flights of rhetoric
1Henry Parkes — Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was an Australian statesman, the Father of Federation. As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the then colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he is… …
2PARKES, Sir Henry (1815-1896) — statesman was born at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, England, on 27 May 1815. His father, Thomas Parkes, was a small tenant farmer. Of his mother little is known, but when she died in 1842 Parkes could say of her that he felt as if a portion of this… …
3Cross-Strait relations — Territories currently administered by the two governments that formally use the name China: the PRC (in purple) and the ROC (in orange). The size of minor islands have been exaggerated in this map for ease of identification …
4Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
5Cuban Missile Crisis — Part of the Cold War CIA reference photograph of Soviet R 12 intermedia …
6Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
7literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
8Cross-strait charter — On January 29, 2005 China Airlines Flight 581 took off from Taoyuan International Airport and landed at Beijing International Airport The cross strait charters (simplified Chinese: 两岸包机; traditional Chinese: 兩岸包機; pinyin: liǎng àn bāojī) are… …
92008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=2008 Georgian spy plane shootdowns partof= Georgian Abkhazian conflict caption= date=March 8, April 20, May 4, 8, 12, 2008 place=Ochamchira and Gali districts, Abkhazia casus= territory= result=Aggravation of… …
10Apollo program — insignia Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking o …
