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Although rummy's basic pattern is prefigured in certain Oriental tile and card games, such as the Chinese mah-jongg and the Japanese hanafuda games, the oldest Western example of a rummy game is the 19th-century Mexican game of conquian, and Latin America has always produced the keenest players and most-inventive developers of rummy games.
The most famous Western example of this type of shrine is that at Lourdes in France, where the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in a series of visions in 1858 and to have indicated a miraculously flowing stream that would heal the ill.
More recently, the Tories' silly war on internet porn has seen them lose the moral high ground on freedom of information, simultaneously letting the Chinese government off the hook by providing them with a Western example of severe internet control – at least according to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.
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The standard textbooks invoke western examples.
St. Stephen's routine will be set to an organum by Pérotin, one of the earliest Western examples of four-part polyphony.
In the Turkish theatre, comedy is older than tragedy and melodrama, which became known only in the nineteenth century, through Western examples.
For now, LinkedIn is about the first serious online network to go public among Western examples, though Facebook will probably follow next year.
The most famous example was the translation (1870) of Samuel Smiles's Self-Help; it became a kind of bible for ambitious young Japanese eager to emulate Western examples of success.
Yet his penchant for nature studies, whether of flora and fauna or human anatomy, and his subtle incorporation of perspective and shading techniques learned from Western examples perhaps better qualify him to be noted as the first of the great eclectic painters.
Second, the cases in this research focused on western examples in UK/US.
If Facebook needs more local, Western examples beyond Snapchat — which it famously tried to buy for $3 billion — then Canada-based Kik is one to watch.
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