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23 Jun 2024:
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The quotes by Jean-Pierre Castel et Jean-Claude Simard in their
book La
Mathématisation du Temps, published 18 April 2024,
floated here.
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01 Mar 2024:
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The articles by J.F. Dortier in
L'Histoire
mondiale de la pensée, Jan-Feb.2024 special issue
of "Sciences Humaines", quoting my book
The Secret of the West (2007 edition) about the opposed
destinies of China and Europe during the IInd millenium.
floated here.
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20 Aug 2023:
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The review by Quentin Bérard at a meeting with the association
Technologos in Paris of my book Le Secret de l'Occident
(édition 2007) about the geopolitical configurations needed for
scientific progress, on
Lieux Communs,
floated here.
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26 June 2023:
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Mes pages
Pierre Vittoz are now listed
on top position by Google, Bing and Altavista/Yahoo, for keywords
Pierre, Vittoz, biography.
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15 May 2023:
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Google, Bing and Altavista have detected my biography pages under
Pierre Vittoz. But Google
positions it on the 2nd page of suggested links, after a dozen of
wrong results... Bing and Altavista remember my pages only when
the key words include my name on top of "biography, Pierre, Vittoz".
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23 Apr 2023:
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The first complete version of the Pierre Vittoz
pages online.
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07 Apr 2023:
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The paper on my discovery of the
supermassive
black hole binary at the center of nearby Centaurus A galaxy
reproduced here.
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09 Mar 2023:
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First draft versions of the Pierre Vittoz
pages floated here.
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17 Apr 2021:
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The Introduction to the main theories
of the European miracle by Esteban Vidal (in Spanish), duly mentioning
The Secret of the West (1997), reproduced here.
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10 Apr 2021:
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Philippe Fabry's interview on the repeating patterns in history
"The Postil Magazine",
(July 2020), relying on my Secret of the West (2008)
to understand the parallelism between modern Europe a
and ancient Greece.
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07 Apr 2021:
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The YouTube video
"In Favor of
a Fair History of the West" by French broadcaster "Histoire&Cie",
quoting Le Secret de l'Occident (2008) about the
third-world to first-world relation between Europe and the Middle East
in the early Middle Ages.
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04 Apr 2021:
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The Reader of the Day nominated on February 10th, 2020 by
Babelio.com
was reading... The Secret of the West !
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04 Apr 2021:
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The interview of Éric
Denécé (2019) by YouTube's broadcaster ThinkerView, with a very good
recommendation of The Secret of the West (2008) at the end, floated here.
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28 Mar 2021:
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The two YouTube videos
on my book The Secret of the West (2008) issued by French economist broadcaster
"Des Économistes et des Hommes" in Dec 2018 floated here.
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07 Feb 2021:
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History Professor Walter Scheidel deeply relying on my Secret
of the West for writing his excellent book
Escape from Rome
(2019).
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07 June 2020:
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Out of
A Small Greek
World (Nov 2011), several quotes of my book The Secret
of the West made by classical history professor Irad Malkin.
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31 May 2020:
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The paper by Danish archeologist C.Paludan-Müller
"On Rivers,
Mountains, Seas and Ideas" (June 2013), making a long quote of
my book The Secret of the West, floated here.
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24 May 2020:
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The review of The Secret of the West (2007) done by prof Jacques Brasseul
in his Histoire économique de
l'Afrique tropicale reproduced here.
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17 May 2020:
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As an example for the widening diffusion of my The Secret of the West, two
quotes floated here. A first quote dated Feb 2019 by Esteban Vidal, in Spanish,
in an ideologically-tainted (anarchist and "anti-capitalist") paper
on the origins of capitalism.
A second quote, dated March 2020, by Richard Mil, in French, in a critique of
the Muslim world's backwardness
in astronomy.
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10 May 2020:
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Floating of the papers by David LePoire of Argonne Laboratory, Illinois (USA):
(1) Mar 2019: Physical
analogies for the great transitions in the history of civilizations
(2) Oct 2010: On
the reasons for leadership changes among advanced nations.
quoting this site and my book The Secret of the West (1997-edition).
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03 May 2020:
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Islam, Authoritarianism, and
Underdevelopment, the 2019 quotes of Le Secret de l'Occident
by Ahmet Kuru floated on this site.
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30 Apr 2020:
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End of this site shutdown.
