Alexander Dubček, the communist leader who launched a broad program of liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia, is forced to resign on...
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Life is known to have a common destiny for everyone: death. There have been, throughout history, really lot of famous...
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Someone said that the human beings knows more about certain distant galaxies than it does about the ground that lies...
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Corporal punishment has always been considered a deterrent for anyone who wanted to do something wrong. From antiquity to the...
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