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  • 101Qaddafi, Muammar al- — or Muʽammar al Qadhdhāfī born 1942, Surt, Libya Ruler of Libya from 1969. Son of a Bedouin farmer, he was born in a tent in the desert. He graduated from the University of Libya and Libya s military academy and was a devout Muslim and ardent… …

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  • 102motion picture, history of the — Introduction       history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910 Origins       The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first …

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  • 103Tea production in Sri Lanka — Main articles: Economy of Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka Tea plantation in the Sri Lankan central highlands …

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  • 104People's Socialist Republic of Albania — Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqipërisë Satellite state of the Soviet Union (Until 1961) …

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  • 105Österreichische Industrieholding — The Österreichische Industrieholding AG (English: Austrian industry holding stock corporation) or short ÖIAG, administers the investments of the Republic of Austria in partially or entirely nationalized companies. It is headquartered in… …

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  • 106nationalize — na‧tion‧al‧ize [ˈnæʆnəlaɪz] also nationalise verb [transitive] ECONOMICS if a government nationalizes a company or industry, it brings it under state control: • The British government nationalised the railways in 1948. compare privatize …

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  • 107privatization —    Privatization is the act of returning to private ownership a company or concern that is owned by the state, while nationalization is conversely the opposite. In the postwar period up to the Thatcher administration, nationalization remained… …

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  • 108nationalize — UK [ˈnæʃ(ə)nəlaɪz] / US [ˈnæʃ(ə)nəlˌaɪz] verb [transitive] Word forms nationalize : present tense I/you/we/they nationalize he/she/it nationalizes present participle nationalizing past tense nationalized past participle nationalized economics if… …

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  • 109ARAB WORLD, 1945–2006 — The Arab world is divided into four subregions: the Maghreb (morocco , tunisia , algeria , libya , Mauritania), the Nile Valley (egypt and Sudan), the Fertile Crescent (syria , lebanon , iraq , jordan , and the palestinian authority ), and the… …

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  • 110Chile — For other uses, see Chile (disambiguation). Republic of Chile República de Chile (Spanish) …

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