Arts & Humanities - 16 October 2006

Monday, October 23rd is a holiday for muslims. I think it is called AED. What is it and why do they celebrate it?

2006-10-16 07:47:20 · 3 answers · asked by butterfliesankissess 2 in History

I'm making homemade soaps. I want to make them into large, square or rectangle bars. I've heard about using small milk cartons, but they are hard to come by. Any other recommendations for a soap mold? Craft stores don't have the size I'm looking for.. they are all too shallow. Thanks!

2006-10-16 07:46:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Arts & Humanities

She's a worldwide powerful preacher!!!!

2006-10-16 07:46:13 · 1 answers · asked by gods precious anointed angel #1 1 in Books & Authors

God is a creater and destroyer But who made Him?

2006-10-16 07:45:14 · 7 answers · asked by annu k 1 in Philosophy

If you do, where can I find what ihas been read? Thank you!

2006-10-16 07:44:26 · 2 answers · asked by soubassakis 6 in Books & Authors

2006-10-16 07:41:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

I have a vase stamped Sirdar England but can't find out anything about this pottery.
The vase is terracotta in colour.
It has a floral design to the front.
It is unglazed and has a square base.
The rim is gilt effect.
It was bought about 25 years ago but I don't think it was new at that time.

2006-10-16 07:32:18 · 1 answers · asked by UniqueEarthling 2 in Other - Arts & Humanities

Think about it before you answer.

2006-10-16 07:31:12 · 5 answers · asked by ? 4 in Philosophy

2006-10-16 07:30:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2006-10-16 07:28:45 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4 in Philosophy

2006-10-16 07:24:54 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?
“What’s eating Gilbert Grape?” is a 1993 drama directed and produced by Lasse Hallström. The movie was filmed in Manor, Texas. It is based on a novel written by Peter Hedges. The main characters are Johnny Depp( Gilbert Grape), Leonardo DiCaprio( Arnie Grape) and Juliette Lewis( Becky). The running time of the movie is 117 minutes. "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is rated PG-13 because it includes mild profanity and sexual situations.
The movie is about Gilbert Grape’s life in the small town of Endora, Iowa. He lives with his obese 500-pound mother, Bonnie, his sister and his little mentally handicapped brother, Arnie. Bonnie has not left the house since her husband committed suicide seven years ago. Since then she has spent almost all of her time on the couch watching TV and she is unable to care for her children on her own. As a result of this Gilbert has taken responsibility for repairing their old house, looking after Armie, who likes to climb up the twn water tower and earn all the money the family needs to survive.
Gilbert himself works in a small, outdated grocery store which has competition from a new, bigger, modern supermarket. To keep the few customers the store still has he makes “special deliveries” to one of the female customers, Mrs. Bette Carver.
Everything in Endora bores him a little until he meets Becky. She is a young and adventurous woman who became stuck in town with her mother when their mobile home broke down. They start an affair that is threatened by his unusal and chaotic home life. “What’s eating Gilbert Grape?”is also about how Arnie and Bonnie’s various problems finally bring Gilbert to the brink of change.
Firstly I enjoyed the movie because of the good acting, especially LeonardoDiCaprio who really played his part well. Although it was funny, it also have a deeper meaning and many heartfelt moments. “What’s eating Gilbert Grape?” is not your average American movie and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who would like to see a movie that inspires reflection and self-evaluation.

2006-10-16 07:20:00 · 3 answers · asked by marienchenkäfer 2 in Books & Authors

this is a fun thing i like to ask people, so i thought i'd try a larger base of people and see how you guys answer this. Assuming you believe in heaven and hell. Do you believe that Mother Teresa went to heaven? also, do you believe that Ghandi went to heaven? if yes to both then how can one religion be right, and if no to one would you want to go to a heaven where one of those two people could not enter.

2006-10-16 07:15:28 · 8 answers · asked by pip 7 in Philosophy

2006-10-16 07:13:44 · 7 answers · asked by lost 1 in Performing Arts

Seriously. This will probably cause some backlash, but I find Stephen King's writing predictable and boring. I have read several of his books, but I don't understand the obsession with his novels. I can always tell exactly what's going to happen 20 pages in and I hate that. Anyone care to enlighten me?

