Talk:February 10
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- 1258 - Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, ending the rule of the Abbasid caliphate.
- 1763 - Britain and Spain partitioned New France by the Treaty of Paris, and decimated the French colonial empire.
- 1840 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (pictured) married Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom at the Chapel Royal.
- 1962 - "Rudolf Abel", a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Gary Powers, the pilot of a U.S. Air Force spy plane shot down in the U-2 Incident.
- 1996 - Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first game won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.
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Is "midget" an acceptable term? -- Zoe
- I dunno. What other term would you suggest? I for one done know what medical condition the listed people had - midget is a catchall. --mav
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- I only vaguely remember hearing "midget" is considered offensive, "dwarf" is okay, and "little person" is what they prefer to be called. But I may be totally wrong. -- Zoe
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- Medically, Tom Thumb & wife were achondroplastic dwarfs. I think they were billed by Barnum as "midgets" ("Midget shows" may be why the term is considered impolitic these days). -- Someone else 05:43 Feb 12, 2003 (UTC)
- I believe there is a difference between midgets and dwarves, though. A midget is just a smaller version of a "normal" sized person. Everything is proportioned to their size: e.g. If 6 foot tall man's stomach is 10 inches in diameter (just a guess), then a 3 foot midget's stomach will be 5 inches in diameter, thus equally proportioned. A dwarf, however, will have the same size stomach as some one of normal height. That is why some dwarves have the appearance of pudgyness (is that a word), because all of their organs are normal sized, but their body isn't.
Yes "midget" is a derogatory term it is the equivalent of calling an African American the "N" word. Vjayiscool 17:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Blessed Hugo?
I'm confused; March 29 is also listed on Wikipedia as being the liturgical feast of Blessed Hugo. Does Blessed Hugo have two feasts? Geoffrey.landis 15:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
