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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20line
Mass line
Becoming one with the masses was also asserted as a strategy by which leaders and local organizers could form a common language, Maoism, allowing them to unite and "analyze China's problems and propose solutions":“Revolutionary statesmen, the political specialists who know the science or art of revolutionary politics, ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20line
Mass line
After recognizing that large numbers of cadres properly trained in mass line tactics were necessary to build a "complete socialist order", the CCP intensified its cadre training program in 1950–1951 to ensure that all cadres and other workers would be "carefully indoctrinated in basic Marxist-Leninist mass line theory ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20line
Mass line
In 1961, Mao criticized Joseph Stalin for a lack of faith in the peasantry and the masses of people, being mechanical in his understanding of the development of socialism, and not actively engaging the masses in the struggle for socialism. This critique closely followed the Anti-Rightist Campaign, in which Mao had soug...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20line
Mass line
Xi Jinping One of the distinctive features of the national leadership of Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping has been the revival of the mass line in CCP theory and praxis. Xi's ideological contributions, described as Xi Jinping Thought, seek to reinvigorate the mass line. In 2013, Xi initiated the fi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivor
Chivor
Chivor is a town and municipality in the Eastern Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The mean temperature of the village in the Tenza Valley is and Chivor is located at from the department capital Tunja. Economic activity includes emerald mining. Borders Bordered to the north with the munic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guateque
Guateque
Guateque is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Eastern Boyacá Province. Guateque's urban center is located at an altitude of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at distances of from the department capital Tunja and from Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It borders the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somondoco
Somondoco
Somondoco is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá. This town and larger municipal area are located in the Valle de Tenza. The Valle de Tenza is the ancient route connecting the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and the Llanos. The area is dotted with many such little towns all located at approximately t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenza
Tenza
Tenza () is a town and municipality in the subregion of the Eastern Boyacá Province of the Colombian department Boyacá. Tenza borders La Capilla and Pachavita in the north, in the east the department of Cundinamarca, in the south with Sutatenza and in the east with Garagoa. The altitude of the municipality in the Tenza...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCic%C3%A1n
Güicán
Güicán de la Sierra, also known as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Güicán, is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá. It is close to the national natural park El Cocuy National Park. As of the year 2020, it has a total population of 6,426. Etymology The municipality was named after Güicán tr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud%20Poelgeest
Oud Poelgeest
Oud Poelgeest is a castle in Oegstgeest, north of Leiden, that was the former home of the Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738). He was a Dutch humanist and physician of European fame. History The castle was built in 1668 on the foundations of an earlier construction, in the then popular Dutch Neoclassical styl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbrittain
Kilbrittain
Amenities There are two primary schools in Kilbrittain. Gurraneasig National School is located near to Howes Strand and (as of 2009) had approximately 60 pupils enrolled. Kilbrittain National School is a co-educational school which is located in the village, close to the church. As of 2011, Kilbrittain National School ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbrittain
Kilbrittain
Book of Lismore It is believed that the Book of Lismore was compiled in the 15th century to commemorate the marriage of the Gaelic prince Finghin Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach, of Kilbrittain Castle, to Caitilín, daughter of the seventh Earl of Desmond. The medieval manuscript contains 166 large vellum folios of material that...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20desktop%20software
Remote desktop software
In computing, the term remote desktop refers to a software- or operating system feature that allows a personal computer's desktop environment to be run remotely from one system (usually a PC, but the concept applies equally to a server or a smartphone), while being displayed on a separate client device. Remote desktop ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20desktop%20software
Remote desktop software
The target computer in a remote desktop scenario is still able to access all of its core functions. Many of these core functions, including the main clipboard, can be shared between the target computer and remote desktop client. Since the onset of COVID-19, the shift to remote-work environments has led many to work fr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Senate%20Select%20Committee%20on%20Woman%20Suffrage
United States Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage
The Select Committee on Woman Suffrage was a select committee of the United States Senate from 1882 to 1921. It was established to consider an amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote in the United States. History The Senate established the select committee on January 9, 1882, when ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetaquir%C3%A1
Zetaquirá
Zetaquira () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Lengupá Province, part of the department of Boyacá. Zetaquirá is located at from the department capital Tunja and borders Pesca in the north, Miraflores in the south, in the east Berbeo, San Eduardo and Aquitania and in the west Ramiriquí and Chinavita. The muni...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacral%20anterior%20root%20stimulator
Sacral anterior root stimulator
A sacral anterior root stimulator is an implantable medical device enabling patients with a spinal cord lesion to empty their bladders. History From 1969 onwards Giles Brindley developed the sacral anterior root stimulator, with successful human trials from the early 1980s onwards. Although both sphincter and detruso...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevo%20Col%C3%B3n
Nuevo Colón
Nuevo Colón is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Márquez Province. The urban centre is located at an altitude of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, at a distance of from the departmental capital Tunja. Nuevo Colón borders Boyacá, Boyacá, Ventaquemada and Jenesan...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiriqu%C3%AD
Ramiriquí
Ramiriquí is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Márquez Province. Ramiriquí borders the department capital Tunja in the north, in the south Chinavita and Zetaquirá, in the east Rondón and Ciénaga and in the west Chivatá, Tibaná and Jenesano. Etymology Ramiriquí...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Street%2C%20Dublin
Thomas Street, Dublin
Thomas Street () is a street in The Liberties in central Dublin, Ireland. History The street is named after the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas, founded in 1175, near the later St. Catherine's church. The founder was William FitzAldelm, deputy and kinsman of King Henry II. The monastery was dedicated to Thomas Becket...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetoacetate%20decarboxylase
Acetoacetate decarboxylase
Acetoacetate decarboxylase (AAD or ADC) is an enzyme () involved in both the ketone body production pathway in humans and other mammals, and solventogenesis in bacteria. Acetoacetate decarboxylase plays a key role in solvent production by catalyzing the decarboxylation of acetoacetate, yielding acetone and carbon dioxi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetoacetate%20decarboxylase
Acetoacetate decarboxylase
The production of acetone by acetoacetate decarboxylase-containing or clostridial bacteria was utilized in large-scale industrial syntheses in the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1960s, the industry replaced this process with less expensive, more efficient chemical syntheses of acetone from petroleum and pe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetoacetate%20decarboxylase
Acetoacetate decarboxylase
Acetoacetate decarboxylase from Clostridium acetobutylicum catalyzes the decarboxylation of acetoacetate to yield acetone and carbon dioxide (Figure 1). The reaction mechanism proceeds via the formation of a Schiff base intermediate, which is covalently attached to lysine 115 in the active site. The first line of suppo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetoacetate%20decarboxylase
Acetoacetate decarboxylase
In humans and other mammals, the conversion of acetoacetate into acetone and carbon dioxide by acetoacetate decarboxylase is a final irreversible step in the ketone-body pathway that supplies the body with a secondary source of energy. In the liver, acetyl co-A formed from fats and lipids are transformed into three ket...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossabaw%20Island
Ossabaw Island
Ossabaw Island is one of the Sea Islands located on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia approximately twenty miles by water south from the historic downtown of the city of Savannah. One of the largest of Georgia's barrier islands, Ossabaw contains of wooded uplands with freshwater ponds and ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossabaw%20Island
Ossabaw Island
In 1758 a group of Creek leaders was persuaded to convey the island to King George II of Great Britain. In 1760 Henri Bourquin claimed ownership of the island. He later sold it to his son-in-law, John Morell. Morell used enslaved people to farm and timber the island. At his death, the island was divided into four plant...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossabaw%20Island
Ossabaw Island
Ossabaw today Currently Ossabaw is managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), which has entered into a Use Agreement with The Ossabaw Island Foundation, a Savannah-based non-profit organization which regulates access and use of historic areas. The foundation works cooperatively with the State of Geo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmequ%C3%A9
Turmequé
Turmequé is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Márquez Province. Turmequé is located at northeast from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Ventaquemada in the west, in the east Úmbita, in the north Nuevo Colón and in the south the municipality Villapinz...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ambita
Úmbita
Úmbita is a town and municipality in the Márquez Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Úmbita is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from department capital Tunja and borders Nuevo Colón and Tibaná in the north, Chinavita in the east, La Capilla and Tibiritá (Cundinamarca) in the ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viracach%C3%A1
