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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/14/europe/spain.php
The picture of the new spanish defence ministry, a pregnant women, it's worth a million words.
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A low currency increases exports while decreasing imports and also reduces budget deficit. The only problem is that will reduce purchase power so shrink consumption but this is less of the problem for the dollar that has so many economies tied to it.
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At our civil ceremony we only had 1 friend invited becuse we needed 2 witnesses. The other witness was the photographer. Then we went by ourselfs for the religious ceremony at a small church in the mountains, the priest (a friend) told us that we needed godfathers so he brought us a nice couple from the village.
After our wedding trip to Paris and Rome we told everybody about our marriage and saw their jaws dropping
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Doc, you really like school, it's a good thing your working in one. I admire your dedication and I confess that it is far beyond my capabilities. Congratulations.
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Try using a smaller font!
I like big stories that let me live them for a longer time but 400 pages it's long enough... I'm sure you can cut out the nurse
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Yes, the Cold War was cooool!!
Actually, it was freezing.
Oh! the days of my youth when the capitalist imperialism was deonounced by the brave proletarians who were fighting for peace. The communist did a terible job of building a classless society but were great at promoting income inequity in capitalism.
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In my childhood to be openly a christian was not a good ideea so I grew up without giving much thought to religion.
After the Revolution, when I was a teen, I became much more interested in christianity and, as I always do, I've read some books about it, but did not became a true believer. This christian phase ended a couple of years later when I had read Nietzche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", a book that brought me a lot of joy and freed me from religious self interogation.
And now I'm perfectly at ease with the dreaded "nothing".
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My "commandments" are about following your own moral standard.
I believe that morals are "particular to a specific case" alot of the time.
Should not the "commandments" include your moral standard? How can you have "particular to a specific case" morals and your own moral standard? "Moral standard" means a general norm that is apllied to specific cases. So, "particular to a specific case" morals don't exist.
Hehe sorry if I'm nagging you but I'm reading Dune (actually the sequel Chepterhouse) so I'm under spice influence.
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My own nr. 1 will be "know you know nothing"
The rest of them I like. Despite not stating clear moral standrads you live room for them in most commandements. This means you believe that moral it's not general but particular to a specific case? What is the purpose of "commandments" if you use another set of moral values outside them?
It leaves a lot of space for going around them (you can define "just cause" as you like) and this is maybe the reason why GO said your a good lawyer.
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What a story!!!
Too bad that US economy it's so thin that they need to outsource even torture.
In Wild Moldavia they are well trained in this torture of bad language. They make everybody suffer with it speaking romanian with a russian accent and russian with a romanian one.
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Godfather? I thought it was Bismark!
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I don't think that japonese public it is ready for nuclear weapons and US were never willing to share nuclear tehnology to allies. If Japan becames a nuclear power and rearmes it will mean the end of US influence in Asia.
As it is Japan has to rely on US to counter the increasing threats from China and N. Correa.
I think that nuclear Correa it is not a major concern for US and they want multipartite negotiations because they don't want to act in case of failure.
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People are willing to believe what it is in their interest. If he says that it does not mean that he could not think different if he will benefit from something else. This was a wrong way to tell that people often lie others and more often lie themselves.
It is sad when high officials are like that, but even worse when people had to be like that to be high officials.
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You had some guts to shout at a cornered criminal with knives. Maybe you don't sharpen them so you felt safe? Hehe, you got the blunt ones!
I'm glad you're safe!
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From Wiki:
1 Constantinian dynasty (306-363)
1.1 Non-dynastic
2 Valentinian-Theodosian dynasty (364-457)
3 Leonid dynasty (457-518)
4 Justinian dynasty (518-602)
4.1 Non-dynastic
5 Heraclian dynasty (610-695)
5.1 Non-dynastic (695-705)
6 Heraclian dynasty (705-711)
6.1 Non-dynastic (711-717)
7 Isaurian dynasty (717-802)
8 Nikephoros' dynasty (802-813)
8.1 Non-dynastic
9 Phrygian dynasty (820-867)
10 Macedonian dynasty (867-1056)
10.1 Non-dynastic
11 Comnenid dynasty
12 Doukid dynasty (1059-1081)
13 Comnenid dynasty (restored, 1081-1185)
14 Angelid dynasty (1185-1204)
15 Laskarid dynasty (in exile, Empire of Nicaea, 1204-1261)
16 Palaiologan Dynasty (restored to Constantinople, 1259-1453)
Another important part it's about the civil wars when the dinasty survived that do not appear here. And also the constant threat that this possiblity represented. Also murders and other conflicts that engaged members of a dinasty and are not represented.
If we could have a list of pretendants and claims things will be more obvious.
There is no absolute bench mark length in time for a dynasty to be robust. The only ones who ruled over a 100 years the Macedonian and Paleologian had also many conflicts within the dinasty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Emp..._.28867-1056.29
If we compare this with France where only legitimate heirs ruled continuously from 987 to 1789 the difference it's striking. That's 800 years! Even before that the Merovingians and Carolingians ruled from early V century to 987, with a dinastic change in 751.
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Great Syria was a popular ideea in the aftermath of WW 1 and they never gave up their bid to regional supremacy. Liban it's to divided to have a stable effective goverment facing agressive neighbours. Maybe if the french are more active...
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Honey glazed women?
Yaammmyy!
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Purple remained a sign of soveraignity exclusive to the emperors until the fall of Byzantium when it migrated to the ottoman flag.
I don't know if murex dye was the color used but I presume so.
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It's to bad that this loss of power happened. Gradually all christian enclaves in the islamic world are destroyed.
This was the story of the greeks and armenians of Anatolia, copts in Egypt, the druz of Syria, christians in South Sudan or Eritrrea, russians from Cecenia and other areas of the empire etc.
In the same time strong and scary muslim communities are established thru out Europe, US, Australia etc
The end of the civil war and syrian overlords on Liban spell the end for a community that fail to fully unite and that had a smaller growth rate then the muslim. Maybe the extreme islamic opinions of both sunnits and shia made it harder to resist against their union.
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Nice work! The details are amazing.
Free Trade and the State of U.S. Manufacturing
in M. Porcius Cato's Blog
A blog by M. Porcius Cato in General
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Dollars are losing much of their international appeal facing a stable euro.