| Algeria Algeria
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| Algiers Algiers ( al-Jazā’ir, Algerian Arabic:Dzayer ( (From kabyle pronunciation), Kabyle:Dzayer or Dzayer tamaneγt, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, and the second largest city in the Maghreb (after Casablanca). According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. Algiers
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| ETA or ETA (Basque for "Basque Homeland and Freedom"; ), is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. Founded in 1959, it evolved from a group advocating traditional cultural ways to a paramilitary group with the goal of Basque independence. Its ideology is Marxist-Leninist. Most formulations of ETA's goals have centred on sovereignty and self-determination for the Basque Country from a Marxist-Leninist interpretation. ETA
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| French language French (français, ) is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 100 million people as a first language, by 190 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 54 countries. French_language
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| Fatah Fataḥ () is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the center-left of the spectrum. It is mainly nationalist although not predominantly socialist. Fatah
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| Graffiti Graffiti (singulargraffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted.Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti
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| Politics of Mauritania The first fully democratic Presidential election since 1960 occurred on 11 March 2007. The election is the final transfer from military to civilian rule following the military coup in 2005. This is the first time the president will have been selected by ballot in the country's history. The election was won by Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. Politics_of_Mauritania
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| Economy of Mauritania Economy - overview Mauritania still depends on agriculture and livestock for a livelihood, even though most of the nomads and many subsistence farmers were forced into the cities by recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s. Mauritania has extensive deposits of iron ore, which account for almost 50% of total exports. Economy_of_Mauritania
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| May Day May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays. May_Day
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| Historical revisionism (negationism) For the critical re-examination of historical facts see Historical revisionism.Historical revisionism is either the legitimate scholastic correction of existing knowledge about an historical event, or the illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light. For the former, i.e. the academic pursuit, see historical revisionism. This article deals solely with the latter, i.e. the illegitimate kind, which Historical_revisionism_(negationism)
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| Politics of Saudi Arabia The politics of Saudi Arabia takes place in a framework of a particular form of absolute monarchy whereby the King of Saudi Arabia is both head of state and the head of government, but where decisions are to a large extent made on the basis of consultation among the senior princes, with the King functioning as primus inter pares and ultimate arbiter. Politics_of_Saudi_Arabia
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| Politics of Thailand The politics of Thailand are currently conducted within the framework of a constitutional democratic monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government and a hereditary monarch is head of state. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislative branches.Thai kingdoms and late Kingdom of Siam were under the absolute rule of the kings. Politics_of_Thailand
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| Tour de France Tour_de_France
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| Uganda Uganda
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| Jacques Vergès Jacques Vergès (born 5 March 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand) is a French lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of infamous clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila Bouhired in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan (2008). Jacques_Vergès
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| Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre (referred to in China as the June Fourth Incident, ostensibly to avoid confusion with two prior Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China (PRC) beginning on 14 April. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world. Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
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| Laurent-Désiré Kabila Laurent-Désiré Kabila (November 27, 1939 – January 16, 2001) was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 1997, when he overthrew longtime dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, until his own assassination in January 2001. He was succeeded by his son Joseph. Laurent-Désiré_Kabila
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| Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen (born 20 June 1928, La Trinité-sur-Mer, Brittany, France) is a French far-right and nationalist politician who is founder and president of the Front National (National Front) party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, including in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin. Jean-Marie_Le_Pen
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| History of Madagascar The recorded history of Madagascar began in the 7th century when the Arabs established trading posts along the northwest coast of the island. Madagascar's prehistory began when the first human settlers arrived, which included a large component from Southeast Asia. This explains the range of Malagasy features, which form a mixture of genotypes from both Austronesians and Africans, as well as later Arab, Indian, and European settlers. History_of_Madagascar
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| Muammar al-Gaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi1 ( 'Colonel Gaddafi, is a military dictator, and has been the de facto leader of Libya since a 1969 coup. Although Gaddafi has held no public office or title since 1979, he is accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official press. Muammar_al-Gaddafi
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