Search results for "General strike" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- “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 ...25 KB (3,757 words) - 18:34, 25 April 2022
- 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 ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 06:57, 16 June 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. ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Adorno, many years his junior, with whom he would strike a lasting friendship and a fruitful collaborative relationship. In 1925 he was habilitated ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- 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 ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- 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 ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,595 words) - 14:53, 27 June 2021
- of his love for his daughters and for children in general. ... ===Animators' strike and WWII=== Pinocchio and Fantasia followed ...23 KB (3,587 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- sympathized with the Hamburg dockers' strike of 1896, the Prussian government ... of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, which in general, refers to two types of ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, an American multinational ... Founded in 1908, in Flint, Michigan, General Motors employs approximately ...40 KB (5,886 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- 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. ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Hindi Sahitya Sammelan including its General Secretary Professor Bhim ... While in jail, Bhagat Singh and other prisoners launched a hunger ...28 KB (4,246 words) - 03:31, 1 October 2023
- [[Image:Battle strike 1934.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Teamsters, armed ... *Simpson, Fraser. Blackstones Police Manual, Volume 4: General Police ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- 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 ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- stance, thus makes a preemptive strike against all illusory assumptions: Anything that is known about things is only what is known through the ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared ... helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- at Law: Commentary on the North Carolina General Statutes of Interest to ... vandalism, and other similar crimes. In general, misdemeanors are crimes ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 16:11, 5 April 2017
- 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 ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- scandal," were in some sense a "strike" or at least a rebellion ... culminating in the infamous 1994 baseball strike that led to the cancellation ...67 KB (11,273 words) - 11:05, 20 September 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- The Labour party lost the general election in 1970, but Callaghan ... he returned to England to stand in the general election. ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- was the new administration's Attorney General and acting Secretary of ... to have been created in Marbury but the general idea has ancient roots. ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- 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." ...9 KB (1,520 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- disobedience around the world. The most general principle on which civil ... Advocates of civil disobedience must strike a balance between obeying ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- 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 ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- part in a "Cessation of Labor" (strike). At that time, withdrawal ... of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark. "Maybe ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General (1926), as the "full ... Meyerhold’s stylized acting methods. In Strike!, which portrays the beginnings ...10 KB (1,356 words) - 21:51, 3 May 2023
- the increase. Industrial workers went on strike and effectively paralyzed ... :October - general strike, St. Petersburg Soviet formed ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- When the Conservatives won the 1970 general election, Thatcher became ... not bring the agreement down by a general strike. This was evidence of ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...43 KB (6,681 words) - 17:46, 28 March 2024
- 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 ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Andrew Scott Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal ... region, and the Himalaya mountains in general, are thought to be experiencing ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
