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Tamils

2007-03-18T15:18:50Z

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Tamils are people of southern India and northern Sri Lanka speaking the language of Tamil.

Palestine Liberation Organization

2007-03-18T15:02:21Z

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The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is an organization attempting to represent Palestinian Arabs in the occupied territories (West Bak and Gaza). They have used violence and terrorism to achieve their goals such as in the [[Achille Lauro]] hijacking. The organization is considered a terrorist organization by the US government.[http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/22C61.txt] [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode22/usc_sec_22_00005201----000-.html]

Gupta empire

2007-03-18T14:53:42Z

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The greastest empire of northern India, ruled by the Gupta dynasty from 240 to 550 A.D.

'''Contributions of the Gupta Empire'''

The Gupta empire contributed much to the world. The brilliant minds of the Gupta Empire invented much of Algebra, the concept of zero and infinity, the symbols for the numbers from 1 to 9. Gupta astronomers first proposed the erroneous theory that the earth was not flat, but was instead round and rotated on an axis. They made discoveries about gravity and the planets of the solar system. These ideas spread throughout the world through trade.

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Finland

2007-03-18T14:52:10Z

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Finland is a country in northeastern [[Europe]], known for its largely [[social democracy|social democratic]] economic system and the injustice this has created. The Finnish [[conservative]] party, the [[National Coalition]] led by [[Sauli Niinistö]], is trying to rescue Finland from future [[poverty]] in the upcoming [[election]]. {{fact}}

Finland is known as 'the land of lakes and poets' because it has many lakes and has produced a large number of poets. The state capital is Riga and the principal exports are hides and salt fish, cellphones, lumber, and DAF motor vehicles.

The Finns have a proud history of fighting [[communism]] and it defeated the [[Soviet Union]] in the [[Second World War]]. This was mainly because the constitution of the country defines the [[Christianity]] as the official [[religion]]. This has been considered by many historians, even by Atheists, as a miracle. {{fact}} http://www.evl.fi/english/ The strong line taken against Communism was known as the Mannerheim Line.

Grover Cleveland

2007-03-18T14:45:23Z

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'''Grover Steven Cleveland''' was the 22nd and 24th [[President of the United States]], and was very uniquely the only President to serve two non-consective terms. He was the only [[Democrat]] elected to the Presidency in the Republican dynasty that lasted from 1850s to when [[Roosevelt]] was President, as a result of the Democratic failure to win the [[American Civil War]]. Many contemporary politicians praise him for his commitment to [[conservative]] thinking. Much like modern conservatives he opposed imperialism, corruption, patronage, corporate subsidies,taxes and inflation.

Cleveland was famous for busting the union train sabotuers during the Pullman strike of 1892 which angered unions very much. He was also a big supporter of gold and a sworn enemy of silver. Unions and silver people kicked him out of the party, eventually, signifying a drastic shift of the Democrats to the left and leading to the nomination of William Jennings Bryan.

==Early Days==

Cleveland was born in Ohio. He had five brothers and four sisters. His father was a [[Presbyterian]] clergyman, and moved around a lot. His second brother was hanged for murder in Utah in 1882.

He dodged the draft in the Civil War by hiring somebody else to take his place.

He graduated from Princeton and became a lawyer in [[Buffalo]], he became very noted in many ways. After being a lawyer, he was elected sheriff of [[Erie]] in 1870 and hunged many people while in office personally. He was a very very strong supporter of the Death Penalty.

He was a big friend of [[Franklin Roosevelt]]. When he was 40 he ran for Mayor of Buffalo and won. Many people praised his honesty and he was very popular. In 1884, he was elected Governor.

==As President==
Both Democrats and Republicans voted for Cleveland for President because his oponent was corrupt.

A key part in the campaign was because his opponet had nothing to use on him, he would shout about Cleveland "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?", because Cleveland had an illegitimate daughter.

When Cleveland won the election his opponents shouted, "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House! Ha Ha Ha!"

