Search results for "General strike" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • when government abuses its power, a general strike is an effective, non ... the Miners Hall during the 1926 General Strike.jpg|thumb|250 px|left ...
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  • Act also gave the United States Attorney General the power to obtain an 80 ... affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to protect ...
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  • Later, as general secretary and perennial presidential candidate of ... a leader of the 1937 “Little Steel” strike. Victory in that strike, ...
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  • Initially, a special plating deposit called a "strike" may ... poor adhesion to the substrate, a strike can be first deposited that ...
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  • client. Drafted during the anthracite coal strike, Lee’s “Declaration” ... worked as a PR representative on behalf of General Mills and Lucky Strike, ...
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  • These terms were used in connection with a strike against a Chicago clothing ... impact on Haywood was witnessing a general strike on the French railroads ...
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  • attention for settling the Boston police strike in 1919. He became vice president ... Many later criticized Coolidge as part of a general criticism of laissez ...
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  • her to represent them at Histadrut, the General Federation of Labor. ... She also spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in 1956 on behalf ...
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  • response, the masters and students went on strike and withdrew to other cities ... gave in, but then threatened a hunger strike if he did not get his crusader’s ...
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  • suggested the idea to commemorate the strike of garment workers in the ... Day on the last Sunday in February 1913 to strike for "bread and peace ...
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  • and came together in a charge, followed by general combat. Jousting, on the ... normally of solid oak and a significant strike was needed to shatter them ...
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  • in particular, and dissident movements in general in the 1970s and 1980s, ... for suppressing dissent, and that a general strike would be declared if ...
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  • became involved in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, which had ... In March 1914, he became General Secretary of Jim Larkin's Irish ...
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  • the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike in 2006.]] ... where 60,000 workers attempted a general strike. In 1834, a significant ...
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  • General Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San) ( MY=Image:BogyokeAungSan.png ... was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician. Aung San ...
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  • quot; (which translates as "to beat, strike" in the musical sense ... on their acceptance or consideration by a general audience. For example, ...
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  • martial law came into effect in 1983 under General Jaruzelski. After a one ... and is composed of Delegates from Regional General Congresses. ...
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  • a Scottish broadcasting executive. As the general manager of the BBC, he established ... In 1926 a general strike broke out across Britain. When the value ...
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  • that "the ultimate aim of the General Strike as regards wages is to ... workers' syndicates. Through a general strike, workers would take control ...
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  • and Mary Duke, the daughter of the solicitor-general of Barbados. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. At Oxford he was a private ...
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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 ...
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  • ===Winnipeg general strike=== what came to be known as the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. The government ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and started off by organizing a general strike. As a result, four of ... Luxemburg wanted to organize a general strike to rouse the workers ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • launchers, an increase in Soviet first strike capacity of 70 percent. ... to the threat. An immediate bombing strike was dismissed early on, as ...
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  • Goldman and Berkman were consumed by the Homestead strike, where the ... Spanish Republic in its struggle against General Francisco Franco's ...
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  • 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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  • sympathized with the Hamburg dockers' strike of 1896, the Prussian government ... of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, which in general, refers to two types of ...
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  • General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, an American multinational ... Founded in 1908, in Flint, Michigan, General Motors employs approximately ...
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  • Hindi Sahitya Sammelan including its General Secretary Professor Bhim ... While in jail, Bhagat Singh and other prisoners launched a hunger ...
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  • produced, it generates waves in the air, which strike the eardrum, and suggested a way to determine pitch. He also wrote on astronomy and geography. ...
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  • [[Image:Battle strike 1934.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Teamsters, armed ... *Simpson, Fraser. Blackstones Police Manual, Volume 4: General Police ...
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  • their arcs. The method used to initially strike the arc varies: mercury vapor ... HID lamps are also being used on many general aviation aircraft for ...
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  • stance, thus makes a preemptive strike against all illusory assumptions: Anything that is known about things is only what is known through the ...
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  • third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member of the Japanese ... As War Minister, Yamagata pushed through the foundation of the General ...
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  • was later Chancellor, for taking part in a strike. Moving to Kenya, he became ... expelled for participating in a student strike (Obote claimed he left Makerere ...
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  • union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared ... helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central ...
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  • years the first widely-used and successful general-purpose machine gun, the ... the M16 and Soviet AK-47. Infantry adopted general-purpose machine guns like ...
