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– June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...

The Volunteer Army (Добровольческая армия in Russian ... Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...

role in Philippine independence during the Philippine Revolution against ... In the Philippines, Aguinaldo is considered to be the country's ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Organisation du Traité ... ; (also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance ...

The Warsaw Insurrection (otherwise the Warsaw Uprising of 1794; ... ) was an armed Polish insurrection by the city's populace early ...

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...

23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...

The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... stemming mostly from tensions between the mainly Arab-Muslim north and ...

objector sentenced to 15 years hard labor in the [[United States Disciplinary ... service, or they may refuse to be a part of any combatant organization ...

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

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...

A former Portuguese colony, Angola, known formally as the Republic ... reserves. Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese influence, namely ...

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...

The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country ... Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ...

West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent ...

The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... experienced famine and economic collapse. The demoralized Russian Army suffered ...

Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... slaves and later contract laborers from the Dutch East Indies and India ...

The American Library Association (ALA) is a library association in ... Rules, Second Edition), accreditation of MLS (Masters of Library Science ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World ... The Security Council requires all five permanent members to agree ...

Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in ... Tension between the two nations remains high and both possess nuclear ...

from 1985-90, was elected president for the second time in 2006. For much ... After a popular rebellion resulted in the overthrow and exile of dictator ...

March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...

The Somali Revolution started in 1986, when President Siad Barre began ... The United Nations was involved on the ground in Somalia from 1992 ...

The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учред ... By the time it finally met, the Bolsheviks had already overthrown ...

The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental ... to its citizens and the duties of the citizens to the State. Those ...

At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... The U.S. ended its occupation in part to bolster its efforts in the ...

Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... features, including Angel Falls. Located in the Guayana highlands, it plunges ...

The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought ... and religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim ...

in Eastern Europe that borders Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet ... The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic ...

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... From 1991 to 2002, the country suffered greatly under the devastating ...

was a North Korean politician who served as the second Supreme Leader of North ... In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership ...

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...

abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... The titles commonly used to name Switzerland in French ( ...

a Christian spiritual movement that arose in the later Middle Ages. The sect ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...

The Battle of Badr ( غزوة بدر ), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar ...

(Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום ... ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom HaKipurim ...

[[Image:Gay flag.svg|thumb|right|400px|The Rainbow flag is the most ... The gay rights movement, or LGBT movement refers to myriad organizations ...

(April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according ... for a second time, and in 1941, it entered the Second World War with the ...

, earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... After joining the Communist movement while a student in France and ...

Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth ... Its name derives from the Latin argentum, meaning silver, and was ...

The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey ...

military leader, and from 1967 to 1998 the second President of Indonesia ... and died at 86 years old in Jakarta in 2008. The legacy of Suharto's presidency ...

The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación ... former FSLN allies as well as supporters of the former Somoza regime. More ...

The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation ... The Comoros is notable for its diverse culture and history, as a nation ...

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... power from September 1973 to March 1990, the country has been relatively ...

The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus ... One of the puzzles of the Anglo-Zulu war is that although the British ...

Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...

The United Arab Emirates (also the UAE or the Emirates) is a Middle ... Before 1971, they were known as the "Trucial States" after ...

(b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...

), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... Whatever the motivation, deep state usually refers to a conspiracy ...

Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...

The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... Denmark borders the Baltic Sea on the southeast and the North Sea ...

Antigua and Barbuda is a three-island nation located in the eastern ... The islands' indigenous people became virtually extinct not long ...

الحسيني). He was also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار ... of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). Arafat ...

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country ... Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ...

Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating ... Hazing is seen in many different types of social groups, including ...

Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), ... The country, which by the end of the twentieth century resembled that ...

Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 in the ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...

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

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United ... The House of Commons evolved at some point during the fourteenth century ...

capital, Halifax, is a major economic center of the region. It is the fourth ... The province includes several regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of ...

. Transliterated Grigorii Evseevich Zinov'ev according to the ... – August 25, 1936), known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich ...

The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...

Oslo is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality ... According to the Norse legends, Oslo was founded around 1049, by King ...

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... Slovenia has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Karantania ...

The Chechen Republic or, informally, Chechnya, (sometimes referred ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...

htm South Africa grows to 44.8 million], on the site [http://www.southafrica ... The Zulu are a South African ethnic group of an estimated 17-22 million ...

The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... Monaco is the world's most densely populated state and second ...

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples ...

Blythe III on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United ... During Clinton's presidency, the world continued to transition ...

Sweden is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern ... contributed to rapid industrialization; by the 1890s, the country had begun ...

