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- 31: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... gambling foreign to science funding. King Charles II, founding patron of the Royal Society of London, was fond of laying wagers on the outcome of the Society's experiments [ShS]. Until 1830, public lotteries funded Colombia, Harvard, and Yale [Gei]. In 1872 Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, hired Eadweard Muybridge to help win his bet that a trotting horse has all four legs off the ground at some point; in ... Princeton Univ. Press. [Pow] Power, W. (1989) "Hottest Commodity In Wall Street Pits? Georgetown Hoyas", Wall Street Journal, March 24, p.A1. [Pr] Price, D.J. de Solla (1963) Little Science, Big Science, and Beyond, Colombia Univ. Press, NY. [Red] Redner, H. (1987) "Pathologies of Science", Social Epistemology, 1:3, pp.215-247. [Res] Rescher, N. (1978) Scientific Progress, Camelot Press, London. [Ros] Rose, I.N. (1986) Gambling and the Law ...
- 32: The Panama Canal
- ... two routes were practical, the one across Panama and that across Nicargua. In 1876 an international company was organized. Two years later it obtained a consession from the Colombian goverment. Panama was then part of Colombia to dig a canal across the isthmus. The United States involvement was the international company failed, and in 1880 a French company was organized by Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal ... States goverment negotiated with the Colombian goverment to obtain a strip of land 9.5 km wide across the isthmus, but the Colombian Senate refused to ratify this consession. In 1903 , however , Panama revolted from Colombia. That same year the United States and the new state of Panama signed the Hay - Bunau - Varilla Treaty by which the United States guaranteed the independance of Panama and secured a perpetual lease on a ...
- 33: How Dams Affect Salmon Migration
- ... using, for example, noises, oxygen bubbles, lights, louvers, and screens. The costs of the installation and their indifferent success has discouraged the notion that high or large dams can be reconciled with salmon production. The Colombia River system is stitched with hydroelectric dams that produce the countries cheapest power, 40 percent cheaper than the national average. This cheap electricity is why most people are overlooking the salmon runs that are rapidly ... shown in brochures by the US Army Corps of Engineers and at dam visitor centers that the dams are totally safe and easy for fish to pass through. Serious fish passage problems occur at the Colombia River and many others. Hydroelectric dams are a major factor in further declines. For thousands of years the Columbia River was just that, a river. Now we have changed all that by adding huge dams ...
- 34: Meat Packing Industry And The
- ... the politically debating time period. Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968), was an American writer and social and economic reformer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at the college of the city of New York and Colombia University (Upton). The author of 90 books, Sinclair became well known after the publication of his novel The Jungle (1906), which exposed the unsanitary and miserable working conditions in the stock yards of Chicago, Illinois ...
- 35: Marijuana 2
- ... arrangement of these leaves is similar to a peacocks feathers only much shorter and less colorful. This Indian hemp plant is usually found in pretty warm climates for example it is found a lot in Colombia. These are not the only places where people grow marijuana lots of people grow it by themselves in their farms or their backyard. In Kentucky farmers are suing the state because they believe that they ...
- 36: All An Adventurer Must Know Ab
- ... village). Health Regulations No inoculations or vaccinations are required unless you are coming from or passing through contaminated areas, Yellow fever certificates are required for those who are coming from 14 following countries; Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Angola, Barkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan and Zaire. Note: Please check the latest regulations with your local Health Office. Clothing Normally the tropical climate calls for washable-cotton, light and ...
- 37: African Slave Trade
- ... American colony to achieve independence. Jose de san Martin worked to liberate Argentina and Chile from Spanish rule in the years 1816 to 1818. Simon Bolivar defeated Spanish forces between 1819 and 1825, liberating Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Miguel Hidalgo, a priest, began a rebellion against Spanish rule in Mexico in 1810, but the uprising failed. Mexico later achieved its independence in 1821. The result of these causes of ...
- 38: A Mafia Thing
- ... southern mainland provinces of Calabria and Campania. (Worsnop 273) Traffic in drugs, chiefly heroin, provides the bulk of the Italian Mafia's revenue from Sicily. Cocaine is becoming more important, however, as drug lords from Colombia try to expand beyond the Americas. To gain a foothold in Europe, the Colombians have got to strike deals with the Mafia, which ironically guards its home turf. (273) Italy in general, has added to ...
- 39: Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen
- ... so that we could have a future, so that we would be able to read beautiful literature such as this and have a voice in our own destinies. Works Consulted Nixon, Bob. Tiananmen Square. British Colombia: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, 1989. "The Internationale" [http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/int/internationale.html], April 2000. "Tiananmen Square Facts" [http://kizuna.cwru.edu/asia110/projects/Qing/what.html], April 2000. "Tiananmen Square Site ...
- 40: Meat Packing Industry And The
- ... the politically debating time period. Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968), was an American writer and social and economic reformer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at the college of the city of New York and Colombia University (Upton). The author of 90 books, Sinclair became well known after the publication of his novel The Jungle (1906), which exposed the unsanitary and miserable working conditions in the stock yards of Chicago, Illinois ...
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