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111Eastern Bloc emigration and defection — Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on August 15, 1961, three days after construction began on the Berlin Wall[1] Eastern Bloc emigration and defection was a point of controversy during the Cold War. After Worl …
112EUROPE DE L’EST - Les économies des anciens pays socialistes — L’Europe de l’Est en «transition» comprend, au début de 1993, neuf États postcommunistes, que l’on désignera par le sigle P.E.C.O. (pays d’Europe centrale et orientale). Sur ces neuf États, sept sont les anciens États socialistes (Albanie,… …
113SUISSE — À la charnière de l’Europe occidentale et de l’Europe centrale, dispersant ses eaux vers l’Adriatique, la mer du Nord et la mer Noire, la Suisse multiplie les contrastes géographiques. État continental enclavé, elle est cependant très largement… …
114World — <p></p> <p></p> Introduction ::World <p></p> Background: <p></p> Globally, the 20th century was marked by: (a) two devastating world wars; (b) the Great Depression of the 1930s; (c) the end of vast… …
115DETROIT — DETROIT, largest city in Michigan, U.S., with a Jewish population of around 103,000 (with Ann Arbor) in 2001, comprising 1.9% of the city s total population. Part of the distinction of Detroit Jews derives from the nature and history of Detroit.… …
116ROME — ROME, capital of Italy. The Classical Period THE MIDDLE AND LATE REPUBLIC The earliest record of contact between Jews and the Roman Republic is the embassy sent by judah the Maccabee to Rome, headed by Eupolemos ben Joḥanan, and Jason ben Eleazar …
117YUGOSLAVIA — ( Land of the Southern Slavs ), until 1991 a Socialist Federated Republic in S.E. Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula. The various elements of which Yugoslav Jewry was composed after 1918 (i.e., those of Serbia and the Austro Hungarian countries)… …
118Frank Zappa — Infobox Musical artist Name = Frank Zappa Img capt = Frank Zappa, Ekeberghallen, Oslo, January 16, 1977. Photo by Helge Øverås Img size = Background = solo singer Birth name = Frank Vincent Zappa Alias = Born = December 21, 1940 Baltimore,… …
119Frédéric Chopin — Chopin redirects here. For other uses, see Chopin (disambiguation). Chopin at 25, by Maria Wodzińska, 1835 Frédéric François Chopin (French pronunciation: [fʁe.de.ʁik ʃɔ.pɛ̃]; Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Ch …
120Pub rock (Australia) — Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music today.The term came from the venues at which most of these bands originally played at inner city and… …
