| Religion in Brazil Roman Catholic in the last census (year 2000), Brazilian religions are very diversified and inclined to syncretism Pentecostal churches which has decreased the numbers adhering to both the Roman Catholic Church the Afro-Brazilian religions.About ninety percent of Brazilians declared some sort of religious affiliation in the most recent census. Religion_in_Brazil
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| Fanny Brice Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl. The musical was made into a film in 1968. Fanny_Brice
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| Arab citizens of Israel Arab_citizens_of_Israel
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| Chiune Sugihara Chiune_Sugihara
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| List of subcamps of Buchenwald list of subcamps of Buchenwald complex of Nazi concentration camps. Abteroda Allendorf bei Kirchhain Altenburg/Thüringen Annaburg Bad Arolsen Aschersleben Aschersleben-Duben Aumale Bad Berka Bad Godesberg Bad Salzungen Baubrigade 5 Baubrigade 7 Baubrigade I Baubrigade III Baubrigade IV Baubrigade V Baubrigade VI Baubrigade V - West Bensberg bei Köln Berga, Thuringia Berlin Berlstedt Bernburg Billroda Birkhahn Bischofferode Blankenhain Bochum Böhlen Braunschweig Buchenwald Buttelstedt Clus Colditz Crawinkel Dernau Dessau Dornburg Dortmund Duderstadt Düsseldorf Duisburg Ebensee Eisenach Ellrich Elsnig/Elbe Eschershausen Essen Flössberg [[ List_of_subcamps_of_Buchenwald
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| List of subcamps of Mauthausen Below is the list of subcamps of Mauthausen-Gusen complex of Nazi concentration camps. The slave labour of the inmates was also used by a variety of companies and farms that accommodated a small number of inmates on their own. Aflenz Amstetten Frauenlager Männerlager Attnang-Puchheim Bachmanning Bretstein Dippoldsau Ebelsberg Ebensee Eisenerz Enns Ennsdorf Floridsdorf Frankenburg am Hausruck (Schlier-Redl-Zipf) Graz Grein Großraming Gunskirchen Waldwerke I Sammellager Gusen Gusen I Gusen II (St. List_of_subcamps_of_Mauthausen
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| Nazi concentration camps Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps were greatly expanded in Germany after the Reichstag fire in 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime. Nazi_concentration_camps
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| List of subcamps of Natzweiler-Struthof list of subcamps of the Natzweiler-Struthof complex of Nazi concentration camps, and work kommandos from the main camp.These subordinated camps were located on both sides of the German-French border. There were about 50 subcamps in the Natzweiler-Struthof camp system, located in Alsace and Lorraine as well as in the adjacent German provinces of Baden and Württemberg. By the fall of 1944, there were about 7,000 prisoners in the main camp and more than 20,000 in subcamps. List_of_subcamps_of_Natzweiler-Struthof
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| List of subcamps of Neuengamme list of subcamps of Neuengamme complex. Neuengamme was a so called labour camp of the Nazi concentration camps. The camp was installed in Hamburg, Germany from 1938 until 1945. In labour camps, millions of prisoners died through mistreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labour.The inmates were forced to work in several locations in Northern Germany. List_of_subcamps_of_Neuengamme
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| Aristides de Sousa Mendes Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches, GCC, OL (July 19, 1885–April 3, 1954; ) was a Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. Between the June 16 and June 23, 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of whom were Jews. Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes
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| List of converts to Judaism This article lists people who have converted to Judaism and have a Wikipedia article about them. This article does not differentiate between the different branches of Judaism. See also Who is a Jew? on issues related to the acceptance of conversions throughout the Jewish community.(A number of prominent figures, such as Madonna, have recently become followers of "new age" version of Kabbalah, derived from the body of Jewish mystical teaching also called Kabbalah, but do not consider themselves List_of_converts_to_Judaism
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| Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Herbert_Samuel,_1st_Viscount_Samuel
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| Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Talk:Herbert_Samuel,_1st_Viscount_Samuel
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| Jewish Legion This article is about the British Army battalions known as the Jewish Legion or Zion Mule Corps, which fought in World War I against the Ottoman Empire. For other Jewish legions, see Jewish legion (disambiguation). The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established as the British Army's 38th through 42nd (Service) Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers. Jewish_Legion
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| Richard Baer Richard Baer (September 9, 1911 Nazi official with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer (major) and commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945. He was a member of N.S.D.A.P. (no.Baer was born in Bavaria in 1911; originally a trained confectioner, he became a guard in Dachau concentration camp after becoming unemployed in 1930. Richard_Baer
