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1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
28. Camel’s have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 d
omg sorry they cut it off at 52
lol this is not homework

1. Crazy
2. Then they should make gud clothes
3. I love pickles!!
4. We are wasteful
5. Thats interesting
6. I used to wonder why it never happened
7. Alwayz watch your bck
8. Never knew that
9. They was blazin bck den??!!
10. ha ha i’s have "tiddies"….
11. Science
12. ^-^
13. aww and my fav number times two is 4 (sadness)
14. that is an extreme sex addiction
15. and they wonder why most prostitutes are cheap
16. lik most still do now
17. oh oka that makes since
18. to bad dey stopped that
19. wow ppl are lazy
20. that is really not suprising
21. why did i never know that??
22. that’s why kids are so fat nowadayz
23. hmmm….
24. that’s kinda creepy when u think about it
25. and dey wonder why so mny are illiterate
26. i jus had to check dis out
27. retarded kids and blood line
28. dats practical
29. pplz need to get it together
30. IRONIC??
31. dont even know who they are
32. all except mine
33. hmm??
34. that is jus to much work
35. most profitable job ever doe
36. dats why i dnt use it
37. would love to see it in action
38. so we just effed it all up??
39. just more places for my salt to enter their bodies
40. because it works wonders
41. i never knew or wondered it eitha
42. well since they are worshiped–
43. that is common sense– which most people dont have
44. wow….
45. eww they are nasty anywayz…. and how expensive were these olives
46. because they are addictive like pringles
47. ha ha splinters!!
48. ummm…. yeah….
49. and dat is exactly why i dnt knw how to play
50. umm okay im lost on that one
51. u dnt need to know how fast ur losing money
52. but why doe??

Little did Darwin know that when he invented his theory of evolution for living things, evolution of languages was happening all around the world. The author of “Get Beyond Babel” Ken Wiwa believes that evolution of language is necessary for a culture to stay alive in the flow of the world. He argues that trying to freeze a language in a time will leave it vulnerable to extinction. A language should be left alone, and only then will it flourish and prosper. He also states that if a culture and language appears to die, it is really just absorbed into another culture. Being one of the indigenous cultures in Africa, he writes from personal experience and studies.
The theory that trying to preserve a language will doom it is very valid. This can be easily seen with endangered animals. When endangered species are captured in order to save them, and later released into the wild, they die off as they forget how to hunt. It is the same with languages. When languages are isolated and then later reintroduced in the real world, they cannot keep up with the flow of the world, therefore cannot survive. Furthermore, languages and cultures that are secluded will be behind the world in terms of technology and news. As a result they will be in a disadvantage. For example, the Highland clans in Western Europe were removed from the world during the Enlightenment Era. When Britain tried to colonize them, they fought back with sword and buckler. As a result, they were easily defeated and their culture and language lost. Therefore, trying to preserve a language will eventually exterminate it.
If a language is not hampered in any way and is left to grow, it will do so with a stubborn determination. Take English as an example. English is not even an original language. A cross between Anglo-Saxon speech and German, English has only been around for 400 years and is already the most spoken and most familiar language in the world. This is because English is a language that is constantly borrowing words and evolving. If a person speaks English, it is probably easy for him to speak some words from French, German and other languages. For example, football has the same meaning in French as it is in English. Therefore, English’s property of constant flux keeps it from extinction. In fact it does the opposite; it keeps it in the lead of other languages and establishes itself as their leader.
The statement that cultures and languages never die and are always absorbed by other languages is not entirely correct. As mentioned earlier, the Highland clans were destroyed by the British and their culture and language decimated. In that case, their language was not absorbed by the English. Looking at another instance, when the indigenous people in America were overrun, their language and culture were not absorbed by the invaders. Hence, it is not necessary for a language to get sucked up into another; it is possible that it will just die out.
In conclusion, Wiwa thinks that trying to conserve and safeguard a language and culture may eventually lead to its utter destruction. He states that keeping a language in touch with the world and letting it evolve on its own will ensure its safety. However, he wrongly believes that if a language dies, it just gets absorbed into another. Wiwa states his belief in one simple statement, “Though we look back, we must always go forward”.

