-0475 BC -0221 BC 列子 [lie4 zi5] (aka 列圄寇 Lie YuKou, Lieh Zi) a Daoist of the Warring States period writes the "列子" / Nuwa repairs the heavens after a great flood. It was also said that this NuWa moulded the first man out of clay -0278 BC 楚辭 [chu3 ci2] "Elegies of Chu" by Qu Yuan has a part 問天 [wen4 tian1] "Asking Heaven" in which a story called "Nuwa Mends The Firmament". The name Nuwa first appears here: She moulded figures from the yellow earth and gave them life and the ability to bear children. Demons fought and broke the pillars of heavens. Nuwa worked unceasingly, m ...

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Cities and major towns or those of historical significance include: Abbeville, Ajaccio, Albertville, Albi, Amiens, Angers, Angouleme, Aurillac, Bastia, Besançon, Bordeaux, Belfort, Brest, Brive, Caen, Cahors, Calais, Cannes, Carcassonne, Chamonix, Charleville-Mezieres, Chatellerault, Chinon, Clermont-Ferrand, Colmar, Deauville, Dieppe, France, Digne-les-Bains, Dijon, Dole, Domremy, Dreux, Dunkerque, Evreux, Grenoble, La Baule, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Mende, Metz, Mont-de-Marsan, Montauban, Montpellier, Nantes, ...

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The movie dominated the 1999 Oscars, with a total of eight nominations. It also had another 82 wins and 63 nominations at numerous other award ceremonies Won Academy Award for Best Picture (Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks) Academy Award for Best Actor (Kevin Spacey) Academy Award for Directing (Sam Mendes) Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay (Alan Ball) Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Conrad Hall) American Comedy Awards, USA: American Comedy Award for Funni ...

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Servan-Schreiber was among the first to recognize the inevitability of decolonization, writing a series of articles on the Indochinese conflict. This led to his meeting the future President of the Council of Ministers (i.e., prime minister) Pierre Mendès-France, at that time a dedicated opponent of the French military effort in Indochina. In 1953, Servan-Schreiber cofounded (with Françoise Giroud) the weekly L'Express, initially published as a Saturday supplement to the family-owned newspaper Les Échos. On the magazine's ope ...

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-0475 BC -0221 BC 列子 [lie4 zi5] (aka 列圄寇 Lie YuKou, Lieh Zi) a Daoist of the Warring States period writes the "列子" / Nuwa repairs the heavens after a great flood. It was also said that this NuWa moulded the first man out of clay -0278 BC 楚辭 [chu3 ci2] "Elegies of Chu" by Qu Yuan has a part 問天 [wen4 tian1] "Asking Heaven" in which a story called "Nuwa Mends The Firmament". The name Nuwa first appears here: She moulded figures from the yellow earth and gave them life and the ability to bear children. Demons fought and broke the pillars of heavens. Nuwa worked unceasingly, m ...

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The origins of the name "Moose Jaw" are vague, though it appears to be of First Nations origin. One local legend holds that the Indian word Moosoochapiskanissippi means "the river shaped like the jaw of a moose". The name of the settlement might come from the creek that flowed through the settlement. Another legend holds that the name comes from the word Moosoochapiskun which means "the place where the white man mended the cart with the jawbone of the moose." A third legend explains that the name came from the Cree word moosegaw which means "warm breezes". In the wint ...

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As with any historical event, scholars continue to argue over what exactly happened and why. The Holocaust - Who was directly involved in the killings?. In addition to the direct involvement of Nazi forces, most European countries allied with or occupied by the Axis Powers collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust. Collaboration took the form of either rounding up of the local Jews for deportation to the German ex ...

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The Holocaust - Displaced Persons and the State of Israel. The Holocaust and its aftermath left millions of refugees, including many Jews who had lost most or all of their family members and possessions, and often faced persistent anti-Semitism in their home countries. The original plan of the Allies was to repatriate these "Displaced Persons" to their country of origin, but many refused to return, or were unable to as their homes or communities had been destroyed. As a result, more than 250,000 languished ...

