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...and in various other English-speaking nations, these games are called "draughts." The rules and championships are controlled by the World Draughts Federation. ...

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...vv/mail-history.html http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap3.htm F Federations Iraq and Jordan were once one country under a united... ...mite throne. The two monarchs - Hussein of Jordan and Faisal II of Iraq - created a federation in 1958. It lasted a few months - until Faisal II of ... ...Iraq was deposed and killed in a military coup. Syria and Egypt proclaimed in a federation in February 1958. It lasted till September 1961. It w... ... maintained its own delegation to the United Nations, for instance. The USSR was a federation between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasu... ...tish colony in 1886. It was administered from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Nigeria is a federation of 36 states and a federal capital territory (similar...

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...The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous cattle operation that establishes their position as prominent members of the new settlement. At first, th...

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...defined as the year 1 A.E. (Atomic Era). In 1973, a nuclear war devastates the planet, eventually laying the groundwork for the emergence of a Terran Federation, once humanity goes into space and develops antigravity technology. The story The Edge of the Knife (collected in Empire) occurs slightly before the war, and involves a man who sees flashes of the future. It links ...

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...A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the wreckage, plundering and killing for gain. Lord Lucas Trask of Traskon was no admirer of the Space Vikings, but when murd...

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...ent foreign powers. A third group (and Delcev was, for a time, among them) wanted a federation of all states Balkan with an equal standing for a Mac... ...athy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkanian federation) and worthy goals (liberation from asphyxiating Turki... ...r by their expulsion or worse. The Austrians proposed federalism. They envisaged a federation of politically, culturally and religiously autonomous... .... The Croats and the Slovenes - formerly fiery proponents of a Yugo (Southern) Slav federation - were mortified to find themselves in a Serb-dominat... ...ble to reconcile their centrifugal tendency in favour of a weak central state in a federation of strong local entities - with the Serb propensity t... ...a for decades and both Macedonia and Kosovo were the poor relatives in the Yugoslav Federation. In Kosovo, more than 31% of all those over 10 ye... ...rectification of Tito's anti-Serb policies. Serbia was the only Republic within the Federation, who was dismembered into autonomous regions (Kosovo ... ...sovo's tumultuous transformation into the engine of disintegration of the Yugoslav Federation. It was a valuable lesson in the dialectic of history... ...hy not apply the same prohibition to political organizations (such as the Yugoslav Federation or the USSR or East Germany or Czechoslovakia, to men...

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...rth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another without loss of sovereignty. In one translation, telling of the historical impact of this essay, this federation is called a “league of nations.” The supplements and appendices are of considerable ...

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...was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23rd, 2011. Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was an Australian statesman, the Father of Federation. As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he is generally considered the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers. Parkes was ...

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... Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His career in the Dutch dairy industry included such posts as Chief of the Economic Department of the Federation of Dutch Dairy Co-operatives and the President of the Dutch Dairy Board, the central organisation of the Dutch dairy industry. He has been an active participant in the International Dairy Federation in Brussels, Be...

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...he Group of Eight industrialized states - a much coveted reassertion of the Russian Federation's global weight. According to Rossiiskaya Gazeta, a ... ...ial interests. Russian capitalism is far more "Anglo-Saxon" than Old Europe's. The Federation has an educated but cheap and abundant labor force, a... ... abortive contacts, the republics of the former Yugoslavia agreed with the Russian Federation on a framework for settling its $600 million in clear... ...ng to Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the International Affairs Committee of Russia's Federation Council (upper house), Iraq still owes Russia alone c... ...: the Belarus news agency Belapan reported recently how Leonid Kozik, leader of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus, co-chairman of the Belaru... ...n economy and billions more to be incurred by oil-rich Saudi Arabia. The Arab Bank Federation foresees banking losses of up to $60 billion due to c... ... in Central and East Europe, notably to Russia and Bulgaria. Iraq owes the Russian Federation alone close to $9 billion. Some of the Russian contra... ...ran and North Korea back into the arms - and nuclear technologies - of the Russian Federation. Russia is positioning itself to become an indispensa... ...ys of the typical EU member. Social solidarity is fraying. The Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) - run by members of the shriveled...

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