The orange begins life slightly farther to the East near China, India, and many other countries with difficult names ("Orange History"). ... The apple takes the most direct route of the two and flies hurriedly across the continent from East to West, making itself well know to all people who praise it for its beauty and taste ("Apples"). The orange however, meanders first into North Africa before coming to rest in the South of Europe where it is lauded by nobles and peasants alike ("Orange History"). ...

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Brazil, India, and South Africa also disagree with a resolution (ABC News). ... "We are not categorically against everything," said Sergei Vershinin, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department. ...

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Brazil, India, and South Africa also disagree with a resolution (ABC News). ... "We are not categorically against everything," said Sergei Vershinin, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department. ...

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The Ural Mountains run north to south and they separating Russia and European section of Asia. ... The region of North Africa and Southwest Asia stretches form Morocco in the west Afghanistan in the east and covers more than 10% of the earth's total land surface. ... North Africa and Southwest Asia have about 130 million more people than the United States. ...

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Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. ... 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 thi...

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Emerging Markets Index of Morgan Stanley's consists of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. ... Russia is one of the emerging markets in the East. ... "The economic powers of the world are shifting from west to east, and Turkey is one of these growth economies," remarked the prime minister. ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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