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| | Project for the New American Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Some have raised concerns that the project has been proposing military and economic domination of land, space, and cyberspace by the United States, so as to establish American dominance in world affairs (Pax Americana) for the future—hence the term "the New American Century", based on the idea that the 20th century was the American Century. | | | Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests? | | | The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC based think tank. |
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| | Asian Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The phrase 'Asian century' arose in the mid to late 1980s, and is attributed to a 1988 meeting with Chinese senior leader Deng Xiao Ping and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi [1]. | | | The Asian Century is a term used to describe the belief that, if certain demographic and economic trends persist, the 21st century will be dominated by Asian politics and culture, similarly to how the 20th century is sometimes called the American Century. | | | An Asian regional bloc may be further developed in 21st century around ASEAN and other bodies on the basis of free trade agreements [12]. |
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| | America at Mid-Century |
| | The admirable American system of constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties, of a free and diverse press, of free enterprise and economic opportunity, and of popularly elected government was, by the close of the first decade, replaced by a despotic oligarchy in total control of the permanently ruling Republican party. | | | In the 20th Century, America’s primary contribution to the world economy was its advanced technology, as young students from around the world flocked to its excellent universities to acquire advanced degrees and to engage in cutting-edge research and development. | | | The overwhelming American military, the budget for which, at the turn of the century, almost equaled the sum of all other military budgets combined, proved to be of little use to the United States. |
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http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/mid-century.htm
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| | A Polyglot Cargo: Asian Immigrant Farm Workers and the Politics of Difference in California Organized Labor, 1904-1920 |
| | Such organization with alternative labor organizations marks a pivotal shift in California from the racial domination of the nineteenth century to the rise of racial hegemony and institutional racism in state politics. | | | Along with continuing the national trend of general exclusion of Asian immigrant groups through successive renewals, additions, and amendments to the Geary Act of 1882, which first barred Chinese immigration at the national level, applying the act to other Asian groups, state governmental actions sought to hinder land ownership for Asian farmers already in California. | | | The marginalization of Asian farm laborers by organized labor through the anti-Asiatic movement, while initiated due to institutional and cultural racism, was an attempt by industrial labor unions to strengthen their support among rural, white Californians in order to establish a broad constituency to forward the agenda of organized labor through state political channels. |
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http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/2000/klivie.html
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| | Asian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Asian American jazz is a musical movement in the United States begun in the 20th century by Asian American jazz musicians. | | | George Ariyoshi became the first Asian American governor in 1974; twenty years later, in 1994, another Asian American, Benjamin Cayetano, was elected governor of the same state, Hawaii. | | | Historically, Asian Americans have largely been perceived as members of the East Asian ethnic groups, specifically Chinese and Japanese, the two largest ethnic groups before 1965, as well as Filipinos who became colonial subjects of the US in 1898 due to the Spanish-American War (also see Philippine-American War). |
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| | Welcome to the Project for the New American Century |
| | Search the Project for the New American Century's publications: | | | Welcome to the Project for the New American Century | | | is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle. |
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| | Project for the New American Century - dKosopedia |
| | Letter to President Clinton on Iraq, Project for the New American Century, January 26, 1998. | | | Statement on Post-War Iraq, Project for the New American Century, March 19, 2003. | | | Letter to Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott on Iraq, Project for the New American Century, May 29, 1998. |
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http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
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| | ABC News: Florida to Review Civil Rights Deaths |
| | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Dec 21, 2004 — The state will review the unsolved murders of two civil rights leaders killed when a bomb exploded beneath their home on Christmas Day more than a half-century ago, Florida's attorney general said Tuesday. | | | Bill Gary, president of the North Brevard branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he hopes technological advances, such as DNA evidence, may aid the investigation but acknowledged that the likelihood of identifying the killers is slim. | | | No one was ever held responsible for the bomb that went off under their home in Mims, in Brevard County on Florida's east coast. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=350966
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| | 21st century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Monday, August 21, 2017: First total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental US since February 26, 1979. | | | Stargate Atlantis is set in the early 21st century. | | | The 21st century is a century of the Gregorian calendar which began on 1 January 2001 and will last to 31 December 2100. |
