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to promoting a peaceful resolution to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. With ... * Coogan, Tim Patt. The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search ...

American sociologist. His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals ... Even though he recognized that there is an inter-relationship between ...

to encourage a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The ... * Coogan, Tim Patt. The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search ...

arrived in Lecompton to look into the troubles. The majority report of ... 0001.001 1856 Congressional Report on the Troubles in Kansas] – Making ...

and songwriter, widely considered one of the greatest blues guitarists ... King had a a large number of hits in the R&B market in the 1950s ...

Irish Civil Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute ... were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the classical Seven Wonders ... The seated statue occupied the whole width of the aisle of the temple ...

an American golfer who won 81 tournaments on the PGA Tour, and 80 more worldwide ... Virginia near Hot Springs, Virginia. He was the son of a poor Virgina farmer ...

holder of many boxing records, Robinson was the first boxer in history to ... Muhammad Ali, who repeatedly called himself "The Greatest" ...

Lithuania and King of Polish, a monarch of the united Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ... After he had been deposed in 1595 from the Swedish throne by his uncle ...

The Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms) was a general assembly (a Diet ... The previous year, Pope Leo X had issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine ...

The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...

whose systematic eclecticism made him the best-known French thinker ... of Public Instruction in France, he studied the educational system of Prussia ...

The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River ... The Lincoln Tunnel established a key linkage for the mid-twentieth ...

of several people who have been considered the father of information science ... Henri La Fontaine and Otlet created the Central Office of International ...

contemporaries. Sei Shōnagon reports the troubles of Empress (Sadako) Teishi ... In The Pillow Book Shōnagon reports the troubles of Empress (Sadako) Teishi ...

known as Jerubbaal, was a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges. He ... Gideon was one of the more significant judges whose story is recorded ...

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– July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to ... Although he refused appointment as Ambassador to the United States ...

The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...

was an American journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph ... Patterson inherited wealth, experience, and the ability to succeed in the ...

from Northern Ireland, and co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with ... * White, Barry. John Hume: a statesman of the troubles. Belfast L ...

from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars, Bing ... has sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million ...

novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost ... Austria, and Italo Svevo in Italy is one of the seminal figures of Modernist ...

committed nationalist and socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of ... O'Casey was especially associated with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin ...

Community in 1973. With the onset of The Troubles (1969-1998) a 1973 referendum ... Following the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969, the ...

only a deacon, not a priest or a bishop at the time, by modern criteria he ... Cardinal Deacon of San Adriano thus joining the College of Cardinals. In addition ...

wide range of subjects, they bear witness to the breakdown of relationships ... the Irish Republican Army during "the Troubles" (Ireland’s struggle ...

The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, who helped ... Later, with Ben E. King's yearning sound on lead tenor, the group ...

The European Community (EC) was originally founded on March 25, 1957 ... While the founders' hopes for supranational identity and for ...

pioneer, soldier, and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky ... Born in South Carolina, Adair enlisted in the state militia and served ...

Sotheby's is the world's second oldest international auction ... bookseller Samuel Baker first auctioned off the library collection of the ...

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15, 1888) was an English poet and critic of the Victorian age. He is often ... Arnold was also a major cultural critic, and his views on the moral ...

Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the ... From the time he became President until his fall from power in 1991 ...

and author. Respectfully dubbed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee," ... people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships ...

The term "dualism" can be used for any theory according ... In the past century, substance dualism has enjoyed relatively little ...

The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council ... Following the lead of Pope Leo I, the council sought a middle path ...

The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the ... The Lake Chad area, around which the kingdom was centralized, was ...

The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars, involved the military ... Critics of religion point to the Hussite Wars and to others conflicts ...

historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... Toynbee approached history not from the perspective that takes the ...

===Background: The Troubles=== The Belfast Agreement built on and was ... The Troubles are usually said to have started in October 1968 when ...

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on an individual. It can also refer to the mental or emotional response ... a serious physical impact distinct from the troubles of what psychotherapists ...

Bakar) (c. 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs ... Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival ...

The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John ... A close study of the history of the company shows how the British ...

Baseball who is widely regarded as one of the greatest right-handed power ... Nicknamed "Double X" and "The Beast" by the press ...

as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...

The Ghaznavid Empire was a KhorāṣānianClifford Edmund Bosworth ... The dynasty was founded by Sebuktigin when he succeeded to the ruler ...

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He is widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague, or simply ... The Maharal is famously associated with the legend of the golem, in ...

The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger ... rebellions and outright invasion from the Bulala, the once strong Sayfawa ...

known as Howlin' Wolf or sometimes, The Howlin' Wolf, was an ... *Romano, Will. Incurable Blues: The Troubles and Triumph of Blues ...

The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1 ... one possible solution is to allow the formation of smaller units ...

of Jesus Christ on earth, as espoused in the premillennial and some postmillennial ... Although the term "amillennialism" was coined in the 1930s ...

enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world and have sold over 400 ... series, including those featuring Noddy, the Famous Five, and the Secret ...

Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...

) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ... and observant nature, which, despite the troubles of ill-health and ecclesiastical ...

sportswoman who, on August 22, 1950, became the first African-American woman ... and is sometimes referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis ...

of semi-philosophical writings survive under the title of Memoria, his more ... body and once again become involved in the troubles of the world. The worst ...

pitcher in Major League Baseball, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He ... work as a baseball play-by-play announcer on the "Game of the Week," ...

The St Andrews Agreement was an agreement between the British and ... of communitarian violence known as The Troubles in the late 1960s. Since ...

) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad ... From the eighth until the thirteenth century and in some form until ...

were belatedly recognized as some of the finest plays in the tradition ... Grillparzer stands on the cusp of the new age of realism, in which ...

Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378 - 444 C.E.) was the Christian patriarch ... Cyril's fame as a saint resulted from his leadership in the Christological ...

essayist, Biblical scholar, and founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai ... enough ("worshiping") before the portrait of Emperor Meiji ...

made into a silent movie with Mary Pickford. The Secret Garden, called a masterpiece ... The rags-to-riches themes of her stories echo her own rise from impoverished ...

A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland ... This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained ...

and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke ... Islam and Muhammad. He helped to pioneer the use of primary sources as ...

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... unopposed for a second term in 1820. With the opposition Federalist Party ...

and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement, especially ... His father, Augustus, who was German went to the United States as a Lutheran ...

Alpaca is the common name for a domesticated, gregarious, high-altitude ... for thousands of years, even prior to the Incas, who raised and bred ...

James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth ... to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The ...

Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... in the Domesday Book is testament to the troubles there during William& ...

Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the ... The Aga Khans are known throughout the world for their philanthropic ...

The Battle of the Boyne was a turning point in the Williamite war ... its symbolic importance has made it one of the most infamous battles in British ...

This article is about the Roman philosopher. For the Native American ... [[Image:Seneca.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|Seneca the Younger]] ...

author and film producer, best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles ... to say, "Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait." ...

; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham and the ... The historicity of Isaac's story in the Bible has come under ...

Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... The troubles of his episcopate no doubt shortened his life. Nor were ...

) was de facto regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then the first ... Godunov's life was the subject of two of the great works of Russian ...

– April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century. He is remembered ... Italian-speaking audiences—a symbol for the "tortured artist." ...

The campaigns of violence have become known popularly as The Troubles ... ===The Troubles=== [[Image:Ian Paisley Crop.png|thumb|350px|Protestant ...

Gary Player, and Tiger Woods) to win all the major championships in his ... difference between them either. Despite the troubles, Gene came home his first ...

The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...

(May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German Romantics ... Novalis was born in 1772 on the château Oberwiederstedt located in ...

political writer, and poet, considered the foremost satirist in the English ... In his own times, Swift aligned himself with the Tories and became ...

director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature ... Fo was associated with liberal and socialist causes. His most famous ...

Stigmata (from Greek: stizo, “to prick”) refers to the five wounds ... The causes of stigmata are largely mysterious, but some observers ...

Isaiah or Yeshayáhu (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ "Salvation is ... In his long career spanning the late eighth and early seventh century ...

Marie Antoinette (November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793), the Archduchess ... she was executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent ...

The Legislative Assembly ( link=no|Assemblée législative ) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from October 1, 1791 ...

The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting ... The primary natural resources are spiny lobster, conch, and other ...

A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ... Years' War, and more recently, The Troubles of Northern Ireland. Religious ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational ... activists (an era now known as "the troubles")"At a critical ...

from 117 C.E.–138 C.E., and a member of the plebian family gens Aelia ... succession to her. He is famous for building the defensive wall between what ...

Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day (the event ... the British Armed Forces and because of The Troubles, it is worn primarily ...

