Hi, I recently came across an authentic Jack Dempsey autograph found in an old album of my fathers. My father has the date as January 1, 1933, but the Dempsey autograph was dated January 18, 1933. It was given to my father at the Colonial Theater in Allentown, Penna. My question is: What was Dempsey doing there on that date? I have tried to research on my own, but I can't find anything. I would like to have a little history on why Dempsey was there. Thank you for any help you may have Patrick B
Dear Pat: Hi! Im a boxing expert as well as wikipedia contributor in a well developed group of areas unrelated to boxing. Im a staunch boxing and aviation fan.
As far as your question, I can't answer what was Dempsey doing there (watching a movie, perhaps?) but I can tell you that the Dempsey autograph sells in the thousands,. I wish I had that autograph! You might not be able to buy a house or pay your kid's college tuition with its money's worth, but 1,500 to 2,000 dollars always makes up for a nice pay-off to go on a shopping spree or who knows maybe even a small vacation!
Where is the information (for Wikipedia articles) for a research papaer?
There is no correct answer, but: in your opinion, which is the best university in the United States (or any other English-speaking country, if you're so inclined) for those wishing to study physics? -- Itai 16:35, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Also UCLA , Stanford , Berkeley (I've never heard of Georgia tech) theresa knott 23:40, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The US News Graduate rankings (2002) give:
The National Research Council Report in Quality of PhD education (1995) gives:
-- Jia ng 23:54, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
When water evaporates, why is it considered to be in the gaseous state? Isn't the gaseous state supposed to be over 100°C at 1A? -- [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 19:16, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)
Is anyone aware of any free/open source HR software?
HRIS software for managing benefits, tracking employee information, tracking resumes, etc...
About how many World War1 Veterans are still alive?
Thanks!
Let me be more specific, about how many World War1 Veterans are still alive in United States, Canada and the world?
Thanks!
I have learnt that the external L2 cache of the Pentium processor was created to address the heat problems created by the L1 on the processor - (The size of L1 is limited). Now in the recent tech magazine I read, it says that the L1 and L2 are both embedded in the pentium 4 chip. So why have an L2 in the first place? -- [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 19:16, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)
Is Fayetteville an two or three syllabel word?
Thank you!
Was United States the first country or place to use the word "United" and "States" ? Thanks!
Slightly off topic, but related, and thought it good to add here. "America" originally referred to the Southern Hemispheric continent now generally known as South America. At one point, there was an "America" and a "North America", "South America" was a term that came later. Now of course, most of the world calls the United States, "America". Pedant 16:59, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
As part of what looks like it will be a long and arduous effort to NPOV Left-wing_politics#Leftism.2C_Pacifism_and_.22War_on_Terror.22, I am trying to document the statements of some of the more left-leaning U.S. elected officials in the immediate wake of the September 11 attacks. I suspect I'm going to have to do a bunch of library research in newspapers from the few days after the attacks, because I can't think of a good Internet search strategy for this. If anyone has a good Internet search strategy, I'd love to hear it. I'd also be interested in suggestions for who most likely would have said something quotable. Offhand, I'm thinking Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, Tom Harkin, Jim McDermott, Bernie Sanders, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, Peter DeFazio, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Mel Watt, Henry Waxman. My conjecture is that their condemnations of the attacks were more forthright and les contextualized than, say, that of Noam Chomsky, but I lack documentation for this. -- Jmabel 06:51, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
Maybe I'm blind, but at http://thomas.loc.gov I see how to get the text of bills, but not the text of debates. What's the trick? -- Jmabel 06:21, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
How does Agastya relate to Babaji, who brought Kriya Yoga teachings back into modern day knowledge via the lineage of Lahiri Mahashai, Sri Yukteswar and Paramahansa Yogananda?
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Does anyone have a good, public domain image of a crop circle? - Bevo 14:14, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
("Outdented" for readability) It would be fairly easy to make (in Bryce, etc.) an 'artist rendition' of a crop circle that looks real. Also GPS-controlled tractors/mowers etc. can be modified to do this, as in the corn mazes that have shown up recently, and the Earth Art done in similar ways. Not that there aren't aliens beaming these things into existence, that's also possible. I don't think most alien cultures would be leaving tire tracks in the field though. I'll see what I can do about finding one that looks real and is Public Domain, though. Pedant 17:36, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
My dad, John Slavish was born in Yugoslavia in 12/19/19. He came to the United States when he was a small child. He served in WWll in the Army and at Normandy. He now has moved to live with his daughter because he has alzheimer's disease. He has lost all his papers, such as birth certificate, baptismal certificate, marriage license and so on because he doesn't remember what he did with them when he took them out of a safety deposit box 3 years ago. I am a square one. I have had to put John in the Madison Valley Manor because of his disease and would like to put him on medicaid but I can not do that without his citizenship papers. Where would I look to find these? I have his social security number, date of birth, and also his power of attorney. Please help as I cannot leave John in the Manor and pay for his care myself and Medicaid will not help me without his paperwork. Thanks Shirley Badura
Can someone link me or otherwise provide a transliteration of the Hail Mary in Sanskrit [2]? Any sort of lossless transliteration is fine. -- Xiaopo ℑ 20:21, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
I had my mom help me.. she took Sanskrit when she was in high school. Here's what we came up with:
Namastubhyam hai marve krupapurne. Prabhustvdha sakam. Dhamyat(h)ama twam shishu dhanyashwatavoder falamoshu. Hai parashudhamarye janani surveshwuradhya paryavarsmankrute * ghunachasmasaralasamayech eva mastu.
where the * is the S-looking character near the beginning of the third row. She couldn't figure out what that was. Salasks 03:41, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
I want to know how to add metadata to PNG files using the GIMP (for windows). [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 21:01, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
I would like very much to know what was new in each new version of microsoft word. I can not find this information anywhere. It is my desire to compare the versions to see if it was really necessary to create a new version or if the differences did not show that it was really necessary and we went to the new version only to access the new docs. Thanks.
