Various sources differ on the appropriate form of the Latin sequence for announcing a new Pope. Unanimously, they begin "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam." Thereafter, however, they continue differently. (link removed) gives "Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ... Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalam ... qui sibi nomen imposuit ..."; the WAV file (see link) referring to John Paul I's election confirms it. But for John Paul II, I've found "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam, Carolum Wojtyla qui sibi nomen imposuit ..." more often (see [1], [2], [3], [4]) but I've also noted the alternative (see [5]). I would be much obliged if informed of which is correct. -- Emsworth ( Talk)
Hello,
What does the sword, scales and blindfold of greek goddess Themis - Lady Justice represent?
Regards Stephen
For sure, I know that the blindfold means that justice is blind - everyone is treated equally under the law. I'm not sure about the sword and scales - probably the scales means that justice is balanced and suchness. Dysprosia 13:17, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
There is an advert currently running on TV in the UK for Lux Shower Gel in which a girl morphs into Sarah Jessica Parker. Who is the other girl (who IMNSHO considerably outshines SJP but that's a different question :-)? -- Phil | Talk 13:51, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, that's her. While you're on a roll, how about the girl in the Spirito di Punto advert (who drives her sleeping boyfriend all over town, up and down stairs even, and he only wakes up when some steamy hunk offers her a coffee)? -- Phil | Talk 14:35, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)
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Note: An anonymous user ( Kirky) created an article asking this question. I've deleted the article and moved the question here. – Jrdioko (Talk) 04:15, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Anyone know what the old Frisian (female) given name "Siebrje" means? Sorry about that. Oh, and apparently it's spelled "Siebrigje", I remembered it wrong. Kirky
Siebrigje has Germanic origins. "Sie" meant "victory" and "brig" derives from "burg", which meant "protection". Thus, the name roughly stands for "she who guarantees victory". (The "je" is a just a diminutive thing.) Alternative forms of the name, all female, are Siburg, Siberchje, Siberkje, Sibrechje and Sibrich(je).
I should point out the existence of a treacherously similar set of names: Sibrecht(je), Siberdina, Siberta, Sibertsje and Sibetsje. (There are also male forms.) In these, the second part means "shining", so that the names mean "shining as a result of victory".
In case you need a formal reference, I based the above on page 227 of "Woordenboek van voornamen" by J. van der Schaar, published by Het Spectrum in 1970. 80.127.225.134 18:31, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know who invented reflexognosy, when, and what techniques reflexognosy uses? Thanks Elpenmaster
Answer: Reflexognosy was developed by Sandi Rogers, who is the owner of the National College of Traditional Medicine in Melbourne, Australia. She continues to develop the profession internationally. I'm currently a student at her college, studying Massage and I have no doubts as to the efficacy of this technique especially when combined with other forms of therapy. NCTM's website can be found at www.nctm.com.au, where she offers a Diploma course.
To quote from that site: "Reflexognosy is the application of appropriate pressure to the feet and legs by the hands of a trained practitioner to bring about physiological and psychological change, stimulating subtle energies. Reflexognosy is a system of healthcare that focuses on the whole body." -- JuxtaPozer 10:55, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Does the BBC have a motto (say in Latin or otherwise)?
I'm pretty sure that's the UN motto isn't it? Mark Richards 15:33, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Fascinating, I always thought that was written under the UN fig leaf log. Clearly I was halucinating... Mark Richards 22:08, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Why is snot green? -Anon
Only infected snot is green. I heard that this is because of white blood cells called Neutrophils which engulf the bacteria and digest them. One of the digestive enzymes is lactoferrin (the "ferrin" referes to iron. I.e. this enzyme is dependent on iron for it's activity. Now any chemistry teacher will tell you that iron compounds are usually green. theresa knott 11:26, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I heard it was the result of two bacteriae present in the snot; one is blue and the other yellow. I shit you not.--[[User:HamYoyo| HamYoyo| TALK]] 16:02, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)
Bacteriae? That's a funny fake-learned plural! Turia Sediento 18:02, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The article Curry claims, that curry powder, aka Massala powder, is a spice mixture invented by the British. My cookbook, however sais, that Garam Masala is a genuine Indish spice mixture and not the same as curry powder. So, who is right? Simon A. 12:34, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I would like to add a motto in Latin to literature I am producing for my football (soccer) team. the motto I would like (in English)is:
We are working, we are beautiful, we are glorious
Can you provide the Latin? Happy for suggestions - perhaps the imperative (let us work, let us be beautiful, let us be glorious).
Thanks for any help you can give
Eamon Doyle
Any chance of some more specifics on this one? Thanks! Mark Richards 22:10, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Does anybody know how to pronounce Tony Iommi's surname? Thanks in advance. -- Auximines 07:49, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This is to certify that Mr. John Doe (age 36) is suffering thyrotoxisis since 1997. Which is pathilogical proved. He want to take needful trteatment in your hspital. so plase help him aAnd now extra case of Dagmsed case of #both bone distal 1/3rd of Lt.forearm /c Thyrotoxisis.During the admition, Medical consultant say his surgery not done now until TFT is NWL.
Present history of patient
Tammer. Palpitation, wegiht lose, Appitite high,Both neek swelling. Differe thyroid swelling both lobe.B.P. 160/80 His pathology report as flows,
T3 2.8 (Normal rate 0.69 -2.02mg/dl, T4 18.9(normal rate 5-11.4)microg/dl TSH 0.6(normal rate 0.6-6.2)micro g/dl I refer my patient for some treatment in your hospital.
1) Complete patient evalutation. @) 1-131 update study. 3)possible 1-131 thyroid ablation. 4) Test for human thyroid stimulation immuneglobion. 5) Opimization of medical Therepy.
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The profile of the prime minister of trinidad and tobago Mr Arthur n r Robinson
I wish to write an article about the Korean martial art (I've recently written two linguistics articles, a field I know nothing about, and I think it's time to vary my ignorance) Tukong Musool, which is derived from Taekwondo. However, a Google search for the term comes up with 35 results, which, to me, means that I'm spelling it wrong. Does anybody know what is the correct spelling? -- Itai 14:52, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The fact that it is trademarked should not stop us from writing an article about it (see Kleenex, SPAM). The mark needs to be treated slightly carefully, but that should do it. Mark Richards 20:54, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I cannot find details of the districts population or area on Wikipedia, or Google... Anyone got these to give me?-- Oldak Quill 15:31, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
On January 12 2005, there will be a transit of Mercury from Mars. If Spirit and Opportunity are still functional, they could observe it. Opportunity would be able to watch the first half of the transit from the start until local sunset, while Spirit would be able to watch the second half of the transit from local sunrise to the end.
The question is, what is the resolution of their cameras? Opportunity was able to photograph a transit of Mars's moon Deimos, with an angular diameter of 2', but Mercury's angular diameter would be only 6", or about 20 times smaller.
Does anyone have any contacts at JPL who might know if they're aware of the transit of Mercury, if there's any chance that Spirit and Opportunity might still be functional at that time, and if the Rover's cameras are capable of photographing it? -- Curps 18:20, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
China is showing signs of becoming the next superpower. Its economy doubles every 8 years, it has a huge trade surplus with the U.S.A. and if this trend continues it will replace the U.S.A. as the world's leading economic power in the next decades. If China becomes a superpower, will this create another cold war scenario? Will it be a peaceful coexistence? China has even send a man into space, clearly it wants to become the second superpower.
China will need someplace to market it's goods. The U.S. and the Euro are the only places that have enough money to buy China's goods. I disagree with the comments above. The free market is the only system that will allow countries to rise above their poverty. All these countries need is an education on the value of free trade, something that is not being taught here in the good old U.S. We have people graduating from high school and college that wouldn't know a free market from a fish market. China has a huge population that is increasingly more aware of what is possible from growth. What China doesn't have is raw materials. You ask why gas prices are going up? We are having to share the scarse oil reserves with an exploding Chinese demand that will cause the price to rise even higher than it is now. China will have to purchase all of the resources to build all of it's economy. There is increasing pressure from the Chinese population to get into the 21st century with it's cell phones, tvs and refrigerators. The number one thing these people have going for them is education. The more education the more they learn what is possible. China's population will soon demand a more democratic say about what is going to happen to themselves. That is what comes from having soo many people that are well educated. The more education the more freedom is demanded. A fee market economy is the best way to finance a free education.
I'm looking for a high resolution digital image that matches (an exact match would be perfect) for the image on this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_orders Does Wikipedia license images for use in other sources? I'm desperate. This is for a book I'm working on and I can't find this image anywhere!
I don't recall President Nixon being laid out at the capital rotunda in D.C. before his funeral at Yorba Linda.
Was this his choice or not?
I think that there was a worry from his family about the potential satirical amunition that his 'lying in state' might provide... Mark Richards 22:03, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The Nixon family published a memo about it. Nixon himself felt that Washington, DC was too hostile against him and that it was the "enemy's turf." Instead he was laid in state in California. He also didn't want his presidential library to be governed from Washington, DC. That is why his presidential library is one the only libraries that is run by a private corporation that the former president established. Gerald Farinas 16:23, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
which Camden ? I can see 15 of them in Camden. Jay 15:12, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I know that you can't get banana juice, since squeezing bananas only makes them mushy, instead of producing juice, like most fruits. But I understand that recently there was a way discovered to have banana juice, that circumvented this problem, but I can't remember how they did it. Anybody know? Rhymeless 05:37, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This article looks like it has found your answer, Rhymeless. The way they do it sounds quite efficient, something like 1mL of juice for every 2g of banana. DO'Neil 12:39, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
I need someone to help me figure out what movie I am talking about. I only saw the first 20 minutes of it, or so. It's set in modern times in a large American city. Christopher Walken plays an eccentric magnate. The opening shows him screwing a prostitute, and then he tries to throw her out without paying because that's how he gets his kicks. (This is where it gets fuzzy) I believe she robs him, so he sends someone to rob her and beat her up. (Again, this is all in the first 10-20 mintues) What movie am I talking about? →Raul654 07:38, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
I am a genealogist and normally assist italians and english descent persons seeking their family genealogy. I have recently been requested by a family in England to trace the family immigration to Chile and,specifically, Valpariaso where a child of english parents was born and the family appears to have remained in Chile on or about the 1850's. What links or databases can be accessed by computer,e-mail or snail mail?? Thank you. Peter Timber, Los Angeles. Petertimber@msn.com
Does the BBC have a motto? B.T.Edwards
Is the plane of our Solar System parallel to the plane of our galaxy? -- Heron 21:34, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Are there any gay football (that's - grits teeth - soccer) players? -- bodnotbod 00:12, Jun 19, 2004 (UTC)
What are the best Universities in the World, in terms of pure teaching and researching quality alone?
The question as posed is pretty much impossible to answer meaningfully. Many comparative lists are published, the ones I am familiar with are annual lists of universities in the US and UK. They are rated by research and by teaching, and possibly by other things too, but the criteria vary between lists. If your question is part of a 'where should I study' type of enquiry, I would say that you should try to articulate more clearly what you want. If your question is one of general interest, I would say that more clearly articulating what you mean by 'best' both in teaching and in research. Mark Richards 15:44, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Even within a broad field, the strength of a university can vary greatly based on the particular interests and skills of its staff. In the IT department of my university, the software testing group, of which I am a part, is probably the best in Australia in this area. The molecular simulation people are also apparently very good. Down the road at the University of Melbourne, they have some excellent groups working on data compression and logic programming, where we don't have any specialist expertise.
Secondly, it's my experience that quality research and quality teaching are not necessarily all that well correlated. Many of the most brilliant researchers are very average teachers. They regard it as a drain on their time to be minimised, have no clue about the actual capabilities and learning process of the average student, and often aren't up with the practice of the discipline outside their own field of research. Another thing to consider is that there are far more factors to consider than just teaching quality when selecting a place to study. The location, costs, the academic and social culture; all of these are very important.
Finally, if this is for the purposes of selecting a university for your own or your child's education, don't get too hung up on finding the "perfect" university. In most large Western countries, there are many universities (heck, in the United States, there are probably hundreds) where an enthusiastic student can get a good education. -- Robert Merkel
Is there an Internet archive or depository for Pot Noodles T.V. Adverts for both the United States and the United Kingdom?
Pot Noodles are a brand name for an instant noodle product. Mark Richards 15:46, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Here's the UK ads. It's dirty and you want it! Do they even have Pot Noodle in the US? Under the same product name? -- bodnotbod 19:42, Jun 20, 2004 (UTC)
i am having no luck trying to get this translated. it is this web article http://www.iliria.net/politike/isufbajrami_epiri.htm i have been looking for my maiden name and stumbled upon it in this article.,and am hoping you can help, thank you!!!
Ruth Ksilander Diercks
Is there an online version of Orwell's list of crypto-communists? A google search just brings up reviews of it, not the actual list itself.
It would be very useful for this article to see his views on his peers. I have only been able to see a review of his list at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16550 , not the list itself.
Naelphin 06:15, 2004 Jun 20 (UTC)
Have you used the Steinberg Clean programme?
I have been told that it does a great job making scratchy vinyl records sound as good as CDs but although I follow the instructions everything still sounds the same. The firm I bought the programme off say that many people have bought this programme and they have had great success with it. They want to charge me US$40 an hour for instruction! That will most probably work out more than double the cost of the programme.
Hopefully there is someone who lives near to me, biut if not, are we able to work something out online?
Ross Lambourn Auckland New Zealand rossandlesley@yahoo.com
Does anybody know if it's possible to fix a lava lamp when it's wearing out? This one is about 8 years old, and it seems like it no longer heats up as quickly as it used to, taking, by my count, about 10 hours before I see any independent movement inside. I've checekd and made sure that the light bulb I'm using conforms with that recommended by the instructions. Rhymeless 14:32, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
sir, i need to learn english through malayalam. do u have any programme free of cost for me to download in my system and learn english. kindly let me know. bye pradeep
Can somebody give me a clue as to where to look for information about the Battle of the Alte Veste, fought during the Thirty Years' War? Rick K 21:58, Jun 20, 2004 (UTC)
I've started to notice that people almost invariably walk down the last few steps of an escalator, despite having let the machine do the work for the rest of the descent. Any psychological terms for this kind of 'the end is in sight' behaviour? -- Chopchopwhitey 23:35, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I was never told to jump off the last few steps, but I walk the last 4 anyway. My theory is that you need to be at escalator speed at the end (to avoid falling over), so you need the last few steps for acceleration. [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 01:16, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Another escalator-related phenomenon of interest that I've noticed is how I nearly fall over when stepping on to an escalator that isn't moving. How come? (And it isn't alcohol-related.) I assume the subconscious must make some kind of automatic speed adjustments when we step onto an escalator, and when the escalator is out of order the adjustments are unnecessary and cause us to lose our balance slightly. I find it fascinating that my brain must be making all these adjustments without me even having to pay attention. Any names for this kind of automatic compensation? Any other examples? -- Chopchopwhitey 04:54, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Because when you make contact with the ground, zooming along with the combined momentum of your walking and the escalator is pretty darn cool. :) -- NeuronExMachina 04:49, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I've noticed that some Web sites (thankfully, not many)foist upon the user what may be called gateway screens. The ones I have in mind are those that carry no links except one to another page on the site. These are analogous to splash screens for programs, in that you can't do anything with them--they're just another screen to get past. But they're a considerably bigger annoyance than programs' splash screens, in that (a) while the programs' screens serve a promotional purpose for the program or publisher, that doesn't seem to make much sense for a Web site, since the first page of *any* Web site would be expected to prominently identify the site, and (b) the programs' splash screens will remove themselves almost instantly, while the Web sites' gateway screens will typically hang around until the user finds and uses a link to proceed to a functioning page on the site.
My question is:
What possible reason can Web site developers have for making us users wade through these opening screens before we can use the site?
My combinatorics isn't up to much, so perhaps someone could help me figure out how many permutations there are of both a 12-hour and a 24-hour digital clock face (excluding seconds)?
(Also of use would be any mathematical arguments as to why my repeated viewings of the time 12:34 over the past view weeks when glancing at the clock isn't lucky/proof of a higher being in any way, and is just a strange coincidence to do with what hours I keep.) -- Chopchopwhitey 09:15, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I once tried to convince someone that in picking numbers for the English National Lottery, they might as well just pick 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, as probabilistically those numbers have as much chance of coming up as any other set of 6 numbers.
They of course refuted this as being ludicrous, and asked why then did there, in general, seem to be a fairly even spread of numbers each week (e.g. 3, 10, 12, 23, 33, 42, which for some reason looks a little more reasonable).
I know there's a reason but can't for the life of me figure it out mathematically. Why is it? -- Chopchopwhitey 09:35, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I suppose it's entropy. 3,10,12,23,33,42, is a highly unlikely possiblity of being a winning combination! but it looks like any old random set of numbers, so we can stick it in our "random looking set of numbers" pot, along with 22,23,34,38,40,49 and 1,7,9,33,46,48 and so on. 1,2,3,4,5,6, is just as unlikely as all the others, be we stick it in a different pot based on what we think is a random looking set of numbers.
Incidentally, even though 1 through 6 is just as unlikely as every other combination, you should still avoid it! This is because people have a habit of picking this combination, so if it should come up you are more likely to have to share your winnings. The same goes for the low numbers, (<12) people go for bithdays and anniversaries. But these are not random, they will only have numbers <31 and are likely to have numbers <12. By going for high numbers you will ensure that you don't have to share your dosh with a birthday choosing punter. theresa knott 11:04, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Why were they classified in this catogory? plz email me with the answer alb32934@yahoo.com,or luckygirl2@hotmail.com
Sorry, I couldn't help myself. ;) Mark Richards 17:08, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What's the deal with Fire Walking and people who walk on hot coals?
From what i heard anyone can do it(although im not saying you should try it). All you need to do is keep the coal under 1000'C and walk briskly. Then your feet won't get hot enough to be painful. 22:15, jun 29, 2004
What is it called when an author or screenwriter writes themself into the script as a character? Examples are Borges in The Book of Sand, Paul Auster in The New York Trilogy and Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation (movie). It seems like there would be some literary or cinematic term for this. Anyone have suggestions? - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:28, Jun 21, 2004 (UTC)
I don't know what it's called either, but Kurt Vonnegut uses it very well in Slaughterhouse Five. moink 17:38, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Autobiography? Mark Richards 22:31, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
When a novel has fictional characters who correspond to real people then it's a roman à clef. When a narrator appears to embody the character and opinions of the author, that's an authorial voice. In fan fiction, a character who represents the author for the purpose of wish fulfilment is a Mary Sue. But there seems to be no widely-used term for this. "Author surrogate" doesn't sound right to me: the character is a representation of the author, not a surrogate for them.
So I suggest the new word autagonist (from Greek autos, self, and agōnistēs, actor). Gdr 13:44, 2004 Jun 23 (UTC)
Where did the Cold War get its name?
A friend of mine asked the following question, and now I'm really curious. moink 01:48, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What exactly was the ultimate aim of the Rote Armee Fraktion (aka the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Red Army Faction)? Did they seek unificiation of Germany under East Germany's terms?
Or did they want to take over the West German government and set up a parallel communist German state?
If anyone knows, it'd be very helpful. DO'Neil 04:15, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
What is the time zone of Texarkana, Texas? And does anyone else think that articles about cities should include time zones, so that people like me can find it? moink 22:26, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Too slow... Never mind. Still - we should include the time zones! Mark Richards 22:36, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Thanks Mark. Actually, the info that it straddled two zones and what they were would have been enough, since Texarkana is at the very East edge of the state, on the border with Arkansas. moink 22:42, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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I'm looking for a word to descibe two situations:
1) When a plane is accelerating for take off, it reaches a point of 'no return'. That is, regardless of what warnings may be displayed, the plane must take off, as there is not enough run way left over to come to a safe stop. Does anyone know if there is a word to describe this threshold when the 'point of no return' is reached/exceeded?
2) When mixing two groups, often an instructor will draw two cricles side by side — though each circle will partially overlap the other. This overlap provides an area where the two groups come together. Does anyone know if there is a word to describe this overlap?
Thanks for your help. You may respond directly to: mlsquared@msn.com
On Q 1), I don't think it is really a point so much as a velocity. I don't fly powered planes, but I think the sequence during take off for a fixed wing powered aircraft is something like;
V1 is probably the term you want. All of these values have to be calculated before each flight. They depend on the type of plane, its loading, and the environmental conditions (rain on the wings etc). Later in the flight there is also the Point of no return when the plane no longer has enough fuel to return the original airfield, usually a little over halfway through the flight for a commercial jet. -- Solipsist 11:57, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I've just found that there is also a less common term, called the Accelerate-stop distance, which is something like a point on the runway at which you can stop safely. See Section 25.109. -- Solipsist 12:19, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
During Euro 2004, the England national football team's uniform has a yellow 5-pointed star in front, under the team coat-of-arms. What does this mean? A championship they have won? Or just decorative? -- Kaihsu 09:43, 2004 Jun 23 (UTC)
It shows they have won 1 major football tournament (the 1966 World Cup Final). It is not unique to England, several other countries have followed this trend recently, although there is not a standard. It was started by Brazil as a celebration of the fact that they have won more World Cups than any other nation 1. Some countries include regional tournament wins such as the UEFA European Championship or the African Nations Cup in their star count. akaDruid 10:30, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I'm writing a book, Exiles Are Assets. Its aim is to show that exiles and refugees are good for their host countries. I wish to include information about Huguenots who fled from France to England. May I quote from your material?
Shouldn't Denmark+Greenland+Faroe be the world's 14th largest country(+dependancy) totalling up 2,210,580 km2? Nichalp 20:22, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)
Adoption - District CourtI am looking for any references on the court system in Olawa. My wife and I are adopting twin boys from the region and have experienced significant challenges. Any information on the district court system located in Olawa would be helpful.
Thank You for your assistance.
Jeff Cox
jeff.cox@mercer.com
Answer: according to Black Sea, "The name (initially Pontus Euxinus) was coined by the Ancient Greek navigators, because of the unusual dark colour, compared with the Mediterranean Sea. Visibility in the Black Sea is on average approximately 15 feet (as compared to up to 100 feet (30 m) in the Mediterranean)." So, somewhere between 776 BC and 323 AD.
Cheers, Kingturtle 20:39, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Can someone please transcribe the following into romaji?
イエス・キリスト、神の子よ、わたしをあわれんでください
Thanks. -- Xiaopo ℑ 22:57, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that there were trains during Roman times? Plus did the Romans invent the train? Thank You!
My mother inherited a painting from my great-grandmother signed by artist Parkinson Fox. Does anybody know anything about this artist, or where I can find out something about him? She lived most of her life in Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and California. Rick K 05:07, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
Ho, I am Kathleen Chase, proudly desended from the Hupa Tribe in Northern California, and not only do I seek help but to share what Grandfather has shown me. I was hurt while working as a certified nurses aid in 1997 repeatedly, my attorney was paid over one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to shaft me and drop me as a client. In mid 1999 I began to investigate and research in the law books what was happening to me, this search took back to 1992 and farther.My work comp files are full of documented evidence medical negligence, fraud, to an attempt to perform unnecessary spinal fusion and prosecute me for fraud. Unable to go to a law library because of my pain and they are an intimidating place if you don't know what your looking for or where to look. I found the books I needed, did you know a lay person can not just walk in a buy law books? I found them anyway and walking with Grandfather in the medicine wheel he showed how people of authority can file under the fraud prevention act with the Control Board or some unknown court that the person they are filing against is guilty of commiting unprosecutable frauds, like when you work and get welfare, that is an unprosecutable fraud, even though the person did nothing wrong and reported their income like they are suppose to. When this happens the accused is not informed or notified, and have no opportunity to defend themself. The people who filed the claim recieve a judgment, for each judgment they are given 2 to 4 years to legally engage in criminal activity to entrap, in my case me, in a prosecutable fraud, and prosecute. During the time period my citizenship status was altered. I was found to not to be entitled to the benefits of society, and no longer entitled to protection under the law or due process. Because of this my complaints of criminal acts commited against me in my work comp cases are not valid. To report this type of crime you can not guilty of even an unprosecutable fraud. They can take a levy against your personality, and a lien against your reality when I first learned this I laughed but I soon realized this was no joke. My phones were sencured, my computer corrupted, my credit cards ran up, my home entered and my notes and records taken. I am followed and video taped and electronicly eves dropped on. They can end your life if they want with the approval of the system, which they attempted to do, but following my gut at the time I discovered this I picked up the phone, it was tapped and making that tell tell beep beep sound, I began to call anyone I could think of telling them I believed a lawyer I had upset had taken a contract out on my life, I recieved a phone call from a friend confirming this and telling me I needed to make a safe tape of what I knew, I also wrote a letter to the presiding judge informing him that I knew my life was in danger and that I was binding my life to his and if I died the truth of my case would move forward. I recieved a sign that I would live for a time. Not only have I suffered these things and more, but my children and grandchildren, my man, my friends,and anyone who assists me have suffered. So I stay alone and have no close relationships with anyone but my man. Over the years I have written many places to file my complaints, last year during a work comp trial the judge told me "Things were changing in the work comp system because of me just how much would change depended on what I did." I didn't know what he meant, he went on to tell me I am the first person in California to discover what was happening. When I told him I was trying to report a crime commited against me, he replied "yes we know about you but we don't know what we're going to do." I just realized to night what it was I did. One of my complaints went to the attorney general, I never heard anything back and had forgotten about it. I found their web site and read how the attorney general is agressivly enforcing civil rights laws and how they were taking legal action civilly. Then read how they would accept complaints from people but would not an individual such as myself. Even though my complaint caused them to investigate my claims, and make changes to the system. The legal statute that allowed this to be done to me and many other people was repealed last year, but my situation has not changed. I am seeking legal help or guidence. What has been done to me is a violation of the 1972 Hayes act in which I was granted federal recognition as a Native American although I am not a tribal member. I believe they have violated many treaties and discriminated against many people of all races, anyone who has received public aid is a target. In case I can't reconnect to your web site I want you to be able to contact me by e-mail or by phone but please do not include it when you post my message <deleted by Jwrosenzweig>. May the sun warm your face on the cold winter days and a cool breeze be with you through the heat. Kathleen
Are pigs native of Asia?
They are part of the Chinese zodiac, so they have been there a long time. Not sure of the original birthplace of pigs and whether they were brought with or brought to asian cultures. - Tεx τ urε 15:31, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Quick, grab the Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond says they were first domesticated in Southeast Asia. In any case, yes, the wild boar that gave rise to the modern pig is native to Eurasia and North Africa. Dandrake 05:04, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)
There are indigenous species of boars and pigs found throughout Asia. -- Gerald Farinas 00:45, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What is the history of dodge ball?
Steve Steinberg's "Net-Heads vs. Bell-Heads" Issue 4.10 October 1996 Wired Magazine article used to be online at http://hotwired.wired.com/wired/4.10/features/atm.html and http://hotwired.wired.com/wired_online/4.10/atm/index.html and now the full text is not there anymore. Does anyone know where else it archived? - Bevo 16:28, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
As far as I know, there are several cities that are referred to casually as "river city". Among these are:
Does anyone know if the "River City" in River City Ransom refer to any of these actual cities? Are there any other instances of a "River City" in literature or other media? - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:00, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
Is it possible to chemically alter calcium to become ephedrine chemical name of [(methylamino)ethyl]benzene-methanol. C10 H15 NO
For example. Spatial - and - Spacial. What's the word to express the multiple spellings, if any?
Thank you, any help is appreciated.
The word you want is variants. -- Gelu Ignisque
I'd just call it having acceptable variant spellings. -- Jmabel 17:43, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
I put a question on the tongue talk page, but answer came there none. I asked (of course, for a notional friend) why a tongue can be persistently coated. What does it mean? Brushing my, I mean his, his tongue... why is it that when he brushes his tongue it comes out looking a bit healthier then returns all coated and turgid next time I poke... I mean he pokes it out? Does brushing the tongue damage the taste buds? Or does it make them more vigorous and healthy? -- bodnotbod 04:12, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)
I think there might be something to this though - there are products for cleaning the tongue - scrapers and the like. I have never used them - anyone know whether they are snake oil? Mark Richards 06:48, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Did you know toothbrushes before 1938 were made of animal hair ? Wonder if dentists then used to suggest brushing the tongue. Maybe this could be put in the "Did you know .." section on the Main page. Any Wikipedian here who has brushed his teeth before 1938 ? Jay 14:11, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
An ancestor, Minnie Armstrong Barrie lived in Battleford at the time of her death, 23 May 1957. She was buried in the Moose Jaw, SK Cemetery in the Armstrong plot. She had previously lived, in Moose Jaw. She was the widow of Alexander Ingram Barrie. Was she also the former widow of Charles Ernst Armstrong? Can you send me her obit or any information about her?
I want to make arrangements for mailing of any obit or newspaper clippings you might have.
Please give me the address / E-mail of the local newspaper.
Bernard J. Diedrich 1140 Windsong Lane Sarasota, FL 34242 U. S. A. 941 349-8001 E-mail// bjdiedrich@comcast.net
Hey latin-speakers. If my (google-based) latin is correct, "endo-rheic" means roughly "acid inside", yet an endorheic lake is invariably alkaline. Does rheic really mean "caustic" rather than "acidic", or am I missing something? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:21, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Well, your basic problem is that endorheic is Greek rather than Latin, and means something like "flowing in" because they have no outlet to the sea. I don't think it has any relationship to pH. Alteripse 00:01, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone fill in the blank in this half-remembered couplet?
Scotland, how thee a double darkness _____, For thy name is Scotia and thy teacher Knox
Scotia and nox being Greek and Latin respectively for night. It has to rhyme with Knox so a process of elimination should work but I can't think of the word. The meaning is something like 'curses'. Any ideas? adamsan 01:48, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Scotia isn't Greek for night. It is Latin for Scotland, e.g., the dear province of Nova Scotia. -- Menchi 03:16, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
skotos in classical greek can mean shade, shadow, or dark night. Modern English cognate is scotoma, for a blind spot in one's vision. Alteripse 03:21, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
For the record, scotoma isn't a cognate, it's a derivative; the word was consciously formed from the ancient Greek elements, not simultaneously derived from Indo-European?English wasn't around back then! -- Gelu Ignisque
Hence for searchable clarity, couplet is:
I thought Latin for Scotland was Caledonia and Scotia was Ireland. Or am I just confused?
.. ation, which I would like to add. How can I add my explanation to the history?
Probably. Mark Richards 23:32, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What are phosphenes (the shifting glow that one sees when one's eyes are closed)? What causes them? -- Eequor 04:37, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What's wrong with your eyes?; our eyes don't do that... just kidding. Phosphenes are nerve signals from the neurons of the retina to the visual cortex of the brain which are interpreted as lights and visual patterns, but are not caused by visual light. They can be produced by a variety of things, including pressure stimulation to the eyeball, and less commonly various diseases of the retina and nerves. Perhaps some may even be "constructively perceived" in the dark in the same way that we can begin to "hear" vague noises in a completely quiet room. Goodnight, I'm going to go watch some phosphenes. Alteripse 04:57, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I want to learn everything about fine wines. Where do I start? -- Jia ng 01:34, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the info...It's mainly for personal enrichment purposes. I'm still two and a half years short of the legal age in the US, so I'll have to wait before making a trip to Napa. I do, however, have a couple hundred bottle of the stuff sitting in my house...
At this point, I'm mainly interested in introductory books on the topic I can look at this summer.-- Jia ng 07:43, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can someone explain what it means for an actor or director to have points for a project? I know that it factors in to how much many they can make, but I'd like to know the specifics. (If possible, could you also put the answer on my talk page? Thanks)-- Wasabe3543 06:56, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
You are really asking for quite a feat of mind reading here. But if you want a copy of a marriage certificate and you are British you should visit your registry office, I think. -- bodnotbod 20:48, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
hi i'm an italian student and i'm interested in hypertext, i'm planning to write a chapter of my thesis about hypertextual encyclopedia and i'd like to speak about wikipedia. All i ask for is a brief interview with someone i could send few questions about this encyclopedia. I think would be interesting for me and nice for you too, I hope you can help me.
My email address is antonionegro85@hotmail.com i hope i hear from you soon.
Best regards
antonio
I was trying to give someone an example of one of my pet peeves: turning a verb derived from a noun into a noun, or turning a noun derived from a verb into a verb. But I couldn't come up with many common ones off the top of my head. I hope to get him a longer list.
The best examples I can come up with right now are actioning: act -> action -> actioning and orientate: orient -> orientation -> orientate. They don't have to be real words, just manglings that get used. moink 16:50, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
My personal vote for most annoying example of this is "to birth" as a verb meaning "to bear" by people who do not understand that birth is simply the noun form of bear. Alteripse 17:03, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"administer" -> "administration" -> "administrate" -- Jmabel 17:48, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
One attends a party, but should never just "party!". -- bodnotbod 20:51, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
"burgle" -> "burglar" -> "burglarize"? Proteus (Talk) 09:31, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
My personal peeve is using "reference" as a verb. Whatever happened to good old "refer" or even "cite"? Ambarish | Talk 08:00, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Scrutiny -> Scrutinize -> Scrutinization -- Heron 20:56, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
help me to discuss the grandfather clock that i have that came from vincent massey`s house not sure if it was from the house on jarvis street or the house in por hope ? would you be interested in borrowing it ? please let me know by e.mail or phone at 705 436 3549 thankyou geoff jackson
I have an old Jambiya knife that has and inscription on each side of the blade in gold, very legible but in an unknown, to me, language. I am just trying to find someone to translate the inscription into English, Can you help me on this? If you want me to I could paste a picture of the inscription but only if would like me to as I do not want to take up you time needlessly. Thank you Earl G. Beall
I think putting up a picture would be the best way to save time all around. Go ahead. -- bodnotbod 20:52, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
When an Ambassador has completed the assignment of Ambassador and no longer holds the post, does he/she keep the title? Is a former Ambassador still addressed as Ambassador?
Pat
How much would some three investigators books be worth now? There not exactly in mint condition (some wrinkles and ballpoint marks on the pages here and there).how much would second hand mint condition books be?
Where is the best place to find personal accounts, and even news reports, if possible, from during/directly after the September 11 tragedy? Rhymeless 18:29, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
My knowledge of flowers being somewhat small, could anyone identify
these images I've taken? Uploading them as "red flower", "orange-red rose", &c., is rather... useless. Many thanks,
James F.
(talk) 22:03, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The plant with lots of heart shaped pink flowes with a white center is a Bleeding heart (plant) theresa knott 11:00, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What is the fastest speed a human has achieved by running, hopping, crawling, and walking on their hands? Elpenmaster
This is not relevant, but I thought it was interesting! [28]
Mark Richards 23:08, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The fastest time running the 75-yard-dash backwards (in 8.2 seconds) was once recorded by Bojangles (the tap dancer from the Shirley Temple movies) Rhymeless 03:28, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Can't find any data on crawling or hopping. It's possible there is no official record for either of these activities. akaDruid 10:44, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hello, In your article about the ___ September 11, 2001 attack oportunists do not show a link in reference to cause and effect to Macroeconomics. I need to know where I can go in your site to find this analysis. Thanks,
Marinitza
Not a very encyclopedic question, but I've come to rely on the Wikipedia community. Can anyone think of a way to get from the Greek island of Kos to the equally-Greek island of Ios, as well as the other way aronud? (There are no direct ferry lines, and while my DK Eyewitness guide to the Greek Islands claim there is a line between Kos and Naxos, as well as between Naxos and Ios, I have been unable to locate online references.) Comfort and the length of the voyage are of no importance, money is. Also, if you feel compelled to divulge any Ios-related horror stories (of which there is an abundance on the web), go right ahead. -- Itai 23:32, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
A colleague at work came out with a phrase I'd never heard of before and claimed it was very common in certain parts of England. The phrase was It were so hot, it were crackin the flags. What does this phrase mean and where does it come from? (They refused to tell me because I'm a southerner...) -- Graham ☺ | Talk 23:43, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Dharam Singh Karnataka CM profile
Hi I found your website through search engines and I think it is excellent. For one of my school projects I need to make a chart of all the cities and their population within each county of each state (any population value within the last 4 years will do). I found entries for the list of cities in some of the states of USA but nothing at all about the counties to which they belong. The population data about those cities appear not to be comprehensive. So here is my question: Can you please guide me where I can find all this info without the need to go through 3000 and more websites? Thank you in advance for you help. Dustin Win dustinnsc@yahoo.com Santa Ana College California
All of the cities within all of the counties within all of the states in the United States? Either this is a monumental task, or you're going to need to clarify. It is not uncommon to have at least 20 cities in any single county, and most states have 25+ counties; Texas, the second-largest state, has the most counties (254) and likely the most cities (upwards of 40,000 I believe). However, on the entry for each state (see California), there is a listing of all of the counties, or a link to it. Although the pages for the individual counties will list their populations, they may not neccesarily list all of the cities in the county. However, the cities themselves are all listed within wikipedia, with their populations and locations. (see Anchorage, Alaska) Hope this helps; I pray that the project you've been assigned is more specific than it appears to be. Rhymeless 06:16, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Answer from Dustin: I know it is a huge task. I am really looking for all cities from all counties per counties. I already know that there are 3140 counties and over 27,000 cities. This is why I need help to find all this info in one central place/website rather than looking for cities state by state and then county per county... I thought that there may be one or several sites providing this info in one go. Thank you for your answer all the same.
RamMan may have something to say about this - didn't RamBot go through all the census data to produce these pages? It must be available in raw form somewhere, probably on the govt. census site? Would this help? fedstats Mark Richards 17:14, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
He appears to be, amongst other things;
Any other guesses? Mark Richards 15:56, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
...and what is it you wanted to know about them? -- Ardonik 23:58, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I know that artwork older than however-many years are public domain, as any copyright that would apply would have expired. However, what about the a photo of that piece of artwork? Many of the photos of particularly famous sculptures are done by famous photographers. There are some sculpture images here that are unlabeled, but I don't want to report them as copyvios if they are public domain. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:47, Jul 1, 2004 (UTC)
What is the proof of the polynomial remainders theorem? ie. if a Polynomial P(x) is divided by (x - a), its remainder is P(a). And who proved it for the first time? Is there a wikipedia article on it, and if not, shouldn't there be...?
Why is it that only Britain bothers with three-pin electrical plugs? Is the rest of the world under cautious, or is Britain over cautious?
Many US plugs are 3 pin, with an earth (not sure what the criteria is), and all news plugs in the US have notches to stop people putting them in the wrong way round. Some appliances in the US are 220 volts (on a separate line), for example dryers. These have different plugs. The UK standardised on a very safe design, whereas the US has a variety of designs for different purposes. Mark Richards 15:52, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
OK, there is now a Mains power plug article. Go forth and improve it with your dazzling knowledge! — Chameleon My page/ My talk 01:10, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
How would I go about finding out who is the owner of a Company going under the name of 824389 ONT. INC. (moved by [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]])
Well, the first thing you can do is to leave grass cuttings on the grass when you cut it, that will provide about 1/3 of the fertiliser needs. Mark Richards 15:54, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Let's say that I, an untrained individual living in North America, wanted to try luge or bobsledding. How would I go about this? How can one become an amateur luger, and are facilities for this available? I've always wondered how those people in the Olympics get their starts; who goes out and tries luge? [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 15:21, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Firefighters seldom get into firefights. Is there a word for this kind of thing? Mark Richards 15:56, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Erm, I know what a firefight is, I'm looking for a word which describes the situation where you have two words (eg Firefighter and firefight) which, on the face of it, look similar, but in fact have nothing to do with each other. Mark Richards 21:58, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
erm, yes, that's what I mean, is there a word for that? Thanks! Mark Richards 22:23, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello:
I am writing on behalf of Thomson Delmar Learning. They are an educational publisher of textbooks and cd rom projects located in Clifton Park, NY.
They are working on a project entitled VisTE: Visualization in Technical Education which shows the student how graphics can be used to communicate scientific and technical education. The intended audience is high school students in grades 8-12.
They would like to include an image of DNA polymerase ("Taq pol") or Taq Polymerase from the following website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/thermus_aquaticus in the project as Fig. 3-1a.
The article cited is from Pubmedcentral of the NIH but it does not contain any photographs. I am assuming that a contributor to the encyclopedia owns copyright to this image.
I would be happy to forward a written request if you could kindly supply me with contact information for the appropriate person/department.
Thank You, Sharon Rounds S&R Photo Acquisitions,LLC 111 Birds Hill Road Averill Park, NY 12018 ph: 518-674-8182 fax: 518-674-0499
How would I find the names of former congressmen from Oklahoma by the name of Connelly or Connor, year 1940-1985. Would appreciate your pointing me in the right way. John Cummings, Lawrence, Ks. .........Thanks
He was English, Irish, and French - his family's last name was originally Brandeau. Otherwise I guess he was just plain old American. Adam Bishop 06:08, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Seems to have been passed by Woodrow Wilson, it is a labour act that paved the way for the eight hour work day. Mark Richards 23:46, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
On many different Wikipedia pages, I have seen conflicting ways of showing a possessive Jesus: Jesus's or Jesus'. It may sound trivial, but I would assume rules of English would require it to be Jesus' and if that's true, what should I do if I find articles with the incorrect usage? (Should I edit them and mark them as spelling changes in the comments box?).
Thanks for any help. -- Localizer 03:27, Jul 3, 2004 (UTC)
Sutures article says "absorbable sutures" are used within the body, whereas for closing external skin wounds "non-absorbable sutures" are used. Are there cases where absorbable sutures are used for external closures ? What are the pros and cons of this ? Jay 17:31, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
A colleague swears that in Russia there are 'male' and 'female' watermelons, and that you can tell the difference by looking at them. I understand there are male and female watermelon plants. Are there male and female fully grown watermelons? How to tell them apart?
It seems that often when I click the Random Page link I come to a short, dull article about an American town or county. Surely there must be an imbalance of stub pages on American local geography to other pages for them to be occuring so frequently?
The only real solution is to pack the database with interesting articles about other things. Go to it! Mark Richards 16:29, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
WHAT IS THE NATIONAL FLOWER OF POLAND? THANK YOU. JIM BOYD E-MAIL: jim.boyd@earthlink.net
Banjo would be the best place to ask, or List of musical instruments. Jay 19:56, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
i searched quite a bit but couldn't find a hint how to translate the German word "Schwedenfeuer" or in Swiss-German "Finnenkerze" .. probably this method of cutting/burning wood trunks is mainly known in the South German area and so only given a name there though i doubt it ..
here are some pictures how it looks like .. hope that someone knows the word :) tia ebricca
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While disambiguating occurences of the word beat, I came across 2Step, and I can't make heads or tails of what it's describing. Is the example wrong? The description? Can someone who knows the first thing about house music (I don't) have a look at it? grendel| khan 16:01, 2004 Jul 4 (UTC)
The Marlon Brando article says, "Brando was born in the American heartland Omaha, Nebraska...He was of Dutch, French, English and Irish stock." — Matt 15:36, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is Little Belt Bridge (1935) a Cantilever bridge? I would think so but this page doesnt quite provide pictures that are alike enaugh. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:19, 2004 Jul 5 (UTC)
Where is to be officially published as recommended information on bank/financial institution called" euro credit union servises, address: euro credit plaza, 4th floor, 73-75 great victoria street, Belfast BT2 7AF - Nothern Ireland, www.eucreditnominee.com Sorry, I want to avoid scambank and would very greatful for yours assistance.
Yours Faithfully
Włodzimierz Stepków, tel/fax: 4822 7891251, email: projfac2@op.pl
Not quite sure what Village Pump catagory this request fits in, the descriptive seems best matched here @ the reference desk, so here goes :
Ok, here?s the dilemma: How do I/we do an entry for ?Humanure?.
A critically important concept, I do believe, as an understanding of the waste, negligence and abuse of our only home Earth, as set forth by Joseph Jenkins in The Humanure Handbook, will likely impart, the word Humanure is a noun and as such has a limited potential for a descriptive of what the focus entails.
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html
Me, I?m not much of a word monger, certainly not when I?m out of my league ( I try, anyways )so I?m asking for help.
listenin
humanure Click on the new entry link to the left and it will offer you a chance to enter text and save it. Try a couple of sentences, save it, and come back out here and you will see that the link has changed color and (by a process of technology so advanced it is indistinguishable from magic) and has become a real article. Add some more text and put your web link at the bottom of the new article. Some other people will probably set up some redirects from sewage and manure because of the unusual article term. Happy stinky editing. Alteripse 16:38, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is there any officially aethiest animal rights activists organization? Elpenmaster
Dear Sirs
I am starting a novel with fmri and the nervous system as main components. I need to speak to someone who could answer a few hypothetical questions about how these could potentially be used. If you have someone who wouldn't mind swapping some emails, please get in touch. I would be grateful for any help/ideas you could offer.
Tara Allen-- 62.252.96.6 15:09, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Moved to Wikipedia:Reference Desk from Wikipedia:Village Pump
In Supply and Demand#Elasticity, it says "So, if the price moves from $1.00 to $1.05, and the quantity supplied goes from 100 pens to 102 pens, the slope is -2/-0.05 or 38 pens per dollar. Since the elasticity depends on the percentages, the quantity of pens increased by 2%, and the price increased by 5%, so the elasticity is 2/5 or 0.4." Could someone explain this better?
The price for what exactly? for 102 pens, or for individual pens? How does it become 38 pens in a dollar? I'm totally confused!!! - Ta bu shi da yu 12:23, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can someone write an article on parton? The word seems to be used a lot in particle physics. I appreciate the information I find in Wikipedia, but parton is still not in the vocabulary. horstgkoerner@netscape.net
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How do they measure television ratings (i.e. number of viewers for a particular show)? -- Jia ng 05:00, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
On a related note, how does one know the viewership count for a particular program, like the Oscars or the soccer world cup ? Jay 19:56, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Of course, one wonders whether being watched affects someone's viewing habits, or whether they report accurately. In a recent media survey of all media (print, tv, radio, internet) not one person spent any time looking at porn. ;) Mark Richards 16:29, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
suppose:
1-there is a old document like the Voynich manuscript. It is free to public, but what about a picture of it? Can I just pick any image from other websites and upload in the wikipedia? Is there a diffrence wheter its a plain scan or a photograph?
2-If I take a picture of a copyrighted object, like a shoe, in a white baclground, do I own the image right? Can i upload it to any copyleft community? Is there a diffrence wheter there's a logo on it? What if i photograph a building then?
-- Zero00 01:37, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
IANAL either...
In the United States, copyright attaches to a particular copy, and applies anew to "derivative works", which includes copies. The clock starts ticking as soon as the work is "fixed". This means that if you scan a published book that's in the public domain, your scan is copyrighted by you on the date of the scan, but anyone can use their own copy of the book (or the same one, if they have access to it) and make their own scan. This is how private companies can claim copyright to public domain works, like laws and US government photos. Also note that many photos and other works that appear to belong to the US government (which by US law cannot hold copyrights, except those assigned to it by non-government authors) were actually taken by contractors (whether private companies or freelancers or universities), who *can* hold copyrights. US law also grants some additional protections to *collections* or databases, which may apply to a private image library.
Say Alice and Bob each have made their own scan. Can Alice go on the web and download Bob's scan and sell it on the street? No, even though she has her own scan - even if they are exactly the same right down to the pixel. Is it easy for Bob to prove that the scans Alice is selling are his? No, but that's what I understand the law says. Copyright here depends on historical lineage, not on content, so multiple people can have copyright on functionally identical documents in the same medium. It is certainly OK to take your own picture of a public domain work and copyleft it or donate it to Wikipedia.
With regard to taking a picture of a copyrighted book, it's much *less* likely to be OK if you can see the text of the book in the photo, since the text, not the design of the enclosure, is what's copyrighted. You'd probably want to ask a lawyer about what the case law on "fair use" says about the particular use you want to make of the picture before proceeding. Wikipedia's licensing terms are complex, and it's possible that would be OK to distribute such a picture for free online, but if anyone printed the encyclopedia and tried to sell it, that wouldn't be OK. Or maybe both uses would fall into the fuzzy category news reporting; I'm not sure.
In some cases, US copyright law treats digital and analog *music* differently; I'm not sure about images. The differences, if any, may be obscure enough not to matter for your purposes. Consult a lawyer if you want to be sure.
Shoes, in as much as they are "useful articles", are not protected by copyright law. The designs of useful things are protected by patent law, with which I am not familiar. A picture drawn on the side of a shoe, or other artistic aspects may be protected by copyright law, however. Logos may be protected by both copyright and trademark law. I am not familiar with trademark law, either. If you want to publish a picture of a shoe with a logo on it completely on the up-and-up, it would be advisable to consult with a lawyer. The answer might depend on the context of publication, and publication in an encyclopedia is more likely to be OK than some purely commercial or non-documentary use, but you never know.
As far as I know, you can publish without restriction a picture of a shoe (even a patented shoe) if you've taken that picture yourself and the shoe has no identifiable trademark or copyrighted symbols (like artwork or text or whatever).
I know sometimes US state privacy and likeness-rights laws restrict what you can do with pictures you've taken of people without their permission, so be careful about doing that.
With regard to buildings, the US Copyright Office FAQ says:
See also Copyright and Wikipedia:Copyrights. Someone may want to integrate this information into these or other articles.
-- Beland 07:31, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
IANAL either but let me explain tradmark law simply. The intent of a trademark is to allow a company to mark a product as theirs. As such, it is illegal to use the trademark in a way that could cause a product to be misrepresented as that company's product. Sometimes it is illegal to *not* show the trademark, i.e., if you tried to claim the product was yours. In general, the use of the trademark is up to the owner, and they (in US law at least) are required to protect their trademark by restricting its use. If they fail to do so, they can lose the trademark as it comes into general use for a purpose other than representing their product. Big companies tend to vigorously protect their trademarks (since Klenex lost theirs anyway). There have been many cases where people have placed company trademarks on websites and gotten letters about it. Sometimes the company will allow it--especially if it is used correctly. Sometimes they will require its removal. More frequently, they will allow it in context AFTER you get permission. The key here is that by requiring you to ask permision, they fufull their legal obligation to restrict its use, and thus preserve their use of it. Obviously, a company will be unhappy if you cast their product in a bad light, and may ask you to remove the trademark in that case even if you are using it correctly. -- ssd 05:06, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
What is gluvine?
