The Congressional Quarterly found that McCain's speech contained two passages which were substantially identical to passages in the Wikipedia article on the country and that a third passage "bore striking resemblances."[113] McCain's speech was written by speechwriters rather than by the candidate ...
In September 2008, Gorbachev and business oligarch Alexander Lebedev announced they would form the Independent Democratic Party of Russia,[6] and in May 2009 Gorbachev announced that the launch was imminent.[7] This was Gorbachev's third attempt to establish a political party, having started the ...
The Communist Party of Peru known as the Shining Path was the first grouping to officially call itself 'Maoist', and has since been followed by other groups advocating the People's War in the Third World, including the contemporary Communist Party of India (Maoist), the Communist Party of Ne...
Mikhail Gorbachev decreased adherence to the Brezhnev Doctrine,[66] which held that if socialism were threatened in any state then other socialist governments had an obligation to intervene to preserve it, in favor of the "Sinatra Doctrine." He also initiated the policies of glasnost (openness) ...
you would have no idea she was also an impassioned political activist. Sarandon most recently made appearances at multiple rallies for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. Entire paragraphs detailing her history of activism for third party candidates like Sanders, Jill Stein, and Ralph Nader,...
Sometime after 1725, a third degree, the Master Mason’s degree, began to be worked in London lodges. Its origins are unknown, and it may be older than its recorded appearance indicates. But it does not appear in the records of any lodge until April 1727, and its actual conferral does...
[18] They had been so moved by the beauty of the Rudyard Lake area that they named their first child after it, Joseph Rudyard. Two of Alice's sisters were married to artists: Georgiana to the painter Edward Burne-Jones, and her sister Agnes to Edward Poynter. A third sister, Louisa, ...
Another user, Stormbay, agreed with PirateMink: no third-party sources, ergo not notable. [1] Trade or Classmates.com, no side sprinklings of AdSense. It was constructed, in less than eight years, by strangers who disagreed about all kinds of things but who were drawn to a shared, not...
The doctrine found its origins in the failures of Marxism-Leninism in states like Poland, Hungary and East Germany, which were facing a declining standard of living contrasting with the prosperity of West Germany and the rest of Western Europe.[186] Third World escalations See also: United State...