History of Marijuana Cannabis is indigneous to Central and South Asia Evidence of the inhalation of cannabis smoke can be found in the 3rd millennium BCE‚ as indicated by charred cannabis seeds found in a ritual brazier at an ancient burial site in present day Romania. In 2003‚ a leather basket filled with cannabis leaf fragments and seeds was found next to a 2‚500- to 2‚800-year-old mummified shaman in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Cannabis is also known to have been
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World War I Chemical Warfare On April the 22‚ 1915 at the start of the Second Battle of the Ypres‚ the first poison gas attack and the first use of chlorine gas in a battlefield started‚ even though the Hague declaration and Convention forbade the use of poison weapons in the warfare. The Germans attacked France with the chlorine gas‚ but the French were not prepared at all for this attack. The effects of the chlorine gas to the soldiers was very severe; within seconds it destroyed their respiratory
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Russia and Ukraine With months of violent outbreaks in the Ukraine cities‚ a fleeing president‚ Crimea wanting to join Russia and an approaching Russian military‚ Ukraine’s people are on edge. Earlier this month‚ British Foreign Secretary William Hague called the standoff in Ukraine the "biggest crisis in Europe of the 21st century." Today‚ Russia and Ukraine have many nationalist views and imperialistic ideas that are resulting in actions. In November‚ Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych
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that is controversial. Fritz Haber became the director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry that made poisonous chlorine gas. He actively participated in its development and was an advocate for its use‚ even though poisonous gas was banned by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. His wife‚ also a scientist‚ committed suicide ten days after the first use of chemical warfare. Some believe she did so as a protest. Fritz Haber was the proud recipient of the Iron Cross as an award for his work. Gas
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body in the photo isn’t even the model’s‚ but another model who had a more appealing body. It has even gotten to the point where people are embarrassed if their boyfriend or girlfriend are not to their standards. In “Photoshop in the Media” by Andrew Hague she wrote‚ “Another 27 year old man didn’t introduce his girlfriend to his male friends for months until she lost weight.” This explains why most of the youth around the world have ridiculously high standards for
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watercolours was transferred to her son. At age 15‚ van Gogh’s family was struggling financially‚ and he was forced to leave school and go to work. He got a job at his Uncle Cornelis’ art dealership‚ Goupil & Cie.‚ a firm of art dealers in The Hague. By this time‚ van Gogh was fluent in French‚ German and English‚ as well as his native Dutch. In June of 1873‚ van Gogh was transferred to the Groupil Gallery in London. He fell in love with his landlady’s daughter‚ Eugenie Loyer. When she rejected
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To what extent have international courts and tribunals been successful in upholding human rights? There are several International bodies that are responsible for upholding Human rights. In this essay I will attempt to examine and analyse the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals in upholding human rights. The first International court is the ICC. The ICC has achieved some limited success with human rights cases‚ for example the International Criminal Court ruled against Russia’s Human
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training in exchange for blood diamonds. In the year of 2001‚ the United Nations applied sanctions on the Liberian diamond trade. In August of 2003‚ Taylor stepped down as the president‚ and after being exiled from Liberia to Nigeria‚ faced trial in The Hague. On July 21st of 2006‚ Taylor pleaded not guilty to the charged crimes against humanity and war crimes of which he was found guilty in April of
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The international contract is a contract that has a foreign element‚ that is to say that the contract is in contact with one or more order (s) legal (s) abroad (s). Specifically‚ the foreign element may be resident abroad‚ a party to the contract‚ nationality‚ place of contract conclusion‚ and many other possibilities. The commercial contract is a contract for a commercial transaction or a contract made by a trader for the purposes of his trade. Therefore an international commercial contract
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External Marketing Audit HYPO Group Wageningen‚ October 2012 Charne Annandale Jessica Backes Lilian Bakker Caitlin Buenting Lydia van Dam External Marketing Audit HYPO Group (Hippodam) A company description of the external market of Hippodam. Wageningen‚ October 2012 Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences Client: Supervisor: Students: Class: Group: HYPO Group Hans van Tartwijk Charne Annandale Jessica Backes Lilian Bakker Caitlin Buenting Lydia van Dam ELS1a
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