Viracachá
Viracachá is a town and municipality in the Márquez Province, Colombia, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Viracachá is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at from the department capital Tunja and the small urban center at above sea level. Other parts of Viracachá reach . The municipality borders Siacho...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Sabbath%20Day%20Point
Battle of Sabbath Day Point
The Battle of Sabbath Day Point took place on 23 July 1757 just off the shore of Sabbath Day Point, Lake George, New York and ended in a French victory. The battle (actually better described as an ambush), pitched approximately 450 French and allied Indian forces under the leadership of Ensign de Corbiere of the Troupe...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Sabbath%20Day%20Point
Battle of Sabbath Day Point
In the early morning hours of 23 July Parker's main force approached Sabbath Day Point unaware that the French had intercepted his three lead boats and learned his plan. As Parker's men approached the shore they noticed the three boats sent out a day ahead and assumed nothing was wrong. Three decoys aided the French an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumeirah%20Mosque
Jumeirah Mosque
Jumeirah Mosque () is a mosque in Dubai, Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Construction began in 1975 and the mosque opened in 1979; the mosque is built in a combination of historical Islamic architectural styles, including Fatimid and Mamluk. It was a gift from the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the fo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teind
Teind
In Scotland a teind () was a tithe derived from the produce of the land for the maintenance of the clergy. It is also an old lowland term for a tribute due to be paid by the fairies to the devil every seven years. Found in the story of Tam Lin as well as in the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer. Teind is a Scots word for t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%E2%80%93Kenyon%20Act
Webb–Kenyon Act
The Webb–Kenyon Act was a 1913 law of the United States that regulated the interstate transport of alcoholic beverages. It was meant to provide federal support for the prohibition efforts of individual states in the face of charges that state regulation of alcohol usurped the federal government's exclusive constitution...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1chica
Sáchica
Sáchica is a municipality of Colombia situated approximately west of Tunja in the Ricaurte Province of the department of Boyacá. Sáchica borders Sutamarchán and Villa de Leyva in the north, in the east Chíquiza, Samacá and Ráquira in the south and in the west Ráquira and Sutamarchán. Renowned for its unique cultural...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Sof%C3%ADa%2C%20Boyac%C3%A1
Santa Sofía, Boyacá
Santa Sofía is a town and municipality in the Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province, Colombia. The urban centre of Santa Sofía is located at an altitude of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, with the highest elevated parts of the municipality, that have a páramo ecosystem, reaching . Santa...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firavitoba
Firavitoba
Firavitoba is a town and municipality in Sugamuxi Province, a subregion of the department of Boyacá in Colombia. Before Spanish colonization, Firavitoba was part of the Muisca Confederation of the Chibcha people in the highlands of the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. Firavitoba belonged to the Iraca or Suam...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firavitoba
Firavitoba
The Muisca, also a Chibcha people, arrived in the central highlands of the Colombian Andes, the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, in the ninth or tenth century. They came up into the mountains from the Llanos Orientales, or Eastern Plains of the Orinoquía region. The early Spanish chronicler, the bishop Lucas Fernández de Pied...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firavitoba
Firavitoba
Firavitoba was a tribe and settlement of Iraca or Suamox, the smallest of the four states, whose high priest and leader was the iraca or sogamuxi. Uniquely among the Chibcha states, it did not observe the usual hereditary leadership structure of succession by the ruler's nephew, oldest son of his oldest sister. Instead...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firavitoba
Firavitoba
The original church of Firavitoba was destroyed in a disaster the details which are no longer known. It may have burnt down. It was refounded in 1718 with the name Nuestra Señora de las Nieves. Until 1729, only baptismal registers exist for Firavitoba. The first recorded entry was signed by the priest Francisco Antoni...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1meza
Gámeza
Gámeza () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the Sugamuxi Province, a subregion of Boyacá. The town center is located at from Sogamoso and the municipality borders Tasco and Corrales in the north, Tópaga and Mongua in the south, in the east Socotá and westward of Gámeza Corrales ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick%20McGhee
Fredrick McGhee
Fredrick Lamar McGhee (October 28, 1861 – September 9, 1912) was an African-American criminal defense lawyer and civil rights activist. Born a slave in Mississippi, McGhee would become the first black attorney in Minnesota. Alongside close friend and collaborator of W. E. B. Du Bois, McGhee would leave the National Afr...
