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101. Charles Denis Bourbaki
     and failing to obtain this he managed to get from the young prince imperial a signed photograph with a message to the emperor Napoleon. This he used, by means of a safe-conduct from Bismarck, as credentials to Marshal Bazaine, to whom he presented himself at Metz, telling him on the empress's alleged authority that peace was about to be signed and that either Marshal Canrobert or General Bourbaki was to go to Hastings for the purpose. Bourbaki at once went to England, with Prussian connivance, as though he had a recognized mission, only to discover from the empress at Hastin 1302 gs that
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102. Cornell University
     which are part of the State University of New York system. College of Art, Architecture and Planning College of Arts and Sciences College of Engineering School of Hotel Administration College of Agriculture and Life Sciences College of Human Ecology School of and Industrial and Labor Relations. Graduate/Professional Colleges and Schools Cornell Law School S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management Weill Cornell Medical College (New York City) Weill Cornell Medical College (Qatar) Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (New York City) College of Veterinary Medicine (a State University of New York unit) Cornell University Library The Cornell University Library consists of
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103. Consensus decision-making
     widely approved. Consensus methods are desirable when enforcement of the decision is unfeasible, such that every participant will be required to act on the decision independently. Minority views must be considered to a greater degree than in circumstances where a majority can take the action and enforce the decision without any further consultation with the minority voters. Since higher levels of consensus can require more time and effort to achieve, groups may reserve consensus decision methods for particularly complex, risky or important decisions. Rather than simply list known alternatives, debate for a short time, vote, and then accept or reject by
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104. Colonial America
     an attractive place for these new powers to establish colonies. They were closer to Europe than any of Spain's or Portugal's mainland holdings, and offered the same allure of the unknown and the potential for gold. Historians typically recognize four regions in lands that became the eastern United States: from north to south, New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake, and the South. Some historians add a fifth region: the frontier, which had certain common features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. Early Colonial Failure The English made a number of failed ventures in the closing decades of
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105. Communist and post-Communist Albania
     property belonging to absentee landlords and people not dependent on agriculture for a living. The few peasants with agricultural machinery were permitted to keep up to forty hectares of land; the landholdings of religious institutions and peasants without agricultural machinery were limited to twenty hectares; and landless peasants and peasants with tiny landholdings were given up to five hectares, although they had to pay nominal compensation. Thus tiny farmsteads replaced large private estates across Albania. By mid-1946 Albanian peasants were cultivating more land and producing higher corn and wheat yields than ever before. Albanian-Yugoslav Tensions Until Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform
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106. Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies
     and Sustainable Societies Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies is an extremely influential 1996 paper in energy economics by Joseph Tainter. It focuses on the energy cost of problem solving, and the energy-complexity relation in manmade systems. This is a mirror of the negentropic tendencies of natural evolution, according to ecological economics, notably the arguments of Donella Meadows and her colleagues on the economic constraints of contemporary problem solving: The Limits to Growth, 1972, argued that "to raise world food production from 1951-1966 by 34%, for example, required increasing expenditures on tractors of 63%, on nitrate fertilizers of 146%, and on
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107. Confederados
     the American South as conditions improved there or perished from tropical diseases, leaving upwards of 4,000 permanent immigrants. The immigrants settled in various places in Brazil ranging from the urban areas of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to the northern Amazon region. But most of the Confederados settled in the area around present-day Americana, Brazil near Sao Paulo which is a shortened version of the name Vila dos Americanos. This was the name it was given by natives in the region due to its American population. The first original Confederados known to arrive was Colonel William H. Norris of Alabama.
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