... nationalist leader of the organisation Young Italy expressed their dislike of the followers of slow progress, who believe in the regeneration of Italy via such works as infant asylums, scientific congresses and railroads' . Instead he aimed for guerrilla warfare as this would involve the masses. German radicals were as sceptical as their Italian counterparts; they dashed the view ... Italian national question, because they brought transitory reforms, which could not establish themselves due to the deep-rooted problems it had. The revolutions of 1848 showed that like any other revolution,...

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... intolerance, however, raged unabated and all the sects continued to persecute one another for at least a century. In spite of religious controversies the Reformation is a period of economic revolution, as mercantilism and commercial capitalism gains strength. Science and mathematics come to influence nearly every facet of life. What is particularly important about this intellectual movement of the 1600's was ... the religious sensitivities of the times. After Galileo's grand splash upon Europe, scholars such as Andreas Veslius helped to advance medicine, Francis Bacon popularized scienti...

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... the country never again be surprised by the actions of a foreign power. Members of the War Department and the Office of Scientific Research and Development agreed that the establishment of a private "think tank" would help produce more efficient intelligence gathering because such an organization could ... bridge the gap between recent scientific research and military. -11- At the forefront of this research was the race to space, which was eventually lost in 1957. The ... had paid off. Author Martin Walker states that President Reagan voiced the opinion, "I know of no leader of the Sovi...

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... sticking essentially to its constitution of 1949 to "tame and frame- the revolutionary events of 1989/1990. To paraphrase a term of Timothy Garton Ash: we experienced a constitutional "revolution- - something astonishing solid between revolution and reform: a "revolution-. 11 Could it be that Germans are not afraid of a European Constitution just because of their secular experience of 1989/1990? 7. Germany's extraordinary international situation: consequence of ... when it comes to the cornerstones and stumblestones as well as to the details of that charter. 3. (and it needs) discussion...

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... the poor for whom they had originally been intended. In 1869, they were more or less set free from all government control and set about elaborating that anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, games-dominated Tory imperialism which was to remain characteristic of them. Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors ... were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude from higher education the children of the working class . Knowledge, especially scienti...

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