The League of Nations was an organisation designed to maintain peace throughout the World. It was created during the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was the idea of Woodrow Wilson‚ the president of the USA. The League’s main aims were to bring together all nations in a parliament to discuss and settle disputes‚ to protect the independence of countries and safeguard their borders‚ to improve peoples living and working conditions‚ and to make war obsolete by persuading nations to disarm
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what the first year of school is. We define the first year of school as when students start to learn writing‚ reading and doing simple additions and subtractions. Most European children start school when they turn six and in Sweden‚ Poland and Finland they begin at seven. Instead in Australia children can start their actual first year of school when they are four years and six months old. Those who support that children should start younger say that starting before means finishing school at a
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Steamship of the 1860s Look out (Transport Steamer) on Tennessee River‚ ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 S.S. Humboldt Engine Room‚ illustrated in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine‚ No. XII‚ May 1851‚ Vol. II Finnish steamer — S/S Ukkopekka‚ Finland. A steamboat‚ sometimes called a steamer‚ is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power‚ typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation SS‚ S.S. or S/S (for ’Steam Ship’) ‚ however
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A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone‚ cell phone and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator‚ allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast‚ a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single‚ private base station. In addition to telephony‚ modern mobile phones also support a wide variety
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Market Analysis of Mobile Handsets Subsidies Fawzi Daoud‚ Heikki Hämmäinen Networking Laboratory Helsinki University of Technology P.O. Box 3000‚ FIN-02015 HUT‚ Finland {daoud@netlab.hut.fi‚ heikki.hammainen@hut.fi) Abstract Subsidies are a widespread practice to allow consumers to get their mobile handsets at deep discount‚ or even for free. Recently‚ with 3G and subsequent requirements on sophisticated and costly handsets‚ subsidies are being reconsidered both in subsidized and non-subsidized
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Chapter 1 Europe Multiple Choice Defining the European Realm 1. The following are statements describing the demographic and economic conditions which may be generally ascribed to the European Realm. Which one is inaccurate? A. Europe constitutes one of the great population clusters of the world. *B. Levels of economic development in Europe decline from east to west. C. Europe’s population is highly urbanized. D. European agriculture is mainly market-oriented. E. European
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Research Paper Evaluation of the research articles This work is using two original research papers and their findings to analyse the validity of the practice of SR (seclusion and restraint) in psychiatric inpatient facilities. The research papers chosen shed light on this questionable practice by analysing multiple patient characteristics and the events leading to SR. The other chosen research paper evaluates the inpatients perception of SR. The first research was found in the ’Journal of the
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Greenpeace is an organization which often collides with governments in countries all over the world in its attempt to stop things like global warming‚ deforestation‚ overfishing and more. Greenpeace tries to reach their goals by direct action and lobbying. This is the part where they often collide with the governments. My questions about this topic are: - What conflicts does Greenpeace have (or did they have) with the government and corporations in the Netherlands and governments and corporations
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Mobile Commerce - White Paper 2 Abstract Mobile commerce was born in 1997 when the first two mobile phone enabled Coca Cola vending machines were installed in Finland. They used SMS text messages to send the payment to the vending machines. In 1997‚ the first mobile phone based banking service was also launched in Finland using SMS. Mobile Commerce also known as mCommerce allows consumers the ability to conduct commerce‚ using a mobile device e.g. a mobile handset (cell phone)‚ PDA‚ smartphone
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Lynx From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Lynx[1] Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) Scientific classification e Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Subfamily: Felinae Genus: Lynx Kerr‚ 1792 Type species Lynx lynx Linnaeus‚ 1758 Species Lynx lynx Lynx canadensis Lynx pardinus Lynx rufus Lynx ranges A lynx (/ˈlɪŋks/;[2] plural lynx or lynxes[3]) is any of the four species within the Lynx genus of medium-sized wildcats. The name "lynx"
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