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A national state of emergency automatically expires after 90 days, unless extended by the Governor-in-Council. [24] There are different levels of emergencies: Public Welfare Emergency, Public Order Emergency, International Emergency, and War Emergency. [25] The Emergencies Act replaced the War Measures Act in 1988.
The Cyprus Emergency [note 2] was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. [8]The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in 1955.
Abbott and Costello, Mack Sennett, Lynn Bari. Comedy. Universal. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Charles Lamont. Abbott and Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara. Horror comedy. Abbott and Costello 's last Universal film. African Manhunt.
State of Emergency. (2011 film) State of Emergency is a 2011 American horror film written and directed by Turner Clay. It stars Jay Hayden, Tori White, Scott Lilly, and Kathryn Todd Norman as survivors of a neurotoxin quarantine who have to survive an assault by the infected.
The state of emergency in France is framed by the Law n°55-385 of 3 April 1955 (pre-dating the constitution of the Fifth Republic) and modeled on the " état de siège ". It was created in the context of the Algerian War, to allow the authorities to manage the crisis without having to declare the " état de siège ", which allows the military ...
—Deputy Governor to Secretary of State for the Colonies, 19 March 1945 The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony. From the start, the land was the primary British ...
1955 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.
The State of Siege (French: L'État de siège) is the fourth play by Albert Camus. The play by the Maribor Slovene National Theatre in 1955. Written in 1948, The State of Siege —the original sense is closer to state of emergency —is a play in three acts presenting the arrival of plague, personified by a young opportunist, in sleepy Cadiz ...