Dub Federation
Overview page. Subjects: Music.
MERC recording artists whose career with that label saw the release of ‘Space Funk’ and ‘Love Inferno’. The group, which split at the beginning of 1994, comprised Andy Ellison, Pete ...
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Overview page. Subjects: Music.
MERC recording artists whose career with that label saw the release of ‘Space Funk’ and ‘Love Inferno’. The group, which split at the beginning of 1994, comprised Andy Ellison, Pete ...
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in Encyclopedia of Popular Music
January 2006; p ublished online January 2009 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 97 words.
MERC recording artists whose career with that label saw the release of ‘Space Funk’ and ‘Love Inferno’. The group, which
Reid, Sir George Houstoun (1845–1918)
in A Dictionary of World History
January 2015; p ublished online July 2015 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: World History. 90 words.
Reid was Premier of New South Wales from 1894 until 1899. His ambivalent attitude towards *Australian federation resulted in his being dubbed “Yes–No” Reid. He led the Free Traders in the...
Primo Nebiolo
Overview page. Subjects: Sport and Leisure.
(1923–99)
A long jumper as a youth, born in Torino, Italy, who studied law before entering the construction industry and moving into sport administration. He built his power base...
WINGO Politics
in International Women's Year
September 2017; p ublished online June 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Modern History (1700 to 1945); History of the Americas. 6279 words.
This chapter examines the organizational and geopolitical rivalries that gave rise to IWY. It considers how long-simmering ideological tensions between the International Council of Women...
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The Soviet Union: triumph, decline, and fall
in Russian History
March 2012; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Russian and Eastern European History. 5140 words.
‘The Soviet Union: triumph, decline and fall’ begins the end World War II, resulting in the USSR gaining an ‘outer empire’ in Central Europe and the Balkans and building Soviet-style...
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Daisy S. Lampkin
in Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
January 2008; p ublished online March 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: History of the Americas. 1684 words.
Born on August 9, 1883, in Washington D.C., Daisy Adams Lampkin was a lifelong activist, organizer, and fundraiser. Dubbed “Mrs. NAACP,” Lampkin began her career in social justice as a...
Chris(tine Marie) Evert
Overview page. Subjects: Contemporary History (Post 1945).
(1954– )
US tennis player who dominated the game from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.
Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Chris Evert was instructed by her father, a...
Contemporary Shia–Sunni Sectarian Violence
in International Relations
P ublished online January 2019 .
Article. Subjects: International Relations. 4872 words.
Religious violence, primarily stemming from Shia–Sunni conflicts, has occupied the center stage in contemporary Middle East. It’s most recent brutal expression, which is viewed as a symptom...
Garrison, Zina Lynna
in African American National Biography
January 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: History. 880 words.
tennis player, was born in Houston, Texas, the youngest of six children, to Ulysses Garrison, a postal worker, and Mary Elizabeth Garrison, a nursing home aide. Though initially...
Powers of Foreign Policy and National Defence in Federal Systems
Reference Entry. Subjects: Law. 9863 words.
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Randolph, Asa Philip (1889 - 1979), Civil Rights Activist, Labor Organizer / Leader
in African American National Biography
January 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: History. 1832 words.
labor organizer, editor, and activist, was born Asa Philip Randolph in Crescent City, Florida, to Elizabeth Robinson and James Randolph, an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church...
Barents Sea
Reference Entry. Subjects: Public International Law; International Law; Law. 5206 words.
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Ethnic Cleansing
Reference Entry. Subjects: Public International Law; International Law; Law. 12093 words.
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Part 1 The Cold War Era (1945–89), 19 The Entebbe Raid—1976
in The Use of Force in International Law
May 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Law. 14 pages. 9682 words.
In 1976, Israel conducted a successful, but highly controversial military rescue operation in Entebbe, Uganda, to save its nationals taken hostage on Ugandan territory by members of the...
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Strategic Defense Initiative
Reference Entry. Subjects: Public International Law; International Law; Law. 4677 words.
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Part III Headquarters Agreements, 38 Other Military Headquarters
in The Handbook of the Law of Visiting Forces
April 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Law. 17 pages. 9832 words.
This chapter discusses military headquarters in the context of three key regions. These are: the African Union, the European Union, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In the...
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Dealing with reality
in The Journal of World Energy Law & Business
December 2012; p ublished online September 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Environment and Energy Law. 9063 words.
The Kyoto Protocol was intended to cut the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries to 5 per cent less than they were in 1990, and this was to be achieved by the end of 2012. As that...
WTO law perspectives on EU–Russia energy trade: worlds apart or minor differences?
in The Journal of World Energy Law & Business
August 2018; p ublished online July 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Environment and Energy Law. 7275 words.
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The focus of this article is on the regulation of trade in energy and energy-intensive goods between the European Union (EU) and Russia through World...
The Protection of Sexual Autonomy under International Criminal Law
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
May 2012; p ublished online March 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law. 11983 words.
The express inclusion of various crimes of gender-based and sexual violence in the Rome Statute is closely connected with the increased international attention given to these crimes in...
