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April 29 is said to be the birthdate of Taliesin, the Bard of Wales. Why April 29? Thank you.
Richard rbcc@erols.com
Hi, my name is john and i have to do a report, a position paper, on how i feel about a certain subject concerning the nazis and the KKK. I was wondering if it would be possible if you could send me all cases concering either of these groups so i can use it to back up my opinion. thank you for your time.
WOULD LIKE TO INFO ON THE VALUE of THESE CYCLINDERS. WHICH ONES ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE. RUTH HAYNES EMAIL;rhaynes45@yougotnet.com
What does the Aramaic word "abba" meannging "father" look like when written in Aramaic?
I am in need of finding biographies of children who lived in California during early periods in our history. An example would be... a day in the life of a child who rode a covered wagon across California or a child who lived during the Gold Rush era or an immigrant workers child whether ithey were from a migrant farm family or with the Chinese. I need 6 biographies from age 6 - 12 years old. Thank-you for guiding me in the right direction. Not much out there. Please email wendyelkin@comcast.net.
To whom it may concern,
I am doing an advertising project on Paramount Pictures and how they first attempted to brand itself in the early nineteen hundreds. If it is at all possible I would like to know in what newspapers or magazines Paramount normally advertised their pictures. If you could be of any help I would appreiciate it.
Thank you,
Erika Palumbo
Hello dears, Here i am from Jedda, Saudi Arabia.. seeking the help for my sytem. I have a P4 system, with Win98. I installed Mcaffee Software and had updated the DAT and Enging files in it. after this, when ever I suppose to shutdown the pc, its just hangs after displaying shutdowing the windows, Please wait... then I should end that by switching off the power.. So please any one can help me to solve my problem...
P4 2.0 Ghz 40 Gb 256 MB intel M/B sytem brand Compaq
thanking you
Shaikh Saoud Yakoob
Do you produce or recommend any machine translation software?
Please help me with this lost painting. ThomBro3@aol.com
I want to know which parties give in favour of bill or which are against it..and how many are in favour or how many against
Does someone know who determines the exchange rate for the KYD? According to KYD, it is set at a fixed rate by an agreement with the World Bank, but according to Economy of the Cayman Islands, it has changed historically; if both of these are true, who determines the exchange rate from day to day? How often does it change?
Nice, 136 kilobytes... anyway, i've got some linux questions for y'all:
thanks -- ugen64
$ su - # become root Password: # parted . : (parted) print (parted) help mkpartfs (parted) mkpartfs [logical|primary] linux-swap <starting MB> <ending MB> . : (parted) print (parted) quit
(parted) help resize
/dev/<swap_partition_name> swap swap defaults 0 0
# swapon -a # exit # become non-root again $
-- Paddu 22:28, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
# su - # become root # rpm -Uvh /path/to/copied/rpm/files/*.rpm
-- Paddu
Am trying to determine where the town of Blauberg, Bavaria in Germany would have been in 1906. There is no Blauberg appearing on current maps of Bavaria. We think it would be in the Cham district.
I am not sure if I am asking the appropriate contact, however it is very importan that I receive information on the movie The Horse Soldiers with john Wayne. More specifically, I would like to know if the film ever had location shoots in Louisiana, and if so what (town) or (parish). If you could possibly provide aforementoined information, or maybe give insight on who to ask...I would so very much appreciate it. More than you could ever know. Thank you Charles
Is it possible to convert a Microsoft Word document to an XML form, and then convert that XML back to a Word document? What tools would I use to do that on a Windows XP platform? - Bevo 18:12, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
(This heading was posted without a question, but just as a guess, the person who posted it may find something of interest at Kepler solid and the external links on that page. - Nunh-huh 04:25, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)~)
I am looking for any information on a "star" symbol I have seen and cannot locate. It is a 10-12 pointed, three dimentional star with the top and bottom points slightly longer than the rest....so that is appears to "ride"...like a top....on either one. I have seen it drawn within circles like it is moving rapidly. ANY information or thoughts will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks! Aurora
i don't know if i'm posting to right page here but maybe someone can direct me if i'm not. i'm trying to find out if it is posssible to treat endometriosis,fibromyalgia and psoriasis together by way of a multiple platform injection into the stomach abdominal wall,by using hematopoietic stem cells,as i have been offered this treatment in India or Russia i would need a course of four injections in total,given every three months any advice would be much appreciated. 195.93.33.11
To whom it may concern
Would it be possible to give me some of your valued advice? I have a vessel shipment that is scheduled to ship out of Antwerp on March 27th, and dock approx 4/4 in New York. The material is raw cosmetic goods, and should not be subjected to freezing temperatures. (Material could become damaged) Do you feel it wise to ship at this date, or perhaps wait 1 or 2 weeks. I don't know who else would be able to assist in this matter, so I'm hoping you can help. It is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Mike Finnedt
A recent article in the "Scotland on Sunday" gave some details about William Murdoch... I would like to learn more.. do you have any other sites or books that you could suggest that I could review ?
email johnbyars2000@yahoo.co.uk
My interest is that I have been informed that he was my Great,Great,Great Uncle ...!
Many Thanks
John Byars
I am a student who has to argue whether Jupiter could have been a star. I need to know if a solar system can have two suns.
Thank you.
rbisnake21@aol.com
As a person gains weight, does their belly button hole get deeper and deeper? Or does the bottom part of the hole move out too? ike9898
I'm just looking for information about a photocopy machine I used sometime back in the sixties. You fed the original into the machine between two special pieces of paper (as I recall). When the document & pages came out the other side, you had to peel the two outside papers off; one was trashed, the other was the photo of the original. Does anyone know what the make/model of this machine was? Thanks.
eloker@earthlink.net
(emailed as well)
Hello, I am trying to compile a list of all current general counsels and chief justices of all courts North of DC to the Mississippi River. Can you point me in a good direction? I've been doing research all morning and was so happy to find your site. I hope you can help. Many thanks, RM
I know that this league shut down the season early last year. Could you tell me if the league has decided to completely fold? Thank you, Sonya Y. Badger sonyabadger@hotmail.com
Can some kind soul tell me what the following Latin inscription means? I need it for the Buckinghamshire article...
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
Cheers, Graham :) 18:10, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
"Politics stops at the water's edge."
Where does that come from?
This is with regards to the F-14.
I am a thrid year Aeronautical engineerig student at clarkson university in new york. I am doing a class research project on the flight characteristics of the F-14. I would like ot know at what Mach number, altitude and angle of attack the aircraft begins to sweep/unsweep its wings. also, if there is any information about the rate at which it sweeps/unsweeps its wings and the amount of wing surface area that is hidden when the wings are in their flight-swept position.
Thank you for your time,
Josh Butler
Wing span: unswept............................19.54 m (64 ft 1½ in) swept.......................................11.65 m (38 ft 2½ in) overswept...................................10.15 m (33 ft 3½ in
Wings, gross.................................52.49 m2 (565.0 sq ft) Leading-edge slats (total).....................4.29 m2 (46.2 sq ft) Trailing-edge flaps (total)...................9.87 m2
to 68º; oversweep of 75º used for carrier stowage without wing fold; wing pivot point 2.72 m (8 ft 11 in) from aircraft centreline.
Anyone know what this is? I spotted it in Indonesia, it's leg-span was about one and a half times the size of my (large) hand. Thanks, Mark Richards 04:29, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I need a valid IDEA encryption key to test a program I am writing. I had been using all 0's but the subkeys it generates have no multiplicative inverse (nothing multiplies 0 to get 1). It should be 128 bits. Binary or hex format preferred. →Raul654 14:50, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
My daughter is doing a report on Norway lemmings. In every article we have searched, nowhere do they tell you what the life span is. What is the life span of a Norway lemming?
JimD 18:22, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)
I'm looking for numbers and demograhpics of FPS's on pc's. I am conducting research and am having difficulty finding the information. Any help or guidance would be appreciated!
This is not a help page for problems with Wikipedia. See the Wikipedia:FAQ, Wikipedia:Help and Wikipedia:Village pump for questions about Wikipedia itself.
Post a question by clicking here
The Wikipedia Reference Desk serves much the same function as a library reference desk. Do you have a specific question that you want answered by Wikipedia? Then ask below! Give the question a meaningful title, not just "NEED HELP", and you will be more likely to get an answer. To request that a complete article be written, go to requested articles.
If you know an answer, give only a very limited answer on this page. Just post a link to the Wikipedia article that contains the answer (although you might have to supply a few missing details, relevant to the specific question, here on this page).
Old questions and answers will be removed periodically. You can browse old questions and answers in the Reference Desk archive.
Non-reference questions will be moved to more appropriate pages.
See also Wikipedia:Requests for summaries for requesting a Wikipedia-internal summary of reports, documents, websites etc.
To facilitate ease of browsing and replying, please:
April 29 is said to be the birthdate of Taliesin, the Bard of Wales. Why April 29? Thank you.
Richard rbcc@erols.com
Hi, my name is john and i have to do a report, a position paper, on how i feel about a certain subject concerning the nazis and the KKK. I was wondering if it would be possible if you could send me all cases concering either of these groups so i can use it to back up my opinion. thank you for your time.
WOULD LIKE TO INFO ON THE VALUE of THESE CYCLINDERS. WHICH ONES ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE. RUTH HAYNES EMAIL;rhaynes45@yougotnet.com
What does the Aramaic word "abba" meannging "father" look like when written in Aramaic?
I am in need of finding biographies of children who lived in California during early periods in our history. An example would be... a day in the life of a child who rode a covered wagon across California or a child who lived during the Gold Rush era or an immigrant workers child whether ithey were from a migrant farm family or with the Chinese. I need 6 biographies from age 6 - 12 years old. Thank-you for guiding me in the right direction. Not much out there. Please email wendyelkin@comcast.net.
To whom it may concern,
I am doing an advertising project on Paramount Pictures and how they first attempted to brand itself in the early nineteen hundreds. If it is at all possible I would like to know in what newspapers or magazines Paramount normally advertised their pictures. If you could be of any help I would appreiciate it.
Thank you,
Erika Palumbo
Hello dears, Here i am from Jedda, Saudi Arabia.. seeking the help for my sytem. I have a P4 system, with Win98. I installed Mcaffee Software and had updated the DAT and Enging files in it. after this, when ever I suppose to shutdown the pc, its just hangs after displaying shutdowing the windows, Please wait... then I should end that by switching off the power.. So please any one can help me to solve my problem...
P4 2.0 Ghz 40 Gb 256 MB intel M/B sytem brand Compaq
thanking you
Shaikh Saoud Yakoob
Do you produce or recommend any machine translation software?
Please help me with this lost painting. ThomBro3@aol.com
I want to know which parties give in favour of bill or which are against it..and how many are in favour or how many against
Does someone know who determines the exchange rate for the KYD? According to KYD, it is set at a fixed rate by an agreement with the World Bank, but according to Economy of the Cayman Islands, it has changed historically; if both of these are true, who determines the exchange rate from day to day? How often does it change?
Nice, 136 kilobytes... anyway, i've got some linux questions for y'all:
thanks -- ugen64
$ su - # become root Password: # parted . : (parted) print (parted) help mkpartfs (parted) mkpartfs [logical|primary] linux-swap <starting MB> <ending MB> . : (parted) print (parted) quit
(parted) help resize
/dev/<swap_partition_name> swap swap defaults 0 0
# swapon -a # exit # become non-root again $
-- Paddu 22:28, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
# su - # become root # rpm -Uvh /path/to/copied/rpm/files/*.rpm
-- Paddu
Am trying to determine where the town of Blauberg, Bavaria in Germany would have been in 1906. There is no Blauberg appearing on current maps of Bavaria. We think it would be in the Cham district.
