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User talk:TerryH

2007-05-04T23:56:05Z

GodlessLiberal: /* Vietnam War */

Talk to me! Am I right? Wrong? Any suggestions? --[[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 18:24, 5 March 2007 (EST)

*[[User_talk:TerryH/Archive_1|Archive 1]]
*[[User_talk:TerryH/Archive2|Archive 2]]

== Administrative Office ==
The door is always open. Please place questions, suggestions, complaints, ''et cetera'', here.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 13:50, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

:I think you're right and glad you ain't left. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:56, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

== Templates ==

Terry,

Instead of typing out <tt>'''<nowiki><nowiki>{{Essay}}</nowiki></nowiki>'''</tt>, you can instead type <tt>'''<nowiki>{{tl|Essay}}</nowiki>'''</tt>. This is less effort and produces a similar result, except that it includes a link to the template: {{tl|Essay}}.

[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:18, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

== Exterrestrial Life ==

[[Extraterrestrial life]] is an excellent article. If you are interested in pursuing this topic more, I recommend that you read ''[http://www.alienintrusion.com/ Alien Intrusion]''. I'm certain that you will enjoy it. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 05:45, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

== Provenance of [[Biblical criticism]] article ==

Due to the similarity of [[Biblical criticism]] and [http://creationwiki.org/Biblical_criticism CreationWiki's] article, I think you should add a note to the talk page detailing its provenance.

Something along the lines of "This is a dual submission of a work of sole authorship. I am the same person as User:Temlakos on CreationWiki and this article is based on [http://creationwiki.org/index.php?title=Biblical_criticism&oldid=80038 this version] of the CreationWiki article, which is entirely my work." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:21, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

:OK, but instead of using the Talk page, I left it at the bottom of the article itself, in its own section.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 15:03, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

== Shuvuuia ==
Was this animal (listed [http://www.creationwiki.org/Feathered_dinosaur here]) a dinosaur or just a flightless bird? I can't tell...'''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 10:34, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
:Nor can I, because someone has scrubbed the page completely.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 10:35, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
::Sorry, I put a capital "D" in "Dinosaur". That's what's so irritating; you capitalize one letter and it won't direct you to the page!!! I've changed the link; you can follow it again. It's a small "d". '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 14:32, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
:::Found it. The abstract makes that animal just another flightless bird. BTW, I repaired the reference to make it look more professional.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 16:25, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
::Mike Riddle claims it was a dinosaur. '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 17:37, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
Well, he ought to read the reference then.<blockquote>Alvarezsaurids (Shuvuuia and its allies) are either a lineage of birds or are a lineage phylogenetically close to them.</blockquote>
It couldn't be any clearer.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:41, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

::Why do all theropods have hollow bones then? That would almost certainly relate them to birds. '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 14:46, 22 April 2007 (EDT)

==Thank you==
thank you for rewriting my pathetic article on sherlock holmes. But did holmes really "love" irene adler?[[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]]
:Dr. Watson seemed to think he did. Holmes himself was far too reticent to declare this openly.
:Which is a tribute to Conan Doyle's iron point-of-view discipline: you ''never'' get inside the head of Sherlock Holmes.
:I especially wanted to set the copyright record straight, to show where matters currently stand. A ''lot'' of authors have tried to incorporate Sherlock Holmes into their stories, and those who do, need to know that somebody still owns ''some'' rights to that character. The "Copyright" reference tells whom to contact, and how.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 09:16, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

== Proposed Block Policy....your question ==

* It is as simple as the carrot and the stick.

:It is difficult, if not impossible, to impose administrative sanctions on others without at times seeming to be arbitrary or arrogant. A person will see such actions as they do, and "facts" will not change their mind. To be limited in one's response to undesirable actions, is to tie one hand behind your back from the start. I say this because as it is now worded, so much is totally subjective, and it doesn't preclude the type of Sysop reversals of another's actions we have been seeing. "Third Party" Sysop means what? The "YEC" Sysop faction? The "Liberal" faction? Conflict resolution is also subjective. When a Sysop's actions are reversed, that erodes their authority and leads users to "shop" for like-minded Sysops. This undermines the project as a whole. You can always reach me via IM or email here, if you would like to have a dialog. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 19:12, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

== Evo2 ==

Hey TerryH, I saw [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAschlafly&diff=124812&oldid=124801 this] a while back, and I want to assure that I wasn't actually being sarcastic. I sometimes forget that text doesn't carry the same inflections as spoken word. I do really think it is a bad idea, since the only thing worse for the community than having sub-par articles ([[Theory of evolution]]) is having ''two'' sub-pwar articles (what Evo2 would be, completely pro-evo, for a long time). Just wanted to clarify that. Thanks! --[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']][[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]] 17:51, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
:You're welcome, and I accept your clarification.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:54, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

== RE Private ==

OK, Now what? --[[User:CPAdmin1|CPAdmin1]] 23:09, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

== An idea ==

== An idea to build more internet traffic to conservapedia ==

Wikipedia gives the top 1,000 articles for its website as can be seen here: http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/%7Eleon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=articles&limit=1000&month=04%2F2007&mode=view

I think we might be able to drive more http://www.google.com and other traffic to Conservapedia if we make the following articles at Conservapedia better based on the first 100 or so most popular articles at Wikipedia:

- [[United States]]

- [[Columbine High School massacre]]

- [[World War II]]

- [[Global warming]]

- [[World War I]]

- [[Adolf Hitler]]

- [[Battle of Thermopylae]]

- [[Canada]]

- [[William Shakespeare]]

- The [[Holocaust]]

- [[Abraham Lincoln]]

- [[Jesus]]

- [[Vietnam War]]

- [[China]]

'''What do you think about starting a Conservapedia improvement drive for these articles?''' Clearly this are serious subjects that people are interested in based on Wikipedia statistics. Therefore, I believe from a strategic point of view in regards to creating internet traffic to Conservapedia it makes a lot of sense to start a improvement drive in regards to these Conservapedia articles. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 22:56, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

== Link correction ==
Thanks for correcting the link. [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Ed_Poor&diff=cur] --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 17:17, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:You're welcome.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:19, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

== Thanks ==

for blocking Alfa papa. Wow, those vandals sure work quickly! --Wikinterpreter'''[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Wikinterpreter talk?]
:You're welcome. Have you finished rolling back the messes he made?--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:23, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:: Just about. That should be all, although Icewedge and co are going to be with us for a looong time, I imagine. Oh, and he's trying to take us hostage, along the lines of 'de-sysop conservative or else'. --Wikinterpreter'''[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Wikinterpreter talk?]

== Here is something I put on the main page ==

[[Getting Web Traffic to Conservapedia - Article Creation/Improvement Drive]] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:25, 29 April 2007 (EDT)conservative

== Help Requested ==

I've been editing the article on [[Geocentric theory]] but my work is repeatedly being deleted and reverted, and I and my views have been insulted several times on the discussion page there. Please could you give me some advice and assistance. Thanks [[User:Mmeelliissssaa|Mmeelliissssaa]] 09:21, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== [[Vietnam War]] ==

I disagree with [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Vietnam_War&curid=11367&diff=143755&oldid=143738 this]. The U.S. objectives were not met in the [[Korean War]], and we most certainly did not win the [[War of 1812]], both of which occurred before Vietnam. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 19:45, 4 May 2007 (EDT)
: In the War of 1812, we were playing defense, and defense only. We won because the British failed to take us back into their Empire.
: As to Korea, those were not US objectives; they were UN objectives. Make sure you know what those stated objectives were.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 19:52, 4 May 2007 (EDT)
::Yes, you're right on Korea. But in 1812 we attempted to take over Canada. Needless to say, we failed at that. And it was us who declared war, so I wouldn't call it defense. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 19:56, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

== Ann Coulter ==

Why do you object to including actual quotes by Ann Coulter in an article about her? --[[User:PF Fox|PF Fox]] 19:46, 4 May 2007 (EDT)
:Because they cannot fail to have been taken out of context. Besides, I happen to know that at least one of your quotes was from another book entirely. A book that I have read, by the way.
:If you're going to quote anyone, then give the full context. Strange as it might seem to you, Ann Coulter has a reason for everything she says. When, for example, four widows start publicly those who would inhibit all efforts to prevent the murderers of their husbands from murdering other women's husbands, then they deserve the heaping of a certain opprobrium on their heads. The way you did it, made it sound as though the objects of Ann Coulter's criticisms were absolutely and entirely innocent. Which they are absolutely, positively not.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 19:51, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Iliad

2007-05-04T23:50:36Z

GodlessLiberal:

'''The Iliad''' is an epic poem written by [[Homer]], the legendary blind [[Greece|Greek]] poet, in the 8th century B.C. The poem is about the [[Trojan War]] (''Ilium'' being the Latin name of [[Troy]]).

