Rama

''This article is about a Hindu incarnation of God (i.e., Vishnu) and king of ancient India, for other meanings see Rama (disambiguation)''. ---- [[Image:Srisita_ram_laxman_hanuman_manor.JPG|thumb|Deities of Sri Sri Sita (far right), Rama (center), Lakshmana (far left) and Hanuman (below seated) at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford England]] [[image:Lord-rama.jpg|frame|Lord Rama (center) with wife Sita, brother Lakshmana and devotee Hanuman. Rama and Lakshman are always shown to be ready for battle (with bow and arrow) as it is their Kshatriya ''dharma'' to fight. Rama is shown having blue skin which is a characteristic of Vishnu]] Rama (Rāma in IAST transliteration, राम in Sanskrit, sometimes referred to as Lord Rama and also as Shri Rama) is a Hindu incarnation of God, said to be one of the ten avatars of Vishnu. There is debate, existing mainly in the Western countries, as to whether he was a real or mythical king in ancient India. In Eastern countries, he is largely regarded as real. His life and heroic deeds are related in the Hindu Sanskrit epic poetry the Ramayana. A great devotional work on him is the Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas, which builds on the Hindu bhakti movements of devotion and love of God. Such benevolent movements are common in cultures centred around Hinduism. The spelling and pronunciation of ''Rama'' follows the original Sanskrit; it continues to be followed in several modern languages of India. In modern Indian vernaculars, however, it is sometimes pronounced as 'Ram'. Rama is the embodiment of the absolute - Brahman. There is debate to whether Shri Rama was aware of his own divinity during his years in human form. One purpose of his incarnation was to carry out leadership by example. He exemplifies the perfect man through his proper conduct regardless of the unfavorableness of circumstance. Rama belonged to the Suryavansha (trans. Sun Dynasty, surya=sun, vansha=dynasty) and the Ikshvaku lineage. The Guru of the Suryavansha elders was Vashishta, the guru of Rama and his three brothers Lakshmana, Bharatha and Shatrughna was Vishwamitra. Astronomical data in the Ramayana has been interpreted to suggest that his reign would have been at approximately 2015 BC. This makes little sense, however, given that Shri Rama assumed human form in the treta yuga (see yuga for more detail). It is known that the Ramayana was written before the other great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, whose tradition of oral transmission is accepted to have existed around 1000s BC although there is little indication of when it actually begun (the writing coming much later). Thus, the Ramayana may have been documented anywhere from around 1500s BC to more conservative estimates of 500s BC. It should be noted that Indian culture has had a tradition of oral transmission of knowledge, considering it sacred and confidential. The Ramayana is a great literary work and piece of devotional and philosophical literature revered by both Hindus and individuals of other cultures. In Hinduism, Rama is regarded as the seventh avatar of God, Vishnu and worshipped together with his wife Sita and devotee Hanuman. He is the son of King Dasaratha and his queen Kausalya, making him a Prince of Ayodhya. At the instigation of Kaikeyi, another of his father's wives, he is banished to a forest. While in exile, his wife, Sita, is kidnapped by Ravana, King of the Rakshasas on Lanka. Rama, along with Hanuman, killed Ravana and rescued his wife Sita. The occasion of his victory over Ravana is celebrated every year by Hindus at Dassera (Vijaya Dashami, the day he won the battle according to the Hindu calendar). On Dassera, effigies of Ravana are burnt to commemorate the victory of good over evil. The burning of Ravana effigies symbolically represents burning the Ravana (the evil) within us. It also signifies the victory of dharma over adharma (which is similar to "good over evil" but not quite the same). Rama also killed Vali (Hindu mythology), the King of Kishkinda. He rescued Ahalya, wife of great sage Gautama, after she was cursed by her husband for having an affair with Indra. Lord Rama is seen as an ideal of Dharma and noble virtues. His wife, Sita, an incarnation of the Goddess Lakshmi - consort of Shri Vishnu, exemplifies the ideal wife. Vaishnavism Ramayana epic jv:Rama

