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  • who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January ... action at the global level. How many of Ban's strong declarations ...
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  • August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 ... Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He ...
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  • (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...
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  • |motto = Vox clamantis in deserto(The voice of one crying ... in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League and is one of ...
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  • (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...
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  • Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the ... and most vibrant Hindu empire outside of India. The Khmer name has become ...
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  • among the most recognized monastic figures of the twentieth century. His ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...
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  • Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...
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  • The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century ...
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  • or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...
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  • Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... It has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction ...
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  • Western Sahara, located in northwestern Africa, is one of the most ... The International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared in 1975 that the ...
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  • With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ... did not accept compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction. ...
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  • , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...
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  • in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...
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  • 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...
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  • South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...
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  • in northeast Spain. It covers an area of 12,399 square miles (32,113 ... an older history as an independent territory of the Crown of Aragon, which ...
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  • as the sample pictured here, is one form of cybercrime]] networks are the tool, target, or place of criminal activity. These categories ...
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  • quot;), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked, mountainous ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...
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  • Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... areas useful to society. Situated in an area of farming, conservation, and ...
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  • Intellectual property (IP) refers to the intangible creations of the ... The main purpose of intellectual property law is to encourage the ...
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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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  • and Bosnia. According to International Court of Justice judgment, Serbia ... a resolution asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory ...
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  • 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...
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  • International Court Of Justice, Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary ... and the United States The International Court of Justice ruled that the ...
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  • 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...
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  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
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  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... Salem, and Boston, which soon became the hub of the region, then the Pioneer ...
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  • The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... shaped country between the two major powers of Brazil and Argentina has long ...
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  • The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally ...
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  • The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Luxembourg accepts compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction. ...
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  • Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating ... Hazing is seen in many different types of social groups, including ...
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  • The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located ... The head of state is King Charles III, who holds the title of Lord ...
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  • The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...
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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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  • highly influential figure in the development of neo-classical economics, and ... Ysidro Francis Edgeworth (the order of his given names was later reversed ...
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  • Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast ...
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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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  • in Judaism to refer to the commandments, of which there are 613, given ... Rabbis are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot ...
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  • , located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue ... and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not founded until ...
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  • The TVA's jurisdiction covers most of Tennessee, parts of Alabama ... It was promoted as an example of local democracy, cheap power, environmental ...
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  • North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction. ...
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  • – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...
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  • philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...
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  • North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... The Missouri River flows through the western part of the state and ...
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  • Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... Guayana highlands, it plunges off the edge of a "tepui," or table ...
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  • and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...
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  • Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ... The primary reason for the enterprise of slave trade and human trafficking ...
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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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  • testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss. Chambers was largely vilified by members of the liberal and socialist intelligentsia ...
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  • , the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the ... in the tenth to twelfth centuries a capital of Kievan Rus', a medieval ...
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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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  • The political integration of India established a united nation for ... India's leaders faced the prospect of inheriting a nation fragmented ...
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  • The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction ...
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  • 2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving ... state sector industries, ended subsidization of loss-making industries, sold ...
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  • International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or "Big ... in Armonk, New York, U.S. The company is one of the few information technology ...
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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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  • The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction ...
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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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  • to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...
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  • – June 9, 1870) was an English novelist of the Romantic and Victorian ... even political leaders have pointed out, one of the most politically revolutionary ...
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  • Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...
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  • Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South American nation of ... financial, and political center of Colombia. As with many large ...
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  • into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian ... A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist ...
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  • in 1876, building on the pioneering efforts of Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci ... on March 3, 1847. He was the middle of three children, all boys. Both ...
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  • The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...
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  • Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... leading finally to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting ...
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  • on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...
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  • Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... Bosnia during the war at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In its ...
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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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  • The dynasty originated in the fertile valley of the Kaveri River. Karikala ... The Cholas reached the height of their power during the tenth, eleventh ...
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  • The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...
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  • Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under ... Forms of nonviolence draw inspiration from both religious or ethical ...
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  • 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and ... centrist position. He was a strong supporter of European integration and did ...