''The Iliad'' was revered by Greeks and all who followed in the Greek legacy, attempting to emulate it. It received something on the order of Biblical significance by later Greeks, seeking to define the prime values of their culture - honor, and valor. [[Alexander the Great]] is said to have slept with a copy of ''The Iliad'' under his bed, and claimed to be a decendant of the Greek warrior [[Achilles]].{{fact}}

==External Links==

[http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm A Modern Translation]

[[Category:Poetry]]

User talk:TerryH

2007-05-04T23:46:14Z

GodlessLiberal: /* Vietnam */

Talk to me! Am I right? Wrong? Any suggestions? --[[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 18:24, 5 March 2007 (EST)

*[[User_talk:TerryH/Archive_1|Archive 1]]
*[[User_talk:TerryH/Archive2|Archive 2]]

== Administrative Office ==
The door is always open. Please place questions, suggestions, complaints, ''et cetera'', here.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 13:50, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

:I think you're right and glad you ain't left. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:56, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

== Templates ==

Terry,

Instead of typing out <tt>'''<nowiki><nowiki>{{Essay}}</nowiki></nowiki>'''</tt>, you can instead type <tt>'''<nowiki>{{tl|Essay}}</nowiki>'''</tt>. This is less effort and produces a similar result, except that it includes a link to the template: {{tl|Essay}}.

[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:18, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

== Exterrestrial Life ==

[[Extraterrestrial life]] is an excellent article. If you are interested in pursuing this topic more, I recommend that you read ''[http://www.alienintrusion.com/ Alien Intrusion]''. I'm certain that you will enjoy it. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 05:45, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

== Provenance of [[Biblical criticism]] article ==

Due to the similarity of [[Biblical criticism]] and [http://creationwiki.org/Biblical_criticism CreationWiki's] article, I think you should add a note to the talk page detailing its provenance.

Something along the lines of "This is a dual submission of a work of sole authorship. I am the same person as User:Temlakos on CreationWiki and this article is based on [http://creationwiki.org/index.php?title=Biblical_criticism&oldid=80038 this version] of the CreationWiki article, which is entirely my work." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:21, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

:OK, but instead of using the Talk page, I left it at the bottom of the article itself, in its own section.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 15:03, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

== Shuvuuia ==
Was this animal (listed [http://www.creationwiki.org/Feathered_dinosaur here]) a dinosaur or just a flightless bird? I can't tell...'''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 10:34, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
:Nor can I, because someone has scrubbed the page completely.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 10:35, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
::Sorry, I put a capital "D" in "Dinosaur". That's what's so irritating; you capitalize one letter and it won't direct you to the page!!! I've changed the link; you can follow it again. It's a small "d". '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 14:32, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
:::Found it. The abstract makes that animal just another flightless bird. BTW, I repaired the reference to make it look more professional.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 16:25, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
::Mike Riddle claims it was a dinosaur. '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 17:37, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
Well, he ought to read the reference then.<blockquote>Alvarezsaurids (Shuvuuia and its allies) are either a lineage of birds or are a lineage phylogenetically close to them.</blockquote>
It couldn't be any clearer.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:41, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

::Why do all theropods have hollow bones then? That would almost certainly relate them to birds. '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 14:46, 22 April 2007 (EDT)

==Thank you==
thank you for rewriting my pathetic article on sherlock holmes. But did holmes really "love" irene adler?[[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]]
:Dr. Watson seemed to think he did. Holmes himself was far too reticent to declare this openly.
:Which is a tribute to Conan Doyle's iron point-of-view discipline: you ''never'' get inside the head of Sherlock Holmes.
:I especially wanted to set the copyright record straight, to show where matters currently stand. A ''lot'' of authors have tried to incorporate Sherlock Holmes into their stories, and those who do, need to know that somebody still owns ''some'' rights to that character. The "Copyright" reference tells whom to contact, and how.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 09:16, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

== Proposed Block Policy....your question ==

* It is as simple as the carrot and the stick.

:It is difficult, if not impossible, to impose administrative sanctions on others without at times seeming to be arbitrary or arrogant. A person will see such actions as they do, and "facts" will not change their mind. To be limited in one's response to undesirable actions, is to tie one hand behind your back from the start. I say this because as it is now worded, so much is totally subjective, and it doesn't preclude the type of Sysop reversals of another's actions we have been seeing. "Third Party" Sysop means what? The "YEC" Sysop faction? The "Liberal" faction? Conflict resolution is also subjective. When a Sysop's actions are reversed, that erodes their authority and leads users to "shop" for like-minded Sysops. This undermines the project as a whole. You can always reach me via IM or email here, if you would like to have a dialog. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 19:12, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

== Evo2 ==

Hey TerryH, I saw [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAschlafly&diff=124812&oldid=124801 this] a while back, and I want to assure that I wasn't actually being sarcastic. I sometimes forget that text doesn't carry the same inflections as spoken word. I do really think it is a bad idea, since the only thing worse for the community than having sub-par articles ([[Theory of evolution]]) is having ''two'' sub-pwar articles (what Evo2 would be, completely pro-evo, for a long time). Just wanted to clarify that. Thanks! --[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']][[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]] 17:51, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
:You're welcome, and I accept your clarification.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:54, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

== RE Private ==

OK, Now what? --[[User:CPAdmin1|CPAdmin1]] 23:09, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

== An idea ==

== An idea to build more internet traffic to conservapedia ==

Wikipedia gives the top 1,000 articles for its website as can be seen here: http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/%7Eleon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=articles&limit=1000&month=04%2F2007&mode=view

I think we might be able to drive more http://www.google.com and other traffic to Conservapedia if we make the following articles at Conservapedia better based on the first 100 or so most popular articles at Wikipedia:

- [[United States]]

- [[Columbine High School massacre]]

- [[World War II]]

- [[Global warming]]

- [[World War I]]

- [[Adolf Hitler]]

- [[Battle of Thermopylae]]

- [[Canada]]

- [[William Shakespeare]]

- The [[Holocaust]]

- [[Abraham Lincoln]]

- [[Jesus]]

- [[Vietnam War]]

- [[China]]

'''What do you think about starting a Conservapedia improvement drive for these articles?''' Clearly this are serious subjects that people are interested in based on Wikipedia statistics. Therefore, I believe from a strategic point of view in regards to creating internet traffic to Conservapedia it makes a lot of sense to start a improvement drive in regards to these Conservapedia articles. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 22:56, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

== Link correction ==
Thanks for correcting the link. [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Ed_Poor&diff=cur] --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 17:17, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:You're welcome.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:19, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

== Thanks ==

for blocking Alfa papa. Wow, those vandals sure work quickly! --Wikinterpreter'''[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Wikinterpreter talk?]
:You're welcome. Have you finished rolling back the messes he made?--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:23, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:: Just about. That should be all, although Icewedge and co are going to be with us for a looong time, I imagine. Oh, and he's trying to take us hostage, along the lines of 'de-sysop conservative or else'. --Wikinterpreter'''[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Wikinterpreter talk?]

== Here is something I put on the main page ==

[[Getting Web Traffic to Conservapedia - Article Creation/Improvement Drive]] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:25, 29 April 2007 (EDT)conservative

== Help Requested ==

I've been editing the article on [[Geocentric theory]] but my work is repeatedly being deleted and reverted, and I and my views have been insulted several times on the discussion page there. Please could you give me some advice and assistance. Thanks [[User:Mmeelliissssaa|Mmeelliissssaa]] 09:21, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== [[Vietnam War]] ==

I disagree with [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Vietnam_War&curid=11367&diff=143755&oldid=143738 this]. The U.S. objectives were not met in the [[Korean War]], and we most certainly did not win the [[War of 1812]], both of which occurred before Vietnam. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 19:45, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

== Ann Coulter ==

Why do you object to including actual quotes by Ann Coulter in an article about her? --[[User:PF Fox|PF Fox]] 19:46, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

User talk:TerryH

2007-05-04T23:45:59Z

GodlessLiberal: Vietnam

Talk to me! Am I right? Wrong? Any suggestions? --[[User:TerryH|TerryH]] 18:24, 5 March 2007 (EST)

*[[User_talk:TerryH/Archive_1|Archive 1]]
*[[User_talk:TerryH/Archive2|Archive 2]]

== Administrative Office ==
The door is always open. Please place questions, suggestions, complaints, ''et cetera'', here.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 13:50, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

:I think you're right and glad you ain't left. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:56, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

== Templates ==

Terry,

Instead of typing out <tt>'''<nowiki><nowiki>{{Essay}}</nowiki></nowiki>'''</tt>, you can instead type <tt>'''<nowiki>{{tl|Essay}}</nowiki>'''</tt>. This is less effort and produces a similar result, except that it includes a link to the template: {{tl|Essay}}.

[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:18, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

== Exterrestrial Life ==

[[Extraterrestrial life]] is an excellent article. If you are interested in pursuing this topic more, I recommend that you read ''[http://www.alienintrusion.com/ Alien Intrusion]''. I'm certain that you will enjoy it. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 05:45, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

== Provenance of [[Biblical criticism]] article ==

Due to the similarity of [[Biblical criticism]] and [http://creationwiki.org/Biblical_criticism CreationWiki's] article, I think you should add a note to the talk page detailing its provenance.