Raymundo de Oliveira
raymundo.oliveira@terra.com.br
Well, since the first Microsoft Word version was made for DOS in 1983, I think it's safe to say there have been plenty of developments other than mere bloating since then. Whether those developments have substantially improved the program's usefulness is another question. At any rate, Google is your friend. A quick search is likely to turn up a number of historical accounts of Word's developmental history. Here's one. -- Wapcaplet 02:29, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Next time leave a short question, even if your headline covers it, so it's easier to read. Anyway, click the link for Africa Historical Maps. The UTexas site is the best for all maps. Salasks 08:09, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
i heard someone singing a childrens song the other day, and i've been wanting to find out the title (and possibly the lyrics too, i guess)
all i know is it was referred to as 'the spook song' and the beginning goes 's-p-double-o-k, skull and crossbones lead the way'. Thepedestrian 20:45, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)
It's the " Yale POTUS" cheer. Salasks 07:53, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
I was recently visiting a publisher's website, when I found a book currently published by them that I had bought before. But my book has a different publisher's name on it. The cover design and content all seem to be the same. So my question is: did the new publisher buy the design along with the rights to publish from the old publisher? Is it ever possible for a book to be simultaneously published by several publishers--i.e., through some kind of agreement? 61.52.75.71 20:47, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
According to the Raffles Institution article, the RI is widely considered the most prestigious school in Singapore. Is this a fair statement? Salasks 08:11, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
Have any characters appeared in 3 or 4 different Star Trek franchises?
Hi, I need to add my spouse to my homeowner property title. Where and how to do that? Thank you. Alex Lazo, Atlanta, GA altora@netzero.net
What is the name for the shape of a racecourse? (Rectangle with two semicircles at the sides) [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 20:51, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
discussion archived to Image talk:Wfm monument valley annotated.jpg by Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:34, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
What's a good web reference for taxonomy? I couldn't find anything on the WikiProject Tree of Life page, but perhaps I'm not looking hard enough. I want to, for instance, be able to say "Banded Hare-Wallaby" and be given enough taxonomic information to fill out a taxobox. I seem to remember a four-letter thing beginning with an I that did this. Any help here? grendel| khan 23:13, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)
I recently had the fun of driving from Chicago to the Pacific on (mostly) Interstate 80. (No sarcasm here; I liked it.) In the middle of Wyoming I saw a sign announcing the Continental divide. Some miles later, I saw another. I was waiting eagerly (with Leonhard Euler breathing down my neck) for the third one, but it never came. Oddly enough, I still got to San Francisco, which therefore must be on the Atlantic coast or topologically impossible.
Now I see that the diagram in the Wikipedia article shows the divide dividing in two in the middle of Wyoming, leaving a sort of island that's neither east nor west. What's going on there? Does I-80 go through a basin with no drainage in the middle of the divide? Can there be any sense in saying that you're crossing the continental divide when you cross a divide into that basin or out of it? Dandrake 00:28, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
This should perhaps be at Requested articles instead, but I'm not sure about the right lemma:
In the USA, what exactly does it mean to be(come) a registered Democrat or registered Republican, as in Bill O'Reilly was a registered Republican? (I sort of know, but am not sure enough to write it myself.) It's an expression not widely known outside of the US, so an article or an appropriate redirect would definitely be appreciated. Sorry if I overlooked an existing one. regards, High on a tree 01:06, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thanks to everybody for their well-informed answers. It seems things are a bit more complicated than I thought - there are actually states where one has to state a party affiliation when registering to vote for, say, the presidential election? And registration for the primaries is always handled by a state election office, not by the party itself?
As Finlay said, it would be a pity if the information above would not make it into the article space. I would suggest creating registered party affiliate (U.S.) or something like that, and having registered Democrat and registered Republican redirect to it (since the latter are the terms most likely to be sought after). I'd prefer someone knowledgeable to write this up, but if nothing happens, I will try my best and summarize the above sometime during the next weeks. regards, High on a tree 23:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Three questions on the nature of babism.
--metta, The Sunborn 01:51, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
My grandfather, Abraham Andisman, born 1891 lived to the age of 95. He was one of twelve children, and their family emigrated from Russia to Rosenhayn, New Jersey probably sometime in the early to mid 1880s. Is there any way I could find a copy of his birth certificate? Are there any elderly residents of Rosenhayn who might remember the Andisman family. They worked their own farm for many years in Rosenhayn, and were some of the first Jewish farming settlers in the area. I don't remember his parents' name. My mother, who is 88 this December, would probably remember her grandparents' names, and several of her aunts and uncles...my grandfather's brothers and sisters. When I get that information, can anyone out there recommend a person or office I might contact? My mom's maiden name is therefore, Andisman. She married a man named Ralph Cherashore, my father deceased since 1979.
Thank you anyone for your assistance.
Harold Cherashore email: harrisshore@sbcglobal.net
I've planted a bunch of stuff in my deck garden over the past couple of years - perennials, annuals. Other people have too (read:parents). And we haven't always kept track of what we've planted. So now we've got a bit of a problem. There are some tall plants that are starting to overtake the deck garden, and we can't tell whether they're weeds or whether we actually planted them and they will eventually yield tall, beautiful flowers. Please help.
Click the picture for large version. Note the small blue and violet flowers that are overshadowed by the tall shooters. Salasks 18:18, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
Ok, well, that's fine I guess - I'm glad it was of some use, though the lawn was incidental to the picture and the question. Salasks 03:17, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
What's your question! Please always put a question below the heading - Adrian Pingstone 09:32, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I met Pam recently, and my aunt asked me what type of Hepatitis does she have to which I had no answer, so which type does she have? Can it be true, based on the type she has, that she only has about 8 years to live?
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She has Hepatitis C, apparently. [4] --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 14:17, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)
Well, read the article on noses. — Chameleon Main/ Talk/ Images 13:41, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I found these words in a philosophical book. By surfing the internet, I found these words mean a class of seats at the opera theater. Those are two of cheapest seats. However, that is not enough. It would be greatly appreciated if you explain those terms in gory details. Thanks in advance.
Perhaps it's the translation of the term "
peanut gallery" (Shakespeare's "penny-grubbers?"), meaning the so-called "unwashed masses". That might find its way into a philosophy encyclopedia..