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10689118
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick%20McGhee
Fredrick McGhee
In 1886 McGhee married Mattie Crane, who was originally from Louisville. Later they had one adopted daughter, Ruth. In 1889 the McGhees moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he became the first black lawyer admitted to the bar in that state. He specialized in criminal defense and quickly became one of the most famous tri...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant%20Valley%20High%20School%20%28Iowa%29
Pleasant Valley High School (Iowa)
Pleasant Valley High School is a public four-year comprehensive high school located in Bettendorf, Iowa, on the border with Riverdale, Iowa. The school is part of the Pleasant Valley Community School District, and it has an enrollment of approximately 1,541 students in grades 9 through 12. Located approximately one m...
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10689121
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant%20Valley%20High%20School%20%28Iowa%29
Pleasant Valley High School (Iowa)
"The original Pleasant Valley High School boasted many modern features," a history of the school, published in the 1986 Valenian (the high school yearbook), said of the then state-of-the-art features. "All rooms and corridors were acoustically engineered. Each room had thermostatically controlled heat with an automatic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibasosa
Tibasosa
Tibasosa () is a municipality in the Sugamuxi Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tibasosa borders Duitama and Nobsa in the north, Nobsa and Sogamoso in the east, Firavitoba in the south and Paipa in the west. Etymology The name Tibasosa comes from Chibcha and means "Chief of the domain". History ...
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10689184
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Arz%20von%20Strau%C3%9Fenburg
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg
Arz was to remain in charge of the 1st Army until February 1917, after major operations in Romania ended, with help from Falkenhayn 9th German Army and from the German Army of the Danube under Mackensen. Chief of General Staff Karl I of Austria succeeded Franz Joseph as Emperor on 21 November 1916, bringing with him ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Arz%20von%20Strau%C3%9Fenburg
Arthur Arz von Straußenburg
Promoted to the rank of Generaloberst on 26 February 1918, and also raised to the nobility early the same year, Arz was ultimately responsible for planning the invasion of Italy which was to take place during the summer of 1918, with Russia now knocked out of the war and a good number of experienced forces at his dispo...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy%20Fahey
Paddy Fahey
Paddy Fahey (or Fahy, 22 August 1916 – 31 May 2019) was an Irish composer and fiddler who was considered one of the finest living composers of tunes that are in the style of traditional Irish music. Fahey is from Kilconnell in East Galway. His music has a distinctive yearning, magical quality often referred to as "Dra...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paipa
Paipa
Paipa is a town and municipality in the Tundama Province, a part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Paipa borders Duitama, Firavitoba, Tibasosa, Sotaquirá and Tuta. Geography Paipa is located 15 km west of Duitama and to the northeast of Tunja, the capital of the department, in the Cordillera Oriental (Eastern R...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire%20maintenance
Tire maintenance
Spare tires Vehicles typically carry a spare tire, already mounted on a wheel rim, to be used in the event of a flat tire or blowout. Spare tires (sometimes called "doughnuts") for modern cars are smaller than regular tires (to save trunk space, weight and cost) and should not be used to drive very far before replaceme...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire%20maintenance
Tire maintenance
Inflation (adding air) There are simple hand-held tire-pressure gauges which can be temporarily attached to the valve stem to check a tire's interior air pressure. This measurement of tire inflation pressure should be made at least once a month. Since heat in the tires from driving can impact the temperature a lot, acc...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet%C3%A9itiva
Betéitiva
Betéitiva () a town and municipality in the Valderrama Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre of Betétiva is situated at from the capital Bogotá, from the department capital Tunja and from Sogamoso. The municipality, located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, borders in the north Belén,...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Oregon%20Coast%20Range
Central Oregon Coast Range
Geology The underlying rock of the Central Coast Range are the igneous rocks from the Siletz River Volcanics of the Paleocene age. It is estimated that this rock formation is up to thick. These formations consist mainly of pillow basalt, large lava flows, tuff breccia, and sills. This part of the mountains are approxi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Oregon%20Coast%20Range
Central Oregon Coast Range
Birds living in the Central Coast Range include a variety of smaller and larger bird species. These include winter wrens, chestnut-backed chickadees, red-breasted nuthatches, varied thrushes, several swallow species, red crossbills, evening grosbeaks, brown creepers, olive-sided flycatchers, Hammond's flycatchers, gray...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Oregon%20Coast%20Range
Central Oregon Coast Range
Amphibians include, but are not limited to, rough-skinned newts, northwestern salamanders, western red-backed salamander, Coastal tailed frog, Coastal giant salamander, red-legged frog, southern torrent salamander, and Ensatina. Additional species include northwestern garter snake, northern alligator lizard, Pacific tr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption%20in%20Connecticut
Adoption in Connecticut
Adoption in Connecticut means "the establishment by court order of the legal relationship of parent and child." Adoption is provided for in Title 45a of the Connecticut General Statutes. The provisions of this title, with a few exceptions are to be "liberally construed in the best interests of any child for whom a pet...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption%20in%20Connecticut
Adoption in Connecticut
The changing nature of adoption Traditionally, adoption could not proceed unless the parental rights of both parents were first terminated. However, this is no longer always the case. In some instances, birth parents and legal parents have entered into an open adoption agreement, also known as "cooperative postadoption...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socha
Socha
Socha is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the Valderrama Province, which is a subregion of Boyacá. It borders Socotá in the east, Sativasur in the north, Tasco in the south and in the west Paz de Río. Geography The village is located in the Eastern Ranges at altitudes between an...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim%20and%20Judah
Ephraim and Judah
In the Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh), the reference of "Ephraim and Judah" (when employed together) are merely figurative terms used for the two ancient Kingdoms of Israel. See History of Ancient Israel and Judah. The reference of "Ephraim and Judah" is employed most frequently by the Prophets (Nevi'im) of the Hebrew Scr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s%20gardens
Devil's gardens
The Devil's gardens was the name given by Field Marshal () Erwin Rommel, commander of the German during the Second World War, to the defensive entanglements of land mines and barbed wire built to protect Axis defensive positions at El Alamein before the Second Battle of El Alamein in late 1942. The defences stretch fr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Life%20and%20Adventures%20of%20Nicholas%20Nickleby%20%28play%29
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is an 8½ hour-long adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1839 novel, performed in two parts. Part 1 was 4 hours in length with one interval of 15 minutes. Part 2 was 4½ hours in length with two intervals of 12 minutes. It was originally presented onstage over two evenings, or in it...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clans%20in%20Central%20Asia
Clans in Central Asia
After Brezhnev’s death in 1982, the decline of the Soviet regime brought new instability to Central Asia. From 1984 to 1988, Moscow staged massive purges of the dominant clans in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Mikhail Gorbachev installed a large ethnically Russian cadre from Moscow in most positions of economic and politic...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clans%20in%20Central%20Asia
Clans in Central Asia
The most powerful clan in Uzbekistan is the Samarkand clan, which has traditionally controlled the Interior Ministry; Uzbek President Islam Karimov was a member of the Samarkand clan, which is based in Samarkand, Bukhara, Dzhizak and Navoi, and is allied with the weaker Jizak clan. The Tashkent clan, which controls the...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clans%20in%20Central%20Asia
Clans in Central Asia
In a situation of great economic uncertainty, the clans become strong competitors to the State and, being more efficient in providing for the needs of their members, the clans become more powerful and influential than the State institutions. In order to meet all of the requests of their affiliates, the clans must subtr...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleione%20%28mythology%29
Pleione (mythology)
Pleione ( or ) was an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology and mother of the Pleiades. Pleione presided over the multiplication of the flocks, fitting, since the meaning of her name is: "to increase in number" (from πλεῖων "more"). Family Pleione was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys who were the Titan God and Goddess ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary%20history
Contemporary history
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity. Contemporary history is politically dominated by ...
