Historians have not been able to come up with an answer for that question. ... Another story was that he and his brother Lorenzo stopped a lynch mob, and a woman called one or both of them "Wild," and the name Bill was just attached on to it. ... Wild Bill was a scout for Colonel George Armstrong Custer who wrote a book in 1974 called "My Life on the Plains." This fueled Wild Bill legend because it discussed Wild Bill's early life, Civil War stories, and mythical gunfights that were probably made up by Wild Bill himself. ... Hickok set up camp on the outskirts of a town called Deadwoo...

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In fact, two of his most famous novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fang, are set from his experiences while he was in Alaska. ... It was in Sonoma Valley, London called it his Beauty Ranch. ... Out of the some 50 books London wrote two of the most famous novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang. ... The Call of the Wild has been translated into more than thirty languages, and it exists in millions of copies; White Fang are only slightly less in numbers. The general plot of The Call of the Wild was "Buck" a huge, four- year old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog th...

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Ibsen's early plays were wild concentrating on visions both romantic and poetical of the rebel in search of the truth. ... This peiod saw brilliant plays such as An Enemy of the People (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), The Master Builder (1892) and When the Dead Awaken (1900). ... It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. ... Benedotto Croce called these portrayals of people who live in constant expectation and who are consumed by their pursuit of "something else" in life a "desperate drama"." ...

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They are frightened by the animosity the Irish and several vocal officials have towards them and their presence in Ireland, as demonstrated in 1960 when the British army were called in to maintain order during a civil rights movement by the Catholics. ...

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Films such as Wild Style, Style Wars, Beat Street, and Breakin', propelling the elements, and compelling outsiders with no understanding of the culture to explore this "new" phenomena. ... When Wild Style came around, only five or six members from Rock Steady would get to represent. ... Shortly thereafter, Wiggles, Fabel, and Freeze started their own crew called Electric Company. ... Even though Wild Style is regarded as a more authentic Hip Hop flick, I actually saw Beat Street first. ... I remember buying an album called, Electric Breakin', that came with a pullout that taught you ...

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The Yanomamo live in hundreds of small villages, grouped by families in one large communal dwelling called a shabono (http://crystalinks.com/yanomami.html). ... Groups of Yanomamo could live entirely off the wild foods in their environment. Generally the most common wild foods are two species of wild pig, several varieties of monkeys, tapir, armadillos, anteaters, alligators, deer, rodents, and birds (Chagnon 1997: 61). ... Wild honey is one of the most highly prized foods of all, and the Yanomamo will go to great extremes to get it (Smoles 1976: 103). ... Although the Yanomamo supplement ...

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This occurred due to the new management of the national bank, which began to call in loans and foreclose of mortgages and send people to debtor's prison. ... Causes for the panic included the failure of state banks due to the lack of funds, a new piece of legislation was passed that called for the payment of hard currency for land, factories were closed due to foreign competition, and the price of cotton fell dramatically. ... This opposition began calling themselves the Whigs, since they were opposed to what they called tyrannical rule of Jackson. ... Clay called this plan the Amer...

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But the questions that still remains, how did early Indians arrive on the North America continent. ... (Yenne 1984) As a result of farming, the reliance on wild foods dwindled. ... But the question that needs to be brought up: is this lame excuse for the genocide of the American Indians. ... But the questions that still remains, how did early Indians arrive on the North America continent. ... (Yenne 1984) As a result of farming, the reliance on wild foods dwindled. ...

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Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." ... Conrad also illustrates Marlow's growing empathy for the men he once called "savages" during a scene in which a band of followers sent by Kurtz attacks the steamboat with flying spears. ... According to Marlow, Kurtz has been overtaken by the wild darkness. ...

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Each is middle aged and going through a period of reflection and question during which they are trying to figure out how they got to the current point in their lives and how to improve the relationships with those they care about. ... In Russo's other books his main characters often find themselves in trouble for things that are just common sense to them, such as when Harry, the owner of the diner in "Mohawk," is ridiculed for being nice to Wild Bill even though everyone else treats him badly. ... Then on top of that, Randall is connected to Wild Bill as he saved his life, Wild Bill is co...

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The only way a person could get a bracelet with such a passionate statement engraved on it is if she had gotten it from a previous husband or boyfriend, which makes a person question her actual devotion to the church and God. ... They were the ones who would call people to go to the pardoner to have their sins removed and forgiven. ... This author is in agreement saying, "O what a shameful thing it is when a priest is like an ass, unversed in moral and lawlessly wild! ...

