List of WOSM members - of WOSM members The World Organization of the Scout Movement recognizes at most one organization per country. Some countries have several organizations combined as a federation, with different component groups divided on the basis of religion (France), geography (Denmark), language (Canada), sex (United States) or race (Israel). World Organization of the Scout Movement Members Country Membership (from 2000 or most recent available info) Name of Member Organization Year Current Scouting Organization joined WOSM Year Member Organization was founded Albania 1,730 Besa Skaut Albania 1999 1922 Algeria 11,120 Scouts Musulmans Algériens 1963 1939 Angola 13,777 Associação de Escuteros de Angola 1998 1998 Argentina 44,981 Scouts de Argentina 1922 1912 Armenia 2,256 Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun 1997 1912 Australia 98,084 Scouts Australia 1953 1908 Austria 13,785 Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs 1922 1912.
Dorset - of Hall and Woodhouse, whilst Weymouth is acknowledged as the first ever holiday resort, used by King George III, and is still a popular seaside resort. Jutting out into the English Channel is the Isle of Portland. Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy. Many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset. The National Trust own Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woods east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his house in Dorchester. Stalbridge was home of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Poet William Barnes, authors Theodore Francis Powys, John le Carré and P.D. James and satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock are also locals. The author John Fowles lives in Lyme.
Bhakti - Bhakti Bhakti is a Sanskrit term meaning loving devotion to god. See: bhakti yoga bhakti movement.
Islam as a political movement - Islam as a political movement Islam as a political movement has a history as long as the faith of Islam itself, and a diverse character that has at different times incorporated elements of many other political movements. A common theme in the 20th century was resistance to racism, colonialism, and imperialism, as the Ottoman Empire, British Empire, and today what some call oil imperialism and global economic monoculture challenge traditional Islamic culture. Feminism and Marxism are often thought of as categorically opposed to Islamic fundamentalism, but this has not always been true. Militant Islam and its influences are dealt with in another article on that topic. Modern Islamic philosophy is also covered separately. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The term 'Islamist' 2 Islam is inherently political 2.1 The.
Guide - Guide The term "guide" refers to an agency for directing or showing the way, specifically a person who leads or directs a stranger over unknown or unmapped country, or conducts travellers and tourists through a town, or over buildings of interest. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Etymology 2 Military Usages 3 Mountaineering 4 Other Usages Etymology The word guide (Middle English gyde, derives from the from the French guide; and ultimately from the earlier French form guie (English “guy”). The /d/ sound originates with the Italian form guida; the word probably ultimately derives from the Teutonic, having connections with the base seen in Old English witan (to know). Military Usages In European wars up to the time of the French Revolution, the absence of large-scale detailed.
Caitanya Mahaprabhu - later deified and is thought by some Hindu denominations to be an avatar of Vishnu. Founder of the bhakti yoga movement (also known today as the Hare Krishna movement), his spiritual mission was to clean the effects of desire from the Temples of India by leading joyous pilgrims throughout the land singing, dancing, and chanting. Caitanya's movement reached the Western world four centuries later in 1965, when Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta landed by freighter in New York harbor and founded ISKCON the following year. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Concepts and minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Concepts and minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy There are many minor characters in the 5-part fictional "trilogy" The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. They include: Eddie the Shipboard Computer, Hotblack Desiato, Lintilla, Prosser, various Vogons, Roosta, Trillian, Frankie and Benjy mouse, and Zarquon. Eddie Eddie is the shipboard computer on the Heart of Gold, with an over-excitable, over-enthused, extremely irritating personality. He is only found in the first two books of the series. Frankie Frankie is one of the twin-mice that Arthur (et. al) encounter on Magrathea. Frankie, along with Benji, wish to extract the final readout data from Arthur's brain to get the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything. (Frankie and Benji are, after all, part of the pan-dimensional.
Knowbot Information Service - user agent module that runs on the KIS mail host machine. The second module is a remote server module (possibly on a different machine) that interrogates various database services across the network and provides the results to the user agent module in a uniform fashion. Interactions between the two modules can be via messages between Knowbots or by actual movement of Knowbots. There are electronic mail interfaces for KIS at the hosts cnri.reston.va.us and sol.bucknell.edu. Send a message containing just the word "man" to or . Telnet: info.cnri.reston.va.us port 185. This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission..
