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Poienari stronghold
27 km away from Curtea de Arges you can see the ruins of the Vlad the Impaler Domain, known today as Dracula Castle, which are built on a peak, near by the Arges spring, in Romania. It is a steep climb up 1,500 steps.The Castle lays at an altitude of 850m, protected by abrupt slopes. The historians know the site as Poienari...
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The Trial of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin or Show Trial of 1938
To what extent did Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin defend himself during his show trial in 1938?The purpose of this investigation is to find out how and to what extent did Nikolai Bukharin defend himself when he was put on trial, accused of a wide range of charges, during the Purges of 1936-1938. In order to carry out this...
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Ernest Hemingway - The short happy life of Francis Macomber
Like Joyce and Proust, Hemingway is a writer who uses the material of his own life to construct fiction. For example, "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) was inspired by his war experience in Italy, and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) reflects part of his experience after travelling in Spain. He believed that the writer's role was...
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Some of the most lastingly delightful children's books in English are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". Here are what Albert Baugh write about them in "A Literary History of England":"Written by an eccentric Oxford don to amuse his little girlfriends, these two world-famous books are the...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The novel begins with the handsome young sailor Edmond Dantes. He has just returned from a journey aboard the Pharaon. The Pharaon's shipowner, M. Morrel, rushes out to meet the ship. He finds that the captain has died en route, and Dantes has assumed the post with admirable skill. He thus plans to make Dantes officially the...
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Shakespeare
Although the amount of factual knowledge available about Shakespeare is surprisingly large for one of his station in life, many find it a little disappointing, for it is mostly gleaned from documents of an official character. Dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials; wills, conveyances, legal processes, and payments...
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Mothman
"Mothman", as the strange creature came to be called, is perhaps one of the strangest creatures to ever grace the annals of weirdness in America. Even though this mysterious and unsolved case has nothing to do with ghosts, it would be remiss of me to not include it in a section of the website about the unexplained. The...
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Osama Bin Laden
What do we really know about this person, about his thoughts, his behaviour...very little. This man became a symbol, a point of reference for the Islamic world, not only for the extremists one... For the Hamas Palestinian group or Pakistan Harakat Unsar or many others, he is the right person to unify the Islamic world in a...
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The Moon
Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies. The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun . As the Moon orbits around the Earth once per month, the angle between the Earth, the Moon and the...
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Reggae
Style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country's dominant music. By the 1970s it had become an international style that was particularly popular in Britain, the United States, and Africa. It was widely perceived as a voice of the oppressed. According to an early...
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Endangered species
In 1988, at a site now inundated by Greers Ferry Lake, peregrine falcons reared their young. Over a century passed before fledgling peregrines returned to Arkansas.In June 1993, an environmental team flew to Minnesota and picked up five fledgling falcons. These birds were given a new home at the Arkansas Power & Light Company...
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The pronoun
THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS I we you you he they she they it they THE INTEROGATIVE PRONOUN N. who G. whos D. who(m)... to? = to whom ex. Who(m) do you give this book to? = To whom do you give this book to Who(m) are you reffering to ? = To whom are you reffering? Who(m) does this book belong to? = To whom does...
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The Great Barrier Reef
Sometimes referred to as the tropical rainforests of the seas, coral reef ecosystems are highly diverse, productive aquatic marine communities. Coral reefs are biogenic deposits formed by coral, marine invertebrates belonging to the phylum Cnidaria and class Anthozoa. Coral are sensible animals living primarily in colonies of...
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Planning the wedding
When should you start looking for your dream outfit?' When you visit any bridal store the wedding dresses you try on are samples. Once you have chosen a style, then the shop will take your measurements, order one gown especially for you, and then arrange a schedule of fittings. Beware! Ordering and fitting can take up to 16...
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Nuclear Energy - Fission and Fusion
Another major form of energy is nuclear energy, the energy that is trapped inside each atom. One of the laws of the universe is that matter and energy can't be created nor destroyed. But they can be changed in form. Matter can be changed into energy. The famous scientist Albert Einstein created the mathematical formula that...
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The celebration of flowers
The Celebration of the flowers is on 20 April.On this day people celebrate the entry of Jesus in Jerusalem .The people waited for him with branches of willow.The name of this celebration comes from the queen of flowers and spring, Flora.The Sunday of flowers The legend says that how the weather is going to be on that day,...
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The Gallic Wars
With these words, Caesar begins the Bellum Gallicum, his own account of the Gallic Wars. The books of this unique work, which were written at the end of each year, were sent to the Senate in Rome, probably as supplements to an eventual application for a Triumph. The excuse for the war was the supposed crossing of the Helvetii...
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The World is Changing
December 7th 1941, 7am. A peaceful Sunday morning. Nobody expected it, and everybody prayed it would never happen. But it did: Pearl Harbour was attacked by Japan. The one place in the entire United States where no one would've expected a bombing. U.S. Navy casualties were numbered at 2718, of which 2000 were dead. Six...
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Motor cars
The motor car first appeared in Germany in 1885 when Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler, each working independently of the other, produced self-propelled vehicles powered by rear-mounted, petrol-fuelled single-cylinder engines. These were based on the stationary gas engine that used the four-stroke principle. The replicas of...
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Stonehenge
Stonehenge, prehistoric ritual monument, situated on Salisbury Plain in south-western England and dating from the Neolithic (late Stone Age) and Bronze Age. It is the most celebrated of the megalithic monuments in England, and the most important prehistoric structure in Europe. Although its precise purpose is unknown, it is...
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Sun tzu - the art of war
Ssu-ma Ch'ien gives the following biography of Sun Tzu: Sun Tzu Wu (=Sun Tzu) was a native of the Ch'i State. His ART OF WAR brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, [2] King of Wu. Ho Lu said to him: "I have carefully perused your 13 chapters. May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test?" Sun Tzu replied: "You...
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Where do they make Hondas?
Twenty years ago, if someone asked:'Where do they make Hondas?', the answer would be easy.'Hondas are made in Japan.'Nowadays, the question is not easy to answer. Making cars is a multinational business.Cars are not only manufactured in their original country, they are also produced in other countries. Japanese car giants...
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The history of United States of America
The territory now part of the United States has been inhabited for from 15,000 to 40,000 years, as attested by local evidence. The aboriginal peoples, ancestral to today's American Indians, left no firm monuments on the scale of contemporaneous cultures elsewhere, but both the pueblos of the Southwest and the great mounds of...
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The Great Schism
The Great Schism is one of the most important events in the history of the Church, and lead to the split between Eastern and Western Christianity. Its causes are not simple, as some historians have stated. To understand these causes we have to go back in time, many centuries before its completion. First of all we should...
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Ieoh Ming Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei is a founding partner of I. M. Pei & Partners, since evolved to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, based in New York City. He was born in China in 1917. He come to the United States in 1935 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B. Arch. 1940) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M....
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Sweet fourteen
SWEET FOURTEEN In my opinion is a very difficult to speak about this age, as every person thinks differently about this topic. I think that you, as a teacher, gave us this title "Sweet fourteen " for various reasons. When I saw this title I asked myself : "Why sweet?" and I began to imagine the answers: problably...
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Racial Discrimination and Related Intolerance
Racial Discrimination and Related Intolerance We are served refreshment only in separate cups at roadside tea stalls, turned away from public swimming pools, stopped on highways as presumptive criminals, trafficked as prostitutes, denied our mother's nationality, classed willy-nilly as "mentally disabled" in schools, and...
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The 10 most important events of the human kind
Before the fate of the Titanic, Morgan Robertson wrote a book called The Wreck of the Titan in 1898. The ship predicted "unsinkable" sank. Many lives were lost due to too few lifeboats. This story predicted the fate of the Titanic. In 1907, J. B. Ismay, president of White Star Lines, and Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland &...
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Towards a philosophy of gerontology, version 8
What is philosophy in general, or what is the specific of philosophy? For Aristotel, philosophy is the knowledge of the first principles and causes - those supreme principles which explain the whole existence(Coltescu, 2002 p.160 ). For Kant, philosophy is knowledge by concepts; or the search of the limits of our cognitive...
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Review of Gazzaniga and Baynes? Consciousness
The sum of their main ideas: Consciousness has multiple facets. The two hemispheres can have different states of consciousness. The right hemisphere has more limited cognitive capacities than the left one, but however should be invested with some respectability, cause it is more than an automaton, demonstrating a variety of...
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