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in title, tags, annotations or urlThis dissident poet says elections and the nuclear pact give him hope for Iran | Public Radio International - 0 views
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The 44-year-old journalist and poet might have ended up dead, like some of his writer friends back home in Iran. Several of them were murdered in a series of political assassinations that began in the late 1990s.
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freedom of expression, the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the worst of the worst. The country is ranked 169th, out of a total of 180 countries, on the 2016 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders.
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Rafizadeh looks every bit the intellectual — glasses, leather jacket, cigarette. As a child, he would wake up early and recite Persian poetry out loud, annoying his father and his siblings.
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Martin Luther Biography - 0 views
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His parents were from peasant stock, but had high ambitions for their intelligent, eldest son
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Bachelors and Masters degrees in Theology. He was in his first year of Law School in Erfurt when an incident occurred that would change the course of European history.
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Two weeks later, Luther joined the Augustinian Order in Erfurt; his father was furious.
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The 95 Theses: A Summary - 0 views
Magna Carta and Tax Reform | Tax Foundation - 1 views
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The Declaration of Independence asserts that governments “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed,” distilling concepts invoked by Locke and earlier English political reformers. For the English-speaking world, however, the germ of that concept can be found in Magna Carta. At the time, feudal barons could be required to provide what was known as “scutage,” essentially a fee in lieu of personal service typically used to hire mercenaries to fight the king’s wars. Other aid levies were also common. King John, however, was perceived as abusing the system, imposing unusually high levies and doing so even in the absence of war. Magna Carta introduced a revolutionary innovation: the idea that the power to tax was in some way limited by general consent. Still, it being the year 1215, there were some loopholes: No scutage not aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel [alt. "general consent"] of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall not be levied more than a reasonable aid…
BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Democratic Experiment - 1 views
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Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient Greeks: monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy and - of course - democracy.
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demokratia
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It meant literally 'people-power'
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Greek finance minister confident of returning to growth: FT | Reuters - 0 views
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Euclid Tsakalotos
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said he "didn't see any reason" why growth wouldn't return
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will need anything from 10 billion euros to 25 billion euros,
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Coronation Oath, 2nd June 1953 - 0 views
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Madam, is your Majesty willing to take the Oath?And the Queen answering,I am willing.
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Archbishop. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom
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and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?
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Martin Luther and the 95 Theses - 0 views
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Born in Eisleben, Germany, in 1483, Martin Luther went on to become one of Western history’s most significant figures.
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His “95 Theses,” which propounded two central beliefs—that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds—was to spark the Protestant Reformation.
An Introduction to the Protestant Reformation | The Protestant Reformation | Khan Academy - 1 views
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The sale of indulgences was a practice where the church acknowledged a donation or other charitable work with a piece of paper (an indulgence), that certified that your soul would enter heaven more quickly by reducing your time in purgatory.
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Luther sparked the Reformation in 1517 by posting, at least according to tradition, his "95 Theses" on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany - these theses were a list of statements that expressed Luther's concerns about certain Church practices - largely the sale of indulgences, but they were based on Luther's deeper concerns with Church doctrine.
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but none of these efforts successfully challenged Church practice until Martin Luther's actions in the early 1500s.
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Protestant Reformation - Theopedia, an encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity - 0 views
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"The Protestant Reformation was a major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
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"In 1517, in one of the signal events of western history, Martin Luther, a German Augustinian monk, posted 95 theses on a church door in the university town of Wittenberg.
The Reformation - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com - 0 views
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reformers like Martin Luther, John Calvin and Henry VIII challenged papal authority
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The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe
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Protestant Reformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants.
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The largest of the new churches were the Lutherans
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History: Reformation for Kids - 2 views
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Renaissance Reformation History >> Renaissance for Kids The Reformation occurred during Renaissance times. It was a split in the Catholic Church where a new type of Christianity called Protestantism was born. More People Reading the Bible During the Middle Ages, few people other than monks and priests knew how to read and write. However, with the Renaissance, more and more people became educated and learned how to read. At the same time, the printing press was invented allowing for new ideas, as well as scriptures of the Bible, to be easily printed and distributed. People were able to read the Bible for themselves for the first time. Martin Luther
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Reformation - 0 views
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The Church was in disarray on the eve of Reformation
Medieval Knight's Tomb Found Beneath Parking Lot - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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Archaeologists who were on hand during the construction of a new building in Edinburgh uncovered a carved sandstone slab, decorated with markers of nobility — a Calvary cross and a sword
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Scientists plan to analyze the bones and teeth to learn more about this possible knight or nobleman
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archaeologists have already dated the gravestone to the thirteenth century
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Cold War - History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts - 0 views
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“containment.”
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President Harry Truman (1884-1972) agreed. “It must be the policy of the United States,” he declared before Congress in 1947, “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation…by outside pressures.”
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deadly "arms race
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End of Europe's Middle Ages - Home Page - 2 views
Slavery in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history. Never as absolute as its Muslim or European models, Chinese slavery still often viewed its objects as "half-man, half-thing" (半人, 半物).[1] Slavery was repeatedly abolished as a legally-recognized institution, including in a 1909 law[2][1] fully enacted in 1910,[3] although the practice continued until at least 1949.[4]
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Men punished with castration during the Han dynasty were also used as slave labor.[9
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