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51Offensive counter air — Egyptian MiG 21 destroyed by the Israeli Air Force during Operation Focus, at Bir Gifgafa Airfield, June 1967 Offensive Counter Air (OCA) is a military term for the suppression of an enemy s military air power by destroying or disabling the… …
52Armenians in the Persian Empire — Persian Armenia corresponds to the Armenian territory controlled by Persia throughout history. The size of Persian Armenia varied over time. Armenians and the Achaemenid Empire After the fall of the Median empire In 550 B.C. Cyrus, leader of the… …
53St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange — Infobox church name = St Bartholomew by the Exchange fullname = color = imagesize = caption = Current photo of site landscape = denomination = Roman Catholic, Anglican diocese = parish = division = subdivision = founded date = founder = architect …
54History of the Russian Orthodox Church — Foundation by St. AndrewThe Russian Orthodox Church is traditionally said to have been founded by the Apostle Andrew, who is thought to have visited Scythia and Greek colonies along the northern coast of the Black Sea. According to one of the… …
55Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union — The history of Orthodoxy Christianity (and other religions) in the Soviet Union was not limited to this story of repression and secularization. Communist policies toward religious belief and practice tended to vacillate over time between, on the… …
56New Zealand land confiscations — The New Zealand land confiscations took place during the 1860s to punish the Kingitanga movement for attempting to set up an alternative, Māori, form of government that forbade the selling of land. The confiscation law targeted Kingitanga Māori… …
57censorship — /sen seuhr ship /, n. 1. the act or practice of censoring. 2. the office or power of a censor. 3. the time during which a censor holds office. 4. the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor. [1585 95; CENSOR + SHIP] * * * Act of …
58Calvinism — • Calvin succeeded Luther in point of time and was committed to a struggle with Zwingli s disciples at Zurich and elsewhere, known as Sacramentarians Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Calvinism Calvinism …
59Mordecai — The son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. It has been alleged that he was carried into captivity with Jeconiah, and hence that he must have been at least one hundred and twenty nine years old in the twelfth year of Ahasuerus (Xerxes). But the …
60exterminate — [ek stʉr′mə nāt΄, ikstʉr′mə nāt΄] vt. exterminated, exterminating [< L exterminatus, pp. of exterminare, lit., to drive beyond the boundaries, hence drive out, destroy < ex , out + terminus, boundary: see TERM1] to destroy or get rid of… …
