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  • attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...
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  • Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... thought." She said "freedom of speech is not what it used ...
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  • The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...
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  • assembly, religious tolerance, freedom of speech (in the form of language ... previously unheard of tone. The freedom of speech also opened the floodgates ...
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  • quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...
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  • (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...
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  • (أبو عمّار). Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ... of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). Arafat ...
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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of ...
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  • and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading ... Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world along with ...
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  • novelist, editor, and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian ... as a powerful act in support of the freedom of speech, in 1939 passed largely ...
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  • right|frame|Official White House photograph of Vice President Rockefeller, 1975]] Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), of ...
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  • 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...
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  • reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper ... racism and the degrading conditions of blacks undermined the recognition ...
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  • According to the teachings of the Buddha, a proper understanding of ... *Form—in terms of an external object (such as a sound) and its associated ...
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  • most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... , an epic poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation ...
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  • physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...
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  • statesman Pericles. She was born in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor, and ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...
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  • The history of Solidarity begins in September 1980, at the Gdańsk ... 2004, ISBN 0415933978), 114. to members of the anti-communist Left. Solidarity ...
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  • together to challenge the immoral system of racial segregation. The movement ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...
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  • born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
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  • was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth ... also had their heroes from the long history of Irish revolt against the British ...
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  • Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... *Freedom of speech—the right to hold and espouse any opinion without ...
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  • December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...
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  • |affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... initial $1 million endowment in the hopes of making a contribution to the ...
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  • he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...
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  • an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian ... between cause and effect in the events of history. History of the Peloponnesian ...
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  • thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...
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  • who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...
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  • political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability and the ...
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  • , meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ... modern judicial systems, democracy, freedom of speech, secularism, all implicitly ...
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  • adversaries into friends and resolve issues of injustice and oppression. Gandhi ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...
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  • in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral ... Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative ...
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  • poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... independent intellectuals, demanding freedom of speech instead. ...
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  • 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox ... sedition. While reluctant to lose control of the island, it was clear to ...
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  • Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... Government restrictions on freedom of speech, press and religion ...
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  • The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... freedom to assemble or to gather, freedom of speech, freedom of scientific ...
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  • He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the twentieth century on the ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...
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  • Sudetenland Crisis among the major powers of Europe after a conference held ... The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans ...
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  • and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he was also known as Badshah Khan ... was a land owner, farmer, and the chief of the Mohammedzais ("sons ...
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  • Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... became famous for their "Flight" of over 1,000 miles from Idaho ...
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  • Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...
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  • 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...
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  • Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major ... The city of Freetown was founded in 1787, by Great Britain as a settlement ...
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  • The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...
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  • She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... to further the above causes, as well as that of the Christian Temperance Movement ...
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  • journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures ... death, as Dreiser did not live to see many of his novels published in their ...
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  • | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... | date of birth=August 27, 1908 | place of birth=Stonewall, Texas ...
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  • January 28, 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She ... nature." She was a member of the freedom of speech-promoting, anti-imperialist ...
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  • Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... The Sierra Leone constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and freedom ...
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  • who has often been called “the father of existentialism.” Although ... is best known for such notions as his stages of existence, “faith in the ...
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  • 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand serving three terms ... Zealand Herald for its alleged attack on freedom of speech. ...
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  • The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain ... Following four centuries of colonization of the Western Hemisphere ...
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  • and political figure, and the father of President John F. Kennedy and ... to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II. His term as Ambassador ...
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  • American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ... Thurmond holds the record for the longest serving Dean of the United ...
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  • through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings ... was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater ...
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  • refer to the perfection or culmination of certain virtues, which purify ... The six perfections (paramita) are also an important part of the bodhisattva ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Bonduca) (d. 60 - 61 C.E.) is a heroine of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni ... was leading a campaign on the island of Anglesey in north Wales, Boudica ...
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  • legein "to speak") is the study of message secrecy. One of cryptography ... in everyday life; examples include security of ATM cards, computer passwords ...
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  • Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...
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  • Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...
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  • The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall ...
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  • 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... to quit the Congress. He then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed ...
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  • North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...
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  • died in Adyar, India where she was President of the Theosophical Society from ... satisfied if I could have touched the hem of [her] garment" ...
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  • Age circa 800 C.E. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around ... (late eighteenth century), the first writer of burlesque ballads; and August ...
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  • also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...
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  • M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and ... A Calvinist, Mather combined mystical recognition of an invisible ...
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  • owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News ... that its First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and press protected ...
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  • | image name=Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg | order=40th President of the United States | date1=January 20, 1981 ...
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  • abolitionist. Anthony invested fifty years of her life advocating for the ... rewarded posthumously with the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment to ...
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  • Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...
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  • Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian ... painful life became a model to many authors of Romanticism for the ideal artist ...
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  • it is most frequently used in the context of New Guinea and Melanesia. In ... In both cases, many of the beliefs and practices particular to these ...
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  • was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977, and was named ... Banks is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. He began ...