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28 Apr 2020:
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Site shutdown beginning (the shutdown lasted from 28 April 2020 at 18:00
to 30 April 2020 at 14:00). The shutdown was linked to this site's migration
between two webhosters. This migration in turn was made unavoidable by the
sale, in March 2020, of its webhosting unit by the first webhoster (Netstream AG)
to another company (Internet Group AG), the new webhoster.
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03 Apr 2020:
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Three docs by Peer Vries
reviewing the possible causes of the rise of the West/ great divergence/
European miracle floated.
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28 Mar 2020:
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Canadian anthropogist Roland Viau quoting in his book
Amerindia
– essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone (2015) my interview
in the Journal de Genève (nov 1997). The quote and a few extracts
reproduced on this site.
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21 Mar 2020:
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2008-Cerisy conference on the philosophies
of history: my contribution floated, including for the 1st time the general graph of
the rich states system theory and some results of my advanced research.
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14 Mar 2020:
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The recommendation of my book The Secret of the West (2007 edition) for teaching
geo-history in Italy, in
Geo-Storie d'Italia
in July 2017, by Mario Pilosu, copied online.
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13 Mar 2020:
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"Les Collections
de l'Histoire": Joel Cornette's Jan 2008-review of The Secret of
the West (2007 edition), floated as English page.
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07 Mar 2020:
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French social scientist Blaise Wilfert-Portal's paper advocating a
transnational approach
for thinking the history of Europe (2012), and quoting The Secret
of the West (1997 edition), floated.
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01 Mar 2020:
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The quote of my 2001-article on scientific progress in the Italian
collective book Through
the Mirrors of Science (May 2010), by Cinzia Rizza, floated here.
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01 Mar 2020:
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The central list of press clipping in SP format created. The excellent
JdG 1997-interview and review by Anton Vos floated in SP format.
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28 Feb 2020:
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In Education Unchained,
Erik Lidstrom's quotes of Le Secret de l'Occident on reforming school
and education in the West floated on this site.
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28 Feb 2020:
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End of service provider failure.
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24 Jan 2020:
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Start of service provider failure.
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28 Jan 2018:
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The quote of Secret de l'Occident by N.Deleau in his
master thesis
Are Hidden Agendas
At Stake Behind Development Help Programs?, at Univ of Louvain,
Belgium.
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01 Jan 2018:
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A long quote by the French website
Lieux Communs
of my book The Secret of the West (2008 edition) on the
Ancient Greece - Modern Europe parallelism floated on this site.
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25 Mar 2017:
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The special issue of Gerflint journal
"Synergies
Monde Méditerranéen", devoted to my book
Le Secret de l'Occident (2007-edition), floated.
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26 Feb 2017:
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The paper by F.Ferretti on China
in the 1880s, as seen by E.Reclus floated on this site.
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19 Feb 2017:
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My talk at the "Fractals 2000 in Biology and Medicine" in Ascona, Switzerland,
on March 11, 2000, and published in May 2002 as
The
fractal dimension of the coastline as a determinant for Western European
technological success (at last) floated on this site.
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11 Feb 2017:
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The 31 Aug 2016-analysis by J.Knight relying on The Secret of the West (2007)
to analyze
Elon
Musk's endeavours and the space conquest floated.
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15 Mar 2015:
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My May 2014-interview in French philosophy magazine
"Le Philosophoire",
on history of civilisations and the notion of "civilisation", floated.
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02 nov 2014:
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The first
paper in Arabic
introducing The Secret of the West (2007 edition), published
on an Emirati website, floated here, as well as its (incomplete)
translation.
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26 Oct 2014:
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The free e-book
by prof Roger Raynal of Toulouse, France, on the history of science for teachers,
floated here.
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19 oct 2014:
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The paper on
the decline of thought
in the Arabic world in the Middle Ages (July 2012), by Gotthard Strohmaier,
quoting The Secret of the West (2007 edition), floated here.
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12 Oct 2014:
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The May 2013-paper by I.Surun on the evolution of
continents definitions
floated on this site.
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05 Oct 2014:
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My paper of 6 October 2011 published in
"Le Philosophoire"
on the notion of decline and progress, entitled "Are we in
progress or decline?", floated almost exactly for its
3rd publication birthday.
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28 Sep 2014:
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My June 2014-paper in "Le Monde & La Vie"
on the West's position in world science, floated here.
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21 Sep 2014:
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Extracts from the July 2014-book by Jonathan Daly
Historians Debate
the Rise of the West quoting The Secret of the West
(1997 edition), floated here.
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14 Sep 2014:
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The March 2014-paper by J.-P. Castel against
the religious hypothesis,
quoting The Secret of the West (2007, 2008), floated here.