The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...

literature. He was responsible for two of the most popular works of American ... Stevenson was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on ...

A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle ... The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry ...

1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... westward migration was no panacea for the troubles of the Métis and the ...

a United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the ... his remarkable life and military career. The celebrated calvary man has ...

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philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as ... Burke was taken up by the literary and artistic circles of London ...

and registered trademark) of Chrysler. It is the oldest Sports utility vehicle ... It was use by the United States military during World War I that brought ...

often fearsome temperament, which earned him the nickname "The Angry Man ... Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona, but was raised largely in the ...

based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the twentieth ... The two comedians worked together briefly in 1919, on The Lucky Dog ...

and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the sensual ... Award in 2010. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame ...

poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature ... |title=Expressing Humanity During 'The Troubles:' The Poetry of Seamus ...

Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), an epic poem about the self ... New Jersey. Both of his parents belonged to the 1920s New York literary counterculture ...

Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition. In 1876 ... Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...

Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi (March 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was ... an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece ...

"southern belles." She was the first non-American to win ... In her 30-year career she made only 20 films, most of them in the ...

of France. British explorer James Cook named the territory’s main island ... an independent state of “Kanaky.” The troubles culminated in 1988 with ...

a Hindu goddess, Tārā was absorbed into the Buddhist pantheon during the ... as a Buddha of compassion and action. She is the female aspect of Avalokitesvara ...

A Copt refers to a native Egyptian Christian. The word "Coptic ... In modern usage, it is frequently applied to members of the Coptic ...

quot;), also referred to as King David, was the second and most famous king ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...

writing a wide variety of plays, including The Crucible, A View from the ... Miller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to ...

caused the Irish economy to stagnate. The Troubles in Northern Ireland discouraged ... ===The Troubles=== The Troubles is a term used to describe the latest ...

is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above ... more prolific, releasing 12 feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released ...

—"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...

The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called ... of the Jansenist controversy. After all the troubles of the 19th century there ...

poem, written in Old English, and easily the most important work of literature ... Although neglected for centuries, Beowulf, with the aid of a number ...

Date palm or date is the common name for a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera ... While the term "date palm" by itself typically is associated ...

:"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...

humorist, essayist, novelist, and lecturer. The pseudonym "Mark Twain ... Twain was a colorful figure who arrived on the literary scene during ...

as President of Basketball Operations for the Indiana Pacers in the National ... Drafted into the NBA by the Boston Celtics with the sixth overall ...

The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... The invisible, vibratory world of instrumental music can be said to ...

The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...

The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing ... The work provides dramatic narratives of Thomas' miraculous evangelistic ...

– September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 ... Marcos initially had laudable intentions: to improve the economy, ...

known for his home-bred screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred ... He first pursued a career as an architect before being drawn to the ...

) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... and practiced in many schools around the globe. Its popularity is not ...

John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took ... (cf. his treatise, A Brief Narrative of the Troubles which Arose at Frankfurt ...

George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...

), considered as the greatest king of the Chola Empire by many, ruled ... The troubles seem to have started with Satayasrya and Rashtrakuta ...

#039;s rights activist. In 1910, she was the first woman appointed to the ... #039;s role in winning legal recognition of the "person-hood" of ...

was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ... Marlborough's influence at court reached its zenith with the ...

The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a rebellion ... The rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence ...

genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the ... and Aram Khachaturian, Prokofiev was one of the innovators and leading composers ...

The Faeroe Islands (or Faroe Islands, sometimes simply called Faroes ... The Faroes have close traditional ties to Iceland, Shetland, Orkney ...

Martin Luther and subsequent failure to stem the Protestant Reformation, which ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...

means to effect public and social order. The term is most commonly associated ... After the troubles of the French Revolution, the Paris police force ...

PC (March 27, 1912 – March 26, 2005), was the fourth British Labour Prime ... His time as Prime Minister was dominated by the troubles in running ...

) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also ... Located on the Tigris River, the city dates back to at least the eighth ...

Conflict occurs on a many levels—within the individual when a person confronts ... While differences are natural, the ways to resolve them can be violent ...

|mascot = Marty the Martlet |website= [http://www.mcgill ... Northern Ireland political parties, ending The Troubles. ...

a time when other modernists were describing the dread, alienation, and absurdity ... bead game. Residents of Castalia ignore the troubles and sufferings of the ...

and was once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami, which can ... (a form of drawing lots), visitation to the shrine celebrating the New ...