Rhymeless 00:51, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
loggione -- is this equivalent to 'loge'? "Posto in piedi in galleria" (a spot on foot in the gallery) somewhat equivalent to the standing room in "standing room only' aka SRO. Peanut gallery is the cheap seats, as peanuts were considered food that only poor people ate. In Wisconsin in the 40's my grandmother used to refer to the third (or hgihest, most distant) balcony as 'nig*** heaven' (I hate that word, you know which one)... I think you could refer to the galleria numerata or galleria posto numerata as 'the cheap seats/peanut gallery/nosebleed section/'in the rafters' in colloquial English. Pedant
It's like Jeopardy!, only you get to supply the answer too. -- Wapcaplet 22:52, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Or is it 'Video Home' system? ("I'd like to thank my parents, Sinead O'connor and The Pope.") Pedant 19:35, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
What is the relation between accelerating universe, cosmic inflation, Hubble's law, event horizon, and gravitational collapse? In particular, how might an observer inside an event horizon distinguish between inflation and their own collapse? -- Eequor 10:12, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
OK I've I've had overnight to think on this, and I'm certainly no expert on general relativity, but I think you'd notice tidal effects. Towards the singularaity and towards the event horizon galaxies would appear to be moving away from us. Ok so far :-) But at right angles to these directions galaxies would appear to be moving towards us :-( Also if there were no big bang there is nothing to explain why the CMBR even existed. And there is the ratio of light elements in the universe. There is a lot of primordial helium and deuterium about, where did it all come from if not the big bang? theresa knott 07:19, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Ee, I'm not sure what the intent of your question was. The answers above might be appropriate, but such feedback as there is has so veered off from the original question as not to clarify much. So... Here's my input. The concepts you've asked about are in some respects quite different, so I'll take them one at a time. If there was a Big Bang (as all the evidence currently available suggests), then there was a time when everthing was crammed into a much smaller space than it now occupies. At some very early time (for reasons I understand are unclear to all), there was a brief period of Very Rapid expansion. That is, stuff was crammed this close and afterwards it was much less closely crammed, and afterward came very quickly. As tk points out, this had effects which are (just) still observable. We think. The guy who thought it up (Guth) is going to win the Nobel Prize one of these days (if he hasn't already, and I missed it). Well, if things aren't expanding anywhere near so fast now (14 billion years later), they are nevertheless still expanding. Hubble (after whom the telescope is named) noticed that there was a connection between speed of recession (at least from our perspective) and distance from us. It appears to be a constant linear relation. That's Hubble's Law.
Now, is the motion of everything in that expansionary way (now muuuuuch slower than it was during inflation) a constant one? If not, gravity (of everything taken together) might be strong enough to gradually slow everything down eventually, in which case things will finally reverse and start to contract. When it eventually all gets more or less to one place (the Big Crunch), that will be one kind of gravitational collapse. No one thinks that's likely just now as the measurements of how much stuff there is and how fast things are (still) expanding don't seem to leave much chance. But we've only been watching for maybe 100 years and so we may have missed something. and there is all the 'missing' matter (ie, dark matter) which is clearly present (from its observable gravitational effects here and there and mostly everywhere) but not at all well understood. And in recent years there's also been 'dark energy' which seems to be hanging around but which is even less well understood. If there isn't enough total gravity to cause the Big Crunch, will things just keep expanding (slower and slower but never quite stopping)? Or, might there be some previously unknown force which opposes gravity but only works at really long distances (or only adds up enough to be noticeable over really long distances, which is not quite the same thing exactly)? There might be, as some recent observations have suggested such a thing. If so, things might eventually be moving in an expanding way faster and faster and faster.
General Relativity (thus far the most successful of the theoretical accounts of the nature of gravity) predicts many things about how light behaves in a gravitational field. One of them is that if the field is sufficiently intense, light will be bent so strongly it can't escape from the field. When this happens to a distant galaxy's light passing near a closer galaxy we sometimes notice a lens effect, producing two images of the distant galaxy (sort of like a mirage, but with rather different causation). No one looking (from a distance) at a light inside that field will be able to see it. In fact, as a light emitter approaches such a field, there will come a place (sort of an invisible spherical shell, if you will) after which the light being emitted can no longer escape. That's an event horizon. For material objects it's only the limit of the various distances after which the object is trapped. Light, by Special Relativity, moves at the fastest possible speed and material objects can only approach that speed (with greater and greater difficulty the closer they get).
Black holes are exactly this sort of thing. With enough mass (what's left of a really big star, for instance, after it 'runs down', as it were), there will be a sufficiently intense gravitational field to overcome the repulsions of elementary particles and there will be a local Crunch. If a glop of matter isn't quite big enough to do that, it might only reduce all the particles to neutrons producing a neutron star. Anyway, black holes (but not neutron stars) show just this effect. Hence, 'black' hole. Actually there will be some radiation from it due to quantum mechanical effects (Hawking radiation, named after its discoverer) but that's a sort of quibble at this level of discussion.
Inside an event horizon, it is thought that much will 'remain the same'. For example, my candle will still be visible to me as it disappers for others, assuming I survive the various other effects (high intensity radiation, tidal effects, ...). Though there are simultanity issues here that must be considered carefully. But what I will see (modulo my survival) won't matter in some sense as whatever it can never be communicated to anyone outside the field. A one hand clapping or tree falling in the forest making noise sort of thing. Pragmatically, it won't matter as no one anywhere else will ever learn about it. But the odd effects have been the subject of many a science fiction story, some of them quite good.
Maybe this helps? ww 18:52, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
In the above-mentioned website, R.J. Nemiroff describes a surface called a photon sphere, which is the locus of orbits with an orbital velocity equal to the velocity of light -- that is, the distance at which photons may orbit a star or black hole indefinitely, neither spiraling inward nor escaping. How does this differ from an event horizon? How closely may a body in an elliptical orbit approach the speed of light? -- Eequor 16:59, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Within the event horizon of a black hole, is it possible for any signal to reach a receiver less deep in the gravity well? Would infalling observers see themselves pass through the horizon, or would the horizon seem to fall with them? -- Eequor 23:16, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
So what's the question? - Adrian Pingstone 12:30, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It's probably something about extra virgin olive oil. -- Eequor 16:12, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
clever, EEQUOR, clever, I believe you are on the right track, though, ... I think this refers to the 'anointing' of Jesus' with the Holy Ghost, giving him 'miraculous power' or the similar 'anointing' (first epistle of John ch 2, v 23 -- 29) of Jesus' folowers. aka the Gift of the Holy spirit... Pedant 19:56, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
I read some information somewhere about Amerigo Vespucci's name wasn't Amerigo, is this true? Also, I read somewhere America is not name after Amerigo Vespucci, is this true too? -- Thanks!
