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Rhodesialeaks : Financial History of Economic Exploitation in Southern Africa

By: Royal Tendai Archive

...Original 1899 B.S.A.C British South Africa Company share certificate. B.S.A.C British South Africa Company Financial Statements for 1899 and 1900. Estimates for 1901 and 1902. Financial statements for 1900-1901, and 1901-1902, Estimates for 1901-1902, 1902-1903...

...Original 1899 B.S.A.C British South Africa Company share certificate Financial Statements for 1899 and 1900. Estimates for 1901 and 1902 Financial statements for 1900-1901, and 1901-1902, Estimates for 1901-1902, 1902-1903. Financial Statements for 1903-4, ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...armers - opposed slavery as a form of unfair competition. Less than one quarter of southern families owned slaves in 1861. Slave-based, mainly cott... ... citizens. Cotton represented three fifths of all United States exports in 1860. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, suppo... ...o protect its trade with Britain. The constitution of the Confederacy prohibited African slave trade (buying slaves from Africa), though it allow... ...es. The Union army consigned black labor gangs to work on the plantations of loyal Southerners and forcibly separated the black workers from their ... ...mber of the executive committee of the London Vegetarian Society. He went to South Africa because he couldn't find work in India. He was a poor la... ...stage fright. The "Encyclopedia Britannica" describes his first days there: "Africa was to present to Gandhi challenges and opportunities tha... ... Indians of their right to vote. He decided to stay. It is in Johannesburg, South Africa that his first civil disobedience ("Satyagraha") campaign...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...eaking of toothpaste, I ignore the kid and head for the tap which, oddly but luckily enough, is near my house. I brush my strong African teeth using... ... Behind them, just outside the bar, a local in dreadlocks is trying to sell assorted bracelets to three Caucasian ladies and two African men. They a... ...wo Americans. They head towards where his boat is anchored. Suddenly the place feels deserted. I look behind and the two ‘South Africans’ have vanis... ... “I’d like that.” 86 Glossary One more flute song: Cape Town apples: Apples grown in Cape Town in South Africa. Bared Sou... ... The tallest mountain in Malawi, slightly over 3000m high. Lawyers in Heaven: Bawo: A board game common in east and central Africa. Malawian ... ...ha wi, a small fe: The oth wi. Curren emporary M ael Phoya w l country in er side of M tly, he runs Malawian a Abou was born (1 n Southern/ Malawi’, a...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...her proficiency as a doctor. The voyage settled into a routine. The ship steamed up the coast of Africa, stopping briefly at a few ports to take on ... ...ed mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and at the southern end of the City, ‘Fort William‘. THE CU... ... was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her father had married an... ... Burton or even the unshakable ardour of the Scot, John MacGregor. Audrey Blankenhagen 64 The Southern Spanish woman prided herself on her abilit... ...tand from my son, that you come from a place called Soosix in England.’ ‘Sussex, a county in the Southern part of the British Isles, Your Highness.... ...he Spanish ambience of the Consulate on her weekly visits to Senora Hernandez who was, herself, a Southern Spaniard from the same region as Rosita. ...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Women with Hiv/Aids

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...rural areas is poverty for their day-to-day survival is impossible. Unlike in Africa, we see the reported cases of HIV/AIDS in rural areas in India ... ...reased awareness, the urban people may be well aware of HIV/AIDS. As in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, in India also married women are cu... ...d by them has been used by their husband and his relatives. As in the case of southern Africa, in India also, the high-risk population included long... ... has been used by their husband and his relatives. As in the case of southern Africa, in India also, the high-risk population included long distanc... ...r wives become HIV/AIDS infected patients within three to four years. As the African countries which is a poor nation became victims of HIV/AIDS, l... ... Unless 253 this social set up is changed rural India would become another Africa, in HIV/ AIDS. 32. The movies / cinema always project men, ev...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic that the word Asian is mix... ...re the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange thing is t... ...anese like you. I really don't have a ” problem with Ebonics, the idiomatic African American slang of our generation. I just wish that words such as... ...lter ego of the affluent Palo Alto, since it consists mostly of Latinos and African Americans and not its rich, snobby counterpart. It's truly amazi... ... and I've been driving for nearly fifteen minutes. This is a rarity here in Southern California so I definitely won't take it for granted, not knowin... ...briel stresses sarcastically, still munching on his sandwich. ” With my best Southern accent, I drawl, Well caution then. I won't learn you no more “ ... ...s. I see a Spanish couple to my right, an Asian couple across from us and an African American couple behind them. We're in a room full of minorities....

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...eas have formed in the village. Most of the seamstresses' shops are in the southern end of the village, while the cement casters have settled in the c... ...thern girls are particularly pretty, and that was why they were enticed to southern tourist centres, and also that pre-marital sexual morality was not... ... northern mountain peoples as in the agrarian villages of the plains. When southern girls no longer went to the brothels in the years of economic grow... ...urton (eds.) 1991. Thai Constructions of Knowledge. School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London. Chongrak, Ruthai Cai 1977. Old Th... ... (1978). Natural Symbols in South East Asia. London School of Oriental and African Studies. Mizuno, Koichi 1968. Multi-household Compounds in Northea... ...t (ed.), Nature and Man in South East Asia, 68–106. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. — 1982. The Social and Economic Cor... ...ohomäki, Olli-Pekka 1999. Fishermen No More? Livelihood and Environment in Southern Thai Maritime Villages. Studies of Contemporary Thailand 8. White... ....) 1991. Thai Constructions of Knowledge, 183–212. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Tanabe, Shigeharu – Charles F. Keye... ...atural Symbols in South East Asia, 113–132. London School of Oriental and African Studies. — 1984. Limits of Ideological Domination and the Formatio...

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The Shadow of a Prince in History

By: Aurel Danescu

...a historically documented description of the real life and facts of the real Prince Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler), that ruled Walachia (the region of Southern Romania, today) for three times in the XV century. Vlad Ţepeş is simply treated as he truly historicaly was: the ruler of Walachia, with his decisions and deeds, the man with all his goods and bads, with his fulfillm...

...Vlad Dracul (1390-1447) Chapter II: VLAD ŢEPEŞ (1431-1476) 2.1 Vlad Ţepeş becomes ruler Prince of Walachia 2.2 Vlad Ţepeş and the merchants from Southern Transylvania 2.3 Vlad Ţepeş and his fights for Walachia’s independence 2.4 The arrestment and detention of Vlad Ţepeş; his third reign in November – December 1476 Chapter III: THE TRACES OF VLAD ŢEPEŞ IN ROMA...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indie... ...ins -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of... ...- Pinzon's adventures -- Discovery of the sailors -- Anew constellation of the Southern Cross -- Landing on strange shores -- A desperate fight with t... ...ives murder ten Spaniards -- A bloody vengeance -- Claimed to have visited the southern continent 135- 152 CHAPTER XII. Voyages Of Vasco da Gama. -- A... ...5- 152 CHAPTER XII. Voyages Of Vasco da Gama. -- An ambition to circumnavigate Africa -- King John's belief respecting the continent -- Secret prepara... ...xpedition -- Trouble with the sultan of Zanzibar -- Reception of da Gama by an African King -- Making good use of a soothsayer -- The King is invited ... ... among the East Indies -- Preparation for a voyage of discovery in search of a southern continent -- Tasman placed in charge of the expedition -- Disc... ...TER XLIII. The Object of Cook's Second Voyage. -- Belief in the existence of a southern continent -- Sailing of the fleet -- In a region of intense co... ... A shocking sight -- Remarks on cannibalism -- Abandonment of the search for a southern continent -- Discovery of new lands -- Arrival at Easter islan...

...the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan entry on page 274) 5... ...les 216 Sierra Leone 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Union 224 Spain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230 Surin... ...l America and the Caribbean IV. South America V. Europe VI. Middle East VII. Africa VIII. Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast Asia X. Ocea... ... the Census, and the Department of State. Country abbreviations: CAR Central African Republic FRG Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) GDR Germa... ...ampshire combined Land boundaries: 870 km total Climate: varies; tropical in southern plains; cool winters and hot summers in central valleys; severe ... ...T (de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAU, Southern African Cus- toms Union, SADCC, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO Econom... ...leum products Major trade partners: Switzerland, US, UK, other EC members of Southern Afri- can Customs Union Budget: revenues, $433 million; expendi-... ...ironment: consists of 2,300 islands Special notes: Diego Garcia, largest and southernmost island, occupies strategic location in central Indian Ocean ... ...5% irrigated Environment: frequent typhoons (about five times per year along southern and 50 eastern coasts), damaging floods, earth- quakes; defores...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...b countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spread of American ideas and customs ... ... more so in geopolitics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel - and ... ...s prisoners, it was the last developed nation to abolish slavery, alone with South Africa it had instituted official apartheid in a vast swathe of ... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o... ...vely stable pro-Western Muslim country that can play a similar role in Central and Southern Asia as Turkey does in the West and Middle East. At bes... .... It has prevented the expansion of the Eurasian Heartland Empire towards Eurasia's southern rim lands for centuries. It has protected the areas inc... ...its colonies - an economic system known as "mercantilism". The markets of central, southern, and eastern Europe - West Europe's hinterland - are re... ... 1000 megawatt light water reactor in Bushehr, an Iranian Persian Gulf port facing southern Iraq. Abandoned by West Germany in 1979, following the ... ...l that a Russian oil company, Zarubezhneft, was invited to develop an oil field in southern Iraq with proven reserves of more than 3 billion barrel...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...hildren. Perhaps I am a romantic, but when I hear of infants being raped in Africa, I cry. Whether it is the superstition 10 that sex with a vir... ... is merely a sexual attack by a deranged coward—it should not happen. South Africa has the highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had killed ... ...he highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had killed over 40 million Africans. The number of children orphaned by HIV is an international tr... ...an children whose parents farm them out on that anti-slavery island, or the African children who are sold outright as slaves. “Just look at ... ...elements determine which were the strong and which should 12 die, or the African tribes that take the newborn of every young father into the jungl... ...this side of the lake. My next door neighbor was Strother Martin. He was the Southern prison warden in “Cool Hand Luke” who said to Paul Newman “what...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...xtremely poor people only dropped from 41 to 31%. ―In Sub-Saharan Africa the per-capita GDP dropped by 13%. With their rapid population grow... ... the autocratic governmental takeovers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to ... ...cratic governmental takeovers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to follow I... ...ns in business have always had a strong work ethic. In Singapore, the UK, Africa, and the U.S., Indians are prepared to work seven day weeks and lon... ... after birth, kill over a million and a half babies every year, mainly in southern Africa and in this part of the world. You would not believe the ... ...rth, kill over a million and a half babies every year, mainly in southern Africa and in this part of the world. You would not believe the atrocious... ...ess aid is being given for food. With 4% of the world‘s population, East Africa gets 20% of the food aid, and Africa as a whole, with 7% of the wor...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ur apelike ancestors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand upright so they cou... ...h indicates that some early human ancestors lived on the seacoast of East Africa and ate easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance... ...y of his reasoning that our species—having lived in watery swamps in East Africa for millions of years— spawned a deep-seated penchant of vacationers... ...00 BC, many nomadic tribes—rather than migrate seasonally—settled down in southern Mesopotamia to pioneer year-round agriculture. There between t... ...eveloped their pictographic languages independently, as did the Mayans in southern Mexico and Guatemala. As noted previously, all those languages ... ...heir alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing ... ...abet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Ph... ...ound no sign of any written language on the island when they first raided southern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the... ... roots. The huge Roman province of Britannia stretched as far north as southern Scotland by 300 AD, but Lincoln Barnett writes in The Treasure of...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ur apelike ancestors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand upright so they cou... ...h indicates that some early human ancestors lived on the seacoast of East Africa and ate easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance... ...y of his reasoning that our species—having lived in watery swamps in East Africa for millions of years— spawned a deep-seated penchant of vacationers... ...00 BC, many nomadic tribes—rather than migrate seasonally—settled down in southern Mesopotamia to pioneer year-round agriculture. There between th... ...eveloped their pictographic languages independently, as did the Mayans in southern Mexico and Guatemala. As noted previously, all those languages s... ...heir alphabet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing ... ...abet‘s use to places as far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoe... ...ound no sign of any written language on the island when they first raided southern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the... ...st roots. The huge Roman province of Britannia stretched as far north as southern Scotland by 300 AD, but Lincoln Barnett writes in The Treasure of...