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HumanKnowledge.txt Causality A circumstance is a set of terms and their fixed properties and relations that as a whole can be distinguished from other such sets and identified with itself. The Sun was a marvel of inexplicable energy as recently as 1900. A decision is the causing by a system of events which were not physically determined from outside the system but rather were at least somewhat contingent on the internals of the system, and which were not predictable except perhaps by modeling the internals of the system. humanknowledge.net /HumanKnowledge.txt   (17891 words)

Encyclopedia: The empire on which the sun never sets From a student's exam paper: "The sun never sets on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the east and the sun sets in the west." The phrase "The Empire on which the sun never sets" (el imperio en el que no se ponía el sol) was first used of the Spanish Empire, and originates with a remark of Charles V, who declared "in my realm the sun never sets." For example, the 19th century politician Lord Salisbury complained that the £1.5 million spent on colonial defence by Britain in 1861 merely enabled her "to furnish an agreeable variety of stations to our soldiers, and to indulge in the sentiment that the sun never sets on our Empire". www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-empire-on-which-the-sun-never-sets   (648 words)

Online Etymology Dictionary The empire on which the sun never sets (1630) originally was the Spanish, later the British. 1519, "to set something in the sun," from sun (n.). Meaning "to expose oneself to the sun" is recorded from 1610. www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=sun   (135 words)

In These Times * Where The Sun Never Sets Empire is based on universal rights and the erosion of national boundaries, they argue, so let’s assert the universal right to cross boundaries, to migrate: “The general right to control its own movement is the multitude’s ultimate demand for global citizenship.” That is almost the only concrete demand put forward in the book. Empire also lacks any center: Unlike the imperialism of the past, under Empire one cannot even approximately separate the exploiters from the exploited with lines on a map. Empire has no place for organizations and leaders that arise out of oppressed groups and exercise power on their behalf, including trade unions, socialist politicians as well as problematic but undoubtedly progressive organizations like the African National Congress or Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition. www.inthesetimes.com /issue/26/04/culture1.shtml   (1867 words)

The Sun Still Never Sets... - History Forum The idea of an "empire in which the sun never sets" is a way of saying that you have a powerful empire no one can challenge. Norway (on Svalbard the sun never sets when it's summer, because it's close to the North pole, and Norway has a part of Antarctica, so when it's winter (on the northern hemisphere) it's light 24 hours a day as well). In the past it was said that in some empires 'the sun never set'. www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2132   (622 words)

European Health Forum Gastein 1998 - Congress report, Challenges and Opportunities of an Enlarged European Health Sector While an "empire on which the sun never sets" may be somewhat ambitious, we can however meaningfully contribute to "a Europe where the sun shines every now and then over a peaceful community where both the sick and the underprivileged, the industrious and the scientists feel at home". Never can such a scheme undertake an open-ended commitment to pay for whatever demands are made on it by the public. Apart from this legal rule, which does not allow governments to rely on the market mechanism in the matter of health care, there are other, more intrinsic factors, which make it difficult to apply the market mechanism to health care. www.ehfg.org /website98/englisch/9.htm   (11693 words)

renegade.html An important issue raised in the history of ale involves the degree to which beer flavor profiles were influenced by the presence of Brettanomyces yeast strains. Given the historical context in which IPA originated, few would argue the fact that high hop bitterness, high hop aroma, and high alcohol content characterize the style. After completing the long voyage, the wooden casks filled with ale would be stillaged and their contents bottled, after which the strong ales could last three months or more (6). www.realbeer.com /hops/renegade.html   (7750 words)

NPR : GREAT BRITAIN NO MORE? The empire on which the sun never sets has been dismantled, and in the British Isles, regional identities are asserting themselves with increasing vigor. Amid the celebrations of Scottish, Welsh, and even Cornish culture, is the idea of British culture and a British identity dying out? www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1049956   (128 words)

Gods of the Copybook Headings: The Sun still does not set on the British Empire (almost)! The Victorians coined the term: "The sun never sets on the British Empire" yet few today realize that this was not an abstraction referring to Pax Britannia's seeming invincibility. Through some research with the use of a trusty atlas, the CIA's World Factbook, and a member list of the Commonwealth I was able to determine that the Sun still does not set on the Commonwealth... At its height the British Empire spanned the globe, comprising 1/4 of its population and 2/5 of its landmass. godscopybook.blogs.com /gpb/2004/11/the_sun_still_d.html   (598 words)

