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  • This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This ...
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  • Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests ... However, the basic effort on the part of the majority of countries in ...
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  • List, Friedrich [[image:Friedrich List 1838.jpg|right|200px]] Georg Friedrich List ...
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  • body. UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General ... investment and development opportunities of developing countries and assist ...
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  • The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...
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  • A national library is a library specifically established by the government ... had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other ...
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  • ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil ...
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  • to Find Out. is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency ... The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. government ...
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  • Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...
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  • to value") is a tax based on the value of a transaction or of property ... when property is purchased, in the form of a sales tax or value added ...
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  • Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... With respect to governmental information, a government distinguishes ...
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  • ) was a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern ... from the more pejorative term apparatchik by position. Apparatchik refers ...
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  • Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... together in a community that is created out of the village, clan, and region ...
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  • | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than 26 years ...
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  • The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... for project evaluation are highly valued by some, and have been adopted ...
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  • world, with 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries. ... It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ...
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  • , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...
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  • Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold War that occurring ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...
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  • A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...
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  • Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... This is not an automatic right of an individual, nor is any state ...
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  • The Saint Lawrence River and Seaway System is a large hydrographic ... east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ...
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  • Oceania is a geographical (and geopolitical) region consisting of ... Oceania was divided into Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia by the ...
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  • discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...
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  • as they cross national boundaries, usually by the government of the importing ... protect domestic industries and as a source of revenue. Methods for accomplishing ...
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  • , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...
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  • under equipped police force, in 1948, to one of the world's most advanced ... South Korea maintains one of the largest standing armies in the world ...
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  • political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres Persanes ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...
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  • Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...
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  • Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...
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  • called informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute is, historically ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...
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  • provide telecommunication links between countries. The first such cables ... their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the ...
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  • Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...
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  • The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...
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  • ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. ... Education has been a major focus of the Qatari government for many ...
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  • is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...
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  • An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a spaceflight program ... were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the ...
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  • Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes mountains ... back into the wild. Both under the rule of the Inca and today, vicuñas ...
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  • Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...
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  • The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...
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  • The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... Mozambique is still recovering from the destruction wrought by nearly ...
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  • Central America is the region of North America located between the ... ==Countries of the region== The area considered Central America comprises ...
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  • [[Image:Fuggerkontor.jpg|thumb|200px| A painting of an early business ... to carry out activities for the purpose of generating revenue. It involves ...
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  • Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen ...
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  • city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers ... century C.E., annexation as a protectorate of the United States in 1900, ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... almost total control over the political system and has discouraged political ...
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  • Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...
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  • Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest ... Andorra was created by Charlemagne to serve as a buffer state in order ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... States and most continental European countries, civil rights laws are ...
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  • South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...
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  • Lobbying is the practice of trying to persuade legislators or officials ... Lobbying, which is inevitable in any political system, has received ...
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  • In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been ... Satellites are useful for a number of purposes. They are used for ...
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  • |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...
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  • Sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point of purchase for ... or retail sales tax attempts to achieve this by charging the tax only on the ...
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  • The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...
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  • A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per ... There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a ...
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  • The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... thousand refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan along its eastern border ...
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  • Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...
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  • Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...
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  • Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... Despite the beauty of the land, poverty is on the increase, closely ...
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  • in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...
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  • Kobe(Kōbe-shi) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent ... It was one of the first cities to open for trade with the Western ...
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  • Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...
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  • The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... " (Mark 12:17) fostered the development of separate rival Church and State ...
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  • ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... brief, somewhat turbulent history as capital of a French colony, then of a ...
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  • services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. ... As of September 30, 2008, GE is the world's tenth largest company ...
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  • San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino Repubblica di San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ...
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  • organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally ... Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by a Roman Catholic British ...
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  • Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda ... center during the Belgian colonial period of 1919–1962. When Rwanda gained ...
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  • The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...
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  • Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... " in the tenth century the city of Copenhagen was officially founded ...
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  • ) is the world's fourth-largest non-government energy company ... to develop the Pico Canyon Oilfield north of Los Angeles. It was purchased ...
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  • but has spread onto the mainland west of the lagoon. The metropolitan ... The original settlers of Lagos Island were Yoruba fishermen, who founded ...
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  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...
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  • 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...
