- Referate Astronomie
- Referate Biologie
- Referate Chimie
- Referate Diverse
- Referate Drept
- Referate Economie
- Referate Engleza
- Referate Filozofie
- Referate Fizica
- Referate Franceza
- Referate Geografie
- Referate Germana
- Referate Informatica
- Referate Istorie
- Referate Marketing
- Referate Matematica
- Referate Medicina
- Referate Psihologie
- Referate Religie
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People and Traditions
Artistic and cultural activity in Britain ranges from the highest professional standards to a wide variety of amateur involvement. London is one of the leading world centers for drama, music, opera and dance. Other cities are serve as centers of artistic excellence in their regions. Some 650 professional arts festivals take...
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The Survival of Tragedy
"It may be that there are demoniac forces within us, and outside, set to destroy us; it may be that we will finish in darkness and despair and suicide. And it is of the eminent dignity of a man and a woman to look this possibility in the face: to know at last this may be. The greatest Greek tragedies are a constant education...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass., on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with their sojourns in various places during their wandering...
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Scotland
Regional passes encourage visitors to explore Scotland's built heritage.This Spring, Historic Scotland is offering extra incentive to get out and about to visit some of the country's most beautiful historic properties and sites in three of Scotland's most spectacular regions. Special regional Explorer Passes are being...
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A good guide to Galatz
Galatz, capital of the region of Galatz, is a port on the Danube estuary about 130 kilometers (about 80 miles) from the Black Sea. The city stands on a slight rise in the marshlands formed by the nearby Siret and Prut rivers, close to the southwest shore of Lake Brates, the largest freshwater lake in Romania. Local workers...
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United Nations
INTRODUCTION United Nations (UN), international organization of countries created to promote world peace and cooperation. The UN was founded after World War II ended in 1945. Its mission is to maintain world peace, develop good relations between countries, promote cooperation in solving the world's problems, and encourage...
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World War 1
World War was a military conflict wich lasted from 1914 to 1918, that began as a local European war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia on July 28, 1914; was transformed into a general European struggle by declaration of war against Russia on August 1, 1914; and eventually became a global war involving 32 nations. Twenty-eight...
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Culture and Civilization
Renaissance, period of European history that saw a renewed interest in the arts and in the classical past. The Renaissance began in 14th-century Italy and had spread to the rest of Europe by the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period, the fragmented feudal society of the Middle Ages, with its agricultural economy and...
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Towards a philosophy of gerontology, version 5
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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Was Arthur a king or just a battle commander?
The figure of Arthur begins as a war hero, the praises of whom are sung in war poems by the Celts and the Welsh. Y Gododdin celebrates one particularly brave warrior, then says he "was no Arthur." The Triads are full of wonderful, courageous things Arthur did. The most important early source for Arthur's deeds is Historia...
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English poet, one of the most accomplished and influential of England's romantic poets, whose theories and style created a new tradition in poetry. Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, and educated at Saint John's College, University of Cambridge. He developed a...
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Agatha Cristie - Detective Fiction
"Agatha Christie is the most widely published writer of any time and in any language. Only the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare have sold more edition than the murder mysteries".One could ask, after reading the fragment quoted, a simple question: "Why?" and we believe that the answer to this question would make an eloquent...
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The philosophical thinking and the aging
Abstract. My metaintention is to promote a philosophy of the science of explanation and control of aging. Thus, in the fisrt part (1)., I consider the logicity of the scientific explanation of aging and I try to reduce the incompatibility between the philosophical rational model of explanation and the actual scientific...
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an extremely popular and influential group in Rock n' Roll. My question is, "Why?" What drew thousands upon thousands of screaming fans to these four British musicians? Was it something in the sound of the instruments? Could it have been the bass beat, or maybe the guitar playing? What about their lyrics?...
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Valentine's Day
As early as the fourth century B.C., the Romans engaged in an annual young man's rite to passage to the God Lupercus. The names of the teenage women were placed in a box and drawn at random by adolescent men; thus, a man was assigned a woman companion for the duration of the year, after which another lottery was staged. After...
