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121Tajikistan — /teuh jik euh stan , stahn , jee keuh /, n. Tadzhikistan. * * * Tajikistan Introduction Tajikistan Background: Tajikistan has experienced three changes in government and a five year civil war since it gained independence in 1991 from the USSR. A… …
122Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …
123Abdullah ibn Saba' — Abd Allah ibn Sabaʾ al Ḥimyarī (or Sabāʾ , also sometimes called ibn al Sawdāʾ, ibn Wahb, or ibn Ḥarb)[1] was a 7th century figure in Islamic history who may or may not have had an actual historical existence and often associated with a group of… …
124Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — Born December 22, 1986 (1986 12 22) (age 24) Kaduna, Nigeria …
125fanatic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. zealot, enthusiast, dogmatist. See excitability, feeling, heterodoxy, insanity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. zealot, devotee, extremist; see enthusiast 1 , zealot . See Synonym Study at zealot . III …
126zealot — noun York was too much of a zealot for the party to endorse seriously Syn: fanatic, enthusiast, extremist, radical, young Turk, diehard, true believer, activist, militant; bigot, dogmatist, sectarian, partisan; informal fiend, maniac, ultra, nut; …
127ARAB POPULATION — GENERAL SURVEY Under the British Mandate, 1917–48 In 1917, at the time of the British conquest of Palestine during World War I, the country s Arabic speaking population numbered less than 600,000 persons; in 1947 it was estimated at 1,200,000.… …
128ZEALOTS AND SICARII — Introduction This article deals not only with the group of fighters for the freedom of Israel known from josephus as the Zealots, but includes in its survey other groups with similar aims, particularly the Sicarii. Judea differed from the other… …
