In 2008 Barack Obama won, but his major Democratic opponent was Hillary Clinton - a woman. The republican candidate for Vice-President was Sarah Palin, also a woman ( not the first female candidate for a vice-president though).
It enabled important (and sometimes secret) information/news to travel quickly.
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COMMON SENSE was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.
Paine avoided flowery prose. He wrote in the language of the people, often quoting the Bible in his arguments. Most people in America had a working knowledge of the Bible, so his arguments rang true. Paine was not religious, but he knew his readers were. King George was "the Pharaoh of England" and "the Royal Brute of Great Britain." He touched a nerve in the American countryside.
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Egyptians believed that the immortal spirit of the deceased remained linked to and dependent on its earthly body. Egyptians tombs were full of items designed to help and guarantee the soul's rebirth and its successful passage into the afterlife. Almost everything included with the burial symbolized rebirth and renewal.
To the ancient Egyptians, the judgment of the dead was the process that allowed the Egyptian gods to judge the worthiness of the souls of the deceased. Deeply rooted in the Egyptian belief of immortality, judgment was one of the most important parts of the journey through the afterlife.
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Japan, Germany, Great Britain, France, and Russia all acquired spheres of influence in China. ... It gave each nation rights to trade freely in each other's sphere of influence. At first, the other powers did not accept the policy.
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