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  Whig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The term whig was coined when an insurgency of the Scottish Presbyterians known as Covenanters marched from the south west of Scotland on Edinburgh in 1648, with the country folk using the word "whiggam" to urge on their horses.
As a result, the episode became known as the "Whiggamore Raid" and the terms Whiggamore and Whig were subsequently used as nicknames for the radical Kirk Party faction.
Whig School of History a loose confederation of historians who viewed the history of the world as improving in a teleological manner.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Whig   (443 words)

  
 Lying - Definition, Description, Common problems, Parental concerns
The incidence of prosocial or "white lies," tends to increase in children as they grow older.
Kang Lee of the Department of Psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, observed young children telling so-called "white lies" to avoid disappointing the researcher.
Such prosocial lying behavior occurred in children as young as age three.
www.healthofchildren.com /L/Lying.html   (1703 words)

  
 About This Site - Backcheck: a Hockey Retrospective - Library and Archives Canada
The SIHR working group is coordinated by SIHR past-president Paul Kitchen, and includes:
J.W. (Bill) Fitsell - Founding president of SIHR, retired columnist for the Kingston Whig Standard, hockey historian and author of Hockey's Captains, Colonels and Kings
Ernie Fitzsimmons - President of SIHR, hockey historian and consulting statistician for Total Hockey: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey League
www.lac-bac.ca /hockey/024002-1500-e.html   (331 words)

  
 The Burning Taper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the mid-1800s, corporations were considered to have same legal status as a “person.” As you know, the Shriners Hospitals for Children is a non profit corporation.
The U.S. government's National Institute of Standards and Technology yesterday released its "fact sheet" on the collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.
The fact sheet provides the government's official answers to the conspiracy theorists who say that the government was involved in the attacks that killed 3,000 people.
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 The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) - Conference 2005 - Winnipeg
Editors often harbour their own beefs about reporters, who are sometimes tough to motivate and averse to change.
Hear some of Canada's best bosses, including Sadia Zaman, Director of In-House Production at Vision TV and Rob Tripp, city editor of the Kingston Whig Standard, explore the flaws in newsroom management and ways to make reporters happier and more productive despite shrinking budgets.
William Kaplan, author of A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron, and the Public Trust; 5th estate producer Harvey Cashore and Rob Tripp, city editor of the Kingston Whig Standard.
www.caj.ca /events/conf-2005   (2991 words)

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