Monday, April 7, 2008

Romantic period
The phrase "Romantic Period" actually refers to several separate artistic movements. For a general description of Romantic ideas and artwork, see Romanticism.
For more information about the individual movements, see:
Romantic music
Romantic poetry
Romantic painting (This page does not yet exist. See Romanticism until it does.)

Sunday, April 6, 2008

St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin
St Paul's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of the Diocese of Dunedin, Otago and Southland in New Zealand. The current structure, located in The Octagon, in the city's centre, was built in a Gothic style, but the original design was never completed. A Modernist chancel was added in the 1970s by architect Ted McCoy.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

BSD Documentation License
The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. Based on this license, the BSD Documentation License was created to contain terms more generic to most projects as well as reintroducing the 3rd clause the restricts the use of documentation for endorsement purposes (as shown in the 3-clause BSD License).
The Free Software Foundation classes this as a free documentation licence, stating that "This is a permissive non-copyleft free documentation license that is compatible with the GNU FDL."

Friday, April 4, 2008


Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop William Laud (October 7, 1573January 10, 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury and a fervent supporter of King Charles I of England, whom he encouraged to believe in divine right. His support for Charles, absolute monarchy, and his persecuting of opposing views led to his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War. The beheading of Charles occurred four years later.

William Laud High church policy

Grand Remonstrance

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Gary Gaetti
Gary Joseph Gaetti (born August 19, 1958 in Centralia, Illinois), nicknamed "G-Man" ("Rat" or "Zorn" during his earlier days), is an American former third baseman in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins (1981-90), California Angels (1991-93), Kansas City Royals (1993-95), St. Louis Cardinals (1996-98), Chicago Cubs (1998-99) and Boston Red Sox (2000). He won a World Series championship with Minnesota in 1987 and was the MVP of that year's American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers. In 1988, Gaetti became a born-again Christian, completely changing his image, which until that time was the image of a hard-drinking baseball player interested primarily in the game, and women.
Gaetti won four Gold Glove Awards for fielding excellence from 1986 through 1989, and was selected an All-Star in 1987 and 1989. A power-hitting third baseman who had his best season in 1986 when he batted .287 with 34 home runs and 108 runs batted in, Gaetti left the small-market Twins for the Angels as a free agent following the 1990 season. His production dropped significantly with the Angels, who released him in June 1993. He signed with the Royals, who had lost their projected regular third baseman, Keith Miller, to injury, and had been playing struggling rookie Phil Hiatt at third. Handed the third base job, Gaetti turned his career around. In 1995, at the age of 36, he put together one of his best seasons, hitting .261/35/96, setting a career high in home runs and missing the Royals team record for most home runs in a season by one.
Following the 1995 season, Gaetti signed as a free agent with the Cardinals, where he enjoyed two more productive seasons before being released again in August 1998 after the Cardinals' acquisition of Fernando Tatis. Gaetti signed with the Cubs, where he enjoyed a good two months during the Cubs' pennant drive, hitting .320/8/27 and helping the Cubs win the National League wild card. The following season, the Cubs became disillusioned with its aging infield, which featured Gaetti at third, Jeff Blauser at short, Mickey Morandini at second, and Mark Grace at first. Gaetti played only semi-regularly and was released at the end of the season. He wound up his career the following season in Boston, appearing in five games in April 2000 at the age of 41. Bill James noted Gaetti's baseball-related aging process as being unusual for two reasons. Unlike most other league veterans, his walk rate never improved and his rate of productivity decline was "exceptionally" slow.
Gaetti hit a home run in his first-ever Major League at bat. He currently is the all-time home run king of players that homered in their first Major League at bat. He also hit a home run in his first at bat in the American League Championship Series in 1987.
Gaetti was also part of two triple plays in one game, while playing for the Minnesota Twins.

Minnesota Twins (1981-1990)
California Angels (1991-1993)
Kansas City Royals (1993-1995)
St. Louis Cardinals (1996-1998)
Chicago Cubs (1998-1999)
Boston Red Sox (2000)
All-Star (AL): 1988, 1989
1987 ALCS MVP
Gold Glove Award (AL): 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
Silver Slugger Award (AL): 1995

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Battle of Pampeluna
The Battle of Pampeluna (also spelled Pamplona) occurred on May 20, 1521, during the Italian War of 1521.
It was at this battle that Inigo Lopez de Loyola, better known as St. Ignatius Loyola, suffered severe injuries, a French cannonball shattering his leg. His meditations during his long recovery set him on the road of a conversion of life from soldier to priest. He would eventually found the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), and create the Spiritual Exercises, which is the basis for the idea of "retreats" as an experience of prayer as practiced in the Roman Catholic Church.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Úbeda
Úbeda (IPA: ['uβeða]) is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia. It had about 36,000 inhabitants in 2003. It is best known for its association with the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina and the singer Joaquín Sabina. Despite opposition from the ICOMOS, UNESCO declared its Renaissance monuments a World Heritage Site in a cultural unity with Baeza in 2003.
The city is near the geographic centre of the province of Jaén, and it is the administrative seat of the surrounding Loma de Úbeda region. It is one of the region's most important settlements, boasting a hospital, university distance-learning facilities, local government facilities, social security offices, courts, etc. According to the Caixa yearbook, it is the economic hub of a catchment area with a population of 200,000 inhabitants. Twenty-nine percent of employment is in the service sector, with many people working in commerce and local government administration. People are also employed in agriculture (with olives the predominant crop), cattle ranching, industry and tourism.
The town lends its name to a common figure of speech in Spanish, andar por los cerros de Úbeda (literally 'to walk around the hills of Úbeda'), meaning 'to go off at a tangent'.