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2. Achille Lauro hijacking - Wikipedia

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   The Achille Lauro hijacking took place on 7 October 1985, when the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel.

3. B&Q - Wikipedia

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   B&Q Limited (short for Block & Quayle after the company's two founders) is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company, with headquarters in Eastleigh, England.

4. American entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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   Britain used its large navy to prevent cargo vessels entering German ports, mainly by intercepting them in the North Sea between the coasts of Scotland and Norway. The wider sea approaches to Britain and France, their distance from German harbors and the significantly smaller size of the German surface fleet all made it effectively impossible for Germany to proportionally reciprocate using ...

5. Borscht Belt - Wikipedia

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   The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, was a region noted for its summer resorts that catered to Jewish vacationers, especially residents of New York City. [1] The resorts, now mostly defunct, were located in the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, in Upstate New York and the northern edges of the New York metropolitan area.

6. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Wikipedia

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   A majority of his first cabinet consisted of IRGC veterans. [119] Nearly one third of the members elected to Iran's Majlis in 2004 are also "Pásdárán". [120] Others have been appointed as ambassadors, mayors, provincial governors and senior bureaucrats. [63] However, IRGC veteran status does not imply a single viewpoint. [121]

7. Nixon in China - Wikipedia

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   Richard Nixon (right) meets Mao Zedong, February 1972. During his rise to power, Richard Nixon became known as a leading anti-communist.After he became president in 1969, Nixon saw advantages in improving relations with China and the Soviet Union; he hoped that détente would put pressure on the North Vietnamese to end the Vietnam War, and he might be able to manipulate the two main communist ...