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11România — /rddaw mu nyah/; Eng. /roh may nee euh, mayn yeuh/, n. Romanian name of ROMANIA. * * * Romania Introduction Romania Background: Soviet occupation following World War II led to the formation of a Communist peoples republic in 1947 and the… …
12Diffusion of technology in Canada — This article outlines the history of the diffusion or spread of technology in Canada. Technologies chosen for treatment here include, in rough order, transportation, communication, energy, materials, industry, public works, public services… …
13insurance — /in shoor euhns, sherr /, n. 1. the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one s person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a… …
14Second Stadtholderless Period — The Second Stadtholderless Period or Era ( nl. Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk) is the designation in Dutch historiography of the period between the death of stadtholder William III on March 19 [This is the date from the Gregorian calendar that… …
15slavery — /slay veuh ree, slayv ree/, n. 1. the condition of a slave; bondage. 2. the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. 3. a state of subjection like that of a slave: He was kept in slavery by drugs. 4. severe toil; drudgery. [1545 55; SLAVE… …
16Economy of Tajikistan — Rank 133rd Currency 1 somoni (TJS) = 100 diram Fiscal year calendar year Trade organisations IMF, World Bank, CIS, EURA …
17Kyrgyzstan — Infobox Country native name = Кыргыз Республикасы Kyrgyz Respublikasi Кыргызская Республика Kyrgyzskaya Respublika conventional long name = Kyrgyz Republic common name = Kyrgyzstan national motto = none national anthem = official languages =… …
18British working class — The Great War cost Britain 750 000 thousand lives and injured 1.6 million [ Eric Hopkins, A social History of the English working class 1815 1945, Hodder and Stoughton 1979, p211.] , of these casualties the majority were of working class origin,… …
19Newmilns — Coordinates: 55°36′29″N 4°19′44″W / 55.608°N 4.329°W / 55.608; 4.329 …
20harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur. [1775 85; so called from the harplike shape of markings on the… …