Тито, May 7, 1892 – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...

Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... The Bush family has a significant history in United States politics ...

is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former colonial powers. Pan ...

January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...

On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces ... In estimating the death toll from the attacks, there are several factors ...

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Tantawi, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, became the ...

The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the ... French Union forces included colonial troops from the whole former ...

align:center;" | [[Image:Elizabeth I of England - coronation portrait ... Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603) was Queen of England ...

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked ... On taking power, the communist government imposed a Soviet-style command ...

The First World War, known as the Great War before 1939 and as World ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... The region was once inhabited by the ancient Thracians, and was later ...

The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the ... A subsequent USAF investigation blamed the accident on several factors ...

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... On October 1, 1960, Nigeria declared its independence from the United ...

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean. Its people, culture ...

He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union ... Trotsky's ideas form the basis of the Communist theory of Trotskyism ...

The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Defeat in World War I and the February and October Revolutions in ...

) sometimes referred to by the name Seyyed Ruhollah Mosavi Hendizadeh ... cleric and marja (religious authority), and the political leader of the 1979 ...

| order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... | date of birth=August 27, 1908 | place of birth=Stonewall, Texas ...

, was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. Saddam tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces ...

The Boshin War|{{linktext|戊|辰|戦|争|Boshin Sensō|extra="War ... was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ...

Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is one of ... After a protracted war for independence, then decades of socialist ...

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... Arab geographers, for over a thousand years the island was ruled by independent ...

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... The Northern Mariana Islands—together with Guam to the south—comprise ...

The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... The name Manila comes from may nilad, Tagalog for "there is nilad ...

KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... The KGB was the umbrella organization for the Soviet Union's ...

, formerly called Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South ... Bogotá is the educational, cultural, commercial, administrative, ...

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... An Islamic nation, it is home mainly to the Tajiks, who share culture ...

Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...

The Weimar Republic ( Weimarer Republik , IPA: [ ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ...

The Republic of Dagestan (older spelling Daghestan) is a republic ... Situated on the eastern end of the North Caucasus Mountains along ...

Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... The nation's traditions draw on its nomadic past and are centuries ...

Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān), officially the Lebanese Republic ... Until the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90), the country was considered ...

The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern ... Together with the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole the Creek ...

The Waco "cult" — more properly known as the Branch Davidians ... This tiny apocalyptic sect was thrust into the international spotlight ...

The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh ... Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ...

born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... on March 17, 2011 by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the interim ...

Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... in World War I in which many people resented the humiliating terms imposed ...

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...

Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...

The West Bank ( الضفة الغربية , הגדה המערבית and Samaria, is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River ...

Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...

Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and ... In 1983, Grenada was invaded by U.S.-led troops that toppled the pro ...

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...

politician and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years ... When the attempt to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in ...

North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... Croatia borders the country on the north, west, and south, Serbia ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania and the Adriatic Sea. Periodically independent since the late Middle Ages, and an internationally ...

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President ... and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية , al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... The first Polish state was baptized in 966, an event that coincided ...

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...

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

The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located ... Covering almost two million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth ...

The Republic of Cameroon is a "hinge" state bridging central ... Cameroon is home to over 250 ethnic and linguistic groups, with the ...

Armenia (Armenian language: "Hayastan"), officially the ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...

29, 1932 - September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...

A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... The term dictatorship originates from its use in the Roman Republic ...

The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ... The Navajo resemble Apache in many ways, although contact with Pueblo ...

), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...

statesman who is popularly credited as one of the finest military commanders ... During his invasion of Italy he defeated the Romans in a series of ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...

The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...

) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations ... political speeches. He would go on to devote the most productive years of his ...

Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... His role in World War I is debated by scholars. On the one hand, he ...

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 ...

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...

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

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

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España North Africa (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign ...

), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...

movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...

Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...

Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... fought. Invaders and conquerors included the Persian Empire, Alexander ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...

to generalizable knowledge in which the focus for gathering data is ... such as effectiveness and side-effects of vaccines and treatments for ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, ... 's impact and legacy was not limited to the U.S., but was worldwide, including ...

Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...

Josef Stalin, consolidated power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet ... Stalin was responsible transforming the Soviet Union from an agricultural ...

koku) is an island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan ... Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands ...

England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... England is often mistakenly considered the same as the United Kingdom ...

The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...

21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...

France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... The French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic with more ...

later Leningrad (1924–1991; see below), is the second-largest city in Russia ... The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the ...

played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all ... his career, Pelé was adept at striking the ball with either foot in addition ...