No matter how you spell it, GLUVINE is AWESOME
how to write PDA checking program to enhance existing program? e.g. existig PDA program can perform food order wirelessly then how to write new program to enhance the program to check before order was sending, to check whether the food ready, to check whether the food available, to check whether the food is selling today and so...
thanks... Xman
What is the crab with the strongest pincer grip? -- Gelu Ignisque
I would hazard a guess that it would be the coconut crab, or robber crab. They get bigger than 3 feet from head to tail and can weigh 40 pounds, they use their pincers to open coconuts. We don't appear to have an article about it though. It is huge, and endangered, apparently because people like to eat them. Here is a site that has a photo that is apparently public domain [38]. Mark Richards 02:14, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I uploaded the image (can someone check it and see if you agree with my interpretation, thanks!) here it is:
Great work Chris - do any of our crab enthusiasts want to take a look at Japanese spider crab? I will sometime, but probably not this week. Mark Richards 20:46, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is Sunny von Bulow still on life support?? Thanks.
According to Dead or Alive? Sunny von Bulow is still alive in a coma. According to crimelibrary.com she was taken off life support (except feeding) within a couple of months after the onset of the permanent coma, and she breathed on her own. So she is apparently still alive, and supported by tube feedings, but not ventilation. Alteripse 20:50, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone explain the difference between "Shots on goal" and "Shots on target" in soccer to me? I'm trying to translate the Stat-Page (comp. Talk:2004 European Championship (match stats)) Thx. -- 84.129.87.17 14:13, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have the documents for a WW II American fighter pilot (2nd Air Commandos) who was authorized a British ALLIED RIBBON by the Briish 14th Army Div. No one seems to know what it was (Spink, etc). Too, the British 14th Army Div authorized the same pilot a BURMA STAR service medal. How come American troops were authorized British medals??? Both of the above are noted as being "issued."
Where can I go to find the answer? British 14th Army archives? (address?) ANY HELP MUCHLY APPRECIATED
Vernon Brook =-email vrbrook@msn.com
Kaihsu 21:34, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC): I wonder and would like to see tables (and graphs where appropriate):
In the 20th century (100-year period) or the post- War era (circa 60-year period), in the United Kingdom (other countries are interesting as well, but I try to be specific)
Let me know at my talk page if you have the answer, please; perhaps even create a subpage thereof. Thanks.
* * *
Kaihsu 11:34, 2004 Dec 15 (UTC):
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1005
National Statistics: Social Inequalities: Income Gaps in income and wealth remain large
The extent of inequality in the income distribution has changed considerably over the last three decades. However, between 1994/95 and 2002/03 the income distribution was broadly stable. Disposable income (adjusted for inflation) grew by over a fifth for both those on incomes at the top of the distribution (90th percentile) and those at the lower end (10th percentile).
Published on 7 December 2004 at 9:30 am
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http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/income_tax/it_t01_1.htm
Inland Revenue: Income Tax Statistics and Distributions
T2.1 - Number of individual income taxpayers
I am a math dolt who is trying to design a parabolic solar energy collector with an offset focus. The offset focus is desirable to get the heated object out of the way of the sun so all of the collected energy can be used for heat. I don't know where your answer will be posted. Please forward an answer to paulsmith1001@comcast.net.
On Google if you do a search with (Taswell +Messamore). You get this long spooky article that my family was involved in in the 1940's. But it's the only reference anywhere on the web about it. Since I live on the west coast I was wondering if there is any more information about it anywhere that isn't local? I'm not going there anytime soon and even there the written data must be scarce.
I recently went through Canadian customs, returning to England from Canada, and they took a tiny little swab of the top and bottom of my laptop. That was all. Didn't even ask me to open it up. I didn't question it in case they got suspicious and found the drugs I'd hidden in the floppy drive, but does anyone have any ideas as to what this is for? It doesn't seem like it could reveal much. -- Chopchopwhitey 13:08, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I used to use a device called a " cartesian diver" to controll the vacuum pressure on a distillation still ,to separart organic compounds. Where can I find a drawing of this apperatus? I have been amaised at what I have found about its name sake , using your system. You people are the greatest. Charles D. Cox , if I may be of some help.
Can the creator of this question please clarify? -- Ardonik 23:39, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I would like sources for finding out how much the U.S. presidential campaigns are spending in each state (e.g. $24 million in Florida, etc.). What's the best source for this type of information? Thanks, [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 19:17, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Do people in the UK simply uses Windows in American English? (Does it bother Brits?) Or does a British dialect version of Windows actually exist? -- Menchi 20:11, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
How would you happen to cite this website. I need it for a works cited page on a research paper
This question has been asked here twice this month already. I suspect the answer hasn't changed much... -- Solipsist 06:42, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I am looking for information about the Commodore Joshua Barney memorial which is located in the Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Bladensburg, Maryland. I also think that I heard from another resource, that there is a Commodore Joshua Barney foundation. Does anyone know anything about this foundation. I believe that the memorial was dedicated on July 6th 1984. I don't think that the Fort Lincoln Cemetery has an active website. Can anyone give me some more information about this memorial.
Thank you Stephen H.
I am looking for information about the Peace memorial which is located in Bladensburg, Maryland at the intersection of Route 1 and Annoplis Road. Visitors can't miss it, as it is at the center crossway. I would like to find some historic information about this monument, if it is possible. I am looking to find information that might be able to be sent to me. Any help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciate it.
Thank you Stephen H. sh34g@nih.gov
When I look at some clouds, I notice that their undersides are flat. Not hugely flat, mind, but compared to the fluffiness of their tops, their bases appear to be very smooth. Why is this?
I am trying to find whether Fidel Castro actually said something to the effect that " Organization of American States is the USA's colonial office". Help?! -- Kaihsu 21:41, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)
This could help: www.mydeergarden.com Mark Richards 23:13, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
One of my favourite sites, The All Music Guide has been hyping itself for ages about a complete overhaul and modernisation of its content and display. This has now taken place with the marvellous result that it is now all but unusable if you do not have broadband. (I don't).
Still, one occasionally will sit through the frustratingly long loading times to get at the sound clips. Now, my question is: as it stands my Windows Media Player won't play the clips. To be honest, I don't really want it to. I've got Jet Audio which I had set up to play .wma files. However, clicking on AllMusic's links to the samples (represented by one of those little speaker icons) brings up a (non-functioning) Windows Media Player client.
So, (pauses for breath) does anyone know how I might be able to get the samples to play in Jet Audio? -- bodnotbod 12:04, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
The easiest way is to download Windows Media Player's latest version. Otherwise you can look for the codex you need on the internet, there are some open source and free ones for wma files. I would not really want to recomend a particular one though, since I don't know what setup Bod has. Installing random codeces can cause random problems. There are a few complilations that you can find, mainly on Linux sites. If there is some ethical issue around downloading the latest WMP and you can't figure this out I could take a look and see if I can find the right package. Mark Richards 20:13, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC) This is probably the best bet: wm9 codex. Mark Richards 20:15, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Quite right. Thank you - COding, DECoding. Not a large dusty tome that is difficult to handle. Of course, you can understand the confusion. Mark Richards 14:46, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was just wondering if there is any simple way to jazz up plain text files (e.g. from Project Gutenberg) and turn them into nice clean readable PDF flies without fooling around with Word in between. Thanks for any help Mjklin 12:47, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC).
Can you tell me if the above train ran continuously during WW1 and 2? Thanks. I need this information for a book that I am writing.
Jeanette Fusco seagate500@earthlink.net
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The official name seems to be Mare Tranquillitatis with two Ls.
Can any Latin scholars out there confirm that it's supposed to have two L's? -- Curps 21:38, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Why is it that sometimes when you move (and quite frequently with some folks) do your bones or joints click when you move. I've heard this is a nutritional deficiency - but I'm intrigued to know the whys and causes. Helen . 21:39, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I will be in Carlsbad on Aug. 17-20. My mother was born on August 6, 1919 in Carlsbad and lived there for several years. If any records exist on my mother or grandparents, I would like to be able to access them while I am visiting. Can you advise me where I could obtain birth records as well as possible addresses and other family information.
I want to know the function of the following keys found commonly on the telephone keypad.
*, #, Mute, Pause, Flash
Bharath 10:17, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
These are usually programable. They simply produce tones on your phone, what they do depends on what the exchange is programmed to do with them, and that is somewhat standard, but not always. Internal office exchanges sometimes program them weirdly, and phone companies sometimes use them for special features like call waiting etc. The mute button sometimes turns to microphone off I think. Mark Richards 14:51, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Mute simply makes the microphone not work (so you can make cheap asides to friends in the room), where pause mutes both the microphone and the speaker (most useful for sleeping during dull teleconferences). Both of these functions are simple electrical functions, confined to your telephone itself (that is, nothing is sent on the line to the exchange). * and # are dialled, just like 0-9 (more on dialling momentarily) - that is, they result in a tone/pattern being sent down the line to the exchange. Flash is a stranger and more interesting beast. First a primer on how a plain old telephone works - it's simply two wires (which telcospeak calls "the pair" and latterly "the local loop") connected to a relay and some electrical gubbins (in telco "the main distribution frame") down at the telephone exchange (telco: "the central office" or "C.O."). Wired to this is your telephone (telco: "customer premises equipment" or simply "CPE"). A CPE consists of a microphone and a little speaker (and a clever thingy called a "hybrid" of which we won't talk further). Also in the CPE is a single switch - it's that thing that's underneath the handset, and it's called "the hook switch". When you hang up, the phone is "on hook" and the hookswitch is closed. When you pick up, the phone is "off hook" and the hookswitch is open. When the hookswitch is open the microphone and the loudspeaker (and the hybrid) are connected to the pair, and thus to the MDF in the CO. In this mode, sounds are tranfered across the pair to the operator (more of her later) or to the remote party. When you go on hook, the CPE directly attaches the two wires of the pair together (without the usual load of the microphone) - essentially a short circuit. Now consider an old fashioned manual exchange (you know - nice lady sitting at a big plugboard with a headset on, plugging wires in and out). This (telco: "manual branch exchange" or "MBE" - the manual precusor of the automatic MDF) features a little lamp which is lit when a customer's pair is offhook, a lamp that's extinguished when a relay in the MBE sees the CPE's hookswitch close. So to make a call a customer would go offhook; this makes the corresponding lamp light; the operator plugs her headset into a special socket beside the lamp; the customer tells the operator the number he wants; the operator makes the call (a more envolved procedure which we needn't go into). When the customer is finished, he hangs up, making his lamp go out - at this point the operator should (eventually) notice and pull out her patchcable. Now think back to those old Films Noir, where someone is cut off at a climactic moment - they panic and feverishly thrash the hookswitch open and closed repeatedly. This makes the lamp on the operator's board flash, hopefully attracting her attention. So closing then opening the hookswitch is called "flashing the hook" or simply "flashing". In manual days, flashing had no meaning, and no effect other than to attract the operator's attention. Now let's consider the first automatic exchanges, the electro-mechanical exchanges. These support automatic dialling, where flashing the hook opens a relay which fires a solenoid which moves a sizeable metal thing down one notch. Flash it three times in close succession (and then wait for a little cap to discharge) moves the metal thing down three notches, and counts as a dialled number "3". That's how a rotary dial works - dial a three and it makes three little pins flash the hook (and yes, a zero is ten flashes). This is called "pulse dialling". But you can still pulse dial with just the hookswitch, if your timing is in. Doing so is an old jailhouse trick - where you tell the guard the number you want to dial, he dials it for you, and then gives you a handset with no dial on it (this way the guard knows who you called); the trick was to hang up and to pulse dial, using the hookswitch, the real person you wanted to call (1-800-JAILBREAK). I guess most prison phones aren't this dumb anymore. Latterly flashing the hook has acquired some new meanings, the most common being to tell the CO to flip you to another line (such as to answer call waiting, or to dial again in preparation for a three-way call). But many modern phones don't have a conventional physical hookswitch - many have a magnetic on-hook detector instead, or a "line 1/line 2/line 3" etc thing - so these phones generally have a button marked "flash" which performs a hookflash for you, so you can still access the additional function(s) that the CO has mapped onto a hookflash operation. So lastly we come to # and *. If your CPE is set to tone dial (that is, to use DTMF rather than pulses of hookflash to perform dialling) then # and * are just another two tone-pairs in the DTMF matrix. Frankly, I have no idea what happens when you try to pulse dial them (I'm guessing nothing, as I've never seen a mechanical dial CPE with # and *). As folks have noted above, what the CO or a PBX (that's private branch exchange, a mini telephone exchange that your company may have) takes these to mean is up to it. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 04:40, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Yes, fascinating. Thanks Fin! Mark Richards 23:01, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Where was the first public lending library opened and on what date?
William James Sidis states in his book The Tribes and the States that the first public library was established in Boston in 1636. However, he provides no reference and I have been unable to find further confirmation.
This is actually a harder question to answer than I originally presumed.
Heron, the information you turned up about Chetham Library is interesting for it's early date. I notice that it is still later than the date Sidis claimed for the Boston library though.
When I searched on this topic I also turned up the information on the Harvard library. It fits well in that it was in Boston and the date is close. However as you say it was not a public lending library.
I am particularly interested in this question as in the book I referenced (available online by the way) Sidis makes the claim that there are certain values attached in a way to the land itself which come to influence immigrant culture, particularly through contact with the native people already living there. This effect on the European people who came to America he claims, resulted in new institutions such as the public lending library and the postal service, which were then later taken abroad. Even if it sounds way out, it is an intriguing point of view. Anyway, the question of where was the first public lending library is by itself an interesting one. Thanks for your detective work, Heron. Oh, and I meglected to sign my name to the original question so I'll do it here now -- Oska 00:03, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I may as well quote the relevant part of the Sidis text:
I have a lot of respect for Sidis' research skills, so I think there is probably something to the claim he makes for the Boston town library. That is why I'm interested to see whether there is any confirming documentation.
Have decided to start a wikipedia article on this question. First public library -- Oska 05:16, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
Created the page
first public library and wrote about the two earliest claims, the Sidis one and the Chetham's Library one that
Heron turned up. Added a link from
public library. However, user
RickK slapped a VfD on the article for some unknown reason. Upset about this as I think it is an interesting topic and one that deserves an article. If you agree please add to the article or vote against the deletion proposal -
VfD no. 23
--
Oska 06:49, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
What is the oldest written record we have that is not just a picture?
Yes, the line between a 'picture' and a 'written record' is not as clear as it might look. There is a grey area between pictures that are potentially a narrative record, and their evolution into a more structured written form based on pictorial representations. I think the answer hinges on how tightly you want to define the things. Mark Richards 15:00, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Isn't this just a little bit weaselly? We can certainly debate scribblings that may be some sort of pictographic writing and may not, but there definitely are things (from the 4th millenium BC) that are known to be repsentations of actual sentences in a human language—as distinct from mnemonics for bards to recite the past several generations' history, for instance. Aren't there? SO someone who knows could just tell us what (and where and when) the earliest generally accepted ones are. New on weird disputed ones said to be earlier would just be a bonus. Dandrake 05:12, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
According to this hemangioma faq, a hemangioma is "from the Latin words hemangio meaning blood vessel and oma meaning tumor with active cell dividing activity. Hemangiomas differ from other vascular birthmarks in that they are biologically active, their growth is dependent from the growth of the child. They are the most common benign tumor of infants. Hemangioma growth is referred to as Hyperplasia, where as other vascular birthmarks growth is referred to as Hypertrophy."
Google give many sites that go into more depth. Mark Richards 16:35, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I am researching the geocentric model and Flat Earth theories of antiquity, and am disapointed in the articles on Wikipedia. I am not looking at them as scientific theories, because obviously they have been disproved... They were philosophies, and the key aspects of those philosophies were not the shape of the heavens, but the fact that the heavens were in space. I am disapointed because there is nothing in these articles that talks about this philosophy. It was apparent to these ancient men that the literal heaven was up in space... and if there is a heaven today, and people still believe the ancient scriptures I feel it is important that our understanding of where heaven is stays intact. This idea that heaven is not in space but is a metaphorical place inside ourselves and appart from the world, because the ancient models were wrong seems silly to me. The ancient models were not wrong, they were just a necesary model to understand the astronomy which played a huge role in religious life. People needed to know the exact time of certain celestial events that marked holidays, and know exactly when the sunset was for prayer. These ancient models that are now known to be wrong, were functional for their purposes. Where can I find information on Wikipedia about these ancient beliefs and philosophies relating to the geocentric model and the flat earth theory? Thanks. — 207.90.94.252 17:33, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) It would be there if you write it! Those sound like good aspects to elaborate in the appropriate articles. We would welcome your participation. Alteripse 16:55, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Glüwein, (or Gluvine, Gluhwein) is a type of mulled wine from Germany. Some recipes are here: [42], [43], [44]. Mark Richards 19:20, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was reading the Wikipedia article about playwright Maxwell ANderson which mentioned his pulitzer prize winning play, High Tor. I am writing a blog post about my childhood experiences hiking this magnificent mountain. But Wiki doesn't have an entry about High Tor. Since the battle for High Tor chronicled in the play was one of the first victories by environmentalists in this country (in 1941), I thought an entry about the place would be appropriate.
I'd rather see someone else do the job, but if you are interested in this topic I could draft a possible entry.
I found this formula on the label of a soup can (really chicken soup? who knows). Does anyone know what this chemical is? Is it really safe to eat?
I can't find what it is yet, but here is some information about it...
Formula (Name) Mol. Weight HF298 +/- val Cp(298) S(298) kJ/mole J/mole J/mole ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ClC3H4 CH2-C*H-CHCl 75.51746 107.110 74.224 312.545 #
Mark Richards 22:41, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
To link to an article on, say, the Death Star, use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_star. Generally, you replace spaces with underscores, only capitalize the first letter (unless there are other proper nouns that need capitalization), and replace "en" with the appropriate language code if you don't want the English version.
The easiest way, really, is to type the name of the article you want in the search box and then copy the URL after the page loads. URLs to significant articles in the Wikipedia are rarely deleted. -- Ardonik 23:26, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
specifically the frida kahlo page
Same deal as above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo. -- Ardonik 23:28, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I use window 2000, outlook 2000, ram 128, hd 40g, 30 free, I have not added any new software/hardware, I was just working and this started happening.
I click on send/receive and received this error message "Internet e-mail, Some messages couldn't be retrieved from the server. This usually happens when the connection to the server is lost due the server or network problems. If the problem persists, contact your administration".
Then I tried to delete a file and tried to move a file to a folder and starting getting this error message The file C:\Documents and Settings\Debra\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\mailbox.pst could not be accessed Data error (cyclic redundandy check)
What can I do?
Debra Glinsey (spam removed here)
Courage Tavern Ale. -- Heron 08:07, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have a question regarding a hebrew angel. Specifically the angel that supposedly created the Tome of Knowledge by listening by Gods throne and then gave the book to Adam to help him understand god. This angel was also supposedly one of Gods greatest and is cited in both the King James version of the Bible in revelations and the hebrew scrolls. The question is what is his name? I thought I found a site saying it was Raziel. However, I know that that name is from a video game in the Soulreaver series. So, is the name Raziel? If not then what is this highest of cherbim called? - (unsigned)
Would someone please provide the spelling and pronunciation of "Happy Birthday" in Albanian? Thanks. Darla July 15, 2004
I read somewhere that the banana is probably the most nutritionally complete food, and that dried banana chips are the best snack for energy. Is there any way to verify this? Mjklin 15:46, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Here is some opinion: [46] and [47].
Yes, but a lot of it comes down to not the absolute energy content, but the form and release curve. It ends up being very personal. Mark Richards 23:43, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have come across claims that bananas provide 'everything the body needs', but frankly I find them hard to believe. I'll keep looking for some hard data on this. Mark Richards 23:45, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Banana weight Protein Carbs Fat Banana Calories
Banana with skin 170g 2g 39g 0.5g 162 calories
Banana flesh only 114g 1.4g 17.5g 0.2g 108 calories
This [48] seems to be a banana company site, but is quite interesting! Mark Richards 23:50, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What does the name Wikipedia stand for?
Where did you get?
What does it mean?
Curious never heard of such a name before.
OR
Since I have been laid up for the past year we have found that novels and books in general have been easier for me to get and read by checking them out on the internet. I would like to see a few of the modern pulp fiction as well such as Grisham john and more westerns like louis L'Amore etc. my grand daughter now on the other hand has found it is a lot easier for her to carry an e-book reader with her and read her books as well. she is looking for more movels in her age bracket and she has also requested that I see if I can locate her text books for school seems she thinks it would be easier for her to carry a small e-book reader than twenty five pounds of text books. How hard it something like this to get added to the library.. also magazines.. with my mobility problem this is the easiest way for me thanks for everything ken klh72055@msn.com
Where can I find a listing of albums printed/released by RCA Victor? I've been trying to find the year in which several albums I own were released (the sleeves/records don't say) and haven't had any luck. Thanks in advance. Rhymeless 07:07, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Recently an entire column of the Logarithmic timeline was deleted on the ground that the concept Outside Context Problem was named by a novelist, rather than a scientist. Is there a synonym for this concept, so that the column can be reconstituted? Ancheta Wis 10:02, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I've once heard a story about a programmer in the heydays of big iron who was working on the accounting and transfer system of a bank. He realized that due to the necessity to work with fixed-point arithmetics there is no way to keep track of what happens to fractions of cents which are cut off by rounding, and hence added some code, which, whenever an amount is rounded to the bank's benefit, a cent is credited to a special account, the content of which was automatically transferred to some other account, in order to land after some further hops, on a personal account of him. So, he got all the rounding benefits that usually the bank got, but nobody could notice because this cannot show up in the balance. Well, it seems, some day, some body did found out, as otherwise, the story would not be known.
Or is it true at all? Does anybody else know it? Would be interested in details, like when and where it happened, how it was done, and how it was found out. Thanks -- Simon A. 12:40, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Supposedly, if one travels at the speed of light, time stops. Therefore, light would travel from one point to another instantly, but that is not the case. Why? 206.124.132.34 20:24, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You can tell who is your parents and offspring with genetic testing, but can you tell who's you're grandfather? cousin? uncle? Would geneticists be able to tell that my nephew is my nephew? how much can genes tell me about me? 206.124.132.34 20:31, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I feel I'm missing out. Can anyone recommend a good (free) IRC client so that I can actually access things like #wikipedia? -- Graham ☺ | Talk 00:28, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Mozilla - here are Anthere's instructions to me, which helped! [49] Mark Richards 02:21, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is there someplace where IRC is explained more fully for those of us who have never done it? Above is still cryptic to me. Alteripse 16:59, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This is what Ardonik offered and it worked for me. I copied it into the IRC article also.
How to set up IRC:
If you have an internet firewall program like Norton Internet Security you may need to confirm that Gaim is in the list of programs permitted to communicate with the internet, or you may need to add the IRC port 6667. Alteripse 01:07, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I saw a lizard of some sort outside tonight; I snapped this photo.
. Can anyone confirm whether it is a Tiger Salamander? Looks like the right coloration and size, and it's native to my area ( Colorado Springs, Colorado). Thought I'd add it to the article if it is. -- Wapcaplet 05:17, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It's the first lizard of any kind I've seen since I moved here a year ago. I think it only came out because it has been raining for the past few days. It does indeed look like the other tiger salamander photos I've found by googling. I hope an expert can confirm it for me. -- Wapcaplet 15:17, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
could anyone explain me what is data control language
An acquaintance of mine's brother is being stationed in Iraq. He wouldn't reveal where, but he did give a clue that the city/town was founded in 680 A.D. So far the closest match I've found is Basra, which was founded in 636. Can anybody give us some help? Thanks. Johnleemk | Talk 09:20, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
In doing research on Crashed Aircraft in 1939, using a Wright Cyclone Engine the RCAF Crash documentation referred to "an incorrectly installed MUFF. Could you please show information on what a MUFF is and what is its function. Thank You Alen Howard.......allen.howard@ns.sympatico.ca
What is the history of Elton John's name. I used to know. These days all I can remember of it is that he took the John portion in respect to Long John Baldry.
Given that Moses lived around the time of the Exodus around 1300-1250 BC ref, and Hebrew Script didn't develop until about 900 BC ref, how do Christian Fundamentalists and more conservative Jews square this with the fact that Moses is supposed to have written the so-called Books of Moses (i.e. the Pentateuch)?
Given that the accepted view is that the Hebrew alphabet derives from the Phoenician one, and that the Hebrews adopted and adapted it only after their arrival in Canaan (the Phoenicians being themselves Canaanites), it would seem to pose a major problem for fundamentalists. Is it head in the sand time for them, or have there been any serious attempts to justify this? Spellbinder 00:44, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
May I suggest some possible explanations; you can take any of them:
DJ Clayworth 06:05, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
There was a time when the Bible was not written down, but remembered by special people with
eidetic memory, like the ones in
Fahrenheit 451.
Moses spoke the words, just as
Julius Caesar spoke his
Gallic Wars commentaries. There must have been multiple rememberers so that they could check each other's memories. Islam also accords a special name for those types of people. Anyway, when the Bible was written down, there was a great outcry because "something was being lost" by the capture of the words in script. My reference is the OxfordCambridge History of the Bible. I would have to return to my public library to give you the ISBN. Please respond if you truly care.
Ancheta Wis 15:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Or, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
-- Wapcaplet 16:35, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, I wasn't intending to be confrontational. And I'm not sure of the definitions of 'fundamentalist', I was really using it as shorthand for 'people who believe Moses wrote the Pentateuch'; I did mention conservative Jews too (I'm not sure whether 'conservative' is the right adjective here either).
