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  • Networked advocacy

    Networked advocacy or net-centric advocacy refers to a specific type of advocacy. While networked advocacy has existed for centuries, it has become significantly more efficacious in recent years due in large part to the widespread availability of the internet, mobile telephones, and related communications technologies that enable users to overcome the transaction costs of collective action.
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  • Dreyfus affair

    The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France from its inception in 1894 until its resolution in 1906. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent.
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  • History of economic thought

    The history of economic thought deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject that became political economy and economics from the ancient world to the present day. It encompasses many disparate schools of economic thought.
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  • France

    France (or;), officially the French Republic, is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe, with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean.
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  • History of the Orthodox Church

    The Eastern Orthodox Churches trace their roots back to the Apostles and Jesus Christ. Apostolic succession established the seats of Patriarchy (for example see the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem).
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  • Timeline of Christianity

    The purpose of this timeline is to give a detailed account of Christianity from the beginning of the current era (AD) to the present. Question marks on dates indicate approximate dates.The year one is the first year in the "Christian calendar" (there is no year zero), which is the calendar presently used (in unison with the Gregorian calendar) almost everywhere in the world.
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  • History of science

    The history of science is the study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural science] and social science]. (The history of the arts and humanities are
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  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley, FRS (– 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergym, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseo state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery.
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  • History of anarchism

    Anarchism is often defined as a political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful. However, others argue that while anti-statism is central, it is inadequate to define anarchism solely on this basis.
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  • Human rights

    Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being."Human rights are thus conceived as universal (applicable everywhere) and egalitarian (the same for everyone).
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