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| | 21st century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Monday, August 21, 2017: First total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental US since February 26, 1979. | | | Stargate Atlantis is set in the early 21st century. | | | So far in the 21st century, the main historical trends have been the violent conflict between Western Civilization and Islamist Terrorism, the search for solutions to global warming, the continued growth of the European Community and the rapid emergence of China and India as global industrial powers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
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| | Religion in 18th-Century America (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | The growth of the American church in the eighteenth century can be illustrated by changes in city skylines over the course of the century. | | | Along with the Methodists, the Baptists became by the early years of the nineteenth century the principal Protestant denomination in the southern and western United States. | | | Other founders of the American republic, including George Washington, are frequently identified as deists, although the evidence supporting such judgments is often thin. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html
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| | AHA Information: Joseph R. Strayer Presidential Address (1971) |
| | By the end of the thirteenth century almost everyone believed that the state was necessary for human welfare, and yet a very large number of people believed that their own state was not doing a very good job. | | | This dissatisfaction was not due to conflicting ideologies but to exaggerated ideas of what the weak and understaffed states of the fourteenth century could do. | | | It was not sentimental antiquarianism in the fourteenth century to appeal to the principles of Magna Carta, or to the even-handed justice of St. Louis, or to the civic virtue of the early Florentines. |
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| | Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read |
| | Here you'll find bits and pieces that I've collected or found interesting about nineteenth-century American children. | | | Most of us have an idealized vision of 19th-century American children and their families. | | | "Death and the Readers of Robert Merry's Museum" (17 kb) was presented at the American Culture Association conference in 1994. |
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| | Amazon.com: The American Century: Books |
| | Although most of this sprawling book is set in the 20th century, it begins on April 29, 1889, when Benjamin Harrison commemorated the first centennial of American government. | | | Generally well written prose, Evan's "The American Century" is rife with examples of his left-leaning tendencies. | | | This 11-year jump-start allows Harold Evans to write about the last major push to settle the Western territories, the gradual dwindling of Native American societies, the rise to prominence of William Jennings Bryan, and other quintessentially American moments of the 19th century. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679410708?v=glance
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| | Foreign Affairs - Book Review - The Rise and Decline of the Asian Century: False Starts on the Path to the Global Millennium - Christopher Lingle |
| | Foreign Affairs - Book Review - The Rise and Decline of the Asian Century: False Starts on the Path to the Global Millennium - Christopher Lingle | | | His argument is that all the talk about the "Asian Century" is excessively optimistic and that the conservatism, authoritarianism, and inflexibility of East Asia's economic and political institutions will interfere with the processes necessary for sustaining the high growth rates of the past. | | | The author, who in 1994 was forced to leave Singapore to avoid lawsuits and imprisonment after writing a newspaper article critical of the government's political leadership, now strikes back. |
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| | Maronite Society at the End of the XVI Century |
| | The first document, which is one of the earliest reports on the Maronites and was written in Italian, was presented to Pope Gregory XIII in 1579 by Father Jean-Baptiste Eliano of the Society of Jesus. | | | Both date to the XVI century and were written by two separate emissaries sent by the Apostolic See to inquire about the state of the Maronites during that period. | | | Under Mamluk domination, which extended from the second half of the XIII century until the beginning of the XVI century, the Maronites became the target of all kinds of adversity. |
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http://www.lebanese-forces.org/media/articles/abbotnaaman/MaroniteSociety.htm
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| | Was there a Reformation in the sixteenth century? - SIS |
| | Much of the sixteenth century was "old" and "medieval." To argue that the Protestant Reformation was an essentially medieval phenomenon does not preclude the acknowledgment that some notions and ideas were new. | | | France, which had its share of turbulence in the sixteenth century, did not experience a dramatic break. | | | It showed that the persistence of Lollard heresy in the early sixteenth century, coupled with the influx of Lutheran ideas made for a program of religious (and societal) reform that was born by the English people.27 Dickens's sentiment proved to be the dominant orthodoxy of the understanding of the English Reformation. |
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| | American History |
| | The Lindbergh Case: The Trial of the Century about the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, a national hero | | | Famous American Trials tells the story of twenty-two famous American trials with images, primary documents, analyses, and overviews | | | Immigration History Research Center "an international resource on American immigration and ethnic history. |
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http://www.accd.edu/pac/lrc/hist-am.htm
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| | Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century |
