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…Acupuncture The earliest recordings of the use of acupuncture go back 2,000 years. In China it is widely expressed that it has been in use for 4,000 years. The origins go back as early as the Stone Age where abscesses were punctured by sharp…
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…with ships, tanks, aircraft, and other war materials. The Axis did not like this. Japan wanted to take over China, but China refused. China was led by Chiang Kai-Shek at the time. Japan wanted the United States to stop sending China supplies, but the United States…
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…in Southeast Asia, Bali, 24 February 1976; · ASEAN Declaration on the South China Sea, Manila, 22 July 1992; · Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, Bangkok, 15 December 1997; and · ASEAN Vision 2020, Kuala Lumpur, 15 December 1997. In 1992…
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…(better known as Jimmy Carter) was born on October 1st, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. In the early years before I was president, I was a well-known peanut farmer who loved to dream and talk of politics and my devotion to the Baptist faith. I graduated from…
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…over the territories surrounding it, there still existed other very large empires to the East, namely one in Persia, and a larger one still in China, that counter-balanced the Romans (Kennedy, 2002). The argument is also made that the power of the USA has…
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…Greece copied Persia on some occasions. In fact, Greece, before Alexander the Great, was just a coalition of small kingdoms. Persia, the biggest empire to exist up that time, was the "world power," controlled the way of thinking of the time, and placed a deep…
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…era. Queen Victoria was not only the ruler of the United Kingdom, but also the British Empire, which included Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, and significant parts of Africa. Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819, and christened Alexandrina…
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…  Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward…
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…Throughout history there has been thousands of dominate empires, but none as dominate as the Roman Empire. Rome’s great empire included over one million people, and ran in a stretch of over two million miles. Rome’s government was very public oriented…
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…Peace of Westphalia The two treaties of Münster and Osnabrück, commonly known as the Peace of Westphalia, was the culminating element for the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years’ War. It established a final religious settlement and provided for new…
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