User talk:GuyStairSainty

Welcome!

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style

I get the feeling that any copyvios I find in your contributions are in fact copies of your own work. To prevent others flagging your articles as copyvio, it might be an idea to put a note somewhere on the web like a discrete corner of http://www.chivalricorders.org to say that Wikipedia has permission to use your work and place a link on user:GuyStairSainty to that release notice. Unfortunately there is a lot more to contributing to Wikipedia than just dumping a long screed of prose - the guide to writing better articles will give you some clues. Break the article up with section headings, create wikilinks, create incoming wikilinks ie. links to your articles from existing articles, add pictures, etc. But do keep contributing! -- RHaworth 19:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

from email. My text on chivalric orders has actually been substantially revised and expanded, with many new documents, for Burke's World Orders of Knighthood and Merit of which i am general editor. Inevitably there is a confluence of texts between anything I write. I thought that I could add external links, etc, later.

I have no problem with some kind of credit authorization being given, if you want to include it. How should I do this? -- user:GuyStairSainty 2006 Feb 24

As I said above, place a note somewhere in http://www.chivalricorders.org to say that Wikipedia has permission to use your work. Place a link on user:GuyStairSainty to that note. That will establish that you (ie. the Wikipedia user name) are who you claim to be (not that I really doubt you).

Then in any article that uses a substantial amount of material from chivalricorders.org add a note pointing out that it is used with permission and pointing to your user page. This should be done in the edit summary, by HTML comment, ie.  or on the article's talk page - preferably all three! This will prevent people tagging you articles as copyvios. Actually, the best way to prevent them doing that is to write in proper Wikistyle in the first place! -- RHaworth 20:13, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I try not to copy but having written these texts myself I may often inadvertently use the same phrases and when quoting from documents the texts are inevitably identical (indeed they must be). Guy Sainty

I see that my birth address is given now as Clayton Priory, Burgess Hill, Sussex. For what it is worth, the postal address of my birth place was Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex - for the entire time my family lived at that house from the 1930s onwards.

The web site of the Royal Academy of Heraldry and genealogy is http://www.ramhg.es/

I leave it to someone else to make these changes since I do not want to be accused of editing an article on myself. http://www.ramhg.es/

Constantinian Order

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your creation of the article, Constantinian Order, but we cannot accept copyrighted text borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Please see Wikipedia:Copyright problems for more information on this topic, or generally, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines. Please do not remove the copyright violation notice placed in the article or repost the suspected infringing text. However, if you would like to rewrite the article in your own words, follow the link in the posted notice to create a temporary subpage. If your new article is appropriate, and not a further copyright violation, the reviewing administrator will move that new article into place once the copyright status of the original has been resolved. Happy editing! Ladybirdintheuk 10:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fine, but the text that you refer to as copyrighted is my own text, that I have published elsewhere; it seems rather silly to suggest that someone cannot use extracts from their own text.

Images

Dear Mr. Stair Sainty;

I feel that it would be helpful if you reviewed WP:XIMG in order to better understand the proper formats for images on Wikipedia. It is problematic for some at first, but the linked article explains aspects such as image size in detail. Charles 16:13, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prince D. Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, Infante of Spain

The page for The Duke of Calabria already exists at Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria. I have moved the page to a subpage in your user space considering a lot of the material exists at the previously existing article. This way the material you have written is preserved and can be added to the original article. The title Prince D. Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, Infante of Spain has been made into a redirect page for Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria. Charles 16:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image Request

If you ARE Guy Stair Saint, perhaps you could upload an image of yourself for the Wikipedia article that discusses you. Of, you could give permission for one online to be used. If...--Eva ^bd 18:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image on biography--Request date of Birth

I was able to ascertain a photo and placed it on the biography Guy Stair Sainty. Is it possible to know the month, day and year of the Guy Stair Sainty so we can add it to the biography?Bnguyen 10:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex 7 December 1950 GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unspecified source for Image:Sanjanbdge.jpg

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This is my own badge and a photo I took myself so I own the copyright. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:29, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I photographed this myself, the badge belongs to me.Guy Sainty

Wettin branches

Hi. Your views, among others, are under discussion at Talk:House of Windsor and Talk:Saxe-Altenburg. Hope you have time to drop and communicate your ideas. Henq (talk) 19:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

