Spectre of the nuclear option:While the brief Kargil War was limited to a low intensity conflict, the potential was there for it to escalate into an expanded conventional war, and most alarmingly, into a nuclear confrontation. The possibility of this happening existed because a year prior to Ka...
“the “belief in a just world” is an attempt to capture in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things
1⃞ “Bombay” (meaning “good bay”) was the name the English adopted during the British Raj which derived fromBombaim, the name the Portuguese chose for the city during their occupation 2⃞ the new name, Mumbai, didn’t trigger a change in the name of the city’s famous film...
only the number of transmission hours in English and Chinese is bigger than those in Russian. Russian probably ranks high in the schedules of China’s state broadcaster for a number of reasons: historical, for the sake of cooperation in “working for a multi-polar world”,and because of a ...
Short version: Do-Re-Mi begins on C because that’s whereUt Queant Laxisbegins, and perhaps the fact thatUt Queant Laxis begins on C also suggests that the major scale was already getting started way back in the first millennium. But Do does not correspond to ...
In theMarseille deck,the table has a square top and three legs. This is because the card represents, among many things, theGreat Pyramid of Giza, in Egypt.The Pyramid has sides of three and a base of four. The Magician’s table has three legs and square top. The letter associated with...
universal language to speak. This language, calledEsperanto(meaning “one who hopes”), is largely based on European languages. It never achieved Zamenhof’s ultimate goals, but throughout the 20th century, it played a significant role in some international affairs—and has an active community of...
Because the research objectives and methods for each case study were conceived inde- pendently from the others, the data resulting from these cases did not necessarily facilitate cross-analysis. How- ever, results relating to discourses around transactional sex emerged in three of the studies (...
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese sometimes, German, Czech, Polish, Russian, Arabic, as well as in Tagalog and Hindi. Many different languages use the ‘rolled r’ sound. However, not all of them pronounce this sound the same way. It can depend on the language, and the word and meaning as ...
Before leaving for the doctor, you took advantage of Whimsy being in her post-surgery Suitical; I say “advantage” because she thinks she can hardly move. You covered her up with a blanket and told her “Iyuvoo” (which is “I love you” when you have a bink in your mouth) and ...