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1 Samuel 23-31 (Translated)

2011-09-15T01:00:30Z

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==Chapter 23==

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|Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
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|Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
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|And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
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|Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
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|So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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|And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
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|And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
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|And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
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|And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
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|Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
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|Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
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|Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
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|Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
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|And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
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|And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
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|And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
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|And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
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|And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
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|Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
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|Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.
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|And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
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|Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
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|See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
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|And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
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|Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
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|And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
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|But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
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|Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.
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|And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.
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==Chapter 24==

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|And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.
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|Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
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|And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
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|And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
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|And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
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|And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
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|So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
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|David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
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|And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
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|Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
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|Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
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|The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
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|As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
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|After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
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|The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
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|And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
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|And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
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|And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
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|For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
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|And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
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|Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.
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|And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
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==Chapter 25==

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|And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
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|And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
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|Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
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|And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
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|And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
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|And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.
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|And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
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|Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
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|And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
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|And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
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|Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
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|So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
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|And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
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|But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
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|But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
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|They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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|Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
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|Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
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|And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
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|And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
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|Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
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|So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
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|And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
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|And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
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|Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
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|Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
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|And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
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|I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
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|Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
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|And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
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|That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
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|And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
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|And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
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|For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
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|So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
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|And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
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|But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
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|And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
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|And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head, And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
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|And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee to take thee to him to wife.
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|And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
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|And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
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|David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
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|But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
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==Chapter 26==

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|And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
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|Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
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|And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
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|David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
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|And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
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|Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
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|So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
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|Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
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|And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?
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|David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
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|The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
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|So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
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|Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:
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|And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
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|And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
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|This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
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|And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
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|And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
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|Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
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|Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
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|Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
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|And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
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|The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
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|And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
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|Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
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==Chapter 27==

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|And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
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|And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
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|And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
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|And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
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|And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
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|Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
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|And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
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|And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
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|And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
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|And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
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|And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
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|And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
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==Chapter 28==

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|And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
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|And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
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|Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
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|And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
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|And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
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|And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
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|Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
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|And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
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|And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
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|Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
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|And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
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|And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
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|And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
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|And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
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|Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
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|And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
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|Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
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|Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
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|Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
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|And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
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|Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
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|But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
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|And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
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==Chapter 29==

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|Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
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|Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
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|Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
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|And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
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|And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
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|Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
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|So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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==Chapter 30==

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|And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
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|So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
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|Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
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|And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
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|And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
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|And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
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|So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
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|But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
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|And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
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|And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
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|And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
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|We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
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|And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
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|And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
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|And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
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|And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
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|And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
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|Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
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|For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
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|To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
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|And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
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==Chapter 31==

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|Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
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|Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
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User talk:SeanS

2011-09-15T01:00:21Z

Richardnoe: /* Richardnoe */

Hi there.

== Nebraska lethal injections ==

Hey, I tried finding a decent source and this is the best I could find: [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/methods-execution] Although it doesn't mention the courts finding it unconstitutional it does show the type of death penalty used in every state. I've added it to the article but I just wanted to make sure it was ok to use. [[User:TonyB|TonyB]] 20:22, 26 April 2011 (EDT)

== Images ==

You may ask for any legal image to be uploaded.

Use: [[Conservapedia:Image upload requests]]
--[[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]] 21:08, 29 May 2011 (EDT)

: Please provide a better source to see the copyright of the image. --[[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]] 22:28, 29 May 2011 (EDT)

== Libya ==

You are right; it was Morocco "The first nation to recognize the US", in signing the Barbary Treaty with Morocco in 1786. Other sources say since 1777. --[[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]] 09:50, 2 June 2011 (EDT)

== Obama ==

You sure you don't support Obama? Your comments :re the oil reserves have me perplexed. [[User:HP|HP]] 19:07, 23 June 2011 (EDT)

== Thank you ==
I really appreciate the little box on my page, im sure it will be very useful, so thanks --[[User:CAndrs|CAndrs]] 07:52, 14 July 2011 (EDT)

== Comments on RobS and Conservative ==

As I have told a couple of users, instead of taking sides lets all work together to find a solution and avoid blaming and negative comments. It gets us nowhere and we need to move forward. Thanks and I hope we can work together. [[User:MaxFletcher|MaxFletcher]] 23:52, 28 July 2011 (EDT)
:I would love to do that! Question: Whose side did I take though?--[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 23:53, 28 July 2011 (EDT)
::More just sterring you away from it than saying you did, sorry! [[User:MaxFletcher|MaxFletcher]] 23:55, 28 July 2011 (EDT)
:::Ah, ok ^_^ --[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 23:56, 28 July 2011 (EDT)

== Conservapedia web traffic ==

You are partly right about CP traffic and [Alexa] says 70% of CP traffic comes from the USA and it wouldn't surprise me if this were true. The logo is not going to change for the foreseeable future. At the same time, the search engines are bringing in traffic from around the world. As far as RobS, I should have let ASchlafly intervene earlier as far as RobS as it would have been a better use of my time. I am moving on and attending to more important matters. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 08:45, 29 July 2011 (EDT)

== Quick apology ==

Hi Sean,

I deleted PHilton's personal attack on Conservative, and your comment responding to it. While your comment was in no way inappropriate, it would have looked a bit strange sitting there in isolation. --[[User:Benp|Benp]] 11:57, 29 July 2011 (EDT)
:Its ok haha ^_^--[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 12:00, 29 July 2011 (EDT)

== Accepted it it trollish ==
But no more so than user:conserative's 'contributions'. There is a good reason the 'vandal' site loves user:conservative so much. [[User:Davidspencer|Davidspencer]] 15:40, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

== Blocking powers ==

I noticed your recent reversion; now you can block accounts also.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:07, 15 August 2011 (EDT)
:Danke, Hopefully I won't have much use for it.--[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 18:11, 15 August 2011 (EDT)
::Well, there goes that hope :/ --[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 21:26, 15 August 2011 (EDT)

== Account creation ==

Sean, if you are blocking for "inappropriate username" please make sure that the box "account creation disabled" is '''unticked''' so the user can recreate with a more suitable name (unless of course the username is vulgar and/or abusive). Thanks, [[User:MaxFletcher|MaxFletcher]] 19:47, 17 August 2011 (EDT)
:Ok, danke for the reminder ^_^--[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 19:49, 17 August 2011 (EDT)
::De nada! [[User:MaxFletcher|MaxFletcher]] 19:53, 17 August 2011 (EDT)

==Here, kitty, kitty==

Hi, Sean. Thanks for [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Internet_Explorer&curid=19930&diff=903299&oldid=903297&rcid=1216927 adding back the cats] for [[Internet Explorer]]. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 13:15, 19 August 2011 (EDT)

== Bachmann ==

Sorry I didn't talk to you about this earlier. I removed the reference that Pierre guy put in that you reinserted. It was an honest mistake, I'm sure. Seeing from your userpage that you are going into your freshmen year of college and would be born in the post-Cold War era, you probably have no idea what the [[Soviet Union]] was. It was a blunder that Bachmann made in a speech. I'm not sure if you follow politics, but Bachmann is known for those sort of blunders much like mistaking Elvis' death date for his birthday, or mistaking actor John Wayne for serial killer John Wayne Gacy. These remarks are fodder that the [[liberal media]] use to tarnish Bachmann with and that parodist inserted it like it was true. If you don't mind, I reinstated his block and doubled it to 1 year. Thanks and good luck with school.--[[User:JamesWilson|JamesWilson]] 20:34, 19 August 2011 (EDT)

== Great block and reverts ==

Great block and reverts, Sean!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 11:23, 27 August 2011 (EDT)
:Danke! Took a while to do though --[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 18:11, 27 August 2011 (EDT)

== Another great block and reverts ==

Sean, another great block and reverts!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 11:55, 5 September 2011 (EDT)
:Danke!. --[[User:SeanS|SeanS]] 11:59, 5 September 2011 (EDT)

==Miyazaki==
I heard on the liberal Wikipedia that Hayao Miyazaki's films have feminist messages, and he is anti-capitalist. I just took usual liberal crap on Wikipedia about this otherwise great director too literally, so I acted on it. Thanks for correcting it Sean, I am a fellow anime and video game fan like you!
-[[User:RKLuffy88|RKLuffy88]]

== Richardnoe ==

Just letting you know I saw from 4chan that Richardnoe is going to be a shared account only to be used for vandalism. You should block it right away. [[User:Warning|Warning]] 20:45, 14 September 2011 (EDT)
:Talk about assuming good faith. I just got here from wikipedia, after being blocked for "POV pushing" when it is the truth. [[User:Richardnoe|Richardnoe]] 20:49, 14 September 2011 (EDT)
:: That isn't true from [[IRC]] "Borglings: I have Richardnoe" [[User:Warning|Warning]] 20:53, 14 September 2011 (EDT)
:::#wikipedia-en is not 4chan. Oh well. [[User:Richardnoe|Richardnoe]] 20:55, 14 September 2011 (EDT)
::::We're going to assume good-faith here. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 20:56, 14 September 2011 (EDT)
:::::Thank you! [[User:Richardnoe|Richardnoe]] 20:59, 14 September 2011 (EDT)
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Roustan

2011-09-15T01:00:21Z

Richardnoe: clean up

'''Roustan''' or Rustam was the nickname for [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s most famous bodyguard, whose real name was Rostom Raza. He was a [[Mamluk]] from Egypt, and was probably of Georgian and/or Armenian descent.

