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51Mao Zedong — /mow zeuh doong , dzeuh /; Chin. /mow zu dawng / 1893 1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People s Republic of China 1949 59; chairman of the Chinese Communist party 1943 76. Also, Wade Giles, Mao Tse tung /mow tseuh toong , dzeuh… …
52Cooper, James Fenimore — born Sept. 15, 1789, Burlington, N.J., U.S. died Sept. 14, 1851, Cooperstown, N.Y. The first major U.S. novelist. Cooper grew up in a prosperous family in the settlement of Cooperstown, founded by his father. The Spy (1821), set during the… …
53Erzberger, Matthias — born Sept. 20, 1875, Buttenhausen, Württemberg, Ger. died Aug. 26, 1921, Black Forest, Baden German politician. Elected to the Reichstag in 1903, he became the leader of the left wing of the Centre Party. During World War I he was involved in the …
54Boeotian League — ▪ ancient Greece league that first developed as an alliance of sovereign states in Boeotia, a district in east central Greece, about 550 BC, under the leadership of Thebes. After the defeat of the Greeks at Thermopylae, Thebes and most of… …
55Saint-Simon, Henri de — ▪ French social reformer Introduction in full Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte (count) de Saint Simon born Oct. 17, 1760, Paris, Fr. died May 19, 1825, Paris French social theorist and one of the chief founders of Christian (Christian Socialism) …
56Sudeten Germans — This article is part of the article Czechoslovakia Contents 1 Importance of Sudeten Germans 2 Policies affecting Sudeten Germans 3 Politics of Sudeten Germans …
57Union of October 17 — For a child organization, see Little Octobrist. The Octobrist Party (Russian Октябристы) was a non revolutionary centrist Russian political party formally called Union of October 17 (Союз 17 Октября). The party s programme of moderate… …
58Cavour, Camillo Benso di — (1810–1861) The younger son of a noble family from Turin, Cavour entered politics by way of journalism. In 1847, he founded Il Risorgimento, a liberal journal that pressed for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. Philosophically,… …
59German People's Party — (Deutsche Volkspartei, DVP) Prompted by a nationwide appeal from Gustav Stresemann* dated 18 November 1918, a meet ing of the National Liberal Party (NLP) executive occurred on 2 December to establish the DVP. Shaken by the monarchy s collapse …
60Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph — (1809 1865) socialist, anarchist Born in Besançon to a working class family, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, who is often considered the father of modern anarchism (and to whom Mikail Bakunin, a Russian anarchist, owed much), was successively a… …