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The Holocaust - Holocaust theology. On account of the magnitude of the Holocaust, many theologians have re-examined the classical theological views on God's goodness and actions in the world. Some believers and apostates question whether people can still have any faith after the Holocaust, and some of the theological responses to these questions are explored in Holocaust theology. The Holocaust - Art and literature. See also:

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Main article: Names of the Holocaust The word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering" to a god. Since the late 19th century, 'holocaust' has primarily been used to refer to disasters or catastrophes. By the late 1970s, however, the conventional meaning of the word became the Nazi genocide. The term is also used by many in a narrower sense, to refer specifically ...

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There were several characteristics to the Nazi Holocaust which, taken together, distinguish it from other genocides in history. The Holocaust - Premeditation. In 1904, Alfred Ploetz founded the German Eugenics Society. Sixteen years later, a work seminal to the development of the German eugenics movement, The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life, was published. Written by Karl Binding, a widely respected judge, and renowned psychiatrist Alfred Hoche, the work was ...

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The Holocaust - Concentration and Labor Camps 1933-1945. Main article: Concentration camp. See also: Nazi concentration camp badges Starting in 1933, the Nazis set up concentration camps within Germany, many of which were established by local authorities, to hold political prisoners and "undesirables". These early concentration camps were eventually consolidated into centrally run camps, and by 1939, six large concentration camps had been established. After 1939, with the beginning of the Second Wor ...

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The Holocaust - Resistance. Due to the careful organization and overwhelming military might of the Nazi German state and its supporters, few Jews and other Holocaust victims were able to resist the killings. There are, however, many cases of attempts at resistance in one form or another. The largest instance of organized Jewish resistance was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, from April to May of 1943, as the final deportation from the Ghetto to the death camps was about to commence. The ZOB and smaller organiza ...

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The victims of the Holocaust were Jews, Polish, Russian, Communists, homosexuals, Roma (also known as gypsies), the mentally ill and the physically disabled, intelligentsia and political activists, Jehovah's Witnesses, some Catholic and Protestant clergy, trade unionists, psychiatric patients, some Africans, common criminals and people labeled as "enemies of the state". These victims all perished alongside one another in the camps, according to the extensive documentation left behind by the Nazis themselves (written and photographed), eyewitness testimony (by survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders), and the statistical records o ...

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The exact number of people killed by the Nazi regime will never be known, but scholars, using a variety of methods of determining the death toll, have generally agreed upon common range of the number of victims. Recently declassified British and Soviet documents have indicated the total may be somewhat higher than previously believed[7]. However, the following estimates are considered to be highly reliable. The estimates: 5.1–6.0 million Jews, ...

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Ram The English word ram and the Latin aries contain the Aryan root ar or ra, so common in names denoting the masculine, fiery, and creative aspect of nature, seen in the word Aryan itself. In the zodiac of the fifth root-race the sign of the ram leads off, and in astrology is called a fiery, cardinal sign, the house of Mars (Ares), as well as the house of exaltation of the sun (Ra).

The symbol of Aries is a ram's horns, and it corresponds with the head in the human anatomy. Ram's horns on the head of a hieroglyphic figure usually denote that an initiate is meant. The symbol of a ram's head and horns is, however, often phallic, a symbol of generative power, though this can be but a degradation of its original meaning. Sphinxes with ram's heads, called criosphinxes, are said to represent the period of the equinoctial points passing through the sign Aries of the celestial zodiac, following upon the age when the bull was the sign.

Egyptian deities with heads of rams, "are solar, and represent under various aspects the phases of generation and impregnation. Their ram's heads denote this meaning, a ram ever symbolizing generative energy in the abstract, while the bull was the symbol of strength and the creative function" (TG 82).

