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Uruguay

2007-03-25T04:53:24Z

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Uruguay is a small communist nation in South America. Its capital is Montevideo.

"Como el Uruguay no hay."

Uruguay

2007-03-25T04:53:14Z

Pobjeda: New page: Uruguay is a small nation in South America. Its capital is Montevideo. "Como el Uruguay no hay."

Uruguay is a small nation in South America. Its capital is Montevideo.

"Como el Uruguay no hay."

Bush

2007-03-25T04:48:49Z

Pobjeda: New page: "Bush" is a noun that refers to a short, stout, and tree-like plant. It is also the surname of two American presidents.

"Bush" is a noun that refers to a short, stout, and tree-like plant.

It is also the surname of two American presidents.

Elephant

2007-03-25T04:47:42Z

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The '''elephant''' (Elephantidae) belongs to the family of [[pachyderm]], and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. Elephantidae has three living species: the African [[Bush]] [[Elephant]], the African [[Forest]] Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant).

Elephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal, although the blue whale is larger. Some people incorrectly believe that the blue whale once walked on land. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. It was male and weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb), with a shoulder height of 4.2m, a meter taller than the average male African elephant.

Elephants are large quadrupedal [[mammals]] native to [[Africa]] and [[India]]. The elephant is noted for its long trunk, or proboscis, a flexible nose strong enough to lift objects.

Elephants are not mentioned directly in the [[Bible]]. According to the young earth creationist view they were created on the sixth day with the other beasts of the earth (Genesis 1:24-25) and survived the [[Great Flood]] on [[Noah's Ark]] (Genesis 7:7-8). The Apocryphal book [[1 Maccabees]] mentions thirty-two elephants sent by the Persian king Antiochus to attack [[Judas Machabeus]]. Numerous references are made to [[ivory]], a substance created from their tusks and worth great amounts.

In more recent times, domestic elephants have been used for riding, Polo, carrying heavy loads, and [[war]] elephants.

Centuries of hunting elephants for their ivory has dwindled the population of these animals.
An elephant is the symbol of the [[Republican Party]].

== Support for Creationism ==
One of the supposed pieces of evidence against evolution is that scientists cannot decide what elephants could have evolved from. Many scientists point to the idea that elephants share a common ancestor with sea cows and water dwelling hyraxes. Some support for this point of view is that elephants might have used their trunks as snorkels.

In the past, there were many different types of elephants like [[mammoth|mammoths]] and [[mastodon|mastodons]], but most young earth creation scientists say that these species never made it onto the Ark and that these species{{fact}}. Scientists and scholars agree that Noah could not have trekked all the way to the arctic to collect a pair of mastodons before the earth was flooded, and they all drowned.{{fact}} [[Polar bears]] and [[penguins]] survived because both are excellent swimmers and could have swam to floating glaciers and ridden them through the [[Great Flood]].

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Elephant in the room

2007-03-25T04:46:45Z

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'''The [[Elephant]] in the Living room''' is a colloquial way of referring to a large, obvious problem which, for some reason, nobody is willing to deal with or acknowledge directly.

Jefferson Davis

2007-03-25T04:44:02Z

Pobjeda: New page: Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America.

Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America.

Hamilton Mitchell

2007-03-25T04:43:33Z

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Hamilton Mitchell, [[1879]]-[[1945]], was an author, diplomat, and at least one-time actor who carried a wide influence in his home state of [[Arkansas]].

Born in Petit Douche, [[Arkansas]], in 1879, Hamilton was the son of a white sharecropping family who had political connections to [[Jefferson Davis]], president of the [[Confederate States of America]] during its brief existence. Little is known about his childhood, other than his ambition to quickly regain his family's lost status amongst southern families. In 1905 he graduated with honors from [[Hendrix College]] and went to work for the office of the governor in [[Little Rock]]. He soon gained a reputation for his uncouth remarks and generally flippant attitude. Through luck- some suspect bribes, or worse- he managed to rise to the rank of Assistant Attorney General for the state of Arkansas in [[1909]], a position he held for only five months before being fired and briefly jailed for [[sodomy]], then illegal in the state.

