A question that arose lately in an argument...
Perhaps some of the Portuguese colonies that were abruptly granted independence in 1975. The Spanish Sahara and parts of New Guinea among them, and East Timor, maybe. I don't really know the details. Michael Hardy 21:35, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hong Kong. DJ Clayworth 14:14, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
In Rhodesia, everyone involved wanted the country decolonised. Ian Smith issued the Universal Declaration of Independence, and when the country returned to black majority rule in 1980 as Zimbabwe, there were huge celebrations.
In regards to the Portuguese colonies, to say that they didn't want to be decolonised would be to totally ignore the PAIGC, FRELIMO and the MPLA and the long and hard battles they fought for independence. The only country I can think of that was unwillingly torn away from mother Britain, or anywhere, was Hong Kong. [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 21:15, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
What about NEWFOUNDLAND, now a province of Canada, joined confederation in 1949, not sure if they wanted to be decolonized
new england sucks
You describe Azrael, in this encyclopedia, as follows; "Azrael is a personification of death appearing in the Biblical Book of Tobit and in the Qur'an. He is depicted as an angel under the command of God. In Islam, he is an archangel." This seems to be a direct quote from Webster Dictionary. I have read every book of Tobit that I can find and followed many references of this subject to many sites and have not found a single reference to Azrael being the Angel of Death. Where did you find this information?
Greetings,
I'm adding my inquiry to one that already exists concerning the name Azrael and a statement that appears claiming he is named in Islam's holy book, the Quran, and the Book of Tobit. With all due respect, this name is not found in either of these books.
I am aware of the fact that the recently released "Brewers Book of Phrases and Fables" does name Azrael as an angel of death, but that has absolutely no bearing on the above inquiry, unless you are saying they are the source of your own statement (in other words they are making the claim that Azrael is named in the Quran and the Book of Tobit).
I'm just trying to straighten this issue out because people rely on correct information and this statement is totally false. Copies of the Quran (in Arabic and English) and every version written of the Book of Tobit are available on the world wide web by various religious institutions for free... I think it would be to everyone's best interests if we were all on the same page here;)
Sincerely,
Sheila Lord
As a Muslim, I want to correct it. In Islamic tradition in Indonesia, we spell it as "Izrail". However, as you wrote it, the name of Izrail (or Azrael) is not in Quran. In fact, I was doing an inquiry about Islamic angels' name and could not find the name in two of and the only legal sources of Islam (Quran and Hadith).
You also mention in this encyclopedia "In Islam, the archangels are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Azrael. Lucifer was an archangel, but fell from his position during the Creation for giving himself the title of God". First, we don't have concept about archangels. Second, we never heard Raphael. Third, we use the term "Iblis" not Lucifer. Fourth, the mistake of Iblis wasn't giving himself the title of God but denying the order from God.
I want to change some of the article in this encyclopedia regarding myth and theology in Islam but too much article I have to change.
best regards,
Kunderemp
The previous response is correct. I am a religious studies major doing my capstone project on the role of angels, and the name Azrael (in any form or spelling), as used to reference the Angel of Death is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, the Quran, or in traditionally accepted apocryphal or deuterocanonical writings. You can find writings in external sources surrounding these religious traditions, but not within the texts themselves.
In addition, if you are interested in writings about angels, the Book of Enoch, traditionally recognized only by the church of Ethiopia as canon, has some great stories and descriptions.
Again...No mention of Azrael as the Angel of Death in canon of Islam, Christianity, or Judaism by any and all of my research.
-Michael-
I was editing the page for the America's Cup, and I noticed that the list of challengers and defenders included references to Britain, which were linked to United Kingdom, and other references to England. I am not sure if there is something different about the different syndicates in terms of their country affiliation, but I was wondering if there is somewhere on Wikipedia that explains when to use each name and why. Thanks -- nroose Talk 07:04, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Yes, we should be careful about which one we use, they are not the same thing. Many people want to treat 'Great Britain' as the same as the UK, it is not. 213.206.33.82 12:47, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
'British' is used to mean "of or pertaining to the United Kingdom" just like someone from the United States is called an American. In citizenship terms someone is 'British' if they are from the UK. This keeps getting asked - maybe it should be an FAQ somewhere? DJ Clayworth 19:07, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I really need to get on programming (specially C++), for graphics, audio and well, games... I started with C++ a while back but I never went too far on it.
Now I wanna try again, but I need a good and complete compiler and some references on the subject. Anyone can provide me some information about that? I've been looking for but this kind of things are better asnwered by a experienced person than by google.
Thanks — Kieff | Talk 10:07, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
Is there any free software or easy instructions on how to convert WMA files to MIDI files or similar so that I can transfer them to my phone. Apologies if this sounds a bit dim but I honestly have no idea. Scraggy4 19:02, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Seeking an opinion here. I have a 40 GB hard disk partitioned into four. My disk is almost full (of junk) and I plan to format it. My processor is slow and the boot up crawls when my hard disk has lots of files. Here's what I plan to do.
I will install XP to D:\> drive. This will be a FAT partition. I will also install all the programs that I have such as image viewers, browser plugins, audio players, etc. In short, 90% of my software. Now I turn to C:\> drive and install XP again. However this time I will convert the partition to NTFS. I also install critical system files such as firewalls, utility & office suites and anti-virus to this partition. D:\> is my programs partition and C:\> my working.
Now will the above setup work to speed up my system? My hypothesis is based that when windows boots into now default C:\> , the minimal files on this partition means that booting should be smooth and the system won't crawl. Now the programs on D will run as they will use D:\>'s system files. Also if I install Red Hat 9 (dual boot) in F:\>, will I be able to view the files on NTFS C:\>? [[User:Nichalp|¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | ✉]] 20:57, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
Another good place to try for tech questions is Experts Exchange. Salasks 19:17, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
if you're asking about this encyclopedia, the Wikimedia Foundation. Gentgeen 01:45, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
ObAaron: penicillin -- Phil | Talk 10:10, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
Condoms, abstinence, not sharing needles, protective needle caps? Alteripse 00:46, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know where I can find a list of the Oxford University college scarf colours, similar to this, I'm trying to make the Oxbridge scarf colours article a little more even handed, but it's proving difficult. -- Prisonblues
Hello my name is Crocus Rokersosski - whilst staying at a Hotel {the Marine } in Llandudno Wales UK I was intrigued by a letter from Queen Elizabeth of Romania which is framed in the reception area. The Queen stayed at the Hotel for a period of about 2 years in the 1890's..... it speaks of the great help given by the people of Llandudno in her difficult times... so I decided to find out more about her... despite getting several books from the Library on Romanian history I am unable to find reference to the lady... also there seems to have been several Queens of that name in Romania history... I know there was a revolution in the late 1800's but can again find no mention of any King or Queen being sent into Exile..... help on this subject would be most welcome.... my E mail address is christefercrocus@fsmail.net thanks....
Is there a difference between interstellar cloud and nebula? What is their relationship? Or are they actually synonymous? Thanks for answer! -- Lorenzarius 15:00, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
when was this website established?
Does anyone know the year Dawson's Creek actress Meredith Monroe was born? The Internet Movie Database says 1970, TV Tome says 1976. Would anyone having an answer please reply to my talk page? PedanticallySpeaking 18:43, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
I cannot get X-Window-Server to Start on my Debian Linux 3.0r2 for the life of me. It seems to me that it's not recognizing the video card (an ATI Radeon 9600SE). The Xfree86 Version is 4.0.1 and It won't recognize my net card (D-Link DWL-520) so I can't get it from the net. And it also for some reason doesn't put my Win-NTFS partitions in the /mnt folder. Is there any way for me to get the older version of X to recognize my card, or do I have to wait until mid-September for them the release Debian 3.1 with Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3? It does however recognize my 128MB USB mass storage device. In the end, should I wait until Debian 3.1, get Xfree onto my USB device and install the new version? And will installing and compiling Kernel 2.6 (I have 2.4-22 I think) help? Am I making any sense? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:13, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
OK, here's some thoughts, if you're still stuck on this [I just realised how old this conversation is; never mind!]:
nano /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(nano being a nice simple editor if you're not used to
vi or
emacs)Section "Module"
and comment out (put a # in front of) any line with anything like "glx" (as in
OpenGL)Section "Device"
; this should describe your ATI card. Leave it be, but make one similar underneath:Section "Device" Identifier "Generic VGA Device" Driver "vga" EndSection
Section "Screen"
, and change the Device
line (which will currently be referring to your ATI card) to "Generic VGA Device"
(the section you just added)Good luck, and happy hacking! - IMSoP 21:03, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is this? Since I can't read chineese, and I have no chineese font installed, and it's on the Chineese main page, what is it? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:44, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Media:Polyphemus moth cut out.jpg was created as a revision of Media:Polyphemus moth.jpg by replacing the background with a solid color. Is there software that can make this type of alteration to an image easy to do? - [[User:Bevo| Bevo]] 21:58, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Quote from your page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montfort%2C_6th_Earl_of_Leicester
Meanwhile in 1238 he secretly married Eleanor Plantagenet, sister of King Henry III of England. Eleanor had previously been married to William Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke the link to Eleanor Plantagenet states that:
Eleanor of Lancaster (c. 1311 - 11 January 1372) was born in Arundel, West Sussex, England.
She was the daughter of Maud Chaworth and Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester.
Her first husband was John Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont, with whom she had two children:
Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont (b. 1340.) Joan Beaumont Her second marriage occurred February 5, 1345 at Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckingham. She married Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, with whom she had five children:
John Fitzalan of Arundel, Lord Maltravers (b. bef. 1349) Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel (b. 1346) Joan Fitzalan (b. before 1351) Alice Fitzalan of Arundel (b. 1352) Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of York (b. 1353) She is buried at Lewes Priory in Lewes, Sussex, England.
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Plantagenet" clearly something has gone wrong with the links :please advise when correct
What was the largest concert ever, by attendence? [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 03:18, 2004 Sep 9 (UTC)
Now I have a question about Amerigo Vespucci name. Was the name Amerigo around before Amerigo Vespucci was born? I mean was the name said and spelled the same before he was born?
Hello everyone,
Just wondering if anyone would be able to help me. I have just named a star after my girlfriend and would love to be able to actually show her the star. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can go about this? We live in London and none of the observatories nearby have a service to see specific stars. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My e-mail address is damianevans25@hotmail.com Many thanks again.
Posted at the
village pump by an anon¹ and moved here by
Trilobite
(Talk) 16:17, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
As mentioned above, this sort of naming doesn't mean much, but it you still want to find the star, a good starting point would be its coordinates. Rather than degrees North and East, as used on the Earth, the main coordinate system for astronomical objects uses Right ascension and Declination (or RA & Dec). If you know those for the star in question, then you can it lookup an online sky survey:- for example at http://stdatu.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
Enter the coordinates, ignore the other boxes and hit 'Retrieve Image' - the star should be at the centre of the image.
It can get a little more complicated; you really need to know the 'epoch' for the coordinates (generally either J2000 or the older B1950). You might also need to choose the photographic survey you want to use (some of them don't cover the whole sky). At the STSCI site, a good choice is to use the POSS2/UKSTU survey which is a combination of the second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey of the northern hemisphere, and the UK Schmidt Telescope survey of the southern hemisphere.
Once you have an image of your star field, you can then find someone with a telescope on an equatorial mount, point it at the same coordinates and see the star for real. After doing all this, there is a good chance that you still won't be sure that you have found the right star. In which case, just pick any star near the centre of the image - your girlfriend probably won't know any better. -- Solipsist 08:14, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "Leader of the Free World"? I see from the President of the United States and Free world entries that it's a cold war term, but I was wondering who first coined it. Also, what do non-Americans think when this term is used to describe the US President (either current or previous)? Cvaneg 17:51, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Sheldon knows: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-materials.html
Does anybody know which industrialized nation in the west has the lowest crime rate in the western hemisphere? I want to guess maybe Sweden or Norway but does anybody the answer?
9-8-04 Does anyone here know how I can find out what t/ names Lance and Lacie look like in t/ Hebrew language? Thanks alot! jen
Our article on Nikola Tesla doesn't seem to mention anything about his personal life. Seems more like he was completely involved by his work.
Was he married or anything? — Kieff | Talk 03:38, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
Is there any country/state/city/corporation/buiseness, etc. that elects its leader through a lottery system? -- elpenmaster
Can you tell me what the very last VEN number is. What site I can go to inorder to find it. Been looking at this car to buy. They told me it was the very last one every made. Just tring to find out if that is true or not. Thank You Tona kAY
Hello,
I would like to use a map of Pasco County in Florida that I found within this website and would like to know how to correctly cite it. Which would include authurship, date published, title, publishing company, and their location.
Thanks for the help. Please reply at youth@twnf.org
Emily
If you have a chord, and you move all strings down one fret, you get the flat below it chord. Now, what if that chord has open strings (say Em), how would you move it down (to Ebm in this case) — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 22:31, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
My question is are the two men in some way related. Both are contemporaries. As you probably know the first is the safety razor inventor and the latter was an actor and portrayor of Sherlock Holmes.
Assuming you mean an ice pick, breaking up blocks of ice. The same as modern folk. [[User:Anárion| Ана́рыён]] 20:21, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have created a user page in wikipedia but now would like to have my user page deleted or removed as I have another wikipedia userpage as well.But I do not understand how to delete the user page itself. Please tell me how I can do so.
why are ovum oval in shape?
Ova is the plural of ovum. The structural advantage of the ovoid shape is important if laid in a shell, but human and most animal ova are round and soft, especially if they get fertilized within mother's body. The ova contain the haploid DNA of a gamete, but they also are much larger than sperm because they contain stored nutrients and mitochondria for the pre-implantation stages of zygote development. A spherical or nearly spherical ovoid is one of the most efficient shapes for bulk storage. Sperm are swimming packages of DNA and contribute basically just the DNA, so their function determines form as well. Alteripse 20:45, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Because it really, really hurts to lay a cube? - Nunh-huh 21:39, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I am currently preparing a time capsule, proposed to be buried together with a building foundation. Is there any way for me to retrieve a copy of the Wikipedia that can be rolled into a few DVDs? Any versions that you would recommend? Please, oh, please, don't make me download anything "exabyty".
How long do you anticipate the capsule being burried? What do you think the likelihood of DVD readers being common by that time are? Take a look at
BBC Domesday Project and
Digital obsolescence.
Intrigue 19:00, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does the phrase "to sit Indian-style" (i.e. "cross-legged" or "tailor-fashion") originally come from a reference to Native Americans, or people from India? -- 64.81.243.120 20:37, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Moved from the Village Pump by Ilyanep
-- 213.216.223.13 16:30, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)george@nic.fi I' ve heard about a paradox that if we study very small of difficult particulars of "things", they are so delicate that the instrument meant to study them destroy them. Where can I find more information on this issue?
Yours, cordially Yrjö Mikkonen, Oulu, Finland george@nic.fi
There's some old cartoon I remember watching that had some old woman with a baloon. The ballon was full of gadgets and it made a funny sound, and I think it left a trail of smoke puffs behind where it passed...
The other cartoon is one anime (I think) featuring two moles. They used sun glasses, if I'm remembering correctly...
Anyone knows the name of those? — Kieff | Talk 01:49, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
I appreciate the irony in my asking about this. =P --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 02:01, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
how do mammals maintain thermal homeostasis? Would you consider this a handicap?
Though there's an arms race here as all the large cold blooded grazers have been killed off by faster_than_they_were predators -- seen any large herds of brontosaurs of late?, and what's left can be pretty quick on its toes. Consder pronghorn antelope, or many sorts of deer (not the same sort of thing at all), and the fact that cheetahs spend an awful lot of time sitting around panting having missed, yet again. ww 18:31, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I recommend the articles on homeostasis and thermoregulation. If there is specific information you feel is missing from there feel free to come back and ask. As for your second question I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you consider it a handicap? And in what ways? I would suggest that it's of great advantage to mammals to be able to maintain a constant internal environment as it allows them to exploit niches in the environment cold-blooded animals (i.e. those whose internal temperature simply reflects what the weather's doing) wouldn't be able to. You couldn't have a reptilian polar bear for instance. Another advantage of thermal homeostasis is that it's much easier for enzymes to work efficiently in particular narrow ranges of temperature. Human body temperature, for example, is always maintained as close as possible to 37°C because this is the optimal temperature for the body's enzymes, i.e. the temperature at which they can process chemicals the fastest. Of course, being warm-blooded does have its disadvantages, notably that a lot of energy is required to keep the temperature up and so for a mammal there is plenty of eating to be done. Despite this though, warm-bloodedness has been very successful evolutionarily, giving rise to all the many species of mammals and birds that make the world what it is today. Interestingly, birds tend to have a body temperature a few degrees higher than that of mammals. This allows them to carry out chemical reations as part of their metabolism at faster rates than we do. The hotter you want to be the more energy you need to get there, but birds can afford to be hotter because of the superior insulating properties of feathers. — Trilobite (Talk) 03:21, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Didn't we do this one last month? [4] Didn't your teacher like our answers? One more thing: these days, there are hundreds of research scientists looking for ways to make thermal homeostasis less efficient-- fame and fortune await. Arguably, those most efficient are at greatest risk of obesity, other things being equal. See if your teacher likes this one. Alteripse 01:04, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've started a list of who I think are the great commanders (both generals and admirals) of all time at User:Raul654/sandbox. I'm curious to see what others have to say on the subject - feel free to add your own lists to my sandbox. →Raul654 07:15, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
First some notes, remember the Wikipedia:General disclaimer for info on here. However, if you feel any information is innaccurate, please correct it or make a note on the page's talk page.