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...rd to life? Why save the AIDS doomed child for a life of poverty in rural Africa when the child would be immediately accepted into Heaven upon death... .... But because this simple basis for happiness was so important, people in southern Asia began making statues of Siddarth Gautama, the Buddha, the en... ... the ideas of a single supernatural. This idea spread to Europe, to North Africa and across the Atlantic, Most people in those areas believe in a si... ...wered soon? And I wonder if the Church‘s decrees to have more children in Africa and South America is causing poverty in those areas? And does this ... ...uisition, the terror attacks of: 9/11 in the U.S., in the UK, in Iraq, in southern Africa, the enriching of popes and preachers through the tithing ... ...the terror attacks of: 9/11 in the U.S., in the UK, in Iraq, in southern Africa, the enriching of popes and preachers through the tithing of the fai... ...rance some questions one year then the next year ask a thousand people in southern France the same questions we may not be able to generalize the re... ...tion should they be allowed to secede? Abraham Lincoln said ‗no‘ when the southern slave holding states wanted to secede from the United States. He ... ...he Beveridge model was developed to cover only those in greatest need. In southern Europe the ‗Catholic‘, or subsidiary model, attempted to have the...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...werful example of animal instincts was shown in the work of Eugene Marais. I‘m sure you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa... ...genes. There is also a great deal of animal research that points to the existence of instincts. ―We mentioned Robert Ardrey‘s book ‗Africa... ...need for this vitamin. ―If people got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southe... ...ned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South Africa... ...for justice. Just the exact opposite of those using power to subdue others in business, politics or sport. ―I cringed when I saw the Africa... ...igans or suicide bombers are brothers in using violence for ridiculous causes. ―People often associate murder with poverty, but South Africa... ...otivated by the social system than by their internal drives. ―Two researchers were intrigued by the fact that in your country many more Southe... ...nd less intense. They checked several reasons why this might be so and concluded that the people of the South were more externally controlled. Southe...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...original ecosystem we were genetically designed to function in…. That is; in Africa, where we originally came from, as naked apes who stood up and ... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ... killing. Cut marks 3.4 million years old on bones of large animals found in Africa in the Olduvai Gorge area proves that at least 3.4 million years... ...ried under 25 million years of volcanic ash and lava and obsidian, pumice in Africa. But the basic story can be pieced together from the tiny bits... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ...ngs that were not as centralized as the Catholic Nations of Spain and France. Southern Europe rotted in its religious patronage and its Divine Right... ...ors to be wary of. Then there is the hardship of the return migration to the Southern Plains while running a gauntlet of predators. Then there is ... ...y night there is the terror of the killers stalking the herds. So during the Southern wet season: generally you have an intensified condition of bot... ...rom four different cultures: Black, Jewish, White-Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and Southern Baptist. What possible reason could the richest woman on Ear...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...rkforce) - is not clear. Add to this stubbornly high birth rates (esp. in Africa) and a steady decline in government hiring al over the world - and ... ... in many countries - from deflationary Japan to racially imbalanced South Africa - to this very day. Such workers are usually paid a salary equal to... ...s are the EU and the USA - but many end up in lesser countries in Asia or Africa. The International Labour Organization (ILO) published the followi... ...ional Labour Organization (ILO) published the following figures in 1997: Africa had 20 Million migrant workers, North America - 17 million, Central ... ...,000 university educated Nigerians in the USA alone. More than 43% of all Africans living in North America have acquired at least a bachelor's degre... ... is implausibly threatening to spread the unrest from its stronghold, the southern state of Baden-Württemberg, to Berlin and Brandenburg. Ominous mu...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...uture ones. Export and credit insurance schemes - such as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC... ...e premiums in case of an unusual catastrophe, natural or man made. In Israel, South Africa, and Spain, terrorism and war damages are indemnified by ... ...n China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East Europe and India each, about 1 in Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) each. V... ...following court decisions, or agreements with the authorities. Brazilians and South Africans, for instance, pay a fraction of the price paid in the ... ...ngly, the issue of the dispossessed within rich country societies was raised by two African Special Rapporteurs in a report submitted last year to t... ...e its uptrend. Defense contractors and service industries, concentrated across the southern USA stand to undoubtedly benefit after a lean decade fo... ...ts of Real Wages and Labor Productivity on Foreign Direct Investment - DO Cushman - Southern Economic Journal, 1987 Employment and Foreign Invest...

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