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1989 - January. January 7 - Last day of the Showa period due to the death of Emperor Hirohito(aka Emperor Showa after his death) in Japan. Akihito became Emperor of Japan, and the Heisei period had begun from the following day. January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola January 10 - Assista ...

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1989, 1989 - Events, 1989 - January, 1989 - February, 1989 - March, 1989 - April, 1989 - May, 1989 - June, 1989 - July, 1989 - August, 1989 - September, 1989 - October, 1989 - November, 1989 - December, 1989 - Unknown Dates, 1989 - Births, 1989 - Deaths, 1989 - January, 1989 - February, 1989 - March, 1989 - April, 1989 - May, 1989 - June, 1989 - July, 1989 - August, 1989 - September, 1989 - October, 1989 - November, 1989 - December, 1989 - Nobel Prizes, 1989 - Templeton Prize, 1989 - Right Livelihood Award

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Several studies have established preliminary links between talc and pulmonary issues [1], ovarian cancer [2], and lung cancer [3] [4]. This is a major concern considering talc's widespread commercial and household use. However, no conclusive study has yet been made to determine either the toxicity and/or carcinogenic nature of talc and the long history of safe use suggests that these concerns are unfounded. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers non-asbestiform talc, that is talc which DOES NOT contain carcinogenic asbestos fibers, to be Generally Recognized As Sa ...

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Talc, Talc - Safety

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The 21st century has had an influence on culture since well before it began. Speculation about future, social, cultural, and technological trends frequently centered on the year 2000, starting with late-19th century essays and novels (often of a utopian nature) such as Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, though Bellamy explicitly called the year 2000 "the Twentieth Century." It's been said that the event horizon of Western culture was steadily shrinking in this period, since as late as the 1990s people were still often focusing on the year ...

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21st century, 21st century - Overview, 21st century - Important developments events achievements, 21st century - Politics, 21st century - Science and technology, 21st century - Conflicts and civil unrest, 21st century - Natural disasters, 21st century - Sports, 21st century - Issues and concerns, 21st century - Significant people, 21st century - Influential people in politics as of 2005, 21st century - Influential people in religion as of 2005, 21st century - Influential people in technology as of 2005, 21st century - Influential people in science as of 2005, 21st century - Influential people in mathematics as of 2005, 21st century - Astronomical events and predictions, 21st century - Scientific Predictions, 21st century - Socio-Political Predictions, 21st century - Science Fiction set in the remaining years of the 21st Century, 21st century - Television and film, 21st century - Computer and video games, 21st century - Novels, 21st century - Decades and years

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Euro - Countries using the euro. At present the member states officially using the euro are Austria, Belgium, Finland, France (except Pacific territories using the CFP franc), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Overseas territories of some Eurozone countries, such as French Guiana, Réunion, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, and Martinique, also use ...

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Euro, Euro - Characteristics, Euro - Accommodation for vision impairments, Euro - Name and linguistic issues, Euro - Transition, Euro - Participation in the economic and monetary union, Euro - Countries using the euro, Euro - EU members outside the Eurozone, Euro - Bulgaria and Romania, Euro - Effects of a single currency, Euro - Removal of exchange rate risk, Euro - Removal of conversion fees, Euro - Deeper financial markets, Euro - Price parity, Euro - Competitive funding, Euro - Macroeconomic stability, Euro - Less-specific monetary policy, Euro - A new reserve currency?, Euro - The euro and oil, Euro - Euro exchange rate, Euro - Against the U.S. dollar, Euro - Currencies pegged to euro, Euro - Drivers, Euro - Consequences, Euro - The euro sign, Euro - Reactions following the European Constitution votes, Euro - Economists who helped realise the euro, Euro - Trivia

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Srebrenica massacre - The Crowd at Potočari. The UN forces did nothing to protect the Bosniak civilians in Srebrenica. Faced with the reality that Srebrenica had fallen under Serb forces control, thousands of Bosniak residents from Srebrenica fled to Potočari seeking protection within the UN compound. By the evening of July 11 1995, approximately 20,000 to 25,000 Bosniak refugees were gathered in Potočari. Several thousand had pressed inside the UN compound itself, while the rest were spread throughout the nei ...

