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Title: Leaders unite with Minister Louis Farrakhan in D.C. to launch: Millions More Movement.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Cover Story)
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Title: Chavez launches damage control effort after tensions get out of hand.(Venezuela Pres Hugo Chavez appoints Luis Miquilena as Justice and Interior Minister)
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Title: Huawei Technologies help Etisalat to launch UMTS services.(UAE)(Universal Mobile Telecommunications System)(Minister of Communication of UAE the first user of the network)(Brief Article)
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London Mayor Boris Johnson on the balcony of his offices at City Hall. Photograph: Richard Saker The mayor of London , Boris Johnson , has opened himself up to charges of cronyism ... (more...)

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Senator Conroy launches National E-security Awareness Week, to be held from 6-13 June. An Australian Government initiative to help Australians understand e-security risks and how ... (more...)

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South Korea agreed this weekend to establish the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC).The IPEEC will serve as a high-level forum for facilitating a ... (more...)

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Minister launches Plan for Changeover to Euro Cash in 2002 . Mr Charlie McCreevy TD, Minister for Finance and Mr Philip Hamell, Chairperson of the Euro Changeover Board of Ireland ... (more...)

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some meta text goes in here, ... A fireworks awareness, safety and enforcement campaign has been launched today by Security Minister Paul Goggins and Minister for Public Safety ... (more...)

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A consultation on the development of up to three 2,500-place Titan prisons was launched today by Prisons Minister David Hanson MP. (more...)

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Minister launches Safe and Caring Schools Policy. Education Minister Joan Burke was at Stephenville Elementary School today to officially launch government?s Safe and ... (more...)

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The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd officially launched Carers Week at Old Parliament House? (more...)

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'Over the years, bin Laden and his fellow terrorists launched numerous strikes against U.S. targets with the stated design of getting American forces out of Saudi Arabia -- including the twin embassy bombings in East Africa; the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and, eventually, 9/11.' http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/29/wbr.saudi.base/ 'The United States has said that virtually all its troops, except some training personnel, are to be pulled out of Saudi Arabia. The decision was confirmed by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a joint news conference with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan.' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2984547.stm (more...)

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The Star of David Has Become the Swastika 04.01.2009 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/106892-stardavid-0 The Nazi / Zionist bombings against Gaza and the Palestinian people are cold, premeditated murders without the least concern for the pain, suffering or the rights of the people. The Zionists of Palestine feel superior, anointed by God, and they retain control of a good part of the worldwide economy. They subjugate nations and governments and silence people. What is happening in Gaza is an exercise in barbarism demonstrating all the practices of the Hitlerites. However, it seems that the lessons of the concentration camps have perfected the brutal character of Zionism. Weapons are used with tungsten and phosphorus that hit a person above the abdomen, giving them no chance of survival. There are weapons there that are banned by international law. The terrorist organization of the White House used this pretext to invade Iraq. In fact, North American intelligence was ?wrong.? The weapons of mass destruction were not in Baghdad, but in Tel Aviv. And they are used against defenseless men, women and children in the most inhuman and cowardly manner possible, typical of the Nazi / Zionist. The terrorist government of Israel has refused to negotiate what they want in terms of peace and Hamas and insists, with support from the rotten media, which does not show the images of barbarism, in "justice." The Palestinian party that governs Gaza was elected by direct vote in one of many peace agreements, with U.S. participation, who has never done anything else throughout history where they did not always defend the aggressor Nazi / Zionists. The media will not say that the Zionists are major creditors of their network. Meanwhile, the corporate media would sell their mothers if necessary to support the power of lying. The end of the year holidays exchanged the horror of the Palestinian holocaust for shoppers in traffic jams. Happy people in long lines of cars, many made by General Motors, asking why is it necessary to watch a burning fire. There is a simple movie called DOMINIUM whose story goes on in a country governed by a similar Nazi / Zionist entity, in which emotion is considered a disease. Love is a disease. Being jointly liable is a disease. It seems that wherever you look, there is a television program showing the virtues of coldness and the failure to notice. It is a drug that causes people to no longer feel. To feel emotions. This role is fulfilled by the media today and the Nazi / Zionists know it. They are the big bankers, big business, and they are supported by the money of people who are dominated by tennis brand, sandwiches of this or that network, and probably are already buying in bulk perfume with the smell of hamburgers launched by one of these networks of capitalist terrorism. In the movie, the factor of control and command of the Nazi / Zionist state is the clergy. They are no different from the Jewish fundamentalist who murdered Prime Minister Rabin for having accepted the peace agreement. The various religions have historically been serving as a pretext for wars and defense of economic interests. Pope Pius XII, more recently, was an ally of Hitler and John Paul II and Benedict XVI are instruments of neo liberal capitalism. The Zionists themselves claim they have been persecuted throughout the history of humanity and therefore collect interest charges with blood and barbarity. As if they were the only ones who ever suffered. They murder, rape and torture all in the name of the right to exist, removing (ethnically cleansing) others. They are bloodthirsty simpletons supported by the power of the largest military power of the world, the USA. The North Americans and British (USA is their European colony) refused to vote on the proposal of the Arab countries for a ceasefire demanding instead that Hamas stop launching homemade rockets on Israel. Self-defense is only for the Zionist owners of the banks and of the great enterprises that finance political campaigns, inclusive of that of Barak Obama. They call it civilization. They feel and proceed as though they are the "chosen people." There are those who are going to be pocketed in exchange for innocent chocolates in the society that has pictures mounted where the bathrooms have toilet soaps to remove "Palestinian bacteria," "Latin bacteria" and "African bacteria,? etc. They are just murderers, genociders. They transform humans into inert bodies in New Years? traffic jams who are horrified about lost puppies on the roads and the despair of the owners. The owner of that foot in the photo above is distant, so it does not matter. Don?t they realize that they act in all the corners of the world and extend their claws and their swastika-shaped Star of David to ?cure? the evil inferiors from feeling emotions. The address in order to have an idea of the extent of the horror (more...)

