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  Extreme points of Europe - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
This is a list of the extreme points of Europe, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent.
The northernmost point of Europe is often incorrectly given as North Cape - actually the second northernmost point of the inshore islands of Europe.
Northernmost point — Knivskjellodden, Norway (71° 11′ 08″ N) Southernmost point — Gavdos, Greece (34° 48′ 02″ N) Westernmost point — Tearaght Island, Ireland (10° 40′ W) Easternmost point — In Russia, an unnamed 535 meter peak at 68° 18′ 50″ E on the far northern Ural Mountains watershed divide.
www.medbib.com /Extreme_points_of_Europe   (274 words)

  
 Caspian Sea Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eurasia is also the location of most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played.
In that competition, geographic location is still the point of departure for the definition of a nation-state's external priorities, and the size of national territory also remains one of the major criteria of status and power.
www.treemedia.com /cfrlibrary/library/geopolitics/brzezinski.html   (7321 words)

  
 EURASIA
The general picture emerging for this region is of a considerable reduction and southwards retreat of the forest at the LGM, relative to the interglacial state.
1993) in Yunnan Province in the extreme south-west.
NORTHERN EURASIA mostly Russia east of the Urals, south to the central Asian desert.
www.esd.ornl.gov /projects/qen/new_eurasia.html   (11317 words)

  
 EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - The Changing Face of Eurasia
Transition implies a beginning and an end point, but change is a dynamic not a static process and the states are evolving along their own trajectories.
In parts of Eurasia, we can already see the "primitivization" of states, where the energies of the population are focused on household subsistence and shuttle trade and the government has retreated from many aspects of daily life—in particular from the provision of a social safety net.
OSI, the Eurasia Foundation and other organizations operating on the ground are providing a vehicle for channeling the skills and energy of this group through employment in their field offices and the elevation of members of this group to senior positions.
www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav082001.shtml   (3933 words)

  
 Extreme points of Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Extreme points of Africa is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
The northernmost point of the world is the geographic North Pole, in the Arctic Ocean.
The northernmost point on land is Kaffeklubben Island, east of Greenland (83°40′N 29°50′W), which lies slightly north of Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland (83°38′N 32°40′W).
www.experiencefestival.com /extreme_points_of_africa   (281 words)

  
 Eurasia
By 1200 AD the pastoralists, who were non-urban and non-literate but not primitive, had refined their way of life to a fine point: the yurt and the composite reflex bow, for example, were technological marvels.
The extreme sensitivity to climate of the steppe peoples, who have no stores of food except for their livestock, does make this triggering effect possible.
As such they were comparable to the bourgeois long distance traders who were also despised by the conservative, control-oriented sedentary societies which depended on controlling and taxing fixed agricultural territory and were destabilized by long-distance trade and finance, as well as by positive protection specialists proposing to replace them and reconfigure their territory.
www.idiocentrism.com /turan.eurasia.htm   (7027 words)

  
 Topica Email List Directory
On the extremes, there were those among our readers who suggested Iran would launch a nuclear strike against Israel; others spoke of the potential for a direct U.S. military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
At this point, it appears that U.N. Security Council resolutions and diplomacy may be reaching the limits of their usefulness.
We do not expect this to lead to any of the more extreme outcomes that have been speculated -- distances, for instance, argue against a direct strike by Iran against Israel -- but the political and military dynamics of the region certainly are shifting.
lists.topica.com /lists/eurasia/read/message.html?mid=913272795&sort=a&start=2142   (2389 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: China News - Striking the US where it hurts
Puncture one vital point and the whole anatomy is affected.
This global herd psychology motivated by the survival instinct will be strongly reinforced by the latent anger of many countries in the Middle East, Eurasia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America that silently abhor the pugnacious arrogance displayed by the lone Superpower in the exercise of its unilateral and militaristic foreign policies.
This brings us to the question of alliances, another "acupuncture point" in the anatomy of the superpower, which will be addressed in the second part of this report.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/HJ19Ad01.html   (2965 words)

