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... extensive scholarly research by Dr. Finney, who is a scientist with a profound sense of history. To Sail Beyond the Sunset won the Royal Zoological Society’s Whitley Award for the Best Historical Book when it was published in Australia in 1984. It also formed the basis for an exhibition, 'First Impressions', staged by the British Museum (Natural History) in celebration o...

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...towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of HawaiI during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. Foreigners introduced the concept of mapmaking to HawaiI, and they made maps of the islands to satisfy the needs of maritime commerce, missi...

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...The Early Mapping of Hawaii is an overview of the history of the mapping of Hawaii from the time of European discovery in 1778 through the mid-19th century. Mapmaking was not an art indigenous to Hawaii; foreigners were responsible for the introduction of mapmaking in the islands. For well over seventy years, mapping in...

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...nce Vlad Dracula (1431-1476)! This is an Excerpt of the ebook! If you are a passionate of true historical events, Middle Age, life stories or East European history, than reading this free sample ebook it is a must for you! It will be an excellent occasion to find his original Romanian history, as there is described in details every event of his life! Because I wanted to...

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...those of his cruelty deeds, his so-called pleasure to torture people, the use of most horrible torture methods of that Age, in order to get right the society, or to horrify the enemies that dare to invade his country. I think every time the people read this type of description of the legendary character, wonder themselves: Was Vlad Ţepeş really like this? Of course, some o...

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...am sick of prejudice and ignorance. There must be a better life. “A free society...this is the most fabulous joke of all time. The ones who rant lo... ...heaped in a corner. Henley Street Stratford Mine was the wish to bind society together, expose the floor of heaven, make immortal real, show man... ... Commander Lee vs. General Lee, Major Crittenden vs. General Crittenden. Europeans assure me that my cause is a lost cause. They say I will never e... ...a superior grace and clarity, so much so that Garamond’s fonts influenced European printing for the next cen- tury and a half. It is interesting to ...

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...ism, stoicism, realpolitik, opportunism); or, commercial interests (mercantilism, capitalism, ‘mixed’ economy). The ruling strata of an authoritarian society is usually very small, and seldom allows participation of any kind from the masses it controls. It is generally inflexible and doctrinaire, seeks to impose a particular set of rules on the society no matter what the c...

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...Lectures on Central Asia; Table of Contents H.B. Paksoy, D. Phil. Table of Contents Leviathan*: Identity Interactions between Society and Technology Governing with the wiggle of a Mustache Leavening of Culture, Identity, Civilization: Examples in Eurasian Traditions ‘Employee Owned’ Identity? Identity of Candied Watermelon The Questi...

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...efanʻs book is one of the first and most detailed accounts in English of the challenges involved in integrating a post communist prison system in the European Union. The author has personally interviewed over several years hundreds of prisoners, guards, administrators, and their families. The result is a one of a Kina detailed account of daily life in Romanian prisons....

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...: promiscuous, destructive for prisoners and staff alike, deleterious to their sense of responsibility and their attachment to the values of a normal society. Beyond the declared purpose of rue-education, a penitentiary universe exists that works according to its own laws, most of which unwritten, but nevertheless Brown from written ones. This universe engenders a culture ...

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...aware of all the goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive cov... ...0 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it as fact. Current oceanographe... ...77 they have regained power in all formerly Confederate states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_ States/Wars/Civil... ...ty/History/By_Region/North_America/United_ States/Wars/Civil_War/ http://dmoz.org/Society/Military/People/Personal_Experiences/Ameri can_Civil_War/... ...n. He did "discover" America, the continent - or, at least, is the first documented European to have done so. His first and second voyages ended in ... ...longer than a few weeks is referred to as a persistent vegetative state." (Multi-Society Task Force on PVS, Medical Aspects of the Persistent Veg... ...tems for the general public and international law enforcement entities. Europol (European Union's criminal intelligence agency) Computer System (... ...earthquake has on the natural and man-made environment to gauge its magnitude. The Europeans have a similar 12-grade scale, called MSK. Seaquake... ...annexed by the United States in 1898. http://www.ciff.on.ca/ http://dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Federalism_and_Devolution/ Filibuster Filibus...

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...ndoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure in favor of the Western concept of private owner-ship of property, an event second only to the arrival of the Europeans in its impact on Hawai‘i. In the matter of a few years, Hawai‘i changed from a society in which the ali‘i ai?moku, or king, served as stew-ard of the land that belonged to the gods, to one in which he, the ali‘i, o...

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... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ... the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? In prehistoric times—antedating written history by mil... ... Salt sea buried freshwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written word, n... ... but it seems consistent with the generally accepted theses that the Indo-European language family (1) evolved from one aboriginal ancestral tongue ... ...catter in all directions and seed the tongues of today’s speakers of Indo-European languages? A line in map connecting the Baltic Sea and India seem... ... Egypt adopted the first alphabet, Phoenicia became the first state-level society to make extensive use of a sound-symbol alphabet, and only alphabe... ...ment of wood-block printing led to the rise in China of a highly literate society sharing the power of knowledge centuries before one arose in Europ... ... the West that it dazzled his readers. Besides flourishing in the arts, society, and social life, China also boasted:  Paper currency.  An ef... ...rior leaders and priests who built and managed city- states in an agrarian society.  Wondrous, alphabetic symbols of sound helped Alexander the Grea...

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...he realpolitik of terrorism is the collaboration with the less savoury elements of society. Relegated to the fringes by the inexorable march of com... ...iers. A collaboration emerged between the Church and the less than holy members of society. Natanail himself provided "Chetis" (guerilla bands) wit... ...ulevski published a poem "Macedonian Fairy" in 1878. The Young Macedonian Literary Society was established in 1891 and started publishing "Loza", i... ...oza", its journal a year thereafter. Krste Misirkov, Dimitrija Cupovski, the Vardar Society and the Macedonian Club in Belgrade founded the Macedoni... ...ght roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hitherto European backwater. Reversing the Ottoman infliction was no mean... ...efore him signed a few secret pacts with the rising, ignore at your peril, Central European force. The Austrian national socialists who were implic... ...in Torino following the assassination of the King. In the paranoid twilight zone of European Big Power sponsored terrorism, these half hearted actio... ...y (shortly, even an internet domain, KO). This quandary is a typically anodyne European compromise which is bound to ferment into atrabilious ... ... his only-begotten Word. You are life, love, peace, truth, and sanctity...." East European Studies Occasional Paper, Number 47, "Christianity and ...

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...ss. I began to attend gatherings of the Riverside Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers. Riverside Meeting could not really be call... ...lly married and 18. Karl Marx, Writings of the Young Man on Philosophy and Society, ed. and tr. by Loyd D. Easton and Kurt H. Guddat. (German original... ...le way,” that is, to live a life that is neither luxurious nor a burden on society, but one in which compassion for one’s fellow beings replaces the d... ...sible that the BUDDHISM 21 effect is only on an individual rather than on society as a whole? There must be some kind of personal quality to karma wh... ...s would solve these problems. The immediate depopulation of Indians due to European induced diseases such as smallpox, was taken as Divine Providence’... ...l and emotional healing arts that was equal to or beyond the level of what Europeans had attained, they had a sound economy and lively trade, they had... ...nger possible for the majority of Aborigines once Australia was settled by Europeans. Govern- ment policies to assimilate Aborigines into “white” Aust... .... Aboriginal culture was presented as a living muse- um piece which showed European prehistory. There was also the missionary zeal of the invading Chr... ...o white use without a qualm of conscience by the British colonizers. First European contacts had learned little of Aboriginal beliefs and misinterpret...

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...ows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European settlers, so technically, Caucasians were minorities even by vi... ...ution, but eventually they accept it because they claim that it's a part of society, to keep deviants from raping and “ ” hurting others. However, i... ...or night spas, as many johns would call “ ” them. I think that it's sad how society places such a heavy weight on beauty and money that girls have t... ...ed by the age of the deceased, but more importantly, status and position in society. So even when you die, you can't escape the money-status- power i... ...use how else are you going to show off your wealth, status, and position in society? Even at a funeral, it's always about the money. Speaking of su... ... money. They would be more than — happy to live in a despotic, totalitarian society, just as long as they make lots of money. Mommy once told me tha...

