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  Expulsion of Germans after World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Allied sources revealed after 1990, the deportation and migration of ethnic Germans affected up to 16.5 million people and was the largest of several similar post-World War II migrations orchestrated by the victorious Western Allies and the Stalinist Soviet Union.
Those who either migrated or were expelled included both true German citizens, some of whom had gained their German citizenship during Nazi occupation, the people simply considered ethnic Germans and those willing to escape from the "Communist paradise".
It charges that the Centre Against Expulsions portrays expelled Germans as victims of the war and thereby downplays the German responsibility for the Holocaust, atrocities and the aggression leading to the outbreak of the war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_after_World_War_II   (6741 words)

  
 Center for the Study of the First Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It's unlikely that any direct evidence of New World migrations by way of the Atlantic or Pacific, that is, watercraft, survived the 300- to 400-foot fluctuations in sea level since the last Ice Age.
Of course, Straus is arguing against alleged commonalities and continuities between Solutrean and Clovis technologies, but his position seems to apply to historical and personal dimensions as well.
Most sciences have been forced to sail uncharted waters when enough evidence has accumulated to invalidate a long-held theory or interpretation; consider the history of plate tectonic theory, for example, or the recent discoveries of solar systems very unlike our own.
www.centerfirstamericans.com /mt.php?a=46   (1886 words)

  
 Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some Jews migrated from Israel elsewhere, known as yerida ("descent" [from the Holy Land]), due to its economic problems or due to disillusionment with political conditions and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The third war against the Jews is said to be happening in the Middle East, against the state of Israel.
The Pogroms in Eastern Europe, the rise of modern Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the rise of Arab nationalism all served to fuel the movements and migrations of huge segments of Jewry from land to land and continent to continent, until they have now arrived back in large numbers at their original historical homeland in Israel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jew   (6275 words)

  
 History and Origins of the Swedes and Sweden
The "nationality" of the leaders would usually appear as the nationality of the migrating group, until later when the group was separated again.
The migrations could take place over several decades, and often when the Germanic tribes were mentioned in the written sources, the Romans had only met raiding groups occupying warriors or mercenaries operating far away from their people.
Since the short war fought against Norway in 1814, Sweden has not been involved in any war and has also since the First World War pursued a foreign policy of nonalignment in peacetime and neutrality in wartime, basing its security on a strong national defense.
www.osterholm.info /swedes.html   (5947 words)

  
 Violent Faith, by Kelton Cobb
It was, according to Mubarakpuri, "a hotbed of intrigue and conspiracy" against the umma; in fact, in the estimation of Mubarakpuri, "the continual afflictions that the Muslims had sustained were primarily attributable to the Jews" in Khaybar.
It is not fair to say religion is the driving force behind the violence of these particular movements, but it is fair to say that genuine, and quite dangerous, elements of Judaism and Islam have been appropriated to justify the wars these groups are waging, and quite effectively.
Surah 5 was revealed during the period of the Qaynuqa uprising, and much of this surah serves as an interpretation of the Jews refusal to recognize Muhammad as an apostle of God, just as their predecessors had failed to grasp the prophethood of Moses, and had subsequently confounded the teachings he had given them.
www.hartsem.edu /CENTERS/cobb_article1.htm   (9596 words)

  
 2000 National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims
The National Center for Public Policy Research is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation based in Washington, D.C. The National Center believes that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.
But Kim filed a lawsuit against the city claiming that she was owed compensation for the large portion of her property the city took to raise the road.
In one case, OSHA inspectors cited the Center with a violation because an IBM typewriter was not equipped with a grounded three-prong plug.
www.nationalcenter.org /VictimDirectory00.html   (21063 words)

  
 Sun Microsystems-Reality Check   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The same forces that are working against Itanium forced Intel to drop the i860 in favor of the 386--which simply extended the 286 architecture.
Corporate data centers that choose to migrate to Itanium could be forced to either select applications from the limited set already ported to the chip, or spend time and money to port, tune, and customize their own solutions.
Customers who migrate now will be some of the first to take the plunge and run their business on this new chip with a new OS, and with newly-ported applications.
www.sun.com /executives/realitycheck/reality-021803.html   (2393 words)

