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I am not sure whether this is the correct section to put this question into. I have been hearing a lot about good MBA schools all over the world, how they play an important role in strategic decision making for organizations etc etc. But I always wonder as to what does an MBA programme have and what do MBA courses have in their curriculum. Could anyone knowing about this shed some light on the topic. -Thanks,Nikhil. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.5.136.234 ( talk) 01:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Deleted diatribe. Question follows strikeout.
:This reads much more like a soapbox diatribe than a question for the Ref Desk. Does it belong here?
Bielle (
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03:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Does Wikipedia dispute the significance of the Scottish and German part in colonization, especially for the reason behind the toponymy related to their homelands and rulers? If so, then how does Wikipedia account for the established practice as pertains the Anglo-Irish and French colonizations? 24.255.11.149 ( talk) 03:44, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
You may be interested in the book The Cousins' War, by Kevin P. Phillips. It's his contention that the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the American Civil War are one long, extended struggle between the Roundheads and the Puritans, with the Northern United States colonized by Englismen and women from Puritan-dominated regions, and the Southern United States colonized by people from Cavalier-dominated regions. Corvus cornix talk 05:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
When a vandal hates my way of asking questions, the response has little relevance. Thanks a lot. 24.255.11.149 ( talk) 06:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Doh! It may have been a long and unclear question, but it was on a topic I like! While my Internet link was dead I wrote a reply, only to return and find the question deleted! I guess I'll post it anyway: Here are a few comments, sourced mainly from two books, Names on the Land by George R. Stewart, and The Shaping of America by D.W. Meinig:
Nova Scotia was the subject of many business and colonization schemes in the 1630s. A Scottish entrepreneur gave the land the name "Nova Scotia". His plan came to nothing and the French successfully colonized the land, which became known as Acadia. The name "Nova Scotia" fell into disuse until the English seized Acadia in 1710 and renamed it Nova Scotia in 1713. But it was not a Scottish colony in any sense. As late as 1780 the French Acadians still made up a major part of the population, despite the Acadian diaspora of the 1750s. Over half the population was Yankees who had been born in New England and migrated to Nova Scotia following the initial deportation of the French around 1758. The first Scottish Highlanders moved to Nova Scotia shortly affter 1758, but they were few in number until at least 1780. I don't know the history of Nova Scotia after that, so I can't say whether it became a Scottish colony in the 1800s. I can say that its origins and first century or so are as a French colony called Acadia, with few or no Scottish settlers. Something similar can be said about Carolina. While it is true that there was a large migration of so-called "Scotch-Irish" to the backcountry of Carolina, this did not really begin until at least 1720 and did not cause a major demographic change until about 1750. There's quite a bit of history before that, going back to the middle 1600s.
Personally I think very few American colonies had a distinctly English character. You mention Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania as having had an "Anglo-Irish core". But to my mind Virginia and Maryland very quickly became culturally biracial, with very large populations of African slaves. That doesn't sound like England. Pennsylvania was from the very start home to a diversity of settlers such as Germans and Welsh. Plus Pennsylvania was built upon the older colony of New Netherland and New Sweden, with a pre-existing population of Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and others. While these people were soon overwhelmed population-wise, they were pioneering what became Pennsylvania for generations before Philadelphia was laid out, and made numerous important contributions to the culture that emerged not only in Pennsylvania but south down the Appalachian backcountry clear to Georgia. Quite different from England.
Finally, I'm a bit confused by your listing of colonies with English dynasties. As I understand it, the Tudor era was about 1485-1603. Doesn't this predate the founding of any of the colonies we're talking about? The Stuart era I understand to be about 1603-1714 (going back to the 1300s in Scotland, and with a break for the English Commonwealth). This period would include the founding of all the colonies mentioned except Georgia (and maybe New Brunswick, which I don't know much about). So... you lost me in that section. I also have trouble following your point in connecting the names of colonies to the names of kings. Is it that the more northern colonies tend not to be named for kings while the more southern ones are?
