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| Albert Einstein Albert (; German:Jewish, German-born, theoretical physicist of the 20th century who is best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. He also made important contributions to statistical mechanics, especially his treatment of Brownian motion, his resolution of the paradox of specific heats, and his connection of fluctuations and dissipation. Albert_Einstein | |
| Albert Speer Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer and ; MarchGerman architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. Albert_Speer | |
| Antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also known as Judeophobia) is a term used to describe prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their religion, culture, or ethnic background.While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, it has been used exclusively to refer to hostility toward Jews since its initial usage. Antisemitism | |
| Auschwitz concentration camp "Auschwitz" redirects here. For the town, see Oświęcim. Distinguish from Austerlitz.Auschwitz-Birkenau ('Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps, established in Nazi German occupied Poland. The camp took its German name from the nearby Polish town of Oświęcim. Birkenau, the German translation of pol. Brzezinka (birch tree), refers to a small village nearby, mostly destroyed by the Germans. Auschwitz_concentration_camp | |
| Ark of the Covenant Ark of the Covenant ( Ārōn Hāb’rīt Aron Habrit]Tābūt Al-ʿahd) is the sacred container, wherein rested the Tablets of stone containing the Ten Commandments as well as Aaron's rod and manna. The Ark was built at the command of God, in accord with Moses' prophetic vision on Mount Sinai (). Ark_of_the_Covenant | |
| Antisemitism in the Arab world Antisemitism in the Arab world refers to discrimination against Jews. While Arabs are also a Semitic people, the modern meaning of the English term "antisemitism" refers exclusively to discrimination against Jews (see Antisemitism).Arab antisemitism is believed to have expanded since the 19th century. Jews, like other minority groups within the Muslim world, were subject to various restrictions long before that (see Dhimmi). Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world | |
| Apartheid/Archive 4 Talk:Apartheid/Archive_4 | |
| Ariel Sharon 'diminutiveArik, אַריק) () (born Ariel Scheinermann'general and statesman, former Israeli Prime Minister. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state.During his lengthy career, Sharon was a controversial figure among many factions, both inside and outside Israel. Ariel_Sharon | |
| Arab–Israeli conflict Talk:Arab–Israeli_conflict | |
| Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 24 March 1976), often referred to as "Monty", was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer. He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign during World War II, and troops under his command played a major role in the expulsion of Axis forces from North Africa. Bernard_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein | |
| Book of Ruth This article is about the ancient Hebrew religious text. For the 20th-century English-language novel, see The Book of Ruth (novel) The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli HebrewAshkenazi Hebrew:Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. It is a rather short book, in both Jewish and Christian scripture, consisting of only four chapters. Book_of_Ruth | |
| Baku Baku (), sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakü, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan and all Caucasus. Located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists of two principal partsInner City (21,5 ha). Baku is one of the oldest and biggest cities in East for antiquity, territory and population. As of 1 January 2005 the population was 2,036,000, of which 153,400 were internally displaced persons and 93,400 refugees. Baku | |
| Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak () ( — May 30, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy whose events span the last period of Tsarist Russia and the early days of the Soviet Union. Boris_Pasternak | |
| Brit milah Brit milah (Hebrew:t mī'lāSephardi pronunciation, berit milah; Ashkenazi pronunciation, bris milah, "covenant of circumcision"; Yiddish, bris) is a religious ceremony within Judaism to welcome infant Jewish boys into a covenant between God and the Children of Israel through ritual circumcision performed by a mohel ("circumciser"). Brit_milah | |
| Czech Republic Czech_Republic | |
| Creationism "Creationism" can also refer to creation myths, or to a concept about the origin of the soul. For the movement in Spanish literature, see creacionismo.Creationism is the belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form by a deity (often the Abrahamic God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) or deities. creation-evolution controversy the term creationism is commonly used to refer to religiously motivated rejection of evolution as an explanation of origins. Creationism | |
| Common Era Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used world-wide for numbering the year part of the date. The numbering of years using Common Era notation is identical to the numbering used with Anno Domini (BC/AD) notation, being the current year in both notations and neither using a year zero. Common_Era | |
| Charles Martel Charles Martel () (ca. 688 – 22 October 741), called Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum (737–43) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks. Charles_Martel | |
| Conservative Judaism Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism in Israel and Europe) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.The principles of Conservative Judaism include A deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching of Jewish principles of faith; A positive attitude toward modern culture; and An acceptance of both traditional rabbinic modes of study and modern scholarship and critical text study when considering Jewish religious texts. Conservative_Judaism | |
| Casablanca Casablanca (in Arabic:الدار البيضاء ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ as well as کازابلانکا Kāzāblānkā; Spanish and Italian for white (blanca) house (casa) (White house) ; nicknamed by localsCaza; Antique and original name in Amazigh:Anfa /) is the largest city in Morocco, located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Casablanca | |
| Hanukkah Hanukkah (, , alt. Chanukah), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, and may occur from late November to late December on the Gregorian calendar. Hanukkah | |