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http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090104/News/sundaytimesnews_08.html If so, the sums do not jive with the number of individuals directly benefiting (my suggestion is to extend that number by stating that it is for the direct benefit of widows and their minor children). I understand that there are 3 factory models under consideration and would recommend speaking first with the appropriate Central Government Head to ensure that best use and practices are in place. I am emphasising this because your statement includes wording that conotes difficulty in gaining access to proposal presentation through your local provincial secretariat. That what needs to be surmised is 1) key utilization of funds for the development of an "anchor" based project and its subsidiary feeders in proforma 2) guarantee for the Sources and Uses of Funds per proforma 3) Full basic schedule and timeline to proforma. "Provincial Council sources said they had launched the campaign to find their own funds as the funds allocated by various donors had not been utilized for the development of the province." Your collabrative investigation with the central government regarding what has happened with these outstanding funds would greatly benefit not only your current prospectus but also future endeavours. "The Chief Minister had earlier appealed to the Provincial Council Secretariat for funds, but had failed to get a positive response. The Council had thereafter decided to seek its own funds, mainly from India which had earlier pledged to support the Provincial Council." This is one of the best arguments for not hastily devolving power and ensuring that Central Government is not only aprised but involved in the undertakings of provincial government bodies. I am also wondering on what basis the EPC feels that it can independently approach bodies such organizations as Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, JAICA and the Canadian government for road development, resettlement, the health sector, the education sector and for improving irrigation and canal systems (when those are all programs undertaken through the Central Government. The sovreignity of the nation as well as debt load that is willingly borne by such cannot be circumvented by any provincial council. The project, handled properly, is a exciting and likely feasible endeavour - the power play is not. There has also been great issue of funds being diverted toward terrorist activities. The only way to help ensure that extra-national to intra-provincial funds are not used for such activities is by the participation of Central Government as that involvement mitigates conflict between participants and as a primary channel between sources and uses of funds. Isn't this wonderful news? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_women_in_mosques;_ylt=Asm4VWviH6Ms600J7zR4n1sLewgF (more...)

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How Jewish is Hollywood? http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood. How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah. The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.) The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish. As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you'd be flipping between "The 700 Club" and "Davey and Goliath" on TV all day. So I've taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that's what we do best. I'm weighing several slogans, including: "Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!"; "Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible"; and "Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all." I called ADL Chairman Abe Foxman, who was in Santiago, Chile, where, he told me to my dismay, he was not hunting Nazis. He dismissed my whole proposition, saying that the number of people who think Jews run Hollywood is still too high. The ADL poll, he pointed out, showed that 59% of Americans think Hollywood execs "do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans," and 43% think the entertainment industry is waging an organized campaign to "weaken the influence of religious values in this country." That's a sinister canard, Foxman said. "It means they think Jews meet at Canter's Deli on Friday mornings to decide what's best for the Jews." Foxman's argument made me rethink: I have to eat at Canter's more often. "That's a very dangerous phrase, 'Jews control Hollywood.' What is true is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood," he said. Instead of "control," Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the industry "happen to be Jewish," as in "all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish." But Foxman said he is proud of the accomplishments of American Jews. "I think Jews are disproportionately represented in the creative industry. They're disproportionate as lawyers and probably medicine here as well," he said. He argues that this does not mean that Jews make pro-Jewish movies any more than they do pro-Jewish surgery. Though other countries, I've noticed, aren't so big on circumcision. I appreciate Foxman's concerns. And maybe my life spent in a New Jersey-New York/Bay Area-L.A. pro-Semitic cocoon has left me naive. But I don't care if Americans think we're running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them. (more...)

