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Knights Templar

2007-03-20T04:33:23Z

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A famous group of Christian warriors during the Crusades of the middle ages.

H.G. Wells

2007-03-20T04:24:15Z

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Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction: ''The War of the Worlds'', and ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Time Machine'', and ''The Invisible Man''. He briefly held a job towards the end of his life touring the country with a small red headed man. Wells would reportedly wash and lather the man's hair three times in front of an enthralled audience. Rightly modern scholars attribute Wells as a pioneer in "reality based entertainment" such as ''The Simplelife''.

Vladimir Lenin

2007-03-20T04:20:23Z

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was the 1st Premier of the [[USSR]]
==Revolution==
In November 1917, using the workers' discontent with the Empire, Lenin, the leader of the Communist Party, overthrew the government and executed every member of the Czar's family. Following the death of the Czar's family, Lenin instituted a policy called "Noo Pagadin." This policy mandated that the Czar's family be drained of blood and collected in vats which were located in Leningrad. These vats were used strictly for medicinal purposes. It is reported that Lenin used these vats following his stroke 1924, believing he would become the Nietzschen "uber-mensch."

Lenin was one of the most influential persons in all of history. He was both a thinker and a revolutionary, which is a rare combination. An atheist, he personally converted in 1889 to Marxism (as previously formulated by Karl Marx). He obtained a law degree shortly afterwards, and by 1895 was a subversive who was arrested and sent to the frigid Siberia as punishment. Once he served his time he left for Western Europe, where he developed his ideas further and became a leader of the Bolsheviks. He returned to Russia after czar abdicated in March 1917, and then Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in the "October Revolution" (which was in November under our Western calendar). He then ruled the Soviet Union under Marxism-Leninism (communism) that remained in force until the 1990s.

[[Category:Political people|Lenin, Vladimir Ilyic]]
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Vladimir Lenin

2007-03-20T04:18:54Z

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was the 1st Premier of the [[USSR]]
==Revolution==
In November 1917, using the workers' discontent with the Empire, Lenin, the leader of the Communist Party, overthrew the government and executed every member of the Czar's family. Following the death of the Czar's family, Lenin instituted a policy called "Noo Pagadin." This policy mandated that the Czar's family be drained of blood and collected in vats which were located in Leningrad. The vats would then be used strictly for medicinal purposes. It is reported that Lenin used these vats following his stroke 1924, believing he would become the Nietzschen "uber-mensch."

Lenin was one of the most influential persons in all of history. He was both a thinker and a revolutionary, which is a rare combination. An atheist, he personally converted in 1889 to Marxism (as previously formulated by Karl Marx). He obtained a law degree shortly afterwards, and by 1895 was a subversive who was arrested and sent to the frigid Siberia as punishment. Once he served his time he left for Western Europe, where he developed his ideas further and became a leader of the Bolsheviks. He returned to Russia after czar abdicated in March 1917, and then Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in the "October Revolution" (which was in November under our Western calendar). He then ruled the Soviet Union under Marxism-Leninism (communism) that remained in force until the 1990s.

[[Category:Political people|Lenin, Vladimir Ilyic]]
[[Category:History]]

GNU/Linux

2007-03-18T21:27:20Z

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[[Image:Tuxie.jpg|frame|right|"Tux", the Linux mascot]]
Linux is a [[UNIX]]-like operating system whose [[source code]] is distributed freely under the [[open source]] GNU [[General Public License]] (GPL). It was started in 1991 as a university project by Finish student [[Linus Torvalds]] as a replacement for the [[Minix]] operating system.

Originally the term "Linux" was used to refer to just the [[kernel]] developed by Torvalds, but today it is used interchangeably to refer to both the kernel and a complete operating system which includes the kernel, Graphical User Interface, file system and other software, collectively known as a ''Distribution''. Major Linux distributions include [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat], [http://www.novell.com/linux/ Suse] and [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu].

