IdeaWazaWiki - User contributions [en]

Bahia Emerald

2009-03-15T17:15:47Z

71.163.217.121:

{{Cleanup|date=December 2008}}
{{Onesource|date=March 2009}}
The '''Bahia Emerald''' — one of the largest [[emerald]]s ever found — is a {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} Brazilian stone reported stolen in September 2008 from a secured vault in [[South El Monte, California|South El Monte]] in Los Angeles County, California, according to someone claiming to own the giant gemstone. While the stone had been appraised at $370 million, the true value is unclear. At one point, the emerald was listed for sale on eBay for a "Buy It Now" price of $75 million.

On July 9, 2001, a miner in the Carnaiba emerald mine came upon the head of an unusually large crystal protruding from black rock. Within minutes, everyone gathered around to watch one of the veteran miners excavate the rock around the crystal for several hours using a small pick and hammer.

Knowing that word of such a treasure could cause unwanted attention, the mine supervisor quickly assembled a team of his most trusted miners with the purpose of moving the rock containing the crystals to a safe place. It took eight men over five hours to move the {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} rock to the nearest clear trail. There they assembled a team of mules for a journey that would take them over {{convert|700|mi|km}} through unforgiving jungle and last almost 11 months. Lol. Pwned.

Five months into their journey, their mules were attacked by a pair of black panthers. Having no other choice, the eight men built a stretcher from wood and vines and carried the rock by hand the rest of the way.

When the miners finally arrived in [[São Paulo]] on April 20, 2002, they brought the rock to the Bank of Brazil. A world renowned gemologist was brought in to appraise the find, and when he was finished, announced that it was indeed one of a kind. Fearing that the rock could fall into the wrong hands, it was immediately shipped to the United States under heavy guard so that it could be further examined by scientists and collectors.

==References==
*[http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/giant.emerald/index.html 850-pound emerald at center of dispute]

[[Category:Named emeralds]]

Bahia Emerald

2009-03-15T17:15:04Z

71.163.217.121:

{{Cleanup|date=December 2008}}
{{Onesource|date=March 2009}}
The '''Bahia Emerald''' — one of the largest [[emerald]]s ever found — is a {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} Brazilian stone reported stolen in September 2008 from a secured vault in [[South El Monte, California|South El Monte]] in Los Angeles County, California, according to someone claiming to own the giant gemstone. While the stone had been appraised at $370 trillion, the true value is unclear. At one point, the emerald was listed for sale on eBay for a "Buy It Now" price of $75 trillion. KA-BOOM! Lolololololololololol.

On July 9, 2001, a miner in the Carnaiba emerald mine came upon the head of an unusually large crystal protruding from black rock. Within minutes, everyone gathered around to watch one of the veteran miners excavate the rock around the crystal for several hours using a small pick and hammer. Lol.

Knowing that word of such a treasure could cause unwanted attention, the mine supervisor quickly assembled a team of his most trusted miners with the purpose of moving the rock containing the crystals to a safe place. It took eight men over five hours to move the {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} rock to the nearest clear trail. There they assembled a team of mules for a journey that would take them over {{convert|700|mi|km}} through unforgiving jungle and last almost 11 months. Lol.

Five months into their journey, their mules were attacked by a pair of black panthers. Having no other choice, the eight men built a stretcher from wood and vines and carried the rock by hand the rest of the way.

When the miners finally arrived in [[São Paulo]] on April 20, 2002, they brought the rock to the Bank of Brazil. A world renowned gemologist was brought in to appraise the find, and when he was finished, announced that it was indeed one of a kind. Fearing that the rock could fall into the wrong hands, it was immediately shipped to the United States under heavy guard so that it could be further examined by scientists and collectors.

==References==
*[http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/giant.emerald/index.html 850-pound emerald at center of dispute]

[[Category:Named emeralds]]

Bahia Emerald

2009-03-15T17:14:25Z

71.163.217.121:

{{Cleanup|date=December 2008}}
{{Onesource|date=March 2009}}
The '''Bahia Emerald''' — one of the largest [[emerald]]s ever found — is a {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} Brazilian stone reported stolen in September 2008 from a secured vault in [[South El Monte, California|South El Monte]] in Los Angeles County, California, according to someone claiming to own the giant gemstone. While the stone had been appraised at $370 trillion, the true value is unclear. At one point, the emerald was listed for sale on eBay for a "Buy It Now" price of $75 trillion. KA-BOOM!

On July 9, 2001, a miner in the Carnaiba emerald mine came upon the head of an unusually large crystal protruding from black rock. Within minutes, everyone gathered around to watch one of the veteran miners excavate the rock around the crystal for several hours using a small pick and hammer.