The question occurred to me after reading up about the alphabet, saying that Hebrew script was developed about 900 BC; the Hebrews used straight Phoenician script about a century beforehand before adapting it, but I've read that before that they were not a literate society (which presumably makes it rather difficult for Moses to write it at all, unless he perhaps knew Egyptian hieratic, though I've never heard a hieratic Pentateuch suggested). Even apart from those 'fundamentalists' (my defn) who believe Moses actually wrote the Pentateuch, there must be plenty of more mainstream Christians and Jews who find it hard to swallow an oral tradition of at least 300-400 years, with all that it entails for the accuracy of the account. It strikes me that this ought to be a big deal, and since there ought to be some scope for arguing about the dating, I would have thought that some more 'fundamentalist' scholars might have countered the generally accepted theory with a theory of their own. What I actually wanted to know was:
P.S. Starting writing this before all the replies were in. Ancheta, I'd be interested in that source if you can rake up the ISBN, thanks.
Spellbinder 18:05, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
See the articles on dating the Bible and the documentary hypothesis. Gdr 13:17, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)
I am soposed to write an economic analysis paper on an article. Does any one know a structure for this?
You're soposed to write it on a Wikipedia article, or any article? Is there a particular article you are interested in? I'd love to do your homework for you. Mark Richards 15:43, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What happened to the lineage of the Imperial family? -- Kaihsu 17:11, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
When the Japanese took over the Korean Peninsula in 1910, they forcibly reorganized the last reigning dynasty as part of the larger Japanese royal family. When King Kojong abdicated the throne, the Japanese moved his son the Crown Prince Sun-jong, and the other Crown Prince Yongchin, to Japan to learn the Japanese aristocratic way of life. All the primary heirs to the Korean throne were married into the Japanese royal family. In 1947, the Korean royal family lost their Japanese titles by order of General Douglas MacArthur. The Korean royal family, including the Crown Princes, moved to the United States to raise their families. Yongchin's son, Lee Ku, went to MIT in Massachusetts to become an architect. Relatives of the Korean royal family are all American citizens today, living and working in the United States in the private sectors. -- Gerald Farinas 01:31, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I found this question wrongly created as an article, so I've deleted the article and moved the content here. Deb 19:03, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"History Channel says that Augustus Caesar died from poisoned figs; A prof. (local LCC) said he was poisoned with Hemlock. I would like to know what the facts are and who did the deed!
I have searched but I am not Link titlefinding any "answers'.
RSVP to gabs1935@msn.com With much appreciation, G.S."
Channel [V] is a music channel in Asia. Any ideas as to what the letter V stands for? ¶ nichalp 19:54, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
I love your work and use it a lot. It's great.
I have written a book about Sara Jane Moore. Most or at least, a lot of the information "out there" is incorrect. Oliver Sipple did not save President Ford's life. That is a myth that has been around for years.
Sara Jane almost killed president Ford. She came within six inches of his shooting him in the head. Sipple knocked her arm away on her second shot.
What I'm looking for is to share URL's if your are interested. My URL is www.gerispieler.com
I'd be happy to have your URL on my Web Site for all your other information about everything you have which is extensive.
Let me know.
Thanks.
Geri Spieler 650/852-9700 gspieler@earthlink.net
i have recently come across a hughes tool co. tri-cone well drilling bit. some say its one of the original from the co. and others say its from the 60-70's era. it does have the HHT marking on the side and a serial number on it. where can i find out more information on the piece. i have contacted baker-hughes with very little help from them. any sites, your site, etc.?
I've heard that recently a highly disproportionate number of women have been entering the field of Forensics. First, I want to find out if this is really the case. Second, what are some possible factors to explain why this is happening? -- NeuronExMachina 01:22, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
For any question about statistics of specific occupations, the best resource would be the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook ( http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm) which is updated annually or the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( http://www.bls.gov/home.htm). -- Gerald Farinas 17:35, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am P.Satish Chandra Reddy from India. I have just passed my M.B.A. I am a Science student and I did my basic graduation in Computers. I am really interested in Doing Engineering. I want to do Mechanical Engineering. I came to know that in Germany they provide Free education. My question is Can I get admission in one such University which provides Free Education? Do they provide Free education even for the Engineering courses? Is the Engineering course for 3 years or is it for 4 years, because I heard that there is one 3yrs course and one 4yrs course? (according to my knowledge in International Standards an Engineering course should be for 4yrs)? please help me in this regard and help me to get into one of the good universities. You can please mail me at
Email ID: psatishcr141@yahoo.com Awaiting for your reply, Thanking you,
P.Satish Chandra Reddy.
As probably most of you knwo from first-hand experience, if you spend time in an area with many mosquitoes, some people always get stung every other minute while others are nearly completely spared. In Germany, some people claim that a mosquito senses when somebody has "sweet" (nutricious) blood, but I suppose, this is nonsense. How should it sense it? Maybe it is infrared radiation? People with good circulation have wram blood and their veins glow in IR, attracting the mosquitos. Anybody out there knows the correct explanation? Simon A. 15:09, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that they spread HIV? I think it is not. Mark Richards 19:20, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I presume you mean pictures of things that are biggest / bigger, smallest / smaller, offensive / most offensive / more offensive? There should be plenty of pictures on the internet - do you want pictures with some specific form of licensing, or for commercial work? Any ideas of what kind of comparatives / superlatives? Mark Richards 19:41, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
We have an article on these organisms, if that's what you're looking for. -- Ardonik 19:21, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
In a number of places recently I've seen a press release from Artificial Development regarding their CCortex project, "a complete 20-billion neuron simulation of the Human Cortex and peripheral systems, on a cluster of 500 computers - the largest neural network created to date." This sounds quite interesting, but all I've been able to find concerning their work is the press releases and the info on their web page. Can anyone find out any solid information regarding the company, such as which researchers work for them, and any publications they might have?
Similarly, can anyone locate information on Adaptive AI, Inc.? (A friend of mine is considering employment with them)
i need to find a medicine by the name of lac-hydrin or also called ammonum lactate? i need to know the classification, contraindications, indications, side- affects, and dosage/administrations. so if you can help i would really be grateful1 thx-u tookie
Lachydrin is a lotion available without a prescription in the US. It is recommended by dermatologists for various causes of rough skin, such as hyperkeratosis pilaris. It's not quite a moisturizer, perhaps an "emollient."? I doubt there are any significant side effects or contraindications. Dosage, like most other lotions, is "slather at your pleasure." It's not in the PDR because it is non-prescription. Are we helping you with LPN school homework, tookie? Good luck. Alteripse 00:12, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I should be most grateful if anyone can help me find a copy, audio or written, of this play.
Many thanks,
Andrew
Hi, I found plenty of info on Wiki about the food that US Army soldiers carry with them ( MRE's), but I was just wondering about the other stuff they carry --kits, packs, etc. Anybody know an article about that? Thanks, Mjklin 16:30, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
...in the absence of any further constraints, I'd say indefinitely. -- Ardonik 23:30, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
Well it does depend on how it is stored, under what conditions, what contaminants are already mixed with it etc. Storing it under certain conditions can act to purify it, but storing it under others can lead to contamination. Is there a specific set of circumstances you are thinking of? I agree with Ardonik that sealed, bottled water should last pretty much indefinately, that might not be true for an open bottle of water left in the sun. Mark Richards 00:18, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
FEMA and the Red Cross recommend rotating your emergency water supply every six months. -- Beland 07:51, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know anything about the history of how Kittery, Maine and Freeport, Maine got so many factory outlet stores? -- Beland 07:43, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to know why it is that big and medium-sized birds can walk, but small birds seem to just hop. Is it because of the way their legs are? Thanks... Â??Joy 10:07, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
All birds have forward facing knees like us, but they are normally not very visible - what is being describe as the knee is actually the ankle, at the end of the tibia. Next time you carve a chicken, check it out. jimfbleak 17:32, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have heard that the legs of birds sitting on twigs are constructed so that they automatically pull the toes together when the bird sits down, this way they need less muscle power to stay on that branch. That may be one reason why walking (which needs bent knees) is difficult for them. -- Chris 73 | Talk 12:49, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It is incorrect to assume that large birds walk and small birds hop. Small beach finches (we call them wave-runners) run at very high speed. You can barely tell that they have legs. An identical bird found in Bermuda always hops. Both live on the beach, eat the same food, and are the same size. Perhaps it is cultural. Bermuda is a rocky volcanic peak and the Atlantic shore here is wide and flat. It is easier to hop on rocks, but easier to run on a wide flat beach. ps: Jimfbleack was absolutely correct in stating that all birds have forward facing knees. The 'backwards' knee is the ankle and the 'foot' is merely their toes. Try walking on your toes only and you can see how your ankles become 'backwards knees'. Kainaw 15:20, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm interested, how You call that microbiological device and if I can find a page in English Wikipedia about this tool. A drawing & definition (but only in Polish) are here Sorry 4 me English. Reytan 17:49, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
anyone know where i can find (online) elections results for the u.s. house and senate from as far back as the 60s? or i guess ideally, since senators were elected by popular vote? more specifically, who didn't win... Thepedestrian 19:26, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
why is indigo specifically chosen as a color in the rainbow. There are others shades like it. Why was indigo chosen .
Thank you
It's totally arbitrary, as are the concept of 'colours' as 'pieces' of the spectrum. Mark Richards 21:55, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This article suggests that indigo was a fashionable, and perhaps even politically charged, commodity at the time Newton wrote his Opticks. The British and Dutch East India companies had just defeated a European trading embargo against indigo, which competed against European woad. Newton was looking for two new colours to expand his spectrum from the five colours he originally saw to the seven he needed to make his "musical colour wheel" correspond with the seven notes of the diatonic scale. ( This web page implies that Newton was a synaesthete, although it gives no further evidence.) Orange, the second new colour that Newton came up with, may also have been chosen for political rather than technical reasons. Apparently Newton was not above bending the truth to support his own POV! -- Heron 09:26, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can you tell me the exact positions for the following German Players, Brehme, Helmer and Frontzeck.The game was against the Netherlands Euro championship 1992. I know all three were defenders-but where exactly ie Right fullback/Left fullback,sweeper etc.Hope you can help.Raymond.
The 'about' page says that there are more than 310,000 wikipedia entries. How many contributors created the collection?
I own a Cadillac Catera (1998). Recently its radiator started losing a lot of water: I'd fill it up one morning, drive it around, and in the evening the radiator "idiot light" would become lit on the dashboard: the radiator was dangerously out of water. After a few days of this, the car was placed in an auto shop where they discovered that the radiator was cracked and needed to be replaced.
The day after it was replaced and the car returned to me, I filled up the radiator, drove it on the freeway, and returned. In the evening there was a puddle underneath the car (arguably from rain, my father says) and the radiator had less water than it had in the morning. Not significantly less, but less nevertheless. My father says that it's normal for a car to lose radiator fluid during summer days especially if I run the air conditioner. He says that every car does it and should be simply refilled when the fluid gets low. However, my dad is far from an auto mechanic—he still pumps the accelerator whenever he starts the car while even I know that this practice has become obsolete with fuel injection.
How true is his point of view on simply refilling the radiator? The Wikipedia entry on radiators does not mention any leaking or loss of fluid. Further, exactly what would cause it to lose fluid? As I understand it, the fluid simply cycles through pipes, cooling the engine, then returns to the radiator. Please, tell me what you think of this whole situation. Thank you. -- Cluster
Exactly how much did it loose in one day (you should be able to find this out by measuring how much you add to bring it up to the 'full' level)? Mark Richards 18:07, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Barring the inevitable (hopefully gradual) leaks, the cooling system on your car is supposed to be a closed cycle, so it really shouldn't be losing water (in practice, hoses and seals are imperfect, so you'd expect to lose some, but a modern car should be able to go months without needing a top up). Assuming the mechanic tested the system at pressure after replacing the radiator, then the hoses and seals etc are okay. One thing that might, however, be complicating your measurement is the overflow tank - when the main coolant pressure rises too high, the release valve (in the cap) opens and squirts some fluid into an overflow tank, thus reducing the main coolant pressure back to a level that isn't going to make the hoses pop off. In olden times this overflow was just vented away, and so you'd frequently have to make up the loss with a topup. But modern cars have an overflow tank, which catches the overflow. After you switch off, the radiator cools and pressure in the main cooling system falls below atmospheric pressure. This makes a little pressure valve open, which sucks the overflow water back into the main cooling system, restoring things to the way they were at the beginning. This will not happen, however, if Curious George (i.e. you) opens the radiator cap before the overflow has been drained (i.e. if you waited until the radiator was cold enough to be safe, but not yet back to the ambient temperature, which would take at least an hour) then Curious George has restored the negative pressure in the cooling system by adding atmospheric air. In that circumstance there's unrecovered water in the overflow tank, and it looks like the cooling system has lost water. Doh! Drain the overflow tank (which may involve syphoning - never use your mouth to suck coolant, use a syringe) and top up the radiator.
I can't really see why running the A/C should make the cooling system lose water (other than the extra strain running the A/C compressor exacerbating whatever pressure-related malaise from which a car already suffers). You will often see water dripping from the A/C unit, but that's environmental humitity condensing on the outside of the cold A/C system (you'll see more of that if you live in a hot wet place like Mississippi or Thailand than you would in a hot dry place like Arizona or Saudi), and a modern car should have the cold pipes insulated to minimise this. Also remember that water drips from the exhaust, but that's made by burning hydrocarbons (i.e gasoline). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi I can imagine how busy you are but I wonder if you could point me in the right direction. In 1976 I worked for London Records in Calgary, Alberta ,Canada. They were distributing a number of artists including 10cc (polygram records) and a German rock band that was amazing. Of course since I remember very little of that decade, I can't remember the album name or the artist. Is there some archive you could send me to in order to find this group.I Know this must seem crazy to you but I assure you , to me it is of great importance.I would appreciate any help you could give me.
Thank You so much..........Marilyn Berg
I want to know the timeframe of when the Iliad and Odyssey were in relation to Greece and what was the period called Do you have any known articles about this
Homer's poems about life in Greece around the time the poems were composed / MAINLY REFLECTING TENTH-CENTURY CONDITIONS OR PERHAPS EIGHTH CENTURY CONDITIONS ?
This term is used by conjunctivitis and nowhere else on the internet. Is this a real term? If so, how is gowl produced, and from which parts of the eye is it discharged? -- Eequor 09:42, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
hi. my names leon and have just moved to russia after staying in egypt fore 8 months. am originaly from the uk, and bought with me on my travels, a hair care product called(DAX WAX- DAX WAVE AND GROOM). its made by the imperial dax componey in the usa. i have, since arriving in russia, depleated my supply, and need more. CAN YOU TELL ME WERE I CAN FIND THIS PRODUCT IN RUSSIA PLEASE? i did see it in egypt at the metro supermarket but it was the wronge dax, i need the dax in the red tin and they only had it in the blue tin. diferent kind of strength,you see? if you can help you would be saving a life. thanks.
Was it on March 1, as it states in the article on the Russian Revolution of 1905, or was it on March 13, as it states in the Alexander II of Russia article? I'd like to be able to fix up these articles and add it to either of date pages, under the Deaths section - Ta bu shi da yu 13:01, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
There are rough guidelines on the calendar issue at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Calendars. Gdr 20:23, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)
I asked this question in Talk:Nancy Stouffer but got no responses. Any idea which year the book Larry Potter and His Best Friend Lilly by Nancy Stouffer was written/published ? Apparently she claimed J.K. Rowling used a similar sounding name for her star character. Jay 18:16, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Stouffer's site has an offer posted of "$100 for 1st edition Larry Potter books" - exceedingly weird that the author would not have any copies of her own book. (I have nothing to add to the conversation, I just found that odd). -- Wapcaplet 22:44, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was studying in 1 Samuel chapter 16, where Samuel anoints David with oil, and wondered where this practice originated. I understand it was a setting apart of David to be the next king of Israel.
My question is; Where/how did practice originate?
1Sa 16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what you shall do: and you shall anoint unto me [him] whom I name unto thee. 1Sa 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
Exd 30:23-25 Take thou Also take for yourself quality spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels], And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
I think the origins must be much earlier than the Greeks and Romans.
What are trust metrics and how are they used? -- Eequor 06:16, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What year was the United Kingdom called United Kingdom? Thank You!
Da da da da da, free my soul - I wanna get lost in your rock and roll, and drift away....
Arghhh. Help Intrigue 23:54, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You can watch a video featuring both artists on Launch Salasks 16:11, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
Our page on Malcolm in the Middle says there are 5 children, and Malcolm is third oldest (thus "in the middle"). However, I believe the cast list only mentions four. What gives? [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 02:09, 2004 Jul 27 (UTC)
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I have a gentleman that only speaks tongan and I need some general works written in Tongan and english for my staff and i to use. Could some one help.
Anyone that could hep translate so I can put on flashcards in Tongan and English wouldbe greatly appreciated my E mail me at hcstoney @juno.com july26,04 Thanks
What you need is a little book called Functional Tongan-English English-Tongan Dictionary by Thomas Schneider. It contains the most used 2000 words of Tongan and English. The copy I have was printed in 1977 by Oceania Printers in Suva, Fiji and distributed through 'Atenisi University in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. I don't know if it's still in print. Look in ABEbooks to see if any used copies are available. The bookstore at Brigham Young University, Lai'e, Hawai'i, may be able to help you. They serve a number of Tongan students and Mormon missionaries going to Tonga.
If you can't get the little dictionary, Churchward's Tongan Dictionary might do, but it's so big and elaborate it might confuse you. Also try your local Mormon (LDS) stake -- they might have a Tongan emigrant who can help you.
I can make a stab at translating for you, but I'm not a native speaker of Tongan, I haven't used it much for twenty years, and there's NO WAY you can figure out how to pronounce the words just by reading them. Long vowels, no dipthongs, and glottal stops can be very difficult for English speakers. Also, I'm not sure what level of formality would be appropriate.
I'll show long vowels like this: [=a] is a long a. Hold for two beats.
If there's just the two of you, it's ta instead of tau. Ta is dual, tau is more than two.
I can't think of any good word for snack.
Zora 07:39, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the name 'rosebery' was chosen for the title given to the Primrose family (Archibald Primrose of 1600's?). My last name is Roseberry, and we are trying to determine its origin. Many thanks!
I'm allergic to Ragweed; therefore, I can not eat Melons or fruit grown close to the ground that could be exposed to Ragweed. However, I'm in an allergic reaction right now with something I ate a couple of days ago. But the only thing different in my diet was cabbage one night and raw cauliflower the next.
Since these are close to the ground grown....Could they be exposed to ragweed as well to cause my allergic reaction? I itch all over when exposed.
Thanks you
C. Delores Bennett deloalex@juno.com
"You can't always get what you want....you can't always get what you want....you can't always get what you want, but if you try you'll find, you get what you need" This song is featured in the new Cola C2 comercials and I'm trying to find this song. Ilyanep (Talk) 19:47, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone shed light on the origins of the English word, 'Help'?
Help \Help\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped(Obs. imp. Holp, p. p. Holpen; p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hj[=a]lpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]
Who was the first to ascend Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes? The article Siula Grande, and the film Touching the Void implies a German team had descended it in 1936, but I found no mention in newsgroups or on the web outside of Wikipedia.
Talk:Siula Grande has more questions.
Sources I've looked at so far:
- Wikibob | Talk 13:57, 2004 Jul 28 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any on-line (free preferably) resources for 101 training on VHF handset use for basic communication? Thanks, Mark Richards 16:42, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Not quite, just how to use VHF handsets, vehicle and base stations, radio protocol and programming / setup of radio networks for disaster response / coordination. Mark Richards 16:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm looking for history of Grimwith England. It's in North Yorkshire/Dales National Park. It's north of Leeds, Northwest of York. There is now a reservoir built in 1864 by Brandford Corp over the area. I want to know about the area before said reservoir.
You have an article on Kawashima Azumi. Why don't you have an article on Miura Aika. For me, Miura Aika is as well-known as Kawashima Azumi, if we do not want to say thay Miura Aika is more popular than Kawashima Azumi.
Thank you for your attention and your prompt reply.
Hoang Pha
I'm looking for history of Grimwith England. It's in North Yorkshire/Dales National Park. It's north of Leeds, Northwest of York. There is now a reservoir built in 1864 by Brandford Corp over the area. I want to know about the area before said reservoir.
Grimwith is Old English+ Old Norse for "the wood haunted by a ghost or goblin"
Thank you, Anne-- 69.29.243.34 22:48, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
OK, please bear in mind I'm talking United Kingdom law here: we often hear it said that it's illegal to deface British currency (ie, writing on the notes).
Furthermore, someone is now telling me that if you destroy rather than deface currency then that is a differnt matter and is not illegal - which sounds barmy to me. The K Foundation once burnt a million quid and we recently had a game show hosted by Jimmy Carr who regularly burned prize money in front of the audience (though it could well have been fake, I guess).
Can someone tell me what law talks about defacing currency and whether destruction is legal? --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod ......TALKQuietly)]] 23:43, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
Yes,yes,yes..... can we get back on topic now please? ;o) --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod ......TALKQuietly)]] 13:46, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)
If a bank has to accept a bank note no matter how defaced - could one not cut one in half and hand in both halves seperately at different banks - thus making twice the ammount? --[[User:OldakQuill| Oldak Quill]] 10:38, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Who is the owners, investors, partners, management etc. for Cee Gee's in Carlin Nevada?
I created a page called Elcaro Wiki Discussion. If I search for the page it does not return. Do I need to enable something so that my page is searchable.
Did that guy that was going to chop off his legs live on the Internet with a home made guillotine, actually do it, or is he still trying to raise the money, or did some surgeon do it for him, or was it a hoax, or what? Mintguy (T) 12:31, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Homepage. I love these. What about it?! Mark Richards 20:43, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. I love these. What about it?! Mark Richards 20:46, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Well I finally decided to get around to trying Linux. I decided to go for the “safest option” and run a live distribution from a cd (Morphix). I ignored the warning on the disc that read “read the instructions inside the magazine first” because I no longer had the magazine. So I just put it in the drive and rebooted. Everything went ok, I had a bit of a look around, decided there would be a very steep learning curve, and I really should look at a few books (there was no documentation on the cd at all!). Then I pressed the button on the DVD drive and nothing happened! Panic set in, as I realise that a bootable cd meant I couldn’t just switch off and on again. I has visions of prising it open with a screwdriver ( the computer is 4 days old I really didn’t want to smash it up) then I came to my senses and thought of changing the boot order in the bios. That worked so I did boot up Windows and get the disc out, but surely there must be a way of opening it from within Linux? Also when I tried to connect to the internet, it didn't dial up (I get broadband in two weeks yeah!) how do i tell it about dial up networking? theresa knott 19:01, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
First off, if you have a built in 'winmodem', generally it is not worth trying to get Linux to recognise it. All hardware modems should give you a better shot at it. How old is the CD you're using? Using the most recent one will give you a much better crack at getting it going, as Raul says, Knoppix is the best at this. As for getting the disk out, when it's running, you can't, because it is a LiveCD, running from the disk. Shut it down using the icon that, I think, on Gnome, is a foot, but honestly could be anything depending on the theme. It's analagous to the start button on windows. There should be a 'log out' or 'shut down' option. Go for it, and the disk should eject. If it doesn't, turn the computer off at the power switch, and find the little paperclip hole on the front of your cd drive that hardware ejects the cd. HTH Mark Richards 20:31, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
If you want specific help about how to configue it to dial up, let us know what computer, and what version of Linux. Mark Richards 23:04, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have used dual boot, and found it, as others said, a pain, but not insurmountable. The solution I came up with was to make a floppy or cd boot disk that boots to a partition on the hard drive. If that disk is in the drive, it boots to linux, if not, it boots to windows. Seriously though, hard discs are not expensive, get another one and don't mess around with partitioning. Mark Richards 15:15, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You can order them over the internet here, although I don't know whether they are seeds or cuttings. Mark Richards 15:31, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
When I installed Quake, Medal of Honor, and Call of Duty, I always see files being copied of the file type PK4 (it's always like "pak.pk4") or PK3 (honestly I don't remember). Can somebody tell me what this filetype is and give me a link to an article about it? I kind of guessed it had something to do with the 3D game thing, and possibly a proprietary file made by ID. Ilyanep (Talk) 15:35, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I read something once about an Italian princess, who perished in a German concentration camp in WW2. No more information than that, does anybody know who I'm talking about (and do we have an article?) Rhymeless 04:58, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have a question which may really be part of cladistics; when encountering Tavolara island , which was formerly a kingdom centuries ago, and which has formally not ceded sovereignty to Italy, how does one classify something which is clearly on the wane but not yet extinct. It seems crazy to write something off to history when there are real people still living on a real island; this topic really doesn't belong in the List of extinct nations yet. The topic is similar to the List of endangered species, or List of Ethnic groups. What is the term for this condition? Who studies this? The issue is a loss of vitality for the subject of study, be it a small island kingdom, a species, an ethnic group, or a language on the wane. Ancheta Wis 07:11, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the link is between the ankh symbol and money? For example, money clips with an ankh seem to be very common, and the Bond Street tube station in London is decorated with an ankh. But I've been searching on the web for half an hour and I can't find a connection. Am I making up a connection where none exists? For the most part it seems to mean good health and long life; perhaps I'm misinterpreting what it's representing in the Bond Street station. Elf | Talk 18:31, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could tell me about Pinback. I love their music but I don't know much of anything about their albums or history. My friend Drew gave me some their stuff, but he's in Europe for the summer...thanks.
p.s. do i need to watch this page or if someone responds to this does it get messaged to me? JoeSmack 20:15, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC) p.s.s. wikipedia rocks and it keeps me massively entertained at work.