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I've changed this by adding material that seems less 'Fundamentalist' in its attitude to the historicity of Rama and the reliability of the Ramayana as history. user:Paul Barlow == The Politics of Religion == It is interesting that you can read about Allah and Jesus in the Wikipedia without any political commentary when much of the worlds politics centers around these religions and yet have a good chunk of an article on Rama devoted to giving a personal political opinion and commentary. This is a colonial and imperial bias that has little to do with the culture of Rama who is revered by Muslims in the South East, the Sufi poet Kabir, Buddhist, Jains and Sikhs as an icon for Eastern civilizations and thought in much the same way the Homer epics have influenced the West. : You're right. In the near future (as I am busy with college work) this page should be redone in accordance with the principles that guided the writing of pages on Christ and Allah and other such figures.--User:LordSuryaofShropshire 18:34, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC) == Large slab of text which is a copyvio == It appears that the user User:203.199.120.7 copied a massive chunk of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's essay "The Riddle Of Rama And Sita" [http://www.raceandhistory.com/worldhotspots/riddlerama.htm]. It didn't take long for me to find this. This user has been blocked for 24 hours, and I'll be listing them Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. Please don't revert or rollback my changes. - User:Ta bu shi da yu 11:19, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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User talk:Rama/archive 1 ==Why did you block me== I haven't done anything, I don't even have a user name, it just said you blocked me... I M MAD : It might help if you could give more precise references to what exactly annoys you. Also, writing in capital about your state of mind won't necessarily make people better predisposed toward you. User:Rama 19:01, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Delete vandalism == I wrote several arguments why the article should be restored. Unfortunately, i twas all erased without discussion. Could anyone restore the article so the arguments can be answered????? == user Dagen == Hi, FWIW: looks like a TDC sockpuppet to me. -- User:Viajero 10:18, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) : answer at User_talk:Viajero#Dagen. User:Rama 13:12, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) :: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/TDC-2: could you help? Thanks, -- User:Viajero 13:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Omsk! == WRT your comment on removing Omsk as the home port of the Nautilis[sic], you're completly right, I was excited over that city and decided to add that in for fun thinking it'd get reverted the next time I F5'd it, but it hung on this long! I award you the sneaky vandalic changes noticing award! User:68.39.174.39 23:45, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) : Thank you. I will understand this as a lesson on the virtues of patience and the vanity of hastiness. :) User:Rama 06:50, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Small task for you== Do me a favor - find me an icon that I can use to represent video files (like the speaker icon is used to represent audio files) User:Raul654 03:54, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC) : do youu think that one of :Image:Video icon 1.png or :Image:Video icon 2.png can do the trick ? User:Rama 07:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::Yes, the first one is quite good. User:Raul654 19:59, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC) == Thank ye! == Thank you kindly, I promise to look at the incidents in the morning. :-) User:Kim Bruning 19:09, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) : Hours of fun, I tell you ! :P User:Rama 19:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Admin Nomination== Ok, I've Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#Rama. :-) Please indicate if you accept the nomination. And good luck! User:Kim Bruning 18:49, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC) : I am very honoured and will in any case strive to deserve the confidence you displayed. User:Rama 20:52, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC) Congratulations! You are now an Wikipedia:Administrators. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the Wikipedia:administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide helpful. Good luck. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 19:14, May 5, 2005 (UTC) : Oho, now they'll have to be careful when they poke fun at your line drawings! Congratulations, my friend, you have earned this many times over. --User:Tony Sidaway|User talk:Tony Sidaway 20:13, 5 May 2005 (UTC) ::Hey Rama, congratulations. I agree with Tony: you've more than earned it. User:SlimVirgin ^{User_talk:SlimVirgin} 23:00, May 5, 2005 (UTC) : One down, two to go, YAY! Nice to see you made it with flying colors! :-) Have a great day! User:Kim Bruning 23:16, 5 May 2005 (UTC) :Congratulations from me too. You were a deserving candidate. — User:Trilobite (User_talk:Trilobite) 10:35, 6 May 2005 (UTC) == Well deserved promotion == Hello Rama, I indeed rejoice at your promotion to admin level. I am sure all your skills, including linguistic ones would make wikipedia still better. Congratulations.