| | Hence the classic image of the entrepreneur serving the public interest, which persisted throughout the nineteenth century, while the virtues of laissez-faire and free trade were everywhere celebrated. | | | Fernand Braudel is associated with the influential Annales School (La nouvelle histoire) that advocated a major break from the dominant narrative paradigm of the early twentieth century embracing an approach to history integrating the social sciences with a problem-focused history. | | | Braudel is uniformly praised as one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century, but a hard act to follow. |
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| | Imperialism 101 : Houston Indymedia |
| | In all, the Third World is something of a capitalist paradise, offering life as it was in Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, with a rate of profit vastly higher than what might be earned today in a country with strong economic regulations. | | | Furthermore, it is the industrialized nations of the First World, not the poor ones of the Third, that devour some 80 percent of the world's resources and pose the greatest threat to the planet's ecology. | | | The people Charlemagne worked to death in his mines in the early part of the ninth century were Slavs. |
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| | The Origins of the Inquisition in 15th Century Spain (review) |
| | In consequence, in the middle of the 15th century (and no doubt in many cases even later) the great majority of the New Christians in Spain had not yet shaken off the shadow of their past; and the result of this fact was the consciousness of their "otherness" that determined the attitude of their neighbors... | | | Thus began a century of conflict between Jews and non-Jews that culminated in the mass expulsion of all Jews from Spain in 1492. | | | As a result, by the middle of the 15th century there was a numerically large (perhaps 100,000), and politically and economically significant community of people of Jewish descent in Spain who were, at least outwardly, Christians. |
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| | Religion in Ireland During the Fifteenth Century @ ELCore.Net |
| | Unfortunately several of the ecclesiastics on whom bishoprics were conferred in Ireland during the fifteenth century had but slender qualifications for such a high office. | | | Absenteeism was as remarkable a characteristic of the Church in the fifteenth century as it was of the Established Church in the eighteenth, and in this direction the bishops were the worst offenders. | | | The latter half of the fourteenth century and particularly the fifteenth century witnessed a great architectural revival in Ireland, during which the pure Gothic of an earlier period was transformed into the vernacular or national composite style. |
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| | Project for the New American Century (PNAC) |
| | Project for the New American Century is a neo-conservative think-tank that promotes an ideology of total U.S. world domination through the use of force. | | | The U.S. must take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein is in power: "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." | | | The group's core ideas are expressed in a September 2000 report produced for Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, and Lewis Libby entitled |
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| | The Character of Russian Religious Thought of the XIX Century |
| | The independent Russian thought of the XIX Century always rose up against the philistine and bourgeois aspects of the West, whether be it on the left with Hertsen, or be it on the right with Leont’ev. | | | The merit of the Russian religious philosophy of the XIX Century was in its sharp setting forth of the problem of the relation of knowledge and faith, of apperception by the integral spirit, of the problem of churchly gnosseology, i.e. | | | The groundlessness of Russian thought in the XIX Century and of Russian religious thought in particular was a source for its extraordinary freedom, unknown to the nations of the West with their close connection to their histories. |
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| | Chapter VI : Renovator (Mujaddid) of the Fourteenth Century |
| | Thus our first question as to who was the mujaddid appointed at the head of the fourteenth century Hijrah has been answered in a clear and explicit manner. | | | On the one hand, nobody before him had announced himself as mujaddid of the century before him, and on the other, after the Founder's claim, nobody had the courage to make such a claim even for the sake of opposing him. | | | Almost all the great `ulama of the country looked at his claim approvingly because they were expecting the advent of a mujaddid of the century. |
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| | Instituciones, administracion publica y control |
| | For this reason, the great challenge in the twenty-first century consists in obtaining strong institutions in a real democratic political system. | | | All that we have said about education, we can apply in another challenge of the twenty-first century which is public health. | | | The twentyfirst century will have other kinds of challenges. |
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| | AHA Information: Joseph R. Strayer Presidential Address (1971) |
| | By the end of the thirteenth century almost everyone believed that the state was necessary for human welfare, and yet a very large number of people believed that their own state was not doing a very good job. | | | Embarking, then, on this dangerous inquiry, the first thing that strikes one about Western Europe in the fourth and early fifth centuries is the weakness of religious motivations. | | | This dissatisfaction was not due to conflicting ideologies but to exaggerated ideas of what the weak and understaffed states of the fourteenth century could do. |
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| | 16th Century Lutheran & Orthodox Dialogue |
| | Thus, it is extremely noteworthy that a group of Lutheran theologians from the University of Tübingen in Germany during the last quarter of the sixteenth century would initiate a dialogue with and even seek approval from the Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Orthodox Christians under Ottoman oppression in the East. | | | It also would be naïve to suggest that theology alone was the driving force behind this sixteenth century correspondence. | | | Already by the sixteenth century language and culture was a barrier between the East and the West. |
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