Canberra - Arts and entertainment. Canberra is home to many national monuments and institutions such as the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery currently housed at Old Parliament House, the National Library of Australia, the National Archives of Australia, and the National Museum of Australia. Many Commonwealth government buildings in Canberra are open to the public, including Parliament House, the High Court and the Royal Australian Mint. Lake Burley Griffin ...

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Jefferson practiced law and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1774, he wrote A Summary View of the Rights of British America which was intended as instructions for the Virginia delegates to a national congress. The pamphlet was a powerful argument of American terms for a settlement with Britain, helped speed the way to independence, and marked Jefferson as one of the most thoughtful patriot spokesmen. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and a source of many other contributions to Ame ...

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Destiny and the dynamics of living often remove us from the place we belong to, from what we refer to as our hometown. Living away, we tend to get "hometown-sick".

We split ourselves, and suffer a 'body here, mind there' syndrome. Interestingly, this can happen not just to an individual or a family, but even collectively to a whole people.

(See also: Life and Death, Life and Beyond, Death and Dying, Body Mind and Soul)

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BOOKS The distributive dynamics of capitalism by Louis O Kelso, self-published; 2nd edition (1956) The Capitalist Manifesto, by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler, Random House, New York: 1958; reprinted Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut: 1975. Also published in French, Spanish, Greek and Japanese. ISBN 0837182107 The New Capitalists, by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler, Random House, New York: 1961; reprinted Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut: 1975. Also published in Japane ...

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Louis O. Kelso, Louis O. Kelso - Publications, Louis O. Kelso - Quote

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The Bridgettine or Briggittine order. A monastic religious order of Augustinian canonesses founded by Saint Birgitta (Saint Bridget) of Sweden approximately 1350, and approved by Pope Urban V in 1370. The Bridgettine order was open to both men and women, and was dedicated to devotion to the passion of Jesus. It was a ”double order” each convent having attached to it a small community of canons to act as chaplains, but under the government of the abbess. The order spread widely in Sweden and Norway, and played a remar ...

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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis. At the age of 4, shortly after his dog 'Jacksie' was run over by a car, Lewis announced that his name was now Jacksie. At first he would answer to no other name, but later accepted Jacks which became Jack, the name by which he was known to friends and family for the rest of his life. When he was six his family moved into a new house call ...

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The title of Archduke (German language Erzherzog) was invented in the Privilegium Maius, a 14th century forgery initiated by Duke Rudolf IV of Austria. Originally, it was meant to denote the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, in an effort to put that ruler on par with the electorships, as Austria had been passed over in the Golden Bull of 1356, where the electorships had been assigned. Emperor Charles IV refused to recognize the title. Duke Ernest the Iron and his descendants unilaterally assumed the title "Archduke." Th ...

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Amherst College is an independent liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts. It has been coeducational since 1975. Amherst College - History. Founded in 1821, Amherst was intended to be a successor to both Williams College, which was then struggling to remain open, and Amherst Academy, a secondary school which educated, among others, Emily Dickinson. Amherst College - Origin of name. Amherst Academy and Amherst Co ...

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• Amherst College - Amherst trivia
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• Amherst College - College founders and Presidents
• Amherst College - Academics
• Amherst College - Men of the Cloth
• Amherst College - Politicians
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• Amherst College - CIA Directors
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The flag of the United States consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies. The United States flag is commonly called the "the Stars and Stripes" or "Old Glory," with the latter nickname coined in 18 ...

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• Flag of the United States - Standards of respect
• Flag of the United States - Displaying the flag outdoors
• Flag of the United States - Displaying the flag indoors
• Flag of the United States - Parading and saluting the flag
• Flag of the United States - Pledge of Allegiance and national anthem
• Flag of the United States - The flag in mourning
• Flag of the United States - Folding the flag
• Flag of the United States - Miscellaneous
• Flag of the United States - Places where the American flag is displayed continuously
• Flag of the United States - History
• Flag of the United States - State stars and design duration
• Flag of the United States - Symmetry
• Flag of the United States - Future of the flag

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Arrested Development is a character-driven comedy television series about a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family. New episodes currently air in the USA on Mondays at 8:00pm EST on Fox. The show is presented in a way reminiscent of documentary, with omniscient narration (by Ron Howard), archival photographs, and historic footage. Although set in Newport Beach and Balboa Island, California, it is primarily filmed in locations around Culver City and Marina del Rey. The show was created by Mitchell Hurwitz (T ...

