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The Path of Splitness is a major non-fiction work that will rock the scientific world It is 2,766 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains the basic pre-history of the Universe and how it came into being, the basic Dynamics which created Life, the basic...

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Baseball has been cracking down on steroid use with more frequent and random testing, but that hasn’t stopped the problem. After all, A-Rod’s suspension comes on the heels of former National League MVP Ryan Braun’s. Why do the big stars keep risking their careers and reputations for drugs...

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Violent White Supremacist Extremists (WSE) are defined as individuals who seek, wholly or in part, through unlawful acts of force or violence, to support their belief in the intellectual and moral superiority of the white race over other races. This book presents testimony, commentaries, and facts...

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This book provides the reader detailed information about the ancient sites, the museums, the monasteries and churches around Mount Olympus in Greece. The area has to offer much more than sun, beaches and mountains. It had an important part of Greek history. It was here were Alexander the Great was...

Wolseley Anzacs

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This is the story of a convict who was deported in 1824. He married in Van Diemen’s Land to become one of Australia’s pioneer families. Their children moved to the country town of Wolseley, in South Australia where they were schooled and eventually, off to war. It was here that three brothers...

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West Texas before and after the Civil War saw an explosion of immigrants making their way through the area on their way west. The Butterfield Stage line ran from 1857 to 1861, but the road was used by settlers, cattle drives and trade caravans long after. The West Texas section was so severe...

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A history of a building that is about 200 years old which replaced a blacksmiths shop nearby that went back to at least the 1300's. Local and internet sources were used to research the history of the evolution of the building itself and trace the residents as far back as records allowed.

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HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

The approach of war
Diplomatic drift towards war
Strategic drift towards war
Five weeks to war
1914-15
1915-17
1918
After the war

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The diplomatic drift towards war: 1890-1914
In the years leading to World War I there are five major powers within Europe - Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France and Britain. The cast list is unchanged since the early 18th century (except that Prussia is now Germany), and the players are well used to the game of diplomacy in which alliances formed for defensive purposes turn into aggressive partnerships as soon as a new war develops (a circumstance considered almost inevitable sooner or later in the atmosphere of national rivalry). However the 19th century has introduced one new element in the form of very much shorter wars. If the Seven Years' War characterizes the 18th century, the Seven Weeks' War is more typical of the 19th (the Franco-Prussian War is almost equally short).

The idea of rapid victory in a short war is particul