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21Piracy in the Caribbean — The great era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1560s and died out in the 1720s as the nation states of Western Europe with colonies in the Americas began to exert more state control over the waterways of the New World. The period during… …
22Decree of War to the Death — The Decree of War to the Death, in Spanish Decreto de Guerra a Muerte, was a decree issued by the South American separatist leader, Simón Bolívar, which permitted murder and any atrocities whatsoever to be committed against civilians born in… …
23Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust — The Holocaust …
24Enlightenment II (The French): deism, morality and politics — The French Enlightenment II: deism, morality and politics Peter Jimack One of the most striking features of the French Enlightenment was its hostility to Christianity, especially as represented by the Catholic Church, a hostility which went far… …
25HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
26Names of the Greeks — History of Greece This article is part of a series …
27Echoes of the Bronze Night — refers to the aftermath of the Bronze Night in Tallinn.Political reactions Katyn Committee (relatives of Polish officers, who were executed on the orders of the Soviet authorities in the village of Katyn) in Poland, said: [Estonia] suffered from… …
28Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance — (PCIR), or the Political Council of Iraqi Resistance, is an Iraqi insurgent political coalition comprised of six major Sunni militant groups operating inside Iraq. The formation of the umbrella organization was announced on October 11, 2007 by a… …
29Constitution of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic — Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic …
30Decolonization of the Americas — European colonization of the Americas History of the Americas British colonization Courlandish colonization Danish colonization Dutch colonization …
