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Iran Gold

Iran Gold

I have a gold coin from Iran. It is round-7/8" in diameter with a building on one side of it. What is it?

On the other side of the coin is geometric type design. All the writing is in Farsi so I am at a loss as to knowing what it might be worth. I've had it for about 10 years. Help!

i think this is what you are talking about...

http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/iran.html

here is one listed on ebay...

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Foreign World

Foreign World

5 Reasons To Study A Foreign Language

Many schools or universities require the study of a foreign language. Before you start resenting the very idea of it, consider that it could be to your advantage for you to study and master a foreign language. Make no mistake about it: the whole world does NOT speak English. For anyone who has travelled to anywhere but the very largest of the world's capitals, local people still primarily speak the local language and not English. To speak with them, the only way to do so will be to learn their language.

Here are 5 reasons to why you should study a foreign language:

1. Meet new friends: Learning a foreign language opens up the door to your getting to know more people and expanding your social network. If you are studying a language such as Spanish, Portuguese, or Chinese that is spoken by a large percentage of the population, you will be literally potentially tapping into a communication network with hundreds of millions of people that was previously off limits to you. If you are studying a less popular language, just think how much more valuable you will be since there are fewer foreign speakers of it.

2. Become a more globally-viable businessperson: In the world of business, communication is king. It does not matter how well you can program a computer, do accounting, or design new products: if you cannot communicate with other people, you will not find the success you deserve in the business world. Learning to communicate in a foreign language effectively increases your value as a communicator. And, many people who become proficient in a foreign language end up actually improving their skills as a communicator in their native language, as well. Learning a foreign language makes you a better communicator overall, and it therefore makes you a more attractive employee or partner in the world of business.

3. Expand your mind: Speaking a foreign language with fluency truly means switching channels to another way of thinking. Once you become fluent enough in the foreign language you are studying, you will find your consciousness actually expanding to accommodate your new ability. Each language has its own set of vocabulary, phrases, and concepts that do not directly translate to other languages. The result for multilingual people is that they actually force their neurons to grow and connect in new ways. Effectively, you become a little bit smarter and more mentally flexible.

4. Become more attractive: Looking to impress your husband, wife, date, or that cute person that you see whenever you go shopping? Becoming conversant in a foreign language is a great way to bring yourself up a notch on the attractiveness scale. People who expand their horizons are almost always perceived as more attractive than those who are always happy with the same-old stuff, year after year.

5. Understand the world better: The world is getting smaller. Leaders and individuals in different countries are making decisions each day that affect all of us in economic, environmental, and political terms. By studying a foreign language, you equip yourself with an additional lens through which to view the actions, thoughts, and worldviews of other people. This will help you make more balanced decisions about how to act or react when you learn about world events.

Mastering a foreign language can be quite a challenge, but for each new word you memorize, for each new verb you learn to conjugate, you will be making yourself more interesting, more economically viable, and even a bit smarter and more attractive.

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How do you learn foreign recipes in Sims 3 World Adventures?

I already know the recipies in the regular sims 3 town but how do you learn recipes from china, egypt and paris? Please Help me!

I believe that each travel location has two recipes to learn from it.

Simply go to that location's market and enter the bookstore. Click on the employee or the register and select buy. Find the two books and purchase them.

Just keep in mind that once you learn a recipe the book disappears, so depending on how many Sims you want to learn that recipe, select the number of books according.

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China Republic

China Republic

China Visa Applications: How Do Chinese Tourist Visas and Chinese Business Visas Differ?

The china visa application process can be a confusing one.  Failure to apply for the right category may result in a delay or cancellation of a trip.  Understanding the difference between a Chinese tourist visa and a Chinese business visa can save applicants time and trouble.

All travelers to China must fill out a china visa application prior to their trip.  This rule applies to all U.S. citizens and residents across the board, regardless of the nature of the trip.  China visa applications can be obtained from several sources, including:

* U.S. Post Offices.

* Online passport processing centers.

* Private passport processing outlets.

* Your local Chinese embassy office.

The Embassy of the People's Republic of China differentiates between a "business" trip and a "pleasure" or "tourist" trip to China.  It defines "business" as a visit to conduct "an investigation, a lecture, to do business, scientific-technological and culture exchanges, short-term advanced studies or internship for a period of no more than six months."  Any visitor who falls into one of these categories must apply for a Chinese business visa.  A Chinese business visa is also known as an "F" class visa.

The Chinese embassy defines a "pleasure" trip as coming to China "for sightseeing or visiting family members or friends or for other personal affairs."  U.S. citizens/residents in this category must obtain a Chinese tourist visa.  This classification is known as an "L" visa.

Chinese business visas ("F" visas) are granted in three types.  Single-entry visas are typically valid for three to six months.  A holder of this type can enter China only one time and stay for the time specified on the visa. 

Applicants who plan to enter the country on more than one occasion can apply for the second or third type of Chinese business visa.  A Double-entry visa allows a holder to enter China twice during the specified time.  They are typically valid for six months.  Holders who intend to enter the country three or more times can request a Multiple-entry visa.  The Multiple-entry visa is usually valid for six to twelve months.  Under special circumstances a 24 month Multiple-entry visa may be granted.  Applicants requesting this extension must meet specified criteria and are subject to the discretion of the Chinese consulate.

No business of any type can be conducted by a person holding a Chinese tourist visa.  This type of visa is granted strictly for pleasure and for the purposes of visiting family/friends.  Any person caught conducting business while visiting China with a Chinese tourist visa may be subject to fines, prosecution and/or deportation.

Like the F-class visa, a Chinese tourist visa can be granted as a Single-entry, Double-entry or Multiple-entry permit.  The times of validity are the same for both the L-class and the F-class. 

China visa application forms are the same for both Chinese business visas and Chinese tourist visas.  The form has a section dedicated to the nature of a particular trip or entry/entries.  Several categories are listed for "nature of visit" to China.  Applicants must check off which category/categories apply to a particular trip/trips.  An applicant who is unsure what type of China visa he/she requires need only check off the appropriate box(es).  The Chinese consulate will issue the appropriate visa in response.

About the Author

Jenny Schweyer is a freelance writer from the Pacific Northwest. She writes extensively on travel and related themes.

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Why does People's Republic of China support the regime of North Korea?

What interests does China have that they support this regime. Without China's support, it wouldn't exist anymore.

Please don't tell me that both are communist countries. China is an oligarchy and not communist at all.

It ties up US interests and by doing so reduces the effective deterrent the US has in other parts of the world.

China wants to decrease and weaken the US around the world to step into that void.

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West Africa

West Africa

The West Indies lost the first match of the T20 series with South Africa by 13 runs. The second match, on the same ground, was a must-win situation for the home team, which was desperate to return to winning ways. On a sunny afternoon at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, West Indies captain Chris Gayle won the toss and asked South Africa to bat first - just as in the first match. The visitors made three changes to their starting eleven. David Miller made his T20 international debut, while Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Morne Morkel got starts.

Loots Bosman opened with Graeme Smith. Just as in the first game, Bosman did not give the scorers much work to do - out for nought in the second over. The next to go was Smith, who had his bails disturbed by Jerome Taylor; South Africa was 27/2. Towards the end of the eighth over, Dwayne Bravo caught AB de Villiers at backward point; South Africa was 42/3. The Proteas lost Duminy and Petersen soon thereafter, to find themselves struggling at 59/5.

Debutant David Miller and Johan Botha, with some lusty hitting, took the score from 59/5 to 116/6 in just seven overs. Fast bowler Jerome Taylor bowled a fine last over to leave the South Africans on 120/7 off their allotted 20 overs. With 3/14 off four overs, Taylor was the pick of the bowlers. Darren Sammy (2/16) and Dwayne Brave (0/20) also bowled tidily.

Dale Steyn helped to underscore the difficult nature of the pitch as he got Chris Gayle out in the first over, lbw for nought. The clueless Andre Fletcher (4) departed with an uneducated pull shot against Morne Morkel; West Indies were 9/2. Dwayne Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul reconstructed the innings very cautiously. By the tenth over, the home team had fewer than 40 runs. That is when the two batsmen opened up a bit to take the score to 77 in the 15th over before. Chanderpaul played a reverse sweep that did not work to be out for 29. Ten runs later, Bravo departed to a catch by Johan Botha off the bowling of Morne Morkel.