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• Arrested Development - Themes and other characteristics
• Arrested Development - Unique presentation
• Arrested Development - Intertextuality and reflexivity
• Arrested Development - Topicality
• Arrested Development - Continuity
• Arrested Development - Music
• Arrested Development - Response
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• Arrested Development - Future
• Arrested Development - Critical reviews
• Arrested Development - Nominations and awards
• Arrested Development - Broadcast history
• Arrested Development - DVD release
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• Arrested Development - Trivia
• Arrested Development - Celebrity guests
• Arrested Development - Recurring roles
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• Arrested Development - Broadcasters

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"Baba O'Riley" is a song written by Pete Townshend for his Lifehouse project, a rock opera which was to be the follow-up to The Who's 1969 opera, Tommy. When Lifehouse was scrapped, many of the songs were released on The Who's 1971 album Who's Next. Baba O'Riley became the first track on Who's Next. The song was released as a single in several European countries, but in the US and the UK was only released as part of the album. The song is sometimes lovingly but incorrectly referred to as "Teenage Wasteland". Noted

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Boston College is a private university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Its historic campus, one of the earliest examples of Collegiate Gothic architecture in North America, is set on a hilltop six miles (10 km) west of downtown Boston. Although chartered as a university by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1863, Boston College's name reflects its early history as a liberal arts college and preparatory school in Boston's South End. It was the first institution of higher educatio ...

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• Boston College - Jesuit tradition
• Boston College - Athletics
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  Belgium   Denmark   Ethiopia   Japan   Monaco   Netherlands   Norway   Spain   Sweden   Liechtenstein   United Kingdom   France   United States The presidential line of succession defines who may become or act as President of the United States upon the incapacity, death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and subsequent conviction) of a sitting P ...

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• United States presidential line of succession - History of succession law set by Congress
• United States presidential line of succession - No historical successions beyond Vice President
• United States presidential line of succession - Constitutional concerns
• United States presidential line of succession - Theories regarding exhaustion of the list

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Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in ...

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• Native Americans in the United States - Gender roles
• Native Americans in the United States - Music and art
• Native Americans in the United States - Economy
• Native Americans in the United States - Terminology differences
• Native Americans in the United States - Common usage in the U.S.
• Native Americans in the United States - Bibliography

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1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/ 1995 - Events. 1995 - January. January 1 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union January 1 - Fred West, accused of mass murder, hangs himself in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham January 1 - World Trade Organization ...

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• 1995 - Nobel Prizes
• 1995 - The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1995 - Templeton Prize
• 1995 - Right Livelihood Award

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The campaign starts off with the Atlantean hero, Arkantos, discussing with the Theocrat how they are losing Poseidon's favor. Pirates then start attacking Atlantis, whom Arkantos successfully drives off. However, as the pirates were fleeing Kamos the minotaur, who was the leader of the pirates, stole the trident from a Poseidon staue. Arkantos follows Kamos, gets the trident back, and unsuccessfully tries to kill Kamos, who flees on a Leviathan. He then proceeds to Greece where he fights in the Trojan War alongside the Greek heroes Ajax, Ody ...

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• Age of Mythology - Campaign
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• Age of Mythology - Campaign Heroes
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Rick Santorum (R) The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is one of four states of the United States of America that is called a commonwealth. It has given its name to the Pennsylvanian time period in geology. Pennsylvania is called the Keystone State. Although Swedes and Dutch were the first European settlers, the Quaker William Penn named Pennsylvania for the Latin phrase meaning "Penn's Woods", in honor of his father. Today, two major cities dominate the state—Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and ...

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• Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania in popular music
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Image:Jjack.jpeg The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an American politician, civil rights activist, and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. I Am - Somebody, Jesse Lee Peterson, an outspoken African American critic of Jesse Jackson, wikiquotes Jesse Jackson - Early Life. He was born as Jesse Louis Burns in a poor household in Greenville, South Carolina. He married Jacquelin ...

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• Jesse Jackson - Current Activities
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• Jesse Jackson - Budweiser Boycott
• Jesse Jackson - 2004 Presidential Election
• Jesse Jackson - Family
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This article is about the name James. For the band see James (band). James is a common given name. It is the most popular name for a male in the United States, and during the 1990 U.S. Census, approximately 3.318% of males counted had the first name James. It is derived from the same Hebrew name as Jacob, and literally means "grasps the heel" or "grasps the bottom". James - Etymology. The name came into English from the French variation Gemmes of the Late Latin Iacomus, a substan ...

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• James - Diminutives
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• James - Famous persons with the given name James
• James - Characters from the Bible
• James - Kings of Scotland and/or England
• James - Kings of Aragon
• James - Presidents of the United States of America
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• James - Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
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• James - Famous persons with the family name James
• James - Links

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1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. 1973 - Events. 1973 - January. January 1 - United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, now known as the European Union. January 3 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner. January 14 - Elvis Presley does a concert in Hawaii for over a bill ...

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