Like other [[Mamluk]]s, Routsan was kidnapped as a child to become a slave soldier. He was later sold as a slave in Cairo. In 1798 he was presented a young slave to General Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798, for whom Roustan served as his bodyguard until 1814. He then married and did not follow Napoleon to his exile to [[Elba]].

[[Category:Biographies]]

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Schnauzer

2011-09-15T01:00:18Z

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[[Image:Miniature Schnauzer.jpg|thumb|300px|A sleeping miniature schnauzer]]
A '''Schnauzer''' is a breed of small [[dog]] originally bred in [[Germany]]; the name means 'snout', a reference to their prominent muzzles. There are miniature and giant varieties of Schnauzers, along with medium sized ones, known as simply schnauzers.

==Further Information==
http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet/breeds/Schnauzer_Standard.htm

[[Category:Dog Breeds]]

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Scientific Illiteracy and Liberals

2011-09-15T01:00:17Z

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There seems to be a high rate of scientific illiteracy among [[liberals]].<ref>http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=359</ref> This phenomenon will become evident whenever one speaks to a liberal.

==Examples==
* Use of ad hom attacks to hide their scientific illiteracy ("You clearly don't understand how science works.").
* Gratuitous amounts of spewing [[pseudoscience]]
* Fictitious, disproved claims.
* The denial of [[Biblical Scientific Foreknowledge]]
* Over twice as many Democrats believe in [[astrology]] than Republicans (31% to 14%).<ref>[http://blog.beliefnet.com/astrologicalmusings/2009/12/more-democrats-believe-in-astr.html Beliefnet article on the Pew Forum study]</ref>
* When asked about the [[scientific method]], they cannot state the steps.

{{Liberalism}}

==Reflist==
<references><references/>

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Array initialization

2011-09-15T01:00:14Z

Richardnoe: clean up

'''Array initialization''' is done differently, depending on the [[computer programming language]] being used.
Java borrows the curly brace syntax of C++ as follows:

int[] temp = {-40, 0, 20, 100};

Javascript is similar, but uses square brackets:

var temp = [-40, 32, 68, 212];

Or the ''new'' keyword:

days = new Array("Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday");

[[Category:Computer Programming]]

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Elijah

2011-09-15T01:00:10Z

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'''Elijah''' ([[Hebrew]], "[[YHWH]] is [[God]]") ([[floruit|fl.]] 918-896 BC according to [[James Ussher|Ussher]], or 874-852 BC as may be inferred from [[Edwin R. Thiele|Thiele]]) is the best-known and probably the greatest [[prophet]] of [[God]] of the [[Old Testament]] era—and certainly the greatest prophet of the era of the Divided Kingdoms [[Northern Kingdom|Northern]] and [[Southern Kingdom|Southern]]. Ironically, he holds this distinction even though he does not have a book of the [[Bible]] to his name. He is a by-word for courage-under-fire and for willingness to challenge the established order. His record is by no means perfect, but even the one episode of failure-of-nerve is an instructive example.

Elijah holds another distinction, of being the only man who ever lived (aside from [[Enoch]]) to enter into the next life without directly tasting death. Prophecy holds that he will return by a specific gate of the [[Temple of Jerusalem]]. The contemporaries of [[John the Baptist]] once asked him whether he himself was Elijah (he denied this). Students of [[eschatology]], or at least those who hold to a [[Futurism|futuristic]] interpretation of end-times prophecies, hold that Elijah will return again to this world, in the company of [[Moses]] (or [[Enoch]]), to give a pivotal testimony in [[Jerusalem]].

== Origins ==
The [[Bible]] says nothing of Elijah's origins, other than describing him as a "Tishbite." This presumably means that he was born in the city of [[Tishbe]] in [[Gilead]].

Some have suggested that ''Elijah'' was not the name that this man was born with, but was one that he chose himself, to express the all-encompassing importance of his mission. That mission was to speak the truth of [[God]] to a power on earth—specifically, that of King [[Ahab]] of the Northern Kingdom, and Ahab's even more wicked queen [[Jezebel]].

== Career ==
=== The Widow's Son ===
Elijah's first public pronouncement, probably during the ninth year of the reign of [[Ahab]], was to swear by [[God]] that neither [[rain]] nor [[dew]] should fall upon the Northern Kingdom until he, Elijah, said that it was time. He would never have made a pronouncement like that without direct Divine orders.

Shortly thereafter, God ordered Elijah to hide by the brook called [[Cherith]], and drink from it, and to eat the morsels that the [[raven]]s brought him. Elijah did so for at least one day, until the brook dried up from the [[drought]] that he had earlier pronounced.

God's next command to Elijah was to go to [[Zarephath]] and there seek lodging from a widow and her son. He found this widow despairing over the failing food in their household, and announcing that she was about to prepare her and her son's last meal. Elijah asked her to feed him first, and then herself and her son—because God had promised that her provisions would not give out until the day that God saw fit to cause rain to fall again. True to Elijah's word, the widow lacked for no provision during the next several days that Elijah lodged in her house.

But at length her son fell sick and died—and the widow, now very frightened, asked Elijah whether he had come to visit punishment on her for her sins by killing her son. Elijah asked her to entrust her son to his care, which she did. Elijah then prayed earnestly to God to allow the boy to live again—and the boy did. The widow then declared that she trusted Elijah implicitly as a man of God.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=I_Kings|chap=17|verses=1-24|version=KJV}}</ref>

=== The Mount Carmel Demonstration ===

Three years later, Elijah received word from God to present himself at court, because God was now ready to allow the rain to fall again. The meeting took place in this way: Ahab summoned the palace steward, [[Obadiah (disambiguation)|Obadiah]] (who had in fact helped a hundred prophets hide themselves in two groups of fifty), and asked him to help search the land for any blade of grass that might still be growing. Obadiah, while conducting his part of the search, happened upon Elijah and prostrated himself before him. Elijah ordered him to go tell Ahab that Elijah had arrived. Obadiah was afraid that Ahab would execute him summarily, because Elijah was at the moment the most hunted and wanted man in all the Northern Kingdom. Elijah assured Obadiah that he would meet Ahab at any agreed-upon place.

Ahab met Elijah and at first asked him, "Are you the man who has troubled [[Israel]]?" Elijah answered, in effect, that if either man had troubled the Northern Kingdom, Ahab had, with his [[Baal]] worship. He then issued the king a challenge: that everyone in the kingdom should come to [[Mount Carmel]], together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of [[Asherah]]. There Elijah would prepare a demonstration.

At the appointed time and place, Elijah said that the people must stop worshiping two different gods—that they must either follow God, or follow Baal. He then challenged a side-by-side test of the efficacy of these two gods—that the Baalists would prepare a sacrifice of a [[bullock]], and Elijah would do likewise; they would put no fire underneath the altars, but each would call on his respective god to light the fire.

The Baalists and Asherists prepared their sacrifice and cried out incessantly to Baal from morning until noon. Elijah then mocked them and suggested that they cry more loudly. They did, and even cut themselves so that they bled profusely. All of this was to no avail. Evening came, and Baal had provided no fire.

Now Elijah built an altar of twelve stones (one for each tribe) and prepared his own sacrifice. But he also ordered a trench dug around the altar, and then ordered the meat and the [[wood]] for the fire drenched with four barrels of [[water]]--and not merely once, but three times. The water from these three washings drained into the trench. Then he prayed very simply for God to send His answer. [[Fire]] (some say [[lightning]]; others suggest that it was a purely miraculous fire) came down from heaven, with sufficient force to consume the sacrifice, the wood, and the stones, and to dry up the water that had drained into the trench!

Instantly the onlookers cried out, "Yahweh is God!" Now Elijah ordered the spectators to arrest the Baalists (and, presumably, the Asherists, too). This they did, and Elijah had them brought to the [[Kishon]] brook and summarily executed.

Finally, Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel, prostrated himself on the summit, and prayed again. He then asked his servant to look toward the sea seven times, and on the seventh the servant reported seeing a rain cloud. Elijah then had the servant advise Ahab to get back into his chariot and ride back to his capital, if he didn't want to be overtaken by a sudden flood. Ahab did so—with Elijah actually running ahead of him on the way back to [[Jezebel]]'s house—and the skies turned black with [[thunderhead]]s, which discharged a torrential rainfall.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=I_Kings|chap=18|verses=1-46|version=KJV}}</ref>

=== Flight to Sinai ===
Jezebel, when she heard the story, reacted in cold fury. She sent a message to Elijah, saying coldly that she hoped that her own gods would execute ''her'', in just such a demeaning manner, if she did not have Elijah executed in the same fashion as he had executed the Baalists. Faced with this brazen defiance, Elijah's nerve failed him. He fled to [[Beersheba]], left his servant in that city, and went a day's journey further into the desert. He actually prayed to [[God]] to take his life—because, quite simply, he thought himself a failure.

Twice an angel provided him food and drink, so that Elijah journeyed for forty days and forty nights to the foot of [[Mount Sinai]] (or ''Horeb''). He hid in a cave, and there God asked him, "What are you doing here?" In reply, Elijah protested that the people of the Northern Kingdom had broken their covenant with God, killed his prophets, and now sought to kill him. God told him to climb the mountain, and when Elijah did, God provided three separate demonstrations of great power.

