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Mauritius Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Mauritius Index: History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations Defense U.S.-Mauritian Relations HISTORY While Arab and…

Apollo 11 - Anniversary

Apollo 11July 20 marks the anniversary of man's first walk on the moon by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco How many movies, songs, anecdotes—even clichés—have sprung from humanity's first landing on the…

Timeline: AIDS Epidemic, 1981 - 1995

Key events, important people, activism and breakthroughs 1981-1983 1985-1988 1991-1995 1996-Present 1981 "Gay cancer," later called GRID, (Gay Related Immuno Deficiency)…

Goering, Hermann Wilhelm

(Encyclopedia) Goering or Göring, Hermann WilhelmGoering or Göring, Hermann Wilhelmboth: hĕrˈmän vĭlˈhĕlm göˈrĭng [key], 1893–1946, German National Socialist leader. In World War I he was a hero of…

Abrahams, Peter

(Encyclopedia) Abrahams, Peter, 1919–2017, South African novelist and journalist, b. Peter Henry Abrahams Deras. Though he lived mostly in exile, he exposed the injustices of the apartheid system and…

Herriot, Édouard

(Encyclopedia) Herriot, ÉdouardHerriot, Édouardādwärˈ ĕryōˈ [key], 1872–1957, French statesman and man of letters. After beginning an academic career he turned to politics. A moderate leftist,…

London, Jack

(Encyclopedia) London, Jack (John Griffith London), 1876–1916, American author, b. San Francisco. The illegitimate son of William Chaney, an astrologer, and Flora Wellman, a seamstress and medium, he…

Forman, Miloš

(Encyclopedia) Forman, Miloš, 1932–2018, Czech-American filmmaker, b. Čáslav, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), asJan Tomáš Forman. He attended film school in Prague and worked as a…

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich

(Encyclopedia) Yevtushenko, Yevgeny AleksandrovichYevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovichyĕvˌt&oomacr;shĕngˈkō, Rus. yĭvgāˈnyē əlyĭksänˈdrəvĭch yĭvtəshĕnˈkō [key], 1933–2017, Russian poet, b. Zima…

Ba Jin

(Encyclopedia) Ba Jin or Pa ChinPa Chinboth: bäˈ jĭnˈ [key], pseud. of Li Yaotang (also Li Feigan), 1904–2005, one of China's most acclaimed modern novelists, b. Chengdu. Born into a wealthy family,…