... in such frivolity. At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, ... of conduct for American culture in historical, political or sociological literature. Not only providing an idyllic depiction of independent America, the language used also suggests a need for persuasion. ...

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... IMPACT OF RADIO 20 CHAPTER TWO 24 HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND 24 COLONIAL RULE 26 POPULATION AND PEOPLE 31 CROWN COLONY POLITICS 34 THE INFLUENCE OF THE BBC EMPIRE SERVICE 39 ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL COLONIAL BROADCASTING CHAPTER THREE 61 THE NORTHERN RHODESIA INFORMATION 61 DEPARTMENT THE FIRST RADIO STATION 70 CABS AND THE SAUCEPAN SPECIAL 77 CHAPTER FOUR 90 ... ...

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... vitamin A, all contributed to the loss of over a million Irishmen over a seven-year period. The practice of medicine at the onset of the blight was extremely inadequate. Ireland had only 39 infirmaries; this translated into one clinic for every 366,000 people. When looking at these numbers, one can easily understand why so many perished. Many of the deaths during the ... ...

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... heritage of the people who inhabit it. It is an accident that some live in the States and some in British India, but all alike partake in its culture and character. We are all knit together in bonds of blood and feeling no less than of self- interest. None can segregate us into segments; no impassable barriers can be set up ... driver and he trusted me to get him to the agreed destination: he never indulged in 'back seat' driving. I kept him informed, morning and evening, and often late at night, of the progress made, and, if specially important or difficult decision had to be made...

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... ,000 horsemen and 400 trained elephants against a crumbling and ill-fortified garrison defended by scarcely 200 men, he took Fort William without much difficulty. That night, the European captives were locked up in a brig known as the Black Hole, an 18-by-14-foot room with a door on one side ... from 1772-85, he rode eight miles each day before breakfast, drank nothing stronger than tea, took cold baths and turned in at 10 every night. Under the Governor General's highly principled eye, extra-curricular profits were quickly cut down, earned salaries somewhat increased. More than just in...

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... % turnouts. Turnouts of around 70% may well indicate popular acceptance of a system, which has largely consensual policies on offer from the competing parties. Putting turnout at the top of the list of legitimizing factors in elections has a negative history. The cult of large turnouts is more often associated with attempts to legitimize one-party regimes than proof of the solidity of ... ...

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... . The military build-up eventually bankrupted the Netherlands and yet, arguably due to the embarrassment of humiliation in a defeat from a colonised country, they started a new military offensive which in a fort-night saw territorial gains but at a greater cost; criticism from the US which, due to being a major world power and a powerful ally, was not something the Dutch could afford and, the ... ...

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... the British nation. God bless you all." On July 26, 1945 the results from the general election came in. The Labour Party had won. Churchill resigned as Prime Minister that night in disgust. He became the Leader of the Opposition. One of his first major speeches as the Leader of the Opposition was made in support of the Americans" decision to ... ...

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... white feathers to able men who were not fighting for their country. "One young woman remembers her Father, Robert Smith being given a feather on his way home from work: That night he came home and cried his heart out. My father was no coward, but had been reluctant to leave his family. He was thirty-four and my mother, who had ... ...

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... to outright scorn with The Last of the Light Brigade: There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade; They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade. The parallel between the plight of Kipling ... ...

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... somehow dependent on the British authority. Furthermore, the habitants were generally satisfied with the provisions of the Quebec Act in 1774, which had guaranteed Francophone residents' own religious rights and character under the British rule.xvii Dissimilar political pursuits not only foreshadowed the impending rebellion in the Colonies but also explained the success of British reign in Quebec. The Quebec Act ... ...

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... might go in exploiting black labour. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, legislation had created an elaborate network of racial segregation in every Northern colony Despite the generally regional character of slavery, Northern racism paralleled Southern slavery. The United States, originally populated by a slow trickle of colonizers, experienced a huge jump in immigration, especially to the north, in the early nineteenth ... ...

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... might go in exploiting black labour. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, legislation had created an elaborate network of racial segregation in every Northern colony Despite the generally regional character of slavery, Northern racism paralleled Southern slavery. The United States, originally populated by a slow trickle of colonizers, experienced a huge jump in immigration, especially to the north, in the early nineteenth ... ...

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