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21The Pirate Bay raid — The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes torrent files. On 31 May 2006, the website s servers, located in Stockholm, were raided by Swedish police, causing it to go offline for three days. Upon reopening, the site s number of visitors… …
22The End of History and the Last Man — is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay The End of History? , published in the international affairs journal The National Interest . In the book, Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the… …
23The Blessed Virgin Mary — The Blessed Virgin Mary † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Blessed Virgin Mary The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God. In general, the theology and history of Mary the Mother of God follow the… …
24The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church — (LEPC) is a mainline Protestant denomination under the General Conference of Evangelical Protestant Churches (GCEPC). The earliest Lutherans in America came from Dutch, Swedish and German stock.The LEPC is successor to the Evangelical Protestant… …
25The Snow Queen — ( Sneedronningen ) is a fairy tale by author Hans Christian Andersen (1805 1875). The tale was first published in 1845, and centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kay and Gerda.The story is one of… …
26The Great Peacemaker — The Great Peacemaker, sometimes referred to as Deganawida or Dekanawida (although as a mark of respect some Iroquois avoid referring to him by this name except in special circumstances) was, along with Hiawatha, the traditional founder of the… …
27State of emergency — For other uses, see State of emergency (disambiguation). A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend some normal functions of the executive, legislative and judicial powers, alert citizens to change their normal behaviours …
28History of the USA PATRIOT Act — The history of the USA PATRIOT Act involved many parties who opposed and supported the legislation, which was proposed, enacted and signed into law a month and a half after the September 11 terrorist attacks of New York City in 2001. The USA… …
29Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet …
30Foreign policy of the Clinton Administration — The Foreign policy of the Clinton Administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President of the United States Bill Clinton during his Administration. Clinton s main foreign policy advisors were Secretaries of …