(follow-up question) Is there any proof about Amerigo Vespucci changing his first name? Plus the name Amerigo, was that name around before 1492 or before the first Europeans were in the Americas? Thanks!
"America" originally referred to the Southern Hemispheric continent now generally known as South America. At one point, there was an "America" and a "North America", "South America" was a term that came later. FWIW
Pedant 21:22, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
You have no idea how tempting it is just to leave the heading as the "question". But what I really want to know is about frying. Whenever I fry something I'm never sure how hot I've got the oil. Flicking a little water from my fingertips into the oil gives me some indication, but seems a little hit and miss. Has anyone got any tips that will help me know when to put in my egg? At the moment it either sinks and sticks to the bottom as the oil is too cold, or it bubbles alarmingly, shooting geysers of hot fat in my direction. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 01:03, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
Eggs should be fried in pretty cool fat. Get a good non stick frying pan, add a little oil or lard and let the egg sink. Chips on the other hand need hotter fat. Cook them over a medium heat (testing by adding a single chip, it should bubble gently. When they look cooked (changes from semitransparent to white) take them out. Heat the fat up to hot - it has to be oil- lard will burn. You can tell by looking at it when it's ready the suface moves slightly but test with a single chip it should brown in about 30 seconds. Brown all the chips in the hot fat. Note that if you add raw chips to fat this hot you will set fire to your kitchen. Have fun. theresa knott 07:31, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Is there a difference between a proslepsis and a prolepsis? -- Edcolins 19:59, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
Don't believe everything you don't read in the dictionary. Wikipedia has articles on the two terms, and they are different. -- Heron 13:47, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
You can say they are paronyms, as they are both from the same root lambanein, to take. Only the prefixes are different: pros- means 'toward', and pro- means 'before'. :-) -- Heron 20:54, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Actually I think they are both. According to The Oxford Companion to the English Language, cognates are words related by descent, "especially" [but, I infer, not "only"] across languages. -- Heron 19:40, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
P.S. I'm not sure if this applies to words with different prefixes, like your examples, so perhaps I am wrong to call these cognates. -- Heron 19:45, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I infer that pros- and pro- are related; the former, "toward, to, in front," is an alteration of proti (which looks like an extension of pro) that was influenced by a dialectal preposition pos ("toward"). Got that? -- Gelu Ignisque
I have another question about prolepsis. In the article prolepsis, would someone kindly give me an example of sense #3, the grammatical sense? -- Gelu Ignisque
Lassen County Salasks 22:20, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
My name is Sharon Allen and I live in Maine. I would like to find any information on my father Foster Fiske Jones who lived in Celmsford and died in 1960. I never got to see or know him but I would like to find someone who may have know him, or might have a picture to share. My Email address is:
Thank you for any help provided. Sharon
Can you please provide some online references, links etc which describe the recent dewvelopments in Electronics. Bharath 06:41, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
How do you pronounce Richard Amerike last name? Thanks!
There is a song, (I think it's a drinking song, or at least I seem to remember it being used on an advert for beer here in the UK many years ago), that is going round in my head but that I can't quite manage to remember what the lyrics are. It is something like Bar Bar the Bull Bull emir, although that's obviously nonsense. It's a Turkish chap and a russian chap and that's about all I can remember of it. If anyone can make something from these few morsels I'd be most grateful. 22:23, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Seems like I remember Hawkeye singing bits of this on MASH, too. -- Wapcaplet 03:36, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
How are popes names decided - is the man himself given the complete right to decide? Could, for example, a pope name himself "Pope Cowboy Bob" if it weren't controvertial... Or do cardinals "assist" him. --[[User:OldakQuill| Oldak Quill]] 10:21, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
from the HowSutffWorks article " How the Papacy Works":
Again, that full blurb is from the HowStuffWorks article " How the Papacy Works" Salasks 13:36, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
who wrote the breifing on Hikmets life at your facility?
I vaguely remember that there was a European Commissioner that used to be in a Green party. I thought it was Gunter Verheugen, but just checked and it was not. Help!? -- Kaihsu 14:25, 2004 Aug 12 (UTC)
What are the chemicals that contribute most to the flavor and aroma of chocolate? -- Eequor 17:23, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The psychoactive alkaloid in chocolate that is best known and most distinctive is theobromine, a methylxanthine similar to caffeine, but which may share some receptor affinity with tetrahydrocannabinol. See [6] for a summary with links far better than the usual about.com fare. Alteripse 16:13, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I guess you get used to UK Chocolate. It's not that bad, certainly not as bad as Hershey's. Kinder though Eughh... Anyway, I was just wondering while we're on the subject of adding things to food in the US. Why do you guys add bloody cornstarch to yoghurt?
There are many, many different types of protein in an individual animal, but there are more copies of some proteins than others. Supposedly, collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals. I need to know which are the other most abundant proteins... ike9898 19:07, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
I have been sent some film of 'Behind the Fridge' featuring Dudley Moore. These cans are trims from 2 programmes transmitted in Australia by the Nine Network in November 1971. Since this is nothing to do with the BBC, I wondered if you want it?
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I have found several sites related to the Award, but have been unable to find the actual site where I can get information on how to enter the contest. Does anyone have any ideas. Thanks for any help you can give. betty 11:12 Aug 13/04
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Is there a manual of style for instructional language, i.e. the proper way to write for a broad audience clearly, concisely, imperatively, politely, and unobsequiously? -- Eequor 18:36, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Has any Major League ballplayer hit at least 2 home runs and stolen at least 2 bases in the same game?
Lou Gehrig and Rickey Henderson maybe Joe Morgan.. I'm going to have to check this.. Rhymeless 04:01, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I got the "100 Google Hacks" book and want to run some of the scripts in a Windows environment, but all the Perl scripts are demonstrated in a UNIX enviroment. How would I do this? Salasks 10:53, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
What is the evolutionary advantage of the pyramidal decussation - indeed, neuronal decussations in general (e.g. the optic chiasm)? What pressures would cause such a system to evolve? (To me, the entire 'split-brain' system seems to be prima facie inefficient.) Can anyone enlighten me? -- FirstPrinciples 15:28, Aug 15, 2004 (UTC)
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While we're on the subject, does the Corticospinal tract article describe only the human nervous system, or all mammalian ones, or some other class? It would be nice if there were a statement in that article describing its scope. -- Heron 17:29, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I recently came across an authentic Jack Dempsey autograph found in an old album of my fathers. My father has the date as January 1, 1933, but the Dempsey autograph was dated January 18, 1933. It was given to my father at the Colonial Theater in Allentown, Penna. My question is: What was Dempsey doing there on that date? I have tried to research on my own, but I can't find anything. I would like to have a little history on why Dempsey was there. Thank you for any help you may have Patrick B
Dear Pat: Hi! Im a boxing expert as well as wikipedia contributor in a well developed group of areas unrelated to boxing. Im a staunch boxing and aviation fan.
