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The phrase alternative society may have been in usage since the 19th century when Karl Marx and Proudhon represented two factions for alternative visions of social change. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marxs view of history, which came to be called the materialist interpretation of history (and which was developed further as the philosophy of dialectical materialism) is certainly influenced by Hegels claim that reality (and history) should be viewed dialectically, through a clash of opposing forces. ... Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his children, Gustave Courbet, 1865. ... An alternative is one of two possible choices. ...


Philosophers who suggested alternative models for society included: Charles Fourier (1772-1837), Robert Owen (1771-1858), Louis Blanc (1811-1882), Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) and Wilhelm Weitling (1808-1871). The background of alternative social thinking stems largely from the history of utopianism. A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... François Marie Charles Fourier was a French utopian socialist. ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Robert Owen Robert Owen continues to be looked up to in this Manchester statue Robert Owen (May 14, 1771 – November 17, 1858) was a Welsh social reformer. ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc (October 29, 1811 - December 6, 1882), was a French politician and historian. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Louis Auguste Blanqui (February 8, 1805 - January 1, 1881) was a French political activist. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Weitling, Wilhelm [vait-], 1808–1871 was the first German communist or socialist of importance. ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


The phrase and variations of it appear throughout the progressive political and social writings of the 20th century. Mahatma Gandhi and his followers such as Satish Kumar advocate, as an alternative to violent revolution, the creation of alternative social services, alternative transportation systems, alternative food and clothing production, alternative housing, alternative medicine, alternative arts and alternative communications media including an alternative press. By recreating every facet of society and providing better services than the official ones the plan is that the people will flock to the alternative society and desert the establishment. Then the leaders of the establishment would follow. Thus change would be accomplished without violence. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869–January 30, 1948) (Devanagari, Hindi: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी,Gujarati:મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી) was the spiritual and political leader of India who led the struggle for Indias independence from the British Empire, empowered by tens of millions of Indians. ... Satish Kumar is an indian, currently living in England who has been a jain monk, a nuclear disarmament advocate, current editor of Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School. ... The term establishment has several meanings: An establishment is a place of business or residence, or the founding of such a place or business. ...

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Alternative alternatives

Other usages of Alternative Society turn up in the writings and discussions of anarchists, pacifists, libertarian socialists, occultists and others. All of these movements, collectively, struggling away throughout the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950's, are influences upon the hippie/new age usage of Alternative Society in the 1960s, 1970s and up to the present day. Anarchism derives from the Greek αναρχία (without archons (rulers)). Thus anarchism, in its most general meaning, is the belief that rulers, hierarchal organization, and systems of coersion are unnecessary and should be abolished. ... Pacifism is opposition to war. ... Libertarian socialism is any one of a group of political philosophies dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, in particular the institutions of capitalism and the state. ... The word occult comes from Latin occultus (hidden), referring to the knowledge of the secret or knowledge of the hidden and often meaning knowledge of the supernatural, as opposed to knowledge of the visible or knowledge of the measurable, usually referred to as science. ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...


The underground press

The underground press of the 1960s and 70s printed articles about various alternative societies and societies of alternatives. Underground press, in this sense, is a very elastic term. It refers to everything from a nationally or internationally distributed newspaper to a small local Zine or Samizdat. Some of the publications had particular areas of special interest. Oz magazine leaned toward sex, drugs, rock'n'roll. Country Bizarre was more concerned with radical environmental philosophy and practical information for organic gardening. "Some of the earliest 1960s underground papers were the East Village Other, San Francisco Oracle, Los Angeles Free Press, Berkeley Barb, and The Paper, of East Lansing, Michigan." http://www.lib.uconn.edu/~eembardo/voices/press.htm The phrase underground press, especially underground newspapers (or simply underground papers) is, these days, most often used in reference to the alternative print media, independently published and distributed, associated with the countercultural movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... A zine—an abbreviation of the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... Samizdat, book published by Pathfinder Press containing a collection of forbidden Trotskyist Samizdat texts. ... Oz Number 3 Oz was a satirical humour magazine first published between 1963–69 in Sydney, Australia and, in its second and more famous incarnation, from 1967 to 1973 in London, England. ... Organic gardening is a form of gardening that uses substantial diversity in pest control to reduce the use of pesticides and tries to provide as much fertility with local sources of nutrients rather than purchased fertilizers. ...


The underground press has continued since those days and is now enhanced by the power of the internet to enable individuals and groups to publish blogs. A current day incarnation of the underground press is Indymedia. A blog is a website in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and generally displayed in reverse chronological order. ... Indymedia Logo The Independent Media Center (aka Indymedia or the IMC) started as a vision for a global, open network of DIY journalists and alternative media activists. ...