  
 Oregon Studies: Oregon History I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The great migration of American settlers to Oregon along the overland trail in the mid- nineteenth century is a central element in Oregon’s history.
Native peoples of the region are at the center of historical events, represented as communities that have long sought to retain their culture and identity in the face of dispossession, military conquest, forced removal from their traditional homelands, and forced assimilation and detribalization (termination).
Unruh’s work is unique because it examines the western migrations during the 1850s, in addition to the more well-known wagon trains of the 1840s.
www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/learning_center/dspPrint.cfm?resource_ID=FCEA5604-94B2-318E-2A5566467028EE63   (3124 words)

  
 Center for Global Justice
It seems that for Hardt and Negri the essential difference between imperialism and empire is to be found in the notions of sovereign state-power and territoriality.
This absence of alternatives has been behind the sharp criticisms levelled against Hardt and Negri’s conception of empire because of the apparent abandonment of theories on imperialism, indeed because of their view that imperialism has been superseded by a coreless, deterritorialized Empire, the source of which is no longer to be found in imperialist centers.
If the industrial sector of a nation asks its government for protection against the industry of another nation because the latter industry antagonizes the former by its mere superiority, the former is then taking government from its [proper] role and is giving proof of its shameful cowardice.
www.globaljusticecenter.org /papers/saenz.htm   (5259 words)

  
 Jew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Since the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, Jews have increasingly participated in, and become part of, secular society.
Forced migrations during the period of Almohades in Islamic Spain.
Even after the end of the expulsions in the 17th century, individual conditions varied from country to country and time to time, but, as rule, Jews generally were forced, by decree or by informal pressure, to live in highly segregated ghettos and villages.
jew.ask.dyndns.dk   (4165 words)

  
 Seymour Center - News Archive
The Seymour Center is one of 10 environmental organizations chosen by SIMA to receive proceeds from the Waterman's Weekend, the surf industry's annual environmental fundraiser.
Open year round to the public, the Seymour Center is part of the Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, a research and education facility of the University of California Santa Cruz which serves as a base for field research in Monterey Bay and the ocean beyond.
Center volunteers are a dedicated group of people from a variety of backgrounds, whose common interest is a love of the ocean, a curiosity about marine science, and a desire to share knowledge.
seymourcenter.ucsc.edu /news_archive.html   (16371 words)

  
 Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
The northern spotted owl is at the center of controversies in both countries.
As the Ramsar Convention notes, "waterfowl in their seasonal migrations may transcend frontiers and so should be regarded as an international resource."25 International treaties between North American nations recognize the importance of migratory bird species.
Local communities were forced to cut more agricultural fields to feed their families while outside timber companies funded large scale, capital-intensive timber harvesting.
www.yale.edu /envirocenter/clinic/nacec.html   (13748 words)

  
 Migrations
Environmentalists alleged that 22 million of the orange and fl butterflies were deliberately sprayed by loggers in an effort to regain the protected forests where the monarchs seek warmer temperatures during the winter months.
Black Mesa Weavers for Live and Land is working with the Dine' people living on Black Mesa toward continued cooperation with the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe to ensure their cultural and economic survival through sustainable development and the healing of fractured communities on both HPL and NPL.
Migrations and Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land are trademarks of Migrations.
www.migrations.com /welcome.html   (1717 words)

  
 Cost Centers and Measures Report: Intermediaries
Reformatting is also an important cost center for intermediaries--as they regularly take an original print product, archive it (on microfilm) and duplicate it on-demand.
Intermediaries are forced to continue using microform and make electronic copies for use with current technologies.
Illustrators and other visual artists pose a similar dilemma to publishers and intermediaries as authors pose in the scholarly communication marketplace with regard to their position on wishing additional compensation for electronic use of print works.
www.cni.org /projects/costcenters/intermediaries.html   (8301 words)

