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- 951: History of Papermaking
- History of Papermaking HISTORY OF PAPERMAKING Papermaking goes as far back as 105 A.D. when Ts'ai Lun, an official at the Imperial Court of China, made a sheet of paper using mulberry and other fibres along with fish nets, rags and hemp waste. The first paper was made in 793 A.D. in Baghdad during Harun-ar-Raschid's rule ...
- 952: The Immigrant Experience
- ... s famous people are descended from immigrants if they are not immigrants themselves. People, like Albert Einstein, a famous physicist, and Henry Kissinger, who was Secretary of State, and helped to open up negotiations with China, were Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also from England, was a silent movie star. America is made of many different cultures ...
- 953: The Aviary, the Aquarium, and Eschatology
- ... I inquired about the status of psychotronic weapons research. Pelican was dismissive of the entire subject, calling it "modern-day shamanism." He also stated that psychotronics is only taken seriously in countries like Russia and China that do not have the rigorous peer-reviewed scientific establishment such as in the U.S. I raised the subject of Psi Tech, and Ed Dames' risking his company's reputation on his prediction of ...
- 954: Clipper Ships
- ... is highly probable that it was designed by many ship builders who combined their experience. The first American clippers like the Rainbow and the Sea Witch, were built in New York for tea trades to China. A few years later, the California Gold Rush was the major concern of such ships. One of the fastest clipper was the Flying Cloud, which, on her maiden voyage, was the first ship to sail ...
- 955: Storytelling
- ... It evidently shows that her mother tells this story with her sincerest hopes and passions for her. Her mother wishes her to become more than what it was hope for . Even though woman in old China only grow up to be wives and slaves, she hopes and even dilutions of grandeurs for her daughters thrive in their hearts. Story-telling has been an essential part of their childhood. Maxine Hong Kingston ...
- 956: The Question of Equality
- ... gain so much power and appeal? Partly because of coercion and pertly because of the fascistic tendencies of capitalism in underdeveloped societies. Communism was the only honest alternative in Tsarist Russia and feudal-warlord-colonial China. The democratic revolutionaries in these countries were neither sufficient nor strong enough; there was no sense of democratic revolution. Democratic institutions, no matter how weak or corrupted by the social system, are a pre-condition ...
- 957: The Death Penalty Is An Inappropriate Punishment That Must Be Abolished
- ... The United Nations criticized the U.S. for monitoring other countries' human rights violations when the U.N. considers capital punishment just as serious as any other violation (Death 72). The other five countries are China, Iraq, Iran, South Africa, and Russia. It is embarrassing for the United States to have something such as capital punishment in common with these infamous violators of basic human rights (Bedeau n.pag.). Taking the ...
- 958: Capital Punishment
- ... countries in Western Europe and North and South America - more than 80 nations worldwide - have abandoned capital punishment, yet the United States remains an avid supporter in company with countries such as Iran, Iraq, and China as one of the major users of capital punishment (Death Penalty Focus). The use of the death penalty in its discriminatory and arbitrary methods "only magnifies inequalities of race that persist in the criminal justice ...
- 959: The Death Penalty
- ... both the automatic and conscious nervous system. Within a second the executees brain would be cooked from the inside out. While executions are being abolished in most parts of the world (except Iran, Iraq, China, Yemen and some former Soviet states), Americans seem to want more of them, with fever appeals and delays. Death Belt states are Texas, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama, which together account for ...
- 960: Marijuana
- ... plant." First of all, "marijuana" is the Mexican nickname given to the plant, but known to botanists as Cannabis Sativa. It has been recognized in various forms around the world: in Africa as "dagga," in China as "ma," in Northern Europe as "hemp." Although it is thought that cannabis most likely came from the steppes of central Asia, it now grows in almost any climate, spreading like milkweed of thistle, crowding ...
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