I would look at Health Canada they have a report there. Dunc_Harris| ☺ 11:03, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Looking back at this, I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned already: for the record, "Inuit" has been taken into English as the plural word, the singular being "Inuk" or "Inuq" (I'm taking this directly from the Wikipedia article Inuit, but current Canadian media usage is the same). So "Inuits" is non-standard. Sharkford 14:16, 2004 Sep 17 (UTC)
Actually, if one is going to be picky, one would have to use the dual too. "Two Inuuk" instead of "two inuit". But that is neither here nor there. In my experience, the invariant "inuit" is used the most often. "One inuk" , "several inuit."
Health issues: Substance abuse is rampant in Inuit communities. Alcohol is banned in many of them and restricted in nearly all, but that works about as well as cocaine laws do in the rest of Canada. Glue sniffing has become widespread among the youth in many, many communities. Consequences: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is commonplace. Suicide is notoriously widespread. Domestic violence is commonplace.
Other issues: Inuit tend to be poor and have some of the diseases of poverty. Vitamin deficiencies are generally corrected these days when correctable, and third world diseases that result from poor hygiene are largely gone. However, the high cost of imported foods means that increasingly the Inuit, like poor people everywhere, get a growing part of their nutrition from low cost foods with poor nutritional value. Protein intake is generally adequate, thanks to a pattern of subsistence hunting that continues in the present, but fresh fruits and vegetables are a rarity. Many essential vitamins can be had from fish and especially seal meat, but not all.
Specific conditions: hearing loss is epidemic in many communities, asthma is widespread in Labrador and probably elsewhere, there is a shocking amount of sexually transmitted disease.
Sexual mores among the Inuit are a particular problem, and a socio-cultural one. Pregnancy by age 16 is common. AIDS is rampant, along with syphilis and clamydia. It's cold in the winter, and promiscuity in traditionaly native life was commonplace.
Dental health can be a real problem, since dentistry is not covered by Canada's socialised medicine. Emergency care and full time access to doctors can also be a problem in arctic communities. There is some compensating infrastructure - medevac service and even the smallest communities have nursing stations, and it is all paid for by the government - but there are some social barriers to using institutions that generally have exclusively Kablunamiut staff who usually don't speak Inuktitut.
For some specifics I'd try a search of the archives at the Nunatsiaq News website.
Diderot 15:30, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is a Copycat? -- Patricknoddy 20:17, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC) User:Patricknoddy -- Patricknoddy 20:17, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC) User talk:Patricknoddy 16:17 September 13, 2004 (EDT)
I am writing a piece about Hasidic Judaism, and was wondering, is there a more formal term for the long sideburns Hasidic Jews wear than "curly sideburns"?
Also, do that hat, beard and coat carry any special names? [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 21:05, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
The earlocks are called peyoth (Modern Hebrew) or peyes (Yiddishised Ashkenazi dialect). The Torah (in Leviticus 19:27 [5]) states that one may not remove the "corners of the beard", interpreted by the oral law to refer to the sideburns. Most Hassidim and many Non-Hasidic Haredim embellish this law by growing the earlocks. JFW | T@lk 05:33, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The hat can be called a "streimal", different styles of hat worn by different groups of chasidim.
When was the Prussian province Westphalia named? --anon
The pepsin article says pepsin "is permanently inactivated above pH 6".
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 02:03, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Re: Question 1 - The type of inactivation referred to here is called denaturation. In a typical case, there isn't a real "chemical reaction" taking place. Pepsin, like any protein, can be thought of as a long string folded in a specific 3 dimensional pattern. When pepsin is denatured, the 'string' is essentially misfolded. Pepsin is still the same chemical entity, but it's 'conformation' has changed. ike9898 18:27, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
Is there any way I can easily define what fonts MSIE is using or should use for a given Unicode range? Many ranges appear to be missing from the 'Fonts' field in 'Internet Options', and (possibly as a result) MSIE fails to display many characters good browsers like Opera and Firething can, even on the same system. [[User:Anárion| Ⓐℕάℛℹℴɴ]] 09:33, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have a similar question, but regarding Mozilla instead. How may different fonts be assigned to different ranges at all? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 19:42, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Right, there's a painting I want of a enormous artificially selected pig (or maybe cow) from Derbyshire? Anyone remember anything else about it so I can google a copy? Dunc_Harris| ☺ 09:50, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'm doing reseach about Martin Waldseemuller and I would like to know did Martin Waldseemuller really thought he named America after Amerigo Vespucci? Plus is there any proof he thought he named America after Amerigo Vespucci?
Why is there not any keratin on the eyelid?
The two major types of connective tissue protein fibers are keratin and collagen. Keratin is primarily located in the epidermis and its derivatives like nails. Collagen is one of the major structural protein of the lower dermis layers and especially of cartilage. Some types of cartilage do contain keratin as well as collagen. The stiff structure of the eyelid is called the tarsal plate and it is primarily cartilage. With a quick search I could not find any evidence that the eyelid does or does not contain any keratin either in the dermis or the tarsal plate but I am fairly certain that the primary structural protein of the tarsal plate is collagen. Alteripse 01:05, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I know that if you want an aqueous solution with a high density, you can dissolve salts in it. If you want a really high desity solution, you need a salt (or other solute) that has very high solubitlity in water. For example, you can dissolve so much potassium iodide in water that you can produce a solution with specific gravity of 1.6 or so. What I want to do is the same thing, except with hexane instead of water. Is there something I can dissolve in the hexane that will increase it's density significantly? ike9898 18:44, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that Idaho was once part of the Colorado Territory?
Why are Delaney cards called that? Is the term an eponym? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]]
Does anyone know why, in many old texts and documents, e.g. The Constitution of the United States of America, the lower-case letter "s" is often written as an "f"? For example, "Congreff"?
I'm trying to settle a minor dispute here: Do Canadians generally use American English spellings, British English spellings, or a combination of both? For example, is it "center" or "centre", "color" or "colour", or all of the above?
If anyone could answer this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Suntiger 01:52, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that 419 scams [9] comprise 73% of the Nigerian economy? Alteripse 02:27, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) PS: I didn't post this topic, by the way, just found it empty.
It's hard to estimate the percentage of a national economy that crime makes up, since by definition it is not declared. It would be interesting to know what % gdp crime represents for all countries. 'Black economies' are certainly significant in most developing nations. Des-mond 15:31, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Sorry people, I'd better stay away from the reference desk for awhile. When I saw the heading, the Nigerian scam was all that came to mind. If I don't confess I made up the 73% out of thin air, do you think it will be quoted across the internet? Anyway, deglossobuccifying, it was supposed to elicit a yuk, not refutations. Alteripse 01:03, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Regarding fibromyalgia and tender points, which parts of the body are the 18 standard pressure points? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 21:53, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Is the composition of Substance P known? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 22:01, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've been looking for something like this, but can't seem to find it. In an old atlas (20 years ago), I remember seeing a map of the world, scaled so that the size on the map represented the population of the country. The result was a huge China and India, next to a comparatively smaller USSR (as it was at the time), a small USA/Canada compared to the rest of Central and South America, a huge Africa, a tiny Australia, etc.
The map was only representative of population, so the country shames were quite blocky (or else it would be hard to get the countries to fit together with their different sizes) and only roughly the shape of the actual country.
I've been looking for something like this on the net, but no success!
Closest I have found are:
But I'm looking for a map of the whole world. Any ideas? -- Chuq 04:16, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Where can I find links to Jewish music? --anon
Well, I'm surprised you didn't try the obvious ( JewishMusic.com)! There are scores of good sites about every type of music, but perhaps you should start with Wikipedia's article on Jewish music.
Is there anything in particular you'd like to know about Jewish music? Perhaps if you told us, we could recommend some more specialised sites. [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 06:53, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
About one year ago the state of Washington added a new city to the state. The City of Spokane Valley, WA incorporated with a population of about 87,000 making it the states' 7th largest city. Since it is such a new city, there is currently no information available on your site. I would like to see information about out wonderful city on this site. For more information try visiting the citys website at www.spokanevalley.org. Thank You
Can I PLEASE GET THE NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS THAT OFFER COURSES IN ATM REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE? BB&T is one. -- Patricknoddy 15:15, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User:Patricknoddy -- Patricknoddy 15:15, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User talk:Patricknoddy 11:15 September 16, 2004 (EDT)
If your planning on repairing them, search for them as ATMs not ATM machines, which really is automatic teller machine machines.
How many stocks are there in the stock market? -- Patricknoddy 15:14, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User:Patricknoddy -- Patricknoddy 15:14, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User talk:Patricknoddy 11:13 September 16, 2004 (EDT)
Do you have a particular stock market in mind? The U.S. alone has three significant stock markets (the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ); almost every country in the world now has at least one stock exchange. -- Jmabel 17:52, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
I hear often on news broadcasts covering the Bush National Guard story that CBS has failed to properly "vet" the newly surfaced documents.
I am looking for the meaning of this word "vet" and its derivation.
Can you help?
Frank Kalbac fkalbac@comcast.net
I see this term every now and then, usually like "get medievil over something". What exactly does that mean? — Kieff | Talk 09:26, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
As popularized in the movie Pulp Fiction, at least, that's where I first heard it as an idiom. func (talk) 14:43, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have a friend who was the only Medieval Studies major at our college. She used to say she was the only one that could say she was gonna get medieval on somebody's ass and actually follow through. Salasks 23:24, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
I've been working on a number of articles on people from Arab nations, from Bandar bin Sultan to Mohammed Atta to Taqi al-Din, but I don't know the Arabic script. Could anyone who knows Arabic please provide me with the way these names are written in Arabic? (And possibly others as well?} – Quadell ( talk) ( quiz)[[]] 14:33, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
It's pretty much been established that Guevara was born on May 14, not June 14 (see Jon Lee's book A Revolutionary Life). His mother admitted that she lied on his birth certificate because she was expecting him before she was actually married to his father. Why do so many information resources persist in publishing inaccurate information?
hey dudes i found this site and was hoping u colud help me. im a 12 yr old and my parents r fighting like hell. :( my dad sez my mom spends 2 much money and dat she is 2 messy. last nite my mom said if my dad had ballz he'd throw our cats away so hg did =( but they came back. then my dad told me he only sticks with my mom bcoz of us kids =( dey haf been fighting for months already =( i rmember when i was 5 dey fought alot but i havent seen them fgiht since. now 2day they wont even talk 2 each other can someone help me plz
More generally than this one person's question: maybe someone would like to expand Suicide hotline into a more general Crisis hotline and add a list of links for major ones throughout at least the English-speaking world... BTW, most suicide hotlines will held with crises far short of suicide and most lines intended for runaway children will also gladly talk to those who simply have problems at home. -- Jmabel 06:10, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
The petrol article contains a list comparing the energy content for various fuels.
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 08:13, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Many sources seem to say that by the Treaty of Hamburg in 1701, Mecklenburg Strelitz was split from Mecklenburg Schwerin. However, hostkingdom, a generally reliable source, says it was formed as a result of a splitting of Mecklenburg Schwerin in 1658, and names a specific ruler during that time. The wikipedia article on M. Strelitz even conflicts itself, as it has both dates. Could anyone clear this up?
Is mint bad for the heart? I have heard that recently. Is there any scientific basis for this? Or is it pure speculation? -- Edcolins 19:26, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to find my grandmother's ancestory in muehlhausen, presumably where her father's family may have originated. The name was Kochuwa, later changed to Koch when they moved to Vienna, Austria, where my grandmother was born in 1901. I am not sure of the years but it must be in the mid 18oo's. please if you have any info, send to tanteria3@yahoo.com thank you.
What's the correct spelling of that jewish song, "Havah Nagilah"? As far as I know, this is the correct spelling, but it seems Wikipedia doesn't have an article on it yet. Havah Nagilah...
So maybe that's not the spelling... Does wikipedia has an article on that song? — Kieff | Talk 21:01, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
Which toxins are commonly produced by cooking food? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 21:02, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Can you send me a website or resource that will explain the Cognitive/Affective approach to teaching a second language?
Thank you for your time, Steve Harvey
Bellefonte, PA next to Penn State's main campus
briefly.. Salasks 03:57, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
Would somebody check this edit at Watergate scandal please? The contributor has only made this one edit, I want to make sure it's not vandalism/a mistake, but I have no knowledge of my own. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 00:04, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
I would like to be able to learn to interpret English words into sanskrit written dialect. Particulary the three words, Love, Guru and Master. Can you direct me to the site?
Anne Jory Ryland-Anderson 1130 Ivy Lane Ashland, Oregon 97520 U.S.A.
Email Address is AnneJory@aol.com
There was a NASA mission a few years ago where they launched a craft that was supposed to get its speed from light from the sun and get faster and faster and go out of the solar system. what was this mission called, and how is it doing? I cant remember the name of it-- elpenmaster
i read about it in popular science magazine a few years ago. the article must have been talking about a future mission, but i thought it had already been done-- elpenmaster
I am Neil Johnson. I have had a postive result back on my blood for the presence of malaria antibodies. Does this mean that I am likely to have the pathogen still in my blood stream? Does it also mean that I now carry a degree of immunity to the pathogen? I have had malaria three times and lived in west africa for two years.
You're right, DJ. I told Neil to do just that after he replied to my email. JFW | T@lk 19:34, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
To Whom It May Concern:
When I encountered the passage of El-Azar-us being resurrected by Horus, I went searching for its' source.I spent 4:47 hrs looking for confirmation.I became tired after all that time.All I kept finding was "cloned" page, after page, mentioning the Miracle in a truncated fashion;as a qualified reference refuting Jesus.
Might I trouble anyone to clarify/qualify the issue.Perhaps,point me in the right direction. I'm far from being accepting of having bumped into LOTS of pages, basically parroting each other,without at least; one solid piece of verifiable corroboration.I find it odd,that nearly the entire world has conciously "looked the other way", when considering the probable cultural influence that Egypt had on Judea/Israel.It's quite unlikely,that it was the OTHER WAY AROUND.I feel safe, assuming that there will be several Egyptologists on board. I'm an amateur explorer, enjoying the tremendous weight of all the things I need to know! This one has got my attention, because of the HUGE similarity between Lazarus & El-Azar-us. In my mind, it's too great a coincidence. I realize this is "old hat", to many a person. Many may know the name of the Egyptian "holy" book, which contains the passage. I'm still intrigued, nevertheless.
Yours Truly, Lance.
How I can I get back issues of newspapers (as in really really back, from the 60s and 70s) for free, online? Getting them in real life is unfeasible considering I need Malaysia. And these papers are vital, because two nominations on Featured article candidates ( I Want To Hold Your Hand and The Long and Winding Road to be exact) depend on the interviews therein. For example, say I want the headlines from the Evening Standard on April 22 and April 23 1970. How can I get those for free? Online would be very nice, but if they're free, that's good. Johnleemk | Talk 15:37, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
-- Jmabel 19:17, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
infotrac.london.galegroup.com
.) Not much help for Malaysia, though. --
JTN 18:35, 2004 Sep 28 (UTC)Does anyone know of any wiki page or set of pages that contain information on Chinese classical music?
Hi, I am a new user and i would like to know whether I must ask administrators to change my password or can i do this by myself? Thanks a lot. -- Wikipedius 19:17, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've been browsing some Congressional delegates on Wikipedia pages and in the table listing that state's Senators, one of them is often designated "class 1" and the other "class 3". I can't find an explanation of this in the US Senate article, so I thought I'd ask it here :) What is the difference between those two positions? saturnight 21:44, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
HI.I HAVE A QUESTION.HOW TO CLAP WITH ONE HAND? AND HOW TO JUMP OVER MYSELF? I AM NOT A BUDDIST BUT WILL APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD ANSWER ME.PLEASE SEND THE ANSWER ON MY MAIL ADDRESS: agnieszka-pilarska1@wp.pl THANKS AGGIE
Erm, actually, we should be able to do better than this. An article on sound of one hand clapping might well be worthwhile. Our only current reference seems to be in nonsense, which doesn't really do this justice. Volunteers? The Buddha 03:37, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The road to enlightenment is hard to follow, but not complicated to find. I am not a Buddhist either, but as understand it, Buddhists believe that the Way is open to all who wish to follow.
To clap with one hand, merely take your hand, and hit it with itself flatly. The material properties of flesh and bone ensure the production of a clapping noise. As for the way to jump over yourself, start jumping in an upwardly direction, inclined towards yourself, and be careful not to hit yourself on the way over. If you know where you are, you will have no difficulty determining which way to jump.
Alas, the true Way is not to be e-mailed like some 401 scam, but, like Wikipedia, has always existed under a spiritual GFDL license. Thus, like most spiritual matters, it is archived for the ages, lost only through lack of effective indexing and edit wars.
(公案很容易 - 鬼佬真奇怪) :^P Diderot 14:09, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Recently I have discovered Wikipedia and I find it very helpful.
Currently I'm researching on science fiction short stories. I have found a list of short stories by Isaac Asimov - which is what the movie "I, Robot" was based on. But this only tells me general information about these stories. I cannot find the short stories itself.
Please help me as I am very eager to read these stories.
Thank you very much!! Any help would be much appreciated!!
(darn edit conflicts...) Well, I really don't think there are going to be any short cuts here to simply going to a book store, (or possibly a library), and obtaining collections of Asimov's works. It is unlikely that you will find the stories somewhere on the Internet, since they are popular and under copywrite. Asimov's works have never gone out of print since... well, for a really long time. Any general bookstore (or library) that you go to today has tons of his collections. You may want to check your listed stories on google to see which anthologies they have appeared in, you could then look for these books at your local library. Also, I can tell you that one of the last comprehensive collections of his robots stories was in a paperback called Robot Dreams, which I happen to own and love. :) func (talk) 03:50, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Bold textOk! Thank you very much!! I didn't think it would be available in the library and i didn't want to go and run around book stores to search for it. But thanks for the good news! =D
I actually have to prepare an oral presentation on Robotics in science fiction. My other team members are doing it on film & novels. So I'm doing the short stories side of it. Do you know any other science fiction short stories that will be good for my oral presentation???
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 03:45, 21 Sep 2004
If one is writing a sentence with a short story in quotes, and a comma, for example: The short story I am reading, "The Monkey's Paw", is a short story, does it go like this: . . .Paw",. . . with the quoteation mark first, or like this: . . .Paw,". . . with the comma first? i could have sworn that the quotes came first, but my English teacher says that the comma comes first. is there a definitive answer for this?-- elpenmaster
I dont see my exact question there.-- elpenmaster
In other words, if the comma isn't part of the title then it should go on the outside. However, it should be emphasized that this is the Wikipedia style. — Mike 05:30, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
elpenmaster mentioned writing a short story, not a Wikipedia article, so pointing him in the direction of our style guide isn't nessesarily helpful. In formal writing, one system is used in the U.S., while another system is used throughout the English-speaking world. In less formal writing, the British style tends to trump the U.S. one, as people find it more logical. If the short story is published for sale in both the U.S. and U.K., there will be two different versions with two different punctuation styles, as well as spelling changes. (You know, it really bugs me that Terry Pratchette's novel was sold here as The Color of Magic.) func (talk) 15:43, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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IMSoP 20:22, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)]That's not the worst - they often change the title, usually dumbing it down. Eg Northern Lights / The Golden Compass The Philosopher's Stone / The Sorcerer's Stone etc. Intrigue 20:26, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
So, if i am in America (which i am), then i should write . . ."The Monkey's Paw,". . ., while if i am in England i should write. . . ."The Monkey's Paw",. . . The second way seems much more logical to me! -- elpenmaster
Hi everyone, thanks for being here. I wanted to know how much nicotine the human body on average can absorb. I vaugely remember it not being that much, thus 'light' cigarettes don't really make it easier to ease off smoking because the amount of nicotine in each cigarette is huge in comparison to what your body can absorb. Is there any truth in this? JoeSmack (talk) 06:52, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
In several places, specially cartoons, when you see Egypt, they place a song in the background, oftenly with some character dancing "egyptian style". Fortunetly, I have here a MIDI of a song from the game The Lost Vikings that starts with it. :)
Now, I wanna know the original title of that song... Anyone knows? — Kieff | Talk 08:54, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
Is there an article some of this could go into? Snake charmer song? Mark Richards 19:53, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is the specific gravity of semen? (It is easier for me to measure the weight of my semen than the volume, and I want to estimate volume.)
What are the environmental issues to bear in mind when buying a sofa? I think origin of any hardwoods might be one, but are there issues around stuffing and chemical use? Are there organisations that work on this? The Recycling Troll
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I am looking for a way to convert inches of copper wire to a certain gauge. The wire I am speaking of is a main wire with close to 20 small wires wrapped around it. This wire is used for grounding large tanks. Can you help me? The wire has been cut and we are trying to replace. Thank you, Amy
What is the orgin of the word of, and where does that word come from?
What is the name of this instrument sometimes used in an orchestra?: It consists of a set of small metal bars graduated from maybe 4 inches to 10 inches long hung next to one another. A metal wand is typically used to strike them in a quick swiping motion, producing a "zing" sound as an accent. -- R. S. Shaw 03:26, 2004 Sep 22 (UTC)
I seem to recall there being Internet games where one takes the part of a world leader, and interacts with other players through e-mail, thereby dominating the globe or whatever... Anybody heard of this, or know what it is called? Tuf-Kat 05:14, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
can one c program have two main functions ? if yes how we can achieve it.
You can, for example, have a main and a WinMain, the latter of which will be the top-level funciton in a Microsoft Windows environment. -- Jmabel 19:13, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
#define DEBUG_MODE 1 /* comment this line out to disable debug mode */ #ifdef DEBUG_MODE int main(int, char**) { /* debugging-only version of main() */ } #else int main(int, char**) { /* non-debugging version of main() */ } #endif
You can't have two functions named main, but you could have two functions that could be main (but with different names), and have the real main choose between them. Unix sometimes does this and has the real main figure out which one to call by looking at argv[0]. -- ssd 00:12, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
WHat happend at the louvre durring WW1 and WW2? Im sure the art was stolen, or placed for safe keeping, but by whom and where?
Where is the Louvre and why is it famous? What are some of the famous works? what happened to the Louvres works durring WW1 and WW2? What has the louvres been used for over the years? What is some other information?
Not all the questioned are answered in Wikipedia's article, specifically the World War looting questions. According to Let's Go Paris, "Curators at the Louvre, sensing the inevitable Nazi Occupation, removed many works of art, including the Mona Lisa, and placed them in hiding." For a full rundown of what happened to what works, I would try to get ahold of the book Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War II. According to the book synopsis, the artwork looted under Hitler's direction "exceeded the combined collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, and the Louvre." Salasks 15:39, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
You should look in your library's catalog under the subject heading "World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war" for similar books. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 20:33, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
I imagine that it might have been invented more than once, and I'd be interested in the details. I remember reading somewhere that it was discovered (or rediscovered) in Europe in the Middle Ages, and that the author who thought it up had to include a preface in his lexicon explaining how it was arranged, and that he himself made a number of alphabetization errors in the 'A' and 'B' sections of his book, but that the errors got fewer as he got more practice with his new system. But I can't remember who it was!
I'd also be interested in hearing about the history of alphabetization in other languages and scripts. For example, did the Hunmin Jeongeum define an order for the hangul? Did Koreans alphabetize things? What about Arabic?
-- Dominus 13:49, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Elements of the order of the Latin alphabet predate the alphabet itself. Note how the Greek alphabet starts with alpha, beta, gamma (which evolved into "c"), delta, eta. That sequence goes back to the Phonetians. In recent years, national language institutions control alphabetical order in most places. Some languages hava multiple or overlapping conventions.
But, I'd be interested in the in-between period too. I don't know either.
Diderot 14:58, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Concur with Diderot: the Phonetian alphabet was already in a standard order when other peoples starting adapting it. Also, it just seems logical that anyone who would have to teach the alphabet to someone else would have a canonical way of representing the symbols, ie: I'm just guessing here, but I'll bet the Sumerians, (who are generally put forward as having the first comprehensive writing system), had an order in which they taught the cuniform markings. func (talk) 15:06, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
A clarification: I am not asking about the order of the alphabet itself. I am asking about the use of alphabetical order as an organizing principle in lexicons and other reference works. -- Dominus 15:41, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Dominus, in that case, you're looking for a history of dictionaries. Ordering words in an alphabetical or quasi-alphabetical sequence started with bilingual dictionaries. Their roots go back as far as the classical Greeks at least, and I suspect much earlier. Ordering other things that way followed. For libraries, modren organisational schemes go back to the mid-19th century only. For encyclopedias - they grew out of dictionaries in the Renaissance. Diderot 16:08, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by Jonathon Green (ISBN 0712662162) has a chapter on this subject. It says that alphabetization was used by the Alexandrians around 250 BC, but Europe didn't catch on until the Middle Ages. Ordering by the first letter only (called "A-order") and first and second letters (called "AB-order") came in with the Corpus glossary (8th century or earlier; owned by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). Then ABC-order and ABCD-order (sorting by first three/four letters) came along in a pre-Norman manuscript (MS Harley 3376, British Library). Full alphabetization was first seen in English in 1066. It would be interesting to know the corresponding dates for other languages.
Green says that alphabetization was slow to catch on in Europe and the Arab world because it was antithetical to the prevailing religious teachings of the early Middle Ages, which preferred to organize knowledge thematically according to the scriptures. Alphabetization was seen as a dangerous new fad that threatened to democratize knowledge. -- Heron 18:01, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Alphabetical order is a form of collation. I have also heard of the anecdote about the author who alphabetized a book partly to teach himself how to alphabetize, and I thought I'd read that on Wikipedia, but I may be mistaken. (One would expect to find it either in alphabetical order or collation.) Unfortunately, the article about collation focuses mostly on its use in computer science, despite that field being centuries younger (see Wikipedia:Village pump#The Encylopedia that Slashdot Built Awards). --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 22:10, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
There is also, as I remember, some interesting discussion of this in Michel Foucault's The Order of Things: he views the increased acceptability of such an arbitrary order as part of the ending of the medieval worldview. -- Jmabel 00:31, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
I don't know when alphabetical order was invented, but I can tell you that it was quickly followed by Bogosort. Rhobite 23:03, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
OK! According to the Daly book cited above, examples of alphabetized lists start to appear in Greek scholarship around the 3rd Century B.C. Many of the examples are from Alexandrian scholars, and related Cosian documents, suggesting that the librarians at Alexandria may have used the system to assist in cataloging the library.
Many of these lists are not fully alphabetized, but they are grouped by initial letter, and sometimes by second letter as well. Use of alphabetical order is not common, and for every document that does display alphabetization, there are dozens that could but do not.
The tax accounts in Ptolemaic Egypt also display a sophisticated organization in which daily chronological records of payments were transferred to permanent records that grouped payments by the payer's name, in alphabetic order.
I will do some more research and then summarize the most relevant and interesting points in the Wikipedia article. -- Dominus 14:31, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Are STC's notebooks available online? Are any commentries of them available? Thanks! Intrigue 20:35, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know any more information about hydroponics specifically involving saffron, spices or flowers, or any information about the regular growing of saffron?
I don't know if this is helpful: Hydroponics Classroom Salasks 15:24, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, anyone else got any more info?
Was the Encyclopædia Britannica affected by anti- German sentiment following World War I? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 23:15, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 01:37, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Question moved to Wikipedia:Help desk. See top of page: "This is not a help page for problems with Wikipedia." — Trilobite (Talk) 13:29, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
About 10 years ago or more, there use to be a city in California called, "Los Cerritos." I do not know what happen to this city. An Internet search turns more links about Cerritos, California than the now "Lost" "Los Cerritos." My guess is two things happen to the city: It merged with another city, or it changed it name to avoid confusion with "Cerritos." My question is what happen to this city? For reference, "Cerritos" and "Los Cerritos" were never the same city. The mall that was built, called the Los Cerritos Mall opened in Cerritos, California not Los Cerritos, California. I think as the Los Cerritos Mall got popular, the City of Los Cerritos disappeared or renamed itself or something... Anyway, I've lost all track of it. A map of California from between 10 and 20 years ago may reveal that Los Cerritos did indeed exist. If you read the Cerritos, California article, you'd discover that the city was originally the City of Dairy Valley. This is why I believe there was no name conflict at the time between the current Cerritos, California and Los Cerritos, California. --[[User:AllyUnion| AllyUnion (talk)]] 12:31, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Can you please explain how these fields differ in what they do and don't include? --Molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, biophysics, cell biology
It seems like they would have a lot of overlap...can you clarify?
Lots of overlap. Molecular biology and biochemistry are virtually the same field with the two terms being more a matter of fashion and generational preference. Those who claim a distinction would have trouble describing a research report that would be identifiable as biochemistry but not molecular biology or vice versa. I doubt any institutions grant equal degrees in both biochemistry and molecular biology: some call it one, some the other. Biophysics focuses on the more "physics" related phenomena of biology such as electrical gradients and potentials, with much overlap with biochemistry. It is often offered as a separate degree from biochemistry/molecular biology. These three are the fields that have in the last 2 generations yielded most of our new knowledge about genetics and cell biology, so that much genetics and cell biology research is conducted with the methods and knowledge base of biochemistry/molecular biology. Genetics is the field of knowledge related to inheritance; it has been enormously amplified in the last 50 years by the techniques and knowledge of biochem/molec biol, and this new knowledge has in turn revolutionized physiology, medicine, and evolutionary biology. Cell biology focuses on the function of the parts of the cell, but these are primarily investigated and described by the methods and terms of biochem/molec biol and biophysics. Does that help? Alteripse 17:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The fields are indeed very close. But they have different points of focus and methods of researching things. Nevertheless, I'm studying biochemistry and I might be getting involved in a Biomolecular project. And Cell Biology focuses on biological processes (not chemistry) It's all about how you see it. [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 13:59, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
I understand how to read numbers relating to birthdates, but when binary numbers are aligned three in a row, in this case, specifically 222, does this have any specific meaning when relating to the weather? I ask this because I had specific insight into the last three, the last being Ivan, now I am questioning Jeannie.
Does the lineup of numbers 222 mean anything at all?
Thank you, Lauren (loves to learn)
I read a novel about an American translator in China recently (I can't remember the name) but she had a thing about romanticising historical China. She had an 'antique stomach protector', which was described as a piece of silk tied in some way so as to cover her stomach as a piece of underwear. I cannot find any reference to this. Is it real? Can one buy one? Thank you. Gretchen Gardner.
I think the book is Lost in Translation (novel) by Nicole Mones. A picture of the woman wearing the item (from the rear) is on the cover - you can see it here. I don't think the German army item is the one Gretchen is looking for, but I have also been unable to pull up anything. Mark Richards 12:52, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The kidney belt seems to serve the same purpose as the German military thing, but be unrelated to the Chinese thing, which, so far as I can see, serves a primarily spiritual value? Can anyone find any references to this asside from this book? Mark Richards 18:06, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
In Vowel harmony#Consonant harmony, the article refers to anterior and nonanterior classes of sibilant consonants. What is an anterior consonant? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 02:26, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'm think there are two syllables in squirrelled. [195.92.194.12 19:43, 23 Sep 2004]
Im Canadian, and I would concur with the the one syllable pronounciation, it would be like Skwurlld with the r-l combo being pushed into a slight extenstion over the second L. ( West Coast Canadian ) Bob535 03:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What's the mystery? If you pronounce "squirrel" as one syllable, you'll pronounce "squirrelled" as one syllable. Enough people do the former: Merriam Websters Collegiate offers both a one-syllable and a two-syllable pronunciation for "squirrel". - Nunh-huh 04:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just in case anybody (Canadian etc.) is wondering where the "two syllable claim" comes from, let me explain that British English is one of the dialects in which squirrelled has two syllables. -- Heron 09:20, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
skwi - ruhld, and even that's difficult. In some dialects maybe, but not the one I speak. It's silly to give it one when it should be two.
Oh look, it's a skwurl. I'd think it was some kind of
I don't wish to be willfully perverse in raising this alternative, but to my untrained ear there are clearly 3 separate sounds in squirreled.
Sound one: scwi Sound two: rell Sound Three: duh
You're right, Bodnotbod (Gawd bless yer, mite), and our own article on syllable agrees. A syllable has a vowel or quasi-vowel in the middle, with optional consonants on either side. However, from a purely phonotactic point of view, this does make it hard to justify calling squirrelled a single syllable, unless you classify the whole of uirrelle as a single quasi-vowel. Perhaps our "syllable" article needs to say that the definition of a syllable depends on the dialect of the speaker, if this is true. -- Heron 13:05, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What you think you say and what you actually say is usually different, so everyone who has commented here (including me) is probably wrong about how they pronounce this word. Even if one of us were to record it and post it, that pronunciation would not be normal speech, because we would be thinking about it and saying it more slowly and purposefully than in normal speech. Adam Bishop 16:40, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Well. I'm certainly not Canadian, and I pronounce it "skworld". Rick K 06:15, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
I would also like to add that I pronounce it "skworld" and I'm in Seattle, Washington.-- Trypsin 08:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm a Minnesotan and I pronounce squirreled "squir-relled" or in IPA, [skʷəɹ.ɫd], with two syllables, but I might pronounce it as one syllable when speaking quickly. Gandalf1491 21:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
This is something I've been wondering about since I was a kid.
When a fan is running under some fluorescent light, it leaves a trail of blue and orange. This happens with any object moving fast enough, actually, under fluorescent lights. Some kinds of lights don't produce this effect, though, but I have no clue of what differs them from the rest.
I know fluorescent lights oscilate in high frequencies (120Hz, I think), but I was never able to relate this fact with the appearence of the colors. Interestingly, the colors don't vary, being always orange and blue.
Anyone knows what I'm talking about and why this happens? — Kieff | Talk 04:28, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
You might be seeing some variant of the Benham's disk effect. (Seems like a ripe topic for a Wikipedia article.) -- Matt McIrvin 13:31, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
...Ah, I see there is one for " Benham's top". I'll make a redirect... -- Matt McIrvin 13:40, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hey, look at this online demonstration (Java required). The effect is called Fechner colors; I just made a stub. -- Matt McIrvin 14:04, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
does less or more testosterone in a person increse or decrese insghtfulness ina person? can this hormonal difference be stated as the reason for women being more thoughtful and better at analysing situations and people than men?-Anita
Dear Anita, if I understand you correctly, you are asking if testosterone somehow "decreases" insightfulness, since you have this bizarre, sexist, and probably totally accurate idea that women are "more thoughtful" and "better at analyzing {social--right?) situations and people?"
A tantalizing array of possible answers come to mind, ranging from a Dave Barry-type response about the apparent neuronal toxicity of testosterone, a plea to forgive whichever haplesss guy in your life just blew it again (since he couldn't help it due to his testosterone handicap), to quibbling about whether "insightfulness" equates to "thoughtfulness," "analyzing situations" and "analyzing people" -- in other words, dodging the question. Reluctantly, I'll opt for the straight answer.
As it happens you are not the first person to wonder about this and there is a lot of research on the relationship of testosterone to various aspects of personality and cognitive skills (e.g, Halpern DF, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities. 3rd ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwaw, NJ, 2000, plus dozens of other books and thousands of research articles in the psychology literature). The short version of the answer to the first question is that research, repeatedly, and across cultures, shows that sex differences cannot be found in general intelligence, but in patterns of cognitive abilities. On average, females outperform males in measures of verbal fluency, verbal memory, emotional perception, and perceptual speed. On average, males outperform females on measures of spatial, mechanical, and mathematical abilities.
So to what extent can testosterone be blamed for these differences? In 1970, if you asked any psychologist, social scientist, politically correct academic, or card-carrying feminist this question, the answer was a big "NO! There are NO biological differences in brain function. Any appearance to the contrary should be attributed to sexist expectations, culture, or social learning or a patriarchal plot..." (I am not kidding here, as neither were they). There is in fact much evidence that these differences are largely biological whatever we might wish. Testosterone is a good candidate for being a major factor in these differences. T levels between males and females vary during 3 periods in life: from the 8th week of gestation to delivery, from 2 weeks to 4 months after birth, and after the onset of puberty (average age 12 years). The brain has both testosterone and estradiol receptors present from the first half of gestation onward. Conditions in which T levels are atypical for age and sex shed some light on when and how testosterone might work these differences. For examples, girls with high prenatal and childhood testosterone levels due to CAH show some of the "male" cognitive advantages such as better spatial abilities than ordinary girls. Conversely, boys with congenital forms of hypogonadism show less spatial abilities than ordinary boys. What seems to be important is prepubertal testosterone, since men and women do not lose or gain these abilities if testosterone is removed or added after childhood. Luckily, losing testosterone does not improve a guy's social skills. For more on this type of research, see one of Sheri Berenbaum's reviews (e.g., Berenbaum SA. Prenatal androgens and sexual differentiation of behavior. Chapter 13 in: Eugster EA, Pescovitz OH, Developmental Endocrinology: From Research to Clnical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2004). A final caveat: many factors that contribute to brain differentiation. One of the most important changes in our understanding of brain biology is our realization that brain reshapes its capabilities in response to experience and use in a way that can make partially environmental or experiential factors appear to contribute to "hardwired" functions. Alteripse 12:38, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I had a problem with my camera recently: it wouldn't "click" anymore (probably because of low battery). Now, when I rolled back the film (plain vanilla Kodak 35 mm color) and took it out, the whole film was inside the cilinder. I don't take photos very often, so I may be wrong, but shouldn't there be 2 or 3 cm of brown foil sticking out (like it is when you buy it)? At the development lab, do they need those 2 cm to take out the film or can they develop it anyway?
Thank you in advance and keep up the good work, 80.127.226.15 12:11, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC).
Yes, light issues aside, you can tell whether film is exposed by whether it has been fully wound in, preventing mixing of used and unused film.
I would like to use your map of Rupert's Land in a book. Is it possible to get an image copy with a higher density scan? Is there a fee for service? Thanks. Peter Murphy
I'm looking for a picture of the "Beat LA" sign from the Braves 1991 march to the playoffs for a blog post. Salasks 14:44, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC) ( blog)
This is an emergency—how would you say "Down with the officers" or any other "down with" in Latin? Thanks! -- Gelu Ignisque
I love people who know Latin: how would one translate "red star", referring either to the planet Mars or to, well, a literal red star, like the stars from Soviet-era flags? P.S. This is not an emergency. :) func (talk) 05:34, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hey, does anyone know where the clock/BIOS backup battery is on an IBM PS/2 motherboard? I have one of these (ancient) computers in my basement and when I boot it up, I get error codes 161 and 163, which I have determined to mean the BIOS battery is dead. However, I cannot find the battery's location in order to replace it. Does anyone know where the battery is on one of these boards, or have a link to a site telling one how to change it? Thanks! Suntiger 22:12, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, that looks like it should help. Suntiger 13:45, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Why was Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, at the Nuremberg Trials? He was just a publisher of the Nazi German equivalent of a tabloid newspaper. Why was the publisher of the Völkischer Beobachter not also on trial?
What he did just seems minor in comparison to the doings of people like Rudolf Höß, who were not at Nuremberg. [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 22:39, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
What are the most commonly used auxiliary verbs and copulas in the English language? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 00:31, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <th align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#fda">α</th> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#fed">Δ</th> <td bgcolor="#fff">ο</th> </tr> </table> |
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 03:29, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I don't think it conforms to any HTML version, since the colors are in three-character format, which AFAIK is only valid in CSS (though some browsers obviously have no problem with it). I'm afraid I don't know what browsers will or won't accept that notation, though chances are it's correlated with whether or not (or how well) a browser implements CSS. As for the rest of it, the table elements have been around since HTML 3.2 I believe. -- Wapcaplet 03:45, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR has no problems with it, which is odd. -- Alphax 15:55, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
I have Norton installed as part of my defence against viruses. Every day it seems to download around 700-800k of virus definitions and updates. This seems to me an extraordinary amount of data per 24 hours. Is someone able to help me account for this? --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:25, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
I read some where that the number 0 wasn't use in Europe untill I think the 17th century. Before the Europeans used the number 0, for example for writing the year 1600 how would they write it? Where was the number 0 started and when?
It's been a while since I did much with my graduate thesis, but as I recall the Arabic numerals were used for dates in the account books of English churchwardens in the mid-1500s. I'd suggest that the questioner's suggestion of the 17th century is too late by 200-400 years, depending on location and other variables, as a reference point for when the 0 was put in use for dates in Europe. Jwrosenzweig 22:15, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor introduced the zero in bookkeeping clear back in the 13th century, but it didn't spread at that time. -- Jmabel 00:47, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
The article on Roman numerals says that the Arabic numerals (and hence 0) came into common use in Europe in the 1300s. Before that Roman numerals were used there. - R. S. Shaw 00:20, 2004 Sep 29 (UTC)
What is Necker's cube? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 19:00, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I had a question in my anatomy and physiology class can you help me?
Which of the following is "heat given off as particles or waves"?
a. conduction b. convection c. radiation d. evaporation
Trilobite are you sure? Particles and waves sounds more like radiation to me. Isn't convection more like "conduction by a flowing substance" (such as air or water)? Alteripse 18:54, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The way we write the number system we use today, where and when did it originate?
And look at numeral system. Note that there is a difference between numbers and numerals. I haven't looked at the article titled natural number, but that's definitely not the first thing that comes to my mind in response to this question, since natural number is about numbers rather than about numerals. Michael Hardy 21:16, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone offer a contact where I can purchse a film in dvd or video format (UK version) of the dismantling and reconstruction of the temples at Abu Simbel when the Aswan High Dam was built.
On late-evening radio and TV news discussion programs (e.g. Newsnight), there is often a section where presenters read tomorrow's newspapers. In a column in the Guardian, I once read that part of the night editor's job is to look out for stories that they can poach from such editions of rival papers. So why do the papers bother making these early editions public at 10PM the night before? How did this tradition begin, and what's in it for the publishers? - IMSoP 00:18, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
"...while the home news night desk might spend the evening chasing stories in other newspapers that need to be investigated (the night editors usually get their first look at rival publications at about 11pm, leaving little time to react)."
I need to find specific information about organizational structures/models. Models such as a Federated Models of Service, an Amalgamation and outsourcing of administration tasks to larger organizations. What I am getting at is I need information about organzational structures as a non for profit organization I am doing work experience for is looking to change its management structures and possibly amalagamate with 3 other organizations. I need clear answers about what types of organizational models exist. For example an organization with a CEO and a Board of Directors and then its management is called.... I wonder if you could help it would be greatly appreciated.
I think Ferrari is cited not correctly here, but I do not know, where the mistake has been made (I cross-checked twice if I made a mistake when I copied the formulas to my caculator...).
On
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuarticEquation.html
they cited him correctly, I think...
Does anybody see the mistake quickly (I would need at least several days, because: I am not so good in mathematics)...
-Arne
How do so-called day-glo, fluorescent, or neon colours (as used in hi-vis jackets, packaging, signage, highlighter pens, and what have you) achieve their high visibility?
Mechanisms I can think of include: real fluorescence from ultraviolet light, similar to the effect achieved by "whiter-than-white" ingredients added to washing powder and toothpaste; or some particular quirk of human colour perception. I've not been able to find anything explaining it (in Wikipedia or on the web).
(I've noticed that one time when I scanned a document with highlighter pen markings, they came out as a rather ordinary yellow. Would it even be possible to display "day-glo" colours on a computer screen using ordinary display technologies? I'm guessing not.)
Possibly related: there seems to be some disagreement among people I know as to whether "fluorescent yellow" is perceived as yellow or bright green.
-- JTN 01:53, 2004 Sep 28 (UTC)
If I'm building a website, and I don't care about people with browsers older than a couple of years old, do I still need to worry about the length of filename for the HTML docs and images? --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 02:16, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
How would I APA style reference something from this website?
How would you test to identify a fluid as sulphuric acid? I already know it's acidic, so I only need to differentiate between common acids. Could this be done with simple household chemicals, or would I need to go to a laboratory? [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 07:38, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
There's an ancient kind of trap that was a pendulum with a large and heavy axe-like blade that moved around, chopping whoever and whatever was in the way (I'm sorry but this is the best description I can give). What is the name of this trap? — Kieff | Talk 08:00, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
The Pit and the Pendulum is available at Wikisource. --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 16:43, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'd like to find out the composition of Futurex coals. Google links to Futurex weren't about coals and the Coal and Coke (fuel) articles didn't help. Does anyone have any other ideas? [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 11:35, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
We have an old Gibson Mandolin which belonged to my wife's grandfather. The label inside bears a hand-written serial number 50737. The style entry seems to be A2 1.
Can you provide data as to when it was made and possible links to learn more ? Thanks.
Max Young
What is the history of carpet?
Wow. It looks like our article on Carpet needs a bit of work, as do some of our other articles relating to Textile_arts, especially in the area of history. func (talk) 16:20, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Is there a word to describe initialisms, such as IEEE (pronounced "eye-triple-e") and IEE (often pronounced "eye-double-e"), which are pronounced with a "shortcut" ("-double-", "-triple-" and so on)? Are there other famous examples of such initialisms, especially with more than three occurrences of the same letter? -- Edcolins 21:47, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
Double-D? ;) Intrigue 05:23, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Slightly related is the abbreviation i18n for internationalization (because 18 letters are omitted). -- Heron 13:54, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
See also: Acronym and initialism, where I inserted the above information to a certain extent... -- Edcolins 12:28, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)
ॐ सह नाववतु | Om saha navavatu |
सह नौ भुनक्तु | Saha nau bhunaktu |
सह वीर्यं करवावहै | Saha viryam karavavahai |
तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु | Tejasvi navadhitam astu |
मा विद्विषावहै | Ma vidvishavahai |
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः | Om shanti, shanti, shanti |
-- Krishna Yajur Vedataittiriya Upanishad 2.2.2 |
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 22:04, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I found it! It's so hard to find actual Unicode-encoded Hindi text online (or even accurate transliterations). It'd be easier if I could actually read Devanagari, I suppose. X)
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 18:53, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Two articles that may be what you're looking for:
- Salasks 23:07, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
I happened to read the marque article and learned that it described what I would call the make of a car. Are they really the same thing? [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 01:26, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
A citation in the OED2 says that marque entered English from French around the early 1900s, probably through international motor racing. -- Heron 19:34, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'm trying to untangle the different Sara Orangetip butterfly subspecies and what their English common names are. Web pages aren't helping one bit. Does anybody know where I can find the current concensus about them? Williamb 04:29, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is the difference between cultural anthropology and sociology? Neither one of our articles about the topics makes any mention of the other. I'm guessing the subtle differences between community, society, and culture are involved, which I roughly understand. I'm no expert though, so I figured I'd best ask here. • Benc • 06:47, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is the algorithm in C for to find page faults in paging scheme?
I am trying to find out information about the original Riggs Bank family. Yes, the family that found the Bank. I know that they were a very wealthly family in the Washington DC area at the time. I am not interested in know about anyone that currently owns the bank. I am basically interested in knowing who they were, where they lived and how they became to the founders of Riggs bank. Also I might like to know where they are buried and if there are any important landmarks or structures still standing that represents the life and times that they had in the Washington DC area.
Thank you Stephen Hosmer
The same question was answered on Google Answers here. It mainly discusses the bio of George Washington Riggs. Salasks 19:40, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
I am trying to know where Clark Griffith the one time owner of the Washington Senators lived in Washington DC. I would like to find a map that would show me this. Does anyone know if his home is still standing today. Also I would like to know if there are any memorials, monuments or plaques in his honor that might still be around in the Washington DC area. I believe that he is buried in a mausoleum but I really would like to be sure. I would also like to know why he buried in such a large mausoleum. Is he buried alone or with other family members. Any help you could give me on theses items I would greatly apprecaite it. Thank you Stephen Hosmer.
Greetings and fabulous site - I bookmarked. I found census data for East Chicago, Indiana. The last graph talks about poverty data - precisely what I was seeking. But it does not reference the source. I'd like to know how to find that source so I can be very sure of the data. The rest is cited as Census - but not the graph I want! It's very important my information be accurate. thank you if you can help - Darby
If in ancient Greek an orator is rhê-tôr and a word is rhê-ma, then is the process of oration called rhê-sis? Thanks in advance, Gelu Ignisque
Your best synonym in Attic greek might be agoreusis. Rhesis is given a synonym for rhema by Langenscheidt and would mean oration secondarily as a metonymic figure of speech. In Homeric greek the primary definition of rhesis is "speaking or speech." Alteripse 23:29, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Years ago I remember seeing a documentary about parents trying to turn their kids into geniuses by showing them flash cards with dots on them and saying the number of dots out loud and making the kids listen to classical music etc.. Did any of these kids turn out to be geniuses or was it just a big waste of time? Mintguy (T) 21:39, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
In general, exposing children to a wide variety of different stimuli is good for their development, but it's not a simple relationship. The Recycling Troll 03:09, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
There's a book out there called "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards." The authors are early childhood education experts. You can guess which point of view they took. moink 01:35, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I used the term " balkanization" on another message board, and I was scolded by someone of Balkan descent, who said that the term offends him. My impression is that it references the historical division of the Balkans, as opposed to some characteristic of people from that region. I didn't believe it was offensive. WP's article, although short, doesn't mention that it's offensive to some people. Should I stop using the term, or is this just more PC policing? Rhobite 23:03, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
Is there even a similar word or term with the same meaning? I'm all for altering my vocabulary as necessary to be more sensitive to others, but in this case, I don't think you could without becoming unecessarily long winded or losing some of the meaning of what you are trying to say. Incidentally, the American Heritage Dictionary which usually denotes if a word is offensive has no such note for balkanization Cvaneg 23:19, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
It's a matter of opinion, some people in that part of the world preffer the term 'South East Europe' to 'Balkan', because the word 'Balkan', and 'Balkanize' have come to be associated with the (often violent) breakup of regions into smaller areas. It certainly has taken on negative conotations. I think it is acceptable to use the word, but be aware that folks that come from these places may not like the term. Mark Richards 15:48, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
A question that arose lately in an argument...
