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61La Violencia — (literally The Violence , in Spanish) is a term that refers to an era of civil conflict in various areas of the Colombian countryside between supporters of the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party, a conflict which took… …
62Poland — /poh leuhnd/, n. a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,700,291; ab. 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska. * * * Poland Introduction Poland Background: Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around …
63Taiwan — /tuy wahn /, n. Wade Giles, Pinyin. a Chinese island separated from the SE coast of China by Taiwan Strait: a possession of Japan 1895 1945; restored to China 1945; seat of the Republic of China since 1949. Cap.: Taipei. Also called Formosa. * *… …
64ZEALOTS AND SICARII — Introduction This article deals not only with the group of fighters for the freedom of Israel known from josephus as the Zealots, but includes in its survey other groups with similar aims, particularly the Sicarii. Judea differed from the other… …
65Lynching in the United States — is the practice in the 19th and 20th centuries of the humiliation and killing of people by mobs acting outside the law. These murders, most of them unpunished, often took the form of hanging and burning. Mobs sometimes tortured the… …
66NGO Monitor — Founder(s) Gerald M. Steinberg Type Non profit NGO Founded 2001[1] …
67Italo Calvino — Infobox Writer name = Italo Calvino caption = Italo Calvino, on the cover of Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio birthdate = birth date|1923|10|15|mf=y birthplace = Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba deathdate = death date and… …
68Barack Obama Tucson memorial speech — President Obama speaks in honor of the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting. President of the United States Barack Obama delivered a speech at the Together We Thrive: Tucson and America memorial on January 12, 2011, held in the McKale Center on… …
69Lou Dobbs — Infobox journalist name = Louis Dobbs caption = Lou Dobbs birth date = birth date and age|1945|9|24 birth place = Childress, Texas, U.S. death date = death place = spouse = Debi Lee Segura occupation = CNN News Anchor Managing editor Talk radio… …
70Copperheads (politics) — Copperheads redirects here. For other uses, see Copperhead (disambiguation). The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an… …
