Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 31

Could someone please put this all in context? Sally Simple 11:21, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Googled and found out this: http://www.lukehistory.com/ballads/worldup.html Slmking 11:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Slmking The Battle of Naseby was, of course, the penultimate Puritan victory in the First English Civil War, a victory of the new England over the old ; and Christmas, and all that was associated with it, was very much part of the old. Other then the fact that Muslims believe Jesus existed, many Jews also do so as well.

It doesn t simply mean they believe Jesus Christ existed Nil Einne 13:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC) Which Toronto area has the most Sri Lankan Tamils residents? First: is there a significant number of people who buy stock for reasons other than selling it for more? Second: if not, how is it ethically different then a pyramid scheme (other than the person who starts it generally having a better use for the money)? — Daniel 03:02, 31 July 2007 (UTC) On the first question, another reason for buying stocks is to receive dividend income over the long term. The festival was hated, in the first place, because it was popish , and in the second, because it was pagan ; it had no authority in scripture and it was the occasion for unseemly and drunken revels, presided over by the Lord of Misrule.

Even after his death he had supporters; but France had grown beyond the myth of the Marshall. In the 1580s Philip Stubbes had written in The Anatomie of Abuses that; The more mischief is that time committed than in all the year besides, what masking and mumming, whereby robbery, whoredom, murder and what not is committed? What dicing and carding, what eating and drinking, what banqueting and feasting is then used, more than in all the year besides, to the great dishonour of God and impoverising of the realm. Ah, yes: robbery, whoredom, murder, dicing and carding.

Have you read the Pyramid scheme article? And getting back to your initial comment, there is nothing wrong with people people investing their savings in the stock market if they want to - as far as I recall most investment comes from pension funds. Travail, Famille, Patrie replaced the old republican Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.

In June 1647 it was abolished outright. they don t think there is sufficient evidence either way.

The very best that could now be said of him was that he himself was a passive victim. This is standard fascist twaddle (although the relation of Pétain and fascism is much more nuanced than this forum permits a discussion of).

The Iranian army officers wear a western style uniform jacket without a tie. Support, moreover, came from all shades of French opinion; from the Socialists, on the left, to Action Francaise, on the right.

I belive in jeues but i think he was just a normal human. His national halo could only remain as long as he remained inactive, and for as long as he remained in silence. Bit by bit the saintly image of the national saviour began to tarnish and decay, as the nature of the Vichy state became more apparent.

Investors deserve a reward for taking the risk of losing all their money. Even a number of atheists probably believe Jesus existed and many others are likely to be ambigious, i.e.

People who buy into a pyramid scheme are tricked into thinking they are making a safe investment, like a savings bond (only better paying), when in fact it is known that it will collapse completely at some point. --Anonymous, July 31, 2007, 09:05 (UTC). You are forgetting the other side of the coin.

(In many ways, Vichy was a standard government of the far-right. I also belive he married Mary Magdalene and had a child.

Catholics, moreover, were quite happy to combine religious devotion with an attachment to the more profane aspects of Christmas celebration. The Communists and Freemasons were outlawed, for example.) Later, Pétain s political significance would be tied to the fortunes of the German war effort against the Allies, declining when the French got word of German military reversals in the Soviet Union and the Allied victories in the North African campaign.

Collectively, however, the only title they adopted themselves was Petainists or Marechalistes. Petain attracted the kind of mass reverance formally accorded to kings. The campaign was stepped up in early 1645 with the publication of the Directory of Public Worship, which plainly stated that Festival days, vulgarly called Holy days, having no Warrent in the Word of God, are not to be continued. The final victory over the King also saw the victory over Christmas.

By the standards of his own culture and society he is thus as formally dressed as any other man in his position. It is in practice very difficult to buy at a cheap price and sell at a higher price - see the Efficient markets hypothesis article.

He was also elected to office, and therefore cannot really be compared to twentieth century autocrats (and some twenty-first century residues), most of whom draped themselves some kind of military-style or party uniform. AnonMoos 18:01, 2 August 2007 (UTC) What is a class B corporation? Does it have to do with federal tax credits? Is there a list of class B corporations in California?Prestona 16:32, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Why does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dress so casually? 208.114.153.254 17:19, 31 July 2007 (UTC) If you mean by this why does he not wear a tie, this is because it does not form part of Iranian dress.

See Historicity of Jesus. 22:26, 2 August 2007 (UTC) How to communicate separation for 5 years old kid? I came across an old English ballad called The World is Turned Upside Down with the above line.

Furthermore, pro-German statements issued from Vichy also lost the government support, as did the forced deportations of French workers across the Rhine. I must admit i havent read the bible as i think its a story.

Jean Paillard, one of his most loyal supporters, wrote that after 1943 the Marshal was a man of eight-five, almost alone and surrounded by young wolves with sharp teeth. In the end, a symbol first of resistance and then of salvation became little more than an embarrasing residue of an uncomfortable past. Raising capital from the stock market allows companies to make things and invent or innovate.

Something seems to be wrong for the Tokyo Block. People will always lose money with a Pyramid scheme, and they do not create value.

In ethical terms these are completely different. They may not be able to raise this money from banks because of the very high risk involved - most new companies and new products fail.

The tie is seen as a symbol for the west and the rule of the Shah.--Tresckow 23:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Account for the changing political significance of Philippe Petain in wartime France. While simplisticly, Christians are often called believers in Jesus Christ, there are many implied connotations with that.