Something along the lines of "This is a dual submission of a work of sole authorship. I am the same person as User:Temlakos on CreationWiki and this article is based on [http://creationwiki.org/index.php?title=Biblical_criticism&oldid=80038 this version] of the CreationWiki article, which is entirely my work." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:21, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

:OK, but instead of using the Talk page, I left it at the bottom of the article itself, in its own section.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 15:03, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

== Shuvuuia ==
Was this animal (listed [http://www.creationwiki.org/Feathered_dinosaur here]) a dinosaur or just a flightless bird? I can't tell...'''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 10:34, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
:Nor can I, because someone has scrubbed the page completely.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 10:35, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
::Sorry, I put a capital "D" in "Dinosaur". That's what's so irritating; you capitalize one letter and it won't direct you to the page!!! I've changed the link; you can follow it again. It's a small "d". '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 14:32, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
:::Found it. The abstract makes that animal just another flightless bird. BTW, I repaired the reference to make it look more professional.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 16:25, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
::Mike Riddle claims it was a dinosaur. '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 17:37, 20 April 2007 (EDT)
Well, he ought to read the reference then.<blockquote>Alvarezsaurids (Shuvuuia and its allies) are either a lineage of birds or are a lineage phylogenetically close to them.</blockquote>
It couldn't be any clearer.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:41, 20 April 2007 (EDT)

::Why do all theropods have hollow bones then? That would almost certainly relate them to birds. '''Scorpion'''[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]] 14:46, 22 April 2007 (EDT)

==Thank you==
thank you for rewriting my pathetic article on sherlock holmes. But did holmes really "love" irene adler?[[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]]
:Dr. Watson seemed to think he did. Holmes himself was far too reticent to declare this openly.
:Which is a tribute to Conan Doyle's iron point-of-view discipline: you ''never'' get inside the head of Sherlock Holmes.
:I especially wanted to set the copyright record straight, to show where matters currently stand. A ''lot'' of authors have tried to incorporate Sherlock Holmes into their stories, and those who do, need to know that somebody still owns ''some'' rights to that character. The "Copyright" reference tells whom to contact, and how.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 09:16, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

== Proposed Block Policy....your question ==

* It is as simple as the carrot and the stick.

:It is difficult, if not impossible, to impose administrative sanctions on others without at times seeming to be arbitrary or arrogant. A person will see such actions as they do, and "facts" will not change their mind. To be limited in one's response to undesirable actions, is to tie one hand behind your back from the start. I say this because as it is now worded, so much is totally subjective, and it doesn't preclude the type of Sysop reversals of another's actions we have been seeing. "Third Party" Sysop means what? The "YEC" Sysop faction? The "Liberal" faction? Conflict resolution is also subjective. When a Sysop's actions are reversed, that erodes their authority and leads users to "shop" for like-minded Sysops. This undermines the project as a whole. You can always reach me via IM or email here, if you would like to have a dialog. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 19:12, 21 April 2007 (EDT)

== Evo2 ==

Hey TerryH, I saw [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAschlafly&diff=124812&oldid=124801 this] a while back, and I want to assure that I wasn't actually being sarcastic. I sometimes forget that text doesn't carry the same inflections as spoken word. I do really think it is a bad idea, since the only thing worse for the community than having sub-par articles ([[Theory of evolution]]) is having ''two'' sub-pwar articles (what Evo2 would be, completely pro-evo, for a long time). Just wanted to clarify that. Thanks! --[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']][[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]] 17:51, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
:You're welcome, and I accept your clarification.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:54, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

== RE Private ==

OK, Now what? --[[User:CPAdmin1|CPAdmin1]] 23:09, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

== An idea ==

== An idea to build more internet traffic to conservapedia ==

Wikipedia gives the top 1,000 articles for its website as can be seen here: http://hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org/%7Eleon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=articles&limit=1000&month=04%2F2007&mode=view

I think we might be able to drive more http://www.google.com and other traffic to Conservapedia if we make the following articles at Conservapedia better based on the first 100 or so most popular articles at Wikipedia:

- [[United States]]

- [[Columbine High School massacre]]

- [[World War II]]

- [[Global warming]]

- [[World War I]]

- [[Adolf Hitler]]

- [[Battle of Thermopylae]]

- [[Canada]]

- [[William Shakespeare]]

- The [[Holocaust]]

- [[Abraham Lincoln]]

- [[Jesus]]

- [[Vietnam War]]

- [[China]]

'''What do you think about starting a Conservapedia improvement drive for these articles?''' Clearly this are serious subjects that people are interested in based on Wikipedia statistics. Therefore, I believe from a strategic point of view in regards to creating internet traffic to Conservapedia it makes a lot of sense to start a improvement drive in regards to these Conservapedia articles. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 22:56, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

== Link correction ==
Thanks for correcting the link. [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Ed_Poor&diff=cur] --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 17:17, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:You're welcome.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:19, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

== Thanks ==

for blocking Alfa papa. Wow, those vandals sure work quickly! --Wikinterpreter'''[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Wikinterpreter talk?]
:You're welcome. Have you finished rolling back the messes he made?--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 17:23, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:: Just about. That should be all, although Icewedge and co are going to be with us for a looong time, I imagine. Oh, and he's trying to take us hostage, along the lines of 'de-sysop conservative or else'. --Wikinterpreter'''[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Wikinterpreter talk?]

== Here is something I put on the main page ==

[[Getting Web Traffic to Conservapedia - Article Creation/Improvement Drive]] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:25, 29 April 2007 (EDT)conservative

== Help Requested ==

I've been editing the article on [[Geocentric theory]] but my work is repeatedly being deleted and reverted, and I and my views have been insulted several times on the discussion page there. Please could you give me some advice and assistance. Thanks [[User:Mmeelliissssaa|Mmeelliissssaa]] 09:21, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== [[Vietnam]] ==

I disagree with [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Vietnam_War&curid=11367&diff=143755&oldid=143738 this]. The U.S. objectives were not met in the [[Korean War]], and we most certainly did not win the [[War of 1812]], both of which occurred before Vietnam. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 19:45, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:Prokaryote

2007-05-04T23:43:38Z

GodlessLiberal:

Redirected [[Prokaryotes]] and [[Prokaryotic cell]] here. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 19:43, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

I think some of this is slightly outdated. Archaea are not now regarded as prokaryotes but as a separate domain on their own. And cyanobacteria are classed as archaea, not prokaryotes. [[User:Aloysius|Aloysius]] 11:36, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

It has been many years since I had any microbiology so feel free to update it. I can work on the molecular side.--[[User:Tims|TimS]] 13:59, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:Eukaryote

2007-05-04T23:43:03Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: Redirected eukaryotes and eukaryotic cell here. ~~~~

Redirected [[eukaryotes]] and [[eukaryotic cell]] here. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 19:43, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Eukaryotic cell

2007-05-04T23:42:16Z

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Eukaryotes

2007-05-04T23:41:32Z

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Eukaryote

2007-05-04T23:41:10Z

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The most characteristic feature of a eukaryotic cell, the nucleus, consists of a nucleoplasm surrounded by a double nuclear membrane pierced by nuclear pores. <ref>http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html</ref><ref>http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Eukaryote</ref> The nucleoplasm contains the (linear) chromosomes of the cell, which are organised into heterochromatin, which stains only a little, and euchromatin, which stains more densely. The most important euchromatic area is the nucleolus, in which ribosomes are formed.

#εύ-καρυον (eu-karyon) - true kernel.
#Double-membrane bound nucleus containing linear chromosomes.
#Complex 9+2-type undulipodium, cytoskeleton, cytosis and mitosis.
#Many membrane-bound organelles and double membrane-bound endosymbionts.
#They can grow 'large' because cytoplasmic streaming allows rapid transport across the cell - 100 μm.

[[Image:Animal_cell.png‎ |center||Animal cell: eukaryotic cells are characterised by the possession of a nucleus and membrane bound organelles.]]

The role of the nucleus is three-fold:

#Storage and protection of the genome.
#Regulation of gene expression.
#Creation of ribosomes.

DNA storage takes up about 10% of the cell of both prokaryotes (nucleoid area) and eukaryotes (nucleus). However, don't forget that some of the genome lives elsewhere: plasmids, endosymbionts (mitochondria), etc. The nucleus of eukaryotes also protects the genome from the cytoskeleton. Condensation of genome during mitosis is required to withstand these stresses. This is not relevant in prokaryotes, as they lack a cytoskeleton. The existence of the nucleus permits processing of mRNA, and therefore defers translation. Alternative splicing can be performed to generate different proteins from the same RNA primary transcript. mRNA is capped and tailed to permit it to exit the nucleus. rRNA and tRNA are also heavily processed by RNA editing, i.e. base modification (this also occurs to some mRNA in trypanosomes). rRNA modification occurs in the nucleolus, where ribosomes are constructed.