Pinback Bio courtesy Artist Direct
Various sources differ on the appropriate form of the Latin sequence for announcing a new Pope. Unanimously, they begin "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam." Thereafter, however, they continue differently. (link removed) gives "Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ... Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalam ... qui sibi nomen imposuit ..."; the WAV file (see link) referring to John Paul I's election confirms it. But for John Paul II, I've found "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam, Carolum Wojtyla qui sibi nomen imposuit ..." more often (see [1], [2], [3], [4]) but I've also noted the alternative (see [5]). I would be much obliged if informed of which is correct. -- Emsworth ( Talk)
Hello,
What does the sword, scales and blindfold of greek goddess Themis - Lady Justice represent?
Regards Stephen
For sure, I know that the blindfold means that justice is blind - everyone is treated equally under the law. I'm not sure about the sword and scales - probably the scales means that justice is balanced and suchness. Dysprosia 13:17, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
There is an advert currently running on TV in the UK for Lux Shower Gel in which a girl morphs into Sarah Jessica Parker. Who is the other girl (who IMNSHO considerably outshines SJP but that's a different question :-)? -- Phil | Talk 13:51, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, that's her. While you're on a roll, how about the girl in the Spirito di Punto advert (who drives her sleeping boyfriend all over town, up and down stairs even, and he only wakes up when some steamy hunk offers her a coffee)? -- Phil | Talk 14:35, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)
Moved from Stephanie March by [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]]
Note: An anonymous user ( Kirky) created an article asking this question. I've deleted the article and moved the question here. – Jrdioko (Talk) 04:15, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Anyone know what the old Frisian (female) given name "Siebrje" means? Sorry about that. Oh, and apparently it's spelled "Siebrigje", I remembered it wrong. Kirky
Siebrigje has Germanic origins. "Sie" meant "victory" and "brig" derives from "burg", which meant "protection". Thus, the name roughly stands for "she who guarantees victory". (The "je" is a just a diminutive thing.) Alternative forms of the name, all female, are Siburg, Siberchje, Siberkje, Sibrechje and Sibrich(je).
I should point out the existence of a treacherously similar set of names: Sibrecht(je), Siberdina, Siberta, Sibertsje and Sibetsje. (There are also male forms.) In these, the second part means "shining", so that the names mean "shining as a result of victory".
In case you need a formal reference, I based the above on page 227 of "Woordenboek van voornamen" by J. van der Schaar, published by Het Spectrum in 1970. 80.127.225.134 18:31, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know who invented reflexognosy, when, and what techniques reflexognosy uses? Thanks Elpenmaster
Answer: Reflexognosy was developed by Sandi Rogers, who is the owner of the National College of Traditional Medicine in Melbourne, Australia. She continues to develop the profession internationally. I'm currently a student at her college, studying Massage and I have no doubts as to the efficacy of this technique especially when combined with other forms of therapy. NCTM's website can be found at www.nctm.com.au, where she offers a Diploma course.
To quote from that site: "Reflexognosy is the application of appropriate pressure to the feet and legs by the hands of a trained practitioner to bring about physiological and psychological change, stimulating subtle energies. Reflexognosy is a system of healthcare that focuses on the whole body." -- JuxtaPozer 10:55, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Does the BBC have a motto (say in Latin or otherwise)?
I'm pretty sure that's the UN motto isn't it? Mark Richards 15:33, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Fascinating, I always thought that was written under the UN fig leaf log. Clearly I was halucinating... Mark Richards 22:08, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Why is snot green? -Anon
Only infected snot is green. I heard that this is because of white blood cells called Neutrophils which engulf the bacteria and digest them. One of the digestive enzymes is lactoferrin (the "ferrin" referes to iron. I.e. this enzyme is dependent on iron for it's activity. Now any chemistry teacher will tell you that iron compounds are usually green. theresa knott 11:26, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I heard it was the result of two bacteriae present in the snot; one is blue and the other yellow. I shit you not.--[[User:HamYoyo| HamYoyo| TALK]] 16:02, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)
Bacteriae? That's a funny fake-learned plural! Turia Sediento 18:02, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The article Curry claims, that curry powder, aka Massala powder, is a spice mixture invented by the British. My cookbook, however sais, that Garam Masala is a genuine Indish spice mixture and not the same as curry powder. So, who is right? Simon A. 12:34, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I would like to add a motto in Latin to literature I am producing for my football (soccer) team. the motto I would like (in English)is:
We are working, we are beautiful, we are glorious
Can you provide the Latin? Happy for suggestions - perhaps the imperative (let us work, let us be beautiful, let us be glorious).
Thanks for any help you can give
Eamon Doyle
Any chance of some more specifics on this one? Thanks! Mark Richards 22:10, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Does anybody know how to pronounce Tony Iommi's surname? Thanks in advance. -- Auximines 07:49, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This is to certify that Mr. John Doe (age 36) is suffering thyrotoxisis since 1997. Which is pathilogical proved. He want to take needful trteatment in your hspital. so plase help him aAnd now extra case of Dagmsed case of #both bone distal 1/3rd of Lt.forearm /c Thyrotoxisis.During the admition, Medical consultant say his surgery not done now until TFT is NWL.
Present history of patient
Tammer. Palpitation, wegiht lose, Appitite high,Both neek swelling. Differe thyroid swelling both lobe.B.P. 160/80 His pathology report as flows,
T3 2.8 (Normal rate 0.69 -2.02mg/dl, T4 18.9(normal rate 5-11.4)microg/dl TSH 0.6(normal rate 0.6-6.2)micro g/dl I refer my patient for some treatment in your hospital.
1) Complete patient evalutation. @) 1-131 update study. 3)possible 1-131 thyroid ablation. 4) Test for human thyroid stimulation immuneglobion. 5) Opimization of medical Therepy.
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The profile of the prime minister of trinidad and tobago Mr Arthur n r Robinson
I wish to write an article about the Korean martial art (I've recently written two linguistics articles, a field I know nothing about, and I think it's time to vary my ignorance) Tukong Musool, which is derived from Taekwondo. However, a Google search for the term comes up with 35 results, which, to me, means that I'm spelling it wrong. Does anybody know what is the correct spelling? -- Itai 14:52, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The fact that it is trademarked should not stop us from writing an article about it (see Kleenex, SPAM). The mark needs to be treated slightly carefully, but that should do it. Mark Richards 20:54, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I cannot find details of the districts population or area on Wikipedia, or Google... Anyone got these to give me?-- Oldak Quill 15:31, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
On January 12 2005, there will be a transit of Mercury from Mars. If Spirit and Opportunity are still functional, they could observe it. Opportunity would be able to watch the first half of the transit from the start until local sunset, while Spirit would be able to watch the second half of the transit from local sunrise to the end.
The question is, what is the resolution of their cameras? Opportunity was able to photograph a transit of Mars's moon Deimos, with an angular diameter of 2', but Mercury's angular diameter would be only 6", or about 20 times smaller.
Does anyone have any contacts at JPL who might know if they're aware of the transit of Mercury, if there's any chance that Spirit and Opportunity might still be functional at that time, and if the Rover's cameras are capable of photographing it? -- Curps 18:20, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
China is showing signs of becoming the next superpower. Its economy doubles every 8 years, it has a huge trade surplus with the U.S.A. and if this trend continues it will replace the U.S.A. as the world's leading economic power in the next decades. If China becomes a superpower, will this create another cold war scenario? Will it be a peaceful coexistence? China has even send a man into space, clearly it wants to become the second superpower.
China will need someplace to market it's goods. The U.S. and the Euro are the only places that have enough money to buy China's goods. I disagree with the comments above. The free market is the only system that will allow countries to rise above their poverty. All these countries need is an education on the value of free trade, something that is not being taught here in the good old U.S. We have people graduating from high school and college that wouldn't know a free market from a fish market. China has a huge population that is increasingly more aware of what is possible from growth. What China doesn't have is raw materials. You ask why gas prices are going up? We are having to share the scarse oil reserves with an exploding Chinese demand that will cause the price to rise even higher than it is now. China will have to purchase all of the resources to build all of it's economy. There is increasing pressure from the Chinese population to get into the 21st century with it's cell phones, tvs and refrigerators. The number one thing these people have going for them is education. The more education the more they learn what is possible. China's population will soon demand a more democratic say about what is going to happen to themselves. That is what comes from having soo many people that are well educated. The more education the more freedom is demanded. A fee market economy is the best way to finance a free education.
I'm looking for a high resolution digital image that matches (an exact match would be perfect) for the image on this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_orders Does Wikipedia license images for use in other sources? I'm desperate. This is for a book I'm working on and I can't find this image anywhere!
I don't recall President Nixon being laid out at the capital rotunda in D.C. before his funeral at Yorba Linda.
Was this his choice or not?
I think that there was a worry from his family about the potential satirical amunition that his 'lying in state' might provide... Mark Richards 22:03, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The Nixon family published a memo about it. Nixon himself felt that Washington, DC was too hostile against him and that it was the "enemy's turf." Instead he was laid in state in California. He also didn't want his presidential library to be governed from Washington, DC. That is why his presidential library is one the only libraries that is run by a private corporation that the former president established. Gerald Farinas 16:23, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
which Camden ? I can see 15 of them in Camden. Jay 15:12, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I know that you can't get banana juice, since squeezing bananas only makes them mushy, instead of producing juice, like most fruits. But I understand that recently there was a way discovered to have banana juice, that circumvented this problem, but I can't remember how they did it. Anybody know? Rhymeless 05:37, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This article looks like it has found your answer, Rhymeless. The way they do it sounds quite efficient, something like 1mL of juice for every 2g of banana. DO'Neil 12:39, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
I need someone to help me figure out what movie I am talking about. I only saw the first 20 minutes of it, or so. It's set in modern times in a large American city. Christopher Walken plays an eccentric magnate. The opening shows him screwing a prostitute, and then he tries to throw her out without paying because that's how he gets his kicks. (This is where it gets fuzzy) I believe she robs him, so he sends someone to rob her and beat her up. (Again, this is all in the first 10-20 mintues) What movie am I talking about? →Raul654 07:38, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)
I am a genealogist and normally assist italians and english descent persons seeking their family genealogy. I have recently been requested by a family in England to trace the family immigration to Chile and,specifically, Valpariaso where a child of english parents was born and the family appears to have remained in Chile on or about the 1850's. What links or databases can be accessed by computer,e-mail or snail mail?? Thank you. Peter Timber, Los Angeles. Petertimber@msn.com
Does the BBC have a motto? B.T.Edwards
Is the plane of our Solar System parallel to the plane of our galaxy? -- Heron 21:34, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Are there any gay football (that's - grits teeth - soccer) players? -- bodnotbod 00:12, Jun 19, 2004 (UTC)
What are the best Universities in the World, in terms of pure teaching and researching quality alone?
The question as posed is pretty much impossible to answer meaningfully. Many comparative lists are published, the ones I am familiar with are annual lists of universities in the US and UK. They are rated by research and by teaching, and possibly by other things too, but the criteria vary between lists. If your question is part of a 'where should I study' type of enquiry, I would say that you should try to articulate more clearly what you want. If your question is one of general interest, I would say that more clearly articulating what you mean by 'best' both in teaching and in research. Mark Richards 15:44, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Even within a broad field, the strength of a university can vary greatly based on the particular interests and skills of its staff. In the IT department of my university, the software testing group, of which I am a part, is probably the best in Australia in this area. The molecular simulation people are also apparently very good. Down the road at the University of Melbourne, they have some excellent groups working on data compression and logic programming, where we don't have any specialist expertise.
Secondly, it's my experience that quality research and quality teaching are not necessarily all that well correlated. Many of the most brilliant researchers are very average teachers. They regard it as a drain on their time to be minimised, have no clue about the actual capabilities and learning process of the average student, and often aren't up with the practice of the discipline outside their own field of research. Another thing to consider is that there are far more factors to consider than just teaching quality when selecting a place to study. The location, costs, the academic and social culture; all of these are very important.
Finally, if this is for the purposes of selecting a university for your own or your child's education, don't get too hung up on finding the "perfect" university. In most large Western countries, there are many universities (heck, in the United States, there are probably hundreds) where an enthusiastic student can get a good education. -- Robert Merkel
Is there an Internet archive or depository for Pot Noodles T.V. Adverts for both the United States and the United Kingdom?
Pot Noodles are a brand name for an instant noodle product. Mark Richards 15:46, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Here's the UK ads. It's dirty and you want it! Do they even have Pot Noodle in the US? Under the same product name? -- bodnotbod 19:42, Jun 20, 2004 (UTC)
i am having no luck trying to get this translated. it is this web article http://www.iliria.net/politike/isufbajrami_epiri.htm i have been looking for my maiden name and stumbled upon it in this article.,and am hoping you can help, thank you!!!
Ruth Ksilander Diercks
Is there an online version of Orwell's list of crypto-communists? A google search just brings up reviews of it, not the actual list itself.
It would be very useful for this article to see his views on his peers. I have only been able to see a review of his list at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16550 , not the list itself.
Naelphin 06:15, 2004 Jun 20 (UTC)
Have you used the Steinberg Clean programme?
I have been told that it does a great job making scratchy vinyl records sound as good as CDs but although I follow the instructions everything still sounds the same. The firm I bought the programme off say that many people have bought this programme and they have had great success with it. They want to charge me US$40 an hour for instruction! That will most probably work out more than double the cost of the programme.
Hopefully there is someone who lives near to me, biut if not, are we able to work something out online?
Ross Lambourn Auckland New Zealand rossandlesley@yahoo.com
Does anybody know if it's possible to fix a lava lamp when it's wearing out? This one is about 8 years old, and it seems like it no longer heats up as quickly as it used to, taking, by my count, about 10 hours before I see any independent movement inside. I've checekd and made sure that the light bulb I'm using conforms with that recommended by the instructions. Rhymeless 14:32, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
sir, i need to learn english through malayalam. do u have any programme free of cost for me to download in my system and learn english. kindly let me know. bye pradeep
Can somebody give me a clue as to where to look for information about the Battle of the Alte Veste, fought during the Thirty Years' War? Rick K 21:58, Jun 20, 2004 (UTC)
I've started to notice that people almost invariably walk down the last few steps of an escalator, despite having let the machine do the work for the rest of the descent. Any psychological terms for this kind of 'the end is in sight' behaviour? -- Chopchopwhitey 23:35, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I was never told to jump off the last few steps, but I walk the last 4 anyway. My theory is that you need to be at escalator speed at the end (to avoid falling over), so you need the last few steps for acceleration. [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 01:16, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Another escalator-related phenomenon of interest that I've noticed is how I nearly fall over when stepping on to an escalator that isn't moving. How come? (And it isn't alcohol-related.) I assume the subconscious must make some kind of automatic speed adjustments when we step onto an escalator, and when the escalator is out of order the adjustments are unnecessary and cause us to lose our balance slightly. I find it fascinating that my brain must be making all these adjustments without me even having to pay attention. Any names for this kind of automatic compensation? Any other examples? -- Chopchopwhitey 04:54, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Because when you make contact with the ground, zooming along with the combined momentum of your walking and the escalator is pretty darn cool. :) -- NeuronExMachina 04:49, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I've noticed that some Web sites (thankfully, not many)foist upon the user what may be called gateway screens. The ones I have in mind are those that carry no links except one to another page on the site. These are analogous to splash screens for programs, in that you can't do anything with them--they're just another screen to get past. But they're a considerably bigger annoyance than programs' splash screens, in that (a) while the programs' screens serve a promotional purpose for the program or publisher, that doesn't seem to make much sense for a Web site, since the first page of *any* Web site would be expected to prominently identify the site, and (b) the programs' splash screens will remove themselves almost instantly, while the Web sites' gateway screens will typically hang around until the user finds and uses a link to proceed to a functioning page on the site.
My question is:
What possible reason can Web site developers have for making us users wade through these opening screens before we can use the site?
My combinatorics isn't up to much, so perhaps someone could help me figure out how many permutations there are of both a 12-hour and a 24-hour digital clock face (excluding seconds)?
(Also of use would be any mathematical arguments as to why my repeated viewings of the time 12:34 over the past view weeks when glancing at the clock isn't lucky/proof of a higher being in any way, and is just a strange coincidence to do with what hours I keep.) -- Chopchopwhitey 09:15, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I once tried to convince someone that in picking numbers for the English National Lottery, they might as well just pick 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, as probabilistically those numbers have as much chance of coming up as any other set of 6 numbers.
They of course refuted this as being ludicrous, and asked why then did there, in general, seem to be a fairly even spread of numbers each week (e.g. 3, 10, 12, 23, 33, 42, which for some reason looks a little more reasonable).
I know there's a reason but can't for the life of me figure it out mathematically. Why is it? -- Chopchopwhitey 09:35, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I suppose it's entropy. 3,10,12,23,33,42, is a highly unlikely possiblity of being a winning combination! but it looks like any old random set of numbers, so we can stick it in our "random looking set of numbers" pot, along with 22,23,34,38,40,49 and 1,7,9,33,46,48 and so on. 1,2,3,4,5,6, is just as unlikely as all the others, be we stick it in a different pot based on what we think is a random looking set of numbers.
Incidentally, even though 1 through 6 is just as unlikely as every other combination, you should still avoid it! This is because people have a habit of picking this combination, so if it should come up you are more likely to have to share your winnings. The same goes for the low numbers, (<12) people go for bithdays and anniversaries. But these are not random, they will only have numbers <31 and are likely to have numbers <12. By going for high numbers you will ensure that you don't have to share your dosh with a birthday choosing punter. theresa knott 11:04, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Why were they classified in this catogory? plz email me with the answer alb32934@yahoo.com,or luckygirl2@hotmail.com
Sorry, I couldn't help myself. ;) Mark Richards 17:08, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What's the deal with Fire Walking and people who walk on hot coals?
From what i heard anyone can do it(although im not saying you should try it). All you need to do is keep the coal under 1000'C and walk briskly. Then your feet won't get hot enough to be painful. 22:15, jun 29, 2004
What is it called when an author or screenwriter writes themself into the script as a character? Examples are Borges in The Book of Sand, Paul Auster in The New York Trilogy and Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation (movie). It seems like there would be some literary or cinematic term for this. Anyone have suggestions? - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:28, Jun 21, 2004 (UTC)
I don't know what it's called either, but Kurt Vonnegut uses it very well in Slaughterhouse Five. moink 17:38, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Autobiography? Mark Richards 22:31, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
When a novel has fictional characters who correspond to real people then it's a roman à clef. When a narrator appears to embody the character and opinions of the author, that's an authorial voice. In fan fiction, a character who represents the author for the purpose of wish fulfilment is a Mary Sue. But there seems to be no widely-used term for this. "Author surrogate" doesn't sound right to me: the character is a representation of the author, not a surrogate for them.
So I suggest the new word autagonist (from Greek autos, self, and agōnistēs, actor). Gdr 13:44, 2004 Jun 23 (UTC)
Where did the Cold War get its name?
A friend of mine asked the following question, and now I'm really curious. moink 01:48, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What exactly was the ultimate aim of the Rote Armee Fraktion (aka the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Red Army Faction)? Did they seek unificiation of Germany under East Germany's terms?
Or did they want to take over the West German government and set up a parallel communist German state?
If anyone knows, it'd be very helpful. DO'Neil 04:15, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)
What is the time zone of Texarkana, Texas? And does anyone else think that articles about cities should include time zones, so that people like me can find it? moink 22:26, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Too slow... Never mind. Still - we should include the time zones! Mark Richards 22:36, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Thanks Mark. Actually, the info that it straddled two zones and what they were would have been enough, since Texarkana is at the very East edge of the state, on the border with Arkansas. moink 22:42, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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I'm looking for a word to descibe two situations:
1) When a plane is accelerating for take off, it reaches a point of 'no return'. That is, regardless of what warnings may be displayed, the plane must take off, as there is not enough run way left over to come to a safe stop. Does anyone know if there is a word to describe this threshold when the 'point of no return' is reached/exceeded?
2) When mixing two groups, often an instructor will draw two cricles side by side — though each circle will partially overlap the other. This overlap provides an area where the two groups come together. Does anyone know if there is a word to describe this overlap?
Thanks for your help. You may respond directly to: mlsquared@msn.com
On Q 1), I don't think it is really a point so much as a velocity. I don't fly powered planes, but I think the sequence during take off for a fixed wing powered aircraft is something like;
V1 is probably the term you want. All of these values have to be calculated before each flight. They depend on the type of plane, its loading, and the environmental conditions (rain on the wings etc). Later in the flight there is also the Point of no return when the plane no longer has enough fuel to return the original airfield, usually a little over halfway through the flight for a commercial jet. -- Solipsist 11:57, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I've just found that there is also a less common term, called the Accelerate-stop distance, which is something like a point on the runway at which you can stop safely. See Section 25.109. -- Solipsist 12:19, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
During Euro 2004, the England national football team's uniform has a yellow 5-pointed star in front, under the team coat-of-arms. What does this mean? A championship they have won? Or just decorative? -- Kaihsu 09:43, 2004 Jun 23 (UTC)
It shows they have won 1 major football tournament (the 1966 World Cup Final). It is not unique to England, several other countries have followed this trend recently, although there is not a standard. It was started by Brazil as a celebration of the fact that they have won more World Cups than any other nation 1. Some countries include regional tournament wins such as the UEFA European Championship or the African Nations Cup in their star count. akaDruid 10:30, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I'm writing a book, Exiles Are Assets. Its aim is to show that exiles and refugees are good for their host countries. I wish to include information about Huguenots who fled from France to England. May I quote from your material?
Shouldn't Denmark+Greenland+Faroe be the world's 14th largest country(+dependancy) totalling up 2,210,580 km2? Nichalp 20:22, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)
Adoption - District CourtI am looking for any references on the court system in Olawa. My wife and I are adopting twin boys from the region and have experienced significant challenges. Any information on the district court system located in Olawa would be helpful.
Thank You for your assistance.
Jeff Cox
jeff.cox@mercer.com
Answer: according to Black Sea, "The name (initially Pontus Euxinus) was coined by the Ancient Greek navigators, because of the unusual dark colour, compared with the Mediterranean Sea. Visibility in the Black Sea is on average approximately 15 feet (as compared to up to 100 feet (30 m) in the Mediterranean)." So, somewhere between 776 BC and 323 AD.
Cheers, Kingturtle 20:39, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Can someone please transcribe the following into romaji?
イエス・キリスト、神の子よ、わたしをあわれんでください
Thanks. -- Xiaopo ℑ 22:57, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that there were trains during Roman times? Plus did the Romans invent the train? Thank You!
My mother inherited a painting from my great-grandmother signed by artist Parkinson Fox. Does anybody know anything about this artist, or where I can find out something about him? She lived most of her life in Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and California. Rick K 05:07, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
Ho, I am Kathleen Chase, proudly desended from the Hupa Tribe in Northern California, and not only do I seek help but to share what Grandfather has shown me. I was hurt while working as a certified nurses aid in 1997 repeatedly, my attorney was paid over one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to shaft me and drop me as a client. In mid 1999 I began to investigate and research in the law books what was happening to me, this search took back to 1992 and farther.My work comp files are full of documented evidence medical negligence, fraud, to an attempt to perform unnecessary spinal fusion and prosecute me for fraud. Unable to go to a law library because of my pain and they are an intimidating place if you don't know what your looking for or where to look. I found the books I needed, did you know a lay person can not just walk in a buy law books? I found them anyway and walking with Grandfather in the medicine wheel he showed how people of authority can file under the fraud prevention act with the Control Board or some unknown court that the person they are filing against is guilty of commiting unprosecutable frauds, like when you work and get welfare, that is an unprosecutable fraud, even though the person did nothing wrong and reported their income like they are suppose to. When this happens the accused is not informed or notified, and have no opportunity to defend themself. The people who filed the claim recieve a judgment, for each judgment they are given 2 to 4 years to legally engage in criminal activity to entrap, in my case me, in a prosecutable fraud, and prosecute. During the time period my citizenship status was altered. I was found to not to be entitled to the benefits of society, and no longer entitled to protection under the law or due process. Because of this my complaints of criminal acts commited against me in my work comp cases are not valid. To report this type of crime you can not guilty of even an unprosecutable fraud. They can take a levy against your personality, and a lien against your reality when I first learned this I laughed but I soon realized this was no joke. My phones were sencured, my computer corrupted, my credit cards ran up, my home entered and my notes and records taken. I am followed and video taped and electronicly eves dropped on. They can end your life if they want with the approval of the system, which they attempted to do, but following my gut at the time I discovered this I picked up the phone, it was tapped and making that tell tell beep beep sound, I began to call anyone I could think of telling them I believed a lawyer I had upset had taken a contract out on my life, I recieved a phone call from a friend confirming this and telling me I needed to make a safe tape of what I knew, I also wrote a letter to the presiding judge informing him that I knew my life was in danger and that I was binding my life to his and if I died the truth of my case would move forward. I recieved a sign that I would live for a time. Not only have I suffered these things and more, but my children and grandchildren, my man, my friends,and anyone who assists me have suffered. So I stay alone and have no close relationships with anyone but my man. Over the years I have written many places to file my complaints, last year during a work comp trial the judge told me "Things were changing in the work comp system because of me just how much would change depended on what I did." I didn't know what he meant, he went on to tell me I am the first person in California to discover what was happening. When I told him I was trying to report a crime commited against me, he replied "yes we know about you but we don't know what we're going to do." I just realized to night what it was I did. One of my complaints went to the attorney general, I never heard anything back and had forgotten about it. I found their web site and read how the attorney general is agressivly enforcing civil rights laws and how they were taking legal action civilly. Then read how they would accept complaints from people but would not an individual such as myself. Even though my complaint caused them to investigate my claims, and make changes to the system. The legal statute that allowed this to be done to me and many other people was repealed last year, but my situation has not changed. I am seeking legal help or guidence. What has been done to me is a violation of the 1972 Hayes act in which I was granted federal recognition as a Native American although I am not a tribal member. I believe they have violated many treaties and discriminated against many people of all races, anyone who has received public aid is a target. In case I can't reconnect to your web site I want you to be able to contact me by e-mail or by phone but please do not include it when you post my message <deleted by Jwrosenzweig>. May the sun warm your face on the cold winter days and a cool breeze be with you through the heat. Kathleen
Are pigs native of Asia?
