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20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
was the reason for Rothbard's opposition to aggressive foreign policy. Rothbard believed that stopping new wars was necessary and that knowledge of how government had led citizens into earlier wars was important. Two essays expanded on these views "War, Peace, and the State" and "The Anatomy of the Stat... | 48,800 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
as viewed from the Confederate side". Rothbard condemned the "Northern war against slavery", saying it was inspired by "fanatical" religious faith and characterized by "a cheerful willingness to uproot institutions, to commit mayhem and mass murder, to plunder and loot and destroy, all in the name of hi... | 48,801 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
aggression "fueled by American arms and money". Rothbard warned that the Middle East conflict would draw the United States into a world war. He was anti-Zionist and opposed United States involvement in the Middle East. Rothbard criticized the Camp David Accords for having betrayed Palestinian aspiration... | 48,802 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
of Palestine for centuries; and on the other, there are a group of external fanatics, who come from all over the world, and who claim the entire land area as "given" to them as a collective religion or tribe at some remote or legendary time in the past. There is no way the two claims can be resolved to ... | 48,803 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
influence exerted by corrupt "court intellectuals" over mainstream historical narratives. Rothbard wrote that these mainstream intellectuals distorted the historical record in favor of "the state" in exchange for "wealth, power, and prestige" from the state. Rothbard characterized the revisionist task a... | 48,804 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
In addition to broadly supporting his historical views, Rothbard promoted Barnes as an influence for future revisionists.
Rothbard's endorsing of World War II revisionism and his association with Barnes and other Holocaust deniers have drawn criticism from within the political right. Kevin D. Williamso... | 48,805 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
denial, the view which "specifically denies that the Holocaust actually happened or holds that it was in some way exaggerated".
In an article for Rothbard's 50th birthday, Rothbard's friend and Buffalo State College historian Ralph Raico stated that Rothbard "is the main reason that revisionism has bec... | 48,806 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
children. He also holds children have the right to run away from parents and seek new guardians as soon as they are able to choose to do so. He asserted that parents have the right to put a child out for adoption or sell the rights to the child in a voluntary contract in what Rothbard suggests will be a... | 48,807 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights". Thus, Rothbard stated that parents should have the legal right to let any infant die by starvation and should be free to engage in other forms of child neglect. However, according to Rothba... | 48,808 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
any arguments based on the moral reprehensibility of a parent idly watching her six-month-old child slowly starve to death in its crib".
## Civil liberties.
Rothbard consistently advocated for abolition of the subpoena power, court attendance, contempt of court powers, coerced testimony of witnesses, ... | 48,809 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
it is impossible to justify any imprisonment before conviction, let alone before trial. And even when someone is caught red-handed, there is an important reform that needs to be instituted to keep the system honest: subjecting the police and the other authorities to the same law as everyone else. If eve... | 48,810 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
arrests or indictments should be charged with kidnapping.
## Retributive theory of criminal justice.
In "The Ethics of Liberty", Rothbard advocates for a "frankly retributive theory of punishment" or a system of "a tooth (or two teeth) for a tooth". Rothbard emphasizes that all punishment must be prop... | 48,811 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
which the thief has forfeited his right. The thief would be "put in a [temporary] state of enslavement to his victim" if he is unable to pay him immediately. Rothbard also applies his theory to justify beating and torturing violent criminals, although the beatings are required to be proportional to the ... | 48,812 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
murderer to find information (not to wring a confession, since obviously a coerced confession could never be considered valid). If the suspect turns out to be guilty, then the police should be exonerated, for then they have only ladled out to the murderer a parcel of what he deserves in return; his righ... | 48,813 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
goes on to state that Rothbard's scheme gives the police a strong motive to frame the suspect after having tortured him or her.
## Science and scientism.
In an essay condemning "scientism in the study of man", Rothbard rejected the application of causal determinism to human beings, arguing that the ac... | 48,814 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
economics, history, ethics and political science to create a "science of liberty". Rothbard described the moral basis for his anarcho-capitalist position in two of his books: "For a New Liberty", published in 1973; and "The Ethics of Liberty", published in 1982. In his "Power and Market" (1970), Rothbar... | 48,815 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
in states' rights".
