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  • 61Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother — For other Queen Mothers called Elizabeth, see Queen Elizabeth (disambiguation). Elizabeth Bowes Lyon …

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  • 62Secretaría de Inteligencia — InfrastructureCommunications in the agency are a crucial infrastructure and policy issue. For the southern bases in Patagonia, communications is provided by the Servicios y Tecnologia S.R.L. (SyT) company. The rest of SIDE s communications, phone …

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  • 63Fiasco (novel) — Fiasco   English edition cover …

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  • 64Convoys in World War I — An transatlantic convoy approaching Brest on 1 November 1918. Photograph taken from aboard USS Rambler. The convoy a group of merchantmen or troopships travelling together with a naval escort was revived during World War I (1914–18), after… …

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  • 65Ban Ki-moon — ] His mother is reportedly Buddhist. Personality Ban s personality has been described by many as bland. In the Korean Foreign Ministry his nickname was Ban chusa , meaning the Bureaucrat or the administrative clerk . The name was used as both… …

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  • 66HISTORICAL 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… …

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  • 67japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …

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  • 68Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

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  • 69international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …

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  • 70United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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