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1199 Death of the Khawarzam Shah Tukush Shah; accession of Ala ud Din. Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abu Yusuf Yaqub ; accession of Muhammad Nasir. Conquest of Northern India and Bengal by the Ghurids.
1202 Death of the Ghurid Sultan Ghias ud Din; accession of Mahmud.
1204 Shahab ud Din Ghuri defeated by the Ghuzz Turks.
1206 Death of Shahab ud Din Ghuri. Qutb ud Din Aibik crowned king in Lahore.
1210 Assassination of the Ghurid Sultan MahmUd, accession of Sam. Death of Qutb ud Din Aibak, accession of Aram Shah in India.
1211 End of the Ghurid rule, their territories annexed by the Khawarzam Shahs. In India Aram Shah overthrown by Iltutmish.
1212 Battle of AI Uqab in Spain, end of the AI Mohad rule in Spain. The AI Mohads suffer defeat by the Christians in Spain at the Al-Uqba. The AI Mohad Sultan An Nasir escapes to Morocco where he dies soon after. Accession of his son Yusuf who takes over title of AI Mustansir.
1214 In North Africa death of the AI Mohad ruler Al Nasir, accession of Al Mustansir. The Banu Marin under their leader Abdul Haq occupy the north eastern part of Morocco.
1216 The Banu Marin under their leader Abdul Haq occupy north eastern part of Morocco. The AI Mohads suffer defeat by the Marinids at the battle of Nakur. The Banu Marin defeat the AI Mobads at the battle of Nakur.
1217 The Marinids suffer defeat in the battle fought on the banks of the Sibu river. Abdul Haq is killed and the Marinids evacuate Morocco. In the battle of Sibu the Marinids suffer defeat; their leader Abdul Haq is killed and they evacuate Morocco.
1218 Death of the Ayyubid ruler AI Adil, accession of AI Kamil. The Marinids return to Morocco under their leader Usman and occupy Fez.
1220 Death of the Khawarzam Shah Ala ud Din, accession of Jalal ud Din Mangbarni.
1222 Death of the Zangi ruler Nasir ud Din Mahmud, power captured by Badr ud Din Lulu.
1223 Death of the Al Mohad ruler Muntasir, accession of Abdul Wahid. Death of Yusuf AI Mustansir, accession of Abdul Wahid in Morocco. In Spain a brother of Yusuf declares his independence and assumes the title of AI Adil. In Spain Abu Muhammad overthrows AI Adil. AI Adil escapes to Morocco and overthrows Abdul Wahid.
1224 Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abdul Wahid, accession of Abdullah Adil.
1225 Death of the Abbasid Caliph AI Nasir, accession of AI Mustansir.
1227 Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abdullah Adil, accession of Mustasim. Assassination of Al Adil, accession of his son Yahya who assumes the throne under the name of Al Mustasim.
1229 Death of the AI Mohad ruler Mustasim, accession of Idris. The Ayyubid AI Kamil restores Jerusalem to the Christians. Abu Muhammad dies in Spain and is succeeded by Al Mamun. AI Mamun invades Morocco with Christian help. Yahya is defeated and power is captured by Al Mamun. He denies the Mahdiship of Ibn Tumarat.
1230 End of the Khawarzam Shah rule.
1232 Death of the AI Mohad ruler Idris, accession, of Abdul Wahid II. Assassination of Al Mamun; accession of his son Ar-Rashid.
1234 Death of the Ayyubid ruler AI Kamil, accession of AI Adil.
1236 Death of Delhi Sultan Iltutmish. Accession of Rukn ud Din Feroz Shah.
1237 Accession of Razia Sultana as Delhi Sultan.
1240 Death of Ar-Rashid; accession of his son Abu Said.
1241 Death of Razia Sultana, accession of Bahram Shah.
1242 Death of Bahram Shah, accession of Ala ud Din Masud Shah as Delhi Sultan. Death of the AI Mohad rules Abdul Wahid, accession of Abu Hasan. Death of the Abbasid Caliph Mustansir, accession of Mustasim.
1243 Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abdul Walid II, accession of
1244 The Al Mohads defeat the Marinids at the battle of Abu Bayash. The Marinids evacuate Morocco.
1245 The Muslims reconquer Jerusalem.
1246 Death of the Delhi Sultan Ala ud Din Masud Shah, accession of Nasir ud Din Mahmud Shah.
1248 Death of the AI Mohad ruler Abul Hasan, accession of Omar Murtaza. Abu Said attacks Tlemsen, but is ambushed and killed; accession of his son Murtada.
1250 The Marinids return to Morocco, and occupy a greater part thereof.
1258 The Mongols sack (destroy) Baghdad. Death of the Abbasid Caliph Mustasim. End of the Abbasid rule. Fall of Baghdad, end of the Abbasid caliphate. The Mongol II-Khans under Halaku establish their rule in Iran and Iraq with the capital at Maragah. Berek Khan the Muslim chief of the Golden Horde protests against the treatment meted out to the Abbasid Caliph and withdraws his Contingent from Baghdad.
1259 Abu Abdullah the Hafsid ruler declares himself as the Caliph and assumes th
e name of AI Mustamir.
1260 Battle of Ayn Jalut in Syria. The Mongols are defeated by the Mamluks of Egypt, and the spell of the invincibility of the Mongols is broken. Baybars becomes the Mamluk Sultan.
1262 Death of Bahauddin Zikriya in Multan who is credited with the introduction of the Suhrawardi Sufi order in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent.
1265 Death of Halaku (åáÇßæ ). Death of Fariduddin Ganj Shakkar the Chishti saint of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent.
1266 Death of Berek Khan the first ruler of the Golden Horde to be converted to Islam. The eighth crusade. The crusaders invade Tunisia. Failure of the crusade.
1267 Malik ul Salih establishes the first Muslim state of Samudra Pasai in Indonesia. Murtada seeks the help of the Christians, and the Spaniards invade Morocco. The Marinids drive away the Spaniards from Morocco. Assassination of Murtada; accession of Abu Dabbas.
1269 Abu Dabbas is overthrown by the Marinida, End of the Al Mohads. End of the rule of the AI Mohads in Morocco , the Marinids come to power in Morocco under Abu Yaqub.
1270 Death of Mansa Wali the founder of the Muslim rule in Mali.
1272 Death of Muhammad I the founder of the state of Granada. Yaghmurason invades Morocco but meets a reverse at the battle
1273 Death of Jalaluddin Rumi.
1274 Death of Nasiruddin Tusi. The Marinids wrest Sijilmasa from the Zayenids. Ninth crusade under Edward I of England . The crusade ends in fiasco and Edward returns to England.
1277 Death of Baybars.
1280 Battle of Hims.
1283 Death of Yaghmurasan. Accession of his son Usman.
1285 Tunisis splits in Tunis and Bougie.
1286 Death of Ghiasuddin Balban. Death of Abu Yusuf Yaqub. Bughra Khan declares his independence in Bengal under the name of Nasiruddin.
1290 End of the slave dynasty Jalaluddin Khilji comes into power. Usman embarks on a career of conquest and by 1290 C.E. most of the Central Maghreb is conquered by the Zayanids.
1291 Saadi.
1296 Alauddin Ghazan converted to Islam.
1299 Mongols invade Syria. The Marinids besiege Tlemsen the capital of the Zayanids.
1301 In Bengal, Death of Ruknuddin the king of Bengal, succeeded by brother Shamsuddin Firuz.
1302 In Granada, Death of Muhammad II; succession of Muhammad III.
1304 In the Mongols II Khans Empire, Death of Ghazan, succession of his brother Khudabanda Ul Jaytu. In Algeria, Death of Usman, succession of his son Abu Zayan Muhammad.
1305 In the Khiljis Empire, Alauddin Khilji conquers Rajputana.
1306 In the Chughills Empire, Death of Dava, succession of his son Kunjuk.
1307 In the Marinids Empire, Assassination of the Marinid Sultan Abu Yaqub Yusuf; accession of Abu Thabit
1308 In the Chughills Empire, Deposition of Kunjuk, power captured by Taliku. In Algeria, Death of Abu Zayan Muhammad, succession of his brother Abu Hamuw Musa. In the Marinids Empire, Abu Thabit overthrown by Abu Rabeah Sulaiman.
1309 In the Chughills Empire, Assassination of Taliku, accession of Kubak. In Granada, Muhammad III overthrown by his uncle Abul Juyush Nasr.
1310 In the Chughills Empire, Kubak overthrown by his brother Isan Buga. In the Marinids Empire, Abu Rabeah Sulaiman overthrown by Abu Said Usman. In the Khiljis Empire, Alauddin conquers Deccan.
1312 In Tunisia, In Tunis Abul Baqa is overthrown by Al Lihiani.
1313 In the Mongols II Khans Empire, Invasion of Syria, the Mongols repulsed. In the Golden Horde Empire, Death of Toktu, accession of his nephew Uzbeg.
1314 In Kashmir, Rainchan an adventurer from Baltistan overthrows Sinha Deva the Raja of Kashmir. Rainchan is converted to Islam and adopts the name of Sadrud Din. In Granada, Abul Juyush overthrown by his nephew Abul Wahid Ismail.
1315 In Tunisia, War between Bougie and Tunis, Lihani defeated and killed. Abu Bakr becomes the ruler of Bougie and Tunis.
1316 In the Mongols II Khans Empire, Death of Khudabanda Ul Jaytu, succession of Abu Said. In the Khiljis Empire, Death of Alauddin, accession of Shahabuddin Umar, usurpation of power by Malik Kafur, a Hindu convert.
1318 In the Khiljis Empire, Assassination of Malik Kafur, deposition of Shahabuddin Umar, accession of Qutbuddin Mubarak. In the Chughills Empire, Isan Buga overthrown by Kubak.
1320 In the Khiljis Empire, Assassination of Qutbuddin Mubarak, usurpation of power by Khusro Khan a Hindu convert. Khusro Khan overthrown by Ghazi Malik. End of the rule of Khiljis. In Tunisia, Abu Bakr expelled from Tunis by Abu Imran. In the Tughluqs Empire, Ghazi Malik founds the rule of the Tughluq dynasty.
1321 In the Chughills Empire, Death of Kubak, succession of Hebbishsi who is overthrown by Dava Temur.
1322 In the Chughills Empire, Dava Temur overthrown by Tarmashirin, who is converted to Islam. In Bengal, Death of Shamsuddin Firuz. The kingdom divided into two parts. Ghiasuddin Bahadur became the ruler of East Bengal with the capital at Sonargaon, Shahabuddin became the ruler of West Bengal with the capital at Lakhnauti.
1324 In Bengal, Shahabuddin dies and is succeeded by his brother Nasiruddin.
1325 In the Tughluqs Empire, Death of Ghazi Malik (Ghiasuddin Tughluq); accession of his son Muhammad Tughluq. In Granada, Assassination of Abul Wahid Ismail, succession of his son Muhammad IV. Assassination of Muhammad IV. Accession of his brother Abul Hallaj Yusuf. In the Samudra Pasai Empire, Death of Malik al Tahir I, accession of Malik al Tahir II. In Bengal, With the help of Ghiasuddin Tughluq, Nasiruddin over-throws. Ghiasuddin Bahadur and he becomes the ruler of United Bengal.
1326 In the Ottoman Turks Empire, Death of Usman, succession of Orkhan. Orkhan conquers Bursa and makes it his capital.
1327 In the Ottoman (Usman) Turks Empire, The Turks capture the city of Nicaea.
1329 In the Tughluqs Empire, Muhammad Tughluq shifts the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad in Deccan.
1330 In the Chughills Empire, Death of Tramashirin, succession of Changshahi. Amir Hussain establishes the rule of the Jalayar dynasty at Baghdad. In Tunisia, Abu Bakr overthrows Abu Imran and the state is again united, under him. In Bengal, Muhammad bin Tughluq reverses the policy of his father and restores Ghiasuddin Bahadur to the throne of Sonargeon.
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A proposal to remove labels to identify fuel containing ethanol in an effort to increase the fuel's sales dies in legislature.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A proposal to give the state's gas retailers the choice to remove labels that identify fuel blended with ethanol triggered complaints that lawmakers wanted to deceive gas buyers, and eventually died in legislation earlier this week, the Des Moines Register reported.
The legislation was proposed by Iowa Senate president, Sen. Jack Kibbie, a grain farmer, according to the report. Kibbie stated the contents of the gas mattered less than the price, and that removing the labels from E10 might prompt motorists to choose the cheaper ethanol-blended gas, the report stated.
"I think it got blown way out of proportion," he told the paper. The legislation was attached to another bill, but was removed before the bill went to vote, according to the report. "For most Iowans ... they want to know what's in their gas, so we just backed away from that. It was no harm done," he added.
"I wasn't trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes," Kibbie told the paper.
Last week, CSNews Online reported the Kum & Go chain of convenience stores and the Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Stores of Iowa (PMCSI) organization voiced opposition to the legislation.
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Since its Friday night I'm going to go to the bar with few of me good friends. And maybe hit the club after that. Do you guys have any plans for tonight?
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Well... Party Life dies for a married person with school going kids.11|00|0
Yea thats what i heard but some people i know still parties like they're still 18 yro when they're like 50 something lol.
I think that happens when the kids are old enough to be left alone at home without making them feel left out.
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Why is it important to protect people's intellectual property online 1. Intellectual property can be used by students to get better grades. 2.the internet can make it easier to steal people's ideas but people own those ides and have the right to keep them from being ...
Carlo is eating a bag of Skittles. In the bag, thre are 5 red, 2 green and 4 purple Skittles. What is the probability that Carlo will pick a red Skittle, eat it and then pick a green Skittle?
Find The 19th Term Of The Ap 5/6,8/6,11/6
An apple pie uses 4 cups of apples and 3 cups of flour. An apple cobbler uses 2 cups of apples and 3 cups of flour. You have 16 cups of apples an 15 cups of flour. When you sell these at the Farmers market you make $3.00 profit per apple pie and $2.00 profit per apple cobbler...
what i might a scientist estimate a measurement
A carousel ride rotates in a clockwise direction at a rate of five times per minute. A rectangular gondola has vertices K(1, 1), L(1, 3), M(2, 3), and N(2, 1). What are the coordinates after fifteen seconds? Round to the nearest tenth. Give the coordinates in matrix form. The ...
A computer company gives a discount of 10% on a new piece of software. If it makes a profit of 4%, what percent does the marked price exceed the cost price?
The Area Of The Rectangle Is 392 Inches Squared. What Is The Radius Of The Semicircle?
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What are the charges on and the potential difference across each capacitor in the figure if V = 13.2 V?
A 500kg piano is being lowered into position by a crane while to people steady it with ropes pulling to the sides.Bob's rope pulls to the left, 15' below the horizontal, with 500N of tension.Ellen's rope pulls toward the right, 25' below horizontal. a)What ...
which value of k makes p^2-8p+k a perfect square?
It has been suggested that rotating cylinders about 12.5 mi long and 4.88 mi in diameter be placed in space and used as colonies. What angular speed must such a cylinder have so that the centripetal acceleration at its surface equals the free-fall acceleration on Earth? Answer...
A 2,200-kg car moving east at 10.0 m/s collides with a 3,000-kg car moving north. The cars stick together and move as a unit after the collision, at an angle of 35.0° north of east and at a speed of 5.16 m/s. Find the speed of the 3,000-kg car before the collision.
A pitcher throws a 0.141-kg baseball toward the batter so that it crosses home plate horizontally and has a speed of 42 m/s just before it makes contact with the bat. The batter then hits the ball straight back at the pitcher with a speed of 50 m/s. Assume the ball travels ...
A vertical load of 100N is supported by two chains, A and B, in the same vertical plane. The force in A is 50N and acts in a line at 30 degrees to the horizontal plane (i.e. at 120 degrees to the 100N load). Determine the force in chain B and the angle between A and B.
Forces of 10.3N north, 19.5N east, and 15.2N south are simultaneously applied to a 4.06kg mass as it rests on an air table. What is the magnitude of its acceleration?
A block is at rest on the incline shown in the figure. The coefficients of static and kinetic friction are µs = 0.4 and µk = 0.34, respectively. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s. What is the largest angle which the incline can have so that the mass does not ...
Consider two vectors F~ 1 and F~ 2 with magnitude F1 = 61 N and F2 = 63 N and where θ1 = 98 ◦ and θ2 = 50 ◦The angles are measured from the positive x axis with the counter-clockwise angular direction as positive. What is the magnitude of the resultant ...
matthew travels tow and one half miles to get to school this is 3 time the distance that jennifer travels how far does jennifer travel
A truck has a cylindrical tank 9 m long for transporting milk. The diameter of the tank is 2.8 m. How much milk can it hold? (Use 3.14 for π.)
A and B are twos 360 km apart. An express bus departs from A at 8 a.m. and maintains an average speed of 90 km/h between A and B. Another bus starts From B also at 8.m. and moves towards A making four stops at four equally spaced points between B and A. Each stop is of ...
Mary bought maize and beans from a wholesaler. She then mixed the maize and beans ratio 4:3, she bought the maize as $12 per kg and the beans $4 per kg. if she was to make a profit of 30 %. What should be the selling of price 1 kg of the mixture?
A rectangular tank of base 2.4 m by 2.8 m and a height of 3 m contain 3,600 liters of water initially. Water flows into the tank at the rate of 0.5 liters per second Calculate the time in hours and minutes, required to fill the tank
A man walks directly from point A towards the foot of a tall building 240m away. After covering 180m, he observes that the angle of the top of the building is 45. Determine the angle of elevation of the top of the building from A.
The marked price of a bicycle is $ 6245. Dan bought the bicycle on cash terms and was given a 10% discount. Dave bought the same type of bicycle on hire purchase terms whereby he paid a deposit of $ 3000 and 12 equal monthly installments of $ 500. How much more than Dan did ...
Can the values be added or subtracted? If one value needs to be converted to another, describe the conversion. 19.75 in² + 26.2 in³
What do the lines making a circle around the low-pressure area indicate? 1.The values cannot be added because one is measuring area and the other is measuring volume. 2.The values can be added without making a conversion of units because they both measure area. * 3.The values ...
What is the next number in the pattern 4, 9, 25, 49, 121, 169, ___
A cuboid measures 6cm long, 5cm wide and 4cm high. What is the total length of the edges in centimeters?
San Diego left San Francisco on Tuesday at 6.30 p.m. and took 8 hours 45 minutes to reach his home. On what day and at what time in a 24 hour system did he reach home?
John is now two years older than Martha. If Martha's age is represented by x, what will be their total ages after 10 years?
At a school prize giving day the number of men was half of women. The number of children was three times that of women. The number of women who attended was 3x. What was the sum of the men and children?
The cash price of a cupboard is $3 000. An interest of 25% is charged if the cupboard is bought on hire purchase terms. Amina bought the cupboard on hire purchase terms. She paid a deposit and twelve equal installments. Each installment was $ 262.50. How much deposit did she pay?
A salesman is paid a monthly salary of $6,000 and a 5% commission on goods he sells above $20,000 each month. In a certain month the salesman earned $13, 000. How much money was the sales of the goods that month?
Fifteen painters can paint a number of houses in 12 days .if the number of painters is increased by 5, how many days less would it take the painters working at the same rate to paint the houses?
area of cube = 6*81 = 486
A metal solid made up of a cylindrical bar fixed onto a cube. The cylindrical bar fixed onto a cube. The cylindrical bar is 20 cm long and has a diameter of 7 cm. Each side of the cube is 9 cm long. The surface of the solid was painted. What area in area in cm2 was painted? (...