OgreCave.com The brain cells have floated away (or maybe it was staring at the sun too long), but all this work puts a constant strain on his health and he receives a permanent "-1" to his Health ability score. This set of monsters were created in answer to the following: "What types of foul beasts could be born of the nightmares of an unrequited or spurned love?" Aside from Rimmer's lust monster, you'd have the Heart Breaker and the Black Lover, two horrific (and apparently lonely) beasts. All the models in the starter set are plastic and separate components such as shields have been designed as plug-fits for easy assembly. www.ogrecave.com /archives/2001_04_01_archive.shtml   (5329 words)

"The Sun Never Sets....": An Overview of the British Empire "The Sun Never Sets..." is one of those cliches that inevitably is a throwback to an earlier, more confident era that has now, figuratively speaking, set. The truth is, the British Empire is obviously gone; the concept has lost all meaning since the loss of India (1947), and it is now succeeded by a nebulous Commonwealth of Nations, where former colonies can or can not belong or can or can not acknowledge the Queen as titular head of state. At its height in the 1930s, the British Empire encompassed nearly a third of the earth's land mass and nearly half of the world's population. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_history/11838   (454 words)

Urban Dictionary: english The language still has an empire on which the sun never sets. The people once had an empire on which the sun never set. The only people in the world able to take several ships full of convicts, send them to a desert wasteland full of shite and poisonous creatures and create a bountiful and beauteous land which stuffs our national coffers to the tune of several hundred million a year. www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=english&r=f   (863 words)

Chesterton Day by Day: November Perhaps that he is a son of the British Empire on which the sun never sets; perhaps that he is a prop of his Trades Union, or a class-conscious proletarian something or other; perhaps merely that he is a gentleman, when he obviously is not. The same fallacy is employed with the same partisan motive in the case of the Gospel of St. John; which critics say could not have been written by one of the first few Christians because of its Greek transcendentalism and its Platonic tone. UNDER all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's Agency, the real life of man goes on concerned with this tree or that temple, with this harvest or that drinking-song, totally uncomprehended, totally untouched. www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/gkcday11.htm   (2670 words)

Fictionwise eBooks: Shards of Empire by Susan Shwartz A glorious empire, upon which the sun never sets. Never mind that he, like Leo and the rest of the army down to the laziest servant, had fasted before Mass and while the Cross was paraded through the camp, and it had been mid-day since they left the camp. Even this late and this close to the pitiless worn hills of Vaspurakan--Armenia that was, before the Empire of the Romans had won it, lost it, and won it again--the sunlight pierced the Romans and Turks who fought in it, an enemy to both. www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook938.htm   (2113 words)

Victoria: Empire Under the Sun: Review -- Strategy Informer Once, Britain was known as the 'Empire on which the sun never sets,' and the world had a number of countries looking for their place under that sun. Great Powers forged empires using new techniques based on science and industry, abandoning the old ways of marital spirt and blood ties. This game is a solid effort, and I highly recommend it for people whom enjoy empire building in the great age of colonialism. www.strategyinformer.com /reviews/victoriaempireunderthesun.shtml   (1481 words)

the sun never sets on the british empire the sun never sets on the british empire Many colonies were pushing for their freedom after the war, especially those of which participated in the war for Britain. However, at its height in the 1930s, the British Empire spanned nearly a third of the world’s land including properties in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Australia and Africa. athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/3044annotationsp-z/sunneversets.html   (242 words)

August Wilson talks about bringing the ninth in his cycle of plays to Broadway His first six plays came to Broadway with the same director, Lloyd Richards, who decades before had directed the original "Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway. Little Kid Chocolate dies and can't be buried; Eli has a magic radio out of which come Queen Victoria, the Platters and Fidel Castro; and Papa Morte takes a vacation with the bribe of a TWA ticket. Romero is also working on "Gem," for which she designed the costumes. www.post-gazette.com /pg/04342/422751.stm   (1810 words)

Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach": An Introduction The Victorian Era (1837-1901) saw unprecedented changes in British society: the rise of the middle classes, rapid industrialization, and the development of an empire on which the “sun never sets.” Dramatic political changes included the Reform Bill of 1832, which transformed the governmental structure of England. To summarize a complex set of issues, then, for most Britons, the nineteenth century was a time of change and turmoil in which the foundations of the social order — class and gender relations — underwent dramatic transformations. This Bill completely overhauled the ways in which areas of England were represented in Parliament: it allocated more seats to the increasingly populous urban areas in the North. www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/ArnoldM_Dover_Beach_Intro.html   (1885 words)

Incas and the Potato These highways, many of which were stone-paved and up to 24 feet wide, carried couriers, armies and cargo-laden llamas throughout the sprawling territories. Besides their skills at building, the Incas were masters of agriculture, terracing their rugged mountains and breeding wild plants into strains which would grow in the dry, high altitudes. At the peak of the empire, the Incas ruled almost 12 million people who belonged to a hundred different ethnic groups. www.calnative.com /stories/n_incapotato.htm   (429 words)

ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater Bramwell, Series 5 Episode Descriptions Under Victoria, Great Britain has become the empire on which the sun never sets. So London is in a festive mood and so is Eleanor, since Finn is returning from America for the final countdown to their nuptials. No English monarch has ever ruled so long. www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/bramwell5/episodes.html   (409 words)

The Sun Never Set on the British Empire Since the Boers never wanted to be ruled by Britain in the first place, and they had gone on the Great Trek into the interior to get away from them, it was perhaps only a matter of time before this was made good. In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population. The flag of the Union was, significantly, an archaizing Dutch flag, with an orange instead of a red stripe, and the flag of Britain, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal on the middle stripe. www.friesian.com /british.htm   (6125 words)

Leo Melamed - Essays & Speeches - Commencement Address Britain was still the empire on which the sun never sets; Some bright young person this very moment in Mongolia, Africa, or China who until now had no chance to contribute his or her mind to the world’s discovery process is now part of the team. Indeed, if you could choose the beginning of any century in history in which to graduate, you could not pick a better time than the onset of the Twenty First Century. www.leomelamed.com /Speeches/00-loyola.htm   (1569 words)

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad - Free Online Library With an extremely ready sympathy, which in nice youngsters goes often with a joyous temperament, he felt sorry for the great Presence he called "The Chief," and also for the Assistant Commissioner, whose face appeared to him more ominously wooden than ever before, and quite wonderfully long. But that sentiment, which resembled the irrational horror some people have of cats, did not stand in the way of his immense contempt for the English police. Penetrating through a portal by no means lofty into the precincts of the House which is THE House, PAR EXCELLENCE in the minds of many millions of men, he was met at last by the volatile and revolutionary Toodles. conrad.thefreelibrary.com /The-Secret-Agent/10-1   (3741 words)

thinair: views of various geekage from 1,655 meters (5,430 feet) above sea level Alligators (or is it crocodiles -- maybe both) have legs which stick out from the sides of their torso, as opposed to the way mammals have legs underneath their torso. Solstice is derived from Latin solstitium (from sol: "sun" and sistere: "stand still"). The world in which we live is full of unnecessary suffering. dobbse.net   (6592 words)

Stockmarket hiccups as Dell plans an empire on which the sun never sets - vnunet.com Stockmarket hiccups as Dell plans an empire on which the sun never sets Stockmarket hiccups as Dell plans an empire on which the sun never sets - vnunet.com Even Dell must be feeling the pressure to cut prices, but Michael Dell and Topfer have their sights set on Europe and the rest of the world. www.vnunet.com /vnunet/news/2098701/stockmarket-hiccups-dell-plans-empire-sun-never-sets   (528 words)

The Sun Never Sets....Building an Empire, American Style - Council on Foreign Relations As a freshman senator in the 1890s he was one of the primary advocates of a large navy and a significant American role in the world, positions from which he never deviated over the course of his long Senate career. Nor is to suggest that the path of empire will be smooth and easy; Bacevich is right to warn of "hazards, political, strategic and, above all, moral." The case for empire is not that it is risk-free; it is that the hazards of inaction are greater. If someone does not step in and play the role of globo-cop, predatory states like Iraq, Iran, and Syria will continue sponsoring murderous terrorist groups. www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=5106   (2516 words)

view.asp?msgID=257 According to your report (March 29), MP Mohammad Al-Mutair reminded people that "England used to be called 'the empire where the sun never sets,' when it was ruled by a king. I wonder if this empire is any way related to the empire which developed and reached its peak in the reign of Queen Victoria. If you wish to send letters to Editor kindly email on www.arabtimesonline.com /ARABTIMES/letters/view.asp?msgID=257   (75 words)

The sun never sets on the British Empire The sun never sets on the British Empire Christopher North, in Noctes Ambrosianae, 'His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets.' www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/371600.html   (51 words)

Paste Magazine :: Review :: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell :: By Susanna Clarke (Page 1) Just before England rises to rule an empire on which the sun never sets, when the seeds of her industrial and scientific might are beginning to germinate, the crotchety, secretive scholar Mr. Though both are highly readable, astute and set in an England abounding with magic, they share these traits with many books, and nothing else with each other. Norrell establishes himself in London, sacrificing his quiet country life to the cause of restoring English magic. www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=1567   (377 words)

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