Environmentalism

Environmentalists discuss reshaping the relationships and bonds at the roots of society to create an alternative system of Eco-anarchism which would respect our resources, both human and elemental. Various models of sustainability have been put forward and tried. Among the most successful environmentalist restructurings of social structure are the Global Ecovillage Network and the permaculture movement. Environmentalism is the support or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. ... Eco-anarchism argues that small eco-villages (of no more than a few hundred people) are a scale of human living preferable to civilization, and that infrastructure and political systems should be re-organized to ensure that these are created. ... The Global Ecovillage Network is a global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living sustainable plus lives by restoring the land and adding more to the environment than is taken. ... Permaculture Mandala illustration by Graham Burnett, summarising the ethics and principles of permaculture design. ...


Building alternative services

As a result of the interest, throughout the underground culture, in theories of alternative societies, movements and intentional communities began all around the world attempting to provide alternative housing by such means as organised squatting, tipi making, house sharing and a system called, in hippy jargon, Crash pad networks. This latter involves keeping a list of participants' addresses on file at an alternative information centre and then when someone is travelling and, upon arrival in a different city, wants a place to sleep (crash) they could go to the information centre and get an address. Upon arriving at the address they can get free accommodation (maybe a bed, maybe a floor - it is potluck) and, in exchange, when they are back in their own home (pad), they can offer similar accommodation to another traveller (see also Hospitality Club and Hospitality service for an equivalent of this, boosted by the internet). Another alternative solution to housing problems is thought by some to be possible through the construction of geodesic domes, a structure which can be built quite quickly from widely available materials such as scaffolding and tarpaulins. Underground culture, or just underground, is a term to describe various alternative cultures which either consider themselves different to the mainstream of society and culture, or are considered so by someone. ... ... This article is about occupying land without permission. ... Nez Perce tipi A tipi (also teepee, tepee) is a conical tent originally made of skins and popularised by the American Indians of the Great Plains. ... A bouldering mat or crash pad is basically a small mattress used for protection when bouldering. ... The alternative information centres were a feature of the anarcho-pacifist attempt at social engineering from the bottom up which took place from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s and which was referred to as the alternative society. ... User Growth, Jul 2000 - Nov 2005 The Hospitality Club is an international, Internet-based hospitality service of approximately 95,000 members. ... The concept of Hospitality Services, also known as “accommodation sharing”, “hospitality exchange”, and “home stay networks”, refers to centrally organized social networks of individuals who trade accommodation without monetary exchange. ... The American Pavilion of Expo 67, by R. Buckminster Fuller, now the Biosphère, on Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal A geodesic dome (IPA: /ʤiədɛsɪk/ or /ʤiədizɪk/ /dəʊm/) is an almost spherical structure based on a network of struts arranged on great circles... Bamboo scaffolding can reach great heights Scaffolding is a temporary framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures. ... A tarpaulin or tarp is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water resistant or waterproof cloth, often canvas coated with plastic or latex. ...


Alternative travel services are arranged by car sharing networks or simply by hitching. The emphasis is on creating social structures from the bottom up. Alternative soup kitchens are arranged, free bookshops, shops where everything is free (see also give-away shop) or for swap and free festivals sprang into existence. Since the mid-sixties the beginnings of a free society have begun to flourish. People are searching for tools and methods to take control of their own lives and reclaim power from the establishment. A soup kitchen is a place where food is offered to the poor for free or at a reasonably low price. ... Give-away shops or freeshops are second-hand stores that are starting to appear in Northern European towns and cities, especially in the Netherlands and Germany. ... Give-away shops, freeshops, or free stores are second-hand stores that are starting to appear in Northern European towns and cities, especially in the Netherlands and Germany. ... Free festivals are music, arts or cultural festivals for which no admission is charged. ...


Examples of Alternative Information Centres in the seventies include bit (which was named after the binary information transfer in computers) in London, England and Manchester Alternative General Information Centre (M.A.G.I.C.) in the north. Bit was founded by John Hopkins (Hoppy) who also founded International Times and distributed a contact list which put UK Underground activists in touch with each other. The style of these information centres varied according to location. The style of the ones in London reflected urban social concerns while the one in Glastonbury was mostly concerned with introducing travellers to the local legends and mysticism. Release is still in existence today and is specifically a drugs information centre. Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... Manchester Alternative General Information Centre or was an alternative society centre in Manchester, England in the 1970s. ... John Hopkins (Hoppy) was trained as a physicist at Cambridge. ... It has been suggested that UK Underground movement be merged into this article or section. ... Map sources for Glastonbury at grid reference ST5039 Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry spot on the Somerset Levels, 30 miles south of Bristol. ... Mysticism (ancient Greek mysticon = secret) is meditation, prayer, or theology focused on the direct experience of union with divinity, God, or Ultimate Reality, or the belief that such experience is a genuine and important source of knowledge. ... Release is a London, England based information service concerned with drugs and the law. ...


