Search results for "General strike" - New World Encyclopedia

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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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  • and deflect the electrons. When electrons strike the fluorescent screen, light ... off the axis of the tube so that the ions strike the side of the CRT instead ...
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  • members placed under house arrest, such as General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. The ... scale protests in Shanghai with a general strike. There were also protests ...
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  • 2005, when he was defeated in the British general election and resigned the ... controlled Ulster Workers' Strike, during which loyalist paramilitaries ...
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  • Poland, Frank was released by the Russian general Bibikov, who had occupied ... Tschenstochau, and incorporated into the General Government. The Nazis marched ...
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  • promoted to the rank of brigadier general as the Civil War was drawing ... * Great Railroad Strike (1877) ===Administration and Cabinet=== ...
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  • sees law as an "expression of the general will," intended to ... freedom of association, or the right to strike. However, these principles ...
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  • While the fierce-looking moray eels can strike fear in the hearts ... first discovery of cooperation between fish in general. ...
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  • in doubt. She was sentenced to death, but General Maxwell commuted this to ... as the government in London granted a general amnesty for those who had ...
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  • It stopped on April 30, 1997, the day before the general election ... on the radio or television, hear the bell strike 13 times on New Year's ...
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  • in the state of New York. Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's 8,000 ... impregnable, and a vital point of defense. General St. Clair and his superior ...
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