Then God asked him again, "What are you doing here?" Elijah gave the same answer as before. Now God gave Elijah specific instructions and a reassurance. The instructions were to travel to [[Damascus]] and there anoint with oil three specific persons: [[Hazael]] of [[Syria]], who would eventually succeed the present king, [[Benhadad]]; [[Jehu]] son of [[Nimshi]], who would eventually take over the Northern Kingdom; and [[Elisha]] son of [[Shaphat]], who would succeed Elijah himself as God's chief spokesman. The reassurance was that God still had a ''remnant'' of believers, seven thousand in all, who had not turned to the Baal worship that Ahab and Jezebel had brought to the Northern Kingdom.

Elijah's next task was to find Elisha, who was plowing a field at the time. Elijah threw his mantle on the other man—a gesture Elijah would later repeat—and asked Elisha to follow him. Elisha asked permission to say good-bye to his family first; this Elijah granted. Eventually Elisha returned to Elijah, and between them they killed a team of oxen, fed the nearby workers, and went on their way.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=I_Kings|chap=19|verses=1-21|version=KJV}}</ref>

=== The Naboth Incident ===
In the twentieth year of the reign of [[Ahab]], Elijah confronted Ahab again, this time concerning Ahab's taking of the vineyard of [[Naboth]], after [[Jezebel]] had had Naboth tried in a show trial and executed on a false charge of [[blasphemy]]. Elijah, again acting on Divine instructions, warned Ahab that he and Jezebel would die violently, and that all of Ahab's household would perish. Ahab, hearing this, tore his clothes and put on sackcloth. Elijah then advised Ahab that he would not live to see the worst of the disaster that would befall his royal house. Elijah never spoke to Ahab again after that.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=I_Kings|chap=21|verses=17-29|version=KJV}}</ref>

=== Warning to Ahaziah ===
King [[Ahaziah of Israel|Ahaziah]] fell through a latticework and injured himself. He then consulted a prophet, not of God, but of [[Baalzebub]] (literally, "Lord of the [[Housefly|Flies]]"). Elijah met Ahaziah's messengers and asked them pointedly why he would ask advice of a pagan god instead of the true [[God]]? He then told the king's men that Ahaziah would not so much as rise from his bed, but would die on it.

Ahaziah sent a fifty-man company (the size of a modern [[platoon]]) to arrest Elijah. This platoon and its leader all were incinerated by another display of fire from heaven similar to that originally seen on Mount Carmel. The same thing happened a second time with a second platoon. The third platoon leader begged that Elijah spare him. The Angel of the Lord (actually the pre-incarnate [[Jesus Christ]] then advised Elijah to return to the king himself with this platoon. Elijah did, and declared straight to Ahaziah's face that Ahaziah would die on the bed where he lay. And Ahaziah did indeed die.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=1|verses=1-18|version=KJV}}</ref>

=== Recall to heaven ===
Elijah's recall to heaven occurred shortly after the death of King [[Ahaziah of Israel|Ahaziah]]; this we may surmise because of a role that [[Elisha]] would play in a battle in which [[Jehoshaphat]] took part, in a coalition with King [[Jehoram of Israel|Jehoram]]. Elijah summoned Elisha and asked him to wait for him, first at [[Bethel]], then at [[Jericho]], and finally at [[Jordan (river)|Jordan]]. At this last spot, Elijah asked Elisha what sort of last favor Elijah might grant him. Elisha asked for "a double portion of thy spirit." Elijah said that he would be able to grant that, ''if'' Elisha would be able to see him during his rise to heaven. Then a chariot and team, all of fire, appeared and separated the two prophets. As Elijah left the earth in a ''whirlwind''<ref name=whirlwind>Biblical uses of ''whirlwind'': [http://www.biblegateway.com/topical/topical_resource.php?source=1&tid=5135 Naves' Topical Bible]</ref> his last act was to drop his mantle for Elisha to take.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=2|verses=1-13|version=KJV}}</ref>

=== Confusing Episode Involving King Jehoram of Judah ===
The author of I and II Kings never mentions Elijah again, but the Chronicler does. [[II Chronicles]] states that a prophet named Elijah wrote to King [[Jehoram]] of the [[Southern Kingdom]], telling him that he would die a disgusting and ignominious death for importing [[Baal]] worship to that kingdom.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Chronicles|chap=21|verses=12-15|version=KJV}}</ref>

Who was this prophet named Elijah? More to the point, ''when did this Elijah write that letter''?

[[James Ussher|Ussher]] assumes that the Elijah letter arrived during Jehoram's lone reign. What makes this more likely is that the letter makes specific reference to the fratricide that Jehoram committed shortly after his father died. Only two possibilities exist:

# The letter came from a different man named Elijah, or
# This same Elijah wrote this letter ''seven years before the fact'' and left strict instructions to deliver it when, as, and if any such fratricide occurred.

Neither alternative is impossible, and perhaps neither alternative is any less likely than the other. A prophet can as easily predict the event he is protesting as he can the consequences of that event. Nor would this be entirely without precedent. [[Moses]] was a prophet as well, and received word from [[God]] that the [[Pharaoh]] of [[Egypt]] would not obey God's word to "let My people go."

== Further appearances of the name Elijah in the Bible ==
The prophet [[Malachi (prophet)|Malachi]] predicted that Elijah would return to herald the coming of the [[Messiah]].<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Malachi|chap=3|verses=1|version=KJV}}</ref><ref>{{Bible ref|book=Malachi|chap=4|verses=5-6|version=KJV}}</ref>

The contemporaries of [[John the Baptist]] asked whether he himself was Elijah. John denied this.

[[Jesus Christ]] said to his disciples that those [[Judaism|Jews]] who were waiting for Elijah to return, failed to note that Elijah had already come, but they hadn't recognized him. His disciples understood Him to identify [[John the Baptist]] as that man; perhaps He was speaking parabolically when He said this.

At the episode known as the [[Transfiguration of Jesus]], both Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus while He stood in all His glory. The Bible does not tell us the content of that conversation.

While Jesus hung on the cross, he cried out with a loud voice, ''"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"'' Which means, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" The scornful onlookers said, "He's calling Elijah."<ref>{{Bible ref|book=Matthew|chap=27|verses=46-47|version=NIV}}</ref>

== End-times speculation ==
The book of [[Revelation]] tells us that two witnesses will appear in [[Jerusalem]] and {{Bible quote|prophesy a thousand and two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.|book=Revelation|chap=11|verses=3|version=KJV}} That chapter further describes the powers that these witnesses will have:

# To call fire from heaven to incinerate anyone who tries to harm them, and
# To shut heaven and cause the rain to fail.

Both of these abilities recall key events in Elijah's career. In addition, Revelation says that they will have power to turn water into blood, an obvious reference to the Ten Plagues visited upon Egypt by [[Moses]]. These references have led many to conclude that Elijah and Moses are the two witnesses in view here, and that they will herald the return of [[Jesus Christ]] as a ''judge'' of the living and the dead.

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [[Ahab]]
* [[Jezebel]]
* [[Ahaziah of Israel]]
* [[Jehoram]]
* [[Elisha]]
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_elijah.html Elijah] at BiblicalStudies.org.uk
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05381b.htm Elijah] in the Catholic Encyclopedia

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The '''Jefferson Memorial''', modeled after the [[Pantheon]] of Rome, is America's foremost memorial to our third president. As an original adaptation of Neoclassical architecture, it is a key landmark in the monumental core of Washington, DC The circular, colonnaded structure in the classic style was introduced to this country by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Architect John Russell Pope used Jefferson's own architectural tastes in the design of the Memorial. His intention was to synthesize Jefferson's contribution as a statesman, architect, President, drafter of the [[Declaration of Independence]], adviser of the [[Constitution]] and founder of the [[University of Virginia]]. Architects Daniel P. Higgins and Otto R. Eggers took over construction upon the untimely death of Pope in August 1937. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission was created to direct the erection of a memorial to Thomas Jefferson by an Act of [[Congress]] approved in June 1934. The present-day location at the Tidal Basin was selected in 1937. The site caused considerable public criticism because it resulted in the removal of Japanese flowering cherry trees from the Tidal Basin. Further controversy surrounded the selection of the design of the Memorial. The Commission of Fine Arts objected to the pantheon design because it would compete with the Lincoln Memorial. The Thomas Jefferson Commission took the design controversy to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] who preferred the pantheon design and gave his permission to proceed. On November 15, 1939, a ceremony was held in which President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Memorial.

In 1941, Rudolph Evans was commissioned to sculpt the statue of Thomas Jefferson. The statue of Jefferson looks out from the interior of the Memorial toward the [[White House]]. It was intended to represent the [[Age of Enlightenment]] and Jefferson as a philosopher and statesman. The bronze statue is 19 feet tall and weighs five tons. Adolph A. Weinman's sculpture of the five members of the Declaration of Independence drafting committee submitting their report to Congress is featured on the triangular pediment. Also noteworthy, and adorning the interior of the Memorial, are five quotations taken from Jefferson's writings that illustrate the principles to which he dedicated his life.

Few major changes have been made to the Memorial since its dedication in 1943. The most important change to note is the replacement of the plaster model statue of Thomas Jefferson by the bronze statue after the [[World War II]] restrictions on the use of metals were lifted. Each year the Jefferson Memorial plays host to various ceremonies, including annual Memorial exercises, Easter Sunrise Services and the ever-popular Cherry Blossom Festival. The Jefferson Memorial is administered and maintained by the National Park Service.

