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Voice mail
VOICE MESSAGING Voice messaging is a computerized method of storing and manipulating spoken recorded messages that is accessible to users from any touch-tone phone twenty-four hours a day. A voice-messaging system can be easily accessed by local, remote, or mobile users via land-lines or cellular... Read more |
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Instant messaging
Instant Messaging Instant messaging (IM) is a general term encompassing a variety of software applications that enable users to have real-time text conversations, play turn-based games, and share pictures, music, and data files over the Internet. IM is quickly replacing e-mail as the preferred... Read more |
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Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine principle of American foreign policy enunciated in President James Monroe's message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1823. It initially called for an end to European intervention in the Americas, but it was later extended to justify U.S. imperialism in the Western Hemisphere. Origins and... Read more |
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Codes and Ciphers
Codes and Ciphers ¦ LARRY GILMAN Codes and ciphers are forms of cryptography, a term from the Greek kryptos, hidden, and graphia, writing. Both transform legible messages into series of symbols that are intelligible only to specific recipients. Codes do so by... Read more |
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Roosevelt corollary
ROOSEVELT COROLLARY ROOSEVELT COROLLARY to the Monroe Doctrine, a unilateral declaration claiming a U.S. prerogative of exercising "international police power" in the Western Hemisphere, was first set forth by President Theodore Roosevelt on 20 May 1904 in a public letter to Secretary of War... Read more |
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Alpha Blondy
Alpha Blondy Reggae musician For the Record… Selected discography Sources Reggae, the spiritual and sometimes sharply political dance music that Jamaica exported to the rest of the world, has often carried a message of peace and universal understanding. One contemporary star who successfully... Read more |
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telegraph
telegraph term originally applied to any device or system for distant communication by means of visible or audible signals, now commonly restricted to electrically operated devices. Attempts at long-distance communication date back thousands of years (see signaling ). As electricity came into... Read more |
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Secret Writing
Secret Writing Secret writing is any means of written communication whereby a spy conceals the actual written text, whether it is enciphered/encoded or not. Codes and ciphers are sometimes mistakenly placed under the heading of "secret writing," but this is accurate only if... Read more |
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CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY FLOURISHING, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE...
...Office of the Secretary General issued the...Following is the message by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan...Abolition of Slavery, 2 December...combating slavery -- but also...completely. Contemporary forms of slavery...trafficking - are ... |