2006-10-16 07:08:10 · 15 answers · asked by artist2213 2 in Books & Authors

I'm gonna get slayed for this question!

2006-10-16 07:07:17 · 8 answers · asked by kate_souter 2 in Other - Arts & Humanities

2006-10-16 07:02:43 · 3 answers · asked by csanders 1 in Theater & Acting

2006-10-16 06:55:26 · 22 answers · asked by shallo 1 in Philosophy

2006-10-16 06:52:40 · 27 answers · asked by sotu 3 in Philosophy

Well, earlier I visited the Cave and Museum at Petralona of Chalkidiki where the sculp and other remains of a standing human were discovered, that person lived more than a million years ago! Also, around there and throughout Greece, including islands, tools dated 13 million years old have been discovered!

2006-10-16 06:47:31 · 4 answers · asked by soubassakis 6 in History

I'm not sure if it refers to a genre, or if it's an adjective, but it seems to bandied about a bit. Am I just the last to know what this particular buzz-word means?

2006-10-16 06:47:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

Why are so many of the books that were required reading when i was young banned now? I know, they may not be politically correct, but hey, that is the beauty of books, they say how things are, not how we pretend they are. Why do ultraconservative fanatics always have to get involved? Why do they want our children to see Mark Twain as an evil man and never read Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer? Do they want us to have a Nazi Book Burning day? Thoughts on this?

2006-10-16 06:44:46 · 11 answers · asked by Jon C 6 in Books & Authors

Do you think, the soldiers, would have stopped supporting the war if he had knokwn the reality as depicted in this information? Explain.

Information( diary of a British soldier during WW1 ):

Rates bred by the tens of thousands and lived on the fat of the land. When we were sleeping in the fuk holes the things ran over us, played about, copulated and fouled our scraps of food, their young squeaking incessandtly. There was no proper system of waste disposal in trench life. Empty tins of all kinds were flung away over the top on both sides of the trench. Millions of tins were thus available for all the rats in France and Blegium in hunderds of miles of trenches. During brief moments of quiet at night, one could hear a continuous rattle of tins moving against each other. The rats were turning them over. What happened to the rats under heavy sheel-fire was a mystery, but their powers of survival kept place with each new weapon, including poison gas.

Bullets skimming the top of the brick wall took on a lighting changes of direction after they had ricocheted. In a crowded trench it was not uncommo for two or even three men to be hit by a ricochet. Jarvis was shot clean through the neck by a ricochet when standing close beside me. He bled severely, and when carted off we felt sure he was a goner, but, far from pegging out, he never got beyond the base hospital. The bullet had passed through his neck without rendering a vital part and, the wound quickly healing, he was back in the front line in a few weeks, This was tough luck really, as he deserved a spell in Britain.

2006-10-16 06:38:38 · 15 answers · asked by History Lover 1 in History

Can you direct me to some site or way to get information about Uzbek poets and poems? Thanks!

2006-10-16 06:30:36 · 2 answers · asked by soubassakis 6 in Other - Arts & Humanities

where does gothic architecture originate. why is it called gothic?

2006-10-16 06:29:58 · 1 answers · asked by saywhat? 1 in History

1) God created human beings in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it.

2) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time long time ago not the way the Bible describes it.

3) Human beings have evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process.

4) Human beings have evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process.

5) Other / No opinion

2006-10-16 06:29:00 · 13 answers · asked by noname 3 in Philosophy

2006-10-16 06:28:17 · 3 answers · asked by Zach M 2 in Books & Authors

anyone know a good dance class in essex around southend-benfleet-basildon area for my friends grandaughter?
ive heard of a place called bailar or balair, anyone else heard of it, whats it like?

2006-10-16 06:25:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dancing

I love to read and it's great to read books that put you in the mood for a Holiday. In this case, I'd like to find a good book that's scary and would really get me in the Halloween *Spirit*. hehe

2006-10-16 06:25:08 · 12 answers · asked by DubbaD 1 in Books & Authors

2006-10-16 06:19:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy