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Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick, Baron Home of the Hirsel
(Encyclopedia) Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick, Baron Home of the HirselDouglas-Home, Alexander Frederick, Baron Home of the Hirseldŭgˈləs-hy&oomacr;m [key], 1903–95, British politician.…Hay-Pauncefote Treaties
(Encyclopedia) Hay-Pauncefote TreatiesHay-Pauncefote Treatieshā-pônsˈf&oobreve;t [key], negotiated in 1899 and 1901 by Secretary of State John Hay, for the United States, and Lord Pauncefote of…Hasidim
(Encyclopedia) Hasidim or ChassidimHasidimboth: häsēˈdĭm, khä– [key] [Heb.,=the pious], term used by the rabbis to describe those Jews who maintained the highest standard of religious observance and…Primakov, Yevgeny Maksimovich
(Encyclopedia) Primakov, Yevgeny MaksimovichPrimakov, Yevgeny Maksimovichyĭvgyānˈyē mŭksyēˈməvyĭchˌ prēˌməkôfˈ [key], 1929–2015, Russian government official and economist, b. Kiev (now in Ukraine).…Okuma, Shigenobu
(Encyclopedia) Okuma, ShigenobuOkuma, Shigenobushēgāˈnōb&oomacr; ōˈk&oomacr;mä [key], 1838–1922, Japanese statesman. He was an early supporter of the emperor and entered the Meiji government…John Paul II, 2000 News
pope, in March issued an unprecedented, comprehensive papal apology for errors the church has committed over the past 2,000 years. In the Lenten mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, the pope…Wayne LaPierre, Jr., 2000 News
executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said in March that President Clinton is “willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda.” The…The Devil's Dictionary: Compulsion
by Ambrose Bierce COMPROMISECONDOLECOMPULSION -n. The eloquence of power.Gang of 14, 2005 News
a bipartisan group of senators, hammered out a last-minute compromise in May, averting the enactment of the so-called “nuclear option” by Republican senators. The change in procedures would have…Census History and 20th-Century Firsts
The census has grown with the country by David Johnson This article was posted on October 1, 2000. 1990 Census Criticized The Census Bureau was heavily criticized following the…Trending
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