The Gray Wolf (Canis lupus; other forms: "Timber Wolf", "Wolf") is a mammal of the Canidae family. The wolf shares a common ancestry with the domestic dog (Canis familiaris), and, according to most experts, is likely the progenitor of all dogs as they exist today (in which case, the domestic dog would more accurately be classified as Canis lupus familiaris). Gray wolves were once abundant and distributed over much of North America, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Today, for a variety of human-caused reasons involving widespread habitat destruction and excessive hunting, wolves inhab ...

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• Gray Wolf - Social structure
• Gray Wolf - Packs
• Gray Wolf - Rank order
• Gray Wolf - Body language
• Gray Wolf - Howling
• Gray Wolf - Hunting
• Gray Wolf - Reproduction and mortality
• Gray Wolf - Past human perceptions of wolves
• Gray Wolf - Changing attitudes
• Gray Wolf - Reintroduction
• Gray Wolf - Wolves in religion and folklore
• Gray Wolf - Wolf hunting
• Gray Wolf - Livestock predation
• Gray Wolf - Trapping and breeding for fur
• Gray Wolf - Taxonomy
• Gray Wolf - Classification and relation to the dog
• Gray Wolf - Subspecies of the wolf
• Gray Wolf - Media

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An affinity group is a small group of activists (usually from 5-20) who work together on direct action. It is a non-hierarchical group, usually made up of trusted friends and other like-minded people. It is a highly effective method of organization, as many actions may require a number of people working on it in different areas. Use of an affinity group also serves to keep information with ...

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Alex Pacheco is an American animal rights activist, a co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 1982, shortly after founding PETA, and while still a student at George Washington University, Pacheco took a summer job as a volunteer at the Institute for Biological Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Dr. Edward Taub was conducting research into nerve regeneration, and had cut the sensory nerves in monkeys' fingers, hands, arms, and legs, then withheld food or subjected them to ...

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Vegetarianism is the practice of not eating meat, beef, poultry, fish or their by-products, with or without the use of dairy products or eggs [1]. The exclusion may also extend to products derived from animal carcasses, such as lard, tallow, gelatin, rennet and cochineal. Some who follow the diet also choose to refrain from wearing products that involve the death of animals, such as leather, silk, feather, and fur. It should be noted that although many vegetarians abstain from all animal by-products, others make exceptions in their di ...

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• Vegetarianism - History
• Vegetarianism - Recent trends
• Vegetarianism - Terminology and varieties of vegetarianism
• Vegetarianism - Motivation
• Vegetarianism - Religious
• Vegetarianism - Nutritional
• Vegetarianism - Ethical
• Vegetarianism - Environmental
• Vegetarianism - Social
• Vegetarianism - Spiritual
• Vegetarianism - Physiological
• Vegetarianism - Aesthetic
• Vegetarianism - Vegetarian cuisine
• Vegetarianism - Country specific information
• Vegetarianism - Vegetarian societies
• Vegetarianism - Criticism
• Vegetarianism - Vegetarian diet and longevity
• Vegetarianism - Vegetarian diet is not a healthy diet
• Vegetarianism - Environment
• Vegetarianism - Animal Right

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Animal Aid is the United Kingdom's second largest animal rights group and one of the longest established in the world, having been founded in 1977. Animal Aid campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. The emphasis on peace in campaigning has always been important to Animal Aid. The group investigates and exposes animal cruelty, and their undercover investigations and other evidence are often used by the ...

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Cover to Animal Man #1. Art by Brian Bolland. Animal Man is a fictional superhero in the DC Universe. It is also the title of a comic book series, published from 1988 to 1995, which featured the character's adventures. Animal Man - History. The character was originally a typical spandex-clad superhero named Buddy Baker who, as the result of being in proximity to an exploding alien spaceship, has the power to borrow the abilities of animals, such as a bird's flight, or a bat's ech ...

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• Animal Man - 1980s
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• Animal Man - Powers and Abilities
• Animal Man - Awards

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Veganism is abstention from the consumption or use of of animal products and products that have been tested on animals. An animal product in this context refers not only to meat but to any substance derived from an animal. Most vegans avoid the use of all animal products, although some vegans may avoid eating them, but may nevertheless wear clothes made of materials derived from animals, such as l ...

