title: Dash! Yonkuro

abstract: Dash! Yonkuro is a Japanese manga series created by Zaurus Tokuda, originally serialized in Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic magazine from December 1987 to March 1992. The story focuses on Yonkuro Hinomaru, a delinquent Mini 4WD enthusiast and member of a Mini 4WD racing team who tackles the world of miniature car racing. It is created as a tie-in to Tamiya's Mini 4WD franchise, and it is the first series to center on the franchise. An anime series based on the original manga was produced by Staff 21, Aubekku & Tokyu Agency and aired on TV Tokyo from October 3, 1989, to March 27, 1990. A sequel manga series, titled Hyper Dash! Yonkuro was created and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei and began serialization on CoroCoro Aniki on March 14, 2015.

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# Dash! Yonkuro

***Dash! Yonkuro*** (ダッシュ!四駆郎, *Dasshu! Yonkurō*) is a Japanese manga series created by Zaurus Tokuda, originally serialized in Shogakukan's *CoroCoro Comic* magazine from December 1987 to March 1992. The story focuses on Yonkuro Hinomaru, a delinquent Mini 4WD enthusiast and member of a Mini 4WD racing team who tackles the world of miniature car racing. It is created as a tie-in to Tamiya's Mini 4WD franchise, and it is the first series to center on the franchise. An anime series based on the original manga was produced by Staff 21, Aubekku & Tokyu Agency and aired on TV Tokyo from October 3, 1989, to March 27, 1990. A sequel manga series, titled ***Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*** was created and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei and began serialization on *CoroCoro Aniki* on March 14, 2015.

## Plot

The story is a succession of races in fancy routes (pyramids, labyrinths, etc.) and tracks fit to make the cars race. During the series run, many characters will appear, like Momotaro (and his Mini 4WD, Crimson Glory, DashWarriors'last obstacle towards the final victory), Sabu Kinjiro (Aero Solitude) and also Jin that will race the Hell Rally with a new Mini4wd, the Proto Emperor ZX (the previous one was the Dash-X1 Proto Emperor, defeated in the regional finals by Yonkuro's then new mini4wd, the Dash-01 Super Emperor). The tracks become always more harder and the stories unlikely (in a volume of the manga, is mentioned that even the prehistoric children used mini4wd-like cars built with natural materials like wood and leaves that would be pushed by the wind), the story always will focus even more on which one would be the true "Emperor", it will be discovered are many mini4wds with this title that will confront against Yonkuro's Emperor, until the epilogue, in the epic challenge of the Hell Rally.

in this race Yonkuro will challenge a group of delinquents that want to take advantage of the best mini4wd racers to manage recovering a treasure hidden during the World War II by the nazis. Between his opponents there will be a revived Ken Hinomaru, ready to challenge the son and test his abilities with his new mini 4wd, the Dash-0 Infinite Boundless. In the end, Yonkuro, helped by his teammates (now far from racing, but always bound by a deep friendship), triumphs with his new car, the Liberty Emperor.

## Characters

### Main characters

#### Dash Warriors (Dash Corps)

**Yonkuro Hinomaru** (日ノ丸 四駆郎, **Hinomaru Yonkurō**) Voiced by: Masako Nozawa

He is the series' title main character and also the leader of the Dash!Warriors team. He is the boy with "the feather in the head" and his mini4wd is the Dash-1 Emperor.

Yonkuro is a mini4wd-enthusiast boy, Compared to his teammates, Yonkuro has a risky racestyle that aims to an overall efficiency in every route. His recklessness will bring always his mini4wd beyond the limits, to the point that he always will have the need to replace it due to the damages received and in order to compete with even more formidable opponents.

Yonkuro's final goal is to take part at the Hell Rally, to honor his father, -that he believes to be dead while taking part to the Hell Rally- and to win. With such a dream in mind, Alan tries to become the best racer of the country and to convince many of his coetaneous that the Mini4wd cars are racing cars in miniature and not toys like most people believe.

Towards the end of the series, in the national races (seen only on the manga) he remains the only Dash Warriors' present and always active member. After leading the Dash Warriors to success in the final against Momotaro's team and their Crimson Glory, the las part of Dash!Yonkuro's story begins. Yonkuro finally will take part to the Hell Rally's last stage, the race that turn out the final goal: it was organised by delinquents that wanted to retrieve a treasure hidden by the nazis during the World War II, the Hell Rally is organised, so that the mysterious artefact, taking advantage from the best racers' abilities, in the vain attempt to discover the treasure's exact location. With the help of the other Dash Warriors, Yonkuro finally will manage to thwart the delinquents' plan and to win the race. At the end of the saga, Yonkuro will fulfill his dream of being a real scale car racer.

The name Yonkuro is a word pun: the word "Yonku" in Japanese means "four-wheel drive", while his Dash-1 Emperor is the result of a contest organised by Shogakukan, through which it was chosen the design of a new Mini4wD, that later, modified by the author, will become the ultimate model.

**Dankuro Toda** (戸田 弾九郎, *Toda Dankurō*)/**Tankuro** (タンクロー, *Tankurō*) Voiced by: Tessho Genda

He is the Dash Warriors' second member and his mini4wd is the Dash-2 Burning Sun. Tankuro is a stout and very kind boy, even if at the beginning when he meets Yonkuro he seems a bit grumpy. His golden heart and his sacrifice spirit will reveal important to his team to access to the Mini4wd national tournament, despite his machine is not very fast. The quality and the style of Tankuro and his car are represented by the power of the car itself: increasing such power to the maximum at the expense of speed, the Dash-2 Burning Sun can be defined doubtlessly the most powerful and resistant car of the team. Shortly before the national finals, Tankuro will leave the team at the moment, realising of his opponents' strength and the not exaggerated confidence in him demonstrated by Yonkuro. He is seen again in the Momotaro team, the team that he should have faced in the finals, but his was not a betrayal: Tankuro, in fact took advantage of the situation to learn the use of the Front Motor chassis (F.M. Chassis) and to build Dash-2 Burning Sun's evolution, the Dash-02 Neo Burning Sun, a Mini4wd made even more powerful and innovative thanks to the then innovation of the front motor. During the last acts of the final race, in the attempt of crossing for first the finish line in the top of a building, he will use the condenser circuit of Pankuro's Dash-4 Cannonball, resulting in his mini4wd breaking into pieces after a few meters, but this sacrifice will be useful to Yonkuro, that thinks up an idea to win the race. At the end of the saga, during a reunion with the former teammates, all of them now grown up, he makes his last appearance.

The name Tankuro is a word pun with the word tank "Tank", referring to Tankuro's body mass and racing style. The word Tank even appears in the hood of the car.

**Shinkuro Minami** (南 進駆郎, *Minami Shinkurō*) Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki

The rich boy who lives in a coastal residence. Desiring the fact that he stands in apex of the Mini-4WD boundaries, he tries to walk the road of loneliness, but fou running with in fight and interchange it awakes in friendship, participates in the dash corps. As for main machine "Dash-3 Shooting Star" of top speed concern. The extent which destroys condition in worry that the flat tire low/row with the unique close friend, he is not in the place of game. The Shin running being born, the parents divorced promptly, had lived with the mother and the older sister and 3 people, but in order to make the successor of the company of the father who remarries it came to the point of with being received in the south house. After that, it owed the scar of the cross to amount centering on the racing team of the older sister. The scar went out with operation, but when heart burns, like the south cruciform star it appears, it seems. There is a "southern cross express" the incompleteness as a shooting skill necessary. Also technology of remodelling was high, invented the stabilizer pole with improvisation. Shifting the counter gear, the body which accompanies shaft revolution twist it offsets and so on, it handles also complicated remodelling. With the black wind compilation, Mini 4WD, he runs to crisis.

**Koji Jimi** (地味 頁二, *Jimi Kōji*)/**Punkuro** (パンクロー, *Pankurō*) Voiced by: Kyousei Tsukui

Childhood friend of Shinkuro Minami. It has the guitar always with the flat tire make-up. The plain page two which is autonym the guitarist of the *Led Zeppelin*, the jitsu is thought also jimipeiji as the thing. In state of the element the soft unkind treatment it is dense with air weakness. It is not possible when it does not have the make-up, what to talk back and/or to resist. Changes to the rocker disposition whose is instantaneously wears the make-up personality strong. The machine uniting to be proud quickly, pace manufacturer part of the Shin. As for the main machine "Dash-4 The Cannonball" of acceleration force concern with, as for speed of start dash following of other things is not permitted. In addition, accumulating electricity, it lets flow to the motor, the "condenser circuit" is built in, but the application limit is the one time drill, furthermore after use you say that the machine itself causes large explosion, because "of the sword circuit of the blades" of hitting each other at the same time preparedness, to use, the preparedness which is suitable is needed. In the nationwide conference 2 game ninja \[uoriazu\] game, the machine which the offshoot is done was penetrated with travelling sound. In flat tire state the face is effective even in gang of hot-rodders of local end, as a name guitarist of the flat tire band which is formed with the family member is known. With the black wind compilation, Mini 4WD when it runs to crisis.

**Rinko Sumeragi** (皇 輪子, *Sumeragi Rinko*) Voiced by: Rei Sakuma

Younger sister of dash corps supervision and imperial fine fellow. Being strong, wisdom. Buffer agent part of the dash corps which adjusts inside the team. As a main machine, straight speed concern, it equips the fan in the fuselage rear surface and the inversion accident impossible machine "Dash-5 which acquires down fourth to friend dance (The Dancing Doll)" it has. At the beginning girl hair type such as twin tail and dumpling hair was many, but since trying it will be denounced the fact that it is the woman in race/lace in the reason, it will shave the hair with the cutter and probably to drop, it became many to make the long hair of straight. With the black wind compilation, Mini-4WD as it runs to crisis.

### Secondary characters

**Kaidanji Sumeragi** (皇快男児, *Sumeragi Kaidanji*) Voiced by: Ryusei Nakao

Older brother of Rinko. To be dash corps supervision, the real parent of all the dash series. He participate in Hell Rally as a navigator of the source 4WD, the scar of the face is the damage which it owes on midst of rally.

Wankuro (The Dog) (ワンクロー, **Wankurō**)

Which the Shinkuro Minami has raised secretly at the one claw shrine. Four running with it comes to the point of from time of game of the Shinkuro being raised by the imperial boat, becomes emblem existence of from now on dash corps.

**Genta** (ゲンタ, **Genta**)

Which it tries it will pick up the emperor whom source thickly 4WD lose, probably to recover that with you have a match from 4WD. It is defeated in four running, that calls it reaches the top "the older brother" in opportunity and the point where you yearn. The cartoonist who cannot be sold in neighborhood has lived, illustration of the wild mini- four running which that cartoonist designed was brought to the imperial origin. Those where it is designed on the basis of the illustration were the dinosaur, it had reached the point where unnoticed you use that as your own love car. It registers as supplementation of the dash corps from the mini- four running championship nationwide conferences. With Musashi, the dash warriors was supported. At the time of dash corps dispersion you exchanged the new sun and the dinosaur of the tank low/row, you participated in also the hell caravan being newly born one member of the dash corps.

