High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abdul Nasser Madani also known as Abdul Nasser Maudani or simply Madani or Maudany (born 1965, Sasthamkotta, Kerala) is a Muslim political leader from Kerala, India; who has spent more than a decade in Indian prisons though he has not been convicted of any crime till date. Following the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, he launched the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with the stated objective of "Muslim-Dalit-backward caste" alliance. In 1992, Madani became the target of an assassination attempt, allegedly by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist, in which he lost his right leg. However, in Muslim pockets in Kerala, Madani is looked upon as a hero and a saviour. In August 2010, Madani was...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse (also transliterated Abdulwali Abdukhad Muse,Abdul Wali Muse and Wal-i-Musi, among others) is a Somali hijacker. He is the sole survivor of a group of four pirates who attacked the MV Maersk Alabama and held the captain for ransom at gunpoint. On 16 February 2011, he was sentenced to over 33 years in federal prison in the first piracy trial to occur in the United States in decades.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham "Abe" Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice from 1965 to 1969. Originally from Tennessee, Fortas became a law professor at Yale, and subsequently advised the Securities and Exchange Commission. He then worked at the Interior Department under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and subsequently Harry Truman appointed him to delegations that helped set up the UN. Later, in private practice, Fortas represented Lyndon Johnson in an electoral dispute, and formed close ties with the president-to-be. Fortas also represented Clarence Earl Gideon before the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case involving the right to counsel. As a Johnson appointee to the Court, Fortas...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abolitionism within the animal rights movement is the idea that focusing on animal welfare reform not only fails to challenge animal suffering, but may prolong it by making the exercise of property rights over animals appear acceptable. The abolitionists` objective is to secure a moral and legal paradigm shift, whereby animals are no longer regarded as things to be owned and used. This is contrasted with animal protectionism, the position that change can be achieved by incremental improvements in animal welfare.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician. He served in the United States Congress, as the 80th Governor of Connecticut and as President John F. Kennedy`s Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. He was Connecticut`s first and to date only Jewish governor.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham F. Sarmiento, Sr. (October 8, 1921 – October 3, 2010) was a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1987 to 1991. An active figure in the political opposition against the martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos, he was appointed to the Court by Marcos` successor, President Corazon Aquino.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from Bram Stoker`s 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Bradley, Jr. (February 22, 1767 – May 7, 1838) was an American lawyer, judge, and cartographer who was assistant postmaster general for 30 years during the earliest history of the United States Post Office Department. Bradley was responsible for moving the federal government`s post office from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the new capital at Washington, D.C., hosting the national post office in his own home for a period. The continuity brought by Bradley`s long employment during the tenure of five different United States postmasters general helped establish the budding postal service as a reliable provider; Bradley drew detailed and innovative postal route maps which contributed...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abram Fulkerson (May 13, 1834 – December 17, 1902) was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War, and a Virginia lawyer and politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abram Chayes (July 18, 1922 - April 16, 2000) was an American scholar of international law closely associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy. He is best known for his “legal process” approach to international law, which attempted to provide a new, less formalistic way of understanding international law and how it might further develop. By focusing on how international legal rules are actually used by foreign policy decision-makers, Chayes sought to study international law, not within a vacuum of legal rules and procedures, but in a dynamic political environment.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Abu Omar Case (or Imam rapito affair – "kidnapped Imam affair") refers to the alleged abduction and transfer to Egypt of the Imam of Milan Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. The case was picked by the international media as one of the better-documented cases of extraordinary rendition carried out by the United States` Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the context of the "global war on terrorism" declared by the Bush administration.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abuse is the improper usage or treatment for a bad purpose, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, sexual assault, violation, rape, unjust practices; wrongful practice or custom; offense; crime, or otherwise verbal aggression.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Beim Abkommen von Kelowna (engl. Kelowna Accord, franz. Accord de Kelowna) handelt es sich um ein Arbeitspapier mit dem Titel „Strengthening Relationships and Closing the Gap“ (Die Beziehungen starken und die Kluft uberbrucken). Dieses Arbeitspapier wurde 2005 unter der Regierung des kanadischen Premierminister Paul Martin und Fuhrern der Ureinwohner Kanadas ausgearbeitet. Auf dessen Grundlage sollten Lebensbedingungen, Bildung und Ausbildung sowie Beschaftigungssituation der Ureinwohner verbessert werden. Dazu sollte die Finanzierung durch die Regierung zugesagt und Programme entwickelt werden. Der Text erschien erstmals im Januar 2006 im Toronto...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Accursius (in Italian Accursio, Accorso or also Accorso di Bagnolo; c. 1182 – 1263) was an Italian jurist. He is notable for his organization of the glosses, the medieval comments on Justinian`s codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis. He was not proficient in the classics, but he was called "the Idol of the Jurisconsults".
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Die Bewegung Act Up (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power „AIDS-Koalition um Kraft zu entfesseln“) entstand 1987 in New York (USA) um durch neue offentlichkeitswirksame Aktionen mehr Dynamik und Politisierung in die Thematisierung von Aids zu bringen und mit Lobby-Arbeit politischen Druck auszuuben. Die Initiative fand mit der Zeit Anhanger auf der ganzen Welt. Die Abkurzung Act Up ist in der englischen Sprache auch ein regularer Ausdruck und bedeutet in etwa „sich auflehnen“, „Theater machen“, „Arger machen“. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam Paul Bandt (born 11 March 1972) is an Australian politician, former industrial lawyer and the Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens Party. Bandt was elected to the Division of Melbourne in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia, at the 2010 federal election. He is the second member of the Australian Greens to be elected to the House of Representatives, after Michael Organ, but the first to be elected at a general election. Bandt had previously contested the seat in 2007 and narrowly lost to Lindsay Tanner.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam Loftus (c. 1533 – 5 April 1605) was Archbishop of Armagh, and later Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581. He was also the first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam Walsh (December 4, 1901 – January 13, 1985) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a center at the University of Notre Dame where he was an All-American and captain of the 1924 team under Knute Rockne. Walsh then served as the head football coach at Santa Clara University from 1925 to 1928 and at Bowdoin College from 1935 to 1942 and again from 1947 to 1958, compiling a career college football record of 80–85–11. He also coached the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams of the NFL in 1945 and 1946, tallying a mark of 15–5–1. Walsh was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1968.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam Houghton (died 13 February 1389), also known as Adam de Houghton, was Bishop of St David`s from 1361 until his death and Lord Chancellor of England from 1377 to 1378.