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and infantry rolled into Gaza after nightfall Saturday, launching a ground offensive in a widening war against Hamas that the Israeli defense minister said "will not be easy and will not be short." The ground operation was preceded by several hours of heavy artillery fire after dark, igniting flames in the night sky. Machine gun fire rattled as bright tracer rounds flashed through the darkness and the crash of hundreds of shells sent up streaks of fire. Artillery fired illuminating rounds, sending streaks of bright light drifting down over Gaza's densely packed neighborhoods. Gunbattles could be heard, as troops crossed the border into Gaza, marching single file. They were backed by helicopter gunships and tanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Gaza will not be paved with flowers for you, it will be paved with fire and hell," Hamas warned Israeli forces. Spokesman Ismail Radwan said in a televised speech Gaza will "become a graveyard" for Israeli soldiers. "This will not be easy and it will not be short," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a televised address shortly after the ground invasion began. "I don't want to disillusion anybody and residents of the south will go through difficult days," he added. "We do not seek war but we will not abandon our citizens to the ongoing Hamas attacks." Israeli officials told NBC News that the goal is to strike at Hamas' foundations and that the operation could take many long days. Israeli security officials said the objective is not to reoccupy Gaza. The depth and intensity of the ground operation will depend on parallel diplomatic efforts, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Eight days of fighting so far have left more than 460 Palestinians dead and four Israelis were killed by rocket fire. Gaza is densely populated, and intense urban warfare in those conditions could exact a much higher civilian toll. The U.N. estimates that at least a quarter of the Palestinians killed so far were civilian. The United Nations Security Council scheduled a special meeting to discuss the latest developments. Heavy artillery fire Before the ground incursion began, heavy Israeli artillery fire hit east of Gaza City in locations were Hamas fighters were deployed. The artillery shells were apparently intended to detonate Hamas explosive devices and mines planted along the border area before troops marched in. A text message sent by Hamas' military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, said "the Zionists started approaching the trap which our fighters prepared for them." Hamas said it also broadcast a Hebrew message on Israeli military radio frequencies promising to kill and kidnap the Israeli soldiers. "Be prepared for a unique surprise, you will be either killed or kidnapped and will suffer mental illness from the horrors we will show you," the message said. Hamas has also threatened to resume suicide attacks inside Israel. (more...)

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Ok if this is true, can somebody hand me a knife so i can just cut the ENTIRE middle east off the planet!! You gets need to get laid.. Friday, November 14, 2008 Saudi Arabia Other stories from Saudi Arabia * 17 December 2008: OPEC cuts production by 2.2 million barrels a day * 20 November 2008: Negotiations for hijacked Saudi oil tanker begin * 17 November 2008: Pirates capture Saudi oil tanker * 14 November 2008: Egyptian doctor sentenced to fifteen years jail, 1,500 lashes in Saudi Arabia * 7 July 2008: 40th Ariane 5 rocket launches ProtoStar-1 and Badr-6 satellites ...More articles here Location of Saudi Arabia A map showing the location of Saudi Arabia To write, edit, start or view other articles on Saudi Arabia, see the Saudi Arabia Portal ... Portal:Saudi Arabia Raouf Amin el-Araby, a 52-year-old Egyptian doctor who has been serving the Saudi Royal family for 20 years, was convicted of malpractice. Egyptian newspapers reported that he was accused of driving a Saudi princess "to addiction", reportedly after treating a Saudi princess with painkillers. Initially sentenced to 7 years and 700 lashes, he has been sentenced to 15 years and 1500 lashes, 70 a week, after making an appeal. Family members, friends and colleagues gathered in outrage and grief outside the headquarters of Egypt's doctors union, calling upon King Abdullah to pardon Raouf. "1,500 lashes is unprecedented in the history of Islam," read one banner carried by protesters. "Who is responsible for the humiliation of our doctors abroad?" read another. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) and the foreign minister are working hard to find a way to return Raouf home quickly. Hafez Abu Saeda, the director of EOHR, stated that the princess was prescribed the same medication that she was receiving in the United States, "so it is obvious that the doctor was not at fault for her addiction." Abu Saeda was astonished that the judge doubled the sentence and the lashes after the appeal. It is tantamount, he said, to penalizing Amin for asserting his right of appeal. "When you appeal against a sentencing it is the rule that it cannot go higher, but in Saudi Arabia it appears anything is possible," said Saeda. Protests in Egypt have driven the Egyptian foreign ministry to seek a solution, partly out of concern that negative repercussions may damage relations between Cairo and Riyadh. A human rights lawyer said that he was given the first 70 lashes last week and he will get 70 more this week. (more...)