The history of placenames can be weird. They mainly have to do with quirks of history and the personalities of explorers and kings. I wrote a bit about how the names of Virginia, Carolina, New England, Pennsylvania, and so on, came to be, but it is probably too much text. In short none of the colony names have much if anything to do with the people who eventually settled them. They were mostly named long before anyone attempted to establish a settlement. Virginia was named Wingina by Sir Walter Raleigh, but Queen Elizabeth changed it to Virginia. Quite a few place names come from the mind of Charles I (including New England (he affirmed John Smith's name), Carolina (for himself), Maryland (for his wife). He also honored his mother and sister with capes in New England (Cape Anne and Cape Elizabeth), and himself again with the Charles River. He also put the name "Plymouth" on the map of New England before any Pilgrim set foot there. The tale of the naming of Pennsylvania is the most fun, but it would take too many words to tell. Suffice it to say that Penn's first suggestio was "New Wales".
Anyway, I think that the names of colonies in America have more to do with quirks of history and the personalities of a couple kings and a few explorers and proprietors, rather than the ethnicities of the people who eventually settled the land. Pfly ( talk) 09:22, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I will reply on your talk page, because I don't think most people here really understand the issue. 24.255.11.149 ( talk) 19:25, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
What is Rape 3? I know that's the lowest classification, but what sorts of things does it entail? I can't find a listing of this sort of thing anywhere. My assumption has been statutory rape or something similar, but I'd like to have a better idea. Any clues? -- Masamage ♫ 05:49, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Would it be true to say that the early experiences of Louis XIV, especially in the Fronde, had an important bearing on his later conduct of French affairs? Stockmann ( talk) 06:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I was reading somewhere that Schopenhauer's idea of the will was prefigured by Kant in some way. I looked up the term will in the index to Critique of Pure Reason, but the main mention of it seemed to relate to freedom of the will, meaning the belief that our actions are not determined solely by natural forces. The importance of the will in Schopenhauer is as a means of understanding and embracing an external reality, where the will is our life force, and the source of our motivation, which connects us through our ability to sense the same life force in other beings (humans, animals and maybe plants). To what extent did Kant conjecture the same idea? 203.161.95.46 ( talk) 07:02, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Clio. I'll get around to getting a proper username (I do internet stuff on the fly, and take a while to get around to things like that). Then I'll post a message on your talk page asking for more on S. Yes I do have WWR, vols I and II, recently purchased, but same edition, curiously. 203.221.126.9 ( talk) 16:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
I see on her user page that Clio the Muse says she is an Anglo Catholic. What is an Anglo Catholic? Kaiser Will ( talk) 08:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I wonder if anyone has a full list of the organizations that worked together in the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People during WWII? I added the one at the Slovenian Wikipedia, but I am sure it is incomplete if nothing else. -- Cptukbo ( talk) 08:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
What are the different relationships a Jewish person can have with Jesus Christ? By that I mean some Jews absolutely hate Jesus Christ more than any other Jew or person dead or alive while others Jews relate to and accept the message from God that Jesus brought and as a result have fully converted to Christianity. Basically are there more relationships than these two that a Jewish person can have with Jesus, and if so, what are they named and how are they described? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.1.214 ( talk) 08:35, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
My belief is the Jesus got himself killed by trying too hard to be Jewish. In that era Jews went with the flow, re: didn't rock the boat or draw attention to themselves because they were in the minority and open to persecution and here comes JC on a crusade to get Jews to act like Jews and it did not go over well at all. Those who did see a reason to follow JC did so at the risk of pissing off every Jew who was fearful of the State and in history this is how revolutions get started. Remember the Jews were supposed to be "self correcting" during that era and the Sanhedrin ran their courts in a fashion to suck up to their non Jewish governor. JC was simply rocking the boat for the Sanhedrin and putting them and all Jews at risk of stiffer taxation and or death at the hands of their non Jewish keepers.