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  • Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America ... In the early nineteenth century, anything west of the Mississippi ...
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  • a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader ... Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • , was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...
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  • and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural ... After the Civil War, the South was largely devastated in terms of ...
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  • historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... nation-state or ethnic groups as the unit of history, but from civilizations ...
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  • and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American ... this case, which tackled the issue of the proper teaching of biology ...
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  • as Classical Yoga or simply Yoga) is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools ... concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation ...
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  • which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...
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  • (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...
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  • are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... grounds that Summum's right to freedom of speech was denied and the ...
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  • which male members predominate in positions of power. The term "patriarchy ... patriarchy suggests, this categorization of societal structure is developed ...
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  • The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...
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  • bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham ... Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... restriction of movement, and lack of freedom of speech, press, and religion ...
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  • The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...
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  • is the directly elected parliamentary body of the European Union (EU). Together ... it is the "first institution" of the European Union (mentioned ...
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  • Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in ... by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial, intellectual ...
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  • whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film ... Antonioni's films reflected the intellectual milieu of his day ...
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  • from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...
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  • Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... thoughts and political opinions, the freedom of speech of the intelligentsia ...
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  • si-Chaticks," meaning "Men of men." They practiced a ... In the nineteenth century, epidemics of smallpox and cholera wiped ...
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  • different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... judiciary; and provisions for freedom of speech, assembly, conscience ...
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  • assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his ... Europe, where he joined the editorial board of Iskra, the publication of the ...
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  • and perhaps the foremost modern writer of the short story. His technique ... for his several hundred short stories, many of which are considered masterpieces ...
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  • Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in ... year to run for political office. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn ...
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  • history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager ... In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Harmon Trophy ...
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  • have had vested interest in the outcome of the civil war between North ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...
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  • who is best known for pioneering works of Bengali poetry. He is popularly ... as a muezzin at a local mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature ...
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  • political philosopher, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free ... 1899 in Vienna, Austria to a Catholic family of prominent intellectuals. He ...
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  • The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...
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  • in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, and burned at the ... Hus was a precursor to the Protestant movement and many of his ideas ...
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  • in 1979, by overthrowing the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Generally ... of the home, freedom of the press, freedom of speech and the freedom to strike. ...
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  • are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...
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  • Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... has language pertaining to freedom of speech, rights are limited ...
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  • São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São ... Freedom of speech and the freedom to form opposition political parties ...
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  • is a masterpiece of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese ... Genji, as the work is commonly called, was written for the women of ...
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  • political philosopher, member and president of the French National Convention ... he achieved a lasting reputation as the face of the Reign of Terror for which ...
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  • 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...
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  • grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts of perjury; Chambers admitted ... 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent ...
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  • ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German ... The first report of the fire came shortly after 9:00 p.m., when a Berlin ...
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  • Carta, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that ... proceedings, in order for judges instead of legislators to guarantee fundamental ...
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  • vary in size from a handful to many hundreds of individuals. There are as many ... daily basis. In turn, AA offers a community of recovering people who support ...
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  • ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... a divine will that worked through the agency of heroes and leaders. In his ...
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  • leader who served as the key architect of the October Revolution, and ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...
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  • fell ill and died in Russia during the fall of 1920. He was given a state ... in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His grandmother ...
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  • Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...
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  • | order=28th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1913 ... | date of birth=December 28, 1856 | place of birth=Staunton, Virginia ...
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  • The First Battle of Bull Run (named after the closest creek), also ... The Second Battle of Bull Run, or the Battle of Second Manassas, was ...
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  • – April 23, 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving ... Yeltsin was blamed for many of the problems of this period. By the ...
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  • September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...
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  • He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...
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  • who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing ... Witte served under the last two emperors of Russia, Alexander III ...
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  • Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (329–January 25, 389 C.E.), also known ... The promulgation of his (at times contested) theological perspectives ...
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  • served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. She ... when she was eleven years old. A member of the Democratic Party, she worked ...
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  • unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (March 9, 1749 - April ... A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among ...
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  • Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...
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  • Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... common law. Laws restricting the freedom of speech are justified by claims ...
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  • #039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...
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  • The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... (1999-2003), that have displaced hundreds of thousands of its citizens and ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... the provisions of the Bill of Rights: freedom of speech, the right to bear ...
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  • statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...
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  • The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... It evolved in the United States in the communities of former African ...
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  • , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...
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  • from 117 C.E.–138 C.E., and a member of the plebian family gens Aelia ... Ulterior). He was a distant relative of his predecessor Trajan, being ...
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  • derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] to an individual's self perception of being male or female. Within ...
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  • November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization and democratization ...
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  • such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...
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  • as Buddhists. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs, and spiritual ... Most Buddhist traditions share the goal of overcoming dukkha (suffering ...
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  • Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... to the constitution of The Charter; freedom of speech, worship, and congress ...
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  • For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China ... rights" of citizens include freedom of speech, freedom of the press ...
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