Christiania

Christiania, a partially self-governing neighborhood in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, which has established semi-legal status as an independent community, was founded in 1971, when a group of hippie squatters took over an area of abandoned military barracks. The community there has continued happily and peacefully ever since. The unofficial Flag of the Free Town of Christiania Christiania, also known as the Freetown Christiania, is a partially self-governing neighbourhood in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, which has established semi-legal status as an independent community. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...


Religious and pseudo-religious groups

The alternative society is often characterised as a society of alternatives and this includes a great interest in alternative, speculative and disputed theories such as pagan religion, alternative science and romantic mystical speculations. Religious and pseudo-religious groups are on the alternative society's mental map of the world and the existence of ashrams, kibbutzim, Buddhist monasteries, Rastafarians, Hare Krishna free food distributions and various churches and gurus' meeting places around the world provide an existing framework upon which the alternative society can grow. The relationship is symbiotic. The Movement for a New Society developed from Quaker roots. Some self-styled gurus were seen to jump on the bandwagon. The religions and pseudo-religious cults have gained lots of new members from the alternative society scene. Therefore, if the left wing of politics can be broadly said to empower the public sector and if the right wing can be broadly said to empower the private sector, then the alternative society could be considered as the political empowerment of the voluntary sector. This list of alternative, speculative and disputed theories includes examples of fields of endeavor that are considered to be fringe or pseudoscientific by the mainstream scientific community. ... Paganism (from Latin paganus) and Heathenry are catch-all terms which have come to connote a broad set of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of a natural religion, as opposed to the Abrahamic religions. ... Romantic and romanticism have a number of uses: Titles: Romantic (song) by Karyn White. ... Ashrams in ancient India were Hindu hermitages where sages lived in peace and tranquility amidst nature. ... Kibbutz Dan, near Qiryat Shemona, in the Upper Galilee, 1990s A kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים, gathering or together) is an Israeli collective community. ... The term Buddha is a word in ancient Indian languages including Pāli and Sanskrit which means one who has awakened. It is derived from the verbal root budh, meaning to awaken or to be enlightened, and to comprehend. It is written in devanagari script as Hindi: and pronounced as... Haile Selassie I Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalm... The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly called Hare Krishna, is a new religious movement founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, referred to by followers as Srila Prabhupada, in New York in 1966. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... References This section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... b nhm b. ... The Movement for a New Society (MNS) was a US-based network of social activists, committed to the principles of nonviolence, who played a key role in social movements of the 1970s and 80s. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... References This section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... The public sector is that part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... The private sector of a nations economy consists of those entities which are not controlled by the state - i. ... The voluntary sector of a nations economy consists of those entities which are not for profit and yet, at the same time, are not agencies of the state - i. ...


The relationship with religious groups also generates deep concerns amongst politicised travellers wary of becoming brainwashed by some cult or other. Brainwashing or thought reform is the application of coercive techniques to change the beliefs or behavior of one or more people for political purposes. ... In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. ...


International Situationism

There was a very active anarchist group in the Netherlands, known as the Kabouters, (translated as dwarves or trolls). The underground press in Britain attempts to keep everyone in touch with everyone else, publishing news of what other groups in different countries are doing. When the Kabouters advocated the Provos' white bicycle plan as a free community resource (painting some bicycles white and leaving them around the city where anybody could use them for free and then abandon them again until the next user would find them) the underground press in Britain passed the news on in hopes of getting a similar thing going. There is always a strong situationist theatrical element to the alternative society. Lawn Gnome A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by small stature and living underground. ... Trolls with an abducted princess (John Bauer, 1915) A troll is a fearsome member of a mythical anthropomorph race from Scandinavian folklore. ... For the Utah city, see Provo, Utah. ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...


One theatre group which had a significant role in the development of the alternative society was the Diggers in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. They were named after the nickname of the True Levellers movement in 17th century England. The Diggers was a radical community-action and guerrilla-theater group from 1966-68, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. ... Categories: US geography stubs | San Francisco neighborhoods ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... For other meanings see Diggers (disambiguation) and Levellers (disambiguation) The Diggers were a group begun by Gerrard Winstanley in 1649 which called for a total destruction of the existing social order and replacement with a communistic and agrarian lifestyle based around the precepts of Christian Nationalism, wishing to rid England... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...


The end of an era

From the late seventies onward there was less fervour and less organisation and the energy took other forms such as the New age movement, Punk rock and the Green party. The legacy of the 60s and 70s can be seen in the continued usage of the word "alternative" in all three of these. There are still people attempting to build new societies from the bottom up and the concept of alternative currencies is still alive and kicking (See LETS). New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... This article is about the green parties around the world. ... Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) are local, non-profit exchange networks in which all kinds of goods and services can be traded without the need for money. ...


