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what/who is the sponsor of wikipedia (website) ? i need to know for my project> bibliography and it is due tomorrow.
If you want to cite specific facts, you could also use the sources themselves cited at the bottom of each article. Teachers rarely complain if you say "According to the NY Times/BBC/Kathmandu Post, etc.". martianlostinspace 14:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I got 16 questions about the Midddle Ages.
1. How effective at spreading Christianity were the laws passed by the Byzantine emperors? They were fairly effective. The succeeded for example in closing the plato academy the center of pagan intellectual thought. Many pagans as a result of laws and lack of support either coverted or left christiandom.
2. How did the Emperor Justinian bring the unity to the Byzantine Empire? He wrote
3. How did the withdrawal of Roman forces from Western Europe contribute to spread of Christianity in this area? answer: the withdrawal of roman forces from western europe contributed to the spread of cristianity in that area because with the roman forces away from western eruope emperor Justinian was able to invade said areas. The people of those areas were usually converted by force. When a christian king successfully invaded a non-Christian neighbouring teritory, the conquered people were usually required to become christians.
4. What was the significance of the crowning of Charlemagne by the pope on Christmas Day, 800? By the Justinans emperorship being dependenet on papal preogative justinain has suborbinated himself to the pope. This high profile expression of the popes authority helped stregnthen the rule that the pope was superior to christiandomes secular kings. Furthermore it helped guarteed that the pope would never become subordinate to any king. 5. Can you described the nature of education in the Early Middle Ages, including who was educated and what was studied? Education tended to be informal parents and grandparents taught their children their occupations. Their where no universities and few schools. Literacy was the exception. Virtually no peasents learned to read. Much of the aristocracy, including the most powerful kings, where also illiterate. The only class who tended to be educated was the clerical and scribe class.
6. Can you described the impact of the Vikings on Europe before 1000?
7. Although the peace movment at the beginnig of the High Middles Ages had little success in sustainingpeace, it did have some important consequences for medieval Europe. Can you describe two of the consequences?
8. What were the four changes that occurred during the Early Middle Ages and what were the four things that stayed the same?
9. Although the peace movment at the beginnig of the High Middles Ages had little success in sustainingpeace, it did have some important consequences for medieval Europe. Can you describe two of the consequences?
10. Can you describe the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the rulers of medieval Western European kingdoms?
11. Why were the Crusaders a military failure for the Europeans who set out to recapture the Holy Land?
12. Can you list the three factors that led to the rise of towns and cities in 12th century Europe?
13. Considering the objective of the Crusaders, how successful were the Crusades? Considering the effect of the Crusades on the development of European culture and society, how important were the Crusades in the history of Europe?
14. Can you describe two effects of the Black Death on European society and were these effects positive or negative? and Why?
15. How did peasants' revolt erupt in many parts of Europe during the last half of the 14th century?
16. Can you describe the effects of the Avignonese papacy, the Great Schism and the sale of indulgences on the Roman Catholic Church?
If you goin to refer them in the articles, please tell me article's name and tell me which sentence is which and this is not homework because these questions I made up to know about the Middle Ages.
Thank you. (Above user is User talk:76.64.129.188)
I see Mr Murdstone is getting ever more demanding! From Greece, through Rome and now into the Middle Ages. My, my; all those double-Gloucester cheeses! Clio the Muse 04:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)\
Any teacher would be insane to set that much homework. I guess that (given the time of year) this is more in the nature of exam preparation and the popular sport of "question spotting" from past papers. I've started Wikilinking key words in the questions, which will help provide answers for the questioner to discover for themselves. Other editors are welcome to help with this process. And Clio... restrain yourself. I can imagine you spending the next 6 months on this question! -- Dweller 07:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I've linked some more. But these sound like a list of possible essay questions on a final exam for a Medieval Europe survey class, from which the students will have a choice of four and will have to answer two, or some such combination. Adam Bishop 14:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Something tells me that even Clio wouldn't spend 6 months here to answer all of them. That said, the RD is something to be used sparingly. She can answer all of them if she wants, but personally I would doubt it! The RD ought to be used for occassional questions - even if one of them is sheer trivia, only wondering, that's alright. But we might as well say "Please write me a Detailed History of Time". As for homework, we could of course be dealing with a list of past papers, couldn't we? It doesn't have to be homework for it to be even vaguely school related. martianlostinspace 14:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC) And please sign your messages. Especially for our most ethusiastic user! martianlostinspace 15:01, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
This is several bridges too far, even for Clio the Muse. The Muse will treat seriously what needs and deserves to be treated seriously. The 'scatter-gun' approach falls outwith my orbit. I feel sure, though, that Mr Murdstone will have all of the answers! Clio the Muse 22:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I would like to know something more on the origins of the Grail quest stories. Thanks
Sirs, I would be interested to know how the political right in Germany made use of the image of Bismarck in the period up to the Third Reich. My thanks E. G. A.. Husserl 08:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, Miss Clio. An excellent answer, as always. My regards E. G. A.. Husserl 05:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Is there a word for a product which is so successful that it becomes the common name for the item? Two examples that I can think of are
hoover for vacuum cleaner, and recently,
iPod is becoming a common name for any mp3 player. If there isn't really a word for it, i'd still love to see other examples.
