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...that income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928? ...that smoking (pictured) has a history that dates back at least 5,000 years and is one of the most widely practiced recreational activities in the world? ...that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world? ... that in his book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eight constitutional amendments? ...that the Cuban labor movement was predominantly anarchist until it was crushed first by President Machado, and then Fidel Castro?

Second selection

...that Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
...that Hillary Rodham called children's rights a "slogan in need of a definition"?
...that the term "doomsday cult" can refer to apocalyptic groups that prophesy catastrophe, and those that attempt to bring it about?
... that male prostitutes in Pakistan generally range from fifteen to twenty-five years of age?
...that the Revolt of the Comuneros, an uprising against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is considered by some to be the first modern revolution?

Third selection

...that British Labour Party MP Roland Boyes continued in office after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, but his condition had deteriorated so much that, upon his retirement in 1997, he was unaware that his party had gained control after 18 years in opposition?
...that Max Weber argued that the increasing rationalization of human life traps individuals in an "iron cage" of rule-based, rational control?
... that North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, considered the heart of the city's African American community, has not fully recovered since several riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
...that anti-German and anti-Chinese sentiments have motivated two of the several riots in the history of Calgary?
...that Omaha, Nebraska's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen?

Fourth selection
... that the Espada Cemetery (pictured) was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba? ... that dissidents within the Polish community in Omaha burnt down a church in the Sheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to the local Roman Catholic bishop? ... that the stages of growth model describes the changing role of information technology in organizations? ... that the sexual script is a sociological analysis of what leads up to sexual intercourse? ...that Omaha, Nebraska pioneer gambler Dan Allen was buried with his madam girlfriend under a concrete slab with columns resembling bedposts?

Fifth selection
...that sociologist Ralph Larkin (pictured) published Comprehending Columbine after teaching about the Columbine High School massacre at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice? ...that although the first meeting of the Indian Independence League took place in Tokyo in March 1942, it was not formally proclaimed until June of that year in Bangkok? ...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons? ... that military sociology, one of the branches of sociology, looks at issues such as gender, minorities and power in the military? ...that manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions are sociological concepts for understanding the hidden reasons for actions and customs? ... that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple?		130x130px

Sixth selection
...that over 60.1% of Colombian families are below (pictured) the poverty threshold? ... that political opportunity theory explains the rise and decline of social movements by their dependence on outside, political factors? ... that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and the public sphere? ... that sociologists distinguish between general social movements and specific social movement organizations? ... that social interface is a term used in social sciences both in a theoretical literature, and in a practical design of computer user interfaces?

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