On 1 January 1986 Spain<span> and </span>Portugal<span> acceded to the European Economic Community</span>
<span>commonwealth
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<span>an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic
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<span>an international association consisting of the UK together with
states that were previously part of the British Empire, and
dependencies. The British monarch is the symbolic head of the
Commonwealth.</span>
C.- rose up in the boxer rebellion, it <span>was a revolt against European commercial, political, religious, and technological influence in China. By August 1900, over 230 foreigners, thousands of Chinese Christians</span><span>, an unknown number of rebels and sympathizers and other Chinese were killed in the revolt and its suppression.</span>
Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer who made an amazingly close calculation of the actual circumference of the earth. He did it by noting the angle of shadows in two cities during the summer solstice, and then doing geometric calculations that factored in the distance between the cities.
Oh, and besides math and astronomy, Eratosthenes was also a poet and music theorist, as well as pretty much inventing the field of study we call geography today. He was what we would call a "polymath" (a person of knowledge of all sorts of things) -- or, what the Greeks called a <span>Πένταθλος (pentathlos).</span>
The legitimate role of government during times of calm and during times of crisis are numerable. The government has the big voice to the welfare of the people. In times of calm, they must see to it that everything went well and goes according to plan, with regards to the common good of the people. Maintain what is good. In times of crisis, alternative plans must have to be implemented and the government has to be the one to lead.