As far as your question, I can't answer what was Dempsey doing there (watching a movie, perhaps?) but I can tell you that the Dempsey autograph sells in the thousands,. I wish I had that autograph! You might not be able to buy a house or pay your kid's college tuition with its money's worth, but 1,500 to 2,000 dollars always makes up for a nice pay-off to go on a shopping spree or who knows maybe even a small vacation!
Where is the information (for Wikipedia articles) for a research papaer?
There is no correct answer, but: in your opinion, which is the best university in the United States (or any other English-speaking country, if you're so inclined) for those wishing to study physics? -- Itai 16:35, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Also UCLA , Stanford , Berkeley (I've never heard of Georgia tech) theresa knott 23:40, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The US News Graduate rankings (2002) give:
The National Research Council Report in Quality of PhD education (1995) gives:
-- Jia ng 23:54, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
When water evaporates, why is it considered to be in the gaseous state? Isn't the gaseous state supposed to be over 100°C at 1A? -- [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 19:16, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)
Is anyone aware of any free/open source HR software?
HRIS software for managing benefits, tracking employee information, tracking resumes, etc...
About how many World War1 Veterans are still alive?
Thanks!
Let me be more specific, about how many World War1 Veterans are still alive in United States, Canada and the world?
Thanks!
I have learnt that the external L2 cache of the Pentium processor was created to address the heat problems created by the L1 on the processor - (The size of L1 is limited). Now in the recent tech magazine I read, it says that the L1 and L2 are both embedded in the pentium 4 chip. So why have an L2 in the first place? -- [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 19:16, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)
Is Fayetteville an two or three syllabel word?
Thank you!
Was United States the first country or place to use the word "United" and "States" ? Thanks!
Slightly off topic, but related, and thought it good to add here. "America" originally referred to the Southern Hemispheric continent now generally known as South America. At one point, there was an "America" and a "North America", "South America" was a term that came later. Now of course, most of the world calls the United States, "America". Pedant 16:59, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
As part of what looks like it will be a long and arduous effort to NPOV Left-wing_politics#Leftism.2C_Pacifism_and_.22War_on_Terror.22, I am trying to document the statements of some of the more left-leaning U.S. elected officials in the immediate wake of the September 11 attacks. I suspect I'm going to have to do a bunch of library research in newspapers from the few days after the attacks, because I can't think of a good Internet search strategy for this. If anyone has a good Internet search strategy, I'd love to hear it. I'd also be interested in suggestions for who most likely would have said something quotable. Offhand, I'm thinking Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, Tom Harkin, Jim McDermott, Bernie Sanders, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, Peter DeFazio, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Mel Watt, Henry Waxman. My conjecture is that their condemnations of the attacks were more forthright and les contextualized than, say, that of Noam Chomsky, but I lack documentation for this. -- Jmabel 06:51, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
Maybe I'm blind, but at http://thomas.loc.gov I see how to get the text of bills, but not the text of debates. What's the trick? -- Jmabel 06:21, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
How does Agastya relate to Babaji, who brought Kriya Yoga teachings back into modern day knowledge via the lineage of Lahiri Mahashai, Sri Yukteswar and Paramahansa Yogananda?
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Does anyone have a good, public domain image of a crop circle? - Bevo 14:14, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
("Outdented" for readability) It would be fairly easy to make (in Bryce, etc.) an 'artist rendition' of a crop circle that looks real. Also GPS-controlled tractors/mowers etc. can be modified to do this, as in the corn mazes that have shown up recently, and the Earth Art done in similar ways. Not that there aren't aliens beaming these things into existence, that's also possible. I don't think most alien cultures would be leaving tire tracks in the field though. I'll see what I can do about finding one that looks real and is Public Domain, though. Pedant 17:36, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
My dad, John Slavish was born in Yugoslavia in 12/19/19. He came to the United States when he was a small child. He served in WWll in the Army and at Normandy. He now has moved to live with his daughter because he has alzheimer's disease. He has lost all his papers, such as birth certificate, baptismal certificate, marriage license and so on because he doesn't remember what he did with them when he took them out of a safety deposit box 3 years ago. I am a square one. I have had to put John in the Madison Valley Manor because of his disease and would like to put him on medicaid but I can not do that without his citizenship papers. Where would I look to find these? I have his social security number, date of birth, and also his power of attorney. Please help as I cannot leave John in the Manor and pay for his care myself and Medicaid will not help me without his paperwork. Thanks Shirley Badura
Can someone link me or otherwise provide a transliteration of the Hail Mary in Sanskrit [2]? Any sort of lossless transliteration is fine. -- Xiaopo ℑ 20:21, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
I had my mom help me.. she took Sanskrit when she was in high school. Here's what we came up with:
Namastubhyam hai marve krupapurne. Prabhustvdha sakam. Dhamyat(h)ama twam shishu dhanyashwatavoder falamoshu. Hai parashudhamarye janani surveshwuradhya paryavarsmankrute * ghunachasmasaralasamayech eva mastu.
where the * is the S-looking character near the beginning of the third row. She couldn't figure out what that was. Salasks 03:41, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
I want to know how to add metadata to PNG files using the GIMP (for windows). [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 21:01, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
I would like very much to know what was new in each new version of microsoft word. I can not find this information anywhere. It is my desire to compare the versions to see if it was really necessary to create a new version or if the differences did not show that it was really necessary and we went to the new version only to access the new docs. Thanks.