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is located on the south bank of the Tidal Basin near downtown Washington, DC It is open daily from 8:00 am until 11:45 pm every day except Christmas Day.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc73.htm National Park Service; Jefferson Memorial]</ref>

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In the United States, the term '''liberal arts college''' refers to an institution of higher learning which exclusively or mainly grants undergraduate degrees, and which focuses on a traditional general education rather than on specific career-oriented specialties. Historically, some liberal arts colleges in the United States began as divinity schools designed to train Protestant ministers for a life of service.

A ''university,'' in contrast, has one (or more) undergraduate "colleges," but also has "graduate schools" which require an undergraduate degree for entrance. A university might have a medical school, a law school, a business school, and possibly schools of agriculture, music, veterinary medicine, divinity, and others.

The phrase "liberal arts" was coined in classical times. It traditionally included the "trivium" of grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the "quadrivium" of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. One dictionary definition of "liberal arts" in the modern sense is:
:Academic disciplines, such as languages, [[literature]], history, [[philosophy]], mathematics, and [[science]], that provide information of general cultural concern.<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/61/88/L0148800.html Liberal arts], American Heritage Dictionary online</ref>
One liberal arts college expresses its modern meaning thus:
:A successful undergraduate education should primarily develop the essential skills of writing, researching, articulating and defending ideas, and working with others—the skills that prepare graduates for leadership in most any career.<ref>[http://www.williams.edu/admission/academics.php Williams College: Academics], Williams College website</ref>

Famous liberal arts colleges include Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Middlebury, Carleton, Bowdoin, Pomona, Haverford, and Davidson.<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1libartco_brief.php Liberal Arts Colleges: Top Schools], U. S. News and World Report]</ref> The colleges of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC)<ref>[http://www.nescac.com/ NESCAC]: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams</ref> are called the "little Ivies" and are sometimes seen analogous to the universities of the [[Ivy League]]. Most of them were historically men's colleges. The "Seven Sisters," another famous group, were historically women's liberal arts colleges; of the original seven, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Barnard remain women's colleges (Barnard with an affiliation with Columbia University); Vassar is coeducational; and Radcliffe no longer exists as an independent undergraduate college (it is part of Harvard University).<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/12812.shtml The Seven Sisters], Mount Holyoke's website</ref>

==References==
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'''USS ''Missouri'' (BB-63)''' was the last [[battleship]] completed and commissioned in the [[United States Navy]], seeing service in the [[Korean War]] and [[Operation Desert Storm]], but is best known as the site of the Japanese surrender ending [[World War II]].

==World War II service==
The fourth ship to bear the name, and the fourth battleship of the [[Iowa-class battleship|''Iowa''-class]], ''Missouri'' was laid down 6 January 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard and launched 29 January 1944. She was sponsored by Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of then-Senator from Missouri (and future president) [[Harry S Truman]], and commissioned 11 June 1944, Capt. William M. Callaghan in command.

After trials off New York and shakedown and battle practice in Chesapeake Bay, ''Missouri'' departed Norfolk 11 November 1944, transited the [[Panama Canal]] 18 November and steamed to San Francisco for final fitting out as fleet flagship. She stood out of [[San Francisco Bay]] 14 December and arrived Ulithi, West Caroline Islands, 13 January 1945. There she was temporary headquarters ship for Vice Admiral [[Marc A. Mitscher]]. The battleship put to sea 27 January to serve in the screen of the ''Lexington'' carrier task group of Mitscher’s TF 58, and on 16 February her flattops launched the first airstrikes against Japan since the famed Doolittle raid that had been launched from carrier ''Hornet'' in April 1942.

''Missouri'' then steamed with the carriers to Iwo Jima where her 16-inch guns provided direct and continuous support to the invasion landings begun 19 February. After TF 58 returned to Ulithi 5 March, ''Missouri'' was assigned to the ''Yorktown'' carrier task group. On 14 March ''Missouri'' departed Ulithi in the screen of the fast carriers and steamed to the Japanese mainland. During strikes against targets along the coast of the Inland Sea of Japan beginning 18 March, ''Missouri'' helped splash four Japanese aircraft.

Raids against airfields and naval bases near the Inland Sea and southwestern Honshu continued, provoking a savage response by Japanese aircraft. While carrier ''Wasp'', crashed by an enemy suicide plane on 19 March, resumed flight operations within an hour, a separate attack penetrated ''Franklin's'' hangar deck with two bombs, setting off explosions that left the warship dead in the water a mere 50 miles of the Japanese mainland. Cruiser ''Pittsburgh'' took ''Franklin'' in tow until she gained speed to 14 knots. ''Missouri’s'' carrier task group provided cover for ''Franklin’s'' retirement toward Ulithi until 22 March, then set course for preinvasion strikes and bombardment of Okinawa.

====Okinawa campaign====
[[Image:H62696.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The last moments of a kamikaze before it hit ''Missouri's'' starboard side, 11 April 1945.]]
''Missouri'' joined the fast battleships of TF 58 in bombarding the southeast coast of Okinawa 24 March, an action intended to draw enemy strength from the west coast beaches that would be the actual site of invasion landings. ''Missouri'' rejoined the screen of the carriers as Marine and Army units landed on the morning of 1 April. Following a sortie by a Japanese surface force led by battleship [[Yamato (battleship)|''Yamato'']], carrier aircraft sank the huge battleship as well as a cruiser and four destroyers. Four remaining destroyers, sole survivors of the attacking fleet, were damaged and retired to Sasebo.

On 11 April ''Missouri'' opened fire on a low‑flying suicide plane which penetrated the curtain of her shells to crash just below her main deck level. The starboard wing of the plane was thrown far forward, starting a gasoline fire at 5‑inch Gunmount No. 3. Yet the battleship suffered only superficial damage, and the fire was brought quickly under control.

About 2305 on 17 April, ''Missouri'' detected an enemy submarine 12 miles from her formation. Her report set off a hunter‑killer operation by carrier Bataan and four destroyers which sank Japanese submarine I‑56.

''Missouri'' was detached from the carrier task force off Okinawa 5 May and sailed for Ulithi. During the Okinawa campaign she had shot down five enemy planes, assisted in the destruction of six others, and scored one probable kill. She helped repel 12 daylight attacks of enemy raiders and fought off four night attacks on her carrier task group. Her shore bombardment destroyed several gun emplacements and many other military, governmental, and industrial structures.

''Missouri'' arrived Ulithi 9 May and thence proceeded to Apra Harbor, Guam, 18 May. That afternoon Admiral [[William F. Halsey]], Commander 3d Fleet, broke his flag in Missouri. She passed out of the harbor 21 May, and by 27 May was again conducting shore bombardment against Japanese positions on Okinawa. ''Missouri'' now led the mighty 3d Fleet in strikes on airfields and installations on Kyushu 2 and 3 June. She rode out a fierce storm 5 and 6 June that wrenched off the bow of cruiser ''Pittsburgh''. Some topside fittings were smashed, but ''Missouri'' suffered no major damage. Her task force again struck Kyushu 8 June, then hit hard in a coordinated air‑surface bombardment before retiring towards Leyte. She arrived San Pedro, Leyte, 13 June, after almost three months of continuous operations in support of the Okinawa campaign.

====Bombardment of Japan====
''Missouri'' then prepared to lead the 3d Fleet in strikes at the heart of Japan from within its home waters. The task force set a northerly course 8 July to approach the Japanese mainland. Raids took Tokyo by surprise 10 July, followed by more devastation at the juncture of Honshu and Hokkaido 13 and 14 July. For the first time, a naval gunfire force wrought destruction on a major installation within the home islands when ''Missouri'' closed the shore to join in a bombardment 15 July that damaged the Nihon Steel Company and the Wanishi Ironworks at Muroran, Hokkaido.

During the night of 17‑18 July ''Missouri'' bombarded industrial targets in the Hichiti area. Honshu. Inland Sea aerial strikes continued through 25 July, and ''Missouri'' guarded the carriers as they struck hard blows at the Japanese capital. Strikes on Hokkaido and northern Honshu resumed 9 August, the day the second [[atomic bomb]] was dropped. Next day, at 2054, Missouri’s men were electrified by the unofficial news that Japan was ready to surrender, provided that the Emperor’s prerogatives as a sovereign ruler were not compromised. Not until 0745, 15 August, was word received that President Truman had announced Japan’s acceptance of unconditional surrender.

====Surrender of Japan====
[[Image:S329104.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Japanese delegation boards USS ''Missouri'', September 2, 1945]]
Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, RN (Commander, British Pacific Fleet) boarded Missouri 16 August, and conferred the order [[Knight of the British Empire]] upon Admiral Halsey. ''Missouri'' transferred a landing party of 200 officers and men to battleship Iowa for temporary duty with the initial occupation force for Tokyo 21 August. ''Missouri'' herself entered Tokyo Bay early 29 August to prepare for the normal surrender ceremony.

High‑ranking military officials of all the Allied Powers were received on board 2 September. Fleet Admiral [[Chester Nimitz]] boarded shortly after 0800, and General of the Army [[Douglas MacArthur]] (Supreme Commander for the Allies) came on board at 0843. The Japanese representatives, headed by Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, arrived at 0856. At 0902 General MacArthur stepped before a battery of microphones and the 23‑minute surrender ceremony was broadcast to the waiting world. By 0930 the Japanese emissaries had departed.

