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- from the word "gram," means "of the village." The bank ... The origin of Grameen Bank traces back to 1976. Muhammad Yunus, a ...25 KB (3,568 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- in his writings, particularly the absurdity of existence in a brutal and apparently ... Though Camus’ work is often associated with that of another important ...25 KB (3,796 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... thought." She said "freedom of speech is not what it used ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- assembly, religious tolerance, freedom of speech (in the form of language ... previously unheard of tone. The freedom of speech also opened the floodgates ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 04:25, 24 May 2024
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- (أبو عمّار). Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ... of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). Arafat ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading ... Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world along with ...17 KB (2,456 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- novelist, editor, and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian ... as a powerful act in support of the freedom of speech, in 1939 passed largely ...40 KB (5,765 words) - 22:46, 29 June 2023
- right|frame|Official White House photograph of Vice President Rockefeller, 1975]] Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), of ...23 KB (3,392 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper ... racism and the degrading conditions of blacks undermined the recognition ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- According to the teachings of the Buddha, a proper understanding of ... *Form—in terms of an external object (such as a sound) and its associated ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... , an epic poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- statesman Pericles. She was born in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor, and ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... *Freedom of speech—the right to hold and espouse any opinion without ...74 KB (11,141 words) - 21:10, 25 May 2024
- The history of Solidarity begins in September 1980, at the Gdańsk ... 2004, ISBN 0415933978), 114. to members of the anti-communist Left. Solidarity ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- together to challenge the immoral system of racial segregation. The movement ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth ... also had their heroes from the long history of Irish revolt against the British ...44 KB (6,781 words) - 18:16, 24 January 2024
- December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 12:41, 22 May 2024
- |affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... initial $1 million endowment in the hopes of making a contribution to the ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian ... between cause and effect in the events of history. History of the Peloponnesian ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,253 words) - 23:47, 29 May 2024
- political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability and the ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- , meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ... modern judicial systems, democracy, freedom of speech, secularism, all implicitly ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- adversaries into friends and resolve issues of injustice and oppression. Gandhi ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral ... Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
- poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... independent intellectuals, demanding freedom of speech instead. ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox ... sedition. While reluctant to lose control of the island, it was clear to ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... Government restrictions on freedom of speech, press and religion ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... freedom to assemble or to gather, freedom of speech, freedom of scientific ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the twentieth century on the ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- Sudetenland Crisis among the major powers of Europe after a conference held ... The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he was also known as Badshah Khan ... was a land owner, farmer, and the chief of the Mohammedzais ("sons ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... became famous for their "Flight" of over 1,000 miles from Idaho ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major ... The city of Freetown was founded in 1787, by Great Britain as a settlement ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... to further the above causes, as well as that of the Christian Temperance Movement ...24 KB (3,721 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures ... death, as Dreiser did not live to see many of his novels published in their ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... | date of birth=August 27, 1908 | place of birth=Stonewall, Texas ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- January 28, 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She ... nature." She was a member of the freedom of speech-promoting, anti-imperialist ...33 KB (4,278 words) - 23:35, 30 October 2023
- Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... The Sierra Leone constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and freedom ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- who has often been called “the father of existentialism.” Although ... is best known for such notions as his stages of existence, “faith in the ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand serving three terms ... Zealand Herald for its alleged attack on freedom of speech. ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain ... Following four centuries of colonization of the Western Hemisphere ...25 KB (4,004 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- and political figure, and the father of President John F. Kennedy and ... to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II. His term as Ambassador ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ... Thurmond holds the record for the longest serving Dean of the United ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings ... was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater ...52 KB (7,928 words) - 12:38, 1 August 2022
- refer to the perfection or culmination of certain virtues, which purify ... The six perfections (paramita) are also an important part of the bodhisattva ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent B.F. Manz ... at Kesh, near Samarkand. Timur was a member of the Turkic Barlas clan of Mongols ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Bonduca) (d. 60 - 61 C.E.) is a heroine of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni ... was leading a campaign on the island of Anglesey in north Wales, Boudica ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
- legein "to speak") is the study of message secrecy. One of cryptography ... in everyday life; examples include security of ATM cards, computer passwords ...47 KB (6,889 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... to quit the Congress. He then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- died in Adyar, India where she was President of the Theosophical Society from ... satisfied if I could have touched the hem of [her] garment" ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- Age circa 800 C.E. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around ... (late eighteenth century), the first writer of burlesque ballads; and August ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and ... A Calvinist, Mather combined mystical recognition of an invisible ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News ... that its First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and press protected ...19 KB (3,020 words) - 05:48, 27 September 2022
- | image name=Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg | order=40th President of the United States | date1=January 20, 1981 ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- abolitionist. Anthony invested fifty years of her life advocating for the ... rewarded posthumously with the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment to ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian ... painful life became a model to many authors of Romanticism for the ideal artist ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- it is most frequently used in the context of New Guinea and Melanesia. In ... In both cases, many of the beliefs and practices particular to these ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977, and was named ... Banks is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. He began ...48 KB (7,068 words) - 20:11, 27 April 2024
- Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America ... In the early nineteenth century, anything west of the Mississippi ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader ... Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth ...49 KB (7,394 words) - 02:27, 2 May 2024
- George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President, George ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 15:02, 21 May 2024
- , was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural ... After the Civil War, the South was largely devastated in terms of ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... nation-state or ethnic groups as the unit of history, but from civilizations ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American ... this case, which tackled the issue of the proper teaching of biology ...28 KB (4,252 words) - 18:12, 29 July 2023
- as Classical Yoga or simply Yoga) is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools ... concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... grounds that Summum's right to freedom of speech was denied and the ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
- which male members predominate in positions of power. The term "patriarchy ... patriarchy suggests, this categorization of societal structure is developed ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham ... Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated ...60 KB (8,930 words) - 17:58, 31 October 2023
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... restriction of movement, and lack of freedom of speech, press, and religion ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- is the directly elected parliamentary body of the European Union (EU). Together ... it is the "first institution" of the European Union (mentioned ...60 KB (8,687 words) - 04:34, 23 March 2024
- Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in ... by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial, intellectual ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film ... Antonioni's films reflected the intellectual milieu of his day ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 17:12, 9 November 2022
- from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... thoughts and political opinions, the freedom of speech of the intelligentsia ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- si-Chaticks," meaning "Men of men." They practiced a ... In the nineteenth century, epidemics of smallpox and cholera wiped ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 01:45, 23 November 2022
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... judiciary; and provisions for freedom of speech, assembly, conscience ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 14:57, 21 May 2024
