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101Counter-insurgency — Police question a civilian during the Malayan Emergency. Counter insurgency involves action from both military and police authorities …
102National Liberation Front (Macedonia) — For other uses of terms redirecting here, see: Macedonian struggle National Liberation Front (Narodno Osloboditelen Front) Active 1945 1949 Country Greece (Greek Macedonia) Engagements Greek Civil War …
103Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939-1946) — In the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasion of Poland (September, 1939) the territory of Poland was divided between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR). Both powers were hostile to the Polish culture and the Polish people, aiming… …
104Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden — Publishing director Georg Biedermann Editors Emil Frotscher Hermann Ginzel E.C. Privat Dr. A. Fr. Eickhoff 1940 1940–1941 1941–1944 1944−1945 The Deutsche Zeitung in den …
105Al Aqsa Massacre — On October 8, 1990, also known as Black Monday, during the third year of the first Palestinian Intifada, seventeen or eighteen Palestinians were killed at the Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem [ CBS s 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace, December 1990, ]… …
106France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
107Kyrgyzstan — /kir gi stahn /, n. official name of Kirghizia. * * * Kyrgyzstan Introduction Kyrgyzstan Background: A Central Asian country of incredible natural beauty and proud nomadic traditions, Kyrgyzstan was annexed by Russia in 1864; it achieved… …
108HISTORY — For Prehistory see archaeology ; for Biblical and Second Temple periods, see history . Destruction of the Second Temple until the Arab Conquest (70–640 C.E.) THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR OF 66–70 C.E. The Jewish war against the Romans, which lasted… …
109Calendar of 1996 — ▪ 1997 JANUARY JANUARY 1 King Fahd cedes power Still experiencing the effects of a stroke suffered in November 1995, Saudi Arabia s King Fahd, who also held the post of prime minister, ceded temporary power to Crown Prince Abdullah,… …
110WAR CRIMES TRIALS — Crystallization of the Principles of International Criminal Law Immediately after the outbreak of World War II, when the first Nazi violations of the laws and customs of war as defined by the Hague and Geneva Conventions were revealed (and in… …