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Srebrenica massacre, Srebrenica massacre - Background, Srebrenica massacre - The conflict in Eastern Bosnia, Srebrenica massacre - April 1993: The Security Council Declares Srebrenica a “Safe Area”, Srebrenica massacre - Early 1995: The Situation in the Srebrenica “Safe Area” Deteriorates, Srebrenica massacre - Spring 1995: The Serbs Plan To Attack the Srebrenica “Safe Area”, Srebrenica massacre - 6-11 July 1995: The Take-Over of Srebrenica, Srebrenica massacre - The Massacre, Srebrenica massacre - The Crowd at Potočari, Srebrenica massacre - The Column of Bosniak Men, Srebrenica massacre - A Plan to Execute the Bosniak of Srebrenica, Srebrenica massacre - The Mass Executions, Srebrenica massacre - The Reburials, Srebrenica massacre - Recent developments, Srebrenica massacre - US resolution 199, Srebrenica massacre - Denial of the massacre revisionism and scepticism, Srebrenica massacre - Notes

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Stjepan Mesić, commonly shortened to Stipe Mesić, was born in Orahovica, Slavonia. He graduated from the gymnasium in Požega and from the Law Faculty of the University of Zagreb. He got a honour doctorate from Tuzla University in 2005. After becoming a lawyer, he worked in Orahovica and Našice. He finished compulsory military service and then became a municipal judge after passing judicial exams. Mesić got married to Mil ...

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Stjepan Mesić, Stjepan Mesić - Early years, Stjepan Mesić - Mesić in the 1990s, Stjepan Mesić - Presidency of Croatia

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In the United States, regional airlines were an important building block of today's passenger air system. The U.S. Government encouraged the forming of regional airlines to provide feeder services from smaller communities to larger towns, where air passengers could connect to the major. The government also encouraged regional airline growth with the goal of making convenient air travel within the geographical reach of every American. Some examples of the original regional airlines sanctioned by the Civil Aeronautics Board in th ...

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Regional airline, Regional airline - United States regional airlines, Regional airline - European regional airlines

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Main article: History of the Republic of Ireland The partition of Ireland came about because of complex constitutional developments in the early twentieth century. From 1 January 1801 until 6 December 1922, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Famine in 1845-1847, in which 1.5 million Irish died, was followed by enormous emigration. From 1874, but particularly from 1880 under Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish Parliamentary Party moved to prominence with its attempts to achieve Home Rule, ...

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Republic of Ireland, Republic of Ireland - Name, Republic of Ireland - History, Republic of Ireland - Politics, Republic of Ireland - Role of the Catholic Church in national affairs, Republic of Ireland - Counties, Republic of Ireland - Geography, Republic of Ireland - Economy, Republic of Ireland - Demographics, Republic of Ireland - Culture

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Rhodes Scholarship - Before 1920. John J. Tigert (Tennessee & Pembroke 1904), U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1921-1928 Alain L. Locke (Pennsylvania & Hertford 1907), philosopher and Harlem Renaissance patron Earnest A. Hooten (Wisconsin 1907), American physical anthropologist Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff (Germany & Trinity 1909), German diplomat, executed for conspiracy against Hitler, 1945 J. H. Hofmeyr (South African College School & Balliol 1910), Sout ...

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Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Scholarship - Standards, Rhodes Scholarship - Changes, Rhodes Scholarship - Allocations, Rhodes Scholarship - Notable Rhodes Scholarship recipients, Rhodes Scholarship - Before 1920, Rhodes Scholarship - 1920s, Rhodes Scholarship - 1930s, Rhodes Scholarship - 1940s, Rhodes Scholarship - 1950s, Rhodes Scholarship - 1960s, Rhodes Scholarship - 1970s, Rhodes Scholarship - 1980s, Rhodes Scholarship - 1990s, Rhodes Scholarship - Undated, Rhodes Scholarship - Centenary degrees, Rhodes Scholarship - Notable Universities, Rhodes Scholarship - Former Trustees

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It's 2021, and the Dream is Dead The future timeline of Underground is based around on a UFO crash in 1996 in the Florida Everglades. It was a small escape pod of a larger interstellar starship and contained a pair of lobster-like aliens. While officially a secret, the entire world witnessed the crash and the secrets of the UFO leak to the entire world within a year, apparently the alien technology was based entirely on manipulation of amino acid chains and advanced biotechnology, which starts a revolution in genetic engineering. This results in major corporations and the wealthy gaining eve ...

