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The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished is an oil painting on canvas by English artist William Etty which is inspired by the Elgin Marbles and intended by the artist to provide a moral lesson on "the beauty of mercy". It shows a near-nude warrior whose sword has broken, forced to his knees in front of another near-nude soldier who prepares to inflict a killing blow. A woman, also near-nude, clutches the victorious warrior to beg him for mercy. Unusually for a history painting of the period, it does not depict a scene from history, literature or religion and is not based on an existing artwork. When it was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1825, it attracted praise from critics for its technical excellence, its fusion of the styles of different schools of painting, and its subject matter. It was later bought by fellow artist John Martin and in 1831 he sold it on to the Royal Scottish Academy. It was transferred in 1910 to the National Gallery of Scotland. (Full article...)

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How to help yourself survive a heart attack when alone

I got this from my mother-in-law, who spent months last year in a cardiology ICU, and who is now at home again. She emailed me with this last March, but it's on paper now and wikipedia is a superior place to have this information if I need it. Ancheta Wis 00:58, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could save your life!!

Let's say it's 6:15PM and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about 5 miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

How to survive a heart attack when alone

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However these victims can help themselves by

coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.

A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep within the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

Scientific enterprise

I've listed Scientific enterprise for cleanup for three reasons: 1. the formatting is very inconsistent with typical Wikipedia standards (and makes it difficult to read), 2. it contains a lot of re-definitioning which can be accomplished better by wiki links (why repeat an explanation of the scientific method? Brevity is a good thing!), and 3. I think it is somewhat incoherent what the point of it is, because the connection between the sentences and paragraphs is often fairly cryptic. Which is not at all to imply that I don't think an article on the scientific enterprise -- science as an enterprise -- is a bad idea, or that the contents are poor -- I just think it needs some work, and I think it needs to be edited down quite a bit, to be made more concise. Just letting you know! --Fastfission 02:07, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Bible & Hebrew Script Issues

Hi Ancheta, thanks for the response to my question. Digging on Amazon, the only book I can find that you refer to is "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible" [1] Is that the one? Spellbinder 18:19, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, Ancheta. Sorry, it's taken a while to respond, but I've been away. That 'Cambridge History of the Bible' looks fascinating; I'll have to try to get hold of a copy. Spellbinder 21:15, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)