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History: The Bosnian Crisis in 1908

In 1908 the status of Bosnia was somewhat uncertain, administered by Austria-Hungary but formally still part of the Ottoman Empire. Inhabited by slavs, Bosnia was part of the slav nationalist dream of a South Slav Kingdom (Yugoslavia). The so-called Pan-Slav movement wanted all slav people to unite, and the most aggressive proponent of this movement was Serbia. The Pan-Slav movement was sponsored by...
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Gmail Findings: Download Mail from External Account

So you have several different mail accounts? Having trouble reading them all at the same time? Like the GMail user interface and would prefer to have all your emails routed through it? Look no further for Gmail can do all this for you! To add other email accounts to your Gmail account (i.e. pairing them together) is easy and painless and can improve your efficiency by loads. Imagine having all your...
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Gmail Findings: Filter by Labels

This really sounds as if it’s something obvious, something one really can not miss. But it’s not, it took me a good five minutes or so to find how to filter the mail in Gmail by labels. Labels, for those of you who do not know, is like putting mail into different folders or categories without moving them into other folders (i.e. keeping them in the Inbox). If you download mail from an external...
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A Side Project: Zippo Lighters Forum

Just want to quickly shout out a little something to my current side-project, a so called Zippo-lighters forum. You can, based on the name, guess what it’s about (if you can’t guess, it’s all about lighters, more specifically Zippo ones), but there is so much more to it than just that. It includes a trade and request section, where you can get your lighter sold or just request that...
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Social Studies: Main Political Ideologies

What is a Political Ideology? An ideology is a system of opinions and values about society and the way it should be organized and governed. These ideas are shared by a group of people “belonging” to the ideology. Liberalism Liberalism appeared in the late 18th century, paving the way to an industrial society during the said period by allowing new groups to gain political power. It appealed...
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Trying out Leopard!

The past week or two has been spent on learning and getting used to Mac OS X 10.5.4, also known as Leopard. This is the major upgrade from Tiger, introducing a big load of new features, improvements and updates. Our family had an old PowerBook G4 lying around, and I thought it would be great to use it for my malicious experiment (bear in mind, it is not Intel but not too old! I believe it is one of...
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