International Parliament for Safety and Peace

Dear Guy, about a year ago I wrote an article about a diploma mill by the name of Rutherford University, then got interested in the International Parliament for Safety and Peace from which it claims accreditation. It was not an easy topic at the time and has created some discussion. I have let the topic rest for a long while, now reverted the edits by the person or people of the organization, and expanded with even more referenced materials. During my web searches I stumbled into one of your works that mentions the ISPS in the context of its leader Viktor Busa (I did the opposite). I was pleasantly surprised to find out that you are a fellow Wikipedian! My next goal for the article is to work on its neutrality. I would much be much obliged if you could find some time to look at the short article and the -not too lenghty- discussions on its talk page and would give your opinion on the talk page whether the article describes the subject without bias and - if it does not - what needs to be added and/or removed to make the descriptions adequate. Best regards, gidonb (talk) 22:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi; are you really mr. Sainty, or just an enthusiast of him? Cheers! --Tonyjeff (talk) 12:37, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is not appropriate for you to post personal attacks on editors you disagree with

Please do not attack other editors, as you did here: Talk:Rita Jenrette. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. The issues in that article relate to Wikipedia's strict requirements for reliable sourcing of claims in biographies of living persons. The source you insist is definitive (and the only source supporting the disputed claims) appears to be your own self-published website, and therefore not acceptable under Wikipedia's sourcing rules, particularly the more demanding rules applied to biographies. Rather than posting groundless accusations of bias against editors you disagree with and insisting that your own views be treated as definitive factual determinations, you need to familiarize yourself with the applicable Wikipedia policies and guidelines and follow them when you edit in article space and post on other Wikipedia pages. You've been editing here for more than three years, and have had ample time to learn those requirements; the several notices posted by other editors to this talk page should already have alerted you to the need to do so. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:28, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I read this with interest and astonishment - the facts "disputed" are not simply as cited by me on my web site, but are those given in every reputable genealogical publication (Almanach de Gotha until 1944, when it ceased publication, the Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana, the Starke Geneagisches Handbuch des Adels, etc etc) but numerous serious genealogical web sites. Yet this person who repeatedly made changes to the article in question quite obviously had a personal bias in the matter. He, in fact, made comments which were ad hominen attacks.

If Wikipedia is to be taken seriously as a research tool, it is not enough to just accepr that everyone's postings are equal - it is difficult to prove a negative, so when your contributors make statements which are clearly contrary to the actuality and reflect merely personal opinions, to deny the comments of a published expert on the grounds that he or she has also published them elswehere is quite bizarre.

File source problem with File:Infante&King2.jpg

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This photo was supplied by Infante D. Carlos to me for publication on the internet. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:29, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:CarlosIII-Constantinian.jpg

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I paid for the right to reproduce this image. It belongs to the Patrimonio Nacional. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:30, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:AlcantaraCarlosGC.jpg

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I took this photo myself. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Royalfamily-89-3.jpg

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This photo was supplied by the Infante D. Carlos for me to reproduce at my discretion. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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File source problem with File:Alfonso-Alicia.jpg

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This photo, which is now more than 50 years old, was supplied by the infante D. Carlos to me for reproduction at my discretion. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:32, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have written proof of that? The photo still isn't old enough to have lost copyright protection. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:11, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Infante&King3.jpg

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This was supplied to me by the Infante D. Carlos for reproduction at my discretion. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:33, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have written proof of that? The photo still isn't old enough to have lost copyright protection. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:11, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Papa-Calabria.jpg

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This was supplied to me by the Infante D. Carlos to reproduce at my discretion. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:33, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have written proof of that? The photo still isn't old enough to have lost copyright protection. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:11, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Caserta.jpg

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This photo which is more than 75 years old is long out of copyright. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:34, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you get the photo? How do you know its age? Where and when was it first published? Who is the author? Any of this information that you know would be helpful. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:12, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Constantinian-Toledo.jpg

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This photo was supplied to me by the Infante D. Carlos for use at my discretion. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:35, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have written proof of that? The photo still isn't old enough to have lost copyright protection. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:12, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:BenXVI+Carlos.jpg

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This photo was supplied to me by the Infante D. Carlos to reproduce at my discretion. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:35, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have written proof of that? The photo still isn't old enough to have lost copyright protection. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:12, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Carlos3Constant.jpg listed for deletion

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I paid for the reproduction rights for this photo for my book, now in editing stage; the image was supplied by the Patrimonio NacionaL. GuyStairSainty (talk) 08:37, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have written proof of that? Do the reproduction rights that you paid for state that the photo is now freely useable by anyone, anywhere, so long as there is attribution? Because that is what the current license on the image states. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:12, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I do not remember; I paid for it one year or so ago and the invoice is in a file that i do not have time to find. All this is very irritating - I am just trying to expand the information on a subject on Wikipedia. This photo will be in my book. GuyStairSainty (talk) 07:08, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I do not have "written proof" that the Infante D. Carlos gave me the photos, I am vice-grand chancellor of his Order and one of his trusted councillors. I make numerous statements etc on his behalf and have held this position for more than 20 years. This is well known (look at the Order's web site www.constantinianorder.org). I do not have time for all this. If as a senior officer of HRH's Order I cannot send information that at least is accurate unlike so much of what I read about Europe's royal families on Wikipedia then who do you want it from? GuyStairSainty (talk) 07:13, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually that's very important information, thank you. If you're authorized to speak on behalf of the chancellor who owns the copyrights, all we'll need for you to do is follow the instructions at {{Di-no permission-notice}} to send us proof of permission by email. Once you've done that, feel free to go back and tag all the above images with {{OTRS pending}} and to remove the deletion notice, and it will not be deleted. Hope this works, and sorry for any problems.

Additionally, the reason I nominated the image immediately above for deletion is not because I don't think you own the right to it, but because it appears to have been scanned incorrectly but later fixed with File:Carlos3-Const.jpg. Magog the Ogre (talk) 17:37, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am the vice-grand chancellor and all such matters concerning history, publications on the internet, are my responsibility - the web master of www.constantinianorder.org reports to me. The grand chancellor's responsibilities are quite different. It is therefore my decision whether or not to publish something and where to do so. GuyStairSainty (talk) 19:52, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK great. Were glad to have your contributions. Could you send that email to us then as I outlined above? Magog the Ogre (talk) 22:36, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To what email address? GuyStairSainty (talk) 16:43, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at Template:Di-no permission-notice, I think the email address is "permissions-en@wikimedia.org". The reason this is so complicated and bureaucratic is because Wikipedia is more or less forced to have some kind of formal central clearinghouse to record, for any given piece of content that's been published under copyright elsewhere. This avoids, among other things, people releasing content and then turning around and claiming they didn't and so on and so forth. (The central clearinghouse is the mysterious OTRS mentioned above.) If you haven't given up on the whole business in disgust, drop me a line at my talk page and I can try to help. I appreciate the value of your expertise, but Wikipedia as a whole sometimes gives experts the back of its collective hand. Choess (talk) 04:32, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, GuyStairSainty. You have new messages at Magog the Ogre's talk page.
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To which email address. Please email me. 85.171.161.125 (talk) 07:16, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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This is absolutely ridiculous. I own this painting and it is hanging on my wall. How can you expect people to contribute to tour e ts when sme pedant trying to prove his or her self- importance makes ridiculous decisions or comments like this.

The same applies to the other paintings i illustrated, which are all in the same category as the one you left - why not remove that one using the same arbitrary basis? I av particular expertise to contribute and own many mages over which have copyright and generously chose to share these images. What is the oroblem with th people who make these decisions? I made this clear hen I posted them. Does no one think to ask me if there is a problem. GuyStairSainty (talk) 19:42, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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So this decision is made by "Stefan " - are you accusing me of lying when I say these pantings ate on my wall and I own them???? This is really outrageous. I own 100s of images of paintings that I own or have owned which could improve many of your articles. What s the point when dealing with vandals who abitrarily remove them ? GuyStairSainty (talk) 19:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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What is the matter? I checked the correct box concerning this image. I commissioned and own the photograph. I own the painting. Why do you assume I am lying when I state this? The way the censors behave over this is absolutely incredible. GuyStairSainty (talk) 20:29, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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What do you want?? I took the trouble to edit this page and I made it clear when uploading the images that both the original photos and the works of art of which they are photos, i.e. the paintings illustrated in the article,. all belong to the Stair Sainty Gallery of which I am the owner. I (quite generously I thought) in completing the forms allowed them to be used as open source. on the forms you ask to use for uploading I stated this very clearly. What else could I do. If tyou want to delete them and waste my time then I shan't bother again - it is time consuming enough to do this, and having taken the time, stated very clearly that I own the images and paintings I cannot possibly see what further info you could need. The editors of Wikipedia seem overly impressed with the authority they claim. None of the images violate copyright since if there is copyright, my company owns it. GuyStairSainty (talk) 18:25, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Furthermore, the artist died in 1949 without issue. His estate passed to his widow. She bequeathed the archives and many paintings to a family who has now ceded all rights to the Comite Beltran-Masses of which my gallery is coordinator. No droits de suite or any other copyright claims have ever been made.

