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11ZEALOTS 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… …
12Suffrage — (from the Latin suffragium , meaning voting tablet , and figuratively right to vote ; probably from suffrago hough , and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes) is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. In that …
13Lenin, Vladimir Ilich — ▪ prime minister of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Introduction original name Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov born April 10 [April 22, New Style], 1870, Simbirsk, Russia died Jan. 21, 1924, Gorki [later Gorki Leninskiye], near Moscow founder of… …
14Northumberland, John Dudley, duke of, earl of Warwick, Viscount Lisle, Baron Lisle — ▪ English politician and soldier born 1502 died Aug. 22, 1553, London, Eng. English politician and soldier who was virtual ruler of England from 1549 to 1553, during the minority of King Edward VI. Almost all historical sources regard him… …
15Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st duke of, Baron Seymour of Hache — ▪ Protector of England byname the Protector , also called (1523–36) Sir Edward Seymour , or (1536–37) Viscount Beauchamp of Hache , or (1537–47) earl of Hertford born c. 1500/06 died Jan. 22, 1552, London the Protector of England… …
16United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
17colonialism, Western — ▪ politics Introduction a political economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. The age of modern colonialism began about 1500, following the European… …
18History of the English fiscal system — The history of the English fiscal system affords the best known example of continuous financial development in terms of both institutions and methods. Although periods of great upheaval occurred from the time of the Norman Conquest to the… …
19Matthew Hay — Professor Matthew Hay ... assailed by the furies of typhoid, measles, influenza, whooping cough and scarlet fever …
20Pakistan — /pak euh stan , pah keuh stahn /, n. 1. Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947 71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).… …
