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December 14

Planning to travel to S’pore with 4 friends . Need to know cheap fares , economical hotels and choice of airlines… can someone HELP plzzzzz.

Planning to travel to S’pore with 4 friends . Need to know cheap fares , economical hotels and choice of airlines… can someone HELP plzzzzz. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nayansood90 (talk • contribs) 07:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Interesting somewhere-centric post. You've told us where you want to go to, but not where from. What would you like us to assume? HiLo48 (talk) 07:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

For hotels, and indeed for your whole trip, you'll need a reliable guidebook. The Rough Guide is the best, available here. On no account use Lonely Planet. --Viennese Waltz 08:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

I don't think anyone is likely provide that much direct help but I would note there's no way we can tell you about cheap fares and airlines if you don't tell us where you plan to fly from. If you're from India the answer is likely to be quite different to if you're from the UK. Nil Einne (talk) 10:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

TripAdvisor[1] has lots of information and reviews on hotels, which you can search, and its forums are very active so if you post there you may well get advice. --Colapeninsula (talk) 12:27, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps the OP has assumed everyone on Wikipedia is from the same country as he/she is from? JIP | Talk 23:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

In which case we can safely assume he/she is American. :) 24.92.85.35 (talk) 04:06, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Or Indian. Or British. --ColinFine (talk) 19:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

India is closer to "S'pore" so that might be a plausible option. JIP | Talk 21:21, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

From a Google seach "S'pore" seems to be a south east Asian usage, so it might be safer to assume the OP is flying in from Malaysia or Indonesia or somesuch? --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 14:45, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The OPs username appears to be an Indian name so somewhere in south Asia or perhaps Malaysia so combined seem mostly likely particularly combined with S'pore (the usage is probably common in Malaysia or for that matter Singapore itself but I found other Asian sites including Chinese and Indian ones using it). Nil Einne (talk) 16:13, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

By Golly, even I knew that S'pore was an abbreviation of Singapore! ~AH1 ^(discuss!) 02:41, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Yucca fruit nutritional value

I am looking for the nutritional value charts/analysis of the yucca fruit (Agavoideae, not "yuca root/cassava"). USDA's database doesn't have it, google gives some links talking about the use of the whole plant as animal-feed. Anywhere else I could look? thanks. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 08:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

This site about the Spanish Dagger Yucca (Yucca treculeana}, suggests that the most widely used (and tastiest) yucca fruit comes from the Banana Yucca (Yucca baccata). There's a little more detail on this site, but not much about human nutrition. More information here on the yucca fruit in the Native American diet; after listing the nutrients found in other wild foods, it annoyingly states, "The yucca bananas from the Yucca Bacata, wide bladed yucca, are nutritious, sweet and delicious.". Mr Google suggests that this lengthy paper has some relevant information in it, but I'm afraid that I don't have time to wade through it and see if he's right. Good luck! Alansplodge (talk) 17:32, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Yepp, seen all those. I might actually have to use... whatdyacallem?... "books"? :P Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 17:47, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Taxidermety+Polar bear+ William Marsh+1933 Chicago Worlds's Fair.

I have been told that my Great grandfather, William Marsh, entered a mounted Polar bear in this fair and won a prise.. Was there any such thing like this in the fair? Please reply to [redacted email addr.] Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.15.193 (talk) 20:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Don't know about polar bears, but they did award prizes for quilt patterns, posters, and etchings at the fair. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:40, 14 December 2011 (UTC)