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  Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Over half of Finland´s population are registered borrowers.
Basic tasks in library management include the planning of acquisitions (which materials the library should acquire, by purchase or otherwise), library classification of acquired materials, preservation of materials (especially rare and fragile archival materials such as manuscripts), the deaccessioning of materials, patron borrowing of materials, and developing and administering library computer systems.
The St. Phillips Church Parsonage Provincial Library, established in 1698 in Charleston, South Carolina, was the first public lending library in the American Colonies.
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 ScienceDaily: Anthropology
Drawing on his German roots, he argued that the world was full of distinct 'cultures' rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little 'civilization' they had.
Over time he developed an approach known as structural-functionalism, which focused on how institutions in societies worked to balance out or create an equilibrium in the social system to keep it functioning harmoniously.
It includes how we acquired the structure of our body over time, that is human evolution, as well as differences and relationships between human populations today and their adaptations to their local environments.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/anthropology   (5343 words)

  
 Native American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
According to 2003 United States Census Bureau estimates, a Little over One third of the 2,786,652 Native Americans in the United States live in three states: California at 413,382, Arizona at 294,137 and Oklahoma at 279,559 http://www.census.gov/popest/states/asrh/tables/SC-EST2003-04.pdf.
In contrast to what was the General rule in the rest of North America, the history of the colony of New Spain was One of racial intermingling (''mestizaje).
Mestizos quickly came to account for a majority of the colony's population; however, significant pockets of pure-blood indígenas'' (as the Native Peoples are now known) have survived to the present day.
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 Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
He wrote over thirty works, the most important of which is "Miscellanea Historica regni Bohemiae" (six volumes 1669-1687) which is an historical geography in which he describes the chief historical events of his native land, the lives of prominent people, geography, natural history, and scientific contributions by prominent people.
Contains: Listings of new minerals, and fossils donated to Cabinet of Natural History; Beck's study on the minerals of New York, Hall's study of new fossils described from New York and Morgan's important study of artifacts from the Seneca Indians of western New York.
A German geologist and petrologist; Boue was a founder of the Geological Society of France.
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 Bibliography
There are other ways to organize or expand the list of subjects covered, such as adding references to mapping of individual cities, states, military cartography, or a number of other areas.
The list of potential reference works, covering virtually the entire globe, is quite large and could accommodate a separate monograph.
The books are listed with their titles first, which is intentional, though not the usual bibliographic convention.
www.theprimemeridian.com /bibliography.htm   (6267 words)

  
 Web of lies? Historical knowledge on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The first event listed in every third year from 1670 to 1970 was rephrased as a question, and then fed into H-Bot.
Undoubtedly Gertrude Himmelfarb and like-minded conservatives would be pleased with this online triumph of consensus over interpreters of the past who dare to use Marxist lenses to envision the founding of the United States.[3] But challenging conventional and textbook accounts often forms an important part of understanding the past more fully.
German philologists were counting instances of specific words in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, albeit in a far more painstaking manner, before the advent of computerized word counts of digital versions of these ancient texts.
www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue10_12/cohen   (8395 words)

  
 Top20Togo.com - Your Top20 Guide to Togo!
The Germans brought scientific cultivation to the country's main export crops (cacao, coffee and cotton) and developed its infrastructure to the highest level in Africa.
During the colonial period, the Mina grew in political and economic influence by virtue of their coastal position and long association with Europeans.
On April 24, 2005, Gnassingbé was elected president of Togo, receiving over 60% of the vote according to official results.
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 Science fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
In this view, the elements that would previously have been presented as fantasy (magic, transformations, divination, mind-reading, fabulous beasts, new civilizations, higher beings, etc.) are rationalized or supported through scientific or quasiscientific rationales (psychic abilities such as telekinesis and precognition, aliens and their civilizations, etc.).
This definition also has the benefit of avoiding semantic traps over Science fiction which is overtaken by events, such as the Science in the story is disproven or events predicted in the story do not happen or happen in radically different ways.
It also reflects the substantial overlap between the audiences of Science fiction and fantasy literature, the fact that Many (if not most) Science fiction authors have also written works of fantasy, and that Many fantasy novels have won Hugo and Nebula awards.
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