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MTV Music Video Awards

2007 MTV Music Video Awards The 2007 Video Music Awards were presented September 9, 2007. Video of the Year Rihanna f.…

State Department Notes on Bosnia and Herzegovina

U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People and Historical Highlights Government and Political Conditions Economy U.S.-Bosnian Relations PEOPLE AND HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTSThe three…

State Department Notes on Panama

U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Government and Political Conditions National Security Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Panamanian Relations PEOPLE…

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

(Encyclopedia) Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn or RynRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn or Rynrĕmˈbrănt, Du. rĕmˈbränt härˈmənsōn vän rīn [key], 1606–69, Dutch painter, etcher, and draftsman, b. Leiden.…

topology

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Möbius strip: On the ordinary flat loop (A), an ant walking along the middle of the strip will pass only around the outside of the strip. If the strip is cut along the dotted…

Vienna, Congress of

(Encyclopedia) Vienna, Congress of, Sept., 1814–June, 1815, one of the most important international conferences in European history, called to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon I.…

Chile

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Chile Chile chĭlˈē, Span. chēˈlā [key], officially Republic of Chile, republic (2020 est. pop.…

State Department Notes on Austria

U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People and History Government Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Austrian Relations PEOPLE AND HISTORYAustrians are a…

Triple Alliance and Triple Entente

(Encyclopedia) Triple Alliance and Triple EntenteTriple Alliance and Triple Ententeäntäntˈ [key], two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe from…

Panama Canal

(Encyclopedia) Panama Canal, waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic (by way of the Caribbean Sea) and Pacific oceans, built by the United States (1904–14, on territory leased…