I am not sure if I am asking the appropriate contact, however it is very importan that I receive information on the movie The Horse Soldiers with john Wayne. More specifically, I would like to know if the film ever had location shoots in Louisiana, and if so what (town) or (parish). If you could possibly provide aforementoined information, or maybe give insight on who to ask...I would so very much appreciate it. More than you could ever know. Thank you Charles
Is it possible to convert a Microsoft Word document to an XML form, and then convert that XML back to a Word document? What tools would I use to do that on a Windows XP platform? - Bevo 18:12, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
(This heading was posted without a question, but just as a guess, the person who posted it may find something of interest at Kepler solid and the external links on that page. - Nunh-huh 04:25, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)~)
I am looking for any information on a "star" symbol I have seen and cannot locate. It is a 10-12 pointed, three dimentional star with the top and bottom points slightly longer than the rest....so that is appears to "ride"...like a top....on either one. I have seen it drawn within circles like it is moving rapidly. ANY information or thoughts will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks! Aurora
i don't know if i'm posting to right page here but maybe someone can direct me if i'm not. i'm trying to find out if it is posssible to treat endometriosis,fibromyalgia and psoriasis together by way of a multiple platform injection into the stomach abdominal wall,by using hematopoietic stem cells,as i have been offered this treatment in India or Russia i would need a course of four injections in total,given every three months any advice would be much appreciated. 195.93.33.11
To whom it may concern
Would it be possible to give me some of your valued advice? I have a vessel shipment that is scheduled to ship out of Antwerp on March 27th, and dock approx 4/4 in New York. The material is raw cosmetic goods, and should not be subjected to freezing temperatures. (Material could become damaged) Do you feel it wise to ship at this date, or perhaps wait 1 or 2 weeks. I don't know who else would be able to assist in this matter, so I'm hoping you can help. It is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Mike Finnedt
A recent article in the "Scotland on Sunday" gave some details about William Murdoch... I would like to learn more.. do you have any other sites or books that you could suggest that I could review ?
email johnbyars2000@yahoo.co.uk
My interest is that I have been informed that he was my Great,Great,Great Uncle ...!
Many Thanks
John Byars
I am a student who has to argue whether Jupiter could have been a star. I need to know if a solar system can have two suns.
Thank you.
rbisnake21@aol.com
As a person gains weight, does their belly button hole get deeper and deeper? Or does the bottom part of the hole move out too? ike9898
I'm just looking for information about a photocopy machine I used sometime back in the sixties. You fed the original into the machine between two special pieces of paper (as I recall). When the document & pages came out the other side, you had to peel the two outside papers off; one was trashed, the other was the photo of the original. Does anyone know what the make/model of this machine was? Thanks.
eloker@earthlink.net
(emailed as well)
Hello, I am trying to compile a list of all current general counsels and chief justices of all courts North of DC to the Mississippi River. Can you point me in a good direction? I've been doing research all morning and was so happy to find your site. I hope you can help. Many thanks, RM
I know that this league shut down the season early last year. Could you tell me if the league has decided to completely fold? Thank you, Sonya Y. Badger sonyabadger@hotmail.com
Can some kind soul tell me what the following Latin inscription means? I need it for the Buckinghamshire article...
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum
Cheers, Graham :) 18:10, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
"Politics stops at the water's edge."
Where does that come from?
This is with regards to the F-14.
I am a thrid year Aeronautical engineerig student at clarkson university in new york. I am doing a class research project on the flight characteristics of the F-14. I would like ot know at what Mach number, altitude and angle of attack the aircraft begins to sweep/unsweep its wings. also, if there is any information about the rate at which it sweeps/unsweeps its wings and the amount of wing surface area that is hidden when the wings are in their flight-swept position.
Thank you for your time,
Josh Butler
Wing span: unswept............................19.54 m (64 ft 1½ in) swept.......................................11.65 m (38 ft 2½ in) overswept...................................10.15 m (33 ft 3½ in
Wings, gross.................................52.49 m2 (565.0 sq ft) Leading-edge slats (total).....................4.29 m2 (46.2 sq ft) Trailing-edge flaps (total)...................9.87 m2
to 68º; oversweep of 75º used for carrier stowage without wing fold; wing pivot point 2.72 m (8 ft 11 in) from aircraft centreline.
Anyone know what this is? I spotted it in Indonesia, it's leg-span was about one and a half times the size of my (large) hand. Thanks, Mark Richards 04:29, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I need a valid IDEA encryption key to test a program I am writing. I had been using all 0's but the subkeys it generates have no multiplicative inverse (nothing multiplies 0 to get 1). It should be 128 bits. Binary or hex format preferred. →Raul654 14:50, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
My daughter is doing a report on Norway lemmings. In every article we have searched, nowhere do they tell you what the life span is. What is the life span of a Norway lemming?
JimD 18:22, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)
I'm looking for numbers and demograhpics of FPS's on pc's. I am conducting research and am having difficulty finding the information. Any help or guidance would be appreciated!