**Musashi** (武蔵, **Musashi**)

Moby Dick, the son of the manager of the Pavilion of the city's fine dining Hazime Hutoshi. They are proud of the Mini 4WD off-road machine originally mini 4WD Use a white whale. Yonkuro was lost and only had 4x4 Mini Wairudomini to deepen exchanges thereafter. Register as a substitute for the dash from the Army National Tournament Championship Mini 4WD. National competition in the semifinals, unable to participate for reasons of poor maintenance Yonkuro's 4WD machine, the emperor played over borrowed.

### Rival Team

#### U, U2

**Master Po** (, )

Team "U" director. Law and Qigong with superhuman physical abilities. Ichiro source drive, the broth of a boy have known the Emperor.

**Jin Kidōin** (鬼道院 陣, **Kidōin Jin**) Voiced by: Nakamura Hidetoshi

Leader of the Team "U" and Monk of the小輪寺超絶房（shō-rin-ji chō-zetsu-bou）. The team joined the army made a dash before the Sumeragi. Proto Emperor (原始皇帝)was the original machine that was used. Shoe says "demon." he apprenticed to a 博 (Po) for seeking strongly body. After the final qualification, the cooperation of the Corps who will dash. For training, that occasion in the past is to travel the country, meet Momotaro kido fake hospital incident.

Lost black wind, but realized the immaturity of his own into the training, Yonkuro,Genta and Momotaro vs Goro tactics anger in black like a black wind, drove Proto Emperor ZX(原始大帝) decide to join nascent army dash.

**Jun Kato** (加藤 隼, **Katō Jun**) Voiced by: Morikawa Tomoyuki

Team "U" member of the main temple chamber-eyed bunch of small wheels.

**Rei Ando** (Andō Rei) (安藤礼, **Andō Rei**)

Team "U" member of the main bunch bunch of small-wheeled Hercules temple.

**Aoi Hyūga** (日向 葵, **Hyūga Aoi**) Voiced by: Minami Takayama

Team "U" member of the main bunch bunch of small-wheeled speedster temple. Known as "Sunflower". She always hiding their faces with bangs, are discovered and drive progress in the fight against Lang.

She has also participated in leading the women's team caravan.

**Sou Kanzaki** (神崎操, **Kanzaki Sou**) Voiced by: Shinichiro Michi

Team "U" member of the chamber parallel to the main temple bunch of small circle. When the game is lost to Lang and 4WD small wheel in the temple. Something that the academy's training trip accompanied kido.

Himeko Kidoin (鬼道院 姫子, **Kidōin Himeko**) Voiced by: Onodera Keiko

"U2" leader. Members call her "Princess" . Sister team.

**Fujiyama** (富士山, *Fujiyama*)

"U2" member.

#### Momotaro Samurai Team

**Momotaro Kibi** (木尾 桃太郎, **Kibi Momotarō**)

Okayama representative "Momotaro Samurai" team leader. Furontomiddoshippumashin Crimson placed in front of the chassis motor G is used. Hall Institute of friendship with the demons have a real hospital case fake demon temple. A dash to join a nascent army as hell, and the defeat of black wind, the feeling that the dog will bite time is increasing steadily not deny the appearance of sand cloth.

**Tota Inugami** (犬神 闘太, **Inugami Tota**)

Okayama representative "Momotaro Samurai" team members. The original racer together plain area, the goal was to represent the district when the team was invited to put a representative in the race lost the Peach Boy, Momotaro Samurai joined the team since.

*Kiziro Okuyama'* (奥山 喜次郎, **Okuyama Kizirō**)

Okayama representative "Momotaro Samurai" team members. The original racer together mountainous area, the area was to be represented, when the team was invited to put a representative in the race lost the Peach Boy, Momotaro Samurai joined the team since. When there is a vacancy in the gears of the machine Momotaro National Convention, destroying their machines, Momotaro committed to victory.

**Akahiko Saruwatari** (猿渡 赤彦, **Saruwatari Akahiko**)

Okayama representative "Momotaro Samurai" team members. The original racer together Konno village, district representatives had hoped, when the team was invited to put a representative in the race lost to Momotaro, Momotaro Samurai joined the team since.

**Souitiro Kibi** (木尾 走一, **Kibi Souitiro**)

Okayama representative "Momotaro Samurai" team coach. Momotaro's grandfather. Kurimuzonshirizu made drawings based on written sources Yonkuro Hinomaru drive.

#### Mini 4WD Championship Participants

**Masashi Daido** (大道 将志, **Daido Masashi**) Voiced by: Suzuki Kiyonobu

"Herusu Kids" ace in the captain. Whether there twice in the bulk mate, fair play like. Hell has also participated in leading a team caravan.

**Saito** (斎藤, **Saitō**) Voiced by: Horimoto To

"Herusu Kids" members. The first round of races and two army dash.

**Fujita** (藤田, **Fujita**) Voiced by: Matsuo Takashi

"Herusu Kids" members. The first round of races and two army dash.

**Kazuki Yamamori** (山森 一騎, **Yamamori Kazuki**) Voiced by: Abe Atsushi

"Herusu Kids" members. Daido Cup race with a second round of the second dash and corps.

**Sugita** (杉田, **Sugita**) Voiced by: Inaba Mitsunori

"Herusu Kids" members. Daido Cup races with the second round and third dash corps.

**Hiroshi** (ヒロシ, **Hiroshi**)

"Herusu Kids Health" alternate, substitute with any other team in the championship, "Desuparedo" play for. The participants played a game with Ichiro that Yonkuro, kids lost in the first round health.

**Taich Morohosi** (諸星 太一, **Morohosi Taitii**) (one-edged splitting)

A team consisting of five children, "Brothers planets" members. Dash Warriors and participated in by qualifying in the area are also a national tournament quarterfinals. Dash Corps hear us, to check one's RC is to challenge, and lose out by Yonkuro wit.

**Mike**

"Jet team" members. Ability to participate in the qualifying semi-final is less glamorous areas. Hall Institute, led by U semifinals defeated demon.

**Yonma Yoshimoto** (吉本 四磨, **Yonma Yoshimoto**)

Osaka, western representative "Yoshimoto" team leader. In the Kansai region famous "Yoshimoto pop." Lang was a game and in cases of Urusena 4WD. Tuning is called God, and afflicted the national tournament quarterfinals dash Corps exact machine on stage decorated with a distinctive remodeling.

**Hachiro Oga** (男鹿 八郎, **Oga Hachiro**) Akita representative "phantom" team leader. The name was listed as a potential winner can not end the story involved. **Keiko Shoya** (翔矢 恵子, **Shouya Keiko**)

Tokyo Representative East "Heavy Metal Army (Warriors)" leader. The name was listed as a potential winner, the Dash Corps and participated in the semifinal only three substitute emperor.

**Jigokumaru Enma** (閻魔 地獄丸, **Enma Jigokumaru**)

Mie representative "Ninja Warrior" leader. The team joined the army before the Emperor made a dash, use a shadow emperor. After we had learned the art of invisibility team went to the MIE. To defeat that one difference between the bumper to match against the second half track down a legion in the first half dash advantage of ninja tactics. After the game, things are said to participate in national competition three emperors.

**Kyoko Hijiri** (聖 響子, **Hijiri Kyouko**)

Tokyo Representative East "Heavy Metal Army (Warriors)" in the alternate, a true leader. Has joined the team before the imperial army made a dash, use the sacred emperor. One of the three emperors. Lang's clever scheme to defeat before fighting their way back the 4WD can overwhelm the performance and how to fight with Goro 4WD machine.

**Emperor Fujin** (風神皇帝, **Hurricane Emperor**)

Tokyo Representative East "Heavy Metal Army (Warriors)" in the alternate, three emperors. Has joined the team before the imperial army made a dash, use the Wind God Emperor.

**Emperor Mage** (魔道皇帝, **Devil Emperor**)

Tokyo Representative East "Heavy Metal Army (Warriors)" in the alternate, three emperors. The team joined the army before the Emperor made a dash, use the magic emperor.

#### Black Wind Chapter

**Kinjiro Sabu** (砂布 欽二郎, **Sabu Kinjirou**)

The mysterious boy Crimson Solitude Furontomiddoshippumashin using different strains. Crimson Solitude The G was created based on the drawings left by Ichiro Furontomiddoshippumashin drive as the source. Oni said Hall Institute "If you join a team national tournament if he was told absolutely winning." Appearance and name of the Moomin and the Snufkin that the motif. But in the Sakuchū Kinji Ichiro, field book about the characters are written "欽次 - Qīn cì". The help of a man in black later clarified the portion of the drawing *Furontomiddoshippumashin* black filled, *Earosorichudo* to complete. Part filled black is said to set retrofit written by "waste of the same principle-driven injection oil" had been explained, in the play it decreases the driving force difference between driving and jet oil was no .

**Gale** (烈風, **Reppu**)

Black style leader. Use black wind 2WD. Yonkuro's after losing a battle with 4WD is effectively expelled from the black wind, and to present a united front after Yonkuro.

**Shimabukuro**;**Shimabukuro** (島袋, **Shimabukuro**)

Captain of the team in Okinawa area. Use the mini-submarine and 4WD Nunchaku-stick Okinawa Karate style. After losing to the Yonkuro's gale winds will be a black leader.

**Elder**

Black elder style. The rally participants from hell, after a dead heat source in the car and driven underground Lang Island, Orochi, meets with an accident suffered serious injury. Created a blueprint for the black wind driven sources Yonkuro.

### Other characters

Genkurō Hinomaru (日の丸 源駆郎, **Hinomaru-Genkurō**) (re-take initially atomic Maru The fire) Voiced by: Nakamura Hideo

Father of Yonkuro. Racer. Horizon owners. The modifications to Supaenpera broth of a boy received from Imperial, Guretoenpera created. During the rally hell, which is missing. In the Amazon in South America, as has been said that God helped the girls division of the lake. Six feet loincloth wore. May have escaped from the crisis instead of a loincloth rope.

Infrared remote control at the horizon (acceleration and deceleration, steering), including features, has a very high technology. The name and car number on the horizon instead of drive Ichiro named by sources, is only to be told in Sakuchū on their own, called Imperial.

Hell during the rally, after a dead heat in the basement of the Island, Orochi, now meets with an accident amnesia. Then he spent months quietly in the basement of the island Orochi.

**Jackie "Jack" Sakata**

People come to bring the army under the dash horizon. In delivering the horizon, was intended to convey a safe source driven Yonkuro, brought the race to know with infrared remote control capabilities to the horizon, and legion unexpected dash to struggle will be imposed. Lang looks exactly like the source drive to the appearance of unkempt long hair and side whiskers, 4x4 Ichiro had me confused with my father delivered horizon.

**Nanny** (ナニー, **Nanī**) Voiced by: Kataoka Tomie

Yonkuro's grandmother. The animation was also serving as a cheerleader in support.

**Maedo** (前戸, **Maedo**) Voiced by: Yamaguti Shiyouhei

To: four wheel drive mini race commentary charge. Tamiya belongs publicity department (then) known as the "before her" and modeled on Mr. Maeda Yasuyuki with this, but a mole in the same position as himself, and glasses instead of sunglasses.