Girl Guides - number of girls turned up to the first Scout Rally at Crystal Palace, calling themselves Girl Scouts. Lord Baden-Powell set up the Girl Guides as a parallel movement for them, run by his sister Agnes Baden-Powell. While Agnes played a major role until her death, Lord Baden-Powell's wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, became Chief Guide of England in 1918, and World Chief Guide in 1930. The Girl Guides were named after the famous corps of guides in India. Baden-Powell thought that to call them Scouts might alienate the boys, not to mention the girls' parents! As girls are now allowed to join the Scouts in Britain, Guide numbers are declining there. In Britain, the junior age range of guides are called Brownies. In Canada, the Guides are divided into multiple programmes depending.
Guides - Guides For the concept of a guide, see guide. For Guiding as an aspect of the Scouting movement, see Girl Guides This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix the link, so that it points to the appropriate page..
Guide star - Guide star In astronomy, a guide star is a reference star used to keep atelescope pointing in the right direction while moving to follow the sky rotation. Telescope pointing is critical for obtaining good images and photographs. Unfortunately, the sky is in costantly moving, while the Earth is rotating around its axis. If the movement is visible to the naked eye only on timescales of minutes or our, with the high magnification provided by a telescope the movement becames significant in seconds or even less. Computer-controlled electric motors are commonly used to have the telescope move in synch with the sky. But every mechanical piece is bound to introduce some error in the movement, along with structural bendings. Most modern telescopes can use a guide star:.
Christian countercult movement - Christian countercult movement The Christian countercult movement is a loosely knit effort made up primarily of Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians to resist viewpoints and organizations that they see as opposing what they view as the historic and orthodox Christian faith. Most of their efforts are directed against what they call cults — groups or churches that claim to be Christian but that, in the movement's view, do not subscribe to essential Christian doctrine. In essence, the Christian countercult movement seeks to define the boundaries of what it means to be truly Christian. One of the first prominent countercult apologists was Jan Karel van Baalen (1890-1968), an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. His 1960 book, The Chaos of Cults, is a classic in the.
Tantra - when Vedic practices no longer apply to the current state of morality and Tantra is the most direct means to realization. Thus, aside from Vajrayana Buddhism, much of Tantrik thought is Hindu Tantra, most notably those that council worship of Lord Shiva and the Divine Mother, Kali. A tantra typically takes the form of a dialogue between the Hindu gods Shiva and Shakti/Parvati, being that Shiva is known in Hinduism as being 'Yogiraj' or 'Yogeshwara,' 'The King of Yoga' or 'God of Yoga' and that his consort is known to be his perfect feminine equal. Each explains to the other a particular group of techniques or philosophies for attaining moksha (liberation/ enlightenment), or for attaining a certain practical result. [Agamas are Shiva to Shakti, and Nigamas are Shakti to Shiva.] This.
Korean Buddhism - had attempted a couple of times to go to Tang China during the final years of the turbulent Three Kingdoms period. On their last try, Weonhyo is said to have had a major "consciousness-only" enlightenment experience before he even got out of Korea, and as a result apparently lost his motivation to seek the dharma in China. He abandoned his monk's robes and returned to the lay life, dedicating himself to the popularization of Buddhism among the masses. At the same time he produced an enormous amount of scholarly works on virtually every aspect of Buddhist doctrine which had been transmitted to Korea. His final output was more than 80 texts in 240 fascicles, of which 20 works in 22 fascicles are extant. The main theme of his works was that.
Krishna - cultures, and in different traditions. Sometimes these contradict each other. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Major aspects 2 Religious texts, mythology and literature 3 Summary of the story of Krishna 3.1 The birth of Krishna 3.2 Krishna at Vrindavan 3.3 Krishna the prince 3.4 The Kurukshetra War 3.5 The last days 4 The Bhakti traditions 4.6 Gita Govinda - the song of the cowherd 4.7 Recent Krishna bhakti movements 5 The name 5.8 Krishna the Dark One 5.9 Other names of Krishna 5.10 Other uses of the name Major aspects Krishna (left) with his eternal consort Radha Swaminarayan mandir, Edison, NJ Among his aspects are; Krishna the cowherd. He is the god of the pastoralists. He is contrasted in this to his brother Balarama of the cultivators, who is sometimes called.
