Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. ... Together with other hybrid of international agencies, national governments and voluntary international nongovernmental organizations, the UNHCR has positioned itself to fulfil its mandate and obligations to refugees in s...

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It was all the more broad than the prior restoration and had suggestions past the field of writing, above all in building design, the visual expressions, and the recovery of Roman law. ... Anyway it was in Florence, especially among the patrician class, that Petrarch's formality was most emphatically gotten, most quite through his companion and devotee Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 "1375). ... The investigation of aged Greek was essentially obscure in western Europe from the fifth century c.e. ahead. ... They additionally brought with them numerous Greek messages that had been for all in...

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Hitler realized early on in his expansionist campaign that Western leaders were too busy dealing with their own domestic problems to pose any real opposition. ... Scholars on the subject have questioned when exactly, the Western world knew about the atrocities occurring in Europe. From July 1941 until the end of 1942, U.S. ... However British intelligence was the focal point of all news coming out of Occupied Europe. Early reports from aerial reconnaissance, returning soldiers, escaping citizens, prisoners of war, neutrals, as well as reports from Polish, Dutch, French and Czech int...

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In beginning of the second decade in the twentieth century, a very popular drink suffered that same fate, after a few decades of debate, Absinthe was made illegal, and banned in most of the western world. ... What I experience is quite simple: a refreshing, liquorice-like cocktail with an alluring milky-green glow no different than any other drink. ... It must be more than a coincidence that some of the most famous art we have comes from the Age of Absinthe. In my humble opinion, the best music we have heard comes from those that were influenced by certain inebriants. The most famous Rock an...

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In addition, we also found out the documentation required for entry as we all held Indian passports. ... From the Pantheon to St. ... The climate of Italy is highly diversified, with extremes ranging from frigid, in the higher elevations of the Alps and Apennines, to semitropical along the coast of the Ligurian Sea and the western coast of the lower peninsula. ... As soon as we checked into the hotel and dumped our luggage in the room, we all head out to get something to eat. ... It was around 12.30pm when we decided to buy some souvenirs from the "souvenir shop- on the top platform of the Eif...

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The World Book Encyclopedia (2002) describes some of the history as follows: The term witch comes from the Old English word wicca, which is derived from the Germanic root wic, meaning to bend or to turn."" ... Some beliefs about witchcraft may have risen from stories and legends told, possibly around a fire, just as ghost stories are now told around a campfire. ... In author Ann Llewellyn Barstow's book Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts (1994), a typical witch was usually described in this way: "women which be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full...

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Additionally, there has been considerable variation between responses from the developed and developing worlds. ... Globalization has helped to reduce transport and transaction costs so the potential gains from specialization are increased. ... Fundamental to all, however, is a considerable skepticism concerning the liberal emphasis on mutual gains from economic interaction. ... It asks where globalization came from, who wanted it, who didn't want it, and how the people that did want it got their way. ... All countries have tariffs on goods, although some taxes are more protectionist tha...

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Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been decimated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). ... All the sources stress the importance of duty to the cause, in particular, source C that evokes the prospect of a holy, or just war, in defence of the majority of the people. Respect also plays a significant role in all three sources, and, in what ...

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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 Europe. ... One factor in this might be that the energy security issue as a whole is not as attractive to writers as other topical subjects as the former energy commissioner of EU Andris Piebalgs says: "They tend to forget or fail to appreciate the importance of energy and mutual future security issues even though they are at the forefront of the new European security agenda. " One other reason for this could be that the idea o...

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