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    Today we all have gathered here to be witnesses to our 67 prosperous years of Independence. A day so special in the history of India that wouldn’t fail to remind us of the heroic deeds of not just our freedom fighters but the citizens of India. On the eve of Independence our 1st Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru rose to make a speech on Independence Day‚ “ When the world sleeps‚ India will wake to life and freedom.” My dear friends ‚ we are the fortunate ones to be able to breathe this

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    factors of independence would be too great to deal with. Independence for Scotland means that we will have the right to make our own decisions about the future of our own country rather than those decisions being made by politicians in London. In this essay‚ I will present a fair conclusion by weighing up the arguments for and against Scottish Independence. The relationship between Scotland and its larger neighbour have always been difficult‚ especially during the “wars of independence” led my William

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    Should Scotland be Independent? There has been a wave of nationalistic fever sweeping the country ever since the SNP came to power in 2007. Independence is on their agenda and now there is a referendum set for 2014. But why should we go independent? After all‚ we have been married to England for over 300 years and our country is ‘too poor’ and ‘too wee’ to square up to the economic giants in the global market today and what would happen if the our banks were to self-destruct again

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    The Mechanical Celebration of the Independence Day Congratulations to all my fellow countrymen‚ on the occasion of the sixty fifth independence day! I wonder to see the number ‘sixty fifth’; as I think what we‚ the Indians have done for our motherland? Mother India is watching all her children in low spirits. Except in some fields‚ we Indians have not yet crossed a single mile in the journey of towards national progress. How mechanically the Independence Day celebration is going on year by year…

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    History Colonial America Declaration of Independence The people of the Colony under the Authority of King George of Great Britain wrote the Declaration of Independence. The people believe they have the right to “abolish” or alter a form of government‚ when it becomes corrupt or denies its people of their “unalienable rights”. Under the control of King George the people of the colonies believed they were treated unfairly. “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated

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    Independence Day Of India Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny‚ and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge‚ not wholly or in full measure‚ but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new‚ when an age ends and when the soul of a nation‚ long suppressed‚ finds utterance.... We end today a period of ill fortune‚ and India

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    Burma's Independence

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    the National League for Democracy (NLD)‚ the party of Aung San Suu Kyi‚ won 392 out of a total 489 seats (i.e.‚ 80% of the seats). However‚ the military junta refused to cede power[59] and continued to rule the nation as SLORC until 1997‚ and then as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) until its dissolution in March 2011.  The protests because of hike in petrol and diesel prices became a campaign of civil resistance (also called the Saffron Revolution. led by Buddhist monks‚[65]hundreds of whom

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    moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru The Independence Day of India is celebrated on the fifteenth of August to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation in 1947 Every year‚ we celebrate our Independence Day with great fervour as well as joy and justifiably so‚ as it commemorates that day‚ when after many years of subjugation‚ our country gained its freedom

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    During the Ripper murders‚ the divisional police surgeon‚ Dr. George Phillips used what is considered to be deductive reasoning in inferring the criminal characteristics of the Ripper by examining the physical evidence. Phillips would carefully inspect the wounds of a victim from a particular offender (The Ripper) to infer the criminal’s personality‚ behavior‚ and interactions between the victim and the offender. As such‚ the offender’s behavior and characteristics are revealed in the physical evidence

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    The War of Independence.

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    THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE-1857 • During the War of Independence the Governor General was Lord Canning. He had assumed the charge of his office in 1856. • Wajid Ali Shah was the Nawab of Awadh. He was sent on exile to Calcutta and his state was annexed by the British in April 1856. • Three-fourth of the infantry and nearly two-third of the whole Bengal Army was composed of the people from Awadh. • Maulvi Ahmadullah devised the distribution of chapatti scheme during his travels in

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