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  • oeuvre spans almost every scholarly subject of his time, each displayed and ... While the popularity of his philosophy was short-lived (though this ...
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  • Petersburg. In 1925, to mark the centennial of the event, the square was renamed ... The Decembrists represented the elite of the military officers whose ...
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  • ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... " in the struggle for "Freedom of speech, freedom of religion ...
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  • American circus. In addition, he was mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a ... joy and gaiety amid the drabness and labor of their lives. He also pioneered ...
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  • and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration ... Acheson's most controversial statement was his speech on U.S ...
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  • poet, orator and a priest in the Church of England. The poems of his final ... Herbert was born in 1593, the son of Sir Richard and Magdalen Herbert ...
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  • picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. He had an instrumental role in the formation of the two largest Hollywood ...
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  • challenged the laissez faire economic policy of his time and criticized the ... be changed. His Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, was published ...
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  • and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... rights are rights to such things as freedom of speech, press, petition, assembly ...
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  • actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles and won the Oscar for ... Many of the roles that Cagney played plumbed the depth of human experience ...
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  • Chief Dan George, (July 24, 1899–September 23, 1981) was a chief ... One of twelve children of the tribal chief, Dan George served as chief ...
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  • Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean ... and include treatises such as, On Freedom of Speech, On Types of Life, ...
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  • played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...
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  • 1833) was born in the great northern seaport of Hull and served in the English ... his faith and attacked his reforms, instead of condemning them, he won them ...
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  • leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic ... Pavel was born in Moscow in the upper-class family of Nikolai Pavlovich ...
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  • Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... *"The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not ...
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  • she changed the public's perception of people with disabilities. She ... true value comes from the height and depth of her mind. ...
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  • task, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). This ... is all computer programs. The concept of reading different sequences ...
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  • in the traditional Confucian system of examinations, he quickly became ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...
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  • army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during ... County, Virginia, the fourth child of American Revolutionary War ...
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  • professional boxer. He is considered one of the world's greatest heavyweight ... he joined the black nationalist Nation of Islam, changed his name to ...
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  • and author. He survived the horror of Nazi imprisonment in a Jewish ... scholarly world, and is remembered as one of very few political scientists ...
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  • was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, and distinguished among ...
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  • Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...
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  • that every person is the absolute owner of their own life and should be ... governments from infringing "freedom of speech" and "freedom ...
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  • Bauer was also a pioneering figure in the development of biblical ... Thuringia in Saxe-Altenburg, the son of a painter in a porcelain factory ...
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  • who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... principles essential to democracy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom ...
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  • 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival ...
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  • satire was a protected aspect of the freedom of speech, while Muslims and ... at least in the Western world where freedom of speech and freedom of expression ...
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  • (1320 – June 15, 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants' ... in Broxley, six years after the Battle of Bannockburn and the thirteenth ...
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  • a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...
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  • The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer), an iconic symbol of the ... Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and ...
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  • Kansas or the Border War, was a sequence of violent events involving anti ... Kansas" was coined by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. The events ...
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  • [[File:Stephen Avenue 3.jpg|thumb|400px|Statue of two men speaking]] ... as speaking, singing, and sometimes tone of voice, and nonverbal, physical ...
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  • As of March 21, 2008, Baidu is ranked 19th overall in Alexa's ... criticizes China for its lack of freedom of speech PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC ...
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  • and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...
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  • Cosby Show, in the late 1960s. He was one of the major characters on the ... During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in what is considered ...
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  • John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one ... conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth century. His ...
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  • Mother Teresa, in full Saint Teresa of Calcutta, (born Agnesa Gonxha ... Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy ...
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  • In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions ... Born in Independence, Kansas, Inge graduated from the University of ...
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  • [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...
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  • Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10 ... an increase in unemployment and his policy of wage rise restraints led to ...
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  • this was an unfortunate loss of freedom of speech so valued in democratic ... 3, 1908. The editorial staff consisted of Trotsky and, at various times ...
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  • who lived and taught in the Greek city of Nicopolis almost four hundred ... us with a detailed and complete explanation of Stoic ethics, which is not ...
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  • Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed ... Liberation theology has had an impact. It helped many of the poor ...
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  • was the sixty-fifth United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving ... in telling the world that the invasion of Iraq was justified and legal ...
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  • The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... the San Francisco earthquake. Her memories of her mother helping victims ...
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  • Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven ...
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  • politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of ... With her election as Speaker, Pelosi became the first female Speaker ...
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  • March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... freedoms to the people, particularly freedom of speech, although these freedoms ...
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  • - December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...
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  • hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... which have experienced most if not all of these characteristics, the ...
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  • (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to ... Sukarnoputri means "daughter of Sukarno" (Sanskrit) and ...
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  • | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...
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  • who, during the 1930s, led a campaign of agricultural science, now known ... Lysenko was the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, a peasant family ...
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  • 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving ... America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' ...
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  • - third century B.C.E.) is the compiler of the Yoga Sutra, a major work ... The Yoga Sūtra serves as the basis of the yoga-system known as Raja ...
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  • Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... and political cooperation among the nations of the world so that all benefit ...
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  • founded on March 25, 1957, by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the ... citizens, while also remaining citizens of their home states. ...
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  • writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ... from home. Paz was raised in the village of Mixcoac (now a part of Mexico ...
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  • The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... modern-state founded solely on the basis of religion, since although India ...
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  • He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of ... governi e sul governo parlamentare (Theory of Governments and Parliamentary ...
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  • The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... disappearances. There are limits on freedom of speech and the press, including ...
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  • by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, who ... would no longer be held, following the death of Unification Church founder ...
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  • The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...