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Underground role playing game, Underground role playing game - The World of Underground, Underground role playing game - The Game of Underground, Underground role playing game - Reference

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The phrase "new world order", as used to herald in the post-Cold War era, did not have a developed or substantive definition. There appear to be three distinct periods in which it was progressively redefined, first by the Soviets, and later by the United State before the Malta Conference, and again after Bush's speech of 11 September 1990. The new world order concept was secondary at best to the Bush administration, and perhaps only a rhetorical tool that implied more than it meant. Throughout the period of the phrase’s use, the public see ...

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New world order, New world order - Historical usage, New world order - The post-Cold War new world order, New world order - Gorbachev's formulation, New world order - The Malta Conference, New world order - The Gulf War and Bush's formulation, New world order - Following the Gulf conflict, New world order - Viewed in retrospect, New world order - Reference notes

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Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - The European Union. Main articles: Accession of Turkey to the European Union, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]See also:

Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Policies, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - The European Union, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - The Balkans, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Southern Caucaus, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Afghanistan, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Organizations, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - NATO, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Trade blocs, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Disputes, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - WWI Armenian issue, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Border dispute with Armenia, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Territorial dispute with Greece, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Cyprus, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Illicit drugs, Foreign relations of Republic of Turkey - Source

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Foreign relations of Japan - United States. Main article: Japan-United States relations The United States is Japan's closest ally, and Japan relies on the U.S. for its national security to a high degree. As the world's two top economic powers (in 2005), both countries also rely on close economic ties for their wealth, despite ongoing and occasionally acriminious trade frictions. Although its constitution and government policy preclude an offensive military role for Japan in international affa ...

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Foreign relations of Japan, Foreign relations of Japan - Relations by country and region, Foreign relations of Japan - United States, Foreign relations of Japan - North and South Korea, Foreign relations of Japan - China, Foreign relations of Japan - South-East Asia, Foreign relations of Japan - South Asia, Foreign relations of Japan - Russia, Foreign relations of Japan - Western Europe, Foreign relations of Japan - Other countries, Foreign relations of Japan - Debates and frictions, Foreign relations of Japan - Disputed territories, Foreign relations of Japan - Reference

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The G8 has its roots in the 1973 oil crisis and subsequent global recession. These troubles led the United States to form the Library Group, a gathering of senior financial officials from the United States, Europe, and Japan, to discuss the economic issues. In 1975, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing invited the heads of state of six major industralized democracies to a summit in Rambouillet and proposed regular meetings. The participants agreed to an annual meeting organized under a rotating presidency, forming what wa ...

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G8, G8 - Background and history, G8 - Participation of Russia and formation of the G8, G8 - Structure and activities of the Group, G8 - Criticism of the Group, G8 - G8 and Terrorism, G8 - Past G6/7/8 summits, G8 - Future G8 summits

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By the mid-1980s, the prospect of German reunification was widely regarded within both East and West Germany as a distant hope, unattainable as long as Communist governments ruled Eastern Europe. However, the hope of reunification was suddenly placed within reach by political changes within the Soviet Union. The advent of reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 caused waves of reform to propagate t ...

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German reunification, German reunification - Background, German reunification - The end of the division “Wende”, German reunification - Effects of reunification

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Born in Houston, Texas, Lindsey dropped out of the University of Houston to serve in the Korean War, then worked as a Mississippi River tugboat captain. His personal web site[1] describes that when "his first marriage broke up, he contemplated suicide, but instead found a Gideon New Testament and was converted. Lindsey became an avid reader of Scripture, particularly prophetic sections, which convinced him t ...

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Hal Lindsey, Hal Lindsey - Biography, Hal Lindsey - Predictions, Hal Lindsey - Zion Oil, Hal Lindsey - Bibliography

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Fire fighting - Suppressing the fuel and the energy. The first method is to remove fuel for the fire such as cutting of the gas and moving combustible objects from the path of the fire. When the activation energy is still present, it is also useful to switch it off; this will not stop a fire, but will help controlling a starting fire and will prevent a new fire to occur. The first action is thus to "cut off the energies" such as the gas and power supply and switch off the working machines (motors). It is also important to turn off ventilation and air conditi ...

