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Relations with Nicaragua
NICARAGUA, RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA, RELATIONS WITH. Nicaragua's 1838 declaration of independence from the United Provinces of Central America was originally of little interest to U.S. officials. Yet by the late 1840s, growing interest in building a transoceanic canal across Central America... Read more |
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Bluefields
Bluefields town (1995 pop. 30,208), capital of the South Atlantic Coast Autonomous Region and Zelaya dept., SE Nicaragua, on Bluefields Bay at the mouth of the Escondido River. It is Nicaragua's chief Caribbean port. Hardwoods and fish are exported. Bluefields was a rendezvous for English and Dutch... Read more |
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Organization of American States
Organization of American States (OAS), international organization, created Apr. 30, 1948, at Bogotá, Colombia, by agreement of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,... Read more |
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Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , 1929-, president of Nicaragua (1990-97). Widow of martyred newspaper editor Joaquim Chamorro, she briefly joined the ruling Sandinista junta following the 1979 revolution. Opposed to the direction of the revolution, she resigned and converted the Chamorro family... Read more |
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Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba
Francisco Fernández de Córdoba fränthēs´kō fārnän´dāth dā kōr´dōbä , d. 1526?, Spanish conquistador. Sent in 1523 by Pedro Arias de Ávila to deprive Gil González de Ávila (d. 1543) of his... Read more |
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Managua
Managua , city (1995 pop. 819,731), W Nicaragua, capital and largest city of Nicaragua, on the southern shore of Lake Managua. It is the commercial and industrial center of the country. Situated on the Inter-American Highway, the city is the hub of Nicaragua's railroads. Managua was made permanent... Read more |
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Luis Somoza Debayle
Luis Somoza Debayle , 1922-67, president of Nicaragua (1957-63). The oldest son of the dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated in the United States. He entered congress in 1950, became acting president (1956) upon the assassination of his father, and then president (1957). He liberalized his... Read more |
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Panama Invasion 1989
PANAMA INVASION PANAMA INVASION (1989). The invasion of Panama by U.S. forces in December 1989 was designed in part to end the rule of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. A graduate of the Peruvian Military Academy in 1962, he had supported Colonel Omar Torrijos Herrera, the ruler of Panama, during... Read more |
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Evans Fordyce Carlson
Evans Fordyce Carlson 1896-1947, U.S. marine officer, b. Delaware co., N.Y. Enlisting at 16 in the army, he served in the Philippines and Hawaii and in France during World War I. In the U.S. marine corps after 1922, he saw service in Cuba, Nicaragua, Japan, and especially China, where in 1937 he... Read more |
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John M. Poindexter
REPORT ON THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR (13 November 1987) In 1985, high-ranking officials in the Ronald Reagan administration began selling arms clandestinely to Iran for its war with America-supported Iraq. The money from these arms sales was laundered in Israel and diverted to the Contras, rebels... Read more |
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Peace Corps
Peace Corps. Created by President John F. Kennedy...1961 and headed by R. Sargent Shriver, the Peace Corps became a popular symbol of Kennedy's...contribute to economic development, and promote peace. The Peace Corps gave citizens an opportunity... |
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Paris Peace Agreement
Paris Peace Agreement (1973).The “Agreement on Ending War and Restoring Peace to Vietnam,” signed in Paris, 27 January 1973...Washington and Hanoi were close to a final agreement, “peace is at hand.” He spoke also of further negotiations... |
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justice of the peace
justice of the peace. The term first appears in Irish law in 1410, as a new name for the keeper of the peace. Although the military dimension of the...Catholics could not hold the commission of the peace, and suspected Jacobites were also excluded... |
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Westphalia, Peace of
Westphalia, Peace of (1648) Series of treaties among the...involved in the Thirty Years' War. In 1642, peace negotiations began in the cities of Westphalia...the final settlement. In Germany, the peace established the virtual autonomy of the... |
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United Nations peace-keeping force
United Nations peace-keeping force Military personnel and...The function of the force is to keep the peace between warring factions anywhere in the...Nations Security Council. The first UN peace-keeping forces deployed in the Sinai... |
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Peace History
Peace History. See Disciplinary Views of War: Peace History. |
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Japan, Peace Treaty with
Japan, Peace Treaty with (1952).With the advent of the Cold War, and more especially...for Japan itself to rearm. The result was two treaties. A multinational peace treaty, signed in San Francisco 8 September 1951 (with the Communist nations... |
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Ormond peace
Ormond peace, two agreements (1646, 1649), intended to reconcile Irish Protestant...Catholic opposition led by Rinuccini quickly rendered this first Ormond peace a dead letter.In 1649, after parliament's victory in the English Civil... |
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Peace Preservation Force
Peace Preservation Force, established by Peel in 1814 to counter widespread rural unrest...created in 1822 (see police), many peelers joined the new force. But the Peace Preservation Force was revived in 1831 during the Tithe War and dispatched... |
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Peace Pledge Union
Peace Pledge Union, British pacifist organization founded by Canon Dick Sheppard which encouraged people to claim exemption from military service and urged peace with Germany. Its membership exceeded 130,000 in September 1939 and its... |
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peace
peace / pēs/ • n. 1. freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility: you can while away an hour or two in peace and seclusion. ∎ mental calm; serenity: the peace of mind this insurance gives you. 2. freedom from or the... |
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Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize The world's most prestigious prize, awarded for the ‘preservation of peace’. It goes back to the legacy of Alfred Nobel...chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace. While the first four prizes are awarded in... |
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American Peace Society
American Peace Society a pacifist group founded in 1828 that was the first nationally based secular peace organization in American history. Based in Boston, the society organized peace conferences and published a periodical entitled... |
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”Peace Without Victory” speech
”Peace Without Victory” speech an address given...Wilson on January 22, 1917. He proposed peace terms for ending the war and defined the...as being anathema to the establishment of peace among nations. After U.S. entry into... |
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Paris Peace Treaties
Paris Peace Treaties (10 Feb. 1947) From July 1946...one nations met in Paris to decide on peace terms for Germany's five allies in World...to cede Petsamo to the Soviet Union. A peace treaty with Austria was not concluded until... |
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Versailles Peace Settlement
Versailles Peace Settlement (1919–23) Sometimes referred to as the Paris Peace Settlement, a collection of peace treaties between the Central Powers and the Allied powers ending World War I. The main treaty was that of Versailles (June 1919... |
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Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords (27 Jan. 1973) A peace treaty negotiated chiefly between Le Duc Theu and Kissinger...to defy the Vietcong and North Vietnam's People's Army. Peace was enforced only in a final offensive of the People's Army... |
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Paris Peace Agreements
Paris Peace Agreements an “Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace to Vietnam,” signed on January 27, 1973, in Paris by...Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1973, but the latter declined to accept... |
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Women Strike for Peace
Women Strike for Peace (USA) A US organization of women, mainly...1961, in the form of a one-day national peace protest led by Dagmar Wilson and others. An estimated...Vietnam War.nuclear bomb; disarmament; Peace People |
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Kiss of Peace
Kiss of Peace (also Pax), the mutual greeting of the...Originally an actual kiss, the form of the Peace has been modified in all rites. In recent...the W. In E. Orthodox practice a Kiss of Peace is also exchanged by the whole congregation... |
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peace
peace • noun 1. can't a man get any peace around here? synonyms: tranquility, calm, restfulness, peace and quiet, peacefulness, quiet, quietness; privacy, solitude.antonym: noise. 2. peace of mind synonyms: serenity, peacefulness... |
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peacemaker
peacemaker • noun she was regarded as the great peacemaker of her peoplesynonyms: arbitrator, arbiter, mediator, negotiator, conciliator, go-between, intermediary, pacifier, appeaser, peace-monger, pacifist, peace-lover, dove; informal peacenik. |
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pacific
...mediating, diplomatic, irenic. 2. a pacific nationsynonyms: peace-loving, peaceable, pacifist, nonviolent, nonaggressive...calm, still, motionless, smooth, tranquil, peaceful, at peace, placid, unruffled, undisturbed.antonyms: hostile; aggressive... |
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order
...so. 6. lack of order in the landsynonyms: law, lawfulness, law and order, discipline, control, peace, calm, quiet, quietness, peace and quiet, tranquillity. 7. place an order for dinner/ticketssynonyms: request, call, requirement... |
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tranquility
...tranquility • noun 1. the tranquility of the countryside synonyms: peace, peacefulness, restfulness, repose, calm, calmness, quiet...her tranquility synonyms: composure, calmness, serenity, peace; equanimity, equability, placidity; informal cool, unflappability... |
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peaceful
...calm, still, undisturbed. 2. a peaceful mindsynonyms: at peace, tranquil, serene, calm, composed, placid, at rest, in...conditions between the two countriessynonyms: peaceable, at peace, on good terms, strife-free, harmonious, amicable, friendly... |
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reconcile
...together (again), restore friendly relations between, make peace between; pacify, appease, placate, mollify; formal conciliate...reconciled synonyms: settle one's differences, make (one's) peace, make up, kiss and make up, bury the hatchet, declare a... |
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repose
...face in repose synonyms: rest, relaxation, inactivity; sleep, slumber. 2. they found true repose synonyms: peace, peace and quiet, peacefulness, quiet, quietness, calm, tranquility. 3. he lost his repose synonyms: composure, serenity... |
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serenity
serenity • noun synonyms: calm, calmness, composure, tranquillity, peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, placidity, placidness, stillness, quietness, quiet, quietude, imperturbability. |
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disorder
...mayhem, pandemonium; violence, fighting, rioting, lawlessness, anarchy; breach of the peace, fracas, rumpus, ruckus, melee.antonyms: order, peace. 3. a blood disorder synonyms: disease, infection, complaint, condition, affliction... |
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Peace and the new cardinal.(Opinion & Editorial)
...a" the nation looks upon a new icon of peace, hope, and Godas eternal love. Cardinal...Easter Message, Cardinal Rosales stressed peace and non-violence despite the seeming...everyone deserves to be greeted with Peace! Peace unites people, just as the ... |
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PEACE CORPS PARTNERS WITH NATIONAL PEACE CORPS ASSOCIATION TO CONNECT...
WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Peace Corps: The Peace Corps and the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) are pleased to announce a new partnership to connect returned Peace Corps... |
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Peace Arch Acquires Exclusive North American Distribution Rights to...
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 October 2007-Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.: Peace Arch Acquires Exclusive North American Distribution...LTD RDATE:25102007 Toronto, Ontario CANADA -- Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (PAE - American... |
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Peace Arch Entertainment Signs Exclusive Canadian Licensing Agreement with...
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 July 2006-Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.: Peace Arch Entertainment Signs Exclusive Canadian Licensing...Winning International Distributor Further Strengthens Peace Arch Television Licensing Business(C)1994-2006... |
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Peace Arch Entertainment Announces Second Season Premier of Hit Television...
M2 PRESSWIRE-1 October 2007-Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.: Peace Arch Entertainment Announces Second Season Premier...RDATE:01102007 Toronto, Ontario CANADA/FSC/ - Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (PAE - American, PAE... |
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Peace ecology: an emerging paradigm in peace studies.(Essay)
...interactive and interacting paradigms: peace studies and environmental studies. A thorough...of the environment to inform and sustain peace. The new paradigm, inspired by the idea of environmental peacemaking, is called Peace Ecology. Introduction This article develops... |
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Peace as war.(Report)
This article seeks to reimagine peace against the backdrop of a Foucauldian understanding...based on a sharp distinction between war and peace and alternate between two broad positions; namely, peace as absence, the absence of war, and peace... |
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Peace, yes, but whose peace?
The language of peace is not a neutral political discourse...short-term strategy toward long-term peace with the Soviet Union. Wanting nothing...long time, I internalized the hope of peace. Deep down I knew that one day in my life... |
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Peace Arch Entertainment Announces Second Season Premier of Hit Television...
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 October 2007-Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.: Peace Arch Entertainment Announces Second Season Premier...RDATE:10102007 Toronto, Ontario CANADA, FSC - Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (PAE - American... |
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Peace panel with MILF dissolved.(Main News)
...Eduardo Ermita said Mrs. Arroyo dissolved the peace negotiating panel to give way to her new policy...rebels to disarm as proof of their sincerity in the peace process. "We have refocused all peace talks for one that is centered on dialogues with... |
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