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  Mir Summary
Mir was assembled in orbit by successively connecting several modules, each launched separately from February 19, 1986 to 1996.
Mir was based upon the Salyut series of space stations previously launched by the Soviet Union (seven Salyut space stations had been launched since 1971).
The Mir space station was originally planned to be followed by a Mir 2, and elements of that project, including the core module (now called Zvezda) which was labeled as "Mir-2" for quite some time in the factory, are now an integral part of the International Space Station.
www.bookrags.com /Mir   (3159 words)

  
  Mir (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mir (title), (Urdu: مير) is a title in Pakistan.
Mir (tribe), (Urdu: مير) is a tribe in Pakistan.
Mir (social), a type of rural community in Imperial Russia
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mir_(disambiguation)   (180 words)

  
 Mir (social) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses of the term, see Mir (disambiguation).
The Russian word mir (мир), besides its direct meanings of peace and world, had some other meanings related to social organization in Imperial Russia.
Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Russia: On the Eve of War and Revolution, 3d.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mir_(social)   (132 words)

  
 Mir
Mir is a town in the Karelichy district, Hrodna region, 26 km south-east of Karelichy, 17 km nort-west of Garadzeia, a railway station at the railway Brest-Mensk.
Mir is famous for its outstanding example of Belarusan stone architecture: the ancient castle, founded at the beginning of the 16th century by Prince Juri Il'jinic.
It embodies Mir's history and Mir's pride.Restoration work has been under way since 1978 and an extensive programme is being carried out with the aim of restoring the castle, palace and the park to their past beauty.
www.belarusguide.com /cities/mir.html   (602 words)

  
 Mir: A Rich Chronology
As a sign of a new policy of political and social openness, or glastnost, proclaimed by the new leader of the U.S.S.R., Mikhail Gorbachev, Mir's launch was the first-ever Soviet launch shown on television (though it was not shown live).
The module furnishes Mir with a large air lock and six additional gyrodines which, unlike those on Kvant 1, are installed on the exterior of the module.
In January Mir's crew installs a 46-foot (14-meter) boom called Strela (Arrow) on the exterior of the station, which will later serve as a crane used for transferring cargo and astronauts around construction and repair areas on the outpost.
www.space.com /news/spacestation/mirinteractive_chron.html   (1479 words)

  
 Mountain Voices: oral testimonies from the Karakorum mountains, Pakistan: local themes: politics
The Mir's main representative was the arbob, who acted as a village head, but there were also individuals in charge of tax collection and announcements.
By this time the Mir's authority was already vulnerable: many people were becoming educated or had been able to leave the area and so were aware of the more democratic conditions existing elsewhere in Pakistan.
Nevertheless several narrators explain, that at the end of the Mir's regime people felt confused and found it difficult to come to terms with a new system: "…the people didn't know the benefits of it, of society, they were used to a system which was exploiting them, which was humiliating them, which had created classes.
www.mountainvoices.org /pa_th_politics.asp   (1195 words)

  
 The Escape
Mir was one of many hundreds of towns in Eastern Europe where different ethnic groups lived side by side.
Mir was known as a center for trade in that area.
In the Mir's area none of the Jews were taken to labor or concentration camps, people were murdered in and near the towns.
www.uoregon.edu /~rkimble/Mirweb/Shifron.html   (1766 words)

  
 Jonas Ekeberg
Mir approaches all these subjects with a kind of open and process-oriented attitude, using the opportunities offered by relational art practice as a kaleidoscope or a magnifying glass through which she rediscovers the world each time she looks at it.
In Social Democracy Revisited, Mir presents a reprint of the publication Danes in The Sun, which was originally made as part of the Danish art biennial Socle du Monde in 2004.
Mir collaborated with a communications bureau to create a 32 page publication with images culled from various local sources (the local historical archive, the local newspaper, private responders to an ad) and Mir’s signature style of offhand conversations with the people behind the images.
www.apexart.org /exhibitions/ekeberg.htm   (1456 words)

  
 mir.indymedia.org
Social reformers of the Pre-independence India and the contemporary women’s movement led their way only always with the help of the law.
The lag between the social reforms and the law is slowly withering away with the help of the law.
Christian missionaries and social reformers of the nineteenth century were contributed a lot in finding the prevalent lacunas of the Hindu society.
www.indymedia.org /nl/2005/03/870461.shtml   (3684 words)

  
 Sarbaaz.Com (( Where Baloch Click! ))  Mir Gul Khan Naseer (Politician, Scholar, Historian, Poet) 1914-1986   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The degrading poverty.His poetry is the greatest manifestation and the most profound expression of the Baloch political and social approach since the early thirties.His exhortation to the Baloch to up hold their tradition is a clear sign of the deep-rooted hatred felt towards the new political dispensation.
Mir Gul Khan Naseer participated actively in the process and his attitude was clearly shaped by these events.
Mir Namrouz Khan and his followers were clearly against the Khan’s decision to accede to Pakistan, and when the Khan showed a semblance of authority by demanding certain rights, they readily pledged their support.
www.sarbaaz.com /gulkhan_naseer.htm   (1065 words)

  
 txt_srf_mir_ghalib
About Mir and Ghalib the assumption is also baseless that in Mir's poetry the good verses are few and far between, and if he had made a selection from his poetry as Ghalib did, it would have done him justice.
Mir's world, because of its breadth, eventfulness, special ability to present the ghazal's traditional [52] characters on the level of action, and recording of the affairs of common life, seems to be the world of some great novelist.
Mir is not a poet of colloquial language, or of the 'poetry of speech'.
www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00garden/about/txt_srf_mir_ghalib.html   (6300 words)

  
 Warwick Mathematics Institute - MIR@W
Just as in previous decades when social scientists eagerly took up regression tools from statistics, but found themselves reifying concepts like class and attitude in order to make their measurements tractable, so there is now a danger that simulation models will over-simplify and treat people as really nothing much more than atoms or ants.
He has been using simulation to study a range of social science topics since the early 1990s and is one of the authors of the textbook, Simulation for the Social Scientist (2nd edition, Spring 2005, Open University Press).
For many actors in the social sciences, the world is divided into two paradigms: a traditional orderly linear "scientific" one and a relativistic, disorderly "postmodern" one.
www.maths.warwick.ac.uk /miraw/miraw_past_days/miraw_days_2004_2005_t2/2005_01_24_abs.html   (315 words)

  
 Aleksandra Mir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But this confusion between concept and materiality is again exasperating insofar as the claim is untrue, an assertion which leaves one wondering why anyone should bother to seriously engage with such sixth-form philosophizing.
Mir's model of a fake Stonehenge employed as a public park was more convincing and entertaining - of the three contributors hers was the most visually and conceptually developed.
Publicness reeked of 'social concern', the issues to which it referred being worthy, certainly, of sustained consideration.
www.aleksandramir.info /texts/suchin.html   (331 words)

  
 mir.indymedia.org
The World Social Forum (WSF) is a new opportunity so that thousands of anti-imperialist fighters worldwide, who are facing in each one of our own countries the capitalist globalization, let’s debate how we can be unified to mobilize to defeat Bush, imperialism, the IMF, the multinationals corporations and their crony governments.
It is necessary to evaluate the proposal of President Chávez about Socialism of the XXIst century, which is synthesized in 10 dissertations for the “forward jump“, which supports that it is necessary to protect private property and promote private investment in agreement with the State to achieve the development of the nation.
Also new political expressions happen as the emergence of the PRS (Revolution and Socialism Party) in Venezuela, which proposes to develop the worker’s, rural, and popular power, with participation and protagonist of the peoples to achieve that the control of the government is exercised directly by the workers.
www.indymedia.org /nl/2006/01/832004.shtml   (2652 words)

  
 About MPI
Mir Pace International is a nonprofit organization created to provide humanitarian assistance to children and families throughout the world who are suffering the devastating effects of war, natural disasters, poverty, abuse and abandonment.
Mir Pace is dedicated to the ideal that all people deserve a simple, decent place to live with basic necessities such as a home, clean water, food, clothing, access to education, and medical and dental care.
Mir Pace is currently working in the village of Tamahú, Guatemala and in the Kagera region of Tanzania, East Africa, with plans to expand our programs in 2007.
www.mirpace.org /about.html   (284 words)

