History * The Taino - indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola prior to the arrival of the Europeans - divided the island into five chiefdoms and territories. * Christopher COLUMBUS explored and claimed the island on his first voyage in 1492; it became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland. * In 1697‚ Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island‚ which in 1804 became Haiti. * The remainder of the island‚ by then known as
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Ogboni (also known as Osugbo in Ijèbú) is a fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba language-speaking polities of Nigeria‚ Republic of Bénin and Togo. The society performs a range of political and religious functions‚ including exercising a profound influence on regents and serving as high courts of jurisprudence in capital offenses. Influence [edit] Though versions or lodges of this fraternal group are found among the various types of Yoruba polities——from highly-centralized kingdoms
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Cryptography is the science of converting data into a secret code to hide the meaning of the message during transmission. Cryptographic systems provide the following security services: • Confidentiality‚ by ensuring that only authorized parties can access data. • Integrity‚ by verifying that data has not been altered in transit. • Authentication‚ by proving the identity of the sender or receiver. • Non-repudiation‚ by validating that communications have come from a particular sender at a particular
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What kids haven’t played with lasers? We have all loved the laser fights in movies like Star Wars. Who wouldn’t want wield a laser around while fighting an enemy. Did you know that the term laser came from an acronym meaning “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.”? It should actually be all capitalized but for simplicity it isn’t. The first working laser was actually demonstrated by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Laboratories back in 1960. The strength of early lasers
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Haille Selassie “Haile Selassie was an emperor of Ethiopia whose influence as an African leader far surpassed the boundaries of his country. Although his popularity declined near the end of his sixty-year reign‚ Selassie remains a key figure in turning Ethiopia into a modern civilization.” In 1931 Selassie began to develop a written constitution (a system of basic laws of a country) to symbolize his interest in modernization and intention to increase the power of the African government‚ Haile
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Bogota Bogota is a vibrant city that is situated below the cold Andean Mountains and offers a mixture of modern shopping malls and historic colonial buildings. The City’s main centre is the La Candelaria where there are restaurants‚ bars and hotels in amongst the ancient homes‚ churches and convents. The South of the City is where the working class stay and is still well known for the drug industry but North of the city is filled with hotels and entertainment in the districts of Zona Rosa and Zona
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Global Warming: Fact or Opinion? If you were to leave your front door open in the winter time‚ would you heat up the outdoors? Or perhaps someone told you that a cow ’s fart increases the annual temperature. It is just as ridiculous to say that humans cause global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the air‚ puncturing the atmosphere and allowing solar flares burn our earth. However‚ while no drastic changes in the climate have happened to be of concern‚ media wants the gullible masses to
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Child sexual abuse It can be very difficult to talk about sexual abuse and even more difficult to acknowledge that sexual abuse happens to children of all ages including infants every day. According to the NCANDS (National child abuse and neglect data system)‚ an estimated 9.3% of confirmed or sustained child abuse and neglect cases in 2005 involved sexual abuse. This figure translates into over 83‚800 victims in 2005 alone. Other studies suggest that even more children suffer abuse and neglect
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P5- Explain dysfunction in relation to water balance and its possible treatments. M3- Discuss dysfunctions in relation to water balance and its possible treatments. For P5 and M3‚ I am going to explain the dysfunctions that relate to the balance between water intake and the disturbance of water output. Then I am going to discuss it in more detail. Oedema‚ also known as dropsy‚ is one of the dysfunctions and this is when there is too much fluid retention in the body. In other words‚ the accumulation
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From the editors of NaturalNews.com Amazing 25 FOOD Startling things you never knew about the stuff you swallow. Mike AdAMS & dAvid Guiterrez Truth Publishing International‚ Ltd P. O. Box 29-99 Taichung‚ Taichung City 40899 Taiwan Facts About All information contained in this book is copyright © 2011 by Truth Publishing‚ Inc. All rights reserved. All information contained in this publication may not be copied‚ published‚ distributed‚ broadcast‚ posted on the internet‚ or otherwise
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