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Then in 1952, a multi-camera/widescreen projector process was introduced called Cinerama. ... Ansocolor was used heavily in Westerns allowing filmmakers to experiment with films such as The Wild North & Kiss Me Kate until 1955 when Eastmancolor was created and eventually took over as the main color system. ... Eventually this style diminished and a genre called "adult westerns " began. ... In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected th...

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This is the stage when most people start to question, "who am I" and wonder what their role in society is. ... This stage is called Intimacy v. ... Darwin concluded that evolution did occur gradually, requiring thousands to millions of years and that the primary mechanism for evolution was a process called "natural selection." He also concluded that millions of species alive today arose from as single original life form through a process called "natural selection." ...

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What Shamanism Is By the Silver Circle Shaman (pronounced SHAH-maan) is a word from the language of the Tungus people of Siberia. A Shaman is a man or woman who enters an altered state of consciousness at will. The Shaman does this to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality to acquire kn...

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Mistry counters the question by asking "Is it a gift? ... To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. ... Another question arises when considering the two novels: does the expose of political corruption and tyranny during Indira Gandhi's tenure still hold that much interest? ...

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Mistry counters the question by asking "Is it a gift? ... To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. ... Another question arises when considering the two novels: does the expose of political corruption and tyranny during Indira Gandhi's tenure still hold that much interest? ...

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The heated debate of democracy includes the differing views concerning the definition of democracy, controversy over the suitable form of democracy since there are different forms, lack of relevant cases where total democracy was implemented and there are questions on who sets down the agreed levels and standards of democracy as the yardstick which takes precedence over other forms of regimes. ... In his argument, he started with what he called the best regime which is aristocracy to the worst which is tyranny. ... Therefore this shows that there is nothing like teaching an old dog, new tricks...

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With his right hand raised, Vonnegut vows not to glorify war and promises to call his book The Children's Crusade. ... A bed vibrator called "Magic Fingers" purchased to help Billy fall asleep jiggles him while he weeps. ... The colonel likes to go by "Wild Bob," and he tells Billy, "If you're ever in Cody, Wyoming, just ask for Wild Bob!" ...

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There is no mention of the everyday activities of the town except to say that animals ran wild and land was up for grabs. ... Elizabeth proceeds to order John to go to court and call Abigail out on her lies and promiscuity. This scene is essential as it foreshadows a later scene in which John calls Abigail a whore. ... The believability of Elizabeth's character would be questioned if she had not gotten upset. ...

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The countries in debt crises mainly used these credits, with the condition that they would carry out packet programs, which is called as stability or with more popular terms; structural adjustment. ... One of the studies covers the subject wholly is that of Racodi , who calls four basic capital types for coping with the overwhelming financial burden. ... Reducing or eliminating consumption items such as new clothes or 'luxury' food and drink, reducing the number of (cooked) meals per day and purchasing poorer quality or less food, buying cheaper and second-hand clothes, withdrawing ...

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Late some nights, the narrator gets drunk and begins to call up old friends on the telephone. ... The narrator promised that it won't be that kind of book, and that he'd call it The Children's Crusade. ... He calls attention to the moment when Lot's wife looks back and is turned into a pillar of salt. ... He returned home for rest, but without warning one day he went to New York and claimed on the radio that he had been kidnapped by aliens called Trafalmadorians. ...

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Studies in California and Kansas report that about one out of every ten teens questioned admitted to having attempted suicide. ... But when a young person is continually wild and unruly, the problem may be more serious. ...

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The question, however, is: "What is, exactly, gender?". ... The gender category woman (that is, the so-called "feminine" gender automatically assigned to members of the female sex) carries with it certain expectations about how to act, what to do, who to love and so on: Women are generally expected to be more passive, submissive and dependent than men. ... Likewise, the gender category man (that is, the so-called "masculine" gender automatically assigned to members of the male sex) carries with it a very different set of expectations about how to act, what to do and who to love: Men are assum...

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Jones and the other humans that live and work on this retched place that they call home. ... Toward the end of the section the animals vote on whether wild animals, like rats and rabbits, are going to be considered their friends or foes. ... The passage does clear up a few questions any inquisitive reader would have about the outside world. ...

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The reality and the true face of globalisation Globalisation has spread like wild fire around the world since the 1990s and despite the so called benefits of globalisation that are mentioned by the advocates and promoters of globalisation, it is quite apparent that in reality globalisation is not working for everyone. ...

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