The nucleus is bound by a double-membrane, which is contiguous through the nuclear pores, known as the nuclear envelope. The pores are required to allow RNA out and membrane lipids in (which is needed for growth during S phase).<ref> Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert."Biochemistry". W. H. Freeman and Co. ; c2002 </ref>

The inner face of the inner nuclear envelope (INE) is coated by the nuclear lamina, which contains intermediate fibres called lamins A, B and C (at least in mammals). Phosphorylation of lamins by kinases cause nuclear envelope breakdown during prometaphase. Chromosomes occupy definite positions within the nucleus because of the interaction between lamins and telomeres, for example the Rabl conformation in yeast.

In the Rabl conformation, the centromeres are at the pole closest to MTOC; and the telomeres at other, bound to the nuclear lamina. This orientation probably reduces tangling, and is inherited from mitosis. Later in interphase, the chromosomes may lose the Rabl conformation, but chromosomes still occupy discrete territories in the nucleus.

The outer nuclear envelope (ONE) is surrounded by other intermediate fibres, and is essentially just the RER surrounding the nucleus, and continuous with it. The space between the INE and ONE is termed the perinuclear space, and is continuous with the RER cisternae.

The cell wall of eukaryotes (when present) is usually composed of a β-(1→4)-glucan of some sort. In fungi, it is mostly chitin (N-acetylaminoglucan), in plants cellulose, but more exotic ingredients are common. Animal cells lack a wall, but may have a glycocalyx, which is a layer of thickened glycoproteins surrounding them and connecting them to the extracellular matrix.

Almost all eukaryotes have mitochondria, which are the remains of bacteria that became endosymbionts of the eukaryotic cell about a billion years ago. They perform oxidative phosphorylation and generate energy in the form of ATP for the cell. They have their own 70S ribosomes and some of their own DNA. Mitochondria have a double membrane surrounding them, the inner one is highly folded into cristae, surrounding a matrix space.

Photosynthetic eukaryotes also have chloroplasts, which are the remains of cyanobacteria that also became endosymbiotic. They have a triple membrane system. The outer membrane surrounds the inner membrane, which itself surrounds the stroma, in which are embedded a number of thylakoid membranes, some of which occur in stacks called grana. Those that are unstacked are termed intergrana. The thylakoids surround another compartment, termed the lumen. Chloroplasts are one of several different sorts of plastid. Others include proplasts (immature plastids), chromoplasts (full of pigments), etioplasts (formed in the dark) and amyloplasts (full of starch). Plastids carry out photosynthesis, converting light energy into ATP and NADH.

[[Image:Plant_cell.png|center||Plant cell: The cell wall vs the cell membrane found in animal cells.]]

Eukaryotes have a cytoskeleton, which is composed of a number of interacting fibre types. The first are the actin microfilaments, which, with the motor protein myosin, form the muscles of the cytoskeleton (and in sarcosomes, form actual muscles too). The actin cytoskeleton forms a cortex beneath the plasmalemma of most eukaryotic cells, which is involved in changes to the external shape of the cell (such as the formation of pseudopodia in amoebae).The second fibre type are intermediate filaments, composed of spectrin, keratin, vimentin, nuclear lamins and other proteins. The intermediate filaments help maintain the relative positions of organelles and give the cell mechanical strength. The third type of cytoskeletal filament are the microtubules, which form the spindle during cell divisions (meiosis and mitosis), and give structure to the cell membrane, forming microvilli. They also form undulipodia, which are waving structures with a typical 9+2 structure, found in cilia (short undulipodia) and flagella (longer ones). The microtubules are composed of tubulin, and are organised by a microtubule organising centre (the centrosome and centrioles in animals), in which the − ends of the microtubules (which grow more slowly than the + ends) are embedded. Vesicles traffic along the microtubules under the influence of motor proteins such as kinesin (which transports items from the −→+ ends, i.e. away from the MTOC) and dynein (which traffics items from +→−). Tubulin is homologous to the FtsZ protein that is involved in bacterial fission.

The body of the cell is composed of a heterogeneous mixture of proteins and solutes called the cytosol. The cytosol contains many 80S ribosomes, on which protein synthesis takes place.

The endomembranes and plasmalemma form a continuous membrane system in the eukaryote cell. The cell contains a rich diversity of membranes, in addition to those found in the endosymbiotic organelles. The outer cell membrane or plasmalemma, controls what gets in and out of the cell by the use of pores, symports, antiports and pumps. It is composed of a fluid mosaic of proteins embedded in a phospholipid bilayer, as are all membranes. The plasmalemma also interacts with the extracellular space through receptors, gap junctions, plasmodesmata, and synapses.

The endomembranes include the nuclear membrane, already mentioned, and the rough and smooth endoplasmic reticula (RER and SER). The lamellae of the rough endoplasmic reticulum are continuous throughout the cell, and also contiguous with the nuclear membrane. They are the site of synthesis for proteins destined for the endomembrane system and the extracellular space, with which its lumen (the cisternal space) is topologically identical. The tubules of the SER are responsible for steroid and lipid synthesis. After translation on ribosomes attached to the RER, proteins are carried in small transport vesicles to the Golgi bodies (dictyosomes), where they go undergo modification to the glycosylation they received as they were imported into the RER. After modification, some proteins are exported from the trans-Golgi network in export vesicles to the extracellular space. The ER is continuous with the nuclear envelope, and probably evolved at the same time, possibly by invaginations of the sort seen in the mesosomes of bacteria.

[[Image:Endomembranes_evolution.png‎|center||Endomembranes probably evolved from invaginations of the plasmalemma, as seen in bacterial mesosomes, thylakoids and chromatophores.]]

The rough ER differs from the smooth ER morphologically. The RER's cytoplasmic surface is studded with ribosomes, and it has flattened cisternae (rather than tubular ones). The RER is denser than SER due to presence of ribosomes. Consequently, disrupted ER 'microsomes' can be separated using density gradient centrifugation.

[[Image:Density_gradient_er.png|center||SER microsomes are less dense than RER microsomes, so can be separated by centrifugation.]]

Other proteins are destined for the endolysosome system. Material engulfed from outside by phagocytosis (solids) and pinocytosis (liquids) are packaged into phagosomes, and internal organelles destined for destruction are packed into autophagosomes. Endolysosomes containing digestive enzymes fuse with the phagosomes and digest their contents. The fused organelles produced are the cells disposal system, and are called lysosomes. Very large lysosomes are found in plants where they help to bulk the cell with water. Here they are called vacuoles, and are surrounded by a membrane called to tonoplast. Other vacuoles are involved in osmoregulation: for example contractile vacuoles in Amoeba.

Finally, a number of smaller vesicles are found in the cytosol. They are called microsomes, and most seem to be peroxisomes, containing the enzyme catalase, which degrades hydrogen peroxide produced by respiration. In germinating plant seed, many glyoxysomes are present, which perform fat oxidation for growth. Some vesicles also contain food reserves, such as fat droplets.

Eukaryotic DNA is bound by histones, and requires some degree of unpacking for expression. Much of their genome is composed of parasitic DNA and introns. Three RNA polymerases exists, (approximately) one for each sort of major RNA product:

RNApol-I - rRNA.
RNApol-II - mRNA and snRNA.
RNApol-III - tRNA and 5S rRNA.
RNA is heavily processed in the nucleus, which allows deferred translation. They possess large 80S ribosomes.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Molecular Biology]]
[[Category:Cellular Biology]]
[[Category:microbiology]]

Talk:Prokaryote

2007-05-04T23:39:30Z

GodlessLiberal: moved discussion here

I think some of this is slightly outdated. Archaea are not now regarded as prokaryotes but as a separate domain on their own. And cyanobacteria are classed as archaea, not prokaryotes. [[User:Aloysius|Aloysius]] 11:36, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

It has been many years since I had any microbiology so feel free to update it. I can work on the molecular side.--[[User:Tims|TimS]] 13:59, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:Prokaryotes

2007-05-04T23:39:17Z

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#REDIRECT [[Talk:Prokaryote]]

Prokaryote

2007-05-04T23:38:42Z

GodlessLiberal: redirected prokaryotes here

The structure of a prokaryote is very much simpler than that of a eukaryote. There are no endomembranes, endosymbionts, nucleus or cytoskeleton. The DNA is carried on the genophore, a circular chromosome, in a ill defined area of the cytosol called the nucleoid. The chromosome is attached to the cell membrane during cell division (fission), frequently at a point called the mesosome.