213.48.15.234
08:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I have been trying to find this out for a while, but haven't so I came here. I want to know what the oldest building still in use is. By this I mean a building which is still used for what it was originally intended, but not including monuments, tombs, &c. Can anyone help? HS7 11:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
The Western Wall is the oldest of the three. It does still fulfil its original function (a retaining wall) although this has become very much a secondary function today.
Not a bad start, but I'd guess someone can come up with something older than c.2500 years old. -- Dweller 15:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
People still try to use Stonehenge as a place of worship, although that may not have been its intended purpose. Adam Bishop 16:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me what day July 1, 1967 fell on? Tks. Rhapsody55 14:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Moved here from the Science desk. 83.79.167.221 15:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Looking through a book recently I saw that Native Americans had built big religious sites similar to the non-stone precursor of Stonehenge in the UK, plus they had made very large images of a bear etc. on the surface of the earth, similar to corresponding images of people or horses in stone-age britain (I forget the name for these), and the even larger images discovered in a desert in central america somewhere. Bearing in mind that an image of the Buddha was discovered among viking artefacts in Denmark some years ago, has anyone every conjectured that thousands of years there was a global religion with perhaps very limited communication between different continents? 80.2.212.97 12:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
People have conjectured most things :) A lot of people seem to have come up with ideas similar to this, there may even be something about it on wikipedia :) Or maybe they weer right and all of them were inspired separately by the same god(s) :] HS7 13:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Are APY and APR mathematically identical, but APY is used when you are the creditor, and APR when you are the debtor, so it's only a matter of context? Thanks. - MSTCrow 17:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
In a recent question on Vladimir Putin Clio the Muse mentioned the 'bagman' and 'cigarette lighter' economy that emerged in Russia after the Revolution of 1917. I've been trying to uncover some more information on this with no success. It obviously refer to some form of 'poverty economy, but what precisely was it? Gordon Nash 17:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Gordon. Picture, if you will, an economy in an almost total state of collapse; one where the transport system has almost ceased to function; where money has little or no value; one where the country has almost ceased trading with the towns. Picture still further millions of hungry townspeople; working and hungry, or unemployed and hungry. What then happens is the emergence of economies below the economy; a world with people on the move; of barter and bargaining, of exchange of goods without the medium of money. Welcome to the post-apocalyptic world of the bagman!
The almost complete collapse of consumer production during the war, coupled with rapid price inflation, meant that the Russian peasantry were no longer willing to dispense with their produce for worthless paper currency. Even when they did there was simply nothing to buy, or goods available were far too expensive. History then began to slip into reverse gear, as the cities returned to the country, and the country returned to forms of economic self-sufficiency not seen since the Middle Ages. Large cities like Petrograd and Moscow lost as much as half to three-quarters of their pre-war population, as people took whatever tansport they could to return to the land, a process illustrated in Boris Pasternak's novel, Doctor Zhivago. It was even said at the time that the Bolshevik party was becoming the "vanguard of a non-existent class."
Those who did not leave the cities altogether took to petty trade to keep themselves alive, 'bagging', as it was called. By 1918 the provinces of Tambov, Kursk, Kazan, Simbirsk and Saratov saw the descent of approximately 100,000 urban 'bagmen' every month. In their bags they brought tools, fuel, scrap-iron, anything, basically, that could be traded for food. Some made goods, using materials stolen from their place of work, that could be used in barter. A whole variety of things were manufactured, from pen-knives to ploughs; but one of the most common barter goods was the cigarette lighter, which gave the name of 'cigarette-lighterism' (zazhigolochnichestvo) to the whole phenomenon. It only really came to an end when things began to stabilise after the introduction of the New Economic Policy, and the return to a settled system of monetary exchange. Bagmanism was truly desperate period in Russian history, which, to some degree, made a reapperance in the 1990s. Clio the Muse 00:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm putting out a request to anyone who might have information on the duties of the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. I have been unable to find any information on the Department of Justice website or the U.S. Government Manual.
thank you.
