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Do gulags still exist in North Korea? 203.188.92.70 ( talk) 03:55, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
For instance international corporate law is shockingly Anglo-American. 95 of the largest firms are UK/USA and a few of the remaining are Australian. Shipbuilding according to the latest stats (our article needs catchup) is 90-something% East Asian. Many European countries fully participate in international finance/business and have high English fluency so the composition of the list is shocking. Many American/European countries had as late as the 70s, the majority of expertise and infrastructure, so how did that reversal happen? Anyways, can you think of any other you-would-think open industry that is so dominated? Lotsofissues ( talk) 07:37, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
If everything has a residual risk, why do so many people consider treasury bonds risk free? Mr.K. (talk) 10:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
What kind of information can't be found online? Mr.K. (talk) 10:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
What kind of information can't be found for free? Mr.K. (talk) 10:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Why do banks care where we really live? Is that regulated by law? Or do they need our addresses for a potential civil law litigation? Mr.K. (talk) 11:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
do all stringed players? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.120.232.170 ( talk) 13:40, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
where do I buy fly"s eye domes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.144.127.86 ( talk) 14:51, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm from Michigan, and I know it's a strongly democratic state (or at least it has been for the past several presidential elections), and I was just wondering when the last time was when a Republican presidential candidate won in Michigan. -- Alinnisawest, Dalek Empress ( extermination requests here) 18:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The question of the "birthplace of the Republican party" is actually kind of indeterminate, since "Anti-Nebraska" meetings and coalition groups fairly spontaneously sprung up all over the northern U.S. in response to the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. The place of the first meeting to use the word "Republican" to describe itself (or the first meeting for which there is currently-surviving evidence that it used the word "Republican") does not mark the founding of the Republican party in any very meaningful sense... AnonMoos ( talk) 05:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Can I know the processus of appointment of high personalities in USA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.207.217.5 ( talk) 18:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Salutations. I'm planning on writing an article on Meinong's Jungle, and I want to see if there are other similar articles I should look at first. The basic topic is the problem of bearerless names; that is, "how can we refer to things that don't exist?", "why is it that people seem to have serious converstaions about Harry Potter when there is no such person" etc. However, I can't find articles on The present King of France (a famous example), problem of bearerless names, non-referring names etc. The question arose most prominently around the birth of analytic philosophy amidst exchanges between Alexius Meinong, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russel. There's an article on the theory of descriptions, but that is only a solution to the problem. Can anyone find the Wikipedia article I am looking for? the skomorokh 20:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Maybe you'll like definite description better than theory of descriptions? - Nunh-huh 04:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you Algebraist for hitting the jackpot, and everyone else for the entertaining sideshow! the skomorokh 12:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
Wikipedia's article on the Aroostook War says that in February 1839, Mainers heard that the Mohawks had offered their military support to Quebec. I need to know the origin (reference, citation) for that fact, for an article I am writing on early West Branch Penobscot settlers. Mainehist ( talk) 23:26, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
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Do gulags still exist in North Korea? 203.188.92.70 ( talk) 03:55, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
For instance international corporate law is shockingly Anglo-American. 95 of the largest firms are UK/USA and a few of the remaining are Australian. Shipbuilding according to the latest stats (our article needs catchup) is 90-something% East Asian. Many European countries fully participate in international finance/business and have high English fluency so the composition of the list is shocking. Many American/European countries had as late as the 70s, the majority of expertise and infrastructure, so how did that reversal happen? Anyways, can you think of any other you-would-think open industry that is so dominated? Lotsofissues ( talk) 07:37, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
If everything has a residual risk, why do so many people consider treasury bonds risk free? Mr.K. (talk) 10:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
What kind of information can't be found online? Mr.K. (talk) 10:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
What kind of information can't be found for free? Mr.K. (talk) 10:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Why do banks care where we really live? Is that regulated by law? Or do they need our addresses for a potential civil law litigation? Mr.K. (talk) 11:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
do all stringed players? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.120.232.170 ( talk) 13:40, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
where do I buy fly"s eye domes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.144.127.86 ( talk) 14:51, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm from Michigan, and I know it's a strongly democratic state (or at least it has been for the past several presidential elections), and I was just wondering when the last time was when a Republican presidential candidate won in Michigan. -- Alinnisawest, Dalek Empress ( extermination requests here) 18:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The question of the "birthplace of the Republican party" is actually kind of indeterminate, since "Anti-Nebraska" meetings and coalition groups fairly spontaneously sprung up all over the northern U.S. in response to the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854. The place of the first meeting to use the word "Republican" to describe itself (or the first meeting for which there is currently-surviving evidence that it used the word "Republican") does not mark the founding of the Republican party in any very meaningful sense... AnonMoos ( talk) 05:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Can I know the processus of appointment of high personalities in USA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.207.217.5 ( talk) 18:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Salutations. I'm planning on writing an article on Meinong's Jungle, and I want to see if there are other similar articles I should look at first. The basic topic is the problem of bearerless names; that is, "how can we refer to things that don't exist?", "why is it that people seem to have serious converstaions about Harry Potter when there is no such person" etc. However, I can't find articles on The present King of France (a famous example), problem of bearerless names, non-referring names etc. The question arose most prominently around the birth of analytic philosophy amidst exchanges between Alexius Meinong, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russel. There's an article on the theory of descriptions, but that is only a solution to the problem. Can anyone find the Wikipedia article I am looking for? the skomorokh 20:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Maybe you'll like definite description better than theory of descriptions? - Nunh-huh 04:14, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you Algebraist for hitting the jackpot, and everyone else for the entertaining sideshow! the skomorokh 12:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
Wikipedia's article on the Aroostook War says that in February 1839, Mainers heard that the Mohawks had offered their military support to Quebec. I need to know the origin (reference, citation) for that fact, for an article I am writing on early West Branch Penobscot settlers. Mainehist ( talk) 23:26, 7 October 2008 (UTC)