Raymundo de Oliveira
raymundo.oliveira@terra.com.br
Well, since the first Microsoft Word version was made for DOS in 1983, I think it's safe to say there have been plenty of developments other than mere bloating since then. Whether those developments have substantially improved the program's usefulness is another question. At any rate, Google is your friend. A quick search is likely to turn up a number of historical accounts of Word's developmental history. Here's one. -- Wapcaplet 02:29, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Next time leave a short question, even if your headline covers it, so it's easier to read. Anyway, click the link for Africa Historical Maps. The UTexas site is the best for all maps. Salasks 08:09, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
i heard someone singing a childrens song the other day, and i've been wanting to find out the title (and possibly the lyrics too, i guess)
all i know is it was referred to as 'the spook song' and the beginning goes 's-p-double-o-k, skull and crossbones lead the way'. Thepedestrian 20:45, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)
It's the " Yale POTUS" cheer. Salasks 07:53, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
I was recently visiting a publisher's website, when I found a book currently published by them that I had bought before. But my book has a different publisher's name on it. The cover design and content all seem to be the same. So my question is: did the new publisher buy the design along with the rights to publish from the old publisher? Is it ever possible for a book to be simultaneously published by several publishers--i.e., through some kind of agreement? 61.52.75.71 20:47, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
According to the Raffles Institution article, the RI is widely considered the most prestigious school in Singapore. Is this a fair statement? Salasks 08:11, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
Have any characters appeared in 3 or 4 different Star Trek franchises?
Hi, I need to add my spouse to my homeowner property title. Where and how to do that? Thank you. Alex Lazo, Atlanta, GA altora@netzero.net
What is the name for the shape of a racecourse? (Rectangle with two semicircles at the sides) [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 20:51, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)
discussion archived to Image talk:Wfm monument valley annotated.jpg by Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:34, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
What's a good web reference for taxonomy? I couldn't find anything on the WikiProject Tree of Life page, but perhaps I'm not looking hard enough. I want to, for instance, be able to say "Banded Hare-Wallaby" and be given enough taxonomic information to fill out a taxobox. I seem to remember a four-letter thing beginning with an I that did this. Any help here? grendel| khan 23:13, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)
I recently had the fun of driving from Chicago to the Pacific on (mostly) Interstate 80. (No sarcasm here; I liked it.) In the middle of Wyoming I saw a sign announcing the Continental divide. Some miles later, I saw another. I was waiting eagerly (with Leonhard Euler breathing down my neck) for the third one, but it never came. Oddly enough, I still got to San Francisco, which therefore must be on the Atlantic coast or topologically impossible.
Now I see that the diagram in the Wikipedia article shows the divide dividing in two in the middle of Wyoming, leaving a sort of island that's neither east nor west. What's going on there? Does I-80 go through a basin with no drainage in the middle of the divide? Can there be any sense in saying that you're crossing the continental divide when you cross a divide into that basin or out of it? Dandrake 00:28, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
This should perhaps be at Requested articles instead, but I'm not sure about the right lemma:
In the USA, what exactly does it mean to be(come) a registered Democrat or registered Republican, as in Bill O'Reilly was a registered Republican? (I sort of know, but am not sure enough to write it myself.) It's an expression not widely known outside of the US, so an article or an appropriate redirect would definitely be appreciated. Sorry if I overlooked an existing one. regards, High on a tree 01:06, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thanks to everybody for their well-informed answers. It seems things are a bit more complicated than I thought - there are actually states where one has to state a party affiliation when registering to vote for, say, the presidential election? And registration for the primaries is always handled by a state election office, not by the party itself?
As Finlay said, it would be a pity if the information above would not make it into the article space. I would suggest creating registered party affiliate (U.S.) or something like that, and having registered Democrat and registered Republican redirect to it (since the latter are the terms most likely to be sought after). I'd prefer someone knowledgeable to write this up, but if nothing happens, I will try my best and summarize the above sometime during the next weeks. regards, High on a tree 23:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Three questions on the nature of babism.
--metta, The Sunborn 01:51, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
My grandfather, Abraham Andisman, born 1891 lived to the age of 95. He was one of twelve children, and their family emigrated from Russia to Rosenhayn, New Jersey probably sometime in the early to mid 1880s. Is there any way I could find a copy of his birth certificate? Are there any elderly residents of Rosenhayn who might remember the Andisman family. They worked their own farm for many years in Rosenhayn, and were some of the first Jewish farming settlers in the area. I don't remember his parents' name. My mother, who is 88 this December, would probably remember her grandparents' names, and several of her aunts and uncles...my grandfather's brothers and sisters. When I get that information, can anyone out there recommend a person or office I might contact? My mom's maiden name is therefore, Andisman. She married a man named Ralph Cherashore, my father deceased since 1979.
Thank you anyone for your assistance.
Harold Cherashore email: harrisshore@sbcglobal.net
I've planted a bunch of stuff in my deck garden over the past couple of years - perennials, annuals. Other people have too (read:parents). And we haven't always kept track of what we've planted. So now we've got a bit of a problem. There are some tall plants that are starting to overtake the deck garden, and we can't tell whether they're weeds or whether we actually planted them and they will eventually yield tall, beautiful flowers. Please help.
Click the picture for large version. Note the small blue and violet flowers that are overshadowed by the tall shooters. Salasks 18:18, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
Ok, well, that's fine I guess - I'm glad it was of some use, though the lawn was incidental to the picture and the question. Salasks 03:17, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
What's your question! Please always put a question below the heading - Adrian Pingstone 09:32, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I met Pam recently, and my aunt asked me what type of Hepatitis does she have to which I had no answer, so which type does she have? Can it be true, based on the type she has, that she only has about 8 years to live?
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She has Hepatitis C, apparently. [4] --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 14:17, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)
Well, read the article on noses. — Chameleon Main/ Talk/ Images 13:41, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I found these words in a philosophical book. By surfing the internet, I found these words mean a class of seats at the opera theater. Those are two of cheapest seats. However, that is not enough. It would be greatly appreciated if you explain those terms in gory details. Thanks in advance.
Perhaps it's the translation of the term "
peanut gallery" (Shakespeare's "penny-grubbers?"), meaning the so-called "unwashed masses". That might find its way into a philosophy encyclopedia..
