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CIA - The World Factbook

Global output rose by 3.7% in 2003, led by China (9.1%), India (7.6%), and Russia (7.3%). The other 14 successor nations of the USSR and the other old Warsaw Pact nations again experienced widely divergent growth rates; the three Baltic nations continued as strong performers, in the 5%-7% range of growth. Growth results posted by the major industrial countries varied from a loss by Germany (-0.1%) to a strong gain by the United States (3.1%). The developing nations also varied in their growth results, with many countries facing population increases that erode gains in output. Externally, the nation-state, as a bedrock economic-political institution, is steadily losing control over international flows of people, goods, funds, and technology. Internally, the central government often finds its control over resources slipping as separatist regional movements - typically based on ethnicity - gain momentum, e.g., in many of the successor states of the former Soviet Union, in the former Yugoslavia, in India, in Iraq, in Indonesia, and in Canada. Externally, the central government is losing decision-making powers to international bodies. In Western Europe, governments face the difficult political problem of channeling resources away from welfare programs in order to increase investment and strengthen incentives to seek employment. The addition of 80 million people each year to an already overcrowded globe is exacerbating the problems of pollution, desertification, underemployment, epidemics, and famine. Because of their own internal problems and priorities, the industrialized countries devote insufficient resources to deal effectively with the poorer areas of the world, which, at least from the economic point of view, are becoming further marginalized. The introduction of the euro as the common currency of much of Western Europe in January 1999, while paving the way for an integrated economic powerhouse, poses economic risks because of varying levels of income and cultural and political differences among the participating nations. The terrorist attacks on the US on 11 September 2001 accentuate a further growing risk to global prosperity, illustrated, for example, by the reallocation of resources away from investment to anti-terrorist programs. The opening of war in March 2003 between a US-led coalition and Iraq added new uncertainties to global economic prospects. After the coalition victory, the complex political difficulties and the high economic cost of establishing domestic order in Iraq became major global problems that continue into 2004. 

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Galileo

Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed the new U.S.-EU agreement on Global Positioning System (GPS)-Galileo cooperation as a "remarkable achievement" at a signing ceremony June 26, 2004, in Shannon, Ireland, during the U.S.-EU Summit. The U.S. GPS system consists of satellites broadcasting signals that can be converted into precise positioning and timing information anywhere in the world. In 1998 the European Union decided to develop its own satellite navigation system, which it called "Galileo." The new agreement, Powell said, "manages to balance the competition that is inherent in the commercial dimension of satellite navigational technology with the cooperation necessary for the security dimension." Powell also noted that combined GPS-Galileo capabilities will open up "major opportunities for scientific research and creative engineering, enabling new applications, applications that we haven't even begun to think of yet, and also for the development of new technologies." 

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Gold

1.What is Gold and why is its chemical symbol Au? Gold is a rare metallic element with a melting point of 1064 degrees centigrade and a boiling point of 2808 degrees centigrade. Its chemical symbol, Au, is short for the Latin word for gold, 'Aurum', which literally means 'Glowing Dawn'. It has several properties that have made it very useful to mankind over the years, notably its excellent conductive properties and its inability to react with water or oxygen.2.Where does the word Gold come from? The word gold appears to be derived from the Indo-European root 'yellow', reflecting one of the most obvious properties of gold. This is reflected in the similarities of the word gold in various languages: Gold (English), Gold(German), Guld (Danish), Gulden (Dutch), Goud (Afrikaans), Gull (Norwegian) and Kulta (Finnish). 3. How much gold is there in the world? At the end of 2001, it is estimated that all the gold ever mined amounts to about 145,000 tonnes. . 

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History of Windows versions

Microsoft Windows 1.0 (note that Microsoft did not really specify a version number) was introduced on June 28, 1985, a couple of years after the first Windows announcement in November 1983. The blue colored product box featured the Windows GUI with tiled windows. Microsoft's selling point for Windows was that it provided a new software development and runtime environment that uses bitmap displays and mice, thus freeing the user from the "MS-DOS method of typing commands at the C prompt (C:)". Windows 1.01 came on 5 5.25" 360 KB floppy diskettes: Setup/Build, Utilities, Fonts, Desktop Applications and Program Disk. There was support for a few kinds of pointing devices, CGA, Hercules and EGA cards, and about 19 printer models. Windows 1.0 came with a file manager, calculator, a calendar, card file, clock, notepad and terminal. It runs on Virtual PC without incident, and best of all, it starts up very fast! Although it was "better" than bare-bones DOS, Windows 1.01 did not have a whole lot of usability. There are no icons for executables, no program groups, no true multitasking, etc. There was an update (again, Microsoft did not specify a version, but it could be considered 1.02) on November 20, 1985 that broke the 640K barrier.  

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Latex guide commands

This page introduces various useful commands for rendering math in , as well as instructions for building your own commands. Exponents and Subscripts Fractions Radicals Sums, Products, Limits and Logarithms Mods Combinations Trigonometric Functions Calculus Other Functions Matrices Text Styles in Math Mode How to Build Your Own Commands 

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Military Quotes - Funny Quotes: Military Jokes, Mottos and Humor

Military Quotes In this category you can find over 2000 military quotes and quotations (haven't counted them all yet...) All quotes are sorted by surnames, and/or sorted in several different categories, like artillery quotes, leadership quotes, war quotes, funny quotes, defense, peace etc. You can find lots of quotes from famous persons like: George Patton, Sun Tzu, MacArthur, Napoleon, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler and hundreds of more famous and infamous mil related persons and leaders. It's also possible to search for quotes and quotations on the site. Unit Mottos In this section you can find a collection of over 800 unit mottos (840 mottos in total), both modern and historical mottos, from many countries all over the world. The unit mottos are sorted by branches and country 

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