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[edit] Graditude

I want to say thanks to everyone. I have learned a lot from everyone who participates in this Q&A forum. There is nowhere else like this that I know of. For those who believe in God (for me that is the Father, Son and Holy Ghost) God loves you. For those who do not... God loves you also! Jesus came for all of God's creation. Not just for me and not just for you. Cris Deloach
Thank you, and pax tecum. Geogre 02:29, 12 August 2006 (UTC) (sometimes helpful)
Whatr does pax tecum mean:CAD
"Peace be with you." David Sneek 07:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
I must admit, this is one of the best Help Desks I'm aware of—though I still manage to stump a few of the folks here (why is it that I always want to know really obscure stuff?) Anyway, I'm glad you appreciate it, Cris. The Jade Knight 07:32, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
And I love you too, whether you believe in me or not. :) DirkvdM 09:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Writing a Page and Adding a Photo

Hello. I am trying to write a page called "Origin of Light". It is about a book of poetry. To upload the photo of the book, I am a bit confused. Also, there is a warning message there. I'm a little confused. Could you plaese help me to download and publish the photo and to not get the website deleted as I am still writing it and did not mean to save it before finishing it. Thank you, S.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatpoet (talk • contribs)

Stephanie, are you writing an article on your own book? Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial may be your friends. --Tagishsimon (talk)
You might also find Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Vanity guidelines helpful. Your article will probably get deleted if it fails to comply with these policies.--Shantavira 06:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
....Looks like you should also read this page about your "publisher".--Shantavira 19:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange pic floating around...

Does anyone recognize this dude? Other then he's from Nebraska, I can't tell... 68.39.174.238 10:57, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

where'd you get that picture? looks like a relative..
He most probably is. The question is of whom. DirkvdM 09:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Relative of who? Anyway, I found it on this nonsensical hoax: ZX60.8 and wondered if it could be used in a legitimate articel about the dude. He looks like a politician. 68.39.174.238 09:47, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
No, whom. Don't miscorrect me. :) DirkvdM 09:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

He likes cows. And elephant(s). --Dweller 15:32, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] research on levels of processing approach since year 2000

202.159.224.89 13:14, 12 August 2006 (UTC)where do i get research on levels of processing approach since the year 2000?

I assume you looked at Levels of processing. You can use Google scholar, Advanced search with a query like "with the exact phrase [levels of processing]; return articles published between [2000]—[ ]", and see what comes up. If you have access to a research library you can try to use the Social Sciences Citation Index; the librarian can show you how to use it. --LambiamTalk 23:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where can I find a list of Canadian Number 1 hits?

I've searched Wikipedia,Google,Yahoo all over and can't find a list of Canadian Number 1 songs.The best I've found is some local charts,one in particular being CHUM? Is there any sort of equivalent of the Billboard charts/UK Top 40 at all and if so,where is it? Lemon martini 15:30, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

How about this: http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/. Marskell 10:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
30 years of Canadian Chart Hits, by week. Scroll down in the individual months' windows, all the weeks of each month are on one page, listed vertically. --Anchoress 19:16, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old School in London Fifty years ago

I am looking for my old school that I went to fifty years ago. It was located on Central Hill in Upper Norwood London.

It was an all girls Convent School run by Nuns, at that time and was attached to Catholic Church. The School was called Our Lady's Convent School and there was another school in the same building I think it was call Notre Dame also girls. I do not know if the Church had another name, proberley did.

I am not able to do a search from here in Canada so I was hoping I could get some help from someone in the UK.

Hope you can help.

Regards

Diana Connolly

Is it Our Lady of Fidelity or Virgo Fidelis? Their webpages are here and here. You can change to any of the regional google sites by changing the URL in the address bar after you perform your search - note the only difference between this search and this search is that I've changed google.co.uk to google.ca - make your change in the address bar and press enter. Although in this case it doesn't actually make any difference as the results were very similar - for what did you search? Natgoo 18:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mysterious Rock Circle

I found this while walking on a path through one of my mother's flower gardens. It is obviously dug and hand placed rocks in a small trench in the form of an almost perfect circle. There is also a small triangle pointing inwards at one point in the circle.

Here are the photographs I just took,

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/insenid/rockcircle1.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/insenid/rockcircle2.jpg

Does anyone know what might have caused something so eerie, or if not, what the symbol is?

Does the little triangle point north? Maybe someone made a "rock compass" for the garden? - Nunh-huh 23:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
How about a border for a flower garden (now in disrepair) ? StuRat 23:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
It looks pretty small, huh? How big is it?--Anchoress 23:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

The only person who works on the garden is my mother and she says she did not create it. it is actually in the path between two placed rock walls that denote the path and the garden. The rock circle is about two feet in diameter. A friend said it was probably from a flowerpot. However my mom does no planting at this time of the year, and I have not found any pots that big, and it still doesnt explain the tiny rocks in the trenches, because the rock wall is on the north side and would have prevented washing, and not that many rocks are apparent under the soil.

Eerie? Such a near perfect circle is likely to be man made. What's eerie about humans? Anyway, how long have your parents lived there? It could be a fireplace of previous inhabitants (or their kids). The rocks are rather small, but some rocks splinter when they get hot. Do they have sharp edges and is the ground charred under the surface? DirkvdM 09:24, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Heinlein/Mormons

I understand that scifi author Robert Heinlein wrote a book that had a mormon/LDS spaceship including a temple. Does anyone know which book this was?

Citizen of the Galaxy mentions a Free Trader spaceship named Joseph Smith. I don't remember if a temple was mentioned, but the ship was huge. The Menace from Earth mentions a Mormon temple in Luna City (not a spaceship). Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth mentions Mormon "seedships" (colony ships) presumed lost. In all these cases it plays no role in the story line. --LambiamTalk 00:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Interesting note: 26% of all Hugo/Nebula-winning books have Latter-day Saint/Utah references. This does not include Hugo-winning movies which include them (such as Starship Troopers or Contact), or books which were nominated but did not win awards. 32% of the books on Amazon.com's "25 Best SF/F Novels of the Century" list have Latter-day Saint characters or references. Of the 27 novels which have won the Locus award for science fiction, 26% have Latter-day Saint characters or references. (all taken from www.adherents.com)[1]. The Jade Knight 03:12, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Ok, so this is not about morons spaced out on LSD. Sorry, misread that. :) DirkvdM 09:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Larry Niven included a LDS sect in a space colony in his The Mote in God's Eye sequel The Gripping Hand as a plot element. There were a number of spaceships working for/with the temple in question. 205.132.76.4 14:47, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Art of The Prehistoric Aegean

The Treasury of Atreus is an excellent example of?

a homework question? 71.112.125.31 23:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
an informative article on Wikipedia? --LambiamTalk 00:33, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does anyone know if Malcolm Miller is still alive?

I imagine that Malcolm Miller does. :-) StuRat 23:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Question to StuRat: Does it follow that you believe in afterlife? Or else, do you have knowledge of his being alive that you do not wish to reveal here? --LambiamTalk 00:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, after we die we become one with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. StuRat 04:10, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
In the great pasta-bowl in the sky. Makes me feel like a meatball just thinking about it. The Jade Knight 05:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I get many Google hits, some of which are quite recent and none suggesting abating health. If you want to be sure, I suggest that you send an e-mail enquiry to the Chartres Tourist Office, info@otchartres•fr (after replacing the raised dot by a regular dot). --LambiamTalk 00:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)