The afternoon of 5 September Admiral Halsey transferred his flag to battleship ''South Dakota''. Early next day ''Missouri'' departed Tokyo Bay to receive homeward bound passengers at Guam, thence sailed unescorted for Hawaii. She arrived Pearl Harbor 20 September and flew Admiral Nimitz’ flag on the afternoon of 28 September for a reception.

The next day ''Missouri'' departed Pearl Harbor bound for the eastern seaboard of the United States. She reached [[New York City]] 23 October and broke the flag of Admiral Jonas Ingram, commander in chief, Atlantic Fleet, ''Missouri'' boomed out a 21‑gun salute 27 October as President Truman boarded for Navy day ceremonies. In his address the President stated that “control of our sea approaches and of the skies above them is still the key to our freedom and to our ability to help enforce the peace of the world.”

==Between the wars==
After overhaul in the New York Naval Shipyard and a training cruise to Cuba, ''Missouri'' returned to New York. The afternoon of 21 March 1946 she received the remains of the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Melmet Munir Ertegun. She departed 22 March for [[Gibraltar]] and 5 April anchored in the Bosphorus off [[Istanbul]]. She rendered full honors, including the firing of a 19‑gun salute during both the transfer of the remains of the late Ambassador and the funeral ashore.

====Preventing communism in Greece====
Missouri departed Istanbul 9 April and entered Phaleron Bay, Piraeus, [[Greece]], the following day for an overwhelming welcome by Greek government officials and people. She had arrived in a year when there were ominous Soviet activities in the entire Balkan area. Greece had become the scene of a communist‑inspired civil war, as [[Russia]] sought every possible extension of Soviet influence throughout the Mediterranean region. Demands were made that Turkey grant the Soviets a base of seapower in the Dodecanese Islands and joint control of the Turkish Straits leading from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean.

The voyage of ''Missouri'' to the eastern Mediterranean gave comfort to both Greece and [[Turkey]]. News media proclaimed her a symbol of U.S. interest in preserving Greek and Turkish liberty. With an August decision to deploy a strong fleet to the Mediterranean, it became obvious that the United States intended to use her naval sea and air power to stand firm against the tide of Soviet subversion.

====American waters====
''Missouri'' departed Piraeus 26 April, touching at Algiers and Tangiers before arriving Norfolk 9 May. She departed for Culebra Island 12 May to join Admiral Mitscher’s 8th Fleet in the Navy’s first large‑scale postwar Atlantic training maneuvers. The battleship returned to New York City 27 May, and spent the next year steaming Atlantic coastal waters north to the Davis Straits and south to the Caribbean on various Atlantic command training exercises.

''Missouri'' arrived at [[Rio de Janeiro]] 30 August 1947 for the Inter‑American Conference for the Maintenance of Hemisphere Peace and Security. President Truman boarded 2 September to celebrate the signing of the Rio Treaty which broadened the Monroe Doctrine, stipulating that an attack on one of the signatory American States would be considered an attack on all.

The Truman family boarded ''Missouri'' 7 September to return to the United States and debarked at Norfolk 19 September. Overhaul in New York (23 September to 10 March 1948) was followed by refresher training at [[Guantanamo Bay]]. Summer 1948 was devoted to midshipman and reserve training cruises. The battleship departed Norfolk I November for a second 3‑week Arctic cold weather training cruise to the Davis Straits. The next 2 years Missouri participated in Atlantic command exercises ranging from the New England coast to the Caribbean, alternated with two midshipman summer training cruises. She was overhauled at Norfolk Naval Shipyard 23 September 1949 to 17 January 1950.

Now the only U.S. battleship in commission, ''Missouri'' was proceeding seaward on a training mission from Hampton Roads early 17 January when she ran aground at a point 1.6 miles from Thimble Shoals Light, near Old Point Comfort. She traversed shoal water a distance of three ship lengths from the main channel. Lifted some 7 feet above waterline, she stuck hard and fast. With the aid of tugs, pontoons, and an incoming tide, she was refloated 1 February.

==Korean War==
From mid‑February until 15 August ''Missouri'' conducted midshipman and reserve training cruises out of Norfolk. She departed Norfolk 19 August to support U.N. forces in their fight against Communist aggression in [[Korea]].

''Missouri'' joined the U.N. just west of Kyushu 14 September, becoming flagship of Rear Admiral A. E. Smith. The first American battleship to reach Korean waters, she bombarded Samchok 15 September in a diversionary move coordinated with the Inchon landings. In company with cruiser ''Helena'' and two destroyers, she helped prepare the way for the 8th Army offensive.

''Missouri'' arrived Inchon 19 September, and 10 October became flagship of Rear Admiral J. M. Higgins, commander, Cruiser Division 5. She arrived Sasebo 14 October, where she became flagship of Vice Admiral A. D. Struble, Commander, 7th Fleet. After screening carrier ''Valley Forge'' along the east coast of Korea, she conducted bombardment missions 12 to 26 October in the Chonjin and Tanchon areas, and at Wonsan. After again screening carriers eastward of Wonsan she moved into Hungnam 23 December to provide gunfire support about the Hungnam defense perimeter until the last U.N. troops, the U.S. 3d Infantry Division, were evacuated by way of the sea on Christmas Eve.

''Missouri'' conducted additional operations with carriers and systematic shore bombardments off the east coast of Korea until 19 March 1951. She arrived Yokosuka 24 March, and 4 days later was relieved of duty in the Far East. She departed Yokosuka 28 March, and upon arrival Norfolk 27 April became flagship of Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway, Jr., commander, Cruiser Force, Atlantic Fleet. Summer 1951 she engaged in two midshipman training cruises to northern Europe. Missouri entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard 18 October for overhaul until 30 January 1952.

Following winter and spring training out of Guantanamo Bay, Missouri visited New York, then set course from Norfolk 9 June for another midshipman cruise. She returned to Norfolk 4 August and entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard to prepare for a second tour in the Korean Combat Zone.

''Missouri'' stood out of Hampton Roads 11 September and arrived Yokosuka 17 October. She broke the flag of Vice Admiral J. J. Clark, commander of the 7th Fleet, 19 October. Her primary mission was to provide seagoing artillery support by bombarding enemy targets in the Chaho‑Tanchon area, at Chongjin, In the Tanchon‑Sonjin area, and at Chaho, Wonsan, Hamhung, and Hungnam during the period 25 October through 2 January 1953.

''Missouri'' put in to Inchon 5 January 1953 and sailed thence to Sasebo, Japan. General [[Mark Clark]], Commander in Chief, U.N. Command, and Admiral Sir Guy Russell, RN, commander of the British Far East Station, visited the battleship 23 January. In the following weeks, ''Missouri'' resumed “Cobra” patrol along the east coast of Korea in direct support of troops ashore. Repeated strikes against Wonsan, Tanchon, Hungnam, and Kojo destroyed main supply routes along the eastern seaboard.

The last gunstrike mission by ''Missouri'' was against the Kojo area 25 March. She sustained a grievous casualty 26 March, when her commanding officer Captain Warner R. Edsall suffered a fatal heart attack while conning her through the submarine net at Sasebo. She was relieved as 7th Fleet flagship 6 April by battleship ''New Jersey''.

==After Korea==
''Missouri'' departed Yokosuka 7 April and arrived Norfolk 4 May, to become flagship for Rear Admiral E. T. Woolridge, commander, Battleships‑Cruisers, Atlantic Fleet. 14 May. She departed 8 June on a midshipman training cruise, returned to Norfolk 4 August, and was overhauled in Norfolk Naval Shipyard 20 November to 2 April 1954.

Now the flagship of Rear Admiral R. E. Kirby, ''Missouri'' departed Norfolk 7 June as flagship of the midshipman training cruise to Lisbon and Cherbourg. She returned Norfolk 3 August and departed the 23d for inactivation on the west coast. After calls at Long Beach and San Francisco, ''Missouri'' arrived Seattle 15 September. Three days later she entered Puget Sound Naval Shipyard where she decommissioned 26 February 1955, entering the Bremerton group, Pacific Reserve Fleet. The battleship remained in reserve for the next thirty years, visited by 100,000 people on an annual basis.

==1980s reactivation==
[[Image:H96814k.jpg|right|200px|thumb|''Missouri'' during a 1987 gunnery excersize off Hawaii after her extensive modernization]]
As the Cold War heated up in the 1980s, the battleship received a new lease on life and was modernized and recommissioned at San Francisco on 10 May 1986, Captain Albert L. Kaiss in command.

Activated as part of the Navy's new maritime strategy—which was intended to send offense-oriented aircraft carrier and battleship task groups into Soviet waters in the event of a future global conflict -- ''Missouri'' conducted refresher and fleet operations training until departing 10 September for a circumnavigation of the world, the first voyage by an American battleship since the [[Great White Fleet]] of 1907-09. Following a stop at Pearl Harbor, ''Missouri'' visited Sydney, Hobart, Albany and Fremantle in [[Australia]] in October before sailing on to [[Diego Garcia]] in the Indian Ocean. The battleship then transited the [[Suez Canal]] on 7 November and sailed north to Istanbul, Turkey, arriving there 11 November to mark the 40th anniversary of her previous trip to that city in 1947. The battleship then made diplomatic port visits at Naples, Italy; Palma, Spain; and Lisbon, Portugal; before crossing the Atlantic in early December. She transited the [[Panama Canal]] on the 10th and arrived home in Long Beach on 19 December.

