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holy water
holy water in Christian churches, water blessed to symbolize spiritual cleansing. In Roman Catholic churches there is a bowl (stoup or font) of holy water near the doors, so that the faithful may bless themselves with it on entering. Holy water is a sacramental and is used in formal blessings, in... Read more
dry cleaning
dry cleaning process of cleaning fabrics without water. Special solvents and soaps are used so as not to harm fabrics and dyes that will not withstand the effects of ordinary soap and water. Dry cleaning began in France about the middle of the 19th cent., at first in small plants, where it was done... Read more
asperges
asperges , ceremonial sprinkling of the people with holy water by the priest before the Sunday High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church. The accompanying antiphon begins, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor [Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed]. At Easter time th... Read more
blackhead
blackhead yellowish or blackish plug of material accumulated in the duct of a sebaceous gland. The material consists of keratin (horny cells of the epidermis) and modified sebum (oily secretions of the sebaceous gland). Blackheads are the primary lesions in acne . Treatment is the same as for acne... Read more
blackhead
blackhead yellowish or blackish plug of material accumulated in the duct of a sebaceous gland. The material consists of keratin (horny cells of the epidermis) and modified sebum (oily secretions of the sebaceous gland). Blackheads are the primary lesions in acne . Treatment is the same as for acne... Read more
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević , 1941-2006, Yugoslav and Serbian political leader, president of Serbia (1989-97) and of Yugoslavia (1997-2000), b. Požarevac, Serbia. He joined the Communist party in 1959, beginning his political career in the 1960s as an economic adviser to the mayor of Belgrad... Read more
Ashdod
Ashdod [Heb.,=stronghold], city (1994 pop. 120,100), SW Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is Israel's leading port after Haifa. Construction is Ashdod's main industry; its manufactures include synthetic fibers, woolen yarn, and knitted goods. Nearby is the site of ancient Ashdod, which was settl... Read more
fleece
fleece mat of wool formed by shearing a sheep in one continuous operation. The average fleece weighs from 5 to 10 lb (2.3-4.5 kg); in highbred wool sheep such as the American Merinos a ram's fleece may reach 30 lb (13.6 kg). The weight lost in cleansing the fleece of grease before sorting the woo... Read more
Hebrews
Hebrews an anonymous New Testament homily with closing greetings normally associated with the letter genre, written before c.AD 96. It is addressed to Jewish Christians who were being pressured to renounce their confidence in Jesus. The first part is an argument that Christ is superior to the angel... Read more
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis , 1818-65, Hungarian physician. He was a pioneer in employing asepsis. While on the staff of the general hospital in Vienna, he recognized the infectious nature of puerperal fever and insisted that attendants in obstetrical cases thoroughly cleanse their hands; he thus great... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "ethnic cleansing"

