During the Middle Ages, convictions of witchcraft required little validity; inquisitors carried out convictions according to The Malleus Maleficarum and therefore millions of people, predominantly women, died in executions. ... The Malleus Maleficarum had a very significant effect on the world during the Middle Ages. ... The number of people burned at the stake is extremely high, and evidence reveals the feminine gender the vast majority. ... Speculation exists which states that execution rates range as high as 10,000 woman executions to one man. ...

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Steroids, Illegal or Not, a Quick Fix for Some Athletes Issues of cheating or winning at any cost, are becoming more and more common among athletes of all ages and levels of ability. ... After its initial use in bodybuilding the drug spread like wildfire thought the rest of the sports world, ranging from sports in high school to professional athletes in the Olympic Games. ... It has been estimated that at least 1 in 15 male, high school sports athletes have used steroids, which means more than a half-million high school athletes have used steroids. ... A "NIDA" funded survey of drug abuse...

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The Black Death was a plague which caused devastating deaths and hugely impacted Middle Ages life in Scotland and in Europe. This plague caused devastating loss of people and of livestock and it reoccurred in four main stages throughout the Middle Ages. ... The plague was highly contagious and had a knock out effect throughout Europe and Scotland, as it was spread through the high concentration of fleas and rats during the Medieval period. ... The Black Death had heavily impacted family life in the Middle Ages. ... All of these points were all contributing parts of the Black Death epidemic whi...

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The investigation of aged Greek was essentially obscure in western Europe from the fifth century c.e. ahead. ... As humanists in Petrarch's ring perused more aged creators they found that a full energy about their writing obliged a careful foundation in the writing and society of old Greece. ... Case in point, Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428 "1497) established the Roman Academy, whose parts took a dynamic part in antiquarianism and the investigation of the aged remnants of the city of Rome. ... His most famous work, Elegances of the Latin Language (published 1471), was a practical styl...

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The competitiveness of various nations' manufacturing and trading infrastructures still largely determines where the best high-value-added jobs are found. ... And the United States certainly dominates world markets for information-age products and services. ... The spread of digital technology is giving rise to formidable new competitive challenges to US hegemony in global information-age markets. ... In the Middle East, some Islamic fundamentalist nations will certainly attempt to limit information flow over the Net, much as they have attempted for years to stop the entry of blasph...

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Subsequent to the Middle Ages, populations in Western Europe began developing technology that enhanced their ability to generate products and which led to significantly higher standards of living than populations elsewhere on the planet. ... As late as the 1880s, however, 2 percent of the population of China consumed more than 24 percent of the national product, a statistic which indicates the high level of poverty endured by the very poor (Jones 4). ... Marriages were delayed, with some never marrying at all, and childbirth took place at later ages. ... There was a good waterway system in the...

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At the same time, "some advanced and emerging market states - including key European and Asian allies - will be forced to reexamine longstanding political, social, and cultural precepts as they attempt to overcome the challenges of rapidly aging populations and declining workforce cohorts. ... Upon further research I have found that the US Defense Intelligence Agency further agrees, for their key concerns are that of: a terrorist attack, worsening conditions in the Middle East, dramatic changes on the Korean penninsula, an expanded military conflict between India and Pakastan over Kashmir, con...

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The above mentioned period marked as the high point of the kingdom's supremacy and extension. After that, for a prolonged period of over hundreds of years the information and learning of the Middle Ages sustained to originate from the departments that Charlemagne created. ...

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Our research set out to improve our understanding of the immigration from 1960s up to 1980s and by exploring the rhythms and realities of everyday life both of immigrants and natives people. This research is based on the immigration policy in Britain, which structured the lives of immigrants. We aimed to investigate the strategies people deployed in the time of far-researching changes, to meet their perceived priorities and needs. The first category includes such details as the economic, political and social condition in the countries of emigration. Understanding why immigrants leave their ho...

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