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Astrobiologist

2012-11-07T13:58:45Z

BruceWills:

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An '''astrobiologist''' is a [[human|person]] who studies life on [[Earth]] and the possibilities for life in the [[universe]].<ref>http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/astrobiology/astroventure/biology/mission/glossary.html</ref>

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[[Category:Biology]]

Verb

2012-11-07T13:58:45Z

BruceWills:

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A '''verb''' is a word or words that express actions, events, or states of being. The verb or compound verb is often a critical element of the [[Subject and predicate|predicate]] of a sentence. In each of the following sentences, the verb or compound verb is italicized:

"Jesus <i>died</i> on the cross for your sins."

The verb "died" describes the action of Jesus.

"God ''gave'' us memories that we might have roses in
December."

Forms of "to be", such as "is", "are", etc. are also verbs of a particular type, called copulas, which define states of being (Jesus is the perfect teacher. Mary is Jesus' mother.) Some languages, such as Russian, do not use copulas in the present tense.

Many languages inflect verbs to indicate such categories as [[person (grammar)|person]], [[number (grammar)|number]], [[tense]], [[aspect (grammar)|aspect]], [[mood (grammar)|mood]], and [[voice (grammar)|voice]]. The set of all forms of a verb is called its ''conjugation''. English inflects for tense and to a limited extent for person and number. God ''loves'' us; but we ''love'' God. God ''created'' the Heavens and the Earth; but He creates things daily. English also inflects for mood; compare ''If I were a rich man'' (subjunctive) with ''I was a rich man'' (indicative).

Verbs can also be divided into [[regular verb|regular verbs]], where the tense is conjugated by adding "-d", "-ed" or occasionally "-t" to the [[base form]], and [[irregular verb|irregular verbs]] where the base form's spelling is altered during conjugation.

For example, a regular verb would be "listen" (past tense = "listen'''ed''') and an irregular verb would be "sit" (past tense = "s'''a'''t").
==Intransitive and transitive verbs==
Intransitive verbs have no object: ''I ran.'' Transitive verbs have an object: ''I saw you.'' Some transitive verbs are doubly transitive, meaning that they have both direct and indirect objects: ''I gave her the book.'' Some languages inflect verbs to agree with their objects as well as their subjects.

==Compound verbs==
The most simple compound verb are verbs with the "[[auxiliary verb|helper]]" verb of "has" and "to be".
I ''am going''. He ''had been going''.
In English, compound verbs generally mark aspect, that is, space in time, telling us what actions in a sentence happen in relation to other actions. "I had been reading the Bible, when I decided to change my life". "had been" tells us what the subject (I) was doing, when I acted "decided" to change.

==External Links==
*[http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerb.asp Finding Subjects and Verbs] and [http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/finding_subjects_verbs_1.asp Finding Subjects and Verbs Quiz]
*[http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp Subject and Verb Agreement] and [http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/subject_verb_agreement_1.asp Subject and Verb Agreement Quiz]

[[Category:Grammar]]
[[Category:Parts of Speech]]

Pol Pot

2012-11-07T13:58:43Z

BruceWills:

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{{Dictator bio
| image =
| name =Pol Pot
| birth =May 19,1928<br/>Kampong Thom Province, French Indochina
| parents =Pen Saloth<br/>Sok Nem
| religion =Roman Catholic (rejected)<br/>Buddism (rejected)<br/>Atheism
| education =Wat Botum Vaddei Buddist Monastery, 1934–35<br/>École Miche Catholic School, Phnom Penh 1935-43<br/>Collège Preah Sihanouk at Kampong Cham 1943-47<br/>Lycée Sisowath in Phnom Penh 1948–49<br/>École Francaise de radio-électricité, Paris, France, 1949–52
| spouse =Khieu Ponnary<br/>Mea Son
| children =Sitha (daughter)
| death =April 15, 1998<br/>Northern Cambodia
| deathmanner =Heart failure (official)<br/>Suicide (unofficial)
| burial =Cremated
| country =[[Cambodia]]
| military =n/a
| rank =n/a
| polbeliefs =[[Communism]]
| party =Communist Party of Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge)
| dictatordate =January 5, 1976
| war =Cambodian civil war (aka "killing fields")
| deathnumber =1,800,000 to 2,500,000 est.
}}
'''Pol Pot''' (born '''Saloth Sar''' May 19,1928-1998) was the ruthless [[Cambodia]]n [[Communism|Communist]] [[dictator]] and [[genocide|genocidist]] responsible for killing 1-3 million Cambodians in the late 1970s (nearly a third of the Cambodian population). Anyone thought to be [[intellectual]] was murdered, including the killing of people simply for knowing a foreign language or even merely wearing glasses. Pol Pot held power through a combination of enormous charm and complete ruthlessness. He is infamous for being a communist who apparently did not even like to read the works of [[Marx]].

When Pol Pot took over Cambodia in 1975, he abolished [[private property]], [[money]] and [[religion]] and converted everything back to an [[agricultural society]]. He emptied the cities. His [[Khmer Rouge]] government fell in 1979 when the communist country of [[Vietnam]] invaded Cambodia after a series of violent border confrontations, and Pol Pot fled to the northern jungle with his forces. Pol Pot was popular in China, because they believed Cambodia would be a counterbalance to Vietnam, which was friendly with the Soviet Union. The Chinese support for Pol Pot was a reason he was not ousted earlier to disowned by the communist movement.

An Oscar-winning film about his dictatorship, ''[[The Killing Fields]]'' brought a wider knowledge of his atrocities, but only years after they had taken place. The United States and other Asian nations were blamed for once supporting him in order to counter Vietnam next door.

There was a bloody power struggle within the Khmer Rouge in 1997. Pol Pot was then arrested by his former supporters in July 1997. They charged him with [[treason]] but a "people's tribunal" merely sentenced him to house arrest for life.

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[[Category:Communists]]
[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
[[Category:Dictators]]
[[Category:Cambodia]]
[[Category:Atheists]]