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| History of Namibia history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colonised in the late nineteenth century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990.From 1884, Namibia was a German colonyGerman South-West Africa. After the First World War, the League of Nations mandated South Africa to administer the territory. History_of_Namibia | |
| Željko Ražnatović Željko Ražnatović (; Serbian cyrillic:Arkan (Аркан), (April 17, 1952 - January 15, 2000), was a Serbian career criminal and later a paramilitary leader who was notable for organizing and leading a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars. He was on Interpol's most wanted list in the 1970s and 1980s for robberies and murders committed in a number of European countries and was later indicted by the UN for crimes against humanity. Arkan was assassinated in 2000 before his trial. Željko_Ražnatović | |
| Côte d'Ivoire Côte_d'Ivoire | |
| Côte d'Ivoire/Archive 1 Talk:Côte_d'Ivoire/Archive_1 | |
| Disarmament Disarmament refers to the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. The most common form of disarmament is abolishment of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms. General and Complete Disarmament refers to the removal of all weaponry, including conventional arms. Disarmament | |
| Puerto Rico Talk:Puerto_Rico | |
| Suez Crisis Suez_Crisis | |
| Suez Crisis Talk:Suez_Crisis | |
| Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure. Sea_of_Japan | |
| Health care system Health care systems are designed to meet the health care needs of target populations. There are a wide variety of health care systems around the world. In some countries, the health care system has evolved and has not been planned, whereas in others a concerted effort has been made by governments, trade unions, charities, religious, or other co-ordinated bodies to deliver planned health care services targeted to the populations they serve. Health_care_system | |
| Ethnic cleansing Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism referring to the persecution through imprisonment, expulsion, or killing of members of an ethnic minority by a local majority to achieve ethnic homogeneity in majority-controlled territory. The term entered English and international media usage in the early 1990s to describe war events in the former Yugoslavia. Synonyms include ethnic purification . Ethnic_cleansing | |
| Crime against humanity Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, "are particularly odious offences in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings. Crime_against_humanity | |
| United Nations Truce Supervision Organization United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) is an organization founded on 29 May 1948 for peacekeeping in the Middle East. Its primary task was providing the military command structure to the peace keeping forces in the Middle East to enable the peace keepers to observe and maintain the cease-fire, and as may be necessary in assisting the parties to the Armistice Agreements in the supervision of the application and observance of the terms of those Agreements. United_Nations_Truce_Supervision_Organization | |
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) () is a partially recognised state which claims sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. SADR was proclaimed by the Polisario Front on February 27, 1976. The SADR government currently controls about 20% of the territory it claims. Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic | |
| Religious prostitution Religious prostitution, sacred prostitution, or temple prostitution is the practice of having sexual intercourse (with a person other than one's spouse) for a religious or sacred purpose. A person engaged in such practices is sometimes called a temple prostitute or hierodule, though modern connotations of the term prostitute may or may not be appropriate, given the religious and cultic signification of the activities. Religious_prostitution | |
| Model United Nations Model United Nations (also Model UN or MUN) is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about civics, effective communication, globalization and multilateral diplomacy. In standard Model UN, students take on roles as diplomats and participate in a simulated session of an intergovernmental organization (IGO). Model_United_Nations | |
| Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1979) and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001). He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. Joseph_Stiglitz | |
| Wholesale Wholesaling, jobbing, or distributing the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users, or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. According to the United Nations Statistics Division, "wholesale" is the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional users, or to other wholesalers, or involves acting as an agent or broker in buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such persons or companies. Wholesale | |
| Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (IPA:Jewish Belarusian artist, born in Belarus (then Russian Empire) and naturalized French in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He forged a unique career in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Marc_Chagall | |
| Egyptians This article is about the contemporary North African ethnic group. See Egyptians (disambiguation) for other uses. Egyptians | |
| Muhammad Ali Muhammad_Ali | |
| British Mandate of Palestine The Palestine Mandate, or Mandate for Palestine, was a League of Nations Mandate drafted by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War and formally approved by the League of Nations in 1922. By the power granted under the mandate, Britain ruled Palestine between 1920 and 1948, a period referred to as the "British Mandate."The preamble of the mandate declared British_Mandate_of_Palestine | |
| British Mandate of Palestine Talk:British_Mandate_of_Palestine | |
| Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict This is an incomplete timeline of notable events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.__TOC__ Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict | |
| Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Talk:Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict | |
| Gaza Strip Talk:Gaza_Strip | |
