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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For at least as long as people have had written records, people have used celestial effects to mark off time. This continued until half a century ago, when we developed clocks more accurate than most celestial effects and measurements. Thus, the day and the month and the year. There are two issues with these units [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1339&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchy: How Did It Emerge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we have seen, monarchy has gone on a rather precipitous decline over the last few centuries, with many of the remaining monarchs being figureheads who preside over de facto republics. But here and there, hereditary succession of leaders has re-emerged, notably in North Korea and Syria. Saddam Hussein and Muammar Khadafy both wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1331&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communist Monarch Kim Jong Il now Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve blogged here about monarchy, so it&#8217;s appropriate to report on the passing of a de facto monarch, North Korea&#8217;s &#8220;Dear Leader&#8221; Kim Jong Il. He had succeeded his father, and one of his sons is officially his successor: Kim Jong Un. I&#8217;ve seen lots of speculation about which of his other relatives might have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1324&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did They Find the Higgs Particle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest science news recently has been the almost-discovery of the long-sought Higgs particle or Higgs boson. I call it an almost-discovery because, while the particle seems evident, it does not seem strongly-enough evident. At CERN&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland there are detectors around where the beams cross, detectors for detecting the particles produced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1315&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchy: Who&#8217;s Next to Fall?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monarchism in republics has a converse, republicanism in monarchy. How strong are republican movements in monarchies and how likely are they to succeed? The more autocratic monarchies, like in Saudi Arabia, are not likely to have much tolerance for republican movements. However, the experience of the last few centuries suggests that political upheavals are likely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1296&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchy: Who Wants Them Back?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though several monarchies have been deposed over the last few centuries, several ex-monarchs&#8217; families keep the memory alive. Some of the family members even claim to be successors of those ex-monarchs, ready to become those nations&#8217; monarchs again. Royal families like The Bourbons of France The Hohenzollerns of Germany and Romania The Habsburgs of Austria [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1279&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchy: Some Arguments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One can find advocates for just about anything online, and monarchy is no exception, with no shortage of both pro and anti sites. I will now look at some monarchist arguments and try to analyze them. Arguments for Monarchy &#8211; Monarchist Manifesto has a sizable number of them, ranging from the fatuous &#8220;In a Monarchy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1259&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchy: A Few Revivals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the decline and fall of monarchy in many nations, a few nations have recently created new monarchies, and a few leaders have tried to have monarchy-style succession. The most successful one has been North Korea, which has been the world&#8217;s only Communist monarchy. Its first leader was Kim Il-Sung, and in 1980, he chose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1233&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchy: Modern Rejection Elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many nations outside of Europe have also rejected monarchy over the last few centuries, even nations that had once been colonies of European nations. Of the ex-British-Empire countries, a few have continued to accept the sovereignty of the British monarch: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. However, several of them have become pure republics, severing their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1218&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchy: Modern European Rejection</title>
		<link>http://nexuszine.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/monarchy-modern-european-rejection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Europe since the Middle Ages, there have been several republican city-states, some of them very long-lived. One of them was Venice, whose Doge (supreme leader) was elected for life by the aristocrats. The Republic of Venice lasted 1100 years, from 697 to 1797, when the Doge was forced to abdicate by Napoleon. The oldest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nexuszine.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6789828&amp;post=1208&amp;subd=nexuszine&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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