Radovan Karadzic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Bosnian Serbs, pursued a course of "ethnic cleansing" as he struggled to gain independence...Joseph Stalin. His program of "ethnic cleansing," which has resulted in the death...Although he must have been aware of ethnic strife from his years in the hills... Read more
Ratko Mladic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...assault on Sarajevo and the "ethnic cleansing" atrocities committed against...Tito who held the various ethnic groups together with his party...human rights groups of ethnic cleansing which left 150,000 to 200...British newspaper calling him "ethnic-cleanser-in-chief," he responded... Read more
Deportations
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...many ways to the practices of ethnic cleansing and nationalist politics that...Muscovy expropriated the Major Ethnic Deportations, 1937 – 1944...Based on Pohl, J. Otto. (1999). Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937 – 1949... Read more
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Intelligence and Security
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Tensions between the region's ethnic populations remained high, but the establishment of a...fall of the Soviet Union. In 1991 and 1992, the various ethnic states in the Balkan region declared their independence. Border disputes and ethnic tensions flared in the region, sparking ... Read more
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World ...March 1992, a civil war erupted throughout Bosnia with ethnic Serb guerrillas and allies in the Serb-dominated Yugoslav National Army fighting Moslem Slavs and ethnic Croats over proposed independence from Yugoslavia. Ethnic Serbs living in Bosnia feared that Serb political and...from Yugoslavia. ... Read more
Burundi
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...capital (population): Bujumbura (846,000) government: Republic ethnic groups: Hutu 85%, Tutsi 14%, Twa (pygmy) 1% languages: French...the Tutsi government introduced limited reforms to quell ethnic divisions. In 1988 another Hutu coup led to massacres by...community imposed sanctions, but instability and ... Read more
Kosovo, NATO Intervention
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...Serb-dominated Yugoslavian government against ethnic Albanians, the 78-day operation was...following years conducted campaigns of "ethnic cleansing" (elimination, through killing or forced...forces on January 15, 1999, killed 45 ethnic Albanians in the town of Racak. The...continued to wage a ... Read more
Serbia and Montenegro
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Belgrade (1,168,454) government: Federal multi-party republic ethnic groups: Serb 63%, Kosovar-Albanian 18%, Montenegrin 5...Following Tito's death in 1980, the country's underlying ethnic tensions began to re-surface. In 1986, Slobodan Miloš...Bosnia-Herzegovina to join. Aid to the Bosnian-Serb campaign ... Read more
Mauritania
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...the capital was ruled out. Demography. As a result of ethnic clashes between pro-arabization groups and black Africans...become a minority. According to the latest estimates of ethnic distribution, the Haratin community accounts for 40 to...in primary and secondary education. This resulted in ethnic ... Read more
genocide
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...Polish state Lemkin sensed the vulnerability of Jews, as an ethnic minority, to coercive states; his expertise in international...develop the term to describe the systematic annihilation of an ethnic group, religion, or culture. To Lemkin's dismay, the Nuremberg...the crime of genocide can all too easily occur. ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "ethnic cleansing"

ethnic cleansing
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ethnic cleansing the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. Read more
genocide
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...destruction of a group or nation on grounds of race or ethnic origin. Following the Nazi policy of genocide of the Jews and of ethnic groups such as gypsies, the Convention on the Prevention...Convention, many conflicts in the world have split groups along ethnic or tribal lines, and claims of genocide ... Read more
Bosnian Crisis
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...military operation in Europe since World War II . After ethnic Serbs extended their control to 70 percent of Bosnia, and reports reached the West of massacres, mass rapes, and ethnic cleansing , there were public demands for intervention. At first...Yugoslavia as peacekeepers, especially between the ... Read more
Kosovo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Kosovo an autonomous province of Serbia bordering on Albania, the majority of whose people are of Albanian descent, and which in 1999 was subjected to ethnic cleansing by Serbian paramilitary forces, resulting in the bombing of Belgrade by Nato. Read more
Milošević, Slobodan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (1992–95), with its ‘ethnic cleansing’ policies. As a result he achieved isolation...economy. Serbia's subsequent policy of oppression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide against the majority Albanian population... Read more
Bosnian Civil War
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...the Bosnian Serbs carried out a brutal programme of ‘ethnic cleansing’, whereby Muslims and Croats were expelled (and, in...control, and 1.3 million fled to other European states. As ethnic tensions within Bosnia-Hercegovina continued, more than one... Read more
Removal Act of 1830
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...been proposed by President Andrew Jackson in his first message to Congress in 1829, but efforts to accomplish this ethnic cleansing go back at least to the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. In 1803 Jefferson proposed a constitutional amendment to... Read more
Izetbegović, Alija
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...intact with a constitution guaranteeing equal rights for all ethnic groups and religious toleration. After the secession of the Bosnian Serbs and violent acts of “ethnic cleansing”, he eventually signed the Dayton Peace Accord in... Read more
Karadžić, Radovan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the US-brokered Dayton peace accord. Twice that year he was indicted by the UN for war crimes, including ‘ethnic cleansing’. He resigned as President of both the Republika Srpska and the Serbian Democratic Party in 1996, but remains... Read more
Kosovo Bombing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...violence in Kosovo. Consequently, she persuaded President Bill Clinton to adopt a policy designed to prevent further ethnic cleansing by the Serbians in Kosovo. Following the failure of a diplomatic effort directed at the Serbians to end their violence... Read more