  
 COUNTRIES OF ASIA-PACIFIC REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO UNESCO
Mir said that several of the looted cultural treasures are today in the hands of Pakistan’s political class and he sought UNESCO’s help for their return.
Mir made it clear that he was using the UNESCO forum to state that the Afghan people were against the civil war which was raging in their country and in which larger economic interests of foreign powers were at play.
In the social and natural sciences he asked for greater emphasis on problems such as desertification, floods, drought, management of water resources, pollution, environmental ecology and the treatment of industrial waste.
www.unesco.org /op/29gencon/asia1.htm   (3533 words)

  
 International Medical Graduates - Preparedness for Training
Tanveer Mir MD, FACP is a graduate of the Medical College of Kashmir, India in 1981.
Mir was the Associate Program Director and Division Chief of Geriatrics at Nassau University Medical Center until 1999.
She was the Governor of the ACP Downstate III Region (New York) and was chairperson of the International Medical Graduate subcommittee of the ACP New York Chapter.
www.acponline.org /img/mir.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Social charter signed -DAWN - Top Stories; 05 January, 2004
The states agree that the obligations under the social charter shall be respected, protected, and fulfilled without any reservations and that the enforcement thereof at the national level shall be continuously reviewed through an agreed regional arrangement and mechanism.
Under the charter, the member countries also agreed to establish a people-centred framework for the social development and to build a culture of cooperation and partnership, and to respond to the immediate needs of those who are most affected by human tragedy.
The implementation of the social charter shall be facilitated by a national coordination committee or any appropriate national mechanism as may be decided in each country.
www.dawn.com /2004/01/05/top5.htm   (358 words)

  
 Prof. Javad Mir-Mohamad-Sadeghi page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Social and economic characteristic of villages under Darius dam project.
The Social Economic Impacts of Darius Dam -- A Survey of Sample Villages, Department of National Development and Social Studies.
The Social and Economic Impacts of Darius Dam -- Economic Evaluation of the Dam.
www.iut.ac.ir /page.php?id=57   (198 words)

  
 Mountain Voices: oral testimonies from the Karakorum mountains, Pakistan: local themes: history
The Mir is reported by some to have held his people back by limiting education and making it difficult for people to gain permission to travel outside Hunza.
At the village level, certain individuals would act on behalf of the Mir in a range of positions including: arbob (the Mir's representative in the village); yarpa (responsible for the Mir's livestock); chorbu (public announcer).
Although the Mir's tax system came to an end in the 1960s, Shimshalis were still not entirely free from carrying loads for others.
www.mountainvoices.org /pa_th_history.asp   (1407 words)

  
 Remarks on Totalitarianism and Revisionism
Challenging the totalitarian paradigm, she argued that upward social mobility was a general trend under Stalin and that the majority of peasants and workers who improved their social position could be expected to support, from below, Stalin's 'revolution from above' because they could be expected to see it in their interests to do so.
Stalinist ideological, cultural, and social norms were internalized by the population, Fitzpatrick argued, so that society itself challenged the state to control "excessive social mobility" by any means necessary, including the use of force.
This is because she wrongly amalgamates the newly state-created kolkhoz to the age-old peasant institution of the mir.
www.h-net.org /~russia/threads/marot01.html   (3509 words)

  
 the social origins of baloch
Mir Chakar bewails the factors causing the migration of the Baloch from Sibi with ‘great sorrow, which shows his love for the land and his reluctance to give up the place.
Mir Abdi was however persuaded by the Shah to return to Iran where, he was given privileges.
Mir Gul Khan Nasser’s poems before and after these executions are the most marvelous pieces of literature ever composed on various aspects of a struggling people.
www.geocities.com /balochistory/bni.html   (3937 words)

  
 For those who join and leave Kanshiram in hurry
Mir gets worried, when Mayawati formed a Bahujan Government by BJP help and ran a successful period of six months for achieving goals of six years within six months.
Kanshiram created understanding of social and political situations, imparted them an identity of bahujan, and instilled in them an awakening among those educated people and motivated them for upliftment of the masses by his slogan "Pay back to the society".
For any serious worker who wishes to understand the social contradictions in Indian society, it is necesary that he makes himself conversant with he history of these organizations formed by Kanshiram to understand what Kanshiram is and what he can do in future.
www.ambedkar.org /reformers/For_those_who_join__and_leave_Kanshiram_in_hurry.htm   (1852 words)

  
 Chile
Until 1970 the MIR’s main sources of strength were among the students of the University of Con­cepción, where the MIR was founded in August 1965, and among the influential group of ultra-left journalists and politicians who ran the Castroite biweekly magazine Punto Final in Santiago.
Landarreche was quickly freed and the MIR began to complain of “armed groups of latifundistas” and charged that “a team of ten right-wing lawyers went to the province of Cautín to study, case by case, all the possible expropria­tions that the government would attempt.
In this sense we of the MIR believe it is becoming necessary to intensify the work of our militants in the province of Linares and, in general, in the whole Central Valley.
www.normangall.com /chile_art3.htm   (7378 words)

  
 KashmirObserver » Azad Expands State Cabinet to 22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dissident PDP leader, Ghulam Hassan Mir, and his protégé, Shoaib Lone, were present in the swearing-in ceremony, but the MLA from Beeru, Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan, did not attend.
Born in 1948 at Rohama Rafiabad Mohammad Dilawar Mir is a lawyer by training and has been in politics from a very young age.
Dilawar Mir is a widely traveled politician who has visited different parts of the world as part of various delegations and has worked closely with senior politicians and statesmen of the state.
www.kashmirobserver.com /index.php?id=443   (944 words)

  
 Enhancing Compatibility for Long-Duration Space Flight Crews
Their purpose was to discuss the Mir environment, the health of the astronauts, and human performance.
John Blaha, Flight Engineer on Mir 22, indicated that during the organization and conduct of training, it is necessary to take into account the psychological preparation of the American astronaut for long-duration flight.
Long-duration astronauts have indicated that during their Mir missions they experienced extreme difficulty with getting communications through to their families, a significant time demand for ground communications that impacted other assignments, interruptions in sleep patterns due to the timing of space walks, personality changes in flight, and cultural differences among the crew.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/oig/hq/old/inspections_assessments/061998.html   (4265 words)

  
 Afghanland.com Afghanistan Mir Gholam Mohammad Ghobar Gobar
Ghobar’s youth coincided with a period in which the roots of social change were slowly developing.
This victory helped to provide a positive environment for the social activities and movements among the country’s younger generations.
“Mir Gholam Mohammed Ghobar, not only as a historian but also as a fighter for freedom, is famous and loved.
www.afghanland.com /history/ghobar.html   (2300 words)

  
 txt_convention
Russell's Mir addresses most of his poetry to a parda-confined beloved because he really loves such a woman, and his affair with her is entirely typical of the "real-Iife" love affairs of his place and time.
Mir's poetic attitude toward his beloved is predominantly introverted and melancholy; his verse expresses the moody, fatalistic pride of the lover who endures infinite pain without any real hope of reward.
Mir may or may not, in "real life," have loved parda-confined women, boys, or courtesans; from the form and content of his ghazal poetry, it is impossible to tell.
www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/published/txt_convention.html   (6049 words)

  
 Jiskha Homework Help - Features: Forum: ASTRONOMY
MIR is in a 232 mile orbit with a 92 minute period.
Since MIR's orbital half period is 46 minutes, we must fire our engines when MIR is one minute ahead of us in their orbit or ~4 degrees ahead of us.
It is obvious that the key orbital maneuver that must be executed in the first place is the placement of the Orbiter in the proper angular relationship to MIR in the initial lower circular orbit, which, in the final analysis, is what determines launch time.
www.jiskha.com /features/forum/display.cgi?id=1121168309.1121173685   (2169 words)

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