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61Foreign policy of the Harper government — The Conservative Party Government of Canada led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been involved in several ways overseas, particularly due to its role alongside the United States in the War against terror originated from the September 11, 2001 …
62George W. Bush and the Iraq War — The 2003 Iraq War was begun mostly by the efforts of United States President George W. Bush.Beginning with his January 29, 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush began publicly focusing attention on Iraq, which he labeled as part of an… …
63Peripatetic school (The) — The Peripatetic school1 Robert W.Sharples THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL AND OF ARISTOTLE’S WRITINGS The history of Peripatetic philosophy after Aristotle falls into two phases, divided by the renewal of interest in the works we now possess after… …
64History of the London Underground — The history of the London Underground is one of gradual evolution. One section of it was the first urban underground passenger carrying railway in the world, for although the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in New York, opened in 1844, is sometimes called …
65Initial events of the Rwandan Genocide — The assassination of presidents Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira in the evening of April 6, 1994 was the proximate trigger for the Rwandan Genocide, which resulted in the murder of approximately 800,000 Tutsi and a smaller number of… …
66History of local government in the United Kingdom — The history of local government in the United Kingdom concerns the period after 1707, although local government itself pre dates the United Kingdom, having it origins in the Middle Ages. Its history is marked by a long period of very little… …
67History of the Icelandic language — The history of the Icelandic language began in the 9th century with the settlement of Iceland when settlers, who mostly came from Norway, brought a dialect of Old Norse to the island.The oldest preserved texts in Icelandic were written around… …
68American Foundation for the Blind — The American Foundation for the Blind is an American nonprofit that expands possibilities for people with vision loss. AFB s priorities include broadening access to technology; elevating the quality of information and tools for the professionals… …
69HISTORICAL 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… …
70Cincinnati in the American Civil War — For Ulysses S. Grant s horse, see Cincinnati (horse). Cincinnati in 1862, a lithograph in Harper s Weekly. During the American Civil War, the Ohio River port city of Cincinnati, Ohio, played a key role as a major source of supplies and troops for …
