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Talk:American History Lecture Four

2008-09-29T18:15:27Z

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I'm wondering if these lectures should be moved out of the mainspace, maybe to Lecture:American History Lecture 4 or something like that. [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 13:43, 8 May 2007 (EDT)

Might I request that someone sticks a category on this? The lock is messing with my categorization binge.--[[User:Jimmyz|Jimmyz]] 00:13, 30 June 2007 (EDT)
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Pigment

2008-09-29T18:15:23Z

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A '''pigment''' is a colouring agent. Pigments are found in such products as paints and cosmetics, and, naturally, in skin, hair, and vegetation.

A pigment is distinguished from a dye in that a dye is fully disolved in the medium whilst a pigment is distributed through the medium in suspension. A pigment is a finely ground solid "floating" in a liquid. Dyes may be turned into pigments by fixing the dye onto an intert base, colouring that base. The dyed base will then be finely ground and suspended in the relevant medium.

Most pigments used throughout history have been naturally occuring substances. Technological developments have enabled these substances to be synthesised and new pigments to be developed. This has greatly increased the variety of pigments available and reduced their cost.
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Odyssey

2008-09-29T18:15:22Z

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The '''Odyssey''' was an epic poem written by [[Homer]], a [[Greece|Greek]] poet, in the 8th century B.C. It recounts events that took place after the [[Trojan War]], part of which is described in Homer's other major work the [[Iliad]]. The main themes of the [[poem]] are [[Odysseus]]' journey home from [[Troy]] after winning the war and his trials along the way. During his journey he encounters many mythical beasts including a cyclops which he blinds. Unbeknown to Odysseus the cyclops is the son of the great sea god [[Poseidon]] who makes it his mission to stop Odysseus from ever reaching his home of [[Ithaca]]. He eventually does reach his home with the help of other gods, especially [[Athena]], and he reunites with his wife after dispatching her lecherous suitors.

The poem is surprisingly "modern" in feel. The poem commences after most of the action has taken place and is told in "flashback".

It is to this epic that the Roman writer [[Virgil]] pays tribute in his creation of the masterpiece, the [[Aeneid]] (books I to XII), best known for its elegant use of hypermetric elision, multiple correspondence similes and [[litotes]].

[[Image:Monsiau Return of Odysseus.jpg]]

'''Return of Odysseus by Nicholas Monsiau, Early 1800's.'''

==External links==

*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0218 A Modern Translation]

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Talk:The Divine Comedy

2008-09-29T18:15:21Z

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This is just a comment to fix the broken redirect. [[User:LiamG|LiamG]] 18:00, 19 September 2008 (EDT)
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Arabic numerals

2008-09-29T18:15:16Z

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'''Arabic numerals''' consist of the [[number system]] most commonly used in the world: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.

The term "Arabic numeral" is a [[misnomer]] that originated in 1847. The more accurate term is "Hindu-Arabic numeral", as the origin of the numerals is [[Hinduism]] in [[India]] between 400 B.C. and A.D. 400. The only connection with Arabs is that they communicated this system to [[Europe]] in the A.D. 900s, through Arabian [[mathematics|mathematicians]]. Most Arabs did not use these Indian numerals.{{fact}} It was [[Fibonacci]], the Italian mathematician, who was finally successfull in introducing the Arabic numbers to Europe, around 1200 A.D.

Indians first discovered the concept of zero (0).
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Pronunciation

2008-09-29T18:15:14Z

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'''Pronunciation''' is the way in which [[word]]s or [[name]]s are spoken or '''pronounced'''.

Some languages have fixed rules of pronunciation. For example, in [[French]], the same [[letter]]s and [[syllable]]s are almost invariably pronounced the same way whenever they occur. In [[English]], however, letters can be pronounced in many different ways. For example, there are approximately twenty-five different [[vowel]] sounds, which can be conveyed by only five vowels (or six if '''Y''' is counted), and the combination ''''ough'''' can be pronounced at least eight different ways.

Dictionaries use various [[notation]] systems and sometimes esoteric [[symbol]]s to convey how a word is pronounced.

Pronunciation of some words differs widely according to [[accent]], [[dialect]], and [[cultural]] and [[religious]] background. This is conveyed in the famous song "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off", from the musical ''[[Shall We Dance?]]'', which includes the line: "you say toma[y]to, I say toma[h]to". The 'tomayto' pronunciation of '[[tomato]]' is most common in the [[America]], while the 'tomahto' pronunciation is more common in [[Britain]].

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Samuel P. Huntington

2008-09-29T18:15:13Z

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'''Samuel P. Huntington''' is a [[Harvard]] [[professor]] of [[political science]],<ref>http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/shuntington/</ref> famous for writing the provocative book [[Clash of Civilizations|''The Clash of Civilizations the Remaking of the World Order'']],<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Clash-Civilizations-Remaking-World-Order/dp/0684844419</ref> which hypothesized that, in the post-[[Cold War]] era, international conflict will be defined by clashes between diametrically opposed [[civilization|civilizations]]. To support his argument, Huntington broke the world down into five civilizations, and analyzed recent conflicts between the groups.

Huntington's thesis is widely criticized in academic circles, but popularly admired.

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