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  • Israel Jacobson (October 17, 1768 - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was ... Germany, Jacobson married into the family of the wealthy court Jew Hertz ...
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  • 1956. The conflict pitted Egypt against Israel, the United Kingdom, and France. The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ...
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  • Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around ... Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an ...
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  • Rabbi Joshua was a leading rabbinical sage of the first half-century following ... A disciple of Johanan ben Zakkai, he was an opponent of asceticism ...
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  • ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ... ==Scope of the Conflict== The conflict is sometimes referred to as ...
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  • 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...
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  • laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... A proponent of realpolitik (or the realist school of international ...
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  • Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason ... born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. ...
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  • in Boston and serving as chief executive of the revolutionary Massachusetts ... teacher and then a doctor. An active member of the Sons of Liberty, he began ...
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  • [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil, of the royal Hashemite family ...
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  • most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...
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  • علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from ... In 1924, he further proclaimed himself Caliph of all Muslims. He ruled ...
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  • he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination and his lifelong ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...
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  • E., establishing an independent Jewish state of Israel which he ruled for three ... the surname Bar Kokhba, meaning "Son of the Star," by the leading ...
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  • conspiracy to eliminate the leadership of the Soviet Union. The plot ... doctor and a sister of the first President of Israel Chaim Weizmann (who ...
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  • scandal revealed in 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan ... While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, ...
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  • Israeli statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 ... "I did not dream of becoming president of Israel. My dream as a boy ...
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  • ) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel, often ... In the Bible, water-rich Beersheba was once the home of each of the ...
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  • diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...
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  • located in the Palestinian territory and Israel. Ethnically, they are descendents ... Judean Jews; however, Jesus used the parable of the "Good Samaritan" ...
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