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    American Constitution The term United states was for the first time officially used in the Declaration of Independence of America in 1776.The documents of this declaration had immensely helped in formulating the Constitution of America. Formerly‚ today’s USA was called as “United Colonies. The consolidated or United America was born as result of struggle of Americans against the British Colonialism. The first settlers to America arrived in 1607 and expanded their trading companies‚ gradually forming

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    Why The War Was Justified

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    (The Greatest Thing in History‚ 2). Only 3 days later‚ Nagasaki was hit with another atomic bomb. Many more men‚ children‚ and women perished. Shortly after the horrifying attacks‚ Japan surrendered. This was the end of WWII. Sadly‚ it took something so devastating‚ to bring the war to a close. The United States acted unwarily‚ which caused the death of thousands of innocent

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    why was africa colonised

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    on January the 5th 1933. The bridge was soon opened for vehicular traffic on May the 28th 1937. The Bridge was built by 10 different prime contractors and their subcontractors. The golden gate is the entrance to San Francisco from the Pacific Ocean. The golden gate bridge is one of the most beautiful bridges‚ in the world because of its spectacular location and graceful lines. 2 conception: The idea of a bridge spanning the Golden gate was not new it was made in 1916. Local authorities agreed

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    British Raj

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    Archive Water & Sewerage Services in Karachi during British Raj After the arrival of some British in Karachi at the end of eighteenth century‚ they had established a factory at the present SITE location‚ but it was closed down following a disagreement with the then local Sindhi rulers. Subsequently‚ British troops occupied Karachi in 1839 and the city served as landing port for British during the First Afghan War. The province of Sindh was then conquered by Charles James Napier in 1843.

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    British Abolitionists

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    BRITISH ABOLITIONISTS BY FREDD JONES APRIL 6‚ 2013 BRITISH ABOLITIONISTS In 1807‚ the British slave trade was abolished by parliament. Two hundred years later‚ Hollywood commemorated the event with the movie Amazing Grace. Like many historians‚ Hollywood told the story as if William Wilberforce was a one-man crew.1 In reality‚ there were thousands of heroes to this story‚ on both sides of the Atlantic. Slavery was a necessary evil in the minds of British and American

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    Peter The Great Peter the great was born in russia in russia on June 9th 1672. Peter the Great was the 14th child of Czar Alexis by his second wife‚ Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina. ( Biography.com) He joined his brother Ivan V in 1682 ruling russia together until the death of his brother in 1696. Peter was then declared Sovereign of all Russia. Peter inherited a nation that was underdeveloped compared to the European countries. While the Renaissance and the Reformation swept through Europe. Russia

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    Simon Critchley's On Humor

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    A) In his book On Humour‚ Simon Critchley discussed one idea that comic timing plays an important role in humor. Critchley states that‚ “timing is everything‚ and a mastery of comic forms involves a careful control of pauses‚ hesitations and silences‚ of knowing exactly when to detonate the little dynamite of the joke” (Critchley 6). These principles of timing and execution were carried out in many of the various skits performed by ComedySportz. In their skit where they had to finish a sentence

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    operations more efficient. Why? Stalin had a variety of different reasons for collectivising the county‚ economic‚ ideological and political. Collectivisation was the communists long term aim for agriculture. However‚ in early 1929‚ few communists could have predicted the speed with which the system was to be introduced. Economic factors 1926 saw record harvests for Russia‚ however 1927‚ 1928 and 1929 were all poor. The decrease in production meant that prices rose and there was not a ’surplus’ to be

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    Simon Decision Making

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    Home [pic]http://jayhanson.us/america.htm [pic] Decision Making and Problem Solving by Herbert A. Simon and Associates Associates: George B. Dantzig‚ Robin Hogarth‚ Charles R. Piott‚ Howard Raiffa‚ Thomas C. Schelling‚ Kennth A. Shepsle‚ Richard Thaier‚ Amos Tversky‚ and Sidney Winter. Simon was educated in political science at the University of Chicago (B.A.‚ 1936‚ Ph.D.‚ 1943). He has held research and faculty positions at the University of California (Berkeley)‚ Illinois Institute of Technology

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    Why Was There A Trojan War

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    Q: Was there a Trojan War? Compare the literary with the archaeological evidence. "...in that matter of Wilusa over which we were at enmity." Despite the continuing debate‚ the literary and archaeological evidence indicates that there was a Trojan War. The reality of this war however‚ was not the epic conflict as narrated by Homer‚ but more likely part of an ongoing enmity between the Mycenaean ’s and the Hittites. Troy was a wealthy city‚ well placed at the mouth of the Hellespont in the

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