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Israeli airstrikes widen scope against Gaza Buzz Up Send Share Print By IBRAHIM BARZAK and AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writers ? 48 mins ago Play Video AP ? Israeli assault on Hamas kills more than 200 Slideshow: Israel launches air strikes on Gaza Play Video Mideast Video: Palestinian protests Reuters Play Video Mideast Video: 'We Needed to Act' FOX News AP ? An Israeli soldier prays on top of a tank at a staging area near the Sufa Crossing just outside the ? GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ? Warplanes pressing one of the Israel's deadliest assaults ever against Palestinian militants widened their sights on Sunday, dropping bombs on smuggling tunnels that are a major weapons pipeline for the Gaza Strip's Islamic Hamas rulers. Israel's Cabinet authorized the military to call up 6,500 reserve soldiers for a possible ground invasion and moved tanks, infantry and armored units to the Gaza border. Since it began Saturday, Israel's offensive against Gaza rocket squads has been carried out exclusively from the air. Crowds of Gazans, backed by a bulldozer, breached the border wall with Egypt to escape the chaos. Syria, reflecting the rage in the Arab world over Israel's aerial onslaught, broke off indirect peace talks with the Jewish state. The airstrikes, which initially targeted Hamas security compounds, killed more than 280 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more in its first 24 hours, said Gaza health official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain. A Palestinian human rights group said among 251 dead it counted, 20 were children under 16 and nine were women. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said it was difficult to keep an exact count because of chaos at the hospitals, and difficulty in identifying dismembered bodies. The civilian casualties included a 15-year-old boy who died in southern Gaza on Sunday in an attack on a greenhouse near the border. At least 644 people were wounded, Hassanain said. Battered militants managed to launch more than 20 rockets and mortars at Israeli border communities. The number of attacks was down sharply from a day earlier, indicating the Israeli airstrikes took a stiff toll. Israel's head of military intelligence told Israel's Cabinet on Sunday that Hamas' ability to fire rockets had been reduced by 50 percent. Still, two rockets struck close to Israel's largest southern city, Ashdod, reaching deeper into Israel than ever before, and confirming Israel's concern that militants are now able to put major cities within rocket range. No serious injuries were reported. The rockets landed some 23 miles (38 kilometers) from Gaza, doubling the militants' previous range. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it was unclear when the operation would end. The situation in southern Israel "is liable to last longer than we are able to foresee at this time," he told his Cabinet. The carnage has inflamed Arab public opinion, and the diplomatic fallout came swiftly. A Syrian official said Damascus would suspend indirect peace talks with Israel, begun earlier this year, over the Gaza attacks. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, says "Israel's aggression closes all the doors" to any move toward a settlement in the region. Israel and Syria held four rounds of negotiations in Turkey. Condemnations and protests against the Israeli offensive swept the Arab world for a second straight day, occasionally turning violent. A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up in the midst of a large demonstration in northern Iraq. Israeli troops fired on a violent protest in the West Bank, killing a Palestinian man. Hamas' fiercest rival, the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, urged the Islamic militant group to renew a truce with Israel that collapsed last week. However, Abbas has had no influence in Gaza since Hamas seized control there by force in June 2007. The Israeli army says Palestinian militants have fired more than 300 rockets and mortars at Israeli targets over the past week and 10 times that number over the past year. Israel's foreign minister Tzipi Livni told "Meet the Press" that Israel launched its strike because Gaza's Hamas rulers were smuggling weapons and building up "a small army." But, she added, "Our goal is not to reoccupy the Gaza Strip." Israeli soldiers and settlers left the tiny seaside territory in 2005 after a 38-year occupation, though Israel retained control of Gaza's borders. The Israeli military said warplanes attacked 40 tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border in the course of four minutes Sunday. Medics said two people were killed and 25 were injured. Witnesses reported large fires and dozens of explosions. Black smoke rising from the area of the attacks was especially dense closer to the Mediterranean, apparently after missile struck a makeshift underground fuel pipeline. Weapons and commercial goods are brought in through the passagewa (more...)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/24/russia-nuclear Russia has thrown down a new gauntlet to Barack Obama with an announcement that it will sharply increase production of strategic nuclear missiles. In the latest of a series of combative moves by the Kremlin, a senior government official in Moscow said the Russian military would commission 70 strategic missiles over the next three years, as part of a massive rearmament programme which will also include short-range missiles, 300 tanks, 14 warships and 50 planes. Military experts said the planned new arsenal was presumed to consist of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) rather than submarine-launched missiles. If this is the case, the plans represent a fourfold increase in the rate of ICBM deployment. The arsenal will include a new-generation, multiple-warhead ICBM called the RS-24. It was first test-fired in 2007, with first deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov boasting it was ?capable of overcoming any existing or future missile defence systems?. I would like to see how Obama follows up his promised disarmament agenda with this development? I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals." --- Barack Obama, 22 October 2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwRcZXrz0k Obama is an idiot. opps. missile material. (more...)

