seen in the year 1952‚ in the Makonde plateau‚ along the border between Tanzania and Mozambique. The disease occurs predominantly in Africa‚ Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The disease was first described by Marion Robinson and W.H.R. Lumsden in 1955. The name ‘Chikungunya’ is derived from a root verb in the Kimakonde language which means –‘that which bends up’ and is in reference to the stooped posture that develops due to the arthritic symptoms of the disease. Since the disease shares some
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measured by the number of branch offices and employees‚ the second largest bank in the world. The bank was established in 1806 as Bank of Calcutta. It is the oldest commercial bank in the Indian Subcontinent. The Government of India nationalised SBI in 1955 with the Reserve Bank of India having a 60% stake. SBI provides a range of banking products through its vast network in India and overseas‚ including products aimed at NRIs. With an asset base of $126 billion and its reach‚ it is a regional banking
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Ahold started as a small grocery store by Albert Heijn in 1887 until it was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1948 and opened its first self-service supermarket chain in 1955. It operates in two market sectors: food retail and food service in 27 countries throughout Europe‚ North and South America‚ and Asia with 9‚000 stores‚ employing 450‚000 people‚ and servicing 40 million customers every week. In 1976‚ the then CEO initiated an international expansion programme; and in the 1990s‚ Ahold
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the south. Even though it was morally wrong‚ it was accepted and still went on as if there was nothing wrong at all. African-Americans were treated poorly because of the color of their skin that somehow‚ someway made them different. On December 1‚ 1955‚ a 42-year old African American‚ Rosa Parks‚ was coming home after a long day of work at a Montgomery department store. She boarded an Avenue bus and took a seat in the first of several rows designed for “colored” passengers. As the bus continued on
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Lebow says in his article on consumer capitalism‚ Price Competition in 1955: Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life‚ that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals‚ that we seek our spiritual satisfactions‚ our ego satisfactions‚ in consumption… We need things consumed‚ burned up‚ worn out‚ replaced‚ and discarded at an ever increasing pace. (Lebow‚ Price Competition in 1955) Planned obsolescence goes hand and hand with conspicuous consumption
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sixteenth centuries (New York‚ 1968) Robert L F. Grossman‚ Bruegel‚ the Paintings (London‚ 1955) Philippe and Françoise Roberts-Jones‚ Pieter Bruegel (Paris‚ 1997) Wolfgang Stechow‚ Pieter Bruegel the Elder (London‚ 1970) Carel van Mander‚ Dutch and Flemish painters "Gregorian calendar." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language‚ 4th ed. 2000. F. Grossman‚ Bruegel‚ the Paintings (London‚ 1955)‚ p. 11 [pic] Photocopy B: Source cited in footnotes 15 and 17 Philippe and Françoise Roberts-Jones
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Transportation 6 (1977) 171 189 © Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company‚ Amsterdam - Printed in the Netherlands JAPAN’S URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM I N T HE MAJOR TRANSPORT S P H E R E S * T OMOKI NOGUCHI Urban Transportation Program‚ Department of Civil Engineering‚ University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ Washington 98195 ABSTRACT T he urban areas in Japan have undergone rapid changes in the last two and one-half d ecades. At the same time‚ the urban transportation system has been
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politicians of the day. At the head of this movement was one Martin Luther King‚ the primary voice‚ crying in the wasteland of inequality and segregation. In March 1955‚ a fifteen-year-old school girl‚ Claudette Colvin‚ refused to give up her bus seat to a white man‚ in compliance with the laws of the time. On December 1‚ 1955‚ Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. The Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ planned by Edgar Nixon and led by Martin Luther King‚ soon followed. The boycott
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and earned a lot of money. Besides that‚ one implication why the people do not distinguish them is their ages‚ which are the same. Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in California‚ United States and founded his company in 1976 along with a neighborhood friend making it a complete and instant success. Equally‚ the intelligent Bill Gates was born in 1955 on Washington D.C.‚ and he created his software company Microsoft around 1975’s‚ but he made his first sale in 1980 to IBM. Hence‚ people confuse them‚ because
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the powerful images they give. He uses historical events to retell a story in a new way which helps people understand the power of it like they were there. Significant Films: 1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 2.The Word (1955) 3.Gertrud (1964)
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