Works Cited:
Wiwa, Ken. “Get Beyond Babel”. In Viewpoints 12. pg 295-298. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2002

I’m not sure what the question is, but I agree with your premise. The idea of documenting languages which are becoming extinct seems to be a good one. The idea of preserving them seems to be a dead end unless there is a significant body of literature in the language and, in the Western world, this is basically confined to Latin and Ancient Greek.

On today’s (12/7/07) Yahoo crossword puzzle, the theme was "anagrams" and I am absolutely horrible at them. I was hoping some of you smarter people could figure out what these are supposed to mean:

1 – "Possess property in Papeete"
= OWN TAHITI DIRT

2 – "Scatterbrain condealed poi source"
= NITWIT HID TARO

3 – "Writer of clever crossword clues"
= ADROIT HINT WIT

4 – "Confession of evolution pioneer babysitter"
= I HIT DARWIN TOT

Good luck!

They are all anagrams for "with tradition" I’m not sure if that helps. I’m not quite sure of the aim of this though. Could you perhaps send a link or give a more detailed explanation?

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Beautiful fall views overlooking Ooltewah TN. as scene from the top of White Oak Mountain. See all the way to the Cumberland Mountains on the West Side and See all the way to the Ocoee Mountains on the East Side. See West View Elementary School, See East Hamilton County School.

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Series Title: Homes of Famous Men
Year Of Issue: 1934
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Complete Set: yes
Number of Cards Offered: 25 cards

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The city lights of Darwin disappear into the background as five photographers from Sydney and Melbourne kissed civilisation goodbye and headed into Australia’s remote Top End.

Starting at Darwin and finishing at Nhulunbuy in far north-east Arnhem Land, the group drove more than 1500 kilometres and took more than 10, 000 images.

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1.Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen

3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.

5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.

7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim

.8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

9.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

28. Camel’s have three eyelids.

29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

30. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.

31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".

39. Slugs have four noses.

40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

44. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".

49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it

.56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

thanks…and now I know

Now in his writings Darwin suggested that the civilized would wipe out the uncivilized (survival of tooth and claw etc.) and Nietzsche said that "The morality of ‘equal rights’ is a herd morality, and because it opposes the cultivation of superior individuals, it leads to the corruption of the human species".

Definition of slavery:
By slavery I will refer to the Roman enslavement, for life and the other person as property to be used or disposed of solely at the digression of the owner. The individuals in the owner would be from the stronger, more dominant group/race. * If you would like to propose an alternative idea of slavery such as that found in Israel where the slave was released at the 7th year that is a welcome alternative.

Part.1
So given those constraints can anyone come up with a reason why it would be wrong for a stronger race (weapons, numbers, technology..) to commit genocide and enslave the survivors? In lower species we see the improvement through the dominant and superior specimens reducing or eliminating the inferior or their options to reproduce.

Part.2
If you choose a reason, what are you using as a basis of your concept of it being wrong/right?

Just so you don’t think I am excluding the theistic answers on prejudice I think C.S. Lewis summed it up in his statement "Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.", if you have more to add I would be interested too.

Thanks
Bai
DarkCloud:
I don’t see the evidence of much empathy in this world I see more narcissism and indifference. We can look back to the slavery of young girls in the Roman prostitution, the crucifixions and on into the modern world with the concentration camps and gulags and cultural purges in Germany, Russia and China. Without men like William Wilberforce and other abolitionists slavery in the British Commonwealth would have gone on as long as the American did or longer.

There would be nothing wrong about slavery if there are no morals or ethics being bounded to the issue. Man could do whatever they want and nothing would ever be wrong, since there would be no guidelines or rules indicating what is ‘wrong’ now, wouldn’t it?

And that statement made by CS Lewis is beautiful. =)