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Haggai: 2

Haggai Chapter 2 1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of…

The Cold War | Civics: Links to History

Links to History: The Cold War 1945 1945 Soviet army marches into Berlin; the German capital city falls. World War II ends. Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain, and France…

Mohammad Zahir Shah, 2002 News

former king of Afghanistan, returned to his homeland in April, after spending 29 years in exile following his overthrow by his cousin, Muhammad Daoud Khan, in 1973. He led June's loya jirga…

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas shot the artist Andy Warhol in a fit of crazed anger on June 3, 1968. A radical feminist and sometime acquaintance of Warhol, Solanas had previously written the S.C.U.M. Manifesto,…

Zeus

Zeus was the proud, imposing, and irritable supreme god of the ancient Greeks. Beginning around 700 B.C., stories by Homer and other Greek poets described the lives of powerful gods who involved…

Iyad Allawi, 2004 News

Iraqi neurologist, was named prime minister of Iraq in May. A former exile and member of the Iraqi Governing Council, Allawi has close ties to the CIA and the Bush administration. With the…

Tiberius

Name at birth: Tiberius Claudius NeroTiberius was the second emperor of ancient Rome, succeeding the powerful Caesar Augustus. Tiberius's mother Livia divorced her own husband to marry Augustus, and…

Ecevit, Bülent

(Encyclopedia) Ecevit, BülentEcevit, Bülentbülĕntˈ ĕjĕvĭtˈ [key], 1925–2006, Turkish political leader and journalist. An editor for Ulus, the organ of the Republican People's party, he was elected to…

Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino

(Encyclopedia) Sarmiento, Domingo FaustinoSarmiento, Domingo Faustinodōmēngˈgō foustēˈnō särmyānˈtō [key], 1811–88, Argentine statesman, educator, and author, president of the republic (1868–74). An…

Obregón, Álvaro

(Encyclopedia) Obregón, ÁlvaroObregón, Álvaroälˈvärō ōbrāgōnˈ [key], 1880–1928, Mexican general and president (1920–24). A planter in Sonora, he supported Francisco I. Madero in the revolution…