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January 13

Muslims in four major professional sports leagues

How many Muslims are playing in the CFL? How many Muslims are playing in the NBA? How many Muslims are playing in the MLB? How many Muslims are playing in the NHL? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.29.33.240 (talk) 02:34, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Historically, there used to be more muslims in American sports, back in the 1960's and 1970's, when many black American athletes joined the Nation of Islam-movement. Prominent examples include Muhammad Ali (born Casius Clay), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Lew Alcindor) and Ahmad Rashād (born Bobby Moore). I can't name anyone offhand that is active today, but that doesn't mean that their aren't any. --Jayron32 02:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For NBA players, this forum thread may give you some leads. Some are obvious, like the Turkish player Hedo Türkoğlu. Others, like Shaquille O'Neal are surprising, but apparently confirmed, see [1]. --Jayron32 02:54, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The List of American Muslims has a sports section as well. --Jayron32 02:58, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The only one in the NHL, I think, is Nazem Kadri. (Apparently Justin Abdelkader is not Muslim.) Adam Bishop (talk) 03:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to Wikipedia, Sam Khalifa is currently the only Muslim to have played in the Major Leagues. Kingturtle = (talk) 01:15, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ogg

Is there a way to get itunes to read ogg files? Money is tight (talk) 09:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sort of. There's a Quicktime plugin somewhere that will let you do it but if I remember correctly it's a huge pain. I had to download a few different versions of the plugin as well, since apparently each update invalidated the previous plugin. This was over a year ago, so it might not be possible now... Eldamorie (talk) 16:59, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A Film somewhat connected to Fist of Fury

The story begins on a movie set in which the final scene of Fist of Fury takes place. Just like in the movie, the actor playing as Chen Zhen charges at a line of armed soldiers, makes a flying kick and is fired upon. But as soon as the scene is cut, the actor playing as Chen Zhen starts bleeding from a head wound. It turns out that at the same time the armed soldiers are shooting Chen Zhen (with blanks), another mysterious person on the set has fired on the actor with a real gun. Foul play is suspected and the Movie is about a search for the perpetrator who shot the actor. --Arima (talk) 09:57, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Character on Fibber McGee & Molly

When Molly was away from the program, there was a character named "Sill" or "Silly". That character is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article about Fibber McGee & Molly. Who was the character played by and did he do any other characters on the show? 69.21.242.170 (talk) 16:13, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I googled [fibber mcgee silly] and the first item that came up was a character called "Silly Watson", played by Bill Thompson (voice actor), better known as the voice of Wallace Wimple and later the cartoon character Droopy the Dog, whose voice the same as Wallace Wimple's. Don't know about the Silly character otherwise. I wouldn't be surprised if McGee called him "Sill" for short. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:20, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name that film

Can anybody help me in finding the name for this film? I was only able to catch the last few minutes of this film but from what I caught was: two of the characters had this machine that they where able to attach a phone to, dial the phone and a call but to an earlier time, eg they where in a motel room and they called themselves some hours earlier at a gas station. Once they made that call to themselves I think they started to die when they changed that time between phone calls. Scotius (talk) 16:25, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It makes me think of Primer (film) because it has two time travelling characters and the movie is a narration through a phone call. -- kainaw ™ 18:57, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That what I thought it was, but when I bought it it turned out not to be that one.Scotius (talk) 12:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

80's US Television Program

I'm trying to remember the name of a children's program from the mid 1980's featuring an illustrator/artist that showed children how to draw. The artwork was generally black felt tip marker on white and usually featured space themes. Any ideas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.34.104.12 (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If your memory is off by a decade, it could be Pappyland. -- kainaw ™ 18:54, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mister Dressup sometimes did segments on drawing, though I don't recall them usually being space themes. 142.179.81.220 (talk) 22:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Secret City? --Onorem ♠Dil 22:27, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Commander Mark was my first thought too; here he is in action. He's using a pencil in this one but I remember him often using a black marker. — jwillbur 10:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, here he is with the marker. — jwillbur 10:14, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Picture Pages doesn't fit the description as well as other suggestions but throwing it out there just in case. I vaguely remember a marker being prominent. I think it was named "Mortimer". AlexiusHoratius 22:50, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mortimer Ichabod Marker according to the article. AlexiusHoratius 22:53, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here in New Zealand we also had a guy like that, named Neville Logan, a dark haired, bespectacled, left handed Christian gentleman who had a slot on TVNZ's After School, based here in Christchurch - a friend of mine got on telly to see him. He would draw a picture for each kid who wanted one, time permitting. I met him at a famous local holiday and kids' school camp complex called Living Springs in Governors Bay back in 1983, where he drew me a cat driving a car - don't know if I still have it. Much fun Chris the Russian Christopher Lilly 06:47, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]