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    The Patria Affair

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    Slovenia you have to wait in average 1.290 days for the settlement of the lawsuit between two companies. A good example is also the lawsuit of three Slovenian politicians which was involved in international affaire Patria. Patria is an international affair between Slovenia‚ Austria and Finland‚ where businessmen of Finland’s company Patria has bribed some of Slovenian politicians to get involved in business of production of 135 armored vehicles evaluated 287 000 000 EUR for needs of Slovenian army.

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    Music and its Influence on 20th Century American History With the start of the 20th century music began to play a huge part in the rapidly maturing United States. Music of the 20th century was not only there to entertain the people but it was more. It was now used to influence and manipulate the listeners. Artists had a goal to entertain and to enlighten the listener so that they could get their messages heard. Music is one of the best ways to advertise and to expand ideas‚ and many artists knew

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    natural resources are balanced by the humans need for survival. Martel suggests this theory in his book “The life of Pi” because it can relate to how humans today go in a balance life relationship with the world’s natural resources. Although humans currently comprise only a minuscule proportion of the total living biomass on Earth‚ the human effect on nature is disproportionately large. Because of the extent of human influence‚ the boundaries between what humans regard as nature and "made environments"

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    2011 Current Affairs at a Glance JANUARY The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act‚ UPA’s flagship aam admi scheme‚ turned five on February 2‚ 2011. On January 14‚ the Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification revising the wage rates under the MNREGA from Rs 100 per day to between Rs 117 and Rs 181 (17-30 % hike) in different States. The revision under Section 6(1) of the 2005 Act‚ coming in wake of inflationary pressures on the poor‚ adjusts the wages by indexing it

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    Famous 20th Century Modern Furniture Timeline 1990-1999 1920-1929 This was a period of prolific 20th Century furniture design work. Designers like Le corbusier and Charlotte Perriand were using tubular steel - the new material of the time to create iconic wonders like the chaise longue‚ whilst Marcel Breuer was creating his famous Wassily Chair - said to have come up with his bent tubular steel concept for this chair while looking at the handle bars of his bicycle. Browse through the timeline

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    It is no accident that the name that is attributed to the heroine in a number of Russian novels of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is named after some derivation of the name Elizabeth. Karamzin is the first to revere this name in his work Poor Liza and it is this work that sets off a chain reaction that causes the occurrence of subsequent characters in Russian literature. This character can particularly be found in works such as Pushkin’s Queen of Spades‚ Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit‚ and

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    The Petrov Affair

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    The “Petrov Affair” started in April 1954 when Vladimir Petrov and his wife Edvokia defected to Australia. The affair finally finished today‚ the 11th of December 1955; a day after the Federal Election in Australia when Robert Menzies was elected. The Events That Saw It Unfold The Petrov Affair occurred around the 3rd of April last year‚ when Vladimir Petrov‚ who was the cause of the Petrov Affair‚ defected to Australia under top-secret conditions. On arrival in Sydney‚ he was taken to a safe

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    International human rights: an unattainable concept “Can international human rights ever be effectively protected and enforced? Explain why or why not; and how (by what means).” The codification of many international treaties into human rights law is an especially gray area. While there does exist half a dozen or more of these treaties establishing basic human rights‚ they are often an overlapping and confusing mess that is difficult to decode. International actors have agreed upon basic

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    of nineteenth and twentieth century archaeologists to our understanding of Pompeii and Herculaneum Since the discovery and beginning of excavations at the sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum from the early eighteenth century‚ archaeologists have made many constructive impacts on the site which have led to our understanding of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The first attempts to excavation methodology at the site of Pompeii appears to have occurred in the early nineteenth century during the period of the French

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    Colonialism from the conquests shaped global trade and aspects of the modern world in many different ways. When Spaniards invaded the lands of the Aztec and Inca‚ they destroyed their whole way of life. After the fall of these empires‚ the conquistadors took over the people and forced them into slavery. Spain and Portugal expanded their power through global trade by using the resources of Latin America. This essay will explain the aspects of colonialism‚ the rise of global trade‚ and its affects

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