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07 Sep 2014:
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The February 2014-interview of F.Facchini quoting
The Secret of the West (2007, 2008) on
the causes for
economic development, floated here.
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06 Sep 2014:
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The Dec 2012-paper on
the true problem
pension systems, by Jacques Bichot,
quoting Our Self-Destroying Pension Systems (2003/2004), floated here.
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01-03 Sep 2014:
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This website migrating between two platforms at the webhosting company.
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22 Sep 2013:
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The Feb 2013-paper by Kostas Mavrakis on
the religious hypothesis,
quoting The Secret of the West (2007), floated here.
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26 May 2013:
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The Jan 2013 quote of Our self-destroying pension systems (2003/2004)
in a paper on inter-generational
solidarity, by F. Loriaux, floated here.
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20 May 2013:
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The June 2010 quote of The Secret of the West (2007) by P.-A. Giraud
in his master thesis on the
open source code developpers in Aquitaine, floated here.
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12 May 2013:
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The quote in L'Union
Européenne et la mer (2011) of The Secret of the West (1997) floated.
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09 May 2013:
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The March 2013-The text on the Great Divergence
quoting Le Secret de l'Occident (1997, 2007) floated.
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05 Aug 2012:
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The review in Demography –
Analyzis and Synthesis by Michel Loriaux about my book
Our Self-Destroying Pension Systems (2003/2004) floated.
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02 Aug 2012:
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The 1st Vietnamese paper quoting The Secret of the West (1997) –
a paper about Needham's Grand Question,
floated on this site.
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15 Jul 2012:
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The paper by prof. Jean-Luc de Meulemeester of Brussels on
the history
of universities reproduced on this site.
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14 Jul 2012:
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The quotes by Michel Cuvillon
("historical homologies")
floated.
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13 Jul 2012:
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The very interesting May 2012 article by Clint Ballinger
reappraising
the role of mercantilism in the rise of the West, reproduced here.
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10 Jun 2012:
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The excellent EBay
February 2011-summary of Our Self-Destroying Pension Systems
(2003/2004), reproduced here.
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10 Jun 2012:
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My November 2010-article about my book Our Self-Destroying
Pension Systems (2003/2004) in
"Bulletin HEC"
of Lausanne, Switzerland's University, floated.
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02 Jun 2012:
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The review of The Secret of the West (2007) by Belgian daily
"L'Echo", of February 2008,
floated.
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19 May 2012:
|
The deep and insightful review of The Secret of the West (2007) by
"Le Futur Ouest",
of January 2009, floated.
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18 May 2012:
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Bruno Colmant's book
Économie européenne,
l'influence des religions's extract, quoting The Secret of
the West (1997) floated.
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17 May 2012:
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The two articles with Etienne Klein,
the interview in
La Tribune of January 2011, and
the debate at ENS de Paris
of December 2009, floated.
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17 May 2012:
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The review of The Secret of the West (2007) by French daily
"Le Sud Ouest"
(Bordeaux) floated.
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13 May 2012:
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Chapter 7 of
La Filosofia de
la Innovacion (2009), by Oscar Gonzalez, bringing up a long analysis
of The Secret of the West (2007) in Spanish, floated.
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12 May 2012:
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The article on illusions of human
space travel to Mars quoting The Secret of the West (2007) published
on Lieux Communs website on Apr 2012, floated on this site.
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29 Apr 2012:
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The 2nd article on The Secret of the West (2007) from the website
Temps et Fiction (2),
dated November 2010, floated on this site.
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25 Mar 2012:
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The Jan 2011-seminar of prof. Peter Demant in Brazil about
the causes for Western
Leadership in the world floated.
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11 Apr 2011:
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The May 2004-paper by G. Csurgai relying on The Secret of the West (1997)
to remind the space race's end disaster in
Quelles perspectives
géopolitiques pour l'Europe?, floated.
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08 Apr 2011:
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The lecture by F. Ferretti on the
history of the thalassographic
hypothesis, refering to The Secret of the West (2007), floated.
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26 Feb 2011:
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The plan of the essay about
"The European identity issue",
by Jean-Luc Lefevre, mentioning my book The Secret of the West (2007),
floated.
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28 Sep 2010:
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The long summary of The Secret of the West (2007) on website
Temps et Fiction (1)
of August 2010 reproduced on this site.
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28 Sep 2010:
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The recommendation of The Secret of the West (2007)
produced in August 2010 by French
Ministry of Education.