By the late 1960s, Rothbard's "long and winding yet somehow consistent road had taken him from anti-New Deal and anti-interventionist Robert Taft supporter into friendship with the quasi-pacifist Nebraska Republican Congressman Howard Buffett (father of Warren Buffett) then over to ... | 48,816 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
It was during this phase that he associated with Karl Hess and founded "" with Leonard Liggio and George Resch, which existed from 1965 to 1968.
From 1969 to 1984, he edited "The Libertarian Forum", also initially with Hess (although Hess's involvement ended in 1971). The "Libertarian Forum" provided a... | 48,817 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
spending cuts a "fraud" and a "hoax" and accused Reaganites of doctoring the economic statistics in order to give the false impression that their policies were successfully reducing inflation and unemployment. He further criticized the "myths of Reaganomics" in 1987.
Rothbard criticized the "frenzied n... | 48,818 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
activism. During the 1970s and 1980s, Rothbard was active in the Libertarian Party. He was frequently involved in the party's internal politics. He was one of the founders of the Cato Institute and "came up with the idea of naming this libertarian think tank after "Cato's Letters", a powerful series of ... | 48,819 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
Ed Clark and Cato Institute president Edward H Crane III. According to Charles Burris, "Rothbard and Crane became bitter rivals after disputes emerging from the 1980 LP presidential campaign of Ed Clark carried over to strategic direction and management of Cato".
Rothbard split with the Radical Caucus ... | 48,820 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
"The Rothbard-Rockwell Report"; which after Rothbard's 1995 death evolved into the website, "LewRockwell.com"".
## Paleolibertarianism.
In 1989, Rothbard left the Libertarian Party and began building bridges to the post-Cold War anti-interventionist right, calling himself a paleolibertarian, a conserv... | 48,821 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
that former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy were models for an "Outreach to the Rednecks" effort that could be used by a broad libertarian/paleoconservative coalition. Working together, the coalition would expose the "unholy alliance of 'corporate liberal' Big Business ... | 48,822 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
lower taxes, dismantling the bureaucracy, slashing the welfare system, attacking affirmative action and racial set-asides, calling for equal rights for all Americans, including whites".
Rothbard supported the presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan in 1992 and wrote that "with Pat Buchanan as our leader,... | 48,823 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
Buchanan, Rothbard opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). However, he had become disillusioned with Buchanan by 1995, believing that the latter's "commitment to protectionism was mutating into an all-round faith in economic planning and the nation state".
After Rothbard's death in 199... | 48,824 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
libertarians and academics. Journalist Brian Doherty has summarized Buckley's obituary as follows: "[W]hen Rothbard died in 1995, his old pal William Buckley took pen in hand to piss on his grave". Hoppe, Rockwell and Rothbard's colleagues at the Mises Institute took a different view, arguing that he wa... | 48,825 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
.
- "The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies", Columbia University Press, 1962; full text reprint, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2004, .
- "America's Great Depression", D. Van Nostrand Co., 1973; full text reprint, fifth edition, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005, .
- "", Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 197... | 48,826 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
full text reprint, Second edition, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2000, .
- "Conceived in Liberty", (4 vol.), Arlington House Publishers 1975–1979; full text collected in single volume, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012, .
- "The Logic of Action" (2 vol.), Edward Elgar Publications, 1997, and ; full text ... | 48,827 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
1994; full text reprint, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007, .
- "An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought", (2 vol.), Edward Elgar Publishers, 1995, ; full text reprints Vol. 1: "Economic Thought Before Adam Smith" and Vol. 2: "Classical Economics", Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009.
-... | 48,828 |
20217 | Murray Rothbard | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard
er for Libertarian Studies, 1995.
- Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005; 2nd 2011.
- Full text and a Spanish translation are available.
# See also.
- American philosophy
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Criticism of the Federal Reserve
- Libertarianism in the United States
- List of American philosophers
# ... | 48,829 |
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Micah
Micah (; ) is a given name.
