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    of the treaty and almost doubled its area. The second war increased the sense of nationalism in Serbia as they were most successful in obtaining land. Greece saw similar benefits‚ nearly doubling its population‚ along with receiving the island of Crete (Kolev 108). While Bulgaria got the short end

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    AllPsych Journal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture Ryan D. Johnson April 30‚ 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In recent decades‚ many hotly debated topics have come under the scrutiny of sociobiologists‚ trying to determine their causation and origins. One such topic is homosexuality. Originally thought by the American Psychological Association (hereafter

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    Greece and Kenya (mr )Evangelos Tsoukatosa‚b‚ Simmy Marwaa‚ Graham K. Randa a Department of Management Science‚ Lancaster University Management School‚ Lancaster LA1 4YX‚ UK. b School of Management and Economy‚ TEI of Crete‚ Estavromenos‚ P.O. Box 1939‚71004‚Heraklion‚ Crete‚ Greece. Abstract There is widespread customer dissatisfaction in the insurance industry‚ stemming from insurers’ failure to satisfy customers’ needs. Therefore‚ further research to improve the industry’s understanding

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    and fingers of people. Those tattoos were believed to ward off illnesses. Tattoos were also a signature of membership in a clan or society. Tattoos were also found to exist in Egypt‚ during the building time period of the great pyramids. Crete‚ Greece‚ Persia and Arabia civilizations picked up the art of tattoos for various reasons. Greeks used tattoos to communicate between spies. Spies would be marked with their rank‚ using tattoos. Romans used the art of tattoo to mark their criminals

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    He Beginning of Rome

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    system‚ the only good they created was crops like olives’ grapes’ and other similar food. This is how they lived until the Bronze Age. From 3000 BC to 1100 BC Greece had only just began to develop by getting help from the Minoans that lived in Crete and the Mycenaean that lived in the main lands of Greece. During the Bronze Age in 1200 BC the Trojan War broke out between the Mycenaean and the Trojans of Troy. The Dark Ages began from 1100 to 800 BC. The reason why this era is known as the

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    thrive. This is true for the Ancient Greek culture. Their culture relied on their Gods. This is also known as Greek Mythology. Greek mythology had a huge influence on the Ancient Greek culture. The Ancient Greece civilization started on the island of Crete in 2‚000 B.C.1 Ancient Greece was separated into the city-states. Each of the city-states there was a city and then surrounding farmland around it. The most popular city-states were Athens and Sparta. Athens was the richest city-state and

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    The Role of Horses in Ancient Greece by: Sarah Kline Horses have been an important‚ if not vital‚ part of most great societies. This fact was no less true in Ancient Greek society where horses were held on a level just below the gods. According to I. Menegatos‚ a lecturer from the Agricultural University of Athens‚ there were eight different breeds of Greek horses. All eight breeds were valued equally as "majestic or awe-inspiring beasts." This was especially true in scenes of battle. In

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    Marcus Junius Brutus was the son of Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder and Servilia Caepionis. His father was killed by Pompey the Great in dubious circumstances after he had taken part in the rebellion of Lepidus; his mother was the half-sister of Cato the Younger‚ and later became Julius Caesar’s mistress.[2] Some sources refer to the possibility of Caesar being his real father‚[3] but this is unlikely since Caesar was 15 at the time of Brutus’ birth. Brutus’ uncle‚ Quintus Servilius Caepio‚ adopted

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    Two minor characters in the novel provide examples of living in the pursuit of sacred awe‚ but each appears to have a flaw when compared to Zorba’s zest for life. The first is Zaharia‚ a monk from a monastery in Crete. In many ways‚ Zaharia is similar to Zorba‚ as he takes delight in worldly pleasures. However‚ as a monk‚ he does not allow himself to partake in his sensual impulses. Instead‚ he "refuses his own instinct by longing for heaven instead of the earthly pleasures to which he is more disposed

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    private enough for me. The toilet’s journey started off as the toilet bowl which people did their thing and then threw the waste into the local river or steam. Soon the first flushable toilet came into existence‚ so about 2800 years ago a King in Crete named Mino was the first recorded person to have used a flushable toilet. Fortunately for us and unfortunately for him he did not make a copyright law that’s why we still can use this kind of toilet. If he did copyright his toilet‚ then probably the

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