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Pol Pot
Pol Pot 1925-98, Cambodian political leader, originally named Saloth Sar. Paris-educated, and a Khmer Communist leader from 1960, he led Khmer Rouge guerrillas against the government of Lon Nol after 1970. In 1975 he proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea and served as its premier... Read more |
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Heng Samrin
Heng Samrin , 1934-, Cambodian politician. He was president of Cambodia from 1979 to 1991 and headed the Communist party from 1981 to 1991. A regimental commander of the Khmer Rouge during the civil war (1970-75), he sought refuge in Vietnam from Pol Pot's purges (1977). Returning to lead the... Read more |
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Terror
TERROR. An apprehension of danger or impending violence, terror is akin to fear in an accentuated or distilled form and is often accompanied by trembling. It underpins many aspects of existence, especially the cut-and-thrust of the evolutionary drive and the predatory nature of the food chain.... Read more |
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Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rouge , name given to native Cambodian Communists. Khmer Rouge soldiers, aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, began a large-scale insurgency against government forces in 1970, quickly gaining control over more than two thirds of the country. The strength of the Khmer Rouge rose... Read more |
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Melting Pot
Melting Pot BIBLIOGRAPHY Amalgamation of settlers of diverse national origin has long been linked with the idealistic self-image of America as a new type of nation-state. The French-born immigrant J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735– Read more |
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Coffeemakers
Automatic Drip Coffee Maker Background Coffee was first cultivated in Ethiopia in the sixth century A.D.The coffee berries were consumed whole, or a wine was made out of the fermented fruits. Coffee as we know it, made from ground, roasted beans, dates to the thirteenth... Read more |
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wandering jew (plant)
wandering jew common name for several creeping plants of the genus Tradescantia (including Zebrina ) in the spiderwort family. T. pendula is most commonly cultivated in window boxes and hanging pots. Wandering jew is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order... Read more |
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cannabis
cannabis (kan-ă-bis) n. a drug prepared from the Indian hemp plant (Cannabis sativa), also known as pot, marijuana, hashish, and bhang. It produces euphoria and hallucinations and has little therapeutic value; its nonmedical use is illegal. See also dependence.... Read more |
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Stew
STEW STEW. A stew has been described as an assortment of foods cooked in liquid within a container with a lid. Stews are usually made from several ingredients and may be named for the most important of these, for example, beef stew; for its point of origin, as in Irish stew; or for the pot in... Read more |
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Filtration
Filtration Filtration is the process by which solid materials are removed from a fluid mixture, either a gas or liquid mixture. Anyone who has ever prepared foods in a kitchen has probably seen one of the simplest forms of filtration. After cooking pasta, for example, the contents of the pot may be... Read more |
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Books: The haughty survivor who would have made a good torturer The story of...
...was the only Western prisoner known to survive Pol Pot's genocidal Communist...question stalks the book. Pol Pot purged one and a...homespun Robespierre, Pol Pot. Married to a Cambodian...coax the truth out of prisoners with the use of pliers... |
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Indians among foreigners killed in Pol Pot prison
Phnom Penh, Sept. 17 -- Although 79 foreigners and hundreds more Vietnamese prisoners are known to have died in Pol Pot's secret prison, the real toll is even grimmer, two former photographers from prison S-21 have... |
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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PRINTS OF DARKNESS; Probe team move in to prove that evil Pol Pot is dead.(News)
POL POT'S fingerprints were taken yesterday...him, and we are sure it is." Ousted Pol Pot was being held prisoner by troops of his former Khmer Rouge...The Khmer Rouge general in charge of Pol Pot's security offered an explanation... |
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Pol Pot's first wife cremated amid religious rituals once reviled by Khmer Rouge
...Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was cremated Thursday...Ponnary, the first wife of Pol Pot, died Tuesday at...head of the group, and Pol Pot's former deputy...early 1950s. She married Pol Pot in 1956 and wielded...who died in 1998 as a prisoner of his Khmer Rouge ... |
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First wife of late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot dies
...of the late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, has died at the age of 83 in...illness for more than two decades. Pol Pot, who died in 1998 as a prisoner of his Khmer Rouge comrades...the early 1950s. She married Pol Pot in 1956 and was considered... |
 "Daily Mail (London)")
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I'VE NO REGRETS SAYS MASS KILLER POL POT.
POL POT remians unrepentant over the deaths of more than a million Cambodians...magazine, which publishes the interview by Nate Thayer today, said Pol Pot, 72, who is being held prisoner by his former comrades, looked 'clearly very ill' and 'perhaps... |
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I've no regrets says mass killer Pol Pot.
POL POT remi-ans unrepentant over the deaths of more than a million...magazine, which publishes the interview by Nate Thayer today, said Pol Pot, 72, who is being held prisoner by his former comrades, looked 'clearly very ill' and 'perhaps... |
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Gitmo called death camp; Durbin draws parallels to Hitler, Stalin, Pol...
...Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, three of history...million Cambodians died in Pol Pot's scourge of his...or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that...the treatment of their prisoners." Mr. Durbin also...gulag or a mad regime or Pol Pot," White House ... |
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Pol Pot death hasn't purged Cambodia.
Pol Pot was a small man who cast a giant...rule a thing of fearsome terror. Pol Pot, 73, died Wednesday a frail prisoner betrayed by the 200 or so of his...into killers of their own parents. Pol Pot turned his Southeast Asian country... |
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Prosecutor: Defendants share blame with Pol Pot
...Cambodia (AP) — Pol Pot's close confederates...Cayley said that like Pol Pot, the three aging...cannot be blamed solely on Pol Pot as some of the accused...homicide and torture. Pol Pot died in 1998 in the jungle while a prisoner of his own comrades... |
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