| Druze The Druze (, plural دروز, durūz)(Hebrew דרוזים )are a religious community found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of Islam, but is unique in its incorporation of Gnostic, neo-Platonic and other philosophies, similar to other followers of Ismaili Shi'a Islam. Druze | |
| Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group she later disdained. Dorothy_Parker | |
| England England | |
| Erwin Rommel Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel () (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) (known as the "Desert Fox", Wüstenfuchs, ), was perhaps the most famous German Field Marshal of World War II. He was a highly decorated officer in World War I, awarded the Pour le Mérite for his exploits on the Italian front. Erwin_Rommel | |
| Extermination camp Extermination camps were built by Nazi Germany during World War II for the systematic killing of millions of people in what has become known as The Holocaust. During World War II, under the orders of Heinrich Himmler, extermination camps were built during a later phase of the program of annihilation. Extermination_camp | |
| Fascism Fascism, , comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology and a corporatist economic ideology. Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state. Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and by asserting themselves in combat against the weak. Fascism | |
| Fascism Talk:Fascism | |
| Foreign relations of the Federated States of Micronesia The Government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) conducts its own foreign relations.United Nations in 1991. Foreign_relations_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia | |
| Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip ( , Retzu'at 'Azza) is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12Palestinian territories. Actual control of the area is in the hands of Hamas, an organization which won civil parliamentary Palestinian Authority elections in 2006 and took over the de facto government in the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority by way of its own armed militia in July 2007, whilst violently removing the Palestinian Authority's security forces and civil servants from the Gaza Strip. Gaza_Strip | |
| Henry Ford Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. Henry_Ford | |
| Haiti Haiti | |
| Demographics of Haiti Haiti averages approximately 250 people per square kilometer (650 per sq. mi.), its population is concentrated most heavily in urban areas, coastal plains, and valleys. About 95% of Haitians are of predominantly Afro-Caribbean descent. The remainder of the population vary in ethnic groups from mulattoes, mestizoes, marabous, to Arabs (primarily Syrian and Lebanese people), and Europeans. Demographics_of_Haiti | |
| Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October, 1900 – 23 May, 1945) was a German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsführer-SS he oversaw all police and security forces, including the Gestapo.As overseer of concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literallyJews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply 'in the way', which included homosexuals, those with physical and mental disabilities and members of the Confessing Church. Heinrich_Himmler | |
| Hank Greenberg Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg (January 1, 1911, Bronx, New York City, New York–"Hammerin' Hank," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation. Hank_Greenberg | |
| Hebrew calendar Talk:Hebrew_calendar | |
| History of Israel The State of Israel (, Medinat Yisrael) was established on May 14, 1948 after nearly two thousand years of Jewish dispersal, and after 55 years of efforts to create a Jewish homeland (Zionism). The 60 years since Israeli independence have been marked by conflict with neighbouring Arab states and the Palestinian-Arabs. History_of_Israel | |
| Hezbollah Hezbollah | |
| Hasidic Judaism Hasidic Judaism (also transliterated as Chasidic etc., from the Hebrew:Hasidut, meaning "piety", from the Hebrew root word chesed meaning "loving kindness") is a type of Orthodox or Haredi Jewish religious movement. Some refer to Hasidic Judaism as Hasidism, and the adjective Chasidic / Hasidic (or in Yiddish Khasidish) applies. Hasidic_Judaism | |
| Geography of Israel Geography_of_Israel | |
| Iran–Contra affair Iran-Contra affair (, ) was a political scandal in the United States which came to light in November 1986, during the Reagan administration, in which senior US figures agreed to facilitate the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, to secure the release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras. Iran–Contra_affair | |
| Iran–Iraq War Iran–Iraq_War | |
| Israeli settlement Israeli settlements are residential areas inhabited by Jewish Israelis in Arab territory that was occupied during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is militarily occupied by Israel and is under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Israeli civilian administration. Israeli_settlement | |
| Inquisition The term Inquisition can refer to any one of several institutions charged with trying and convicting heretics (or other offenders against canon law) within the Catholic Church. It may refer to Inquisition | |
| Irgun Irgun (; shorthand for Ha'Irgun HaTzva'i HaLe'umi BeEretz Yisra'el, , "National Military Organization in the Land of Israel") was a militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah (HebrewIsrael Defence Forces at the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In present-day Irgun | |
| Zionist political violence Zionist political violence refers to acts of violence committed for political reasons by Zionists. Actions were carried out in the British Mandate of Palestine by individuals and Jewish paramilitary groups such as the Haganah, the Irgun, the Lehi and the Palmah as part of a conflict between Zionists and the British and Arabs, about land, immigration, and national aspirations. Zionist_political_violence | |
| Judaism Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, "Judah"; in HebrewYahedut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos) is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts. Judaism | |
| Joseph Goebbels Paul Joseph Goebbels (, ; 29 October 1897 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, eventually succeeding him as Chancellor of Germany, an office he held for only one day, carrying out one official actoratory and anti-Semitism. Joseph_Goebbels | |
| Jew A Jew (, Yehudi (sg.); , Yehudim (pl.); Ladino:Djudio (sg.); , Djudios (pl.); ; , Yidn (pl.)) is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation. Converts to Judaism have been absorbed into the Jewish people throughout the millennia. Jew | |
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