The West Indies slumped to 99/6 in the 19th over, needing 22 to win from 9 balls. The West Indies benefitted from four byes from the next delivery. At the start of the 20th over, bowled by Ryan McLaren, they needed 15 runs from 6 balls. The first ball went for two; 13 from 5 balls needed. Sammy hit the next ball for a boundary; 9 runs off four balls needed.

The third delivery yielded four runs, as the batsmen scampered for two and South Africa conceded two overthrows. However, off the next ball, Narsingh Deonarine was run out attempting a second run without being as fast as he should have been. The West Indies required three runs from one ball and Jerome Taylor, the new batsman, had the strike. The last ball was hit for a single and South Africa took the match by the narrowest of margins - one run.

And now you can read brief profiles of some of the best spinners and fast bowlers that the game of cricket has ever seen:

The best spin bowlers in cricket history: http://www.helium.com/items/1516046-best-spin-bowlers-in-cricket

The top 5 fast bowlers in cricket history: http://www.helium.com/items/1518569-top-fast-bowlers-in-cricket-history

what are the countries in west africa?

i am learning about west africa in school and i need to know all of the countries.

West Africa includes Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana, Angola, Namibia, and Gabon.

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German Nazi

German Nazi

Would Iran Be German, And Ahmadinejad, Be Hitler?

Hasan A. Yahya, A professor of philosophy

The Holocaust few remaining survivors may recall how Hitler built up his anti-Semitic policies to persecute Jews as well as other ethnic groups during the period of WWII. One of these practices was unifying Gemany, incite hatred of non-Aryan race, youth organization support the government through police forces and  the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.

Pacificviews.org's article titled: "Hitler, Munich, Ahmadinejad, Iran", gives a comparative analysis between Ahmadinejad (Iranian president) and Hitler . In fact,  Ahmadinejad's resemblance to Hitler  is a scary thing and reasonably imagined. But such imagination  is more a function of his role in the decay of the Iranian revolution power, which is starting to take on some definite  Weimer overtones. Signs are seen in the shape of frog jumping in the fire-house. For  example, Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denials, his public fantasies about Israel being wiped off the map which may lead any observer to think "sensibly" dismissed Hitler's Mein Kampf ravings as merely a carny act to bring in the rubes. But I also know that fire-breathing rhetoric about destroying the "Zionist entity" has been a staple of Middle Eastern political hate speech since the 1950s of last century. Such threats have to be taken seriously, and everybody should be aware of that. But to automatically assume that those who say such things are actually planning to commit genocide. No one, especially Israel, may  dismiss those remarks even though publicized by liberals, or   anti-communism and political right.

Assuming that the man is very similar to Hitler, is little far from Ahmadinejad as a pios Muslim person.   But as a Shi'ah believer, the assumption should have some weight in world politics. While no one can guess Ahmadinejad's  intentions, his practices recently undertaken by him or his government supporters lead to that  assumption that he might become Hitler-like person, especially when it comes to Jews, denial of the Holocaust, and threatening to map out Israel from the world community. But to be unbiased in this case we ha have to look to what Adolf Hitler did and what Ahmadinejad is doing, and let the reader judge for him/herself.  

What Hitler Did? In Germany, the National Socialist German Workers' Party  (abbreviated NSDAP), known as the Nazi Party, was a political party in between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920. The party's last leader, Adolf Hitler, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg. in 1933. Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Nazi Ideology, stressed the failures of communism, liberalism, and democracy. It also stressed the "racial purity of the German people", as well as Northwestern Europeans and persecuted those it perceived either as race enemies that is "life unworthy of living". This included Jews, Slavs, Roma, and Arabs, and so-called "Mischlings " along with Communist, homosexuals, , the mentally and physical disabled,  and many others. This persecution came to its climax when the party and the German state which it controlled organized the systematic murder of millions of non Aryan race especially the Jews,  in what has become known as the Holocaust. Hitler's desire to build a German empire through expansionist policies led to the outbreak of World War II.

What Iran Ahmadi Nejad did:  In Iran, the revolutionary ideology stresses the failure of liberals and democracy. It is also stresses the racial purity of Persians and Shi'ah in other Arab and non-Arab countries and persecuted those who oppose the government or the ruling party.  Nejad  desire to build an Iranian empire through expansionist policies which may lead to the outbreak of wars in the future.  The party grew out of smaller political groups with a nationalist orientation through the spirit of Khomeini.

The airways and skies of Iran were announced forbidden as air flight zones, if the Airlines belong to countries do not recognize the Persian Gulf, replacing the word "Arabian", This claim from one nation (Iran), it hurts  six Arab nations surround the Gulf as well as tens of countries support the Arabian name Gulf.  Furthermore, the gulf has two sides, three quarter of its area belong to Arabs according to International laws. Other point, the Islands occupied by Iran which belong to the United Arab Emirates and denial of Iran of their right. Another expansionist threats, calling the Kingdom of Bahrain as belong to Persia (or Iran). The internal situation in terms of free thinking, especially after last summer's presidential election, which was accused to be stolen by the government, also show some concerns, the Iranian authorities recently closed two major opposition publications, among the last to remain in circulation as the government has suppressed its opponents' communications in recent months. Earlier, the authorities had blocked most opposition Web sites inside Iran and slowed the Internet to a crawl to prevent protesters from organizing demonstrations (New York Times, March 2)

Deterioration of labor force situation of  unpaid employees brought Human Rights Activists attention, While Ahmadinejad government Support only those who support the status quo and government and party, Human Rights News Agency reported that 80 employees of Metec, a steel and industrial equipment manufacturer, gathered in front of the company offices in Isfahan demanding to know why they had not received a paycheck in seven months. Also, the head of Iran's air force, Hassan Shah-safi, announced the production of a number of 2,000-pound guided bombs, the semiofficial news agency Fars reported. The bombs, called Qassed, or herald, were first tested in a military exercise in 2006. Another 20,000 people were arrested on Feb. 11, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, when the government thwarted opposition plans to stage a large antigovernment rally. Arresting opposition people by hundreds is another situation. Mr. Shah-safi said that Iran would soon test a new generation, called Qassed-2, that would be "more precise and enjoy a better destructive capability (The New York Times, March 2)

 What Ahmadinejad's and Iran's power are  not, however, compared to Israel, He remains the absolute dictator of an in-advanced industrial state with a first-rate military. To pretend that he currently poses the same kind of threat to the world (or even to the Jewish people) that Hitler did in 1938  is ridiculous. It also "discredits the very legitimate concerns that the world should have about Iran and the future of the Iranian revolution."

We may reach the conclusion made by pacificviews.org.  writer,  that "Ahmadinejad's combination of demagogic appeal, ideological zealotry and end-times eschatology does make him a much more plausible stand-in for Hitler than an apparachik like Milosevic or a thug like Saddam." But time is running, and the world which brought Hitler, may still have the appetite to bring another. While  symptoms of Nazism are in the making, one should be aware of the world change in terms of ethnic and religious ideologies, No body knows!(1139 words) www.hasanyahya.com

About the Author

Hasan A. Yahya is an American writer, scholar, a retired  professor  at Michigan State University. He published 34 books (24 Arabic and 10 English), and 225 plus articles on sociology, religion, psychology, politics, poetry, and short stories. Philosophically, his writings concern logic, justice and human rights worldwide. Dr. Yahya is the author of Crescentologism: The Moon Theory,  and Islam Finds its Way, . 2010, on Amazon. He's an expert on Arab and Islamic cultures, and was invited to several TV shows and international conferences on religion and future strategic planning. www.askdryahya.com

I have a German Nazi badge and don't know what it is? please help!?

I have a German Nazi badge. Its a red iron cross badge not medal with the Hitlers youth white and red diamond in the middle and it has cross swords running through it?

The Hitler Youth Calvary Unit.

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