#πρό-καρυον (pro-karyon) - before kernel.
#No nucleus - free circular genophore.
#'Simple' rotating motor-type flagellum.
#Cell division by fission, genophore attached to plasmalemma by mesosome.
#Few membrane-bound organelles, no double-membrane bound organelles.
#They are 'small' because diffusion limits the rate of transport across the cell - 1 μm.
[[Image:Bacterial_cell.png|center||Prokaryotes are characterised by the lack of a nucleus and membranes bound organelles.]]
The cytosol contains oil droplets, food reserves and the 70S ribosomes, and is surrounded by a plasmalemma. In Gram negative bacteria, a further outer membrane surrounds the plasmalemma, with a thin cell wall and periplasmic space trapped between them. In Gram positive bacteria, there is no outer membrane, and the cell wall is thicker. The cell wall is composed of peptidoglycan and various organic acids in Eubacteria. Bacteria have flagella, but they are simple proteinaceous strands attached to a rotary motor, completely dissimilar to the complex eukaryotic undulipodium. Membranes may be present in the cell, as in the thylakoids of the Cyanobacteria. The cytosol may also contain various episomes (small circular chromosomes), some called plasmids, and others called (bacterio)phages, which are bacterial viruses.

Prokaryotes are extraordinarily diverse:

Proteobacteria - Gram-negative, two cell membranes, hugely diverse, ''[[Escherichia coli]]''.

Firmicutes and Actinobacteria - Gram-positive, thick peptidoglycan cell wall.

Spirochaetes - helical bacteria.

Prokaryotic DNA lacks histones (packaging proteins), although other packaging proteins are present, and molecules have easier access to DNA compared with eukaryotes. They generally have efficient genomes, with little sequence other than coding sequence or regulatory sequence. Transcription is by just one class of RNA polymerase. Transcription leads to translation with no intermediate processing, which allows several genes to be encoded in a single transcriptional unit (a polycistron). They have small (70S) ribosomes.

[[Category:Molecular Biology]]
[[Category:microbiology]]

Prokaryotes

2007-05-04T23:38:32Z

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#REDIRECT [[Prokaryote]]

Prokaryotic cell

2007-05-04T23:37:48Z

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Eukaryotic cell

2007-05-04T23:36:29Z

GodlessLiberal:

A [[cell]] with a clearly defined nucleus and other structured subcellular components such as [[organelles]]. <ref> http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html</ref> All plants, animals, fungi, and single cell protists are composed of eukaryotic cells, and are collectively called [[eukaryotes]].<ref>http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Eukaryote</ref> Compared to organisms lacking a nucleus ([[prokaryotes]]), eukaryotic genomes are far more complex structurally, contain multiple chromosomes, and are subject to a greater level of gene regulation. <ref> Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert."Biochemistry". W. H. Freeman and Co. ; c2002 </ref>

==See also==
*[[Prokaryotic cell]]

==References==
<references/>

Prokaryotic cell

2007-05-04T23:36:16Z

GodlessLiberal:

A [[cell]] that lacks a defined nucleus and [[organelle]]s. Bacteria and blue-green algea are composed of prokaryotic cells and are called [[prokaryotes]].<ref>http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html</ref> Prokaryotes are single-cell organisms, although some can form colonies.<ref>http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Prokaryotic_Organisms</ref> The prokaryote DNA is structurally simple and frequently is composed of only one circular chromosome.<ref>Brown, T.A. "Genomes" Garland Science ; c2002.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Eukaryotic cell]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Biology]]

Charles Socarides

2007-05-04T23:35:14Z

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Psychologists

2007-05-04T23:34:51Z

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Prokaryotic cell

2007-05-04T23:33:21Z

GodlessLiberal: Redirecting to Prokaryotes

#REDIRECT [[prokaryotes]]
A [[cell]] that lacks a defined nucleus and [[organelle]]s. Bacteria and blue-green algea are composed of prokaryotic cells and are called [[prokaryotes]].<ref>http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html</ref> Prokaryotes are single-cell organisms, although some can form colonies.<ref>http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Prokaryotic_Organisms</ref> The prokaryote DNA is structurally simple and frequently is composed of only one circular chromosome.<ref>Brown, T.A. "Genomes" Garland Science ; c2002.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Eukaryotic cell]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Biology]]

Prokaryotic cell

2007-05-04T23:32:27Z

GodlessLiberal: Redirecting to Cell

#REDIRECT [[cell]]

Vietnam War

2007-05-04T23:25:50Z

GodlessLiberal: what about 1812? what about korea?

[[Image:SaigonFall.jpg|thumb|South Vietnamese residents flee [[Saigon]], as North Vietnamese forces enter the city.]]
The '''Vietnam War''', officially the '''Second Indochina Conflict''', was initiated by the [[United States]], in response to a poll conducted that suggested given the planned democratic election after the reduction of the demilitarized zone upheld until [[1956]] since the war would lead to a certain [[communist]] victory.

America, knowing that South Vietnam would democratically become a communist state abstained from signing the Geneva conference of 1954 allowing this election to happen even though these were the grounds they had stated at the end of the [[Second World War]]. A frustrated [[Ho Chi Minh]] eventually decided to move into South Vietnam as the increasingly unpopular US controlled government employed stronger tactics to maintain the South Vietnamese people under Diem. In retaliation the US sent 'advisers' to help Diem keep the situation under control before stepping up to a full scale ground war. The war was the longest in American history, lasting approximately 16 years.

==Opposition to the Vietnam War==

The Vietnam War is remembered as creating massive opposition in the [[United States]]. Much of the [[hippie]] movement was based in opposition to the Vietnam War and a belief in [[pacifism]] more broadly. This opposition inspired such songs as "The I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag," by [[Country Joe McDonald]], "Give Peace a Chance," by [[John Lennon]], "Run Through the Jungle," by [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], and "War," by [[Edwin Starr]]. This opposition also manifested itself in the form of protests. One of the most famous protests of this era occurred at Kent State University in [[Ohio]], during which four students were shot and killed by the Ohio State National Guard following several days of rioting and the firebombing of the ROTC building. The shooting was later determined to be justified when a federal court dismissed the case against the eight guardsmen indicted.[http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/LEWIHEN.htm]

It wasn't until the Reagan era that popular culture, and society, began to embrace Vietnam veterans as heroes by creating characters like John Rambo and John "Hannibal" Smith.

==External links==

*Larry Berman, [http://hnn.us/articles/37934.html ''Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An''], Time Magazine (Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2007). [http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060888381/Perfect_Spy/index.aspx]
*[http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/almanac-saigon.pdf SIGINT and the Fall of Saigon, April 1975].

[[Category:Wars]]
[[Category:United States History]]

Athiesm

2007-05-04T23:03:01Z

GodlessLiberal: Redirecting to Atheism

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Texas

2007-05-04T23:01:42Z

GodlessLiberal:

[[Image:Texas_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Texas.]]

Texas is the twenty-eighth state to enter into the union and was admitted on December 29, 1845. It is the second largest of the 50 [[America|US]] states, and the largest continental state. Before its admission, it was its own [[Republic of Texas|country]], having gained [[Texas War of Independence|independence]] from [[Mexico]]

The capital of Texas is [[Austin]], and the largest city is [[Houston]]. It was solidly Democratic from about 1900 to the 1970s, then Republicans gradually took control and now dominate.

Texas is 268,581 sq miles total area.<ref>http://www.texasalmanac.com/facts/</ref>

The "Six Flags" amusement park chain takes its name from the fact that six flags have flown over Texas: Spanish, French, Mexican, Republic of Texas, Confederate States of America, and United States of America.

Despite a widely spread urban legend stating otherwise, Texas's entry to the Union was not accompanied by a provision that allows Texas to secede from the Union at any time. <ref>http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp</ref> It is, however, the only state with the right to break itself into up to five smaller states.

==Notable Texans==

*[[Lance Armstrong]], who holds the record for most consecutive [[Tour de France]] victories, was born in Plano.
*[[George W. Bush]], 43rd President of the United States, former Governor of Texas.
*[[Dwight Eisenhower]], former president, was born in Denison.
*[[Pat Garrett]], the policeman who shot [[Billy the Kid]], lived in multiple locations in Texas.
*[[Sam Houston]] was the president of Texas when it was an independent nation, and lent his name to Texas's largest city.
*[[Howard Hughes]], the reclusive billionaire who was the subject of the movie ''The Aviator'', was born in Humble.
*[[Lyndon B. Johnson]], former president, lived and died in Stonewall.
*[[Phil McGraw]], talk show host, lived in Wichita Falls at one point.
*[[Ted Nugent]], controversial conservative musician, lives near Crawford.
*[[Ross Perot]], former presidential candidate, was born in Texarkana.
*[[Dan Rather]], former CBS news anchor, was born in Wharton.
*[[Stevie Ray Vaughn]], musician.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:US state]]

Date of creation

2007-05-04T22:55:33Z

GodlessLiberal: remove weasel words, but keep phil j's views

Calculating the '''date of creation''' has exercised many minds for hundreds of years.

== Basis of calculation ==

The Bible contains [[chronogenealogies]] from Adam to Abraham, listing the age at which each person in the genealogy gave birth to the next person in the list, thus allowing by simple addition a determination of how many years passed between [[creation story|creation]] and Abraham. There are other chronological indications also, allowing that calculation to be extended into the times of the kings, when the dates can be correlated with other events in history for which the absolute date is known. By this means, in theory, one can calculate the date of creation.

There are, however, some uncertainties in this. For example, Genesis lists the age of Terah when the first of his sons was born, but was Abraham this son, or the second or third son?
Different researchers have proposed different answers to this and similar problems, but none of these problems change the result by a very significant amount.

An objection that has often been raised is whether the chronogenealogies were ''intended'' to be used this way, or whether, for example, generations have been missed.
[[Henry Morris]], a pioneer of modern creationism, allowed for the possibility of gaps in the genealogies, but claimed that it was unreasonable to stretch the date back further than about 10,000 B.C.
In more recent times, however, creationists have concluded that there is no reason to think that there are gaps, and this view is supported by the consensus of the experts, according to [[James Barr]], then regius professor of Hebrew at [[Oxford University]], and not a young-Earth creationist (he also wrote a book attacking [[biblical inerrancy]]), who wrote in 1984: "… probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: … the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story." <ref>Quoted in [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1606/ Biblical chronogenealogies], by Jonathan Sarfati.</ref>

Old-earth creationists do not accept this date, proposing that there may be gaps in the genealogies.<ref>[http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/primeval_chronology.shtml Are There Gaps in the Biblical Genealogies?], by William Henry Green.</ref>

== Calculated dates ==

The best known date of creation is the one calculated by Archbishop [[James Ussher]] in the 17th century - namely 6:00 p.m. Saturday, [[October 22]], [[4004]] BC.<ref>The Annals of the World, by James Ussher.</ref> However, only the year was based on the Biblical ages; the date and time were based on other considerations. Sir [[Isaac Newton]] defended Ussher's date. Another to calculate the date of creation was [[Johannes Kepler]], who worked it out to be 3992 B.C.

But such calculations in fact date from at least the Middle Ages, and offer a range of dates from around 5000 to 4000 BC. Judaic tradition (to which the Old Testament of course belongs) reckons the date of creation at 3760 BC. Another calculation, beginning with the date of the destruction of Jerusalem known from secular history and working backwards, arrives at 4163 BC. <ref> http://web.newsguy.com/rubyredinger/age.html Biblical age of the Earth</ref>

Based on [[geology|geological]] dating methods, however, secular scientific research dates the formation of the Earth to around 4.5 billion (4.5 * 109) years ago, which is significantly more accurate than any of the guesstimates shown above.<ref>[http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age.html USGS, ''Geologic Time: Age of the Earth.''] Accessed April 18, 2007.</ref>

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:Creationism]]

Federalist Party

2007-05-04T22:53:40Z

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==History==
The Federalist Party was one of the first [[political parties]] in the [[United States]], formed for the purpose of ratifying the [[Constitution]]. [[John Adams]] was the only Federalist to serve as president, although [[George Washington]] had Federalist leanings. [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[Secretary of the Treasury]] for Washington, was for all practical purposes the leader of the party. [[Chief Justice]] [[John Marshall]] was the last Federalist in the federal government, serving until his death in 1835. The party met with several setbacks in the early nineteenth century that led to its demise. Hamilton, their leader, died in 1804 as a result of his famous duel with [[Aaron Burr]]. The party drew most of its support from New England, a region that largely opposed the [[War of 1812]]. Many of the Federalist Party's leaders labeled the conflict “Mr. Madison’s War.” The Federalists were among the interests that called the [[Hartford Convention]] in 1814 for the purpose of amending the Constitution, and carried with it the implied threat of succession. However, the convention dissolved with news of the [[Treaty of Ghent]] and [[Andrew Jackson]]’s victory at the [[Battle of New Orleans]]. The fortunes of the party declined after the War of 1812. Opponents used the charge of treason during the post-war [[nationalism]], and no Federalist ever won national office again.

==Platform==
The Federalists advocated a strong national government, with little or no power in the hands of the states. Their foreign policy was pro-British and anti-French, leading to conflict with the Francophile Democratic-Republicans. In terms of economics, they subscribed to the Hamiltonian notion that the United States must engage in manufacturing and commerce in order to become a great power.

==See also==
*[[Democratic-Republican Party]]

[[Category:Political Parties]]
References:

George Brown Tindall & David Shi, ''America: A Narrative History,'' 7th ed. (New York: Norton, 2007)

User talk:Spica

2007-05-04T22:48:01Z

GodlessLiberal:

Spica, send me an email if you get a chance. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 18:48, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

User talk:BushRules12

2007-05-04T22:43:02Z

GodlessLiberal: Ann Coulter

You might want to try adding [[Conservapedia:Userboxes|Userboxes]] to your user page. --[[User:CPAdmin1|CPAdmin1]] 00:29, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

== Spanish ==

No, not at all. and it didn't make much sense when put through a translator. --[[User:CPAdmin1|CPAdmin1]] 12:48, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== cabal? ==

You're a troll, right? Forgive me if I'm wrong... [[User:Human|Human]] 22:34, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== userboxes ==

Are you trying to figure out how to set them up? The best way to start is to look at the source (by clicking "edit", but don't change it) of someone else's page and copy the main formatting. Usually there is a header and footer with the UXBs in between. I think there is a link on my user page to the CP file that talks about them and lists categories of a whole bunch of them. [[User:Human|Human]] 22:52, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

== Ann Coulter ==

Actually... erm... it's a sarcastic jab at her. I haven't decided whether my least-favorite living American is [[Ann Coulter]] or [[Grover Norquist]]. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 18:43, 4 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:Dartmouth College

2007-05-03T01:48:02Z

GodlessLiberal:

"It is Dartmouth College, not Dartmouth University. They are very, very, VERY particular on that point." -[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Dartmouth_University&diff=141274&oldid=141265 Dpbsmith]
::Yeah, I knew one of the Ivies was a College... just wasn't sure which one it was. Thanks. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:43, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
:::Grumble, grumble... just how long does it take to type "www.dartmouth.edu" into a browser? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:45, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
:::It's in a John O'Hara novel... ''Pal Joey,'' I think... that someone detects that someone else is a phony because he keeps talking about "Dartmouth U." It's fixed that particular detail indelibly in my mind. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 21:46, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
::::I'll make it a point to remember that now. lol. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:48, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:Dartmouth College

2007-05-03T01:43:27Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: "It is Dartmouth College, not Dartmouth University. They are very, very, VERY particular on that point." -[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Dartmouth_University&diff=141274&old...

Dartmouth College

2007-05-03T01:41:31Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: '''Dartmouth College''' is a college in New Hampshire. It is a member of the Ivy League.

'''Dartmouth College''' is a college in [[New Hampshire]]. It is a member of the [[Ivy League]].

File:NolanChart70-0.png

2007-05-03T01:13:29Z

GodlessLiberal:

Nolan Chart for use on my User Page, from http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:13, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

Dartmouth University

2007-05-03T01:10:26Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: '''Dartmouth University''' is a university in New Hampshire. It is a member of the Ivy League.

'''Dartmouth University''' is a university in [[New Hampshire]]. It is a member of the [[Ivy League]].

Cornell University

2007-05-03T01:09:54Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: '''Cornell University''' is a university in New York. It is the youngest member of the Ivy League.

'''Cornell University''' is a university in [[New York]]. It is the youngest member of the [[Ivy League]].

University of Pennsylvania

2007-05-03T01:09:08Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: The '''University of Pennsylvania''' is a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a member of the Ivy League.

The '''University of Pennsylvania''' is a university in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. It is a member of the [[Ivy League]].

Brown University

2007-05-03T01:08:21Z

GodlessLiberal: hitler's b-day is not part of the celebration. just happens to be the same day

'''Brown University''' is an American university located in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a member of the Ivy League. Brown was founded in 1764; the University motto is ''In Deo Speramus'', which means "In God We Hope" or "In God is our Hope". The current President of Brown is Ruth J. Simmons; it has 628 full-time faculty members and 7,595 students.

==History==
Brown was founded by Ezra Stiles, a Congregationalist Minister, and James Manning, a Baptist Minister; it was originally known as Rhode Island College. It charter was granted on March 3, 1764; among the sixty-odd signatories were the wealthy brothers John and Nicholas Brown, and the College was located in Warren, Rhode Island. The charter specified that "into this liberal and catholic institution shall never be admitted any religious tests, but on the contrary, all the members hereof shall forever enjoy full, free, absolute, and uninterrupted liberty of conscience", and as such was considered liberal and nonsectarian. Brown and Penn both have claims to be considered the first nonsectarian institution of higher learning in the United States

The College moved to Providence in 1770, and in 1804 was renamed Brown University in honor of Nicholas Brown, a nephew of John Brown, who had given a bequest of $5,000. The Brown family, as was typical at the time, participated in the slave trade. According to a Brown University report, "slavery was... an institution that permeated every aspect of social and economic life in Rhode Island, the Americas, and indeed the Atlantic World. There is no question that many of the assets that underwrote the University’s creation and growth derived, directly and indirectly, from slavery and the slave trade.... By the standards of Rhode Island’s mercantile elite, the Browns were not major slave traders, but they were not strangers to the business either."<ref>[http://www.brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/report/index.html Slavery and Justice Report], Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice; "many of the assets," p. 13. "not strangers to the business," p. 15</ref>

The 1836-7 Brown catalog—or "catalogue," as it was spelled—lists the names of the entire student body: 43 freshman, 60 sophomores, 45 juniors, and 41 seniors. Candidates for admission were required, among other things, to
:bring satisfactory evidence of unexceptionable moral character, and be thoroughly acquainted with the Grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, be able to construe and parse... the Historical Books of the New Testament, or three Books of Xenophon's Cyropædia, and translate English into Latin correctly.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?vid=00Dr0QOabAjYypfexv&id=4xEWeUleibIC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22brown+university%22&as_brr=1#PPA13,M1 The Catalogue of Brown University], 1836-7</ref>

Brown did not admit women until 1891, when a women's college named Pembroke College was founded. Brown became coeducational in 1971 when the undergraduate school merged with Pembroke College.

