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Five Chinese Historical Events That Don’T Get Much Attention, Kate Merkel-Hess

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

After Jeremiah Jenne recently posed a question about “the most important Chinese historical figure most people have never heard of,” I got to thinking about the vast expanse of Chinese history that is so often neglected in favor of the (admittedly sometimes more-relevant) post-49 events. In chronological order, here are my five nominations for Chinese historical events I wish were more often talked and written about. What events make your list?

1. The An Lushan Rebellion

Led by the rogue general, An Lushan, the civil war that riled the Tang Dynasty from 755 to 763 caused death by violence and …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, February 10, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2008

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, February 10, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, February 7, 2008, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The February 7, 2008, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, February 7, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• University Studies Request
• University Studies Request, Prerequisite Change

School of Accountancy

• New Course

Department of Elementary Education

• Remove Prerequisite

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation

• Title Change, Credit Hour Change
• Title Change
• Credit Hour Change

College of Engineering

• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Delete Course

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• New Course

Department of Engineering and Technology Education

• New Course
• Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of History

• New Course

Department of Languages, Philosophy and Speech …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern University Upgrades Emergency Message System
• Poet Richard Garcia reads at Georgia Southern University Feb. 18
• Georgia Southern University names Patterson associate vice president for research

Lecture Delves Into Blackfoot Indian Story, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Rhetoric Theory And Legal Writing: An Annotated Bibliography, Michael R. Smith

Faculty Articles

This bibliography supplements the articles in this volume of the Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors J ALWD by setting out a list of other works that have been written in the growing area of legal writing scholarship that relates classical and contemporary rhetoric theory to the practice of professional legal writing The scope of this bibliography is limited in two ways First the works listed here focus primarily on how rhetoric theory applies to the discipline of legal writing While rhetoric is a discipline unto itself only a few works on general rhetoric theory have been listed …

The Daily Egyptian, February 06, 2008, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2008

No abstract provided.

"...With Liberty And Justice For All": Toward Tolerant Public Discourse, Zona Douthit

Reason and Respect

This paper will examine the titles of several conservative and progressive religions and political organizations to demonstrate how some rhetors are distorting the lexicon of civil religion to conflate sectarian beliefs with political ambitions. While there is nothing inherently sinister about promoting sectarian beliefs, intentionally failing to differentiate between religion and politics muddies the public discourse and can be a means to justify intolerance toward opposing viewpoints.

The Next Frontier: Exploring The Substance Of Legal Writing, Michael R. Smith

Faculty Articles

This volume represents another milestone for the Association of Legal Writing Directors ALWD Not only does this volume mark ALWDs official entry into periodical publishing but also it marks the beginning of ALWDs latest effort to expand and improve the field of legal writing More specifically with the creation of this Journal ALWD announces in dramatic fashion that it will take a lead role in the development and expansion of substantive legal writing doctrine Since its inception in 1996 ALWD has diligently sought to improve legal writing as a discipline and as a profession Now with the publication of this …

Commonwealth Times 2008-02-04

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, February 3, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2008

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, February 3, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

No abstract provided.

Sarendib's Sorrow: Sri Lanka's Continuing Conflict, Abhayraj Naik

Socio-Legal Review

In this article, the author studies the conflict in Sri Lanka, and identifies and describes two sources of its intractability: fractured fronts and maximalist goals. The artile seeks to reveal that while the Sri Lankan governments recent military onslaught against the LTTE has been surprisingly successful, history is clear that a meaningful solution to the conflict in Sri Lanka will be found not on the battlefield but in the hearts and minds of the Sri Lankan people. The causes of the conflict are several - an analysis of these sources of intractabily involves both a backward looking appreciation of the …

State Identity, Territorial Integrity And Party Banning: The Case Of A Pan-Arab Political Party In Israel, Ron Harris

Socio-Legal Review

The banning of political partise in democracies, something which seemed to be a matter of the past, has reemerged in recent years in many countries, from Germany to Turkey, from Britain to Israel, and from Spain to Latvia. The present artick tells the story of an encounter in the years between 1959 and 1965, between the pan-Arab national movement El Ard and the Israeli executive and judidal branches. According to the author's interpretation of its history, El Ard was what he calls a "third generation party" based on his categorisation of pary objecdves and means. It sought to alter the …

Pairindromes, A. Anil

Word Ways

The May Kickshaws (07-128) gave us "Pairagrams", single word anagram-pair couplets. I felt this called for some reversal-pair couplets (phrases or sentences), drawing on William Sunners' little pamphlet "The Puzzle Lover's Book of Reversals" (c. 1982, National Library Publications).

