Mujahidin
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
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Mujahidin (‘holy warriors’) A term used for a coalition of Islamic groups which formed in the early 1980s in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Aided by generous arms supplies from the USA (via Pakistan), their guerrilla warfare led to a withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces by February 1989. In 1992 the Communist government was finally overcome, but shortly after the establishment of an Islamic state, on 6 May 1992, the fragile coalition fell apart. Alliances between the different factions of the
mujahidin were changing constantly while the country was in a state of anarchy. Out of this chaos emerged the
Northern Alliance and the
Taliban, which during the 1990s managed to bring most of the country under its control.
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Denis Villeneuve's Un 32 aout sur terre: Lost in the desert.
Magazine article from: Take One; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/22/2009; ; 700+ words
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Denis Villeneuve's Maelstrom: much ado about a fish.
Magazine article from: Take One; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/26/2008; 582 words
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PR Newswire; 11/29/2000; 700+ words
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Clarendon Photonics and Micron Technology Produce 4-Channel Reconfigurable OADM on a Single Chip; First CMOS-based commercial dynamic optical component.
PR Newswire; 3/4/2002; 700+ words
; ...central element in our business strategy," said Pierre Villeneuve, Founder and CEO of Clarendon Photonics. "Our partnership...company than that of an optical component company" says Villeneuve. "We think that this approach will yield the low...
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The 'secret' history of the Anglosphere
Magazine article from: Review - Institute of Public Affairs; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...of 33 ships-of-the-line commanded by Admiral Pierre Villeneuve. Seventeen French and Spanish ships captured and...aim was to bring overwhelming strength to bear on Villeneuve's centre and rear where superior English gunnery...
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Flayhart, William Henry, III: Counterpoint to Trafalgar: The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Naples, 1805-1806.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Corfu. This move prompted Napoleon to order Admiral Pierre Villeneuve, commander of a Franco-Spanish fleet anchored in...history, as Horatio Nelson's fleet intercepted Villeneuve's off Cape Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. Because...
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/4/2000; ; 700+ words
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Pierre de Villeneuve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pierre de Villeneuve , 1763-1806, French admiral. He commanded the rear guard of the fleet in the disastrous battle of Abu Qir (1798). His defeat...
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Villeneuve, Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Silvestre, Comte de
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Villeneuve, Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Silvestre, Comte...was almost annihilated. However, Villeneuve's rear division was only lightly...others were the only French survivors. Villeneuve was later promoted and in November...
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battle of Trafalgar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...which the British fleet under Horatio Nelson won a famous victory over the allied French and Spanish fleets under Pierre de Villeneuve . Nelson's strategy was to divide his own fleet into two sections, one led by himself in the HMS Victory, the...
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Quarton, Enguerrand
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...at Chantilly, painted in collaboration with an obscure artist called Pierre Villatte, and the Coronation of the Virgin (1454) in the Musée Municipal at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. They are highly impressive works, uniting...
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Quarton (or Charonton), Enguerrand
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...at Chantilly, painted in collaboration with an obscure artist called Pierre Villatte, and the Coronation of the Virgin (1454) in the Musée Municipal at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. They are highly impressive works, uniting...
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