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| P-15 Termit The P-15 Termit (; ) was a type of missile developed by the Soviet Union's Raduga design bureau in the 1950s. Its GRAU designation was 4K40, and its NATO reporting name was Styx or SS-N-2. In Russian service today it also seems to be called Rubezh. China acquired the design in 1958 and created at least four versionsCSS-N-1 Scrubbrush and CSS-N-2 versions were developed for ship-launched operation, while the CSS-C-2 Silkworm and CSS-C-3 Seersucker missiles were used for coastal defense. P-15_Termit
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| Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been dogged by allegations of bias. These perceptions of bias, possibly exacerbated by the hostile media effect, have generated more complaints of partisan reporting than any other news topic and have led to a proliferation of media watchdog groups on both sides. Media_coverage_of_the_Arab–Israeli_conflict
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| Hermann Cohen Hermann Cohen (4 July 1842 4 April 1918) was a German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century" . Hermann_Cohen
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| Arthur Goldberg Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908 American statesman and jurist who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice and Ambassador to the United Nations. Arthur_Goldberg
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| Yom HaShoah Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day"), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is a observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. Yom_HaShoah
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| Unfree labour Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will by the threat of destitution, detention, violence (including death), or other extreme hardship to themselves, or to members of their families. forced labour, although the latter term tends to imply forms based on violence. Unfree labour includes all forms of slavery, and related institutions (e.g. debt bondage, serfdom, and labor camps). Unfree_labour
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| Human rights in Saudi Arabia Human rights in Saudi Arabia are based on sharia religious laws under rule of the Saudi royal family. The government of Saudi Arabia has also been criticised for its oppression of religious and political minorities, homosexuality, and women. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ratified the International Convention against Torture in October 1997 according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
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| Operation Ostra Brama Operation Ostra Brama (lit. Operation Sharp Gate) was an armed conflict during World War II between the Polish Home Army and the Nazi German occupiers of Vilnius. It began on July 7, 1944, as part of a Polish national uprising, Operation Tempest, and lasted until July 14, 1944. Operation_Ostra_Brama
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| Adam von Trott zu Solz Adam von Trott zu Solz (August 9, 1909 – August 26, 1944) was a German lawyer and diplomat who opposed the Nazi regime. Adam_von_Trott_zu_Solz
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| Operation Agatha Operation Agatha (Saturday, June 29, 1946) sometimes called Black Shabbat or Black Saturday because it began on the Jewish sabbath, was a police and military operation conducted by the British authorities in the British Mandate of Palestine. Soldiers and police searched for arms and made arrests in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, and Haifa, and in several dozen settlements; the semi-official Jewish Agency was raided. Operation_Agatha
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| Odilo Globocnik Dipl.-Ing. Odilo Lotario Globocnik (April 21 1904 – May 31 1945) was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader. He was one of the persons most responsible for the murder of millions of people during the Holocaust. Odilo_Globocnik
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| Biltmore Conference Biltmore Conference, also known by its resolution as the Biltmore Program, was a fundamental departure from traditional Zionist policy with its demand "that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth." The meeting was held in New York City at the prestigious Biltmore Hotel from May 6 to May 11, 1942 with 600 delegates in attendance and Zionist leaders from 18 countries.Prior to Biltmore, official Zionism steadfastly refused to formulate the ultimate aim of the movement preferring instead to concentrate on the practical task of building the Jewish National Home. Biltmore_Conference
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| History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict covers from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict centers on conflicting, mutually exclusive claims to the area called Palestine by the Palestinians and the Land of Israel by Israelis. History_of_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
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| List of wars and disasters by death toll This is a list of wars and human-made disasters by death toll. It covers the Lowest Estimate of death as well as the Highest Estimate, the name of the event, the location, and the start and end of each war. Some events overlap categories. List_of_wars_and_disasters_by_death_toll
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| Yemenite Jews Talk:Yemenite_Jews
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| Israeli–Palestinian conflict/Archive 4 Talk:Israeli–Palestinian_conflict/Archive_4
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| Ben Cohen (businessman) Ben Cohen (b. March 18 1951 in Brooklyn, New York), is a co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's. Ben_Cohen_(businessman)