--User:Bhadani 01:37, 6 May 2005 (UTC) == Thanks! == Hello Rama, thanks a lot for drawing the blank human body images! -- :de:Benutzer:Neitram, 08:36, 6 May 2005 (UTC) == Guedel Pattern Airway == Salut, pas d'id�e particuli�re, si ce n'est une esp�ce de BD : # mesure de la longueur (comparaison canule et distance commissure des l�vres-lobe de l'orreille) # ouverture de la bouche (doigts crois�s, pouce sur les dents sup, index sur les dents inf.) # introduction de la canule courbure vers le haut ; # retournement de la canule. User:Cdang|User talk:Cdang 15:21, 12 May 2005 (UTC) ==Blocking of Ashley== I don't think the blocking is working because Ashley is still posting (re: Sollogfan pages) You let him get away with vandalism for a long time without punishment. User:The Number 14:58, 13 May 2005 (UTC) ==Assistance for verification == hi, I am currently contributing to COTW Culture of Ancient Rome. I have posted on the talk page of the article the following requst: "An external link by user 193.191.210.10 incerted on 13 May 2005 may please be examined for relevancy by someone knowing that language. Thanks." Request you to please examine the contents of the link for relevancy - while voting for your admin, I had a feeling that your abilities in many languages will be of use to several users like me - now the time for me has come to seek your assistance. Thanks.--User:Bhadani 16:40, 13 May 2005 (UTC) ==Question about Nautilus== Hello, I translated an article of Nautilus (Verne) into Japanese version from English. However, the part of Nemo's explanation of Nautilus translated into English is ambiguous in whether it follows copyright of Japan. If it is your translation, there is no problem. But, if it is not, it may not follow copyright of Japan. Is it your translation? If it is not, please tell me the exhibited year of it. I am sorry to have wasted your time. --User:Kasuga 07:47, 14 May 2005 (UTC) : The English text is taken from the English translation available at Project Gutemberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2488], and hence is Free (in the sense of Free Software). I think that we can safely assume that there is no problem in Japan either. : Thank you very much for spreading the work of Jules Verne, which - I think - deserve to be made well-known in Japan just as Japanese culture should be made better known in the "West". My time has not been wasted, and if I can be of any sort of assistance about ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', please do let me know ! Regards, User:Rama 08:02, 14 May 2005 (UTC) Thank you very much for your quick and sincere reply! You can jump to Japanese article about Nautilus (Verne) from English it by interlink. Jules Verne is already fully famous in Japan. He is the French writer who had been most frequently translated into Japanese, and his ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' was translated into Japanese at the early time 1880. I expect your excellent contribution from now on! Regards. --User:Kasuga 09:06, 14 May 2005 (UTC) == Did you know? ==

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== soviet national anthem == Hi, May I ask for your reason to revert my edit on the soviet national anthem page? I shall refrain from reverting back and let you explain first. : Because it is trivial; any Alexandrine can be sung on the tune of the Soviet Anthem, because of its rythm. Specifically mentionning the anthem of the United States of America has a value set between "weird", "chauvinistic" and "na�ve". User:Rama 15:54, 16 May 2005 (UTC) : It's not trivial, it's interesting. Please provide 5 more national anthems that can be sung to it, then it can considered trivial. You are also bordering on personal attacks here. -User:Hmib 16:10, 16 May 2005 (UTC) :: I am not attacking you personally, I am talking about your edit. As I said, any poem in Alexandrine can be sung on this (and the fact that the poem would be a national anthem doesn't make it more specific; Alexandrine is a very common form). The ''Internationale'' was specifically written to be sung on the tune of the ''Marseillaise'', before its own tune was written later on, so that is worth mentionning. But unless there are precise historical reasons to mention it, your edit shoulb read "The anthem of the USSR is an Alexandrine". User:Rama 16:25, 16 May 2005 (UTC) :: I DO know about The Internationale, thank you very much. If you try to sing it yourself (try it) you will find that it is not forced at all like what would happen if you try to simply fit & match. Not to mention that Alexandrine is pretty rare in the English language. And yes, I DO have a specific reason for mentioning Star Spangled Banner. There's protest song using it, by Iron Curtain. OK? -User:Hmib 16:44, 16 May 2005 (UTC) ::: I this case, the best to do would be to put a "trivia" section, in which you could mention the whole story about Iron Curtain. User:Rama 19:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC) ::: How