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...atter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, a cesspool of immorality and spiritual decay. To many European liberals, the United states is a throwback to darker ag... ... street, even in "progressive" Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spre... ...veryday Life" have singled out the United States as the quintessential narcissistic society. The "American Dream" in itself is benign. It involves ... ...s) and still is, in some important respects, a pre-Enlightenment, white supremacist society. It is rife with superstition, prejudice, conspicuous re... ...Why America is Hated The Iraqi and the Madman God's Diplomacy and Human Conflicts European intellectuals yearn for the mutually exclusive: an Amer... ...held by most Americans, that their system and values are the "best things in human society." Moreover, Americans are missionaries with a "manifest ... ...lent to the residents than they already were. Ever the preachers, the West - both Europeans and Americans - uphold themselves as role models of vi... ...igion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their conduct "Ca... ...er. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked, to great European consternation, a civil war in Macedonia two years ago. ...

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...oa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X ... ...st corrupt country in the world, an efficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological developme... ... old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its country into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Fi... ...s are continuously collecting information on the lives of modern Finns. In European welfare states, an individual's life and future must be secure, pl... ...sing number of children are abandoned, old people are excluded from useful society. More and more young people fall by the wayside in the competition ... ... to destroy their own destiny, their future, who have nothing to live for. Society has become permeated with selfishness, cynicism, an anxiety-inducin... ... is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European Union in the future. Today we ask, what does a global person ident... ... for the owner's family without continuous agricultural subsidies from the European Union and the Finnish government, without external financial aid. ... ... becoming uniform everywhere in the world. The rice farmers of Lampang and European farmers have had to make similar choices. They have been forced to...

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...CORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ... ...g quest for gold -- A fatal jealousy -- Execution of Balboa -- First fruits of European dominion in the Pacific -- Establishing a route across the Ist... ... and Newfoundland. Upon this fact the claim is based that Bjarne was the first European whose eyes beheld the shores of the American Continent. A repo... ...e head, which request was carried out. His was the first death and burial of a European in America. In proof of this, the Sagas are confirmed by the f... ...anifestation of cordial hospitality, as the first visitors to his country from European civilization. THE KHAN SENDS FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTORS. After ... ...ortuga. Here an ideal government of freebooters prevailed. The theory of their society was in several points communistic; meats, vegetables, fruits, i... ... touched at Tortuga or in its neighborhood without contributing to the warlike society one or more discontented sailors; deserters from the European a... ...ady described, he escaped to England with the booty, and there, established in society as a man of vast wealth, he had been knighted by Charles II, an... ...h Bougainville had been so agreeably entertained proved to be Otaheite, of the Society Group, first discovered by Quiros in 1607, but which Bougainvil...

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...its infestation by some manipulative interests of the Power. Ideology and society make continuos attempts against the liberty and originality of the ... ... a double end, in a “fishtail”. The author is sure that “in a paradoxical society, you cannot be but paradoxical”, what is translated, in the mechan... ...declares polemic on an equal footing on the mad and ignorant world: “To a society that doesn’t recognize me, that refuses me, I answer all alike”. To... ...signates the forced splitting of an individual’s personality imposed by a society dominated by an aggressive Evil (afloat on a nothingness above the ... ...e exile ... Is then paradoxism a shivering mode of living the exile (from society, from literature), like the recovery of the liberty? Well, why not?... ...tection a rare speculative force. Its origin can be detected in the great European philosophy: the antimetaphyisics of Nietzsche and Heidegger, the ... ...e will publish a NonNovel (1993), resuming in prose the experience of the European avant-garde dramaturgy to launching non-plays with non-characters... ...is actual not only related to the recent history of Romania or other East-European countries, much or less retarded by insidious neo-communist forms... ...ing of this research, paradoxist anticipation within the Romanian and the European perimeter. Now I consider that I have passed rather in a hurry ove...

