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| x The Catcher in the Rye |
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, and rebellion. It has been translated into almost...
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The death of John Lennon | Mark David Chapman | ||
| x Libertarianism |
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For other uses, see Libertarianism (disambiguation).
Libertarianism is generally considered to be the group of political philosophies which emphasize freedom, liberty, and voluntary association. There is no general consensus among scholars on the...
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Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | Waco Siege |
| Terry Nichols | Ruby Ridge | ||||
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| x The Turner Diaries |
The Turner Diaries is a novel written in 1978 by William Luther Pierce (former leader of the white nationalist organization National Alliance) under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald". The Turner Diaries depicts a violent revolution in the United...
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Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | Waco Siege | |
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| x Ruby Ridge |
Ruby Ridge was the site of a deadly confrontation and siege in northern Idaho in 1992. It involved Randy Weaver, his family, Weaver's friend Kevin Harris, and agents of the United States Marshals Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation. It...
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Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | Waco Siege | |
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| x Waco Siege |
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The Waco siege began on February 28, 1993, and ended violently 51 days later on April 19. The siege began when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), accompanied by several members of the media, attempted to execute a...
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Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | Ruby Ridge |
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| x Iraq and weapons of mass destruction |
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During the regime of Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq was believed to have weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Hussein was internationally known for his use of chemical weapons in the 1980s against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during and after the...
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Iraq War | George W. Bush | Human rights in Saddam's Iraq |
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| x Gulf War |
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The Persian Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the...
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Iraq War | George W. Bush | Human rights in Saddam's Iraq |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Iraq and weapons of mass destruction | ||||
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| x Human rights in Saddam's Iraq |
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Iraq under Saddam Hussein had high levels of torture and mass murder.
Secret police, torture, murders, rape, abductions, deportations, forced disappearances, assassinations, chemical weapons, and the destruction of wetlands (more specifically, the...
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Iraq War | George W. Bush | Gulf War |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Iraq and weapons of mass destruction | ||||
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| x Reagan assassination attempt |
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The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on Monday, March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were...
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Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act | ||
| x Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act |
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The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Pub.L. 103-159, 107 Stat. 1536) is an Act of the United States Congress that instituted federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States.
It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton...
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Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | Waco Siege |
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| x Columbine High School massacre |
The Columbine High School massacre (often known simply as Columbine) was a school shooting which occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Two senior...
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Virginia Tech massacre | Seung-Hui Cho | ||
| x Anarchism |
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Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority and hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of...
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| x Ethnic cleansing |
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Ethnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
An earlier draft by the...
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| x Second Chechen War |
The Second Chechen War, in a later phase better known as the Counter-terrorist operation on Chechnya, was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping...
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| x Iraq War |
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The Iraq War, or the War in Iraq (also referred to as the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States military), was a conflict that occurred in Iraq from March 20, 2003 to December 15, 2011, though...
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| x Invasion of Grenada |
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The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 United States-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of about 91,000 located 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela that resulted in a U.S. victory...
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| x 1993 Bishopsgate bombing |
The Bishopsgate bombing occurred on 24 April 1993, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, City of London, England. One person was killed in the explosion and 44 injured,...
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| x Jackson State killings |
The Jackson State killings occurred on Thursday/Friday May 14–15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police. The police opened fire,...
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| x Kent State shootings |
The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre—occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4,...
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| x Draft lottery |
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On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born between 1944 and 1950. "The draft" occurred during a period of...
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| x Desegregation busing |
Desegregation busing in the United States (also known as forced busing or simply busing) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects...
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| x Racism |
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Racism is generally understood as either belief that different racial groups are characterized by intrinsic characteristics or abilities and that some such groups are therefore naturally superior to others, or as practices that discriminate against...
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| x Bosnian crisis |
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The Bosnian Crisis of 1908–1909, also known as the Annexation crisis, or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted into public view when on 6 October 1908, Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Russia, the Ottoman Empire,...
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| x Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria |
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On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins...
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| x Franco-Prussian War |
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The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War (19 July 1870 – 10 May 1871), was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation,...
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| x Irredentism |
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Irredentism (from Italian irredento, "unredeemed") is any position advocating annexation of territories administered by another state on the grounds of common ethnicity or prior historical possession, actual or alleged. It is often advocated by pan...
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Gavrilo Princip | |
| x Holocaust |
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The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also known as the Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "catastrophe"; Yiddish: חורבן, Churben or Hurban, from the Hebrew for "destruction"), was the genocide of...
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German Resistance | WW2 | |
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| x WorkChoices |
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The Workplace Relations Act 1996, as amended by the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005, popularly known as Work Choices, was a Legislative Act of the Australian Parliament that came into effect in March 2006 which involved many controversial...
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| x Iranian presidential election, 2009 |
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Iran's tenth presidential election was held on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the...
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| x Black Power |
Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies. It is used in the movement among people of Black African descent throughout the world, though primarily by African Americans in the United States. The movement was...
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| x Middle Passage |
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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded...
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| x Drug policy |
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A drug policy most often refers to a government's attempt to combat the negative effects of drug addiction and misuse in its society. Governments try to combat drug addiction with policies which address both the demand and supply of drugs, as well...
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| x Hosni Mubarak |
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Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (Arabic: محمد حسني السيد مبارك, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmːæd ˈħosni ˈsæjjed moˈbɑːɾˤɑk], Muḥammad Ḥusnī Sayyid Mubārak; born 4 May 1928) is a former Egyptian politician and military commander. He served...
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| x Clarence Campbell |
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Clarence Sutherland Campbell OBE, QC (July 9, 1905 - June 24, 1984) was the third president of the National Hockey League from 1946 to 1977.
Born in Fleming, Saskatchewan, Campbell attended high school at the Strathcona Collegiate Institute, now...
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| x Maurice Richard |
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Joseph Henri Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, PC OC OQ (French pronunciation: [ʁiʃaʁ], English: /rɨˈʃɑrd/; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000) was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey...
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| x Troy Anthony Davis |
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Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) was an American man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King...
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | ||
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| x Nuclear weapon |
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A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The...
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| x Death of Michael Jackson |
The American singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, at age 50, of propofol intoxication after suffering a respiratory arrest at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles. His personal physician, Conrad...
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Counterbalance: Honorable Journalists, Writers, Articles | |||
| x Michael Jackson Dot Portrait Tribute | |||||
| x Real estate pricing |
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Real estate pricing deals with the valuation of real estate and all the standard methods of determining the price of fixed assets apply.
The median home price is one of the most common measurements used to compare real estate prices in different...
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| x Standard of Living in Israel |
Although the standard of living in Israel is high and is constantly improving, Israel still suffers from poverty with roughly 20.5% of Israeli families living below the poverty line in 2008, most of them Israeli Arab and Haredi Jewish families....
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| x Spanish Revolution |
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The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and more broadly libertarian socialist organizational principles...
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| x "History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty." |
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Quote from the poem "Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001" as published in the books The Bridge of Silver Wings and The River of Winged Dreams by Aberjhani.
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| x Environmentalism |
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Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of...
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| x Economic inequality |
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Economic inequality (also known as the gap between rich and poor, income inequality, wealth disparity, or wealth and income differences) comprises disparities in the distribution of economic assets (wealth) and income within or between populations...
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| x Sun City |
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Sun City is a luxury casino and resort, situated in the North West Province of South Africa. It is located between the Elands River and the Pilanesberg, about two hours' drive from Johannesburg, near the city of Rustenburg. The complex borders the...
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| x Public Union Bargaining Rights | |||||
