... was nuts, but the files didn't take a whole lot of space, and the 200th Anniversary ofthe Revolution [of the United States against England] was coming up, and parchment replicas of all ... knowledge in the hands of the few and away from the minds ofthe many. I predict that in the not-too-distant-future that all materials will either be circulating on the Internet, or that they will ... literally `fax someone a pizza' or other meals, the `faxing a pizza' being a standard joke among Internetters for years, describing one way to tell when the future can be said to have...
... that the definition of maternal death should include any death ofa woman while she is pregnant or within one calendar year of termi-nation ofthe pregnancy, and that these should be classified ... countries ofthe close relationship between the mental health of mothers and the physical and mental develop-ment of their children are of vital importance to both child health and maternal and ... including access to safe abortion in the context of the threat of violence towards women seeking a termination of pregnancy, impairment of sex-ual health as a result of violence and abuse, and lack...
... tomake the voyage, and on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, the Santa Maria (sahn'tah mah-ree'ah), the Pinta(peen'tah), and the _Ni a_ (neen'yah) set sail from Palos (pah'los), ... Lenox Library, New York.]BALBOA DISCOVERS THE PACIFIC The man who led the way to the discovery that America was notpart of Asia was Balbo&apos ;a. [6] He came to the eastern border of Panama (1510) ... greatwork was training seamen. Many men afterward famous as discoverers and navigators, as Dias (dee'ahss), DaGama (dah gah'ma), Cabral (ca-brahl'), Magellan, and Columbus, served...
... to an attempt, on the part of the Romanists, at the commencement ofthe session, to obtain a toleration for their worship, and the relaxation of some ofthe penal laws.Various attempts have ... assured that the smaller the number of actual traitors the less was the risk of discovery. They were also aware, that all, or, at all events, most ofthe Roman Catholics would jointhem, when the design ... that he had let the cellar to Thomas Percy, with the adjoining house, and that the wood and coals were the property of that gentleman. At this stage of the examination, the lord chamberlain saw...
... and “Abstract/modern design”. It also agreed that the only words to appear on the banknotes would be the name ofthe currency and the initials ofthe ECB in the different languages. A Feature ... each denomination were produced and these then set the standards for the subsequent large-scale production. In addition, a catalogue of acceptable and unacceptable banknotes (defective and ... exchangetheir old currencies for the new one. The messagewas spread as broadly as possible via TVcommercials, print adverts, theinternet and otherchannels, and a pivotal role here was played...
... community and social capital. The work of Habermas and Calhounleads us to ask how theInternet may alter the practice of politics. The Weberiantradition raises the question ofthe effect ofInternet ... As was the case with broadcast media, the growthand commercialization oftheInternet has been accompanied by a commodi-fication of attention. A rapidly evolving mosaic of search engines and point- of- entry ... argues that political impact derives less from the char-acter ofthe medium than from the character of information and the day-to-dayculture of its use. The successful Jesse Ventura candidacy...
... “Rai Ngan Phon Karn Wichai Reung Sapab Karn Kangkan Lae Raka KaBorikarn Internet Nai Prathet Thai (Competition and Pricing of Thai Internet) ,” by SomkiatTangkitvanich and Deunden Nikomborirak, ... August 1998, the exchange rate is Bt40 = 1USDSource: “Rai Ngan Phon Karn Wichai Reung Sapab Karn Kangkan Lae Raka KaBorikarn Internet Nai Prathet Thai (Competition and Pricing of Thai Internet) ,” ... August 1998, the exchange rate is Bt40 = 1USDSource: “Rai Ngan Phon Karn Wichai Reung Sapab Karn Kangkan Lae Raka KaBorikarn Internet Nai Prathet Thai (Competition and Pricing of Thai Internet) ,”...
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... downloading and playing music, films and games. Less than one-tenth ofthe parents in Bulgaria (7%) and Lithuania (8%), and one-tenth ofthe parents in Greece and Latvia (both 11%) answered that ... authorities929088888778787775757473727070676665646363615857565151490255075100PTMTIEELCYUKESSIPLLTSEBEFRFIEU27LUROHUBGITDEEENLSKLVATCZDK The previous charts showed that in almost all Member States – similar to the results obtained for the EU27 overall – a large majority ofthe parents each time agreed that the measure ... Half ofthe parents participating in this survey answered that they had installed filtering software on the computer that their child used at home. Monitoring software was not as popular,...
... both Kahn andLeiner left DARPA, there was a significant decrease inDARPA's Internet activity. The IAB was left without a primary sponsor and so increasingly assumed the mantle of leadership.Continued ... promoted the academic tradition of openpublication of ideas and results. However, the normalcycle of traditional academic publication was too for-mal and too slow for the dynamic exchange of ideasessential ... growth ofthe Internet community demanded a restructuring ofthe coordina-tion mechanisms. The ICCB was disbanded and replaced by a struc-ture of Task Forces, each focused on a particular area of the...
... Page 3 By February 28, 1990 the ARPANET hardware was removed. ARPANET formally shut down. but theInternet was up and running. The WWW bursts into the world and the growth oftheInternet ... like a supernova. What had been doubling each year, now doubles in three months. What began as an ARPA experiment has, in the span of just 30 years, become a part ofthe world’s popular culture. ... the presentation. Introduction A. The pioneers and the ARPANET Thehistoryoftheinternet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT first...
... harassment beyond what was normal in Germany or Austria. It was by no means the case that the whole of Europe was a haven of press freedom in an otherwise backward world.Newspapers in Asia and ... the 1930s, official printed and handwrittenmaterial ofthe Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) was disposed of as trash. Despite a venerable tradition of historiography, there was still no archival awareness ... astronomer andmathematician Lambert-Adolphe Quetelet tried to identify averages and social regularities in the numerical material, and to correlate various social facts with one another. He was searching...