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101World War I — the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on November 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. Abbr.: WWI Also called Great War, War of the… …
102Miguel Angel Asturias: Nobel Lecture — ▪ Primary Source Nobel Lecture, 12th December 1967 (Translation) The Latin American Novel Testimony of an Epoch I would have preferred this meeting to have been called a colloquium instead of lecture a dialogue of… …
103Muhammad al-Durrah incident — Muhammad al Durrah incident …
104Eighty Years' War — Relief of Leiden after the siege, 1574. Date 1568 1648 Location …
105Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …
106FAMILY, AMERICAN JEWISH — Introduction Any discussion of American Jewish family life as an institution must view it within the context of contemporary American social, economic, and political life. All contemporary American Jews are Jews by choice in that their… …
107HEBREW LITERATURE, MODERN — definition and scope beginnings periodization …
108HISTORICAL 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… …
109SPAIN — (in Hebrew at first אספמיא then ספרד), country in S.W. Europe. The use of the word Spain to denote Sepharad has caused some confusion in research. Spain came into being long after the Jews had been expelled from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon,… …
110Joseph McCarthy — Infobox Senator |name=Joseph Raymond McCarthy nationality=American |300px jr/sr=United States Senator state=Wisconsin party=Republican term start=January 3, 1947 term end=May 2, 1957 preceded=Robert M. La Follette, Jr. succeeded=William Proxmire… …