  
 The Battle Against Eurasia
Due to its extreme geographic eccentricity, a hypothetical world with the American continent as its heartland could only be a world of a "golden billion" forcing the remaining five billions of the population of Earth into a social and economic ghetto.
The "cold war" was a battle against Eurasia, aiming at preventing the existence of a state or confederation of states on the Great Continent, which would be strong enough to defend its resources from being freely appropriated by the overseas "consumer civilization".
The newly independent states of Eurasia have not become the "buffer states", the formation of which is strictly necessary, in accordance with the classical principle of the British, and later on - the US geopolitics, in arranging a long-term offensive against its main continental adversary.
www.kalaschnikow.net /uk/txt/2001/eussner15.html   (2309 words)

  
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But, as the Malaysian, Irish and other governments pointed out during the United Nations General assembly debates on the Question of Tibet, colonialism in all its manifestations must be brought to an end, whether perpetrated by countries in the West or the East.
At this point, the Chinese delegates, Li Weihan and Zhang Jin-wu, made it plain that the terms, as they now stood, were final and amounted to an ultimatum.
However, as pointed out by the first Australian Human Rights Delegation to China, which was permitted to visit Tibet in July 1991: Though martial law had indeed been lifted on 1 May 1990, it continues to exist in all but name.
www.cwis.org /fwdp/Eurasia/whitepap.txt   (20952 words)

  
 Red Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The eastern margin of the Suez Rift in Sinai is a unique outcrop model for the pre-existing structural fabric, controlling the shape of the eastern rift margin and the clastics supply during the rift phases.
FT data points from southwestern Saudi Arabia indicate that there were two distinct periods of uplift and erosion during the early Oligocene (~34 Ma) and early Miocene (21-25 Ma), which lead us to conclude that these two distinct rift events occurred approximately simultaneously throughout the rift.
Extreme extension involving the upper and middle crust in the Chemehuevi Mountains core complex was accomplished along a stacked, anastomosing sequence of brittle, NE-dipping low-angle normal or detachment faults discordantly cutting deformed Proterozoic and Mesozoic crystalline basement.
www.ldeo.columbia.edu /res/pi/margins/MARGINSnet4/Egypt.html   (14014 words)

  
 Stile Libero - Passport - Eurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In this deserted Tracia plain you can feel the heat and, whilst we were going through tedious, bare but extremely bright scenery, stopping off every so often for a Turkish coffee in a modern service station, we tried to imagine what Istanbul, our next port of call, would be like.
In the meantime, we set to finalising the remaining organisational points so that we are ready to best deal with the great sea of central Asia.
The extreme cordiality and willingness of the people is in complete contrast to the apparent total disinterest for the common heritage, so much so that we find it difficult to understand.
www.scrittoio.com /Eurasia/uk/eura1b.htm   (1632 words)

  
 IUCN - World Commission on Protected Areas
These projects aim to ensure that protected areas are included as an integral element of sustainable social economic development in the North Eurasia region, with emphasis on raising their role in conservation of biodiversity and maintenance of ecological balance in Northern Eurasia.
The WCPA Northern Eurasia region, is one of the largest WCPA regions.
The extreme variety of relief is connected with an availability of vast plains and high mountain systems.
www.iucn.org /themes/wcpa/region/neurasia/neurasia.html   (1943 words)

  
 Tucker/The Funding of Scientific Racism. Chapter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The problem, from Pioneer's point of view, was that, primarily because of the Jewish-controlled media, the nation no longer shared their certitude about racial differences.
From Pioneer's point of view, of course, the publicity generated by their new authorities was but the essential first step, the means toward what was still the ultimate goal at the time: to overturn Brown through scientific evidence of fl intellectual inferiority or at least prevent its further implementation.
The editor of a publication so extreme it labeled Senator James Eastland a leftist, Greaves had circulated a handbill after James Meredith was admitted to the University of Mississippi, calling for the student body "to keep the colored boy in a state of constant isolation...
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/tucker/ch4.html   (10051 words)