Knowing that word of such a treasure could cause unwanted attention, the mine supervisor quickly assembled a team of his most trusted miners with the purpose of moving the rock containing the crystals to a safe place. It took eight men over five hours to move the {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} rock to the nearest clear trail. There they assembled a team of mules for a journey that would take them over {{convert|700|mi|km}} through unforgiving jungle and last almost 11 months.

Five months into their journey, their mules were attacked by a pair of black panthers. Having no other choice, the eight men built a stretcher from wood and vines and carried the rock by hand the rest of the way.

When the miners finally arrived in [[São Paulo]] on April 20, 2002, they brought the rock to the Bank of Brazil. A world renowned gemologist was brought in to appraise the find, and when he was finished, announced that it was indeed one of a kind. Fearing that the rock could fall into the wrong hands, it was immediately shipped to the United States under heavy guard so that it could be further examined by scientists and collectors.

==References==
*[http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/giant.emerald/index.html 850-pound emerald at center of dispute]

[[Category:Named emeralds]]

Bahia Emerald

2009-03-15T17:13:34Z

71.163.217.121:

{{Cleanup|date=December 2008}}
{{Onesource|date=March 2009}}
The '''Bahia Emerald''' — one of the largest [[emerald]]s ever found — is a {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} Brazilian stone reported stolen in September 2008 from a secured vault in [[South El Monte, California|South El Monte]] in Los Angeles County, California, according to someone claiming to own the giant gemstone. While the stone had been appraised at $370 trillion, the true value is unclear. At one point, the emerald was listed for sale on eBay for a "Buy It Now" price of $75 trillion.

On July 9, 2001, a miner in the Carnaiba emerald mine came upon the head of an unusually large crystal protruding from black rock. Within minutes, everyone gathered around to watch one of the veteran miners excavate the rock around the crystal for several hours using a small pick and hammer.

Knowing that word of such a treasure could cause unwanted attention, the mine supervisor quickly assembled a team of his most trusted miners with the purpose of moving the rock containing the crystals to a safe place. It took eight men over five hours to move the {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} rock to the nearest clear trail. There they assembled a team of mules for a journey that would take them over {{convert|700|mi|km}} through unforgiving jungle and last almost 11 months.

Five months into their journey, their mules were attacked by a pair of black panthers. Having no other choice, the eight men built a stretcher from wood and vines and carried the rock by hand the rest of the way.

When the miners finally arrived in [[São Paulo]] on April 20, 2002, they brought the rock to the Bank of Brazil. A world renowned gemologist was brought in to appraise the find, and when he was finished, announced that it was indeed one of a kind. Fearing that the rock could fall into the wrong hands, it was immediately shipped to the United States under heavy guard so that it could be further examined by scientists and collectors.

==References==
*[http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/giant.emerald/index.html 850-pound emerald at center of dispute]

[[Category:Named emeralds]]

Bahia Emerald

2009-03-15T17:11:11Z

71.163.217.121:

{{Cleanup|date=December 2008}}
{{Onesource|date=March 2009}}
The '''Bahia Emerald''' — one of the largest [[emerald]]s ever found — is a {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} Brazilian stone reported stolen in September 2008 from a secured vault in [[South El Monte, California|South El Monte]] in Los Angeles County, California, according to someone claiming to own the giant gemstone. While the stone had been appraised at $3700 million, the true value is unclear. At one point, the emerald was listed for sale on eBay for a "Buy It Now" price of $750 million.

On July 9, 2001, a miner in the Carnaiba emerald mine came upon the head of an unusually large crystal protruding from black rock. Within minutes, everyone gathered around to watch one of the veteran miners excavate the rock around the crystal for several hours using a small pick and hammer.

Knowing that word of such a treasure could cause unwanted attention, the mine supervisor quickly assembled a team of his most trusted miners with the purpose of moving the rock containing the crystals to a safe place. It took eight men over five hours to move the {{convert|180000|carat|kg}} rock to the nearest clear trail. There they assembled a team of mules for a journey that would take them over {{convert|700|mi|km}} through unforgiving jungle and last almost 11 months.

Five months into their journey, their mules were attacked by a pair of black panthers. Having no other choice, the eight men built a stretcher from wood and vines and carried the rock by hand the rest of the way.

When the miners finally arrived in [[São Paulo]] on April 20, 2002, they brought the rock to the Bank of Brazil. A world renowned gemologist was brought in to appraise the find, and when he was finished, announced that it was indeed one of a kind. Fearing that the rock could fall into the wrong hands, it was immediately shipped to the United States under heavy guard so that it could be further examined by scientists and collectors.