Sorry but there's very limited information on this office on Wikipedia. However, here are some people who occupied that office: Paul McNulty, William Moschella, William W. Mercer. 82.152.219.170 10:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC) converted to wikilink syntax by Tamfang 23:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC))
Is it possible for clay pottery to be decorated with glass pieces or glass shards?
I'm wondering whether there is a resource for identifying ALL the musical instruments around the world, and their number, as well as ideally also photographs or drawings of the musical instruments. I've googled variations of this question and key words, and not come up with anything comprehensive. There is a big list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_instruments However, I don't think it's intended (yet) as a full list - or is it? I would be greateful to receive either a referral to a resource or a suggestion on how I might look for it, or perhaps the answer to how many musical instruments there are. Thanks!
Hello,
I'm looking for a "philosophy textbook", in french or english, i mean a (very) big book that would be ok to read for beginners and that would cover all philosophy, not very deep of course, but with quite a lot of details (much more than an introduction book to philosophy).
It would have to be a book that's pleasant to read in a row, with a time continuity i guess... Much like the 1'000 pages science textbooks, with a lot of pictures, history links, exemples, and so on.
Is it an utopy?
Thanks in advance.
Maybe it would be helpful to learn what philosophical problems most immediately interest you -- what would compel someone to read a thousand pages of philosophy? For a broad to the history of problems, I agree with the Blackburn text. But philosophy is a broad discipline. Maybe first narrow down your interests? Llamabr 04:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Read Sophie's World. It explains the basics of the history of philosophy in a few hundred pages disguised as a children's novel. And it was a bestseller in Europe. - MelancholyDanish
Sophies' World is great, OK, great lite, but it will explain a little about a lot and then you can dive deeper into the ideas that interest you-- Eudaiomonia 12:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
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what/who is the sponsor of wikipedia (website) ? i need to know for my project> bibliography and it is due tomorrow.
If you want to cite specific facts, you could also use the sources themselves cited at the bottom of each article. Teachers rarely complain if you say "According to the NY Times/BBC/Kathmandu Post, etc.". martianlostinspace 14:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I got 16 questions about the Midddle Ages.
1. How effective at spreading Christianity were the laws passed by the Byzantine emperors? They were fairly effective. The succeeded for example in closing the plato academy the center of pagan intellectual thought. Many pagans as a result of laws and lack of support either coverted or left christiandom.
2. How did the Emperor Justinian bring the unity to the Byzantine Empire? He wrote
3. How did the withdrawal of Roman forces from Western Europe contribute to spread of Christianity in this area? answer: the withdrawal of roman forces from western europe contributed to the spread of cristianity in that area because with the roman forces away from western eruope emperor Justinian was able to invade said areas. The people of those areas were usually converted by force. When a christian king successfully invaded a non-Christian neighbouring teritory, the conquered people were usually required to become christians.
4. What was the significance of the crowning of Charlemagne by the pope on Christmas Day, 800? By the Justinans emperorship being dependenet on papal preogative justinain has suborbinated himself to the pope. This high profile expression of the popes authority helped stregnthen the rule that the pope was superior to christiandomes secular kings. Furthermore it helped guarteed that the pope would never become subordinate to any king. 5. Can you described the nature of education in the Early Middle Ages, including who was educated and what was studied? Education tended to be informal parents and grandparents taught their children their occupations. Their where no universities and few schools. Literacy was the exception. Virtually no peasents learned to read. Much of the aristocracy, including the most powerful kings, where also illiterate. The only class who tended to be educated was the clerical and scribe class.
6. Can you described the impact of the Vikings on Europe before 1000?
7. Although the peace movment at the beginnig of the High Middles Ages had little success in sustainingpeace, it did have some important consequences for medieval Europe. Can you describe two of the consequences?
8. What were the four changes that occurred during the Early Middle Ages and what were the four things that stayed the same?
9. Although the peace movment at the beginnig of the High Middles Ages had little success in sustainingpeace, it did have some important consequences for medieval Europe. Can you describe two of the consequences?
10. Can you describe the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the rulers of medieval Western European kingdoms?
11. Why were the Crusaders a military failure for the Europeans who set out to recapture the Holy Land?
12. Can you list the three factors that led to the rise of towns and cities in 12th century Europe?
13. Considering the objective of the Crusaders, how successful were the Crusades? Considering the effect of the Crusades on the development of European culture and society, how important were the Crusades in the history of Europe?
14. Can you describe two effects of the Black Death on European society and were these effects positive or negative? and Why?
15. How did peasants' revolt erupt in many parts of Europe during the last half of the 14th century?
16. Can you describe the effects of the Avignonese papacy, the Great Schism and the sale of indulgences on the Roman Catholic Church?
If you goin to refer them in the articles, please tell me article's name and tell me which sentence is which and this is not homework because these questions I made up to know about the Middle Ages.
Thank you. (Above user is User talk:76.64.129.188)
I see Mr Murdstone is getting ever more demanding! From Greece, through Rome and now into the Middle Ages. My, my; all those double-Gloucester cheeses! Clio the Muse 04:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)\
Any teacher would be insane to set that much homework. I guess that (given the time of year) this is more in the nature of exam preparation and the popular sport of "question spotting" from past papers. I've started Wikilinking key words in the questions, which will help provide answers for the questioner to discover for themselves. Other editors are welcome to help with this process. And Clio... restrain yourself. I can imagine you spending the next 6 months on this question! -- Dweller 07:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I've linked some more. But these sound like a list of possible essay questions on a final exam for a Medieval Europe survey class, from which the students will have a choice of four and will have to answer two, or some such combination. Adam Bishop 14:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Something tells me that even Clio wouldn't spend 6 months here to answer all of them. That said, the RD is something to be used sparingly. She can answer all of them if she wants, but personally I would doubt it! The RD ought to be used for occassional questions - even if one of them is sheer trivia, only wondering, that's alright. But we might as well say "Please write me a Detailed History of Time". As for homework, we could of course be dealing with a list of past papers, couldn't we? It doesn't have to be homework for it to be even vaguely school related. martianlostinspace 14:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC) And please sign your messages. Especially for our most ethusiastic user! martianlostinspace 15:01, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
This is several bridges too far, even for Clio the Muse. The Muse will treat seriously what needs and deserves to be treated seriously. The 'scatter-gun' approach falls outwith my orbit. I feel sure, though, that Mr Murdstone will have all of the answers! Clio the Muse 22:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I would like to know something more on the origins of the Grail quest stories. Thanks
Sirs, I would be interested to know how the political right in Germany made use of the image of Bismarck in the period up to the Third Reich. My thanks E. G. A.. Husserl 08:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, Miss Clio. An excellent answer, as always. My regards E. G. A.. Husserl 05:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Is there a word for a product which is so successful that it becomes the common name for the item? Two examples that I can think of are
hoover for vacuum cleaner, and recently,
iPod is becoming a common name for any mp3 player. If there isn't really a word for it, i'd still love to see other examples.
213.48.15.234
08:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I have been trying to find this out for a while, but haven't so I came here. I want to know what the oldest building still in use is. By this I mean a building which is still used for what it was originally intended, but not including monuments, tombs, &c. Can anyone help? HS7 11:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
The Western Wall is the oldest of the three. It does still fulfil its original function (a retaining wall) although this has become very much a secondary function today.
Not a bad start, but I'd guess someone can come up with something older than c.2500 years old. -- Dweller 15:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
People still try to use Stonehenge as a place of worship, although that may not have been its intended purpose. Adam Bishop 16:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me what day July 1, 1967 fell on? Tks. Rhapsody55 14:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Moved here from the Science desk. 83.79.167.221 15:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Looking through a book recently I saw that Native Americans had built big religious sites similar to the non-stone precursor of Stonehenge in the UK, plus they had made very large images of a bear etc. on the surface of the earth, similar to corresponding images of people or horses in stone-age britain (I forget the name for these), and the even larger images discovered in a desert in central america somewhere. Bearing in mind that an image of the Buddha was discovered among viking artefacts in Denmark some years ago, has anyone every conjectured that thousands of years there was a global religion with perhaps very limited communication between different continents? 80.2.212.97 12:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
People have conjectured most things :) A lot of people seem to have come up with ideas similar to this, there may even be something about it on wikipedia :) Or maybe they weer right and all of them were inspired separately by the same god(s) :] HS7 13:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Are APY and APR mathematically identical, but APY is used when you are the creditor, and APR when you are the debtor, so it's only a matter of context? Thanks. - MSTCrow 17:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
In a recent question on Vladimir Putin Clio the Muse mentioned the 'bagman' and 'cigarette lighter' economy that emerged in Russia after the Revolution of 1917. I've been trying to uncover some more information on this with no success. It obviously refer to some form of 'poverty economy, but what precisely was it? Gordon Nash 17:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Gordon. Picture, if you will, an economy in an almost total state of collapse; one where the transport system has almost ceased to function; where money has little or no value; one where the country has almost ceased trading with the towns. Picture still further millions of hungry townspeople; working and hungry, or unemployed and hungry. What then happens is the emergence of economies below the economy; a world with people on the move; of barter and bargaining, of exchange of goods without the medium of money. Welcome to the post-apocalyptic world of the bagman!