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In 1945, the Allies of World War II had defeated all significant opposition to them. They established the United Nations to govern international relations and disputes. A looming question was how to handle the defeated Axis nations and the shattered nations that the Axis had conquered. Following the Yalta Conference, t...
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Latin America saw gradual economic growth but also instability in many countries, as the threat of coups and military regimes (juntas) were a major threat. The most famous was the Cuban Revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista's American-friendly government for Fidel Castro's Soviet-aligned government. This led to t...
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The Middle East saw events that presaged later conflicts in the 70s and 80s. A few years after the end of the UAR's union between Egypt and Syria, Syria's government was overthrown in the 1966 Syrian coup d'état and replaced with the Neo-Baathist Party, eventually leading to the leadership of the Al-Assad family. Israe...
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The 1980s saw a general retreat for the communist bloc. The Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) is often called the "Soviet Union's Vietnam War" in comparison to the American defeat, being an expensive and ultimately unsuccessful war and occupation. More importantly, the intervening decades had seen that Eastern Europe was u...
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The end of the Cold War left the United States the world's sole superpower. Communism seemed discredited; while China remained an officially communist state, Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms and socialism with Chinese characteristics allowed for the growth of a capitalist private sector in China. In Russia, President B...
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The United States responded to the 11 September 2001 attacks by launching a "Global War on Terrorism", invading the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists. The War in Afghanistan began in late 2001 and was launched by the UN-authorized ISAF, with the United States and...
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The end of World War II in 1945 saw an increase in international trade and an interconnected system of treaties and agreements to ease its flow. In particular, the United States and the United States dollar took a pivotal role in the world economy, displacing the UK. The era is sometimes called "Pax Americana" for the ...
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The 1970s saw economic headwinds. Notably, the price of oil started to go up in the 1970s, as the easiest and most accessible wells had already been pumped dry in the preceding century, and oil is a non-renewable resource. Attention was drawn to the abundant oil in the Middle East, where countries in OPEC controlled su...
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In the beginning of the 2000s, there was a global rise in prices in commodities and housing, marking an end to the 2000s commodities boom. The US mortgage-backed securities, which had risks that were hard to assess, were marketed around the world and a broad based credit boom fed a global speculative bubble in real est...
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Social history Social changes since 1945 have been vast and disparate, affecting countries and subgroups within those countries in ways specific to each population, meaning there is not one single global story of social change. Despite this, one of the major trends has been an increasing interchange between cultures a...
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Religious trends have been disparate and not consistent across countries, often with sharply varying results even between similar and nearby groups. In industrialized and economically prosperous regions, there has been a loose trend toward secularization that deprioritized the role of religion, even among people who s...
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Another social trend has been the rise of urbanization as a larger proportion of the world's population has moved to live in cities and urban areas, and fewer people live in rural areas. In the United States, as the overall population more than doubled from 1930 to 1990, around a third of its counties saw their popula...
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The growing world population and rising standards of living has caused a vast increase in demand for energy development, both to power vehicles such as personal cars as well as on public electrical grids. In particular, petroleum oil has been in ravenous demand across the world. Many of the cheapest and easiest sources...
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The Information Age or Information Era, also commonly known as the Age of the Computer, is an idea that the current age will be characterized by the ability of individuals to transfer information freely, and to have instant access to knowledge that would have been difficult or impossible to find previously. The idea is...
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"Web 2.0" is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, User-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-shar...
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The Space Race was one of the rivalries of the Cold War, with both the United States space program (NASA) and the Soviet space program launching satellites, probes, and planning missions. While the Soviets put the first human into space with Yuri Gagarin, the Americans soon caught up, and the US was the first to launch...
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There are various spaceports, including spaceports of human spaceflight and other launch systems (space logistics). Private spaceflight is flight beyond the Kármán line that is conducted and paid for by an entity other than a government agency. Commercialization of space is the use of equipment sent into or through out...
