Europe holds a unique status in Jewish history. For centuries, it played host to the intellectual heart of Jewish life, and provided the backdrop for many of the greatest Jewish cultural developments in the realms of Jewish art, music and literature. It was the cradle of the Enlightenment, the continent which produced the philosophies of Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Descartes and Locke, and the re...

Voltaire, regarded by some as a realist and by others as a cynic, remarked that 'if God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him'. One suspects that this comment is equally applicable to placental insufficiency, a concept that has similarly attracted not only faithful adherence but also bewildered agnosticism or defiant disbelief. Placental insufficiency has been largely defined in cli...

IN RECENT YEARS, there has been significant interest in the writings of Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912), with a number of authors attempting to reassess her work, in some cases drawing increased attention to the perspective that her ideas constitute a form of feminism. Remembered also as a poet, anarchist, and atheist, de Cleyre was born in Leslie, Michigan, a small town south of Lansing. Her ...

The InfiniBand technology (IB) development community, e.g. Mellanox, Voltaire, Topspin, InfiniCon, etc. are deploying their next generation NICs and switches [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. The NICs are based on the PCI Express bus and the switches employ a 24 port switch chip developed by Mellanox. This new switch chip has led to the development of high port count (e.g. 144 and 288 ports) standalone switches...

This article seeks to explore how Enlightenment narratives and categories framed the perception image of Zaporozhian Cossacks both in imperial center south-western periphery Russian Empire late eighteenth century. It demonstrates that Catherine II deployed discourse civilizational mission justify disbandment Cossack Host liquidation Sich. The historical works Voltaire became an important source...

Institutional Development Charles E. Eesley 7-10-2009 "The storm center of the world has shifted . . . to China, whoever understands that mighty Empire . . . has a key to world politics for the next five hundred years." --U.S. Secretary of State John Hay, 1899 China is like a sleeping giant. And when she awakes, she shall astonish the world. --Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803 One of the greatest untold...