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Ecoris
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posted October 23, 2007 05:26 PM |
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Edited by Ecoris at 17:29, 23 Oct 2007.
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"EURO" is currently written with latin and greek letters on the bills; it's only fair that they write it with cyrillic letters too with Bulgaria's entry into the EU.
I just can't help to think that it's a bit too much already with the "BCE ECB EZB EKT EKP" line at the top. See this image.
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GenieLord
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posted October 23, 2007 07:52 PM |
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October 23, 2007:
California is being burnt by huge flames. More than 320,000 people have been evacuated, mostly in the area of Los-Angeles. Atleast 655 houses have been destroyed so far. Hundreds of Firefighters try to stop the wildfires. The flames injured 17 civilians and 5 firefighters.
Source: CNN
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Roland
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posted October 23, 2007 08:09 PM |
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Indonesia tense over volcano threat
Villagers evacuated from around the Indonesian volcano Mount Kelud have been told it could still erupt as frustration over their forced removal grows.
Aljazeera
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Shanghai powers China ahead
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2007
In the Ferrari showroom off Shanghai's busy Nanjing Road, business is booming.
At just over $400,000 a throw, getting behind the wheel of one of these Italian motoring legends is beyond the dreams of all but a handful.
Aljazeera
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GenieLord
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posted October 24, 2007 05:27 PM |
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October 24, 2007:
The global warming's effects strike us strongly; The ice in Greenland is melting quickly. Every year, about 100 Billion tons of ice melt, according to the seintests' calculations. They also say that if the entire Greenland melts, the sea level will raise by 23 feet (about 7 meters). All the costal cities in the world will be in a serious problem, and hundreds of people might be in danger and become poor or homeless.
Source: CNN
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VokialBG
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posted October 24, 2007 05:59 PM |
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Edited by VokialBG at 18:01, 24 Oct 2007.
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I just think this is interesting to read:
Russia 'chessboard killer' guilty
A Russian shop assistant has been found guilty of 48 murders, which he once said he recorded on a chessboard.
A Moscow jury convicted Alexander Pichushkin, known to the Russian media as the "Bittsa maniac", after four hours of deliberation.
Most of the murders were committed over five years, in the Bittsa Park in Moscow's southern suburbs.
Pichushkin has never denied the charges. He was also found guilty on three counts of attempted murder.
He is due to be sentenced later this week.
The jury found there were no mitigating circumstances, and rejected a defence request to clear him of 18 of the killings. The prosecution has requested a life sentence.
Many Russians would like to see him executed but Russia has suspended the use of the death penalty.
Alexander Pichushkin said he had killed 61 people!
Afraid to go out
Pichushkin began his 14-year killing spree in Moscow in 1992, and was arrested in June 2006.
His victims were drowned in a sewer or bludgeoned to death with a hammer, investigators say.
The BBC's James Rodgers in Moscow says people living near the park where he stalked his victims became afraid to venture out even for a walk.
Pichushkin originally said he planned to carry out 64 killings, one for each square on a chessboard.
But he later denied this, saying he would have carried on killing indefinitely if he had not been arrested. He puts the number of his victims at 61.
Many were elderly men who got drunk with him, investigators say, though he also killed three women.
The vigilance of a relative of one of the dead led to his capture.
Before the Pichushkin case came to light, Russia's most notorious serial killer in recent times was Andrei Chikatilo, who killed 53 women and children in the southern city of Rostov. He was convicted and executed in 1994.
BBC
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posted October 24, 2007 06:04 PM |
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hmmm and Grenland has only some little percent of global ice... I have read somewhere that if every ice on earth melts, sea level will increase by ~100 m. Bye bye Netherlands...
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GenieLord
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posted October 25, 2007 04:02 PM |
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October 25, 2007:
USA launches New sanctions against Iran, that continues working on its nuclar program. With the new sanctions, USA will be able to block financial accounts and assets that the Irani Revolutionary Guard has in the United States. The goverment said that everyone who's involved in the ballistic missiles program of Iran will be affected by the new sanctions, from officers to civilians.
Source: CNN and Ynet News.
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Roland
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posted October 25, 2007 08:48 PM |
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Italians 'cannot try US soldier'
An Italian court has thrown out a case against a US soldier charged over the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq in March 2005.
BBC
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Giant Snails, Once a Delicacy, Overrun Brazil
October 19, 2007
The giant African snail, originally brought to Brazil as a delicacy for gourmet restaurants, has instead become a major nuisance in the country.
National Geo.
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GenieLord
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posted October 26, 2007 04:14 PM |
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October 26, 2007:
Satellite images show that the Syrian nuclear reactor has suddenly disappeared. There is a suspicion that site has been wiped cleaned, after the Israeli aircrafts' bombing, on the 6th of September, and after the site's images were revealed to the press. Syria, which is a member of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, denies it was building a nuclear reactor.
Source: CNN
Image of the site from August:
Image of the site from the 24th of October:
October 27, 2007:
Apparently, Suria started building the nuclar reactor in 2001. Satellite images from those years show it was exist then.
The American suspect that North-Korea helped Suria with its nuclar plan, since the nuclar reactors of both countries are very similar.
Source: Ynet News
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posted October 28, 2007 11:05 PM |
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our topstory this month is: a new version of the bible is now released it will cointain more jokes and no thou
PS:That was a joke
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GenieLord
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posted October 29, 2007 08:48 PM |
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October 29, 2007:
Unites States' warships sank to ships, controlled by pirates. Sinking those ships was Solamia goverment's ask, after they had entered the Solmali Waters. However, the shooting was in the international waters. Unfortunately, the sinking ship was full with highly flammable benzene, which will pollute the water.
