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W. E. B. Du Bois. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( / djuːˈbɔɪs / dew-BOYSS; [1] [2] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist . Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After ...
Planz. Planz is an open source personal information manager developed by the Keeping Found Things Found group at the University of Washington Information School. It integrates e-mail, website links and content, computer files and folders, and informal notes into a simplified, document-like interface. Its purpose is to make the user's personal ...
Plan A was written and directed by Yoav and Doron Paz. Filming took place in Germany, Israel, and Ukraine. It is based on Israeli historian Dina Porat's book Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine, about the Nakam. Signature Entertainment obtained distribution rights in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Plan W. Plan W, during World War II, was a plan of joint military operations between the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom devised between 1940 and 1942, to be executed in the event of an invasion of Ireland by Nazi Germany . Although Ireland was officially neutral, after the German Blitzkriegs of 1939–40 that resulted in the ...
The Four Year Plan was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1936. Hitler placed Hermann Göring in charge of these measures, making him a Reich Plenipotentiary (Reichsbevollmächtigter) whose jurisdiction cut across the responsibilities of various cabinet ministries, including those of the Minister of Economics, the Defense Minister and the Minister of ...
The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis ( GFC ), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression. Predatory lending in the form of subprime mortgages targeting low-income homebuyers, [1] excessive risk-taking by global financial institutions, [2] a continuous buildup of toxic assets within banks ...
The Escape Plan film series consists of American prison action - thrillers based on characters created by Miles Chapman and Arnell Jesko. The series is centered on Ray Breslin, a security analyst and escape artist who helps design supermax prisons by posing as an inmate to find their flaws; later films center on his security and hostage rescue ...
The Iraq War ( Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized : ḥarb al-ʿirāq ), sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War [82] was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein.