This is an important fact because it means that each island had no major life forms initially and was essentially just rock. ... Most did not form stable populations and died off, but some became naturalized. ... Politicians are reluctant to give conservationists freedom to wage an all-out war on the pigs because native Hawaiians, who hunt the pigs and use them in spiritual ceremonies, want them to remain on the islands (Royte 1995). ... The plants had no defenses and the rabbits had no predators, so the destruction continued until the last rabbits were killed by scientists or starved. ...

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This statement is very difficult to follow; almost no person believes this statement whole-heartedly. ... It gives way for someone to say, if a person is a vegetable, has no vital capabilities, this person's life is of no worth anymore. ... If a doctor or any health care professional just stood by during the birth of a child and both the child and the mother were dying, how could that doctor stand there and watch both the mother and the infant die without taking some method of action. ... This sets forth the same message that a sexist or racist would hate, because you are not part of my g...

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Directors back in London kept telling them that conquest would only cut into profits. ... On the last day of the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I gave her blessing and five British vessels set sail for what is now known as Indonesia. ... When Akbar died in 1605, however, the court degenerated into a series of vicious successional struggles animated by an operating principle known as takht ya takhta (throne or coffin). Aurangzeb, whose 49-year rule began in 1658, applied special taxes to Hindus and reputedly demolished Hindu temples, sowing the seeds of the furious Hindu-Muslim animosities that ...

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On the very day war was declared the Boer forces under General De La Rey engaged British troops on a train in Kraaipan that was loaded with weapons and ammunition bound for Mafeking, to the north. ... The siege of the town of Ladysmith would prove to be an even greater success for the Boers. ... Advancing steadily the Boers would eventually lay siege to Ladysmith also, which they would hold until late February of the following year. ... There was no smoke from the discharge of the weapon and the accuracy was infinitely better than that of the black powder rifles of just a few decades prior. .....

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She reported the case to the police on the same day. ... Drawing on the bible references to abortion Hope in Christ Ministries pastor, Mairos Mubvumbi has argued that killing or murder is a sin and there are no negotiations about it. "Life begins at conception, without conception there is no life and one can only kill when there is life so abortion is murder and the bible is absolute about the termination of life as a sin. ... While his arguments were that from the 2013 census, the population had ballooned by 4 million since 2002 and was growing faster compared to economic growth and woul...

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Perhaps most disturbing of all to the conservative right was the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis. ... His landslide loss both angered and energized radical conservatives much the way that Bill Clinton's victory would in 1992. ... Also out of the ashes of Goldwater's defeat, came several men who would grow the radical conservative movement and create and implement the strategy that would defeat the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA); elect Ronal Reagan Governor of California and President of the United States, and take control of the Republican Party. ... I w...

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