Software engineering - resembles marketing, sociology, or voodoo, more than traditional engineering with its responsibilities to society at large and the perils of legal liability with failure to protect the public interest. Response: Every profession manages expectations, including all forms of engineering. This may happen at different levels. Software Engineering focuses on the immediate requirements, whereas other engineering fields tend to solve problems that are typically long-ranged. Moreover, "responsibility to the society" means meeting the expectations of the general public, which can be considered a customer. Poor Requirements: Criticism: The requirements for most projects are incomplete or inconsistent. Some customers have little previous experience in writing requirements for a software project. Other customers really do not know what they want, and say "I'll know it when I see it" (IKIWISI). Even experienced customers who.
Religion - benefits from religion 13 Religion vs. Mythology 14 Monotheism vs. Polytheism 15 Emergent religion 16 The Other 17 See Also 18 External Links What do religions have in common? The word religion derives from the Latin word religare, meaning "to join, or link" and classically understood to mean the linking of human and divine. Accordingly, one might begin by defining religion as a system of beliefs based on humanity's attempt to explain the universe and natural phenomena, often involving one or more deities or other supernatural forces. Such a system of beliefs can be distinguished from branches of philosophy such as metaphysics which seek to address many of the same questions, but only within the context of certain religious frameworks. In the Judeo-Christian context, especially in ancient Greece and later on.
Religions of the world - Deism Druzism Mandaeanism Manichaeism Samaritans Children of God Universal Life Church Zoroastrianism Vedic Religions Buddhism Theravada Mahayana Pure Land Zen Nichiren Vajrayana Tantrayana Hinduism Vaishnavism Swaminarayan sect Bhakti Movement ISKCON (Hare Krishna) Saivism Saktism Smartism Note: Yoga is not a religion, but rather a collective term for various spiritual practices and disciplines common to most branches of Hinduism. Jainism Sikhism Religions of Far Eastern origin Caodaism Confucianism Mohism Oomoto Shinto Taoism Tenrikyo Other Religions/Spiritual Cultivation Spiritualism (Spiritism) Unitarian Universalism Falun Dafa New religious movements and cults Some of the following groups are considered cults; a few are even considered dangerous by their opponents. Read the entry on cults for more information on this controversial topic. ACIM (A Course In Miracles) The Force Law of One Process Church of the Final Judgement.
Middle kingdoms of India - Islamic Empires in India Mogul Era Company rule in India British Raj Indian independence movement Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Kingdoms and Empires 2 The Mauryan Empire 3 The Deccan and the South 4 Gupta and Harsha 5 The Southern Rivals 6 References Kingdoms and Empires From their original settlements in the Punjab region, the Aryans gradually began to penetrate eastward, clearing dense forests and establishing "tribal" settlements along the Ganga and Yamuna (Jamuna) plains between 1500 B.C and 800 B.C By around 500 B.C., most of northern India was inhabited and had been brought under cultivation, facilitating the increasing knowledge of the use of iron implements, including ox-drawn plows, and spurred by the growing population that provided voluntary and forced labor. As riverine and inland trade flourished, many towns along.
Mogul Era - Empires in India Mogul Era Company rule in India British Raj Indian independence movement Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Mogul Empire 2 The Marathas 3 The Sikhs 4 References The Mogul Empire Main article: Mogul Empire India in the 16th century presented a fragmented picture of rulers, both Muslim and Hindu, who lacked concern for their subjects and who failed to create a common body of laws or institutions. Outside developments also played a role in shaping events. The circumnavigation of Africa by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498 allowed Europeans to challenge Arab control of the trading routes between Europe and Asia. In Central Asia and Afghanistan, shifts in power pushed Babur of Ferghana (in present-day Uzbekistan) southward, first to Kabul and then to India. The dynasty.