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Roland
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posted October 31, 2007 09:46 AM |
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Iraq's largest dam at risk of collapse
Little progress has been made since the U.S. warned in May of the danger to Mosul, an audit reports, adding that reconstruction funds were mismanaged.
October 30, 2007
LA_Times
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Large Ancient Settlement Unearthed in Puerto Rico
October 29, 2007
Bodies, structures, and rock art thought to belong to an indigenous pre-Columbian culture have been unearthed at an ancient settlement in Puerto Rico, officials recently announced.
Nathional-Geo.
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posted October 31, 2007 11:00 AM |
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Here's something that happened near where I live. I heard about it from someone that was in the water before it was published.
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2007/oct/30/meet-mawby-dick/
They said that the whale was covered in moss type stuff, and it leapt into the water and landed right near them. My comment was - yeah hang out around the shark bait  
But he got to ride a whale!!!
What a KOOOOOOOOOL thing to happen 
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GenieLord
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posted November 01, 2007 05:05 PM |
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November 1, 2007:
Killed Soldier's father, sued fundamentalist Kansas church, and won a nearly 11 million dollars. He sued the church for picketing military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Church members routinely picket funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying signs such as "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags".
Source: CNN
November 2, 2007:
The Maxican Gulf coast is flooded. An estimated 900,000 people had their homes flooded, destroyed or damaged. As of Thursday, 300,000 hadn't been rescued. The millitary is collecting food, bottled water and clothes for the refugees. Health officials warned that flooding could trigger epidemics of cholera, although none were yet reported.
Source: CNN
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Magister180888
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posted November 02, 2007 07:20 PM |
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i would prefer if latin english would be the sole lenguage on earth..would make things easier..
What is latin English ?
Latin and English are very different. The English comes from the Germanic (sorry for the spelling) languages. Concerning the latin... well it is the latin.
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JoonasTo
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posted November 02, 2007 10:23 PM |
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Actually english is about 80% latin, 15% german and 5% original english
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Magister180888
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posted November 02, 2007 10:48 PM |
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No
I don't agree.
Perhaps you don't know the difference because your mother tong is different from both (germanic and latin languages), but i insure you that there are a lot. There are a lot of common things too (due to the Romanians).
French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish are based on the latin language this is the reason why i can understand them (well, not always->Rumanian a few). For example i can almost understand much of what an Italian says me without having learned it.
Why do you think that French are always complaining with the English?: It is different.
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posted November 03, 2007 09:40 AM |
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Actually english is about 80% latin, 15% german and 5% original english
Actually it's about 60% Latin/French and about 30% Germanic. However 80% of most commonly used words in English have Germanic origin. If we also take into account English grammar, phonetics, morphology and the rest we can say that English is a Germanic language and not Romance.
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Roland
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posted November 03, 2007 09:41 AM |
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Edited by Roland at 13:33, 03 Nov 2007.
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I don't agree.
Perhaps you don't know the difference because your mother tong is different from both (germanic and latin languages), but i insure you that there are a lot. There are a lot of common things too (due to the Romanians).
French, Italian, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish are based on the latin language this is the reason why i can understand them (well, not always->Rumanian a few). For example i can almost understand much of what an Italian says me without having learned it.
Why do you think that French are always complaining with the English?: It is different.
I think learning French open the gate to other Latin languages, (It was my first language I've learned).
Now I know some English, some French, and a little of Spanish words, and through the French language I found it easier to understand, therefore to learn some other Latin languages.
It is till recently that I understood about the English Language being west Germanic.
Still I found some common words between French and English, maybe they are imported words.
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Magister180888
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posted November 03, 2007 11:35 AM |
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Roland the wiki page is interesting:
The proportions in English vocabulary:
Word origins
Influences in English vocabulary
One of the consequences of the French influence is that the vocabulary of English is, to a certain extent, divided between those words which are Germanic (mostly Old English) and those which are "Latinate" (Latin-derived, either directly from Norman French or other Romance languages).
Numerous sets of statistics have been proposed to demonstrate the various origins of English vocabulary. None, as yet, are considered definitive by a majority of linguists.
A computerised survey of about 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd ed.) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973)[35] that estimated the origin of English words as follows:
Langue d'oïl, including French and Old Norman: 28.3%
Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
Other Germanic languages (including words directly inherited from Old English): 25%
Greek: 5.32%
No etymology given: 4.03%
Derived from proper names: 3.28%
All other languages contributed less than 1% (e.g. Arabic-English loanwords)
A survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language of 10,000 words taken from several thousand business letters[36] gave this set of statistics:
French (langue d'oïl), 41%
"Native" English, 33%
Latin, 15%
Danish, 2%
Dutch, 1%
Other, 10%
However, 83% of the 1,000 most-common English words are Anglo-Saxon in origin.
Dutch origins
Main article: List of English words of Dutch origin
Words describing the navy, types of ships, and other objects or activities on the water are often from Dutch origin. Yacht (jacht) and cruiser (kruiser) are examples.
French origins
Main article: List of French phrases used by English speakers
There are many words of French origin in English, such as competition, art, table, publicity, police, role, routine, machine, force, and many others that have been and are being anglicised; they are now pronounced according to English rules of phonology, rather than French. A large portion of English vocabulary is of French or Oïl language origin, most derived from, or transmitted via, the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest.
The langue d'oïl refers to the French language of the middle age:
France had 2 main languages separated in 2, the half in tre north and the other half in the south.
The north of France had the langue d'oïl, while the south had the langue d'oc.
The words "langue d'oc" gave afterward the name of a sunny region in south of France: Languedoc-Roussillon.
Just to gve a little new (of last year), the mayor of Montpellier the capitole of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, wanted to change the name of the region "Septimanie" because of some roman reasons i suppose. But most of the people was against it, so he didn't succeed to make what he wanted.
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