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  • quot;) (1898? – 21 July 1967) was a South African teacher and politician ... He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ANC ...
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  • political left and right, it is best known for its investigations of the ... of prominent aspects of American society by communists who sought ...
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  • The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose ... The Fabian Society represented the more evolutionist element of socialism ...
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  • Maha Thray Sithu U Thant (January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974) ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...
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  • Strauss. Late in his career he became famous for his scathing criticism of ... to social worker parents in Indianapolis. As a thirteen year old, he read ...
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  • (December 18, 1913 – October 8, 1992), was a German politician, chancellor ... one of his closest aides had been working for the East German secret service ...
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  • in 1952 and President when Ghana adopted a republican constitution in ... although some of these were ghost-written for him by disciples. The Scramble ...
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  • who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat four times (1962, ... Wallace Sr. and Mozell Smith, he became a regionally successful boxer ...
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  • party of Cambodia—which it renamed the Democratic Kampuchea—from 1975 to ... before World War II; the ten-year struggle for independence from the French ...
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  • appointed by his brother as Attorney General for his administration. As one ... he brought the first sense of justice for minorities to the White House—though ...
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  • Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast ... A small population, abundant natural resources, and foreign private ...
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  • politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was noted for ... in 1934, with the motto "Every Man a King," proposing new wealth ...
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  • Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... were counted as property then. High prices for cotton, the primary crop, ...
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  • Bhumibol reigned from June 9, 1946, serving for 70 years, 126 days. 1992, the king supported the establishment of a democratically elected government. ...
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  • Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... biography by Sylvia Nasar and the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind. Game theory ...
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  • between Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong. He was a military and political leader ... the Republic and Director-General of the KMT for the remainder of his life ...
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  • (November 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political ... led successive revolutionary governments as a challenge to the warlords who ...
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  • The island has a rich history with human habitation dating back at ... independence from British colonial rule and a democratic constitution was ...
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  • the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional ... in Selma, Alabama. Lewis was well recognized for his many contributions to ...
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  • The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... and methods such as transparent procedures for competitive procurement and ...
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  • A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... have an ideological and economic component, for example China and Cuba. Many ...
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  • The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) was a biblically based ... The American Civil Rights Movement put up a decade of struggle long after ...
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  • formally as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity ... Reverend Moon was a prolific speaker, his writings filling over 400 ...
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  • Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Part of ... takes its name from the Seneca nation word for its major river (the Ohio ...
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  • to be elected in fully representative democratic elections. Before his presidency ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...
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  • South or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in ... the southern region includes 16 states (with a total 2006 estimated population ...
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  • elected government of Iran was overthrown in a British-United States assisted ... in 1979, to his overthrow and exile. Two and a half thousand years of monarchy ...
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  • of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and ... wildly divergent perceptions of his works. For example, his 1959 novel Starship ...
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  • Muslim Brotherhood. He is best known for his theoretical work on redefining ... intervention of the President of Iraq. A year later he was re-arrested ...
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  • As a Christian evangelist his mission was to bring people to Christ ... 7, 1918, in the downstairs bedroom of a farmhouse near Charlotte, North ...
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  • Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the ... Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth. ...
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  • For the civilization of China and its history see China ... Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East ...
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  • Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016 ... which he traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group with his ...
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  • Arabic name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) was a Muslim minister and a national ... As a fiery, socio-political critic of American Christianity's ...
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  • from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...
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  • to the United States. The island has a tropical climate that is moderated ... in world politics in the twentieth century. A pawn during the Cold War between ...
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  • empowering the African-American community. A moral leader foremost, he espoused ... King is only one of three Americans to have a national holiday, and the only ...
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  • Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and ... theory of Trotskyism, and Trotskyism remains a major school of Marxist thought ...
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  • Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public ... advantages over toothpaste, especially for subgroups at high risk. ...
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  • ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ... To its north sits North Korea (Democratic People's Republic ...
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  • literary forgery that purports to describe a Jewish plot to achieve world ... Numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proven it to be ...
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  • Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), a position that did not originally ... Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into a global superpower and did not ...
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  • (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician ... ascendancy. He died of influenza nearly a century later, at a time when ...
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  • ), is a small, predominantly mountainous country located in Central ... controlled large parts of Western Europe for much of the period from 1278 ...
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  • France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... The French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic with more ...
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  • , commonly known as Russia (Rossiya), is a transcontinental country extending ... Formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) ...
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  • The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of ... Greater Mexico City has a GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ...
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