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  • an Irish-born British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman popularly referred to as Lord Kitchener. He first came to public notice when he vindicated ...
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  • Cicero (106 – 43 B.C.E.), lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and writer ... Demosthenes (384 – 322 B.C.E.) was a prominent statesman and orator ...
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  • Thomas Masaryk was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak statesman, sociologist and philosopher, and a strong advocate of Czechoslovak independence ...
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  • Sir Thomas More ( February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535) was an English lawyer, author, statesman, and a Catholic martyr. During his lifetime he earned ...
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  • had reached Europe in early 1844. The French statesman François Guizot, supported by King Louis-Philippe of France, had strongly renounced the annexation ...
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  • in the late nineteenth century by the British statesman Lord George Curzon who described Korea as a "sort of political Tom Tiddler's ground ...
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  • available as a potential "elder statesman" who could head such ... writing on the website of the New Statesman on the issue of "outing ...
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  • Rhodes Scholarship in 1909, he was a Prussian Statesman, holding the office of Prussian Minister to England, and Foreign Minister of Prussia. ...
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  • Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.E., Greek: Δημοσθένης (Dēmosthénēs)) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His ...
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  • compound, and some of the surrounding houses. The Statesman reported on July 4 that light machine-guns and sophisticated self-loading rifles had been ...
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  • were united between 1450 and 1600 by a Mohawk statesman, Hiawatha, and religious leader, Deganawida.Barry M. Priztker. A Native American Encyclopedia: ...
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  • Carlo Gozzi portrayed Tartaglia as a statesman, and so he remained thereafter. Tartaglia wears a large felt hat, an enormous cloak, oversized ...
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  • B.C.E.), was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He ... Thucydides reprehends the Athenian statesman for his political conduct ...
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  • Edward Rutledge (November 23, 1749 – January 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration of Independence ...
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  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England, was a powerful English statesman and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in humble circumstances, he was introduced ...
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  • a foreign office, welcoming Prussian statesman Paul George Mollendorff into the foreign office as an official advisor to the crown. ...
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  • peaked during the reign of the outstanding statesman Mai Idris Aluma (c. 1571–1603). ===Idris Aluma=== Aluma is remembered for his military ...
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  • Shāng Yāng (商鞅; Kung-sun Yang; Wei Yang; Pinyin Shang Yang; d. 338 B.C.E.) was an important statesman and social political philosopher ...
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  • Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a British statesman who served under two of Britain's most influential ...
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  • quot;) was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of ... Pericles was a statesman, military leader and orator, who towered ...
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  • is also featured, most notably in the Sophist and Statesman. ... * Statesman * Philebus * Timaeus * Critias * Laws == Philosophical Themes== ...
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  • vision of Croatia's independence, and the statesman's wisdom of how to realize it. This was seen at crucial junctures of modern Croatia ...
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  • general in the American Civil War, American statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. ...
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  • (the same as that of the leading Athenian statesman Cleon) which implies he was from a relatively wealthy family and, accordingly, well educated ...
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  • violent man, without any of the attributes of a statesman" Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ...
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  • [https://www.hoover.org/press-releases/distinguished-american-statesman ... * [https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/07/george-shultz-statesman-stanford ...
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  • Katsu Kaishū (勝 海舟 Awa Katsu; Kaishū; Rintaro; Yoshikuni 1823-1899) was a Japanese naval officer and statesman during the Late Tokugawa ...
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  • Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was a ary statesman and patriot, leader in colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate ...
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  • * Francis Bacon, 1561–1626, England. Philosopher, statesman, essayist and literary master, author of the Shakespearean plays, father of inductive ...
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  • Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 – December 14, 1947) was a British statesman and was elected three times ...
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  • *Bauer, Jack K. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 1994. ISBN ...
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  • boloji.com/articles/934/morarji-desai-1896-1995a-statesman-par-excellence Morarji Desai (1896-1995) A Statesman Par Excellence] Boloji, March 5, 2005 ...
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  • 1226643,00.html David Dellinger: Pacifist elder statesman of the anti-Vietnam Chicago Eight], Guardian Unlimited. * [http://www.bookrags.com/biography/david ...
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  • Mirabeau, both as a political thinker and as a statesman. ... the daughter of Willem van Haren, a Dutch statesman and political writer. She ...