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  • at Law: Commentary on the North Carolina General Statutes of Interest to ... vandalism, and other similar crimes. In general, misdemeanors are crimes ...
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  • scandal," were in some sense a "strike" or at least a rebellion ... culminating in the infamous 1994 baseball strike that led to the cancellation ...
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  • workers and provoked numerous strikes. The strike at Watertown Arsenal led ... the myth that "there has never been a strike of men working under scientific ...
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  • The Labour party lost the general election in 1970, but Callaghan ... he returned to England to stand in the general election. ...
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  • was the new administration's Attorney General and acting Secretary of ... to have been created in Marbury but the general idea has ancient roots. ...
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  • him with a heavy stick, but Diogenes said, "Strike, for you will not find any stick hard enough to drive me away as long as you continue to speak ...
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  • disobedience around the world. The most general principle on which civil ... Advocates of civil disobedience must strike a balance between obeying ...
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  • his father Bill Sr., who was president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs ... *"Son, when you pitch a strike, Mr. Hornsby will let you know." ...
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  • In the 1895 General Election the Independent Labour Party put up 28 ... moderate force in politics. During the General Strike of 1926 he opposed strike ...
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  • part in a "Cessation of Labor" (strike). At that time, withdrawal ... of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark. "Maybe ...
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  • of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General (1926), as the "full ... Meyerhold’s stylized acting methods. In Strike!, which portrays the beginnings ...
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  • the increase. Industrial workers went on strike and effectively paralyzed ... :October - general strike, St. Petersburg Soviet formed ...
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  • When the Conservatives won the 1970 general election, Thatcher became ... not bring the agreement down by a general strike. This was evidence of ...
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  • General Electric later bought Germer's patent and under the direction ... from a DC supply of sufficient voltage to strike an arc. In this case, there ...
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  • onto the surface of a neutron star would strike the star at 150,000km/s, ... *** Single pulsars – general term for neutron stars that emit directed ...
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  • American labor unions prepared for a general strike in support of the eight ... the city. By the time of the 1886 general strike, strikebreakers entering ...
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  • in other industries, culminating in a general strike at Rostov-on-Don in November ... struggles culminated in a citywide general strike, and Tiflis, where commercial ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American ... He was the cousin of future Confederate general G.W. Smith and the nephew ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • While the fierce-looking moray eels can strike fear in the hearts ... first discovery of cooperation between fish in general. ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • position with the Detroit Tigers; and general manager Lee MacPhail, who ... five times. He also employed 11 different general managers over the next 30 ...
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  • after graduation covering a major strike by wharf workers, to defeat ... as editor of the Post. During a press room strike of 1974, after union workers ...
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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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  • He became the Deputy Attorney General of New York in 1914. In 1916 ... comics on the radio during a newspaper strike, and pushing to have a commercial ...
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  • a clock completely determine that it will strike 2:00 an hour after it strikes ... human faculty of science or mathematics in general. If we are to believe that ...
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  • Argentine military government, headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri, thought ... and ensuring its victory in the 1983 general election, which, prior to ...
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  • Students would sometimes "strike" by leaving a city and ... to the masses not only in Europe. In a general sense, the basic structure ...
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  • for (in his own words) 'idleness and general worthlessness', and ... He had already written a play, The Strike at Arlingford (1893), which ...
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  • of a person vary from state to state, the general rule makes an important ... excessive force was actually used. The general common law principle is ...
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  • aircraft, spacecraft, and vehicles in general), to assist in stability ... *F-15E Strike Eagle == Notes == ==References== *LeFèvre, Hervé C ...
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  • war against Japan led in 1905 to a general strike in Finland and revolutionary ... had failed, the socialists initiated a general strike on November 14–19, ...
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  • In May 1922, Stalin became the General Secretary of the Communist ... to Stalin's being re-elected as the General Secretary instead of Sergey ...
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  • to Geneva, Switzerland as a Women’s Strike for Peace delegate in order ... (in support of the sanitation worker’s strike.) An excerpt of the speech ...
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  • which it would have to deal with the General Strike and miners’ strike ... industry (i.e. the issues behind the General Strike). He also convened a ...
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  • deeply humiliated by their defeat, it was General Lee's conduct at such ... Lee in his rear. The remaining corps would strike Lee's front through ...
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  • Eigi skal höggva!—"Don't strike!" ==Works== ... other forms of European poetry do, and in general rhyme plays a very minor role. ...