  
 Awareness Center - Prostitution/Trafficking in Jewish Communities
He said that few complaints were filed against pimps, whereas the number of trafficked women was high, and that many women either refuse to complain or retract their statements to police later in court.
One women presently housed at a hostel waiting to testify against her pimp, told the Hotline that a man who had befriended her was supposed to meet to help her escape but when she arrived at the prearranged meeting point, her pimp turned up instead.
The first is a criminal case against three of her six "owners" and the errant son.
www.theawarenesscenter.org /prostitution.html   (17610 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The force that inspires, nurtures and sustains social solidarity is the conviction that “there are indeed universal human rights, rooted in the nature of the person, rights which reflect the objective and inviolable demands of a universal moral law.”
In this respect the atmosphere of suspicion and uncertainty, during and after the Council, is not dissimilar to that of doubt and hesitation which seized the world community when the idyllic visions of unity, which followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, were challenged by conflict and strife.
With what authority do you wage wars against these people, who were living peaceable in their own countries, where you caused infinite numbers of them to die by your unheard of barbarities and slaughter?” asked Father Martesino in a sermon at Concepcion de la Vega in 1511.
www.vincenter.org /98/cassar.htm   (11813 words)

  
 Total War Center Forums - PREVIEW: Historical Battles
Guy ordered the army to march against Saladin at Tiberias, which is what Saladin had planned, for he had calculated that he could defeat the crusaders only in a field battle, rather than by besieging their fortifications.
In the meanwhile the French feudatories on the left wing had thoroughly defeated the imperial forces opposed to them, and William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, the leader of this corps, was unhorsed and taken prisoner by the fighting bishop of Beauvais.
In the center the battle was now a melée between the two mounted reserves led by the king and the emperor in person.
www.twcenter.net /forums/showthread.php?t=34053   (4855 words)

  
 Bulletin Issue #15
After the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, some of its residents automatically acquired Slovak citizenship, even though they were born in the Czech Republic, had been living there for a long time, and had their places of permanent residence there (a condition accorded importance by the law).
The Romany Civic Initiative lodged a protest, but this did not prevent the occurrence of several instances in which Roma citizens were forced by police officers to relocate to Slovakia with their families.
The synthesis of Eastern and Western European cultures and educational principles which was to develop at the Academy guaranteed it an outstanding place in Europe and significant influence on the socio-political and cultural developments in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
www.newschool.edu /centers/ecep/fift.htm   (5702 words)

  
 Traditional Cultural Properties on the San Juan National Forest and adjacent public lands in Southwest Colorado
Because of drought and escalating violence, which may have culminated in cannibalism as a means of social control, by 1300 Ancestral Puebloans had left the Four Corners area and continued their migrations elsewhere.
Silverton also became the principal center for communication between far-flung camps and towns, maintaining regular schedules for mail in all directions.
By 1881 Durango already was the most important freighting and supply center in southwestern Colorado, with numerous stores, banks, newspapers, churches, and the offices of La Plata County, which previously had been located at Parrott City.
swcenter.fortlewis.edu /inventory/UsfSanJuanTCP.htm   (12224 words)

  
 civilrights.org -- Research Center
Combining interviews with survivors of the disaster with his deep knowledge of fl migrations and government policy over decades, Dyson provides the historical context that has been sorely missing from public conversation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The heroes from more than thirty-five countries and five continents interviewed by veteran human rights defender Cuomo speak with compelling eloquence on subjects to which they have devoted their lives and for which they have been imprisoned, tortured, and threatened with death.
The book is a great example of, and a grave warning about, how close America came to lawfully eliminating, through forced sterilization, the most vulnerable populations of its society - the poor, the uneducated, people with disabilities, and members of minority groups.
www.civilrights.org /research_center/previous_selections.html   (1640 words)