Micah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), and means "Who is like God?" The name is sometimes found with theophoric extensions. Suffix theophory in "Yah" and in "Yahweh" results in Michaiah or Michaihu (), meaning "who is like Yahweh?" Suffix theop... | 48,830 |
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the son of Imlah, who gave a negative prophecy to Ahab on his request
- A man of Mount Ephraim, appearing in the story of Micah's Idol
- The son of Meribaal (or Mephibosheth), still a child when his father was invited to David's house, grandson of Jonathan (1 Samuel), great-grandson of King Saul
# Fiction.
- ... | 48,831 |
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character in the television series "Heroes"
- Marshal Micah Torrance, fictional character in the television series "The Rifleman" (1958–63)
- Reverend Micah Balwhidder, fictional minister in 1821 novel "Annals of the Parish"
- Micah Bell, fictional character in the 2018 video game "Red Dead Redemption 2"
# Pe... | 48,832 |
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(born 1980), American comic book artist
- Micah Hannemann (born 1994), American football player
- Micah Hawkins (1777–1825), American poet and composer
- Micah P. Hinson (born 1981), American musician
- Micah Hyde (born 1974), Jamaican soccer player
- Micah Hyde (born 1990), American football player
- Micah... | 48,833 |
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1953), Belgian singer and actress
- Micah Ortega (born 1976), American guitarist
- Micah Owings (born 1982), American baseball pitcher
- Micah Perks (born 1963), American writer
- Micah Richards (born 1988), English football player
- Micah Ricks (born 1987), bass guitarist for Days Difference
- Micah Sloat ... | 48,834 |
20284 | Micah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Micah | Micah
uitarist for Days Difference
- Micah Sloat (born 1981), American actor
- Micah Smaldone (born 1978), American musician
- Micah Solusod (born 1990), American actor
- Micah Sterling (1784–1844), American politician
- Micah Taul (1785–1850), American politician
- Micah Troy (born 1977), American rapper
- Mica... | 48,835 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
Moravia
Moravia ( ; ; ; ; ) is a historical region in the Czech Republic (forming its eastern part) and one of the historical Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (from 1348 to 1918), an im... | 48,836 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
dissolved by abolition of the land system in 1949.
Moravia has an area of over 22,000 km and about 3 million inhabitants, which is roughly 2/7 or 30% of the whole Czech Republic. The statistics from 1921 states, that the whole area of Moravia including the enclaves in Silesia covers 22,623.41 km. The people ar... | 48,837 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
by the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War, Olomouc was another capital.
Though officially abolished by an administrative reform in 1949, Moravia is still commonly acknowledged as a specific land in the Czech Republic. Moravian people are considerably aware of their Moravian identity and there is some ri... | 48,838 |
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"March". Interestingly, this might hint at a different etymology, as "march" is a term used in the Medieval times for an outlying territory, a border or a frontier (cf. English "march").
# Geography.
Moravia occupies most of the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Moravian territory is naturally strongly dete... | 48,839 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
north movement more difficult. Only Moravia with the depression of the westernmost Outer Subcarpathia, wide, between the Bohemian Massif and the Outer Western Carpathians (gripping the meridian at a constant angle of 30°), provides a comfortable connection between the Danubian and Polish regions, and this area ... | 48,840 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
in the northeast. Its natural boundary is formed by the Sudetes mountains in the north, the Carpathians in the east and the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands in the west (the border runs from Králický Sněžník in the north, over Suchý vrch, across Upper Svratka Highlands and Javořice Highlands to tripoint nearby Slavo... | 48,841 |
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of Silesia – the Austrian Silesia (when Frederick the Great annexed most of ancient Silesia (the land of upper and middle Oder river) to Prussia, Silesia's southernmost part remained with the Habsburgs).
Today Moravia including the South Moravian Region, the Zlín Region, vast majority of the Olomouc Region, so... | 48,842 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
the Dyje-Svratka Valley ("Dyjsko-svratecký úval"), the Upper Morava Valley ("Hornomoravský úval") and the Lower Morava Valley ("Dolnomoravský úval"). The first two form the westernmost part of the Outer Subcarpathia, the last is the northernmost part of the Vienna Basin. The valleys surround the low range of Ce... | 48,843 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
rise up to 970 m at Velká Javořina. The spacious, but moderate Bohemian-Moravian Highlands on the west reach 837 m at Javořice.