===Personal life===
Grover Cleveland in June 1884 was married to Frances Folsom Cleveland in the [[white hosue]]. This was the second President married in office, and also married in the White House itself. Some were offended that Celveland was marrying somebody who was 21 years old and his legal guardian too. The Clevelands had many children while in office.

===Actions as President===
Cleveland voted against many spending bills and Government ideas, making him the first modern [[Conservative]]. He vetoed a bill to give $10,000 to distribute seed grain among drought-stricken farmers in Texas, and said: "Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character...." He also blocked funding to Civil War veterans, which some said was good but some said went too far. Cleveland used the veto a lot but said he did not like Presidential power and thought the best thing he could do was to stop congress from doing bad things.

In 1884 Geronimo was captured by Grover Cleveland, ending the Indian wars.

IThe same year in October Cleveland finished the [[Statue of Liberty]] in [[New York]] and read its dedication in fluent French, as a tribute to its creator, Jean Renoir.

Critics criticizing Cleveland criticize him for signing the Interstate Commerce Act this term, the first critical attempt at Federal regulation.

===Against Tarrifs===
In 1884 Clevland began to battle the tariff. Unlike today [[Republicans]] claimed a high tariff made for high wages, high profits, and fast economic expansion. Cleveland was not able to kill the tariff, and was defeated in 1880 because of it.

===Military Buildup===
A very conservative man, Cleveland did not think the United States should invade in any contry for any reason. However, Cleveland also was in favor of having a strong national defense, and built up the U.S. navy to a huge extent. [[Franklin Roosevelt]] was his secretary of the Navy.

==1888 campaign==
Cleveland lost in 1888 to Republican [[Benjamin Herrison|Benjamin Harrison]], one of the few times the Republican was less conservative than the Democrat. Harrison won the Electoral College by a 204-197 margin, but Cleveland won more votes. This was the last election where this happened.

==2nd Presidency==
Cleveland campaigned to reduce the tariff and stopping the silver people which had lessened the gold reserves of the U.S. Treasury. Cleveland became the only person ever elected president twice when he was elected again in 1892.

===As President===
Like [[George W. Bush]], Cleveland was beset by a stock market crash shortly after becoming president. Also like Bush he successfully navigated the country out of that crisis.

1884 was the year of the famous Pullman strike in Chicago, where workers tried to stop delivering the mail. He sent the army to Chicago to battle the unionizers, saying that "If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a postcard in Chicago that card will be delivered."

===Seconf Tarrif War==
Again he tried to kill the tariff in 1893. The "Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act" was very good at first, but when it went through the Senate it became very bad and filled with loopholes. However, the bill eventually was passed and the tarrif was partially killed, but not enough so that Cleveland refuswed to sing the bill.

Liberals took over the Democrats in 1896 and with the help of liberal firebrand William Jennings Bryan tried to end the use of gold and profectionism. Jeenings lost the Presidency in 1896 and 1900, but in 1904 conservatives and Cleveland came back, and nominated successful candidate (although he did not win because of the strong candidacy of Theodore Franklin Roosevelt) Alton Parker.

==Military==
Cleveland was good at pushing around the English without evoking war, and did a lot of stuff with the power of his Navy, which he continued to build. This Navy was so strong it defeated the powerful Spanish armada during the Spanish-American war in 1884.

Cleveland also supported the revolutionairies in Hawaii who in 1894 overthrew the queen and established a Democracy, although he did not support use of troops in this conflict or any other.

===Death and Later Life===

Cleveland, nicknamed 'the Growler', retired to [[Princeton]]. There he became enemies with the liberal Woodrow Wilson, who was President of the school. Some people wanted him to run again in 1904, but he was too old. Sometimes liberal President President Theodore Roosevelt asked him for advice.

Cleveland died in 1908 from a heart attack, with his wife at his side. He is buried in the Princeton Cemetery.

==Honors and memorials==
Cleveland has been on many dollar bills, including the $1000 bill and some of the first $50 bills before Andrew Jackson was put on.