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Fire fighting, Fire fighting - Risks of a fire, Fire fighting - Means to extinguish a fire, Fire fighting - Suppressing the fuel and the energy, Fire fighting - Reconnaissance and reading the fire, Fire fighting - Use of water, Fire fighting - Asphyxiating a fire, Fire fighting - Ventilation or isolation of the fire, Fire fighting - Individual action, Fire fighting - Appendix : Calculation of the amount of water required to suppress a fire in a closed volume, Fire fighting - Volume computation, Fire fighting - Thermal computation, Fire fighting - Conclusion

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Eurozone - Non-eurozone EU countries. The other 13 countries of the European Union that do not use the euro are: Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the ten member states that joined the Union on 1 May 2004; namely Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Denmark and the United Kingdom got special derogations in the original Maastricht Treaty of the European Union. Both countries are not legally required to join the euro unless their governments decide otherwise, e ...

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Eurozone, Eurozone - Countries with the Euro as currency, Eurozone - Official members, Eurozone - Nations with formal agreements with the EU, Eurozone - Nations without formal agreements with the EU, Eurozone - Other nations, Eurozone - Non-eurozone EU countries, Eurozone - Non-EU currencies pegged to the euro, Eurozone - Inflation, Eurozone - Fiscal policy

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Environmental impact assessment - EU. The EIA Directive on Environmental Impact Assessment of the effects of projects on the environment was introduced in 1985 and was amended in 1997. The directive was amended again in 2003 following the 1998 signature by the EU of the Aarhus Convention on public participation in environmental matters. The issue was enlarged to the assessment of plans and programmes by the so called SEA-Directive in 2001 which is now in force. ...

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Environmental impact assessment, Environmental impact assessment - Overview, Environmental impact assessment - EIA around the world, Environmental impact assessment - EU, Environmental impact assessment - New Zealand, Environmental impact assessment - United States

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Euro - Countries using the euro. At present the member states officially using the euro are Austria, Belgium, Finland, France (except Pacific territories using the CFP franc), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Overseas territories of some Eurozone countries, such as French Guiana, Réunion, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, and Martinique, also use ...

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Euro, Euro - Characteristics, Euro - Transition, Euro - Participation in the economic and monetary union, Euro - Countries using the euro, Euro - EU members outside the Eurozone, Euro - Bulgaria and Romania, Euro - Effects of a single currency, Euro - Removal of exchange rate risk, Euro - Removal of conversion fees, Euro - Deeper financial markets, Euro - Price parity, Euro - Competitive funding, Euro - Macroeconomic stability, Euro - Less-specific monetary policy, Euro - A new reserve currency?, Euro - The euro and oil, Euro - Euro exchange rate, Euro - Against the U.S. dollar, Euro - Currencies pegged to euro, Euro - Drivers, Euro - Consequences, Euro - Plural formation and grammar, Euro - The euro sign, Euro - Reactions following the European Constitution votes, Euro - Economists who helped realise the euro, Euro - Miscellanea, Euro - Slang words, Euro - Trivia concerning the coins

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EFTA has the following institutions: the Secretariat, the EFTA Council, the EFTA Surveillance Authority, and the EFTA Court. European Free Trade Association - EEA Related Institutions. The EFTA Surveillance Authority and the EFTA Court regulate the activities of the EFTA members in respect of their obligations in the European Economic Area (EEA). Since Switzerland is n ...

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European Free Trade Association, European Free Trade Association - Membership History, European Free Trade Association - Institutions, European Free Trade Association - EEA Related Institutions, European Free Trade Association - Locations, European Free Trade Association - Portugal Fund, European Free Trade Association - International Conventions, European Free Trade Association - Relationship to the European Economic Area, European Free Trade Association - Future EFTA Membership, European Free Trade Association - United Kingdom

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The European Patent Office (EPO or EPOff in order to distinguish it from the European Patent Organisation) can be viewed as the executive body of the European Patent Organisation. The EPO headquarters are located at Munich, Germany. The European Patent Office also includes a branch in Rijswijk (suburb of The Hague, Netherlands), sub-offices in Berlin, Germany, and Vienna, Austria and a "liaison bureau" in Brussels, Belgium. As of 2005, the European Patent Office had a staff of 6000 (among which about 3000 in Munich, 2650 in The Hague, 300 in Berlin and 100 in Vienna).< ...

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European Patent Organisation, European Patent Organisation - Organs, European Patent Organisation - European Patent Office, European Patent Organisation - Presidency, European Patent Organisation - Languages, European Patent Organisation - Departments and Directorates-General, European Patent Organisation - The European Patent Office and the Patent Cooperation Treaty, European Patent Organisation - Administrative Council, European Patent Organisation - Member states and extension states, European Patent Organisation - Statistics

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