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Mogens Glistrup

2008-08-16T18:29:28Z

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'''Mogens Glistrup''' (b.1926) is a [[Denmark|Danish]] politician. From 1953 to 1963 he was a member of their Faculty of Law at [[Copenhagen]] University. In 1972 he founded the anti-[[tax]] Progress Party (''Fremskridtspartiet''), which after the general election in 1973 became a [[conservative]] force in Danish politics. Since 1973 he has been a member of the Danish parliament (''Folketinget'').

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Abigail Adams

2008-08-16T18:04:11Z

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[[Image:Abigail_adams.jpg|thumb|200px|Abigail Adams]]'''Abigail Adams''' was the second [[First Lady]] of the [[United States of America]]. She was [[marriage|married]] in 1764 to [[John Adams]], the second [[President]] of the [[United States of America]].

Despite being the second first lady, Abigail Adams didn't participate in [[politics]] or public life, though she wrote often to her husband, who sought her advice on a wide range of topics. She preferred to stay home, mend the clothes and tend the children. The Adamses had six children all told, although the last one (Elizabeth) died before she could be born. Therefore, Abigail had much woman's work to do around the house, including the [[homeschooling]] of her eldest son, [[John Quincy Adams]].

She is noted for her letter to her husband and the Congressional Congress in March 1776, writing:

{{cquote|...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.}}

A few books have been written about Abigail Adams since her death in 1818 (during the [[James Monroe|Monroe]] presidency); the most influential is probably [[Fran Tarkenton]]'s historical novel ''Abigail Adams''. She has been portrayed in other media as well. [[Carolyn Jones]] played Adams in the 1960s TV series, and [[Laura Linney]] played her in the 2008 [[HBO]] special.

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John Adams

2008-08-16T17:56:13Z

Annie: link to wife Abigail Adams

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'''John Adams''' (October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826) is one of America's [[Founding Fathers]], serving as [[George Washington]]'s [[Vice President]] from 1789 to 1797, and as the 2nd [[President of the United States of America]], serving a single term from 1797 to 1801. In terms of party affiliation, Adams was a [[Federalist]], and was the only Federalist to serve as [[President of the United States|President]]. Adams ran for re-election in the [[United States presidential election, 1800|Presidential election of 1800]] but was defeated by [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the latter's "Revolution of 1800."

==Early life and political career==

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree (now Quincy), [[Massachusetts]]. His father was also named John, his mother was Susanna Adams and his son was [[John Quincy Adams]], a later President in his own right.

Adams attended [[Harvard]] and, after a stint as a schoolmaster in Worchester, Massachusetts, took up the practice of law in [[Boston]]. In 1765, Adams wrote tracts such as the Braintree Instructions, which argued against the [[British Stamp Act]]. His cousin, [[Samuel Adams]], attracted far more notice during the Stamp Act crisis, leading demonstrations and using far more colorful language (there would later be some confusion regarding John and Samuel. When John was sent to [[France]] by the [[Continental Congress]] on a diplomatic mission, the French initially thought he was the "famous Adams," that is, Samuel Adams). In the wake of the [[Boston Massacre]] in 1770, Adams represented the British troops, arguing that all Englishmen (and many colonists still thought of themselves as Englishmen at this point) deserved a vigorous defense.

In 1774, after the crisis brought on by the [[Boston Tea Party]] and the resulting [[Coercive Acts]], Adams became an advocate for American independence. Adams was one of Massachusetts’s representatives to the Continental Congress. He attracted the notice of other delegates at the [[Second Continental Congress]] as one of the few to argue for independence at this early date.

==Declaring Independence==

In 1776 Adams was appointed, with Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, to draft a [[Declaration of Independence]]. Adams realized that Jefferson was much more gifted in terms of self-expression than he was, and the document was composed mostly by the Virginian. However, Adams did have a great deal of input, looking over drafts of the document. The Declaration that the two submitted falls into two parts. The first, which was heavily cribbed from English political philosopher [[John Locke]], was a statement of political principles and of the need for colonies to sever their ties with [[England]]. The second part is a list of complaints against the Crown, justifying the actions of the Continental Congress.