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John III's support for the humanist cause was significant. In literature, his support of Gil Vicente, Garcia de Resende, Sá de Miranda, Bernardim Ribeiro, Fernão Mendes Pinto, João de Barros and, of course, Luís de Camões stood out. In the sciences, John III supported Pedro Nunes and Garcia de Orta. The monarch attributed many scholarships in Universities abroad (mainly in Paris) and definitively transferred the University from Lisbon to Coimbra in 1537. He quickly called prominent figures of European education (many were Portugu ...

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John III of Portugal, John III of Portugal - Early Life, John III of Portugal - Early Reign, John III of Portugal - Decline, John III of Portugal - Economic pressure, John III of Portugal - Rise of the Jesuits brings social and economic conflict, John III of Portugal - Military pressures, John III of Portugal - Dynastic crisis, John III of Portugal - International relations, John III of Portugal - Culture, John III of Portugal - Inquisition, John III of Portugal - The Portuguese Empire under John III, John III of Portugal - Africa, John III of Portugal - Asia, John III of Portugal - Brazil, John III of Portugal - Death and succession, John III of Portugal - Issue, John III of Portugal - Style

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Stalin's first wife was called Ekaterina Svanidze, he married for just three years until her death in 1907. At her funeral, Stalin said that any warm feelings he had for people died with her, for only she could mend his heart. With her he had a son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, with whom he did not get along in later years. His son tried to kill himself, unsucessfully, resulting in serious injuries. Stalin was quoted to have laughed at the boy, saying, "Ha! He could not even shoot straight!" Yakov served in the Red Army and was captured by the ...

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Main article: Modern evolutionary synthesis These questions of interpretation were not settled until the early 20th century, beginning with the work of an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel in the late 19th century, who outlined, through a series of ingeniously devised experiments, a model for inheritance of traits based on the fundamental unit of the gene. Mendel's work was unappreciated at the time and largely ignored by the biological community. When it was "rediscovered" in 1900, it led to a storm of conflict between Mendeli ...

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List of Portuguese monarchs - House of Vímara Peres. The bases of the Portuguese nationality lie in 868 when Alfonso III of Leon gave Vímara Peres the lands between the Minho and Douro rivers, in the south of Galicia. In the period of Reconquista Vímara ruled over a County named after the city of Portucale (today's Porto) and based in Guimarães. The First County of Portugal would last for two centuries when the last count, Nuno Mendes, lost the Battle of Pedroso to Garcia II of Galicia and Portugal, so ...

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En route home via French Indochina, de Wiart stopped in Rangoon as a guest of the army commander. Coming down stairs, he slipped on coconut matting, fell down, broke his back and several vertebrae, and knocked himself out. A sad end for an old warrior returning home. He eventually made it to England and into a hospital where he slowly mended. The doctors succeeded in extracting a remarkable amount of shrapnel from his old wounds and generally patched him up. But the old warrior was not through yet. Sheer will got him on his feet and soon he ...

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In 1935, the Comintern abandoned its communist conformism of the Third Period in favor of a Popular Front which sought to unite socialist and non-socialist organizations of similar politics around the common cause of anti-fascism, confirming the policy that the CPUSA had already embarked upon. The party had mended its relations, at least temporarily, with groups such as the NAACP and had developed relations with church groups, particularly in the North. The party had also started edg ...

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The Communist Party and African-Americans, The Communist Party and African-Americans - Early years 1919 – 1928, The Communist Party and African-Americans - The Third Period and National Self-Determination 1928 – 1935, The Communist Party and African-Americans - Organizing in the North 1928 – 1935, The Communist Party and African-Americans - The Scottsboro Boys and the ILD, The Communist Party and African-Americans - The Popular Front 1935 – 1939, The Communist Party and African-Americans - Organizing black workers, The Communist Party and African-Americans - Communists and black culture, The Communist Party and African-Americans - World War II 1939 – 1945, The Communist Party and African-Americans - The postwar era, The Communist Party and African-Americans - The New Left and afterwards

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