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  2. Anarcho-capitalism - Wikipedia

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    [59] [60] [61] They see capitalism and the "free market" as the basis for a free and prosperous society. Murray Rothbard stated that the difference between free-market capitalism and state capitalism is the difference between "peaceful, voluntary exchange" and a "collusive partnership" between business and government that "uses coercion to ...

  3. Eric Schmidt - Wikipedia

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    Schmidt was born in Falls Church, Virginia, later moving to Blacksburg, Virginia. [5] [22] He is one of three sons of Eleanor, who had a master's degree in psychology, and Wilson Emerson Schmidt, a professor of international economics at Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins University, who worked at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Nixon Administration.

  4. Banana - Wikipedia

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    The word "banana" is thought to be of West African origin, possibly from the Wolof word banaana, and passed into English via Spanish or Portuguese. [21] Musa is the type genus in the family Musaceae. The APG III system assigns Musaceae to the order Zingiberales, part of the commelinid clade of the monocotyledonous flowering plants.

  5. Roanoke Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.

  6. Ningbo - Wikipedia

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    Ningbo Free Trade Zone is one of the 15 free trade zones authorized by the State Council of China and is the only free trade zone in Zhejiang Province. It was established by State Council in 1992, covering the area of 2.3 km 2 (0.89 sq mi). It lies in the middle of the coastline of mainland China, at the south of Yangtze River Delta.

  7. Unification of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, elections were generally free of chicanery, engendering pride in the national parliament. [113] However, legislation required the consent of the Bundesrat , the federal council of deputies from the states, in and over which Prussia had a powerful influence; Prussia could appoint 17 of 58 delegates with only 14 votes needed for a veto.

  8. Origins of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass The politicians of the 1850s were acting in a society in which the traditional restraints that suppressed sectional conflict in the 1820s and 1850s – the most important of which being the stability of the two-party system – were being eroded as this rapid extension of democracy went forward in the North and South. It was an era when the mass political party galvanized ...