1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). 1911 - Events. 1911 - January-June. January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia January 3 - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End. January 10 - Major ...

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• 1911 - July-October
• 1911 - November-December
• 1911 - Unknown dates
• 1911 - Births
• 1911 - January-March
• 1911 - April-June
• 1911 - July-September
• 1911 - October-December
• 1911 - Unknown dates
• 1911 - Deaths
• 1911 - Nobel Prizes

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1980 - January. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer. January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giv ...

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1998 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Amartya Sen ...

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1975 - January. January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up January 2 - The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by Congress January 5 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. January 7 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. January 8 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the firs ...

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1976 - January. January 8 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) January 10 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910) January 12 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890) January 23 - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer, and activist (b. 1898) January 30 - Mance Lipscomb, American singer (b. 1895) 1976 - February. February 1 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ...

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Tacitus's works contain a wealth of information about his world, but details on his own life are lacking. Even his praenomen (first name) is uncertain. What little we know comes from scattered hints throughout the corpus of his work, the letters of his friend and admirer Pliny the Younger, an inscription found at Mylasa in Caria[1]< ...

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Tacitus, Tacitus - Biography, Tacitus - Descent and place of birth, Tacitus - Public life marriage and literary career, Tacitus - Works, Tacitus - Major works, Tacitus - Minor works, Tacitus - The sources of Tacitus, Tacitus - Literary style, Tacitus - Approach to history, Tacitus - Prose style, Tacitus - Studies and reception history, Tacitus - Notes

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Historically, the bulk of the power over the Government of the Kingdom was vested in the Sovereign, acting on the advice of bodies such as Parliament and the Privy Council. Over several years, the Cabinet evolved from the Privy Council, as the monarch began the practice of consulting a few confidential advisors rather than the Council at large. These bodies, however, bore little resemblance to modern Cabinets; they were often not led by a single figure such as a Prime Minister, they often failed to act in unison, and they were appointed and dismissed entirel ...

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - History, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - The Office, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Term, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Powers and restraints, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Precedence and privileges, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Retirement honours, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - List of Prime Ministers

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Triad (Simplified: 三合会; Traditional: 三合會; Hanyu Pinyin: Sānhéhuì; literally "Triad Society") is a collective term that describes many branches of an underground society and organizations based in Hong Kong and also operating in Mainland China, Macao, and Chinatowns in Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. There are about 50 triad groups that are active in modern Hong Kong; many of them are no more than small, local street gangs. The larger groups, including t ...

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• Triad - History of triads
• Triad - Precursor to triads—Tian Di Hui
• Triad - Post-imperial developments
• Triad - Migration to Hong Kong
• Triad - Sustenance from 1980s
• Triad - Activities overseas
• Triad - Recent developments
• Triad - Triad groups
• Triad - The 14K Triad
• Triad - The Sun Yee On
• Triad - The Wo Group
• Triad - Triad culture
• Triad - Triad organizational structure
• Triad - Gang fighting
• Triad - Organized crime
• Triad - Dealing with triad problems in schools
• Triad - How triads are tackled in Hong Kong
• Triad - Portrayal of triad societies in popular culture
• Triad - Public figures alleged to have or have had triad ties
• Triad - List of Triads Tongs and Chinese Gangs
• Triad - Triads
• Triad - Tongs
• Triad - Chinese Gangs
• Triad - Miscellaneous information

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China listen ▶ (help·info) (Traditional: 中國; Simplified: 中国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) refers to a number of states and cultures that have existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another in continental East Asia, dating back nearly 5,000 years. Modern China has been described as both a single civilization and multiple civilizations, as a single state or multiple states, ...

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• China - Terminology
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• China - Political history
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• China - Historical overview
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• China - Geography and climate
• China - Society
• China - Demographics
• China - Culture
• China - Religion
• China - Arts scholarship and literature
• China - Science and technology
• China - Miscellaneous topics

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Pseudochactoidea Buthoidea Chaeriloidea Chactoidea Iuroidea Scorpionoidea See the classification section for families. A scorpion is an invertebrate animal with eight legs belonging to the order Scorpiones in the class Arachnida. Scorpion - Physical characteristics. The scorpion body is divided into 2 main segments: the cephalothorax and the abdomen. The cephalothorax consists of the prosoma, and the abdomen of the mesosoma and the metasoma; Including:

• Scorpion - Physical characteristics
• Scorpion - Scorpion venom
• Scorpion - Reproduction
• Scorpion - Birth and Development
• Scorpion - Origins
• Scorpion - Geographical distribution
• Scorpion - How scorpions eat
• Scorpion - Suicide misconception
• Scorpion - Classification
• Scorpion - Cultural symbolism

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1911 - January-June. January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia January 3 - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End. January 10 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the first aerial photograph (over San Diego, California). January 18 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of ...

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1911 - January-March. January 1 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player (d. 1986) January 1 - Dionysia Flambouras, Messenger/God of Wine and much much more January 3 - John Sturges, American film director (d. 1982) January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001) January 7 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995) January 11 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004) January 13 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005) ...

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