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This paper has three sections. The first deals with metrizability of manifolds, the second with torsion in the group of homeomorphisms of powers of the long line, and the last with some related questions. By a manifold the author means a connected Hausdorff space in which each point has a neighborhood homeomorphic to \(\mathbb R^n\). (We presume that \(n\) is fixed here.) In section 1 a list is given of 45 conditions which are equivalent to the metrizability of such a space. The author points out that it is his intent to exclude in this list conditions which are equivalent to metrizability for a general topological space. Details are to be provided in a forthcoming preprint of this author. Let \(\mathbb L\) denote the long line (long at both ends) and \(\mathbb L_+\) the closed long ray. In section 2 it is stated that \(\mathcal H(\mathbb L_+)\) has no torsion, \(\mathcal H(\mathbb L)\) has only 2-torsion, and \(\mathcal H(\mathbb L^2)\) has only 2- and 4-torsion. Here, of course, \(\mathcal H\) denotes the group of homeomorphisms. There are also some results on the Alexander-Spanier cohomology of the powers \(\mathbb L^n\). Details of all this are supposed to appear in work being prepared by the author and S. Deo. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0909.00036].