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According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica the word assassin derives from the Arabic word حشّاشين (haššāšīn), or Hashshashin, an Islamic sect of militants founded by Hasan-i Sabbah who supposedly were avid hash-eaters. This is also the view expressed by Charles Baudelaire in his Artificial Paradises in 1857. But the effect of cannabis is largely dependent on the state of mind of the consumer and that may be totally different in a different time and culture. In The Book Of Breething, William Burroughs specu ...

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Gliwice - Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency. Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency Chojnacki Jan, SLD-UP Dulias Stanisław, Samoobrona Gałażewski Andrzej, PO Janik Ewa, SLD-UP Kubica Józef, SLD-UP Martyniuk Wacław, SLD-UP Okoński Wiesław, SLD-UP Szarama Wojciech, PiS Szumilas Krystyna, PO Widuch Marek, SLD-UP Gliwice - Municipal polit ...

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According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica the word assassin derives from the Arabic word حشّاشين (haššāšīn), or Hashshashin, an Islamic sect of militants founded by Hasan-i Sabbah who supposedly were avid hash-eaters. This is also the view expressed by Charles Baudelaire in his Artificial Paradises in 1857. It's believed that hash first orginated from Central Asia as these regions were one of the first to be populated by the Cannabis plant which is believed to have orginated from the Himalayas. Hash quickly spre ...

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This low quality form of hash is known in the United Kingdom as soap bar. It is usually hard, low in potency and has a strange taste. There exist several myths about the origin of this type of hash. Robert Connell Clarke claims in his book Hashish!, that soap is low-quality Moroccan hash containg only about one tenth of Cannabis pollen (slang for trichome glands) and lots of leaves and other waste plant material. The mixture is hard to bind together, so it's mixed with beeswax or pine resin and condensed milk. Brownish color is due to henna or instant coffee being mixed in. Turpentine is al ...

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In 1875 he accepted the vicarage of Embleton, a parish on the coast of Northumberland, near Dunstanburgh, with an ancient and beautiful church and a fortified parsonage house, and within reach of the fine library in Bamburgh Castle. Here he remained for nearly ten years, acquiring experience of parochial work which later stood him in good stead, taking private pupils, studying and writing, and taking an active part in diocesan business. He also became Rural Dean of Alnwick, Honorary Canon of Newcastle, and examining chaplain to Bishop ...

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Bishop Creighton's principal published works are: History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation (5 vols., 1882- 1897, new ed.) History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome (6 vols., 1897) The Early Renaissance in England (1895) Cardinal, Wolsey (1895) Life of Simon de Montfort (1876, new ed. 1895)See also:

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See main article Flight to Varennes. For some time, the revolutionaries had feared that the royal family would attempt to escape Paris. When Louis tried to leave the Tuileries for Saint-Cloud at Easter 1791, in order to enjoy the ministrations of a nonjuring priest, they would not let him budge. Encouraged by the émigrés to believe that revolutionary France was without effective military means of defense, representatives of Austria, Switzerland, Sardinia, and Spain, met at Mantua and on May 20, 1791 reached a se ...

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Now we know that Cyrus the Great was buried at Pasargadae and if there is any truth in the statement that the body of Cambyses II was brought home "to the Persians" his burying-place must be sought somewhere beside that of his father. Ctesias assumes that it was the custom for a king to prepare his own tomb during his lifetime. Hence the kings buried at Nakshi Rustam are probably, besides Darius the Great, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I and Darius II. Xerxes II, who reigned for a very short time, could scarcely have obtained so splendid a mon ...

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He was born at Carlisle, the eldest son of Robert Creighton, a well-to-do upholsterer. He was educated at Durham grammar school and at Merton College, Oxford, where he was elected to a postmastership in 1862. He obtained a first-class in literae humaniores, and a second in law and modern history in 1866. In the same year he became tutor and fellow of Merton. He was ordained deacon, on his fellowship, in 1870, and priest in [[1873]. In 1872, he married Louise von Glehn (1850-1936), daughter of Robert von Glehn, a London merchant ...

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Fukuoka is bordered on three sides by mountains and opens, on the north, to the Sea of Genkai. Much of the city is now built on reclaimed land, with ongoing developments in Higashi-ku building more artificial islands. Located 1100 km from Tokyo, 540 km from Seoul and 870 km from Shanghai, Fukuoka's proximity to Korea and China has led it to seek closer ties with those countries while acting as a hub for Asian cultural and economic exchange.

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Honey oil (often shortened to oil, and sometimes referred to as BHO,or Butane hash oil, which is particular to the method in which it is made) is a highly viscous oil/paste made from the resins of a mature, flowering cannabis plant. It is commonly smoked using hot metal blades or plates, or inhaled using specially designed vaporizers. Honey oil is prized even over cannabis itself, due to its extreme purity ...

