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B.C.

2007-10-04T20:48:42Z

PeterW: BC or even BCE, is pretty standard in non-Western history, too.

'''B.C.''' literally means "before Christ" and is the dating mechanism used for older dates in human history. However, due to a miscalculation, the calendar start time does not correspond to the exact year of [[Jesus]]' birth, which actually occurred a few years earlier.

==See Also==

* [[A.D.]]

[[Category:Measurements]]

Liberation theology

2007-10-04T20:41:06Z

PeterW: New page: Liberation theology arose in the 1980s in Latin America as an ideological means of resistance for Catholics to resist corrupt and oppressive right-wing regimes. While grounded in [...

Liberation theology arose in the 1980s in [[Latin America]] as an ideological means of resistance for [[Catholic]]s to resist corrupt and oppressive right-wing regimes. While grounded in [[Scripture]], the ideology tended to be left-leaning in nature and was thus not viewed favorably by the [[Vatican]].

Oscar Romero

2007-10-04T20:37:10Z

PeterW:

'''Oscar Romero''' (August 15, 1917 – March 24, 1980) Archbishop of [[El Salvador]] from 1977 to 1980. Romero's call for human rights and social justice led to his assassination on March 24 1980 by [[right wing]] [[terrorists]]. The Archbishop was shot as he conducted mass. Ironically, given his iconic status as a champion of the poor and oppressed, Romero was initially regarded as a conservative by many in El Salvador. Many of the clergy associated with the so called '[[liberation theology]]' movement were dismayed by his appointment. However a growing realisation of the grinding poverty endured by ordinary Salvadoreans and of the brutal nature of the government led him to become increasingly outspoken in his criticism. A UN report in 1993 identified Roberto D'Aubuisson as the man who ordered the assassination. D'Aubuisson founded the right wing ARENA party, currently in power, and organised death squads to carry out political assassinations and other human rights abuses

Archbishop Romero is one of the ten 20th century Christian martyrs commemorated in Westminster Abbey, England. Other martyrs in this group include victims of both the Communists and Nazis.

Talk:Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

2007-10-04T20:36:05Z

PeterW:

Your gonna need a bunch a redirects, Molotov-Ribbentrop, Ribbentrop-Molotov, Hitler-Stalin, Nazi-Soviet, German-Soviet, Soviet-German,and probably a few more. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 01:24, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

A question - "Communazi?" I've read quite a bit of WWII history in English and French and have never seen such a term before. Where does it come from, which historians coined it/use it today? [[User:PeterW|PeterW]] 16:36, 4 October 2007 (EDT)

Diego Rivera

2007-10-04T20:15:39Z

PeterW: Rivears Communit leanings.

[[Image:Rivera.jpg|left|100px|Diego and Frida]]
'''Diego Rivera''' ([[Guanajuato]] 1886 – [[Mexico City]] 1957) was a Mexican painter.

''Rivera's talent for historical murals and his tributes to earthy folk traditions made him one of the most influential artists in the Americas and one of Mexico's most beloved painters.'' [http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php The virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum]

[[Image:Rivera AlamedaPark.jpg|center|Rivera's detail of mural]]
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'''Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, detail of mural, 1948.'''
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Rivera was husband of artist [[Frida Kahlo]] and was an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico.A noted [[Communist]], he once attempted to insert a portrait of [[Lenin]] into a mural commissioned by [[Nelson Rockefeller]].

At the [[Detroit]] Institute of Arts, the museum's central courtyard is decorated with a series of 27 murals by the Mexican painter Diego Rivera that depict the automobile industry. Industrialist [[Nelson Rockefeller]] commissioned a mural by Rivera, though later ordered it painted over, due to some pro-[[socialist]] imagery in the work. A duplicate mural is now in [[Mexico City]] Museum of Fine Arts.<ref>[http://gomexico.about.com/od/sights/ss/df_walking_9.htm Mexico City Museum of Fine Arts]</ref>

==References==
<references/>

== See also ==
*[[Painting Masterpieces PART III]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Muralism]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.fbuch.com/diego.htm Diego Rivera]
*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-504901/Diego-Rivera Diego Rivera] Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Karl Marx

2007-10-04T19:55:22Z

PeterW: The title is *always* translated into English as "Capital" - I have yet to see an edition entitled "The Capital."

[[Image:KarlMarx.jpg|right|frame|Karl Marx]]
'''Karl Marx''' (1818-1883) was born in Prussia, educated in [[Germany]], and a writer in [[London]]. Marx was an economist who sought to set [[socialism]] and [[communism]] on, what he saw as, a scientific basis.

Marx saw "primitive" socialist thought as fundamentally a moral movement with no base in a practical science. Marx's solution was to ground an analysis of society on his principle of dialectical materialism.

[[Dialectic]] was a principle created by German philosopher [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] which, although ferociously complex in his works, is based on the fairly straightforward conception of action and reaction. A situation arises that is less than perfect ("thesis") which provokes a reaction ("[[antithesis]]"), eventually a settlement is reached ("synthesis") which, is still far from perfect and provokes its own antithesis. Hegel saw the driving force of changes being the "Geist", variously translated as "spirit" or "mind".

Marx took the dialectic and replaced Geist with [[materialism]], at root the [[metabolism]] of man. To put it bluntly: you've got to eat!. The difference between the ideal spirit and reality translates into Marx's view that man had become [[alienation|alienated]] from his true nature. Man had been created different from animals: he is creative, this is essential to his nature. However, in modern days, man is just automatically producing: he works to earn his wage, but has no tie to the product of his labor at all. This is the alienation from his true nature. Marx proposed a solution: outlaw wages.

The necessity for material sustenance gives rise to an imperfect [[means of production]], which changes as the internal contradictions of [[thesis and antithesis]] work themselves out. A key feature of Marx's [[sociology]] was his contention that [[competition]] for resources splits society into mutually antagonistic classes ("The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of [[class struggle]]s.") whilst the operation of the dialectic serves to continually reduce the numbers of classes until, in the [[Industrial Age]], society was almost wholly split between "[[bourgeoisie]]" and "[[proletariat]]".

[[Capitalism]], according to Marx, is just one system in a long series of [[economic systems]] in the world. He held that [[capitalist society]] had strong internal inherent tensions. In the development of capitalism, [[capital]] (money) would be increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people. <ref>See his "Law of the Centralization of Capital". []</ref> The difference in income between the poorest and richest would always increase. Through economic crises, the poor laborers would start to believe that the system would always be disadvantageous to them.

''Das Kapital'' (''Capital'') seeks to demonstrate that the bourgeoisie make [[profit]]s by [[exploitation]] of the proletariat. The exploitation arises where the value of the goods produced by workers is much more than the wages paid, and this "[[surplus value]]" is stolen from workers by owners. Marx sought to show that the competition amongst the bourgeoisie forced them to exploit their workers as much as possible. If an individual bourgeois refused to continue the "exploitation" he would soon be forced into [[bankruptcy]] or be taken over by someone who would. The result is a relentless increase in the misery of the proletariat who, eventually, would rebel and replace the existing capitalist system with a [[socialist]]/communist system.

However, in his major works, Marx himself could not tell if this would make an end to the capitalist system: he knew there are too many factors in history to make a prediction possible. He did not have a clear idea about what the next stage after capitalism would be either. The increasing concentration, he thought, would facilitate a [[communist]] system. In that system, however, man also would have to eliminate his alienation. One possibility, which Marx put forward, was complete mechanization of production, so that any man could do any job<ref>Marx, K. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, [[Berlin]]</ref>.
In the ''Communist Manifesto'', Marx went into greater detail about how this [[revolution]] would unfold. As well as proposing an economic system, Marx also advocated [[education]] for all including women and the lower classes who at the time were without any education.

==Critique of Marxists==
[[Mikhail Bakunin]] observed how rather than discussion of issues, the tried and tested method of [[leftism]] and [[Marxism]] was spread through the art of [[character assassination]], <ref>Guy A. Aldred, ''Bakunin'', Strickland Press, [[Glasgow]], (1940). </ref> close associates of Marx were adept in the art of
{{Cquote|cowardly, odious and perfidious insinuations. They seldom make open accusation, but they insinuate, saying they "have heard - it is said - it may not be true, but', and then they hurl the most abominable calumnies in your face.}}

===Views on Religion===
Marx' view on [[religion]] is mostly based on [[Ludwig Feuerbach's]] ideas<ref>Feuerbach, L. ''The Essence of Christianity'', New York, 1957</ref>. Marx is considered very controversial in religious circles for his statement, "Religion...is the opium of the masses." This was written in his 1843 work "A Contribution to the [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htm Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right]" and expresses Marx's belief that religion offers a false palliative to assuage the suffering of "the oppressed", which in his view essentially blames [[faith]] in [[God]] as the hindrance to carrying out the Marxist program.

Karl Marx is often labeled an [[anti-Semite]] or a "self-hating [[Jew]]" for statements such as, "Money is the [[jealous god]] of [[Israel]], in face of which no other god may exist", "The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the [[god of the world]]. The [[bill of exchange]] is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange", and "What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly [[God]]? Money."

== See also ==

*[[Baldomero Ortoneda]]

==References==
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Tom Brokaw

2007-10-03T23:47:01Z

PeterW: still is the former host.

