Here are the key news events of the month organized into three categories: World News, U.S. News, and Business, Society, and Science News. World Putin's…
Smallpox: 12,000 Years of TerrorEpidemics of the PastSmallpox: 12,000 Years of TerrorBubonic PlagueInfluenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Smallpox is one of greatest scourges in human history.…
U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations Defense U.S.-Kuwaiti Relations PEOPLEOver 90% of the population…
Kentucky State Information
Official Name: The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Capital: Frankfort
Organized as a territory: January 1, 1777
Entered Union: June 1, 1792 (15th State)
Present…
U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy U.S.-Djiboutian Relations PEOPLEAbout two-thirds of the Republic of Djibouti's 650,…
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(Encyclopedia) SumatraSumatras&oobreve;mäˈtrə [key], island (1990 pop. 36,471,731), c.183,000 sq mi (473,970 sq km), Indonesia, in the Indian Ocean along the equator, S and W of the Malay…
(Encyclopedia) Taliban or TalebanTalibantälēbänˈ, –lə– [key], Islamic fundamentalist militia of Afghanistan and later Pakistan, originally consisting mainly of Sunni Pashtun religious students from…
