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  • 81David Gordon (philosopher) — Burton Blumert, Lew Rockwell, David Gordon and Murray Rothbard David Gordon (born 1948) is a libertarian philosopher[1] and intellectual historian influenced by Rothbardian views of economics …

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  • 82General Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press — under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Russian: Главное управление по охране государственных тайн в печати при СМ СССР) was the official censorship and state secret protection organ in the Soviet Union. The censorship agency was established… …

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  • 83Mohsen Aminzadeh — (Persian:محسن امین زاده), born 1957 in Mashhad, Iran, is an Iranian reformist diplomat and politician. Aminzadeh was a founding member of the largest reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front. He served as the Deputy Foreign Minister… …

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  • 84Mohsen Rouholamini — Mohsen Rouhalamini (20 May 1984 July 2009) was a graduate student in the computer engineering department at the University of Tehran.[1] He died in July, 2009 at the Kahrizak detention center following his arrest in connection with protests of… …

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  • 85Sharef, Ze'ev — (1906 84)    Born in Izvor Szeletin, Romania, Sharef became active in the Poalei Zion youth movement in Romania. He immigrated (see ALIYA) to Palestine in 1925 and subsequently held a series of official and semiofficial posts in support of the… …

    Historical Dictionary of Israel

  • 86visiting — (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [On a visit] Syn. staying, stopping, residing temporarily, stopping over, stopping off, wintering, summering, calling. 2. [Abroad in an official or a semiofficial capacity] Syn. sojourning, calling upon, touring, inspecting …

    English dictionary for students

  • 87Lavaliere —    Louis XIV, the Sun King, was married to the Austrian Marie Therese, for whom he cared little because she reputedly had hair between her breasts. Louis XIV fancied Henrietta, the wife of his brother, Philip of Orleans. So that the queen would… …

    Dictionary of eponyms

  • 88GRU organization —    Far less has been written about the GRU than the KGB. The GRU’s major components deal with human intelligence, space reconnaissance, and signals intelligence. The GRU is divided into numbered directorates, each led by a general officer. During …

    Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

  • 89Carolingian Renaissance —    An intellectual and cultural revival of the eighth and ninth centuries, the Carolingian Renaissance was a movement initiated by the Carolingian kings, especially Charlemagne, who sought not only to improve learning in the kingdom but to… …

    Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe

  • 90Royal Frankish Annals —    One of a number of chronicles of the Carolingian period that describe events in the kingdom or in a particular monastery or bishopric, the Royal Frankish Annals (in Latin, Annales regni Francorum, as they have been called since the nineteenth… …

    Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe