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Chopin Nocturne No. 1
The Nocturnes, Op. 9 are a set of three nocturnes written by Frédéric Chopin between 1830 and 1832, published that year, and dedicated to Madame Camille Pleyel. The second nocturne of the work is widely regarded as Chopin's most famous piece, and is regularly featured in films, television programs and video games.

Nocturne Op.9 No. 2 has a rhythmic freedom that came to characterise Chopin's later work. The left hand has an unbroken sequence of eighth notes in simple arpeggios throughout the entire piece, while the right hand moves with freedom in patterns of seven, eleven, twenty, and twenty-two notes.

The opening section moves into a contrasting middle section, which flows back to the opening material in a transitional passage where the melody floats above seventeen consecutive bars of D-flat major chords. The reprise of the first section grows out of this and the nocturne concludes peacefully with a Picardy third.

Chopin Nocturne No. 8
The Nocturne in D-flat major is initially marked as lento sostenuto and is in 6/8 meter. It consists of two strophes, repeated in increasingly complex variations. The piece is 77 measures long.

Blair Johnson calls the main cadence, near the end of the piece, "one of the most glorious moments in Chopin's entire output". Johnson also calls the piece "one of [Chopin's] most graceful essays in fioritura ornamental practices". Huneker states that the piece "really contains but one subject, and is a song of the sweet summer of two souls, for there is obviously meaning in the duality of voices." He also claims that the piece is "harmonically most interesting". Friskin states that the piece contains "broken rhythms and slurs which require a delicate hand touch". Along with the first theme in Op.27 No.1, the metronome Chopin provided is too fast and is often played slower.

The piece occasionally has been featured in popular culture, such as in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, the 1998 Russian film The Barber of Siberia, and the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

Liszt Étude Paganini No. 3 "La campanella"
"La campanella" ("The little bell" in Italian) is the nickname given to the third of Franz Liszt's six Grandes études de Paganini ("Grand Paganini Études"), S. 141 (1851). It is in the key of G-sharp minor. This piece is a revision of an earlier version from 1838, the Études d'exécution transcendente d'après Paganini, S. 140. Its melody comes from the final movement of Niccolò Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, where the tune was reinforced by a little handbell.

The étude is played at a brisk and lively allegretto tempo and studies right hand jumping between intervals larger than one octave, sometimes even stretching for two whole octaves within the time of a sixteenth note. As a whole, the étude can be practiced to increase dexterity and accuracy at large jumps on the piano, along with agility of the weaker fingers of the hand. The largest intervals reached by the right hand are fifteenths (two octaves) and sixteenths (two octaves and a second). Sixteenth notes are played between the two notes, and the same note is played two octaves or two octaves and a second higher with no rest. Little time is provided for the pianist to move the hand, thus forcing the pianist to avoid tension within the muscles. Fifteenth intervals are quite common in the beginning of the étude, while the sixteenth intervals appear twice, at the thirtieth and thirty-second measures.

The work has been arranged by other composers and pianists, most notably Ferruccio Busoni and Marc-André Hamelin.

Major candidates
This table show how many bound delegates the candidates had before they suspended their campaigns, it is does not show how many unbound delegates had pledge themselve to a candidate during the primaries neither does it show the final result of the vote at the National Convention.

Though a state is considered won by a candidate if a plurality of the state's delegates are bound to him, RNC Rule 40(b) requires that a candidate has to show support of a majority of delegates in 8 states to be eligible as the nominee. Convention rules are based on delegate votes, not on the popular vote. In the context of Republican primaries, the term "states" refers collectively to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the five inhabited territories (altogether 56 delegations) as specified in RNC Rule 1(b). In the following table, states where the candidates have achieved a majority of bound delegates are marked in bold.

Educational value of changing the page title
Some editors have argued that the current setup educates worldwide readers about the existence of a US state called New York. Such a goal would be in fact better served by moving the state page to New York (state) or New York State, because: Therefore, any ignorant readers would be instantly educated about the existence of New York State as distinct from New York City, even before completing their search. Readers could also pick the correct destination more reliably than with today's entries "New York" and "New York City" which can appear to be duplicates to a person unaware of the state. — JFG talk 13:24, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * New York as a dab page tells you about the state and the city immediately and prominently;
 * Mutual hatnotes in the city and state articles can advertise each other's existence and distinctiveness;
 * Wikipedia search box and Google results will display "New York (state)" and "New York City" as their first two choices when typing "New York" (or even just "new y…"), which is arguably more educational and helpful than seeing "New York City" and "New York" as the first two choices today. (see screenshots)
 * Just another comment. I searched "New York" on Google, and the thing on the sidebar showed the summary for the city's wiki article, plus a map of NYC (same as the second image). And I'm sitting in a bookstore in the middle of Manhattan. So, yeah. Kylo Ren (talk) 20:05, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Overview
Motor vehicle production by manufacturer (top six groups)

The summary chart includes the six largest worldwide automotive manufacturing groups as of 2016 by number of vehicles produced. Those same groups have held the top 6 positions since 2007; only Hyundai / Kia had a lower rank until 2006. Figures were compiled by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.


 * The Toyota group includes Daihatsu and Hino.
 * The Volkswagen group includes VW, Audi, SEAT, Skoda and luxury brands.
 * The General Motors group includes Daewoo since 2005, Saab until 2009 (sold to Spyker in 2010), SAIC-GM-Wuling until 2010, and Opel and Vauxhall until 2016 (sold to PSA in 2017).
 * Nissan and Renault are listed separately in OICA tables, but are considered a group by most industry sources.
 * Hyundai and Kia have operated as a group since 1998.
 * The Ford group includes Jaguar Land Rover until 2007. (sold to Tata in 2008) and Volvo until 2009 (sold to Geely in 2010).

2018
Final tally for the full year = 114 launches

2020
Anticipated full-year stats as of 7 January 2020:

Space launch market competition
Strangely, this graph goes black when adding a custom color palette, although colors are fine in page preview mode.


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Falcon 9 booster turnaround
Predicted state of the turnaround graph as of May 2019, based on likely assignments estimated in August 2018.

Updated prediction for June 2019, based on manifest as of 31 October 2018.

Falcon family launches
Predicted stats of Falcon family launches until the end of 2019, based on manifest as of 31 October 2018.