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  • He led the Conservatives to victory in the October 1959 general election ... In the House of Lords in the 1980s, he praised the miners then on ...
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  • coup in May, 1981. The following year, General Hossain Mohammad Ershad ... election held under President Lieutenant General Hossain Mohammad Ershad ...
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  • divine principles. Hence Shariah in general is considered divine, but ... The Arabic word daraba not only means to hit, strike or beat, daraba ...
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  • article] in the Asia Times quoting the General's estimate. An Indian ... asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg7_14 Indian general praises Pakistani valour ...
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  • remaining EATUC officers called for a general strike that paralyzed Nairobi ... Early in 1954 the KFRTU undermined a general strike that was called by the ...
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  • In 1943, following a three-year stint as Consul General to Mexico ... repression of a Communist-led miners' strike in October 1947, in which ...
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  • force of 1,200 Oglala and Cheyenne against General George Crooks on June 17 ... to take his sick wife to her parents, General George Crook ordered him ...
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  • came to be applied to stone coffins in general. The American Heritage® ... a mounted hunter with his sword raised to strike a leaping lion, and hunter ...
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  • in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War ... Winfield was named after Winfield Scott, a prominent general in the ...
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  • commanders. The first NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay, famously described ... Also at Lisbon, the post of Secretary General of NATO as the organization ...
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  • union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared ... helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central ...
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  • of the twentieth century. He won three general elections although always ... the Ulster Workers' Council general strike in 1974 in order to destabilize ...
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  • On July 31, 2022, al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in ... was Azzam Pasha, the founding secretary-general of the Arab League (1945–1952). ...
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  • President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower ... the president was said to have chosen to strike the word congressional in ...
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  • point for Korean and Japanese scholars to strike a concensus regarding the ... (form) named for him that was created by General Choi Honghi and his colleague ...
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  • it gives the Court considerable power to strike down state and federal statutes ... when substantive due process was used to strike down minimum wage and labor ...
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  • in this way, the election will strike a mean between monarchy and ... be able to clarify a code of conduct. A general must seek courage, the mean ...
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  • borough of Stepney in 1919. At the 1922 general election, Attlee became ... In 1926, he actively supported the General Strike. In 1927, he reluctantly ...
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  • General Rubén Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, better known as Fulgencio ... Cuban war of independence from Spain under General José Maceo. Batista’s ...
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  • in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy ... then wrote to the Army’s Brigadier General Charles Young and persuaded ...
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  • controversially dismissed by the Governor General in 1975 and the government ... airlines in the 1989 Australian pilots' strike. On social policy ...
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  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United ... The strike's intent was to protect Imperial Japan's advance ...
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  • acts of civil disobedience, sit-ins, and general strikes organized by the ... but also for the elite ruling class in general. Because of Kuchma's ...
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  • The referendum comprised three fairly general questions, and was meant ... not do this without triggering another general strike. Nor could it gain the ...
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  • England," an invasion force meant to strike at the British Isles, around ... march all the way from Vienna and join General Legrand's men, who ...
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  • husband's term. In the October 2007 general election, Fernández ran ... attacked farmers for their two-week strike and "abundant" ...
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  • elected Prime Minister at the Australian general election, 1949 elections ... . He was immediately appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry ...
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  • practical work in parts of the world, in general, horses today are used mainly ... in which a foreleg and opposite hind leg strike the ground together, while ...
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  • movements and intentions on Brigadier General Wilson McCutchan, who commanded ... around the premise that a successful strike against thinly manned stretches ...
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  • War, conceived and commanded by U.S. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ... The idea to land UN forces at Inchon was proposed by General MacArthur ...
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  • The angels immediately strike the townsmen blind and warn Lot of the ... In accordance with the general Israeli practice of naming places for ...
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  • On November 18, 2004, the United Nations General Assembly urged nations to ... On November 18, 2004, the United Nations General Assembly urged nations to ...
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  • After a prolonged strike, many of the Toho actors had left to form ... Samurai Assassin, and The Emperor and a General. Kurosawa's output ...
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  • conditions, Aristotle formulates a general account of moral responsibility ... that the use of power and force is, in general, the right of the state ...
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  • he accepted the position of head coach and general manager of the Green Bay ... NFL season, staying on as the team's general manager in 1968 and handing ...
