(Encyclopedia) Ba'ath partyBa'ath partybäˈäth [key], Arab political party, in Syria and in Iraq. Founded in Damascus in 1941 with an ideology of secularism, socialism, and pan-Arab unionism, it was…
founder of the Edo (Tokyo) shogunate Born: 1603Birthplace: present-day Nagoya, Japan The eldest son of Matsudaria Hirotada, Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in 1542 in what is now Aichi prefecture.…
Senate Years of Service: 1969-1981Party: DemocratGRAVEL, Maurice Robert (Mike), a Senator from Alaska; born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., May 13, 1930; attended private schools;…
(Encyclopedia) ArcadiaArcadiaärkāˈdēə [key], region of ancient Greece, in the middle of the Peloponnesus, without a seaboard, and surrounded and dissected by mountains. The Arcadians, relatively…
(Encyclopedia) Northumberland, John Dudley, duke of, 1502?–1553, English statesman. The son of Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII, John was restored to his inheritance in 1512 after his father's…
On April 12, 1776, the legislature of North Carolina authorized its delegates to the Continental Congress to join with others in a declaration of separation from Great Britain; the first colony to…
A volcanic eruption occurs when molten rock, ash and steam pour through a vent in the earth's crust. Volcanoes are described as active (in eruption), dormant (not…
(Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi)politicianBorn: 11/19/1917Birthplace: Allahabad, India Following her parents' example — they had joined the Indian independence movement after a visit from Mohandas…
President of Afghanistan Born: 1957Birthplace: Kandahar, Afghanistan Karzai was elected president in Afghanistan's first popular elections on Oct. 9. He had been leading an interim Afghan…
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