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- détente, and Carter boycotted the Moscow Olympics and began to rebuild American ... and two sisters. His brother, Billy (1937–1988), would cause some political ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- throughout the country. However, that summer, the 2006 Lebanon War between ... and abroad. Among the most famous are the summer festivals at Baalbek, Beiteddine ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- In 1927 at age 16, Reagan took a summer job as a lifeguard in Lowell ... by the U.S. athletes at the Los Angeles Olympics that summer, which he himself ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary ... * Summer Side of Life (1971), with songs "Ten Degrees and Getting ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- Few words are as politically or emotionally charged as terrorism. ... * The 1972 Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- and supported the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. But, ... a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988. In 2000, he was awarded the ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- and Cascade mountains. In the spring and summer, a high pressure anticyclone ... The Cascade Range forms a larger barrier than the Olympics and has ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- and the Opening Ceremony of the 1896 Summer Olympics was presided over ... NY: Atlantic International Publications, 1988. ISBN 978-0938311027. ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- B. Hayes (University Press of Kansas, 1988, ISBN 0700603387), 10. ... *Miller Anderson—Diving 1948 Summer Olympics Silver Medal; 1952 ...40 KB (5,731 words) - 10:21, 11 March 2023
- from time to time with 90°F in the summer and below 0°F temperatures ... endangered North Atlantic Right Whales summer on feeding grounds in Cape ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- which an inner core has been constructed.Jennings (1988: 3; 10) ... of metal and to allow even cooling.Jennings (1988: 11) Historically ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- Summer tends to be short, hot, humid, and rainy because of the southern ... North Korea boycotted the 1988 Summer Olympics in neighboring Seoul ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- east function as barriers to Arctic air. Summer produces the other extreme ... include the spring Bear Dance and the summer Sun dance. ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- relatives in Money, Mississippi in the summer of 1955—was different, ... The summer of 1963 was also eventful. On June 11, George Wallace, ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- as Minnie Littlejohn in The Long Hot Summer (1958), and as Mabel Claremont ... After a well-reviewed appearance in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- and decided not to run for reelection in 1988. She picked Pelosi as her ... did not call for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics that were held in ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- which have plagued Armenia. In December 1988, the second largest city in ... Karabakh. Armenia suffered the devastating 1988 Spitak earthquake. Gorbachev ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 with the loss of 270 lives ... Humanity Campaign for the 2006 Winter Olympics, Mandela appeared in a televised ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- season is concurrent with the onset of the summer East Asian Monsoon in May ... After the death of Chiang Ching-kuo in January 1988, Lee Teng-hui ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- World Bank. An initial privatization program (1988-1993) and the development of an export processing zone (EPZ) regime in the early 1990s were key ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- only a 5°C difference between winter and summer median temperatures. Although ... However, many sources claimed that in 1988 the party resorted to electoral ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Eventually, in the summer of 1946, Philip asked the King for his daughter ... Britannia, during which he opened the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- only two distinct seasons - winter and summer—spring and autumn are usually ... Kamchatka Peninsula, and spring floods and summer/autumn forest fires throughout ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- questioned that he was Greek (the ancient Olympics then were open only to pure ... The Persian army was gathered in Asia Minor in the summer and autumn ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- averages 32°F (0°C), and the July (summer) temperature averages about ... Herzegovina can be oppressively hot in summer. In Mostar, near the ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- the highest levels of precipitation. In summer, temperatures in the south ... 4 percent in 1994 for the first time since 1988, and 2.5 percent in 1995. ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- near sea level, has the warmest July (summer) temperatures, averaging ... Independent political parties appeared in 1988. In 1989, Milosevic, with ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- of the Kurdish language inspired his 1988 play Mountain Language. He ... 0394623630), 5–23. Mountain Language (1988) is about the Turkish suppression ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- between two large mountain ranges, the Olympics and the Cascades. The climate ... the Washington Mutual Tower, completed in 1988, is Seattle's second ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- American Chess Quarterly 1 (1) (Summer 1961): 3. This variation has ... In 1988, Fischer filed for 4,884,255 for a new type of digital chess ...53 KB (7,890 words) - 08:45, 16 November 2023
- in 1985 to "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in 1988. ... song for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics, "One Moment ...197 KB (27,840 words) - 23:40, 20 June 2019
- to the polar region and ensures that in summer the night skies of the city ... (i.e. colder in winter and warmer in summer) because of its more eastern ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- to visit nationalist groups during the summer of 1921 and in his absence ... World War II. In 1936, Berlin hosted the Summer Olympics, which were opened ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Kádár, Hungarian head of state from 1956 to 1988]] Between November ... At the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, the Soviet handling of the Hungarian ...73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
- However, the last straw may have been the controversial elections ... to flooding problems, especially during the summer. [https://www.nytimes ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- * Guided tours focusing on educating, summer camps, outdoor classes ... manager Johannes Badrutt invited some summer guests from England to return ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- Black Death first reached England in the summer of 1348. The Black Death ... Education follows the national curriculum, which was introduced in ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988.url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/456 ... 44|C|F|0. Rain occasionally falls in the summer, mainly during thunderstorms ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