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04 Sep 2010:
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The review of Le Secret de l'Occident (2008)
posted in November 2009 on the website
"Critiques Libres".
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04 Sep 2010:
|
The March 2009-paper by Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau in
"Le Débat"
mentionning Le Secret de l'Occident (2007), floated.
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01 Sep 2010:
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The 3p-interview of me by Laurent Testot in
"Sciences Humaines"
(Sep 2008), about The Secret of the West (2007), floated.
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01 Sep 2010:
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The book review on "Mondes
Francophones", by Marius Letellier in May 2010, quoting
The Secret of the West (2007, 2008), floated.
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27 Aug 2010:
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The 2008-paper by Noel Cox on
"The rise and fall of states",
extensively relying on The Secret of the West (1997), floated.
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24 Aug 2010:
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The interview of physicist Etienne Klein in
"L'Agitateur d'idées"
of October 2008, briefly summarizing The Secret of the West (2007) floated.
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24 Aug 2010:
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The European Council document Heritage
and Beyond of November 2009 quoting Le Secret de l'Occident (2007).
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23 Aug 2010:
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The first Spanish-language review of Le Secret de l'Occident (2007) –
in "Mediterráneo Económico"
in December 2008.
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23 Aug 2010:
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The extract from the 2002-Moroccan book about
Morocco's scientific development
, floated.
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22 Aug 2010:
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The paper by F.Schneider at Univ. de Kent, about Unifying European Law (2008),
relying on Le Secret de l'Occident (1997).
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21 Aug 2010:
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The Essay
by Guillaume Narbonne from HEC Paris (January 2009),
briefly presenting Le Secret de l'Occident (1997).
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21 Aug 2010:
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The mention at the Astrophysics
conference in Barcelone in September 2009 of Le Secret de l'Occident (1997).
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19 Aug 2010:
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The short review of The Secret of the West (2007) published in October 2008
in Hong Kong-based magazine
Mingpao Monthly
de Hong Kong.
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19 Aug 2010:
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The University of Rostock, Germany's workshop of April-June 2009,
The Rise of Europe, floated.
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01 Jul 2010:
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The Italian review in Storicamente,
of December 2008, floated.
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22 Dec 2007:
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My interview in Sciences et Avenir
of December 2007 floated.
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20 Dec 2007:
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The NewScientist article of April 1998
floated.
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19 Dec 2007:
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The pdf version of the article by the Journal de Genève floated.
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19 Dec 2007:
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The protocols of the university of Toulouse, France, workshop about
the changes in public law
in South-East Asia floated.
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10 Nov 2007:
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Article in La Liberté
of 30 October 2007 on Le Secret de l'Occident (2007) and interview of me
reproduced on this website.
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07 Oct 2007:
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The article in the French daily Le Monde
of October 05, 2007, reproduced on this site.
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30 Sep 2007:
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The article in the French daily Le Figaro
of September 26, 2007, reproduced on this site.
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09 Sep 2007:
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The first version of the 2007-edition of The Secret
of the West available.
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09 Sep 2007:
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The 2007 new policital book review by
Georges Leroux floated on this site.
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23 Aug 2007:
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The article by Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier of 14 Aug 2007 on
"Fenêtre Europe"
floated on this site.
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23 Aug 2007:
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The French Embassy's library
including L'Europe et la Science reproduced on this site.
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23 Aug 2007:
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The on-line bibliography of the Aug-Sep 07 issue of French magazine
"Sciences Humaines"
reproduced on this site.
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22 Aug 2007:
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Floating Yanko Slava's webpages about Jared Diamond's
Guns, Germs and Steel,
dated 14 Dec 2006.
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22 Aug 2007:
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The bibliography of Info Point Europe,
dated March 2002, floated.
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22 Aug 2007:
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The on-line paper by Philipp Hoffman,
dated 23 Oct 2006, floated.
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11 Mar 2007:
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The paper by Michel Loriaux published
on 27 Nov 2006, quoting Our Self-Destroying Pension Systems, floated.
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17 Sep 2006:
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The text from the Adam Smith Institute
Blog of February 2006 floated.
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17 Sep 2006:
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The paper from Eurojournal of July 2004 floated.
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16 Sep 2006:
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The proceedings of the meeting
about competition laws in the EU held in Paris on Dec 01, 2005
floated.
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24-26 Aug 2006:
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10,000th visitor since oct 00.
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14 Aug 2006:
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The excellent analysis of
The Secret of the West on "La Lettre Volée", by Edgar P.,
reproduced here.