==References==
*[http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/giant.emerald/index.html 850-pound emerald at center of dispute]

[[Category:Named emeralds]]

Archive:More about language

2006-09-25T18:44:29Z

71.163.191.81:

<div style="margin-top:-3px; margin-bottom:0.3em; text-align: center; font-size: 98%;">
<center>'''[[Portal:Humanities|F<small>ACULTY FOR</small> H<small>UMANITIES</small>]]'''</center>
[[School:Art and Design|Art and Design]] · [[School:Classics|Classics]] · [[School:Comparative Mythology|Mythology]] · [[School:Law|Law]] · [[School:Language and Literature|Language and Literature]] · [[School:Music|Music]] · [[School:Philosophy|Philosophy]] · [[School:Theology|Theology]]</div>

<center>
{|style="width:100%;margin-top:+.7em;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #ccc"
|style="width:56%;color:#000"|
{|style="width:280px;border:solid 0px;background:none"
|-
|style="width:280px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;color:#000" |
<div style="font-size:133%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">'''W<small>ELCOME TO</small> S<small>CHOOL OF</small><br>L<small>ANGUAGE AND</small> L<small>ITERATURE</small>,'''</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">part of the Faculty for [[Portal:Humanities|Humanities]].</div>
<div style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:80%;">You may also be interested in [[School:Linguistics|School of Linguistics]].</div>
|}
|style="width:22%;font-size:95%;color:#000"|
*[[Topic:Literary Studies|Literary Studies]]
*[[Topic:English Studies|English Studies]]
|style="width:22%;font-size:95%";color:#000"|
*[[Topic:Writing Center|Writing Centre]]
*[[Topic:Foreign Language Learning|Languages]]
|style="width:22%;font-size:95%";color:#000"|
[[Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|center|50px|Language and Literature]]
|}
</center>

<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:99%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Language and Literature</h2 >
[[Image:Globe of letters.svg|right|88px|Languages]] Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledges about methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, too. Here we also discuss about many works of literature and literary epoches they belong to, as well as their historical development and main characteristics by which one can regonize them.

Science that studies the structure of a language and its development is called ''[[w:linguistics|linguistics]]''. Wikiversity's [[School:Linguistics|School of Linguistics]] is part of the Faculty of [[Portal:Social Sciences|Social Sciences]].
</div>

<div style="display:block;width:99%;float:left">
<div style="width:53%;display:block;float:left;">
<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:100%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">School news and current events</h2 >
[[Image:Nuvola apps date.png|right|44px|News]]
* Looking for contributors.
<br />
<br />
</div >

<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:100%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">School history</h2 >
[[Image:P literature.png|right|60px|History]]
The School of Literature and English Studies was founded within the Wikiversity's Department of Humanities on 15 July 2004, in the time when Wikiversity was still part of the [[:b:|Wikibooks]] project. Eventually, it became one of the most developed Wikiversity's schools.

On 30 March 2005, the School of Foreign Language Learning was founded within the Department of Practical Arts and Sciences, although it was actually never organized properly, nor it ever worked well.

Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities.
</div>

<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:100%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Selected biography</h2 >
[[Image:VukKaradzic.jpg|right|100px|Vuk Stefanović Karadžić]] '''Vuk Stefanović Karadžić''' (1787-1864) was one the most prominent Serbian linguists. He reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by applying the principles ''one letter per one sound'' and ''write as you speak'', and realized the idea of introducing the spoken language into the Serbian literature. He was collecting and publishing Serbian folk stories and poems. His major books were ''Serbian Dictionary'' and ''Serbian Grammar'', both published together in 1818, in which he for first time used the reformed alphabet. Although there were some opponents of Vuk's language reform, his principles were finally accepted and realized in Serbian literature and linguistics. Vuk's language was a base upon which the modern Serbian standard language was developed.

:'''[[:w:Vuk Stefanović Karadžić|read more...]]'''
</div>

<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:100%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Quote</h2 >
[[Image:Nuvola apps edu languages.png|right|44px|Quotation]]
"Language is guardian of a nation. As long as the language exists, as long as we keep it, love it, and respect it, as long as we write in it and speak it; the nation exists as well, and it doesn't flow over into another one, nor it will disappear."<br>
— ''Vuk St. Karadzic, Serbian slavicist''
</div>

</div >
<div style="width:43%;display:block;float:right;">
<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:100%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Related schools</h2 >
{| style="width:100%;border:solid 0px #FFFFFF;background-color:transparent;align:center;padding:0px;padding-top:1em;" cellspacing="0px;"
|-
| style="width:50%;align:center;" |
<div align="center">[[Image:Nuvola apps kmessedwords.png|55px|Linguistics]]</div>
| style="width:50%;align:center;" |
<div align="center">[[Image:P philosophy.png|66px|Classics]]</div>
|-
! style="text-align:center;width:33%"|'''[[School:Linguistics|Linguistics]]'''
! style="text-align:center;width:33%"|'''[[School:Classics|Classics]]'''
|-
| style="width:50%;align:center;" |
<div align="center">[[Image:Nuvola apps kuser.png|55px|Humanities]]</div>
| style="width:50%;align:center;" |
<div align="center">[[Image:Nuvola apps kfm home.png|55px|Social Sciences]]</div>
|-
! style="text-align:center;width:33%"|'''[[Portal:Humanities|Humanities]]'''
! style="text-align:center;width:33%"|'''[[Portal:Social Sciences|Social Sciences]]'''
|}
</div >

