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The age of the train
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Eight thousand years ago the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine. And if the cities had actually existed, you would have been able to walk from London to Rome without getting your felt-bound feet wet. Since then, geology has given us the Channel, a practical and psychological barrier that defines national identity.
The idea of a tunnel beneath this barrier dates back to the Treaty of Amiens 1751.
Here reach exceeded grasp and the first realistic -- although the word is used loosely -- proposals were made to Napoleon by a mining engineer, Albert Mathieu, in only 1802. Mathieu wanted to turn ...
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Islam probed.(NATION)(INSIDE THE RING)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...about the background of Hesham Islam, a special assistant to Deputy...counterterrorism analyst. Mr. Islam faced tough questions about...reporter who covered the United Nations oil-for-food scandal with...discrepancies about the Egyptian-born Islam that no one at the Pentagon...
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Islam: a religion of peace, not terror
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...with enslaved Africans who practiced Islam. There was a resurgence in the 1930s...American Elijah Muhammad formed the Nation of Islam, which gained strength among African...Malcolm X, belonged to the Nation of Islam until he split from the organization...
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Islam's rising lure Religion's discipline appeals to many African-Americans
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...transformation of the nation's religious landscape -- the spread of Islam among African-Americans...American community has found Islam, with its themes of...University in Washington. Islam also provides an alternative...Southern Baptists, the nation's largest Protestant...
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Islam's Image Problem.
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; ...agreed that politicization of Islam is the primary factor driving...globalization. "With the growth of Islam, we see the birth of different schools of thought within Islam," Kabbani explained. "As previously isolated races and nations converge through the process...
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Islam: The Next American Religion?
Newspaper article from: Arab American News
; ...zeitgeist? The answer may be Islam. Americans tend to think...a nominally Christian nation. Didn't the Pilgrims...mosques. That is because Islam is predicated on a level...Pledge of Allegiance (one nation, "under God") and...that are also basic to Islam. Islam is often viewed...
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Islam and the West
Newspaper article from: Domes
; ...misconstruing the relationship between Islam and Christianity has come about...more practical association of Islam with schism, with other laws, and with nations without laws, and the interrelation...conditions of political geography. Islam effectively dominated a large...
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 "The Independent (Bangladesh)")
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Islam's compatibility with democracy, THE INDEPENDENT
Newspaper article from: The Independent (Bangladesh)
; ...called democratic nation, Israel with its horrible...record is preferred over Islam, and needless to say, Islam has an exemplary history...Islamic. So why blame Islam if un-Islamic societies...undemocratic? There are more nations in the Muslim world...
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Islam gains strength in Asian strongholds
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...world's harshest brand of Islam meted out justice four months...globe's most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia, lives under a very different Islam. There, muezzin call the...north, in the Philippines, Islam means rebellion. Guerrillas...
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Islam flourishes at USC
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...in the United States? Islam. And what is the nation's fastest-growing...Muhammad prophesized that Islam would become the largest...the most populace Muslim nation in the world, was not converted to Islam through force but, rather...
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 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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Yusuf Islam: the Former Cat Stevens on His New CD
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR)
; NEAL CONAN Talk of the Nation (NPR) 12-18-2006 Yusuf Islam: the Former Cat Stevens on His...death experience, he converted to Islam, changed his name, and reordered...the United States. Now Yusuf Islam brings the circle around with...
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