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  • 51HUMAN GEOGRAPHY — In respect of human as well as of physical geography, it is convenient to divide the Land of Israel into four major units: 1. the Mediterranean Coastal Plain 2. the hill regions of northern and central Cisjordan (west of the Jordan) 3. the Rift… …

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  • 52Magna Carta — This article is about the English charter originally issued on 15 June 1215, and later modified. For other uses, see Magna Carta (disambiguation). Great Charter redirects here. For the Irish law, see Great Charter of Ireland. Magna Carta …

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  • 53Bretton Woods system — The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world s major industrial states. The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiated monetary order intended… …

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  • 54Human rights in the United Kingdom — The United Kingdom has a long and established tradition of avowed respect for its subjects human rights. At the same time, the UK, like many nations, has also had a history of both de jure and de facto racial and ethnic religious discrimination,… …

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  • 55Dutch general election, 2006 — 2003 ← November 22, 2006 → 2010 …

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  • 56Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source       Saturday, March 4, 1933       I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is… …

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  • 57Hitler Directive Number 51 — ▪ Primary Source       In this directive, issued in late 1943, the German leader formally responded to concerns caused by the ominous buildup of Allied forces in the British Isles. Hitler displayed here his tendency to issue detailed orders far… …

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  • 58Italy — • In ancient times Italy had several other names: it was called Saturnia, in honour of Saturn; Enotria, wine producing land; Ausonia, land of the Ausonians; Hesperia, land to the west (of Greece); Tyrrhenia, etc. The name Italy, which seems to… …

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  • 59Introduction —    Germany, during the years between 1933 and 1945, was a state organized around the principle of race. Rudolph Hess, Hitler’s confidant, was not being facetious when he defined National Socialism as applied biology. To the Nazis, paraphrasing… …

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  • 60JERUSALEM — 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 …

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