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  • 61Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union — Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union, originally conceived in 1926, initiated in 1930, and carried through in 1937, was the first mass transfer of an entire nationality based on their ethnicity to be committed by the Soviet Union.[1] Almost …

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  • 62Melanesian culture — ▪ cultural region, Pacific Ocean Introduction  the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific Islands known as Melanesia. From northwest to southeast, the islands form an arc that begins with New… …

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  • 63History of Otago — The history of Otago in New Zealand tells the story of human settlement of one of the more isolated outliers of the inhabited earth. Archaic Māori period The precise date at which the first inhabitants of New Zealand reached Otago and the extreme …

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  • 64UN peacekeeping missions involving Pakistan — covers a long and cherished history of Pakistani involvement with the United Nations. Pakistan joined the United Nations on 30th September, 1947 . Since 1960, Pakistan has been actively involved in most of the UN Peacekeeping missions and today… …

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  • 65Timeline of the Great Purge — The Great Purge of 1936 1938 can be roughly divided into four periods [http://www.memo.ru/history/y1937/hronika1936 1939/xronika.html N.G. Okhotin, A.B. Roginsky Great Terror : Brief Chronology] Memorial, 2007] :;October 1936 February 1937:… …

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  • 66hand tool — any tool or implement designed for manual operation. * * * Introduction  any of the implements used by craftsmen in manual operations, such as chopping, chiseling, sawing, filing, or forging. Complementary tools, often needed as auxiliaries to… …

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  • 67kulak — /koo lahk , lak ; kooh lahk, lak/, n. (in Russia) 1. a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s… …

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  • 68Melanesia — /mel euh nee zheuh, sheuh/, n. one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising the island groups in the S Pacific NE of Australia. * * * Island group, South Pacific Ocean. A subdivision of Oceania, it lies northeast of Australia and… …

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  • 69The Irish (in Countries Other Than Ireland) —     The Irish (in countries other than Ireland)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Irish (in countries other than Ireland)     I. IN THE UNITED STATES     Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are …

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  • 70United Nations peacekeeping missions involving Pakistan — UN peacekeeping missions involving Pakistan covers a long and cherished history of Pakistani involvement with the United Nations. Pakistan joined the United Nations on 30 September 1947. Since 1960, Pakistan has been actively involved in most of… …

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