  
 Europe/Eurasia - USAID Mission to Poland
The most contentious point in the pension-reform debate among professionals since 1989 was whether the system should remain a pay-as-you-go monopoly.
Nine percentage points of the social security contribution will be diverted to a pension fund chosen by the participant.
One extreme position would be to recognise that all people in a particular occupation own the privilege from the day they begin work.
www.usaid.gov /pl/pension2.htm   (11693 words)

  
 Eurasia Contra America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
“Eurasia contra America” was the theme of Thiriart’s talks with the Russians, which included a young thirty-year-old journalist named Alexander Dugin, who would later become one of the most influential figures in Russian nationalist politics and the leading proponent of the Eurasian idea in Russia.
When British geostrategists looked at their maps in the 18th and 19th centuries, the noticed that Eurasia was by far the world’s largest continent and to establish a globe-spanning empire, they would first have to establish footholds throughout the continent, which resulted in conflict with Russia.
It is important to point out that, although highly critical of America’s foreign policies, the Eurasian movement doesn’t call for the destruction of the United States and sees America as having a future regional role in a multipolar world.
www.nationalvanguard.org /printer.php?id=2033   (7201 words)

  
 Hitler's Rejection of the "25 Points"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At this point begin the vital seven Points, numbers 11 to 17, which comprise the Socialist part of National Socialism and, with the patriotic part, gave the Party its dual appeal to the electors.
The Strasser Brothers, however, who were both extremely active in the NSDAP before the party came to power in 1933, were regularly engaged in a war of ideology with Hitler himself, who refused to advocate the decentralization of State power or offer the normal working people of Germany a stake in both agriculture and industry.
In Point 17, it was explained that there would be an end to the rule of the big landowners, and that there would be a resettlement of the expanded peasantry.
www.folkandfaith.com /smf_forums/index.php?topic=666.0   (8247 words)

  
 Extreme points of Europe information information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Europe is sometimes described as stretching from Europa Point (the southernmost point of Gibraltar) to North Cape (the northernmost point of the inshore islands of Europe).
Easternmost point — In Russia, an unnamed 535 meter peak at 68° 18′ 50″ E on the far northern Ural Mountains watershed divide, 8.5 km north of the upper Baydarata River's North Fork and 23 km northeast of a 1177 meter peak named Gora Khuuta-Saurey
The centre of these extreme points is at 53°34′01″N, 29°24′24″E, near Klichev, Belarus.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Extreme_points_of_Europe   (313 words)

  
 The Changing Face of Eurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
To a greater or lesser degree the twelve states of Eurasia are virtual or false democracies, and virtual or even collapsing economies.
In parts of Eurasia, we can already see the "primitivization" of states, where the energies of the population are focused on household subsistence and shuttle trade and the government has retreated from many aspects of daily life — in particular from the provision of a social safety net.
For Russia and Ukraine, the Baltic States point forward to what can be achieved — if the current thrust of European economic and political engagement is continued, and if Russia, in particular, is not cut off from the West.
www.brookings.edu /views/articles/hillf/2001changingface.htm   (3994 words)

  
 Geological Society of America - Highlights from Geology & GSA Today
Solomon and Quesada have pointed out that ancient examples in southern Iberia and western Tasmania, among the world's richest and largest, formed during continent-continent or arc-continent collision zones.
A point of argument has been whether rocks that form the Charleston-Nebo salient were originally straight and were bent into a horseshoe outline or instead the horseshoe form is the original shape of a zone of weakness.
Just like a magnetic compass points north today, the magnetic directions frozen in rocks point toward north at the time the rocks were formed millions of years ago.
www.geosociety.org /news/pr/03-40.htm   (2437 words)

  
 tajikistan.neweurasia.net » Islam in Schools
Once a child is taught to identify himself with a religion and to see a world from a religious view point, it is hard to convince him/her to accept a different (secular) view.
Just wanted to point out that there is a big difference between teaching Islam and teaching about Islam from a cultural and historical perspective.
Eurasia Daily Monitor Usually covers other C.A. states, but good content on Tajikistan when covered.
tajikistan.neweurasia.net /?p=41   (2333 words)