**President Miyata** (宮田会長, *Miyata kaichō*)

The Japanese Mini 4WD Association president, was a trial run at the national competition championship ceremony. Mini 4WD Association president yet, "switch it somewhere?" Remarks that person.

**Anna Kawai** (河合アナ, **Kawai Ana**) Voiced by: Nishihara Kumiko

Live announcer in charge of Mini 4WD championship.

**Anzai** (安西, **Anzai**)

House butler south.

**Fuko** (風子, **Fuuko**)

Jiro's sister drive progress. After her parents divorced, lived with his mother and three in custody until the drive home Yonkuro progress south. The team is participating in Sazankurosukantori.

**Captain**

Captain of the whole conditional clauses are scum. And fighting against piracy, but to tell the tale of triumph and escape from the tomb of the boat and, truth is not clear.

Place the caravan hell "Orochi Island," took to the nascent army dash.

**Old man Cockroach** (ゴキブリじじい, **Gokiburi Jijī**) (Ōrudomango Kiburi)

Yopparai that roost on the site of District agencies. The former engineer, now disused C62 has been developed as a treasure.

After starting the scrap shop.

**Urusena Ireton**

F-1 drivers. Italian GP was the continued slump since the accident, and four polished look of a desperate struggle to remember F1 Spirit Yonkuro. The model, of course, be responsible for triggering a boom in F1 at the time Ayrton Senna.

**Ippei**

Army camp using the dash, the son of a certain hot springs spa town. God's plan to boost the swamp.

**Sid**

Boy living in the Amazon in South America. Divine says, with a horizon-like machine.

**Here**

Girls living in the Amazon in South America. Divine says, with a horizon-like machine.

**S.**

The boy was carried into the hospital tank is low. Radio call sign, "Yonkuro." The first race was held on the Stars and surgeries, the Kabuki dance played in the chassis and body is S. Lang upstream 4WD.

**Ichiban Hoshi** (一番星, **Ichiban Hoshi**)

Satoshi wireless fellow truck driver.

**C · T**

Larry Lang companion source drive. Mini 4WD is also a friend.

**Anastasia**

C · T in childhood, and nuns. Accused of being witches.

**Xena Ireton**

Brazilian RC · F1 racer. Poor, there are two brothers and one sister.

**Alejandro Jose**

RC · F1 Championship in Brazil. Xena tried to buy.

**Zaurus Tokuda** (徳田ザウルス, **Tokuda Zaurusu** ) Voiced by: Zaurus Tokuda

The cartoonist living in the downtown area sell, the appearance of a potted flower head. Zaurus Tokuda identity of the creator of the work is saying. And the familiar face Genta. Zaurus is a sketch based on imperial "Wild Zaurus" were fabricated.

**Mountain Jaw** (アゴ山, **Ago-Yama**) (Agoyama) Voiced by: Ueda Toshiya

Mini 4WD Team "Hirusu Kids" representative director. Yonkuro says 4WD, Agogorira.

## Media

### Manga

The manga was written and illustrated by Zaurus Tokuda, serialized in the monthly CoroCoro Comic from December 1987 until March 1992, compiling it into 14 Tankobon volumes. Several spinoff stories revolving the series were released before its successor series was serialized. This, alongside Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! contributed on the popularity of Tamiya's Mini 4WD franchise in Japan and overseas. Despite the author's death, a sequel manga series, titled ***Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*** (ハイパーダッシュ! 四駆郎, *Haipā Dasshu! Yonkurō*) was created by Hiroyuki Takei (under Tokuda's family approval) and began serialization in *CoroCoro Aniki* magazine on March 14, 2015 and ending in March 15, 2021. 4 Tankobon Volumes were released in Japan.

### Anime

An anime adaptation of the original manga was produced by Staff 21, Aubekku & Tokyu Agency and aired on TV Tokyo from October 3, 1989, to March 27, 1990, replacing Mister Ajikko in its original timeslot. The series was directed by Hitoshi Nanba and written by Takashi Yamada (*Ojamajo Doremi*, *Jewelpet*, *HeartCatch PreCure*). The opening song is titled "Be Top" by Taku Kitahara while the ending theme is titled "An Endless Challenge" (果てしなき挑戦(チャレンジ), *Hateshinaki Charenji*) by Taku Kitahara.

### Merchandise

Merchandise of the series were released by Tamiya under the Mini 4WD line of race car models.

## Reception

Hiroyuki Takei, author of *Shaman King* and later *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* cited he once submitted a design on a contest held by Shogakukan during his middle school years. Despite not be used for Yonkuro's machine, it became the basis for the Dash-3 Shooting Star. The one-shot autobiography manga *Dear Zaurus Tokuda* was based on Takei's story.

## InfoBox

| **Dash! Yonkuro** | |
| --- | --- |
| Cover of the first manga volume | |
| ダッシュ!四駆郎<br>(*Dasshu! Yonkarō*) | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Zaurus Tokuda |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Magazine | *CoroCoro Comic* |
| Demographic | Children, Shōnen |
| Original run | December 1987March 1992 |
| Volumes | 14 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hitoshi Nanba |
| Produced by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
| Written by | Takashi Yamada |
| Music by | Keita Miyahara |
| Studio | Staff 21, Aubekku & Tokyu Agency |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | October 3, 1989  March 27, 1990 |
| Episodes | 25 |
| Manga | |
| *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* | |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Takei |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Magazine | *CoroCoro Aniki* |
| Demographic | *Seinen* |
| Original run | March 14, 2015March 15, 2021 |
| Volumes | 4 |


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# Sarah B. Henderson

**Sarah B. Henderson** (born January 8, 1978) is a senior environmental health scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and a public health professor at the University of British Columbia.

## Early life and education

Henderson was born in Toronto, Ontario, and excelled in math and science classes which led to pursue scientific fields later in life. Henderson earned a bachelor of applied science (BASc) from the University of British Columbia in 2000, focusing on environmental engineering. She worked in the field of pollution control and reduction. She also worked in Uganda developing gravity fed water systems before earning her Ph.D. Henderson then switched her focus from environmental engineering to environmental epidemiology and earned a PhD from University of British Columbia in 2009.

## Research and career

As the senior environmental health scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control, Henderson leads in research focused on environmental health and safety, including air pollution from wildfires, and extreme weather events that is then applied for policy within British Columbia. Her most recognized research has projected the health impacts, including respiratory and cardiovascular health, and global mortality impacts, as a result of smoke exposure from wildfires. The research on global mortality impacts was the culmination of her post doctorate work and brought wildfire smoke into perspective on the global scale. Some of her more current research has focused on improving the methods to predict the minimum height of forest fire smoke within the atmosphere, including using machine learning and data from the CALIPSO satellite to better assess population exposure to forest fire smoke. She has also researched the comparative health impacts of smoke from wild versus prescribed fires, in order to better understand the health impacts of varying smoke regimes.

### Public engagement

Henderson has spoken on a variety of news outlets, including CityNews Vancouver and CBC News Network, informing viewers about the health precautions they should take because of poor air quality from wildfires. She has advised those with pre-existing conditions (including asthma, and COPD), pregnant women, young children, and the elderly to take extra care because they will have a harder time breathing the smokier air. Henderson has suggested precautions such as spending time in clean air shelters, such as community centers, shopping malls, and libraries, or investing in an air cleaner for your house.

## Selected publications

* Application of land use regression to estimate long-term concentrations of traffic-related nitrogen oxides and fine particulate matter *in Environmental science & technology*, 2007
* Estimated global mortality attributable to smoke from landscape fires, *in Environmental health perspectives*, 2012
* Temporal stability of land use regression models for traffic-related air pollution R Wang, SB Henderson, H Sbihi, RW Allen, M Brauer – Atmospheric Environment, 2013
* Three measures of forest fire smoke exposure and their associations with respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes in a population-based cohort, *in Environmental Health Perspectives*, 2011
* Correlation between co-exposures to noise and air pollution from traffic sources, *in* *Occupational and Environmental Medicin*e, 2009
* Exposure assessment for estimation of the global burden of disease attributable to outdoor air pollution, *in Environmental Science & Technology*, 2012
* Extreme air pollution events from bushfires and dust storms and their association with mortality in Sydney, Australia 1994–2007, *in Environmental Research*, 2011

## Awards and recognition

Named a Leader in Fire Science for her notable work on health impacts and mortality rates as related to smoke exposure, as related to forest fires.

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| Sarah B. Henderson | |
| --- | --- |
| Alma mater | Ph.D. University of British Columbia BA.Sc. University of British Columbia |
| Awards | named a Leader in Fire Science |
| **Scientific career** | |
| Fields | environmental health, fire |
| Institutions | Environmental Health Services, BC Centre for Disease Control |
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| Website | http://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/sarah-henderson/ |


title: VAL-4

abstract: VAL-4 was a Light Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy. Established on 3 January 1969, it was disestablished on 10 April 1972.

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# VAL-4

**VAL-4** was a **Light Attack Squadron** of the U.S. Navy. Established on 3 January 1969, it was disestablished on 10 April 1972.

## Operational history

In September 1968 VS-41 began training personnel scheduled for assignment to VAL-4, receiving their first OV-10A Broncos the following month. On 3 January 1969 VAL-4 was established with the mission of conducting surveillance and offensive operations in support of river patrol craft, as well as providing air support for SEALS and combined U.S. Army, Navy and South Vietnamese operations, complementing the operations of HA(L)-3.

In March 1969 VAL-4 was permanently based at the Naval Support Activity Detachment Airfield, Binh Thuy Air Base, South Vietnam, for combat operations. The squadron had two detachments, Detachment A assigned to Binh Thuy and Detachment B assigned to Vung Tau Air Base.

On 19 April 1969 the squadron began combat operations, flying air support for the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. The missions included normal patrol, overhead air cover, scramble alert and gunfire/artillery spotting. The OV-10s large payload and long endurance meant that it could provide air support to US and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces throughout the delta.

From April–May 1970 VAL-4 participated in combined South Vietnamese and U.S. Riverine Force operations designed to neutralize sanctuary bases in the Mekong delta in support of the Cambodian Campaign.

On 1 July 1970 Detachment B was disestablished and all operations were concentrated at Binh Thuy.

In February 1971 VAL-4 with HA(L)-3 provided air support for Republic of Vietnam Navy supply convoys up the Mekong river to Phnom Penh.

On 31 March 1972 the squadron conducted its last combat mission prior to its disestablishment on 10 April 1972.

## Home port assignments

The squadron was assigned to these home ports:

## Aircraft assignment

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| Light Attack Squadron 4 | |
| --- | --- |
| Active | January 1969-April 1972 |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Navy |
| Role | Light attack |
| Part of | Inactive |
| Nickname(s) | Black Ponies |
| Engagements | Vietnam War |
| Aircraft flown | |
| Attack | OV-10A/D Bronco |


title: Serum Metabolome Database

abstract: The Serum Metabolome database is a free web database about small molecule metabolites found in human serum and their concentration values. The database includes chemical data, clinical data and molecular/biochemistry data from literature and experiment. This database also references many other databases, such as KEGG, PubChem, MetaCyc, ChEBI, PDB, Swiss-Prot, GenBank, and Human Metabolome Database (HMDB). The Serum Metabolome database is maintained by David S. Wishart. The Serum Metabolome database protocol is available via its website.

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# Serum Metabolome Database

The **Serum Metabolome database** is a free web database about small molecule metabolites found in human serum and their concentration values. The database includes chemical data, clinical data and molecular/biochemistry data from literature and experiment. This database also references many other databases, such as KEGG, PubChem, MetaCyc, ChEBI, PDB, Swiss-Prot, GenBank, and Human Metabolome Database (HMDB).

The Serum Metabolome database is maintained by David S. Wishart.

The Serum Metabolome database protocol is available via its website.

Official website


title: Charles Dunklin

abstract: Charles Edward Dunklin, nicknamed "Tall Papa and Trees", was a Negro league pitcher who played from 1937 to 1940. Duncan made his Negro leagues debut in 1937 with the Pittsburgh Crawfords. He went on to play for the Birmingham Black Barons and Atlanta Black Crackers, and finished his career in 1940 with the St. Louis–New Orleans Stars.

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# Charles Dunklin

**Charles Edward Dunklin** (October 26, 1914 - December 9, 1975), nicknamed "**Tall Papa** and **Trees**", was a Negro league pitcher who played from 1937 to 1940.

Duncan made his Negro leagues debut in 1937 with the Pittsburgh Crawfords. He went on to play for the Birmingham Black Barons and Atlanta Black Crackers, and finished his career in 1940 with the St. Louis–New Orleans Stars.

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| Charles Dunklin | |
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| **Pitcher** | |
| **Born:** (1914-10-26)October 26, 1914
Hayneville, Alabama, U.S. | |
| **Died:** December 9, 1975(1975-12-09) (aged 61)
Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | |
| **Batted:** Right**Threw:** Right | |
| Negro league baseball debut | |
| 1937, for the Pittsburgh Crawfords | |
| Last appearance | |
| 1940, for the St. Louis–New Orleans Stars | |
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title: Red Lady of El Mirón

abstract: The Red Lady of El Mirón is a skeleton belonging to a woman of Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) found at El Mirón Cave in eastern Cantabria, Spain.

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# Red Lady of El Mirón

The **Red Lady of El Mirón** is a skeleton belonging to a woman of Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) found at El Mirón Cave in eastern Cantabria, Spain.

## Background

The discovery was published in 2015 by a team of archaeologists from Universidad de Burgos, Universidad de Cantabria and University of New Mexico. The publication covers an entire August issue of the *Journal of Archaeological Science*. The woman's age is estimated to be between 35 and 40 years. Her bones were coated with ochre, a red iron-based pigment, hence, her name. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the woman was buried around 18,700 years ago.

The team of archaeologists, led by Lawrence Straus of the University of New Mexico and Manuel González Morales of the University of Cantabria, had been investigating the El Mirón Cave since 1996. They initially found a number of prehistoric remains. In 2010, they explored a narrow space behind a large limestone block inside the cave, where they discovered the Red Lady. Other than the skull and some bones, her skeleton was relatively intact. This indicates that she was properly buried after death. According to the archaeologist, the ochre painting and the limestone block were markers of her grave. Further, the engraving of a letter V on the wall suggest the indication of a woman's burial. Gnaw-marks on the leg bone (tibia) shows that a carnivore (estimated to be about the size of a dog or wolf) bit the bone when the flesh had decomposed. The skull and long bones were likely removed after this incident, perhaps, for display or reburial. These activities suggest that the people might have had burial rituals.


title: Cedar Rapids RoughRiders

abstract: The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders are a Tier I junior ice hockey team playing in the United States Hockey League (USHL). Before moving to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1999, the team was based in Mason City, where they were known as the North Iowa Huskies. The RoughRiders' home ice is the ImOn Ice Arena also known as The Stable.

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# Cedar Rapids RoughRiders

The **Cedar Rapids RoughRiders** are a Tier I junior ice hockey team playing in the United States Hockey League (USHL). Before moving to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1999, the team was based in Mason City, where they were known as the North Iowa Huskies.

The RoughRiders' home ice is the ImOn Ice Arena also known as The Stable.

## History

The North Iowa Huskies relocated to Cedar Rapids in 1999. The RoughRiders' new name was chosen in a name-the-team contest won by a local teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in Cedar Rapids as it was the school's mascot.

In the 2002–03 season, the Roughriders finished in second place in the East Division with a 27–26–7 record. In the quarterfinals of the playoffs, the Roughriders beat the Topeka ScareCrows 3-games-to-1 before being swept 3–0 by the Lincoln Stars. After another second place division finish in 2003–04, the Roughriders lost in the quarterfinals to the Danville Wings.

In the 2004–05 season, the Roughriders finished first in the East Division with a record of 42 wins, 13 losses, and 5 overtime losses, for 89 points in the standings. They tied the West Division champions Omaha Lancers for the regular season overall title, the Anderson Cup. After three-game sweeps against the Indiana Ice and Chicago Steel, the Roughriders faced the Sioux City Musketeers winning game one of the Clark Cup finals 5–0, but lost game two, 1–2. After splitting games in Sioux City, the Roughriders finally defeated the Musketeers at home 4–1, to win their first Clark Cup championship. Goaltender Alex Stalock took most valuable player honors for the series. Future NHL players who played on this championship team included: Teddy Purcell, Justin Abdelkader, Alec Martinez, and Alex Stalock. In postseason awards, Roughriders' coach Mark Carlson was named Coach of the Year, and two Roughriders were named to the All-USHL second team.

The following season, the Roughriders won the Eastern Division regular season top playoff position based on goal differential against the Des Moines Buccaneers when both compiled 33 wins, 21 losses, and 6 overtime losses. The Roughriders also won the Corridor Cup against the Waterloo Black Hawks. In the playoffs, the Roughriders won the division semifinals against the Indiana Ice, 3-games-to-2, before bowing to eventual Clark Cup champion Des Moines in a three-game sweep. Roughriders' player Chad Costello finished on top of the league scoring race with 76 points, and teammate Teddy Purcell finished on top of the assists list with 52.

The 2006–07 season had the Roughriders finish in second place in the East Division with a 37–18–5 record. They defeated the Ohio Junior Blue Jackets in a four-game sweep bin the first round but lost both their round-robin games and were eliminated from the playoffs. In 2007–08, the Roughriders finished in third place in the East Division with a 33–22–5 record and were led in net with Brady Hjelle. The Roughriders were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Waterloo Black Hawks three-games-to-none. The Roughriders would continue to lose in the first round of the playoffs over the next two seasons.

The Roughriders would again finish in first place in the Eastern Conference and capturing their second Anderson Cup during the 2010–11 season. In the playoffs, the Roughriders beat Muskegon in the quarterfinals 3-games-to-1, but lost in the conference semifinals to Green Bay in four games.

After the 2012–13 season, the Roughriders failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since their inaugural 1999–2000 season in Cedar Rapids. They finished in sixth place in the East Division with a 25–30–9 record for a total of 59 points. The Roughriders would bounce back, finishing in second place in the Eastern Conference in both the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons. However, they lost in the first round in the playoffs against the Dubuque Fighting Saints both seasons.

In the 2015–16 season, the Roughriders finished in first place in the league with a 40–15–5 record for a total of 85 points and capturing the franchise's third Anderson Cup. The Roughriders continued to struggle in the playoffs and lost to the Bloomington Thunder three-games-to-two in the first round. The Roughriders failed to qualify in the following 2016–17 season after a last place finish in the Eastern Conference.

In 2020 and the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that curtailed the 2019–20 USHL season, the RoughRiders' home arena was damaged during the August 10 derecho, forcing the team to suspend operations for at least the 2020–21 season.

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| Cedar Rapids RoughRiders | |
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| City | Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| League | United States Hockey League |
| Conference | Eastern |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Home arena | ImOn Ice Arena |
| Colors | Green, white, black<br> |
| Owner(s) | Jeff Jauch |
| General manager | Mark Carlson |
| Head coach | Mark Carlson |
| Franchise history | |
| 1983–1999 | North Iowa Huskies |
| 1999–present | **Cedar Rapids RoughRiders** |
| Championships | |
| Regular season titles | **3** Anderson Cups (2004–05, 2010–11, 2015–16) |
| Playoff championships | **1** Clark Cup (2005) |


title: United Stock Exchange of India

abstract: The United Stock Exchange of India (USE) is an Indian government owned stock exchange. It is the 4th pan India exchange launched for trading financial instruments in India. USE represents the commitment of 21 Indian public sector banks, private banks, international banks and corporate houses to build an institution of repute. Public Sector Banks that are stakeholders of USE include Allahabad Bank, Corporation Bank, Punjab National Bank, Andhra Bank, Dena Bank, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, IDBI Bank, Syndicate Bank, Bank of India, Indian Bank, UCO Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Indian Overseas Bank, Union Bank of India, Canara Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, United Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Punjab and Sind Bank, Vijaya Bank. Private Sector Banks like Axis Bank, Federal Bank, J & K Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank are also stakeholders in USE. Corporate Institutions such as Riddhi Siddhi Bullions Limited, MMTC and India Potash are also associated with United Stock Exchange. USE launched its operations on 20 Sept 2010. On the first day of operations, USE cornered 52 percent market share and created a record of highest volumes traded in currency futures in a single day

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# United Stock Exchange of India

The **United Stock Exchange of India** (**USE**) is an Indian government owned stock exchange. It is the 4th pan India exchange launched for trading financial instruments in India. USE represents the commitment of 21 Indian public sector banks, private banks, international banks (Standard Chartered) and corporate houses to build an institution of repute.

Public Sector Banks that are stakeholders of USE include Allahabad Bank, Corporation Bank, Punjab National Bank, Andhra Bank, Dena Bank, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, IDBI Bank, Syndicate Bank, Bank of India, Indian Bank, UCO Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Indian Overseas Bank, Union Bank of India, Canara Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, United Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Punjab and Sind Bank, Vijaya Bank.

Private Sector Banks like Axis Bank, Federal Bank, J & K Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank are also stakeholders in USE. Corporate Institutions such as Riddhi Siddhi Bullions Limited, MMTC and India Potash are also associated with United Stock Exchange.

USE launched its operations on 20 Sept 2010. On the first day of operations, USE cornered 52 percent market share and created a record of highest volumes traded in currency futures in a single day

## Products and services

USE began operations in the future contracts in each of the following currency pairs:

* United States Dollar-Indian Rupee (USD-INR)
* Euro-Indian Rupee (EUR-INR)
* Pound Sterling-Indian Rupee (GBP-INR)
* Japanese Yen-Indian Rupee (JPY-INR)

There would be 12 contracts i.e. one for each of the next 12 months in each of the above currency pair Outright contracts as well as calendar spread contracts are available in each pair for trading

USE also started trading in USD-INR currency options in 2011 and became the second Indian exchange to trade in currency options

USE has applied for permission to start operating in the debt segment

## Membership

All transactions on USE must be carried out through registered members. All non-member participants can access the exchange as clients of members. Membership is therefore granted to market participants with high credibility and an excellent track record. Members will need to meet all requirements prescribed by the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as also the requirements stipulated by USE itself. This is to ensure that traders are protected against any counterparty risk and also to help develop and build market confidence.

Two types of membership is available with USE

* Trading Membership: Trading Member has the privilege of trading on one’s own account as well as the accounts of their clients. However, they will not be able to clear and settle these trades. Net worth criteria as per SEBI: ₹1 Crore
* Clearing Membership: Clearing Members are entitled to clear and settle trades for all trading members through the Clearing House of USE, ICCL. Net worth criteria as per SEBI: 5 Crore INR for Self Clearing Member and 10 Crore for Professional Clearing Member

USE has more than 400 trading members, more than 50 clearing members and 10 clearing banks. Membership, details available on Membership Details

**Currently, USE charges transaction fees**

Transaction Charges (futures contracts) (Rs. per crore of Traded Value)

Up to ₹1250 crore ₹95

More than ₹1251 crore to ₹2500 crore ₹75

More than ₹2501 crore to ₹3750 crore ₹60

More than ₹3751 crore to ₹5000 crore ₹45

More than ₹5001 crore to ₹6250 crore ₹30

More than ₹6251 crore to ₹7500 crore ₹20

More than ₹7501 crore to ₹10,000 crore ₹10

More than ₹10,001 crore ₹05

**Transaction Charges (options contracts) (Rs. per crore of Premium Value)**

Up to first ₹5 crore ₹75/Lakh each side

More than ₹5 crore up to ₹25 crore ₹4500/crore each side

More than ₹25 crore up to ₹50 crore ₹4000/crore each side

More than ₹50 crore up to ₹75 crore ₹2000/crore each side

More than ₹75 crore ₹1500/crore each side

19°3′37″N 72°51′35″E / 19.06028°N 72.85972°E / 19.06028; 72.85972 (United Stock Exchange of India)

## InfoBox

United Stock Exchange of India
| राष्ट्रीय शेअर बाज़ार | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Type | Stock Exchange |
| Location | Mumbai, India |
| Coordinates | 19°3′37″N 72°51′35″E / 19.06028°N 72.85972°E / 19.06028; 72.85972 |
| Founded | 20 September 2010 |
| Owner | Government of India |
| Key people | Mr. Dipak Chatterjee ( Chairman of Board of Directors) |
| Currency | Indian rupee |
| Website | www.useindia.com |


title: Seachnasach

abstract: Seachnasach was the 17th king of the Uí Maine. Seachnasach's genealogy lists him as ten generations removed from Máine Mór, the founder of Uí Maine: "Sechnasaigh, mic Congail, mic Eogain, mic Comain, mic Brenaind Daill, mic Cairpri Feichine, mic Fearadaig, mic Luigdheach, mic Dallain, mic Bresail, mic Máine Móir." This includes him among the Clann Comain sept of the dynasty. During his reign Cellach mac Rogallaig won the battle of Corran, and in 710, Dluthach mac Fithcheallach, possibly a son of the previous king, "was burned." The annals merely report his death. No details are given.

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# Seachnasach

**Seachnasach** (died 711) was the 17th king of the Uí Maine.

Seachnasach's genealogy lists him as ten generations removed from Máine Mór, the founder of Uí Maine: *"Sechnasaigh, mic Congail, mic Eogain, mic Comain, mic Brenaind Daill, mic Cairpri Feichine, mic Fearadaig, mic Luigdheach, mic Dallain, mic Bresail, mic Máine Móir."* This includes him among the Clann Comain sept of the dynasty.

During his reign Cellach mac Rogallaig won the battle of Corran, and in 710, Dluthach mac Fithcheallach, possibly a son of the previous king, *"was burned."*

The annals merely report his death. No details are given.

* *Annals of Ulster* at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
* *Annals of Tigernach* at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
* Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
* Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9


title: Dash's Designer

abstract: Dash's Designer, more commonly called Dash's, was an off-price, high-end men's clothing store chain based in Washington, D.C., Georgetown, Maryland, and Tysons Corner, Virginia.

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# Dash's Designer

**Dash's Designer**, more commonly called **Dash's**, was an off-price, high-end men's clothing store chain based in Washington, D.C., Georgetown, Maryland, and Tysons Corner, Virginia.

## History

After achieving success with several boutique stores in the late 1960s and early 70s in Georgetown and downtown Washington, D.C., John Dashtara and his brother Dar Dash established Dash's Designer in 1978.

Dash's was as well known for its unique and prodigious ad campaigns as it was for selling the very latest and best men's garments at the lowest prices. Dash's won several ADDY Awards for their unparalleled television campaigns, including *The Camel*, which was featured on Dick Clark's *TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes*. President Gerald Ford delivered television and radio spots for the company during its collaboration with Washington's Children's Hospital and its Muscular Dystrophy Clinic. Dash's was also the first television sponsor of a number of television and radio programs, including the syndicated *The George Michael Sports Machine*.

The flagship store on 1308 F Street NW, was replaced by the Tysons Corner location as the flagship store and headquarters in 1978, and would remain so until its liquidation sale in January 1989.

In late 1983, Dash's brought suit against the nation's largest manufacturer of men's clothing, Hartmarx Corp., of trying to hurt its business by refusing to sell the retailer some of its best products and by charging one of its chief competitors lower prices. The suit was voluntarily dropped in 1984. The law firm was later sanctioned.

Dash's filed for bankruptcy protection in late 1988, and the company ceased operations in 1989.

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Dash's Designer
| Industry | Retail |
| --- | --- |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Defunct | 1989 |
| Fate | Liquidation |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., Tysons Corner, Virginia |
| Key people | John Dashtara, founder and Dar Dash, co-founder |
| Products | Men's fashion apparel |
| Number of employees | 350 |


title: Cairo, Kansas

abstract: Cairo is an unincorporated community in Pratt County, Kansas, United States. It is located between the cities of Pratt and Cunningham, roughly 11 miles east of Pratt.

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# Cairo, Kansas

**Cairo** is an unincorporated community in Pratt County, Kansas, United States. It is located between the cities of Pratt and Cunningham, roughly 11 miles east of Pratt.

## History

Cairo had a post office from 1887 until 1922. In 1910, the town's population was 30, and it had a station on the Wichita & Pratt division of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. The town functioned as a shipment point for the surrounding countryside.

## Education

The community is served by Pratt USD 382 public school district.

## Further reading

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| Cairo, Kansas | |
| --- | --- |
| Unincorporated community | |
| KDOT map of Pratt County (legend) | |
| CairoCairo | |
| Coordinates: 37°39′00″N 98°33′16″W / 37.65000°N 98.55444°W / 37.65000; -98.55444 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| County | Pratt |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |


title: Utah...This Is the Place

abstract: "Utah...This Is the Place" is the regional anthem of the U.S. state of Utah. It was written in 1996 by Sam and Gary Francis for Utah's centennial celebrations. It replaced "Utah, We Love Thee" as the state song in 2003, after 4th grade students at Cook Elementary wanted a song that was fun to sing. The students talked to their local state representative, Dana Love, and she drafted a bill that passed the state legislature on 28 February 2003, and was signed by then Utah Governor Mike Leavitt on 15 March 2003. The previous song, "Utah, We Love Thee", became the State Hymn. This song was placed in the public domain by the composers when it was made the state song of Utah. The song is referenced imprecisely in official publications variously by the names "Utah, This is the Place" and "Utah This is the Place". Though the Utah-themed children's album on which the song has been published by its writers is named "Utah, This Is This Place", the song itself is named "Utah...This Is the Place".

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# Utah...This Is the Place

"**Utah...This Is the Place**" is the regional anthem (or state song) of the U.S. state of Utah. It was written in 1996 by Sam and Gary Francis for Utah's centennial celebrations. It replaced "Utah, We Love Thee" as the state song in 2003, after 4th grade students at Cook Elementary wanted a song that was fun to sing. The students talked to their local state representative, Dana Love, and she drafted a bill that passed the state legislature on 28 February 2003, and was signed by then Utah Governor Mike Leavitt on 15 March 2003. The previous song, "Utah, We Love Thee", became the State Hymn.

This song was placed in the public domain by the composers when it was made the state song of Utah. The song is referenced imprecisely in official publications variously by the names "Utah, This is the Place" and "Utah This is the Place". Though the Utah-themed children's album on which the song has been published by its writers is named "Utah, This Is This Place", the song itself is named "Utah...This Is the Place".

## Lyrics

Utah! People working together
Utah! What a great place to be.
Blessed from Heaven above.
It's the land that we love.
This is the place!
Utah! With its mountains and valleys.
Utah! With its canyons and streams.
You can go anywhere.
But there's none that compare.
This is the place!
It was Brigham Young who led the pioneers across the plains.
They suffered with the trials they had to face.
With faith they kept on going till they reached the Great Salt Lake
Here they heard the words, "This is the place!"
Utah! With its focus on family,
Utah! Helps each child to succeed.
People care how they live.
Each has so much to give.
This is the place!
Utah! Getting bigger and better.
Utah! Always leading the way.
New technology's here...
Growing faster each year.
This is the place!
There is beauty in the snow-capped mountains, in the lakes and streams.
There are valleys filled with farms and orchards too.
The spirit of its people shows in everything they do.
Utah is the place where dreams come true.
Utah! With its pioneer spirit.
Utah! What a great legacy!
Blessed from Heaven above.
It's the land that we love.
This is the place,
Utah! Utah! Utah!
This is the place!

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Utah...This Is the Place
| ---  State song of Utah  --- | |
| --- | --- |
| Lyrics | Sam and Gary Francis, 1996 |
| Music | Sam and Gary Francis, 1996 |
| Adopted | 2003 (2003) |


title: Shachokol

abstract: Shachokol is a village in Leh district of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. It is located in the Durbuk tehsil.

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# Shachokol

**Shachokol** is a village in Leh district of the Indian union territory of Ladakh. It is located in the Durbuk tehsil.

## Demographics

According to the 2011 census of India, Shachokol has 147 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 68.48%.

Demographics (2011 Census)
|  | Total | Male | Female |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Population | 888 | 451 | 437 |
| Children aged below 6 years | 98 | 47 | 51 |
| Scheduled caste | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scheduled tribe | 887 | 451 | 436 |
| Literates | 541 | 320 | 221 |
| Workers (all) | 489 | 267 | 222 |
| Main workers (total) | 277 | 197 | 80 |
| Main workers: Cultivators | 139 | 101 | 38 |
| Main workers: Agricultural labourers | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Main workers: Household industry workers | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Main workers: Other | 134 | 93 | 41 |
| Marginal workers (total) | 212 | 70 | 142 |
| Marginal workers: Cultivators | 171 | 61 | 110 |
| Marginal workers: Agricultural labourers | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Marginal workers: Household industry workers | 17 | 1 | 16 |
| Marginal workers: Others | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| Non-workers | 399 | 184 | 215 |

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| Shachokol | |
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| Village | |
| ShachokolLocation in Ladakh, IndiaShachokolShachokol (India) | |
| Coordinates: 33°55′06″N 78°21′38″E / 33.9183387°N 78.3605653°E / 33.9183387; 78.3605653 | |
| Country | India |
| Union Territory | Ladakh |
| District | Leh |
| Tehsil | Durbuk |
| Elevation | 5,765 m (18,914 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| Total | 888 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| 2011 census code | 875 |


title: Charles Meldrum

abstract: Charles Meldrum, was a Scottish meteorologist and astronomer. He was born at Kirkmichael, Banffshire, the son of farmer William Meldrum, of Tomintoul, Banffshire and educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he was lord rector's prizeman and graduated M.A. in 1844. In 1846 he was appointed to the education department, Bombay, and two years later was transferred to the Royal College of Mauritius as Professor of Mathematics. In 1851 he founded the Mauritius Meteorological Society, which he served for many years as secretary. In 1862 he was appointed government observer in charge of the small meteorological observatory then maintained at Port Louis, Mauritius, where he analysed ships' logs to work out the laws of cyclones in the Indian Ocean. He is credited as being the first to empirically confirm that cyclone winds blow in a spiral towards the centre of a storm, rather than in a circular motion. This observation was crucial for mariners navigating tropical seas. As the site at Port Louis was unsuitable for a meteorological observatory, with the support of General Sir Edward Sabine, then President of the Royal Society, he was able to organise the construction of a new observatory on a marshy site in Pamplemousses District. There in 1870 the Duke of Edinburgh laid the foundation stone of the Royal Alfred Observatory which was operational by 1874. As before, the principal work of the observatory was the study of the movement of storms, but from 1880 photographs of the solar surface were taken daily to supplement the series made at Greenwich and Dehra Dun in north India to create a continuous record of the number of sunspots. The Pamplemousses observatory would be demolished in 1961 and its meteorological work transferred to Vacoas. On 15 April 1868 Meldrum was elected a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. On 11 March 1870 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1876 Meldrum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Aberdeen. He was made C.M.G. in 1886, and was a member of the governor's council from 1886 until his retirement from service in 1896, when he returned to England, settling at Southsea. He died in Edinburgh on 28 August 1901 and is buried in Grange Cemetery. He had married, in Mauritius in 1870, Charlotte, the daughter of Percy Fitzpatrick.

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# Charles Meldrum

**Charles Meldrum**, CMG FRS FRAS FRMetS (29 October 1821 – 28 August 1901) was a Scottish meteorologist and astronomer.

He was born at Kirkmichael, Banffshire, the son of farmer William Meldrum, of Tomintoul, Banffshire and educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he was lord rector's prizeman and graduated M.A. in 1844.

In 1846 he was appointed to the education department, Bombay, and two years later was transferred to the Royal College of Mauritius as Professor of Mathematics. In 1851 he founded the Mauritius Meteorological Society, which he served for many years as secretary. In 1862 he was appointed government observer in charge of the small meteorological observatory then maintained at Port Louis, Mauritius, where he analysed ships' logs to work out the laws of cyclones in the Indian Ocean. He is credited as being the first to empirically confirm that cyclone winds blow in a spiral towards the centre of a storm, rather than in a circular motion. This observation was crucial for mariners navigating tropical seas.

As the site at Port Louis was unsuitable for a meteorological observatory, with the support of General Sir Edward Sabine, then President of the Royal Society, he was able to organise the construction of a new observatory on a marshy site in Pamplemousses District. There in 1870 the Duke of Edinburgh laid the foundation stone of the Royal Alfred Observatory which was operational by 1874. As before, the principal work of the observatory was the study of the movement of storms, but from 1880 photographs of the solar surface were taken daily to supplement the series made at Greenwich and Dehra Dun in north India to create a continuous record of the number of sunspots. The Pamplemousses observatory would be demolished in 1961 and its meteorological work transferred to Vacoas.

On 15 April 1868 Meldrum was elected a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. On 11 March 1870 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1876 Meldrum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Aberdeen. He was made C.M.G. in 1886, and was a member of the governor's council from 1886 until his retirement from service in 1896, when he returned to England, settling at Southsea.

He died in Edinburgh on 28 August 1901 and is buried in Grange Cemetery. He had married, in Mauritius in 1870, Charlotte, the daughter of Percy Fitzpatrick.


title: Shilikty

abstract: Shilikty, formerly Chilikti, also more precisely Baigetobe Kurgans in Shilikty Valley, is an archaeological site in eastern Kazakhstan, located in the Chilik river basin. At this site, numerous 8th-6th century BCE Early Saka kurgans were found. Carbon-14 dating suggests a more refined date of 730-690 BCE for the kurgans, and a broad contemporaneity with the Arzhan-2 kurgan in Tuva. The Kurgans contained vast quantities of precious golden jewelry. Remains of a "golden man" were found in 2003, with 4262 gold finds.

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# Shilikty

**Shilikty** (Ru: Шиликты курганы), formerly **Chilikti**, also more precisely **Baigetobe Kurgans** (Ru: Курганы Байгетобе) in Shilikty Valley, is an archaeological site in eastern Kazakhstan, located in the Chilik river basin. At this site, numerous 8th-6th century BCE Early Saka kurgans were found. Carbon-14 dating suggests a more refined date of 730-690 BCE for the kurgans, and a broad contemporaneity with the Arzhan-2 kurgan in Tuva.

The Kurgans contained vast quantities of precious golden jewelry. Remains of a "golden man" (similar to the Issyk kurgan golden man) were found in 2003, with 4262 gold finds.

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Shilikty
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culture***DONGHU**MEROË*****Scythians***class=notpageimage|Location of Chilikti (), with contemporary cultures in the 6th century BCE | |
| --- | --- |
| Geographical range | South Siberia |
| Dates | 7-6th centuries BCE |
| Major sites | 43°32′59″N 78°17′00″E / 43.549697°N 78.283366°E / 43.549697; 78.283366 |
| Preceded by | Karasuk culture |
| Followed by | Aldy-Bel culture, Pazyryk culture, Tagar culture |


title: United Students Against Sweatshops

abstract:
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a student organization founded in 1998 with chapters at over 250 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In April 2000, USAS founded the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent monitoring organization that investigates labor conditions in factories that produce collegiate apparel all over the world. The WRC exacts an annual membership fee from participating universities, which is used to fund its monitoring work. The WRC works with NGOs, human rights groups, and local labor unions or federations, in countries where collegiate apparel is produced. At present over 180 universities and colleges have affiliated with the WRC. USAS is also proposing that universities sign on to the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP), which would act to source collegiate apparel from factories that respect workers' rights to form unions and be paid living wages. In 2000, Nike and other major clothing corporations renamed the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP) the Fair Labor Association (FLA), in large part to compete with the WRC. The AIP, an initiative of the Clinton Administration, had become a discredited organization, because all non-profit organizations and unions that had initially supported it, withdrew from it, with the exception of the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF), who subsequently withdrew their institutional membership on the FLA Board soon afterwards. Focusing on domestic as well as international sweatshops, the group has built coalitions of students, labor groups, workers, and community members that focus on a range of campaigns:
  - requesting that Russell Brands Athletic Brand significantly alter its labor policies in Central America
  - campaigning to get Nike, Inc. to pay severance pay to workers in Honduras laid off by subcontractors
  - protesting against Jessica Matthews, board member of Hanes and president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in relation to sweatshop conditions for Hanes workers in the Dominican Republic.

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# United Students Against Sweatshops

**United Students Against Sweatshops** (**USAS**) is a student organization founded in 1998 with chapters at over 250 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In April 2000, USAS founded the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent monitoring organization that investigates labor conditions in factories that produce collegiate apparel all over the world. The WRC exacts an annual membership fee from participating universities, which is used to fund its monitoring work.

The WRC works with NGOs, human rights groups, and local labor unions or federations, in countries where collegiate apparel is produced. At present over 180 universities and colleges have affiliated with the WRC. USAS is also proposing that universities sign on to the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP), which would act to source collegiate apparel from factories that respect workers' rights to form unions and be paid living wages.

In 2000, Nike and other major clothing corporations renamed the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP) the Fair Labor Association (FLA), in large part to compete with the WRC. The AIP, an initiative of the Clinton Administration, had become a discredited organization, because all non-profit organizations and unions that had initially supported it, withdrew from it, with the exception of the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF), who subsequently withdrew their institutional membership on the FLA Board soon afterwards.

Focusing on domestic as well as international sweatshops, the group has built coalitions of students, labor groups, workers, and community members that focus on a range of campaigns:

## InfoBox

**United Students Against Sweatshops**
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| Abbreviation | USAS (pronounced "you-sass") |
| Formation | 1998 |
| Type | Student activist organization |
| Location | * North America |
| Website | usas.org |


title: The Golden Spiders

abstract: The Golden Spiders is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. It was first published in 1953 by The Viking Press.

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# The Golden Spiders

***The Golden Spiders*** is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. It was first published in 1953 by The Viking Press.

## Plot introduction

> His fist hit the desk, which for him was a convulsion. "No!" he roared. "Reputation? Am I to invite the comment that it is a mortal hazard to solicit my help? On Tuesday, that boy. On Friday, that woman. They are both dead. I will not have my office converted into an anteroom for the morgue!"
>
> Wolfe, declining to give Lon Cohen a human interest story, in *The Golden Spiders*, chapter 5

A youngster comes to Wolfe's office and tells Wolfe that he saw a woman driving a car, apparently being menaced by her passenger. The next day, the boy is murdered while washing car windows at a nearby intersection.

## Plot summary

After Nero Wolfe reacts petulantly to a change in one of his favourite meals, Archie Goodwin plays a prank on him by allowing Pete Drossos, a neighbourhood child, to enter and ask for Wolfe’s help on a case. Pete claims that while he was washing the windows of car at a stop light the driver, a woman wearing distinctive golden earrings in the shape of spiders, silently asked him to summon a police officer, and Pete believes she was being threatened by her male passenger. To indulge Pete, Wolfe has Archie pass Pete’s information on to the police, but the next day they learn that the same car, now driven by a man in a brown suit and hat, has struck and killed Pete. Matthew Birch, an agent of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, was also struck and killed by the same car, apparently on the same day that Pete approached Wolfe. While this suggests Birch was the man Pete saw in the car evidence at the scene proves Birch was killed before Pete, ruling him out as Pete's murderer.

Wolfe is visited by Pete’s mother, who gives them his savings of $4.30 and asks them to use it to find his killer. Archie, angered at Wolfe’s reluctance to get involved, puts an advertisement in the newspaper, asking the woman in the car to contact Wolfe. Laura Fromm, a wealthy widow, responds to the advertisement and arrives at Wolfe’s house wearing the golden spider earrings. Wolfe and Archie quickly determine that she is not the person they seek, but she is horrified on learning of Pete’s death and claims that she may know who was driving. Fromm refuses to reveal the information, but the next day Wolfe and Archie receive news that she too has been struck by a car and killed. Infuriated by the fact that two people who came to him for help are now dead, Wolfe decides to solve the murders.

