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February 7[edit]

Flight 180[edit]

A friend told me that since the 2000 film Final Destination, Airlines stopped using 180 as a number for flights, is it true? --190.50.97.182 (talk) 00:44, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would say no. Maybe they did for a brief period of time after the film, but a Google search shows a flight for American Airlines 180, scheduled for Sat Feb 06, 2010, from Los Angeles(LAX) to New York (JFK). This info was found here. -^Avicenna_sis @ 01:20, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And I was on Air Transat flight 180 last year. --Anonymous, 08:15 UTC, February 7, 2010.

Flight 191 is the one that would make me a little nervous. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:02, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An example of magical thinking? 87.81.230.195 (talk) 19:52, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I said nervous, not petrified. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:54, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! That was my Air Transat flight number in the other direction on that trip! --Anon, 23:52 UTC, February 8, 2010.

Well, you lived to tell about it. That's a good thing. I would venture a guess that very few flight 191's have actually crashed. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:54, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wealthy village in Rajasthan desert India[edit]

I read about a small village situated in the Rajasthan desert of India. It is located within the state of Rajasthan and it seems to be about one and a half hours’ car ride from the border with the state of Uttar Pradesh. This village is inhabited by very wealthy people. The houses in this village are magnificent large villas with their own private swimming pools, and its inhabitants have televisions and expensive cars. However despite extensive research I have been unable to determine the name of this small village, or even its location. Can any user please assist me? Thank you. Simonschaim (talk) 10:25, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jaisalmer perhaps? (Don't believe everything you read.)--Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:26, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. However from Google Maps one can see that the journey from the the border of Uttar Pradesh to Jaisalmer is of about 12 hours duration. The small village I am looking for is much closer to the Uttar Pradesh border. Simonschaim (talk) 08:40, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

book publishing[edit]

If I wanted to send some work to a publishing company, what address would I need? Would it be that of their closest branch or of their main office, or would they have a specific submissions address? And then, can I find it on the internet?

148.197.114.158 (talk) 17:22, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, just find their website, and click on "contact". In my experience, few publishers have regional branches, though the larger ones might have a liaison office in other countries.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 18:17, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

However, before sending any material, look for and study their submissions policy which will almost certainly be included on their website (or which they will communicate to you on request). Any given publisher will have various rules about what sort of subject material they are prepared to consider, how it should be formatted on the page, and in what forms (printed and/or on disc, what file formats, etc) it should be put. While some publishers accept unsolicited material direct from unknown writers, others only consider material submitted through a professional Literary agent.

Material not corresponding to a publisher's submission guidelines will probably be returned unread (or destroyed), wasting your time and money. They do not impose their rules to be mean, but in part to control the unmanageably large volumes of unsolicited and unsuitable material they would otherwise receive, in part to enable them to deal more efficiently with material they do consider, and in part to avoid would-be writers claiming that their ideas have been stolen and used by the publisher's published authors (a not-infrequent occurrence). 87.81.230.195 (talk) 18:39, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You likely know this already, but: If a publisher asks for money to publish your work, run away. A legitimate publisher with interest in your work will give you money, not the other way around. PhGustaf (talk) 02:29, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with 87. There is an enormous yearly book called the Literary Market Place that contains a ton of publisher addresses for submissions. It's around US$300 so usually one goes to the library to skim through it and cull all the likely publishers. Note that many publishers don't accept e-mailed or web-submitted submissions, and still prefer having their slush pile entirely composed of snail mail. Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:51, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Probably because many people prefer to read book-like documents in hard copy rather than on a screen. I know I do. To have to print out every such submission would impose an intolerable printing cost to the publisher. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 19:04, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Typo in Bold[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatero

Some of the main actions taken by Zapatero admnistration were the Spanish troops withdrawal from the Iraq war, which resulted in a long term diplomatic tension with the George W. Bush administration, the increase of Spanish troops in Afghanistan,

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