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  • prominence in the 1970s, she became one of the decade's most influential ... She is the founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine, the founder ...
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  • São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São ... Sao Tome is optimistic about the development of petroleum resources in its ...
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  • Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...
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  • The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...
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  • Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict ... Church and the largest organized body of any world religion. ...
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  • ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...
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  • by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... and union organizing. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young ...
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  • Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...
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  • 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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  • It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...
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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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  • leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia ... segregation in the United States. He was one of the "Big Six" leaders ...
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  • .nsf/mf/3238.0.55.001 Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... 2.7% of Australia's population |popplace=New South Wales  2.9 ...
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  • Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... for the former Yugoslavia, the International Court of Justice and the International ...
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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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  • 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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  • and from 1967 to 1998 the second President of Indonesia. After briefly working ... 86 years old in Jakarta in 2008. The legacy of Suharto's presidency is ...
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  • The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...
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  • is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson ... administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is the ...
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  • Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. The United Mexican ... 14th largest in the world. With a population of almost 109 million, it is the ...
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  • The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... law. India accepts compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction ...
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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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  • the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction. ...
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  • ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ... term has been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced ...
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  • ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ) ruled most of the western Deccan, South India ... For over a century, the two empires of southern India, the Western ...
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  • Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ... has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction ...
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  • Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America, located ... Bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair, Michigan ...
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  • Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...
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  • 14, 1799) was the commander in chief of the Continental Army in the ... Washington first gained prominence leading Virginia troops in support ...
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  • Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... War in 1866. It was founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, with ...
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  • Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... social, and economic problems. As a result of mismanagement, very few natural ...
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  • Nepal in the west, Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and east ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...
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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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  • philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative ... 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College ...
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  • , or Tunisia, with a population of over 10 million, is a predominately ... Forty per cent of the country is comprised of the Sahara Desert, with ...
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  • War battle. He is often referred to as one of the greatest chess players ... he could not come to agreement with the international chess federation FIDE ...
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  • from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's ... deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced ...
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  • Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... #039;s interior. The organic composition of Barbados is thought to be of ...
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  • Tasmania is an Australian island and a state of the same name. The ... Tasmania's history is one of grim and sometimes brutal relations ...
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  • was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth ... in the Northern Irish struggle for social justice, pursed the diplomatic path ...
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  • – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...
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  • , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. his own authority over the apparatus of government. As president and ...
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  • Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... dispute. A 2001 ruling by the International Court of Justice granted sovereignty ...
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  • military conflict between the United States of America and the nascent First ... ISBN 9718958002). This date marked the end of the war as far as the United ...
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  • The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...
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  • Thoreau believed nature to be an expression of God and a symbolic reflection ... by embedding his ideas in the context of descriptive narrative prose ...
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  • Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist ... operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still ...
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  • The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...
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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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  • 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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  • who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three ...
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  • that every person is the absolute owner of their own life and should be ... and freedom. Libertarians are suspicious of the ability of government and ...
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  • Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... the entire peninsula. Following a series of insurrections, its territory ...
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  • 200 books and articles in various fields of science. He was well versed ... Razi's portrait adorns the great hall of the Faculty of Medicine in ...
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  • Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...
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  • energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... the nationalization at the International Court of Justice at The Hague ...
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  • when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632 ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...
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  • Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... in the nation, based largely on the value of slaves, who were counted as ...
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  • actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered ... than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from Shakespeare's ...
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  • Central America is the region of North America located between the ... ==Countries of the region== The area considered Central America comprises ...
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  • to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... case against Iran to the International Court of Justice at The Hague; ...
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  • home-bred screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many ... Jackson, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The son of a prosperous hardware store ...
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  • Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic ... was dominated by foreign powers through much of its history. The past eight ...
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  • in Kannada) stood as a prominent South Indian empire that ruled most ... The Hoysala rulers originally lived as hill peoples of Malnad Karnataka ...
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  • Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...
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  • The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...
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  • Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... Remains of one of the oldest known hominids, dated to over one million ...
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  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction ...
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  • in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica ... or, ultimately, by the International Court of Justice; *Articles 12 ...
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