User:Iancaddy
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Babel and Beliefs
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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.
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A pile of saffron threads (each about 20 mm in length) from Iran. Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of the saffron crocus and is among the world's costliest spices by weight. In Western countries, the average retail price is $2200/€1550/£1100 per kilogram ($1,000/€700/£500 per pound). Besides its use as a seasoning, it has also used in its history as fragrance, dye, and medicine. Photo credit: Rainer Zenz |
[edit] 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 | ||||||||||||||
 Côte d'Ivoire |
2 | |||||||||||||
 Mexico |
1 | |||||||||||||
| 5 July - Munich | ||||||||||||||
| Côte d'Ivoire |
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.
