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  • 51Macedonia naming dispute — Macedonia (region)     Macedonia (Greece)   &#1 …

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  • 52The Carmelite Order —     The Carmelite Order     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Carmelite Order     One of the mendicant orders.     Origin     The date of the foundation of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been under discussion from the fourteenth century to …

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  • 53call — 1 vt 1: to announce or recite loudly call ed the civil trial list 2: to admit (a person) as a barrister was call ed to the bar 3: to demand payment of esp. by formal notice call …

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  • 54Mau Mau Uprising — Mau Mau redirects here. For other uses, see Mau Mau (disambiguation). Mau Mau Uprising Date 1952–1960 Location Colony of Kenya Result British military victory …

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  • 55History of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute — The territorial dispute between Ecuador and Peru was one of the most persistent and seemingly most resistant to resolution of any in the Western Hemisphere. The conflict arose virtually at the birth of these two nations from the Spanish Empire in …

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  • 56Hellboy — Superherobox caption=Hellboy by Mike Mignola. comic color=background:#80ffff character name=Hellboy Born=Scotland real name=Anung un Rama publisher=Dark Horse Comics debut= San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 (1993) creators=Mike Mignola alliance color …

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  • 57Use of force by states — The use of force by states is controlled by both customary international law and by treaty law. The UN Charter reads in article 2(4):All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the… …

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  • 58Caliphate — Khilafat and Khilafah redirect here. For the South Asian movement, see Khilafat Movement. For the Khilafat in Ahmadiyya Islam, see Khalifatul Masih. For specific Islamic or Arab dynasties, see Islamic empire. The last Caliph of Islam, Abdülmecid… …

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  • 59Banyamulenge — The Banyamulenge are a group of mainly Tutsi Kinyarwanda speakers living in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They are concentrated in the province of South Kivu close to the Burundi Congo Rwanda border. The… …

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  • 60demand — demandable, adj. demander, n. /di mand , mahnd /, v.t. 1. to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt. 2. to ask for peremptorily or urgently: He demanded sanctuary. She demanded that we let her in. 3. to… …

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