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  • 51Sierra Club — Motto Explore, enjoy and protect the planet. Formation 1892 Headquarters San Francisco, CA, USA …

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  • 52Meads — For other uses, see Meads (disambiguation). Coordinates: 50°45′N 0°15′E / 50.75°N 0.25°E / 50.75; 0.25 …

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  • 53Chauri Chaura — (Hindi: चौरी चौरा, Google Earth / Wikimapia Link Urdu: چوری چورا) is a town near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The town is known most for an event in February 1922 during the British Raj when a police chowki (pron. chau key) (station) was set… …

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  • 54Portuguese 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… …

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  • 55Zug massacre — The Zug massacre took place September 27 2001 in the city of Zug(Canton of Zug, Switzerland) in the canton s parliament. 14 politicianswere shot dead by Friedrich Leibacher, who shortly after killed himself. During the antecedent years, Leibacher …

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  • 56Sacco-Vanzetti case — Murder trial in Massachusetts (1920–27). After the robbery and murder of a paymaster and a guard at a shoe factory (1920), police arrested the Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (1891–1927), a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) …

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  • 57Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware — ▪ American reformer née  Mary Coffin Ware  born April 4, 1872, Worcester, Mass., U.S. died July 25, 1947, Valatie, N.Y.       American reformer, best remembered for her activism in support of the ready and free availability of birth control and… …

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  • 581990 in the United Kingdom — Events from the year 1990 in the United Kingdom.Incumbents* Monarch HM Queen Elizabeth II * Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Conservative (until 28 November), John Major, ConservativeEvents* January Vauxhall enters the coupe segment of the car… …

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  • 59Eastbourne — For other places with the same name, see Eastbourne (disambiguation). Borough of Eastbourne   Town Borough   …

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  • 60HOCHHUTH, ROLF° — (1931– ), German playwright. Hochhuth, a Protestant, was a publisher s reader between 1955 and 1963 and was able to undertake, at the Vatican and elsewhere, the massive documentation needed for his controversial drama, Der Stellvertreter (The… …

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