Rhymeless 00:51, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
loggione -- is this equivalent to 'loge'? "Posto in piedi in galleria" (a spot on foot in the gallery) somewhat equivalent to the standing room in "standing room only' aka SRO. Peanut gallery is the cheap seats, as peanuts were considered food that only poor people ate. In Wisconsin in the 40's my grandmother used to refer to the third (or hgihest, most distant) balcony as 'nig*** heaven' (I hate that word, you know which one)... I think you could refer to the galleria numerata or galleria posto numerata as 'the cheap seats/peanut gallery/nosebleed section/'in the rafters' in colloquial English. Pedant
It's like Jeopardy!, only you get to supply the answer too. -- Wapcaplet 22:52, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Or is it 'Video Home' system? ("I'd like to thank my parents, Sinead O'connor and The Pope.") Pedant 19:35, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
What is the relation between accelerating universe, cosmic inflation, Hubble's law, event horizon, and gravitational collapse? In particular, how might an observer inside an event horizon distinguish between inflation and their own collapse? -- Eequor 10:12, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
OK I've I've had overnight to think on this, and I'm certainly no expert on general relativity, but I think you'd notice tidal effects. Towards the singularaity and towards the event horizon galaxies would appear to be moving away from us. Ok so far :-) But at right angles to these directions galaxies would appear to be moving towards us :-( Also if there were no big bang there is nothing to explain why the CMBR even existed. And there is the ratio of light elements in the universe. There is a lot of primordial helium and deuterium about, where did it all come from if not the big bang? theresa knott 07:19, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Ee, I'm not sure what the intent of your question was. The answers above might be appropriate, but such feedback as there is has so veered off from the original question as not to clarify much. So... Here's my input. The concepts you've asked about are in some respects quite different, so I'll take them one at a time. If there was a Big Bang (as all the evidence currently available suggests), then there was a time when everthing was crammed into a much smaller space than it now occupies. At some very early time (for reasons I understand are unclear to all), there was a brief period of Very Rapid expansion. That is, stuff was crammed this close and afterwards it was much less closely crammed, and afterward came very quickly. As tk points out, this had effects which are (just) still observable. We think. The guy who thought it up (Guth) is going to win the Nobel Prize one of these days (if he hasn't already, and I missed it). Well, if things aren't expanding anywhere near so fast now (14 billion years later), they are nevertheless still expanding. Hubble (after whom the telescope is named) noticed that there was a connection between speed of recession (at least from our perspective) and distance from us. It appears to be a constant linear relation. That's Hubble's Law.
Now, is the motion of everything in that expansionary way (now muuuuuch slower than it was during inflation) a constant one? If not, gravity (of everything taken together) might be strong enough to gradually slow everything down eventually, in which case things will finally reverse and start to contract. When it eventually all gets more or less to one place (the Big Crunch), that will be one kind of gravitational collapse. No one thinks that's likely just now as the measurements of how much stuff there is and how fast things are (still) expanding don't seem to leave much chance. But we've only been watching for maybe 100 years and so we may have missed something. and there is all the 'missing' matter (ie, dark matter) which is clearly present (from its observable gravitational effects here and there and mostly everywhere) but not at all well understood. And in recent years there's also been 'dark energy' which seems to be hanging around but which is even less well understood. If there isn't enough total gravity to cause the Big Crunch, will things just keep expanding (slower and slower but never quite stopping)? Or, might there be some previously unknown force which opposes gravity but only works at really long distances (or only adds up enough to be noticeable over really long distances, which is not quite the same thing exactly)? There might be, as some recent observations have suggested such a thing. If so, things might eventually be moving in an expanding way faster and faster and faster.
General Relativity (thus far the most successful of the theoretical accounts of the nature of gravity) predicts many things about how light behaves in a gravitational field. One of them is that if the field is sufficiently intense, light will be bent so strongly it can't escape from the field. When this happens to a distant galaxy's light passing near a closer galaxy we sometimes notice a lens effect, producing two images of the distant galaxy (sort of like a mirage, but with rather different causation). No one looking (from a distance) at a light inside that field will be able to see it. In fact, as a light emitter approaches such a field, there will come a place (sort of an invisible spherical shell, if you will) after which the light being emitted can no longer escape. That's an event horizon. For material objects it's only the limit of the various distances after which the object is trapped. Light, by Special Relativity, moves at the fastest possible speed and material objects can only approach that speed (with greater and greater difficulty the closer they get).
Black holes are exactly this sort of thing. With enough mass (what's left of a really big star, for instance, after it 'runs down', as it were), there will be a sufficiently intense gravitational field to overcome the repulsions of elementary particles and there will be a local Crunch. If a glop of matter isn't quite big enough to do that, it might only reduce all the particles to neutrons producing a neutron star. Anyway, black holes (but not neutron stars) show just this effect. Hence, 'black' hole. Actually there will be some radiation from it due to quantum mechanical effects (Hawking radiation, named after its discoverer) but that's a sort of quibble at this level of discussion.
Inside an event horizon, it is thought that much will 'remain the same'. For example, my candle will still be visible to me as it disappers for others, assuming I survive the various other effects (high intensity radiation, tidal effects, ...). Though there are simultanity issues here that must be considered carefully. But what I will see (modulo my survival) won't matter in some sense as whatever it can never be communicated to anyone outside the field. A one hand clapping or tree falling in the forest making noise sort of thing. Pragmatically, it won't matter as no one anywhere else will ever learn about it. But the odd effects have been the subject of many a science fiction story, some of them quite good.
Maybe this helps? ww 18:52, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
In the above-mentioned website, R.J. Nemiroff describes a surface called a photon sphere, which is the locus of orbits with an orbital velocity equal to the velocity of light -- that is, the distance at which photons may orbit a star or black hole indefinitely, neither spiraling inward nor escaping. How does this differ from an event horizon? How closely may a body in an elliptical orbit approach the speed of light? -- Eequor 16:59, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Within the event horizon of a black hole, is it possible for any signal to reach a receiver less deep in the gravity well? Would infalling observers see themselves pass through the horizon, or would the horizon seem to fall with them? -- Eequor 23:16, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
So what's the question? - Adrian Pingstone 12:30, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It's probably something about extra virgin olive oil. -- Eequor 16:12, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
clever, EEQUOR, clever, I believe you are on the right track, though, ... I think this refers to the 'anointing' of Jesus' with the Holy Ghost, giving him 'miraculous power' or the similar 'anointing' (first epistle of John ch 2, v 23 -- 29) of Jesus' folowers. aka the Gift of the Holy spirit... Pedant 19:56, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
I read some information somewhere about Amerigo Vespucci's name wasn't Amerigo, is this true? Also, I read somewhere America is not name after Amerigo Vespucci, is this true too? -- Thanks!