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...wed view. Prof. Bart Kosko, in his book Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age writes that fuzzy theory can offer ... ... an expert's opinion we study the effect of such unemployed people on the society. An expert spells out the five major concepts relating to the unem... ...with safety 6. Provide hospital for employees and their family 7. Credit society and co-operative stores 8. Awards for highest sale made by salesma... ...stern about stopping the child labor, certainly it cannot flourish in the society. They are ignored for two reasons: First, if children were vote ban... ... and financial support given by the TNSACS (Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society). The reader is expected to derive the conclusions using the mod... ...iastate.edu/~mash/metnetex/NAFIPS01v3a.pdf 33. Eden C. Cognitive Mapping, European J. of Operational Research, 36 (1988) 1-13. 34. Eden, C. On the ... ... FCMs for Ranking Decision Alternatives, Proceedings of the EUFIT 97, 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, September ...

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...ions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Associated Charities; Smith- sonian Insti... ... when spelled out : doctor of philosophy, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 21. Nouns and adjectives used to designate the Supreme Being o... ...Report of the United States Commissi~ of EdUion, Transactims of the Zl1im.s Society for Child Study. NoTE.-T~~ Botanical Gazette uses italics for su... ...which the initials only are given, nor after MS (=manuscript) : IE ( =Indo-European), OE ( =Old English), MHG ( -Middle High German); AJSL (=Americ... ...xpectation for the speedy end of the world-these overbore interest in moral society;" "This giving-out is but a phase of the taking-in-a natural an...

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...ocktail party or a coffee bar. There are, in fact, so many things that we cannot hide iD aD OpeD society-at le8lt in peace time-that you willllOme­ ti... ... confirmed a very bi&h wlnerability. (S) In fact, we were stunned when an Air Force study in the European tactical air environment suuested that their... ...urs costs us. But, they have a cost advantqe because they still operate in an essentially closed society with a weU-established security infrastructur...

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...ory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting S...

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... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ... the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? In prehistoric times—antedating written history by mil... ...alt sea buried freshwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written word, n... ... but it seems consistent with the generally accepted theses that the Indo-European language family (1) evolved from one aboriginal ancestral tongue ... ...catter in all directions and seed the tongues of today’s speakers of Indo-European languages? A line in map connecting the Baltic Sea and India se... ... Egypt adopted the first alphabet, Phoenicia became the first state-level society to make extensive use of a sound-symbol alphabet, and only alphabe... ...ment of wood-block printing led to the rise in China of a highly literate society sharing the power of knowledge centuries before one arose in Europ... ...he West that it dazzled his readers. Besides flourishing in the arts, society, and social life, China also boasted:  Paper currency.  An ef... ...rior leaders and priests who built and managed city- states in an agrarian society.  Wondrous, alphabetic symbols of sound helped Alexander the Grea...

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...istory, agro-cities, and religious empires with immigrant Tai, to a sustainable wet glutinous rice culture which shaped institutions for an exporting society. Agriculture's provision of security and wealth increased with population and Chinese and European agribusiness, until accessible land was expended. Employment, crisis resilience, self-sufficiency, rural social suppor...

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... with a wet glutinous rice technology, evolved to produce a sustainable agriculture. Rice culture determined administrative structures in a pragmatic society which regularly produced a saleable surplus. Ayutthaya’s ascendancy, continuing today, consolidated the importance of rice agriculture to national security and economic well-being, as Chinese and European influence be...

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...Physicist 62 FRANCIS H. CRICK (1916 - 2004) English Biochemist 63 JAMES D. WATSON (1928 -) American Biochemist 63 CLOSING STATEMENTS 64 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 67 WHERE MUCH OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE STARTED WITH THE GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE ABSTRACT ON THE GENESIS OF AN ORDERLY AND SYSTEMATIC UNIVERSE 68 THE STORY OF THE CELL AND BIOLOGY 73 BIOLOGY...