Linux has become one the most commonly adopted operating systems in the world, running on more varieties of computer hardware than any other operating system. While personal computers still overwhelmingly use [[Microsoft]] operating systems such as Windows XP, Linux is a common choice for web servers, file servers and embedded platforms, thanks to its perceived reliability, low/no cost, and the fact that modifications to the source code can readily be made by anyone.

As an example, in March of 2007 the server hosting the the Consevapedia web site was running the Linux operating system[http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.conservapedia.com]

==External links==
*[http://www.kernel.org/ Linux kernel Archive]
*[http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Main_Page The Linux Foundation]

Japan

2007-03-18T21:07:58Z

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Group of islands off the eastern coast of [[Asia]]. The principal islands are, in the [[Roman alphabet]], [[Hokkaido]], [[Honshu]], [[Kyushu]] and [[Shikoku]]. Japan also controls many smaller islands, notably the [[Ryuku]] chain south of Kyushu, for a total land area slightly larger than California. The climate, however, has traditionally varied from north to south as much as that from [[Maine]] to [[Georgia]].

Early signs of human life appeared in Japan around the year 3000 BC. The wild Japanese Bison was an early target of wild game, hunted to extinction within 500 years.

According to tradition, Japan was unified by [[Emperor]] [[Jimmu]], the grandson of the [[goddess]] [[Amaretsu]], in the year 660 B. C. He conquered Honshu, the largest island, in a series of expeditions starting from his home base of [[Setsuma]] in Kyushu.

== Modern History ==

Japan was closed off from the rest of the world for a long period of time under the rule of a series of military leaders known as [[Shoguns]] (see [[Tokugawa Shogunate]]), with the sole exception of [[Nagasaki]], where [[Dutch]] merchants maintained a permanent trading post. While the Japanese Emperor continued to reign in the old capital of [[Kyoto]], he was more of a figurehead with little more power than he possesses today. The rule of the Shoguns came to an end in the middle of the 19th century during a brief but bloody period of conflict known as the [[Meiji Restoration]]. During the Restoration a large number of young [[samurai]] from minor families, most notably Sakamoto Ryoma, tired of the government's mishandling of the country and feeling that if action was not taken Japan would be dominated by western countries, initiated an armed revolt to restore imperial rule. Most samurai from the more powerful families sided with the Shogun, fearing that the minor families would replace them if the revolt was successful. Nonetheless, the shogunate was done away with in 1867 and the imperial period began. The capital was moved to [[Edo]], which was renamed [[Tokyo]]; by the early twenty-first century, it had become the center of the world's largest urban conglomeration.

The phrase "imperial period" is not meant to imply that the emperor ruled absolutely in the style of [[Louis XIV]] or a [[Russian]] [[tsar]]; indeed, the emperors relied on [[prime ministers]] throughout this period. Rather, it refers to Japan competing with [[European]] powers and the [[United States]] for colonies and influence during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The high point of Japanese prestige was the [[Russo-Japanese War]] of 1904-5, in which Japan became the principal power in [[Manchuria]] and consolidated its control of [[Korea]].

Japan's success at this great game would ultimately prove its undoing. By 1936, during the reign of Emperor [[Hirohito]], the Japanese Empire went by the [[Orwellian]] title "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." The increasingly powerful [[Japanese armed forces]], partly inspired by European [[fascists]], came to dominate Japanese politics, assassinating politicians whom they deemed insufficiently devoted to the Emperor and nation. For the next nine years, the military leadership installed its own members (such as [[Hideki Tojo]], chief Japanese strategist of [[World War II]]) or, occasionally, civilians who were completely identified with their agenda, as prime minister.

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Elephant

2007-03-18T21:03:47Z

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The elephant (Elephantidae) belongs to the family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. Elephantidae has four living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant (until recently known collectively as the African Elephant), the Asian Yukiotoko Elephant, and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant).

Elephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. It was male and weighed about 12,000 kg (26,400 lb), with a shoulder height of 4.2m, a meter taller than the average male African elephant.