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  • 41Stavropol Krai —    An administrative province of the Russian Federation. Previously called the Ordzhonikidze Krai, Stavropol was given its current name in 1943. Situated in the central North Caucasus, the krai borders Kalmykiya, Dagestan, Chechnya, North… …

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  • 42Dates of 2007 — ▪ 2008 January Ladies and gentlemen: on this day, at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle. Let us find our resolve, and turn events toward victory. U.S. Pres. George W. Bush, asking for support for his… …

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  • 43Saddam Hussein — Infobox Officeholder name =Saddam Hussein Abd al Majid al Tikriti ar. صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي imagesize =200px small caption = order =5th office =President of Iraq term start =July 16, 1979 term end =April 9, 2003 primeminister =Himself… …

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  • 44Troubles au Xinjiang en 2008 — Xinjiang Les tensions ethniques dans le Xinjiang, une des cinq régions autonomes de la République populaire de Chine, située à son extrême ouest, ont une longue histoire et remontent à la Dynastie Qing (1644 1911) qui a annexé le territoire dans… …

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  • 45Administrative and municipal divisions of Adygea — Infobox Administrative divisions of Russian federal subject name = nowrap| admin center type = Capital admin center name = Maykop admin structure date = 2007Cite Russian law ru entity=Государственный Совет Хасэ Республики Адыгея ru type=Закон ru… …

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  • 46Calendar of 2000 — ▪ 2001 January We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats. Never before have we had such… …

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  • 47Mahajanga — [maːˈdzaŋɡə̥] (French: Majunga) is a city and a district on the north west coast of Madagascar. Contents 1 City 2 District …

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  • 48Global Defense Initiative — The United Nations Global Defense Initiative (or UNGDI for short) is a fictional militarized branch of the United Nations which is featured prominently in the of Westwood Studios Command Conquer real time strategy video games. A globalized and… …

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  • 49Western Sahara War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Western Sahara War partof=The Polisario Front dispute for independence caption=Map of the Western Sahara, the red line is the berm built by Morocco date=1973–1991 place=Western Sahara, Morocco, Mauritania,… …

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  • 50riot — A sudden upsurge of collective violence, often directed at property, sometimes at persons in authority. There is considerable taxonomic dispute about the precise definition of the term, and the point at which collective unrest becomes riot,… …

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