Some of these images can be found all over the internet, some copied from my own gallery site or other material that I own. I do not complain about this.

So despite this full explanation. Despite the fact that the comité has 100s of photos, all f hem anonymous tat passed in the artist's estate, now controlled by the comité, you are still pedantically refusing yo accept this. I challenge you to produce the name of any one who challenges my rights.

It is incredible. Why does anyone waste heir time? And who appoints people like you to destroy others work? GuyStairSainty (talk) 19:52, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello User:GuyStairSainty I wonder If I could ask you something on the subject of Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança. Do you have any idea what her birth name or official name was before she adopted the name we know here by? I understood that this name was adopted later in her life. Thank you. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 17:24, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Her real name was Hilda Toledano. She began her attempt at claiming royal status by pretending that her father was Alfonso XIII. When that was denied and proved impossible she began the invention that her natural father was the pentultimate King of Portugal, assassinated in 1908. Because of canon law rules on claiming baptism she was able to pretend on the duplicate certificate, claiming the original had been lost, that her father was King Carlos. GuyStairSainty (talk) 14:54, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Project News
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Last month's auspicious relaunch of our newsletter precipitated something of an uproar in the Wikipedia community. What started as a localized edit war over censorship spilled over onto the Administrator's Noticeboard finally ending up at Wikipedia's supreme judicial body ArbCom. Their ruling resulted in the admonishment of administrator Future Perfect at Sunrise for his involvement in the dispute. The story was reported by Wikipedia's venerable flagship newspaper The Signpost.

The question of whether to delete all portals--including the 27 Christianity-related portals--was put to the Wikipedia community. Approximately 400 editors have participated in the protracted discussion. Going by !votes, Oppose deletion has a distinct majority. The original Christianity Portal was created on November 5, 2005 by Brisvegas and the following year he successfully nominated the portal for Featured Portal. The Transhumanist has revived WikiProject Portals with hopes of revitalizing Wikipedia's system of 1,515 portals.

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Four articles in the Project were promoted to GA: Edict of Torda nom. by Borsoka, Jim Bakker nom. by LovelyGirl7, Ralph Abernathy nom. by Coffee and Psalm 84 nom. by Gerda_Arendt. The Psalm ends with "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." Words to live by. Please support our members and send some WikiLove to the nominators!

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Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to make contact with the Huaorani people of the rainforest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known as the Aucas, were an isolated tribe known for their violence, both against their own people and outsiders who entered their territory. With the intention of being the first Protestants to evangelize the Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights over Huaorani settlements in September 1955, dropping gifts. After several months of exchanging gifts, on January 2, 1956, the missionaries established a camp at "Palm Beach", a sandbar along the Curaray River, a few miles from Huaorani settlements. Their efforts culminated on January 8, 1956, when all five—Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian—were attacked and speared by a group of Huaorani warriors. The news of their deaths was broadcast around the world, and Life magazine covered the event with a photo essay. The deaths of the men galvanized the missionary effort in the United States, sparking an outpouring of funding for evangelization efforts around the world. Their work is still frequently remembered in evangelical publications, and in 2006, was the subject of the film production End of the Spear. (more...)

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Project news
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Here are discussions relevant to the Project:

Liberty University has an RFC regarding the university's relationship with President Trump; see discussion
Is Genesis History? has an RFC regarding acceptability of movie reviews for inclusion; see discussion
United States pro-life movement has a requested move to United States anti-abortion movement; see discussion

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... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?

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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

The Mortara case was a controversy precipitated by the Papal States' seizure of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish child, from his family in Bologna, Italy, in 1858. The city's inquisitor, Father Pier Feletti, heard from a servant that she had administered emergency baptism to the boy when he fell sick as an infant, and the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition held that this made the child irrevocably a Catholic. Because the Papal States had forbidden the raising of Christians by members of other faiths, it was ordered that he be taken from his family and brought up by the Church. After visits from the child's father, international protests mounted, but Pope Pius IX would not be moved. The boy grew up as a Catholic with the Pope as a substitute father, trained for the priesthood in Rome until 1870, and was ordained in France three years later. In 1870 the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome during the unification of Italy, ending the pontifical state; opposition across Italy, Europe and the United States over Mortara's treatment may have contributed to its downfall. (Full article...)

