User:Iancaddy

Babel and Beliefs

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This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

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Hello and welcome to my page. I'm expanding it with a few pretty userboxes of, at the moment, a non-polemical nature and having discovered just how cool some of the pictures of the day are that's here too.

I'm a budding amateur on Wikipedia and generally I just correct things that I notice are wrong or read badly when browsing through, e.g. typos. I also add little bits of knowledge where I can and update articles where needed. I also like to have my say in deletion discussions etc.. I'm beginning to branch out into writing articles from scratch but, with over a million on here, I struggle to find things that aren't covered and that I might have a slim chance of understanding were I to research them.

If you disagree with anything I've written then please do say although if there's anything controversial I'll more than likely have written about it on the relevant discussion page. Or you could just write me a note to say hello. You could even write it in a different language to help me expand on my pathetic linguistic ability - I only have it up there to put myself to shame in the hope that I do something about it.

Picture of the day

The Cathedral of La Laguna is a Roman Catholic church in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The church was designated a cathedral in 1818 and is the seat of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, which includes the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. The current building was constructed between 1904 and 1915 to replace an earlier building begun in 1515. The cathedral is located in the historic centre of La Laguna and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1999 by UNESCO. It contains elements of several architectural styles and is noted for its Neoclassical facade, inspired by Pamplona Cathedral, as well as its dome, which stands out prominently in the city landscape. In the cathedral lie the remains of Alonso Fernández de Lugo, the conqueror of the island and founder of the La Laguna. This photograph shows one of the side chapels of the Cathedral of La Laguna, with a 6-metre-tall (20 ft) gilded reredos behind the altar. Constructed in the Baroque style in the first half of the 18th century, the reredos is the largest in the Canary Islands. The chapel is dedicated to the Virgin of Los Remedios, whose statue is in the central niche behind the altar. The reredos features seven paintings, attributed to Hendrick van Balen, depicting scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary.Photograph credit: Diego Delso

Travelogue...

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Idea and layout pilfered from Lcarsdata, who took it from NeilTarrant, who purloined it from A bit iffy, who half-inched it from Calton, who filched it from Salsb, who stole it from Guettarda, who borrowed it from White Cat.

Just a bit of fun... 2006 World Cup

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

24 June - Munich

Germany

3

30 June - Berlin

Sweden

1

Germany (pen)

0 (4)

24 June - Leipzig

Argentina

0 (3)

Argentina

2

4 July - Dortmund

Portugal

0

Germany

2

26 June - Kaiserslautern

Tunisia

1

Ghana

3

30 June - Hamburg

Croatia (AET)

4

Croatia

1

26 June - Cologne

Tunisia

2

France

1

9 July - Berlin

Tunisia (AET)

2

Germany

2

25 June - Stuttgart

England (AET)

4

England

3

1 July - Gelsenkirchen

Poland

1

England (AET)

3

25 June - Nuremberg

Ivory Coast

2

Mexico

1

5 July - Munich

Ivory Coast

2

England

2

27 June - Dortmund

Brazil

1

Third place

Brazil

2

1 July - Frankfurt

8 July - Stuttgart

Czech Republic

1

Brazil

1

Brazil

2

27 June - Hannover

Spain

0

Tunisia (AET)

3

Spain (pen)

1 (3)

Switzerland

1 (2)

Mmm, an intriguing set of predictions... does my mind really think that this could happen? Of course, any similarities between one of the scorelines here and that of the 1966 World Cup Final are purely coincidental. And somewhat optimistic as well.