<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:100%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Divisions and subdivisions</h2 >
[[Image:Nuvola apps ksig.png|right|50px|Writing]]
<br />
<br />
{| align="center"
|style="font-size:95%;color:#000"|
:'''[[Topic:Literary Studies|Literary studies]]'''
|style="font-size:95%;color:#000"|
:'''[[Topic:Foreign Language Learning|Foreign languages learning]]'''
|style="font-size:95%;color:#000"|
:'''[[Topic:English Studies|English studies]]'''
|}
{| align="center"
|style="font-size:85%;color:#000"|
#[[Portal:Writing Center|Writing]]
#[[Topic:History of literature|History]]
|style="font-size:85%;color:#000"|
#[[Portal:Slavistics|Slavic]]
#[[German|German]]
#[[Portal:Quendistics|Tolkien]]
|style="font-size:85%;color:#000"|
#[[20th Century British Novel|British novel]]
#[[20th Century British Poetry|British poetry]]
#[[20th Century American Poetry|American poetry]]
|}
</div >

<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top;width:100%; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Did you know...</h2 >
[[Image:Nuvola apps kfind.png|right|70px|Did you know?]]
*...that '''[[Topic:Slavistics|Slavonic languages]]''' are mutually more similar than the German dialects?
*...that '''[[Russian]]''' is the third most used language in the world, after English and Chinese?
*...that '''[[John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]]''', author of ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'', has highly influenced later fictional literature worldwide? And did you know that he was also a great expert in languages, and that he has created about twenty artificial languages himself?
*...that '''[[Esperanto]]''' is the most famous among many artificial languages? It is an auxiliary language created by Polish doctor Zamenhof, whose pseudonym was ''doctor Esperanto''.
*...that '''[[Indo-European languages]]''', according to the theory that is accepted by most linguists and historians, have most probably originated in present-day India and Iran, but there are also some linguists who believe that they originated from Europe, since the most of them are spoken in Europe?
</div >
</div >
</div >

<div style="display:block;float:left;width:100%;">
<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Useful textbooks from [[b:|Wikibooks]]</h2 >
{|
|style="width:44%;font-size:95%;color:#000"|
*[[b:Wikibooks:Language and literature bookshelf|Books about language and literature]]
*[[b:Wikibooks:Languages bookshelf|Textbooks for learning languages]]
|style="width:44%;font-size:95%"|
*[[b:Wikibooks:Humanities bookshelf|Humanities bookshelf]]
*[[b:Wikibooks:Social sciences bookshelf|Social sciences bookshelf]]
|style="width:11%;font-size:95%"|
[[Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|center|50px|Reading]]
|}
</div >
</div >

<div style="display:block;float:left;width:100%;">
<div style="display:block;border:1px solid #aaaaaa;vertical-align: top; background-color:#f9f9ff;margin-bottom:10px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:4px;">
<h2 style="padding:3px; background:#aaccff; color:#000; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:100%; margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;margin-left:-5px;margin-right:-4px;">Associated Wikimedia for literature and language</h2 >
{| class="noprint" align="center" style="clear:both; background: transparent; text-align:center; font-size:91%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" rules="none" border="0"
|-
|'''[[Wikipedia:Literature|Literature on Wikipedia]]'''    
|'''[[Wikinews:Literature|Literature on Wikinews]]'''    
|'''[[Wikiquote:Literature|Literature on Wikiquote]]'''    
|'''[[Wikibooks:Literature|Literature on Wikibooks]]'''    
|'''[[Wikisource:Literature|Literature on Wikisource]]'''    
|'''[[Wiktionary:Literature|Literature on Wiktionary]]'''
|-
|'''[[Wikipedia:Language|Language on Wikipedia]]'''    
|'''[[Wikinews:Language|Language on Wikinews]]'''    
|'''[[Wikiquote:Language|Language on Wikiquote]]'''    
|'''[[Wikibooks:Language|Language on Wikibooks]]'''    
|'''[[Wikisource:Language|Language on Wikisource]]'''    
|'''[[Wiktionary:Language|Language on Wiktionary]]'''
|}
</div >
</div >

__NOEDITSECTION__
__NOTOC__
[[Category:Language and Literature|*]]