Perhaps some of the Portuguese colonies that were abruptly granted independence in 1975. The Spanish Sahara and parts of New Guinea among them, and East Timor, maybe. I don't really know the details. Michael Hardy 21:35, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hong Kong. DJ Clayworth 14:14, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
In Rhodesia, everyone involved wanted the country decolonised. Ian Smith issued the Universal Declaration of Independence, and when the country returned to black majority rule in 1980 as Zimbabwe, there were huge celebrations.
In regards to the Portuguese colonies, to say that they didn't want to be decolonised would be to totally ignore the PAIGC, FRELIMO and the MPLA and the long and hard battles they fought for independence. The only country I can think of that was unwillingly torn away from mother Britain, or anywhere, was Hong Kong. [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 21:15, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
What about NEWFOUNDLAND, now a province of Canada, joined confederation in 1949, not sure if they wanted to be decolonized
new england sucks
You describe Azrael, in this encyclopedia, as follows; "Azrael is a personification of death appearing in the Biblical Book of Tobit and in the Qur'an. He is depicted as an angel under the command of God. In Islam, he is an archangel." This seems to be a direct quote from Webster Dictionary. I have read every book of Tobit that I can find and followed many references of this subject to many sites and have not found a single reference to Azrael being the Angel of Death. Where did you find this information?
Greetings,
I'm adding my inquiry to one that already exists concerning the name Azrael and a statement that appears claiming he is named in Islam's holy book, the Quran, and the Book of Tobit. With all due respect, this name is not found in either of these books.
I am aware of the fact that the recently released "Brewers Book of Phrases and Fables" does name Azrael as an angel of death, but that has absolutely no bearing on the above inquiry, unless you are saying they are the source of your own statement (in other words they are making the claim that Azrael is named in the Quran and the Book of Tobit).
I'm just trying to straighten this issue out because people rely on correct information and this statement is totally false. Copies of the Quran (in Arabic and English) and every version written of the Book of Tobit are available on the world wide web by various religious institutions for free... I think it would be to everyone's best interests if we were all on the same page here;)
Sincerely,
Sheila Lord
As a Muslim, I want to correct it. In Islamic tradition in Indonesia, we spell it as "Izrail". However, as you wrote it, the name of Izrail (or Azrael) is not in Quran. In fact, I was doing an inquiry about Islamic angels' name and could not find the name in two of and the only legal sources of Islam (Quran and Hadith).
You also mention in this encyclopedia "In Islam, the archangels are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Azrael. Lucifer was an archangel, but fell from his position during the Creation for giving himself the title of God". First, we don't have concept about archangels. Second, we never heard Raphael. Third, we use the term "Iblis" not Lucifer. Fourth, the mistake of Iblis wasn't giving himself the title of God but denying the order from God.
I want to change some of the article in this encyclopedia regarding myth and theology in Islam but too much article I have to change.
best regards,
Kunderemp
The previous response is correct. I am a religious studies major doing my capstone project on the role of angels, and the name Azrael (in any form or spelling), as used to reference the Angel of Death is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, the Quran, or in traditionally accepted apocryphal or deuterocanonical writings. You can find writings in external sources surrounding these religious traditions, but not within the texts themselves.
In addition, if you are interested in writings about angels, the Book of Enoch, traditionally recognized only by the church of Ethiopia as canon, has some great stories and descriptions.
Again...No mention of Azrael as the Angel of Death in canon of Islam, Christianity, or Judaism by any and all of my research.
-Michael-
I was editing the page for the America's Cup, and I noticed that the list of challengers and defenders included references to Britain, which were linked to United Kingdom, and other references to England. I am not sure if there is something different about the different syndicates in terms of their country affiliation, but I was wondering if there is somewhere on Wikipedia that explains when to use each name and why. Thanks -- nroose Talk 07:04, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Yes, we should be careful about which one we use, they are not the same thing. Many people want to treat 'Great Britain' as the same as the UK, it is not. 213.206.33.82 12:47, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
'British' is used to mean "of or pertaining to the United Kingdom" just like someone from the United States is called an American. In citizenship terms someone is 'British' if they are from the UK. This keeps getting asked - maybe it should be an FAQ somewhere? DJ Clayworth 19:07, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I really need to get on programming (specially C++), for graphics, audio and well, games... I started with C++ a while back but I never went too far on it.
Now I wanna try again, but I need a good and complete compiler and some references on the subject. Anyone can provide me some information about that? I've been looking for but this kind of things are better asnwered by a experienced person than by google.
Thanks — Kieff | Talk 10:07, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
Is there any free software or easy instructions on how to convert WMA files to MIDI files or similar so that I can transfer them to my phone. Apologies if this sounds a bit dim but I honestly have no idea. Scraggy4 19:02, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Seeking an opinion here. I have a 40 GB hard disk partitioned into four. My disk is almost full (of junk) and I plan to format it. My processor is slow and the boot up crawls when my hard disk has lots of files. Here's what I plan to do.
I will install XP to D:\> drive. This will be a FAT partition. I will also install all the programs that I have such as image viewers, browser plugins, audio players, etc. In short, 90% of my software. Now I turn to C:\> drive and install XP again. However this time I will convert the partition to NTFS. I also install critical system files such as firewalls, utility & office suites and anti-virus to this partition. D:\> is my programs partition and C:\> my working.
Now will the above setup work to speed up my system? My hypothesis is based that when windows boots into now default C:\> , the minimal files on this partition means that booting should be smooth and the system won't crawl. Now the programs on D will run as they will use D:\>'s system files. Also if I install Red Hat 9 (dual boot) in F:\>, will I be able to view the files on NTFS C:\>? [[User:Nichalp|¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | ✉]] 20:57, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
Another good place to try for tech questions is Experts Exchange. Salasks 19:17, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
if you're asking about this encyclopedia, the Wikimedia Foundation. Gentgeen 01:45, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
ObAaron: penicillin -- Phil | Talk 10:10, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
Condoms, abstinence, not sharing needles, protective needle caps? Alteripse 00:46, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know where I can find a list of the Oxford University college scarf colours, similar to this, I'm trying to make the Oxbridge scarf colours article a little more even handed, but it's proving difficult. -- Prisonblues
Hello my name is Crocus Rokersosski - whilst staying at a Hotel {the Marine } in Llandudno Wales UK I was intrigued by a letter from Queen Elizabeth of Romania which is framed in the reception area. The Queen stayed at the Hotel for a period of about 2 years in the 1890's..... it speaks of the great help given by the people of Llandudno in her difficult times... so I decided to find out more about her... despite getting several books from the Library on Romanian history I am unable to find reference to the lady... also there seems to have been several Queens of that name in Romania history... I know there was a revolution in the late 1800's but can again find no mention of any King or Queen being sent into Exile..... help on this subject would be most welcome.... my E mail address is christefercrocus@fsmail.net thanks....
Is there a difference between interstellar cloud and nebula? What is their relationship? Or are they actually synonymous? Thanks for answer! -- Lorenzarius 15:00, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
when was this website established?
Does anyone know the year Dawson's Creek actress Meredith Monroe was born? The Internet Movie Database says 1970, TV Tome says 1976. Would anyone having an answer please reply to my talk page? PedanticallySpeaking 18:43, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
I cannot get X-Window-Server to Start on my Debian Linux 3.0r2 for the life of me. It seems to me that it's not recognizing the video card (an ATI Radeon 9600SE). The Xfree86 Version is 4.0.1 and It won't recognize my net card (D-Link DWL-520) so I can't get it from the net. And it also for some reason doesn't put my Win-NTFS partitions in the /mnt folder. Is there any way for me to get the older version of X to recognize my card, or do I have to wait until mid-September for them the release Debian 3.1 with Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3? It does however recognize my 128MB USB mass storage device. In the end, should I wait until Debian 3.1, get Xfree onto my USB device and install the new version? And will installing and compiling Kernel 2.6 (I have 2.4-22 I think) help? Am I making any sense? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:13, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
OK, here's some thoughts, if you're still stuck on this [I just realised how old this conversation is; never mind!]:
nano /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
(nano being a nice simple editor if you're not used to
vi or
emacs)Section "Module"
and comment out (put a # in front of) any line with anything like "glx" (as in
OpenGL)Section "Device"
; this should describe your ATI card. Leave it be, but make one similar underneath:Section "Device" Identifier "Generic VGA Device" Driver "vga" EndSection
Section "Screen"
, and change the Device
line (which will currently be referring to your ATI card) to "Generic VGA Device"
(the section you just added)Good luck, and happy hacking! - IMSoP 21:03, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is this? Since I can't read chineese, and I have no chineese font installed, and it's on the Chineese main page, what is it? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:44, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Media:Polyphemus moth cut out.jpg was created as a revision of Media:Polyphemus moth.jpg by replacing the background with a solid color. Is there software that can make this type of alteration to an image easy to do? - [[User:Bevo| Bevo]] 21:58, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Quote from your page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montfort%2C_6th_Earl_of_Leicester
Meanwhile in 1238 he secretly married Eleanor Plantagenet, sister of King Henry III of England. Eleanor had previously been married to William Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke the link to Eleanor Plantagenet states that:
Eleanor of Lancaster (c. 1311 - 11 January 1372) was born in Arundel, West Sussex, England.
She was the daughter of Maud Chaworth and Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester.
Her first husband was John Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont, with whom she had two children:
Henry Beaumont, 3rd Baron Beaumont (b. 1340.) Joan Beaumont Her second marriage occurred February 5, 1345 at Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckingham. She married Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, with whom she had five children:
John Fitzalan of Arundel, Lord Maltravers (b. bef. 1349) Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel (b. 1346) Joan Fitzalan (b. before 1351) Alice Fitzalan of Arundel (b. 1352) Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of York (b. 1353) She is buried at Lewes Priory in Lewes, Sussex, England.
Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Plantagenet" clearly something has gone wrong with the links :please advise when correct
What was the largest concert ever, by attendence? [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 03:18, 2004 Sep 9 (UTC)
Now I have a question about Amerigo Vespucci name. Was the name Amerigo around before Amerigo Vespucci was born? I mean was the name said and spelled the same before he was born?
Hello everyone,
Just wondering if anyone would be able to help me. I have just named a star after my girlfriend and would love to be able to actually show her the star. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can go about this? We live in London and none of the observatories nearby have a service to see specific stars. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My e-mail address is damianevans25@hotmail.com Many thanks again.
Posted at the
village pump by an anon¹ and moved here by
Trilobite
(Talk) 16:17, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
As mentioned above, this sort of naming doesn't mean much, but it you still want to find the star, a good starting point would be its coordinates. Rather than degrees North and East, as used on the Earth, the main coordinate system for astronomical objects uses Right ascension and Declination (or RA & Dec). If you know those for the star in question, then you can it lookup an online sky survey:- for example at http://stdatu.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
Enter the coordinates, ignore the other boxes and hit 'Retrieve Image' - the star should be at the centre of the image.
It can get a little more complicated; you really need to know the 'epoch' for the coordinates (generally either J2000 or the older B1950). You might also need to choose the photographic survey you want to use (some of them don't cover the whole sky). At the STSCI site, a good choice is to use the POSS2/UKSTU survey which is a combination of the second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey of the northern hemisphere, and the UK Schmidt Telescope survey of the southern hemisphere.
Once you have an image of your star field, you can then find someone with a telescope on an equatorial mount, point it at the same coordinates and see the star for real. After doing all this, there is a good chance that you still won't be sure that you have found the right star. In which case, just pick any star near the centre of the image - your girlfriend probably won't know any better. -- Solipsist 08:14, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "Leader of the Free World"? I see from the President of the United States and Free world entries that it's a cold war term, but I was wondering who first coined it. Also, what do non-Americans think when this term is used to describe the US President (either current or previous)? Cvaneg 17:51, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Sheldon knows: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-materials.html
Does anybody know which industrialized nation in the west has the lowest crime rate in the western hemisphere? I want to guess maybe Sweden or Norway but does anybody the answer?
9-8-04 Does anyone here know how I can find out what t/ names Lance and Lacie look like in t/ Hebrew language? Thanks alot! jen
Our article on Nikola Tesla doesn't seem to mention anything about his personal life. Seems more like he was completely involved by his work.
Was he married or anything? — Kieff | Talk 03:38, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
Is there any country/state/city/corporation/buiseness, etc. that elects its leader through a lottery system? -- elpenmaster
Can you tell me what the very last VEN number is. What site I can go to inorder to find it. Been looking at this car to buy. They told me it was the very last one every made. Just tring to find out if that is true or not. Thank You Tona kAY
Hello,
I would like to use a map of Pasco County in Florida that I found within this website and would like to know how to correctly cite it. Which would include authurship, date published, title, publishing company, and their location.
Thanks for the help. Please reply at youth@twnf.org
Emily
If you have a chord, and you move all strings down one fret, you get the flat below it chord. Now, what if that chord has open strings (say Em), how would you move it down (to Ebm in this case) — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 22:31, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
My question is are the two men in some way related. Both are contemporaries. As you probably know the first is the safety razor inventor and the latter was an actor and portrayor of Sherlock Holmes.
Assuming you mean an ice pick, breaking up blocks of ice. The same as modern folk. [[User:Anárion| Ана́рыён]] 20:21, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have created a user page in wikipedia but now would like to have my user page deleted or removed as I have another wikipedia userpage as well.But I do not understand how to delete the user page itself. Please tell me how I can do so.
why are ovum oval in shape?
Ova is the plural of ovum. The structural advantage of the ovoid shape is important if laid in a shell, but human and most animal ova are round and soft, especially if they get fertilized within mother's body. The ova contain the haploid DNA of a gamete, but they also are much larger than sperm because they contain stored nutrients and mitochondria for the pre-implantation stages of zygote development. A spherical or nearly spherical ovoid is one of the most efficient shapes for bulk storage. Sperm are swimming packages of DNA and contribute basically just the DNA, so their function determines form as well. Alteripse 20:45, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Because it really, really hurts to lay a cube? - Nunh-huh 21:39, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I am currently preparing a time capsule, proposed to be buried together with a building foundation. Is there any way for me to retrieve a copy of the Wikipedia that can be rolled into a few DVDs? Any versions that you would recommend? Please, oh, please, don't make me download anything "exabyty".
How long do you anticipate the capsule being burried? What do you think the likelihood of DVD readers being common by that time are? Take a look at
BBC Domesday Project and
Digital obsolescence.
Intrigue 19:00, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does the phrase "to sit Indian-style" (i.e. "cross-legged" or "tailor-fashion") originally come from a reference to Native Americans, or people from India? -- 64.81.243.120 20:37, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Moved from the Village Pump by Ilyanep
-- 213.216.223.13 16:30, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)george@nic.fi I' ve heard about a paradox that if we study very small of difficult particulars of "things", they are so delicate that the instrument meant to study them destroy them. Where can I find more information on this issue?
Yours, cordially Yrjö Mikkonen, Oulu, Finland george@nic.fi
There's some old cartoon I remember watching that had some old woman with a baloon. The ballon was full of gadgets and it made a funny sound, and I think it left a trail of smoke puffs behind where it passed...
The other cartoon is one anime (I think) featuring two moles. They used sun glasses, if I'm remembering correctly...
Anyone knows the name of those? — Kieff | Talk 01:49, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
I appreciate the irony in my asking about this. =P --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 02:01, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
how do mammals maintain thermal homeostasis? Would you consider this a handicap?
Though there's an arms race here as all the large cold blooded grazers have been killed off by faster_than_they_were predators -- seen any large herds of brontosaurs of late?, and what's left can be pretty quick on its toes. Consder pronghorn antelope, or many sorts of deer (not the same sort of thing at all), and the fact that cheetahs spend an awful lot of time sitting around panting having missed, yet again. ww 18:31, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I recommend the articles on homeostasis and thermoregulation. If there is specific information you feel is missing from there feel free to come back and ask. As for your second question I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you consider it a handicap? And in what ways? I would suggest that it's of great advantage to mammals to be able to maintain a constant internal environment as it allows them to exploit niches in the environment cold-blooded animals (i.e. those whose internal temperature simply reflects what the weather's doing) wouldn't be able to. You couldn't have a reptilian polar bear for instance. Another advantage of thermal homeostasis is that it's much easier for enzymes to work efficiently in particular narrow ranges of temperature. Human body temperature, for example, is always maintained as close as possible to 37°C because this is the optimal temperature for the body's enzymes, i.e. the temperature at which they can process chemicals the fastest. Of course, being warm-blooded does have its disadvantages, notably that a lot of energy is required to keep the temperature up and so for a mammal there is plenty of eating to be done. Despite this though, warm-bloodedness has been very successful evolutionarily, giving rise to all the many species of mammals and birds that make the world what it is today. Interestingly, birds tend to have a body temperature a few degrees higher than that of mammals. This allows them to carry out chemical reations as part of their metabolism at faster rates than we do. The hotter you want to be the more energy you need to get there, but birds can afford to be hotter because of the superior insulating properties of feathers. — Trilobite (Talk) 03:21, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Didn't we do this one last month? [4] Didn't your teacher like our answers? One more thing: these days, there are hundreds of research scientists looking for ways to make thermal homeostasis less efficient-- fame and fortune await. Arguably, those most efficient are at greatest risk of obesity, other things being equal. See if your teacher likes this one. Alteripse 01:04, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've started a list of who I think are the great commanders (both generals and admirals) of all time at User:Raul654/sandbox. I'm curious to see what others have to say on the subject - feel free to add your own lists to my sandbox. →Raul654 07:15, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
First some notes, remember the Wikipedia:General disclaimer for info on here. However, if you feel any information is innaccurate, please correct it or make a note on the page's talk page.
I would look at Health Canada they have a report there. Dunc_Harris| ☺ 11:03, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Looking back at this, I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned already: for the record, "Inuit" has been taken into English as the plural word, the singular being "Inuk" or "Inuq" (I'm taking this directly from the Wikipedia article Inuit, but current Canadian media usage is the same). So "Inuits" is non-standard. Sharkford 14:16, 2004 Sep 17 (UTC)
Actually, if one is going to be picky, one would have to use the dual too. "Two Inuuk" instead of "two inuit". But that is neither here nor there. In my experience, the invariant "inuit" is used the most often. "One inuk" , "several inuit."
Health issues: Substance abuse is rampant in Inuit communities. Alcohol is banned in many of them and restricted in nearly all, but that works about as well as cocaine laws do in the rest of Canada. Glue sniffing has become widespread among the youth in many, many communities. Consequences: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is commonplace. Suicide is notoriously widespread. Domestic violence is commonplace.
Other issues: Inuit tend to be poor and have some of the diseases of poverty. Vitamin deficiencies are generally corrected these days when correctable, and third world diseases that result from poor hygiene are largely gone. However, the high cost of imported foods means that increasingly the Inuit, like poor people everywhere, get a growing part of their nutrition from low cost foods with poor nutritional value. Protein intake is generally adequate, thanks to a pattern of subsistence hunting that continues in the present, but fresh fruits and vegetables are a rarity. Many essential vitamins can be had from fish and especially seal meat, but not all.
Specific conditions: hearing loss is epidemic in many communities, asthma is widespread in Labrador and probably elsewhere, there is a shocking amount of sexually transmitted disease.
Sexual mores among the Inuit are a particular problem, and a socio-cultural one. Pregnancy by age 16 is common. AIDS is rampant, along with syphilis and clamydia. It's cold in the winter, and promiscuity in traditionaly native life was commonplace.
Dental health can be a real problem, since dentistry is not covered by Canada's socialised medicine. Emergency care and full time access to doctors can also be a problem in arctic communities. There is some compensating infrastructure - medevac service and even the smallest communities have nursing stations, and it is all paid for by the government - but there are some social barriers to using institutions that generally have exclusively Kablunamiut staff who usually don't speak Inuktitut.
For some specifics I'd try a search of the archives at the Nunatsiaq News website.
Diderot 15:30, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is a Copycat? -- Patricknoddy 20:17, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC) User:Patricknoddy -- Patricknoddy 20:17, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC) User talk:Patricknoddy 16:17 September 13, 2004 (EDT)
I am writing a piece about Hasidic Judaism, and was wondering, is there a more formal term for the long sideburns Hasidic Jews wear than "curly sideburns"?
Also, do that hat, beard and coat carry any special names? [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 21:05, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)
The earlocks are called peyoth (Modern Hebrew) or peyes (Yiddishised Ashkenazi dialect). The Torah (in Leviticus 19:27 [5]) states that one may not remove the "corners of the beard", interpreted by the oral law to refer to the sideburns. Most Hassidim and many Non-Hasidic Haredim embellish this law by growing the earlocks. JFW | T@lk 05:33, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The hat can be called a "streimal", different styles of hat worn by different groups of chasidim.
When was the Prussian province Westphalia named? --anon
The pepsin article says pepsin "is permanently inactivated above pH 6".
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 02:03, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Re: Question 1 - The type of inactivation referred to here is called denaturation. In a typical case, there isn't a real "chemical reaction" taking place. Pepsin, like any protein, can be thought of as a long string folded in a specific 3 dimensional pattern. When pepsin is denatured, the 'string' is essentially misfolded. Pepsin is still the same chemical entity, but it's 'conformation' has changed. ike9898 18:27, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
Is there any way I can easily define what fonts MSIE is using or should use for a given Unicode range? Many ranges appear to be missing from the 'Fonts' field in 'Internet Options', and (possibly as a result) MSIE fails to display many characters good browsers like Opera and Firething can, even on the same system. [[User:Anárion| Ⓐℕάℛℹℴɴ]] 09:33, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have a similar question, but regarding Mozilla instead. How may different fonts be assigned to different ranges at all? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 19:42, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Right, there's a painting I want of a enormous artificially selected pig (or maybe cow) from Derbyshire? Anyone remember anything else about it so I can google a copy? Dunc_Harris| ☺ 09:50, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'm doing reseach about Martin Waldseemuller and I would like to know did Martin Waldseemuller really thought he named America after Amerigo Vespucci? Plus is there any proof he thought he named America after Amerigo Vespucci?
Why is there not any keratin on the eyelid?
The two major types of connective tissue protein fibers are keratin and collagen. Keratin is primarily located in the epidermis and its derivatives like nails. Collagen is one of the major structural protein of the lower dermis layers and especially of cartilage. Some types of cartilage do contain keratin as well as collagen. The stiff structure of the eyelid is called the tarsal plate and it is primarily cartilage. With a quick search I could not find any evidence that the eyelid does or does not contain any keratin either in the dermis or the tarsal plate but I am fairly certain that the primary structural protein of the tarsal plate is collagen. Alteripse 01:05, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I know that if you want an aqueous solution with a high density, you can dissolve salts in it. If you want a really high desity solution, you need a salt (or other solute) that has very high solubitlity in water. For example, you can dissolve so much potassium iodide in water that you can produce a solution with specific gravity of 1.6 or so. What I want to do is the same thing, except with hexane instead of water. Is there something I can dissolve in the hexane that will increase it's density significantly? ike9898 18:44, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that Idaho was once part of the Colorado Territory?
Why are Delaney cards called that? Is the term an eponym? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]]
Does anyone know why, in many old texts and documents, e.g. The Constitution of the United States of America, the lower-case letter "s" is often written as an "f"? For example, "Congreff"?
I'm trying to settle a minor dispute here: Do Canadians generally use American English spellings, British English spellings, or a combination of both? For example, is it "center" or "centre", "color" or "colour", or all of the above?
If anyone could answer this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Suntiger 01:52, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Is it true that 419 scams [9] comprise 73% of the Nigerian economy? Alteripse 02:27, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) PS: I didn't post this topic, by the way, just found it empty.
It's hard to estimate the percentage of a national economy that crime makes up, since by definition it is not declared. It would be interesting to know what % gdp crime represents for all countries. 'Black economies' are certainly significant in most developing nations. Des-mond 15:31, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Sorry people, I'd better stay away from the reference desk for awhile. When I saw the heading, the Nigerian scam was all that came to mind. If I don't confess I made up the 73% out of thin air, do you think it will be quoted across the internet? Anyway, deglossobuccifying, it was supposed to elicit a yuk, not refutations. Alteripse 01:03, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Regarding fibromyalgia and tender points, which parts of the body are the 18 standard pressure points? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 21:53, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Is the composition of Substance P known? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 22:01, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've been looking for something like this, but can't seem to find it. In an old atlas (20 years ago), I remember seeing a map of the world, scaled so that the size on the map represented the population of the country. The result was a huge China and India, next to a comparatively smaller USSR (as it was at the time), a small USA/Canada compared to the rest of Central and South America, a huge Africa, a tiny Australia, etc.
The map was only representative of population, so the country shames were quite blocky (or else it would be hard to get the countries to fit together with their different sizes) and only roughly the shape of the actual country.
I've been looking for something like this on the net, but no success!
Closest I have found are:
But I'm looking for a map of the whole world. Any ideas? -- Chuq 04:16, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Where can I find links to Jewish music? --anon
Well, I'm surprised you didn't try the obvious ( JewishMusic.com)! There are scores of good sites about every type of music, but perhaps you should start with Wikipedia's article on Jewish music.
Is there anything in particular you'd like to know about Jewish music? Perhaps if you told us, we could recommend some more specialised sites. [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 06:53, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
About one year ago the state of Washington added a new city to the state. The City of Spokane Valley, WA incorporated with a population of about 87,000 making it the states' 7th largest city. Since it is such a new city, there is currently no information available on your site. I would like to see information about out wonderful city on this site. For more information try visiting the citys website at www.spokanevalley.org. Thank You
Can I PLEASE GET THE NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS THAT OFFER COURSES IN ATM REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE? BB&T is one. -- Patricknoddy 15:15, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User:Patricknoddy -- Patricknoddy 15:15, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User talk:Patricknoddy 11:15 September 16, 2004 (EDT)
If your planning on repairing them, search for them as ATMs not ATM machines, which really is automatic teller machine machines.
How many stocks are there in the stock market? -- Patricknoddy 15:14, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User:Patricknoddy -- Patricknoddy 15:14, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC) User talk:Patricknoddy 11:13 September 16, 2004 (EDT)
Do you have a particular stock market in mind? The U.S. alone has three significant stock markets (the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ); almost every country in the world now has at least one stock exchange. -- Jmabel 17:52, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
I hear often on news broadcasts covering the Bush National Guard story that CBS has failed to properly "vet" the newly surfaced documents.
I am looking for the meaning of this word "vet" and its derivation.
Can you help?
Frank Kalbac fkalbac@comcast.net
I see this term every now and then, usually like "get medievil over something". What exactly does that mean? — Kieff | Talk 09:26, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
As popularized in the movie Pulp Fiction, at least, that's where I first heard it as an idiom. func (talk) 14:43, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have a friend who was the only Medieval Studies major at our college. She used to say she was the only one that could say she was gonna get medieval on somebody's ass and actually follow through. Salasks 23:24, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
I've been working on a number of articles on people from Arab nations, from Bandar bin Sultan to Mohammed Atta to Taqi al-Din, but I don't know the Arabic script. Could anyone who knows Arabic please provide me with the way these names are written in Arabic? (And possibly others as well?} – Quadell ( talk) ( quiz)[[]] 14:33, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
It's pretty much been established that Guevara was born on May 14, not June 14 (see Jon Lee's book A Revolutionary Life). His mother admitted that she lied on his birth certificate because she was expecting him before she was actually married to his father. Why do so many information resources persist in publishing inaccurate information?
hey dudes i found this site and was hoping u colud help me. im a 12 yr old and my parents r fighting like hell. :( my dad sez my mom spends 2 much money and dat she is 2 messy. last nite my mom said if my dad had ballz he'd throw our cats away so hg did =( but they came back. then my dad told me he only sticks with my mom bcoz of us kids =( dey haf been fighting for months already =( i rmember when i was 5 dey fought alot but i havent seen them fgiht since. now 2day they wont even talk 2 each other can someone help me plz
More generally than this one person's question: maybe someone would like to expand Suicide hotline into a more general Crisis hotline and add a list of links for major ones throughout at least the English-speaking world... BTW, most suicide hotlines will held with crises far short of suicide and most lines intended for runaway children will also gladly talk to those who simply have problems at home. -- Jmabel 06:10, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
The petrol article contains a list comparing the energy content for various fuels.
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 08:13, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Many sources seem to say that by the Treaty of Hamburg in 1701, Mecklenburg Strelitz was split from Mecklenburg Schwerin. However, hostkingdom, a generally reliable source, says it was formed as a result of a splitting of Mecklenburg Schwerin in 1658, and names a specific ruler during that time. The wikipedia article on M. Strelitz even conflicts itself, as it has both dates. Could anyone clear this up?
Is mint bad for the heart? I have heard that recently. Is there any scientific basis for this? Or is it pure speculation? -- Edcolins 19:26, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to find my grandmother's ancestory in muehlhausen, presumably where her father's family may have originated. The name was Kochuwa, later changed to Koch when they moved to Vienna, Austria, where my grandmother was born in 1901. I am not sure of the years but it must be in the mid 18oo's. please if you have any info, send to tanteria3@yahoo.com thank you.
What's the correct spelling of that jewish song, "Havah Nagilah"? As far as I know, this is the correct spelling, but it seems Wikipedia doesn't have an article on it yet. Havah Nagilah...
So maybe that's not the spelling... Does wikipedia has an article on that song? — Kieff | Talk 21:01, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
Which toxins are commonly produced by cooking food? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 21:02, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Can you send me a website or resource that will explain the Cognitive/Affective approach to teaching a second language?
Thank you for your time, Steve Harvey
Bellefonte, PA next to Penn State's main campus
briefly.. Salasks 03:57, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
Would somebody check this edit at Watergate scandal please? The contributor has only made this one edit, I want to make sure it's not vandalism/a mistake, but I have no knowledge of my own. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 00:04, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
I would like to be able to learn to interpret English words into sanskrit written dialect. Particulary the three words, Love, Guru and Master. Can you direct me to the site?
Anne Jory Ryland-Anderson 1130 Ivy Lane Ashland, Oregon 97520 U.S.A.
Email Address is AnneJory@aol.com
There was a NASA mission a few years ago where they launched a craft that was supposed to get its speed from light from the sun and get faster and faster and go out of the solar system. what was this mission called, and how is it doing? I cant remember the name of it-- elpenmaster
i read about it in popular science magazine a few years ago. the article must have been talking about a future mission, but i thought it had already been done-- elpenmaster
I am Neil Johnson. I have had a postive result back on my blood for the presence of malaria antibodies. Does this mean that I am likely to have the pathogen still in my blood stream? Does it also mean that I now carry a degree of immunity to the pathogen? I have had malaria three times and lived in west africa for two years.
You're right, DJ. I told Neil to do just that after he replied to my email. JFW | T@lk 19:34, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
To Whom It May Concern:
When I encountered the passage of El-Azar-us being resurrected by Horus, I went searching for its' source.I spent 4:47 hrs looking for confirmation.I became tired after all that time.All I kept finding was "cloned" page, after page, mentioning the Miracle in a truncated fashion;as a qualified reference refuting Jesus.
Might I trouble anyone to clarify/qualify the issue.Perhaps,point me in the right direction. I'm far from being accepting of having bumped into LOTS of pages, basically parroting each other,without at least; one solid piece of verifiable corroboration.I find it odd,that nearly the entire world has conciously "looked the other way", when considering the probable cultural influence that Egypt had on Judea/Israel.It's quite unlikely,that it was the OTHER WAY AROUND.I feel safe, assuming that there will be several Egyptologists on board. I'm an amateur explorer, enjoying the tremendous weight of all the things I need to know! This one has got my attention, because of the HUGE similarity between Lazarus & El-Azar-us. In my mind, it's too great a coincidence. I realize this is "old hat", to many a person. Many may know the name of the Egyptian "holy" book, which contains the passage. I'm still intrigued, nevertheless.
Yours Truly, Lance.
How I can I get back issues of newspapers (as in really really back, from the 60s and 70s) for free, online? Getting them in real life is unfeasible considering I need Malaysia. And these papers are vital, because two nominations on Featured article candidates ( I Want To Hold Your Hand and The Long and Winding Road to be exact) depend on the interviews therein. For example, say I want the headlines from the Evening Standard on April 22 and April 23 1970. How can I get those for free? Online would be very nice, but if they're free, that's good. Johnleemk | Talk 15:37, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
-- Jmabel 19:17, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
infotrac.london.galegroup.com
.) Not much help for Malaysia, though. --
JTN 18:35, 2004 Sep 28 (UTC)Does anyone know of any wiki page or set of pages that contain information on Chinese classical music?
Hi, I am a new user and i would like to know whether I must ask administrators to change my password or can i do this by myself? Thanks a lot. -- Wikipedius 19:17, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've been browsing some Congressional delegates on Wikipedia pages and in the table listing that state's Senators, one of them is often designated "class 1" and the other "class 3". I can't find an explanation of this in the US Senate article, so I thought I'd ask it here :) What is the difference between those two positions? saturnight 21:44, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
HI.I HAVE A QUESTION.HOW TO CLAP WITH ONE HAND? AND HOW TO JUMP OVER MYSELF? I AM NOT A BUDDIST BUT WILL APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD ANSWER ME.PLEASE SEND THE ANSWER ON MY MAIL ADDRESS: agnieszka-pilarska1@wp.pl THANKS AGGIE
Erm, actually, we should be able to do better than this. An article on sound of one hand clapping might well be worthwhile. Our only current reference seems to be in nonsense, which doesn't really do this justice. Volunteers? The Buddha 03:37, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The road to enlightenment is hard to follow, but not complicated to find. I am not a Buddhist either, but as understand it, Buddhists believe that the Way is open to all who wish to follow.
To clap with one hand, merely take your hand, and hit it with itself flatly. The material properties of flesh and bone ensure the production of a clapping noise. As for the way to jump over yourself, start jumping in an upwardly direction, inclined towards yourself, and be careful not to hit yourself on the way over. If you know where you are, you will have no difficulty determining which way to jump.
Alas, the true Way is not to be e-mailed like some 401 scam, but, like Wikipedia, has always existed under a spiritual GFDL license. Thus, like most spiritual matters, it is archived for the ages, lost only through lack of effective indexing and edit wars.
(公案很容易 - 鬼佬真奇怪) :^P Diderot 14:09, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Recently I have discovered Wikipedia and I find it very helpful.
Currently I'm researching on science fiction short stories. I have found a list of short stories by Isaac Asimov - which is what the movie "I, Robot" was based on. But this only tells me general information about these stories. I cannot find the short stories itself.
Please help me as I am very eager to read these stories.
Thank you very much!! Any help would be much appreciated!!
(darn edit conflicts...) Well, I really don't think there are going to be any short cuts here to simply going to a book store, (or possibly a library), and obtaining collections of Asimov's works. It is unlikely that you will find the stories somewhere on the Internet, since they are popular and under copywrite. Asimov's works have never gone out of print since... well, for a really long time. Any general bookstore (or library) that you go to today has tons of his collections. You may want to check your listed stories on google to see which anthologies they have appeared in, you could then look for these books at your local library. Also, I can tell you that one of the last comprehensive collections of his robots stories was in a paperback called Robot Dreams, which I happen to own and love. :) func (talk) 03:50, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Bold textOk! Thank you very much!! I didn't think it would be available in the library and i didn't want to go and run around book stores to search for it. But thanks for the good news! =D
I actually have to prepare an oral presentation on Robotics in science fiction. My other team members are doing it on film & novels. So I'm doing the short stories side of it. Do you know any other science fiction short stories that will be good for my oral presentation???
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 03:45, 21 Sep 2004
If one is writing a sentence with a short story in quotes, and a comma, for example: The short story I am reading, "The Monkey's Paw", is a short story, does it go like this: . . .Paw",. . . with the quoteation mark first, or like this: . . .Paw,". . . with the comma first? i could have sworn that the quotes came first, but my English teacher says that the comma comes first. is there a definitive answer for this?-- elpenmaster
I dont see my exact question there.-- elpenmaster
In other words, if the comma isn't part of the title then it should go on the outside. However, it should be emphasized that this is the Wikipedia style. — Mike 05:30, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
elpenmaster mentioned writing a short story, not a Wikipedia article, so pointing him in the direction of our style guide isn't nessesarily helpful. In formal writing, one system is used in the U.S., while another system is used throughout the English-speaking world. In less formal writing, the British style tends to trump the U.S. one, as people find it more logical. If the short story is published for sale in both the U.S. and U.K., there will be two different versions with two different punctuation styles, as well as spelling changes. (You know, it really bugs me that Terry Pratchette's novel was sold here as The Color of Magic.) func (talk) 15:43, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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IMSoP 20:22, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)]That's not the worst - they often change the title, usually dumbing it down. Eg Northern Lights / The Golden Compass The Philosopher's Stone / The Sorcerer's Stone etc. Intrigue 20:26, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
So, if i am in America (which i am), then i should write . . ."The Monkey's Paw,". . ., while if i am in England i should write. . . ."The Monkey's Paw",. . . The second way seems much more logical to me! -- elpenmaster
Hi everyone, thanks for being here. I wanted to know how much nicotine the human body on average can absorb. I vaugely remember it not being that much, thus 'light' cigarettes don't really make it easier to ease off smoking because the amount of nicotine in each cigarette is huge in comparison to what your body can absorb. Is there any truth in this? JoeSmack (talk) 06:52, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
In several places, specially cartoons, when you see Egypt, they place a song in the background, oftenly with some character dancing "egyptian style". Fortunetly, I have here a MIDI of a song from the game The Lost Vikings that starts with it. :)
Now, I wanna know the original title of that song... Anyone knows? — Kieff | Talk 08:54, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
Is there an article some of this could go into? Snake charmer song? Mark Richards 19:53, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is the specific gravity of semen? (It is easier for me to measure the weight of my semen than the volume, and I want to estimate volume.)
What are the environmental issues to bear in mind when buying a sofa? I think origin of any hardwoods might be one, but are there issues around stuffing and chemical use? Are there organisations that work on this? The Recycling Troll
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I am looking for a way to convert inches of copper wire to a certain gauge. The wire I am speaking of is a main wire with close to 20 small wires wrapped around it. This wire is used for grounding large tanks. Can you help me? The wire has been cut and we are trying to replace. Thank you, Amy
What is the orgin of the word of, and where does that word come from?
What is the name of this instrument sometimes used in an orchestra?: It consists of a set of small metal bars graduated from maybe 4 inches to 10 inches long hung next to one another. A metal wand is typically used to strike them in a quick swiping motion, producing a "zing" sound as an accent. -- R. S. Shaw 03:26, 2004 Sep 22 (UTC)
I seem to recall there being Internet games where one takes the part of a world leader, and interacts with other players through e-mail, thereby dominating the globe or whatever... Anybody heard of this, or know what it is called? Tuf-Kat 05:14, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
can one c program have two main functions ? if yes how we can achieve it.
You can, for example, have a main and a WinMain, the latter of which will be the top-level funciton in a Microsoft Windows environment. -- Jmabel 19:13, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
#define DEBUG_MODE 1 /* comment this line out to disable debug mode */ #ifdef DEBUG_MODE int main(int, char**) { /* debugging-only version of main() */ } #else int main(int, char**) { /* non-debugging version of main() */ } #endif
You can't have two functions named main, but you could have two functions that could be main (but with different names), and have the real main choose between them. Unix sometimes does this and has the real main figure out which one to call by looking at argv[0]. -- ssd 00:12, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
WHat happend at the louvre durring WW1 and WW2? Im sure the art was stolen, or placed for safe keeping, but by whom and where?
Where is the Louvre and why is it famous? What are some of the famous works? what happened to the Louvres works durring WW1 and WW2? What has the louvres been used for over the years? What is some other information?
Not all the questioned are answered in Wikipedia's article, specifically the World War looting questions. According to Let's Go Paris, "Curators at the Louvre, sensing the inevitable Nazi Occupation, removed many works of art, including the Mona Lisa, and placed them in hiding." For a full rundown of what happened to what works, I would try to get ahold of the book Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War II. According to the book synopsis, the artwork looted under Hitler's direction "exceeded the combined collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, and the Louvre." Salasks 15:39, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
You should look in your library's catalog under the subject heading "World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war" for similar books. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 20:33, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
I imagine that it might have been invented more than once, and I'd be interested in the details. I remember reading somewhere that it was discovered (or rediscovered) in Europe in the Middle Ages, and that the author who thought it up had to include a preface in his lexicon explaining how it was arranged, and that he himself made a number of alphabetization errors in the 'A' and 'B' sections of his book, but that the errors got fewer as he got more practice with his new system. But I can't remember who it was!
I'd also be interested in hearing about the history of alphabetization in other languages and scripts. For example, did the Hunmin Jeongeum define an order for the hangul? Did Koreans alphabetize things? What about Arabic?
-- Dominus 13:49, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Elements of the order of the Latin alphabet predate the alphabet itself. Note how the Greek alphabet starts with alpha, beta, gamma (which evolved into "c"), delta, eta. That sequence goes back to the Phonetians. In recent years, national language institutions control alphabetical order in most places. Some languages hava multiple or overlapping conventions.
But, I'd be interested in the in-between period too. I don't know either.
Diderot 14:58, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Concur with Diderot: the Phonetian alphabet was already in a standard order when other peoples starting adapting it. Also, it just seems logical that anyone who would have to teach the alphabet to someone else would have a canonical way of representing the symbols, ie: I'm just guessing here, but I'll bet the Sumerians, (who are generally put forward as having the first comprehensive writing system), had an order in which they taught the cuniform markings. func (talk) 15:06, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
A clarification: I am not asking about the order of the alphabet itself. I am asking about the use of alphabetical order as an organizing principle in lexicons and other reference works. -- Dominus 15:41, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Dominus, in that case, you're looking for a history of dictionaries. Ordering words in an alphabetical or quasi-alphabetical sequence started with bilingual dictionaries. Their roots go back as far as the classical Greeks at least, and I suspect much earlier. Ordering other things that way followed. For libraries, modren organisational schemes go back to the mid-19th century only. For encyclopedias - they grew out of dictionaries in the Renaissance. Diderot 16:08, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by Jonathon Green (ISBN 0712662162) has a chapter on this subject. It says that alphabetization was used by the Alexandrians around 250 BC, but Europe didn't catch on until the Middle Ages. Ordering by the first letter only (called "A-order") and first and second letters (called "AB-order") came in with the Corpus glossary (8th century or earlier; owned by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). Then ABC-order and ABCD-order (sorting by first three/four letters) came along in a pre-Norman manuscript (MS Harley 3376, British Library). Full alphabetization was first seen in English in 1066. It would be interesting to know the corresponding dates for other languages.
Green says that alphabetization was slow to catch on in Europe and the Arab world because it was antithetical to the prevailing religious teachings of the early Middle Ages, which preferred to organize knowledge thematically according to the scriptures. Alphabetization was seen as a dangerous new fad that threatened to democratize knowledge. -- Heron 18:01, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Alphabetical order is a form of collation. I have also heard of the anecdote about the author who alphabetized a book partly to teach himself how to alphabetize, and I thought I'd read that on Wikipedia, but I may be mistaken. (One would expect to find it either in alphabetical order or collation.) Unfortunately, the article about collation focuses mostly on its use in computer science, despite that field being centuries younger (see Wikipedia:Village pump#The Encylopedia that Slashdot Built Awards). --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 22:10, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
There is also, as I remember, some interesting discussion of this in Michel Foucault's The Order of Things: he views the increased acceptability of such an arbitrary order as part of the ending of the medieval worldview. -- Jmabel 00:31, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
I don't know when alphabetical order was invented, but I can tell you that it was quickly followed by Bogosort. Rhobite 23:03, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
OK! According to the Daly book cited above, examples of alphabetized lists start to appear in Greek scholarship around the 3rd Century B.C. Many of the examples are from Alexandrian scholars, and related Cosian documents, suggesting that the librarians at Alexandria may have used the system to assist in cataloging the library.
Many of these lists are not fully alphabetized, but they are grouped by initial letter, and sometimes by second letter as well. Use of alphabetical order is not common, and for every document that does display alphabetization, there are dozens that could but do not.
The tax accounts in Ptolemaic Egypt also display a sophisticated organization in which daily chronological records of payments were transferred to permanent records that grouped payments by the payer's name, in alphabetic order.
I will do some more research and then summarize the most relevant and interesting points in the Wikipedia article. -- Dominus 14:31, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Are STC's notebooks available online? Are any commentries of them available? Thanks! Intrigue 20:35, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know any more information about hydroponics specifically involving saffron, spices or flowers, or any information about the regular growing of saffron?
I don't know if this is helpful: Hydroponics Classroom Salasks 15:24, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, anyone else got any more info?
Was the Encyclopædia Britannica affected by anti- German sentiment following World War I? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 23:15, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 01:37, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Question moved to Wikipedia:Help desk. See top of page: "This is not a help page for problems with Wikipedia." — Trilobite (Talk) 13:29, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
About 10 years ago or more, there use to be a city in California called, "Los Cerritos." I do not know what happen to this city. An Internet search turns more links about Cerritos, California than the now "Lost" "Los Cerritos." My guess is two things happen to the city: It merged with another city, or it changed it name to avoid confusion with "Cerritos." My question is what happen to this city? For reference, "Cerritos" and "Los Cerritos" were never the same city. The mall that was built, called the Los Cerritos Mall opened in Cerritos, California not Los Cerritos, California. I think as the Los Cerritos Mall got popular, the City of Los Cerritos disappeared or renamed itself or something... Anyway, I've lost all track of it. A map of California from between 10 and 20 years ago may reveal that Los Cerritos did indeed exist. If you read the Cerritos, California article, you'd discover that the city was originally the City of Dairy Valley. This is why I believe there was no name conflict at the time between the current Cerritos, California and Los Cerritos, California. --[[User:AllyUnion| AllyUnion (talk)]] 12:31, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Can you please explain how these fields differ in what they do and don't include? --Molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, biophysics, cell biology
It seems like they would have a lot of overlap...can you clarify?
Lots of overlap. Molecular biology and biochemistry are virtually the same field with the two terms being more a matter of fashion and generational preference. Those who claim a distinction would have trouble describing a research report that would be identifiable as biochemistry but not molecular biology or vice versa. I doubt any institutions grant equal degrees in both biochemistry and molecular biology: some call it one, some the other. Biophysics focuses on the more "physics" related phenomena of biology such as electrical gradients and potentials, with much overlap with biochemistry. It is often offered as a separate degree from biochemistry/molecular biology. These three are the fields that have in the last 2 generations yielded most of our new knowledge about genetics and cell biology, so that much genetics and cell biology research is conducted with the methods and knowledge base of biochemistry/molecular biology. Genetics is the field of knowledge related to inheritance; it has been enormously amplified in the last 50 years by the techniques and knowledge of biochem/molec biol, and this new knowledge has in turn revolutionized physiology, medicine, and evolutionary biology. Cell biology focuses on the function of the parts of the cell, but these are primarily investigated and described by the methods and terms of biochem/molec biol and biophysics. Does that help? Alteripse 17:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The fields are indeed very close. But they have different points of focus and methods of researching things. Nevertheless, I'm studying biochemistry and I might be getting involved in a Biomolecular project. And Cell Biology focuses on biological processes (not chemistry) It's all about how you see it. [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 13:59, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
I understand how to read numbers relating to birthdates, but when binary numbers are aligned three in a row, in this case, specifically 222, does this have any specific meaning when relating to the weather? I ask this because I had specific insight into the last three, the last being Ivan, now I am questioning Jeannie.
Does the lineup of numbers 222 mean anything at all?
Thank you, Lauren (loves to learn)
I read a novel about an American translator in China recently (I can't remember the name) but she had a thing about romanticising historical China. She had an 'antique stomach protector', which was described as a piece of silk tied in some way so as to cover her stomach as a piece of underwear. I cannot find any reference to this. Is it real? Can one buy one? Thank you. Gretchen Gardner.
I think the book is Lost in Translation (novel) by Nicole Mones. A picture of the woman wearing the item (from the rear) is on the cover - you can see it here. I don't think the German army item is the one Gretchen is looking for, but I have also been unable to pull up anything. Mark Richards 12:52, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The kidney belt seems to serve the same purpose as the German military thing, but be unrelated to the Chinese thing, which, so far as I can see, serves a primarily spiritual value? Can anyone find any references to this asside from this book? Mark Richards 18:06, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
In Vowel harmony#Consonant harmony, the article refers to anterior and nonanterior classes of sibilant consonants. What is an anterior consonant? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 02:26, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'm think there are two syllables in squirrelled. [195.92.194.12 19:43, 23 Sep 2004]
Im Canadian, and I would concur with the the one syllable pronounciation, it would be like Skwurlld with the r-l combo being pushed into a slight extenstion over the second L. ( West Coast Canadian ) Bob535 03:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What's the mystery? If you pronounce "squirrel" as one syllable, you'll pronounce "squirrelled" as one syllable. Enough people do the former: Merriam Websters Collegiate offers both a one-syllable and a two-syllable pronunciation for "squirrel". - Nunh-huh 04:16, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just in case anybody (Canadian etc.) is wondering where the "two syllable claim" comes from, let me explain that British English is one of the dialects in which squirrelled has two syllables. -- Heron 09:20, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
skwi - ruhld, and even that's difficult. In some dialects maybe, but not the one I speak. It's silly to give it one when it should be two.
Oh look, it's a skwurl. I'd think it was some kind of
I don't wish to be willfully perverse in raising this alternative, but to my untrained ear there are clearly 3 separate sounds in squirreled.
Sound one: scwi Sound two: rell Sound Three: duh
You're right, Bodnotbod (Gawd bless yer, mite), and our own article on syllable agrees. A syllable has a vowel or quasi-vowel in the middle, with optional consonants on either side. However, from a purely phonotactic point of view, this does make it hard to justify calling squirrelled a single syllable, unless you classify the whole of uirrelle as a single quasi-vowel. Perhaps our "syllable" article needs to say that the definition of a syllable depends on the dialect of the speaker, if this is true. -- Heron 13:05, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What you think you say and what you actually say is usually different, so everyone who has commented here (including me) is probably wrong about how they pronounce this word. Even if one of us were to record it and post it, that pronunciation would not be normal speech, because we would be thinking about it and saying it more slowly and purposefully than in normal speech. Adam Bishop 16:40, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Well. I'm certainly not Canadian, and I pronounce it "skworld". Rick K 06:15, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
I would also like to add that I pronounce it "skworld" and I'm in Seattle, Washington.-- Trypsin 08:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm a Minnesotan and I pronounce squirreled "squir-relled" or in IPA, [skʷəɹ.ɫd], with two syllables, but I might pronounce it as one syllable when speaking quickly. Gandalf1491 21:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
This is something I've been wondering about since I was a kid.
