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The Savage Land is a hidden prehistoric land within the fictional Marvel Universe. It is a tropical game preserve hidden in Antarctica. It was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in X-Men #10 (March 1965).

History

The Savage Land was created by the alien Nuwali at the behest of the other-dimensional, nigh-omnipotent aliens known as the Beyonders. The Beyonders sought to observe the process of evolution under relatively controlled conditions and had the Nuwali set up a number of game preserves on several planets. One of these planets was Earth during the Triassic period where the Nuwali chose a valley in Antarctica surrounded by active volcanoes, where they installed a number of advanced technological devices in order to maintain a tropical climate. The aliens then stocked the area with all manner of Earth life over the following several millennia. They also brought over the Man-Apes, earlier versions of the "Homo-Sapien." The Beyonders eventually grew bored with the experiment, and the Nuwali stopped maintaining the Savage Land during the late Pleistocene (the Ice Age era). However, the technology that allowed the pocket of tropical climate was left running, and many species which became extinct in other areas of the Earth continued to thrive within.

Later on, a group of human survivors from Atlantis sailed to Antarctica after the "Great Cataclysm" which sunk their continent. There, they discovered a cavern where they found an immense climate-controlling device and harnessed the technology used to keep the Savage Land's volcanoes working. They named their location "Pangea," which is Atlantean for "paradise." They mastered genetic engineering, which had been used on the Man-Apes when the Nuwali was still maintaining the Savage Land area. They used their genetic engineering techniques to transform other Savage Land inhabitants, like the Tubanti Fish People and others, who they then forced to work for them until these animal people revolted. After a time of war, the animal people demanded civil rights and the Atlanteans used technology to expand the Savage Land's surface area for the animal people to live in. When the Great Cataclysm struck, the Atlantean empire fell and thanks to the machines, the Savage Land locations were spared from sinking into the sea.

In more recent years, the Savage Land was rediscovered by Lord Robert Plunder who took back a sample of the metal known as "anti-metal" or "Antarctic Vibranium" with him. This mysterious metal had the ability to produce vibrations which would liquefy all other metals. Fleeing from those who sought to steal this discovery, Plunder took his eldest son Kevin with him for a second trip into the Savage Land. Unfortunately, the elder Plunder was killed by a local tribe of Man-Apes. Kevin survived, thanks to the timely intervention of the widowed sabretooth tiger later known as Zabu. He grew to adulthood in the Savage Land, becoming the adventurer known as Ka-Zar. Ka-Zar had many team-ups with the X-Men, Spider-Man, and any other superhero who had visited the Savage Land. He later met and married Shanna the She-Devil.

At one point, the Savage Land was decimated by an evil alien named Terminus (or one of his pawns) when he destroyed the machines that maintained the tropical climate. Ka-Zar, Shanna, and Zabu wandered until the High Evolutionary restored the region allowing them to return to the Savage Land with their newborn son.

Savage Land races

There are many types of races in the Savage Land and Pangea. Examples of Savage Land races include the bird people called Aerians, the monkey-tailed Tree People, the amphibious Tubanti fish-people of the inland Gorahn Sea, the Lizard Men of Vali-Kuri City, and the nomadic cat people of Pandori. Popular races in the Savage Land are the Man-Apes, the Lemurans, the Pterons (pterodactyl-like people), the Sun People, the Swamp Men, and the Zebra People.

Super-powered inhabitants

A number of superhumans have lived in the Savage Land, notably Sauron, Garrokk and Zaladane, the Savage Land Mutates, Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy, Stegron the Dinosaur Man. The supervillain Magneto has lived there on several occasions when he led the Savage Land Mutates.

Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (1513–1537), also known as Silken Thomas, was a figure in Irish History. He spent a considerable part of his early life in England. In February 1534, when his father, the ninth earl, was summoned to London, he appointed Thomas deputy governor of Ireland in his absence. In June Thomas heard rumours that his father had been executed in the Tower of London and that the English government intended the same fate for himself and his uncles. He summoned the Council to St Mary's Abbey, Dublin, and on 11 June, accompanied by 140 horsemen with silk fringes on their helmets (from which he was given his nickname), rode to the abbey and publicly renounced his allegiance to King Henry VIII, Lord of Ireland.

In July he attacked Dublin Castle, but his army was routed. By this time his father had taken ill and died in London, and he had succeeded as tenth earl. He retreated to his stronghold at Maynooth, County Kildare, but in March 1535 this was taken by an English force under Sir William Skeffington while Thomas was absent gathering reinforcements to relieve it. The garrison was given the "Maynooth Pardon", that is, they were all put to death.

In July Lord Leonard Grey arrived from England as Lord Deputy of Ireland; Fitzgerald, seeing his army melting away and his allies submitting one by one, asked pardon for his offences. He was still a formidable opponent, and Grey, wishing to avoid a prolonged conflict, guaranteed his personal safety and persuaded him to submit unconditionally to the king's mercy. In October 1535 he was sent as a prisoner to the Tower. Despite Grey's guarantee he was hanged, drawn and quartered, with his five uncles, at Tyburn, 3 February 1537.

External links

• RTE Millenia People
• The Church in Ireland during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. (1509-1553) from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution by Rev. James MacCaffrey, S.J., 1914

Ephraim Buchwald is an influential Orthodox Judaism rabbi based in New York City. He was ordained at Yeshiva University, where he was a student of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Soloveitchik.

Brief Biography

Rabbi Buchwald served for 15 years (beginning 1973) as the Director of Education at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, and established Lincoln Square's acclaimed Jewish outreach program.