See Judaism's view of Jesus. Since Jews do not believe in Jesus as a Messiah or demigod, the only Jesus Jews would think about is the historical Jesus, and as such Jews don't view Jesus any more positively or negatively than they would view any other historical figure, if, as is the predominant opinion among historians today, Jesus actually existed. Asking what Jews think of Jesus is like asking what Christians think of Buddha. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 18:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Okay, forgive me for this comparison but after reading most of Judaism's view of Jesus I am reminded of persons who still own a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I (or perhaps the original electronic calculator offered by Spiegel) and say the reason they do not need an upgrade is that whatever got the job done for their mom or dad, still gets the job done for them. Does anyone perhaps at least see Jesus as an representing an upgrade to Judaism, like the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.1.214 ( talk) 11:32, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
In the film "The big Lebowski" the dude mentions being one of the original authors of "The porheron statement". I was wondering if anyone knows what this book/journal is about and when it was written.
cheers all 193.62.251.32 ( talk) 11:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Why was Princess Mary so popular during the reign of her brother Edward the sixth? 81.129.85.203 ( talk) 13:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I've been reading through your pages on the Darfur business, which are very useful, though I'm still not quite sure of all of the causes of the conflict. Can one of you experts please give me some clues into the deep background to the problem? H W Waidson ( talk) 13:22, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
This is a slightly odd question, and I'm not sure quite how it can be answered, but I'm sure people will find a way! Just how big was the Second World War to the average American?
Was it a bigger deal at the time than the Vietnam War was when it was going, or than the Iraq war is now? To ask the question about Britain would clearly be nonsensical, what with the conscription and the rationing and the bombing and the evacuation etc, but America didn't have any of that (as far as I know). So how much of an impact did the war actually have on a typical American? Skittle ( talk) 13:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
World War II was America's last "total war," a war that fundamentally altered the daily lives of every American. Just about all of my grandparents' male friends served in the military; by comparison, only a few of my parents' male friends served in Vietnam. To this day, when an American refers to "prewar" or "postwar," it's WWII they're talking about. The U.S. lost 416,800 service members during the war, which is more than in all other international wars the country has fought combined. For an example of just how central the war was to American consciousness at the time, take a look at some of the Academy Award-winning movies of 1943: Casablanca, Watch on the Rhine, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The More the Merrier and The Human Comedy -- three war movies and two movies about life on the home front. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 17:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Lights Out] makes interesting reading. Note that Dayton is not on either coast but well in the interior of the U.S. and still the fears of air raids. Rmhermen ( talk) 23:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Another impact of the war on everyone was daylight saving time. In the peacetime USA the use of DST, and the start and end dates in places that used it, had been a matter for state or local regulation. A summer shift to DST had imposed nationally when the US entered WW1, and repealed afterwards. But during WW2 the US used DST all year, which was commonly called War Time. (After the war the old system of state or local option was resumed, until people got sufficiently tired of it that the Uniform Time Act of 1966 was passed.) --Anonymous, 2:41 am EST and 07:41 UTC, December 10, 2007.
It seems like there were always War Bond drives, and people going around collecting cooking grease to contribute to the war effort, butter and sugar and eggs were rationed, as were gasoline and rubber. "Lights out" efforts kept street lamps off and window drapes pulled so that the lights didn't show in the street, which must have made the cities pretty dark. Corvus cornix talk 19:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear wikepidiea my name is moneybank27 and i am doing a project on zheng he. i was looking at his page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He but i couldnt no find the author or author's of the page plz could you tell me the author ASAP! its for a bibiloiography. thanks regards moneybank27 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.156.89 ( talk) 18:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
When her majesty missed two state openings of parliament because of her pregnancies, who replaced her to outline the governments policies -- Hadseys ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I heard that on the night before marriage, either the bride must visit the pub's toilet to look what the other males have in their pants and/or that the husband-to-be must let the females he meets on his pub tour see how he is endowed. Please note: This is a story I heard at a party, so it isn't neccessairly true. Also, yes, I am serious. So if anyone knows if either of the versions is true, any comment would be appreciated :) -- 88.66.124.146 ( talk) 20:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Are mainland US citizens from the 50 states also citizens of Puerto Rico? Do US citizens immigrate to Puerto Rico or are they already legally allowed to reside in PR? -- Gosplan ( talk) 22:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
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I am not sure whether this is the correct section to put this question into. I have been hearing a lot about good MBA schools all over the world, how they play an important role in strategic decision making for organizations etc etc. But I always wonder as to what does an MBA programme have and what do MBA courses have in their curriculum. Could anyone knowing about this shed some light on the topic. -Thanks,Nikhil. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.5.136.234 ( talk) 01:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Deleted diatribe. Question follows strikeout.