[[Image:TomBrokaw1.jpg‎ |right|270px|]]
'''Tom (Thomas John) Brokaw''' (born 1940) is a leading journalist and bestselling author. He is the former host of [[NBC Nightly News]], a position he held for 22 years. He is also a four time best-selling author. As a journalist, Brokaw has covered all national political campaigns since 1966. He also has produced several award-winning documentaries.

==Personal Life ==
In 1940, Tom Brokaw was born into the family of Anthony Brokaw, who was a construction worker in Webster, South Dakota. Tom was the first born of three sons. Brokaw's mother worked as a clerk at a local post office. As a young child, Brokaw was fascinated with television; on election nights he'd stay awake until one A.M. to see the results. In high school, he struggled with his studies; his guidance counselor told him to drop out and take a break, and Brokaw took the advice. After high school, Brokaw was admitted to the [[University of South Dakota]]. Although he at first struggled, he soon got on track in his studies and earned a degree in [[Political Science]]. In 1962, Brokaw married Meredith Auld, the daughter of a doctor. The couple has three children, Jennifer, Andrea, and Sarah<ref> Diane Negra, The Museum of Broadcasting Communications, “Tom Brokaw,” http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/brokawtom/brokawtom.htm</ref> . He currently resides in [[New York]] and [[Montana]].

== Television Career ==
Brokaw had a early obsession with politics and reporting, which soon became useful as he worked at a broadcasting station in Sioux City, [[Iowa]]. In 1962 after gradating from college, Brokaw went to work at another broadcast news station, KNTV, in [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]]. Here Brokaw was offered a salary of $90 a week, but he refused the offer and asked for a salary of $100, which was accepted by the station<ref>Interview with Today Show, 2004, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6521696/</ref>. Brokaw later stated that one of his reasons for joining the news industry was his desire to travel. Brokaw's love for politics came into play in his new job, as he served as the "political junkie" for the network. As the [[civil rights movement]] began to take hold, another opportunity opened up for the young reporter: Brokaw moved to [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], to cover the movement in 1965. During this time he was able to cover [[Martin Luther King]], while serving as news editor and anchor of the 11:00 news for the Georgia station, KMTV. Coincidentally,the future anchor of [[CBS News]], [[Dan Rather]], was also covering the civil rights movement during this same period for [[CBS]].

[[NBC]] became impressed with Brokaw's work at KMTV, and after only one year at his new job, Brokaw was off to work for NBC as an anchor at their [[Los Angeles]] station in 1966. Although he took the job after twice turning down the offer, Brokaw was not impressed with his new assignment; he had hoped to get a job as a correspondent in [[Washington D.C.]] <ref>Interview with Today Show, 2004, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6521696/</ref>. In [[California]], Brokaw had the opportunity to cover [[Ronald Reagan]]'s campaign for [[governor]] of California. In 1968, Brokaw was promoted to the position of NBC's [[White House]] correspondent; here he covered the [[Watergate]] investigation. During his time as White House correspondent he competed with [[Dan Rather]], who was also now a White House correspondent for CBS. In 1976 Brokaw covered the election primaries, national conventions, and election night in the race between [[Jimmy Carter]] and [[Walter Mondale]]. He also served as anchor of NBC's Saturday Night News. In the show's 24th season, Brokaw became host of NBC's [[Today]] show, where he had the opportunity to cover Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president in 1980, and also had the opportunity to interview [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in the [[Kremlin]], which earned Brokaw an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award <ref>MSNBC, “Tom Brokaw,” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4364148/</ref>.

===1981-2000===
Brokaw later stated that the transition from the role of [[White House]] correspondent to Today show host was difficult, because Today was less of a 'hard news' platform<ref>Interview with Today Show, 2004, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6521696/</ref>.. Brokaw said that the best part of the job with Today was having the opportunity to travel. Brokaw's job at Today lasted until NBC began looking for a new anchor to work with [[Roger Mudd]].NBC hoped to bring back the success that NBC CO-anchors, [[David Brinkley]] and [[Chet Huntley]], had brought with their top rated nightly news program, [[NBC Nightly News| ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'']]. ABC was interested in Brokaw as their new news anchor and the two began to discuss options. Brokaw was almost sure about working at ABC when NBC picked Brokaw as their new Nightly News co-anchor in 1982.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6628060/</ref> The co-broadcast did not work and NBC made Brokaw the sole anchor in 1983, the same year reporter [[Peter Jennings]] reclaimed the job as the anchor of ABC's Nightly News. The year before, Dan Rather had replaced [[Walter Cronkite]] as anchor of CBS News. In 1982 Brokaw was the only anchor to report from the [[Berlin Wall]] when it came down. He also covered the [[Oklahoma City bombing]] in 1995, and later was the first to broadcast from the site of the [[TWA Flight 800]] crash<ref> http://www.usd.edu/extraordinary/brokaw.cfm</ref>. Brokaw wrote his first book in 1998, which became a best seller. In addition to his role as anchor at Nightly News, Brokaw also created some reports for [[60 Minutes]] and appeared in a nighttime news show with [[Katie Couric]] called "''Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric''."

===2000-2007===
Brokaw covered the attacks on [[9-11|September 11th, 2001]] and the wars in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq]]. He traveled to both Afghanistan, to witness the [[NATO's]] struggle against [[Al-Qaeda]], and later to [[Iraq]] to witness the new elections after the fall of [[Saddam Hussein]]. In 2004, the 60th Anniversary of D-Day, he was the only anchor to report from [[Normandy]]. He also did exclusive interviews with President [[George W. Bush]] and former French President [[Jacques Chirac]] during this trip. While anchor of the network's main news show, Brokaw also wrote books documenting the so-called "Greatest Generation." He also helped in the production of documentaries covering a wide variety of areas. On December 1st, 2004, at the age of 64 and after more then 21 years as anchor, Brokaw stepped down from NBC Nightly News and was replaced by [[Brian Williams]]. NBC Nightly News remained a steady first for the majority of Brokaw's tenure as anchor with an average of ten million viewers<ref> http://www.tv.com/tom-brokaw/person/117017/biography.html</ref>. Brokaw continues work with NBC News, and plans on continuing to do so for the next ten years. He occasionally appears on Nightly news, MSNBC, and documentaries that he produces.

==Books==
Brokaw's first book, ''The Greatest Generation'', was released in 1998, and it instantly became a best seller. The 432-page book documented the generation of people that lived through the [[depression]] and the [[Second World War]]. Brokaw was inspired to write the book after he went to cover the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion of Normandy for NBC. Here, while talking to veterans, and walking the beach he had a "life changing experience," as he stated later<ref> Random House Books, Tom Brokaw, http://www.randomhouse.com/features/brokaw/books_greatest.html</ref>. Brokaw was so encouraged by the letter he received regarding his first book that he decided to right a sequel. In 1999 he began work on his next best seller, ''The Greatest Generation Speaks''. This book included letter written by people living in the period, including, eyewitness account of the dropping of the atomic bomb and others. Brokaw released his third book, ''An Album of Memories'', in 2001. This trilogy was also a book filled with letters documenting the "the greatest generation society has ever produced,” as he stated. His last book, ''A Long Way from Home'', documented his own life and five-decade career as a broadcast journalist. ''A Long Way from Home'', was Brokaw's fourth straight bestselling book.

==Film==
In addition to Brokaw's work for NBC as a newscaster, he has also created documentaries series for the organization. In 1989, Brokaw was awarded his first [[Peabody Award]] for ''To Be An American'', a documentary about the history of the American people. Brokaw's work in Georgia during the civil rights movement came in handy when in 1997 he produced ''Why Can't We Live Together'', a documentary about racial separation in America's suburbs. He won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for the documentary. After September 11, 2001, Brokaw began work on another documentary: in 2003 he released, ''America Remembers: 9/11 Air Traffic Controllers''. This documentary, which later won an Emmy for Outstanding Interview, consisted of interviews that Brokaw had done with twenty air traffic controllers who dealt with the four hijacked planes. Brokaw examined [[Affirmative Action]] in a documentary he released in 2004, ''Tom Brokaw Reports: A Question of Fairness''. This documentary won numerous awards including the Peabody award. In 2005, after giving up his post as anchor, Brokaw returned to prime time television with an hour-long documentary, ''Tom Brokaw Reports: The Long War''. This documentary examined the United States war against terrorism after the September 11th attacks. In the documentaries creation Brokaw traveled the world – from [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]], [[Iran]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[France]] and [[Washington D.C.]] - to interview intelligence experts, world leaders and those personally affected by the attacks. Brokaw again was able to use his past experience as a journalist in his creation of another documentary, ''The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat'', in September 2005. In December 2005, Brokaw received praise for his new hour long documentary, ''Tom Brokaw Reports: To War and Back'', which documented a wounded soldiers arrival back home<ref>MSNBC, “The War and Back, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10402820/</ref>.

==Criticism==
Some media newsroom insiders have questioned Tom Brokaw's objectivity, claiming that some of his past reporting includes a [[liberal]] slant. Much of the perceived bias in the mainstream media was blamed on Brokaw because of the influence he had with NBC, which led in network news ratings. [[Bernard Goldberg]], a employee for [[CBS News]] for thirty years, stated that all of the main networks, including NBC, showed significant bias against conservatives<ref> PBS, “Skewing the News”,http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june02/bias_1-24.html</ref>. Goldberg recorded his findings in a book entitled, “Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News.” In response to critics, Brokaw stated the he does not believe that the news media was biased <ref>Colombia Journalism Review, 2004, http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2004/1/QA-Brokaw.asp</ref>.

===Clinton Administration===
During a June 1996 Press Club Meeting, Brokaw said that the media were being tough on President Clinton, whose administration was being investigated for allegedly leaking secret grand jury information to the [[New York Times]]<ref>http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/01/clinton.starr/</ref>. Brokaw’s claim was shown to be false as the network surprisingly ignored the investigation. Critics claim that Brokaw was trying to protect the president from bad publicity. During the 1994 election, Brokaw claimed that the Republicans' Contract with America, “is long on promises, but short on sound premises." When the Republicans came to power in Congress, Brokaw was extremely tough in an interview with new House leader, [[Newt Gingrich]]. He later claimed that the media was getting too mixed up with conservative members of congress by paying attention to stories like “Whitewater and Paula Jones.”<ref>http://www.mediaresearch.org/mainsearch/search.html</ref>

===Iraq War===
In January of 2007 Brokaw attacked the United States actions in Iraq, stating, “And a lot of families, and I think a lot of people who are raising their hands to join the armed services are wondering 'I'm giving my life for that?.'”<ref>Mark Finkelstein, News busters ,2007, http://newsbusters.org/node/9909</ref> In an interview, Brokaw claimed that the White House is, “in its own bunker at the moment."<ref> “Meredith Vieira and Tom Brokaw Question Bush's 'Crediblity'”,2007, http://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/192</ref> He said that the world is saying to the United States, “you got yourself into it, you find a way out of it.” ."<ref> “Meredith Vieira and Tom Brokaw Question Bush's 'Crediblity'”,2007, http://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/192</ref> Brokaw also challenged President Bush credibility on Iraq, and said that no one was suggesting of cutting and running from Iraq, despite [[Bill Murtha]]’s and [[Nancy Pelosi]]’s comments to the contrary<ref>http://newsbusters.org/node/3852</ref>. [[News Buster]], a media watchdog organization, wrote that, “The former Nightly News anchor seems to align himself with the "Bush lied, people died" crowd.”<ref> Geoffrey” 2007, http://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/192</ref>

===Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse===
After the abuses by the some members of the military at [[Abu Ghraib]] prison in [[Iraq]], Brokaw was criticized for unbalanced coverage of the situation. Nightly News reported heavily on the abuse at Abu Ghraib, while failing to mention the recently-discovered abuses carried out by former dictator [[Saddam Hussein]]. Between 2003 and 2004, Nightly News showed 58 prison abuse stories, while only broadcasting five reports on Saddam’s recently-discovered mass graves<ref>Media Research Center, http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2004/fax20040512.asp</ref>.

==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/brokawtom/brokawtom.htm The Museum of Broadcast Communications]

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Written Language

2007-10-03T23:46:08Z

PeterW:

'''Writing''' is a way of putting down information in a textual form. Unlike unrecorded [[speech]] it is a form of [[communication]] that has a continuing nature in that it still exists or can be seen after it is completed.

==History==

The forerunners to writing were carved sticks or knotted cords that conveyed information. Prehistoric writing took the form of cave art such as found in [[France]]. The cultures that developed in [[Egypt]] and [[Sumeria]] both started with pictorial forms which led to Egyptian [[hieroglyphics]] and Sumerian [[cuneiform]]. The [[Hittites]], Egyptians and Mesopotanians all devised symbols for specific sounds known as phonetic writing. During the 2nd millennium B.C., Semetic [[alphabet]]s emerged allowing writing as know it. The [[Greeks]] and the [[Romans]] both copied these earlier alphabets.

==Sources==

The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989

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Booking

2007-10-03T23:42:45Z

PeterW:

'''Booking''' is the process of [[photograph]]ing, [[fingerprint]]ing, and recording identifying [[data]] of a criminal [[suspect]]. This process follows the arrest. [[category:legal terms]]

Diego Rivera

2007-10-03T23:42:19Z

PeterW:

'''Diego Rivera''' (1886-1957) was a [[socialist]] Mexican painter who husband to [[Frida Kahlo]] and an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico.

[[Image:Rivera.jpg]]

== See also ==
*[[Painting Masterpieces PART III]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Muralism]]

== External links ==
*[]

[[Category:Artists]]

[[Category:Painting]]

Newspaper

2007-10-03T23:34:50Z

PeterW:

'''Newspapers''' are a common sight all over the world. They are published daily or weekly, and contain news about what's going on in their home countries and sometimes overseas. In America, the newspaper industry is currently on the decline, because of the influence of the 24 hour news channels like [[Fox News]] and [[CNN]] and the [[Internet]].

Despite being an older medium, the overwhelming majority of newspapers in the United States are very [[liberal]], including the ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]'', for example.[http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp] Only a few newspapers have a [[conservative]] slant, and even these are not conservative on all issues. Examples of newspapers cited as conservative on some issues are ''[[The Washington Times]]'', the ''[[Las Vegas Review-Journal]]'', and the ''[[New Hampshire Union Leader]]''. Some newspapers have changed their political slant over time: the ''[[New York Post]]'' has gone back and forth between a liberal slant and a conservative one, depending on its owner at the time, it currently is claimed by some to have a conservative slant under the ownership of [[Rupert Murdoch]]. But even the ''[[New York Post]]'' endorsed [[Hillary Clinton]] in 2006, illustrating that newspapers can adapt their editorial views to particular political situations. Likewise the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' once had conservative editorial positions but is now quite liberal like most.

Newspapers do have one advantage over news channels that have helped them stay afloat: there is no way to send [[comics]] over the airwaves. Therefore, newspapers make money by publishing comic strips like "For Better Or For Worse", "Mallard Fillmore", and the popular "Mutts". Another reason why newspapers have remained profitable is [[advertising]]. If newspapers had to rely solely on subscriptions and newsstand sales for their income, they would not be profitable. Newspapers suffer from declining sales, and fewer young people read them.

At one time in American history, it was quite common for cities, even small ones, to have several daily newspapers. The trend in recent years has been toward consolidation and cities no longer being able to support so many newspapers. Even a city like [[Washington, D.C.]] for example now only has two daily newspapers. Another trend in recent years is the proliferation of free weekly newspapers. These make their money selling advertising and are distributed to readers free of charge. Most of these free weeklies are notorious for being socially liberal.
[[category:media]]

Newspaper

2007-10-03T23:32:43Z

PeterW: Lots of countries have newspapers. In fact, they pretty much all do....

'''Newspapers''' are a common sight all over the world. They are published daily or weekly, and contain news about what's going on in their home countries and sometimes overseas. In America, the newspaper industry is currently on the decline, because of the influence of the 24 hour news channels like [[Fox News]] and [[CNN]] and the [[Internet]].

Despite being an older medium, the overwhelming majority of newspapers in the United States are very [[liberal]], including the ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]'', for example.[http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp] Only a few newspapers have a [[conservative]] slant, and even these are not conservative on all issues. Examples of newspapers cited as conservative on some issues are ''[[The Washington Times]]'', the ''[[Las Vegas Review-Journal]]'', and the ''[[New Hampshire Union Leader]]''. Some newspapers have changed their political slant over time: the ''[[New York Post]]'' has gone back and forth between a liberal slant and a conservative one, depending on its owner at the time, it currently is claimed by some to have a conservative slant under the ownership of [[Rupert Murdoch]]. But even the ''[[New York Post]]'' endorsed [[Hillary Clinton]] in 2006, illustrating what it means to be a [[conservative]] newspaper. Likewise the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' once had conservative editorial positions but is now quite liberal like most.

Newspapers do have one advantage over news channels that have helped them stay afloat: there is no way to send [[comics]] over the airwaves. Therefore, newspapers make money by publishing comic strips like "For Better Or For Worse", "Mallard Fillmore", and the popular "Mutts". Another reason why newspapers have remained profitable is [[advertising]]. If newspapers had to rely solely on subscriptions and newsstand sales for their income, they would not be profitable. Newspapers suffer from declining sales, and fewer young people read them.

At one time in American history, it was quite common for cities, even small ones, to have several daily newspapers. The trend in recent years has been toward consolidation and cities no longer being able to support so many newspapers. Even a city like [[Washington, D.C.]] for example now only has two daily newspapers. Another trend in recent years is the proliferation of free weekly newspapers. These make their money selling advertising and are distributed to readers free of charge. Most of these free weeklies are notorious for being socially liberal.
[[category:media]]

Diego Rivera

2007-10-03T23:30:04Z

PeterW: All wiki articles are "in progress" - that's how wikis work, right?

'''Diego Rivera''' (1886-1957) was a [[socialist]] Mexican painter who husband to [[Freida Kahlo]] and an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico.

[[Image:Rivera.jpg]]

== See also ==
*[[Painting Masterpieces PART III]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Muralism]]

== External links ==
*[]

[[Category:Artists]]

[[Category:Painting]]

Diego Rivera

2007-10-03T23:29:20Z

PeterW:

'''Diego Rivera''' (1886-1957) was a [[socialist]] Mexican painter who husband to [[Freida Kahlo]] and an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico.

