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101REVISIONISTS, ZIONIST — (full name: Union of Zionists Revisionists; abbr. Hebrew name, Ha Ẓohar; later New Zionist Organization), movement of maximalist political Zionists founded and led by Vladimir jabotinsky . In the later 1920s and in the 1930s the Revisionists… …
102Faurisson affair — The Faurisson affair is a term given to an academic controversy in the wake of a book by Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier. The scandal largely dealt with the inclusion of an essay by Noam Chomsky, Some Elementary Comments on the Rights of… …
103Human rights in the United Kingdom — The United Kingdom has a long and established tradition of avowed respect for its subjects human rights. At the same time, the UK, like many nations, has also had a history of both de jure and de facto racial and ethnic religious discrimination,… …
1042005 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States — The Supreme Court of the United States handed down sixteen per curiam opinions during its 2005 term, which lasted from October 3, 2005 until October 1, 2006.[1] Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these… …
105List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom, 1988 — NOTOC This is a complete list of all 1558 Statutory Instruments published in the United Kingdom in the year 1988.1 100* Origin of Goods (Petroleum Products) Regulations 1988 S.I. 1988/1 * Export of Sheep (Prohibition) (No.2) Amendment Order 1988… …
1061952 steel strike — on essentially the same terms the union had proposed four months earlier. [Marcus, Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power, 1977, p. 253.] Wage control policy during the Korean WarOn February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph… …
107Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
108LITTÉRATURE (SOCIOLOGIE DE LA) — L’étude des rapports entre l’art, en particulier la littérature, et la société n’est pas nouvelle. Elle ne s’est toutefois constituée en discipline qu’au cours des XIXe et XXe siècles, en même temps que se développaient les sciences sociales. On… …
109ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …
110MOUNTAIN JEWS — MOUNTAIN JEWS, a Jewish ethnic and linguistic group living mainly in azerbaijan and Daghestan. The name Mountain Jews emerged in the first half of the 19th century when the Russian Empire annexed those territories. It is supposed that the name… …