When a fan is running under some fluorescent light, it leaves a trail of blue and orange. This happens with any object moving fast enough, actually, under fluorescent lights. Some kinds of lights don't produce this effect, though, but I have no clue of what differs them from the rest.
I know fluorescent lights oscilate in high frequencies (120Hz, I think), but I was never able to relate this fact with the appearence of the colors. Interestingly, the colors don't vary, being always orange and blue.
Anyone knows what I'm talking about and why this happens? — Kieff | Talk 04:28, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
You might be seeing some variant of the Benham's disk effect. (Seems like a ripe topic for a Wikipedia article.) -- Matt McIrvin 13:31, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
...Ah, I see there is one for " Benham's top". I'll make a redirect... -- Matt McIrvin 13:40, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hey, look at this online demonstration (Java required). The effect is called Fechner colors; I just made a stub. -- Matt McIrvin 14:04, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
does less or more testosterone in a person increse or decrese insghtfulness ina person? can this hormonal difference be stated as the reason for women being more thoughtful and better at analysing situations and people than men?-Anita
Dear Anita, if I understand you correctly, you are asking if testosterone somehow "decreases" insightfulness, since you have this bizarre, sexist, and probably totally accurate idea that women are "more thoughtful" and "better at analyzing {social--right?) situations and people?"
A tantalizing array of possible answers come to mind, ranging from a Dave Barry-type response about the apparent neuronal toxicity of testosterone, a plea to forgive whichever haplesss guy in your life just blew it again (since he couldn't help it due to his testosterone handicap), to quibbling about whether "insightfulness" equates to "thoughtfulness," "analyzing situations" and "analyzing people" -- in other words, dodging the question. Reluctantly, I'll opt for the straight answer.
As it happens you are not the first person to wonder about this and there is a lot of research on the relationship of testosterone to various aspects of personality and cognitive skills (e.g, Halpern DF, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities. 3rd ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwaw, NJ, 2000, plus dozens of other books and thousands of research articles in the psychology literature). The short version of the answer to the first question is that research, repeatedly, and across cultures, shows that sex differences cannot be found in general intelligence, but in patterns of cognitive abilities. On average, females outperform males in measures of verbal fluency, verbal memory, emotional perception, and perceptual speed. On average, males outperform females on measures of spatial, mechanical, and mathematical abilities.
So to what extent can testosterone be blamed for these differences? In 1970, if you asked any psychologist, social scientist, politically correct academic, or card-carrying feminist this question, the answer was a big "NO! There are NO biological differences in brain function. Any appearance to the contrary should be attributed to sexist expectations, culture, or social learning or a patriarchal plot..." (I am not kidding here, as neither were they). There is in fact much evidence that these differences are largely biological whatever we might wish. Testosterone is a good candidate for being a major factor in these differences. T levels between males and females vary during 3 periods in life: from the 8th week of gestation to delivery, from 2 weeks to 4 months after birth, and after the onset of puberty (average age 12 years). The brain has both testosterone and estradiol receptors present from the first half of gestation onward. Conditions in which T levels are atypical for age and sex shed some light on when and how testosterone might work these differences. For examples, girls with high prenatal and childhood testosterone levels due to CAH show some of the "male" cognitive advantages such as better spatial abilities than ordinary girls. Conversely, boys with congenital forms of hypogonadism show less spatial abilities than ordinary boys. What seems to be important is prepubertal testosterone, since men and women do not lose or gain these abilities if testosterone is removed or added after childhood. Luckily, losing testosterone does not improve a guy's social skills. For more on this type of research, see one of Sheri Berenbaum's reviews (e.g., Berenbaum SA. Prenatal androgens and sexual differentiation of behavior. Chapter 13 in: Eugster EA, Pescovitz OH, Developmental Endocrinology: From Research to Clnical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2004). A final caveat: many factors that contribute to brain differentiation. One of the most important changes in our understanding of brain biology is our realization that brain reshapes its capabilities in response to experience and use in a way that can make partially environmental or experiential factors appear to contribute to "hardwired" functions. Alteripse 12:38, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I had a problem with my camera recently: it wouldn't "click" anymore (probably because of low battery). Now, when I rolled back the film (plain vanilla Kodak 35 mm color) and took it out, the whole film was inside the cilinder. I don't take photos very often, so I may be wrong, but shouldn't there be 2 or 3 cm of brown foil sticking out (like it is when you buy it)? At the development lab, do they need those 2 cm to take out the film or can they develop it anyway?
Thank you in advance and keep up the good work, 80.127.226.15 12:11, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC).
Yes, light issues aside, you can tell whether film is exposed by whether it has been fully wound in, preventing mixing of used and unused film.
I would like to use your map of Rupert's Land in a book. Is it possible to get an image copy with a higher density scan? Is there a fee for service? Thanks. Peter Murphy
I'm looking for a picture of the "Beat LA" sign from the Braves 1991 march to the playoffs for a blog post. Salasks 14:44, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC) ( blog)
This is an emergency—how would you say "Down with the officers" or any other "down with" in Latin? Thanks! -- Gelu Ignisque
I love people who know Latin: how would one translate "red star", referring either to the planet Mars or to, well, a literal red star, like the stars from Soviet-era flags? P.S. This is not an emergency. :) func (talk) 05:34, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hey, does anyone know where the clock/BIOS backup battery is on an IBM PS/2 motherboard? I have one of these (ancient) computers in my basement and when I boot it up, I get error codes 161 and 163, which I have determined to mean the BIOS battery is dead. However, I cannot find the battery's location in order to replace it. Does anyone know where the battery is on one of these boards, or have a link to a site telling one how to change it? Thanks! Suntiger 22:12, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, that looks like it should help. Suntiger 13:45, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Why was Julius Streicher, publisher of Der Stürmer, at the Nuremberg Trials? He was just a publisher of the Nazi German equivalent of a tabloid newspaper. Why was the publisher of the Völkischer Beobachter not also on trial?
What he did just seems minor in comparison to the doings of people like Rudolf Höß, who were not at Nuremberg. [[User:DO'Neil| DO' И eil]] 22:39, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
What are the most commonly used auxiliary verbs and copulas in the English language? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 00:31, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 03:29, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I don't think it conforms to any HTML version, since the colors are in three-character format, which AFAIK is only valid in CSS (though some browsers obviously have no problem with it). I'm afraid I don't know what browsers will or won't accept that notation, though chances are it's correlated with whether or not (or how well) a browser implements CSS. As for the rest of it, the table elements have been around since HTML 3.2 I believe. -- Wapcaplet 03:45, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR has no problems with it, which is odd. -- Alphax 15:55, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
I have Norton installed as part of my defence against viruses. Every day it seems to download around 700-800k of virus definitions and updates. This seems to me an extraordinary amount of data per 24 hours. Is someone able to help me account for this? --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:25, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
I read some where that the number 0 wasn't use in Europe untill I think the 17th century. Before the Europeans used the number 0, for example for writing the year 1600 how would they write it? Where was the number 0 started and when?
It's been a while since I did much with my graduate thesis, but as I recall the Arabic numerals were used for dates in the account books of English churchwardens in the mid-1500s. I'd suggest that the questioner's suggestion of the 17th century is too late by 200-400 years, depending on location and other variables, as a reference point for when the 0 was put in use for dates in Europe. Jwrosenzweig 22:15, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor introduced the zero in bookkeeping clear back in the 13th century, but it didn't spread at that time. -- Jmabel 00:47, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
The article on Roman numerals says that the Arabic numerals (and hence 0) came into common use in Europe in the 1300s. Before that Roman numerals were used there. - R. S. Shaw 00:20, 2004 Sep 29 (UTC)
What is Necker's cube? --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 19:00, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I had a question in my anatomy and physiology class can you help me?
Which of the following is "heat given off as particles or waves"?
a. conduction b. convection c. radiation d. evaporation
Trilobite are you sure? Particles and waves sounds more like radiation to me. Isn't convection more like "conduction by a flowing substance" (such as air or water)? Alteripse 18:54, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The way we write the number system we use today, where and when did it originate?
And look at numeral system. Note that there is a difference between numbers and numerals. I haven't looked at the article titled natural number, but that's definitely not the first thing that comes to my mind in response to this question, since natural number is about numbers rather than about numerals. Michael Hardy 21:16, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone offer a contact where I can purchse a film in dvd or video format (UK version) of the dismantling and reconstruction of the temples at Abu Simbel when the Aswan High Dam was built.
On late-evening radio and TV news discussion programs (e.g. Newsnight), there is often a section where presenters read tomorrow's newspapers. In a column in the Guardian, I once read that part of the night editor's job is to look out for stories that they can poach from such editions of rival papers. So why do the papers bother making these early editions public at 10PM the night before? How did this tradition begin, and what's in it for the publishers? - IMSoP 00:18, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
"...while the home news night desk might spend the evening chasing stories in other newspapers that need to be investigated (the night editors usually get their first look at rival publications at about 11pm, leaving little time to react)."
I need to find specific information about organizational structures/models. Models such as a Federated Models of Service, an Amalgamation and outsourcing of administration tasks to larger organizations. What I am getting at is I need information about organzational structures as a non for profit organization I am doing work experience for is looking to change its management structures and possibly amalagamate with 3 other organizations. I need clear answers about what types of organizational models exist. For example an organization with a CEO and a Board of Directors and then its management is called.... I wonder if you could help it would be greatly appreciated.
I think Ferrari is cited not correctly here, but I do not know, where the mistake has been made (I cross-checked twice if I made a mistake when I copied the formulas to my caculator...).
On
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuarticEquation.html
they cited him correctly, I think...
Does anybody see the mistake quickly (I would need at least several days, because: I am not so good in mathematics)...
-Arne
How do so-called day-glo, fluorescent, or neon colours (as used in hi-vis jackets, packaging, signage, highlighter pens, and what have you) achieve their high visibility?
Mechanisms I can think of include: real fluorescence from ultraviolet light, similar to the effect achieved by "whiter-than-white" ingredients added to washing powder and toothpaste; or some particular quirk of human colour perception. I've not been able to find anything explaining it (in Wikipedia or on the web).
(I've noticed that one time when I scanned a document with highlighter pen markings, they came out as a rather ordinary yellow. Would it even be possible to display "day-glo" colours on a computer screen using ordinary display technologies? I'm guessing not.)
Possibly related: there seems to be some disagreement among people I know as to whether "fluorescent yellow" is perceived as yellow or bright green.
-- JTN 01:53, 2004 Sep 28 (UTC)
If I'm building a website, and I don't care about people with browsers older than a couple of years old, do I still need to worry about the length of filename for the HTML docs and images? --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 02:16, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
How would I APA style reference something from this website?
How would you test to identify a fluid as sulphuric acid? I already know it's acidic, so I only need to differentiate between common acids. Could this be done with simple household chemicals, or would I need to go to a laboratory? [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 07:38, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
There's an ancient kind of trap that was a pendulum with a large and heavy axe-like blade that moved around, chopping whoever and whatever was in the way (I'm sorry but this is the best description I can give). What is the name of this trap? — Kieff | Talk 08:00, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
The Pit and the Pendulum is available at Wikisource. --[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 16:43, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'd like to find out the composition of Futurex coals. Google links to Futurex weren't about coals and the Coal and Coke (fuel) articles didn't help. Does anyone have any other ideas? [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 11:35, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
We have an old Gibson Mandolin which belonged to my wife's grandfather. The label inside bears a hand-written serial number 50737. The style entry seems to be A2 1.
Can you provide data as to when it was made and possible links to learn more ? Thanks.
Max Young
What is the history of carpet?
Wow. It looks like our article on Carpet needs a bit of work, as do some of our other articles relating to Textile_arts, especially in the area of history. func (talk) 16:20, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Is there a word to describe initialisms, such as IEEE (pronounced "eye-triple-e") and IEE (often pronounced "eye-double-e"), which are pronounced with a "shortcut" ("-double-", "-triple-" and so on)? Are there other famous examples of such initialisms, especially with more than three occurrences of the same letter? -- Edcolins 21:47, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)
Double-D? ;) Intrigue 05:23, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Slightly related is the abbreviation i18n for internationalization (because 18 letters are omitted). -- Heron 13:54, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
See also: Acronym and initialism, where I inserted the above information to a certain extent... -- Edcolins 12:28, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)
ॐ सह नाववतु | Om saha navavatu |
सह नौ भुनक्तु | Saha nau bhunaktu |
सह वीर्यं करवावहै | Saha viryam karavavahai |
तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु | Tejasvi navadhitam astu |
मा विद्विषावहै | Ma vidvishavahai |
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः | Om shanti, shanti, shanti |
-- Krishna Yajur Vedataittiriya Upanishad 2.2.2 |
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 22:04, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I found it! It's so hard to find actual Unicode-encoded Hindi text online (or even accurate transliterations). It'd be easier if I could actually read Devanagari, I suppose. X)
--[[User:Eequor| η υωρ]] 18:53, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Two articles that may be what you're looking for:
- Salasks 23:07, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
I happened to read the marque article and learned that it described what I would call the make of a car. Are they really the same thing? [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 01:26, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
A citation in the OED2 says that marque entered English from French around the early 1900s, probably through international motor racing. -- Heron 19:34, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I'm trying to untangle the different Sara Orangetip butterfly subspecies and what their English common names are. Web pages aren't helping one bit. Does anybody know where I can find the current concensus about them? Williamb 04:29, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is the difference between cultural anthropology and sociology? Neither one of our articles about the topics makes any mention of the other. I'm guessing the subtle differences between community, society, and culture are involved, which I roughly understand. I'm no expert though, so I figured I'd best ask here. • Benc • 06:47, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What is the algorithm in C for to find page faults in paging scheme?
I am trying to find out information about the original Riggs Bank family. Yes, the family that found the Bank. I know that they were a very wealthly family in the Washington DC area at the time. I am not interested in know about anyone that currently owns the bank. I am basically interested in knowing who they were, where they lived and how they became to the founders of Riggs bank. Also I might like to know where they are buried and if there are any important landmarks or structures still standing that represents the life and times that they had in the Washington DC area.
Thank you Stephen Hosmer
The same question was answered on Google Answers here. It mainly discusses the bio of George Washington Riggs. Salasks 19:40, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
I am trying to know where Clark Griffith the one time owner of the Washington Senators lived in Washington DC. I would like to find a map that would show me this. Does anyone know if his home is still standing today. Also I would like to know if there are any memorials, monuments or plaques in his honor that might still be around in the Washington DC area. I believe that he is buried in a mausoleum but I really would like to be sure. I would also like to know why he buried in such a large mausoleum. Is he buried alone or with other family members. Any help you could give me on theses items I would greatly apprecaite it. Thank you Stephen Hosmer.
Greetings and fabulous site - I bookmarked. I found census data for East Chicago, Indiana. The last graph talks about poverty data - precisely what I was seeking. But it does not reference the source. I'd like to know how to find that source so I can be very sure of the data. The rest is cited as Census - but not the graph I want! It's very important my information be accurate. thank you if you can help - Darby
If in ancient Greek an orator is rhê-tôr and a word is rhê-ma, then is the process of oration called rhê-sis? Thanks in advance, Gelu Ignisque
Your best synonym in Attic greek might be agoreusis. Rhesis is given a synonym for rhema by Langenscheidt and would mean oration secondarily as a metonymic figure of speech. In Homeric greek the primary definition of rhesis is "speaking or speech." Alteripse 23:29, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Years ago I remember seeing a documentary about parents trying to turn their kids into geniuses by showing them flash cards with dots on them and saying the number of dots out loud and making the kids listen to classical music etc.. Did any of these kids turn out to be geniuses or was it just a big waste of time? Mintguy (T) 21:39, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
In general, exposing children to a wide variety of different stimuli is good for their development, but it's not a simple relationship. The Recycling Troll 03:09, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
There's a book out there called "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards." The authors are early childhood education experts. You can guess which point of view they took. moink 01:35, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I used the term " balkanization" on another message board, and I was scolded by someone of Balkan descent, who said that the term offends him. My impression is that it references the historical division of the Balkans, as opposed to some characteristic of people from that region. I didn't believe it was offensive. WP's article, although short, doesn't mention that it's offensive to some people. Should I stop using the term, or is this just more PC policing? Rhobite 23:03, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
Is there even a similar word or term with the same meaning? I'm all for altering my vocabulary as necessary to be more sensitive to others, but in this case, I don't think you could without becoming unecessarily long winded or losing some of the meaning of what you are trying to say. Incidentally, the American Heritage Dictionary which usually denotes if a word is offensive has no such note for balkanization Cvaneg 23:19, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
It's a matter of opinion, some people in that part of the world preffer the term 'South East Europe' to 'Balkan', because the word 'Balkan', and 'Balkanize' have come to be associated with the (often violent) breakup of regions into smaller areas. It certainly has taken on negative conotations. I think it is acceptable to use the word, but be aware that folks that come from these places may not like the term. Mark Richards 15:48, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)