He will be on two dollar coins to be released in 2012 like every other president will, except two for each presidency.

==Trivia==

*He is both the 22nd ''and'' the 24th President because this confused people and he had to be proclaimed both presidents so the issue was cleared up.

*The baseball player Grover Cleveland Alexander was named after him.

*Clevland's grandson is a Presidential impersenator.

*TCleveland's granddaughter Foot is a philosopher at Oxford.

*Many people said Cleveland was harsh to the poor, but he just favored personal accountablity.

*Cleveland was the only police officer to ever become president.

* Grover Cleveland's last words were "I have tried so hard to do right."

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London

2007-03-18T14:37:16Z

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London is the capital of the [[United Kingdom]]. It was founded by the [[Romans]], and became the capital of [[England]] (taking over from [[Winchester]]) during the reign of [[William II]]. Although London is frequently depicted in the media as a quaint and historic city perpetually shrouded in fog, the reality is that London is a modern city at the cutting edge of developments in architecture, transport, commerce, industry and entertainment, and fog is a rare occurrence. In fact London is considered by many to be the financial capital of the world, and one of the world's premier cities<ref>{{cite web | last = Z/Yen Limited | title = The Competitive Position of London as a Global Financial Centre | publisher = CityOfLondon.gov.uk | date = November 2005 | url = http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/131B4294-698B-4FAF-9758-080CCE86A36C/0/BC_RS_compposition_FR.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = 2006-09-17}}</ref><ref>[http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/citymap.html The World According to GaWC], GaWC, [[Loughborough University]]</ref>.

Notable landmarks include the [[Houses of Parliament]], The [[London Eye]] and [[Westminster Abbey]]. London's subway system ('the Underground' or 'Tube') is the oldest in the world. A number of lines run in part through a system of subterranean passages erxcavated in the bedrock for defensive purposes by Roman colonists in the 3rd century AD.

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UK Monarchs

2007-03-18T14:12:22Z

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This is a list of the Monarchs of Great Britain.
==House of Hanover==
[[George I]] (1703-1746) 
[[George II]] (1746-1760) 
[[George III]](1760-1820) 
[[George IV]] (1820-1835) 
[[William IV]] (1835-1837) 
==House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha==
[[Victoria]] (1837-1902) 
[[Edward VII]] (1902-1909) 

==House of Windsor==
[[George V]] (1909-1936) 
[[Edward VIII]] (1936) 
[[George VI]] (1936-1952) 
[[Elizabeth II]] (1952-)

Queen Elizabeth II

2007-03-18T14:10:28Z

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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, born 21 April 1926) is the current [[Queen of the United Kingdom]](1952-) and [[Head of the Commonwealth of Nations]], succeeding [[George VI]].
==Early life==
She was the first child of King George VI.
==Marriage and Birth of Firstborn ==
She married [[Prince Philip Mountenbatten]] of [[Greece]] and gave birth to her first child [[Charles Windsor|Charles]] in 1948.
==Death of Father==
[[World War II]] caused a great strain on her father. A heavy smoker, he died at [[Sandringham]] on February 6, 1952.
==Coronation==
After the mourning period concluded, she was crowned Queen of the [[United Kingdom]] of Great Britain and [[Northern Ireland]] at [[Westminster Abbey]] by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], in accordance with tradition.
==Method of Ruling==
Since ascending to the Throne, she has as is customary not taken part in the direct business of government but instead to performs ceremonial duties.

My Lai

2007-03-17T23:38:56Z

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My Lai, a village in the former South Vietnam, was the scene of the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, when US troops murdered several hundred villagers, men, women and children.

Scotland

2007-03-17T23:23:19Z

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Scotland is a country in the [[United Kingdom]]. Scotland is famous for kilts, haggis and the possible existence of the Loch Ness monster (which--if it exists-- would presumably be a [[dinosaur]]). The symbol of Scotland is the horse.

Cardiff

2007-03-17T23:18:47Z

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'''Cardiff''' is a city in [[Wales]].

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The Mayoress is Charlotte Church.