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  • *Shen Kuo (1031–1095), a Chinese scientist, statesman, mathematician ... Ash'ari theologian, diplomat and statesman; "a still-influential ...
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  • appeal, Hawkins acquired the status of an elder statesman among his peers. ==Biography== ===Early years=== [[Image:Ths coleman hawkins.png|thumb ...
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  • Maistre can be counted, with the Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke, as one of the fathers of European conservatism. Since the nineteenth century, however ...
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  • she was the daughter of the prominent Swiss statesman Jacques Necker, who was the Director of Finance under King Louis XVI of France, and Suzanne ...
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  • lines of the theories of Dutch theologian, statesman and journalist, Abraham Kuyper. More traditional Calvinist critics of the movement characterize ...
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  • :Guan Zhong (管仲), statesman and advisor of Duke Huan of Qi and regarded by some modern scholars as the first Legalist. :Baili Xi (百里奚 ...
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  • 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981) was an Egyptian statesman who served as the third president of Egypt from October 15, 1970 until his assassination ...
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  • * Vaughan, David. Statesman and Saint: The Principled Politics of William Wilberforce. Godalming, Surrey: Highland Books, 2001. ISBN 1581822243 ...
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  • to the fact that Hideyoshi, the leading warrior-statesman, or Shogun of the time, presented Chojiro's pottery house with a golden seal bearing ...
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  • Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924 - February 20, 2010) was an American statesman and military leader. He retired as a general from the ...
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  • (c. 4 B.C.E.– 65 C.E.) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature. During the times when he was ...
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  • his credentials as an experienced statesman and respected political ... politics, and as a leading visionary and statesman of the world. ...
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  • their outrage. G.D.H. Cole fumed in New Statesman and Nation: "His book was perhaps worth translating as a supreme example of academic absurdity ...
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  • attitude was typical of the sixteenth century statesman, who preferred efficiency to principle. On the other hand, Burghley may have felt that without ...
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  • poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist and statesman, (February 26, 1802 – ... also internationally acknowledged as a statesman who helped to preserve ...
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  • Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 - September 4, 1963) was a noted French Statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent ...
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  • Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic and a follower of the philosophy of Stoicism. Cato lost his parents ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:Albert Einstein Head.jpg |thumb|right|300px|Albert Einstein, archetype of genius.]] ...
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  • Progress remained elusive until wise elder statesman Benjamin Franklin stood up and gave a prescient speech in which he stated that creation of the Constitution ...
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  • Vol. 2: Progressive Politician and Moral Statesman, 1909-1915 (University ... Vol. 2: Progressive Politician and Moral Statesman, 1909-1915. Lincoln, University ...
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  • in his old age, was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist, and poet of the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu is considered a prime example of the Chinese ...
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  • himself to the role of "elder statesman," criticizing and ... quot; is variously used to describe a statesman of great resourcefulness ...
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  • The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation) was the governing constitution of the ...
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  • Chaim Azriel Weizmanz (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President ...
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  • presents a near-mythical picture of a "statesman" who looks to the next generation, promotes international harmony, and rises above the jingoism ...
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  • science is the only game in town']" New Statesman (Apr. 10, 2006). Retrieved August 3, 2007. Meanwhile, in an essay that emphasizes parallels ...
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  • amp;sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all A Serious Statesman Of the Game] Query.nytimes.com. Retrieved June 24, 2008. ==Legacy== Larry Doby died ...
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  • from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin dedicated much effort and millions of Russian rubles to the creation of a "Northern ...
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  • a better chance to approve himself a statesman, and his advisers capable ... * Clements, Kendrick A. 1999. Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman. Chicago: ...
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  • Joseph Chamberlain (July 8, 1836–July 2, 1914) was an influential British businessman, politician, and statesman. In his early years Chamberlain ...
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  • Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 - November 29, 2023) was a German-born U.S. diplomat, Nobel laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of ...
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  • marriage-women-family The marriage business] New Statesman, March 15, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2014. According to Parag Bhargava, the most ...
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  • Yulgok was not just a brilliant statesman, he was a philosopher, a poet and an educator. He had furthermore interests in medicine, economy, military ...
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  • – January 12, 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet ...