A plot of land is in the shape of semicircle of diameter 28 meters. The plot fenced by erecting posts 4 meters apart. How many posts were used? (Take π =22/7)
In a cupboard there are pencils, rulers and books. The number of pencils is 15 more than that of rulers. The number of books is three times that of rulers. If the number of pencils is p,write the equation to represents the total number of items in the cupboard?
In a cupboard there are pencils, rulers and books. The number of pencils is 15 more than that of rulers. The number of books is three times that of rulers. If the number of pencils is p, which one of the expressions below represents the total number of items in the cupboard?
A fundraising meeting for Jako, Bula, Jane and Abdi raised $ 108,000. Jako got three times as much as abdi. Jane got two-thirds of Jako's share while Bula got half as much as Jako. How much did Bula receive?
A product that was originally priced at $2,000 had it'd price increased on June 1 by 5%. On December 1 the price was increased by 5% of the new June price. By how many dollars did the price increase on December 1?
show me the next winning, the of winning 34,44,39,63,52 machine 16,35,77,66,80?
916:3= 305
when 3x -2x +1 is subtracted from 2x + 7x +5 the result well be
Coordinate geometry
Help me i this please the segment joining the midpoint of 2 sides f a triagle is parallel to the 3rd side and half as long. thaks
The intensity level of sound A is 5.0dB greater than that of sound B and 3.0dB less than that of C. Determine the ratio(Ic/Ib) of the intensity of sound C to that of B.
Provide me with an angle, because you ask inclination in a form of projectile.
3/4 -1/12=2/3
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916 : 3 =305
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6x 1 = 6
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100.0 Kg for both skates
an airplane is flying in a horizontal of radius 1.0 km what must be the speed of the plane if the pilot is to experience a centripetal acceleration three times that of gravity.
It is recommended that a person ________ to manage and reduce stress.
In a random sample of 1,000 exams, the average score was 500 points with a standard deviation of 80 points. Find the interval about the sample mean such that the probability is 0.90 that the mean number lies within the interval.
an ant walks 4 cm East, gets some rest, and continues for another 3 cm in the same direction. What is the total displacement traveled by the ant?
The Seinfeld's family room measures 19 feet by 30 feet. They are covering the floor with square tiles that measure 1 foot on a side and cost $0.68. How much will they spend on tile?
Part 1 In your own words, define the word function. Give your own example of a function using a set of at least 4 ordered pairs. The domain will be any four integers between 0 and +10. The range will be any four integers between -12 and 5.Explain why your example ...
use the names and ages of yourself and the other two people you selected. Make sure one is older than you and one is younger than you. In years, how old was the older person when you were born? Write an equation that models how old in years each of you will be, when your ages ...
Calculate the minimum sample size required to find the 90% interval estimate for a population proportion if you want to be accurate within 2%.
Establish a 99% confidence interval for the population proportion if a sample of 200 had a sample proportion of 42%.
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phys sci
the space shuttle orbits at an altitude of approximately 200 km above the surface of the earth. If the radius of the earth itself is 6380km, what is the acceleration due to gravity at the altitude ofthe space shuttle?
If you have a curcuit consisting of 4 resistor of egual resistance senses and toltal voltage across all of them is 17v .what is the voltage across each of them?
What is meant by the term "salting out" in the liquid-liquid extraction procedure?
A skateboard track has the form of a circular arc with a 3.20 m radius, extending to an angle of 90.0° relative to the vertical on either side of the lowest point, as shown in Figure 8-24. A 67.0 kg skateboarder starts from rest at the top of the circular arc
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elect one of the essays from the Examples of Effective Introductions section in Effective Introductions and Conclusions. Which article did you choose? What type of introduction does the writer use? What is the impact of that kind of introduction in this essay?
The Internet radically reduces the cost of creating, sending, and storing information while making that information more widely available. The Internet reduces search costs, allowing customers to locate products, suppliers, prices, and delivery terms. The Internet enables ...
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event in history that relates to the quote its never to late to be what you might have been
Good job contributing nothing GK. The answer is A.
my ailing relationship
my partner of two years just left me for another without any reason. i feel empty since and i request you to remember me in prayers so that we reunite in love and grace of the Lord
u are correct... 1 pair in the 2s orbital and 1 in the 2p orbital (along with the other 2 bonding pairs)
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calculate how much sulfanilamide will remain dissolved n the mother liquor after the mixture is cooled to 0 degrees Celsius?
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I'm in a slump and I can't seem to find any guys at my school that I like, or if I do, they're already taken! So my question is *drum roll*
Where are some good places to meet 16/17/18 year old guys? beach? mall? where? :-)
Most Helpful Guy
You are cute as a button, the general public is your playground for meeting guys.
Here's so areas that younger men frequent:
- The skate park
- The local/state park
- The beach
- Teen dances/School dances
- The gym
- Basketball/Volleyball/etc
- Local concerts/events
Try those out and let me know if you've had any luck :)
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Wednesday 27 March 1940
It was Wednesday, under the sign of Aries. The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic).
Famous people born on this day include Austin Pendleton in Warren and Sandro Munari.
Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1940
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- St. Augusta
- Angolan Victory Day.
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- Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church.
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- Austin Pendleton in Warren: Ohio, USA; actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again).
- Sandro Munari: Italian race-car driver, a champion on the racing circuit.
- Austin Pendleton: American actor (film, television, and stage), a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.
- Silvano Bertini: Italian boxer.
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Ranchi, Oct. 31: Political pressure has stonewalled the government decision to put at least three extremist-hit districts under the charge of young IAS officers and give impetus to development.
The government, in its transfer order issued yesterday, had set a deadline of October 31 for the three young officers Amitabh Kaushal, Rahul Purwar and Rahul Sharma to take charge in their new posts as deputy commissioners of Giridih, Garhwa and Simdega, respectively.
Kaushal, the DC of Garhwa, ironically, was on his way to Giridih to take charge when he was informed on the phone by an official in the personnel department not to proceed to the district where 20 people were massacred by Maoists on Saturday. He was instructed to hand over charge to Rahul Purwar and join the personnel department. Purwar, at present, registrar, cooperative societies, was in Bangalore.
According to sources, JMM chief Shibu Soren cajoled chief minister Madhu Koda to stay the transfer of Giridih deputy commissioner Birendra Ram to the personnel department.
Soren, sources said, argued that Ram was due to retire shortly, so it would be improper to shift him now.
Soren, who could not be contacted for comment, also pointed out that the Election Commission had clamped a stay on the transfer of officers engaged in electoral roll revision. The arguments of a few senior officers that the government should go for post-facto approval of the poll panel did not cut much ice. The electoral roll revision is likely to be completed by January 10 next year.
Rahul Sharma too did not join as the DC in Simdega. Rural development minister Anosh Ekka was said to be not in favour of shifting Vinay Kumar Ambashtha, the incumbent.
Personnel secretary S.K. Satpathy, however, said the transfers had not been stayed. As of today the transfer order stands and I have information that Rahul Sharma would be joining as Simdega DC tomorrow, he said.
Nunulal Marandi, the brother of former chief Babulal Marandi, said the government had neither shifted Giridih SP Arun Kumar Singh nor taken any action against him. Nunulal, who the Maoists claim was their target, blames the SP for not adhering to requests for additional security.


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Did you know: 5 interesting facts about Android L
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Jul 2014, 10:02
Google unveiled its brand new version of Android at Google I/O nearly a month ago, and that makes for more than enough time for us to get acquainted…
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
55. yowanvista (Posts: 341; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
Educate yourself before posting crap.
56. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
Oh, my bad. They are also named differently.
But beside that, I repeat, the same crap.
Google is trying to make you believe ART is something advanced,
but in reality, it's all about dealing with the overheads in a different way.
The joke is however, these overheads aren't existent on native platforms to start with.
Educate yourself before posting crap.
58. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
There are lots of weird things in both APIs. I personally find it hard to think up the same names for methods that the NextStep team did (the core of iOS and the reason everything starts with NS). When I want to stop a timer in Android I call stop() when I want to stop one in iOS I call invalidate. Which one makes more sense to you? I can find examples where iOS is better than Android just as easily.
Google needs to improve the framework. Animations could be cleaner and easier, the UI framework needs work too. I want more controls baked in. I hate the original calendar picker. Not a huge fan of the slot machine spinner on iOS as it was so huge. Newer Android versions are much improved.
Apple needs a lot of improvements too. Look how long it took them to support something like regular expressions they should have had from the start. They have no support for modal UIAlertViews which can really suck. The whole delegate methodology for UIAlertViews makes things a big mess when you have multiple of them in a single piece of code. Who the heck wants to deal with button indexes? You reorder or change the visible buttons and it is all out of whack.
Xcode needs some more features or maybe plug-in support so people can add things they need. It is an OK IDE but is missing a lot of features I have really gotten used to in Eclipse. AppCode is a huge help in this area and I use that for balls to the wall code editing and use Xcode when I need Interface Builder, Story Boards and Core Data manipulation.
Coming from PC development I like the layout managers of Android for the most part. You can come up with a couple of layouts that work nicely on a number of devices. I see a number of iOS apps that are locked into portrait as no one wants to even do a second layout for landscape.
iOS is locked into a few sizes. Sure, that makes is easier on the designer but for Apple to do a new screen size things are going to break since there is so much hard coded to the current sizes. They lost out on future flexibility. That will generally come and bite you. A bit of the pain was felt on the larger iPhone 5.
Developers and designers can do a better job on Android. Excuses need to stop being made. Google does back port new APIs which is nice. Apple pushes you into the future via OS upgrades and does not back port anything. ARC sure as hell makes life a lot easier. I am excited to try out the new Auto Layout.
We need them both around to push each other.
59. tedkord (Posts: 14121; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Ahead of time compiling removes the overhead of JIT.
21. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
i did not know that 5 facts = 7 pictures.
37. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
The last 2 are labelled as assumptions.
23. hurrycanger (Posts: 1625; Member since: 01 Dec 2013)
I just feel like Google is taking their time working with another company to use their product's name for the next Android. Just like Kit Kat.
24. ChooseGoose (Posts: 5; Member since: 09 Jul 2014)
The second image has Key Lime Pie instead of Kitkat...
25. hurrycanger (Posts: 1625; Member since: 01 Dec 2013)
yea.. it's an old image. Google did make it Android Key Lime Pie though, and later changed it to Kit Kat.
26. guest (Posts: 338; Member since: 13 Jun 2012)
All of Intel's processors are 64 bit and I am sure they would give Google a sweet price just to break into the Android platform. Oh and they are already shipping.
30. ayephoner (Posts: 850; Member since: 09 Jun 2009)
kit kat is made by herhsey's. herhsey's only L candy is the caramels named Lancaster. if you weren't paying attention to candy over the last year, herhsey announced this brand last fall and it came out in the winter. this wasn't too long after hershey and google released kit kat.
i'm not sure if anyone else has thought about this, or put it out there, but i'm thinking android 5.0 will be "android lancaster." you (maybe) heard it here first.
31. ayephoner (Posts: 850; Member since: 09 Jun 2009)
i could totally see the android robot stamped out in that vanilla caramel pattern for the new statue.
40. chromoid (Posts: 19; Member since: 03 Oct 2013)
Kit Kat is made by nestle. Hersheys has a license to make it in the us.
43. ayephoner (Posts: 850; Member since: 09 Jun 2009)
the deal with google was with hershey's as well as nestle. i'm just making a guess anyways, but it makes sense to me.
34. lolatfailphones (Posts: 218; Member since: 08 Apr 2013)
Why is this news "Hot"?
53. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
Cause all the Androtakus gathered here for a preemptive strike on me and the truth.
60. lolatfailphones (Posts: 218; Member since: 08 Apr 2013)
Lol I was like..WTF slow news arena?
39. mas11 (Posts: 1034; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
As someone that builds PCs as a hobby, I don't understand what the big deal is when it comes to 64-bit. All 64-bit really does is allow the system to use 4+ GB RAM.
41. chromoid (Posts: 19; Member since: 03 Oct 2013)
That is not the only thing 64 bit cups offer
One of many is a larger instruction bus that allows longer instruction sets to be passed through the cpu.
71. ArmDeveloper (Posts: 2; Member since: 20 Jul 2014)
There's no such thing as "instruction bus".
Both 32-bit (recent ARMv7, like Cortex A7/A15, etc.) and 64-bit ARM CPUs (like Cortex 53/57) can process 128 bits per single NEON instruction.
A common misconception is that AArch64 could intrinsically process more data per clock cycle than before. It's still limited to processing *128 bits* per single NEON instruction, for example 4x 32 bit packed floats "at a time", just like earlier 32-bit ARM chips. Of course, it's a different matter how many instructions are actually issued and processed per clock cycle. At least some ARMv7 CPU implementations actually take 2 cycles to process a single simple 128-bit NEON instruction, such as vector addition. Such previous generation "half issue" 32-bit CPUs could only really process 64-bits per clock cycle. Of course nothing prevents from implementing a similar "half issue" 64-bit ARMv8 CPU...
Amount of processing done per clock cycle does not depend on architecture, rather on particular chip implementation.
62. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
True, the benefit of 64bit computing is quite significant, but rather situational.
While what you are saying might be valid on x86, it's different on ARM.
It absolutely needed a new instruction set in order to raise the IPC beoynd that of the CA15's.
And there was no reason for this to remain a 32bit one. Et voilà, aarch64 is born.
64. ArmDeveloper (Posts: 2; Member since: 20 Jul 2014)
As someone who builds PCs as a hobby, you should know that 32-bit systems do not limit amount of addressable RAM to 4 GB. Operating systems do.
32-bit can address just as much physical RAM as 64-bit. There's of course a well known consumer operating system vendor that has limited their OS to just 4 GB on 32-bit platforms. But that's not a technical limitation, just a marketing one (or something similar).
This applies to x86 CPUs as well as to newer 32-bit ARM CPUs.
47. corporateJP (Posts: 2458; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
Dwayne said: "Just Bring It"...
48. antmiu2 (Posts: 384; Member since: 19 Jun 2011)
Android L is the first ground-up redesign since Android 4.0 ... no its much like kit kat with a theme on it
61. tedkord (Posts: 14121; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
No, it isn't. It changes a large part of the way Android works, with a change from JIT to AOT compiling.
63. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
And what Google doesn't want you to know : the Dalvik vs ART graph is only valid for Nexus. Qualcomm's 32bit Dalvik JIT beats the hell out of Google's 64bit ART.
65. joey_sfb (Posts: 6601; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
Why bother? Opinion are like ass holes. Everyone has one.
Android is still preferred mobile OS after switching over from iOS and I will use it till another better choice appear. More than ever I preferring Xiao Mi Redmi Note over my Samsung Note 3. I like MIUI interface over Touchwiz.
For Xiao Mi Ex-Samsung user, try out Smart stay EX works as well as my Samsung Note.
Still I will buy Note 4 when its available.
70. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
It's not my opinion but a fact.
Google's JIT sucks. That's the only reason that they got much gain through a less lousy job.
And here is my opinion :
They should be ashamed instead of presenting this graph proudly.
67. tedkord (Posts: 14121; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
You're talking about the QC optimized DALVIK (which is very good) vs. the KitKat version of ART, which is a beta feature (and isn't 64bit). Also, the QC DALVIK isn't useful for non-QC chipsets.
The newer Android L dev preview ART is showing very solid performance and battery gains, up to 2-3X speed improvements.
It doesn't matter how much you cry and fuss, Android is here to stay.
69. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
You forgot to mention "according to Google", "allegedly"
And you also forgot that I have access to the 64bit PDK plus developer board.
Optimization is a rather ungrateful job :
If you can achieve very much through optimizations, it just means the orignial was a lousy job to start with.
And that's Google's JIT that massively sucks while the new ART is a halfway decent one, nothing else here.
And again, vendors like Qualcomm will optimize ART, but the performance gain over their Dalvik JIT will be marginal at best.
All these bells and whistles around ART aren't justified.


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Freedom Riders
"I hoped the reporters were out there. Plenty of them. With plenty of cameras." -James Farmer
Farmer means that he wanted everyone in the world to see what is happening in the south and what some men and women were doing to them. He wanted the people from the movement to see them standing up for what they believe in and he wanted to start a fire through the media.
Freedom Riders in 1 word
Audacious: It means extremely breve and daring. By doing what they did against Southern government even with death hang above their heads. By defying them and not giving up it takes guts and daring to accomplish.
Why Did They Do It Even With All The Risks?
The riders like James Farmer, Paul Dietrich, Hank Thomas, and John Lewis participated to understand and prove how much the Southern government supported and would listen to the Supreme Court's decision. As well as to prove their point against segregation.
Why Did The Freedom Rides Happen Instead Of Something Else?
The freedom riders believed that their way would be the most effective in getting what they wanted as well as it was cheaper that going individually. Bus is also how a lot of people traveled at that time. Choosing to demonstrate that way was largely public, would make a point and give it attention.
Why would they keep going even with the risks?
The riders kept going because they knew that they would make a difference in the movement and the people of America. James Farmer and the others wanted a better world in all, better than how it was at that time no matter what.
How Did It Impact The Civil Rights Movement?
The freedom rides impacted the civil rights movement by sparking them back into action and gaining supporters as well as reinvigorating the current participants. They showed the government that the Supreme Court needed to have more presence in the south and reinforcement.
Paul Dietrich, Hank Thomas, John Lewis, James Peck, James Farmer, and many others. The carriers that they rode on were Greyhound and Trailways. The Ku Klux Klan tried to keep them from riding.
They rode all over the south but they were specifically stopped in Jackson, Mississippi and Anniston, Alabama where many were taken into custody.
They started on May 4, 1961 and after a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court calling segregation in bus stations was unconstitutional. The case was recorded by Justice Stanley Reed.
Fact & Opinion
Fact: James Farmer participated in the Freedom Rides which I can tell because in Catherine Gourley's article it states that he participated and the quote could only be first hand.
Opinion: James Farmer wanting it to be publicized but not every one in a tough situation would want the world to be watching them bleeding on TV.
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Sipceworks shows "no antivirus detected" on machines that have VIPRE Enterprise installed... is this in the works?
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Oct 1, 2009 at 4:10 UTC
getting ready to install myself...
did you select windows security center integration in the policy?
Oct 1, 2009 at 4:19 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
Sounds like you likely don't have Microsoft Security Center running on your machines? This is normally needed for most AV products to report to SpiceWorks because it supplies that standard AV API.
Oct 1, 2009 at 5:09 UTC
IT Journey, LLC is an IT service provider.
Take a look here. There is a list of AV's that are supported automatically by Spiceworks. Others need to be supported by Microsoft Security Center like Scott said.
Oct 2, 2009 at 9:59 UTC
There is no Microsoft Security Center support on Windows Server 2008 though, correct?
If running VIPRE Enterprise on servers, how would I get this to show the proper status?
Oct 2, 2009 at 10:55 UTC
Niagara Technology Group (NTG) is an IT service provider.
There is on 2008 but not on 2003 and 2003 R2. They put it back in in 2008 but it is off by default.
Oct 12, 2009 at 7:56 UTC
Have it installed and running .... not showing up for AV Installed... Seems Spiceworks might have to update to show "Sunbelt Enterprise Agent" as Anti-Virus..
