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  • This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... * Sovereign states (country names in bold), consisting of: ...
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  • Division (UNSD), includes the countries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary ... Using this definition, the nations of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
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  • The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States ...
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  • The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... himself), were shepherded to passage by Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas ...
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  • 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... occurred in the Menshevik Democratic Republic of Georgia, and the Cheka ...
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  • The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...
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  • This article is about the nation of Georgia. For the U.S. state, see ... Georgia (transliterated as Sakartvelo), known officially from 1990 ...
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  • an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...
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  • under equipped police force, in 1948, to one of the world's most advanced ... South Korea maintains one of the largest standing armies in the world ...
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  • Iğdır Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, 16 km west of the Iranian ... Technically, Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ...
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  • Baky, or Baki, located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, is the capital ... The city entered a period of decline after the break-up of the Soviet ...
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  • law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice ... played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. ...
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  • and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of ... with popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately ...
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  • (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...
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  • "Hayastan"), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...
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  • In 1794, the Qajar family took full control of Iran as they had eliminated ... empire. Britain also established control of the Trucial States. In the ...
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  • |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...
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  • | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...
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  • born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
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  • :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...
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  • a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...
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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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  • and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural ... After the Civil War, the South was largely devastated in terms of ...
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  • The Republic of Dagestan (older spelling Daghestan) is a republic ... Situated on the eastern end of the North Caucasus Mountains along ...
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  • The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... Korea's economy had developed into one of the strongest in the world ...
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  • – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...
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  • the southeastern United States. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies ... Territory (now Oklahoma) known as the Trail of Tears. Today North Carolina ...
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  • March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... by many as the greatest American leader of the twentieth century. His ...
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  • : singular see below: Origin of the name ) is both the largest and ... metropolis with an urban population of 3.3 million and a metropolitan ...
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  • v. Sandford," The American Journal of Legal History 32(4): 373-390. ... " was a lawsuit, pivotal in the history of the United States, decided ...
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  • | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... | date of birth=August 27, 1908 | place of birth=Stonewall, Texas ...
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  • :This article covers the political aspects of the American Revolution ... The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half ...
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  • has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...
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  • a World War I hero. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...
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  • A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...
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  • 1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ... RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ...
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  • military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders ...
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  • Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...
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  • served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. She ... when she was eleven years old. A member of the Democratic Party, she worked ...
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  • The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...
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  • | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | date of birth=July 14, 1913 | place of birth=Omaha, Nebraska ...
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  • the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Since the ... The region encompasses some of the Louisiana Purchase, most of the ...
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  • 14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805 ... As a legislator, Burr was a formative member of the Democratic-Republican ...
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  • and 1953, while he was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the ... Kaganovich. Although he tolerated the use of the term by associates and ...
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  • independence from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. After the initial ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...
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  • Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... and Indian War. For many years, control of the area was disputed by the ...
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  • Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ... refugee protection is the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ...
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  • and naval officer. He was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War ... exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the ...
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  • The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... American populations and has been part of the Spanish viceroyalty of ...
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  • George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President, George ...
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  • 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953 ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...
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  • The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...
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  • leader who served as the key architect of the October Revolution, and ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...
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  • to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests ... precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government. As ...
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  • an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...
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  • South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...
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  • and successful general. During the course of the American Civil War he quickly ... After the war he was alleged to have participated in the founding ...
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  • in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...
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  • It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...
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  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... Salem, and Boston, which soon became the hub of the region, then the Pioneer ...
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  • in Iran, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from ... September 22, 1980, following a long history of border disputes. The conflict ...
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  • philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative ... 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College ...
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  • Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia ... A 2006 study found that Vancouver had the third highest quality of ...
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  • power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union between 1928 ... superpower and did not see the elimination of millions of lives as an impediment ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...
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  • an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as ... Trotsky's ideas form the basis of the Communist theory of Trotskyism ...
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  • forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over ... believe that the massacres were a case of genocide. Western commentators ...
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  • Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned ... 1921. His strong support for and defense of the New Economic Policy (NEP ...
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  • all wars. Some question the appropriateness of the term “world war” because ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...
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  • transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) ...
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  • was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s ...
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  • Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...
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  • Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...
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  • 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who ... He saw action in World War I as part of the new United States Tank ...
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