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  • Cyrus was distinguished equally as a statesman and as a soldier. By pursuing a policy of generosity instead of repression, and by favoring local ...
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  • Alcide De Gasperi (April 3, 1881 – August 19, 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers ...
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  • In a list compiled in 2006 by the left-leaning magazine, the New Statesman ... of our time - the top 50"] New Statesman, May 22, 2006. Retrieved ...
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  • Barca) was a Carthaginian politician and statesman who is popularly credited ... year and soon showed that he could be a statesman as well as a soldier. Following ...
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  • father, grandfather, husband, teacher, author and statesman, and a sometime member of the Israeli Knesset. To others, he was a revolutionary, warrior ...
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  • Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most famous for serving as the only ...
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  • Fowler, Michael, "Winston S. Churchill: Philosopher and Statesman." (University Press of America, 1985) ISBN 0819144169; Fowler, Michael ...
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  • quot; (1794), occasioned by the death of Russian statesman and a favorite of Empress Catherine, Prince Potemkin, and "Bullfinch" (1800), a ...
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  • was influenced by the Stoics, and the Roman statesman Cicero wrote on political philosophy. Independently, Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, and the Legalist ...
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  • was introduced by the South African statesman Jan Smuts in his 1926 book, Holism and Evolution. According to the Oxford English Dictionary ...
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  • shoe The Case of Khrushchev's Shoe] The New Statesman, October 2, 2000. Retrieved March 3, 2022. * Khrushchev, Sergie N. Khrushchev on Khrushchev ...
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  • Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first ...
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  • such as Paine, William Hazlitt and Whig statesman Charles James Fox, remained ... In the correspondence of Austrian statesman and diplomat Prince Klemens ...
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  • * Prittie, Terence. Willy Brandt: Portrait of a Statesman. New York: Schocken Books, 1974. ISBN 978-0805235616 * Viola, Tom. Willy Brandt. World ...
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  • what represented the greatest challenge for a statesman, Macmillan replied: “Events, my dear boy, events.” Hendrik Bering, [http://www.hoover ...
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  • national Anti-Imperialist League. Prominent statesman George S. Boutwell served as president from the League's inception in 1898 to his death in ...
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  • kulkarni describes him as "a sagacious statesman who did not favor a wholesale importation of the Western system of education into this country." ...
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  • * Schattenberg, Susanne. Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman. I.B. Tauris, 2021. ISBN 978-1838606381 ==External links== All links retrieved October ...
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  • In 1629 Rembrandt was discovered by the statesman and poet Constantijn Huygens, who procured for Rembrandt important commissions from the court ...
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  • image as a soldier, and developed a persona of a statesman and general of great stature. Legend has it that his lack of preparations or even defensive ...
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  • 1874 –January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known as prime minister ... even pugnacious looking senior statesman as he is depicted to the right. ...
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  • Suzhou ( t=蘇州 |s=苏州 |p=Sūzhōu ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu ...
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  • David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January 17, 1863 – March 26, 1945) was a British statesman who guided Britain ...
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  • their crown. Belisarius was a soldier, not a statesman, and still loyal to Justinian. He made as if to accept the offer, rode to Ravenna to be crowned ...
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  • and such warm admirers in America, nor does any statesman in France appear to have ever possessed uninterruptedly for so many years so large a measure ...
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  • (among them the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin) but also includes the actors Michael Redgrave and Charlie Chaplin. Orwell's ...
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  • was connected through family to the Athenian statesman and general Miltiades, and his son Cimon, leaders of the old aristocracy supplanted by the ...
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  • Dati. Retrieved October 20, 2022. Volpi, a statesman, wealthy businessman, and avid fascist who had been Benito Mussolini's minister of finance ...
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  • treated all this in his Phaedo, Republic, and Statesman. For Aristotle, the science of "being qua being" (on hēi on) was what he called ...
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  • civil war; but says that “no British statesman ever officially tells the ... and ethical imperatives facing a statesman with international constituencies ...
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  • use, in which a telling attack upon a leading statesman, which had appeared in the public edition, was omitted. At length the sweeping changes ...
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  • starting from Technopark towards Kollam.The Statesman, [http://grass-roots.in/cache/index.php/14935 Slow on the uptake.] Retrieved February 17, 2009. ...
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