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The Great Society
Great Society, The LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS FUNDING PROBLEMS THE GREAT SOCIETY REVISITED BIBLIOGRAPHY The term Great Society, which refers to the set of domestic programs initiated by Lyndon B. Johnson, who became the U.S. president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, was coined... Read more |
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Constantine
Constantine (c.274–337), first Christian Roman emperor (306–37), known as ‘the Great’. Born at Naissus (now Nis), Constantine was the son of Constantius I by Helena. In 305 Constantius succeeded as Augustus (senior emperor) of the West. Constantine fled from the court... Read more |
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Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs ¦ LARRY GILMAN The Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos) is a small bay on the southern coast of Cuba that was invaded on April 17, 1961 by approximately 1,400 Cuban exiles organized and armed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The invasion was... Read more |
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan , 1941-, American singer and composer, b. Duluth, Minn., as Robert Zimmerman. Dylan learned guitar at the age of 10 and autoharp and harmonica at 15. After a rebellious youth, he moved to New York City in 1960 and in the early years of the decade began playing in a folk style in Greenwich... Read more |
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Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Gielgud (Arthur John Gielgud) , 1904-2000, English actor, director, and producer. A grandnephew of Ellen Terry , Gielgud made his debut at the Old Vic in 1921. His intelligence, sensitivity, fine voice, and ability to interpret both classic and modern playwrights established him as one... Read more |
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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (Norman Kingsley Mailer), 1923-2007, American writer, b. Long Branch, N.J., grad. Harvard, 1943. He grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., served in the army during World War II, and at the age of 25 published The Naked and the Dead (1948). A partially autobiographical bestseller, it was one of... Read more |
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Sir Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson 1882-1958, Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b. England. His first geographical expedition was to the New Hebrides Islands as a geologist in 1903. As a member of the scientific staff of Sir Ernest Shackleton's south polar expedition (1907-9), Mawson took part in the... Read more |
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Tabari
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839-923) was a Moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of Islam. He is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the Koran. Al-Tabari was born in Amol in the... Read more |
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh , 1903-66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation. Educated at Oxford, he was briefly an art student and a teacher but spent much of his time traveling. He served with distinction in World War II. Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a... Read more |
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Samuel Butler (author)
Samuel Butler 1835-1902, English author. He was the son and grandson of eminent clergymen. In 1859, refusing to be ordained, he went to New Zealand, where he established a sheep farm and in a few years made a modest fortune. He returned to England in 1864 and devoted himself to a variety of... Read more |
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BAY OF PIGS CONFERENCE TO CATALOG DOCUMENTS
...Thirty-five years later, the Bay of Pigs is about to be revisited: this time with words instead...officials and members of the Bay of Pigs invasion force are expected to participate...scheduled participant in the ... |
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BAY OF PIGS CONFERENCE TO CATALOG DOCUMENTS.(NEWS)
...Thirty-five years later, the Bay of Pigs is about to be revisited: this time with words instead...officials and members of the Bay of Pigs invasion force are expected to participate...scheduled participant in the ... |
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Secret Schemes and Deja Vu
...has become. It was the Bay of Pigs revisited-same strategy of forming...Cubans involved in the Bay of Pigs who figured in a book I wrote about the invasion 24 years ago. And in...that U.S.-sponsored Bay of ... |
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RFK Revisited.(Brief Article)
...CIA task force that plotted revenge against Fidel Castro for President Kennedy's humiliation in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Robert talked of "knocking off Castro" and presided over plans like one abortive plot to plant a bomb on Castro... |
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Watergate's 'Smoking Gun' revisited; Nixon's eventual undoing came on an...
...implications that should never come to light. Since some of the Watergate burglars had connections to the CIA- directed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba a decade earlier, Nixon and Haldeman believed that their scenario, which they knew was a red herring... |
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Monument to Cuban revolution revisited.(The Dallas Morning News)
...the Cuban president said at the time. Work on the project began in earnest just weeks after the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. "Cubans felt euphoric, enthusiastic," said Gottardi, who supported the revolution. "We were breathing... |
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To defeat a maverick: the Goldwater candidacy revisited, 1963-1964.(Rules of...
...aggressive foreign policy. The Kennedy administration's reluctance to deploy the U.S. Air Force in support, of the Bay of Pigs invasion, according to Goldwater, first stirred his presidential aspirations.(6) Goldwater developed a national following... |
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CIA man who captured Che Guevara wins payout from Cubans
...trial in Miami before Florida judge Beatrice Butchko revisited an era when Latin American revolutionaries such as...US army, took part in the ill-fated US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 designed to topple Castro, then spent years... |
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Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power
...their hand, and in the light of the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and the humiliation of the USA, the new US...these ancient materials. Colin Palmer has bravely revisited these events, re-entering the dark trenches of the... |
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EDITORIAL: Pyrrhic war.(Editorial)
...sought has been deemed classified. That theme was revisited Tuesday when the Federal Communications Commission...During the Cold War, reporters divulged the botched Bay of Pigs invasion and the U2 flight of Francis Gary Powers. During the... |
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