Hose were held in place by lacing them to the doublet but were made up of two sections. ... Separate breeches were worn with garters to hold them in place. Shirt styles featured small square collars around the neck edge of doublets and eventually formed a small ruffle. ... Doublets featured higher necklines and a row of small square flaps called pecadils around the waist. ...

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Understanding why immigrants leave their homes in the first place helps us to understand their motivation and prior experiences. ... Even so, immigration is not a new phenomenon; human beings have always been moving to other places, other regions and other countries. ... Despite, difficulties, problems finding in this area immigration continued widely in Britain because of it appeal as a place of security and opportunity after the World War II,and by that time Britain became a country of immigration following the large scale of immigration from its former and current colonies. ... It is separ...

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Once we got our visa's, we bought our tickets to the places we wanted to visit in Europe and planned our trip in more detail. ... After we checked into the Hotel Ambasciatori Palace, we took our own small little tour. Since my friends and I were tired, we just wanted to relax and look around, so we wandered around the nearby Borghese Park where we could see everything from old villas to statuary, to a small lake, to the stunning Borghese Gallery. ... Since we were carrying an Italian-English' translation dictionary and some of the words in Italian are similar to French and Englis...

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One evening, Sally Hawkins, a Catholic commoner living in the Netherlands, went to a nearby meeting place to have a cup of tea with some friends. ... Darwinism is scientifically defined as a biological evolution theory developed by Charles Darwin, a European scientist, asserting that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. ... " Protestants believed the battle was no longer between science and religion because the great silent revolution took place n...

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And we had a problem with the cattle, which are fed on the grass which had been rained on by this polluted water, so we had a problem in a small way even in England as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. ... This will take the place, we hope, on the oil-fired and coal-fired power stations which we depend on so much today, and nearly all our transport is fuelled by oil or by its derivative – petrol. ... In many places – and certainly this is true in England and probably true in other countries: in many continental countries and on the Mediterranean coast – untreated sewage is...

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Europeans have known degenerate and tyrannical government however they have a place somewhere else. ... However, the European Community, in certain cases, puts in the first place not market mechanisms, but and social justice. ...

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More recently, in order to better place the discussion of competitiveness in the societal and environmental context, the World Economic Forum has begun exploring the complex relationship between competitiveness and sustainability as measured by its social and environmental dimension. ...

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All the evidence indicates that it is a lack of awareness of the capabilities of workplace culture which inhibit organizations from benefiting from telecommuting, rather than any intrinsic business need to cram all workers into one place for the same 8 hours every day. ... Less exposure to violence in route to and at the work place. 5. ... May be able to sell vehicle or buy a smaller one. ...

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During the tenure of Karl III, who governed from the year of 885 to 887, there was a brief reconsolidation; but after his death in 887 the final and ultimate segregation of the Reich was taken place. ... Among three brothers, as Lothaire was the eldest he kept the name of the Emperor along with Italy and a small part of area in the western side of the river Rhine, from Mediterranean to the North Sea. ...

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In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. ...

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Multinational production capitalizes on the resources and skills available in different places, making cars cheaper. ... Marxists concentrate less on efficiency gains (though many accept these may take place) and focus more on how changing production provides new kinds of economic power that can be used to extort profits from those that are weaker. ... If policy is less attractive, business can threaten to move somewhere else, thus creating difficult choices for government about the balance between the need to keep business in place and the desire to tax and regulate it in the interests of th...

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Initially, Louis rejected the idea of conscription due to his pro-Dutch beliefs and concerns of the strain it may place upon the Dutch military. ... For the Russian Campaign in 1812, Napoleon took 14,000 troops from the Kingdom of Holland, which ended in disaster, with only a small number of the initial troops from Holland returning. ...

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In 1940, people in the United States felt that they were isolated from the war in Europe. This feeling of isolation soon faded. On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. The United States was forced to join the war in full force. Young men just starting th...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. This system uses the investment of money or 'capital' to produce hefty profit for its owners and shareholders to reinvest in the system to generate a seemingly endless cycle of wealth1. It has been commentated by many that the system leads to the main body of available wealth and power in the world to be held by an elite minority. There is no query as to whether such a system exists today as that...

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For example, if the Union and its member states are prepared to integrate with Hungary and other smaller nations they must be prepared to defend at all cost these nations as they would larger nations like Spain or Italy. ...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states an...

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The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...

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