Archie learns that the last people to see Fromm alive are all directly or indirectly connected to a charity for displaced persons that Fromm supported with sizeable donations. While Wolfe assigns his operatives Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin and Orrie Cather to pursue various leads, Archie approaches those present at a dinner attended by charity officials - including Fromm’s secretary Jean Estey, the charity's attorney Dennis Horan and his wife, and the charity's director Angela Wright - and offers to sell the details of the conversation between Wolfe and Fromm in an attempt to flush out the guilty party. Before he can approach Paul Kuffner, the charity’s public-relations director, Kuffner approaches Wolfe and offers to pay for the information. Realising he has been tipped off, Wolfe rejects the offer.

Saul, who has been posing as a displaced person seeking help from the charity, reveals that after he had approached Horan for help he was subsequently visited by a man who tried to blackmail him out of $10,000. Meanwhile, Fred has tracked down two hoodlums who claim to have been working with Birch. On discovering that Fred is a private investigator they attempt to torture him for information, but Archie, Saul and Orrie — who have been independently following either Fred or the hoodlums — manage to rescue him. Saul confirms that one of the hoodlums, “Lips” Egan, is the blackmailer, and a notebook in his pocket reveals the existence of a blackmail ring targeting poor, illegal immigrants.

Before the investigators can interrogate the hoodlums further, Horan arrives unexpectedly at Egan’s base of operations. Archie takes Horan and the hoodlums to Wolfe’s office, where they are held for questioning by Wolfe and Inspector Cramer. Horan tries to distance himself from the two hoodlums, but Egan confesses to the blackmail and implicates Horan as well. Egan reveals that Birch was one of the ringleaders of the operation, but that he in turn took orders from an unknown woman. This confirms to Wolfe a flawed assumption made by the police: that the driver of the car that killed Pete was a man, when in fact it was a woman disguised as a man.

With the principals and several police officers assembled in his office, Wolfe reveals the identity of the murderer: Fromm’s secretary Jean Estey. Estey was the true mastermind of the blackmail ring, but Fromm had begun to suspect her and, after overhearing the codeword she used - “said a spider to a fly” - had given the spider earrings to Estey as a subtle way of confronting her. Estey murdered Birch when he demanded a larger share of the blackmail proceeds, then killed Pete and Fromm to hide her connections to Birch and the illegal operation. When a clothing store owner brought in by Orrie identifies Estey as having purchased the suit and hat worn by the driver who killed Pete, she is arrested for the murders and Horan and Egan are arrested for the blackmail.

Wolfe burns Egan's notebook to prevent the identities of the blackmail victims from being exposed, leading Archie to worry that he may be charged with destroying evidence, but all three defendants are convicted even without it.

## Cast of characters

* Nero Wolfe — The private investigator
* Archie Goodwin — Wolfe's assistant, and the narrator of all Wolfe stories
* Fritz Brenner — Wolfe's master chef
* Pete Drossos — A 12-year-old who lives in Wolfe's neighborhood
* Anthea Drossos — Pete's mother
* Mrs. Damon (Laura) Fromm — Socialite and philanthropist, major supporter of the Association for the Aid of Displaced Persons (Assadip)
* Jean Estey — Mrs. Fromm's personal secretary
* Paul Kuffner — Public-relations consultant for Assadip and for Mrs. Fromm personally
* Angela Wright — Executive Secretary of Assadip
* Dennis Horan — General counsel for Assadip
* Claire Horan — His wife
* Vincent Lipscomb — Editor and publisher of the periodical *Modern Thoughts*, and friend of Laura Fromm
* James Albert Maddox — Personal counsel for Laura Fromm and executor of her estate
* Matthew Birch — Of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
* Lawrence (Lips) Egan — Organized crime figure
* Mortimer Ervin — Local thug
* Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin and Orrie Cather — Operatives employed by Wolfe
* Lon Cohen — Of the *Gazette*
* Inspector Cramer and Sergeant Purley Stebbins – Representing Manhattan Homicide

## The unfamiliar word

In most Nero Wolfe novels and novellas, there is at least one unfamiliar word, usually spoken by Wolfe. *The Golden Spiders* contains one, spoken not by Wolfe but by attorney Maddox, and is the sort of legal term that Stout tended to avoid:

* Replevy. Chapter 8.

## Reviews and commentary

* Anthony Boucher, *The New York Times Book Review* (November 15, 1953) — A highly professional and thoroughly satisfactory mystery.
* James Sandoe, *New York Herald Tribune* (November 8, 1953) — Mr. Stout has fancied his case freshly, heard in acutely and if, after all this, he resolves it a little dully, there is to the last the pleasant acidity of Archie.
* *Saturday Review of Literature* (November 21, 1953) — Nero Wolfe, armchair eye, solves three-ply killing while NY cops grind teeth. Archie Goodwin, aide, busy boy in this baffler; usual smooth job.

## Adaptations

### *The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery* (A&E Network)

The A&E Network original movie *The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery* first aired March 5, 2000. The Jaffe/Braunstein Films production starred Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe, and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. Veteran screenwriter Paul Monash adapted the novel, and Bill Duke directed.

A&E initially planned that *The Golden Spiders* would be the first in a series of two-hour mystery movies featuring Nero Wolfe. The high ratings (3.2 million households) garnered by the film, along with the critical praise accorded Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin, prompted A&E to order a weekly one-hour drama series — *A Nero Wolfe Mystery* — into production.

Other members of the principal cast of *The Golden Spiders* who would continue in the A&E series *A Nero Wolfe Mystery* include Bill Smitrovich (Inspector Cramer), Colin Fox (Fritz Brenner), Fulvio Cecere (Fred Durkin), R.D. Reid (Sergeant Purley Stebbins) and Trent McMullen (Orrie Cather). Saul Rubinek, who would take the role of Lon Cohen in the series, was cast as Saul Panzer in the pilot.

### *Nero Wolfe* (Paramount Television)

*The Golden Spiders* was loosely adapted as the premiere episode of *Nero Wolfe* (1981), an NBC TV series starring William Conrad as Nero Wolfe and Lee Horsley as Archie Goodwin. Other members of the regular cast include George Voskovec (Fritz Brenner), Robert Coote (Theodore Horstmann), George Wyner (Saul Panzer) and Allan Miller (Inspector Cramer). Guest stars in the series debut include Carlene Watkins (Jean Estey), Penelope Windust (Laura Fromm), Katherine Justice (Angela Bell \[Wright\]), David Hollander (Pete Drossos) and Liam Sullivan (Paul Kessler \[Kuffner\]). Directed by Michael O'Herlihy from a teleplay by Wallace Ware (David Karp), "The Golden Spiders" aired January 16, 1981.

### *Nero Wolfe* (Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A.)

Roberto Jannone adapted *The Golden Spiders* for the third episode of the RAI TV series *Nero Wolfe* (Italy 2012), starring Francesco Pannofino as Nero Wolfe and Pietro Sermonti as Archie Goodwin. Set in 1959 in Rome, where Wolfe and Archie reside after leaving the United States, the series was produced by Casanova Multimedia and Rai Fiction and directed by Riccardo Donna. "La principessa Orchidea" aired April 19, 2012.

## Publication history

* 1953, New York: Viking, October 26, 1953, hardcover
In his limited-edition pamphlet, *Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I*, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of *The Golden Spiders*: "Decorative gray boards, gray cloth spine with yellow lettering. Issued in a black, white and yellow dust wrapper."

In April 2006, *Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine* estimated that the first edition of *The Golden Spiders* had a value of between $200 and $350. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.
The "concept-driven" dustjacket designed by Bill English was cited by graphic design scholar Steven Heller for its spare use of color, sans-serif typography and use of the entire front and back cover area. * 1953, Toronto: Macmillan, 1953, hardcover
* 1954, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), January 1954, hardcover
The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways:
    + The dust jacket has "Book Club Edition" printed on the inside front flap, and the price is absent (first editions may be price clipped if they were given as gifts).
    + Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions.
    + Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine).
* 1954, London: Collins Crime Club, May 10, 1954, hardcover
* 1955, New York: Bantam, November 1955, paperback
* 1964, London: Fontana #964, 1964, paperback. Second printing, February 1970; third printing, July 1978; fourth printing, September 1981 (#6469)
* 1995, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 0-553-27780-4 June 1, 1995, paperback, Rex Stout Library edition with introduction by Linda Barnes
* 1995, Auburn, California: Audio Partners ISBN 1-57270-038-6, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
* 2008, New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group (with *Some Buried Caesar*) ISBN 0-553-38567-4 September 30, 2008, trade paperback
* 2010, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 978-0-307-75597-1 June 2, 2010, e-book

## InfoBox

The Golden Spiders
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| Author | Rex Stout |
| Cover artist | Bill English |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | October 26, 1953 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 186 pp. (first edition) |
| OCLC | 1391763 |
| Preceded by | *Prisoner's Base* |
| Followed by | *Three Men Out* |


title: Lahouda

abstract: Lahouda is a village in southern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Diégonéfla, Oumé Department, Gôh Region, Gôh-Djiboua District. Lahouda was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

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# Lahouda

**Lahouda** (also spelled **Laouda**) is a village in southern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Diégonéfla, Oumé Department, Gôh Region, Gôh-Djiboua District.

Lahouda was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

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| Lahouda Laouda | |
| --- | --- |
| Village | |
| LahoudaLocation in Ivory Coast | |
| Coordinates: 6°13′N 5°42′W / 6.217°N 5.700°W / 6.217; -5.700 | |
| Country | Ivory Coast |
| District | Gôh-Djiboua |
| Region | Gôh |
| Department | Oumé |
| Sub-prefecture | Diégonéfla |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |


title: Tatyana Gubina

abstract: Tatyana Dmitriyevna Gubina is a Kazakhstani female water polo player. She was a member of the Kazakhstan women's national water polo team, playing as a centre back. She was a part of the team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. On club level she played for Eurasia Rakhat in Kazakhstan.

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# Tatyana Gubina

**Tatyana Dmitriyevna Gubina** (Татьяна Дмитриевна Губина, born 15 December 1977) is a Kazakhstani female water polo player. She was a member of the Kazakhstan women's national water polo team, playing as a centre back.

She was a part of the team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. On club level she played for Eurasia Rakhat in Kazakhstan.

1. "Profile of Tatyana Gubina". *sports-reference*. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2016.

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| Tatyana Gubina | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Personal information | | | |
| Full name | Tatyana Dmitriyevna Gubina | | |
| Born | (1977-12-15) 15 December 1977<br>Temirtau, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | | |
| Nationality | Kazakhstan | | |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | | |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | | |
| Position | centre back | | |


title: Reg Poole (footballer)

abstract: Reginald Thomas Poole was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1960s. Poole played in the back pocket for Hawthorn and was a premiership player in his debut season with the club. He retired young in 1968, at just 26 years of age. His daughter, Katie Hudson, a businesswoman, is a member of the Hawthorn board of directors.

