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  2. The Nation - Wikipedia

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    The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper that closed in 1865, after ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  3. Nation - Wikipedia

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    A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society. Some nations are constructed around ethnicity (see ethnic nationalism) while others are bound by ...

  4. United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations ( UN) is a diplomatic and political [2] international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. [3] It is the world's largest international ...

  5. The Nation (Thailand) - Wikipedia

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    Website. nationthailand .com. The Nation is an English -language daily online newspaper founded in 1971, published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is one of two English-language dailies in Bangkok, the other being the Bangkok Post. On 28 June 2019, it published its final broadsheet edition leaving only its online edition.

  6. National identity - Wikipedia

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    National identity is a person's identity or sense of belonging to one or more states or one or more nations. [1] [2] It is the sense of "a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, and language". [3] National identity may refer to the subjective feeling one shares with a group of people about a nation ...

  7. History of the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    The founding of the United Nations. The history of the United Nations has its origins in World War II beginning with the Declaration of St James's Palace. Taking up the Wilsonian mantle in 1944–1945, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed as his highest postwar priority the establishment of the United Nations to replace the defunct League ...

  8. Nation state - Wikipedia

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    A nation state is a political entity that claims sovereignty over a defined territory and population. It is often contrasted with other forms of political organization, such as empires, federations, or city-states. Learn more about the history, characteristics, and examples of nation states on Wikipedia.

  9. The National (band) - Wikipedia

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    The National (band) The National is an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1999. [1] The band consists of Matt Berninger (vocals), twin brothers Aaron Dessner (guitar, piano, keyboards) and Bryce Dessner (guitar, piano, keyboards), as well as brothers Scott Devendorf (bass) and Bryan Devendorf (drums).