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Redneck - Possible Scots-Irish Etymology. The word redneck was first cited in Scotland. In Scotland, the National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant (a.k.a. Covenanters) signed documents stating that Scotland desired a Presbyterian Church Government, and rejected the Church of England as their official church. Many of the Covenanters signed these documents using their own blood, and many in the movement began wearing red pieces of cloth around their neck to signify their position to the public. Th ...

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Redneck, Redneck - Etymology, Redneck - Possible Scots-Irish Etymology, Redneck - Possible American Etymology, Redneck - History, Redneck - Modern usage, Redneck - Stereotypes, Redneck - Popular culture, Redneck - Urban Rednecks, Redneck - Extraterritorial Conclaves, Redneck - Claims, Redneck - Related terms, Redneck - Australia, Redneck - Barbados, Redneck - Brazil, Redneck - Chile, Redneck - North America, Redneck - South Africa, Redneck - Similar terms, Redneck - Sources

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2000s - Technology. A huge jump in broadband internet usage, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June, 2000 to what one study predicts will be 62% by 2010. Boom in music downloading and the use of data compression to quickly transfer music over the Internet, with a corresponding rise of portable digital audio players typified by Apple Computer's iPod. Digital cameras become very popular due to rapid decreases in size and cost while photo resolution steadily increases. Sales of film reel came ...

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2000s, 2000s - The decade as a whole, 2000s - Names of the decade, 2000s - Criticisms of the Decade, 2000s - Events and trends, 2000s - Technology, 2000s - Science, 2000s - War peace and politics, 2000s - Economics, 2000s - Culture and religion, 2000s - Other, 2000s - Trends and Fashion, 2000s - United States, 2000s - Music, 2000s - United States and Canada, 2000s - Europe, 2000s - Latin America/Caribbean, 2000s - Film, 2000s - Video Games, 2000s - Television and Radio, 2000s - Sports, 2000s - People, 2000s - World leaders, 2000s - Entertainers, 2000s - Sports figures

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Balloon - Maximum flight heights. Manned Balloon The altitude record for manned balloons is 34668 metres. It was made by Malcolm D. Ross and Victor E. Prather over the Gulf of Mexico in 1961. Unmanned Balloon The altitude record for unmanned balloons is (1991 edition of Guinness Book) 51.8 kilometres. The vehicle was a Winzen-Balloon with a volume of 1.35 million cubic metres, which was launched in October 1972 in Chico, California, USA. This is the greatest altitude ever ...

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Balloon, Balloon - Usage of balloons, Balloon - Balloons as flying machines, Balloon - Balloons as decoration or entertainment, Balloon - Balloons in medicine, Balloon - Records, Balloon - Maximum flight heights, Balloon - Balloon tank, Balloon - Usage of Balloons on other planets, Balloon - Balloons in movies

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Someone who is bi-curious has a sexual orientation, behavior, or self-identification, which is close to but not quite entirely heterosexual or homosexual. There are several different conventional meanings of this term, some of which are mutually exclusive. Bi-curious - Description. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality have at least three components: Sexual behavior, as determined by the gender(s) of the person's sexual partner(s). Sexual orientation (or preference, i ...

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The term originates from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and English Civil War of the 1640s and '50s, when it was used to describe Irish guerrilla fighters. For this usage, see Rapparees. It entered English politics during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678–1681. The Whigs (initially an insult — whiggamore, a cattle driver) were those who supported the exclusion of James VI & II from the thrones of Scotland and England & Ireland (the "Petitioners"), and the Tories (from the Irish term tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí — outlaw, robber) were those ...

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Tory, Tory - History, Tory - Canada, Tory - American Revolution

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Max Weber has probably been one of the most influential users of the word in its social science sense. He is well-known for his study of bureaucratization of society; many aspects of modern public administration go back to him; a classic, hierarchically organized civil service of the continental type is—if basically mistakenly—called "Weberian civil service". However, contrary to popular belief, "bureaucracy" was an English word before Weber; the Oxford English Dictionary cites usage in several different years between 1818 ...

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Bureaucracy, Bureaucracy - Origin of the concept, Bureaucracy - Karl Marx and bureaucracy, Bureaucracy - Max Weber on bureaucracy, Bureaucracy - Criticism

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The term university college is used in a number of countries to denote institutions that provide tertiary education but do not have full or independent university status. Precise usage varies between countries. University college - Australia. In Australia, the term "university college" or "residential college" is used to denote an institution which provides accommodation, academic support (such as tutorials) and social activities to students of its affiliated university, but usually does not form a fundamen ...

