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- a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- 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
- and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- right|250px|Kazakh nomads in the steppes of the Russian Empire, ca. 1910]] Nomadic people, also known as nomads, are communities of people that ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia. It is located in the ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Concerned about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 14:57, 21 May 2024
- The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient ... ) as the main Turkic power in the region and took hold of the lucrative ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. ... of Iraqi Communists, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviet hope ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. After the initial ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- 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
- 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
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan brought some three million Afghan ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 13:06, 20 May 2024
