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  ...ols in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrial revolution]. Advocates of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology nanotechnology # [https://www.pbs.org/saf/1504/resources/transcript.htm Scientific American Frontiers, Program#1504 "Chimp Minds]" transcript PBS.org Airdate Feb 9, 20
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• Slavery
  In his book about the slave trade and the American Revolution, author Charles Rappleye writes:
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• Transcendentalism
  ...ew England]] in the early to middle 19th century. It is sometimes called ''American Transcendentalism'' to distinguish it from other uses of the word ''[[trans ...]] which also inspires all men." Emerson closed the essay by calling for a revolution in human consciousness to emerge from the new idealist philosophy:
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• Social movement
  ...or example in Russia with the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]] and [[Russian Revolution of 1917|of 1917]], resulting in the collapse of the Russian State around th ...hange. In the post-war period, Women's rights, Gay rights, peace movement, American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968), anti-nuclear movement and environmental
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• Archives
  ...e of their library setting, a degree certified by the [https://www.ala.org American Library Associatio]n is preferred for employment in an academic archive in ...ves defy categorization. There are [[tribal]] archives within the [[Native American nations]] in North America, and there are archives that exist within the pa
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• Equality
  ...or lower classes. However, before the relatively recent [[agricultural]] [[revolution]], [[humanity]] existed in primarily hunter-gatherer societies that, some b A study of American college students published in ''Nature'' showed that people are willing to
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• Abdication
  ...gdom] in 1936. Edward abdicated the British throne in order to [[marry]] [[American]] divorcée Wallis Simpson, over the objections of the British [[establishm During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution Glorious Revolution] in 1688, James II of England and VII of Scotland fled to France, dropping
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• Racism
  * Dain, Bruce (2002), A Hideous Monster of the Mind : American Race Theory in the Early Republic, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. ...cent F. (2000), Reel Racism : Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture, Westview Press.
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• Rebellion
  ...acy] by the Union in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War American Civil War]. It also includes members of paramilitary forces who take up arm *Revolution, which is carried out by radicals, usually meant to overthrow the current g
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• Trepidation
  ...hrough the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic ecliptic], completing a revolution in approximately 25,800 years (according to [[modern]] astronomers). Theon ...Solar Year' and 'On the Motion of the Eighth Sphere'," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106 (1962): 264–299.
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• Letters I-VII, Mr. Jefferson Returns: American Mentor and Prophet
  ...of King George the Third and his English aristocracy had to transform into American democracy, the [[power]] of the people. In the next progressive stage, the ...our present and future times are in comparison to ours at the birth of the American nation.
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• Marilyn Ferguson
  '''Marilyn Ferguson''' (April 5, 1938 - October 19, 2008) was an influential American author, editor and public speaker, best known for her 1980 book ''The Aquar == ''The Brain Revolution'' and ''Brain/Mind Bulletin'' ==
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• 2013-06-12-Longevity of the US Constitution
  ...at King George the III’s abuses while reigning over his “subjects” in the American colonies. As is the custom of tempered men that have knowledge about laws a ...erein we would tell the king what we were thinking about his rule over the American Colonies and what we were going to do about it.
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• Totalitarianism
  ...and could [[function]] with a [[collective]] [[leadership]], which led the American historian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Laqueur Walter Laqueur] to ...the concept has disparaged by the "revisionist" school, a group of mostly American left-wing historians, some of whose more prominent members are Sheila Fitzp
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• Rest
  ...Victorian Britain in the late nineteenth century, late in the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Early factories required workers to perform long shifts, often up to eig ...y S. 2004. Encyclopedia of recreation and leisure in America. The Scribner American civilization series. Farmington *Hills, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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• Theognis
  Theognis lived at Megara on the Isthmus of Corinth during the democratic revolution in the 6th century BC; some critics hold that he witnessed the "Persian ter ...w Approach to the Theognis Question"], Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 58, (1927), pp. 170-198, The Johns Hopkins U
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• University
  ...ed are the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_revolution scientific revolution] of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the transformation of the l *Heilbron, John L. 2006. Coming to Terms with the Scientific Revolution. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University, Office for the History of Science.
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• Sturm and Drang
  ...the unfolding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution American Revolution], in which the [[author]] gives [[violent]] [[expression]] to [[difficult]]
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• Dance
  In the U.S. many professional dancers are members of unions such as the [[American Guild of Musical Artists]], the [[Screen Actors Guild]] and [[Actors' Equit ...especially for women; these reforms were in part a result of the [[French Revolution]]. Heeled street shoes were replaced by slippers, and corsets and heavy pet
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• Society
  ...r-gatherer tribes settled around seasonal foodstocks to become [[Neolithic Revolution|agrarian village]]s. Villages grew to become towns and cities. Cities turne ...mselves as societies (e.g., the [[American Society of Civil Engineers]], [[American Chemical Society]]). In the [[United Kingdom]] and the United States, learn
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