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# Reg Poole (footballer)

**Reginald Thomas Poole** (15 January 1942 – 23 March 2021) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1960s.

Poole played in the back pocket for Hawthorn and was a premiership player in his debut season with the club. He retired young in 1968, at just 26 years of age.

His daughter, Katie Hudson, a businesswoman, is a member of the Hawthorn board of directors.

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| Reg Poole | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Personal information | | | |
| Full name | Reginald Thomas Poole | | |
| Date of birth | (1942-01-15)15 January 1942 | | |
| Date of death | 23 March 2021(2021-03-23) (aged 79) | | |
| Original team(s) | Kew YCW | | |
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | | |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | | |
| Playing career1 | | | |
| Years | **Club** | **Games (Goals)** |
| 1961–1968 | Hawthorn | 62 (0) |
| 1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1968. | | | |
| Career highlights | | | |
|  | | | |
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | | | |


abstract: Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle!, or simply Shachibato!, is an online free-to-play role-playing game created by Kadokawa, Deluxe Games, and Preapp Partners. It was released in Japan on October 17, 2019 for Android and iOS devices. An anime television series adaptation by C2C aired from April 5 to June 28, 2020. The game ended service on October 31, 2020.

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# Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle!

***Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle!*** (Japanese: 社長、バトルの時間です！, Hepburn: *Shachō, Batoru no Jikan Desu!*, lit. "***President, It's Time for Battle!***"), or simply ***Shachibato!***, is an online free-to-play role-playing game created by Kadokawa, Deluxe Games, and Preapp Partners. It was released in Japan on October 17, 2019 for Android and iOS devices. An anime television series adaptation by C2C aired from April 5 to June 28, 2020. The game ended service on October 31, 2020.

## Characters

### Kibou Company

Minato (ミナト) Voiced by: Shun Horie (Japanese); Josh Grelle (English) The new president of Kibou Company and the main protagonist. Yutoria (ユトリア) Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese); Jill Harris (English) The secretary of Kibou Company and Minato's childhood friend. Akari (アカリ) Voiced by: Azumi Waki (Japanese); Katelyn Barr (English) A warrior who works for Kibou Company. She is Makoto's older sister. Makoto (マコト) Voiced by: Yoshino Aoyama (Japanese); Morgan Berry (English) A monk and botanist who works for Kibou Company. He is Akari's younger brother. Guide (ガイド, *Gaido*) Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese); Tia Ballard (English) A longtime employee of Kibou Company who is in charge of deskwork. She has been with the company since it was founded 15 years ago by Minato's father. Marika (マリカ, *Marika*) Voiced by: Minami Takahashi (Japanese); Megan Shipman (English) A self-proclaimed genius wizard who becomes a new employee of Kibou Company. Mineko (ミネ子, *Mineko*) Voiced by: Akane Fujita A maju that can speak human language and a new employee of Kibou Company. She was an outcast among her tribe and was recruited by Makoto to join.

### Other Characters

Rivar (ライバー, *Raibā*) Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (Japanese); Daman Mills (English) President of the startup company Cyedge. While a skilled adventurer himself, his arrogance often gets him into trouble. Valmi (ヴァル美, *Varumi*) Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka (Japanese); Emily Neves (English) An employee of Cyedge. Subaru (スバル) Voiced by: Himika Akaneya A knight working for Imperial, one of the top companies in the world. Goddess (女神) Voiced by: Mai Nakahara

## Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on December 1, 2019. The series is animated by C2C and directed by Hiroki Ikeshita, with Kenta Ihara handling series composition, Keisuke Watanabe designing the characters, and Yukari Hashimoto composing the series' music. Azumi Waki performs the opening theme song "Hurry Love", while Kana Ichinose performs the ending theme song "Oyasumi" (おやすみ, *Good Night*). It aired from April 5 to June 28, 2020. Episode 11 was set to originally air on June 14, 2020, but had been delayed a week later to June 21, 2020 due to production problems.

| No. | Title | Original air date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | "Induction as President"
Transliteration: "Shachō Shūnin" (Japanese: 社長就任) | April 5, 2020 (2020-04-05) |
| Minato is introduced to the Kibou Company by the company's secretary and childhood friend Yutoria, and is provisionally named the new president of the company to succeed his father. Minato is introduced to the other employees in the warrior Akari, the plant-loving monk Makoto, and the deskwork handler Guide, who are all skeptical about him running the company. Minato is tested needing to navigate through an open field to find a special letter. Along the way, he takes a job from the adventurer Thomas to grab a flower, and then defeats a powerful wolf maju before arriving at the letter. Having passed the test, Minato is officially named the president and he lets Yutoria know that he sees being the president as challenging, but rewarding. The next day, Minato is informed that Kibou Company has gone bankrupt. | | | |
| 2 | "Inheritance"
Transliteration: "Isan Sōzoku" (Japanese: 遺産相続) | April 12, 2020 (2020-04-12) |
| Looking for a way to get out of bankruptcy, Minato decides to fund the company through his father's inheritance. However, to acquire his inheritance the company needs to pay a steep inheritance tax. Looking for ways to quickly get the money to pay the tax, they participate in a contest for young adventurers with the prize money enough to cover the tax. Among the competitors is Rivar, the president of the successful startup company Cyedge, and Akari's former classmate that she has since forgotten about. As the contest progresses with the objective being to take the letter at the end of the dungeon, Rivar's team makes several blunders along the way while Minato's team makes steady progress. | | | |
| 3 | "Order Contest"
Transliteration: "Juchū Konpe" (Japanese: 受注コンペ) | April 19, 2020 (2020-04-19) |
| The contest continues with Rivar and his secretary Valmi reaching the dungeon boss, a three-headed maju, first and Rivar struggles. Minato's team arrives and together they defeat the boss by tricking two of the maju's heads into fighting each other. However, the letter was already claimed by Subaru from the Imperial Company, who had snuck around the maju while it was sleeping to retrieve the letter without fighting it. Despite the contest ending in failure, the company's morale improved and they got some money for slaying the boss maju. Some time later, Yutoria arrives having made a "juicy" discovery. | | | |
| 4 | "Treasure Hunt"
Transliteration: "Zaihō Tansaku" (Japanese: 財宝探索) | April 26, 2020 (2020-04-26) |
| Yutoria reveals that the "juicy" discovery is a treasure map found by her acquaintance, the self-proclaimed genius wizard Marika. With the rest of the company busy with other matters, Minato, Yutoria, and Marika go treasure hunting, with the three meeting Thomas again to help them out. The map leads to clues that sends the party into a haunted house, revealed to be a mansion formerly owned by Marika's late grandfather. The treasure is a letter by Marika's grandfather telling her that friendship is the greatest treasure, and to make her see that, he arranged this treasure hunt in a way so that it could only be completed through making friends. | | | |
| 5 | "New Employee"
Transliteration: "Shinnyū Shain" (Japanese: 新入社員) | May 3, 2020 (2020-05-03) |
| Having helped Marika realize the value of friendship, she returns the favor by sharing with the company the profits from selling a bunch of bracelets she had been collecting by defeating majus. While fetching a form at Marika's house, Minato and Marika are transported to the city's underground where they encounter a bunch of really strong majus protecting the highly valuable rare earth minerals. The two escape the dungeon and hear that Rivar was seriously injured battling those majus. The Kibou Company employees pay a visit to Cyedge to learn about the majus from Rivar to prepare for them. | | | |
| 6 | "Business Goals"
Transliteration: "Kigyō Mokuhyō" (Japanese: 企業目標) | May 10, 2020 (2020-05-10) |
| Marika is hired as a new employee of Kibou. After dodging a bunch of traps, the company encounters the boss of the majus. Noticing that the subordinates keep on fighting despite being knocked down, the company defeats the boss by using healing magic on the subordinates, who are not used to having time off. Using the money earned from the rare earth harvested from the quest, the inheritance tax is paid off to bring Kibou out of bankruptcy. Among the inherited items is a message from Minato's father, who arranged this inheritance tax to be a test of Minato's worthiness to be Kibou's president, as well as to tell him that he went beyond the Big Gate. | | | |
| 7 | "Interim Report"
Transliteration: "Chūkan Kessan" (Japanese: 中間決算) | May 17, 2020 (2020-05-17) |
| With Kibou's finances stabilized, the employees go off on their own adventures with Minato and Guide staying behind to handle the growing amount of paperwork. While Minato struggles with the paperwork, Guide makes fast progress on it. Guide tells Minato that she had been handling mountains of paperwork for the company for 15 years and remembers how he was like when they first met. Meanwhile, a scammer arrives claiming that they hold a valuable weapon that was never given to them. While Minato freaks out, Guide uses her experience to get him to leave. Later that day, Akari returns and goes on a date with Minato wanting to go on a shopping spree having gotten a bonus. Minato encounters the scammer again when Akari sees some merchandise she wants, but Minato knew the merchandise was bootleg. The date ends with Akari telling Minato that while she still cannot trust him to run the company, she is proud to be working for him. | | | |
| 8 | "New Species Discovered"
Transliteration: "Shinshu Hakken" (Japanese: 新種発見) | May 24, 2020 (2020-05-24) |
| 9 | "Knight in Shining Armour"
Transliteration: "Hakuba no Kishi" (Japanese: 白馬の騎士) | May 31, 2020 (2020-05-31) |
| 10 | "Corporate Warrior"
Transliteration: "Kigyō Senshi" (Japanese: 企業戦士) | June 7, 2020 (2020-06-07) |
| 11 | "Business Opportunity"
Transliteration: "Shōki Tōrai" (Japanese: 商機到来) | June 21, 2020 (2020-06-21) |
| 12 | "Management Fad"
Transliteration: "Keiei Rinen" (Japanese: 経営理念) | June 28, 2020 (2020-06-28) |

## InfoBox

| "Shachibato! President, It's Time for Battle!" | |
| --- | --- |
| Featuring the main characters. | |
| 社長、バトルの時間です！
(*Shachō, Batoru no Jikan Desu!*) | |
| Genre | Isekai |
| Light novel | |
| *Shachō, Battle no Jikan desu! 〜Kibou Company no To Aru 1 nichi〜* | |
| Written by | Yusaku Igarashi |
| Illustrated by | Kurone Mishima |
| Published by | Kadokawa |
| Magazine | *Dengeki Bunko Magazine* |
| Demographic | Male |
| Original run | July 10, 2019 – present |
| Manga | |
| *Shachibato! 〜Shachō, Battle no Jikan desu!〜* | |
| Written by | Yuuki. |
| Published by | Kadokawa |
| Magazine | *Shōnen Ace plus* |
| Demographic | *Shōnen* |
| Original run | August 30, 2019 – present |
| Video game | |
| Developer | Deluxe Games, Preapp Partners |
| Publisher | Kadokawa Games |
| Genre | Role-playing game |
| Platform | Android, iOS |
| Released | * JP: October 17, 2019 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroki Ikeshita |
| Written by | Kenta Ihara |
| Music by | Yukari Hashimoto |
| Studio | C2C |
| Licensed by | Funimation |
| Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, BS NTV, TV Aichi |
| Original run | April 5, 2020  June 28, 2020 |
| Episodes | 12 |