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  • In May 1922, Stalin became the General Secretary of the Communist ... to Stalin's being re-elected as the General Secretary instead of Sergey ...
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  • war against Japan led in 1905 to a general strike in Finland and revolutionary ... had failed, the socialists initiated a general strike on November 14–19, ...
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  • deeply humiliated by their defeat, it was General Lee's conduct at such ... Lee in his rear. The remaining corps would strike Lee's front through ...
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  • which it would have to deal with the General Strike and miners’ strike ... industry (i.e. the issues behind the General Strike). He also convened a ...
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  • to Geneva, Switzerland as a Women’s Strike for Peace delegate in order ... (in support of the sanitation worker’s strike.) An excerpt of the speech ...
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  • Eigi skal höggva!—"Don't strike!" ==Works== ... other forms of European poetry do, and in general rhyme plays a very minor role. ...
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  • coup in May, 1981. The following year, General Hossain Mohammad Ershad ... election held under President Lieutenant General Hossain Mohammad Ershad ...
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  • He led the Conservatives to victory in the October 1959 general election ... In the House of Lords in the 1980s, he praised the miners then on ...
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  • divine principles. Hence Shariah in general is considered divine, but ... The Arabic word daraba not only means to hit, strike or beat, daraba ...
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  • In 1943, following a three-year stint as Consul General to Mexico ... repression of a Communist-led miners' strike in October 1947, in which ...
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  • force of 1,200 Oglala and Cheyenne against General George Crooks on June 17 ... to take his sick wife to her parents, General George Crook ordered him ...
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  • remaining EATUC officers called for a general strike that paralyzed Nairobi ... Early in 1954 the KFRTU undermined a general strike that was called by the ...
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  • came to be applied to stone coffins in general. The American Heritage® ... a mounted hunter with his sword raised to strike a leaping lion, and hunter ...
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  • in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War ... Winfield was named after Winfield Scott, a prominent general in the ...
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  • commanders. The first NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay, famously described ... Also at Lisbon, the post of Secretary General of NATO as the organization ...
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  • article] in the Asia Times quoting the General's estimate. An Indian ... asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg7_14 Indian general praises Pakistani valour ...
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  • union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared ... helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central ...
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  • of the twentieth century. He won three general elections although always ... the Ulster Workers' Council general strike in 1974 in order to destabilize ...
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  • On July 31, 2022, al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in ... was Azzam Pasha, the founding secretary-general of the Arab League (1945–1952). ...
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  • President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower ... the president was said to have chosen to strike the word congressional in ...
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