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  • 111Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

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  • 112political system — Introduction       the set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “ state.” This is the definition adopted by many studies of the legal or constitutional arrangements of advanced political orders. More broadly defined,… …

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  • 113Duong Van Minh — In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Duong. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Minh. Dương Văn Minh President of the Republic of Vietnam In office 28 April 1975 – 30 April 1975 …

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  • 115revolution — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. uprising (see revolution); rotation; cycle. See circuit. II Radical change Nouns 1. revolution, radical or sweeping change, clean sweep, foquismo; coup, coup d état, uprising, counterrevolution,… …

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  • 116ARAB WORLD, 1945–2006 — The Arab world is divided into four subregions: the Maghreb (morocco , tunisia , algeria , libya , Mauritania), the Nile Valley (egypt and Sudan), the Fertile Crescent (syria , lebanon , iraq , jordan , and the palestinian authority ), and the… …

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  • 117Divine Right of Kings — [ Louis XIV as the sun] The Divine Right of Kings is a general term that refers to the philosophy and ideas used to justify the authority and legitimacy of monarchs in medieval and early modern Europe. The doctrine broadly holds that a monarch… …

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  • 118Treason — In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one s sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife (treason… …

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  • 119Republic of Hawaii — Infobox Former Country native name = conventional long name = Republic of Hawaii common name = Hawaii continent = Oceania country = United States government type = Republic| year start = 1894 year end = 1898 event start = date start = July 4… …

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  • 120Ludwig Beck — Infobox Military Person name=Ludwig Beck lived=29 June 1880 ndash; 21 July 1944 placeofbirth=Biebrich placeofdeath=Berlin caption= Generaloberst Ludwig Beck nickname= allegiance=flagicon|German Empire German Empire (to 1918) flagicon|Germany… …

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