So Far pretty happy with it... detection is good and is pretty low resource until you do a deep scan but even that doesn't kill the machine...
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The custom anti-aliasing solution is also another example of how PlayStation 3 developers are using the Cell CPU as a parallel graphics chip working in tandem with the RSX. As Richard Lemarchand discussed in his Uncharted 2 post-mortem, the basic theory is all about moving tasks typically performed by the graphics chip over the Cell. Post-processing effects in particular work well being ported across.
The more flexible nature of the CPU means that while such tasks can be more computationally expensive, you get a higher-quality result. The increased latency incurred can be reduced by parallelising across multiple SPUs.
In the case of God of War III, any given frame typically takes between 16ms and 30ms to render, give or take a millisecond or two. The original 2x multisampling AA solution took a big chunk of rendering time, at 5ms. Now, the hugely more impressive MLAA algorithm takes a total of 20ms of CPU time. However, it's running across five SPUs, meaning that overall latency is a mere 4ms. So the final result is actually faster, and that previous 5ms of GPU time can be repurposed for other tasks.
While the detail that the Sony Santa Monica team has put into the characters and environments is clearly immense, it's the combination with the pure rendering tech that gives the game its state-of-the-art look and feel. The new God of War engine thrives in its handling of dynamic light sources, for example.
"[Dynamic lighting] is one of the big features of our engine. We built it around being able to use up to 20 dynamic lights per game object," Ken Feldman explains.
"The light can be big or small, it doesn't matter. In the end, I believe we support up to 50 dynamic lights per game object. We are not using a deferred lighting scheme. Our lead programmer Vassily Filippov came up with this amazing system during pre-production... We can place lights in Maya and have them update in real-time in the game on the PS3, it's like being able to paint with lights. Lighting is a fast and a very enjoyable artistic process."
Where there is light, there is a shadow. Or at least there should be. On the majority of videogames, shadowing tech is fairly basic. Producing realistic shadows is computationally expensive, hence we get a range of ugly artifacts as a result: serrated edges that look ugly up close, or cascade shadowmaps that transition in quality in stages right before your eyes.
God of War III stands out in this regard simply because you don't tend to notice the shadows. They're realistic. The human eye is drawn to elements that stick out like a sore thumb, and that includes shadows. State-of-the-art techniques result in a very natural look. The result is subtle and it works beautifully.
As well as working with his team mates in helping to build the PS3 renderer from the ground up, Sony Santa Monica programmer Ben Diamand spent around three years gradually developing the deferred shadowing system employed in God of War III, that works beautifully in eliminating the artifacts and blending dynamically-generated shadows along with others that are pre-baked into the scenery.
Perhaps the only slight disappointment with the shadows in God of War III is that their use and impact in direct gameplay is limited. There are some nice sequences revolving around direct use of dynamic light, but the only time shadows are an intrinsic part of the task ahead of you is when you use them to dodge the incoming fist of a very angry Titan.
The amount of effort that went into just this one element of the overall image quality is quite extraordinary, but Sony Santa Monica's Ben Diamand stresses that it's just one part of a developmental process that saw many programmers tackle different areas in building the renderer for God of War III, of which the shadowing system was just one component part.
"It's not that we could afford to spend a ton of time on any one thing that made Sony Santa Monica shine; I'd instead say that it's the versatility of the staff - art and design included - that really made it happen," Diamand tells us.
"That coupled with having programming managers like Christer and Tim who helped by suggesting good ideas and especially by running interference for us so we had the time to properly implement and iterate over all of our ideas - those things were truly key."
Preliminary work on the PlayStation 3 tech actually kicked off while the main team were still working on God of War II. Ben Diamand himself spent a year with the ICE team in Santa Monica working with the early PlayStation 3 simulator hardware before moving onto direct God of War III research. Before there even was a God of War III team as such, Sony Santa Monica staff were laying the technological foundations for the new game.
"Vassily did large amounts of work on the dynamic lighting algorithms, Naty helped a bunch with getting the particular look by implementing many cool shading ideas and I worked on the low level renderer which included a number of iterations on the shadow system," Diamand says.
In addition to the shadowing tech, Diamand was responsible for the core renderer and associated optimisations, all kinds of SPU work, the HDR implementation, tone mapping, bloom, the effects framework and tools work among other tasks. Similarly, other members of the programming team found themselves donning many different hats during the development cycle.
"Vassily and I, with help from Naty Hoffman a bit later, essentially built most of the PS3 renderer from the ground up," Diamand adds.
"We later hired Jim Tilander who did some very good SPU rendering and collision system work, Cedric Perthuis who did a fantastic job with effects like rain, some good shader optimisations, anti-aliasing, depth of field and god rays among others, and Eric Smolikowski who joined us near the end and did really awesome implementations of motion blur, dynamic refraction/reflection and dynamic water, along with helping me do some of the drop shadow integration."
Sony Santa Monica's artistic and technical achievements are clearly considerable, but what is truly impressive is the team's commitment to continually refining and optimising code, right up until the very closing stages of development. It's an impressive juxtaposition of the team's passion in getting the very best product out there: Ben Diamand can spend over three years adding to, tweaking and perfecting his shadowing tech among his other tasks, but at the same time, right up to the creation of the final gold master, the team was still optimising performance.
According to director of technology Tom Moss, in the last week of development, after the first review copies had been dispatched, programmer Cedric Perthuis continued refining code, achieving impressive performance gains to the tune of around eight per cent for the final game.
God of War III is a special game by an immensely talented team, backed not only by a colossal $44m budget, but also with the collaborative know-how of some of the world's best developers and access to the resources of Sony's own dedicated engineering groups.
It's games like this, along with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Killzone 2, that give the platform holder ownership of the bleeding edge of console gaming technology in the current generation.
It also makes a very convincing argument that there's plenty of life left in the system yet. God of War III is just the first PS3 title from Sony Santa Monica, and already director Stig Asmussen is hinting that we can expect "a lot more" from the current God of War III engine.
This piece contains material derived from almost 2.5 hours of 'Making Of' material found on the God of War III disc itself, used with permission. Complete the game, unlock the lot and watch them all for some idea of the legendary efforts put in by the Sony Santa Monica development team.


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China's Peasants Get the Bad News
By Harrison E. Salisbury; Harrison E. Salisbury, former editor of the Op-Ed page, is author of ''The Long March: The Untold Story.''
Published: June 19, 1989
NANCHANG, China— An American named Graham Peck who spent World War II in China wrote a book that he called ''Two Kinds of Time,'' putting forward the idea that China moves on another and slower kind of time than the Western world. For all the changes in recent years, the Tiananmen massacre has again illuminated the fact that clocks in the China countryside still run very slowly.
Slipping out of Beijing soon after the tragedy, I was immediately immersed in the eternal China of sleepy villages, thatched huts, a slow-moving river boat, the emerald rice fields of the South and cities where foreigners with their round blue eyes are still strange sights to peasants plodding in paddies behind their water buffalo.
The landscape has not changed much since Mao Zedong's adolescence in the early part of the century, when news of the Empress Dowager's death did not reach his Hunan village for two years after the event.
The pace has quickened, to be sure, yet an American visiting Mao's native Changsha just before the guns rumbled at Tiananmen found that peasants did not know why they had seen such big crowds in the streets of Changsha. The crowds were demonstrating to support the students in Beijing, but the peasants didn't know what a demonstration was. They'd never seen one and they had no frame of reference into which to fit a demonstration.
That was before the massacre. In the days after Tiananmen, everyone, provincials and peasants alike, came to know something bad had happened in Beijing, something threatening.
The residents of cities like Wuhan, Changsha, Nanchang, Chengdu, Jinan and Qingdao knew what had happened because students by the very next day had put up bulletins and were shouting the terrible news in crowded streets and marketplaces, organizing protest rallies and spreading the word. The peasants didn't always hear the shouts but they knew something had happened. Life had taught them that something bad in Beijing meant something bad for the peasants. They didn't ask any questions, they just shifted their bodies under the heavy burdens on their backs and trudged ahead, hoping it would not be as bad as some of the bad things in the past.
The peasants have done extraordinarily well under Deng Xiaoping's profit-oriented policies. Never in history have they had so much real money in their pockets and never have they been able to build so many fine brick houses as now line the roads of Jiangxi and other backward provinces. Never they have bought so many radios, TV's, sewing machines and even store-bought beds. They don't want anything in Beijing to change that.
The urban provincial people had sharp specific word of what had happened at Tiananmen. They knew they could expect in its wake arrests, executions, searches, seizures, all that they had been through before with the witches' brew of the Cultural Revolution, the antirightist campaign of 1957 and the many others. The students, using China's high-tech internal automatic telephone system, got the word out fast.
That was important. The students knew and the public knew that there would be an official explanation -something totally implausible but shouted ceaselessly from radio, newspaper headlines and by party agitators. Some fable like that about Marshal Peng Dehuai, the national hero who had beaten MacArthur in Korea. In 1959, Mao denounced Peng and said he was plotting with a ''military club'' to topple none other than Mao. Or the wild-eyed yarn of 1966 accusing Mao's senior executives, President Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, of plotting to overthrow Communism and reintroduce capitalism. Or the 1971 scenario in which Mao's chosen successor, Lin Biao, was alleged to have plotted to blow up Mao on his special railroad train and become emperor in Mao's place.
The people knew that when Party Central got its act together it would not issue any small lies. Only big lies, totally implausible lies, would serve Beijing's purpose. Stalin had wiped out all his old Bolshevik friends on the lie that they had conspired with Leon Trotsky to oust him, and on his deathbed Stalin had dreamed up the notion that his surviving Politburo, headed by Molotov, had been plotting with the Jews and the C.I.A. to murder him and take over Russia.
The Chinese have not yet topped Stalin in the Big Lie department but they are giving him a run for the money by asserting that the Tiananmen massacre didn't happen.
Some young state media workers warned the public before the massacre in one of the freewheeling demonstrations of late May. They shouted to crowds along the streets: ''Don't believe what we say. We tell lies.''
The Beijing people knew that very well. Like the people of Moscow in Stalin's day who joked that there was no truth in Pravda (the words means truth in Russian) and there was no news in Izvestia (which means news in Russian) the Beijing people understood that something as hideous as Tiananmen would require a lie of unprecedented magnitude.
The students spread the facts of the Tiananmen massacre as far and fast as they could. They raced out into the small towns beyond the telephone network to bring it in person. They did not go to towns they knew or that knew them. They didn't dare do that. Too dangerous. They went to towns where they had never been and approached citizens they had never seen. That was safest both for the citizen and the student. They quickly told their story, then slipped away to find another ear. Some believed the story, some didn't. But the seed was planted. As Mao once said: ''A single spark can start a prairie fire.'' The hopeful students thought a wind might arise to fan the scattered sparks into a firestorm.


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- 1500ml capacity jar measures approx. Height 158mm Maximum Diameter 158mm
- Delivery & Returns
We are aware of how important it is for you to receive your gifts in time. Therefore, once you place your order we will process straight away and dispatch as soon as they are ready to go. We usually dispatch all items within 24-48 hours, however, this may be a little longer during special occasions such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas, etc. If multiple items ordered, we may dispatch items separately or all together, depending on the process.
*2nd CLASS ROYAL MAIL
Sent via 2nd Class Mail for only £3.99.
*1st CLASS ROYAL MAIL
Sent via 1st Class Mail for only £4.99.
Sent via Royal Mail Tracked for only £5.99.
Orders received by 2pm, sent via next working day courier tracked service for only £7.99.
Orders received by 2pm, sent via Royal Guaranteed Saturday Delivery for only £9.99.
The cost for delivery to European countries is calculated based on the destination. Please allow approx. 2-5 working days from dispatch, however, this is not guaranteed.
Below areas will incur a remote area surcharge - £30
*Italy: Livigno & Trepalle, San Marino, Vatican City
*Spain: Ceuta, Melilla
*Finland: Aland Islands
*Free delivery excludes items that are on offer or discounted from the original price and sent via 2nd Class Royal Mail, only UK.
*2nd Class Royal Mail - Royal Mail aim to deliver within two to three days, however, this is not guaranteed by Royal Mail, only UK.
*1st Class Royal Mail - Royal Mail aim to deliver your order one to two days, however, this is not guaranteed by Royal Mail, only UK.
*Premium Tracked - Royal Mail aim to deliver your order the next day, however, this is not guaranteed by Royal Mail, only UK.
*Next Working Day - All Orders placed before 2pm will be delivered next working day (Excludes Northern Ireland, Overseas UK addresses, and Parts of Scotland).
*Saturday Delivery - All Orders placed before 2pm will be delivered Saturday (Excludes Northern Ireland, Overseas UK addresses, and Parts of Scotland).
*All our items require production time and this is stated on individual product pages.
We're sure that you will be satisfied with your purchase and we also understand that sometimes you may want to return. We keep this process simple! Just contact us if you wish to return goods. Please note: personalised, made-to-order and perishable items are non-refundable.
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