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limbo
limbo in Roman Catholic theology, an afterlife realm between heaven and hell where there is no punishment but where souls are denied the presence of God. Never part of Catholic dogma, the concept of limbo was developed during the Middle Ages, and came to be seen as two places. One was the home of... Read more |
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Olympus
Olympus , Gr. Ólimbos, mountain range, c.25 mi (40 km) long, N Greece, on the border of Thessaly and Macedonia, near the Aegean coast. It rises to c.9,570 ft (2,920 m) at Mt. Olympus, the highest point in Greece. The peak was first ascended in 1913. In Greek mythology the summit, shut from... Read more |
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Mount Olympus
Olympus, Mount, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, USA The origin is not definitively known. It may be derived from an Indo‐European root word ulu ‘to turn’, a reference to its smoothly curved summit. A volcano on Mars is called Olympus Mons. The most famous Mt Olympus is the one situated... Read more |
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Alonso Cano
Alonso Cano , 1601-67, Spanish baroque painter, sculptor, and architect. Cano studied under Pacheco and received painting and architecture commissions from King Philip IV. He was named chief architect of the cathedral at Granada. His architectural masterpiece is the design for the cathedral facade... Read more |
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Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also called the Devil's Triangle, is an imaginary area that can be roughly outlined on a map by connecting Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Bahamas, an island chain off the coast of the United States. Within that triangular area of the... Read more |
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Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell , 1912-90, British author, b. India, of Irish parents. Durrell traveled widely, often serving in diplomatic positions; most of his works are set in exotic locations and convey an extraordinary sense of place. His novel The Black Book (1938) is steeped in an atmosphere of moral... Read more |
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Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources Deemed “one of the pop-cultural symbols of the early ’60s” by Hugh Boulware in the Chicago Tribune, Chubby Checker is practically synonymous in the minds of most music buffs with the 1960s dance craze,... Read more |
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August Coup
August Coup attempted coup (Aug. 18-22, 1991) against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev . On the eve of the signing ceremony for a new union treaty for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, members of the Politburo and the heads of the Soviet military and security services detained Gorbachev... Read more |
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Soviet Union
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Command Economy
COMMAND ADMINISTRATIVE ECONOMY The term command administrative economy, or often administrative command economic system, was adopted in the late 1980s as a descriptive category for the Soviet type of economic system. Throughout its history, the Soviet Union had a mobilization economy, focused on... Read more |
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HARD WINTER PREDICTED FOR SOVIETS
...PRINTED VERSION.The Soviet people, facing a long...returned from the Soviet Union last week after...communist rule."The Soviet Union is now in limbo," he said. "If the...inability of Soviet leadership to put bread on the... |
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U.S.-Russian Strategic Dialogue in Limbo
...further aggravated by Russia's August military invasion and continuing occupation of Georgia, a former Soviet republic whose leadership is striving to pull free from Moscow's orbit. Russia at the end of August recognized the independence... |
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Europeans View Shift by Soviets With Concern;West Caught Short by Flouting Of...
...negotiating rounds the Soviets were more determined...by the unyielding Soviet attitude. British...budge the Soviet leadership from its position...service, armed forces leadership and Communist Party...and will force the ... |
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The choices for a nation in political limbo
...year, condemning the nation to another bout of political limbo. Given the events of the post-Soviet years - an attempted coup in 1991, the shelling of a legislature...another direction, towards a more unsavoury political leadership. |
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Gorbachev wins // Party leadership votes to surrender monopoly
MOSCOW The Soviet Communist Party leadership today agreed to surrender...is the clause in the Soviet constitution that guarantees...for a revision of the leadership structure, including...cast into political limbo by the wave of nationalist... |
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Sebestyen, Victor. Twelve days; the story of the 1956 Hungarian...
...dependent satellites of the Soviet Union in 1945, and 11 years...settled into the inert political limbo desired by the Kremlin. Indeed...of pervasive unrest in the Soviet Bloc. By 1956 the Soviet leadership had smashed a popular uprising... |
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Brother act: in the year since Fidel Castro fell ill, Cuba has been in limbo....
...That has left Cuba in limbo, with neither brother...overthrow Castro. In 1962, Soviet nuclear missiles capable...the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of...and the nation, the Soviets backed down and the missiles were removed.) Soviet ... |
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With inconclusive election, Israel, peace in limbo
...inconclusive election sent Israel into political limbo Wednesday with both pragmatic Foreign...support from immigrants from the former Soviet Union, many of whom are secular and feel...for a government with Likud, under her leadership. Such broad coalitions are popular in... |
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Military's stop-loss orders put service members' futures in limbo.
...Before we give these soldiers bad leadership, I'd rather stay in uniform and do...attend college. "His life is a bit in limbo right now," he said. In the all-volunteer...made in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Foreseeing... |
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ALEXANDER DUBCEK, CAUGHT IN THE PAST;The Reformer Left Behind by...
...smiles on a balcony with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev...believing he had talked the Soviet leadership into keeping its hands...suspended in a kind of uneasy limbo. Many of his countrymen...anticipating and averting the Soviet invasion, his ... |
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