IN PROCESS

[[Image:Rivera.jpg]]

== See also ==
*[[Painting Masterpieces PART III]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Muralism]]

== External links ==
*[]

[[Category:Artists]]

[[Category:Painting]]

Diego Rivera

2007-10-03T23:29:09Z

PeterW:

'''Diego Rivera''' (1886-1957) was a socialist Mexican painter who husband to [[Freida Kahlo]] and an associate of [[Leon Trotsky]] during Trotsky's last days in Mexico.

IN PROCESS

[[Image:Rivera.jpg]]

== See also ==
*[[Painting Masterpieces PART III]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Muralism]]

== External links ==
*[]

[[Category:Artists]]

[[Category:Painting]]

Max Baucus

2007-10-03T23:26:12Z

PeterW: fixed party name, copyedited

'''Max Baucus''' is a current [[United States Senator]] from [[Montana]]. As member of the [[Democratic Party]], he was elected to the Montana State Legislator in 1973 and served until 1974, when he was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He was re-elected to the House in 1976. Max was elected to the [[United States Senate]] in 1978, where he currently resides. Before his career in politics he worked in the legal practice.

==External Links==
*[http://baucus.senate.gov/index.cfm Official Website]

[[Category: United States Senators]]
[[Category: 110th United States Congress]]
{{DEFAULTSORT: Baucus, Max}}

Massachusetts

2007-10-03T23:21:25Z

PeterW:

[[Image:Massachusetts_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Massachusetts.]]

The '''Commonwealth of Massachusetts''' is a [[state]] in the [[New England]] region of the northeastern [[United States]]. Its capital city is [[Boston]]. Massachusetts became a state on February 6, 1788. The name is derived from the indigenous population, the "[[Massachusett]]". It is one of four states officially known as "[[commonwealth]]s"; there are no practical differences between a "commonwealth" and a "state".<ref>The other three are Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. An example of a state which really ''is'' legally different from the others is Louisiana; Louisiana state law is based on the French Napoleonic Code. The other forty-nine states (including the four "commonwealths") derived their state laws from English common law.</ref>

==History==
Massachusetts was first settled by the [[Pilgrims]] who emigrated from [[England]] on the ''[[Mayflower]]'' in 1620 and founded a settlement at [[Plymouth Colony|Plymouth]], and later the [[Puritans]], who founded the "Massachusetts Bay Colony". Both groups came to America seeking religious freedom. It was also a major center of the [[American Revolution]], as events such as the [[Boston Massacre]] and [[Boston Tea Party]] helped to create a desire for national independence among the colonists. The first battle of the war was fought mainly in the towns of [[Lexington]] and [[Concord]]. Shortly after the war ended, the western part of the state was marked by [[Shays' Rebellion]], a major factor leading to the [[Constitutional Convention]] in 1787. Massachusetts was also the first state to abolish slavery in 1783.

During the 1800s, Massachusetts was marked by increasing industrialization, including the founding of textile mills in towns such as Lowell. Important historical figures during this time included [[Horace Mann]], an important educational reformer, and [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] and [[Henry David Thoreau]], two of the main contributors to the [[Transcendentalism|Transcendental]] movement.

In the 1900s, Massachusetts moved from a factory-based economy to a more service-based economy, sparked by growth in its local colleges and universities as well as by a collapse in the textile industry during the 1920s. This encouraged increased suburbanization, leading to the current demographic situation in which the population is concentrated in suburbs around the city of [[Boston]]. In 1987, the state received federal highway funding for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, known colloquially as the [[Big Dig]]. The $14.7 billion grant is the largest federal highway project ever approved.

==Politics==
Although once a bastion of social conservatism (the term "Banned in Boston" is still in widespread use) Massachusetts is known as one of the most [[liberal]] states in the Union, being the most populous state to have all-Democratic congressional representation. It is by some called "Taxachusetts" because of its high tax rate.{{fact}} Its current senators are [[John Kerry]] (who unsuccessfully ran for [[President]] in 2004) and [[Ted Kennedy]]. Massachusetts was the first (and so far only) state to legalize [[same-sex marriage]]. Although governed by a succession of Republican governors in the 1990s and 2000s ([[William Weld]], [[Paul Cellucci]], [[Jane Swift]] and [[Mitt Romney]]), they have generally been among the most liberal Republican governors in the country.

The current governor, elected in 2006 over Republican and former Lieutenant Governor Kerry Murphy Healey,<ref>http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/candidates/governor/patrick/</ref> is Devel L. Patrick, who was the first Democrat to take the office in 16 years, and the first African American to win the post.<ref>http://www.mass.gov/</ref><ref>http://www.nndb.com/gov/911/000051758/</ref>

==Notes and references==
<references/>

{{USstates}}
[[Category:US state]]

Bill Gates

2007-10-03T23:20:09Z

PeterW:

[[Image:Technet gates.jpg|right|frame]]
'''William (Bill) Henry Gates III''' (Seattle 1955 - ) American businessman. He has been the richest person in the world from 1995 through 2007 according to ''Forbes''<ref>http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/04/11/billionaires-helu-telecom-biz-cz_hc_0411helu.html</ref>. Founder and Chairman of [[Microsoft]] Corporation, he is seen as one of the entrepreneurs that made the personal [[computer]] revolution.

