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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah , 1876-1948, founder of Pakistan , b. Karachi. After his admission to the bar in England, he returned to India to practice law. Early in his career he was a fervent supporter of the Indian National Congress and an advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity. Jinnah was a member of the... Read more |
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Professor Moriarty
Moriarty, Professor in Conan Doyle's stories of Sherlock Holmes, the arch criminal who is Holmes's implacable enemy. His final attempt to murder Holmes resulted in their both falling into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls, apparently to their deaths, although the popularity of the character forced... Read more |
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Vince Gill
Vince Gill Singer, songwriter, guitarist For the Record… Selected discography Sources Vince Gill worked at the very edges of success for more than a decade before breaking through to country music superstardom in 1990. For many years Gill’s vocal and instrumental talents were put to... Read more |
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Nicolai Hartmann
Hartmann, Nicolai (1882–1950) German realist philosopher. Although influenced by Plato and Immanuel Kant, he proposed, in Outlines of a Metaphysics of Knowledge (1921), that existence is an essential prerequisite for knowledge, a reversal of Kant's idea. He finally rejected Kantian ideas in... Read more |
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Mesopotamian campaign
Mesopotamian campaign, 1914–18. Following Turkey's entry into the First World War in November 1914, a small Anglo-Indian force landed in Mesopotamia. The purpose of the expedition was to protect the nearby Persian oilfields and to deny the Turks and their German allies access to the head of... Read more |
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Battle of Tobruk
Tobruk, battle of, 1941. The Libyan port of Tobruk, 50 miles from the Egyptian frontier, was captured from the Italians by British forces on 22 January 1941. Axis forces under Rommel subsequently defeated the British, but it was decided to hold Tobruk, which Churchill described as a ‘sally... Read more |
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ileum
ileum In Mammalia, the final part of the small intestine.... Read more |
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Ledo Road
Ledo Road, 770 km. (478 mi.) long India–China supply road and oil pipeline built through the mountainous area of northern Burma. It ran from Ledo (situated in India near the northern border with Burma) to Myitkyina in northern Burma, then Bhamo, and finally to Muse where it... Read more |
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Private Investigator
Private Investigator FB Eyes 210 Huntington St. Bangor, ME 04401 Gerald Rekve This business plan details the goals and objectives for an independent Private Investigator (PI) firm founded by three former police officers. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FBEyes was... Read more |
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