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calculated that they would have a bargaining chip to use after the war. Like everyone they thought that the war was going to end by Christmas 1914. But when the war was still at a stalemate in 1916, the Nationalists knew that the war was going to go on for years and planned an uprising to drive Britain, which was distracted by the war, out of Ireland. The rebellion took place on Easter Monday 1916. The rebels took over the key buildings in the city, raised the Irish Flag and read a Proclamation of Independence

CHALLENGING THE BRITISH RULE: THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857 Summary of events The British had been in India since the early seventeenth century, when the East India Company had established trading settlements (known as factories) at Surat (1612) and Madras (1640), and later at Bombay (1661) and Calcutta (1690). In the early days the Company was there purely for trade and not to take political control of India. In the early eighteenth century the central administration of India began to break down;

Dell has grown from number five in the personal com¬puter market to number one at the end of 2002 (see table 1 below). Much of that growth came in the key US market where Dell improved its share from 24.1 to 29.2 percent in 12 months at the expense of clos¬e rivals HP and Gateway (source: IDC). As a measure of added shareholder value, a $100 invested in Dell stock on flotation in 1988, was worth $28,300 by the end of the firm’s finan¬cial year in February 2002. Table 1 Top Five PC Computer Companies

impacts of the crisis on trade unions in France and Germany. The third section will consider how the crisis affected trade unions’ organisation and their mobilisation capacity. 1.0 THE BACKGROUND of the crisis of the 1970’s The crisis marks the end of the growth of Fordism; the vicious circle of the crisis has replaced the virtuous circle of growth. 1.1 The symptoms of the crisis 1.11 The slowdown of the growth rate The 1970s can be characterised by the slowdown of the growth rate: the

History in Israel and Jewish World, n°38, Tel Aviv University Spring 2009, (heb.), p. 65-55. Yigal Bin-Nun, "On the Earliest Sources of the Mimuna", Peamim Studies in Oriental Jewry 117, Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem, (heb.), p. 141-166. Yigal Bin-Nun, "The United Kingdom of Israel and Judah as a novel aspect of propaganda," HaQeshet haHadasha 23, ed. Aharon Amir, Tel Aviv, Spring 2008, (heb.), p. 102 -108. Yigal Bin-Nun, Chouraqui diplomate, Débuts

Document 1 Just popping over to Rio for the week end… By Simon Mills Cash-rich/time-poor traveller are ignoring environmentalists’ requests to limit air travel to a minimun and, are indulging in ever more ambitious mini-breaks to wildly exotic locations. According to a survey by Halifax,these breaks will increase by more than a third this year, with the number of Brits travelling to destinations including Hong-Kong, New-York and Rio de Janeiro for just a few days rising from 3.7m in 2007 to 4.9m

while rapid industrialization was given high priority. The government took control of a large part of the economy, and entire new industries were created. Most important, economic growth was started. A tight control of budget reduced inflation by the end of 1950. From 1958 to 1960, an economic and social plan is led by Mao Zedong: the “Great Leap Forward”. It aimed to use China’s vast population to rapidly transform China from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society. -1978-1990 In

Case study : [pic] Peugeot pepper mills Introduction Peugeot is a company which is born in 1810, in Doubs (East of France). It has been launched by two brothers, Jean-Pierre and Jean-Frédéric Peugeot. Initially it was a steel foundry. In 1818 they registered a patent for manufacturing tools and saws in particular. The first mill was for coffee and it was created in 1840. The lion trademark appeared in 1850 on the different tools, and it was registered in 1858. It symbolizes the

Comparisons, 1995-2000 Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia Middle East and North Africa Latin America/ Caribbean East Asia and Pacific Central, Eastern Europe/ Baltics/ CIS* 39 940 35 560 67 220 84 190 66 110 Percent of births assisted by skilled attendants, 1995-2000 Number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, 2000 92 64 * Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union). Source: UNICEF End of Decade Databases—Delivery Care (www.childinfo.org/eddb/maternal/index

Episode List The Fifth Child runs in an uninterrupted flow from beginning to end, without any apparent chapters dissecting reading. To make it easier for my pupils to read through the text, I have split the novel in several episodes. This is just a suggestion. Others may find the text fits in more suited frames. 1. pp. 7-9 “Harriet and David met each other at an office party” to “David was an architect" THE OFFICE PARTY 2. pp 9-11 “So what was it about these two” to “They were made for