Adams served the Continental Congress as a diplomat, remaining abroad for a decade, from 1778 to 1788. He served in Paris with [[Benjamin Franklin]] (whom he did not get along with) and was later posted to the Netherlands, where he secured a large war loan to help the patriot cause. Adams chaired the American delegation that drew up the [[Treaty of Paris]] in 1783, which formally ended the [[American Revolution]]. However, other than the recognition of American Independence and the establishment of boundaries, most the treaty's provisions were not honored by either party.

== Vice President and President ==

Adams returned home after the adoption of [[the Constitution]]. He served as the first [[vice president]] in the U.S. history from 1789 to 1797. George Washington's decision to retire from public life set the stage for the first truly partisan presidential election. Alexander Hamilton was the true leader of the Federalists. However he made many political enemies during his tenure as Secretary of the Treasury. The Federalists decided to run Adams as their presidential candidate and Thomas Pinckney for the office of vice-president. The Republicans selected their leader, Thomas Jefferson for president and Aaron Burr as vice-President. Adams won the bitterly contested [[United States presidential election, 1796|Presidential Election of 1796]], garnering 71 electoral votes to Jefferson's 68, and became president in his own right.
However, in 1796 electors did not indicate which office they were voting for. By coming in second to Adams, Jefferson became his vice-president. Before the 1804 election, the twelfth amendment would require electors to designate which office they were voting for.
Jefferson spent much of his time as vice-president attacking Adams, even going so far as by hire journalists to write scurrilous editorials about the President. Adams passed several laws in an attempt to prevent his defeat by Jefferson in 1800. Adams passed the [[Alien Act|Alien]] and [[Sedition Act]]s. The Alien Act was designed to prevent immigrants, who supported Jefferson, from gaining citizenship, and the right to vote. While the Sedition Act was designed to stifle critics of Adams. When Adams was defeated by Jefferson he began an attempt to stack the courts with [[Federalist]] judges so that his party could maintain some control of the government. One such appointment led to the landmark [[Supreme Court]] case of [[Marbury v. Madison]].
Adam’s unpopularity while in office contributed to his defeat to Jefferson in 1800.

The Adams' were the first residents of the [[White House]]. They moved in November 1800.

== Death ==

He died July 4, 1826 at the age of 90 in Quincy, Massachusetts only a few hours after the death of Thomas Jefferson. Both men died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Only one signer of the Declaration ([[Charles Carroll]]) outlived him.<ref>http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/John_Adams.html</ref>. Adams was the first President of the United States to live in [[the White House]]. <ref> [[Encyclopedia of Presidents, John Adams]] by Marlene Targ Brill, Children's Press </ref>

== Legacy ==

In a October 2000 survey of 132 prominent professors of history, law, and political science, President John Adams was grouped in the "Above Average" group, ranked 13th, with a mean score of 3.36 out of 5.00. <ref>Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House (New York, Wall Street Journal Book, 2004)</ref>

It was John Adams whose quote has been inscribed upon the mantle in the White House dinning room:<blockquote>
'''"I Pray Heaven to Bestow the Best Blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. Let none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."''' <ref>[[God and the Oval Office]], by John C. McCollister, W Publishing Group, 2005.</ref></blockquote>

==Notable Quotes==

*'''“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”'''

*John Adams also said another time "Ask me not whether I am Protestant, Calvinistic or Armenian, as far as they are Christians, I wish to be a fellow disciple with them all." <ref> [[''God and the Oval Office'']] by John C. McCollister, W Publishing Group, 2005. </ref>

*"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."<ref>John Adams, ''Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,'' December 1770 [http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3235.html The Quotations Page] </ref>

*"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war." <ref> Quoted in ''Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989'' by Michael Beschloss </ref>'''

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Abigail Adams

2008-08-16T17:55:22Z

Annie: New page: '''Abigail Adams''' was the second First Lady of the United States of America. She was married in 1764 to John Adams, the second President of the [[United Stat...

'''Abigail Adams''' was the second [[First Lady]] of the [[United States of America]]. She was [[marriage|married]] in 1764 to [[John Adams]], the second [[President]] of the [[United States of America]].

Despite being the second first lady, Abigail Adams didn't participate in [[politics]] or public life. She preferred to stay home, mend the clothes and tend the children. The Adamses had six children all told, although the last one (Elizabeth) died before she could be born. Therefore, Abigail had much woman's work to do around the house, including the [[homeschooling]] of her eldest son, [[John Quincy Adams]].

A few books have been written about Abigail Adams since her death in 1818 (during the [[James Monroe|Monroe]] presidency); the most influential is probably [[Fran Tarkenton]]'s historical novel ''Abigail Adams''. She has been portrayed in other media as well. [[Carolyn Jones]] played Adams in the 1960s TV series, and [[Laura Linney]] played her in the 2008 [[HBO]] special.

[[Category:First Ladies]]

Phenomenon

2008-08-16T17:54:30Z

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#REDIRECT [[Phenomena]]

Royal Fish

2008-08-16T17:53:49Z

Annie: category marine

'''Royal Fish''' is an ancient [[United Kingdom|British]] legal term, for certain aquatic animals of rare occurrence in British waters, that are statutorily reserved for the particular use of, and consumption by, the British monarch.

Covered by the statute are:

*The [[sturgeon]]
*Sea [[turtle]]s
*[[Whale]]s, [[dolphin]]s and [[porpoise]]s.
*[[Swan]]s

For swans, the statute provides full protection from molestation by anyone other than a royal agent. The others, if encountered, must be notified immediately to the [[coastguard]], and surrendered promptly to the Official Receiver of Wreck, upon demand [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Wildlife-Habitats/19887/royalfishguidance].

== See also ==
*[[Rivulus Marmoratus]]
*[[Cod]]

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[[Category:Law]]

Anglerfish

2008-08-16T17:53:15Z

Annie: New page!

The '''anglerfish''' is a wonder of the deep-sea world. Its [[anatomy]] is unexplainable by [[science]], and its behavior seems perfectly [[intelligent design|designed]] for its [[ecology|ecological]] niche. On the anglerfish's head is a long spindly [[tentacle]] or [[proboscis]], at the end of which is a glowing bulb. The anglerfish hides in the sand at the bottom of the [[ocean]], with only the glowing bulb sticking out. When small fish or plankton approach to investigate the light, the anglerfish opens its maw, lined with thousands of long, pointy, horribly translucent teeth, and the investigator is sucked to its doom.

The anglerfish was first reported in the 1700s by [[pearl]] divers in the [[Pacific]], but it was not until the invention of the [[bathysphere]] in 1928 that [[scientist]]s were able to observe the fish in its natural habitat, and later bring one to the surface for [[dissection]]. It turns out that the anglerfish is in most respects just like an ordinary fish (a [[trout]] or [[halibut]], for example). The only differences are in its glowing proboscis, and in the curious fact that its males are so much smaller than the female (a [[phenomenon]] otherwise observed only in [[spider]]s and [[negro]]es). Some scientists therefore claim that the anglerfish must necessarily have "[[theory of evolution|evolved]]" from an ordinary fish, but that clearly does not explain its spindly glowing bulb, which is not found in common fish.

Anglerfish are found in the depths of most of the world's [[ocean]]s. The casual diver is well advised to steer clear of them, since — although the biggest anglerfish is still barely the size of a [[basketball]] — they are extremely ugly. There has never been any report of an anglerfish biting a human; it is apparently only the tiniest denizens of the deep which risk meeting what [[Quentin Reynolds]] has called "death in its most ghastly gob".

[[Category:Marine]]

Exclamation mark

2008-08-15T21:22:41Z

Annie: fix grammar

An '''exclamation mark''' (!) is used at the end of a [[sentence]] to express surprise, disgust, admiration, etc., or to add emphasis to a command.

In [[C]] and similar computer programming languages, it is used to represent "logical not" and in a pair with an equals sign (=) to represent ''is not equal to'', e.g. {{tt|1=if (a != b)}} means ''if a is not equal to b''.<ref>[http://cermics.enpc.fr/~ts/C/CONCEPT/expressions.html C Operators/Expressions].</ref>

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Talk:Sepoy Rebellion

2008-08-15T21:20:46Z

Annie: reply

Actually in nearly every text book I have ever read it is refered to as the ''Indian Mutiny''. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 16:23, 15 August 2008 (EDT)

:No. See for example [http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Mutiny.html]. The word is definitely "Sepoy". If anyone called it merely an "Indian" mutiny, people might get it confused with [[Wounded Knee]] or something. There are many kinds of Indians. --[[User:Annie|Annie]] 17:20, 15 August 2008 (EDT)

Liberal namecalling

2008-08-15T16:58:17Z

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#REDIRECT [[Liberal name-calling]]

Limousine liberals

2008-08-15T16:53:59Z

Annie: Redirecting to Limousine liberal