Popular national destinations for sex tourists include The Netherlands, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Cuba, and several countries in Southeast Asia (including the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia.) Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic have also become popular destinations for sex tourists. In many of those destinations, sex tourism is still only a small percentage of overall prostituti ...

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Sex tourism, Sex tourism - Motivation, Sex tourism - Destinations, Sex tourism - Tourism involving sex with minors, Sex tourism - Legal issues in the United States, Sex tourism - Terms used for sex tourists

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Main articles: Culture of human beings and Culture Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual features of a social group, including art, literature, lifestyles, value systems, traditions, rituals, and beliefs. Culture consists of at least three elements: values, social norms, and artifacts. A culture's values define what it holds to be important. Norms are expectations of how people ought to behave. Artifacts — things, or material culture — derive from the culture's values and norms together with its understandin ...

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Human, Human - Terminology, Human - Biology, Human - Anatomy and physiology, Human - Life cycle, Human - Genetics, Human - Race and ethnicity, Human - Habitat, Human - Food and drink, Human - Population, Human - Evolution, Human - Intelligence, Human - Culture, Human - Origins, Human - Emotion and sexuality, Human - Language, Human - Music, Human - Government politics and the state, Human - Trade and economics, Human - War, Human - Artifacts science and technology, Human - Body image, Human - Mind, Human - Psychology and human ethology, Human - Philosophy, Human - Motivation, Human - Self-reflection and humanism, Human - Spirit

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Military brothels are not unique to Japan, though the Japanese system during WWII was exceptionally large and well-organized. Comfort women - United States. Western militaries have also used such institutions for the same reasons the Japanese military did: to prevent STDs and maintain morale. Allegedly, during the American occupation of Japan, the U.S. army used military brothels set up by the Japanese government known as the Recreation and Amusem ...

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Comfort women, Comfort women - Brothels as part of Japanese military policy, Comfort women - Responsibility and compensation, Comfort women - The ongoing debate over comfort women, Comfort women - Military brothels human trafficking and sexual slavery in context, Comfort women - United States, Comfort women - Vietnamese and Viet Cong in Vietnam, Comfort women - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, Comfort women - NATO

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Military brothels are not unique to Japan, though the Japanese system during WWII was exceptionally large and well-organized. Comfort women - United States. Western militaries have also used such institutions for the same reasons the Japanese military did: to prevent STDs and maintain morale. Allegedly, during the American occupation of Japan, the U.S. army used military brothels set up by the Japanese government known as the Recreation and Amus ...

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Comfort women, Comfort women - Brothels as part of Japanese military policy, Comfort women - Responsibility and compensation, Comfort women - The ongoing debate over comfort women, Comfort women - Military brothels, human trafficking, and sexual slavery in context, Comfort women - United States, Comfort women - Vietnamese and Viet Cong in Vietnam, Comfort women - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, Comfort women - NATO

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The Solar System was created from the remnants of previous stellar systems that went supernova, and is hence, relative to the rest of the universe, richer in heavier elements. Population I stars contain significant amounts of elements heavier than helium ("metals", in the terminology of astronomers). These heavy elements were produced by earlier generations of stars and spread by supernova explosions ...

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Abundance of the chemical elements, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in the Universe, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in the Solar System, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in Earth, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in Earth's crust, Abundance of the chemical elements - Ocean, Abundance of the chemical elements - Atmosphere, Abundance of the chemical elements - Organisms, Abundance of the chemical elements - Human body

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Scientists believe that the Earth formed from the same cloud of matter that formed the Sun. Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in Earth's crust. The graphic below illustrates the relative abundance of the chemical elements in Earth's upper continental crust. Many of the elements shown in the graphic are classified into (partially overlapping) categories: rock-forming elements (major elements in green field and minor elements in light green field); ...

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Abundance of the chemical elements, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in the Universe, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in the Solar System, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in Earth, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in Earth's crust, Abundance of the chemical elements - Ocean, Abundance of the chemical elements - Atmosphere, Abundance of the chemical elements - Organisms, Abundance of the chemical elements - Human body

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Japan regards all World War II compensation claims to be settled. Both South Korea and Japan mutually confirm that all claims between the countries and their people have been settled completely and finally by the Treaty on Basic Relations and Agreement of Economic Cooperation and Property Claims between Japan and the Republic of Korea in 1965. Both countries confirmed that the treaty includes all claims from North Korea. Despite this, in 1990, the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery filed suit, demandin ...