Gates began programming computers at age 13; in 1973, Gates entered [[Harvard University]]. There he developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he founded in 1975 with his childhood friend [[Paul Allen]].<ref>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/bio.mspx</ref>.

His wealth is largely the result of the contract negotiated by his father's law firm with IBM for the operating system of the first personal computer. The contract gave Bill Gates' small company unusually advantageous rights. As the computer industry soared, Microsoft's unique position gave it monopoly power and profits. Two decades later, the Court of Appeals for the [[D.C. Circuit]] held that Microsoft had engaged in unlawful monopolistic behavior.

In 1995, Gates wrote "The Road Ahead" (with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson), which embarrassingly omitted any mention of the internet in its first edition. In 1999, Gates wrote "Business @ the Speed of Thought".

Bill Gates has donated billions to a private foundation that his family controls. Because of his philanthropic activities Time magazine awarded him and his wife Melinda Gates, the "Person of the Year" for 2005 along with rock star Bono<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1142278,00.html</ref>. On 2004 he was honored as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates have three children, Jennifer Katharine, Rory John and Phoebe Adele. Gates likes to read and plays golf and bridge.

While Bill Gates has described himself as an [[atheist]], his wife Melinda Gates is a [[pro-life]] [[Catholic]] considered to be responsible for reducing donations of the Gates wealth directly to fund [[abortion]]. Nevertheless, the [[Gates Foundation]] - a charitable foundation especially known for work on HIV/AIDS in Africa - established by Bill and Melinda Gates provides substantial grants to organizations that promote abortion, such as the [[Planned Parenthood]] of Western Washington (recipient of a $200,000 grant from the Gates Foundation in January 3, 2007 for a youth development program). Moreover, a smaller percentage of grants by the Gates Foundation supports faith-based programs than even the federal government does.

The UK Independent reported on July 5, 2007 that Bill Gates "has acquired a major stake in a homosexual activist publishing company. ... The online material put out by the company features hard core homosexual pornography."<ref>http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07070509.html</ref>

== See also ==

*[[Microsoft]]
*[[Debate:Does "free trade" increase wealth rather than simply redistribute it?]]
*[[Economics Lecture Ten]] Antitrust Laws.
*[[Carlos Slim]]
*[[Previous Breaking News/Bill Gates|Articles about '''Bill Gates''' from previous "Breaking News"]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/bio.mspx Bill Gates' profile at Microsoft site]
*[http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htm Bill Gates Biography] Woopidoo, Biographies of business leaders.
*[http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm Bill and Melinda Foundation,]

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT: Gates, Bill}}
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Americans|Gates, Bill]]

MP3

2007-10-03T23:18:49Z

PeterW:

'''MP3''' (short for '''MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3''') is a set of audio decoding and encoding [[algorithm]]s created by Fraunhofer IIS in Germany, which can achieve high compression ratio with little loss in audio quality.

Although newer codecs can offer higher compression ratio or higher audio quality for a given ratio, MP3 has remained popular due to its near-universal compatibility.

[[Microsoft]] [[Windows]] Media Player 11 comes with ''Fraunhofer MP3 codec professional'' that allows encoding bitrate of up to 320Kbit, it is disabled by default, and can only be enabled by entering the following keys into the Windows registry:
<blockquote>
:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]
:"msacm.l3acm"="l3codecp.acm"
:"msacm.l3codec"="l3codecp.acm"

:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\drivers.desc]
:"l3codecp.acm"="Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec (professional)"

</blockquote>
==External Links==
[http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/fhg/iis/ Fraunhofer IIS]
[[Category:Information technology]]

Talk:Colony Wars

2007-10-03T23:17:17Z

PeterW:

Isn't this the sort of rambling trivial article that [[wikipedia]] would have? [[User:Maestro|Maestro]] 12:40, 2 October 2007 (EDT)

:No, it actually brings up values... This is an article that doesn't hurt anyone and it's fun for the age group we are most trying to reach to use Conservapedia as a resource. It's best to just sit back and enjoy it. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 13:01, 2 October 2007 (EDT)

What does it say about this wiki when its entry for a video game is 2.5-3 times the length of its entry on human rights and comparable in length and depth of analysis to its entry on France? [[User:PeterW|PeterW]] 19:17, 3 October 2007 (EDT)