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  2. Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] ( USSR) [s], commonly known as the Soviet Union [t], was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with twelve countries.

  3. All India Women's Conference - Wikipedia

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    www .aiwc .org .in. The All India Women's Conference ( AIWC) is a non-governmental organisation ( NGO) based in Delhi. It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins in order to improve educational efforts for women and children and has expanded its scope to also tackle other women's rights issues. The organisation is the oldest nation-wide women's ...

  4. Kurt Schmoke - Wikipedia

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    Harvard University ( JD) Kurt Lidell Schmoke (born December 1, 1949) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 47th mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1987 to 1999, the first African American to be elected to the post. [1] He is a former dean of the Howard University School of Law and, on July 7, 2014, he was appointed as president of ...

  5. Portal 2 - Wikipedia

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    Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts. A port for the Nintendo Switch was included as part of Portal: Companion Collection .

  6. Youth rights - Wikipedia

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    Other International youth rights organizations include Article 12 in Scotland and K.R.A.T.Z.A. in Germany. In Malta, the voting age has been lowered to 16 in 2018 to vote in national and European Parliament elections. The European Youth Portal is the starting place for the European Union's youth policy, with Erasmus+ as one of its key initiatives.

  7. World War II casualties - Wikipedia

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    Classification of casualties. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths and wounded caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject.Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed and wounded during World War II.

  8. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is a Government of India ministry. It is responsible for welfare, social justice and empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised sections of society, including scheduled castes (SC), Other Backward Classes (OBC), LGBT people, the disabled, the elderly, and the victims of drug abuse.

  9. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Politics portal. v. t. e. The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.