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  George Orwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although he travelled alone to Spain, he became part of the Independent Labour Party contingent, a group of some 25 Britons who joined the militia of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), a revolutionary socialist party with which the ILP was allied.
In the months after July 1936 there was a profound social revolution in Catalonia, Aragon and other areas where the CNT was particularly strong.
At the time, like most other left-wingers in the United Kingdom, he was still opposed to rearmament against Hitlerite Germany — but after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the outbreak of the Second World War, he changed his mind.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Orwell   (3785 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / Blog: Frederic D. Schwarz
An example of this sort of thinking can be found in, of all places, a recent article in Chemical and Engineering News by Prof.
Every newspaper and magazine in the country ran some sort of "humorous" piece in which maxims like "a miss is as good as a mile" or "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" were "translated" into metric.
To get anything done, he had to go through all sorts of channels and procedures, and to a man who a few years before had moved tens of thousands of troops with a single command, this was quite a comedown.
www.americanheritage.com /blog/FredericDSchwarz.shtml   (11312 words)

  
 sort, sorting, sorts, sorted- WordWeb dictionary definition
"she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
"what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
www.wordwebonline.com /en/SORT   (75 words)

  
 Culture - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
A culture, then, is by definition at least, a set of cultural objects.
Anthropologist Leslie White asked: What sort of objects are they?
Most Christian churches give some form of blessing to a marriage; the wedding ceremony typically includes some sort of pledge by the community to support the couple's relationship.
www.thewordbook.com /Culture   (3780 words)

  
 Anarchism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"A constitution of this sort", he concludes, "will have a large number of supporters, as disorderly living (''zên ataktôs'') is pleasanter to the masses than sober living".
Historically, anarcho-communism has been said to have been put into practice by millions of people in the anarchist collectives and communes of the anarchist-controlled region of Ukraine during the Russian Revolution, and during the Spanish Civil War in the Aragon and Catalonia regions of Spain.
Anarcho-communists are split generally on the Platform, or the "Organizational Platform of Libertarian Communists", written by Ukrainian anarchist militant, Nestor Makhno.
anarchism.iqnaut.net   (7454 words)

  
 Mindjack - Stewart Butterfield Interview
Perhaps for that reason, MOOs tended only to attract the upper echelon of intelligent, technical freaks - the sort of people who have weblogs these days.
You just know that Stewart Butterfield was on a MOO way back when.
Advance your combat skills by developing new linguistic practices to co-ordinate with your fellow fighters.
www.mindjack.com /feature/gne.html   (2680 words)

  
 Authors Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page - Media Room
Anyone with a computer and an opinion can start a blog, a sort of online diary, for the entire world to read.
Food blogs generally relate the dining adventures or cooking experiments of the writer.
Attempts to tack working labels onto this polyglot babble of flavors and techniques has, at best, resulted in strange phrasings like 'Franco-Japanese' and 'Floribbean.' A team of two young authors has, however, developed an interesting way of conceptualizing cookery, one that just might bring order to all this confusion.
www.becomingachef.com /media_room.php   (15095 words)

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