They are part of the Chinese zodiac, so they have been there a long time. Not sure of the original birthplace of pigs and whether they were brought with or brought to asian cultures. - Tεx τ urε 15:31, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Quick, grab the Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond says they were first domesticated in Southeast Asia. In any case, yes, the wild boar that gave rise to the modern pig is native to Eurasia and North Africa. Dandrake 05:04, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)
There are indigenous species of boars and pigs found throughout Asia. -- Gerald Farinas 00:45, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What is the history of dodge ball?
Steve Steinberg's "Net-Heads vs. Bell-Heads" Issue 4.10 October 1996 Wired Magazine article used to be online at http://hotwired.wired.com/wired/4.10/features/atm.html and http://hotwired.wired.com/wired_online/4.10/atm/index.html and now the full text is not there anymore. Does anyone know where else it archived? - Bevo 16:28, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
As far as I know, there are several cities that are referred to casually as "river city". Among these are:
Does anyone know if the "River City" in River City Ransom refer to any of these actual cities? Are there any other instances of a "River City" in literature or other media? - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:00, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
Is it possible to chemically alter calcium to become ephedrine chemical name of [(methylamino)ethyl]benzene-methanol. C10 H15 NO
For example. Spatial - and - Spacial. What's the word to express the multiple spellings, if any?
Thank you, any help is appreciated.
The word you want is variants. -- Gelu Ignisque
I'd just call it having acceptable variant spellings. -- Jmabel 17:43, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
I put a question on the tongue talk page, but answer came there none. I asked (of course, for a notional friend) why a tongue can be persistently coated. What does it mean? Brushing my, I mean his, his tongue... why is it that when he brushes his tongue it comes out looking a bit healthier then returns all coated and turgid next time I poke... I mean he pokes it out? Does brushing the tongue damage the taste buds? Or does it make them more vigorous and healthy? -- bodnotbod 04:12, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)
I think there might be something to this though - there are products for cleaning the tongue - scrapers and the like. I have never used them - anyone know whether they are snake oil? Mark Richards 06:48, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Did you know toothbrushes before 1938 were made of animal hair ? Wonder if dentists then used to suggest brushing the tongue. Maybe this could be put in the "Did you know .." section on the Main page. Any Wikipedian here who has brushed his teeth before 1938 ? Jay 14:11, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
An ancestor, Minnie Armstrong Barrie lived in Battleford at the time of her death, 23 May 1957. She was buried in the Moose Jaw, SK Cemetery in the Armstrong plot. She had previously lived, in Moose Jaw. She was the widow of Alexander Ingram Barrie. Was she also the former widow of Charles Ernst Armstrong? Can you send me her obit or any information about her?
I want to make arrangements for mailing of any obit or newspaper clippings you might have.
Please give me the address / E-mail of the local newspaper.
Bernard J. Diedrich 1140 Windsong Lane Sarasota, FL 34242 U. S. A. 941 349-8001 E-mail// bjdiedrich@comcast.net
Hey latin-speakers. If my (google-based) latin is correct, "endo-rheic" means roughly "acid inside", yet an endorheic lake is invariably alkaline. Does rheic really mean "caustic" rather than "acidic", or am I missing something? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:21, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Well, your basic problem is that endorheic is Greek rather than Latin, and means something like "flowing in" because they have no outlet to the sea. I don't think it has any relationship to pH. Alteripse 00:01, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone fill in the blank in this half-remembered couplet?
Scotland, how thee a double darkness _____, For thy name is Scotia and thy teacher Knox
Scotia and nox being Greek and Latin respectively for night. It has to rhyme with Knox so a process of elimination should work but I can't think of the word. The meaning is something like 'curses'. Any ideas? adamsan 01:48, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Scotia isn't Greek for night. It is Latin for Scotland, e.g., the dear province of Nova Scotia. -- Menchi 03:16, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
skotos in classical greek can mean shade, shadow, or dark night. Modern English cognate is scotoma, for a blind spot in one's vision. Alteripse 03:21, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
For the record, scotoma isn't a cognate, it's a derivative; the word was consciously formed from the ancient Greek elements, not simultaneously derived from Indo-European?English wasn't around back then! -- Gelu Ignisque
Hence for searchable clarity, couplet is:
I thought Latin for Scotland was Caledonia and Scotia was Ireland. Or am I just confused?
.. ation, which I would like to add. How can I add my explanation to the history?
Probably. Mark Richards 23:32, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What are phosphenes (the shifting glow that one sees when one's eyes are closed)? What causes them? -- Eequor 04:37, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What's wrong with your eyes?; our eyes don't do that... just kidding. Phosphenes are nerve signals from the neurons of the retina to the visual cortex of the brain which are interpreted as lights and visual patterns, but are not caused by visual light. They can be produced by a variety of things, including pressure stimulation to the eyeball, and less commonly various diseases of the retina and nerves. Perhaps some may even be "constructively perceived" in the dark in the same way that we can begin to "hear" vague noises in a completely quiet room. Goodnight, I'm going to go watch some phosphenes. Alteripse 04:57, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I want to learn everything about fine wines. Where do I start? -- Jia ng 01:34, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the info...It's mainly for personal enrichment purposes. I'm still two and a half years short of the legal age in the US, so I'll have to wait before making a trip to Napa. I do, however, have a couple hundred bottle of the stuff sitting in my house...
At this point, I'm mainly interested in introductory books on the topic I can look at this summer.-- Jia ng 07:43, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can someone explain what it means for an actor or director to have points for a project? I know that it factors in to how much many they can make, but I'd like to know the specifics. (If possible, could you also put the answer on my talk page? Thanks)-- Wasabe3543 06:56, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
You are really asking for quite a feat of mind reading here. But if you want a copy of a marriage certificate and you are British you should visit your registry office, I think. -- bodnotbod 20:48, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
hi i'm an italian student and i'm interested in hypertext, i'm planning to write a chapter of my thesis about hypertextual encyclopedia and i'd like to speak about wikipedia. All i ask for is a brief interview with someone i could send few questions about this encyclopedia. I think would be interesting for me and nice for you too, I hope you can help me.
My email address is antonionegro85@hotmail.com i hope i hear from you soon.
Best regards
antonio
I was trying to give someone an example of one of my pet peeves: turning a verb derived from a noun into a noun, or turning a noun derived from a verb into a verb. But I couldn't come up with many common ones off the top of my head. I hope to get him a longer list.
The best examples I can come up with right now are actioning: act -> action -> actioning and orientate: orient -> orientation -> orientate. They don't have to be real words, just manglings that get used. moink 16:50, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
My personal vote for most annoying example of this is "to birth" as a verb meaning "to bear" by people who do not understand that birth is simply the noun form of bear. Alteripse 17:03, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"administer" -> "administration" -> "administrate" -- Jmabel 17:48, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
One attends a party, but should never just "party!". -- bodnotbod 20:51, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
"burgle" -> "burglar" -> "burglarize"? Proteus (Talk) 09:31, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
My personal peeve is using "reference" as a verb. Whatever happened to good old "refer" or even "cite"? Ambarish | Talk 08:00, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Scrutiny -> Scrutinize -> Scrutinization -- Heron 20:56, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
help me to discuss the grandfather clock that i have that came from vincent massey`s house not sure if it was from the house on jarvis street or the house in por hope ? would you be interested in borrowing it ? please let me know by e.mail or phone at 705 436 3549 thankyou geoff jackson
I have an old Jambiya knife that has and inscription on each side of the blade in gold, very legible but in an unknown, to me, language. I am just trying to find someone to translate the inscription into English, Can you help me on this? If you want me to I could paste a picture of the inscription but only if would like me to as I do not want to take up you time needlessly. Thank you Earl G. Beall
I think putting up a picture would be the best way to save time all around. Go ahead. -- bodnotbod 20:52, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
When an Ambassador has completed the assignment of Ambassador and no longer holds the post, does he/she keep the title? Is a former Ambassador still addressed as Ambassador?
Pat
How much would some three investigators books be worth now? There not exactly in mint condition (some wrinkles and ballpoint marks on the pages here and there).how much would second hand mint condition books be?
Where is the best place to find personal accounts, and even news reports, if possible, from during/directly after the September 11 tragedy? Rhymeless 18:29, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
My knowledge of flowers being somewhat small, could anyone identify
these images I've taken? Uploading them as "red flower", "orange-red rose", &c., is rather... useless. Many thanks,
James F.
(talk) 22:03, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The plant with lots of heart shaped pink flowes with a white center is a Bleeding heart (plant) theresa knott 11:00, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
What is the fastest speed a human has achieved by running, hopping, crawling, and walking on their hands? Elpenmaster
This is not relevant, but I thought it was interesting! [28]
Mark Richards 23:08, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The fastest time running the 75-yard-dash backwards (in 8.2 seconds) was once recorded by Bojangles (the tap dancer from the Shirley Temple movies) Rhymeless 03:28, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Can't find any data on crawling or hopping. It's possible there is no official record for either of these activities. akaDruid 10:44, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hello, In your article about the ___ September 11, 2001 attack oportunists do not show a link in reference to cause and effect to Macroeconomics. I need to know where I can go in your site to find this analysis. Thanks,
Marinitza
Not a very encyclopedic question, but I've come to rely on the Wikipedia community. Can anyone think of a way to get from the Greek island of Kos to the equally-Greek island of Ios, as well as the other way aronud? (There are no direct ferry lines, and while my DK Eyewitness guide to the Greek Islands claim there is a line between Kos and Naxos, as well as between Naxos and Ios, I have been unable to locate online references.) Comfort and the length of the voyage are of no importance, money is. Also, if you feel compelled to divulge any Ios-related horror stories (of which there is an abundance on the web), go right ahead. -- Itai 23:32, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
A colleague at work came out with a phrase I'd never heard of before and claimed it was very common in certain parts of England. The phrase was It were so hot, it were crackin the flags. What does this phrase mean and where does it come from? (They refused to tell me because I'm a southerner...) -- Graham ☺ | Talk 23:43, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Dharam Singh Karnataka CM profile
Hi I found your website through search engines and I think it is excellent. For one of my school projects I need to make a chart of all the cities and their population within each county of each state (any population value within the last 4 years will do). I found entries for the list of cities in some of the states of USA but nothing at all about the counties to which they belong. The population data about those cities appear not to be comprehensive. So here is my question: Can you please guide me where I can find all this info without the need to go through 3000 and more websites? Thank you in advance for you help. Dustin Win dustinnsc@yahoo.com Santa Ana College California
All of the cities within all of the counties within all of the states in the United States? Either this is a monumental task, or you're going to need to clarify. It is not uncommon to have at least 20 cities in any single county, and most states have 25+ counties; Texas, the second-largest state, has the most counties (254) and likely the most cities (upwards of 40,000 I believe). However, on the entry for each state (see California), there is a listing of all of the counties, or a link to it. Although the pages for the individual counties will list their populations, they may not neccesarily list all of the cities in the county. However, the cities themselves are all listed within wikipedia, with their populations and locations. (see Anchorage, Alaska) Hope this helps; I pray that the project you've been assigned is more specific than it appears to be. Rhymeless 06:16, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Answer from Dustin: I know it is a huge task. I am really looking for all cities from all counties per counties. I already know that there are 3140 counties and over 27,000 cities. This is why I need help to find all this info in one central place/website rather than looking for cities state by state and then county per county... I thought that there may be one or several sites providing this info in one go. Thank you for your answer all the same.
RamMan may have something to say about this - didn't RamBot go through all the census data to produce these pages? It must be available in raw form somewhere, probably on the govt. census site? Would this help? fedstats Mark Richards 17:14, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
He appears to be, amongst other things;
Any other guesses? Mark Richards 15:56, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
...and what is it you wanted to know about them? -- Ardonik 23:58, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I know that artwork older than however-many years are public domain, as any copyright that would apply would have expired. However, what about the a photo of that piece of artwork? Many of the photos of particularly famous sculptures are done by famous photographers. There are some sculpture images here that are unlabeled, but I don't want to report them as copyvios if they are public domain. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:47, Jul 1, 2004 (UTC)
What is the proof of the polynomial remainders theorem? ie. if a Polynomial P(x) is divided by (x - a), its remainder is P(a). And who proved it for the first time? Is there a wikipedia article on it, and if not, shouldn't there be...?
Why is it that only Britain bothers with three-pin electrical plugs? Is the rest of the world under cautious, or is Britain over cautious?
Many US plugs are 3 pin, with an earth (not sure what the criteria is), and all news plugs in the US have notches to stop people putting them in the wrong way round. Some appliances in the US are 220 volts (on a separate line), for example dryers. These have different plugs. The UK standardised on a very safe design, whereas the US has a variety of designs for different purposes. Mark Richards 15:52, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
OK, there is now a Mains power plug article. Go forth and improve it with your dazzling knowledge! — Chameleon My page/ My talk 01:10, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
How would I go about finding out who is the owner of a Company going under the name of 824389 ONT. INC. (moved by [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]])
Well, the first thing you can do is to leave grass cuttings on the grass when you cut it, that will provide about 1/3 of the fertiliser needs. Mark Richards 15:54, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Let's say that I, an untrained individual living in North America, wanted to try luge or bobsledding. How would I go about this? How can one become an amateur luger, and are facilities for this available? I've always wondered how those people in the Olympics get their starts; who goes out and tries luge? [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 15:21, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Firefighters seldom get into firefights. Is there a word for this kind of thing? Mark Richards 15:56, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Erm, I know what a firefight is, I'm looking for a word which describes the situation where you have two words (eg Firefighter and firefight) which, on the face of it, look similar, but in fact have nothing to do with each other. Mark Richards 21:58, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
erm, yes, that's what I mean, is there a word for that? Thanks! Mark Richards 22:23, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello:
I am writing on behalf of Thomson Delmar Learning. They are an educational publisher of textbooks and cd rom projects located in Clifton Park, NY.
They are working on a project entitled VisTE: Visualization in Technical Education which shows the student how graphics can be used to communicate scientific and technical education. The intended audience is high school students in grades 8-12.
They would like to include an image of DNA polymerase ("Taq pol") or Taq Polymerase from the following website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/thermus_aquaticus in the project as Fig. 3-1a.
The article cited is from Pubmedcentral of the NIH but it does not contain any photographs. I am assuming that a contributor to the encyclopedia owns copyright to this image.
I would be happy to forward a written request if you could kindly supply me with contact information for the appropriate person/department.
Thank You, Sharon Rounds S&R Photo Acquisitions,LLC 111 Birds Hill Road Averill Park, NY 12018 ph: 518-674-8182 fax: 518-674-0499
How would I find the names of former congressmen from Oklahoma by the name of Connelly or Connor, year 1940-1985. Would appreciate your pointing me in the right way. John Cummings, Lawrence, Ks. .........Thanks
He was English, Irish, and French - his family's last name was originally Brandeau. Otherwise I guess he was just plain old American. Adam Bishop 06:08, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Seems to have been passed by Woodrow Wilson, it is a labour act that paved the way for the eight hour work day. Mark Richards 23:46, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
On many different Wikipedia pages, I have seen conflicting ways of showing a possessive Jesus: Jesus's or Jesus'. It may sound trivial, but I would assume rules of English would require it to be Jesus' and if that's true, what should I do if I find articles with the incorrect usage? (Should I edit them and mark them as spelling changes in the comments box?).
Thanks for any help. -- Localizer 03:27, Jul 3, 2004 (UTC)
Sutures article says "absorbable sutures" are used within the body, whereas for closing external skin wounds "non-absorbable sutures" are used. Are there cases where absorbable sutures are used for external closures ? What are the pros and cons of this ? Jay 17:31, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
A colleague swears that in Russia there are 'male' and 'female' watermelons, and that you can tell the difference by looking at them. I understand there are male and female watermelon plants. Are there male and female fully grown watermelons? How to tell them apart?
It seems that often when I click the Random Page link I come to a short, dull article about an American town or county. Surely there must be an imbalance of stub pages on American local geography to other pages for them to be occuring so frequently?
The only real solution is to pack the database with interesting articles about other things. Go to it! Mark Richards 16:29, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
WHAT IS THE NATIONAL FLOWER OF POLAND? THANK YOU. JIM BOYD E-MAIL: jim.boyd@earthlink.net
Banjo would be the best place to ask, or List of musical instruments. Jay 19:56, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
i searched quite a bit but couldn't find a hint how to translate the German word "Schwedenfeuer" or in Swiss-German "Finnenkerze" .. probably this method of cutting/burning wood trunks is mainly known in the South German area and so only given a name there though i doubt it ..
here are some pictures how it looks like .. hope that someone knows the word :) tia ebricca
| Ť]] 12:48, Jul 7, 2004 (UTC)
While disambiguating occurences of the word beat, I came across 2Step, and I can't make heads or tails of what it's describing. Is the example wrong? The description? Can someone who knows the first thing about house music (I don't) have a look at it? grendel| khan 16:01, 2004 Jul 4 (UTC)
The Marlon Brando article says, "Brando was born in the American heartland Omaha, Nebraska...He was of Dutch, French, English and Irish stock." — Matt 15:36, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is Little Belt Bridge (1935) a Cantilever bridge? I would think so but this page doesnt quite provide pictures that are alike enaugh. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:19, 2004 Jul 5 (UTC)
Where is to be officially published as recommended information on bank/financial institution called" euro credit union servises, address: euro credit plaza, 4th floor, 73-75 great victoria street, Belfast BT2 7AF - Nothern Ireland, www.eucreditnominee.com Sorry, I want to avoid scambank and would very greatful for yours assistance.
Yours Faithfully
Włodzimierz Stepków, tel/fax: 4822 7891251, email: projfac2@op.pl
Not quite sure what Village Pump catagory this request fits in, the descriptive seems best matched here @ the reference desk, so here goes :
Ok, here?s the dilemma: How do I/we do an entry for ?Humanure?.
A critically important concept, I do believe, as an understanding of the waste, negligence and abuse of our only home Earth, as set forth by Joseph Jenkins in The Humanure Handbook, will likely impart, the word Humanure is a noun and as such has a limited potential for a descriptive of what the focus entails.
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html
Me, I?m not much of a word monger, certainly not when I?m out of my league ( I try, anyways )so I?m asking for help.
listenin
humanure Click on the new entry link to the left and it will offer you a chance to enter text and save it. Try a couple of sentences, save it, and come back out here and you will see that the link has changed color and (by a process of technology so advanced it is indistinguishable from magic) and has become a real article. Add some more text and put your web link at the bottom of the new article. Some other people will probably set up some redirects from sewage and manure because of the unusual article term. Happy stinky editing. Alteripse 16:38, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is there any officially aethiest animal rights activists organization? Elpenmaster
Dear Sirs
I am starting a novel with fmri and the nervous system as main components. I need to speak to someone who could answer a few hypothetical questions about how these could potentially be used. If you have someone who wouldn't mind swapping some emails, please get in touch. I would be grateful for any help/ideas you could offer.
Tara Allen-- 62.252.96.6 15:09, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Moved to Wikipedia:Reference Desk from Wikipedia:Village Pump
In Supply and Demand#Elasticity, it says "So, if the price moves from $1.00 to $1.05, and the quantity supplied goes from 100 pens to 102 pens, the slope is -2/-0.05 or 38 pens per dollar. Since the elasticity depends on the percentages, the quantity of pens increased by 2%, and the price increased by 5%, so the elasticity is 2/5 or 0.4." Could someone explain this better?
The price for what exactly? for 102 pens, or for individual pens? How does it become 38 pens in a dollar? I'm totally confused!!! - Ta bu shi da yu 12:23, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can someone write an article on parton? The word seems to be used a lot in particle physics. I appreciate the information I find in Wikipedia, but parton is still not in the vocabulary. horstgkoerner@netscape.net
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How do they measure television ratings (i.e. number of viewers for a particular show)? -- Jia ng 05:00, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
On a related note, how does one know the viewership count for a particular program, like the Oscars or the soccer world cup ? Jay 19:56, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Of course, one wonders whether being watched affects someone's viewing habits, or whether they report accurately. In a recent media survey of all media (print, tv, radio, internet) not one person spent any time looking at porn. ;) Mark Richards 16:29, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
suppose:
1-there is a old document like the Voynich manuscript. It is free to public, but what about a picture of it? Can I just pick any image from other websites and upload in the wikipedia? Is there a diffrence wheter its a plain scan or a photograph?
2-If I take a picture of a copyrighted object, like a shoe, in a white baclground, do I own the image right? Can i upload it to any copyleft community? Is there a diffrence wheter there's a logo on it? What if i photograph a building then?
-- Zero00 01:37, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
IANAL either...
In the United States, copyright attaches to a particular copy, and applies anew to "derivative works", which includes copies. The clock starts ticking as soon as the work is "fixed". This means that if you scan a published book that's in the public domain, your scan is copyrighted by you on the date of the scan, but anyone can use their own copy of the book (or the same one, if they have access to it) and make their own scan. This is how private companies can claim copyright to public domain works, like laws and US government photos. Also note that many photos and other works that appear to belong to the US government (which by US law cannot hold copyrights, except those assigned to it by non-government authors) were actually taken by contractors (whether private companies or freelancers or universities), who *can* hold copyrights. US law also grants some additional protections to *collections* or databases, which may apply to a private image library.
Say Alice and Bob each have made their own scan. Can Alice go on the web and download Bob's scan and sell it on the street? No, even though she has her own scan - even if they are exactly the same right down to the pixel. Is it easy for Bob to prove that the scans Alice is selling are his? No, but that's what I understand the law says. Copyright here depends on historical lineage, not on content, so multiple people can have copyright on functionally identical documents in the same medium. It is certainly OK to take your own picture of a public domain work and copyleft it or donate it to Wikipedia.
With regard to taking a picture of a copyrighted book, it's much *less* likely to be OK if you can see the text of the book in the photo, since the text, not the design of the enclosure, is what's copyrighted. You'd probably want to ask a lawyer about what the case law on "fair use" says about the particular use you want to make of the picture before proceeding. Wikipedia's licensing terms are complex, and it's possible that would be OK to distribute such a picture for free online, but if anyone printed the encyclopedia and tried to sell it, that wouldn't be OK. Or maybe both uses would fall into the fuzzy category news reporting; I'm not sure.
In some cases, US copyright law treats digital and analog *music* differently; I'm not sure about images. The differences, if any, may be obscure enough not to matter for your purposes. Consult a lawyer if you want to be sure.
Shoes, in as much as they are "useful articles", are not protected by copyright law. The designs of useful things are protected by patent law, with which I am not familiar. A picture drawn on the side of a shoe, or other artistic aspects may be protected by copyright law, however. Logos may be protected by both copyright and trademark law. I am not familiar with trademark law, either. If you want to publish a picture of a shoe with a logo on it completely on the up-and-up, it would be advisable to consult with a lawyer. The answer might depend on the context of publication, and publication in an encyclopedia is more likely to be OK than some purely commercial or non-documentary use, but you never know.
As far as I know, you can publish without restriction a picture of a shoe (even a patented shoe) if you've taken that picture yourself and the shoe has no identifiable trademark or copyrighted symbols (like artwork or text or whatever).
I know sometimes US state privacy and likeness-rights laws restrict what you can do with pictures you've taken of people without their permission, so be careful about doing that.
With regard to buildings, the US Copyright Office FAQ says:
See also Copyright and Wikipedia:Copyrights. Someone may want to integrate this information into these or other articles.
-- Beland 07:31, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
IANAL either but let me explain tradmark law simply. The intent of a trademark is to allow a company to mark a product as theirs. As such, it is illegal to use the trademark in a way that could cause a product to be misrepresented as that company's product. Sometimes it is illegal to *not* show the trademark, i.e., if you tried to claim the product was yours. In general, the use of the trademark is up to the owner, and they (in US law at least) are required to protect their trademark by restricting its use. If they fail to do so, they can lose the trademark as it comes into general use for a purpose other than representing their product. Big companies tend to vigorously protect their trademarks (since Klenex lost theirs anyway). There have been many cases where people have placed company trademarks on websites and gotten letters about it. Sometimes the company will allow it--especially if it is used correctly. Sometimes they will require its removal. More frequently, they will allow it in context AFTER you get permission. The key here is that by requiring you to ask permision, they fufull their legal obligation to restrict its use, and thus preserve their use of it. Obviously, a company will be unhappy if you cast their product in a bad light, and may ask you to remove the trademark in that case even if you are using it correctly. -- ssd 05:06, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
What is gluvine?
No matter how you spell it, GLUVINE is AWESOME
how to write PDA checking program to enhance existing program? e.g. existig PDA program can perform food order wirelessly then how to write new program to enhance the program to check before order was sending, to check whether the food ready, to check whether the food available, to check whether the food is selling today and so...
thanks... Xman
What is the crab with the strongest pincer grip? -- Gelu Ignisque
I would hazard a guess that it would be the coconut crab, or robber crab. They get bigger than 3 feet from head to tail and can weigh 40 pounds, they use their pincers to open coconuts. We don't appear to have an article about it though. It is huge, and endangered, apparently because people like to eat them. Here is a site that has a photo that is apparently public domain [38]. Mark Richards 02:14, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I uploaded the image (can someone check it and see if you agree with my interpretation, thanks!) here it is:
Great work Chris - do any of our crab enthusiasts want to take a look at Japanese spider crab? I will sometime, but probably not this week. Mark Richards 20:46, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is Sunny von Bulow still on life support?? Thanks.
According to Dead or Alive? Sunny von Bulow is still alive in a coma. According to crimelibrary.com she was taken off life support (except feeding) within a couple of months after the onset of the permanent coma, and she breathed on her own. So she is apparently still alive, and supported by tube feedings, but not ventilation. Alteripse 20:50, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone explain the difference between "Shots on goal" and "Shots on target" in soccer to me? I'm trying to translate the Stat-Page (comp. Talk:2004 European Championship (match stats)) Thx. -- 84.129.87.17 14:13, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have the documents for a WW II American fighter pilot (2nd Air Commandos) who was authorized a British ALLIED RIBBON by the Briish 14th Army Div. No one seems to know what it was (Spink, etc). Too, the British 14th Army Div authorized the same pilot a BURMA STAR service medal. How come American troops were authorized British medals??? Both of the above are noted as being "issued."
Where can I go to find the answer? British 14th Army archives? (address?) ANY HELP MUCHLY APPRECIATED
Vernon Brook =-email vrbrook@msn.com
Kaihsu 21:34, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC): I wonder and would like to see tables (and graphs where appropriate):
In the 20th century (100-year period) or the post- War era (circa 60-year period), in the United Kingdom (other countries are interesting as well, but I try to be specific)
Let me know at my talk page if you have the answer, please; perhaps even create a subpage thereof. Thanks.
* * *
Kaihsu 11:34, 2004 Dec 15 (UTC):
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1005
National Statistics: Social Inequalities: Income Gaps in income and wealth remain large
The extent of inequality in the income distribution has changed considerably over the last three decades. However, between 1994/95 and 2002/03 the income distribution was broadly stable. Disposable income (adjusted for inflation) grew by over a fifth for both those on incomes at the top of the distribution (90th percentile) and those at the lower end (10th percentile).
Published on 7 December 2004 at 9:30 am
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http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/income_tax/it_t01_1.htm
Inland Revenue: Income Tax Statistics and Distributions
T2.1 - Number of individual income taxpayers
I am a math dolt who is trying to design a parabolic solar energy collector with an offset focus. The offset focus is desirable to get the heated object out of the way of the sun so all of the collected energy can be used for heat. I don't know where your answer will be posted. Please forward an answer to paulsmith1001@comcast.net.
On Google if you do a search with (Taswell +Messamore). You get this long spooky article that my family was involved in in the 1940's. But it's the only reference anywhere on the web about it. Since I live on the west coast I was wondering if there is any more information about it anywhere that isn't local? I'm not going there anytime soon and even there the written data must be scarce.
I recently went through Canadian customs, returning to England from Canada, and they took a tiny little swab of the top and bottom of my laptop. That was all. Didn't even ask me to open it up. I didn't question it in case they got suspicious and found the drugs I'd hidden in the floppy drive, but does anyone have any ideas as to what this is for? It doesn't seem like it could reveal much. -- Chopchopwhitey 13:08, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I used to use a device called a " cartesian diver" to controll the vacuum pressure on a distillation still ,to separart organic compounds. Where can I find a drawing of this apperatus? I have been amaised at what I have found about its name sake , using your system. You people are the greatest. Charles D. Cox , if I may be of some help.
Can the creator of this question please clarify? -- Ardonik 23:39, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I would like sources for finding out how much the U.S. presidential campaigns are spending in each state (e.g. $24 million in Florida, etc.). What's the best source for this type of information? Thanks, [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 19:17, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Do people in the UK simply uses Windows in American English? (Does it bother Brits?) Or does a British dialect version of Windows actually exist? -- Menchi 20:11, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
How would you happen to cite this website. I need it for a works cited page on a research paper
This question has been asked here twice this month already. I suspect the answer hasn't changed much... -- Solipsist 06:42, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I am looking for information about the Commodore Joshua Barney memorial which is located in the Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Bladensburg, Maryland. I also think that I heard from another resource, that there is a Commodore Joshua Barney foundation. Does anyone know anything about this foundation. I believe that the memorial was dedicated on July 6th 1984. I don't think that the Fort Lincoln Cemetery has an active website. Can anyone give me some more information about this memorial.
Thank you Stephen H.
I am looking for information about the Peace memorial which is located in Bladensburg, Maryland at the intersection of Route 1 and Annoplis Road. Visitors can't miss it, as it is at the center crossway. I would like to find some historic information about this monument, if it is possible. I am looking to find information that might be able to be sent to me. Any help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciate it.
Thank you Stephen H. sh34g@nih.gov
When I look at some clouds, I notice that their undersides are flat. Not hugely flat, mind, but compared to the fluffiness of their tops, their bases appear to be very smooth. Why is this?
I am trying to find whether Fidel Castro actually said something to the effect that " Organization of American States is the USA's colonial office". Help?! -- Kaihsu 21:41, 2004 Jul 12 (UTC)
This could help: www.mydeergarden.com Mark Richards 23:13, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
One of my favourite sites, The All Music Guide has been hyping itself for ages about a complete overhaul and modernisation of its content and display. This has now taken place with the marvellous result that it is now all but unusable if you do not have broadband. (I don't).
Still, one occasionally will sit through the frustratingly long loading times to get at the sound clips. Now, my question is: as it stands my Windows Media Player won't play the clips. To be honest, I don't really want it to. I've got Jet Audio which I had set up to play .wma files. However, clicking on AllMusic's links to the samples (represented by one of those little speaker icons) brings up a (non-functioning) Windows Media Player client.
So, (pauses for breath) does anyone know how I might be able to get the samples to play in Jet Audio? -- bodnotbod 12:04, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)
The easiest way is to download Windows Media Player's latest version. Otherwise you can look for the codex you need on the internet, there are some open source and free ones for wma files. I would not really want to recomend a particular one though, since I don't know what setup Bod has. Installing random codeces can cause random problems. There are a few complilations that you can find, mainly on Linux sites. If there is some ethical issue around downloading the latest WMP and you can't figure this out I could take a look and see if I can find the right package. Mark Richards 20:13, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC) This is probably the best bet: wm9 codex. Mark Richards 20:15, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Quite right. Thank you - COding, DECoding. Not a large dusty tome that is difficult to handle. Of course, you can understand the confusion. Mark Richards 14:46, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was just wondering if there is any simple way to jazz up plain text files (e.g. from Project Gutenberg) and turn them into nice clean readable PDF flies without fooling around with Word in between. Thanks for any help Mjklin 12:47, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC).
Can you tell me if the above train ran continuously during WW1 and 2? Thanks. I need this information for a book that I am writing.
Jeanette Fusco seagate500@earthlink.net
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Thank you very much -- Brassratgirl 19:29, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The official name seems to be Mare Tranquillitatis with two Ls.
Can any Latin scholars out there confirm that it's supposed to have two L's? -- Curps 21:38, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Why is it that sometimes when you move (and quite frequently with some folks) do your bones or joints click when you move. I've heard this is a nutritional deficiency - but I'm intrigued to know the whys and causes. Helen . 21:39, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I will be in Carlsbad on Aug. 17-20. My mother was born on August 6, 1919 in Carlsbad and lived there for several years. If any records exist on my mother or grandparents, I would like to be able to access them while I am visiting. Can you advise me where I could obtain birth records as well as possible addresses and other family information.
I want to know the function of the following keys found commonly on the telephone keypad.
*, #, Mute, Pause, Flash
Bharath 10:17, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
These are usually programable. They simply produce tones on your phone, what they do depends on what the exchange is programmed to do with them, and that is somewhat standard, but not always. Internal office exchanges sometimes program them weirdly, and phone companies sometimes use them for special features like call waiting etc. The mute button sometimes turns to microphone off I think. Mark Richards 14:51, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Mute simply makes the microphone not work (so you can make cheap asides to friends in the room), where pause mutes both the microphone and the speaker (most useful for sleeping during dull teleconferences). Both of these functions are simple electrical functions, confined to your telephone itself (that is, nothing is sent on the line to the exchange). * and # are dialled, just like 0-9 (more on dialling momentarily) - that is, they result in a tone/pattern being sent down the line to the exchange. Flash is a stranger and more interesting beast. First a primer on how a plain old telephone works - it's simply two wires (which telcospeak calls "the pair" and latterly "the local loop") connected to a relay and some electrical gubbins (in telco "the main distribution frame") down at the telephone exchange (telco: "the central office" or "C.O."). Wired to this is your telephone (telco: "customer premises equipment" or simply "CPE"). A CPE consists of a microphone and a little speaker (and a clever thingy called a "hybrid" of which we won't talk further). Also in the CPE is a single switch - it's that thing that's underneath the handset, and it's called "the hook switch". When you hang up, the phone is "on hook" and the hookswitch is closed. When you pick up, the phone is "off hook" and the hookswitch is open. When the hookswitch is open the microphone and the loudspeaker (and the hybrid) are connected to the pair, and thus to the MDF in the CO. In this mode, sounds are tranfered across the pair to the operator (more of her later) or to the remote party. When you go on hook, the CPE directly attaches the two wires of the pair together (without the usual load of the microphone) - essentially a short circuit. Now consider an old fashioned manual exchange (you know - nice lady sitting at a big plugboard with a headset on, plugging wires in and out). This (telco: "manual branch exchange" or "MBE" - the manual precusor of the automatic MDF) features a little lamp which is lit when a customer's pair is offhook, a lamp that's extinguished when a relay in the MBE sees the CPE's hookswitch close. So to make a call a customer would go offhook; this makes the corresponding lamp light; the operator plugs her headset into a special socket beside the lamp; the customer tells the operator the number he wants; the operator makes the call (a more envolved procedure which we needn't go into). When the customer is finished, he hangs up, making his lamp go out - at this point the operator should (eventually) notice and pull out her patchcable. Now think back to those old Films Noir, where someone is cut off at a climactic moment - they panic and feverishly thrash the hookswitch open and closed repeatedly. This makes the lamp on the operator's board flash, hopefully attracting her attention. So closing then opening the hookswitch is called "flashing the hook" or simply "flashing". In manual days, flashing had no meaning, and no effect other than to attract the operator's attention. Now let's consider the first automatic exchanges, the electro-mechanical exchanges. These support automatic dialling, where flashing the hook opens a relay which fires a solenoid which moves a sizeable metal thing down one notch. Flash it three times in close succession (and then wait for a little cap to discharge) moves the metal thing down three notches, and counts as a dialled number "3". That's how a rotary dial works - dial a three and it makes three little pins flash the hook (and yes, a zero is ten flashes). This is called "pulse dialling". But you can still pulse dial with just the hookswitch, if your timing is in. Doing so is an old jailhouse trick - where you tell the guard the number you want to dial, he dials it for you, and then gives you a handset with no dial on it (this way the guard knows who you called); the trick was to hang up and to pulse dial, using the hookswitch, the real person you wanted to call (1-800-JAILBREAK). I guess most prison phones aren't this dumb anymore. Latterly flashing the hook has acquired some new meanings, the most common being to tell the CO to flip you to another line (such as to answer call waiting, or to dial again in preparation for a three-way call). But many modern phones don't have a conventional physical hookswitch - many have a magnetic on-hook detector instead, or a "line 1/line 2/line 3" etc thing - so these phones generally have a button marked "flash" which performs a hookflash for you, so you can still access the additional function(s) that the CO has mapped onto a hookflash operation. So lastly we come to # and *. If your CPE is set to tone dial (that is, to use DTMF rather than pulses of hookflash to perform dialling) then # and * are just another two tone-pairs in the DTMF matrix. Frankly, I have no idea what happens when you try to pulse dial them (I'm guessing nothing, as I've never seen a mechanical dial CPE with # and *). As folks have noted above, what the CO or a PBX (that's private branch exchange, a mini telephone exchange that your company may have) takes these to mean is up to it. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 04:40, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Yes, fascinating. Thanks Fin! Mark Richards 23:01, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Where was the first public lending library opened and on what date?
William James Sidis states in his book The Tribes and the States that the first public library was established in Boston in 1636. However, he provides no reference and I have been unable to find further confirmation.
This is actually a harder question to answer than I originally presumed.
Heron, the information you turned up about Chetham Library is interesting for it's early date. I notice that it is still later than the date Sidis claimed for the Boston library though.
When I searched on this topic I also turned up the information on the Harvard library. It fits well in that it was in Boston and the date is close. However as you say it was not a public lending library.
I am particularly interested in this question as in the book I referenced (available online by the way) Sidis makes the claim that there are certain values attached in a way to the land itself which come to influence immigrant culture, particularly through contact with the native people already living there. This effect on the European people who came to America he claims, resulted in new institutions such as the public lending library and the postal service, which were then later taken abroad. Even if it sounds way out, it is an intriguing point of view. Anyway, the question of where was the first public lending library is by itself an interesting one. Thanks for your detective work, Heron. Oh, and I meglected to sign my name to the original question so I'll do it here now -- Oska 00:03, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I may as well quote the relevant part of the Sidis text:
I have a lot of respect for Sidis' research skills, so I think there is probably something to the claim he makes for the Boston town library. That is why I'm interested to see whether there is any confirming documentation.
Have decided to start a wikipedia article on this question. First public library -- Oska 05:16, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
Created the page
first public library and wrote about the two earliest claims, the Sidis one and the Chetham's Library one that
Heron turned up. Added a link from
public library. However, user
RickK slapped a VfD on the article for some unknown reason. Upset about this as I think it is an interesting topic and one that deserves an article. If you agree please add to the article or vote against the deletion proposal -
VfD no. 23
--
Oska 06:49, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
What is the oldest written record we have that is not just a picture?
Yes, the line between a 'picture' and a 'written record' is not as clear as it might look. There is a grey area between pictures that are potentially a narrative record, and their evolution into a more structured written form based on pictorial representations. I think the answer hinges on how tightly you want to define the things. Mark Richards 15:00, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Isn't this just a little bit weaselly? We can certainly debate scribblings that may be some sort of pictographic writing and may not, but there definitely are things (from the 4th millenium BC) that are known to be repsentations of actual sentences in a human language—as distinct from mnemonics for bards to recite the past several generations' history, for instance. Aren't there? SO someone who knows could just tell us what (and where and when) the earliest generally accepted ones are. New on weird disputed ones said to be earlier would just be a bonus. Dandrake 05:12, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
According to this hemangioma faq, a hemangioma is "from the Latin words hemangio meaning blood vessel and oma meaning tumor with active cell dividing activity. Hemangiomas differ from other vascular birthmarks in that they are biologically active, their growth is dependent from the growth of the child. They are the most common benign tumor of infants. Hemangioma growth is referred to as Hyperplasia, where as other vascular birthmarks growth is referred to as Hypertrophy."
Google give many sites that go into more depth. Mark Richards 16:35, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I am researching the geocentric model and Flat Earth theories of antiquity, and am disapointed in the articles on Wikipedia. I am not looking at them as scientific theories, because obviously they have been disproved... They were philosophies, and the key aspects of those philosophies were not the shape of the heavens, but the fact that the heavens were in space. I am disapointed because there is nothing in these articles that talks about this philosophy. It was apparent to these ancient men that the literal heaven was up in space... and if there is a heaven today, and people still believe the ancient scriptures I feel it is important that our understanding of where heaven is stays intact. This idea that heaven is not in space but is a metaphorical place inside ourselves and appart from the world, because the ancient models were wrong seems silly to me. The ancient models were not wrong, they were just a necesary model to understand the astronomy which played a huge role in religious life. People needed to know the exact time of certain celestial events that marked holidays, and know exactly when the sunset was for prayer. These ancient models that are now known to be wrong, were functional for their purposes. Where can I find information on Wikipedia about these ancient beliefs and philosophies relating to the geocentric model and the flat earth theory? Thanks. — 207.90.94.252 17:33, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) It would be there if you write it! Those sound like good aspects to elaborate in the appropriate articles. We would welcome your participation. Alteripse 16:55, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Glüwein, (or Gluvine, Gluhwein) is a type of mulled wine from Germany. Some recipes are here: [42], [43], [44]. Mark Richards 19:20, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was reading the Wikipedia article about playwright Maxwell ANderson which mentioned his pulitzer prize winning play, High Tor. I am writing a blog post about my childhood experiences hiking this magnificent mountain. But Wiki doesn't have an entry about High Tor. Since the battle for High Tor chronicled in the play was one of the first victories by environmentalists in this country (in 1941), I thought an entry about the place would be appropriate.
I'd rather see someone else do the job, but if you are interested in this topic I could draft a possible entry.
I found this formula on the label of a soup can (really chicken soup? who knows). Does anyone know what this chemical is? Is it really safe to eat?
I can't find what it is yet, but here is some information about it...
Formula (Name) Mol. Weight HF298 +/- val Cp(298) S(298) kJ/mole J/mole J/mole ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ClC3H4 CH2-C*H-CHCl 75.51746 107.110 74.224 312.545 #
Mark Richards 22:41, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
To link to an article on, say, the Death Star, use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_star. Generally, you replace spaces with underscores, only capitalize the first letter (unless there are other proper nouns that need capitalization), and replace "en" with the appropriate language code if you don't want the English version.
The easiest way, really, is to type the name of the article you want in the search box and then copy the URL after the page loads. URLs to significant articles in the Wikipedia are rarely deleted. -- Ardonik 23:26, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
specifically the frida kahlo page
Same deal as above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo. -- Ardonik 23:28, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)
I use window 2000, outlook 2000, ram 128, hd 40g, 30 free, I have not added any new software/hardware, I was just working and this started happening.
I click on send/receive and received this error message "Internet e-mail, Some messages couldn't be retrieved from the server. This usually happens when the connection to the server is lost due the server or network problems. If the problem persists, contact your administration".
Then I tried to delete a file and tried to move a file to a folder and starting getting this error message The file C:\Documents and Settings\Debra\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\mailbox.pst could not be accessed Data error (cyclic redundandy check)
What can I do?
Debra Glinsey (spam removed here)
Courage Tavern Ale. -- Heron 08:07, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have a question regarding a hebrew angel. Specifically the angel that supposedly created the Tome of Knowledge by listening by Gods throne and then gave the book to Adam to help him understand god. This angel was also supposedly one of Gods greatest and is cited in both the King James version of the Bible in revelations and the hebrew scrolls. The question is what is his name? I thought I found a site saying it was Raziel. However, I know that that name is from a video game in the Soulreaver series. So, is the name Raziel? If not then what is this highest of cherbim called? - (unsigned)
Would someone please provide the spelling and pronunciation of "Happy Birthday" in Albanian? Thanks. Darla July 15, 2004
I read somewhere that the banana is probably the most nutritionally complete food, and that dried banana chips are the best snack for energy. Is there any way to verify this? Mjklin 15:46, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Here is some opinion: [46] and [47].
Yes, but a lot of it comes down to not the absolute energy content, but the form and release curve. It ends up being very personal. Mark Richards 23:43, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have come across claims that bananas provide 'everything the body needs', but frankly I find them hard to believe. I'll keep looking for some hard data on this. Mark Richards 23:45, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Banana weight Protein Carbs Fat Banana Calories
Banana with skin 170g 2g 39g 0.5g 162 calories
Banana flesh only 114g 1.4g 17.5g 0.2g 108 calories
This [48] seems to be a banana company site, but is quite interesting! Mark Richards 23:50, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What does the name Wikipedia stand for?
Where did you get?
What does it mean?
Curious never heard of such a name before.
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Since I have been laid up for the past year we have found that novels and books in general have been easier for me to get and read by checking them out on the internet. I would like to see a few of the modern pulp fiction as well such as Grisham john and more westerns like louis L'Amore etc. my grand daughter now on the other hand has found it is a lot easier for her to carry an e-book reader with her and read her books as well. she is looking for more movels in her age bracket and she has also requested that I see if I can locate her text books for school seems she thinks it would be easier for her to carry a small e-book reader than twenty five pounds of text books. How hard it something like this to get added to the library.. also magazines.. with my mobility problem this is the easiest way for me thanks for everything ken klh72055@msn.com
Where can I find a listing of albums printed/released by RCA Victor? I've been trying to find the year in which several albums I own were released (the sleeves/records don't say) and haven't had any luck. Thanks in advance. Rhymeless 07:07, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Recently an entire column of the Logarithmic timeline was deleted on the ground that the concept Outside Context Problem was named by a novelist, rather than a scientist. Is there a synonym for this concept, so that the column can be reconstituted? Ancheta Wis 10:02, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I've once heard a story about a programmer in the heydays of big iron who was working on the accounting and transfer system of a bank. He realized that due to the necessity to work with fixed-point arithmetics there is no way to keep track of what happens to fractions of cents which are cut off by rounding, and hence added some code, which, whenever an amount is rounded to the bank's benefit, a cent is credited to a special account, the content of which was automatically transferred to some other account, in order to land after some further hops, on a personal account of him. So, he got all the rounding benefits that usually the bank got, but nobody could notice because this cannot show up in the balance. Well, it seems, some day, some body did found out, as otherwise, the story would not be known.
Or is it true at all? Does anybody else know it? Would be interested in details, like when and where it happened, how it was done, and how it was found out. Thanks -- Simon A. 12:40, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Supposedly, if one travels at the speed of light, time stops. Therefore, light would travel from one point to another instantly, but that is not the case. Why? 206.124.132.34 20:24, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You can tell who is your parents and offspring with genetic testing, but can you tell who's you're grandfather? cousin? uncle? Would geneticists be able to tell that my nephew is my nephew? how much can genes tell me about me? 206.124.132.34 20:31, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I feel I'm missing out. Can anyone recommend a good (free) IRC client so that I can actually access things like #wikipedia? -- Graham ☺ | Talk 00:28, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Mozilla - here are Anthere's instructions to me, which helped! [49] Mark Richards 02:21, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is there someplace where IRC is explained more fully for those of us who have never done it? Above is still cryptic to me. Alteripse 16:59, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This is what Ardonik offered and it worked for me. I copied it into the IRC article also.
How to set up IRC:
If you have an internet firewall program like Norton Internet Security you may need to confirm that Gaim is in the list of programs permitted to communicate with the internet, or you may need to add the IRC port 6667. Alteripse 01:07, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I saw a lizard of some sort outside tonight; I snapped this photo.
. Can anyone confirm whether it is a Tiger Salamander? Looks like the right coloration and size, and it's native to my area ( Colorado Springs, Colorado). Thought I'd add it to the article if it is. -- Wapcaplet 05:17, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It's the first lizard of any kind I've seen since I moved here a year ago. I think it only came out because it has been raining for the past few days. It does indeed look like the other tiger salamander photos I've found by googling. I hope an expert can confirm it for me. -- Wapcaplet 15:17, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
could anyone explain me what is data control language
An acquaintance of mine's brother is being stationed in Iraq. He wouldn't reveal where, but he did give a clue that the city/town was founded in 680 A.D. So far the closest match I've found is Basra, which was founded in 636. Can anybody give us some help? Thanks. Johnleemk | Talk 09:20, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
In doing research on Crashed Aircraft in 1939, using a Wright Cyclone Engine the RCAF Crash documentation referred to "an incorrectly installed MUFF. Could you please show information on what a MUFF is and what is its function. Thank You Alen Howard.......allen.howard@ns.sympatico.ca
What is the history of Elton John's name. I used to know. These days all I can remember of it is that he took the John portion in respect to Long John Baldry.
Given that Moses lived around the time of the Exodus around 1300-1250 BC ref, and Hebrew Script didn't develop until about 900 BC ref, how do Christian Fundamentalists and more conservative Jews square this with the fact that Moses is supposed to have written the so-called Books of Moses (i.e. the Pentateuch)?
Given that the accepted view is that the Hebrew alphabet derives from the Phoenician one, and that the Hebrews adopted and adapted it only after their arrival in Canaan (the Phoenicians being themselves Canaanites), it would seem to pose a major problem for fundamentalists. Is it head in the sand time for them, or have there been any serious attempts to justify this? Spellbinder 00:44, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
May I suggest some possible explanations; you can take any of them:
DJ Clayworth 06:05, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
There was a time when the Bible was not written down, but remembered by special people with
eidetic memory, like the ones in
Fahrenheit 451.
Moses spoke the words, just as
Julius Caesar spoke his
Gallic Wars commentaries. There must have been multiple rememberers so that they could check each other's memories. Islam also accords a special name for those types of people. Anyway, when the Bible was written down, there was a great outcry because "something was being lost" by the capture of the words in script. My reference is the OxfordCambridge History of the Bible. I would have to return to my public library to give you the ISBN. Please respond if you truly care.
Ancheta Wis 15:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Or, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
-- Wapcaplet 16:35, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, I wasn't intending to be confrontational. And I'm not sure of the definitions of 'fundamentalist', I was really using it as shorthand for 'people who believe Moses wrote the Pentateuch'; I did mention conservative Jews too (I'm not sure whether 'conservative' is the right adjective here either).
The question occurred to me after reading up about the alphabet, saying that Hebrew script was developed about 900 BC; the Hebrews used straight Phoenician script about a century beforehand before adapting it, but I've read that before that they were not a literate society (which presumably makes it rather difficult for Moses to write it at all, unless he perhaps knew Egyptian hieratic, though I've never heard a hieratic Pentateuch suggested). Even apart from those 'fundamentalists' (my defn) who believe Moses actually wrote the Pentateuch, there must be plenty of more mainstream Christians and Jews who find it hard to swallow an oral tradition of at least 300-400 years, with all that it entails for the accuracy of the account. It strikes me that this ought to be a big deal, and since there ought to be some scope for arguing about the dating, I would have thought that some more 'fundamentalist' scholars might have countered the generally accepted theory with a theory of their own. What I actually wanted to know was:
P.S. Starting writing this before all the replies were in. Ancheta, I'd be interested in that source if you can rake up the ISBN, thanks.
Spellbinder 18:05, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
See the articles on dating the Bible and the documentary hypothesis. Gdr 13:17, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)
I am soposed to write an economic analysis paper on an article. Does any one know a structure for this?
You're soposed to write it on a Wikipedia article, or any article? Is there a particular article you are interested in? I'd love to do your homework for you. Mark Richards 15:43, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What happened to the lineage of the Imperial family? -- Kaihsu 17:11, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
When the Japanese took over the Korean Peninsula in 1910, they forcibly reorganized the last reigning dynasty as part of the larger Japanese royal family. When King Kojong abdicated the throne, the Japanese moved his son the Crown Prince Sun-jong, and the other Crown Prince Yongchin, to Japan to learn the Japanese aristocratic way of life. All the primary heirs to the Korean throne were married into the Japanese royal family. In 1947, the Korean royal family lost their Japanese titles by order of General Douglas MacArthur. The Korean royal family, including the Crown Princes, moved to the United States to raise their families. Yongchin's son, Lee Ku, went to MIT in Massachusetts to become an architect. Relatives of the Korean royal family are all American citizens today, living and working in the United States in the private sectors. -- Gerald Farinas 01:31, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I found this question wrongly created as an article, so I've deleted the article and moved the content here. Deb 19:03, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"History Channel says that Augustus Caesar died from poisoned figs; A prof. (local LCC) said he was poisoned with Hemlock. I would like to know what the facts are and who did the deed!
I have searched but I am not Link titlefinding any "answers'.
RSVP to gabs1935@msn.com With much appreciation, G.S."
Channel [V] is a music channel in Asia. Any ideas as to what the letter V stands for? ¶ nichalp 19:54, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
I love your work and use it a lot. It's great.
I have written a book about Sara Jane Moore. Most or at least, a lot of the information "out there" is incorrect. Oliver Sipple did not save President Ford's life. That is a myth that has been around for years.
Sara Jane almost killed president Ford. She came within six inches of his shooting him in the head. Sipple knocked her arm away on her second shot.
What I'm looking for is to share URL's if your are interested. My URL is www.gerispieler.com
I'd be happy to have your URL on my Web Site for all your other information about everything you have which is extensive.
Let me know.
Thanks.
Geri Spieler 650/852-9700 gspieler@earthlink.net
i have recently come across a hughes tool co. tri-cone well drilling bit. some say its one of the original from the co. and others say its from the 60-70's era. it does have the HHT marking on the side and a serial number on it. where can i find out more information on the piece. i have contacted baker-hughes with very little help from them. any sites, your site, etc.?
I've heard that recently a highly disproportionate number of women have been entering the field of Forensics. First, I want to find out if this is really the case. Second, what are some possible factors to explain why this is happening? -- NeuronExMachina 01:22, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
For any question about statistics of specific occupations, the best resource would be the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook ( http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm) which is updated annually or the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( http://www.bls.gov/home.htm). -- Gerald Farinas 17:35, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am P.Satish Chandra Reddy from India. I have just passed my M.B.A. I am a Science student and I did my basic graduation in Computers. I am really interested in Doing Engineering. I want to do Mechanical Engineering. I came to know that in Germany they provide Free education. My question is Can I get admission in one such University which provides Free Education? Do they provide Free education even for the Engineering courses? Is the Engineering course for 3 years or is it for 4 years, because I heard that there is one 3yrs course and one 4yrs course? (according to my knowledge in International Standards an Engineering course should be for 4yrs)? please help me in this regard and help me to get into one of the good universities. You can please mail me at
Email ID: psatishcr141@yahoo.com Awaiting for your reply, Thanking you,
P.Satish Chandra Reddy.
As probably most of you knwo from first-hand experience, if you spend time in an area with many mosquitoes, some people always get stung every other minute while others are nearly completely spared. In Germany, some people claim that a mosquito senses when somebody has "sweet" (nutricious) blood, but I suppose, this is nonsense. How should it sense it? Maybe it is infrared radiation? People with good circulation have wram blood and their veins glow in IR, attracting the mosquitos. Anybody out there knows the correct explanation? Simon A. 15:09, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that they spread HIV? I think it is not. Mark Richards 19:20, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I presume you mean pictures of things that are biggest / bigger, smallest / smaller, offensive / most offensive / more offensive? There should be plenty of pictures on the internet - do you want pictures with some specific form of licensing, or for commercial work? Any ideas of what kind of comparatives / superlatives? Mark Richards 19:41, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
We have an article on these organisms, if that's what you're looking for. -- Ardonik 19:21, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
In a number of places recently I've seen a press release from Artificial Development regarding their CCortex project, "a complete 20-billion neuron simulation of the Human Cortex and peripheral systems, on a cluster of 500 computers - the largest neural network created to date." This sounds quite interesting, but all I've been able to find concerning their work is the press releases and the info on their web page. Can anyone find out any solid information regarding the company, such as which researchers work for them, and any publications they might have?
Similarly, can anyone locate information on Adaptive AI, Inc.? (A friend of mine is considering employment with them)
i need to find a medicine by the name of lac-hydrin or also called ammonum lactate? i need to know the classification, contraindications, indications, side- affects, and dosage/administrations. so if you can help i would really be grateful1 thx-u tookie
Lachydrin is a lotion available without a prescription in the US. It is recommended by dermatologists for various causes of rough skin, such as hyperkeratosis pilaris. It's not quite a moisturizer, perhaps an "emollient."? I doubt there are any significant side effects or contraindications. Dosage, like most other lotions, is "slather at your pleasure." It's not in the PDR because it is non-prescription. Are we helping you with LPN school homework, tookie? Good luck. Alteripse 00:12, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I should be most grateful if anyone can help me find a copy, audio or written, of this play.
Many thanks,
Andrew
Hi, I found plenty of info on Wiki about the food that US Army soldiers carry with them ( MRE's), but I was just wondering about the other stuff they carry --kits, packs, etc. Anybody know an article about that? Thanks, Mjklin 16:30, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
...in the absence of any further constraints, I'd say indefinitely. -- Ardonik 23:30, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
Well it does depend on how it is stored, under what conditions, what contaminants are already mixed with it etc. Storing it under certain conditions can act to purify it, but storing it under others can lead to contamination. Is there a specific set of circumstances you are thinking of? I agree with Ardonik that sealed, bottled water should last pretty much indefinately, that might not be true for an open bottle of water left in the sun. Mark Richards 00:18, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
FEMA and the Red Cross recommend rotating your emergency water supply every six months. -- Beland 07:51, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know anything about the history of how Kittery, Maine and Freeport, Maine got so many factory outlet stores? -- Beland 07:43, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to know why it is that big and medium-sized birds can walk, but small birds seem to just hop. Is it because of the way their legs are? Thanks... Â??Joy 10:07, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
All birds have forward facing knees like us, but they are normally not very visible - what is being describe as the knee is actually the ankle, at the end of the tibia. Next time you carve a chicken, check it out. jimfbleak 17:32, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have heard that the legs of birds sitting on twigs are constructed so that they automatically pull the toes together when the bird sits down, this way they need less muscle power to stay on that branch. That may be one reason why walking (which needs bent knees) is difficult for them. -- Chris 73 | Talk 12:49, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It is incorrect to assume that large birds walk and small birds hop. Small beach finches (we call them wave-runners) run at very high speed. You can barely tell that they have legs. An identical bird found in Bermuda always hops. Both live on the beach, eat the same food, and are the same size. Perhaps it is cultural. Bermuda is a rocky volcanic peak and the Atlantic shore here is wide and flat. It is easier to hop on rocks, but easier to run on a wide flat beach. ps: Jimfbleack was absolutely correct in stating that all birds have forward facing knees. The 'backwards' knee is the ankle and the 'foot' is merely their toes. Try walking on your toes only and you can see how your ankles become 'backwards knees'. Kainaw 15:20, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm interested, how You call that microbiological device and if I can find a page in English Wikipedia about this tool. A drawing & definition (but only in Polish) are here Sorry 4 me English. Reytan 17:49, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
anyone know where i can find (online) elections results for the u.s. house and senate from as far back as the 60s? or i guess ideally, since senators were elected by popular vote? more specifically, who didn't win... Thepedestrian 19:26, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
why is indigo specifically chosen as a color in the rainbow. There are others shades like it. Why was indigo chosen .
Thank you
It's totally arbitrary, as are the concept of 'colours' as 'pieces' of the spectrum. Mark Richards 21:55, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This article suggests that indigo was a fashionable, and perhaps even politically charged, commodity at the time Newton wrote his Opticks. The British and Dutch East India companies had just defeated a European trading embargo against indigo, which competed against European woad. Newton was looking for two new colours to expand his spectrum from the five colours he originally saw to the seven he needed to make his "musical colour wheel" correspond with the seven notes of the diatonic scale. ( This web page implies that Newton was a synaesthete, although it gives no further evidence.) Orange, the second new colour that Newton came up with, may also have been chosen for political rather than technical reasons. Apparently Newton was not above bending the truth to support his own POV! -- Heron 09:26, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can you tell me the exact positions for the following German Players, Brehme, Helmer and Frontzeck.The game was against the Netherlands Euro championship 1992. I know all three were defenders-but where exactly ie Right fullback/Left fullback,sweeper etc.Hope you can help.Raymond.
The 'about' page says that there are more than 310,000 wikipedia entries. How many contributors created the collection?
I own a Cadillac Catera (1998). Recently its radiator started losing a lot of water: I'd fill it up one morning, drive it around, and in the evening the radiator "idiot light" would become lit on the dashboard: the radiator was dangerously out of water. After a few days of this, the car was placed in an auto shop where they discovered that the radiator was cracked and needed to be replaced.
The day after it was replaced and the car returned to me, I filled up the radiator, drove it on the freeway, and returned. In the evening there was a puddle underneath the car (arguably from rain, my father says) and the radiator had less water than it had in the morning. Not significantly less, but less nevertheless. My father says that it's normal for a car to lose radiator fluid during summer days especially if I run the air conditioner. He says that every car does it and should be simply refilled when the fluid gets low. However, my dad is far from an auto mechanic—he still pumps the accelerator whenever he starts the car while even I know that this practice has become obsolete with fuel injection.
How true is his point of view on simply refilling the radiator? The Wikipedia entry on radiators does not mention any leaking or loss of fluid. Further, exactly what would cause it to lose fluid? As I understand it, the fluid simply cycles through pipes, cooling the engine, then returns to the radiator. Please, tell me what you think of this whole situation. Thank you. -- Cluster
Exactly how much did it loose in one day (you should be able to find this out by measuring how much you add to bring it up to the 'full' level)? Mark Richards 18:07, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Barring the inevitable (hopefully gradual) leaks, the cooling system on your car is supposed to be a closed cycle, so it really shouldn't be losing water (in practice, hoses and seals are imperfect, so you'd expect to lose some, but a modern car should be able to go months without needing a top up). Assuming the mechanic tested the system at pressure after replacing the radiator, then the hoses and seals etc are okay. One thing that might, however, be complicating your measurement is the overflow tank - when the main coolant pressure rises too high, the release valve (in the cap) opens and squirts some fluid into an overflow tank, thus reducing the main coolant pressure back to a level that isn't going to make the hoses pop off. In olden times this overflow was just vented away, and so you'd frequently have to make up the loss with a topup. But modern cars have an overflow tank, which catches the overflow. After you switch off, the radiator cools and pressure in the main cooling system falls below atmospheric pressure. This makes a little pressure valve open, which sucks the overflow water back into the main cooling system, restoring things to the way they were at the beginning. This will not happen, however, if Curious George (i.e. you) opens the radiator cap before the overflow has been drained (i.e. if you waited until the radiator was cold enough to be safe, but not yet back to the ambient temperature, which would take at least an hour) then Curious George has restored the negative pressure in the cooling system by adding atmospheric air. In that circumstance there's unrecovered water in the overflow tank, and it looks like the cooling system has lost water. Doh! Drain the overflow tank (which may involve syphoning - never use your mouth to suck coolant, use a syringe) and top up the radiator.
I can't really see why running the A/C should make the cooling system lose water (other than the extra strain running the A/C compressor exacerbating whatever pressure-related malaise from which a car already suffers). You will often see water dripping from the A/C unit, but that's environmental humitity condensing on the outside of the cold A/C system (you'll see more of that if you live in a hot wet place like Mississippi or Thailand than you would in a hot dry place like Arizona or Saudi), and a modern car should have the cold pipes insulated to minimise this. Also remember that water drips from the exhaust, but that's made by burning hydrocarbons (i.e gasoline). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:11, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi I can imagine how busy you are but I wonder if you could point me in the right direction. In 1976 I worked for London Records in Calgary, Alberta ,Canada. They were distributing a number of artists including 10cc (polygram records) and a German rock band that was amazing. Of course since I remember very little of that decade, I can't remember the album name or the artist. Is there some archive you could send me to in order to find this group.I Know this must seem crazy to you but I assure you , to me it is of great importance.I would appreciate any help you could give me.
Thank You so much..........Marilyn Berg
I want to know the timeframe of when the Iliad and Odyssey were in relation to Greece and what was the period called Do you have any known articles about this
Homer's poems about life in Greece around the time the poems were composed / MAINLY REFLECTING TENTH-CENTURY CONDITIONS OR PERHAPS EIGHTH CENTURY CONDITIONS ?
This term is used by conjunctivitis and nowhere else on the internet. Is this a real term? If so, how is gowl produced, and from which parts of the eye is it discharged? -- Eequor 09:42, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
hi. my names leon and have just moved to russia after staying in egypt fore 8 months. am originaly from the uk, and bought with me on my travels, a hair care product called(DAX WAX- DAX WAVE AND GROOM). its made by the imperial dax componey in the usa. i have, since arriving in russia, depleated my supply, and need more. CAN YOU TELL ME WERE I CAN FIND THIS PRODUCT IN RUSSIA PLEASE? i did see it in egypt at the metro supermarket but it was the wronge dax, i need the dax in the red tin and they only had it in the blue tin. diferent kind of strength,you see? if you can help you would be saving a life. thanks.
Was it on March 1, as it states in the article on the Russian Revolution of 1905, or was it on March 13, as it states in the Alexander II of Russia article? I'd like to be able to fix up these articles and add it to either of date pages, under the Deaths section - Ta bu shi da yu 13:01, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
There are rough guidelines on the calendar issue at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Calendars. Gdr 20:23, 2004 Aug 6 (UTC)
I asked this question in Talk:Nancy Stouffer but got no responses. Any idea which year the book Larry Potter and His Best Friend Lilly by Nancy Stouffer was written/published ? Apparently she claimed J.K. Rowling used a similar sounding name for her star character. Jay 18:16, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Stouffer's site has an offer posted of "$100 for 1st edition Larry Potter books" - exceedingly weird that the author would not have any copies of her own book. (I have nothing to add to the conversation, I just found that odd). -- Wapcaplet 22:44, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was studying in 1 Samuel chapter 16, where Samuel anoints David with oil, and wondered where this practice originated. I understand it was a setting apart of David to be the next king of Israel.
My question is; Where/how did practice originate?
1Sa 16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what you shall do: and you shall anoint unto me [him] whom I name unto thee. 1Sa 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
Exd 30:23-25 Take thou Also take for yourself quality spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels], And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: And you shall make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
I think the origins must be much earlier than the Greeks and Romans.
What are trust metrics and how are they used? -- Eequor 06:16, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
What year was the United Kingdom called United Kingdom? Thank You!
Da da da da da, free my soul - I wanna get lost in your rock and roll, and drift away....
Arghhh. Help Intrigue 23:54, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You can watch a video featuring both artists on Launch Salasks 16:11, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
Our page on Malcolm in the Middle says there are 5 children, and Malcolm is third oldest (thus "in the middle"). However, I believe the cast list only mentions four. What gives? [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 02:09, 2004 Jul 27 (UTC)
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I have a gentleman that only speaks tongan and I need some general works written in Tongan and english for my staff and i to use. Could some one help.
Anyone that could hep translate so I can put on flashcards in Tongan and English wouldbe greatly appreciated my E mail me at hcstoney @juno.com july26,04 Thanks
What you need is a little book called Functional Tongan-English English-Tongan Dictionary by Thomas Schneider. It contains the most used 2000 words of Tongan and English. The copy I have was printed in 1977 by Oceania Printers in Suva, Fiji and distributed through 'Atenisi University in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. I don't know if it's still in print. Look in ABEbooks to see if any used copies are available. The bookstore at Brigham Young University, Lai'e, Hawai'i, may be able to help you. They serve a number of Tongan students and Mormon missionaries going to Tonga.
If you can't get the little dictionary, Churchward's Tongan Dictionary might do, but it's so big and elaborate it might confuse you. Also try your local Mormon (LDS) stake -- they might have a Tongan emigrant who can help you.
I can make a stab at translating for you, but I'm not a native speaker of Tongan, I haven't used it much for twenty years, and there's NO WAY you can figure out how to pronounce the words just by reading them. Long vowels, no dipthongs, and glottal stops can be very difficult for English speakers. Also, I'm not sure what level of formality would be appropriate.
I'll show long vowels like this: [=a] is a long a. Hold for two beats.
If there's just the two of you, it's ta instead of tau. Ta is dual, tau is more than two.
I can't think of any good word for snack.
Zora 07:39, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the name 'rosebery' was chosen for the title given to the Primrose family (Archibald Primrose of 1600's?). My last name is Roseberry, and we are trying to determine its origin. Many thanks!
I'm allergic to Ragweed; therefore, I can not eat Melons or fruit grown close to the ground that could be exposed to Ragweed. However, I'm in an allergic reaction right now with something I ate a couple of days ago. But the only thing different in my diet was cabbage one night and raw cauliflower the next.
Since these are close to the ground grown....Could they be exposed to ragweed as well to cause my allergic reaction? I itch all over when exposed.
Thanks you
C. Delores Bennett deloalex@juno.com
"You can't always get what you want....you can't always get what you want....you can't always get what you want, but if you try you'll find, you get what you need" This song is featured in the new Cola C2 comercials and I'm trying to find this song. Ilyanep (Talk) 19:47, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone shed light on the origins of the English word, 'Help'?
Help \Help\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped(Obs. imp. Holp, p. p. Holpen; p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hj[=a]lpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]
Who was the first to ascend Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes? The article Siula Grande, and the film Touching the Void implies a German team had descended it in 1936, but I found no mention in newsgroups or on the web outside of Wikipedia.
Talk:Siula Grande has more questions.
Sources I've looked at so far:
- Wikibob | Talk 13:57, 2004 Jul 28 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any on-line (free preferably) resources for 101 training on VHF handset use for basic communication? Thanks, Mark Richards 16:42, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Not quite, just how to use VHF handsets, vehicle and base stations, radio protocol and programming / setup of radio networks for disaster response / coordination. Mark Richards 16:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm looking for history of Grimwith England. It's in North Yorkshire/Dales National Park. It's north of Leeds, Northwest of York. There is now a reservoir built in 1864 by Brandford Corp over the area. I want to know about the area before said reservoir.
You have an article on Kawashima Azumi. Why don't you have an article on Miura Aika. For me, Miura Aika is as well-known as Kawashima Azumi, if we do not want to say thay Miura Aika is more popular than Kawashima Azumi.
Thank you for your attention and your prompt reply.
Hoang Pha
I'm looking for history of Grimwith England. It's in North Yorkshire/Dales National Park. It's north of Leeds, Northwest of York. There is now a reservoir built in 1864 by Brandford Corp over the area. I want to know about the area before said reservoir.
Grimwith is Old English+ Old Norse for "the wood haunted by a ghost or goblin"
Thank you, Anne-- 69.29.243.34 22:48, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
OK, please bear in mind I'm talking United Kingdom law here: we often hear it said that it's illegal to deface British currency (ie, writing on the notes).
Furthermore, someone is now telling me that if you destroy rather than deface currency then that is a differnt matter and is not illegal - which sounds barmy to me. The K Foundation once burnt a million quid and we recently had a game show hosted by Jimmy Carr who regularly burned prize money in front of the audience (though it could well have been fake, I guess).
Can someone tell me what law talks about defacing currency and whether destruction is legal? --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod ......TALKQuietly)]] 23:43, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
Yes,yes,yes..... can we get back on topic now please? ;o) --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod ......TALKQuietly)]] 13:46, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)
If a bank has to accept a bank note no matter how defaced - could one not cut one in half and hand in both halves seperately at different banks - thus making twice the ammount? --[[User:OldakQuill| Oldak Quill]] 10:38, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Who is the owners, investors, partners, management etc. for Cee Gee's in Carlin Nevada?
I created a page called Elcaro Wiki Discussion. If I search for the page it does not return. Do I need to enable something so that my page is searchable.
Did that guy that was going to chop off his legs live on the Internet with a home made guillotine, actually do it, or is he still trying to raise the money, or did some surgeon do it for him, or was it a hoax, or what? Mintguy (T) 12:31, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Homepage. I love these. What about it?! Mark Richards 20:43, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. I love these. What about it?! Mark Richards 20:46, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Well I finally decided to get around to trying Linux. I decided to go for the “safest option” and run a live distribution from a cd (Morphix). I ignored the warning on the disc that read “read the instructions inside the magazine first” because I no longer had the magazine. So I just put it in the drive and rebooted. Everything went ok, I had a bit of a look around, decided there would be a very steep learning curve, and I really should look at a few books (there was no documentation on the cd at all!). Then I pressed the button on the DVD drive and nothing happened! Panic set in, as I realise that a bootable cd meant I couldn’t just switch off and on again. I has visions of prising it open with a screwdriver ( the computer is 4 days old I really didn’t want to smash it up) then I came to my senses and thought of changing the boot order in the bios. That worked so I did boot up Windows and get the disc out, but surely there must be a way of opening it from within Linux? Also when I tried to connect to the internet, it didn't dial up (I get broadband in two weeks yeah!) how do i tell it about dial up networking? theresa knott 19:01, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
First off, if you have a built in 'winmodem', generally it is not worth trying to get Linux to recognise it. All hardware modems should give you a better shot at it. How old is the CD you're using? Using the most recent one will give you a much better crack at getting it going, as Raul says, Knoppix is the best at this. As for getting the disk out, when it's running, you can't, because it is a LiveCD, running from the disk. Shut it down using the icon that, I think, on Gnome, is a foot, but honestly could be anything depending on the theme. It's analagous to the start button on windows. There should be a 'log out' or 'shut down' option. Go for it, and the disk should eject. If it doesn't, turn the computer off at the power switch, and find the little paperclip hole on the front of your cd drive that hardware ejects the cd. HTH Mark Richards 20:31, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
If you want specific help about how to configue it to dial up, let us know what computer, and what version of Linux. Mark Richards 23:04, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have used dual boot, and found it, as others said, a pain, but not insurmountable. The solution I came up with was to make a floppy or cd boot disk that boots to a partition on the hard drive. If that disk is in the drive, it boots to linux, if not, it boots to windows. Seriously though, hard discs are not expensive, get another one and don't mess around with partitioning. Mark Richards 15:15, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You can order them over the internet here, although I don't know whether they are seeds or cuttings. Mark Richards 15:31, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
When I installed Quake, Medal of Honor, and Call of Duty, I always see files being copied of the file type PK4 (it's always like "pak.pk4") or PK3 (honestly I don't remember). Can somebody tell me what this filetype is and give me a link to an article about it? I kind of guessed it had something to do with the 3D game thing, and possibly a proprietary file made by ID. Ilyanep (Talk) 15:35, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I read something once about an Italian princess, who perished in a German concentration camp in WW2. No more information than that, does anybody know who I'm talking about (and do we have an article?) Rhymeless 04:58, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I have a question which may really be part of cladistics; when encountering Tavolara island , which was formerly a kingdom centuries ago, and which has formally not ceded sovereignty to Italy, how does one classify something which is clearly on the wane but not yet extinct. It seems crazy to write something off to history when there are real people still living on a real island; this topic really doesn't belong in the List of extinct nations yet. The topic is similar to the List of endangered species, or List of Ethnic groups. What is the term for this condition? Who studies this? The issue is a loss of vitality for the subject of study, be it a small island kingdom, a species, an ethnic group, or a language on the wane. Ancheta Wis 07:11, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the link is between the ankh symbol and money? For example, money clips with an ankh seem to be very common, and the Bond Street tube station in London is decorated with an ankh. But I've been searching on the web for half an hour and I can't find a connection. Am I making up a connection where none exists? For the most part it seems to mean good health and long life; perhaps I'm misinterpreting what it's representing in the Bond Street station. Elf | Talk 18:31, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could tell me about Pinback. I love their music but I don't know much of anything about their albums or history. My friend Drew gave me some their stuff, but he's in Europe for the summer...thanks.
p.s. do i need to watch this page or if someone responds to this does it get messaged to me? JoeSmack 20:15, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC) p.s.s. wikipedia rocks and it keeps me massively entertained at work.
Pinback Bio courtesy Artist Direct