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World War I. Ze'ev Jabotinsky[a][b][c] MBE (born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky; [d] 17 October 1880 [1] – 3 August 1940) [4] was a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World ...
Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - / ˈxʊtspə, ˈhʊt -/) [1][2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes "hubris". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". Thus, the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation, but ...
Howard Beach racial attack. Michael Griffith (March 2, 1963 – December 20, 1986) was a 23-year-old black man who was killed on December 20, 1986, in Howard Beach, in Queens, New York City, in a racially motivated attack. [1] Griffith and two other black men were set upon by a group of white youths outside a pizza parlor.
Invitation to the Dance (Aufforderung zum Tanz[ a ]), Op. 65, J. 260, is a piano piece in rondo form written by Carl Maria von Weber in 1819. It is also well known in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. It is sometimes called Invitation to the Waltz, but this is a mistranslation of the original. The autograph manuscript of the work is ...
War crimes committed by Myanmar's military, including the bombing of civilians, have become "increasingly frequent and brazen", a team of United Nations investigators said in a report published on ...
Mirito Torreiro of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, citing "the brazenness of the proposal" and the discovery of Elvira Herrería as positive elements. [2] F.M. of El Mundo gave the film a 0 rating, writing that "the bad thing is not so much the weak approach but its conception as a pretext to develop the aesthetics of an advertising ...
Labor spying in the United States. Labor spying in the United States had involved people recruited or employed for the purpose of gathering intelligence, committing sabotage, sowing dissent, or engaging in other similar activities, in the context of an employer/labor organization relationship. Spying by companies on union activities has been ...
Jeremiah Tower (born 1942) is an American celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, has been credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine. [1]