to provoke protests
21Knighthood of Salman Rushdie — In mid June 2007 Salman Rushdie, British Indian novelist and author of controversial novel The Satanic Verses , was bestowed the honour of being conferred a Knight Bachelor by HM Queen Elizabeth II. This action brought much controversy around the …
22Mohamed Bouazizi — محمد البوعزيزي Born Mohamed Bouazizi 29 March 1984(1984 03 29) Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia Died 4 January 2011(2011 01 04) (aged 26) Ben Arous, Tunisia Resting place …
23Anti-globalization — is a term that encompasses a number of related ideas. [ No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein.] What is shared is that participants stand in opposition to the unregulated political power of large, multi national …
24Māori protest movement — The Māori protest movement is a broad indigenous rights movement in New Zealand. While this movement has existed since Europeans first colonised New Zealand its modern form emerged in the early 1970s and has focused on issues such as the Treaty… …
25Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
26United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
27Vietnam War — Part of the Cold War and the Indochina Wars …
28Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy — The controversial cartoons of Muhammad, as they were first published in Jyllands Posten in September 2005 (English version). Th …
29Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
30Hussein-Ali Montazeri — Hossein Ali Montazeri Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran In office 5 May 1985 – 16 November 1987 Leader Ruhollah Khomeini …
