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Dockworkers in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century often coordinated their unionization efforts across racial lines. The nature of that coordination has led some scholars to conclude that the seeming interracial union activity was in fact biracial: a well-organized plan of parallel concerted activity with coordination and support between the groups, but with a clear divide along racial ...
Twenty-eight states have some form of a "three-strikes" law. A person accused under such laws is referred to in a few states (notably Connecticut and Kansas) as a "persistent offender", while Missouri uses the unique term "prior and persistent offender". In most jurisdictions, only crimes at the felony level qualify as serious offenses.
The 424 delegates to the Palestinian National Congress ended their meeting in East Jerusalem in Jordan, and approved a National Charter.Among the articles agreed to were that "Palestine... is an indivisible unit" (Article 2); "Palestinians are those Arab citizens who, until 1947, had normally resided in Palestine" and "anyone born after that date of a Palestinian father" (Article 6); "The ...
The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: Микоян МиГ-29; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union.Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Sukhoi Su-27, was developed to counter U.S. fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 ...
In this interim period of "disaffected calm," [75] the budding Iranian revival began to undermine the idea of Westernization as progress that was the basis of the Shah's secular reign, and to form the ideology of the 1979 revolution: Jalal Al-e-Ahmad's idea of Gharbzadegi—that Western culture was a plague or an intoxication to be eliminated ...
The CPI leftists had accepted Dange [a] as the new leader of the Lok Sabha group. [4] But they did not accept Dange as the tentative successor to Ghosh as the party general secretary. [4] As the Kerala government had been dismissed, Namboodiripad [f] was again available to function as the acting general secretary during Ghosh's absences. [4]
The building's form may have been influenced by the 1961 Zoning Resolution, a major change to New York City zoning code that was proposed just before construction started. The massing is similar to Le Corbusier 's unbuilt tower in Algiers , proposed between 1938 and 1942, [ 27 ] [ 28 ] as well as the nearly contemporary Pirelli Tower in Milan ...
Born on 28 November 1919 in the western Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, [8] Miller was the youngest of Leslie and Edith Miller's four children. [9] [10] [11] He was named after the Australian pioneer aviator brothers Keith and Ross Smith, [11] [12] who were half-way through their historic flight from England to Australia at the time Miller was born.