City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section ... the New York City government and the troubles spread to the city’s ...

Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings ... Ethiopia was different from that within. To the outside world, he was heir ...

The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large ... The five Great Lakes of North America are: *Lake Superior (the largest ...

, romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... its performing arts. It is well-known for the elegant onion domes of Saint ...

Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified ... The novel is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of the members ...

The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ...

was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential ... Marino Crescent—then as now called "The Crescent"—in Clontarf, ...

Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...

Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England ... The exact date that Charles became king is vague due to the uncertain ...

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Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period (London ... und der französischen Revolution," in The Middle East and Europe: Encounters ...

The City of Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the ... the town. While Halifax was remote from the troubles in the rest of the American ...

) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest ... correctly determined the source of the troubles, but would not speak unless ...

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in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most prominent of Founders ... to present the case for the colonies as the troubles escalated toward the crisis ...

The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga or the ... policy that has rewarded veterans of the Bush War with farms previously ...

Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the ... As a legislator, Burr was a formative member of the Democratic-Republican ...

as "Kan-Yu" which means 'The Law of Heaven and Earth.’ ... Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement ...

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in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America ... at a higher salary than Poe's. Later, the two competed for the attention ...

definitions include a priori immunity for the "legitimate" government ... A second campaign became know as "the Troubles" between 1972 and ...

Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most ... in his own lifetime, and even the troubles of his later reign were ...

January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...

was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy, ... Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range ...

The Himalayas (also Himalaya, IPA: [hɪ'mɑlijə], [ˌhɪmə& ... ) are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent ...

This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... The Korean peninsula has been inhabited since Lower Paleolithic times ...

scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment ... Christian thought, he is often called the "Father of Modern Theology ...

He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature ... The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate ...

professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... Although he was pitted against the Swiss reformers at the Marburg ...

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...

The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi ... With the genocide, and the resurgence in the civil war, Rwanda's ...

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( ... 039;s Day. During the conflict known as the Troubles (late 1960s–late 1990s ...

The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция ... The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ...

whose wilderness exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United ... continue unchecked until pioneers reached the Pacific, and newly settled ...

Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the ... Their moderate programs were opposed by the Radical Republicans, a political ...

The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket ... In the internationally publicized legal proceedings that followed ...

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...

9, 1749 - April 2, 1791) was a leader of the early stages of the French ... A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among ...

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st ... Hoover took office in 1929, amid high hopes for the country and his ...

until her death. Sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen (since she never ... Elizabeth's reign is referred to as the Elizabethan era or the ...

Altman has frequently been a favorite with most of the best critics ... have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film ...

Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...

was baptized as Władysław, married the young Queen Jadwiga of Poland ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...

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), also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served ... Witte served under the last two emperors of Russia, Alexander III ...

(March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians ... government witnessed the outbreak of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In ...

consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known ... statistics/ An Apple a Day Keeps the Troubles Away – Mind-Blowing ...

Muslim minister and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also ... #039;s shortcomings and hypocrisies, he made the majority understand that maintaining ...

was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. as a chess prodigy. In 1972, he became the first, and so far the only ...

The Mali Empire or Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa was a medieval ... The kingdom included the ancient city of Timbuktu, which was flourishing ...

Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... and to a Pax Britannica all paid homage to the Roman legacy. At the time ...

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Feofilaktovich ... of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation ...

physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan ... After the war, he was a chief advisor to the newly created United ...

poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English ... as an actor, writer, and part owner of the acting company the Lord Chamberlain ...

Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth or The Old Colony) was an ... Founded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the ...

sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier ... serves as a corrective over-and-against the way in which such outlaws ...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...

) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...

philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention ... but he achieved a lasting reputation as the face of the Reign of Terror ...

The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers ... The Court of Martyrs Henry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ...

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian ... Despite this acceptance, post-Soviet Russia lacked the military and ...

The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... 40 years of communist totalitarian rule in the late twentieth century under ...

The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948 ... The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of ...

Category: History of the Americas [[File:PatrickBreenDiaryPage28.jpg ... The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party) was a ...

and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...

Tibet, called “Bod” by Tibetans, or 西藏 (Xīzàng) by the Chinese ... The Tibetan Empire came into existence in the seventh century when ...

The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi ... The term German Resistance should not be understood as meaning that ...

21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth ... major political changes, such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, devolution ...

Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the third ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...

singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...