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• Veganism - Ethics
• Veganism - Health
• Veganism - Environmental considerations
• Veganism - Sexual and feminist motives
• Veganism - Vegan cuisine
• Veganism - Similar diets and lifestyles
• Veganism - Vegan nutrition
• Veganism - Cultural aspects
• Veganism - Criticism and controversy
• Veganism - Ethical criticism
• Veganism - Health criticism
• Veganism - Notes

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives Post-lef ...

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• Anarcho-punk - Identity politics
• Anarcho-punk - External link

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American liberalism (also called modern liberalism) is a political current that claims descent from classical liberalism in terms of devotion to individual liberty, but rejects the laissez faire economics of classical liberalism in favor of institutions that promote social and economic equity. It is generally seen as beginning in the first decades of the 20th century, and achieving a political hegemony in the Ne ...

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• American liberalism - Early American Liberalism
• American liberalism - The New Deal
• American liberalism - American liberalism during the Cold War
• American liberalism - The liberal consensus
• American liberalism - Liberals and Civil Rights
• American liberalism - Paleoliberalism and neoconservatives
• American liberalism - Liberals and Vietnam
• American liberalism - Nixon and the liberal consensus
• American liberalism - End of the liberal consensus
• American liberalism - Philosophy of American Liberalism
• American liberalism - Some positions associated with American liberalism
• American liberalism - Negative use of the term liberal
• American liberalism - American liberal thinkers

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Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and feminist whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. Walker's writings include novels, stories, essays and poems. They focus on the struggles of African-Americans, and particularly African-American women, against societies that are racist, sexist, and often violent. Her writings tend to emphasize the strength of black women and the importance of African-American heritage and culture.

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• Alice Walker - Novels and short story collections
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• Alice Walker - Non-fiction

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Hunting is the practice of humans pursuing animals to capture or kill them for food, sport, or trade in their products. The modern term refers to regulated and legal hunting, as distinguished from poaching which is the killing, trapping or capture of animals contrary to law. Hunted animals are referred to (and often protected by law) as game animals, usually large mammals or migratory birds. The killing of other humans i ...

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• Hunting - Hunting in Pastoral and Agricultural Societies
• Hunting - Modern Sport Hunting
• Hunting - National Hunting Traditions
• Hunting - Shikar India
• Hunting - Safari
• Hunting - United Kingdom
• Hunting - Hunting in the United States
• Hunting - Hunting Methods
• Hunting - Trophy Hunting
• Hunting - Depiction of hunt in Popular Culture

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Hippie (also hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The word hippie was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. Caen's articles were always written with the help of notes and letters from his San Francisco fan base. He is also credited as among the first to include the words beatnik and yuppie in his column. Though not a cohesive cultural movement with manifestos and leaders, some hippies expressed their desire for change with ...

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• Hippie - Bibliography

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Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, beliefs, desires, and, particularly, emotions of others. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another one's shoes", or experiencing the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself; a sort of emotional resonance. Empathy - Background. While the ability to imagine oneself as another person is a sophisticated imaginative process that only fully develops later on in life, the roots of this ability are probably i ...

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• Empathy - Contrasting empathy to other phenomena
• Empathy - Psychological perspectives
• Empathy - Empathy and Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Empathy - Empathy in animals
• Empathy - Organic basis
• Empathy - Development of empathy
• Empathy - Other aspects
• Empathy - Fiction
• Empathy - Bibliography

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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also known simply as Chinese medicine (Chinese: 中醫學, zhōngyī xué, or 中药学, zhōngyaò xué) is the name commonly given to a range of traditional medical practices used in China that have developed over the course of several thousand years of history. It is also regarded as an instance of oriental medicine, a term which may include other traditional Asian medical systems such as Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, and Mongolian medicine. Chinese medicine principally employs a method ...