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In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a specified period of time is called the "incidence rate"). (An epizootic is the same thing but for a nonhuman population.) Defining an epidemic can be subjective, depending in part on what is "expected." An epidemic may be res ...

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The native language of the Romans was Latin, an Italic language. An inflectional and synthetic language, Latin relies little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems. Its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, is based on the Old Italic alphabet, which is in turn derived from the Greek alphabet. Although surviving Latin literature consists almost entirely of Classical Latin, an artificial and highly stylized and polished literary language from the 1st century BC, the actual spoken language of the Roma ...

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Culture of ancient Rome, Culture of ancient Rome - Historical and cultural context, Culture of ancient Rome - Social structure, Culture of ancient Rome - Customs and daily life, Culture of ancient Rome - Clothing, Culture of ancient Rome - Dining, Culture of ancient Rome - Education, Culture of ancient Rome - Language, Culture of ancient Rome - The arts, Culture of ancient Rome - Literature, Culture of ancient Rome - Visual art, Culture of ancient Rome - Music, Culture of ancient Rome - Architecture, Culture of ancient Rome - Sports and entertainment, Culture of ancient Rome - Religion

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A Theosophical definition of Soulless Beings :

Soulless Beings

"We elbow soulless men in the streets at every turn," wrote H. P. Blavatsky. This is an actual fact. The statement does not mean that those whom we thus elbow have no soul. The significance is that the spiritual part of these human beings is sleeping, not awake. Soulless Beings are animate humans with an animate working brain-mind, an animal mind, but otherwise "soulless" in the sense that the soul is inactive, sleeping; and this is also just what Pythagoras meant when he spoke of the "living dead."

Soulless Beings are everywhere, these people. We elbow them, just as H. P. Blavatsky says, at every turn. The eyes may be physically bright, and filled with the vital physical fire, but they lack soul; they lack tenderness, the fervid yet gentle warmth of the living flame of inspiration within. Sometimes impersonal love will awaken the soul in a man or in a woman; sometimes it will kill it if the love become selfish and gross. The streets are filled with such "soulless" people; but the phrase soulless people does not mean "lost souls." The latter is again something else.

The term soulless people therefore is a technical term. It means men and women who are still connected, but usually quite unconsciously, with the monad, the spiritual essence within them, but who are not self-consciously so connected. They live very largely in the brain-mind and in the fields of sensuous consciousness. They turn with pleasure to the frivolities of life. They have the ordinary feelings of honor, etc., because it is conventional and good breeding so to have them; but the deep inner fire of yearning, the living warmth that comes from being more or less at one with the god within, they know not. Hence, they are "soulless," because the soul is not working with fiery energy in and through them.

A lost soul, on the other hand, means an entity who through various rebirths, it may be a dozen, or more or less, has been slowly following the "easy descent to Avernus," and in whom the threads of communication with the spirit within have been snapped one after the other. Vice will do this, continuous vice. Hate snaps these spiritual threads more quickly than anything else perhaps. Selfishness, the parent of hate, is the root of all human evil; and therefore a lost soul is one who is not merely soulless in the ordinary theosophical usage of the word, but is one who has lost the last link, the last delicate thread of consciousness, connecting him with his inner god. He will continue "the easy descent," passing from human birth to an inferior human birth, and then to one still more inferior, until finally the degenerate astral monad  - all that remains of the human being that once was  - may even enter the body of some beast to which it feels attracted (and this is one side of the teaching of transmigration, which has been so badly misunderstood in the Occident); some finally go even to plants perhaps, at the last, and will ultimately vanish. The astral monad will then have faded out. Such lost souls are exceedingly rare, fortunately; but they are not what we call soulless people.

If the student will remember the fact that when a human being is filled with the living spiritual and intellectual fiery energies flowing into his brain-mind from his inner god, he is then an insouled being, he will readily understand that when these fiery energies can no longer reach the brain-mind and manifest in a man's life, there is thus produced what is called a soulless being. A good man, honorable, loyal, compassionate, aspiring, gentle, and true-hearted, and a student of wisdom, is an "insouled" man; a buddha is one who is fully, completely insouled; and there are all the intermediate grades between.

See also: Soulless Beings , Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul

Purushottam Das Tandon - Religious Tolerance. Several controversies and contradictions abound in the life of Purushottam Das Tandon. While he emphasized the similarities between Hindu and Muslim cultures, he is regarded to have carried the image of a soft Hindutva leader. He was not as successful as Mahatma Gandhi in summoning religious ideals to aspects of Public Service despite being associated with the moderate Radha Soami cult. He and KM Munshi were among those who strongly opposed religious propagatio ...

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Purushottam Das Tandon, Purushottam Das Tandon - Early life, Purushottam Das Tandon - Freedom Struggle, Purushottam Das Tandon - Post-Independence, Purushottam Das Tandon - Controversies, Purushottam Das Tandon - Religious Tolerance, Purushottam Das Tandon - Partition of India, Purushottam Das Tandon - Relations with Nehru, Purushottam Das Tandon - Advocation of Hindi, Purushottam Das Tandon - Anecdotes

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Written Cantonese refers to the written language used to write colloquial standard Cantonese using Chinese characters. Cantonese is usually referred to as a spoken variant, and not as a written variant. Spoken vernacular Cantonese differs from standard written Chinese. Written Chinese spoken word for word sounds overly formal and distant in Cantonese. As a result, the necessity of having a written script which matched the spoken verse increased over time. This resulted in the generation of additional Chinese characters to compl ...

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• Written Cantonese - Particles
• Written Cantonese - Cantonese words
• Written Cantonese - Loanwords
• Written Cantonese - Cantonese character formation
• Written Cantonese - Borrowings
• Written Cantonese - Marked Phonetic Loans
• Written Cantonese - Derived characters
• Written Cantonese - Colloquial usage

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Since the 1930s in the United Kingdom, and at least since the Beatnik movement of the 1950s in the United States, the West has had a growing interest in Zen. Often, it has been diluted or used as a brand name, leading to criticism of Western appreciation for Buddhism. However, there is some genuine interest as well. In Europe, the Expressionist and Dada movements in art tend to have much in common thematically with the study of koans and actual Zen. The early French surrealist René Daumal translated ...

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Zen, Zen - Spread of Zen, Zen - Zen in Japan, Zen - Zen and Buddhism, Zen - Zen teachings and practices, Zen - Zazen, Zen - The teacher, Zen - Koan practice, Zen - Radical teachings, Zen - Zen and Western culture, Zen - Zen in Films, Zen - American Zen

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It has been argued that, because we cannot understand advanced civilizations, we cannot predict their behavior; thus, Kardashev's visualization may not reflect what will actually occur for an advanced civilization. This central argument is found within the book Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life[1] It is also possible that the unique conditions on Earth allow for specific technologies to develop which w ...

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Kardashev scale, Kardashev scale - Usage and examples, Kardashev scale - Possible timeline, Kardashev scale - Function as a teleology, Kardashev scale - Weakness by supposition?, Kardashev scale - Counter-argument: abundance of alternative sources, Kardashev scale - Civilization implications, Kardashev scale - Contact constraints, Kardashev scale - Hypothetical extensions, Kardashev scale - Fictional extensions, Kardashev scale - Hypothetical futures, Kardashev scale - Type I, Kardashev scale - Type II, Kardashev scale - Type III, Kardashev scale - Type IV & V, Kardashev scale - Current values, Kardashev scale - Literature describing different Kardashev Types, Kardashev scale - Connections with sociology and anthropology, Kardashev scale - Notes

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A biological adaptation is an anatomical structure, physiological process or behavioral trait of an organism that has evolved over a period of time by the process of natural selection such that it increases the expected long-term reproductive success of the organism. The term adaptation is also sometimes used as a synonym for natural selection, but most biologists discourage this usage. Adaptation can be viewed as taking place over geological time, or ...

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September 21 - Autumnal Equinox - Harvest Home

In many mythologies, this is the day the Sun God, the God of Light, is killed by his rival and dark twin, the God of Darkness - who was born at Midsummer, reached puberty at Lammas, and lives a mirror-image life of the Sun God. From this mid-Autumn day forward, darkness will be greater than light, just as night becomes longer than day. So it is a festival of sacrifice, including that of the Sun God in his aspect of Spirit of the Fields, John Barleycorn - for this is the final grain harvest. The Christian religion adopted it as 'Michaelmas', celebrated on the alternative date September 25, the old equinox date (Old Harvest Home). (The Welsh word 'Mabon', meaning 'son', is used by some Witches for the name of this holiday, although such usage is recent and not attested historically.)