  
 Religious Movements in the United States (Miller)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Their movement was based in a critique of what they regarded as the cold, empty forms of their state churches; they sought to return to a religion of the heart, a religion of piety and discipline and community.
The Mormons were controversial from their earliest days and soon were bitterly attacked, often violently, so much so that they were forced to move from New York state to Kirtland, Ohio, then to Independence and other places in Missouri, then to Nauvoo, Illinois, and finally (most of them) to Utah.
In Illinois, the penultimate stop, Smith was lynched by a mob angered by a long series of alleged Mormon abuses, not the least of which was the institution of polygamy.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /essays/miller2003.htm   (5149 words)

  
 FEWS NET Region/Country Center
Still, by July 20, cumulative rainfall levels for the dekad were deficient in most monitored areas as compared with the previous year as well as against normal rainfall for the 1971-2002 period.
While animals await better grazing conditions, they are forced to crowd around permanent ponds, wells, and the Niger River banks to graze.
This situation has provoked migrations and the deterioration of coping mechanisms among the people who live in these zones.
www.fews.net /centers/innerSections.aspx?f=ne&m=1000643&pageID=monthliesDoc   (1607 words)

  
 23. The Forced Migration of Serbs and the Dismemberment of Yugoslavia
The Forced Migration of Serbs and the Dismemberment of Yugoslavia
The Western governments and inter-governmental organizations, with the assistance from numerous Western institutions, have in the last decades engaged in the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Serbs of the Balkans through expulsions, forced migrations and attacks on Serb culture and traditions.
The most macabre of all the deceptions has been the story of Vukovar, which became the first city in post-war history to be subjected to the torture and mass killing of its Serbian population—only to be redefined as the symbol of Croatian martyrdom.
www.iacenter.org /warcrime/23_migr.htm   (2350 words)

  
 Movers: Middle Ages (450 - 1400) - By Miles Hodges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Slavic, Hungarian and Nordic Migrations (800 to 1050)
One of the fabled disasters during his reign was the battle of Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees in Southern France when in 778 a Frankish army was defeated by the combined forces of the Muslim Moors and the Basques.
Leader in the late 800s of a tribe of Magyars (Hungarians) who migrated from the steppes of Southern Russia, crossed the Carpathian mountains and in 889 settled in on the plain that their Hungarian descendants still claim as their own (Central Hungary).
www.newgenevacenter.org /movers/middle-ages2.htm   (6373 words)

  
 Highlander Research and Education Center - Resources for Multiracial Organizing - Books
Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the laborers' union.
One of the largest internal migrations in US history, the great white migration, drew millions of southern workers to the steel mills, automobile factories, and even agricultural fields and orchards of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois.
After September 11, 2001, inter-faith coalitions across the country were the first to speak out against the hatred and intolerance rising at home.
www.highlandercenter.org /r-arn-books.asp   (1689 words)

  
 Native American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Clovis culture would be a manifestation of that migration, and the Folsom culture, based on the hunting of bison, would have developed from it.
They lived in Alaska and western Canada, but some migrated as far South as the Pacific Northwestern US and the American Southwest, and would be ancestral to the Dene, Apaches and Navajos.
Military defeat, cultural pressure, confinement on reservations, forced cultural assimilation, outlawing of Native languages and culture, forced sterilizations, termination policies of the 1950s, and 1960s, and slavery have had deleterious effects on Native Americans' mental and physical health.
native-american.iqnaut.net   (4783 words)

  
 DIVIDE AND CONQUER--THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BALKAN FEDERATION BY THE UNITED STATES AND NATO
Air Force in September 1990 when the US was planning operation Desert Storm and George Kenney who was classified with the US Department of State.
Recent wars of aggression against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq might have been successfully resisted by the people within the aggressor nations and by world opinion if the media served the public need for knowledge.  What is past will be prologue unless access to needed information becomes available to all who seek it.
President Kagame of Rwanda served for years in Museveni's forces as he fought to rule Uganda and become his intelligence chief.
www.iacenter.org /yugo/divide&conquer.htm   (5805 words)

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