self-imposed state of isolation
1isolation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, total ▪ relative ▪ enforced (esp. BrE) ▪ the enforced isolation of life in an Arctic weather station ▪ s …
2HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
3Yuki Nagato — Haruhi Suzumiya character Yuki reading a book in the library. Created by Nagaru Tanigawa Voiced by Minori C …
4Bombardment of Shimonoseki — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Bombardment of Shimonoseki (下関戦争・馬関戦争) partof=1863 64 Chōshū Rebellion caption= date=July 16 to August 14, 1863 and from September 5 6, 1864 place=Shimonoseki Strait, Japan result=Decisive Allied Victory… …
5Townsend Harris — For the eponymous NYC high school, see Townsend Harris High School. Townsend Harris Townsend Harris in 1855 (painted by James Bogle) Born 3 October 1804 Washington County, New York …
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.… …
8France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
9Italy — /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… …
10Russia — /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… …
