Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 1

Welcome to the Wikipedia Miscellaneous Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

January 1

Muslims in Samoa missing a day of prayer?

Has anyone heard how Samoan Muslims reacted to the absence of a Friday this week? I've looked around for relevant information on Google, but the only articles that mentioned religious issues (sample) concentrated on the fact that Samoan Seventh-day Adventists will now be worshipping on Sundays. Nyttend (talk) 04:59, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I heard that both of them were very upset, but I that may have been just a rumor. --Itinerant1 (talk) 05:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

LMAO! In all seriousness though, a census puts the population of Muslims at 61 in Samoa as of 2006, and 12 in the American Samoa as of 1990. Both are 0.03% of the total population.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 05:59, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, I didn't realise how few of them there were. Religion in Samoa mentions them, and while I understood that they were small compared to Christians and Bahá'ís, I didn't realise that they were that small. Nyttend (talk) 06:06, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Interestingly, a couple people asked a rabbi what Jews should do about Shabbat [1]. After drafting a two page opinion, he tried to find out how many Jews were actually affected. They found one peace corp worker. I'm sure he'll figure something out. Buddy431 (talk) 18:06, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

They must face that problem any time they cross the date line, not just the unusual way where the dateline moves around you, but also the mundane case where you move past the date line.

As many Muslims have traveled by sailing ship, I'm sure they've long ago worked out the rules for what to do in that situation, and were well equipped to deal with the situation. APL (talk) 10:38, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Robert E Lee Museum, in Biloxi, MS

How can I find who the current caretaker is for the Robert E Lee Musemum, in Biloxi, MS.? Thank you Clair — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.134.236.179 (talk) 18:58, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Apparently, no such museum exists in Biloxi, MS. PaoloNapolitano 19:05, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

This page lists the museums in Biloxi. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 22:12, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you The Mark of the Beast for This page lists the museums in Biloxi to click on ; and Thank you Jack of Oz for pointing it out to me that, that was it was for.

How can I find who the current caretaker is for the Robert E Lee Musemum, in Biloxi, MS.? Thank you Clair — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.134.236.179 (talk) 19:02, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you PN for commenting on my question "How can I find who the current caretaker is for the Robert E Lee Musemum, in Biloxi, MS.?" Maybe I should of asked for the Ulessy S Grant Musemum; since none is listed for Lee. Thank you again, Clair — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.134.236.179 (talk) 19:11, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Maybe I should of asked who is the current caretaker for the Ulysses S Grant Museum, in Biloxi, MS; since none is listed for Robert E Lee Museum. Thank you again, Clair — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.134.236.179 (talk) 19:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

are you looking for Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis home in Biloxi? Rmhermen (talk) 20:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure, I thought it was called the Ulysses S Grant Museum, in Biloxi,MS. It could be the Bouvedere, I've seen reference to that name. Are they one in the same? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.134.236.179 (talk) 20:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Rmherman I'm not sure, I thought it was called the Ulysses S Grant Museum, in Biloxi,MS. It could be the Beauvoir, I've seen reference to that name. Are they one in the same? Thank you for responding, Clair — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.134.236.179 (talk) 20:13, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

There is a "Bond-Grant House" museum in Biloxi, but it is not associated with Ulysses S. Grant. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 22:14, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

I find it hard to imagine that anyone in Mississippi would want to build a museum dedicated to Grant. Beeblebrox (talk) 22:36, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Stranger things have happened. Two examples that piqued my interest of late have been the WWII museum in, of all places, New Orleans. And the Iwo Jima memorial in Connecticut which I saw a sign for last weekend while visiting that state though I didn't get to see the memorial. Dismas|^(talk) 01:31, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

As noted in the article, the WWII museum started out as the D-Day museum, which made some sense as the landing craft used in D-Day were manufactured in New Orleans. It was later expanded into a full-blown WWII museum. Actually its presence there makes more sense than does having the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame being in Cleveland, and much more sense than does having the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in a small town in upstate New York. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

If you were wandering idly through the sprawling campus of Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, a pioneering non-profit voluntary organisation (NGO) in the field of Sanitation in India, at Mahavir Enclave, Palam Dabri Road in New Delhi, do you think you’d expect to find ... an International Museum of Toilets? No? Well, luckily the world has Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of the organisation, whose "mind was long engaged by the idea, eventually leading him to make hectic worldwide search for minutest details of the evolution of toilets, and envisioned the need for the setting up of a museum of toilets in of his central office". I kid you not. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 03:09, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Which, of course, should be located in Flushing. StuRat (talk) 07:17, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

In a related story, check out the museums available at Intercourse, Pennsylvania. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:09, 3 January 2012 (UTC)