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  • of (some) actions is intrinsic, or resides in the kind of action that it ... religious tradition, is deontological in character. The Ten Commandments ...
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  • to a deadly industrial fire that occurred in West Bengal, India, on November ... had been illegally locked. Authorities, in response to local residents ...
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  • It ranks fifth in the precedence of military awards behind the Medal ... The Silver Star is awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy ...
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  • military award to U.S. military members in current use. ... of kin in the name of those who are killed in action or die of wounds received ...
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  • film, Nicaragua Was Our Home, was released in 1986. It was filmed in Nicaragua ... a desire to bring them joy and fulfillment in their lives. When he became ...
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  • The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland early in the ... In 1688 William, glad to enlist British help in his wars with France ...
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  • Bull. He became chief upon his father's death in 1875. Though skilled in war, he was known as a great man of peace, adept ...
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  • The Battle of Cheongsanri (Chingshanri in Chinese) was fought in October ... Although no dramatic change in the status of relations between the ...
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  • Starr among others, acquired iconic status in a country that claims law and ... He married Nancy Fowler in 1818 and had two children before divorcing ...
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  • Born Free, which described her experiences in saving the life of a lioness, Elsa. Mrs. Adamson was born Joy Friedericke Victoria Gessner in Troppau ...
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  • was the tenth Abbasid caliph who reigned in Samarra from 847 until 861 ... signifying some attribute of faith or trust in the Almighty as here, Al-Mutawakkil ...
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  • A suicide attack is an attack on a military or civilian target, in ... of a Philistine temple (as recounted in the Book of Judges) and the ...
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  • and included graves of soldiers fallen in other wars. The cemetery holds ... In 1991 the battlefield site was officially designated the "Little ...
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  • constituting a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand region of modern ... a total of three British officers killed in action and ten wounded, seven ...
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  • Lakota chief and holy man. He is notable in American and Native American ... Sitting Bull was born around 1831 near the Grand River in present ...
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  • The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... Kingdom simply halting the German Armies in the west while the huge Russian ...
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  • The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington ... who were either confirmed to be KIA (Killed in Action) or remained classified ...
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  • In fact, the rebellion was small, but it had enormous psychological ... and defeated the Royal Army stationed in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans ...
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  • Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of ... In the Western intellectual tradition, philosophical ethics begins ...
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  • of war, often composing poems while in the trenches themselves. Owen ... Owen was killed in action on November 4, 1918, during the crossing ...
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