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Middle East Cooperation

The Question: I am a student of international relations at the University of Geneva, and I am researching a paper about the relations between UAE and Iran, and I would like…

The Age of Abolitionism

Notable Figures in Abolitionism Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders Religious…

The Age of Abolitionism

Notable Figures in Abolitionism Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil…

Presidential Age

The Question: Do you have to be 35 to be the president? The Answer: The U.S. Constitution sets out the following requirements for the…

James Agee

writerBorn: 11/27/1909Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee Brilliant and versatile, he wrote the text for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which, with photographs by Walker Evans, details the lives…

middle class

(Encyclopedia) middle class: see bourgeoisie.

Middle Congo

(Encyclopedia) Middle Congo: see Congo, Republic of the.

Middle Country

(Encyclopedia) Middle Country: see Middle Kingdom.

(Encyclopedia) Middle East, term traditionally applied by western Europeans to the countries of SW Asia and NE Africa lying W of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Thus defined it includes Cyprus, the…

Middle Kingdom

(Encyclopedia) Middle Kingdom or Middle Country, Mandarin Zhongguo, Chinese name for China. It dates from c.1000 b.c., when it designated the Chou empire situated on the North China Plain. The Chou…