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Wael Ghonim Biography

Egyptian protest leaderBorn: Dec. 23, 1980Birthplace: Cario, Egypt Ghonim, a marketing manager for Google, shot to international fame in February 2011 as the catalyst behind the…

Bert Bolin Biography

climatologistDied: December 30, 2007 (Stockholm, Sweden) Best Known as: leader of UN climate panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Bert Bolin was…

Timeline: Russian Federation

Marked by the dissolution of the USSR and conflict in Chechnya by David Johnson 1991 1994 1998 2000 2004 2008 2012 2014 1991 Soviet Union disintegrates; 14 former republics become independent…

Women in American Religion

Even though it is only recently that women have been permitted to hold official roles in many religions, they have always been central to American religious life.…

DK History: Byzantine Empire

WHO RULED THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE? CONSTANTINOPLEFIND OUT MOREIn AD 324 the emperor Constantine reunited the Roman Empire. By then Rome was too difficult to defend against barbarian attacks, so he…

DK History: Ottoman Empire

WHY WAS SULEIMAN I MAGNIFICENT? HOW DID CONSTANTINOPLE BECOME ISTANBUL? WHERE DID JANISSARIES COME FROM? FIND OUT MOREAround AD 1300, a new Muslim empire ruled by Turkish leaders called sultans was…

Judaism

Judaism is the oldest of the monotheistic faiths. Monotheism is the belief that there is only one god. Judaism affirms the existence of the one God, Yahweh, who entered into a covenant, or…

Iraq War Timeline, 2007

by Beth Rowen 1920s–1999 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007• 2008 • 2009 Next: 2008 Jan. 4,…

The Taliban

Their history and their resurgence by Laura Hayes, Borgna Brunner, and Beth Rowen Infoplease Atlas: Afghanistan Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef seated in front of…