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  • linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government ... has been applied inconsistently to a variety of non-Han peoples, often with ...
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  • United States, 86 miles (138 km) west of the state capitol of Columbia ... and is called the Birthplace and Deathbed of the Confederacy, because it ...
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  • The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... the only European country whose bordering countries are also landlocked. The ...
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  • (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... colony, the island nation has been hindered by political, social, and economic ...
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  • in Iran, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from ... September 22, 1980, following a long history of border disputes. The conflict ...
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  • 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...
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  • is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Though the city ... At the same time, it maintains the charm of a Central Asian city, with ...
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  • in criminal law in the United States legal system. The distinction is not made ... a crime is still an act in violation of a public law for which a punishment ...
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  • Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...
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  • 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and ... centrist position. He was a strong supporter of European integration and did ...
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  • Oslo is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality ... According to the Norse legends, Oslo was founded around 1049, by King ...
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  • Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... Anne's life was marked by many crises, both personally and relating ...
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  • is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island ... Similar to other Caribbean islands, it has a history of being ravaged ...
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  • , located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue ... and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not founded until ...
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  • Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...
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  • Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...
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  • The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community ... 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake ...
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  • Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country ... quot; was applied to the Ndebele territory of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was then ...
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  • de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a ... The royal orders of the Kings were all abolished after the French ...
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  • ; lit. "Valley of Nine Villages;" Tibetan: Sicadêgu) designates ... UNESCO designated Jiuzhaigou Valley a World Heritage site in 1992 ...
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  • ) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... used in the People's Republic of China on Mainland China, Singapore ...
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  • Copyright is the exclusive right given to the creator of a creative ... not just literary work, but also forms of creative work such as sound ...
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  • Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...
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  • [[Image:Jan de Bray 002.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Governors of the ... A guild is an association of craftspeople in a particular trade. The ...
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  • A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...
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  • Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center ... This city of 1.4 million people is the doorway to Madagascar's ...
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  • Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...
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  • spoken language in the West African nation of Senegal), is the capital of ... north of Senegal's capital city Dakar, it has a population officially ...
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  • as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...
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  • ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... Tunis was founded by Berbers during the second millennium B.C.E.. ...
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  • and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...
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  • city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. Spanish port for the New World. An influx of African slaves came while Cuba ...
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  • can also refer to proficiency in a number of fields, such as art or physical ... Literacy rates are a crucial measure of a region's human capital ...
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  • Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... in the United States with a population of 5.6 million. Houston was ...
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  • Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... #039;s interior. The organic composition of Barbados is thought to be of ...
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the name Lenin (April 22 ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...
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  • payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a ... The primary functions which distinguish money are as a medium of exchange ...
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  • activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit ... Organized crime takes advantage of social conditions or laws, such ...
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  • Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... with Amsterdam at the center. The use of soft drugs was tolerated, making ...
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  • The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...
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  • The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...
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  • He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit ... Prize. In March 2011, the Bangladesh government fired Yunus from his position ...
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  • ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... War. When the Pathet Lao took over the government in 1975, Hmong people were ...
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  • danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...
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  • The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...
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  • South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...
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  • country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil located on ...
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  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...
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  • The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...
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  • ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...
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  • The Kingdom of Swaziland (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), or the Kingdom ... Swaziland consists mostly of high plateaus and mountains with an array ...
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  • politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power ... and in some respects, colonial view of Australia and of Australian ...
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  • The Territory of Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia ... It maintains about 1,500 residents who live in a number of "settlement ...
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  • Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...
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  • A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...
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  • Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... Guayana highlands, it plunges off the edge of a "tepui," or table ...
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  • Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...
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  • The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...
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  • Scientology is a new religious movement based on the writings of L ... The organization presents itself as a fully integrated system of religious ...
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  • , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. ... Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the ...
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  • El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... was brought to a close in 1992 when the government and leftist rebels signed ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...
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  • the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, positioned at the ... It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic ...
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  • The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ...
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  • communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is the capital ... situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is Burundi ...
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  • The beloved leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu ... his culture's traditions in the naming of his daughter. In Burmese historical ...
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  • Located in northern India on the banks of the River Yamuna, Delhi has ... Delhi is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world ...
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  • Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island ... it became known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" for having ...
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