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Comfort women, Comfort women - Brothels as part of Japanese military policy, Comfort women - Responsibility and compensation, Comfort women - The ongoing debate over comfort women, Comfort women - Military brothels human trafficking and sexual slavery in context, Comfort women - United States, Comfort women - Vietnamese and Viet Cong in Vietnam, Comfort women - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, Comfort women - NATO

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Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the known Universe; helium is second. However, after this, the rank of abundance does not continue to correspond to the atomic number; oxygen has abundance rank 3, but atomic number 8. All others are orders of magnitude less common. Both helium-3 and helium-4 were produced in the Big Bang. Additional helium is produced by the fusion of hydrogen inside stellar cores, via a process called the proton-proton chain. Hydrogen and helium are estimated to make up roughly 80% and 20% of all the m ...

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Abundance of the chemical elements, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in the Universe, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in the Solar System, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in Earth, Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundance of elements in Earth's crust, Abundance of the chemical elements - Ocean, Abundance of the chemical elements - Atmosphere, Abundance of the chemical elements - Organisms, Abundance of the chemical elements - Human body

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Maya mythology - The Men. B'alam Agab Meaning "night jaguar," he was the second of the men created from maize after the Great Flood sent by Hurakan. He married Choimha. B'alam Quitze Meaning "jaguar with the sweet smile," was the first of the men created from maize after the Great Flood sent by Hurakan. The gods created Caha-Paluma specifically for him to marry. Alernative names: Balam Quitze, Balam Quitzé Iqi B'alam Meaning "moon jaguar," he was the third of th ...

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Maya mythology, Maya mythology - Overview, Maya mythology - The Creation Myth, Maya mythology - Notable Gods, Maya mythology - Bacabs, Maya mythology - The First Humans, Maya mythology - The Men, Maya mythology - Their Wives, Maya mythology - Gods and Supernatural Beings, Maya mythology - Locations, Maya mythology - Reference

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abductee

A Human being who is taken by Extraterrestrials. Many abductees report being transported to ships for the purpose of conducting human experiements

(See also: Abductee, Body Mind and Soul)

abductee

A Human being who is taken by Extraterrestrials. Many abductees report being transported to ships for the purpose of conducting human experiements

(See also: Abductee, Body Mind and Soul)

Modern analysis emphasizes that human beings are not predictable commodity "resources" with definitions totally controlled by contract, but are creative and social beings that make contributions beyond "labor" to a society and to civilization. The broad term human capital has evolved to contain the complexity of this term, and in macro-economics the term "firm-specific human capital" has evolved to represent the original meaning of term "human resources". Advocating the central role of "human resources" or human capital in enterprises ...

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Human resources, Human resources - Human resources in political economy and social sciences, Human resources - Human resources within firms

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Modern analysis emphasizes that human beings are not predictable commodity "resources" with definitions totally controlled by contract, but are creative and social beings that make contributions beyond "labor" to a society and to civilization. The broad term human capital has evolved to contain the complexity of this term, and in macro-economics the term "firm-specific human capital" has evolved to represent the original meaning of term "human resources". Advocating the central role of "human resources" or human capital in ente ...

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Human resources, Human resources - Human resources in political economy and social sciences, Human resources - Human resources within firms

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Historical research into Japanese government records documents several reasons given for the establishment of military brothels. First, Japanese authorities hoped that by providing easily accessible prostitutes and sexual slaves, the morale and ultimately the military effectiveness of Japanese soldiers would be improved. Second, by institutionalizing brothels and placing them under official scrutiny, the government hoped to control the spread of STDs. Lastly, creating brothels in military bases dir ...

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Comfort women, Comfort women - Brothels as part of Japanese military policy, Comfort women - Responsibility and compensation, Comfort women - The ongoing debate over comfort women, Comfort women - Military brothels human trafficking and sexual slavery in context, Comfort women - United States, Comfort women - Vietnamese and Viet Cong in Vietnam, Comfort women - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, Comfort women - NATO

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The popular conception of "comfort women" outside Japan is that all comfort women were kidnapped by Japanese soldiers to serve as sex slaves under direct order from the Japanese government. The Japanese who are familiar with the issue believe that there are aspects that are missed. Prostitution and bonded labour were both legal when the events of WWII unfolded. Apologists for the Japanese government assert that if the middlemen were coercing women, then much of the blame, whether legal or moral, can be shifted to them. While there is ...

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Comfort women, Comfort women - Brothels as part of Japanese military policy, Comfort women - Responsibility and compensation, Comfort women - The ongoing debate over comfort women, Comfort women - Military brothels human trafficking and sexual slavery in context, Comfort women - United States, Comfort women - Vietnamese and Viet Cong in Vietnam, Comfort women - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, Comfort women - NATO

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