The fluvial system of Moravia is very cohesive, as the region border is similar to the watershed of the Morava river, and thus almost the entire area is drained exclusively by a singl... | 48,844 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
European Watershed. For centuries, there has been plans to build a waterway across Moravia to join the Danube and Oder river systems, using the natural route through the Moravian Gate.
# History.
## Pre-history.
Evidence of the presence of Homo dates back more than 600,000 years in the paleontological area o... | 48,845 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
Věstonice by Karel Absolon.
## Roman era.
Around 60 BC, the Celtic Volcae people withdrew from the region and were succeeded by the Germanic Quadi. Some of the events of the Marcomannic Wars took place in Moravia in AD 169–180. After the war exposed the weakness of Rome's northern frontier, half of the Roman ... | 48,846 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
situated above the former village Mušov and above today's beach resort at Pasohlávky. During the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the 10th Legion was assigned to control the Germanic tribes who had been defeated in the Marcomannic Wars. In 1927, the archeologist Gnirs, with the support of president Tomáš G... | 48,847 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
dating of the locality.
## Ancient Moravia.
A variety of Germanic and major Slavic tribes crossed through Moravia during the Migration Period before Slavs established themselves in the 6th century AD. At the end of the 8th century, the Moravian Principality came into being in present-day south-eastern Moravia... | 48,848 |
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from the Carolingian influence, so he sent envoys to Rome to get missionaries to come. When Rome refused he turned to Constantinople to the Byzantine emperor Michael. The result was the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius who translated liturgical books into Slavonic, which had lately been elevated by the Pop... | 48,849 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
part of present Hungary (Pannonia), as well as Lusatia in present-day Germany and Silesia and the upper Vistula basin in southern Poland. After Svatopluk's death in 895, the Bohemian princes defected to become vassals of the East Frankish ruler Arnulf of Carinthia, and the Moravian state ceased to exist after b... | 48,850 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
in 1034, Bretislaus became the ruler of Bohemia. In 1055, he decreed that Bohemia and Moravia would be inherited together by primogeniture, although he also provided that his younger sons should govern parts (quarters) of Moravia as vassals to his oldest son.
Throughout the Přemyslid era, junior princes often ... | 48,851 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
status of a margrave, immediately subject to the emperor, independent of Bohemia. This status was short-lived: in 1186, Conrad Otto was forced to obey the supreme rule of Bohemian duke Frederick. Three years later, Conrad Otto succeeded to Frederick as Duke of Bohemia and subsequently canceled his margrave titl... | 48,852 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
Battle of Legnica, the Mongols carried their raids into Moravia.
The main line of the Přemyslid dynasty became extinct in 1306, and in 1310 John of Luxembourg became Margrave of Moravia and King of Bohemia. In 1333, he made his son Charles the next Margrave of Moravia (later in 1346, Charles also became the Ki... | 48,853 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
Bohemia remained within the Luxembourg dynasty of Holy Roman kings and emperors (except during the Hussite wars), until inherited by Albert II of Habsburg in 1437.
After his death followed the interregnum until 1453; land (as the rest of lands of the Bohemian Crown) was administered by the landfriedens ("landf... | 48,854 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
continuing to serve him. The Hungarian crusade followed and in 1469 Matthias Corvinus conquered Moravia and proclaimed himself (with assistance of rebelling Bohemian nobility) as the king of Bohemia.
The subsequent 21-year period of a divided kingdom was decisive for the rising awareness of a specific Moravian... | 48,855 |
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Habsburg rule (1526–1918).
After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in 1526, Ferdinand I of Austria was elected King of Bohemia and thus ruler of the Crown of Bohemia (including Moravia). The epoch 1526–1620 was marked by increasing animosity between Catholic Habsburg kings (emperors) and the Pr... | 48,856 |
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in Central and Northern Europe. The second largest group of students were from Scandinavia.
