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  • 51Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction        Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …

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  • 52St. William of Norwich —     St. William of Norwich     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. William of Norwich     Born 1132; died 22 March, 1144. On Holy Saturday, 25 March, 1144, a boy s corpse showing signs of a violent death was found in Thorpe Wood near Norwich. It was… …

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  • 53Army–McCarthy hearings — Joseph McCarthy chats with Roy Cohn (right) at the Army–McCarthy Hearings The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate s Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were… …

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  • 54Nikolai Roslavets — Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets (Russian: Николай Андреевич Рославец) (4 January 1881 [O.S. 23 December 1880], Surazh,[1] then in Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire, now in Bryansk Oblast, Russia – 23 August 1944, Moscow) was a significant… …

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  • 55Nanking Massacre denial — Nanking Massacrev · d · e Battl …

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  • 56DAMASCUS AFFAIR — DAMASCUS AFFAIR, a notorious blood libel in 1840 in which Christian antisemitism and popular Muslim anti Jewish feelings came to a head and were aggravated by the political struggle of the European powers for influence in the Middle East. Syria… …

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  • 57ECONOMIC HISTORY — This article is arranged according to the following outline: first temple period exile and restoration second temple period talmudic era muslim middle ages medieval christendom economic doctrines early modern period sephardim and ashkenazim… …

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  • 58INQUISITION — INQUISITION, special permanent tribunal of the medieval Catholic Church, established to investigate and combat heresy. The Early Institution Although the Inquisition was established by Pope gregory ix , it owed its name to the procedure… …

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  • 59Industrial espionage — Teapot with Actresses, Vezzi porcelain factory, Venice, ca. 1725. The Vezzi brothers were involved in a series of incidents of industrial espionage. It was these actions that led to the secret of manufacturing Meissen porcelain becoming widely… …

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  • 60Mikhail Bakunin — This article is about the Russian anarchist. For the television character, see Characters of Lost. Mikhail Bakunin Born Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin May 30, 1814(1814 05 30) Pryamukhino (near …

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