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Colonial Expansion; American Imperialism vs European imperialism

1. August 2008

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What circumstances led to the emergence of the United States as an imperialist power, and to what extent was/is American Imperialism different from European imperialism of the past couple of centuries? The rise of the US as an imperialist power and its domination of the world as never seen before, presents a very different example for [...]

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What were the Pyramids for?

10. July 2008

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Pyramids are tombs. Large pyramids were used as royal tombs from about 2680 BC, when the first pyramid was built at Saqqara for King Djoser of the Third Dynasty. This was a pyramid in six steps, and stepped pyramids continued to be used until the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty in about 2600 BC. At the [...]

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Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

25. May 2008

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Utah Phillips died last Saturday night. Although I never met him, I feel like I’ve just lost a brother and could write a book about it just to tell you why. But I won’t. You’re welcome. : ) I’ll just link over to this one song of his, “The Preacher and the Slave.” It was written [...]

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“Amar Shonar Bangla Ami tomaye Bhalobasi……”

18. May 2008

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The meaning of the above header is” Oh! My golden Bengal i love u…….” Bengal……a land of heritage, culture, history…….politics, controversy…..name it and Bengal have it.. In olden days Bengal was called “Bongo” or “Bongodesh”. Bengal is Geographically important place in South Asia. Presently Bengal is divided into two parts but the culture is same as [...]

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The Peacemaker of the Pashtun Past

7. May 2008

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[Editor's note: Here is an article from the New York Times from December 7, 2001 written by Karl E. Meyer. It's interesting for perhaps more reasons than I can ponder - so, please do comment with your own - but here are two I can think of. (1) It suggests that the US [...]

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