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Pan American World Airways Inc
Pan American World Airways, Inc. Pan Am BuildingNew York, New York 10017U.S.A. Incorporated: 1927Dissolved: December 1991 Over the course of its over six decades in operation, Pan American World Airways, Inc. was one of America Read more |
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triangulation
triangulation n. 1. (in surveying) the tracing and measurement of a series or network of triangles in order to determine the distances and relative positions of points spread over a territory or region, especially by measuring the length of one side of each triangle and deducing its angles and the... Read more |
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Black Muslims
Black Muslims African-American religious movement in the United States, split since the late 1970s into the American Society of Muslims and the Nation of Islam. The original group was founded (1930) in Detroit by Wali Farad (or W. D. Fard), whom his followers believed to be "Allah in person." ... Read more |
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manifest destiny
manifest destiny belief held by many Americans in the 1840s that the United States was destined to expand across the continent, by force, as used against Native Americans, if necessary. The controversy over slavery further fueled expansionism, as the North and South each wanted the nation to admit... Read more |
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unequal crossing-over
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over-representation
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Eiji Toyoda
Eiji Toyoda Eiji Toyoda (born 1913) was a former chairman of Toyota Motor Company. His family-run business made revolutionary changes in the way automobiles were made. Eiji Toyoda, the man who was in the driver's seat of the Toyota Motor Company for over 25 years, is virtually unknown... Read more |
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Tallmadge Amendment of 1819 (Draft)
TALLMADGE AMENDMENT TALLMADGE AMENDMENT, a bill proposed on 13 February 1819 by Rep. James Tallmadge of New York to amend Missouri enabling legislation by forbidding the further introduction of slavery into Missouri and declaring that all children born of slave parents after the admission of the... Read more |
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Sennar
Sennar or Sannar , town, E Sudan, on the Blue Nile. It was the capital of the Muslim kingdom of Sennar, traditionally known as the "Black Sultanate," which was founded in the 16th cent. Under its strongest rulers, Sennar extended over most of the eastern part of the present Sudan. The... Read more |
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Fashioning Friday.(Robinson Crusoe)(Critical essay)
...Friday, but to an unknown person who has been...from a part of the world where such horrors...captured and sold into slavery, but managed to escape with Xury, a Muslim fellow-slave whom he promptly sold. Slavery, in this and other...vast ... |
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Next we'll see recycled ordnance
...Systems, one of the world's biggest arms...coming when the world will be covered...in the landmark slavery reparations cases...The issue of slavery reparations will...terrorists from unknown nations? Will...The next time a ... |
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IRAQ IN BLACK
...COUNTRY DOMINATES WORLD NEWS, BUT OUTSIDE...MIDDLE EAST, ITS HISTORY OF SLAVERY REMAINS LITTLE...are practicing Muslims and intermarry...the legacy of slavery in the Middle...were sold off to slavery in the New ... |
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Connecticut Yankees To Sahara Slaves.
...basic injustice of slavery. For all of its fame in its day -- selling more...survived their months in slavery in one of the world's most unforgiving...when crashing on an unknown coast or being a...Northern Africa by ... |
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Toward a revolutionary Emirati poetics: Ghabesh's Beman Ya Buthayn...
...collection in its appropriate place...community and the Arab world in an era of enormous...In addition to its feminist perspective...characterized by its existential concerns...she is largely unknown in the Arabic...Taluthin? During the ... |
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The Fourth Part of the World; The bizarre story of how the planet Earth came...
...of water near its south pole. Pluto...Fourth Part of the World, the bizarre...by genocide, slavery, and religious...in the hands of Muslim infidels, and...The heretofore unknown fourth part of...converted, sold into slavery, ... |