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The Top 7 report
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The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Top 7 most popular articles in WikiProject Christianity were:

Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
Michael Curry (bishop) – our article says that he upstaged Meghan at her wedding. Did you see her wedding pictures? All I can say is {{dubious}}
Robert F. Kennedy – when informed that missiles were being installed in Cuba he famously quipped, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"

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[[File:|200px|The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. ]]

The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling.

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the beginning of the Christian Era. Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ.

Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages raging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. In the UK in 2015, the general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Between one and three percent of people from both countries thought the apocalypse would be caused by zombies or alien invasion. (more...)

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The Top 7 report
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The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Top 7 most popular articles in WikiProject Christianity were:

Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
Michael Curry (bishop) – our article says that he upstaged Meghan at her wedding. Did you see her wedding pictures? All I can say is {{dubious}}
Robert F. Kennedy – when informed that missiles were being installed in Cuba he famously quipped, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"

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... that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn "Sun of Unclouded Righteousness" asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism?

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The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling.

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the beginning of the Christian Era. Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ.

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The Top 6 Articles

By Stalinsunnykvj

The sad news was the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

Louis XIV of France – a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France. He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
Martin Luther King Jr. –
" There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war."
Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.

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... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?

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Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Ireland

Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in the city of Cork, Ireland. It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was completed in 1879. The cathedral is located on the south side of the River Lee, on ground that has been a place of worship since the 7th century, and is dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city. It was once in the Diocese of Cork; it is now one of the three cathedrals in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Christian use of the site dates back to a 7th-century AD monastery, which according to legend was founded by Finbarr of Cork. The entrances contain the figures of over a dozen biblical figures, capped by a tympanum showing a Resurrection scene. (more...)

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The Top 6 Articles

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A suicide attack on July 11th claimed by Islamic State (IS) near a church in the Syrian city of Qamishli shows that Christians remain a major target of the terror group. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
Elena Cornaro Piscopia – was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. In 1669, she translated the Colloquy of Christ by Carthusian monk Lanspergius from Spanish into Italian.
Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
Bob Dylan – American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist.
" Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.

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Eric and Leslie Ludy were 21 and 16 respectively when they first met, English professors suggest that older singles are unlikely to gather hope from their story.

When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy, an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the spouse that God has planned for them.

The book is divided into five sections and sixteen chapters. Each chapter is written from the perspective of one of the two authors; nine are by Eric, while Leslie wrote seven, as well as the introduction. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly unchaste or sexually abused individuals. (more...)

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The Top 3 Articles

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The Top 3 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

Dolly Parton - an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: " I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."
Harriet Tubman - an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and made some missions to rescue enslaved people, using the network of antislavery activists and Underground Railroads. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout, spy for the Union Army.
Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.

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... that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
... that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?

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Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The book is divided into five chapters, which Dickens titled "staves". A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. (more...)

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Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another.

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Romans 12:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

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" I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Charles Dickens – British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social critic.

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The Top 3 most-popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

Pope Benedict XVI – retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation.
Pope Francis – the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
Dolly Parton – an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: "I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."

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...that the All Saints Church, Henley Brook, the oldest church in Western Australia, held its first service almost eight years before it was consecrated?
...that the Golden Madonna of Essen is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary?
...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"?
...that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?

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Сретение Господне ("The Meeting of the Lord"), a depiction of Simeon recognising Jesus at the Temple, from a fifteenth-century Novgorodskye School Russian icon.

A Song for Simeon, is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the Ariel poems series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by Faber and Gwyer. "A Song for Simeon" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poem's narrative echoes the text of the Nunc dimittis, a liturgical prayer for Compline from the Gospel passage. Eliot introduces literary allusions to earlier writers Lancelot Andrewes, Dante Alighieri and St. John of the Cross. Critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is a negative portrayal of a Jewish figure and evidence of anti-Semitism on Eliot's part. (more...)

Bible Verse

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May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, And fulfill all your purpose.

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Psalm 20:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

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"Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society, from politics, from history, for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt, which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances."
~ Jacques Ellul

French philosopher, sociologist, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist.

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Trading Places- a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.

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Die Hard-a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza.

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Home Alone-a 1990 American Christmas family comedy film directed by Chris Columbus.

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One Voice at Christmas-a 2016 Christmas album by the Welsh singer Aled Jones and produced by Classic FM.

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas!"
-Calvin Coolidge

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