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Velociraptor

2009-08-06T04:20:27Z

GabrielC:

[[File:Velociraptor.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Mounted velociraptor fossil]]
'''Velociraptor''' ("fast hunter") is the name for a small, fast-running, carnivorous [[dinosaur]].
Velociraptor was small for a dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 1.8 meters (5.9 ft) long, 0.62 meters (2 ft) high at the hip, and weighing 20 kilograms (45 lb)<ref>Norell, M.A. & Makovicky, P.J. 1999. Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton II: information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis. American Museum Novitates 3282</ref>
The velociraptor is now extinct.

According to [[Young-Earth Creationism|young-Earth creationists]], the velociraptor was created on the sixth creation day (approximately 6000 B.C.)<ref>http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/gen_1-2.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm</ref> and became extinct sometime in the last 4,350 years since the [[great flood|Flood]].

[[Scientists]] believe that the velociraptor existed between 80 and 70 million years ago, in the late [[Cretaceous]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074983/Velociraptor Velociraptor] in Encyclopedia Britannica</ref>

The first Velociraptor [[fossil]] was found in [[Mongolia]] in the 1920s by an American Museum of Natural History expedition, and a number of fossils have been found since then in Mongolia and northern [[China]]. The most well-known find, discovered in 1971, includes a complete Velociraptor skeleton wrapped around that of a Protoceratops, an early ceratopsian and ancestor of [[Triceratops]]. The two were apparently in mid-fight when they were buried.<ref>''The Complete Book of Dinosaurs'', by Dougal Dixon, Hermes House, 2006</ref>

== Stephen Spielberg's ''Jurassic Park'' ==
The Velociraptor played a prominent part in Stephen Spielberg's motion picture ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' in which it was misrepresented as a much larger creature. It was in fact merely the size of a turkey.<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/velociraptor</ref> The version of the Velociraptor in ''Jurassic Park'' more closely resembled a [[Deinonychus]], a close relative of Velociraptor.

== References ==
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[[Category:Dinosaurs]]

Velociraptor

2009-08-06T04:20:08Z

GabrielC:

[[File:Velociraptor.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Mounted velociraptor fossil]]
'''Velociraptor''' ("fast hunter") is the name for a small, fast-running, carnivorous [[dinosaur]].
Velociraptor was small for a dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 1.8 meters (5.9 ft) long, 0.62 meters (2 ft) high at the hip, and weighing 20 kilograms (45 lb)<ref>Norell, M.A. & Makovicky, P.J. 1999. Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton II: information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis. American Museum Novitates 3282</ref>
The velociraptor is now extinct.

According to [[Young-Earth Creationism|young-Earth creationists]], the velociraptor was created on the sixth creation day (approximately 6000 B.C.)<ref>http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/gen_1-2.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm</ref> and became extinct sometime in the last 4,350 years since the [[great flood|Flood]].

[[Evolutionists]] believe that the velociraptor existed between 80 and 70 million years ago, in the late [[Cretaceous]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9074983/Velociraptor Velociraptor] in Encyclopedia Britannica</ref>

The first Velociraptor [[fossil]] was found in [[Mongolia]] in the 1920s by an American Museum of Natural History expedition, and a number of fossils have been found since then in Mongolia and northern [[China]]. The most well-known find, discovered in 1971, includes a complete Velociraptor skeleton wrapped around that of a Protoceratops, an early ceratopsian and ancestor of [[Triceratops]]. The two were apparently in mid-fight when they were buried.<ref>''The Complete Book of Dinosaurs'', by Dougal Dixon, Hermes House, 2006</ref>

== Stephen Spielberg's ''Jurassic Park'' ==
The Velociraptor played a prominent part in Stephen Spielberg's motion picture ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' in which it was misrepresented as a much larger creature. It was in fact merely the size of a turkey.<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/velociraptor</ref> The version of the Velociraptor in ''Jurassic Park'' more closely resembled a [[Deinonychus]], a close relative of Velociraptor.

== References ==
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[[Category:Dinosaurs]]

Gallery of American Heroes

2009-08-06T04:16:18Z

GabrielC:

''For sports heroes, see [[Gallery of Sports Idols]]''<br>
'''Gallery of American [[Hero|Heroes]]'''
[[Image:The babe.jpg|thumb|[[Babe Ruth]]]]

<br><br>
'''Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration'''

I am loth (sic) to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

[[Abraham Lincoln]], First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html] [[Library of Congress|The Library of Congress]].

