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Historical Atlas with 4000 year map animation

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:22:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.atlasofworldhistory.com

Free historical atlas software for Windows PCs

4000 year map animation shows change over time.
Click nations on maps for history at that time and place.
Africa, Asia, and Europe to the year 1000.

Download Free

For Windows XP and Vista PCs.
Free version is full feature. FAQ.

For Teachers For Students About Us

Copyright © 2002-2007 Atlas of World History Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Website updated: November 4, 2007 Software updated: October 29, 2007

Tags: world, atlas, map, history, animation

One hundred greatest novels of all time...

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:03:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the rest is on the site...

Clip Source: www.greatbooksguide.com

1. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past

2. Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamozov

3. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

4. Henry James The Ambassadors

5. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote

6. Herman Melville Moby Dick

7. William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom!

8. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

9. Henry Fielding Tom Jones

10. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

11. Gabriel García Márquez

12. Henry James The Wings of the Dove

13. Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

14. Charles Dickens Great Expectations

15. Victor Hugo Les Misérables

16. Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

17. Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot

18. Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises

19. Hermann Broch The Sleepwalkers

20. Franz Kafka The Trial

21. James Joyce Ulysses

22. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

23. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

24. William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury

Tags: novels, the best, greatest, interesting, informative, list.

Separating The Women From The Girls

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:23:41 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

Lisa Nowak, the diaper-wearing astronaut who went whacko over a man, is probably going to get away with stalking, assault, attempted kidnapping (to God's know what end) and, setting feminism back a thousand years.

How novel, women just can't control their emotions and shouldn't be held accountable. She was in love! I guess we should be grateful she isn't going with the PMS defense. "More than a dozen psychiatric disorders" and NASA never noticed? Females like Nowak hurt women everywhere with this kind of sorry-ass, female jealousy and emotional collapse.

Puh leeze. She's no crazier than the violent, stalker ex-boyfriends that feminists like me just love to see do hard time. You just don't get to go crazy in this way because you're a divorced mom of three who thinks no one will ever love you again, no matter how fucking brilliant you are. Because of how brilliant you are.

Tags: decide, to, be, happy, without, a, man

A bit of FUN! ?

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:14:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.linkinn.com

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Jewish synagogue being renovated in Afghanistan

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:39:27 GMT

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Clip Source: ismailimail.wordpress.com

An Afghan labourer works on an old Jewish synagogue undergoing renovation in the old part of Herat, Afghanistan, 29 October 2007. The conservation of historical places is part of a wider rehabilitation project implemented by the historical Cities Support Programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, with support from the German Federal Foreign Office. The Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme (HCP) promotes the conservation and re-use of buildings and public spaces in historic cities in the Muslim World

Tags: muslims, jews, synagogue, afghanistan, renovation, historic, germany

Iran produces anti cancer drug

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:58:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.presstv.ir

Iranian researchers at Isfahan Drug Research Center have applied blood cells to produce an anticancer drug named 'porfimer sodium'.

Porfimer sodium generically known as photofrin is a synthetic derivative of hematoporphyrin with photodynamic properties.

Photofrin injections are absorbed by all body cells, including both normal and cancer cells. The drug which is activated after 2 or 3 days, gives normal cells enough time to degrade it.

The laser activation of the absorbed drug by tumor cells, produces oxygen radicals, resulting in cytotoxicity and the destruction of such cells.

When applied in the initial stages it is believed to treat lung, esophageal, stomach and bladder cancers. So far no serious side effects have been reported for the drug.

Today, Iran has become the second producer of porfimer sodium in the world.

Tags: iran, health, cancer

Strange but True: Snake Oil Salesmen Were on to Something

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:39:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Snake oil really is a cure for what ails you, if that happens to be arthritis, heart disease or maybe even depression

Throughout the 19th century salesmen traveled the U.S. peddling solutions to all medical ills. As depicted in numerous Westerns and in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, the "doctor" was aided by a shill in the crowd who would, at the appropriate moment, call out that this medicament, ointment or tincture had solved his woes. Once the unsuspecting public had purchased the con artists' wares, both would quickly depart before the townspeople discovered the worthlessness of the claims.

SNAKE OIL: Chinese water snakes have lots of omega 3 fatty acids in their oil, meaning such snake oil might actually cure aches and pains.

For centuries snake oil has been a folk remedy in Chinese medicine, used primarily to treat joint pain such as arthritis and bursitis

Tags: snake oil, medicine, health, heart disease, depression, cure

Christians and Atheists

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:00:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cracked.com

he war that's coming between the fundamentalist Christians and the hard-core Atheists probably won't be the most violent of the holy wars. But it has the potential to be the most annoying.

Well, I'm going to try to stop it.

I think we've got more common ground than we admit.

Can Christians and atheists both agree that...

1. You Can Do Terrible Things in the Name of Either One

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

2. Both Sides Really Do Believe What They're Saying

3. In Everyday Life, You're Not That Different

4. There Are Good People on Both Sides

5. Your Point of View is Legitimately Offensive to Them

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6. We Tend to Exaggerate About the Other Guy

7. We Tend to Exaggerate About Ourselves

"EVERY LETTER IN THIS BOOK IS ETCHED DIRECTLY FROM THE HAND OF THE ALMIGHTY AND ANY ONE SYLLABLE CAN REDUCE ALL OF THE WORK OF ALL THE WORLD'S SCIENTISTS TO RUBBLE!"

"YOUR BRAINWASHED DEVOTION TO A RIDICULOUS BOOK OF SUPERSTITIOUS LIES HAS DESTROYED CIVILIZATION AND KILLED BILLIONS!!!!"

8. Focusing on Negative Examples Makes You Stupid

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Tags: religion, christianity, atheism, funny, humor

Belgium nears record of 150 days without a government

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:28:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.iht.com

As linguistic spats endure, Belgium nears record of 150 days without a government

Published: November 4, 2007

Preventing a center-left alliance from taking office is discord over economic issues, more self-rule for Dutch-speaking Flanders and Francophone Wallonia and the fate of a Brussels-area voting district a court declared illegal in 2003.

The problem with the bilingual voting district is that it covers part of Dutch-speaking Flanders. In 2003, the constitutional court said that was illegal under Belgian law but the issue comes to a head now as Belgian politicians have ignored the court ruling for four years.

What complicates Belgian politics are Flemish demands for more self-rule. Francophone politicians argue enough powers have devolved to Flanders and Wallonia in the last 25 years and accuse Flanders of abusing its economic sway over poorer Wallonia to seek the demise of Belgium.

Tags: belgium, government, politics, flanders, wallonia, elections, brussels, federalism, seperatism, bhv

The Mind Of God?

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:37:58 GMT

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Clip Source: jonathan-mcgregor-bethel.zaadz.com

So, is there a blueprint to our universe, and has this blueprint seeded our reality to bring us forth?

Indeed, there appears to be a wisdom and plan to space-time that has created a delicately harmonized environment, formulating the sustenance that all life needs; it is as if some field of intelligence has seeded and fabricated this rare set of circumstances out of the ether.

Physicists now know that the physical world we see about us, full of its substantial things, is really just a compressed field of empty space; the matter we see is a holographic crystallization of the Quantum Vacuum, the Zero Point Field.

This Zero Point Field seems to be the mind of God, since this Vacuum,

according to physicists, is the substrate for known reality and has brought everything into existence.

Tags: zero, point, field

The Turning Of An Atheist

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:58:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Unless you are a professional philosopher or a committed atheist, you probably have not heard of Antony Flew

Flew’s fame is about to spread beyond the atheists and philosophers. HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins, has just released “There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind,” a book attributed to Flew and a co-author, the Christian apologist Roy Abraham Varghese.

Flew’s “conversion,” first reported in late 2004, has cast him into culture wars that he contentedly avoided his whole life. Although Flew still rejects Christianity, saying only that he now believes in “an intelligence that explains both its own existence and that of the world,” evangelicals are understandably excited. For them, Flew has become very useful, very quickly

But is Flew’s conversion what it seems to be?

Tags: a, battle, fought, by, those, with, agendas

We Pray for You. Please Pray for Us

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:39:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.atimes.com

"When my children watch TV they always say the people of the US are very good but their government is bad ... Bush and the US should not force their ways on us ... We don't want anything bad to happen. Pray for us. We always pray for you."

Tehran

Tags: iran, us foreign policy

Abortion Isn't A Religous Issue

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:22:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Much of the debate over abortion is based on a misconception -- that it is a religious issue, that the pro-life advocates are acting out of religious conviction. It is not a theological matter at all. There is no theological basis for defending or condemning abortion.

So evangelicals take shortcuts. They pin everything on being pro-life. But one cannot be indiscriminately pro-life.

Opponents of abortion will say that they are defending only human life. It is certainly true that the fetus is human life. But so is the semen before it fertilizes; so is the ovum before it is fertilized. They are both human products, and both are living things. But not even evangelicals say that the destruction of one or the other would be murder.

Nature is like fertilization clinics -- it produces more embryos than are actually used. Are all the millions of embryos that fail to be embedded human persons?

Tags: some, good, questions