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{{spoiler}}
Spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen the newest episode yet, and pretty major spoilers for those who don't watch it (and you really should!) Wikilinks provided for ease of browsing, should that strike your fancy. Anyway, humanity has escaped from
New Caprica and has begun trying and executing collaborators who worked with the
Cylon government.
Felix Gaeta anonymously fed government information to the
Resistance but of course they don't know it was him, so he goes up on trial and is convicted, though he is exonerated at the last moment. My question is, how often has this happened historically? Have there been last-second or posthumous revelations of the truth, or do people falsely accused of collaboration generally go unexonerated? Are there any good sources about this phenomenon (if it has indeed happened in real life)? Thanks.
Stilgar135
02:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I would think last-second reprieves would happen, but less often for posthumous reprieves, at least while the war is still on, as the government would likely be more concerned with the negative propaganda and morale implications than justice, during the war. StuRat 01:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
approximately 6 million people died in the beginning of the 20th century in world war 1. i want to know how to calculate the effect on humanity of that loss. were these people the loosers in life [ i hate to say that ], the winners, or were they just a random sampeling of so the societies they represented ?
perhaps, looked at another way, i wonder what the demographics are for who fights our wars. i understand there isnt ' an answer' for this question, but perhaps there is a field of study i might be made aware of. thank you so much, david mcgrew Davismac 03:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
With respect to my earlier entry at 12:29AM on October 28th - when I asked whether or not there is such a thing as a tribal godfather – I did not make myself clear. I am not interested in the parallels between the historical structure of the Mafia and the U.S. federal government, although I find those parallels very interesting. What I want to know is this: Are there any parallels between the historical structure of the Mafia and:
1. Various religious denominations within Islam – such as Sunni, Shi’a, Sufism, Salafis, Wahabi etc.
2. Other Islamic groups – such as Islamic fundementalists, Islamic extremists, Islamic terrorists etc.
3. Various tribes, especially those in the Middle East – such as the Bedouin tribes that are located throughout the desert belt in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Also worth noting: I define a tribe as "a group of people bound together by family bloodlines, a certain way of life, economic interest, or a common belief system".
By the way, I am not asking these questions because I think Muslims are gangsters, or anything else along these lines. My interest is much more secular and sociological in nature.
Hey there :-) I am currently doing researches about Don'Mauricio for a friend, but the web is not very clear and I don't find many articles in English. Would it be possible to know more about him? I found the German Article if someone is able to translate. Thanks a lot :) -- Adys 04:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I am wanting to know if the county attorney/district attorney, has to file certain paperwork in the beginning of a criminal case if he feels the case is a death penalty case. Or, can the county attorney just notify the defense attorney sometime during the case, that he is now seeking the death penalty instead of life imprisonment? Does the death penalty charge have to be decided on at the very beginning of the case? And if so, what particular information or documentation is needed? Please advise ASAP! Thank you, Dianne
Who is Chief Wasatchaka? I cannot find a reference on him anywhere on the web that is not a copy of the
Salt Lake City and County Building Wikipedia article. If he is important enough to have a statue on portrait in that building, it would seem like there should be some information on him somewhere. Is that article perhaps mistaken, or maybe is the name spelled differently? --
70.59.241.153
07:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Alternative strategies not violating human rights 196.35.140.250 09:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Your question is unclear. For example, do you mean stopping violations of human rights, as in Darfur ? StuRat 01:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Evaluate the problems that the British liberal government faced between 1906-14.(They were in the top in 1906 what happened after that especially?).
a-Suffragettes; b-Conservatives; c-Irish MPs; d-Labour E-Radical-Labour
Wikipedia's article on Max Schmeling contains the statement:
"Joseph Goebbels ordered that the broadcast of the fight to Germany be cut off."
However, German sports writer with the Associated Press, Roy Kammerer , based in Berlin: wrote in 2005 that "The fight was a huge event worldwide and left a lasting impression on his era of Germans, who followed blow-by-blow on radio."
And there is this letter to the New York Times:
July 3, 1988 No Knockout Of Broadcast LEAD: To the Sports Editor:
To the Sports Editor:
The Title Fight That Was Bigger Than Boxing (The Times, June 19) was of great interest to me. You write, Part of the postfight lore . . . is that the German broadcast of the bout was cut off before the fight ended. It was not.
As 13-year-old students at the Jewish boarding school Internat Hirsch at Coburg, Germany, and interested in heavyweight boxing, we asked to be awakened at 1 A.M. that day to hear the fight. Some of the kids missed it because it was over before they got to the radio.
I have never forgotten the German announcer's plea: Get up, get up Maxie, please get up - oh no, oh no - stay down - it's over! Weeks before, the German newspapers showed pictures of Louis's right thumb as being overly long as well as other statistics to imply unfair advantage over Schmeling.
We applauded Louis's victory as a ray of hope for us. We had grown up among Nazi pomp and muscle flexing, witnessing repeated accommodations of the West to Hitler and almost believing that they were unbeatable and that all others - including ourselves -were as inferior and weak as they wanted us to believe.
LUDWIG (LARRY) STEIN Chappaqua, N.Y.
I'm not quite sure what to do with the above information in regards to Wikipedia's entry. Talk page, discussion, edit?
Thanks, Mario Asbury Park, NJ
Thanks Mwalcoff, but I'm new and not quite sure what you mean. Do I edit the article itself? Or use the talk/discussion pages?
Thanks Allen. I just made the changes.
Thank you also, StuRat. I added the information to the discussion / talk pagel
You know, the two paragraphs don't necessarily contradict each other. Goebbels may have had the radio program cut off in Germany, but if it was being broadcast in Austria (was this before the Anschluss?), France, Denmark, the UK, etc. virtually every German could have picked it up. Radio signals can carry far, especially at night. -- Charlene 01:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Why was akbar considered a great ruler?Please tell in detail-- 59.144.247.39 12:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I believe there was a long dispute between the Catholic church and various countries about the question of whether officials other than clergymen should be able to marry people which was still going on at the end of the 19th century. I would like to see information on this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.161.155.106 ( talk • contribs) .
It is true that there is an dispute between the Catholic Church and varoious countries about this subject. this is because marriage is an institute of god and not man or law. the latter two embraced it though and started making it more of their own. Graendal 06:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
not exactly; there was no institution marriage, though something did exist as being a couple. personally I have read sources from the ancient greek time in which was spoken of a wife. after wondering the very same as you said before me nunh-huh I decided to check it out and it turns out that it is a common mistranslation and that it is actually companion/life companion and not an institutionalised marriage. - unsigned
It seems to me (and I may be wrong) that the value placed upon mathematics by Western culture has greatly decreased in recent centuries. Many of the founding fathers were mathematicians, the Declaration was inspired by Euclid's elements [5], and Garfield even came up with a proof of the Pythagorean theorem. But nowadays it seems that the definition of an "intellectual" excludes mathematical (or scientific, for that matter) pursuits, and would suggest more of a political commentator or philosopher. The article on Euclid's Elements states, "Not until the 20th century did it cease to be considered something all educated people had read." Why do you think the value placed on mathematics has so greatly declined, or do you not think this to be the case? -- JianLi 22:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Why is Princeton #1? It does not seem to be so special, compared to Harvard or Yale...or even Stanford. I really don't understand how it took over the top spot in US News' rankings. It seems incorrect. 207.200.116.12 23:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
What about Princeton's social scene?
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{{spoiler}}
Spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen the newest episode yet, and pretty major spoilers for those who don't watch it (and you really should!) Wikilinks provided for ease of browsing, should that strike your fancy. Anyway, humanity has escaped from
New Caprica and has begun trying and executing collaborators who worked with the
Cylon government.
Felix Gaeta anonymously fed government information to the
Resistance but of course they don't know it was him, so he goes up on trial and is convicted, though he is exonerated at the last moment. My question is, how often has this happened historically? Have there been last-second or posthumous revelations of the truth, or do people falsely accused of collaboration generally go unexonerated? Are there any good sources about this phenomenon (if it has indeed happened in real life)? Thanks.
Stilgar135
02:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I would think last-second reprieves would happen, but less often for posthumous reprieves, at least while the war is still on, as the government would likely be more concerned with the negative propaganda and morale implications than justice, during the war. StuRat 01:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
approximately 6 million people died in the beginning of the 20th century in world war 1. i want to know how to calculate the effect on humanity of that loss. were these people the loosers in life [ i hate to say that ], the winners, or were they just a random sampeling of so the societies they represented ?
perhaps, looked at another way, i wonder what the demographics are for who fights our wars. i understand there isnt ' an answer' for this question, but perhaps there is a field of study i might be made aware of. thank you so much, david mcgrew Davismac 03:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
With respect to my earlier entry at 12:29AM on October 28th - when I asked whether or not there is such a thing as a tribal godfather – I did not make myself clear. I am not interested in the parallels between the historical structure of the Mafia and the U.S. federal government, although I find those parallels very interesting. What I want to know is this: Are there any parallels between the historical structure of the Mafia and:
1. Various religious denominations within Islam – such as Sunni, Shi’a, Sufism, Salafis, Wahabi etc.
2. Other Islamic groups – such as Islamic fundementalists, Islamic extremists, Islamic terrorists etc.
3. Various tribes, especially those in the Middle East – such as the Bedouin tribes that are located throughout the desert belt in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Also worth noting: I define a tribe as "a group of people bound together by family bloodlines, a certain way of life, economic interest, or a common belief system".
By the way, I am not asking these questions because I think Muslims are gangsters, or anything else along these lines. My interest is much more secular and sociological in nature.
Hey there :-) I am currently doing researches about Don'Mauricio for a friend, but the web is not very clear and I don't find many articles in English. Would it be possible to know more about him? I found the German Article if someone is able to translate. Thanks a lot :) -- Adys 04:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I am wanting to know if the county attorney/district attorney, has to file certain paperwork in the beginning of a criminal case if he feels the case is a death penalty case. Or, can the county attorney just notify the defense attorney sometime during the case, that he is now seeking the death penalty instead of life imprisonment? Does the death penalty charge have to be decided on at the very beginning of the case? And if so, what particular information or documentation is needed? Please advise ASAP! Thank you, Dianne
Who is Chief Wasatchaka? I cannot find a reference on him anywhere on the web that is not a copy of the
Salt Lake City and County Building Wikipedia article. If he is important enough to have a statue on portrait in that building, it would seem like there should be some information on him somewhere. Is that article perhaps mistaken, or maybe is the name spelled differently? --
70.59.241.153
07:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Alternative strategies not violating human rights 196.35.140.250 09:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Your question is unclear. For example, do you mean stopping violations of human rights, as in Darfur ? StuRat 01:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Evaluate the problems that the British liberal government faced between 1906-14.(They were in the top in 1906 what happened after that especially?).
a-Suffragettes; b-Conservatives; c-Irish MPs; d-Labour E-Radical-Labour
Wikipedia's article on Max Schmeling contains the statement:
"Joseph Goebbels ordered that the broadcast of the fight to Germany be cut off."
However, German sports writer with the Associated Press, Roy Kammerer , based in Berlin: wrote in 2005 that "The fight was a huge event worldwide and left a lasting impression on his era of Germans, who followed blow-by-blow on radio."
And there is this letter to the New York Times:
July 3, 1988 No Knockout Of Broadcast LEAD: To the Sports Editor:
To the Sports Editor:
The Title Fight That Was Bigger Than Boxing (The Times, June 19) was of great interest to me. You write, Part of the postfight lore . . . is that the German broadcast of the bout was cut off before the fight ended. It was not.
As 13-year-old students at the Jewish boarding school Internat Hirsch at Coburg, Germany, and interested in heavyweight boxing, we asked to be awakened at 1 A.M. that day to hear the fight. Some of the kids missed it because it was over before they got to the radio.
I have never forgotten the German announcer's plea: Get up, get up Maxie, please get up - oh no, oh no - stay down - it's over! Weeks before, the German newspapers showed pictures of Louis's right thumb as being overly long as well as other statistics to imply unfair advantage over Schmeling.
We applauded Louis's victory as a ray of hope for us. We had grown up among Nazi pomp and muscle flexing, witnessing repeated accommodations of the West to Hitler and almost believing that they were unbeatable and that all others - including ourselves -were as inferior and weak as they wanted us to believe.
LUDWIG (LARRY) STEIN Chappaqua, N.Y.
I'm not quite sure what to do with the above information in regards to Wikipedia's entry. Talk page, discussion, edit?
Thanks, Mario Asbury Park, NJ
Thanks Mwalcoff, but I'm new and not quite sure what you mean. Do I edit the article itself? Or use the talk/discussion pages?
Thanks Allen. I just made the changes.
Thank you also, StuRat. I added the information to the discussion / talk pagel
You know, the two paragraphs don't necessarily contradict each other. Goebbels may have had the radio program cut off in Germany, but if it was being broadcast in Austria (was this before the Anschluss?), France, Denmark, the UK, etc. virtually every German could have picked it up. Radio signals can carry far, especially at night. -- Charlene 01:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Why was akbar considered a great ruler?Please tell in detail-- 59.144.247.39 12:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I believe there was a long dispute between the Catholic church and various countries about the question of whether officials other than clergymen should be able to marry people which was still going on at the end of the 19th century. I would like to see information on this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.161.155.106 ( talk • contribs) .
It is true that there is an dispute between the Catholic Church and varoious countries about this subject. this is because marriage is an institute of god and not man or law. the latter two embraced it though and started making it more of their own. Graendal 06:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
not exactly; there was no institution marriage, though something did exist as being a couple. personally I have read sources from the ancient greek time in which was spoken of a wife. after wondering the very same as you said before me nunh-huh I decided to check it out and it turns out that it is a common mistranslation and that it is actually companion/life companion and not an institutionalised marriage. - unsigned
It seems to me (and I may be wrong) that the value placed upon mathematics by Western culture has greatly decreased in recent centuries. Many of the founding fathers were mathematicians, the Declaration was inspired by Euclid's elements [5], and Garfield even came up with a proof of the Pythagorean theorem. But nowadays it seems that the definition of an "intellectual" excludes mathematical (or scientific, for that matter) pursuits, and would suggest more of a political commentator or philosopher. The article on Euclid's Elements states, "Not until the 20th century did it cease to be considered something all educated people had read." Why do you think the value placed on mathematics has so greatly declined, or do you not think this to be the case? -- JianLi 22:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Why is Princeton #1? It does not seem to be so special, compared to Harvard or Yale...or even Stanford. I really don't understand how it took over the top spot in US News' rankings. It seems incorrect. 207.200.116.12 23:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
What about Princeton's social scene?