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Fukuoka is the home of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, one of Japan's top professional baseball teams. Threatened with bankruptcy and forced by its creditors to restructure, in 2004 former owner Daiei sold the Hawks to Masayoshi Son of Softbank Capital. The team name was changed to Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks from the 2005 season. Fukuoka is also home to a professional soccer team, Avispa Fukuoka, which is currently playing in Japan's second-tier league J2. The Mayor of Fukuoka, Hirotaro Yamasaki, has ambitions to bring the Olympics to ...

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Fukuoka is home to many festivals that are held throughout the year. Of these, the most famous are Hakata Dontaku and Hakata Gion Yamagasa. Fukuoka Fukuoka - Yamakasa. Yamakasa(山笠), held for two weeks each July, is Fukuoka's oldest festival with a history of over 700 years. Teams of men (no women, except small girls, are allowed), representing different districts in the city, race against the clock around a set course carrying on their shoulders floats weighing several thousand pounds. Participants all ...

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Sky Dream Fukuoka, located in Fukuoka City's western ward, is one of the world's largest ferris wheels at a height of 120 metres(about 400 feet). Fukuoka Castle located adjacent to Ohori Koen (Park) features the remaining stone walls and ramparts left after a devastating fire during the upheaval of the Meiji Restoration. It has now been preserved along with some reconstructed prefabricate concrete towers constructed during the 1950s and 1960s, when there was a trend across J ...

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Fukuoka City operates all public elementary and junior high schools, while the prefecture operates the high schools. One high school, Hakata Seisho High School [2], does not require a uniform, which is rare for Japanese secondary schools. ...

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Honey oil (often shortened to oil, and sometimes referred to as BHO, which is particular to the method in which it is made) is a highly viscous oil/paste made from the resins of a mature, flowering cannabis plant. It is commonly smoked using hot metal blades or plates, or inhaled using specially designed vaporizers. Honey oil is prized even over cannabis itself, due to its extreme purity and lack of other vegetative matter. Honey oil is a psychoactive drug in the same class as cannabis, from which it is derived, and contains a ...

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The Wolffian philosophy held almost undisputed sway in Germany till it was displaced by the Kantian revolution, due partly to his distinctive habit of writing in both Latin and German. Wolff's philosophy has, until a reevaluation set in in the 1960s, often been held to be a common-sense adaptation or watering-down of the Leibnizian system; or, more charitably, Wolff was said to have methodized and "reduce ...

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Wolff's most important works are as follows: Anfangsgründe aller mathematischen Wissenschaften (1710; in Latin, Elementa malheseos universae, 1713-1715) Vernünftige Gedanken von den Kraften des menschlichen Verstandes (1712; Eng. trans. 1770) Vern. Ged. von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen (1719) Vern. Ged. von der Menschen Thun und Lassen (1720) Vern. Ged. von dem gesellschaftlichen Leben der Menschen (1721) Vern. Ged. von den W ...

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In 316 BC Persepolis was still the capital of Persia as a province of the great Macedonian Empire (see Diod. xix, 21 seq., 46 ; probably after Hieronymus of Cardia, who was living about 316). The city must have gradually declined in the course of time; but the ruins of the Achaemenidae remained as a witness to its ancient glory. It is probable that the principal town of the country, or at least of the district, was always in this neighbourhood. About AD 200 we find there the city Istakhr (properly Stakhr) as the seat of the local govern ...

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He was the second son of the Rev. Canon William Vernon Harcourt, of Nuneham Park, Oxford, himself the fourth son and eventually heir of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York. William George was therefore born a Vernon, and by his connection with the old families of Vernon and Harcourt was related to many of the great English houses, a fact of which he was proud. In later life his descent from the Plantagenets was joked about by his political opponents. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in the cl ...

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Francesco Cavalli - Operas. Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639) La Dafne (1640) La Didone (1641) L'Amore innamorato (1642, music lost) La virtù de' strali d'Amore (1642) L'Egisto (1643) L'Ormindo (1644) La Doriclea (1645) Il Titone (1645, music lost) Il Giasone (January 5, 1649, considered most popular of all Cavalli's operas) L'Euripo (1649, ...

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He became a singer at St Mark's in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella. He is, however, chiefly remembered for his operas. He began to write for the stage in 1639 (Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo), and soon established so great a reputation that he was summoned to Paris in 1660 to produce an opera (Xerse). He visited Paris again in 1662, bringing out his Ercole amante at the Louvre, which was written in honour of the ...

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