about this: We compromise and put: "The lyrics were written in Alexandrine form, which incidentally means that other verses in Alexandrine can also be sung to the music, eg. Star Spangled Banner." Hmmkay? -User:Hmib 22:07, 16 May 2005 (UTC) :::: Well, my position in this: given that there is a specific reason to mention the ''Star Spangled Banner'', it can (and should) of course be done; however, I would like to put two nuances: :::: 1) Since it is not intresically linked to the history of the Soviet Anthem itself, I think it belongs to a "trivia" section -- certainly not in the introducting paragraph :::: 2) Why not mention the name of the group who did it ? That's the reason we mention the ''Star Spangled Banner'', isn't it ? :::: My point is that unless we explain why we put this here, beside losing some interesting piece of information, we might sound a little bit like someone who'd be adding "The ''Star Spangled Banner'' can be sung with the words of ''Deutschland �ber Alles'' in the first paragraph of ''Star Spangled Banner'' -- which would be odd, would it not ? User:Rama 06:36, 17 May 2005 (UTC) == Admin == I hadn't realised you'd been promoted. Congratulations, belatedly. User:Jfdwolff | User_talk:Jfdwolff 23:52, 16 May 2005 (UTC) == Abuse == Don't leave abuse on my talk page : User:Jimbo79, the is meant for sysops to warn users of potential problems. Your username appears on Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress; leaving this message was not meant to insult you, but to warn you that some of your behaviour is regarded as problematic. You might want to answer the concerns of your fellow users there. User:Rama 12:21, 20 May 2005 (UTC) ==George W. Bush== Hi Rama, you've recently edited George W. Bush#Personal criticisms and allegations of drug use. I just wanted to make sure you noticed that, on the talk page, we're talking about a compromise under which that entire section would be eliminated. Some of the information would be moved to a few paragraphs in the "Personal life, service and education" section; the rest would be moved to a daughter article. The current version is at User:JamesMLane/George W. Bush substance abuse controversy. It's the whole section, so the reader can see the context, but what's important for this dispute is the last three paragraphs. I don't see a need to keep any reference to 9/11 in connection with the drugs and alcohol stuff. (I do, however, agree with your edit; if 9/11 were to be mentioned for some reason, it should be wikilinked.) I hope the proposed compromise looks OK to you. User:JamesMLane 20:04, 24 May 2005 (UTC) : Oh, that was just a detail. I just happen to dislike the way that some people casually refer to the events of the 11th of September 2001 as "9/11"; it seems unrespectful to me, and also the "month/day" is bizarre to many people outside of the USA. That was about it :p User:Rama 22:17, 24 May 2005 (UTC) == Many Thanks == I appreciate you blocking User:198.74.20.75 the other day. The user seems to have some kind of personal vendetta against me, god knows why. Seems to have something to do with an edit ''summary'' on the NASCAR article, i think . . . Anyway, thanks for the block. - User:Jersyko 22:36, May 26, 2005 (UTC) ==Redoutable== Thanks for the article on ''French ship Redoutable (74)'', I hope that you will feel inspired to do others on some of the other French ships at Battle of Trafalgar. I have always hated that patch of red links but I wasn't sure where to find the information in English. User:Dabbler 11:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC) == Arbitration Committee case opening == Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Internodeuser has been accepted. Please bring evidence to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Internodeuser/Evidence. Thank you. -- User:Sannse User talk:Sannse 19:28, 27 May 2005 (UTC) == Block == Why do you say someone is idiotic and ban them for personal attatcks when calling someone idiotic is a personal attack? Shouldnt you be banned? I suppose not because this is not a democracy on this site its run like Hitler ran Germany. == Here's what you said == 23:07, 26 May 2005, Rama blocked 198.74.20.74 (expires 23:07, 2 Jun 2005) (contribs) (Personal insults about a ban. You really must be idiotic. ) Real nice way to insult a user, you should be banned from blocking. :You call me a "cock sucking faggot" on your user page (among other things on your talk page), Rama called you "idiotic." Wikipedia, I implore, you be the judge. - User:Jersyko 20:50, May 27, 2005 (UTC) * Survey says... Rama was fully justified in calling you an idiot. Compared to what YOU said, you don't have any grounds for complaining. --User:Chanting Fox 20:53, 27 May 2005 (UTC) * Survey says, chanting fox is idiotic, you people are to be held at a higher level and should just block some one and not make smart ass nazi comments. You people just delete what you dont like, mostly things that make