Following local operations and battle group training in early 1987, the battleship got underway on 25 July for a western Pacific and Indian Ocean deployment. She stopped at Subic Bay in the [[Philippines]] before conducting an exercise with Singapore Navy units in mid-August. Transiting the Strait of Malacca on 25–26 August, Missouri sailed to the north Arabian Sea for operations with the ''Ranger'' (CV-61) battlegroup. The battleship operated in support of tanker convoy operations in the region for the next three months, pausing only for short port visits for maintenance at Masirah, Oman. After turnover on 24 November, Missouri steamed home via Diego Garcia, Fremantle, Sydney and Pearl Harbor, arriving at Long Beach on 19 January 1988.

In early March, the battleship visited Vancouver, [[British Columbia]], before shifting south to San Diego for gunnery, cruise missile and other war at sea evolutions. The crew also conducted the first Tomahawk cruise missile launch from the battleship on 25 May. Missouri then participated in Rim Pac '88, a large 40-ship multi-national exercise in Hawaiian waters in July, before spending the rest of the year conducting various inspections and readiness exercises out of Long Beach. After a dry dock maintenance period between February and April 1989, the battleship prepared for another deployment, and departed California for the western Pacific on 18 September. After a voyage north to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, the battleship dropped down for exercises in Japanese and Korean waters, visiting the port of Pusan 21–25 October before returning home on 9 November. ''Missouri'' then conducted a short cruise to Mazatlan, Mexico, in early December.

==Desert Storm==
Her next major operation took place in March 1990, when she sailed to Hawaii on the 27th to take part in Rim Pac '90, remaining in Hawaiian waters until returning home on 23 May. After local operations during the summer, and the news that [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]]i Army had invaded [[Kuwait]] in August, the battleship's crew conducted security drills, installed more point defense weapons and began preparations for a Persian Gulf deployment, including familiarizing the crew with a newly embarked remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) drone.

Underway 13 November, the battleship conducted intensive training in between stops at Pearl Harbor, Subic Bay and a liberty port visit to Pattaya Beach, Thailand, before transiting the [[Strait of Hormuz]] on 3 January 1991. During subsequent operations leading up to Operation Desert Storm, ''Missouri'' prepared to launch Tomahawk missiles and provide on-call naval gunfore support. She fired her first Tomahawk missile at Iraqi targets at 0140 on 17 January, followed by 27 additional missiles over the next five days. In addition, the battleship bombarded Iraqi beach defenses in occupied Kuwait on the night of 3 February, firing 112 16-inch rounds over the next three days until relieved by ''Wisconsin'' (BB-64). ''Missouri'' then fired another 60 rounds off Khafji on 11–12 February before steaming north to near Faylaka Island. After minesweepers cleared a lane through Iraqi defenses, ''Missouri'' fired 133 rounds during four shore bombardment missions as part of the amphibious landing feint against the Kuwaiti shore line the morning of 23 February. The heavy pounding attracted Iraqi attention, who fired an HY-2 Silkworm missile at the battleship. The cruise missile was then shot down by GWS-30 Sea Dart missiles launched from the British frigate HMS ''Gloucester''.

With combat operations past the reach of the battleship's guns on the 26th, ''Missouri'' conducted patrol and armistice enforcement operations in the northern Persian Gulf until sailing for home on 21 March. Following stops at Fremantle and Hobart, Australia, the warship visited Pearl Harbor before arriving home in April. She spent the remainder of the year conducting type training and other local operations, the latter including the 7 December 1941 "voyage of remembrance" to mark the 50th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. During that ceremony, ''Missouri'' hosted President [[George H. W. Bush]], the first such presidential visit for the warship since Harry Truman boarded the battleship in September 1947.

==Decommissioning==
After returning to Long Beach on 20 December, the battleship's crew began the long process of deactivating the battleship. ''Missouri'' decommissioned on 31 March 1992 and was layed up as part of the inactive fleet at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington. She remained part of the reserve fleet until 12 January 1995 when she was struck from the Navy list. Donated as a museum and memorial ship on 4 May 1998, she was later transferred to Pearl Harbor where she rests near the [[USS Arizona (BB-39)|''Arizona'']] memorial and is open for tours by the public.

''Missouri'' received three battle stars for World War II service and five for Korean service.
==See also==
* [[Naval guns]]

==Video==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-15O-BTDw&feature=related Personal video posted on YouTube, taken prior to 1991]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HzVBVIjM6s&feature=related USS ''Missouri'' in action during the Persian Gulf War of 1991]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxVvU52368&feature=related Vidio including scenes of the 1945 Japanese surrender]

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El Paso

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'''El Paso''' is a city in [[Texas]], and has a population of 609,000. [[Category:Texas Cities and Towns]]

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The '''United States Army Air Forces''' was the precursor to the modern American [[Air Force]] when [[American]] [[military]] aviation was under [[Army]] command.

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Motion

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:<small>For the application of the word "motion" in physics, see [[Newton's Laws of Motion]].</small>
A '''motion''' is an application made to a [[court]] or judge which requests a ruling or order in favor of the applicant.

It is a request by a [[litigant]] to a judge for a decision on an issue relating to the case.

== Example ==

In [[New Jersey]] state court, Rule 1:6-3 establishes the requirements for filing and serving motions:<ref>This is as of Jan. 2008 and, like all court rules, is subject to change.</ref>

:(a) Motions Generally. Other than an [[ex parte]] motion and except as otherwise provided by R. 4:46-1 ([[summary judgment]]) and R. 5:5-4(c) (post judgment motions), a notice of motion shall be filed and served not later than 16 days before the specified return date unless otherwise provided by court order, which may be applied for ex parte. Thus, for example, if the return date of the motion is a Friday, the motion must be filed and served not later than the Wednesday, 16 days prior. If a motion is supported by [[affidavit]] or certification, the affidavit or certification shall be filed and served with the motion. Except as provided by R. 4:49-1(b) (motion for new trial), any opposing affidavits, certifications or objections filed pursuant to R. 1:6-2 shall be filed and served not later than 8 days before the return date unless the court relaxes that time. Thus, for example, if the return date is on a Friday, any response must be filed and served no later than Thursday of the prior week. Reply papers responding to opposing affidavits or certifications shall be filed and served not later than 4 days before the return date unless the court otherwise orders. Thus, for example, such papers must be filed and served on Monday for a return date of the following Friday. No other papers may be filed without leave of court. ...

== Reference ==

<references/>

== See also ==

*[[Claim]]
*[[Prejudicial]]
*[[Immunity]]

== External links ==

*[http://dictionary.law.com/ Law Dictionary]
*[http://research.lawyers.com/glossary/ Glossary of Legal Terms]

[[Category:Legal Terms]]

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Writing Homework Four

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Writing
<br>Fourth Homework
<br>Instructor, Andy Schlafly

<br>'''Part A''': by hand, correct errors in the following passage:

<br>My friend is a hero to me and my brother, but he dosn’t even know yet how much we look up to him. You know, it is hard to tell someone how much they mean to you sometime. I mean, what can one say, “your my hero”?!

<br>Through life you do what you can, get what we need, and spending our time on the mundane. The only time when we do take a brake and rise above stuff is when we pray.

<br>Enough; Its time to make my final point. If my grammer is this terrable then no one is going to hear what I said anyways. Listening to me, I’m sure you’d agree.

<br>Look up “gerund” and “participle” in the grammar textbook (see glossary pp. 205–10). Then complete exercise 44(b), p. 168, which uses Longfellow’s poem on pp. 25–26 after the glossary. Grade yourself (answers p. 80A in back), note score here: found __ / __

<br>'''Part B''': Write a total of at least 750 words on one or more of the following topics. You will receive a score each for (i) technical correctness and (ii) style/substance.

<br>1. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

<br>2. Choose one aspect of [[nature]] (including humans), which could be a sunrise, a daffodil, a butterfly, a rainbow, or anything else – and describe what you like about it, such as its beauty and/or connection with God.

<br>3. The [[Supreme Court]] said the death penalty should not apply to crimes committed by teenagers less than 18 years old. Try to persuade the reader of your view.

<br>4. Describe what you think is the most persuasive parable in the Gospels, and why, and why it should persuade the reader of your essay.

<br>5. It’s time to abolish the United Nations and all forms of global government.

<br>6. Humor can be an effective tool of verbal persuasion and, if you’re very good at it, written persuasion also.

[[Category:Writing course]]
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Day care

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'''Day care''' is a place children are cared for while their parents or [[guardian]]s are preoccupied with work.

