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	Encyclopedia: Fictional European countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country from the comic strips Dilbert and Plop: The Hairless Elbonian.
		Graustark is a fictional country in Eastern Europe used as a setting for several novels by George Barr McCutcheon.
		Fictional countries Crown dependencies are possessions of the British Crown, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies of the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fictional-European-countries (1068 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dutch and Flemish literature (Miscellaneous European Literature) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dutch and Flemish literature expanded on European lines, with the novelists Jacob van Lennep, Anna Bosboom-Toussaint, Eduard Dekker, and the Belgian Hendrik Conscience, and the poets IsaAc Da Costa, Hendrik Tollens, Everhardus Potgieter, and the Belgians Guido Gezelle, Albrecht Rodenbach, Pol de Mont, and Nicolaas Beets.
		In fiction, the works of postwar Dutch writers such as Anna Blaman, Alfred Kossman, and Adriaan Van der Veen reveal the influence of both the Nazi occupation and existentialism.
		Indeed, the existentialist influence is found even in fictional works of the 1960s in which writers such as Willem F. Hermans, Jan Wolkers, and Harry Mulisch express their overpowering sense of absurdity and despair.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DutchNFl.html (764 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of fictional countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it — as opposed to inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet (see below).
		Fictional countries are common in stories of early science fiction (or scientific romance).
		Fictional countries are often made to resemble or even represent some real-world country or used to present a utopia or dystopia for commentary.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-fictional-countries (285 words)

	Fictional country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life.
		Fictional countries appear commonly in stories of early science fiction (or scientific romance).
		A fictional Middle Eastern state often lies somewhere on the Arabian peninsula, has substantial oil-wealth, and either a sultan or a mentally-unstable dictator as a ruler.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fictional_country (1989 words)

	Survival of the European Welfare State
		This kind of europeanization is brought about not by `positive' political decisions at the European level, but indirectly by the opportunities for organization and business created by the common market and the four freedoms, or by what is called `negative integration', or what I would prefer to label `passive integration'.
		European welfare states are fundamentally national in character, and within the EU, social policy is primarily a national responsibility.
		European countries in which, for example, social policies to support families (kindergartens, cash transfers, home help for the elderly, public support for institutional care) exist, may be better prepared for global competition than countries in which welfare provision is solely or primarily a family responsibility.
	www.arena.uio.no /publications/wp99_19.htm (5076 words)

	Syldavia Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Syldavia is a fictional Balkan country in the adventures of Tintin.
		The country's flag is similar to that of Albania.
		King Ottokar IV decreed that the ruler of Syldavia must have hold on the sceptre of power or he loses his authority.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/sy/syldavia.html (292 words)

	Encyclopedia: Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1887, the Qing government of China made Taiwan a province by itself, the 20th in the country, with capital at Taipei.
		The group of countries known as the Allies of World War II came together as World War II unfolded and progressed.
		Taiwan's banking system is light-years ahead of most other countries, with the ability to use any of the abundant 24-hour ATM Machines to withdraw cash from anywhere in the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Taiwan/History (3979 words)

	G. Arrighi, I. Ahmad & M. Shih, "Beyond WesternHegemonies"
		European visitors and residents of China, Jesuit missionaries in particular, contrasted the peace and tranquillity of the Qing empire with Europe's social strife and incessant warfare.
		The view that European rulers had much to learn from the Chinese in matter of law, government and morality was greatly enhanced by Jesuit depictions of emperor Kang-xi "as a veritable philosopher-king, devoted to his subjects' welfare and deeply interested in the fine arts and sciences, both Chinese and Western" (Adas 1989, 80-1).
		European merchants and adventurers had long emphasized the military vulnerability of an empire ruled by a scholar-gentry class, while complaining bitterly about the bureaucratic and cultural obstacles met by those who sought to trade with China.
	fbc.binghamton.edu /gaht5.htm (18423 words)

	Syldavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King Ottokar IV decreed that the ruler of Syldavia must have hold on the sceptre, otherwise he loses his authority.
		In their book Tintin Ketje de Bruxelles (Casterman, 2004 ISBN 2-203-01716-3), Daniel Justens and Alain Préaux have documented how the Syldavian language is based on Marols or Marollien, the dialect of the Marolles, a working class (though now trendy) quarter of Brussels.
		Marols, which Hergé learnt from his grandmother, is a Flemish dialect incorporating many words of French origin as well as a sprinking of Spanish dating back to the occupation of the Low Countries during the Spanish Inquisition (circe 1500).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syldavia (645 words)

	The Official Web Site of Author Margaret Murphy
		Fictional portrayals of serial killers like Hannibal Lecter have increased public awareness of the violent sociopath in recent years.
		Using examples from fiction, and encouraging the group to experiment with their own writing, Margaret moves from the cameo through to a fully integrated piece using dialogue, action and description.
		Then the writers are asked to write a 101 word story, concentrating on one specific technique, such as use of pathetic fallacy, creating mood, internal monologue, the unreliable narrator, or use of symbolism.
	www.margaretmurphy.co.uk /pages/events/workshops.htm (694 words)

	EUROPA - Research: press announcement of 29 October 2001 - European Science Week 2001: promoting awareness and dialogue ...
		The European Science and Technology Week is part of a broader EU initiative to raise public awareness of research in general and in particular to encourage young people to take an interest in science — not only as potential future scientists, technologists and technicians, but also as better-informed citizens.
		Secondary school students (14 to 19 years) in 23 European countries are invited to present their 'conception of the Universe', their ideas on its development, and the questions it raises in the form of projects.
		Two winners per country will then be selected to come to CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Geneva where they will present their projects and have the opportunity to discuss them with seasoned international experts.
	europa.eu.int /comm/research/press/2001/pr2910en.html (1726 words)

	Cold War : The Cold War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This article is about the cold war between the USA and Western European countries and the USSR and eastern communist countries.
		The armies of the countries involved rarely had much participation in the Cold War; the war was primarily fought by intelligence agencies like the CIA (United States), MI6 (Great Britain), BND (West Germany), Stasi (East Germany) and the KGB (USSR).
		Enormous defense spending by America (the implications of which were first hinted at by President Eisenhower's speech on the military-industrial complex) under President Ronald Reagan is often seen as a major factor in the end of the war.
	www.termsdefined.net /th/the-cold-war.html (1461 words)

	stocks, shares, news, FTSE, online trading - Interactive Investor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Members of the European Parliament make law, hold bureaucrats to account, approve budgets and monitor spending yet the yellow and purple of a party disinterested in all that is smattering our countryside, its approval rating climbing as E-Day approaches.
		I believe that UKIP itself is a fictional party created to fool British voters into believing that they have a choice.Hence the support from the 4 tory ex-whips earlier on this week.
		European Monetary Union has failed, as the loss of independence will remove the right to get rid of those who govern us badly, by power becoming centralised in Europe.Promises made on joining the EEC in 1973 included more jobs and a larger market for Britains goods.Since then we have lost steel,shipbuilding and the coal industry.
	www.iii.co.uk /shares/?type=poll&ACTION=viewpoll&POLL_ID=407&POLLTYPE=insider2&archive=y (6171 words)

	The Russia Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		MOSCOW - Extremely low temperatures hit the Russian capital and most of the country’s regions Wednesday, leaving authorities to scramble to keep the population warm amidst a bone-chilling frost that could prove to be a record.
		Analysts were particularly concerned about potential threats emerging at airports receiving flights from China in such densely populated cities as Moscow and St. Petersburg in European Russia, and Vladivostok and Khabarovsk in the Far East.
		Traveling to Turkey is not hazardous, because no cases of human-to-human transmission of the virus have been identified, the official said at today’s press conference in Moscow.
	www.russiajournal.com /fan/russia_1858_6544_news.htm (1037 words)

	Western and Northern Europe History and Politics: Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
		Europeans began changing their economy by themselves and became consumers as well as producers.
		Looking back at the splendor of the European empires in their heyday, explains how independence movements gathered strength to eventually overthrow the colonial powers, and describes the severe political and economic difficulties that often accompanied independence.
		A short history of the European Union with emphasis on the changes which must occur if a number of Eastern European countries which have applied for membership are accepted.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/EuroVid.html (14087 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		In the name of the nation everyone was pressed to rebuild the country and to generate wealth.
		If a girl in a country that the presenter regards as foreign has no boyfriend and lives with a family in which the mother is loving, it is said that she lives according to tradition.
		If she falls in love with a boy, falls out with her family and leaves home, it is said that she has been influenced by Western modernity and has left home to lead her own life.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GL08Dh02.html (2693 words)

	Articles - Graustark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Graustark is described as a mountainous country with an area of approximately 800 square miles (2,000 kmÂ²); there is at least one reference in the books that fixes its location as somewhere in the Carpathian Mountains near Romania.
		The novels gave their name to a fictional genre called Graustarkian: this genre contains tales of romance and intrigue usually featuring titled characters in small, fictional, Central European countries.
		The communist regime in Axphain was defeated after an unsuccessful attempt to invade Graustark, and the monarchy in that country was restored with Gregory on the throne rather than the unpopular Hubert, who was himself assassinated in the aftermath.
	www.mountainbikescenter.com /articles/Graustark (903 words)

	ESA - Education - Lego robots at Eurobotice
		They were there to learn about robotics and space research, to meet teenagers from other European countries and, of course, to have fun.
		Each team started by introducing their school and country in English and then went on to present their project on an ESA mission, past or present, and their country’s role in it.
		The Belgian team received much applause for its film about fictional space travel; the Danish team designed a house for humans to live on Mars; while the Austrians chose a historic approach, describing the lives and careers of Austrian heroes in space research.
	www.esa.int /esaED/SEMZ9X0DU8E_index_0.html (751 words)

