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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...lers to and from the Orient included not just merchants but also artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, ... ...nglish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

...s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquest... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...lers to and from the Orient included not just merchants but also artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all religions, ... ...glish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...e end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ience. Its soldiers and peacekeepers, its bankers and businessmen, its traders and diplomats are its long arms, an embodiment of this potent and ma... ...succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept threats and unkempt diplomats - it has driven the world to the verge of war and the ... ...s - but also craves to do business in the United States. Intellectuals and Russian diplomats worry about America's apparent disregard for the world... ...ures Why America is Hated In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover, ... ...II. Just War or a Just War? In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover,... ...hen ethics and expedience conflict with legality - which should prevail? Enter the medieval doctrine of "Just War" (justum bellum, or, more precise...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... the wreath of martyrdom." Mateja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica... ...succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept threats and unkempt diplomats - it has driven the world to the verge of war and the ... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...ivilized as “reactionary.” I would never have expected Ray to duplicate the Medieval approach to religion that the Polish and German popes have been ... ...more rigid Islamic regime. Along this line he fired a number of experienced diplomats and bank directors. He wanted all the power of a Medieval reli... ...r of experienced diplomats and bank directors. He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While he was elected democratically, democracy ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institutions, and senior... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept threats and unkempt diplomats - it has driven the world to the verge of war and the...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institutions, and senior... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...succession of blunders, miscalculations, vain promises, unkept threats and unkempt diplomats - it has driven the world to the verge of war and the...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ...all children born on United States soil are citizens. Children or foreign diplomats are excluded. They, of course, are not under the jurisdiction of ... ...tution gave Dominican citizenship to anyone born on their soil, except for diplomats and those in transit through the country, The Dominican Court ru... ...tes born within the United States.‘ It was agreed that children of foreign diplomats and embassies or consulates and people who owed allegiance to an... ...ore sense to class illegals, whose allegiance is to another country, with diplomats, whose allegiance is also to another country and whose children ... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ransfer (ART) financing. It is a hybrid between creative financial engineering and medieval mutual or ad hoc insurance. It often involves "captives... ...eal to the clients it had identified in stage I above (investors, other countries, diplomats, scientists, and so on). Great care should be taken to...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ed pipeline profits might lure faction leaders to a conference table. U.S. diplomats did not favor the Tal- iban over the rival factions. Despite grow... ...avor the Tal- iban over the rival factions. Despite growing concerns, U.S. diplomats were willing at the time, as one official said, to “give the Tali... ...uments. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told us that while U.S. diplomats were becoming more active on Afghanistan through the spring and s... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

... ment, and sealed with wax, as is the case with treaties made by kings and diplomats—to be broken by the same; but signed with little words, and seale... ...even in this way any approximation could have been made, even in these old medieval days, towards a fair proportioning of the pay to the work. At any ...

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