Pétain himself blamed the defeat on the the national decline brought about by the individualism and decadence of the Third Republic, a view not shared by his countrymen. Thank You Stuart Im still undecined about god, I belive the bible was just a story and that was writin to hide true facts.

That applet tells me that LDP should have gotten eights seats, and SDP none. For some time the exact political complexion of the new regime was in a state of flux; so Petain stood all the higher as the one constant, a representative of nation rather than party. The enemies of the new realities were to call supporters of Petain collaborators , fascists and reactionaries .

Without the stock market, there would be little money for the high risk of developing new technology and new products, and we in 2007 would have a very much lower standard of living. I belive when the bible says jesus helped and precead but i dont belive he did mircals i think he was just living in those times like me or you are now and just made out to be someone special in the bible so Christiaty had somthing to start of with. If by believe in Jesus you simply mean you believe he existed, that doesn t make you a Christian.

This handy site allowed me to execute the algorithm and to save it : . After the resignation of Paul Reynaud, Petain s appointment as Prime Minister was confirmed by a massive majority of 468 to 80 in the National Assembly, which also voted him autocratic powers, effectively bringing the seventy-year-old Third Republic to an end.

So what is going on here? Did SDP steal a seat or something :)? Many thanks,Evilbu 20:00, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Perhaps what Evilbu implied in his/er statement.martianlostinspace 23:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC) . Wikipedia says that LDP got seven seats, and SDP one.

Hi all. I can t say how many people have this as a major reason, though.

Neverthless, the festival remained popular with ordinary people, and fresh ordinances had to be issued throughout the period of both the Commonwealth and the Protectorate; even people attending church on 25 December were liable for arrest and interrogation by the army. it may not be one but any help at all and any websites will be at much help.

It was not a regime of all France, but a regime of the right, confirmed when the leading representative of the pre-war Polpular Front government were put on trial in 1941. I think you may be thinking that wealth is not created: but it must be created because otherwise we d all still be living in caves.

I m trying to think of examples - I suppose many of the things we take for granted like cars, televisions, railways, computers, medicines, and many other things - where all manufactured or even invented by using money from the stock market. The key to understanding his popularity (and thus his significance as a political symbol), at least early in the war, was that he promised (and was seen as a symbol of) a national renaissance and regain (renewal), sometimes called the National Revolution, after the humiliation of the Battle of France.

You might as well say that a company could raise money by robbing banks. Decline and fall 18:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC) In retrospect this may be difficult to believe, but for most French people Philippe Petain came as a national saviour in 1940, much as he had at the Verdun in 1916.

80.0.104.224 22:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC) It is untrue to say that that a stock market flotation or IPO are interchangable with a pyramid scheme. Dorothy Lawson, a Catholic gentlewomam, was noted for celebrating in both kinds..corporally and spiritually. Christmas thus became a prime target during the period of Puritan ascendency, both before and after Naseby. The attack began with attempts to divorce the religious from the secular elements of the holiday, with Parliamentary ordinances from 1642 onwards calling for a more seemly observation.

I belive the bible is not all true and that it mayed jeues out to be someone special they needed someone special so people would buy it to the bible so i would like to know what relgion that is. I ll let you work out the details for yourself, but the attentisme (the best English translation is taking a wait-and-see approach ) of occupied France should never be far from your mind.

Just a typical family Christmas, then! The festival had also become something of a political battleground between the stricter Protestant sects and Catholic recusants in England; for while it was condemned by the one it was growing in popularity with the other. I was looking at the Japanese system here: Results of the Japanese general election, 2005.

The World is Turned Upside Down was part of a much wider popular and literary response to the whole Puritan campaign, including the wonderful satire The Arraignment, Conviction and Imprisioning of Christmas, printed by Simon Minced Pie for Cicely Plum Pottage. Alas, England, ruled by Cromwell, in much the same fashion as Narnia was by the White Witch, was a land where it was always winter and never Christmas. Old Father Christmas only returned with Summer and the King! Clio the Muse 00:11, 1 August 2007 (UTC) According to the article hello its use is limited to the past 180 years. The crucial point here is that in the crisis of 1940 Petain was all things to all people; he was an image, it might be said, without substance.

To some degree the burden of unpopularity was carried by Pierre Laval, Petain s Prime Minister, but the Marshal could not escape culpability altogether. Clio the Muse 01:13, 1 August 2007 (UTC) I assume that your teacher wants you to discuss broader issues than Pétain s significance in the day-to-day operations of the government, which were mostly insignificant.

ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 03:02, 1 August 2007 (UTC) Who were Ferdinand de Brinon, Jean and Corinne Luchaire, and Bernard Faye? Decline and fall 19:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Hello, as you can see, I like to inform myself about the election systems out there in the world. It says there is a fixed number of seats for each block, which are distributed using the D Hondt method.

Im looking to find out what religion i am. Busts and portraits of him replaced Marianne, the symbol of Revolution and Republic, across France.

Clio the Muse 22:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC) it goes even further. What kinds of salutations did English-speaking people use prior to that, say in England in the 1700s? Rfwoolf 11:54, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Before telephones came into use, hello was often spelled halloo , and was used more as a shout to attract people s attention from a distance than to initiate close-up conversations..

It may vary by country depending on how capital gains are taxed and how dividends are taxed. On the second question, people who buy stocks know the value will vary with the market and may go down as well as up; and it isn t going to collapse completely unless the company does.