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Reading Run (cricket) and Laws of cricket, I was unclear: do the batsmen always have to run whenever the ball is hit, or if it's really weakly hit, can they just stand still? In other words, does cricket have something comparable to baseball's force out? Nyttend (talk) 02:12, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I read that Alexander Harkavy translated Isaiah 7:14 to say "virgin" when his translation of the Holy Scriptures was published in 1936; I bought a used copy of the same Bible printed in 1951 and the same verse says "young woman" - was it revised? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.131.33 (talk) 02:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
"Perhaps I am missing something in the question, It seems self-evident that, if the two editons are different, then the later one was revised. Are you asking if the earlier one said "virgin"?" yes I guess I am asking if the first one did say "virgin" or if the source Iread saying it was translated this way was wrong —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.131.33 (talk) 12:35, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The article lists the 3rd book as The Faceless Ones and the 4th book as unnamed. Amazon.com has the 3rd book (published April 09) as Sceptre of the Ancients,and the 4th book as The Faceless Ones. Which one is correct? http://www.amazon.com/Faceless-Ones-Skulduggery-Pleasant/dp/0061240915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245034486&sr=1-1
Mxvxnyxvxn (talk) 03:12, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm having a name blank-out. Who was that French newspaperman who printed names of people to die in the Terror? After his death he was painted in a bathtub. It's a famous painting. 71.174.23.126 (talk) 03:52, 15 June 2009 (UTC)Brighton
That's him! Thank you. 71.174.23.126 (talk) 05:45, 15 June 2009 (UTC)Brighton
I was searching informations about the destiny of Switzerland if the Axis Powers won. I mean, do official projects regarding the annexation/partition between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy exist? Did Hitler spoke about this, expecially considering the large germanic population of Sw.? Did Mussolini wanted the predominantly italian Canton Ticino for his Greater Italy? I'm aware of Operation Tannenbaum article but it doesn't refer to (ipotetical) post war effects. I've heard about secret plans to divide Sw. between Germany and Italy (in particular Ticino and Graubünden where to be assigned to Italy) but I can't find solid references. --Contributions/151.51.19.115 (talk) 08:56, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
—eric 19:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)Hitler was more specific about his intentions toward Switzerland, which he described in August 1942 as a pimple on the face of Europe and a state that could not be allowed to endure. He was filled with hatred and contempt for the materialistic and democratic values of the Swiss people, and he denounced them as a racial miscarriage, "a mishegotten branch of our Volk." Whereas he was anxious to attract Scandinavians and Dutch as peasant colonizers to the newly conquered territories of the east, he believed the Swiss could be of use there only as innkeepers.
Hitler did acknowledge the Swiss to be Germanic, however, much as he otherwise despised them. The probability is therefore great that when he carried out his intention to put an end to the existence of Switzerland as a state, he would at the same time have initiated policies designed to regain the Swiss for Germandom and to incorporate the bulk of the Swiss population into his Germanic Reich. This was certainly the intention of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's grand inquisitor for racial affairs who, in September 1941, was exchanging views with his faithful lieutenant Gottlob Berger about the suitability of various personalities for the position of Reichsstatthalter in Switzerland and the chances for a genuine amalgamation (zusammenwachsen) of the German and Swiss peoples. A document from the Himmler files bearing the letterhead Reichsführer SS, SS Hauptamt, Aktion S[chweiz], contains a detailed plan for the establishment of Nazi rule in Switzerland. Although there is no evidence that this plan was endorsed by Himmler or any other high-level Nazi authorities, the fact that such a plan was drawn up at all may be interpreted as an indication of intent. Rich, N. (1974). Hitler's War Aims: The establishment of the new order. pp. 401-2. OCLC 256467476.
Do Jewish support Communism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.116.26 (talk) 15:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
In Tsarist Russia, Jews were oppressed and persecuted by the central government, and they also tended to be much more literate and urban than the average of the population as a whole -- and the very natural result of this situation was that Jews were involved in most Russian left wing groups (not just Communist groups) at a rate much higher than their proportion of the population as a whole. However, the original disproportionate presence of Jews in the Soviet Communist party had pretty much dissipated by 1935, when Stalin had substantially remade the party according to his own specification -- and since that time, accusations of "Jewish Bolshevism" etc. have been pretty much slanted political rhetoric or ignorant hate speech... AnonMoos (talk) 02:18, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
We need an article on hyper-sensitivity to purported anti-semitisim. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 00:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Has Iran had unrest of the magnitude they are currently experiencing at any other time since 1979, or is this unprecidented? Contributions/65.121.141.34 (talk) 16:07, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I requested an article on Gotai, but I'm trying to see if I can't get more information here, as the request an article page suggests.
I'm wondering if anyone knows any more about this cultural practice. I first came across it in my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course, but I can't seem to locate any more information on it on the internet. I'll quote from the textbook:
In Japan, negative attitudes about cutting the body explain the much lower rates of surgery there than in North America. The Japanese Concept of gotai refers to the value of maintaining bodily intactness in life and death to the extent that even ear piercing is devalued. "Newspapers reported that onr of the qualifications of a bride for Crown Prince Naruhito was that she not have pierced ears." (Ohnuki-Tierney 1994:235).[...]
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The paragraph goes on to say this is why organ transplant rates are lower in Japan, etc. The citation for Ohunki-Tierney is: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. 1994, Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Cultural Bases of Medical Technology. Current Anthropology 35(3):233-242.
Any help locating information on this topic would be great, I've attempted to Google it, but nothing that came up seems to match as far as I can tell; I suspect 'Gotai' is the English pronuication of the Japanese word, so we may be out of luck.
thanks.--HoneymaneHeghlu meH QaQ jajvam 16:17, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
1Miller, Barbara D., Penny Van Esterik, and John Van Esterik. Cultural Anthropology. 3rd Canadian ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2005.
From Joseph Kabila's article said Kabila's daughter is born in 2001 and Joseph marry olive Kabila in 2006? How is this possible? Joseph marry one wife or two wives? And about Chantal Biya, it said she was born in Cameroon, but she is essentially white. Is her mom black or white. One of her parnts is white. And it said Chantal Biya was born in 1971 but what month? Is it going to be like April, May or July? To calculate the odds, is Chantal closer to 38 years younger han Paul or 39?--69.226.33.189 (talk) 22:03, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The question about the daughter's birthdate ("Is it possible?") is simply answered. Of course, it is possible that she was born before her parents were married. Whether it is true or not, I don't know. The article on Chantal Biya answers your other question in respect of nationality. I have no idea how you might confirm skin colour. // BL \\ (talk) 00:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)