Word: kingdoms
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...Marshall Scholarship, like the Rhodes, provides students with the opportunity to pursue graduate studies and research in Britain for free. Unlike the Rhodes, the Marshall Scholarship’s mission is particularly focused on improving ties between the U.S. and the United Kingdom...
...British government created the Marshall Scholarships after World War II to pay tribute to George Marshall and the Marshall Plan’s impact on the United Kingdom...
...ancient dynasties, flowing calligraphy, elaborate scrolls, magnificent dragon-decorated robes, priceless jades and ancestor paintings that represent the most important Confucian value, filial piety. In fact, the subjects of this exhibition are a father, his son and grandson - the Qing Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong - who ruled the Middle Kingdom for 133 consecutive years and expanded China even beyond its present-day borders. And the trio weren't even Chinese. They were Manchus, hunters and fishers from north of the Great Wall who successfully vanquished the crumbling Ming Dynasty in 1644 and were greeted with surprising resignation by most...
...novel,” as the FDA consistently uses the behavior of older adolescents to predict the behavior of younger adolescents when making decisions concerning teenage use of drugs. While the FDA claims to be unconvinced by the drug studies, 39 other countries—including the United Kingdom, Canada, and India—have deemed this drug safe for over-the-counter sales. There is also an important distinction to be made: Plan B is not abortion; the FDA itself designated Plan B as contraception. According to Planned Parenthood, “Experts estimate that wider access to emergency...
...quite explain why. On a rare trip last month, another traveler told me it was like going to ?the moon, with people.? I had my own epiphany: North Korea is Pleasantville. Just as in the Gary Ross satire of the 1950s sit-com vision of reality, life in the kingdom of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is always as pleasant as a picture postcard. The streets are tidy and orderly, the citizens patriotic and the children sing in perfect harmony. From the plastic flowers in the hotels to the plastic music of the Arirang mass-gymastics-and-propaganda fest...