Day care services range from in-home babysitters to preschools that offer day care.
[[Category:Family]]

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First World Problems

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The term '''First World Problems''' (often abbreviated to "FWP") refers to issues perceived as difficult to those residing in the more developed nations in the global arena (i.e., the [[First World]]), but which are banal at worst when compared to the difficulties encountered by those in the less developed [[Third World]].
<br>

First World Problems is often used in a derisive manner towards those who complain about the problems they experience in the "[[First World]]" on a regular basis. However, it is also routinely used by scholars and economists in studying the relationship between the [[Third World]] and the [[First World]].<ref>Tony Millionare has never ever been funny.
http://www.pkarchive.org/trade/harvard.html</ref>

The exact provenance of this term is uncertain, although some believe that it originated with comedic author [[David Rakoff]], whose book ''Don't Get Too Comfortable'' (2005, ISBN 0-385-51036-5) is subtitled "The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems."<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4867332</ref> Since his humorous usage of the term, however, it has taken on a more serious cast, being used in both political circles<ref>http://eatthestate.org/10-09/ChickenLittlesFirst.htm</ref> and computing discussions.<ref>http://pixelnomad.com/archives/2005/5/16/first_world_problems/</ref> Many computer games, notably, provide a fascinating degree of First World escapism via a simulation of Third World Problems. For example, the infamous 1980s ASCII-based dungeon crawler [[Rogue]] provided those First World denizens who had overcome the First World Problem of not owning a [[computer]] to experience such Third World Problems as starvation, existential [[ennui]], and life-or-death hand-to-hand combat.

A recent [[Wall Street Journal]] article described [[terrorism]], [[viruses]], and [[natural disasters]] as "increasingly tough First World Problems."<ref>http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110007201</ref> Similarly, [[economists]] working in South Africa have described that country's "science and technology infrastructure as 'a first world system being used to tackle first world problems'" and which are therefore unable to cope with the more serious problems of that nation's population.<ref>http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/ReportsINTRA/pdfs/v22n2e/112859.htm</ref> It is also argued that in nations like [[China]], where there is a great divergence between first and third world areas, that the "First World Problems overshadowed the Third World ones."<ref>http://www.ifrc.org/docs/appeals/annual04/01670402.pdf</ref> In something of an about-face from the standard attack on First World Problems, development communication scholar [[Srinivas Melkote]] insists that "development communication activities" developed to address Third World Problems can in fact be utilized to combat "First World [P]roblems that have arisen ''after'' development"<ref>http://gaz.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/52/2/145</ref> (such as [[AIDS]] and teenage pregnancies).

==Comparison of First World Problems and Third World Problems==
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<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>Technology</td>
<td>Social Interactions</td>
<td>Consumable Goods</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>First World Problem</td>
<td>"My [[Zune]]'s wireless transfer playback is unfairly limited to 3 plays. "</td>
<td>"I was rejected by an internet message board for lacking a salon of bright friends."</td>
<td>"My [[McGriddle]]'s folds were not injected with enough syrup this morning."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Third World Problem</td>
<td>"Because of the deprivations of my local warlord, I lack the basic tools necessary for survival."</td>
<td>"Local brigands have stolen my livestock, leaving me unable to feed my family, let alone my friends."</td>
<td>"I'm so hungry."</td>
</tr>
</table>

== References in music, film and TV ==
"First World Problems" is a song by Chicago punk band Scalpers.
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==External links==
*[http://www.thingsiamover.com/2007/02/first_world_pro.html A blog's use of FWP]
*[http://wordpress.com/tag/first-world-problems/ Wordpress FWP tags]

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Political Terms]]

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Compact space

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A [[topological space]] '''X''' is said to be compact, if every [[open cover]] of '''X''' contains a finite subcover.

'''Important Theorem''': A [[metric space]] is compact if and only if it's [[complete (mathematics)|complete]] and [[totally bounded space|totally bounded]].
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Spartan Soldiers

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'''Spartan Soldiers''' are considered to be some of the greatest fighters ever. Every [[Spartan]] boy was trained in the army. When a Spartan child was born he or she would be examined, and if it was a strong and healthy boy he would grow up to be a soldier, and if it was crippled it would be left on the mountainside to die.

Each spartan boy would be given a mentor, who would act as his guardian teaching Spartan customs and expectations. If a Spartan boy was caught stealing he would be beaten severely, not because he had stolen but because he was caught. The boys started their training at age seven and served in the army most of their life. For years they were separated from their families and lived only with other boys or men. It was considered an honor to die in [[battle]]. It was also a disgrace to lose a battle and come home still alive. A famous Spartan quote that mothers would tell their sons before battle was "Come home with your [[shield]] or on it". A fighter couldn't flee if he still kept his shield, so there was no retreat. On it would mean you died in battle.

The Spartans could afford to be good soldiers; in fact it was a necessity. They had many [[slaves]] and a peasant class who outnumbered the Spartans themselves by a wide margin. It was only through having a regimented military that they could keep their subject peoples in check.

In ancient [[Greece]] Spartan soldiers were known as the best around much as [[Athenians]] were known for having the best navy. Their valor in battle was captured in the semi-historical recent movie ''300''.

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Debate:If most Muslims learned their religion from their parents, just like us Christians, they will probably be hard to convert. So what can we do to save their souls?

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If most Muslims learned their religion from their parents, just like us Christians, they will probably be hard to convert. So what can we do to save their souls?

== Nothing ==
We dont need to be saved...Thanks for the offer though

Human beings have no power to save souls. God has the power to save souls. [[User:Teresita|Teresita]] 09:24, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:Of course, but don't you believe we have the duty to evangelize? Aren't we commanded to convert others to Christian faith? --[[User:Madonna|Madonna]] 10:09, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

I suppose they're just like Buddists, Confuscians, Hindus, Jews, Christians, Jains, Pagans, etc. People almost never abandon their faith. You might not appreciate it if some Muslims tried to convince you that Jesus was a fraud and that you'd go to hell unless you converted to Islam. Why would they accept a Christian doing that to them? [[User:Czolgolz|Czolgolz]] 09:53, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:Who says any one religion is the right one for everyone to follow? A good Christian would accept their religion and faith as their own beliefs and not persecute them for believing in something different. "Save their souls" <-- that's almost a laughable statement. [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 10:26, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

::This is Conservapedia. Writing about things from a Christian perspective is one of its aims. - BornAgainBrit

:::I thought writing about things from a ''conservative'' perspective was one of its aims? There are liberal Christians, just like there are conservative Atheists.--[[User:Charlesincharge|Charlesincharge]] 01:45, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

I think something should be said to the fact that they still believe in the same God it's just called by a different name Allah.

Some of these comments do not hold up to what the Bible says. Jesus said "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you." (Matthew 28:19-20) [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 22:42, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

: I think all should just honestly leave well enough alone. Religion belongs as a private matter.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''<sub>[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]</sub> 22:43, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

::Religion is the bond between God and his creations. We are expected to worship Him. As believers, we have an obligation to those less-fortunate who have been suckered into praising false idols. Altruism is expected, and to sweep it away as an invasion of privacy is offensive. --[[User:Rustyjd07|Rustyjd07]] 22:45, 3 April 2007 (EDT)
:::Aaaaaaaaand that's what led to the Crusades. Super.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''<sub>[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]</sub> 22:49, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

::::Let's set the record straight. There was nothing wrong with the first crusade - that went well. As for all the others, well, that was a result of poor tactics and inadequate devotion of resources. Children?! They just can't fight the spawn of Satan as well as one would think. --[[User:Rustyjd07|Rustyjd07]] 22:53, 3 April 2007 (EDT)
:::::Phew, you're being sarcastic.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''<sub>[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]</sub> 22:54, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

The only true difference between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is a sharp disagreement over who God’s last true prophet was. If you are a Jew, it is one of those Old Testament dudes. If you are a Christian, it was Jesus Christ, if you are a Muslim, Mohammed was the last true prophet. I’m not counting all the other offshoots of the major religions of course. For example, I think the Mormons would consider Joseph Smith a prophet, whereas other Christian denominations do not. Dw1237200

I believe that all we can do is try. God did not tell us to do his part of the equation for Him, he told us to just do what He asked of us and that He would take care of the rest.--[[User:JonL|JonL]] 10:13, 3 December 2007 (EST)

== Shouldn't you convert to their religion? ==

Hah, I find this discussion amusing. It acknowledges that basically, your religious beliefs, if any, are inspired by what your parents and countrymen believe, yet there is still the tacit assumption that Christianity is the correct religion. Don't you ever wonder that, just possibly, if there is a God, it isn't the one you're worshipping, and you're in deep, deep trouble spiritually. There have been literally thousands of different religions and cults throughout history. Yours just happens to be popular at this point.

Personally, if there has to be a God, or pantheon of Gods, I'm banking on the Norse. The whole thing has the ring of revealed truth to me, it's definitely how Gods would behave if they existed. --[[User:Abrown|Abrown]] 22:52, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:Of course I've considered it, but decided on Christianity. The Bible has the power of predictive prophecy in its favor, such as the messianic prophecies. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 22:54, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:: You know that all those prophecies were re-analyzed ''ex post'', right? -'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''<sub>[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]</sub> 22:55, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:: In that case, why Christianity and not Judaism? According to the Catholics, Jews are all going to hell. Even religions with the same God are damning each other to the nether regions for all eternity. Most Christians I've asked this of tend to say they feel moved by the spirit, or some such. This always strikes me as a circular argument. Why do you believe, because the spirit moves me. Why doesn't it move me too, then? Because you don't believe. --[[User:Abrown|Abrown]] 23:11, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:::WOW, I'm just wondering if you are a Catholic? If you are, you are seriously misguided about the views of the Church, if not, the same rule applies. Catholics (myself included) DO NOT belive that all, cited from the Catechism

::::The Church and non-Christians

::::839 "Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways."325

::::The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People. When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 "the first to hear the Word of God."327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ",328 "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable."329

::::840 And when one considers the future, God's People of the Old Covenant and the new People of God tend towards similar goals: expectation of the coming (or the return) of the Messiah. But one awaits the return of the Messiah who died and rose from the dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God; the other awaits the coming of a Messiah, whose features remain hidden till the end of time; and the latter waiting is accompanied by the drama of not knowing or of misunderstanding Christ Jesus.

