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51Pax Calendar — The Pax calendar was invented by James A. Colligan in 1930 as a reform of the Gregorian calendar. Unlike other proposals such as the International Fixed Calendar and the World Calendar, it preserves the 7 day week by intercalating a week to a… …
52international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
53Mao Zedong — Mao redirects here. For other uses, see Mao (disambiguation). This is a Chinese name; the family name is Mao. Mao Ze dong 毛泽东 Official 1967 Portrait of Mao Ze …
54Economy of the People's Republic of China — Economies of Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are administered separately from the rest of People s Republic of China. Therefore, the information below pertains only to mainland China unless specified otherwise. For the… …
55Computus — (Latin for computation ) is the calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar. The name has been used for this procedure since the early Middle Ages, as it was one of the most important computations of the age. In principle, the… …
56United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
57HISTORICAL 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… …
58education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
59Cleon Skousen — W. Cleon Skousen Born Willard Cleon Skousen January 20, 1913(1913 01 20) Raymond, Alberta, Canada Died January 9, 2006(2006 01 …
60Evo Morales — Infobox President name = Juan Evo Morales Ayma order = President of Bolivia vicepresident = Álvaro García Linera term start = January 22, 2006 term end = predecessor = Eduardo Rodríguez successor = birth date = birth date and age|1959|10|26|df=y… …
