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Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ... pair of bodies for a Verthingall of crymsen Grosgrain." Queen Elizabeth had these listed in her garderobe: "A payre of bodies of black cloth of s... ...d Mohammedanism (Moriscos). On 1 November, 1478, Sixtus IV empowered the Catholic sovereigns to set up the Inquisition." The Inquisition persecute... ... President in charge of RND and Advanced Technologies – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Vent...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ...the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State T... ... War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is mad... ...obility, and other refugees. Their Declaration of Independence reads like a maudlin list of grievances coupled with desperate protestations of love ... ...ion in hitherto much- sheltered sectors of the economy, giving up recently hard- won sovereignty, shouldering the debilitating cost of the implementa... ...s novel controversy. Anticipating a beneficent outcome, $2 billion in traded Iraqi sovereign and commercial loans, harking back to the 1980s, have ...

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...The purpose of this project is to contribute to ongoing efforts tailored toward promoting greater financial markets stability and integration in APEC economies, achieved by: 1) undertaking research to determine the conditions...

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The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.

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...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to ...

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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... ... Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of ... ...ght welcome them—they also arise within technology-embracing au- thoritarian states, because the technology is exported. A lockdown on PCs and a corre... ...not answer. “T o impress on you the seriousness of wrong numbers in the node list,” Jen- nings wrote, “imagine you are a poor old lady, who every sing... .... jsmith. And if not, the password was often obvious enough to be found on a list of 432 common passwords that the software tested at each com- puter.... ...te, it also defines the range of regulatory options reasonably available to a sovereign. A change in technology can change the power dynamic between th... ...em’s level of generativity can change the direction of the power flow between sovereign and subject in fa- vor of the subject, and generative Internet ...

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...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developi...

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