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  • 111History of banking — The first banks were the merchants of the ancient world that made loans to farmers and traders that carried goods between cities. The first records of such activity dates back to around 2000 BC in Assyria and Babylonia. Later, in ancient Greece… …

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  • 112Silk Road — The Silk Road, or Silk Routes, are an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe. The so called Silk Routes… …

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  • 114Minor characters in Bloom County — The following are minor characters from Berkeley Breathed s comic strip Bloom County. Though significant enough to have appeared multiple times in the strip, they were not crucial to the strip s overall development, and disappeared without much… …

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  • 115Siege of Oxford — The Siege of Oxford was a Parliamentarian victory late in the First English Civil War. Whereas the title of the event may suggest a single siege, there were in fact three individual engagements.The first engagement was in May 1644, during which… …

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  • 116Mammy archetype — The mammy archetype is perhaps one of the best known archetypes of African American women. She is often portrayed within a narrative framework or other imagery as a domestic servant of African descent, generally good natured, often overweight,… …

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  • 117In absentia health care — The most common mode of healthcare delivery is through personal, face to face contact between a healthcare provider and a beneficiary (patient). There is, however, an increasing trend towards the provision of healthcare in the absence of a… …

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  • 118conservation — conservational, adj. /kon seuhr vay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights. 2. official supervision of rivers, forests, and other… …

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  • 119Kant’s moral and political philosophy — Don Becker Practical philosophy, for Kant, is concerned with how one ought to act. His first important work in practical philosophy, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, provides Kant’s argument for the fundamental principle of how one ought …

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  • 120metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …

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