Virtually nothing is known about Mitchell's life from that point until [[1914]], when he attempted to enlist in the [[U.S. Army]] in [[Los Angeles]] after the outbreak of the first [[World War]] but was rejected for reasons unknown. Dejected, he found work as an extra in the unquestionably racist film [[Birth of a Nation]], but as a Southerner, was seen as a valuable addition to the work and was promoted to the cast soon after.

Upon its [[1915]] release, Mitchell was a hero in his home state. He became a rabid xenophobe and leading opponent of U.S. involvment in what was thought of as an exclusively European war, and at times even expressed open support for the German government. It was said that he openly admired [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]], to the point of breaking his own arm to imitate the Prussian's own disability.

After the war came an event astonishing to Mitchell and his followers: inexplicably, he was named ambassador to the [[Free City of Danzig]] (today the [[Polish]] city of [[Gdańsk]]). It has been speculated that his extensive knowledge of German and German culture were key in his naming, and that it was part of an overall strategy of the United States to tacitly endorse German domination of the city (and region). He held the post for two years, but was recalled in 1921 after public scuffles with Bolshevik sailors in the port and threatening the Soviet consul with "a thrashing two within an inch of (his) life."

His return to Arkansas was greeted with little enthusiasm, and he remained an obscure and solitary figure until his death on the first of [[May]] [[1945]], from massive liver failure.

Sources:

Hamilton Mitchell archives at the Petit Douche Municipal Library, Petit Douche, Arkansas.

Hamilton Mitchell

2007-03-25T01:07:25Z

Pobjeda: Hamilton Mitchell, conservative politician and historic Arkansas personality

Hamilton Mitchell, [[1879]]-[[1945]], was a author, diplomat, and at least one-time actor who carried a wide influence in his home state of [[Arkansas]].

Born in Petit Douche, [[Arkansas]], in 1879, Hamilton was the son of a white sharecropping family who had political connections to [[Jefferson Davis]], president of the [[Confederate States of America]] during its brief existence. Little is known about his childhood, other than his ambition to quickly regain his family's lost status amongst southern families. In 1905 he graduated with honors from [[Hendrix College]] and went to work for the office of the governor in [[Little Rock]]. He soon gained a reputation for his uncouth remarks and generally flippant attitude. Through luck- some suspect bribes, or worse- he managed to rise to the rank of Assistant Attorney General for the state of Arkansas in [[1909]], a position he held for only five months before being fired and briefly jailed for [[sodomy]], then illegal in the state.

Virtually nothing is known about Mitchell's life from that point until [[1914]], when he attempted to enlist in the [[U.S. Army]] in [[Los Angeles]] after the outbreak of the first [[World War]] but was rejected for reasons unknown. Dejected, he found work as an extra in the unquestionably racist film [[Birth of a Nation]], but as a Southerner, was seen as a valuable addition to the work and was promoted to the cast soon after.

Upon its [[1915]] release, Mitchell was a hero in his home state. He became a rabid xenophobe and leading opponent of U.S. involvment in what was thought of as an exclusively European war, and at times even expressed open support for the German government. It was said that he openly admired [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]], to the point of breaking his own arm to imitate the Prussian's own disability.

After the war came an event astonishing to Mitchell and his followers: inexplicably, he was named ambassador to the [[Free City of Danzig]] (today the [[Polish]] city of [[Gdańsk]]). It has been speculated that his extensive knowledge of German and German culture were key in his naming, and that it was part of an overall strategy of the United States to tacitly endorse German domination of the city (and region). He held the post for two years, but was recalled in 1921 after public scuffles with Bolshevik sailors in the port and threatening the Soviet consul with "a thrashing two within an inch of (his) life."

His return to Arkansas was greeted with little enthusiasm, and he remained an obscure and solitary figure until his death on the first of [[May]] [[1945]], from massive liver failure.

Sources:

Hamilton Mitchell archives at the Petit Douche Municipal Library, Petit Douche, Arkansas.