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Climate change and global warming reflects the notion of the modern climate. The changes of climate over the past century, have been attributed to various factors which have resulted in a global warming. This warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20t...
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Afro-Colombians
Beginning in 1851, the Colombian State promoted mestizaje or miscegenation. In order to maintain their cultural traditions, many Africans and indigenous peoples went deep into isolated jungles. Afro-Colombians and indigenous people were often targeted by armed groups who wanted to displace them in order to take their l...
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It is believed that the Bambuco is a musical genre that inevitability was brought by the Africans when the first slaves arrived at Cauca region. There is also a relationship between Bambuco and the name of a town in French Sudan "Bambuk," and it has been theorized that this genre comes from that specific region. Anothe...
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A different branch of bambuco emerged in the Pacific Coast of Colombia, the contemporary Bambuco. The pacific coast and the northern coast of Colombia have an Afro-Colombian population that surpasses the average in comparison to any other region in the country (90% and 50%, respectively). In the region of Cauca at the ...
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Cumbia The cumbia is another typical Colombian musical genre that emerged from the African slaves in Colombia. In this case, cumbia is a mixture of rhythms from Afro-Colombians and indigenous native Colombiansto bring about a different style. Unlike the Bambuco, cumbia certainly originated in the northern part of Colo...
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Educational disparities in Afro-Colombian life There is an acknowledgment of a racist undertone in Colombia. There is a lack of implementing the history of Afro-Colombian culture, language, and overall visibility within Colombian educational hubs. Even so, their history is not told correctly to the Colombian people. It...
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This is a result of the inequality present in the Colombian education system. The quality of education afforded to the black population pales in comparison to that of the white/mestizo population. The black population is also not granted the same opportunities when it come to jobs or social advancement. These are the f...
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Urban researchers have found drastic economic differences between the residents of Bogota. Suburbs are segregated and more uniform with people with similar incomes. This stratification has a racial and economic element to it. Afro-Colombians are segregated and live in all 19 sectors of the city, which are sectors with ...
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Effects of the war on Afro-Colombians Colombia's civil war began in the year 1964 and finished in the year 2017, when a peace treaty between the guerrilla movement (FARC) and the government was concreted and signed. This long civil war affected and continues to affect most Colombians, however, according to the World D...
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On another hand, the civil war has made Afro-Colombians victims of violence because Afro-Colombian territories, such as El Chocó, have become the combat zone between the FARC guerrilla and the Colombian government. More specifically, this means that they have been exposed to bombs, shootings, and deaths at a much highe...
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Health disparities A recent study conducted by the London School of Economics revealed that Afro-Colombians are at an extreme disadvantage in terms of being healthy when compared to the rest of the Colombian population. Furthermore, this study showed that many socioeconomic factors are involved in this and that contri...
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Martin Perscheid
Martin Perscheid (16 February 1966 – 31 July 2021) was a German cartoonist. He created a main character in 1994, who appeared from 1998 under the title Perscheids Abgründe (Perscheid's abysses). More than 4,300 strips appeared in several German newspapers and magazines. He is known for his "fearless glimpses into human...
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Bournemouth Reform Synagogue
Under the leadership of Rabbi Neil Amswych the Foundations course was established for adults in 2005, and in 2006 became a partially online course for those who live far away from Bournemouth. Community-led decisions have always been a part of every British Reform community but BRS is one of the communities that has em...
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Bournemouth Reform Synagogue
A significant development in the liturgy was made in March 2008 when the community voted by a large majority to adopt the eighth edition of the Forms of Prayer siddur written by the Movement for Reform Judaism. For Succot 2009, Rabbi Jenny created a booklet of prayers to allow the community to move away from the 50-yea...
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Bournemouth Reform Synagogue
In 2006, Rabbi Neil Amswych created the Foundations Course which was designed to teach about matters that lie at the heart of being a Reform Jew. There were sessions three times a month – two Wednesday evenings and one Shabbat afternoon. In 2007, the two Wednesday evening sessions were moved online, so that the Foundat...
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