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14 Aug 2006:
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The paper on the value of European
diversity, by Olivier Béguin, floated.
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13 Aug 2006:
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The 3rd paper by Arnaud Parienty,
published in Alternatives Economiques in November 2004, added to this site.
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13 Aug 2006:
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The 2nd paper by Lewis Pyenson added to this site.
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01 May 2006:
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The two articles by Axel Gosseries (paper1,
paper 2) on inter- vs. intra-
generation justice, floated.
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05 Mar 2006:
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Two articles by Jacques Brasseul, on
the emergence of capitalism and on
the historical fault lines of Europe,
floated on this site.
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25 Feb 2006:
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The article about India and the Grand Question
floated on this site.
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12 Jan 2006:
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This website again online, after having been off-line since Nov05, due to server migration.
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19 Feb 2005:
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The articles of "Nouvel Observateur" on the causes of
the bogging down of Chinese and Arab science and technology in the Middle Ages.
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21 Dec 2004:
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5000th visitor.
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19 Dec 2004:
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The CCE newsletter article about my conference in Brussels on June 18, 2004, floated.
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19 Dec 2004:
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The internet article about my conference in Brussels on June 18, 2004, floated.
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xx Nov 2004:
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The introduction page to the The Self-Imposed Failure of Retirement Systems floated.
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24-25 Jan 2004:
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3,000th visitor.
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03 Jan 2004:
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The article by Peer Vries
about the cultural explanation of the European miracle floated on this site.
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20 Dec 2003:
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The article by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
in Le Figaro Littéraire floated on this site.
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26 Jul 2003:
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The recommendation for this site from Le Café Pédagogique reproduced here.
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02 Jun 2003:
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The article by Jared Diamond in Nature floated on this site.
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13-15 May 2003:
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2000th visitor.
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30 Nov 2002:
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The page of the CEC about L'Europe et la Science reproduced on this site.
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23 Nov 2002:
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The mention by the French magazine L'Expansion, dating back November 1997 but only now visible on line, reproduced on this site.
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27 Aug 2002:
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The paper by Brian Davies "The role of astronomy in the history of science" (the consequences of cloud cover), and the lecture on the European miracle by Pierre Hautcoeur "L'Europe dans le monde, 1500-2000" online.
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01 Aug 2002:
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The paper by Aurélie-Anne Tallon online.
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14 May 2002:
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The paper by Christophe Brun online.
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25-27 Feb 2002:
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1000th visitor since oct 00.
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2-3 Oct 2001:
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After my interview in Le Soir (Brussels),
150 connections observed in two days.
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18 Aug 2001:
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Lang pages online.
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23 Apr 2001:
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My article in Sciences floated.
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07 Apr 2001:
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The review in Géopolitique
des Populations added.
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02 Apr 2001:
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Altavista detects this site (riseofthewest.net) – with about 9 months delay. |
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21 Feb 2001:
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Google (announcing 1.35bln websites scanned) rediscovers this site.
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15 Feb 2001:
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Google loose sight of test site under keywords valid before its change into a forwarding site. Unfortunately, Google still oversees this site.
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05 Jan 2001:
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Altavista detects the test site (with about 7 months delay).
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17 Dec 2000:
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Landes pages online.
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01 Dec 2000:
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I delete the test site pages and replace them with forwarding pages.
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10 Nov 2000:
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Google.com loses sight of this site. Retains only test site. Probably noticed the mirror pages.
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27 Oct 2000:
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Article in Le Journal de Genève added.
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23 Oct 2000:
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This site (www.riseofthewest.net) detected by google.com – about four months after floating, at a time when google announced 1.25 bln pages scanned.
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09 Oct 2000:
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Article in Le Républicain Lorrain added.
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25 Sep 2000:
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DC pages of test site detected by google.com, about two months after floating, at a time when google announced 1.07 bln internet pages scanned.
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19 Sep 2000:
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Needham pages online.
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18 Sep v00:
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Baechler pages online.
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09 Sep 2000:
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Blamont pages online.
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29 Aug 2000:
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Jones pages online.
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20 Aug 2000:
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The first DC pages online.
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23 Jul 2000:
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Wittfogel pages online.
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17 Jul 2000:
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Braudel pages online.
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25 Jun 2000:
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First floating online under the address "www.riseofthewest.net" including Weber pages.
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03 May 2000:
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Start of online testing.
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24 Apr 2000:
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Start of site construction.
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17 Dec 1999:
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First site concept.
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