	Character Merchandising - an American Trilogy - UK Intellectual Property Law Developments (Legal500.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The commercial exploitation of the names and images of both famous personalities and fictional characters has become a highly lucrative practice in the 1990s.
		The Ninja Turtles case (a case concerned with fictional characters, although by analogy it could equally be applied to real personalities) in 1991, was seen in some quarters to be a watershed decision in the protection of personality rights and provided some encouragement for personalities wishing to protect their name, face and likeness.
		The case involved an application by the plaintiffs for an interlocutory injunction preventing the use and reproduction of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles cartoon characters on goods sold by the defendants.
	www.icclaw.com /devs/uk/ip/ukip_015.htm (1179 words)

	☞ bird flu - human pandemic countries people birds flu - human pandemic countries people birds flu online guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Those countries, which collectively are the likely ground zero of pandemic flu, also...
		European countries were prepared to fight a possible human flu pandemic, and downplayed the risk of people contracting...
		countries fighting the disease, or risk a global flu pandemic...
	www.birdflu101.info /bird-flu/human-pandemic-countries-people-birds-flu.html (862 words)

	Syldavia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The country's flag is similar tothat of Albania.
		The way the countryside of Syldavia is depicted in the comic indicates that the country should be somewhere more to the southof the Balkan peninsula.
		There is a song by Spanish group LaUnión titled Syldavia, about the fictional country.
	www.therfcc.org /syldavia-24063.html (387 words)

	sffworld.com - Fantasy outside of English Speaking Countries.
		January 4th, 2005, 06:44 PM From what I've understood from our friends in the non-English European countries, fantasy is seldom accepted as a form of fictional literature and there's not much of a native market for even the English fantasy works.
		January 5th, 2005, 03:32 AM From what I've understood from our friends in the non-English European countries, fantasy is seldom accepted as a form of fictional literature and there's not much of a native market for even the English fantasy works.
		I didn't want to be sterotypical but I could never see fantasy doing well in countries such as France or Italy because they always seem to be very proud (and so they should be) of their cultural history and modern culture in refernce to art and literature.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-9261.html (962 words)

	Reviews of The Grasshopper King
		It's his job to encourage Higgs to talk again-an essential task, because Higgs is a revered scholar of the Gravinian poet Henderson, a misfit literary figure from a fictional Soviet republic-and is expected to produce at least one more pronouncement of genius.
		From a little-known country in the Carpathian foothills, the Gravinic language, mythology, and history are heralded by a cynical, rather demented poet named Henderson.
		Chandler is famous for only one thing: its world-renowned Department of Gravinics, dedicated to the study of a Monaco-sized country in the Carpathian Mountains that was swallowed up in the 1920s by the Soviet Union.
	www.zeek.net /jse/Reviews.html (1050 words)

	US-France Relations May Be Most Complicated to Mend
		Perhaps the most complicated relationship is that of France and the U.S. While these two countries have been allies for more than 200 years, there has always been an underlying tension between them.
		What could significantly alter the relationship between European countries and the United States in the near future is the prospect of a united Europe.
		French National Assembly Representative and president of the country's delegation to the European Union Pierre Leguiller says some sort of United States of Europe would be a stronger and more influential partner to both support and counterbalance their American allies.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-02-24-voa53.cfm (564 words)

	Ties Between Christian Fundamentalists, Texas Oil Interests, etc... - International Justice - Global Policy Forum
		In fact, Bout was the character on whom fictional arms smuggler Yuri Orlov, played by Nicolas Cage in the movie Lord of War, was largely based.
		It is also noteworthy that many of Bout's operations are based in Eastern European countries that have been mentioned in association with the rendition and transporting of CIA prisoners.
		Bulgaria is believed to be one of the countries used by the CIA to house secret prisoners.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/wanted/2005/1212ties.htm (1628 words)

	European Research News Centre
		These projects, involving young Europeans, are being presented during the European Union's annual Science and Technology Week which, as always, promises to be a week to remember.
		Coordinated by the CCLRC (Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils/UK), EuroPAWS is an association of five partners, two of them European groups of actors/producers and scientists.
		The European Week on Microsystems Technologies - Chances, Changes, Challenges exhibition will be presenting the products, applications and developments of the future of this invisible world of micro-intelligence.
	europa.eu.int /comm/research/news-centre/en/agenda/agenda_special.html (1246 words)

	Syldavia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is hard to imagine that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has managed to survive for 38 years withou...
		Is it mere co-incidence that the conservative ball park estimate of the net worth of the Lee family is roughly equivalent to your country's reserves?
		Lee Hsien Loong, the Singapore prime minister, said last week that he did not believe that Singapore should adopt an "idealised form" of liberal democracy, explaining it was unsuitable for the country...
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /articles/content/s/sy/syldavia.html (787 words)

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