you look stupid, and you people wouldn't stand a chance on an un-edited format. George W. Bush is one of the greatist presidents ever! [comment by 198.74.20.75] * I rest my case. --User:Chanting Fox 21:31, 27 May 2005 (UTC) ==Bad blocks== You're setting some bad blocks. If more than 1 block is set for a person, as soon as any of them expire, they all expire. For example, see: # 19:00, May 27, 2005, Rama blocked Dimimimon8 (expires 19:00, May 28, 2005) (contribs) (unblock) (vandalism) # 18:56, May 27, 2005, Decumanus blocked Dimimimon8 (expires indefinite) (contribs) (unblock) (vandal account) What you've basically done there is reduce the block from indefinite to lasting only 1 day. Additionally, if you manually remove your block by unblocking him, all blocks will be removed. Another case: # 18:28, May 27, 2005, Rama blocked 198.74.20.75 (expires 18:28, Jun 3, 2005) (contribs) (unblock) (3RR, vandalism and personal insults.) # 18:28, May 27, 2005, Rama blocked 198.74.20.75 (expires 18:28, May 28, 2005) (contribs) (unblock) (3RR, vandalism and personal insults.) You apparently decided to block the guy for longer than 1 day after setting your first block. Well, guess what? That's right, both blocks will be removed tomorrow automatically. In both of these cases, you should remove the block, then reset it for the proper time (indefinite in the case of Dimimimon8, 1 week in the case of 198.74.20.75). Hopefully this unblocking bug will be fixed in future versions of Mediawiki. Cheers. User:CryptoDerk 06:13, May 28, 2005 (UTC) : Woops. sorry. I though that I had heard somewhere that the ''longest'' block was the one which would be in effect. I'll mind this in the future, thank you. User:Rama 08:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC) Its ok, it let me come back sooner! ==Follow up to the muscle picture== I just realized there's one more thing :Image:Skeletal muscle.jpg needs. If you look at [http://www.bergen.org/ACADEMY/Bio/AnP/AnP1/AnP1Tri3/FIGS/MUSCLE/figure13b.gif this pic] in the top-right corner, it has a zoom-in on an thin (actin) filament, showing that an actin filament is actually 2 actin chains held together with a chain of troponin and tropomyosin molecules. This is *very* important and definitely needs to be pictured. Care to do the honors? User:Raul654 05:49, May 30, 2005 (UTC) : Sure, I will do this in a day or two, if that's all right with you. Cheers ! User:Rama 08:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC) ::Take your time. When you add it, put it in that white space in the middle left side of the picture. User:Raul654 08:43, May 30, 2005 (UTC) ::: I have put something on :Image:Skeletal muscle tmp.jpg; I'd rather leave the caption to someone who'll know something about this, on the other hand ! :p ::: Oh, perhaps it is silly, but what about replace the bodybuilder with someting... cuter... like a litte girl, for instance ? He gives me the creeps ! :) ::: Cheers ! User:Rama 21:28, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC) == catalan numbers == Dear Rama, I've been working on improving the Catalan numbers article a bit. I would appreciate it if you could clarify your paragraph in the History section. It's not entirely clear what you're saying. I think I get it, but I'm not sure enough to rewrite it myself. Also, it looks like it really belongs in the list of combinatorial applications, near the parenthesising examples. Maybe if you could give an example where there are five possible interpretations of a certain sentence, that would be great. Thanks User:Dmharvey 00:28, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC) : Certainly, I will try to draft one and draw something. I'll put this on my todo-list for the end of the week if that's all right with you. By the way, if you think that this part belongs to the ''Applications in combinatorics'' section, do feel free to move it around, and also to change it if you see it fit. : Thank you for your work, t has been enjoyable to see the article improve lately ! :) Cheers ! User:Rama 06:21, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Wikipedia:Requests for comment/68.170.0.238== Any chance you'd be willing to contribute to this RfC? User:RickKUser talk:RickK 04:43, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC) ==school IP block== Rama, I wouldn't bother with a one-hour block, even for a school ID. For a repeat offence give at least a 24hr block. Hopefully if someone other than the perpetrator finds they are blocked, they will realise why, tell someone, and action can be taken at the school end. User:DJ Clayworth 13:33, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) : Well, my idea behind it was that it would prevent the silly kid from editing and have him go back to playing in the yard, while not baring someone else more contructively-minded from contributing. I don't know to which extend this works though ! :) User:Rama 13:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Thank you