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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... "reset" the calendar, Julius Caesar affixed the New Year on January 1 (the day the Senate traditionally convened) and added a day or two to a few m... ...eart.com/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But t... ...0. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerners were vehement trade protectionists. The federal gove... ...e "core" - seceded between December 20, 1860 and February 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and... ...ippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after... ...Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after the a... ...e, a seceding state. He was the only senator from a seceded state to remain in the Senate. Reconstruction started long before the war ended, in ... ...ax was an important source of state revenue in the South (up to 60 percent in South Carolina). Emancipation led to near bankruptcy. The Union state... .... At the behest of President Woodrow Wilson, cloture rules were adopted by the U.S. Senate in Rule 22 in 1917 (and amended in 1949, 1959, and 1975)....

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ... driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in G... ...ancient map) leads to the belief that Drogio was either Massachusetts or North Carolina. The voyage, however, terminated most disastrously, for experi... ...y was made a member of the Board of Longitudes, and on the organization of the Senate, he was made a member of that body by Napoleon, who also ennoble...

...Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...est Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Korea, North 133 Korea, South 134 Kuwait 136 Laos 137 Lebanon 138 Lesotho 140 Li... ...entry on page 276) Western Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267... ... Mathematical Conversions 290 Maps I. The World (Guide to Regional Maps) II. North America III. Central America and the Caribbean IV. South America V.... ...islative, 17-member popularly elected House of Representatives and 17-member Senate; executive, Prime Minister and Cabinet; judiciary, Court of Appeal... ...ecutive (President, Vice President, Cabinet); legislative (National Congress Senate, Chamber of Deputies); national judiciary- Government leaders: Rau... ... Argentina (continued) Elections: general elections held 30 Octo- ber 1983; Senate elections held November 1986; Gubernatorial and Congressional elec... ...sists of about 360 small coral islands Special notes: 1,050 km east of North Carolina; some reclaimed land leased by US Government Population: 58,033 ... ...800 km 2 ; land area: 136,800 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of North Carolina Land boundaries: 2,800 km total Climate: varies from cool summer... ... km 2 ; land area: 71,620 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than South Carolina Land boundaries: 933 km total Coastline: 402 km Maritime claim: ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ght, and the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. T... ...r was the fac- ulty overlooked. One of the best a))prociatnd was " Hail to North Ad ! " No wonder, for oven the Hoosao Valley had to run an ex- tra ca... ... Oration After the noise around the fire 1910 CANK COMMITTEE had subsided. Northrop Clarey '07, of Great Barrington made the opening address. "Fellow ... ...ebraska. He served as state prosecuting attorney, as a member of the first senate of the state of Nebraska, and later as mayor of .Nebraska city. Mr. ... ...ndicated by the bill which was reported by the taxation commit- tee of the Senate last Tuesday. In substance the bill provides that "such real estate ... ...axation Bill At the hearing of college repre- sefttntives before the state senate taxation committee at Boston Thursday, protests against the bill rec... ...es Bryoe, British ambassador to the United States, Governor Glenn of North Carolina and Rev. Charles Parkhurst of Now York oity. Since 1900 the member...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...uish definite regions or parts of the world: Old World, Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the Far East, Orient, Le... ...ole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the Far East, Orient, Levant; the North, South, East, West (United States). But do wt, as a rule, capitali... ...ass : oriental customs, the orientals, southern states, a southerner (but: Northman = Scandinavian); an invasion of barbarians from the north, trav... ...tal departments, and their branches, when specifically applied : Congress (Senate, House of Representatives [the House], Committee of Ways and Mean... ...tebrata, Reptilia, Cruciferae, Salix; Felis leo, Cocos nucifera; (but: Rosa Carolina, Trifolium Willdenovii, Par- kinson&~ Tmeyana [Styrax calif~nic... ...(but: the department); the Board of Trustees (the Trustees, the Board), the Senate, the Council, 18 The U~iversity of Chicago Press the Faculty of... ... Welbnschawng;" "Napoleon's cw d'dt~t;'~ "the debater far excellence of the Senate;" "De gmtibus ?ton est disptcbndunt, or, as the French have it, C... ... in astronomical matter, names of stars or constellations: Felis leo, Rosa Carolina; Saturn, Cassiofieia. 62. In resolutions, the word "Resolved" (...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...fice Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN ... ...CH United States Senator PATRICK LEAHY United States Senator United States Senate WASHINGTON, DC 20510 January 5, 2005 Ms. Marybeth Peters, Register o... ... title to works. Copyright Term Extension: Hearing on S. 483 Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 104th Cong. 18-19 (1995) (statement of ... ... 129 Indeed, as Judge Patel of the Northern District of California recently concluded, that idea/expression d... ...t 5. 136 See, e.g., Lopresti (115) (author of a book about the Pacific Northwest who wishes to quote many sources appears to be making transforma... ...) (605); International Coalition for Copyright Protection (“ICCP”) (693), North Carolina Statue University Libraries (“NC State”) (606), ASMP (668) ... ...); International Coalition for Copyright Protection (“ICCP”) (693), North Carolina Statue University Libraries (“NC State”) (606), ASMP (668) (anyth... ...a user in California to have discovered an advertisement in a local South Carolina newspaper placed by an author that contained information about th...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...would still remain largely valid. Animal Rights According to MSNBC, in a May 2005 Senate hearing, John Lewis, the FBI's deputy assistant director ... ... Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, natives of Colomb... ...the Havana Charter languished and died due to the objections of a protectionist US Senate. There are no antitrust/competition rules either in GATT ... ... antitrust prosecutions. A similar principle is at the basis of Chapter 15 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - cooperation on ant... ...from its awesome penetration and beauty). I have lived in Africa, the Middle East, North America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Dreams fulfil ... ... of his presumed guilt." AC: "This, precisely, is why an impeachment trial by the Senate is called for. It is only there that the President can cr... ...and probability in the studies conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph B...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...would still remain largely valid. Animal Rights According to MSNBC, in a May 2005 Senate hearing, John Lewis, the FBI's deputy assistant director ... ... Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, natives of Colomb... ...the Havana Charter languished and died due to the objections of a protectionist US Senate. There are no antitrust/competition rules either in GATT ... ... antitrust prosecutions. A similar principle is at the basis of Chapter 15 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - cooperation on ant... ...from its awesome penetration and beauty). I have lived in Africa, the Middle East, North America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Dreams fulfil ... ... of his presumed guilt." AC: "This, precisely, is why an impeachment trial by the Senate is called for. It is only there that the President can cr... ...and probability in the studies conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph B...

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