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101Lev (political party) — For the contemporary party headed by Ovadia Fatkhov, see Lev LaOlim Lev ( he. לב, Heart ) was an extremely short lived political faction in Israel, existing for only several minutes during the 15th Knesset in 2002.BackgroundAfter Ariel Sharon… …
102Uprising of Polish political exiles in Siberia — Siberian Uprising or Baikal Insurrection ( pl. Powstanie zabajkalskie or Powstanie nad Bajkałem , ru. Кругобайкальское восстание) was a short lived uprising of about 700 Polish political prisoners and exilees ( Sybiracy ) in Siberia, Russian… …
1032008 Italian political crisis — On 24 January 2008 Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in the Senate by a vote of 161 to 156 votes, causing the downfall of his government.cite web | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7208000.stm | title = Prodi… …
104Reform of the political divisions of China — In recent years there have been calls to reform the administrative divisions and levels of China. The abolishment of district public offices is an ongoing reform to remove an extra level of administration from between the county and township… …
105Life and background of David Paterson — David Paterson was born in Brooklyn to Portia and Basil Paterson, later a New York state senator and secretary of state, and deputy mayor of New York City.] His younger brother, Daniel, now works in the New York state court system. cite news… …
106HISTORICAL 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… …
107JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …
108Spanish Civil War — Spanish Civil War …
109Spain — /spayn/, n. a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 39,244,195; 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Cap.: Madrid. Spanish, España. * * * Spain Introduction Spain Background: Spain s powerful world empire of the 16th and… …
110ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …
