Babel and Beliefs en This user is a native speaker of the English language. This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. This user always looks on the bright side of life! 4 This user thinks BBC Radio 4 is worth the licence fee alone. This user does not appreciate tobacco smoke.

Hello and welcome to my page. I'm expanding it with a few pretty userboxes of, at the moment, a non-polemical nature and having discovered just how cool some of the pictures of the day are that's here too.

I'm a budding amateur on Wikipedia and generally I just correct things that I notice are wrong or read badly when browsing through, e.g. typos. I also add little bits of knowledge where I can and update articles where needed. I also like to have my say in deletion discussions etc.. I'm beginning to branch out into writing articles from scratch but, with over a million on here, I struggle to find things that aren't covered and that I might have a slim chance of understanding were I to research them.

If you disagree with anything I've written then please do say although if there's anything controversial I'll more than likely have written about it on the relevant discussion page. Or you could just write me a note to say hello. You could even write it in a different language to help me expand on my pathetic linguistic ability - I only have it up there to put myself to shame in the hope that I do something about it.

Picture of the day

Celestine is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate ( Sr S O₄). It is named for its occasional delicate blue color. Celestine and the carbonate mineral strontianite are the principal sources of the element strontium, commonly used in fireworks and in various metal alloys. The mineral occurs as crystals, and also in compact massive, and fibrous forms. It is found worldwide, mostly found in sedimentary rocks, usually in small quantities. Pale blue crystal specimens, as shown in this photograph, are found in Madagascar.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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I'm from the which, for better and for worse, is in the , the and also the and I've been to or lived...
...for this long...	...in these countries...	...and these places...
Just passing through
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Idea and layout pilfered from Lcarsdata, who took it from NeilTarrant, who purloined it from A bit iffy, who half-inched it from Calton, who filched it from Salsb, who stole it from Guettarda, who borrowed it from White Cat.

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

24 June - Munich

Germany

3

30 June - Berlin

Sweden

1

Germany (pen)

0 (4)

24 June - Leipzig

Argentina

0 (3)

Argentina

2

4 July - Dortmund

Portugal

0

Germany

2

26 June - Kaiserslautern

Tunisia

1

Ghana

3

30 June - Hamburg

Croatia (AET)

4

Croatia

1

26 June - Cologne

Tunisia

2

France

1

9 July - Berlin

Tunisia (AET)

2

Germany

2

25 June - Stuttgart

England (AET)

4

England

3

1 July - Gelsenkirchen

Poland

1

England (AET)

3

25 June - Nuremberg

Ivory Coast

2

Mexico

1

5 July - Munich

Ivory Coast

2

England

2

27 June - Dortmund

Brazil

1

Third place

Brazil

2

1 July - Frankfurt

8 July - Stuttgart

Czech Republic

1

Brazil

1

Brazil

2

27 June - Hannover

Spain

0

Tunisia (AET)

3

Spain (pen)

1 (3)

Switzerland

1 (2)

Mmm, an intriguing set of predictions... does my mind really think that this could happen? Of course, any similarities between one of the scorelines here and that of the 1966 World Cup Final are purely coincidental. And somewhat optimistic as well.