine gender identity who was designated a male sex at birth" UpToDate, clinical decision support resource
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Further reading

  • Discenza, Nicole; Szarmach, Paul, eds. (2015). A Companion to Alfred the Great. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-27484-6. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  • Fry, Fred (2006). Patterns of Power: The Military Campaigns of Alfred the Great. ISBN 978-1-905226-93-1.
  • Giles, J. A., ed. (1858). The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great (Jubilee in 3 vols ed.). Oxford and Cambridge.
  • Godden, M. R. (2007). "Did King Alfred Write Anything?". Medium Ævum. 76 (1): 1–23. ISSN 0025-8385. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  • Heathorn, Stephen (December 2002). "The Highest Type of Englishman: Gender, War, and the Alfred the Great Commemoration of 1901". Canadian Journal of History. 37 (3): 459–84. doi:10.3138/cjh.37.3.459. PMID 20690214.
  • Irvine, Susan (2006). "Beginnings and Transitions: Old English". In Mugglestone, Lynda (ed.). The Oxford History of English. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954439-4.
  • Pollard, Justin (2006). Alfred the Great: the man who made England. ISBN 0-7195-6666-5.
  • Reuter, Timothy, ed. (2003). Alfred the Great. Studies in early medieval Britain. ISBN 978-0-7546-0957-5.

Sources

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  • Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-04047-2. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Abels, Richard (2002). "Royal Succession and the Growth of Political Stability in Ninth-Century Wessex". The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History. 12: 83–97. ISBN 978-1-84383-008-5. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Attenborough, F.L., ed. (1922). The laws of the earliest English kings. Cambridge University Press. pp. 52–53, 62–93, 98–101. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Bately, Janet (1970). "King Alfred and the Old English Translation of Orosius". Anglia. 88: 433–60. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Bately, Janet (1990). "'Those books that are most necessary for all men to know': The Classics and late ninth-century England: a reappraisal". In Bernardo, Aldo S.; Levin, Saul (eds.). The Classics in the Middle Ages. Binghamtion, New York. pp. 45–78. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Bately, Janet M. (2014). "Alfred as Author and Translator". In Nicole Guenther Discenza; Paul E. Szarmach (eds.). A Companion to Alfred the Great. Leiden: Brill. pp. 113–42. doi:10.1163/9789004283763_006. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Blackburn, M.A.S. (1998). "The London mint in the reign of Alfred". In Blackburn, M.A.S.; Dumville, D.N. (eds.). Kings, Currency and Alliances: History and Coinage of Southern England in the 9th Century. pp. 105–24. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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Films

Depictions on film and television screen include:

Date Title Format Notes Ref
1969 *Alfred the Great film Directed by Clive Donner, with David Hemmings playing Alfred. [68]
1971 *The Raven and the Cross a children's TV serial by John A. Tully, about Alfred's conflict with Guthrum. [69][70]
1974 *King Alfred episode 4 of Churchill's People Alfred is played by Alan Howard.
2015-present In Vikings (2013 TV series) TV series From season 3 onwards, Alfred is portrayed by various actors through the course of his life; however, he is depicted as the bastard son of Athelstan by Aethelwulf's wife Judith (based on Judith of Flanders), but is nonetheless raised as Aethelwulf's legitimate son. [71]
2009 and 2015 *Horrible Histories and their rebooted series Children's TV series In this light hearted children's educational history sketch series Alfred is portrayed in various episodes by Mathew Baynton/Tom Rosenthal [72]
2015 -2018 *The Last Kingdom A TV series adaptation of The Saxon Stories Alfred is played by David Dawson for the first three seasons of the series. [73][74]


Date Title Composer/Writer Genre Notes
(1740—1753) * Alfred music by Thomas Arne and a libretto by David Mallet and James Thomson. a masque/Opera This work was first performed on 1 August 1740, at Cliveden, country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, as a celebration of the anniversary of his grandfather's, King George I's royal accession to the throne of Great Britain. From this work the patriotic anthem "Rule, Britannia!" originates. During the French Wars (1793-1815), patriotic plays, opera and ballets about Alfred became popular often concluding with a rousing rendition of the Thompson's and Arne’s ‘Rule Britannia’, as the new anthem became a favoured way to express allegiance to the sovereign.[75][76][77]
(1827) *Alfred the Great; or, the Enchanted Standard Issac Pocock light operatic comedy A musical drama, in two acts [78]
(1829) *Alfred the Great Sarah Hamilton a drama; in five acts [79]
(1837) *Alfred the Great; or The Patriot King James Sheridan Knowles Drama [80]


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