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  • such as the use of halfway houses and general monitoring of convicts upon their release, literacy and other educational programs in prisons ...
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  • Inspired by General Charles de Gaulle to enter public life, Chirac ... in November-December 1995, in a general strike, one of the largest since ...
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  • and soft movements were suitable for general practitioners. Yang Ch& ... hips, knees and feet are commonly used to strike. Techniques such as strikes ...
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  • 30,000 factory workers in the area went on strike for better wages. ... but refused to open their doors to the general public. As could be expected ...
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  • and the idea that they were poised to strike at the nation like a deadly ... States Congressman from Indiana against General Walter Q. Gresham, Kerr ...
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  • Spaniards. Bernardino de Sahagun, "General History of The Things of ... the end of the agricultural season, and strike at the beginning of the war ...
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  • real target of the second shootdown was General Peter Walls, head of the ... way to deal effectively with a snake is to strike and destroy its head."Joshua ...
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  • in the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the ... light and was able to maneuver and strike quickly) consisted of the ...
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  • On V-J Day, United States President Harry Truman appointed General ... #039;s workers were ready to call a general strike, in an attempt to take ...
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  • idea of employing the popular language for general literary purposes. Authors ... Suvorov—like Potemkin a military general. Russian Poetry.net, [http://max ...
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  • and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War ... Burnside was not the most apt general to take the field during the ...
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  • not affect a person's intelligence, general knowledge, awareness, attention ... of traumatic events. Its frequency in the general population can be seen during ...
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  • as a day to celebrate island culture in general and native Hawaiian culture ... during the course of a three-day general strike in Chicago that involved ...
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  • then, without allowing the ball to strike the floor, return it, and ... The complete rules of volleyball are extensive, but in general, play ...
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  • were princes Kül Tigin and Bilge and the general Tonyukuk, whose life stories ... Bumin Khan (d. 552) made a pre-emptive strike against the Uyghur and Tiele ...
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  • language translation of Freud's General Introduction to Psychoanalysis ... Gamble, The American Tobacco Company, and General Electric. Bernays emphasized ...
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  • had collapsed. This was largely due to a strike by Loyalists. ... executive to be up and running, after a general election on March 7, 2007. ...
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  • She participated in the French general strike of 1933, called to protest unemployment and wage labor cuts. The following year she took a 12-month ...
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  • where the fault changes from subduction to strike-slip (the two plates push ... exist to detect tsunamis or to warn the general populace living around the ...
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  • to one locale (an outbreak), more general (an "epidemic" ... * Phase 6: Pandemic: increased and sustained transmission in general ...
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  • radicalized Reed. He allied with the general socialist union, the Industrial ... Reed was deeply disappointed by the general collapse in working-class ...
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  • However, the agency's role in union strike-breaking eventually disillusioned ... a Communist front group on the Attorney General's List of Subversive ...
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  • of World War I, which would ultimately strike the death knell for the autocratic ... descendant of a great noble family, a general in the Russian artillery ...
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  • *A central strike force of 250,000 under the emperor's personal ... *The Third Army of Reserve, under Cavalry General Tormassov, numbered ...
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  • In 1755, General Braddock rehabilitated Washington and took him on ... doctrines, King Frederick determined to strike first. On August 29, his ...
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  • emerged victorious in 1975, along with the general communist victory in Indochina ... the Mien and Khmu, led by Royal Lao Army General Vang Pao, a Hmong military ...
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  • In 1973, Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup led by General ... error while the hospital she was in was on strike. She was severely brain damaged ...
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  • labor movement. The first major sympathy strike was in 1903 when railway ... Canada's first general strike occurred following the death of ...
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  • uses five identical redundant IBM 32-bit general purpose computers (GPCs ... The four general-purpose computers operate essentially in lockstep ...
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  • of the business community called a general strike, which effectively paralyzed ... a communiqué with FSLN's call for general insurrection. The guerrillas ...
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  • to exercise judicial review, the power to strike down laws that violate the ... he was at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with General George Washington's ...
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  • Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and a Prussian general who governed the city in ... against the Ottoman Turks and hoping to strike Saint Petersburg directly ...
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  • On his return home, concerned about the general decline in his home country ... * So Disdained (1928), written soon after the General Strike of 1926 ...
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  • Thunderstorms strike Texas often, especially the eastern and northern ... On April 21, 1836, the Texans—led by General Sam Houston—won their ...