(follow-up question) Is there any proof about Amerigo Vespucci changing his first name? Plus the name Amerigo, was that name around before 1492 or before the first Europeans were in the Americas? Thanks!
"America" originally referred to the Southern Hemispheric continent now generally known as South America. At one point, there was an "America" and a "North America", "South America" was a term that came later. FWIW
Pedant 21:22, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
You have no idea how tempting it is just to leave the heading as the "question". But what I really want to know is about frying. Whenever I fry something I'm never sure how hot I've got the oil. Flicking a little water from my fingertips into the oil gives me some indication, but seems a little hit and miss. Has anyone got any tips that will help me know when to put in my egg? At the moment it either sinks and sticks to the bottom as the oil is too cold, or it bubbles alarmingly, shooting geysers of hot fat in my direction. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 01:03, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
Eggs should be fried in pretty cool fat. Get a good non stick frying pan, add a little oil or lard and let the egg sink. Chips on the other hand need hotter fat. Cook them over a medium heat (testing by adding a single chip, it should bubble gently. When they look cooked (changes from semitransparent to white) take them out. Heat the fat up to hot - it has to be oil- lard will burn. You can tell by looking at it when it's ready the suface moves slightly but test with a single chip it should brown in about 30 seconds. Brown all the chips in the hot fat. Note that if you add raw chips to fat this hot you will set fire to your kitchen. Have fun. theresa knott 07:31, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Is there a difference between a proslepsis and a prolepsis? -- Edcolins 19:59, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
Don't believe everything you don't read in the dictionary. Wikipedia has articles on the two terms, and they are different. -- Heron 13:47, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
You can say they are paronyms, as they are both from the same root lambanein, to take. Only the prefixes are different: pros- means 'toward', and pro- means 'before'. :-) -- Heron 20:54, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Actually I think they are both. According to The Oxford Companion to the English Language, cognates are words related by descent, "especially" [but, I infer, not "only"] across languages. -- Heron 19:40, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
P.S. I'm not sure if this applies to words with different prefixes, like your examples, so perhaps I am wrong to call these cognates. -- Heron 19:45, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I infer that pros- and pro- are related; the former, "toward, to, in front," is an alteration of proti (which looks like an extension of pro) that was influenced by a dialectal preposition pos ("toward"). Got that? -- Gelu Ignisque
I have another question about prolepsis. In the article prolepsis, would someone kindly give me an example of sense #3, the grammatical sense? -- Gelu Ignisque
Lassen County Salasks 22:20, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)
My name is Sharon Allen and I live in Maine. I would like to find any information on my father Foster Fiske Jones who lived in Celmsford and died in 1960. I never got to see or know him but I would like to find someone who may have know him, or might have a picture to share. My Email address is:
Thank you for any help provided. Sharon
Can you please provide some online references, links etc which describe the recent dewvelopments in Electronics. Bharath 06:41, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
How do you pronounce Richard Amerike last name? Thanks!
There is a song, (I think it's a drinking song, or at least I seem to remember it being used on an advert for beer here in the UK many years ago), that is going round in my head but that I can't quite manage to remember what the lyrics are. It is something like Bar Bar the Bull Bull emir, although that's obviously nonsense. It's a Turkish chap and a russian chap and that's about all I can remember of it. If anyone can make something from these few morsels I'd be most grateful. 22:23, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Seems like I remember Hawkeye singing bits of this on MASH, too. -- Wapcaplet 03:36, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
How are popes names decided - is the man himself given the complete right to decide? Could, for example, a pope name himself "Pope Cowboy Bob" if it weren't controvertial... Or do cardinals "assist" him. --[[User:OldakQuill| Oldak Quill]] 10:21, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
from the HowSutffWorks article " How the Papacy Works":
Again, that full blurb is from the HowStuffWorks article " How the Papacy Works" Salasks 13:36, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
who wrote the breifing on Hikmets life at your facility?
I vaguely remember that there was a European Commissioner that used to be in a Green party. I thought it was Gunter Verheugen, but just checked and it was not. Help!? -- Kaihsu 14:25, 2004 Aug 12 (UTC)
What are the chemicals that contribute most to the flavor and aroma of chocolate? -- Eequor 17:23, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The psychoactive alkaloid in chocolate that is best known and most distinctive is theobromine, a methylxanthine similar to caffeine, but which may share some receptor affinity with tetrahydrocannabinol. See [6] for a summary with links far better than the usual about.com fare. Alteripse 16:13, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I guess you get used to UK Chocolate. It's not that bad, certainly not as bad as Hershey's. Kinder though Eughh... Anyway, I was just wondering while we're on the subject of adding things to food in the US. Why do you guys add bloody cornstarch to yoghurt?
There are many, many different types of protein in an individual animal, but there are more copies of some proteins than others. Supposedly, collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals. I need to know which are the other most abundant proteins... ike9898 19:07, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
I have been sent some film of 'Behind the Fridge' featuring Dudley Moore. These cans are trims from 2 programmes transmitted in Australia by the Nine Network in November 1971. Since this is nothing to do with the BBC, I wondered if you want it?
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I have found several sites related to the Award, but have been unable to find the actual site where I can get information on how to enter the contest. Does anyone have any ideas. Thanks for any help you can give. betty 11:12 Aug 13/04
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Is there a manual of style for instructional language, i.e. the proper way to write for a broad audience clearly, concisely, imperatively, politely, and unobsequiously? -- Eequor 18:36, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Has any Major League ballplayer hit at least 2 home runs and stolen at least 2 bases in the same game?
Lou Gehrig and Rickey Henderson maybe Joe Morgan.. I'm going to have to check this.. Rhymeless 04:01, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I got the "100 Google Hacks" book and want to run some of the scripts in a Windows environment, but all the Perl scripts are demonstrated in a UNIX enviroment. How would I do this? Salasks 10:53, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
What is the evolutionary advantage of the pyramidal decussation - indeed, neuronal decussations in general (e.g. the optic chiasm)? What pressures would cause such a system to evolve? (To me, the entire 'split-brain' system seems to be prima facie inefficient.) Can anyone enlighten me? -- FirstPrinciples 15:28, Aug 15, 2004 (UTC)
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While we're on the subject, does the Corticospinal tract article describe only the human nervous system, or all mammalian ones, or some other class? It would be nice if there were a statement in that article describing its scope. -- Heron 17:29, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)