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United States Department of State
United States Department of State executive department of the federal government responsible, under the President's direction, for the making and execution of American foreign policy. Current Organization and Duties The secretary of state, who heads the department, is aided by a deputy secretary... Read more |
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Frederick V
Frederick V 1723-66, king of Denmark and Norway (1746-66), son and successor of Christian VI. Frederick's reign was one of commercial expansion and prosperity. Loans, subsidies, and treaties aided industry, and a strong system of protection was introduced. The conditions of the peasantry,... Read more |
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Daniel Ken Inouye
Daniel Ken Inouye , 1924-, U.S. politician, b. Honolulu. A Democratic senator from Hawaii since 1963, he was a member of the committee that investigated the Watergate affair (1973-74) and served as chairman of the committee that investigated the Iran-contra affair (1987). He became chair of the... Read more |
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs created (1824) in the U.S. War Dept. and transferred (1849) to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. The War Dept. managed Native American affairs after 1789, but a separate bureau was not set up for many years. It had jurisdiction over trade with Native Americans, their removal... Read more |
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Brownsville
BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR. African American troops have a symbiotic relationship to African Americans in the larger society. Racism and its fallout have been ever present throughout U.S. history. In 1906 the Brownsville affair demonstrated how racial stereotyping governed the unspoken... Read more |
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American Israel Public Affairs Committee
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a national advocacy group that lobbies for U.S. support to the nation of Israel. Founded in 1951, AIPAC has grown into a 65,000-member organization that is recognized as one of the most influential... Read more |
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Caroline Affair
Caroline Affair In 1837 a group of men led by William Lyon Mackenzie rebelled in Upper Canada (now Ontario), demanding a more democratic government. There was much sympathy for their cause in the United States, and a small steamer, the Caroline, owned by U.S. citizens, carried men and supplies... Read more |
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin , 1875-1946, Russian revolutionary. Of peasant origin, he was active in revolutionary affairs from his youth. He became the first chairman of the central executive committee of the USSR, or titular head of state (1919-46), and was a member (1925-46) of the politburo.... Read more |
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synod
synod an assembly of the clergy of a particular Church, nation, province, or diocese, sometimes with representatives of the laity, duly convened for discussing and deciding ecclesiastical affairs. The term is recorded from late Middle English, and comes via late Latin from Greek sunodos... Read more |
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Fed: A timeline of the Paul Keating piggery affair
...General News (Australia) 07-24-2001 Fed: A timeline of the Paul Keating piggery affair CANBERRA, July 24 AAP - A timeline of the Paul Keating piggery ... |