The almost complete collapse of consumer production during the war, coupled with rapid price inflation, meant that the Russian peasantry were no longer willing to dispense with their produce for worthless paper currency. Even when they did there was simply nothing to buy, or goods available were far too expensive. History then began to slip into reverse gear, as the cities returned to the country, and the country returned to forms of economic self-sufficiency not seen since the Middle Ages. Large cities like Petrograd and Moscow lost as much as half to three-quarters of their pre-war population, as people took whatever tansport they could to return to the land, a process illustrated in Boris Pasternak's novel, Doctor Zhivago. It was even said at the time that the Bolshevik party was becoming the "vanguard of a non-existent class."
Those who did not leave the cities altogether took to petty trade to keep themselves alive, 'bagging', as it was called. By 1918 the provinces of Tambov, Kursk, Kazan, Simbirsk and Saratov saw the descent of approximately 100,000 urban 'bagmen' every month. In their bags they brought tools, fuel, scrap-iron, anything, basically, that could be traded for food. Some made goods, using materials stolen from their place of work, that could be used in barter. A whole variety of things were manufactured, from pen-knives to ploughs; but one of the most common barter goods was the cigarette lighter, which gave the name of 'cigarette-lighterism' (zazhigolochnichestvo) to the whole phenomenon. It only really came to an end when things began to stabilise after the introduction of the New Economic Policy, and the return to a settled system of monetary exchange. Bagmanism was truly desperate period in Russian history, which, to some degree, made a reapperance in the 1990s. Clio the Muse 00:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm putting out a request to anyone who might have information on the duties of the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. I have been unable to find any information on the Department of Justice website or the U.S. Government Manual.
thank you.
Sorry but there's very limited information on this office on Wikipedia. However, here are some people who occupied that office: Paul McNulty, William Moschella, William W. Mercer. 82.152.219.170 10:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC) converted to wikilink syntax by Tamfang 23:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC))
Is it possible for clay pottery to be decorated with glass pieces or glass shards?
I'm wondering whether there is a resource for identifying ALL the musical instruments around the world, and their number, as well as ideally also photographs or drawings of the musical instruments. I've googled variations of this question and key words, and not come up with anything comprehensive. There is a big list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_instruments However, I don't think it's intended (yet) as a full list - or is it? I would be greateful to receive either a referral to a resource or a suggestion on how I might look for it, or perhaps the answer to how many musical instruments there are. Thanks!
Hello,
I'm looking for a "philosophy textbook", in french or english, i mean a (very) big book that would be ok to read for beginners and that would cover all philosophy, not very deep of course, but with quite a lot of details (much more than an introduction book to philosophy).
It would have to be a book that's pleasant to read in a row, with a time continuity i guess... Much like the 1'000 pages science textbooks, with a lot of pictures, history links, exemples, and so on.
Is it an utopy?
Thanks in advance.
Maybe it would be helpful to learn what philosophical problems most immediately interest you -- what would compel someone to read a thousand pages of philosophy? For a broad to the history of problems, I agree with the Blackburn text. But philosophy is a broad discipline. Maybe first narrow down your interests? Llamabr 04:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Read Sophie's World. It explains the basics of the history of philosophy in a few hundred pages disguised as a children's novel. And it was a bestseller in Europe. - MelancholyDanish
Sophies' World is great, OK, great lite, but it will explain a little about a lot and then you can dive deeper into the ideas that interest you-- Eudaiomonia 12:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)