Brno and Olomouc served as Moravia's capitals until 1641. As the only city to successfully resist the Swedish invasion, Brno become the sole capital following the capture of Olomouc. The Margraviate of Moravia had, from... | 48,857 |
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12,000 captives. In 1740, Moravia was invaded by Prussian forces under Frederick the Great, and Olomouc was forced to surrender on 27 December 1741. A few months later the Prussians were repelled, mainly because of their unsuccessful siege of Brno in 1742. In 1758, Olomouc was besieged by Prussians again, but t... | 48,858 |
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of 1910 the proportion of Czech in the population of Moravia at the time (2.622.000) was 71,8 %, while the proportion of Germans was 27,6 %.
## 20th century.
Following the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, Moravia became part of Czechoslovakia. As one of the five lands of Czechoslovakia, it had... | 48,859 |
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(1939–1945), the remnant of Moravia was an administrative unit within the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. During the WW II Moravia lost 46,306 Jews according to religion.
In 1945 after the end of World War II and Allied defeat of Germany, Czechoslovakia expelled the ethnic German minority of Moravia to Ge... | 48,860 |
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from the historical Bohemian-Moravian border, so Moravia politically ceased to exist after more than 1100 years (833–1949) of its history. Although another administrative reform in 1960 implemented (among others) the North Moravian and the South Moravian regions ("Severomoravský" and "Jihomoravský kraj"), with ... | 48,861 |
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in 1990. However, after the breakup of Czechoslovakia into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, Moravian area remained integral to the Czech territory, and the latest administrative division of Czech Republic (introduced in 2000) is similar to the administrative division of 1949. Nevertheless, the federalist or... | 48,862 |
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regions (whose boundaries are still partly in use).
# Economy.
An area in South Moravia, around Hodonín and Břeclav, is part of the Viennese Basin. Petroleum and lignite are found there in abundance. The main economic centres of Moravia are Brno, Olomouc and Zlín, plus Ostrava lying directly on the Moravian-S... | 48,863 |
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(e.g. CZUB, Zbrojovka Brno, Czech Small Arms, Czech Weapons, ZVI, Great Gun) are settled in Moravia. Almost all well-known Czech sporting, self-defence, military and hunting firearms come from Moravia. Also, Meopta rifle scopes are of Moravian origin.
## Aircraft industry.
The Zlín Region hosts several aircra... | 48,864 |
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production is expected to grow from 2013 onwards.
## Machinery industry.
Machinery has been the most important industrial sector in the region, especially in South Moravia, for many decades. The main centres of machinery production are Brno (Zbrojovka Brno, Zetor, První brněnská strojírna, Siemens), Blansko (... | 48,865 |
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production are Brno (VUES, ZPA Brno, EM Brno), Drásov, Frenštát pod Radhoštěm and Mohelnice (currently Siemens).
# Cities.
## Statutory cities.
- Brno, c. 380,000 inhabitants, former land capital and nowadays capital of South Moravian Region; industrial, judicial, educational and research centre; railway and... | 48,866 |
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75,000 inh., capital of Zlín Region, modern city developed after First World War by the Bata Shoes company
- Frýdek-Místek, nearly 60,000 inh., twin-town lying directly on the old Moravian-Silesian border (the western part, Místek, is Moravian), in the industrial area around Ostrava
- Jihlava, c. 50,000 inh. ... | 48,867 |
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Znojmo (34,000), historical and cultural centre of southwestern Moravia
- Kroměříž (29,000), historical city in southern Hanakia
- Valašské Meziříčí (28,000), largest city of the Moravian Wallachia
- Nový Jičín (28,000), historical city with hatting industry
- Šumperk (27,000), centre of the north of Moravi... | 48,868 |
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south from Ostrava
- Žďár nad Sázavou (21,000), industrial town in the Highlands, near the border with Bohemia
- Vyškov (21,000), local centre at a motorway junction halfway between Brno and Olomouc
- Blansko (21,000), industrial city north from Brno, at the foot of the Moravian Karst
