Arab League- an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation Middle East,Mideast,Near East- the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the si...
France (1986-2000) Main Battle Tank – None Built Patents, the government license issued to an inventor or company to commercially protect or exploit an innovation or design, are wide ranging and can be as small as a new way of doing something up to a total rethink of how an existing ...
Anglo-French War-(1749-1754)-Known in India as theSecond Carnatic War. The British East India Company and its Indian allies battled the French East India Company and its Indian allies. Anglo-French War-(1755-1763)-Known in Europe as theSeven Years' Warand in North America as theFrench an...
I was flabbergasted by who had given money to Sam Bankman-Fried for his proposal. And I even read in quotes in the Wall Street Journal where people said, well, we didn't do due diligence because we relied, I'm not going to name the company, but a ve...
January, 1962 the Albany movement responded with an intensified boycott of city buses, and the bus company was forced out of business. So Shirley Sherrod’s life cannot be reduced by a dishonest and amoral right-wing blogger into a few seconds of videotape 25 years old. She is one of many...
Scott, Joanna C.Indochina's Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1989. Southeast Asian-American Communities,edited by Kali Tal. Woodbridge, Connecticut: Viet Nam Generation, 1992....
Committee of Public Safety with increasing violence. Robespierre, although still hesitant, led the National Convention against these so-called Indulgents. The Dantonist leaders and the deputies who were compromised in the liquidation of theFrench East India Companywere guillotined on 16 Germinal (...
East Indian, and French 18th-century influence; and festivals, especially the pre-LentenCarnival, when much of the population devotes itself to costume design,musical composition, and dance competitions. Léon Damas, a French Guianese poet, was a leader of theNegritudemovement inCaribbeanliterature ...
Geneva appointed him its resident minister in Paris in 1768; he also became a director of the French East India Company. In 1772, at his wife’s suggestion, Necker transferred his banking responsibilities to his brother Louis. He then acquired a reputation as a writer on financial topics with...
Initial contact between the enemy armies was made east of Poitiers on September 17, 1356, but a truce was declared for September 18, a Sunday. This enabled the English to secure themselves on the Maupertuis (Le Passage), near Nouaillé south of Poitiers, where thickets and marshes ...