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Vienna-fact life
Population: 1.5 million,mostly German-speaking Austrians; also Czechs and HungariansFamous former residents: Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert,Strauss Location: North-east Austria, south bank River Danube, eastern end of narrow plain between Carphatians and Alps. Area: 415 sq km. Famous buildings: St. Stephen's...
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Unsolved mysteries
Bermuda Triangle, region of the western Atlantic Ocean that has become associated in the popular imagination with mysterious maritime disasters. Also known as the Devil's Triangle, the triangle-shaped area covers about 1,140,000 sq km (about 440,000 sq mi) between the island of Bermuda, the coast of southern Florida, and...
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Sir Francis Drake and the Circumnavigation
In 1577 Queen Elizabeth I commissioned three men to sail around the world. On November 15, 1577, under the command of three captains, Sir Francis Drake, John Winter, and Thomas Doughty, the "Queen's Corsair" set sail from Plymouth to the Spanish-controlled Rock of Gibraltar. In secret original plans, Drake was intended to...
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Typhoon
This fragment is taken from a celebrated short story by Conrad, remarkable for its description of a terrible storm at sea, as well as for the portrait of a modest and brave ship captain. W. Allen said about Conrad in "The English Novel":"Conrad had known French from childhood and was widely read in its literature, but he...
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NATIONAL BANK OF ROMANIA
BNR is a public institution, created as an effect of an organic law. More then 100 years ago. The law, dated on April 17th - 29th 1880, "for the setting up of a discount and emission bank, under the name of Romanian National Bank", offered the exclusive privilege of this institution to issue the Romanian state currency....
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Biris's errors of judgement
But it seems that the fining of the democritian model regarding the explication of the behavior of quarks can be made better by Anaxagora, rather than by Platon. For some of the fundamental properties of Anaxagora's holomers can be proved to be specific also to quarks. Respective, the model of holomers allows an unlimited...
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September 11th 2001
The day of September 11th 2001 will remain as a dark day in history. All people know about this day and what happened at this date. On this day, the terrorism reached its highest point since the beginnings until now and maybe similar events will be greater. (God forbid!). All the other terrorist events didn't create such a...
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El nino
What is EL Nino? Simply put by Billy Kessler, an Oceanographer for the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory at NOAA-Seatle in his FAQ about El Nino: Suppose a relatively brief opposing wind occurs over the west Pacific warm pool. It may last for as little as one month. This starts and estward current that pushes the...
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Values paper true
What are values? Values are the field of ethics, also called moral philosophy, which involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Philosophers today usually divide ethical theories into three general subject areas: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Metaethics...
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Ploiesti-the city of black gold
Situated in the south - eastern Romania, having a population of over 250,000 inhabitants, Ploiesti is one of Romania's most important cities, on the second place after Bucharest as for the industrial production.At a 60 km distance from Bucharest, crossed by the 26° meridian and the 44° 55' parallel, Ploiesti is the petroleum...
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Me and the deserted island
Today, captain Scott's boat is still floating. I am on his boat too and I'm a sailor.'Land!Land!'It was true, the island named 'Kanaby' was near us.After three hours,we managed to disembark. Every sailor kissed the land and soon after that we tried to find some food.We managed to find some coconuts and some bananas. They...
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The reforms of Caesar
Caesar spent little time in Rome, during the years in which he was master of Rome. Despite this, he managed to institute a large number of reforms in the short time he was granted. Like all the other Populists, Caesar had used the people of Rome on his way to power. He was not alone in this.By his time, the citizens of...
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Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis (of Back to the Future fame) has collected another feather for his cap with his direction of this movie starring Tom Hanks as this childishly naive idiot savant. Though that description of Forrest Gump might be inadequate. Gump, gifted with a low IQ which lets him be adorably childlike even as he grows up,...
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Idea of Representation
The debates in Cognitive Science focus on the problem of representation. Unfortunately, these debates regard either representational format(as in the computationalism-connectionism debate), or the problem of representational content(as in representationalism-antirepresentationalism debate), but they are not concerning with...
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HENRY JAMES
Hamlet is arguably the greatest dramatic character ever created. From the moment we meet the crestfallen prince we are enraptured by his elegant intensity. Shrouded in his inky cloak, Hamlet is a man of radical contradictions -- he is reckless yet cautious, courteous yet uncivil, tender yet ferocious. He meets his father's...
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