Brown had "compulsory chapel"—a requirement that students attend Sunday services—from its founding until 1872.<ref>[http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=C0330 Chapel], from ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana.''</ref> After 1872 services were, of course, still conducted and students encouraged to attend them. At some point, services again became mandatory (although not strictly enforced) until the requirement was finally abolished in 1959. A 1904 book of student verse includes a lament by one C. S. Mitchell entitled "Chapel Bell:"
:Far away across the fields
:The tolling of the iron bell
:Calls the faithful to their knees
:To hear the softly spoken magic spells...<ref>Boone, Ilsley (1904), College Hill Verse: Being Selections from Student Publications of Brown University, 1894-1904, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Ov889qyeUnxOVt4ej&id=zufLsuEUEHgC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=%22brown+university%22&as_brr=1#PPA4,M1 p. 4]</ref> 

==Hypertext==
Brown University has been a pioneer in the development of [[hypertext]]. This technology was championed by Andries van Dam, who founded Brown's computer science department and chaired it from 1975 to 1989<ref>[http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/avd/ Andries van Dam]]'s home page</ref>. The first hypertext editing system, HES, was developed at Brown in 1967 by Ted Nelson (coiner of the word ''hypertext'') working under van Dam's direction.<ref>[http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/cpace/ht/HTatBrown/BrownHT.html Hypertext at Brown]</ref>, short summary by George P. Landow, professor of English and Art History]. Brown's Iris Intermedia project was important and influential; several significant bodies of hypertext developed in that system have since been ported to the Web, notably [http://www.victorianweb.org/ The Victorian Web], an encyclopedic collection of information and source texts about the Victorian era.

==The New Curriculum==

Brown prides itself on its "New Curriculum," first established in 1969, which allows students to take virtually any course they want, with no general distribution requirements. Traditional letter grades are optional. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=adp5xdxUBo78] However, the current undergraduate curriculum is currently under review, with recommendations set to be made in the spring of 2008. [http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/03/01/CampusNews/New-Task.Force.Will.Review.College-2751247.shtml]

==Controversies==

In 2005, Brown University's "Queer Alliance" threw a raucous and drunken party called "Sex Power God" in a university building. The event was covered by disguised reporters for [[The O'Reilly Factor]], causing bad publicity for the university. The "Queer Alliance" was suspended for a year and prohibited from throwing any more parties in that building, and banned alchohol at the next party.[http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2006/04/27/CampusNews/Chaos.And.Management.Failures.Marred.Sex.Power.God-1880141.shtml?norewrite200605012032&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com]

In April 2006 occured what became known as the "Bongmarket Street Riot" where many students brought their bongs out onto a green to celebrate "Marijuana Day", 4/20. When security personell approached these stoners and asked them to disperse they refused, and some, under the influence of the Marijuana, became manic, violent, and threatening. Police had to be called in to disperse the rioters.[http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2006/04/20/CampusNews/]

==Notable Brunonians==
* [[John Hay]] (1858), Abraham Lincoln's secretary, later Ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State.
* Dhani Harrison, son of [[George Harrison]] of the [[Beatles]]
* Thomas O. Paine (A.B., 1942), third administrator of NASA
* Donald Carcieri (A.B., 1965), conservative Republican businessman and current governor of [[Rhode Island]]
* Richard Holbrooke (A.B., 1962), U.S. ambassador to the [[United Nations]], 1999-2001
* [[Chuck Colson]] (A.B., 1953), chief counsel to U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]]
* John F. Kennedy Jr. (A.B., 1983), son of U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]]
* Mary Chapin-Carpenter (A.B., 1981), singer-songwriter
* Chris Berman (A.B., 1977), anchor/announcer at ESPN
* Joe Paterno (A.B., 1950), current head coach for football at Penn State
* Travis Rowley, author of the book ''Out of Ivy'' which details his experiences as a conservative in a liberal university.
* Sidney Frank, entrepreneur. Dropped out due to financial reasons, but later received an honorary degree. Donated $100 million increase financial aid for low-income students, among other substantial gifts to the University.
* [[Adoniram Judson]], Christian missionary to Burma and one of the first American missionaries to travel overseas
* [[Josiah S. Carberry]], legendary professor of psychoceramics
* John Nakatamo, professor emeritus of organizational psychology

==Notes and references==
<references/>

==External links==
*[http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/ Encyclopedia Brunoniana], good source of information of Brown's history, customs

[[Category:Educational organizations]]

Ivy League

2007-05-03T01:06:19Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: The '''Ivy League''' is a group of the United States's eight most highly respected universities. Seven of the eight are also the first seven institutions of higher learning founded in ...

The '''Ivy League''' is a group of the [[United States]]'s eight most highly respected universities. Seven of the eight are also the first seven institutions of higher learning founded in the United States. Its members include [[Harvard University]], [[Yale University]], [[Columbia University]], [[Dartmouth University]], [[Brown University]], [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Princeton University]], and [[Cornell University]]. Cornell is the university that was founded much later than the others.

Columbia University

2007-05-03T01:02:49Z

GodlessLiberal: links

'''Columbia University''' is the oldest and most prestigious university in [[New York City]], in [[Harlem]]. More [[Nobel Prize]] laureates graduated from Columbia University than any other university in the [[United States]], and it is the seventh largest private employer in New York City.<ref>http://neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/jobs_economics/index.html</ref> It is a member of the [[Ivy League]].

== History ==

Columbia University is the fifth oldest college in the nation, founded under the name "King's College" in 1754 under a royal charter by [[King George II]] of [[England]]. Its original religious affiliation was [[Anglican]]. Samuel Johnson held the first classes in a new schoolhouse next to Trinity Church in downtown [[Manhattan]]. Columbia's early students and trustees included future [[Chief Justice]] [[John Jay]], future [[Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Alexander Hamilton]], future drafter of the [[U.S. Constitution]][[Gouverneur Morris]], and future co-author of the [[Declaration of Independence]] [[Robert R. Livingston]].

== Programs ==

Columbia has a law school, a medical school, and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

== Campuses ==

Columbia has a large campus in [[Harlem]] in northern Manhattan. It also owns Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, [[New York]] to study high-energy experimental particle and nuclear physics. That 60-acre estate was once ownd Alexander Hamilton's son. In addition, Columbia owns the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, which allows study of global climate change, earthquakes, volcanoes, and environmental issues.

== References ==

<references/>

March Revolution

2007-05-03T00:52:38Z

GodlessLiberal:

The '''March Revolution''' (Old Calender) was a large protest against [[Czar Nicholas II]] in March 1917. It forced the [[Czar]] to abdicate the throne and did not allow his heir, Alexis, to inherit it. A provisional government was established with [[Alexander Kerensky]] as the leader. The ineffective new government was later overthrown in the [[October Revolution]], which installed the [[Bolshevik]] Party under [[V.I. Lenin]].

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[[Category:History]]

Talk:March Revolution

2007-05-03T00:50:22Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: Can we move this to February Revolution? Seriously, who calls it the March Revolution? ~~~~

Can we move this to [[February Revolution]]? Seriously, who calls it the March Revolution? [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 20:50, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

October Revolution

2007-05-03T00:49:46Z

GodlessLiberal:

The '''October Revolution''', led by [[Bolshevik]] leader [[Vladimir Lenin]], took place in [[Russia]] in 1917. Lenin returned from exile when the [[czar|tsarist]] (czarist) rule ended and led the Bolsheviks into power. The October Revolution consisted of the Bolshevik overthrow of the [[Provisional Government]] that had been in power since the [[February Revolution]]. The two Revolutions are collectively referred to as the [[Russian Revolution]]. Lenin then led the [[Soviet Union]] under a system of [[Marxism]]-Leninism until his death in 1924. After his death, a power struggle between [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] ostracized Trotsky and brought Stalin to power. Stalin would eventually have Trotsky assassinated and betray all of the revolution's intentions.

[[category:history]]

October Revolution

2007-05-03T00:47:32Z

GodlessLiberal:

The '''October Revolution''', led by [[Bolshevik]] leader [[Vladimir Lenin]], took place in [[Russia]] in 1917. Lenin returned from exile when the [[czar|tsarist]] (czarist) rule ended and led the Bolsheviks into power. Lenin then led the [[Soviet Union]] under a system of [[Marxism]]-Leninism until his death in 1924.

[[category:history]]

Ehud Olmert

2007-05-03T00:43:27Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: '''Ehud Olmert''' is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He assumed the position after the vacancy left by Ariel Sharon's stroke. He has been criticized in the past for taking br...

'''Ehud Olmert''' is the current Prime Minister of [[Israel]]. He assumed the position after the vacancy left by [[Ariel Sharon]]'s stroke. He has been criticized in the past for taking bribes, supporting organized crime, and is suspected of recieving illegal campaign donations. All allegations have been settled out of court.

Kyrgyzstan

2007-05-02T23:56:24Z

GodlessLiberal:

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'''Kyrgyzstan''' is a country in Central [[Asia]]. Its capital is Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan is a former member of the [[USSR]]. Owing to its mountainous landscape and powerful banking sector, Kyrgyzstan is known as the Switzerland of Central Asia.

[[Category:Asian Countries]]
[[Category:Former Soviet Countries]]

Diocletian

2007-05-02T02:01:45Z

GodlessLiberal:

'''Diocletian''' was Emperor of Rome from A.D. 284-305. He attempted to destroy the Christian faith by burning the scriptures. He also forbade worship and arrested clergy. He insisted on pagan sacrifices. He martyred hundreds of CHristians from Europe to North Africa.<ref>http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-05-01&view=View</ref>

Diocletian attempted to save the Roman empire by dividing it into eastern and western regions, with Byzantium as the capital of the East and Rome as the capital of the West. He established the "tetrarchy", or division of power among four rulers in 293 B.C. The tetrarchy included two primary rulers, each with the title "Augustus", who ruled over the eastern and western empires, and two "Caesars" who served under the Augustuses. He imposed economic regulations, some of which seem silly today. For example, Diocletian required farmers to stay with their land and workers to stay on the job for the rest of their lives. He did this to prevent people from leaving their work to avoid taxation. For an empire that embraced slavery, this probably seemed like normal regulations. Diocletian also imposed wage and price controls to halt inflation. That economic regulation, which almost always fails, is still attempted by modern rulers, such as the United States President during World War II and even President Nixon in the early 1970s.

Diocletian also attempted to suppress Christianity by ordering Christians to worship him and brutally persecuting them when they did not. He was the last emperor to do this. Diocletian abdicated (resigned) due to a stomach illness in A.D. 305.

== References ==

<references/>

Juno

2007-05-02T01:59:18Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: '''Juno''' was the queen of the Roman gods. Her husband was Jupiter. She was represented as Hera by the Greeks.

'''Juno''' was the queen of the [[Roman]] gods. Her husband was [[Jupiter]]. She was represented as [[Hera]] by the [[Greeks]].

June

2007-05-02T01:58:35Z

GodlessLiberal:

'''June''' is the sixth [[month]] of the [[year]], between [[May]] and [[July]]. It is named for [[Juno]], the wife of [[Jupiter]].

[[Category:Months]]

Talk:December

2007-05-02T01:56:29Z

GodlessLiberal:

I know he's a vandal, but isn't [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=December&diff=next&oldid=139446 this] actually where the name came from? The Romans screwed up the calendar and then added two extra months in (February and March?), throwing off the Sept-, Oct-, Nov-, Dec- thing. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:25, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

: July and August - named after Julius and Augustus. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 21:28, 1 May 2007 (EDT)
::January is named after the god Janus. Feb through June... no idea. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:30, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

: February is from februare which is Latin for to purify. March is named after Mars - the time when the snow melted enough to get ready to go back to war. April was Aprilis which is possibly a form of aperire - to open, as in flowers opening. May was Maia, mother of Mercury (and Jupiter) depending on the story. Others had her as the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan. June was Juno - Roman equivalent of Hera. It appears I was incorrect above about the insertion of months. The roman year started with March 1 - and thus October would be the 8th month of that calandar. http://www.factmonster.com/spot/newyearhistory.html --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 21:52, 1 May 2007 (EDT)
::So it was January and February that were added in when Julius reformed the calendar in (I think) 45 BC? All your name info agrees with the respective articles here, except April. I had gone through all the other months and posted on [[Talk:April]] that I didn't think it was named for Aphrodite. Feel free to go change it. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:56, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

Yes, it is. I just reverted all his contributions en masse to save time. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 21:28, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

Feel free to revert it back. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 21:29, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:British Isles

2007-05-02T01:52:54Z

GodlessLiberal:

The term 'British' was not used to describe the whole of the British Isles by the Greeks and Romans. The Greeks knew Great Britain as Albion, and the romans knew Great Britain as 'Brittania' and Ireland as 'Hibernia.' Would anyone mind if I changed the article to reflect this?

:That's not correct. The term Britanniae Insulae was used to refer to both Britain and Ireland by Classical geographers. [[User:Dorpfeld|Dorpfeld]] 05:09, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

: It is correct. The Greeks knew Great Britain as Albion, and the ancient Romans knew Great Britain as 'Brittania' (It was one of their provinces) and Ireland as 'Hibernia.' (Which was not one of their provinces.) They would never have refered to a land which was part of their empire with the same name as a land which was not part of their empire. That would not make sense.
The term 'Britanniae Insulae' (Or British Isles) was used much much later, in relatively modern times, (16th century) by a Roman cartographer to describe the islands of Britain and Ireland. Even before the birth of Christ, the Islands were known as Brittania and Hibernia. The use of Brittaniae Insulae by some distant map maker in Rome 1600 years after the islands were first thrown into the light of civilisation is surely just the first instance of the incorrect term British Isles being used to describe the whole archipelago.

::Ptolemy, in his 2nd century book "Geography", had a chapter titled "Hibernia, island of Britannia", and the next chapter was called "Albion, island of Britannia". In the 1st century Pliny the Elder specifically describes Britannia as including Britain, Ireland, the Orkneys, and many other places. In fact, the true historical position is quite the reverse of what has been stated above. Britannia was a term that described both Hibernia and Albion. When the Romans took over most of Albion, they applied the name Britannia to the area over which they ruled, which is why some have mistakenly assumed that it only refers to that island. [[User:Dorpfeld|Dorpfeld]] 04:02, 26 March 2007 (EDT)

Have decided to greatly expand this article and include as many relevant links as possible. Perhaps some of our resident Brits could assist me in adding pages where there are dead links. [[User:Trashbat|Trashbat]] 09:43, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
:Your British expertise is needed in separating [[Great Britain]], [[United Kingdom]]. [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], and the many other names of states (past and present) on these isles that cause Americans so much confusion! [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:52, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:British Isles

2007-05-02T01:52:13Z

GodlessLiberal:

The term 'British' was not used to describe the whole of the British Isles by the Greeks and Romans. The Greeks knew Great Britain as Albion, and the romans knew Great Britain as 'Brittania' and Ireland as 'Hibernia.' Would anyone mind if I changed the article to reflect this?

:That's not correct. The term Britanniae Insulae was used to refer to both Britain and Ireland by Classical geographers. [[User:Dorpfeld|Dorpfeld]] 05:09, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

: It is correct. The Greeks knew Great Britain as Albion, and the ancient Romans knew Great Britain as 'Brittania' (It was one of their provinces) and Ireland as 'Hibernia.' (Which was not one of their provinces.) They would never have refered to a land which was part of their empire with the same name as a land which was not part of their empire. That would not make sense.
The term 'Britanniae Insulae' (Or British Isles) was used much much later, in relatively modern times, (16th century) by a Roman cartographer to describe the islands of Britain and Ireland. Even before the birth of Christ, the Islands were known as Brittania and Hibernia. The use of Brittaniae Insulae by some distant map maker in Rome 1600 years after the islands were first thrown into the light of civilisation is surely just the first instance of the incorrect term British Isles being used to describe the whole archipelago.

::Ptolemy, in his 2nd century book "Geography", had a chapter titled "Hibernia, island of Britannia", and the next chapter was called "Albion, island of Britannia". In the 1st century Pliny the Elder specifically describes Britannia as including Britain, Ireland, the Orkneys, and many other places. In fact, the true historical position is quite the reverse of what has been stated above. Britannia was a term that described both Hibernia and Albion. When the Romans took over most of Albion, they applied the name Britannia to the area over which they ruled, which is why some have mistakenly assumed that it only refers to that island. [[User:Dorpfeld|Dorpfeld]] 04:02, 26 March 2007 (EDT)

Have decided to greatly expand this article and include as many relevant links as possible. Perhaps some of our resident Brits could assist me in adding pages where there are dead links. [[User:Trashbat|Trashbat]] 09:43, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
:Your British expertise is needed in separating [[Great Britain]], [[United Kingdom]]. [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], and the many other names of states on these isles that cause Americans so much confusion! [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:52, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

Talk:June

2007-05-02T01:47:56Z

GodlessLiberal: New page: What/who is June named after? ~~~~

What/who is June named after? [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:47, 1 May 2007 (EDT)