for your support == Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. User:Kelly Martin 15:12, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC) == thanks for your illustration == I enjoyed your sex position illustrations very much. They are excellently done. Thank you. User:P0lyglut 21:12, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC) == Acknowledged. == You had me confused there, for a second, though. User:206.255.13.8 02:46, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Block == You blocked an anon IP without treating the other editor in the dispute similarly see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOX_News&action=history history]. From what I can see User:206.255.13.8 also reverted 3 times. Since this is my first block I was surprised to see that 1) A person who reverts without even commenting on my objections on the talk page is assumed to be in the right, and 2) when reading the 3RR material you pointed me to I am surprised that you applied the block to only one of the editors in the dispute. User:205.188.116.200. : I don't have to block people who exceed the 3RR, I am authorised to do so. In this case, I assumed that one of the users was more disturbing than the other one, and left the second the benefit of the doubt, leaving him a warning about the matter. : I hope that this will de-surprise you. User:Rama 14:18, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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I'm an engineer by title, scientist by function and vocation (master in High_energy_physics). I currently do research in Artificial Intelligence, and teach C Plus Plus to first year Math and Physics university students. I am an enthusiast Free Software user, a non-professional paramedic, a musician, and like to draw (though I am Colourblindness). A World citizen, I try to support I/O in English_language, German_language, French_language, Latin_language, Greek_language and Japanese_language, with random success. I admire Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli and Hendrik Casimir, Yukawa Hideki; Captain Cook , Yuri Gagarin and Werner von Braun ; Alan Turing ; Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And lots of others, of course. I have been a Wikipedia:Administrators on en: from the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rama. === Interests : === * Science (Nicoud, Andr� Guignard, Smaky, Clic, EPR paradox, Gradiva and ''Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva'', tf-idf) * Politics and History (LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii, Victor Klemperer, UNPROFOR, International Brigades, The Internationale, The UN Security Council and the Iraq war, Hugh Thompson, Jr., Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Newspeak, Charles Enderlin, Karen_Kwiatkowski, Guantanamo on the Hudson, Robert Surcouf, Swing Kids, Henri Honor� d'Estienne d'Orves, Ordre de la Lib�ration, FS Aconit (1941-1947), Philippe Kieffer, Louis-Ren� Levassor de Latouche Tr�ville) * Japan (Yatate, Shakudo, kabuto, Mon (crest), Shiki-Jitsu, Kusanagi, Cocco, dajare, yosegi, hiragana) * Science fiction (Shrike (Hyperion), 2001: A Space Odyssey , HAL 9000, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo, Nautilus (Verne)) * Martial Arts and techniques (Atemi, Warrior_Tracked_Armoured_Vehicle, Jo (weapon), User:Rama/FS_template) * Helping dire situations (SMUR, SAMU, Star of life, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR_summary, Recovery_position, [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/First_Aid First Aid Wikibook]) * Silly things (List of sex positions, tribadism, Severus Snape, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Bilingual pun, Mu (lost continent), Les Horribles Cernettes) === Ugly drawings : === *All my ugly drawings are available under the ''CeCILL''. This license is compatible with the GPL, but I prefer using European laws if possible. *All my ugly drawings are made with a yatate. *If you would like to use one of the hugly drawings, please use [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Commons Wikipedia] in priority. If the image is not there yet, please upload it. *If you think of something which needs to be illustrated, please drop me a note on my User_talk:Rama and I will gladly feel guilty for not doing it for some time. *Wikipedia:Requested pictures and Wikipedia:Image recreation requests are useful too Current ugly drawings include : * User:Rama/Sexuality_drawings * User:Rama/firstaid_drawings * :commons:Category:Transi_the_mouse * :commons:Category:Iaido * :commons:Category:Blank_human_bodies * Coming soon : ** More Group sex-related images (on the suggestion of user:Stern) -- also a long overdue "Kneeling sandwhich", suggested by User:Maxweber ** More Homosexual sexuality (on the suggestion of user:Stern) ** A small illustrated massage course (in collaboration with user:nct) ----


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