Thesaurus entries related to "ethnic cleansing"

pogrom
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English pogrom • noun   synonyms : massacre, wholesale/general slaughter, mass killing, mass murder, mass homicide, carnage, blood bath, genocide, ethnic cleansing, megadeath. Read more
holocaust
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English holocaust • noun   synonyms : fire, inferno, conflagration, destruction, devastation, demolition, ravaging, annihilation; massacre, mass murder, carnage, slaughter, butchery, extermination, genocide, ethnic cleansing. Read more
carnage
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus carnage • noun  an unforgettable scene of carnage synonyms : slaughter, massacre, mass murder, butchery, bloodbath, bloodletting, gore; holocaust, pogrom, ethnic cleansing. Read more
genocide
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus genocide • noun  a tyrant guilty of genocide synonyms : mass murder, mass homicide, massacre; annihilation, extermination, elimination, liquidation, eradication, decimation, butchery, bloodletting; pogrom, ethnic cleansing, holocaust. Read more
massacre
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...slaughter, wholesale/indiscriminate killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction, carnage, butchery, blood bath, annihilation, extermination, liquidation, decimation, pogrom, genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust. Read more

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2007; ; 517 words ; Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe. By Benjamin Lieberman...title, the book is about Central and Eastern Europe's ethnic cleansing. It covers ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the Holocaust in the three main Eastern... Read more
Ilan Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; Ilan Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: One World...compounded by mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing (Massalha 1991; 1997). Contrary...implementation of the fourth version of the ethnic cleansing master plan, the infamous Plan... Read more
L.A. story: who gains from framing gang attacks as "ethnic cleansing"?(FEATURE)(Los Angeles, California)
Magazine article from: Colorlines Magazine; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...to put an end to this idea of ethnic cleansing in L.A., declares Noreen McClendon...Gangs kill innocent people. The ethnic cleansing label, she says, is blown so...neighborhoods, the propagation of the ethnic-cleansing frame has badly distorted a... Read more
Ethnic cleansing in Sudan: what part of "never again" do we not understand?(Genocide)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine; 8/1/2004; ; 673 words ; ...South civil war, a new threat of ethnic cleansing and mass death is looming elsewhere...attacking villages from non-Arab ethnic groups. An estimated 15,000 to...government in Khartoum, the ethnic cleansing in Darfur has no religious component... Read more
Cornerstones as Stumbling Blocks.(globalization and ethnic cleansing)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: UN Chronicle; 6/22/2000; ; 682 words ; AS GLOBALIZATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY Regardless of its success in drawing attention...challenged and undermined from above and below as globalization and ethnic cleansing occur simultaneously. Although this principle is no longer... Read more
Politics of ethnic cleansing; nation-state building and provision of in/security in twentieth-century Balkans.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 131 words ; 9780739117828 Politics of ethnic cleansing; nation-state building and provision of in/security in twentieth-centu...Kledja. Lexington Books 2008 205 pages $70.00 Hardcover JN97 Ethnic cleansing is not necessarily a euphemism for genocide, says Mulaj (ethno-politic... Read more
Terrible Fate.(Terrible Fate : Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 4/1/2006; 135 words ; ...first comprehensive history of ethnic cleansing in Europe to appear in print...over the last two centuries ethnic cleansing has virtually changed empires...throughout the region. TERRIBLE FATE: ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE MAKING OF MODERN EUROPE... Read more
GEORGIA: GEORGIAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES ABKHAZ OF ETHNIC CLEANSING...(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 2/29/2004; 155 words ; ...pursuing a policy of deliberate ethnic cleansing, RFE/RL's UN correspondent reported...say, however, that thousands of ethnic Georgians who fled Abkhazia's southernmost...charges of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Abkhaz authorities... Read more
Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949. By J. Otto Pohl. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. vxii, 179. $59.95.) Kees Boterbloem's Life and Death... Read more
Ethnic cleansing, humanitarian problems addressed by subcommission. (United Nation Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities)
Magazine article from: UN Chronicle; 12/1/1995; 700+ words ; Governments and others involved in practices of forced displacement population transfer and ethnic cleansing should do everything possible to immediately end them, the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities...Romania said that wherever in the world the Subcommission looked, ... Read more