::::841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."330

::::842 The Church's bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common origin and end of the human race:

::::All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . .331
::::843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as "a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life."332

::::844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them:

::::Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator. Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed to ultimate despair.333
::::845 To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son's Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. The Church is "the world reconciled." She is that bark which "in the full sail of the Lord's cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world." According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.334

::::"Outside the Church there is no salvation"

::::846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

::::Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336
::::847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:

::::Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.337
::::848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."338

[http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a9p3.htm#839]

::::That is the true Catholic doctrine.The Christian faith has two lines of thought, either the Muslims are just like us or they are going to Hell. The Catholic church likes to take a middle ground. Men with much more time on their hands and many more religious texts have thought of this for years years since the time of Christ himself. My personal belief is that the Christian faith is the one true path to salvation, but if you are not a Christian it does not mean God abandoned you. I think that those of other faiths who try to live their lives loving each other as themselves can be saved because God is forgiving. It seems that the Catholic Church backs that up with its statements. BUT NEVERTHELESS I AM NOT GOD, SALVATION IS HIS DECISION.

--[[User:CRD|CRD]] 00:05, 19 July 2007 (EDT)

Also, please read this article [http://www.carm.org/catholic/muslims.htm] The statement is not mine so I will merely link to it. It shows an interesting insight into many teachings of the Quran. This is a post script but is has me baffled. PLEASE READ

:I've heard that claim, but do not personally believe it. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 22:57, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

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::Good argument. With reasoning like that, nobody should believe it. --[[User:Rustyjd07|Rustyjd07]] 22:58, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:: That's cool. Faith is faith.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''<sub>[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]</sub> 22:58, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

Yeah, somewhere down the line you have to come to the decision to believe or not one way or the other. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 23:00, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

:See, I think MountainDew's point here is very legitimate. It goes to my whole feelings on "creation science." If you believe creationism, but admit that it's just on faith, that's cool. Just when YECs push creationism into science, or the public sphere, and outside of the realm of private faith... that gets me angry. And you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. But personal faith is unassailable, because it's just that - personal.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''<sub>[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]</sub> 23:01, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

::That's a fair point of disagreement. I'm still of the philosophy that if something makes sense - you can intelligently explain it. If it doesn't make sense, you shouldn't believe it. --[[User:Rustyjd07|Rustyjd07]] 23:02, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

You assume that the truth will necessarily make sense? --[[User:BenjaminS|BenjaminS]] 23:12, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

And you have to use good arguments. For instance, "the fact that the earth is young proves the Bible"... don't think so. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 23:04, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

::Fair, Rusty, I guess it's just that I adamantly believe that personal faith isn't my business until it encroaches on others' faith. It's informed by my understanding of the Establishment Clause, and founder's intent, et al. This also explains my entire presence on this site: I don't want to prove to people that creationism is WRONG - I just want them to admit that it's personal faith, nothing more, nothing less, and that that's okay.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''<sub>[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]</sub> 23:06, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

::: There is no such thing as an article of faith or belief that doesn't affect other people. If a person believes something, it informs every decision they make. One might argue that some beliefs, such as Christianity, are beneficial or harmless, but not that one can practice Christianity without effect on those around you. If nothing else, it tends to affect the freedom of religion of any children they might have. --[[User:Abrown|Abrown]] 23:40, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

I have no problem being a Christian, but I don't feel a duty to evangilize. I think people's religions are a relative matter. Besides, I think that if God was truly just, he wouldn't damn people to hell because humans failed to convert them. What if there was someone who never had a missionary come and tell him about Christianity? Does he go to Hell by mere circumstances of his birth? That's also not even taking into account I don't really see Hell and Satan and literal entities, but non withstanding, even if they are, I don't think God would do something like that.--[[User:Elamdri|Elamdri]] 15:13, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

==Why?==

Why would you try to convert someone, and what makes you think they need saving? No one should stick their nose in other peoples bussiness to try to mess stuff up.[[User:AtheistKathryn|AtheistKathryn]] 23:25, 12 April 2007 (EDT)
:It's sorta an evangelical belief from what I understand.--[[User:Elamdri|Elamdri]] 23:48, 12 April 2007 (EDT)
::Because, while they dont realise it as long as they live, they will be extremally thankful for it afterwards. The new testament is very clear on this: There is only one route to salvation, and that is Christ. - BornAgainBrit.

We install huge, huge, speakers the size of a Hummer (That's grotesquely huge), all over the Persian/Arabian land and then...we pump out good ole' '''SOUL''' beats...Marvin Gaye, you know what I'm talking about?--[[User:Markos88|Markos88]] 22:38, 28 October 2007 (EDT)
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I don't know exactly what sub-category to put this under, but "why" seems closest.
I don't see why people can believe that people will be forgiven if there lack of faith is through no fault of their own, and say that atheism does not fall under this category. The way I see it, atheists do not see the Bible as the word of God, it is through no fault of their own. There are so many valid arguments against the idea that make perfectly logical sense, and supports the idea that there is no reason to believe that what Christians believe, that the bible is the word of God and that god exists as stated by the bible, is true. Basic logic tells us that not to be Christian or believe in the bible and a Christian God is perfectly justified. And before anybody says that is because God is providing us with valid reasons not to follow the scriptures as a test of our faith, why on earth are atheists punishable for being convinced by overwhelming evidence which God himself (you say) is intentionally convincing them is valid? How is reasonably not following God any fault of their own when God himself is reasoning with them not to follow Him? For example, Atheists pose the question: Isn't God, by not showing us incontrovertibly that He is real, condemning millions to hell who would otherwise convert? Time after time I hear fellow Christians answer: Because he is testing our faith, and giving us the free will to make the choice for ourselves because you know the bible exists and are therefore accountable etc. But I still believe that this question is totally valid and this answer is weak. Surely, in the case of the atheists question, if God does not prove to them, atheists, agnostics, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, even primitive tribes, then He is giving them perfectly reasonable grounds to believe that the Christian answer is not the case, and he is in fact simply not there. To me, this seems like an unarguably relevant possibility. I believe that the only reason that we believe He is there is because we choose to accept the axiom that God exists and the Bible is the word of God. Regardless of our individual spiritual reasons for following the Bible, disregard that axiom (as God allows Atheists justified reasoning to do) and there is little other reason. If Atheism is wrong, then just like any other view on religion it cannot be held accountable or punishable. Am I wrong? [[User:vonfalkenhayn|vonfalkenhayn]] 23:02 30 April 2009 (EST)

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A '''pen''' is a writing instrument which uses ink. Popular varieties include: fountain, felt-tip, ball-point, and gel.

== History ==
The ball point pen was invented in 1936, and over the next few decades overtook the [[fountain pen]] as the most-used writing instrument in the industrialised world.

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A term coined to reflect the modern [[Democratic]] party. '''New Democrats''' are self-proclaimed Progressive. They stand for a woman's right to have an abortion. Also, they are for civil rights for gays and support gay marriage and civil unions. New Democrats want to expand the government by taxation to create massive new social programs such as Universal Healthcare. They wish to empower workers' [[wnions]], which comprise a large majority of campaign donations. New Democrats consider themselves moderates even though they are far left of centrist positions. Organizations that represent New Democrats are the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and congressional New Democrat Coalitions.

== Origin ==

Former Democrat Presidential candidate Gary Hart of a liberal reformist group first used the words New Democrat.<ref>http://media.hoover.org/documents/0817945822_87.pdf , Hoover.org The Fate of the New Democrats</ref> Many people believe that New Democrats came about during the [[Clinton]] Administration. Others would argue New Democrats came as a result of [[George W. Bush]] becoming President and [[Republicans]] controlling all branches of government.

== Old Democrat ==

Modern era Democrats hold 20th century Democrats with high esteem, often giving praise to leaders such as [[John F. Kennedy]]. However, the ideals the old Democrats contrast differently with today's new Democrats. Kennedy's inaugural address "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Contrast that with the New Democrats position that we should not pay any price or bear any burden in Iraq. That liberty and [[democracy]] should not be spread to other countries that are America's foes. Also, that the rights of Americans held by our constitution does not apply to those children in the womb.

== Canadian Politics ==

[[Canada]] has a political party called The New Democrat Party, which supports [[Socialist]] [[values]] and far-left ideology.

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'''Gorgo''' was a Queen Consort of the Kingdom of [[Sparta]]. She was the wife of King [[Leonidas]] and, as a young girl (her father, Leonidas's half-brother was King before him) she began to become active in politics. She is mentioned as speaking in the senate chambers by [[Herodotus]],<ref>http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/spartarulers/a/Gorgo.htm</ref> a historian of the time period. Such direct mention by name was unusual, possibly indicating that she had meaningful political influence. Her husband, father, and son were all kings.

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