Search results for "General strike" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • “The Russian term for strike, stachka, was derived from an old colloquial ... Soviet was formed and called for a general strike in October, refusal to ...
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  • rise to prominence began during the 1970 strike. However, it was after losing ... He was a member of the illegal strike committee in Gdańsk Shipyard ...
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  • In the 1906 general election he contested Kidderminster but lost amidst ... Exchequer. This period included the General Strike of 1926, a crisis which ...
    18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
  • ===Winnipeg general strike=== what came to be known as the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. The government ...
    32 KB (4,701 words) - 23:10, 17 May 2023
  • blow, he or she may deliver a quick strike to distract the attacker ... and grabs such as shomenuchi (a vertical strike to the head), yokomenuchi ...
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  • companies in what would become the General Strike. When the strike started ... MP), and easily held the seat at the 1929 General Election. In Parliament ...
    28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 2023
  • 12 he became a clerk in his uncle's general store, which failed in 1837 ... with Grant, Dana urged Stanton to place General Grant in supreme command ...
    10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
  • and started off by organizing a general strike. As a result, four of ... Luxemburg wanted to organize a general strike to rouse the workers ...
    25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
  • was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... which eventually became part of General Motors Corporation. ...
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  • Adorno, many years his junior, with whom he would strike a lasting friendship and a fruitful collaborative relationship. In 1925 he was habilitated ...
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  • throws three strikes to the batter. A strike is given when there is a ... There are three general forms of softball: slow pitch, modified pitch ...
    50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
  • noted in particular for his silent films Strike and Oktober, and most especially ... films, Eisenstein took on the making of Strike, the fifth film in the series ...
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  • in any detail, Wobblies envisioned the general strike as the means by which ... a role in the 1934 San Francisco general strike and the other organizing ...
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  • of Tiananmen and held a demonstration. The general consensus was that the Chinese ... The next day, students in Beijing went on strike, and student groups ...
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  • Depending upon the taxonomic scheme, Crotalinae includes from 18 general ... of sight and smell, these snakes can strike accurately at moving objects ...
    19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
  • yet more ships from the force that would strike at Midway. However, whereas ... was the target of the impending Japanese strike and to provide Nimitz with ...
    42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
  • launchers, an increase in Soviet first strike capacity of 70 percent. ... to the threat. An immediate bombing strike was dismissed early on, as ...
    24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
  • Goldman and Berkman were consumed by the Homestead strike, where the ... Spanish Republic in its struggle against General Francisco Franco's ...
    22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
  • organ for the storage of bile. In general, omnivores that eat animal ... Intrahepatic cholestasis can be due to general and bacterial infections ...
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  • of his love for his daughters and for children in general. ... ===Animators' strike and WWII=== Pinocchio and Fantasia followed ...
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