  
 The American strategy in Eurasia  and the consequences of the war in Kosovo
Certainly USA, external power to the Eurasia, - are henceforth the first global authority thanking to its direct presence on the three peripheral zones of the Continent, position enlarging their zone of influence to the States of the" continental hinterland".
The speech goes thus, for the American strategies, it is not only "to contain" and "to expel" (roll back) Russia (heartland) before she does not recover, but also to neutralize China power rise and at last to keep the European Union, " a soft zone ", in its weak and dependent condition.
3 From the polémologic point of view, the "western" retaliatory departure Compels the Ally, begun without declarations of war and sanctions of interested Parliaments and during whom Serb-Yugoslavian Enemy which has not attacked on any of the countries of the connected coalition, had no any means of protection, may be considered hardly as war.
www.strategicsinternational.com /enuseurasie.htm   (8769 words)

  
 EURASIA PANEL Gromyko, Tiejun, Dutta, Al- Sayed Selim speeches to Schiller Institute conference, May 2001
On the other hand, it is also clear that innovative technology is not merely the implementation and realization of new, fundamental scientific ideas; rather, it is extremely necessary to change the technological forms of organization of industrial complexes, with corresponding changes in the structure of labor—what professions are required.
It addresses the pivotal point of differentiating, or dividing into layers, the old industrial system—using only the criteria of physical economy, to determine the potential points where energy flux-density and the density of product-flows through the industrial system may be increased.
There is a huge demand for all of these things in Eurasia, and they all exist in embryo, in the not-yet-developed innovation economy.
www.schillerinstitute.org /conf-iclc/2001/conf_may_2001_eurasia.html   (5814 words)

  
 AMERICA'S ACUPUNCTURE POINTS
So, if and when a major conflict between the US and China occurs, say over the issue of Taiwan, pity those thousands of American sailors who are unfortunate enough to be in one of those aircraft carrier battle groups.
The 10 "acupuncture points" mentioned in this article (See also Part 1: Striking the US where it hurts) are like a 10-stage riddle.
America is in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter of the "great game", and it is behind in points.
uhrp.org /articles/321/1/.../AMERICAS-ACUPUNCTURE-POINTS.html   (6440 words)

  
 Extreme Points Of Europe
The centre of these extreme points is at coor dms533401N292424E, near Klichev, Belarus.
If Franz Josef Land is not considered a part of Europe, then the northernmost point would be located at the northern point of Rossoya, Svalbard (81°N).
If the Madeira Islands or the Canary Islands are included as part of Europe, they must be considered the southernmost part of the continent.
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Extreme_points_of_Europe   (165 words)

  
 Excerpts: Anti-Semitism in Europe Increases in Recent Years - US Department of State
Taken to its most far-reaching and violent extreme, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of millions of Jews and the suffering of countless others.
An Anti-Racism Center spokesperson pointed out that the increase in the number of incidents is partially due to increased reporting resulting from greater public awareness.
These were pursued by the Anti-Racism Center, which won a conviction in September 2003 against two Holocaust deniers, such denial being illegal in the country; the two were sentenced to a year in prison, a $670 (500 euro) fine, and the costs of the trial.
usinfo.state.gov /eur/Archive/2005/Jan/05-93928.html   (18831 words)

  
 Creationist Dmitri Kouznetsov: Scientist?
Kouznetsov claims that it is "extremely common" for intellectuals to become creationists - this seems to be a flat out lie.
The data indicates that there were two gene duplications in vertebrate ancestors and this gave rise to three different genes which have evolved independently from that point on.
I also accept your point that everyone is biased to some extent but there is no doubt in my mind that some biases are more ridiculous than others.
www.talkorigins.org /faqs/kouznetsov.html   (1666 words)

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