| Candice Nelson Candice J. Nelson is the Chair of the Department of Government, Associate Professor of Government and Academic Director of the Campaign Management Institute at American University in Washington, D.C..Prior to coming to American University, she was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. Candice_Nelson
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| Events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor A series of historical events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred that contributed to the actual attack. War between Japan and the United States had been a possibility that each nation's militaries planned for since the 1920s, though real tension did not begin until the 1931 invasion of Manchuria by Japan. Events_leading_to_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
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| Budweiser Budweiser is a German adjective describing something or someone from the city of Budweis, a city in Southern Bohemia. Since 1919 the city has used its Czech name, České Budějovice, as its official name. The three companies are Budweiser Bier Bürgerbräu, founded 1795 by German-speaking citizens of Budweis, which began exporting Budweiser Bier to the US in 1875. Budweiser
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| Articles for deletion/International Peace Institute (2nd nomination) Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/International_Peace_Institute_(2nd_nomination)
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| Noche Crist Noche Crist, born Maria Nicola Olga Ioan, (1909 - 2004) in Craiova, Romania, was an idiosyncratic artist whose eclectic mix of paintings, prints, installations and sculptures throughout her long life was unique. Brought up by a delicate mother, Juliet, who suffered from ill health and her capricious aunt, Mamoutz, whose husband encouraged her to paint as a very young child, Noche survived two World Wars both in Bucharest and the Romanian countryside where the family had a small estate. Noche_Crist
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| Cayo Sur Cayo Sur (meaning South Cay) is a small uninhabited island no bigger than two Association football fields located in the Caribbean sea that has been disputed by Honduras and Nicaragua since 2000. The surrounding area has an abundance of fish and oil. In 2000 Nicaragua accused Honduras of putting troops on the tiny island, and one Honduran diplomat was quoted as saying the country has "cuatro gatos" (Four cats) on the island. Cayo_Sur
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| Deforestation in Brazil Brazil once had the highest deforestation rate in the world and as of 2005 still has the largest area of forest removed annually. Since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.By the end of the 1980s the problem had become such a global issue not only with loss of the biodiversity and ecological disruption caused by removal of the forests but due to heavy emissions of carbon dioxide released from burned forests and the loss of a valuable sink to absorb global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Deforestation_in_Brazil
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| Alice Denney Alice Denney, 1922-, is a curator and arts administrator. To some, she is considered to be the grande dame of the Washington, D.C. avant-garde and the mentor to a number of Washington's artists and arts administrators. She was the first director of the Jefferson Place Gallery, intimately involved in the founding of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, and founder of the Washington Project for the Arts. Alice_Denney
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| North American Union The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical regional union of Canada, Mexico, and the United States possibly similar in structure to the European Union, sometimes including a common currency called the Amero. The idea of regional integration has been discussed, proposed, or debated in academic, business and political circles for many decades, but nothing approaching the integration suggested by a "North American Union" has ever been seriously considered by leaders of the three nations, and government officials from the nations say there are no plans to create such a union. North_American_Union
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| Coal power in China The People's Republic of China is the largest consumer of coal in the world, and is about to become the largest user of coal-derived electicity, getting 1.95 trillion kilowatt-hours per year, or 68.7% of its electricity from coal as of 2006 (compared to 1.99 trillion kilowatt-hours per year, or 49% for the US). Coal_power_in_China
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| Forestry in Russia economy of Russia, worth around 20 billion dollars per year.There are significant profits to be made selling timber to China in particular, and there have been allegations of illegal logging within Russia.On 2007-12-06, Oleg Zhukovsky, a senior manager at VTB Bank working with the Russian timber industry, was found dead in the empty swimming pool of his dacha outside Moscow. Links to the criminal gangs within the Russian timber industry are suspected, and a murder investigation is underway. Forestry_in_Russia
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| List of museums in Washington, D.C. This list of museums in Washington, D.C. encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. List_of_museums_in_Washington,_D.C.