:This reads much more like a soapbox diatribe than a question for the Ref Desk. Does it belong here?
Bielle (
talk)
03:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Does Wikipedia dispute the significance of the Scottish and German part in colonization, especially for the reason behind the toponymy related to their homelands and rulers? If so, then how does Wikipedia account for the established practice as pertains the Anglo-Irish and French colonizations? 24.255.11.149 ( talk) 03:44, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
You may be interested in the book The Cousins' War, by Kevin P. Phillips. It's his contention that the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the American Civil War are one long, extended struggle between the Roundheads and the Puritans, with the Northern United States colonized by Englismen and women from Puritan-dominated regions, and the Southern United States colonized by people from Cavalier-dominated regions. Corvus cornix talk 05:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
When a vandal hates my way of asking questions, the response has little relevance. Thanks a lot. 24.255.11.149 ( talk) 06:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Doh! It may have been a long and unclear question, but it was on a topic I like! While my Internet link was dead I wrote a reply, only to return and find the question deleted! I guess I'll post it anyway: Here are a few comments, sourced mainly from two books, Names on the Land by George R. Stewart, and The Shaping of America by D.W. Meinig:
Nova Scotia was the subject of many business and colonization schemes in the 1630s. A Scottish entrepreneur gave the land the name "Nova Scotia". His plan came to nothing and the French successfully colonized the land, which became known as Acadia. The name "Nova Scotia" fell into disuse until the English seized Acadia in 1710 and renamed it Nova Scotia in 1713. But it was not a Scottish colony in any sense. As late as 1780 the French Acadians still made up a major part of the population, despite the Acadian diaspora of the 1750s. Over half the population was Yankees who had been born in New England and migrated to Nova Scotia following the initial deportation of the French around 1758. The first Scottish Highlanders moved to Nova Scotia shortly affter 1758, but they were few in number until at least 1780. I don't know the history of Nova Scotia after that, so I can't say whether it became a Scottish colony in the 1800s. I can say that its origins and first century or so are as a French colony called Acadia, with few or no Scottish settlers. Something similar can be said about Carolina. While it is true that there was a large migration of so-called "Scotch-Irish" to the backcountry of Carolina, this did not really begin until at least 1720 and did not cause a major demographic change until about 1750. There's quite a bit of history before that, going back to the middle 1600s.
Personally I think very few American colonies had a distinctly English character. You mention Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania as having had an "Anglo-Irish core". But to my mind Virginia and Maryland very quickly became culturally biracial, with very large populations of African slaves. That doesn't sound like England. Pennsylvania was from the very start home to a diversity of settlers such as Germans and Welsh. Plus Pennsylvania was built upon the older colony of New Netherland and New Sweden, with a pre-existing population of Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and others. While these people were soon overwhelmed population-wise, they were pioneering what became Pennsylvania for generations before Philadelphia was laid out, and made numerous important contributions to the culture that emerged not only in Pennsylvania but south down the Appalachian backcountry clear to Georgia. Quite different from England.
Finally, I'm a bit confused by your listing of colonies with English dynasties. As I understand it, the Tudor era was about 1485-1603. Doesn't this predate the founding of any of the colonies we're talking about? The Stuart era I understand to be about 1603-1714 (going back to the 1300s in Scotland, and with a break for the English Commonwealth). This period would include the founding of all the colonies mentioned except Georgia (and maybe New Brunswick, which I don't know much about). So... you lost me in that section. I also have trouble following your point in connecting the names of colonies to the names of kings. Is it that the more northern colonies tend not to be named for kings while the more southern ones are?
The history of placenames can be weird. They mainly have to do with quirks of history and the personalities of explorers and kings. I wrote a bit about how the names of Virginia, Carolina, New England, Pennsylvania, and so on, came to be, but it is probably too much text. In short none of the colony names have much if anything to do with the people who eventually settled them. They were mostly named long before anyone attempted to establish a settlement. Virginia was named Wingina by Sir Walter Raleigh, but Queen Elizabeth changed it to Virginia. Quite a few place names come from the mind of Charles I (including New England (he affirmed John Smith's name), Carolina (for himself), Maryland (for his wife). He also honored his mother and sister with capes in New England (Cape Anne and Cape Elizabeth), and himself again with the Charles River. He also put the name "Plymouth" on the map of New England before any Pilgrim set foot there. The tale of the naming of Pennsylvania is the most fun, but it would take too many words to tell. Suffice it to say that Penn's first suggestio was "New Wales".
Anyway, I think that the names of colonies in America have more to do with quirks of history and the personalities of a couple kings and a few explorers and proprietors, rather than the ethnicities of the people who eventually settled the land. Pfly ( talk) 09:22, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I will reply on your talk page, because I don't think most people here really understand the issue. 24.255.11.149 ( talk) 19:25, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
What is Rape 3? I know that's the lowest classification, but what sorts of things does it entail? I can't find a listing of this sort of thing anywhere. My assumption has been statutory rape or something similar, but I'd like to have a better idea. Any clues? -- Masamage ♫ 05:49, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Would it be true to say that the early experiences of Louis XIV, especially in the Fronde, had an important bearing on his later conduct of French affairs? Stockmann ( talk) 06:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I was reading somewhere that Schopenhauer's idea of the will was prefigured by Kant in some way. I looked up the term will in the index to Critique of Pure Reason, but the main mention of it seemed to relate to freedom of the will, meaning the belief that our actions are not determined solely by natural forces. The importance of the will in Schopenhauer is as a means of understanding and embracing an external reality, where the will is our life force, and the source of our motivation, which connects us through our ability to sense the same life force in other beings (humans, animals and maybe plants). To what extent did Kant conjecture the same idea? 203.161.95.46 ( talk) 07:02, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Clio. I'll get around to getting a proper username (I do internet stuff on the fly, and take a while to get around to things like that). Then I'll post a message on your talk page asking for more on S. Yes I do have WWR, vols I and II, recently purchased, but same edition, curiously. 203.221.126.9 ( talk) 16:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
I see on her user page that Clio the Muse says she is an Anglo Catholic. What is an Anglo Catholic? Kaiser Will ( talk) 08:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I wonder if anyone has a full list of the organizations that worked together in the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People during WWII? I added the one at the Slovenian Wikipedia, but I am sure it is incomplete if nothing else. -- Cptukbo ( talk) 08:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
What are the different relationships a Jewish person can have with Jesus Christ? By that I mean some Jews absolutely hate Jesus Christ more than any other Jew or person dead or alive while others Jews relate to and accept the message from God that Jesus brought and as a result have fully converted to Christianity. Basically are there more relationships than these two that a Jewish person can have with Jesus, and if so, what are they named and how are they described? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.1.214 ( talk) 08:35, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
My belief is the Jesus got himself killed by trying too hard to be Jewish. In that era Jews went with the flow, re: didn't rock the boat or draw attention to themselves because they were in the minority and open to persecution and here comes JC on a crusade to get Jews to act like Jews and it did not go over well at all. Those who did see a reason to follow JC did so at the risk of pissing off every Jew who was fearful of the State and in history this is how revolutions get started. Remember the Jews were supposed to be "self correcting" during that era and the Sanhedrin ran their courts in a fashion to suck up to their non Jewish governor. JC was simply rocking the boat for the Sanhedrin and putting them and all Jews at risk of stiffer taxation and or death at the hands of their non Jewish keepers.
See Judaism's view of Jesus. Since Jews do not believe in Jesus as a Messiah or demigod, the only Jesus Jews would think about is the historical Jesus, and as such Jews don't view Jesus any more positively or negatively than they would view any other historical figure, if, as is the predominant opinion among historians today, Jesus actually existed. Asking what Jews think of Jesus is like asking what Christians think of Buddha. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 18:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Okay, forgive me for this comparison but after reading most of Judaism's view of Jesus I am reminded of persons who still own a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I (or perhaps the original electronic calculator offered by Spiegel) and say the reason they do not need an upgrade is that whatever got the job done for their mom or dad, still gets the job done for them. Does anyone perhaps at least see Jesus as an representing an upgrade to Judaism, like the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.1.214 ( talk) 11:32, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
In the film "The big Lebowski" the dude mentions being one of the original authors of "The porheron statement". I was wondering if anyone knows what this book/journal is about and when it was written.
cheers all 193.62.251.32 ( talk) 11:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Why was Princess Mary so popular during the reign of her brother Edward the sixth? 81.129.85.203 ( talk) 13:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I've been reading through your pages on the Darfur business, which are very useful, though I'm still not quite sure of all of the causes of the conflict. Can one of you experts please give me some clues into the deep background to the problem? H W Waidson ( talk) 13:22, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
This is a slightly odd question, and I'm not sure quite how it can be answered, but I'm sure people will find a way! Just how big was the Second World War to the average American?
Was it a bigger deal at the time than the Vietnam War was when it was going, or than the Iraq war is now? To ask the question about Britain would clearly be nonsensical, what with the conscription and the rationing and the bombing and the evacuation etc, but America didn't have any of that (as far as I know). So how much of an impact did the war actually have on a typical American? Skittle ( talk) 13:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
World War II was America's last "total war," a war that fundamentally altered the daily lives of every American. Just about all of my grandparents' male friends served in the military; by comparison, only a few of my parents' male friends served in Vietnam. To this day, when an American refers to "prewar" or "postwar," it's WWII they're talking about. The U.S. lost 416,800 service members during the war, which is more than in all other international wars the country has fought combined. For an example of just how central the war was to American consciousness at the time, take a look at some of the Academy Award-winning movies of 1943: Casablanca, Watch on the Rhine, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The More the Merrier and The Human Comedy -- three war movies and two movies about life on the home front. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 17:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Lights Out] makes interesting reading. Note that Dayton is not on either coast but well in the interior of the U.S. and still the fears of air raids. Rmhermen ( talk) 23:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Another impact of the war on everyone was daylight saving time. In the peacetime USA the use of DST, and the start and end dates in places that used it, had been a matter for state or local regulation. A summer shift to DST had imposed nationally when the US entered WW1, and repealed afterwards. But during WW2 the US used DST all year, which was commonly called War Time. (After the war the old system of state or local option was resumed, until people got sufficiently tired of it that the Uniform Time Act of 1966 was passed.) --Anonymous, 2:41 am EST and 07:41 UTC, December 10, 2007.
It seems like there were always War Bond drives, and people going around collecting cooking grease to contribute to the war effort, butter and sugar and eggs were rationed, as were gasoline and rubber. "Lights out" efforts kept street lamps off and window drapes pulled so that the lights didn't show in the street, which must have made the cities pretty dark. Corvus cornix talk 19:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear wikepidiea my name is moneybank27 and i am doing a project on zheng he. i was looking at his page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He but i couldnt no find the author or author's of the page plz could you tell me the author ASAP! its for a bibiloiography. thanks regards moneybank27 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.156.89 ( talk) 18:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
When her majesty missed two state openings of parliament because of her pregnancies, who replaced her to outline the governments policies -- Hadseys ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I heard that on the night before marriage, either the bride must visit the pub's toilet to look what the other males have in their pants and/or that the husband-to-be must let the females he meets on his pub tour see how he is endowed. Please note: This is a story I heard at a party, so it isn't neccessairly true. Also, yes, I am serious. So if anyone knows if either of the versions is true, any comment would be appreciated :) -- 88.66.124.146 ( talk) 20:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Are mainland US citizens from the 50 states also citizens of Puerto Rico? Do US citizens immigrate to Puerto Rico or are they already legally allowed to reside in PR? -- Gosplan ( talk) 22:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)