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Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. There are typically three types of Latin honors. In order of increasing level of honor, they are: cum laude ("with honor") magna cum laude ("with great honor") summa cum laude ("with highest honor") A fourth honor, honoris causa ("for the sake of honor") is used when a university bestows an honorary degree. These honors are awarded to those undergraduate and graduate students who have achieved academic distinctio ...

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M is the thirteenth letter of the latin alphabet. Its name in English is em. M is also the title of a 1931 film by Fritz Lang, and its 1951 remake. M is also the name of a now-defunct professional videocassette format developed by Matsushita and RCA. M also is a pop band known from the synthpop hit Pop Muzik. M - History. The letter M represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound, IPA [m], in Classi ...

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A Theosophical definition of Individuality :

Individuality

Theosophists draw a sharp and comprehensive distinction between individuality and personality. The individuality is the spiritual-intellectual and immortal part of us; deathless, at least for the duration of the kosmic manvantara  - the root, the very essence of us, the spiritual sun within, our inner god. The personality is the veil, the mask, composed of various sheaths of consciousness through which the individuality acts.

The word individuality means that which cannot be divided, that which is simple and pure in the philosophical sense, indivisible, uncompounded, original. It is not heterogeneous; it is not composite; it is not builded up of other elements; it is the thing in itself. Whereas, on the contrary, the intermediate nature and the lower nature are composite, and therefore mortal, being builded up of elements other than themselves. Strictly speaking, individuality and monad are identical, but the two words are convenient because of the distinctions of usage contained in them; just as consciousness and self-consciousness are fundamentally identical, but convenient as words on account of the distinctions contained in them. (See also Monad)

See also: Individuality , Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul

Internet Explorer is derived from Spyglass Mosaic, an early commercial web browser. In 1995, Spyglass Mosaic was licensed by Microsoft in an arrangement under which Spyglass would receive a quarterly fee plus a percentage of Microsoft's revenues for the software. Although bearing a name similar to NCSA Mosaic, which was the first widely used browser, Spyglass Mosaic was relatively unknown in its day and did not use any of the NCSA Mosa ...

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Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer - History, Internet Explorer - Features, Internet Explorer - Component architecture, Internet Explorer - Usability and accessibility, Internet Explorer - Security framework, Internet Explorer - Standards support, Internet Explorer - Proprietary extensions, Internet Explorer - Criticisms, Internet Explorer - Market adoption, Internet Explorer - Usage share, Internet Explorer - Industry adoption, Internet Explorer - Standalone Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer - Removal, Internet Explorer - Version 7.0, Internet Explorer - Footnotes

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Comics as an art form represents many different forms and publication formats, not all of which are physical. Comics - Cartoon. The cartoon, originally an artist's prepartory drawings, is considered by some scholars, notably R.C. Harvey, as a form of comics. Although a singular image, it has been argued that since the cartoon both combines words with image and constructs a narrative, it merits inclusion as a form of comics. Cartoons typically take one of three forms, that of the gag cartoon, the editorial cartoon or the political cartoon. ...

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Comics, Comics - Controversy regarding the terminology, Comics - History, Comics - 15th–18th centuries, Comics - The 19th century, Comics - The 20th century, Comics - Artistic medium, Comics - Art styles, Comics - The language, Comics - Forms within comics, Comics - Cartoon, Comics - Comic strip, Comics - Comic book, Comics - Webcomic, Comics - Instructional comics, Comics - Storyboard, Comics - Minicomic, Comics - The creation of comics, Comics - Comic book creation, Comics - Comic strip creation, Comics - Cartoon creation, Comics - Tools of the trade, Comics - Comics awards, Comics - United States, Comics - United Kingdom, Comics - Canada, Comics - France, Comics - Germany, Comics - Italy, Comics - Spain, Comics - Sweden, Comics - Japan, Comics - Regional categories, Comics - Comics movements, Comics - Miscellaneous, Comics - Lists, Comics - Bibliography, Comics - Notes

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chit: (Sanskrit) "Consciousness" or "awareness."

Philosophically, "pure awareness; transcendent consciousness," as in Sat-chit-ananda. In mundane usage, chit means "perception; consciousness."

See: awareness, chitta, consciousness, mind (universal), sakshin.

(See also: Chit , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)