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  • In the 1895 General Election the Independent Labour Party put up 28 ... moderate force in politics. During the General Strike of 1926 he opposed strike ...
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  • part in a "Cessation of Labor" (strike). At that time, withdrawal ... of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark. "Maybe ...
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  • of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General (1926), as the "full ... Meyerhold’s stylized acting methods. In Strike!, which portrays the beginnings ...
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  • the increase. Industrial workers went on strike and effectively paralyzed ... :October - general strike, St. Petersburg Soviet formed ...
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  • When the Conservatives won the 1970 general election, Thatcher became ... not bring the agreement down by a general strike. This was evidence of ...
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  • onto the surface of a neutron star would strike the star at 150,000km/s, ... *** Single pulsars – general term for neutron stars that emit directed ...
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  • General Electric later bought Germer's patent and under the direction ... from a DC supply of sufficient voltage to strike an arc. In this case, there ...
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  • American labor unions prepared for a general strike in support of the eight ... the city. By the time of the 1886 general strike, strikebreakers entering ...
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  • in other industries, culminating in a general strike at Rostov-on-Don in November ... struggles culminated in a citywide general strike, and Tiflis, where commercial ...
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  • 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American ... He was the cousin of future Confederate general G.W. Smith and the nephew ...
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  • policies. His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 in order to keep ... settlers in that region. In 1886 Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles captured ...
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  • Andrew Scott Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal ... region, and the Himalaya mountains in general, are thought to be experiencing ...
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  • to Ghana in 1947, where he was appointed General-Secretary of The United ... When he returned to Ghana, he became General Secretary of the United ...
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  • In October 1971 he joined four Westminster MPs in a 48-hour hunger ... of Sinn Féin) or the 2005 United Kingdom general election, which Mark Durkan ...
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  • was elected as the Chinese Communist Party General Secretary in 1943, and in ... of the Chinese Communist Party, and became general secretary of the All-China ...
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  • Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ... had served as his father's solicitor general. Taft himself appeared taciturn ...
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  • quot; (shǒu 手). This can mean, "to strike, hit, beat, or fight." ... (see Gulou and Zhonglou). Three kingdoms general Zhang Fei used a ...
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  • In 1955, due to pressure from civil leaders, the general opposition ... planned uprisings in the cities and a general strike, coordinated by the llano ...
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  • General Aung San, the country's founding father, broke with his ... That summer on July 23, General Ne Win announced that he was resigning ...
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  • Although he remains obscure to general readers, his importance ... Wolsey due to the work's nature as a general satire of the clergy. The ...
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