An Oasis From The Stasis: More Linguistic Observations, Paradoxes, And Miscellanea, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

It's time for another roundup of entertaining language-related trivia that couldn't find a logical place in my usual articles. I compiled this sort of potpourri for the November 2006 issue of Word Ways.

What's In? A Name! - Part Ii, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Some readers may have been disappointed when their appellations were not among the fifty that appeared in What's In? A Name! (Word Ways, Volume 40, Number 3). To assuage hurt feelings, fifty more are now offered, divided evenly between the sexes for political correctness.

Albuquerque Words, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Miami words are those which exhibit the letter pattern a b c a b, reverberate being one such. Let us now meet their southwestern cousins. An Albuquerque word is one in which two identical triads appear that are separated by at least one letter. For example, the formal name for a thirty-second note in music, DEMISEMIQUAVER, is an Albuquerque word due to the appearance of the italicized triad EMI in two locations.

Transcendental Wordplay, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The title of this book by Michael West, an English professor at the University of Pittsburgh, suggested that it might be of interest to Word Ways readers. This was confirmed by a letter from the author, who asserted that "[the book] has much to say about the historical background of many varieties of language play in which your journal specializes. When the book received the 2001 Phi Beta Kappa book award, the publicity release noted that "West ... tries to determine where and how Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville and others got their proclivity for extravagant puns, riddles, acrostics, anagrams …

Tourmaline Magic, Oscar Thumpbindle

Word Ways

The pale beige mineral-gem Tourmaline happens to be my birthstone and possesses unexpected magical properties as we will soon see. It is also of great interest logologically since as an isogram it splits nicely into five two-letter words TO-UR-MA-LI-NE all of which may be found in standard dictionaries. Other splits are possible, making this gem very special.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: February 2008, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - February 2008

Graduate Connections- February 2008

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

Click on links to navigate the newsletter

Navigating Graduate School........... 1

The Dissertation Presentation

Good Practices in Graduate

Education........................................ 4

Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism

Code of Conduct for Teaching

Teaching Tip ...................................... 5

Identifying Relative Importance

Essential Connections...................... 6

Graduate Studies Web Site

Graduate Bulletin Online

Professional Development............... 6

Responding to Academic Job Offers

PFF Call for Nominations

Taking Charge of Your Professional Development

Solving a Teaching Problem

Interactions........................................10

Grad Award Winners

Grad Student Association News

Funding Opportunities.....................12

Resources for Researchers..............14

NEAR Center

Grant Writing Seminar

Announcements................................14

Grad Student …

Wmu International News February 2008, Haenicke Institute For Global Education

WMU International News

In this issue:

WMU welcomes 60 Dominican Republic students

Western Michigan University's 19th annual International Festival

Ugly Sweaters Ice Capades

Bi-cultural upbringing complements study abroad work

CELCIS veteran named interim director

Winter fun in West Michigan

The Opinion – Volume 21, No. 4 February 2008, William Mitchell College Of Law

The Opinion

Selected Table of Contents

• The Law Student Diet and Stress: Braking the Vicious Cycle / Johnson, Maureen E.
• The Educational Value of Winter Break / Crandall, Allison
• What Would Your Mother Think? / Lewis, Carol; Lewis, Jackie
• Kosovo: The Graveyard of Interventionist Ideology / Paul, Justin

Editorial Board

Crandall, Allison; Abramovich, Irina; Aamot, Gregg; Vang, Nou

Lindenwood Academics 2008: We Succeed When Our Students Succeed, Lindenwood University

University Documents

Promotional booklet for Lindenwood University.

Front Cover, Publication Information

Word Ways

Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

Crossword

Word Ways

A crossword.

Exotic Varieties Of Four-Square, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

Firstly, a definition: a "pop" word is one which occurs in the most-used 87,000 according to the British National Corpus. All rows in this article are pop words, which naturally include initialisms.