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Famine
FamineBIBLIOGRAPHY“Famine is like insanity, hard to define but glaring enough when recognized. … one country will define as food shortage what another country would call famine” (Taylor 1947, pp. 98, 102). In recent years, and particularly in the United States, where food surpluses have been... Read more |
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National Art Collections Fund
National Art Collections Fund. The UK's largest art charity, established in 1903 to assist public collections to acquire works of art they would not otherwise be able to afford. The founders, who included Roger Fry and D. S. MacColl, shared a concern about the amount of art leaving the country,... Read more |
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Rhyl
Rhyl , town (1991 pop. 22,714), Denbighshire, N Wales, on the Irish Sea at the mouth of the Clwyd River. A seaside resort, it was at its height in the 1960s and 70s, but suffered when British travel abroad subsequently increased.... Read more |
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Vietnam syndrome
VIETNAM SYNDROME VIETNAM SYNDROME refers to both a collective and an individual ailment stemming from America's involvement in the Vietnam War. On the collective level, Vietnam syndrome describes America's general reluctance to use military force abroad because of the psychological trauma caused... Read more |
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Chulalongkorn
Chulalongkorn or Rama V , 1853-1910, king of Siam (1868-1910). Educated in part by a British governess, Anna Leonowens, and an English tutor, he greatly advanced the Westernization of Siam (present-day Thailand) begun by his father, King Mongkut. He departed from tradition by traveling... Read more |
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War Powers Act
War Powers Act of 1973 Congress has declared war only five times in American history. Passed over President Richard Nixon's veto during the Vietnam War and the Watergate crisis, the War Powers Act (officially, the War Powers Resolution) provided a framework for “collective judgment” of... Read more |
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Otto Bauer
Otto Bauer bou´er , 1882-1938, Austrian politician. His Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie (1907) advocated creating nation-states to solve the Austro-Hungarian nationalities problem. A prisoner of war in Russia during World War I, he led the left wing of the Social... Read more |
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Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb 1838-83, American entertainer, whose original name was Charles Sherwood Stratton, b. Bridgeport, Conn. His career as General Tom Thumb began in 1842, when the showman P. T. Barnum gave him the title and arranged with the child's parents for his exhibition as a midget. His height then... Read more |
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Imports
Imports BIBLIOGRAPHY Imports are products or services shipped from producers in one country to users who are located in another country. While many import transactions involve a distinct buyer and seller, not all imports involve a market transaction, since some imports arise when a producer in... Read more |
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