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| International Authority for the Ruhr The International Authority for the Ruhr (IAR) was an international body established in 1949 by the Allied powers to control the coal and steel industry of the Ruhr Area in West Germany.It was agreed at meetings in London on 20 April and 2 June 1949 by the United States, United Kingdom, France and the Benelux countries. International_Authority_for_the_Ruhr
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| Jonathan Bedi Jonathan Singh Bedi is an Illinois politician. He was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic primary election for the 5th District of the Illinois Senate, losing to incumbent Rickey R. Hendon. Jonathan_Bedi
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| Possibly unfree images/2008 January 6 Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images/2008_January_6
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| North America/Archive 2 Talk:North_America/Archive_2
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| DeLawrence Beard DeLawrence Beard, currently serves (since appointment in 1996) as Chief Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court in Montgomery County, Maryland1, the highest common law and equity court of record exercising original jurisdiction.2His retirement part is planned3 for January 17, 2008 at the Marriott Bethesda North Conference Center, Betehsda, Maryland. DeLawrence_Beard
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| Colorado river dispute Talk:Colorado_river_dispute
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| Emilie Benes Brzezinski Emilie Benes Brzezinski, born Emilie Anna Benes in 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland, is an American sculptor. Emilie_Benes_Brzezinski
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| General Welfare clause General Welfare clause is a section that appears in many constitutions, and in some cases in charters and statutes, which provides that the body empowered by the document may enact laws as it sees fit to promote the well-being of the people governed thereunder. Such clauses are generally interpreted as granting the state a power to regulate for the general welfare that is independent of other powers specified in the governing document. General_Welfare_clause
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| Gay McDougall Gay J. McDougall was Executive Director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice (from September 1994 to 2006). Her surname is sometimes misspelled as MacDougall. In August 2005, she was named the first United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues. Gay_McDougall
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| Desson Thomson Desson Patrick Thomson is a speaker, movie reviewer and cultural commentator who wrote film reviews for 21 years as a critic for The Washington Post. Based in Washington DC, he speaks professionally at conventions, seminars, Sunday movie chats, and other events. He also blogs and reviews movies on his website Desson_Thomson
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| 1995 in Pakistan See also 1994 in Pakistan other events of 1995, 1996 in Pakistan and the Timeline of Pakistani history. 1995_in_Pakistan
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| Minisink Archeological Site Minisink Archeological Site, also known as Minisink Historic District, is an archeological site located in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It was one of the most important Munsee Native American communities during the initial contact with the American colonials.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993. Minisink_Archeological_Site
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| Organ trade Organ trade is the trade involving human organs for transplantation. It is a business driven by the simple market calculus of supply and demand. General belief is that there is a worldwide shortage of organs available for transplantion. However, considering the predictions of economic theory and analysis of empirical data, the shortages are believed to be the result of government restrictions upon organ trade. Organ_trade
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| Environmental issues with the Three Gorges Dam Environmental issues with the Three Gorges Dam, which is currently under construction on Yangtze River, include degraded water quality, detriments to wildlife, potential riverbank collapses, and potential silt related falling of coastal areas.Currently, the quality of water in the higher banks of Yangtze is slowly worsening, due to the dam's preventing dispersal of pollutants; algal blooms have risen progressively since the dam’s construction; and soil erosion has increased, causing riverbank collapses and landslides. Environmental_issues_with_the_Three_Gorges_Dam
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| Akbar S. Ahmed Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed, SI, or Akbar Ahmed, is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington, D.C., the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is considered “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam” by the BBC. He was the High Commissioner from Pakistan to the UK in 2000. Akbar_S._Ahmed
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| Sally Smith Sally Liberman Smith (May 7, 1929 - December 1, 2007) was an American educator. Smith founded the Lab School for children with learning difficulties in 1967. Inspired by her background in education and dance as well as her own youngest son’s experience with learning difficulties, Smith built up the Lab School and a curriculum infused with the arts. Sally_Smith
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| Doolough Tragedy Doolough Tragedy is an event that took place during the Great Irish Famine in south west Mayo.On Friday 30 March 1849 two officials of the Westport Poor Law Union arrived in Louisburgh to inspect those people in receipt of poor relief in order to verify that they should continue to receive it. Doolough_Tragedy
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| Emancipation Memorial The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman’s Memorial or the Emancipation Group, and sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the present more prominent so-named memorial was built, is a monument in Emancipation_Memorial
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| Eric Wertheim Eric Wertheim (1973- ) is an American naval expert, columnist and author who writes the monthly Combat Fleets of the World column for the Naval Institute's Proceedings Magazine. In 2002 Wertheim took over responsibility for compiling the Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, often referred to as the “nation’s premier naval reference book.” Eric_Wertheim
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| Larisa Miculet Larisa Miculet (Miculets) (born November 8, 1957, in Plopi, near town Rîbniţa, Transnistria region, Republic of Moldova) is a lawyer and Moldovan government official, currently the third Moldovan Ambassador to Israel based in Tel Aviv, also accredited from May 18, 2007 as Ambassador for the Republic of Cyprus. Larisa_Miculet
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| Juragua Nuclear Power Plant Juragua Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant under construction in Cuba in 1992 when a suspension of construction was announced following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the termination of Soviet economic aid to Cuba. Juragua_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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| Katie Redford Katharine (Katie) Redford, Esq. is a human rights lawyer and activist who is credited with spearheading a movement to hold international companies accountable for overseas abuse in their home court jurisdictions in the Western world, and in doing so, opened up new possibilities in human rights law. Katie_Redford
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| Words of Estimative Probability Talk:Words_of_Estimative_Probability
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| Eritrea Eritrea
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| Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China Talk:Reports_of_organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China
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| William M. LeoGrande William M. LeoGrande is the current Dean of the American University School of Public Affairs and frequent publisher and expert on Latin America. William_M._LeoGrande
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| Sharing of Ganges Waters The sharing of the Ganges' waters is a long-standing issue between India and Bangladesh over the appropriate allocation and development of the water resources of the Ganges River that flows from northern India into Bangladesh. The issue has remained a subject of conflict for almost 35 years, with several bilateral agreements and rounds of talks failing to produce results.However, a comprehensive bilateral treaty was signed by the then-Indian Prime Minister H. Sharing_of_Ganges_Waters
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| Banu Qurayza/Archive 4 Talk:Banu_Qurayza/Archive_4
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| Mary W. Gray Mary Lee Wheat Gray (born April 8, 1939) is an American mathematician. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom.Gray completed her undergraduate degree from Hastings College and her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Kansas. She also completed her J.D. from Washington College of Law. She is a member of the District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme bars. Mary_W._Gray
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