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| Child suicide bombers in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Talk:Child_suicide_bombers_in_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
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| Martin Niemöller Talk:Martin_Niemöller
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| Erich Priebke Erich Priebke (born July 29, 1913 at Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany) was a Hauptsturmführer in the Waffen SS. In 1996 he was convicted of war crimes in Italy, for participating in the massacre at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, on March 24, 1944. 335 Italian civilians were killed there in retaliation after a partisan attack had claimed the lives of 33 German soldiers (an SS military police battalion from Bolzano-Bozen). Erich_Priebke
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| Forest Hills, Queens Forest_Hills,_Queens
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| Cave of the Patriarchs Talk:Cave_of_the_Patriarchs
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| Benjamin N. Cardozo Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870–July 9, 1938) was a well-known American lawyer and Supreme Court Justice. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in addition to his modesty, philosophy, and vivid prose style. Benjamin_N._Cardozo
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| Labor Zionism Labor Zionism (Labour Zionism, , tsionut sotsialistit) can be described as the major stream of the left wing of the Zionist movement. It was, for many years, a significant tendency among Zionists and Zionist organizational structures, perhaps the major stream in the Zionist movement. Labor_Zionism
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| Buraq Al-Burāq ( al-Burāq "lightning") is a miraculous steed, described as a creature from the heavens which transported the prophets. The most commonly told story is how in the 7th century, the Buraq carried the prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and back during the Isra and Mi'raj or "Night Journey", which is the title of one of the chapters of the Qur'an. Buraq
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| Revisionist Zionism Revisionist Zionism is a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement. The ideology was developed originally by Ze'ev Jabotinsky who advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben Gurion and Chaim Weizmann, which was focused on independent settlement of Eretz Yisrael. In 1935, after the Zionist Executive rejected his political program and refused to state that “the aim of Zionism was the establishment of a Jewish state,” Jabotinsky resig Revisionist_Zionism
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| Roman Catholic Church The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church, Roman_Catholic_Church
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| Jaffa Jaffa (, Yafo; , ; also Japho, Joppa) is an ancient port city believed to be one of the oldest in the world.Jaffa is located south of Tel Aviv, Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. Today it is part of the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality. Jaffa
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| Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian Palestine and the related term Palestinian have several overlapping (and occasionally contradictory) definitions. Definitions_of_Palestine_and_Palestinian
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| Musa Cälil Musa Cälil (; ; Jaŋalif:Musa Çəlil; Cyrillic:Musa Mostafa ulı Cälilev, CyrillicFebruary 15, 1906 August 25, 1944) was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union who was simultaneously awarded two of the highest government decorationsHero of the Soviet Union for personal courage and meritorious performance of duty, and the Lenin Prize for his cycle The Moabit Notebooks (both awarded posthumously). Musa_Cälil
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| List of Polish Jews From the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Jews comprised a significant part of the Polish population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, known as a "Jewish paradise" for its religious tolerance, attracted numerous Jews who fled persecution from other European countries, even though, at times, discrimination against Jews surfaced as it did elsewhere in Europe. List_of_Polish_Jews
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| Dachau concentration camp Talk:Dachau_concentration_camp
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| Jerusalem Talmud The Jerusalem Talmud or Talmud Yerushalmi (), often the Yerushalmi for short, is a collection of Rabbinic notes about the Jewish Oral tradition as detailed in the 2nd-century Mishnah. Other descriptions are Talmud de-Eretz Yisrael (Talmud of the Land of Israel) or, in some scholarly literature, Palestinian Talmud:The Jerusalem Talmud predates its counterpart, the Babylonian Talmud, by about 200 years and is written in both Hebrew and Aramaic. Jerusalem_Talmud
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| Solomon's Temple Talk:Solomon's_Temple
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| Aaron ben Moses ben Asher Aaron ben Moses ben Asher (in Hebrew אהרון בן משה בן אשר; in Tiberian Hebrew ʾAhărôn ben Mōšeh benʾĀšēr) (10th century, died circa 960) was a Jewish scribe who refined the Tiberian system for writing down vowel sounds in Hebrew, which is still in use today, and serves as the basis for grammatical analysis. Aaron_ben_Moses_ben_Asher
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