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• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM theory
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• Traditional Chinese medicine - Diagnostic techniques
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM treatment techniques
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM and science
• Traditional Chinese medicine - The question of efficaciousness
• Traditional Chinese medicine - Purported mechanism of action
• Traditional Chinese medicine - Safety of Chinese medicines
• Traditional Chinese medicine - The relationship between TCM and Western medicine
• Traditional Chinese medicine - TCM and Animals

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Business ethics is a form of applied ethics that examines ethical rules and principles within a commercial context; the various moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business setting; and any special duties or obligations that apply to persons who are engaged in commerce.” Generally speaking, business ethics is a normative discipline, whereby particular ethical standards are assumed and then applied. It makes specific judgements about what is right or wrong, which is to say, it makes claims about what ought to be done ...

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• Business ethics - Related disciplines
• Business ethics - Typical issues
• Business ethics - Conflicting interests
• Business ethics - Ethical issues and approaches
• Business ethics - Corporate ethics policies
• Business ethics - Ethics officers
• Business ethics - Religious views on business ethics
• Business ethics - Christian business ethics
• Business ethics - Jewish business ethics
• Business ethics - Muslim business ethics

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Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 time travel movie co-written by David Webb Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam. The film deals with problems of time and memory, inspired by the short film La Jetée. The film stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt. It also features Jon Seda, Simon Jones, Carol Florence, Frank Gorshin, David Morse, and Joseph Melito. Twelve Monkeys - Synopsis. Bruce Willis stars as James Cole, a convicted petty criminal of about a generation in the future, when a r ...

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• Twelve Monkeys - Criticism of institutional psychiatry
• Twelve Monkeys - Coincidences with Fight Club
• Twelve Monkeys - Trivia

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Physical abuse Torture / Severe Corporal punishment Psychological abuse Humiliation / Intimidation / Bullying Hate speech / Manipulation / Stalking / Coercive persuasion Sexual abuse Sexual assault / Rape Sexual harassment Child abuse / Domestic violence Prisoner abuse / Elder abuse Animal abuse Police brutality Human experimentation Cruelty to animals refers to treatment which causes unacceptable suffering or ...

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Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of flightless birds living in the southern hemisphere. Penguin - Species and habitats. There are either 17 or 18 known species worldwide, depending on whether the two Eudyptula species are counted as distinct. Although all penguin species are native to the southern hemisphere, the ...

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• Penguin - Species and habitats
• Penguin - Evolution
• Penguin - Anatomy
• Penguin - Mating Habits
• Penguin - Gallery
• Penguin - Classification
• Penguin - Name
• Penguin - Penguins in popular culture
• Penguin - Computing
• Penguin - Politics
• Penguin - Comics
• Penguin - Film
• Penguin - Literature
• Penguin - Sports mascots
• Penguin - Places
• Penguin - Audio CDs

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization, it has its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and a stated 850,000 members and over 100 employees worldwide. Outside the U.S., there are affiliated offices in the UK, [1] India, [2] Germany, [3] Asia, and the Netherlands. [4] There is also peta2 Street Team for high school and college-age activists. [5] Ingrid Newkirk is PETA's international president. PETA focuses on fo ...

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• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Targeting of vulnerable groups
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia

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Neopaganism (sometimes Neo-Paganism) describes a heterogeneous group of new religious movements, particularly those influenced by ancient, mainly pre-Christian and sometimes pre-Judaic religions. Often these are Indo-European in origin, but with a growing component inspired by other religions indigenous to Europe, such as Finno-Ugric, as well as those of other parts of the world. As th ...

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• Neopaganism - History
• Neopaganism - Historical sources
• Neopaganism - Ecological and mystical currents
• Neopaganism - Pantheon
• Neopaganism - Worship and Ritual
• Neopaganism - Number of adherents
• Neopaganism - Concepts of divinity
• Neopaganism - Neopagan views of gods and gender
• Neopaganism - Traditions
• Neopaganism - Reconstructionist
• Neopaganism - Syncretist and eclectic
• Neopaganism - Related theological concepts
• Neopaganism - Usage of the term 'Neopagan'
• Neopaganism - Sources

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