Meanwhile, all over the world, many local communities (such as Somaliland) struggle to create viable alternative structures of society in the wake of collapsing previous governments. Motto: Freedom, Democracy and Success for All Anthem: Samo ku waar Samo ku waar Saamo ku waar Capital Hargeisa Largest city Hargeisa Official languages Somali Government President republic Dahir Riyale Kahin Independence  - Declared  - Recognition From Somalia  - 1991  - none Area  â€¢ Total  â€¢ Water (%)   137,600 km² (-) n/a Population  â€¢ 2005 est. ...


See also

Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (cosmologia, κόσμος (cosmos) world + λογια (logia) discourse) is the study of the universe in its totality and by extension mans place in it. ... Alternative dispute resolution or ADR is a name for several dispute resolution processes and techniques which, while believed by some to be outside the traditional mainstream of state jurisprudence, have gained acceptance among both the general public and the legal profession. ... An alternative lifestyle is a mode or style of conducting ones life that is considerably removed from the generally perceived norm. ... Alternative medicine broadly describes methods and practices used in place of, or in addition to, conventional medical treatments. ... The term alternative rock or alternative music1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... In education, the phrase alternative school usually refers to a school based on a non-traditional, new, or non-standard educational philosophy. ... Alternative technology is a term sometimes used by environmental advocates to refer to technologies which are more environmentally friendly than the functionally equivalent technologies dominant in current practice. ... Anarchism derives from the Greek αναρχία (without archons (rulers)). Thus anarchism, in its most general meaning, is the belief that rulers, hierarchal organization, and systems of coersion are unnecessary and should be abolished. ... Democratic transhumanism, a term coined by James Hughes in 2002, refers to the ideas of transhumanists (humanists who support morphological freedom and the ethical use of technologies that enhance human capacities) who espouse liberal, social or radical democratic political views. ... The freak scene was a term used by a slightly post-hippie and pre-punk style of bohemian subculture. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. ... Dial House is a sixteenth-century farm cottage nestling deep in the countryside in Essex, England, fringing Epping Forest. ... Subcultures The 20th century was a time of social diversity and the rise of the individual. ... // What is Inclusive Democracy? Inclusive democracy is a new conception of democracy, which, using as a starting point the classical definition of it, expresses democracy in terms of direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social... The International Times (IT) was an underground paper started in 1966 in the UK, based in central London. ... Several geo-political entitites in the world have no general international recognition, but they are de facto sovereign states. ... This is a list of currently active, autonomist and secessionist movements around the world. ... This is a list of historical autonomist and secessionist movements around the world. ... This list includes only disputes between widely-recognized countries, and does not cover regions which have proclaimed independence but have not been recognized, nor regions which are seeking independence. ... This article is about small nations that are not recognized by any world government. ... Mission-based organization is often used as an alternative to terms such as non-profit and non-governmental organization. ... New age travellers or Peace Convoy are a peculiarly British social phenomenon consisting of a group of people who often espouse New age and Neopagan beliefs, and who travel between music festivals and fairs in order to live in a community with others who hold similar beliefs. ... Holidays in the Danger Zone: Places That Dont Exist is a five-part BBC Four series on breakaway states and unrecognised nations, devised, written and presented by Simon Reeve. ... Punk culture as it is seen today started in the mid 1970s as a movement or rebellion against some styles of music which existed at the time such as Prog Rock and Heavy Metal whose stars were seen as out of touch with their fans. ... The Stonehenge free festival was a festival from 1972 to 1984 held at Stonehenge in England during the month of June, and culminating on the summer solstice on June 21st. ... Underground culture, or just underground, is a term to describe various alternative cultures which either consider themselves different to the mainstream of society and culture, or are considered so by someone. ... It has been suggested that UK Underground movement be merged into this article or section. ... Logo of the UNPO The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international organization. ... Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers (often referred to as simply the Motherfuckers) was an anarchist affinity group based in New York City. ... The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on Hippies) was a highly theatrical political party established in the United States in 1967. ... The Whole Earth Catalog was a sizeable catalog published twice a year from 1968 to 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. ...

Trivia and media representaions of the alternative society

A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Rumpole of the Bailey is a television series created and written by British writer Sir John Mortimer, QC and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients. ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Jane Asher Jane Asher (born April 5, 1946) is a British film and television actress and the author of several full-length novels. ... July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ITV3 is an entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ... A British sitcom is a situation comedy (sitcom) produced in the United Kingdom. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ...

External links

Reading

  • Takis Fotopoulos: The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy [1]Athens 2005.
  • Lewis, B., Chisnall, A. and Hall, A. (1974) Unattached Youth. A study commissioned by the Joseph Rownstree Memorial Trust, London: Blond and Briggs. 171 pages. Bibliography.
  • Kumar, Satish, Christian Action Publications Ltd (1969) Non-Violence or Non-Existence. ISBN:0901500038

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