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  • Chapter 3 (with its personal but highly general content) being written ... and hope even when God allows his enemy to strike him mercilessly." ...
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  • Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, Distinguished Service Order (DSO ... gauntlet, stared at him and dared him to strike. The senior refused. Wingate ...
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  • Pieterszoon Coen's tenure as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. ... On September 22, 2006, there was a massive strike by the Catholics ...
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  • But in 1913, a German doctors' strike was averted by adding members ... UK according to the four categories of general practitioners, accident ...
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  • Joab meets Abner, Ish-Bosheth's general, at the pool of Gibeon. ... his man, Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, to strike down Joab where he stands ...
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  • During the General Strike of 1926 the King took exception to suggestions that the strikers were 'revolutionaries' saying, "Try ...
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  • of his catcher and Branch Rickey, then general manager of the Pirates, ... 79; batters hit .205 against him), and to strike out more than nine batters ...
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  • the term is used quite frequently. In general, it can be said that among ... Spain as a member under the leadership of General Franco. In 1953 Camus was ...
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  • routes between Japan and southern Asia. General Douglas MacArthur favored ... called Southern Force, would act as mobile strike forces. All three forces ...
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  • century Surgeon-Superintendent of the General Infirmary. It is composed ... demands for rights, and a 1981 hunger strike reinforced their case and ...
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  • was in force between 1958 and 1962 (under General Ayub Khan) and between 1969 ... of the two wings along with the President General Yahya Khan met in Dhaka ...
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  • this period. Parthenon was built under the general supervision of the sculptor ... the pain he ordered Hephaestus to strike him with his forging hammer ...
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  • near the calderas; and the Réunion cuckoo-strike. Barau's petrel lives ... of government are the president of the General Council and the president ...
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  • word "gamel," meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix ... style, and cultural context. In general, no two gamelan ensembles ...
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  • less than an hour. British commander General James Wolfe successfully ... specifically Governor de Vaudreuil and General Montcalm, were unsettled ...
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  • After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union ... General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was organized ...
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  • of Hannibal, the brilliant Carthaginian general, was demonized. ... important Italian cities, the general loyalty Italian allies showed ...
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  • power was split between him, a governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral ... power was split between him, a governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral ...
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  • Volkswirtschaftslehre (Outline of General Economic Theory) published ... Volkswirtschaftslehre (Outline of General Economic Theory), the most ...
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  • they had met. Churchill, walking with his general staff from their accommodations ... the northern beaches and even a possible strike at the northern tip of the ...
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  • wounded him in the face with his first strike; his second missed and hit ... of a samurai was a great insult, let alone strike it), and spat on him. ...
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  • 1717), was transformed into the Captaincy General of Venezuela in 1777. ... nism—including dictatorships by General Juan Vicente Gómez from ...
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  • the political views of the Communists. The general public in the Eastern bloc ... an estimated half-million. A two-hour general strike, involving all citizens ...
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  • In general, the nonaggression axiom can be said to be a prohibition ... ownership. Central governments generally strike down individual or class ...
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  • (August 15, 1769 – May 5, 1821) was a general of the French Revolution; ... of the city and a promotion to brigadier-general. His actions brought him ...
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  • printing trades when male workers were on strike. Anthony was later expelled ... for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the ...
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  • Barrin de La Galissonière, the Governor-General of New France, ordered Pierre ... On March 17, 1752, the Governor-General of New France, Marquis de ...
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  • In 1937, he organized a successful strike against an "unjust ... Finance under the Military Government of General Yakubu Gowon. ...
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  • and erosion were a threat. With care and a general absence of overt human interference ... basis. It is necessary for management to strike a balance between multiple ...
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  • such as the E-2 Hawkeye and heavily-laden strike fighters like the F/A-18E/F ... The first strike from a carrier against a land target as well as a ...
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  • miners' strike that led to the General Strike of 1926. This decision ... During the General Strike of 1926, Churchill was reported to have ...
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  • meeting the South African Prime Minister, General Jan Smuts at a summit in ... the front in the coming days, according to General Fertianu's promise ...
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  • Antonius), was a Roman politician and general. He was an important supporter ... as an administrator than he had been as general, and he seized the opportunity ...
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  • old City Hall during the Winnipeg general strike in 1919.]] ... most dramatic episode was the Winnipeg general strike of 1919, which shut down ...
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  • to exploit the opportunity for a decisive strike. When the Christian forces ... of the Venetian fleet under the captain general Giovanni Battista Grimani ...
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  • largest industrial plant, announced a strike to demonstrate against the ... forbidden some 250,000 people were on strike. The president of the Imperial ...
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  • effects on military history and history in general. This created a whole new ... be used as a club. It is also possible to strike someone with the barrel of ...
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  • 1871 he witnessed firsthand the murder of General Lecomte and General Thomas ... and was responsible for the inclusion of General Boulanger in the Freycinet ...
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  • was appointed by his brother as Attorney General for his administration. ... civil rights before I became Attorney General, but my fundamental belief ...
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  • a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves ... arrive at insights that are novel and yet strike a deeply responsive chord ...
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  • Hurricanes and tropical storms strike the island between July and ... power. The king is represented by a governor general. Antigua and Barbuda ...
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  • In general, coral snakes tend to be brightly colored and have small ... retractable fangs and tend to prefer to strike and let go immediately. Coral ...
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  • party-spirit, and too fastidious to strike hands with the vigorous and ... of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. Both were chosen ...
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  • the village, decided to risk a preemptive strike, sending out his warriors ... belief that Tecumseh had been a British general. This depiction is unusual ...
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  • One year later, British General Edward Braddock headed a major effort ... In August 1776, British General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe launched ...
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  • of government officials, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, acting ... Nikolai Bukharin, then the Comintern's general secretary. ...
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  • many socialist parties, as did a number of general strikes in pursuit of universal ... the International and were unknown to the general public. ...
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  • a different refractive index. In the most general case, a certain fraction ... can be seen. The other rays strike at different angles and are ...
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  • Lysicles, another Athenian statesman and general. She had a son with Pericles ... Aspasia lived with Lysicles, an Athenian general and democratic leader, with ...
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  • as the Bar Lev Line, named after Israeli General Chaim Bar-Lev. Although ... Israel would launch a pre-emptive strike. It was assumed that Israel ...
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  • taiko groups and about 300 taiko groups in general exist in the United States today. ... Taiko, in general, are stick percussion instruments. With the exception ...
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  • Fascism was, to an extent, a product of a general feeling of anxiety and fear among the middle class of postwar Italy. This fear arose from a ...
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  • Pierre and Miquelon mounted a three-day general strike in protest of this interference in local affairs. The islands became a full département ...
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  • dam operated by Idaho Power, the C. J. Strike Dam, built in 1952. This ... rising of water temperature, and a general decline in the ability of ...
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  • war might be referred to as a pre-emptive strike. It may have been the last ... Tolstoy (1802–1874), and lieutenant-general Ivan Krasnov refused the ...
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  • of a dictatorship led by the Nationalist General Francisco Franco. The supporters ... Manuel Azaña government, provoking general strikes in Valencia and ...
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  • instructed by his Jain guru Sudatta to strike dead a tiger he encountered ... Importing horses for use as general transportation and in army cavalries ...
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  • In general, if one compares areas with the same degree of vegetative ... rock or sediment is often referred to in general terms as a "landslide ...
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  • no evidence to suggest this, other than a general resemblance to a single ... In a pre-emptive strike, Drake "singed the King of Spain's ...
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  • as the voluntary efforts of members of the general public to communicate their ... that can define what the French call “general interest.” ...
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  • death was the result of an extended hunger strike. He was found to have massive ... The following year on February 2, 1978, the Attorney-General of the ...
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  • participated in the Boxer Rebellion. In general, most Bagua practitioners ... palms knows no bounds—the palms seem to strike even before the hands move ...
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  • eventually becoming an Assistant Attorney General. He spent most of the Carter ... President Richard Nixon appointed him general counsel for the Office of ...
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  • with those of the military, but the general mandate of the police is ... général de police ("lieutenant general of police"), who was ...
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  • and opportunities for a spontaneous "General Uprising" of the masses ... extort cash from targets, intimidate the general population, create economic ...
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  • II, Korean War) and rose to the rank of General of the Army (five-star general ... nation to mourn. Johnson had ordered that General MacArthur be buried "with ...
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  • behavior throughout the Western world. In general use, the term refers to ... One manifestation of this was the general strike that took place in Paris ...
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  • battlefield is on January 28, 1132, when General Han Shizhong of the Song ... Gustavus Adolphus is identified as the general who reintroduced cannon ...
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