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 Fiction? Many consider global warming to be the largest threat facing the people of Earth‚ while others view it as nothing more than Liberal propaganda. Both sides have extremely well thought out arguments. According to Environmentalist there is a growing realization that human activities are threatening the health of the natural systems that make life possible on this planet. While Non-believers claim that you can’t find a real scientist anywhere in the world who can
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This means that when the temperature is increasing during the summer time‚ polar bear do migrate to the land area or we called it ashore. According to National Geography‚ that since 1979 sea ice cover has declined by about 30 percent in the Arctic. As the greenhouse effect continuing to warm the Earth‚ polar bears forced to stay in the land for longer periods. Staying in ashore for a long period affecting the life of polar bear‚ not only struggle to adapting but also they may losses weight 60 pounds
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Russia and Siberia has a subarctic climate‚ with extremely severe winters in the inner regions of Northeast Siberia‚ and more moderate elsewhere. The strips of land along the shore of the Arctic Ocean‚ as well as the Russian Arctic islands‚ have a polar climate. The coastal part of Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea‚ most notably in Sochi‚ possesses a humid subtropical climate with mild and wet winters. From north to south the East European Plain‚ also known as Russian Plain‚ is clad sequentially in
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The Impact of Global warming and Desertification on the Nigerian Ecosystem SEN 406 Technical Report Writing Submitted By:- Tabansi Anthony Uchenna A00011635. Prepared For:- Dr. Arthur
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How does CO2 Emissions Affect the Ecosystem? Kenyetta Sloan Bryant & Stratton College Ecology Dr. M. McLellan-Zabielski October 24‚ 2012 What would happen if we didn’t cut trees‚ use transportation‚ even turn on our lights or any electrical item we own? Then global warming wouldn’t exist. The things that we do on the daily basis is what produces carbon emissions‚ when we burn oil‚ coal‚ and gas‚ it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The result of this is climate change‚ temperature
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