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<gallery perrow="5">
Image:Benjamin.jpg|[[Benjamin Franklin]]
Image:George washington 3.jpg|[[George Washington]]

Image:John adams.gif|[[John Adams]]
Image:Daniel Boone.jpg|[[Daniel Boone]]
Image:TCJJ.jpg|[[Thomas Jefferson]]
Image:432px-Cpt John Paul Jones.jpeg|[[John Paul Jones]]
Image:7648ruy6g.gif|[[James Madison]]
Image:Alexhamilton.jpg|[[Alexander Hamilton]]
Image:Andrew Jackson.jpg|[[Andrew Jackson]]
Image:Zachary taylor.jpg|[[Zachary Taylor]]
Image:Davy Crockett.jpg|[[Davy Crockett]]
Image:RLee.jpg|[[Robert E. Lee]]
Image:Lincoln.jpg|[[Abraham Lincoln]]

Image:Elizabethcadystanton.jpg|[[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]
Image:Freddouglas.jpg|[[Frederick Douglass]]
Image:3a10453r.jpg|[[Harriet Tubman]]
Image:Sherman (B).jpg|[[William T. Sherman]]
Image:Ulysses grant.jpg|[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg|[[Andrew Carnegie]]
Image:875997.jpg|[[Thomas Edison]]
Image:Macarthur1.jpg|[[Douglas MacArthur]]
Image:Patton.jpg|[[George Patton]]
Image:Irving Berlin.jpg|[[Irving Berlin]]
Image:Yte7567.jpg|[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
Image:Earhart.jpg|[[Amelia Earhart]]
Image:George Gershwin.jpg|[[George Gershwin]]
Image:Louis Armstrong.jpg|[[Louis Armstrong]]
Image:Aaag.jpg|[[Ronald Wilson Reagan]]
Image:RosaParks.jpg|[[Rosa Parks]]
Image:Jesse Owens.jpg|[[Jesse Owens]]
Image:Archie Moore.jpg|[[Archie Moore]].
Image:John kennedy.jpg|[[John F. Kennedy]]
Image:Ted Williams 1847...jpg|[[Ted Williams]]
Image:Jackie Robinson in Dodgers uniform, 1954..jpg|[[Jackie Robinson]]
Image:JGlenn.jpg|[[John Glenn]]
Image:Robert M. Hanson.jpg|[[Robert M. Hanson]]
Image:Martin Luther King Jr Washington DC. 1963.jpg|[[Martin Luther King]] Jr.

Image:NeilArmstrong.jpg|[[Neil Armstrong]]
Image:Johnny Unitas.jpg|[[Johnny Unitas]]

Image:Muhammad Ali..jpg|[[Muhammad Ali]]
Image:Michael Jordan.jpg|[[Michael Jordan]]
Image:Joe Montana.jpg|[[Joe Montana]]
Image:Peyton Manning Colts.jpg|[[Peyton Manning]]
Image:Pat Tillman.jpg|[[Pat Tillman]]
Image:McDonald- Computer Aged.jpg|Congressman [[Larry McDonald]]
Image:Chesley B. Sullenberger III.jpg|Pilot [[Chesley Sullenberger|Chesley B. Sullenberger]] III
Image:Casmier.jpg|Senator [[John McCain]]
Image:President_Barack_Obama.jpg|[[Barack Obama]]
</gallery>

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== See also ==
[[Image:M Mantle.jpg|thumb|Mickey Mantle]]
*[[Founding Fathers]]
*[[Hank Aaron]]
*[[Mickey Mantle]]
*[[Joe Louis]]
*[[Andre Agassi]]
*[[Phyllis Schlafly]]
*[[Famous American artists]]
*[[Gallery of British Heroes]]

== External links ==

*[http://usa-hero.com/ American Heroes Who Inspire the World]
*[http://www.foundingfathers.info/ The Founding Fathers home page.]
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/opinion/04furstenberg.html Spinning the Revolution] By FRANÇOIS FURSTENBERG, The NY Times.

[[Category:United States History]]
[[Category:Heroes]]