# People.
The Moravia... | 48,869 |
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as early as the 13th century at the behest of the Přemyslid dynasty. Germans continued to come to Moravia in waves, culminating in the 18th century. They lived in the main city centres and in the countryside along the border with Austria (stretching up to Brno) and along the border with Silesia at Jeseníky, and... | 48,870 |
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Komenský (Comenius) (1592–1670), educator and theologian, last bishop of Unity of the Brethren
- David Zeisberger (1717–1807) Moravian missionary to the Leni Lenape, "Apostle to the Indians"
- Georgius Prochaska (1749–1820), ophthalmologist and physiologist
- František Palacký (1798–1876), historian and poli... | 48,871 |
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Mucha (1860–1939), painter
- Adolf Loos (1870–1933), architect, pioneer of functionalism
- Karl Renner (1870–1950), Austrian statesman, co-founder of Friends of Nature movement
- Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), entrepreneur, founder of Bata Shoes company
- Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist and political scie... | 48,872 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
participant in Manhattan Project
- Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), theoretical mathematician
- Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), entrepreneur, saviour of almost 1,200 Jews during the WWII
- Jan Kubiš (1913–1942), paratrooper who assassinated Nazi despot R. Heydrich
- Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), writer
- Thomas J. Bata ... | 48,873 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
magnate, former wife of Donald Trump
- Petra Kvitová (1990–), professional tennis player
- Ivan Lendl (1959–), tennis player
- Jana Novotná (1968–2017), tennis player
- Jiří Šlégr (1971–), ice hockey player, member of the Triple Gold Club
- Bohuslav Sobotka (1971–), social-democratic politician, Czech Prim... | 48,874 |
20216 | Moravia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moravia | Moravia
parts of Moravia, usually those formerly inhabited by the German speakers, are dialectally indifferent, as they have been resettled by people from various Czech (and Slovak) regions.
The principal cultural regions of Moravia are:
- Hanakia ("Haná") in the central and northern part
- Lachia ("Lašsko") in the ... | 48,875 |
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Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
- Tugendhat Villa in Brno
## Other.
- Hranice Abyss, the deepest known underwater cave in the world
# See also.
- German South Moravia
- Moravian Church
- Moravian traditional music
- Flag of Moravia
# Further reading.
- "The Penny Cyclopaedia of ... | 48,876 |
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(2010) "Treausures of Moravia: story of historical land". Brno, Moravian Museum. .
- National Geographic Society. Wonders of the Ancient World; National Geographic Atlas of Archaeology, Norman Hammond, Consultant, Nat'l Geogr. Soc., (multiple staff authors), (Nat'l Geogr., R. H. Donnelley & Sons, Willard, OH),... | 48,877 |
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(1999) "Hungarians & Europe in the Early Middle Ages: An Introduction to Early Hungarian History" translated by Nicholas Bodoczky, Central European University Press, Budapest, .
- Wihoda, Martin (2015), "Vladislaus Henry: The Formation of Moravian Identity". Brill Publishers .
- Kirschbaum, Stanislav J. (1996... | 48,878 |
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Moravian Galery, Muzeum umění Olomouc
- David, Jiří (2009). "Moravian estatism and provincial councils in the second half of the 17th century". "Folia historica Bohemica. 1 2"4: 111–165. .
- Svoboda, Jiří A. (1999), "Hunters between East and West: the paleolithic of Moravia". New York: Plenum Press, .
- Abso... | 48,879 |
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Strážnice, National Institute of Folk Culture. .
- Miller, Michael R. (2010), "The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation", Cover of Rabbis and Revolution edition. Stanford University Press. .
- Bata, Thomas J. (1990), "Bata: Shoemaker to the World". Stoddart Publishers Canada. .
- Procházka, Jiří (2009)... | 48,880 |
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ture. .
- Miller, Michael R. (2010), "The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation", Cover of Rabbis and Revolution edition. Stanford University Press. .
- Bata, Thomas J. (1990), "Bata: Shoemaker to the World". Stoddart Publishers Canada. .
- Procházka, Jiří (2009), "Vienna obsessa. Thesaurus Moraviae". B... | 48,881 |
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Martin Fowler (software engineer)
Martin Fowler (born 1963) is a British software developer, author and international public speaker on software development, specialising in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including ext... | 48,882 |
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Massachusetts in the suburb of Melrose.
Fowler started working with software in the early 1980s. Out of university in 1986 he started working in software development for Coopers & Lybrand until 1991. In 2000 he joined ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company, where h... | 48,883 |
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"Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models". Addison-Wesley. .
- 1997. "UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language". Addison-Wesley. .
- 1999. "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", With Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts ... | 48,884 |
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e Programming". With Kent Beck. Addison-Wesley. .
- 2002. "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture". With David Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, and Randy Stafford. Addison-Wesley. .
- 2010. "Domain-Specific Languages". With Rebecca Parsons. Addison-Wesley. .... | 48,885 |
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Machete
A machete (; ) is a broad blade used either as an implement like an axe, or in combat like a short sword. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the Spanish language, the word is a diminutive form of the word "macho", which was used to refer to sledgehammers. In the English language, a... | 48,886 |
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purposes (e.g. cutting sugar cane). Besides this, in Latin America a common use is for such household tasks as cutting large foodstuffs into pieces—much as a cleaver is used—or to perform crude cutting tasks, such as making simple wooden handles for other tools. It is common to see people using machetes for oth... | 48,887 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
the machete is common in many tropical countries, it is often the weapon of choice for uprisings. For example, the Boricua Popular Army are unofficially called "macheteros" because of the machete-wielding laborers of sugar cane fields of past Puerto Rico.
Many of the killings in the 1994 Rwandan genocide were ... | 48,888 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
the most iconic weapon during the independence wars in that country (1868–1898), although it saw limited battlefield use. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, owner of the sugar refinery "La Demajagua" near Manzanillo, freed his slaves on 10 October 1868. He proceeded to lead them, armed with machetes, in revolt against ... | 48,889 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
"Things Fall Apart".
Some countries have a name for the blow of a machete; the Spanish "machetazo" is sometimes used in English. In the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, the word "planass" means to hit someone with the flat of the b... | 48,890 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
called a "jungle kit" ("Conjunto de Selva" in Portuguese); it is manufactured by Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil (IMBEL).
Many fictitious slashers have used it as a weapon in horror movies, the most notorious being Jason Voorhees, from the "Friday the 13th" movie series.
# Cultural variations.
The tsa... | 48,891 |
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of . The upper inclined portion of the blade may be sharpened.
This tool has been used as a weapon: during the Mau Mau Uprising; in the Rwandan Genocide; in South Africa particularly in the 1980s and early 1990s when the former province of Natal was wracked by conflict between the African National Congress and... | 48,892 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
weapon of guerrillas in the Philippine–American War. Filipinos still use the "bolo" for everyday tasks, such as clearing vegetation and chopping various large foodstuffs. These are also commonly found in most Filipino kitchens, with some sets displayed on the walls and other sets for less practical use. The "bo... | 48,893 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
more variations exist, such as the "e-nep", or "nep", which translates as "leaf" (มีดเหน็บ). It may resemble some forms of Muslim blades like the "jambiya", or the Nepali "khukuri", having aspects of both with the up-swept tip and protruding belly. Another design found in Thailand is the "e-toh", which is promi... | 48,894 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
(พร้า) it can describe long straight designs, or billhook designs. The primary purpose of a "pra" is farm work and clearing vegetation.
In the various regions of Ecuador, it is still used as an everyday tool in agricultural labors, such as clearing, chopping, cutting and felling. In the Pacific coast region, t... | 48,895 |
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to agriculture: it also had a double role as a ready-to-hand weapon for self-defense or attack. Although modern laws in Ecuador now prohibit its use as a weapon, there are still cases of vicious fighting or intimidation related to it. Being a part of the male dress, it also has a part in the cultural expression... | 48,896 |
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Today, this region has a dance called the "dança dos facões" (machetes' dance) in which the dancers, who also always men, knock their machetes while dancing, simulating a battle. "Maculelê", an Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art, can also be performed with "facões". This practice began in the city of Santo Am... | 48,897 |
20261 | Machete | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Machete | Machete
many homicides and decapitations are suspected of being committed with machetes or similar tools.
The "taiga" is a machete of Russian origin that combines the functions of machetes, axes, knives, saws, and shovels into one tool. It is easily distinguished by the large swell at the end of the blade to facilitat... | 48,898 |
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differs from the falchion mainly in the lack of a guard and a simpler hilt, though some machetes do have a guard for greater hand protection during work.
The "kopis" is an ancient Greek weapon comparable to the machete. The "makhaira" is also similar, but was intended primarily to be a weapon rather than a too... | 48,899 |
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