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1. Under Shah Abbas, the Safavid dynasty (1 point) reached the high point of its glory. rapidly declined until it was too weak to fight off its many enemies. suffered an invasion by Moroccan peoples, who captured the capital of Isfahan. witnessed a relaxation of traditional religious beliefs. 2. Who led the Ming Dynasty's naval voyages of exploration? (1 point) Hong Wu Kee Yo Zui Zong "Iron Fist" Lee Zheng He 3. Beyond the extended Chinese family was the , which consisted of dozens, or even hundreds, of related families. (1 point) queue tribe group clan 4. John Locke's ideas suggest that people were (1 point) born either good or evil. inherently self-centered. naturally inclined to be stupid. molded by their experiences. 5. The American nation's first constitution was called the (1 point) Rights of Man. Constitution of the United States of America. Articles of Confederation. Bill of Rights. 6. Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly's decrees because (1 point) the army turned against him and threatened to execute him. it was the only way he would be allowed to remain mayor of Paris. thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family. his attempt to escape to Poland had failed. 7. Who established the Mogul Dynasty? (1 point) Akbar Babur Lex Khan Timur 8. Shah Jahan had the built in Agra in memory of his wife. (1 point) Taj Mahal Mumtaz Isfahan Plassey 9. What was the Japanese name for the heads of noble families? (1 point) hari kari shogun osaka daimyo 10. By 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had (1 point) brought a long period of peace to Japan. expelled all Jesuit missionaries and persecuted Japanese Christians. limited European merchants to Beijing, where their ships were permitted to dock only once per year. persuaded most of the daimyo to accept his authority. 11. was the first to argue that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe. (1 point) Ptolemy Nicholas Copernicus Johannes Kepler Martin Luther 12. Isaac Newton's universal law of gravitation (1 point) was denounced by the Anglican Church as the work of the Devil. refuted Galileo Galilei's theory of universal movement. was laughed at by Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus. showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe. 13. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should (1 point) use inductive reasoning. rely solely on the bible. leave nature alone. use chance to study nature. 14. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of a social contract, (1 point) an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will. punishments are not exercises in brutality, and capital punishment is discarded. the government should not interfere in economic matters. women should be granted rights nearly equal to those of men. 15. composed The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, three of the world's greatest operas. (1 point) Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Sebastian Bach George Frederick Handel 16. Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that (1 point) the assets of the rich should be taken. the state should not regulate the economy. those who are able to work should help to support those who cannot work. the state should monitor the economy and impose regulations to keep it healthy. 17. The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was (1 point) a promise to destory all of the nation's tennis bracelets. a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution. an oath of loyalty to Jean Valjean, an outspoken lawyer that called for doing away with the relics of feudalism. a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed. 18. Napoleon's coup d'état overthrew the to establish his consulate. (1 point) Directory city mayor British government Legislative Assembly 19. The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was (1 point) the Religious Code. the Food Code. the Merchant Code. the Civil Code. 20. The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by (1 point) retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside. waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter. splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides. making an alliance with Egypt, which launched an attack on Turkey to draw Napoleon out of Russia. Match each item with the correct statement below. a. Mogul b. grand vizier c. "Akbar style" d. Mehmet II e. Akbar f. Safavid g. Sinan h. Riza?i?Abbasi i. zamindar j. "gunpower empires" 21. empires formed by outside conquerors who unified the regions they conquered (1 point) 22. sultan's chief minister (1 point) 22. sultan's chief minister (1 point) 23. famous painter of the Safavid Era (1 point) 24. expanded his empire to rule almost all of India (1 point) 25. local Mogul official who kept part of the taxes in lieu of a salary (1 point) 26. combined Persian with Indian motifs ( (more...)

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