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Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir , 1915-, Zionist activist and Israeli politician, b. Poland. Emigrating (1935) to Palestine, he was twice arrested by the British for participating in a militant Jewish organization; in 1946 he fled to France. Returning (1948) to Israel , he served in the secret service until 1965.... Read more |
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Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres , 1923-, Israeli politician, b. Vishniva, Poland (now in Belarus) as Shimon Perski. He and his parents emigrated to Palestine in 1934; his grandparents were killed in the Holocaust . Before the birth of the Israeli nation (1949) he served as manpower chief of the Haganah, the fledgling... Read more |
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taoiseach
taoiseach (prime minister), successor under the 1937 constitution to the president of the executive council. The offices were substantially the same but de Valera's modifications increased the taoiseach's power. In article 28 the taoiseach is unequivocally ‘the Head of Government’. He... Read more |
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Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin , 1922-95, Israeli general and statesman, b. Jerusalem, the first native-born prime minister of Israel (1974-77, 1992-95). His extensive military experience began in 1940 when he joined the Haganah (Jewish militia) and thereafter fought in the British army. He rose in rank from brigade... Read more |
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Leisure
LeisureDefinition of leisureThe sociology of leisureBIBLIOGRAPHYSome authors hold that leisure has existed in all civilizations at all periods. This is not the view that will be taken in this article. Time-out is of course as venerable an institution as work itself. But leisure has certain traits... Read more |
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd marquis of Salisbury
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquis of (1830–1903). Prime minister. Salisbury was an unlikely candidate for such a long tenure of the premiership. A younger son of an ancient Tory house, he was intellectual, withdrawn (with little taste for aristocratic sports) and unsociable,... Read more |
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Peculiar People
Peculiar People an alternate rendering for the biblical phrase "chosen people" (of Israel), applied to numerous Protestant dissenting sects such as the Plumstead peculiars. This group, founded in London in 1838 by John Banyard, refused medical treatment as an article of faith.... Read more |
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