| Poverty Poverty is the shortage of common things such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, all of which determine the quality of life. It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as education and employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. According to Mollie Orshansky who developed the poverty measurements used by the U.S. government, "to be poor is to be deprived of those goods and Poverty | |
| Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH (; POJ:Harry Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Kwan-Yew) is a former Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore. He was the first person to hold the office, and did so from 1959 to 1990. As leader of the People's Action Party (PAP), he oversaw the separation of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965 and its subsequent transformation from a volatile, underdeveloped colonial outpost with no natural resources into a stable, First World Asian Tiger. Lee_Kuan_Yew | |
| Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho (; born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Paulo_Coelho | |
| Lingua franca A lingua franca (from Italian, literally meaning Frankish language, see etymology under Sabir and Italian below) is a language systematically used to communicate between persons not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both persons' mother tongues.Lingua franca is a functionally defined term, independent of the linguistic history or structure of the languagepidgins and creoles often function as lingua francas, many lingua francas are neither pidgins nor creoles. Lingua_franca | |
| Holocaust denial Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II—usually referred to as the Holocaust—did not occur at all, or in the manner or to the extent historically recognized.Key elements of this claim are the rejection of any of the followingNazi government had a policy of deliberately targeting Jews and people of Jewish ancestry for extermination as a people; that more than five million Jews Holocaust_denial | |
| Volkswagen Beetle The Volkswagen Type 1 is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003. The car was originally known as Käfer, the German word for "beetle," from which the popular English nickname originates. It was not until August 1967 that the Volkswagen corporation itself began using the name Beetle in marketing materials in the US. It used an air cooled rear engined rear wheel drive RR layout. Volkswagen_Beetle | |
| Al-Aqsa Mosque Al-Aqsa_Mosque | |
| Iraq disarmament crisis The issue of Iraq's disarmament reached a crisis in 2002-2003, when U.S. President George W. Bush demanded a complete end to what he alleged was Iraqi production of weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq comply with UN Resolutions requiring UN inspectors unfettered access to areas those inspectors thought might have weapons production facilities. Iraq_disarmament_crisis | |
| Sustainability Talk:Sustainability | |
| Overpopulation Talk:Overpopulation | |
| Arnold J. Toynbee This page is about the universal historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee; for his uncle, the economic historian Arnold Toynbee, see this article. For further Toynbees and related topics see the disambiguation page Toynbee.Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective. Arnold_J._Toynbee | |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest. He was briefly President of Haiti in 1991, prior to a September 1991 military coup, and was President again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004. He was then ousted in a February 2004 rebellion in which former soldiers participated. He alleged that he was kidnapped by the United States military and forced into exile in South Africa. Jean-Bertrand_Aristide | |
| Newark, New Jersey Brick City redirects here. For the township in Ocean County, see Brick Township, New Jersey. Newark,_New_Jersey | |
| Economy of Argentina Economy_of_Argentina | |
| Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic The Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, in Spanish Fuerzas Armadas de la República Argentina, are controlled by the Commander-in-Chief (the President) and a civilian Minister of Defense. In addition to the army, navy and air force, there are two forces controlled by the Interior MinistryArgentine National Gendarmerie, a gendarmerie used to guard borders and places of strategic importance; and the Naval Prefecture, a coast guard used to protect internal major rivers and maritime territory. Armed_Forces_of_the_Argentine_Republic | |
| West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km West_Africa | |
| Foreign relations of Australia foreign relations of Australia have spanned from the country's time as Dominion and later Realm of the British Empire to become steadfastly allied with New Zealand through long-standing ANZAC ties dating back to the early 1900s and the United States throughout the Cold War to its engagement with Asia as a power in its own right. Its relations with the international community are influenced by its position as a leading trading nation and as a significant donor of humanitarian aid. Foreign_relations_of_Australia | |
| Demographics of Argentina This article is about the demographic features of the population of Argentina, including population density, ethnicity, economic status and other aspects of the population. Demographics_of_Argentina | |
| Politics of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan is located south of Russia.The Politics of Azerbaijan take place in a framework of a presidential republic, with the President of Azerbaijan as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The Judiciary is nominally independent of the executive and the legislature. Politics_of_Azerbaijan | |
| Belgium Talk:Belgium | |
| BL User_talk:BL | |
| List of sovereign states This is a list of sovereign states, containing 203 entries, giving an overview of states around the world with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty. It is arranged alphabetically. It includes both states widely recognized to be de jure sovereign and states that claim de jure sovereignty and exercise de facto control over some territory, but which are not generally recognised. List_of_sovereign_states | |
| List of countries by continent list of the countries of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This list contains Sovereign states with general international recognition (country names listed in bold), consisting of The 192 member states of the United Nations (UN). List_of_countries_by_continent |
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