Search results for "Laws of war" - New World Encyclopedia
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- affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ... Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... He improved pensions, and waged a "war on poverty." He pursued ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- Conflicts: The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the late professor ... Conflicts: The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the Late Professor ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 07:42, 25 May 2024
- The Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)Benjamin. A. Valentino, Final Solutions: ... those displaced by the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. This may qualify as a war ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement ... grandfather, Henry Clay. She was a cousin of Ephraim McDowell and American ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... that year was the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The compromise was possible after the death of President Zachary Taylor, who ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly experimental novels ... Along with Borges, Cortazar is often considered to be one of the most ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- violations of international law and the laws of war. Because the court was ... treaty obligations and the customary laws of war. For example at the trial ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... Calhoun began his career as a staunch nationalist, favoring war with ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... He became an important critic of the anti-democratic tendencies of ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 10:45, 28 February 2023
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:18, 9 November 2022
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
