revolutionary actions
51Reign of Terror — This article is about the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution. For other uses, see Reign of Terror (disambiguation). The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793, to 28 July 1794) (the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French… …
52Alexander Parvus — ( ru. Александр Парвус) (OldStyleDate|September 8|1867|August 27 in Berezin, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) ndash; December 12, 1924 in Berlin) was a Russian revolutionary (Menshevik) and a German Social Democrat, as well as a German… …
53Portuguese transition to democracy — Portugal s experience with democracy before the Carnation Revolution of 1974 had not been particularly successful. Its First Republic lasted only sixteen years, from 1910 to 1926. Under the republic, parliamentary institutions worked poorly and… …
54Palacký University of Olomouc — Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci Latin: Universitatis Palackianae Olomoucencis Established 1573 (1573) (as a universit …
55CUBA — CUBA, archipelago of islands consisting of Cuba, Isla de Pinos, and 1,600 smaller islands; population (2004) 11,300,000; Jewish population (2004) approximately 1,200. The Colonial Period Columbus discovered Cuba during his first voyage (1492).… …
56Land and Freedom — is a 1995 film (alternative title: Tierra y Libertad) directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen. The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for… …
57South Carolina during the American Revolution — Prior to the American Revolution, the British began taxing American colonies to raise revenue. South Carolinia residents were outraged about the 1767 Townshend Acts that taxed tea, paper, wine, glass, and oil. To protest the earlier (1765) Stamp… …
58Japanese nationalist thinking in the Meiji era — During the final days of the Tokugawa shogunate, the nationalist ideas of prominent daimyo , such as Mito Nariaki and others continued to develop, with some promoting fukko (a return to the past) and osei (the Emperor s supreme authority). This… …
59Georg Forster — Infobox Scientist name = Georg Forster box width = image size =150px caption =Portrait of Georg Forster at age 26, by J. H. W. Tischbein, 1781 birth date = November 27 1754 birth place = Nassenhuben, Poland death date = January 10 1794 death… …
60Bobbi Sykes — Roberta Bobbi Sykes (born 1943) is an Australian poet and author. Although she is the daughter of a white Australian mother and an African American father, she has always identified as, and until recently was accepted as, an indigenous Australian …
