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  • from the word "gram," means "of the village." The bank ... The origin of Grameen Bank traces back to 1976. Muhammad Yunus, a ...
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  • in his writings, particularly the absurdity of existence in a brutal and apparently ... Though Camus’ work is often associated with that of another important ...
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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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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • |affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... initial $1 million endowment in the hopes of making a contribution to the ...
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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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