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Japan (Japanese: 日本 Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 About this sound Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, "State of Japan") is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, China, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan ...
Japan (Japanese: 日本 Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 About this sound Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, "State of Japan") is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, China, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun origin", and Japan is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun".Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan's population of 126 million is the world's tenth largest. Approximately 9.1 million people live in Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, which is the second largest city proper in the OECD. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the world's largest metropolitan area with over 35 million residents and the world's largest urban agglomeration economy.Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly Imperial China, followed by periods of isolation, later from Western European influence, has characterized Japan's history. From the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a long period of isolation in the early 17th century, which was only ended in 1853 when a United States fleet pressured Japan to open to the West. Nearly two decades of internal conflict and insurrection followed before the Meiji Emperor was restored as head of state in 1868 and the Empire of Japan was proclaimed, with the Emperor as a divine symbol of the nation. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victories in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an Emperor and an elected legislature called the National Diet.Japan is a member of the UN, the G7, the G8, and the G20. Japan is a great power. Japan is a developed country and has the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the world's fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the world's fifth-largest exporter and fifth-largest importer. Japan ranked first in the Country Brand Index. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the world's eighth largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan ranks high in metrics of prosperity such as the Human Development Index, with the Japanese population enjoying the highest life expectancy of any country in the world and the third lowest infant mortality rate. Japan is Asia 's highest ranked in the Global Peace Index....
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A priest (masculine) or priestess (feminine) is a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office or position is the priesthood, a t...
A priest (masculine) or priestess (feminine) is a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office or position is the priesthood, a term which also may apply to such persons collectively.Priests and priestesses have existed since the earliest of times (see Proto-indo-European trifunctional hypothesis) and in the simplest societies, most likely as a result of agricultural surplus and consequent social stratification. The necessity to read sacred texts and keep temple or church records helped foster literacy in many early societies. Priests exist in many religions today, such as all or some branches of Judaism, Christianity, Shintoism, Hinduism. They are generally regarded as having positive contact with the deity or deities of the religion to which they subscribe, often interpreting the meaning of events and performing the rituals of the religion. There is no common definition of the duties of priesthood between faiths; but generally it includes mediating the relationship between one's congregation, worshippers, and other members of the religious body, and its deity or deities, and administering religious rituals and rites. These often include blessing worshipers with prayers of joy at marriages, after a birth, and at consecrations, teaching the wisdom and dogma of the faith at any regular worship service, and mediating and easing the experience of grief and death at funerals - maintaining a spiritual connection to the afterlife in faiths where such a concept exists. Administering religious building grounds and office affairs and papers, including any religious library or collection of sacred texts, is also commonly a responsibility - for example, the modern term for clerical duties in a secular office refers originally to the duties of a cleric. The question of which religions have a "priest" depends on how the titles of leaders are used or translated into English. In some cases, leaders are more like those that other believers will often turn for advice on spiritual matters, and less of a "person authorized to perform the sacred rituals" For example, clergy in Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity are priests, but in Protestant Christianity they are typically minister and pastor. The terms priest and priestess are sufficiently generic that they may be used in an anthropological sense to describe the religious mediators of an unknown or otherwise unspecified religion.In many religions, being a priest or priestess is a full-time position, ruling out any other career. Many Christian priests and pastors choose or are mandated to dedicate themselves to their churches and receive their living directly from their churches. In other cases it is a part-time role. For example in the early history of Iceland the chieftains were titled goði, a word meaning "priest". As seen in the saga of Hrafnkell Freysgoði, however, being a priest consisted merely of offering periodic sacrifices to the Norse gods and goddesses; it was not a full-time role, nor did it involve ordination.In some religions, being a priest or priestess is by human election or human choice. In Judaism the priesthood is inherited in familial lines. In a theocracy a society is governed by its priesthood....
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African Americans, also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, is an ethnic group of citizens or residents of the United States with total or partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.[3][4] The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from African slaves.[5][6] As a compound adjective, the term is usua...
African Americans, also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, is an ethnic group of citizens or residents of the United States with total or partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.[3][4] The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from African slaves.[5][6] As a compound adjective, the term is usually hyphenated as African-American.[7][8]African Americans constitute the second largest racial and ethnic minority in the United States.[9] Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved blacks within the boundaries of the present United States.[10][11] However, immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American, and South American nations and their descendants may or may not self-identify with the term.[8]African-American history starts in the 16th century, with Africans forcibly taken to Spanish and English colonies in North America as slaves. After the founding of the United States, black people continued to be enslaved and treated as inferiors. These circumstances were changed by Reconstruction, development of the black community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, the elimination of racial segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected p******** of the United States....
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Whether gay, bi, straight, solo, 2some, 3some, group doesn't matter...only white boys and guys are important.Pictures, videos and so on from women, trannies and stuff like that are not allowed! no political propaganda - no election campaign!Thanks!
He's right about the "divorce". Our political conflicts are even more sectional than ideological. A look at a map of the outcomes of recent elections will show that. There's no way that Vermont and Texas, Illinois and Georgia, California and Utah can live under rules that all parties can accept. Perhaps the 1787 experiment was worth making. But it has clearly failed. It's time to think about the next step. Partition offers the only opportunity to start creating polities small enough and decentralized enough for self-government to emerge.
>no health care >whites are a minority >massive debt >can't get elected unless you believe in Bronze Age fairy tales >slavery and mass murder of indigenous people >kill brown children in wars for cheap oil >play a "sport" where large black men wear armour and grab each others' genitals >no culture >take credit for winning both world wars when you only played a minor role >assassinates citizens with drones >shoots kindergardeners on a yearly basis >average citizen owns at least 3 guns >still uses imperial system >still tortures >still has death penalty >quarter of the population is in prison >banana republic levels of income inequality >high crime despite wealth >high poverty despite wealth >injecting chemicals into ground for cheap gas >builds wood-houses and uses overground electricity >majority of population denies evolution >draconian levels of military spending >mutilate their babby's genitals >3rd world murder rate >govt regularly starts a war every few years, typically with faked evidence for cheap oil >govt can legally tap your phone >govt can legally know what websites you visit and what books you got from the library >govt can search your room if you drew a picture of a weapon
I confess that I am still laughing at some white people about the election. Anytime I see a Romney supporter i have to stop and ask them, "you mad bro"?
Back in the early 90s I used to be with this girl she was a bit older than me she was mad horny she had a massive pair of tits I used to love sucking on. Now this women is a local MP I look at her election posters and think about how I used to suck her tits.
Here is what is weird about you liberal fuckers on here..
You're all talking shit about Trump for these bullshit allegations with no evidence three weeks before an election.. but you're on this moral free zone assaulting your own penis's to rape porn, sharking, blackmail, shit porn, snuff.. COME ON MAN!!!
i am watching the american elected official, mr obama, and i believe he is a robot sent from the future to disable america prosperity with his talk about social justice for all peoples and logical health care reforms and gun bans. sure, he will make america more prosperous and free, but he will make it harder for militiamen like me and my buddies from forming militia to defend against the british in case they come over to re-conquer america.
a robot sent from the future, where britain once again rules the world and the world all plays fucking soccer, is a world that is crazy enough to send back a black elected official to steer america to an evil and impotent state. we must warn ourselves to this menace, and disclose this "man" as the futuristic cyborg that he is. even now as i youtube his speech and see the metallic glint in his eye as he seeds our minds with his british thoughts, i shudder with horror.
My childhood friend was feeling down last week, like he wasn't able to control his own life. I told him that , he had always followed the rules, always done the right thing. He needed to do something stupid and careless with no worries about who would suffer. Like voting Republican in the next election.
