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SPECIAL SUMMER ‘WIKI EDITION’ ………… ... * This special issue intend to raise funds for the new sections ‘Resources’ and ‘featured articles’. Hence this issue features articles (editor’s pick) from Wikipedia and are not scrutinized reports from The Analyst |
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Top Pick Bolshevik Revolution The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, also known as the October Revolution, is traditionally dated to October 25, 1917 (November 7, N.S.). |
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Looking at Corners The Group of Eight The Group of Eight (G8) is an international forum for the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. |
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Web The world of Amazon - Faced with violence and an upsurge of drug trafficking, NATO’s troops fail to stabilize Afghanistan Google Inc. dominates Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet searching and online advertising. Google's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Microsoft Corporation loses its prominence Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is an United States-based multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44.28 billion |
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Focus USA John Forbes Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in his fourth term of office. Germany Les Verts Les Verts (or The Greens) are an ecologist political party to the left of the political spectrum in France. They have officially been in existence since 1982 Japan Japan's economy Japan's industrialized, free-market economy is the world's third-largest purchasing power parity (PPP) after the United States and the People's Republic of China. |
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Revolutions The Xinhai Revolution The Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, also known as the 1911 Revolution or the Chinese Revolution, was a republican revolution which overthrew China's ruling Qing Dynasty The February Revolution The February Revolution of 1917 in Russia is commonly understood as the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The inner side of The French Revolution The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure |
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Special The story of Pay Pal A few years back, when my son was in college, he had to mail a letter. I don’t remember the specific reason, but I do remember having a conversation with him in which he complained bitterly about the amount of work involved The Ganges The Ganges is a major river in the Indian subcontinent flowing east through the eponymous plains of northern India into Bangladesh. . The Make Poverty History No writer has been as prescient and eerily prophetic about 21st-century America as Don DeLillo. His novels, from “Players” and “White Noise” through “Libra” and “Mao II” and the remarkable “Underworld,” not only limned the surreal weirdness of the waning years of the 20th century, but somehow also managed to anticipate the shock and horror of 9/11 and its darkly unspooling aftermath. |
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Small Tips This month’s word Barbotine · noun [mass noun] slip (liquid clay) used to decorate pottery · origin mid 19th cent.: from French. This month’s phrase et one's teeth on edge Meaning Literally, to cause an unpleasant tingling of the teeth. More generally, the expression is used to describe any feeling of unpleasant distaste. Origin The earlier form of the phrase was 'to edge the teeth' and described the feeling of sensitivity caused by acidic tastes, like raw rhubarb. A Middle English citation of a version of 'teeth on edge' is found in Wyclif's Bible, or to give it its full name The Holy Bible, made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers, 1382:"And the teeth of sones wexen on egge." This month in history Ruminating a prominent event June 29, 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that capital punishment was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment." The decision spared the lives of 600 individuals then sitting on death row. Four years later, in another ruling, the Court reversed itself and determined the death penalty was not cruel and unusual punishment. On October 4, 1976, the ban was lifted on the death penalty in cases involving murder. This month’s quote “The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”-
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Just Past Tiananmen Square protests The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists United States presidential election of 2004 The United States presidential election of 2004 was held on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican candidate Battle of Fallujah The Battle of Fallujah (code-named Operation Al-Fajr - "The Dawn" in Arabic, and Operation Phantom Fury), sometimes |
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Attention grabbers Dollar The dollar (often represented by the dollar sign: "$") is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies World Social Forum The World Social Forum (WSF) is an annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization movement to coordinate world campaigns Constitution for Europe The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TECE), commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty World Health Organization - Present Nature The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority |