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  • by many as the greatest American leader of the twentieth century. His ... close to his birthday, King is only one of three Americans to have a national ...
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  • , was a Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary ... by their shameful disrespect of freedom of speech and all other civil ...
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  • The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican ... the Council impacted virtually every element of Catholic life, as they included ...
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  • influenced the philosophy and public life of Britain during the late eighteenth ... in 1771, Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt and Observations ...
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  • born Australian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, and ... In 1895 he was appointed to the chair of Moral theology, and in 1903 ...
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  • 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving ... Gore subsequently became chairman of the Emmy Award-winning American ...
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  • – August 27, 1975) was de jure Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 ... within. To the outside world, he was heir of an ancient dynasty possibly ...
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  • "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...
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  • v. Sandford," The American Journal of Legal History 32(4): 373-390. ... " was a lawsuit, pivotal in the history of the United States, decided ...
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  • ) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed ... Essentially, the samizdat copies of texts, such as Mikhail Bulgakov ...
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  • from 1981 to 1987. He served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee ... to public service, committed to expanding freedom and opportunity for others ...
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  • July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ... freedom; human rights including the freedom of speech and press; progress ...
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  • 1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ... RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ...
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  • The reality of colonialism was exploitative and—until the conquered ... Wolseley was the eldest son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley of "the ...
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  • leader often referred to as the "father of modern China." He played ... Although Sun Yat-sen is considered one of the greatest leaders of ...
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  • He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16 and was fully ordained ... quot; in his book, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.Quan Nhu, [http://www ...
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  • - November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America ... During the final days of the Cold War, he was responsible for managing ...
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  • Free schools have their roots in the anarchist Modern Schools of Spain ... A variety of free schools and affiliated organizations are found throughout ...
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  • that seeks to portray common values of the ordinary individual, as ... was an attempt to create a perfect illusion of reality through detailed sets ...
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  • and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... Europe as well as his homeland. His vision of founding a European army to ...
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  • Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... basic civil liberties, including freedom of speech, freedom of association ...
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  • is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean ... Constitutional safeguards include freedom of speech, press, worship, movement ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...
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  • statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature ... Born in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three ...
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  • authority), and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution ... Although many hoped the revolution would bring freedom of speech and ...
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  • to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those ... Some promote change that serves the interest of a small, vocal minority; some ...
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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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  • problems in governing the the United States of America, which had been operating ... The convention failed to resolve successfully the question of slavery ...
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  • Proclamation mandated that there be freedom of speech, religion and thought ... work through the emperor to proclaim freedom of speech, freedom of the press ...
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  • as an inventor and scientist. At the age of 56 he entered into a spiritual ... for philosophical discussion and freedom of speech. It was also a flourishing ...
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  • The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors ... # Freedom of speech and of the press for workers and peasants, for ...
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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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  • be-ism") is the Jain doctrine of epistemological relativism ... modern judicial systems, democracy, freedom of speech, secularism, all implicitly ...
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  • – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...
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  • Respectfully dubbed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee," Washington ... In the decades after the war, millions of Southern freedmen needed ...
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  • This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... by Nikita Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the ...
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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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  • Advertising is the business of drawing public attention to goods and ... self-regulation as intrusion of their freedom of speech or a necessary evil ...
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  • the Enlightenment, and the editor-in-chief of the famous, Encyclopédie, ... The Encyclopédie, conceived as a compendium of all available knowledge ...
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  • by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... Goldman advocated free speech, birth control, women’s equality and ...
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  • ) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations ... go on to devote the most productive years of his life to opposing Macedon ...
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  • The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States ... right to free exercise of religion), freedom of speech, freedom of the press ...
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  • The River Gambia flows through the center of the country and empties into ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...
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  • ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ... of fundamental civil rights (such as freedom of speech, press, and assembly ...
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  • Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ... the United States was restored at the end of the Civil War, not all Northerners ...
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  • figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...
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  • 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States ... roadside areas. She was also an advocate of the Head Start program. ...
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  • in northwestern Guyana founded by Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, mostly ... about seven miles (11 km) southwest of the small town of Port Kaituma ...
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  • James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...
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  • William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...
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  • in society that are deemed to be the objects of discrimination. ... * Freedom of Speech * Censorship * Cancel culture * Newspeak ...
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  • wing causes, she was a vigorous proponent of social justice and critic of ... Louisiana into a Jewish family. During most of her childhood she spent half ...
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  • poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...
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  • material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...
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  • to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United ...
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  • In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of ... actor, contributing not just to the world of entertainment but influencing ...
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  • Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary ... had attained enlightenment, is one of the great accomplishments in ...
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  • City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was the unsuccessful ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...
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  • and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, ... brave and bold move for the cause of freedom of speech. ...
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  • African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... over the centuries, so, too, have the foci of African American literature ...
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  • known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... His strong advocacy of France's role in world affairs ensured ...
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  • – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...
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  • An American abolitionist, she was most famous as the author of The ... Howe was a woman of great religious conviction whose belief in "deed ...
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  • The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...
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  • have the same civil rights—freedom of speech, freedom of religious ... speech be encompassed within freedom of speech protections, as granted ...
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  • The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Bernhard ... have been honored more than once, a total of 813 different individuals and ...
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  • 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目金之助 ... just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation, in Edo ...
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  • a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...
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  • and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...
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  • " and he is credited as Francis on some of his early albums. His real ... and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of ...
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  • | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...
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  • May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...
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  • in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917. It was originally patterned ... Assembly in a more timely fashion is one of the reasons for the failure ...
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  • centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave ... are created equal, apparent to the framers of the U.S. Constitution, has ...
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  • Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...
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  • /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...
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  • The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which ...
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