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…little or no sleep is what makes the situation so deadly. As more and more people believe that they don¹t need that extra couple hours of sleep or that the contract deadline is much more important than a night¹s rest, lives are being lost and many others…

…its performance, and it was first presented a year later at Salzburg. Toward the close of 1769, the Mozarts made their first journey to Italy by horse carriage, a journey crowned with glory and partly financed by Prince Archbishop of Salzburg. In Mantua…

…of the story would be much less satisfying if the prince did not have to run all over town, shoe in hand to find his true love. We would never have come to know and love the seven dwarfs if Snow White wouldn’t have been kicked out of the house by her jealous…

…still be Pharaoh (Carter 136-139). When no prince arrived, Ankhesenamen named her grandfather Ay co-regent (see note 5), and it is Ay whom we see performing t he "opening of the mouth" ceremony (see note 6) on the mummy of Tutankhamen in a painting…

…greatly affected transport and communication between distant places (311). The times were revolutionary in that the old ways of taking dirty, bumpy roads long distances with little profit were over. Another sign of the times was slavery. Racism was widespread…

…of the character of Friend requires a deep examination that reveals a stronger explanation: that he is duplicated from sheer realism. The knowledge he displays, which may at first appear extraordinary, is nothing more than guesswork and a little spying. What he knows…

…of international politics since over a hundred European princes signed the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, formalizing each ruler’s legitimacy over his territory. This was not a new concept. The Romans, for instance, used sovereignty as justification for their wars…

…reached its height in Niccolo Machiavelli [1469-1527], who, in The Prince, threw away all idealistic glorifications of politics and the rule of nations, and reduced everything to a disturbing pragmatic belief in that the ends justify the means. Rudolphus…

…; but will there be no one to remind you that in your old age you violated the most sacred laws from a miserable desire of a little more life? [53e] Perhaps not, if you keep them in a good temper; but if they are out of temper you will hear many degrading things; you will live…

…toll of 3,000,000. Pol Pot, a conniving man, who’s rule over Cambodia was marked by mass murder, negligence, and despotic rule, attempted and failed to create an egalitarian communist society, exploiting the manual power of the masses. In 1970, Prince…