In July, 1987, Rabbi Buchwald founded the National Jewish Outreach Program ("NJOP"), an organization which organizes classes at thousands of locations that teaches basic Judaism and Hebrew language, and encourages observance of Jewish holidays throughout North America. In its first six years, NJOP worked with more than 165,000 Jews in 45 American states and four Canadian provinces. NJOP programs have also been introduced in more than 24 countries worldwide.

Rabbi Buchwald is the founding and Honorary President of the Association of Jewish Outreach Programs ("AJOP") (previously known as the Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals), which was established in 1988. Both NJOP and AJOP were founded by multi-million dollar grants from the Avichai Foundation a Jewish philanthropy run by Sanford Bernstein a well-known successful investor who had himself become a newly Modern Orthodox Judaism Baal teshuva (a returnee to Orthodox observance) who wanted to further the cause of outreach to alienated and assimilated Jews world-wide.

Rabbi Buchwald also lectures across the United States, and overseas.

"Come on Over (All I Want Is You)"
Single by Christina Aguilera
From the album Christina Aguilera
Single Released	2000
Single Format	CD Single Cassette Single
Genre	Pop
Song Length	3:10
Record Label	RCA
Writers	Johan Aberg Paul Rein Christina Aguilera Ron Fair C. Blackmon R. Cham E. Dawkins Shelly Peiken Guy Roche
Producer	Ron Fair Celebrity Status
Certification	Gold
Chart Positions	#1 US (4 weeks) #9 AUS #8 UK #14 CAN
Christina Aguilera single chronology
"I Turn to You" (2000)	"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" (2000)	"Pero Me Acuerdo De Tí" (2000)

"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" is the fourth and final single from Christina Aguilera's debut album, Christina Aguilera. Released in 2000, the single peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, becoming Aguilera's 3rd #1 single. The single also peaked at #8 in the UK and #9 in Australia. The single is most known for being the transition single of Aguilera's career. For the first time ever, she was allowed to write on a single and be given more creative control especially with the song's sexual lyrics and music video. As the single was a transition single, the song stood on a fine line between her younger demographic and the older demographic she yearned to please, and although she was given some creative control, she was not given full power yet.

The song

"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" was written by Paul Rein, Johan Aberg, Celebrity Status (C. Blackmon, R. Cham, E. Dawkins), Guy Roche, Shelly Peiken, Ron Fair, and Christina Aguilera, herself. The song is most significant for the fact that it was the first single released that had co-writing credits from Aguilera. The single was produced by Ron Fair and Celebrity Status. In this bouncy rhythmic summer pop anthem, Aguilera eyes a propesctive boyfriend and declares her intentions stating, "All I Want Is You". Although he pretends that he will keep her guessing all night, he knows she is not just talking about his sexuality, causing her to coo, "Come On over, come on over baby.. Come on over, come on over baby".

Like "What a Girl Wants", "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" was released not in its original album version, but in a new remixed and re-recorded version. The original album version of the song (which had been known simply as "Come On Over (All I Want Is You)" was seen as unsuitable for single release, as it was felt that the song lacked major chord progressions, had childish lyrics, and was generally uninspired. As the single had been originally produced and written by Paul Rein and Johan Aberg, the pair were given first dibs to change the song. However, their efforts were fruitless and Aguilera and her mentor, Ron Fair, turned to the producing team known only as Celebrity Status.

With Celebrity Status and Ron Fair producing, "Come On Over (All I Want Is You)" was transformed into "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" with a more pop oriented, but almost hip-hop flavored production (as opposed to the original piano rich production), new and more sexual lyrics, a chord progression for the song's b-section, a bridge (the song originally did not really have a bridge), a "rap" from Aguilera, a new mid-song dance breakdown, and new powerful vocals (since the original version had been recorded, Aguilera's vocal strength had increased considerably). (The song also features slight new elements from Guy Roche and Shelly Peiken).

As the original album version of the song does not really have a bridge, the song had previously been performed live with an interlude that sampled the disco song, "Got To Be Real". However, when the original songwriters of the song were contacted for permission to sample the song for the studio version of the new version of this song, clearance was denied. With their original plans foiled, Aguilera instead helped write the song's controversial and slightly sexual rap section in which she asks, "Don't ya wanna be the one tonight? We can do exactly what you like. Don't ya wanna be just you and me? We can do what comes naturally".

The song's racy rap (and also a section in the 2nd verse in which Aguilera talks about sexuality and a guy's hands on her body) caused the song to be banned on Radio Disney (like "Genie in a Bottle"). The original version of the song ("Come On Over (All I Want Is You)" ) was allowed to be played though.

Chart success

"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" ended becoming another #1 hit for Aguilera on both the Billboard Hot 100 (for four weeks) and Hot 100 Singles Sales (for a solid six weeks); the strong sales would eventually earn the track a gold certification. The song was also a return to form on the Hot 100 Airplay, peaking within the top five, after the somewhat undermining radio play Aguilera's previous single "I Turn to You" received. The single was also a huge latin music success.

Internationally, the song went top ten in the UK and top twenty in Canada.

Charts

US Charts

"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" debuted at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100
"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100
"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" was ranked at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts (2000)

"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" was Aguilera's 3rd #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100
"Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" was Aguilera's 4th #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales
"Ven Conmigo (Solamente Tú)" was Aguilera's 1st #1 single on the Hot Latin Tracks
"Ven Conmigo (Solamente Tú)" was Aguilera's 1st #1 single on the Latin Tropical/Salsa Airplay

International Charts