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| | Bastille Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bastille Day also falls during the running of the Tour de France, and is traditionally the day upon which French riders will make a special effort to take a stage victory for France. | | | This [latter] day cannot be blamed for having shed a drop of blood, for having divided the country. | | | The day officially celebrates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, though it is often associated, even in France, with the Storming of the Bastille. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day
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| | BBC News Despatches Israel marks 'Jerusalem Day' |
| | Religious Jews danced through the night inside and beyond the walls of Jerusalem's Old City to mark what they regard as a blessing from God - the reunification of Jerusalem when Israeli paratroopers marched into East Jerusalem during the Six Day war in 1967, seizing it from Jordanian control. | | | Israeli police are on high alert in Jerusalem as marches and demonstrations get under way to mark Jerusalem Day. | | | Every year, religious Jews throng the streets of the city to celebrate their victory. |
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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/despatches/newsid_99000/99740.stm
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| | The Tradition, Book One - Chung Hwan Kwak |
| | The Day of the Victory of Love is that day in which the True Parents have reached a new level and are marching forward upon the foundation of Heung Jin Nim's sacrifice. | | | The excerpt which follows is from the Day of All Things speech given by Father on June 11, 1983, entitled "True Ownership," which was printed in the July 1983 issue of Today's World. | | | The Day of Unification was proclaimed on December 31, 1983. |
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http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/TT1/TT1-14.htm
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| | Afghan officials claim victory after Taliban retreat in southern mountains |
| | Afghan officials claimed victory Wednesday after a 9-day siege by U.S and Afghan troops against suspected Taliban fighters holed up in a region of mountains and caves of southern Afghanistan. | | | Spokesman Col. Rodney Davis said Wednesday that allied troops had come under fire, but there were no reported casualties. | | | Afghan officials claim victory after Taliban retreat in southern mountains |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/09/03/international1131EDT0553.DTL
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| | Celebrating the Day of Reconciliation |
| | Over the years many Afrikaners have celebrated this day as a day of victory, a day signaling, in their view, the favour bestowed by God on their efforts to achieve the kind of political dispensation that they desired. | | | They vowed that if they were granted victory against the Zulu army, they would commemorate the day as a religious day and would build a church in memory of the victory. | | | Indeed, it can be argued that this day was used by successive Nationalist Party governments as part of the ideology legitimising apartheid-- to claim that apartheid was somehow sanctioned by God. |
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http://www.sadtu.org.za/ev/nov_dec_2002/celebrating.html
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| | Concerned Women for America - Victory for Marriage |
| | This is a clear victory for the pro-family movement, Ditty said. | | | We face a determined foe in the gay lobby that is working night and day to destroy historic and normative definitions of marriage and family. | | | Atlanta, G.A. Concerned Women for America of Georgia applauds the unanimous decision of the Georgia Supreme Court to uphold the Court of Appeals ruling that a Vermont civil union is not the equivalent of marriage in the state of Georgia. |
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http://www.cwfa.org/printerfriendly.asp?id=2676&department=field&categoryid=family
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| | Bastille Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bastille Day also falls during the running of the Tour de France, and is traditionally the day upon which French riders will make a special effort to take a stage victory for France. | | | (...) Do not forget that behind this 14 July, where victory of the new era over the ancien régime was bought by fighting, do not forget that after the day of 14 July 1789, there was the day of 14 July 1790. | | | This [latter] day cannot be blamed for having shed a drop of blood, for having divided the country. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day
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| | HUUmans on the Web - October 2001 |
| | This day marks the beginning of the revolt of Hungarians against Communist rule in 1956. | | | This marks the anniversary of the victory of the Communist Party led by Mao Zedong over the Nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and the declaration of the People's Republic of China in 1949. | | | This day commemorates Laos' liberation from its protectorate status with France and establishment of a monarchy in 1954. |
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http://www.uuhomeschool.org/month-10.php3
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| | Beware of VICTORY Act, Privacy Group Warns -- 08/18/2003 |
| | Attorney General John Ashcroft plans to promote both the VICTORY Act and the USA PATRIOT Act on his ten-day, 20-stop tour of America, which begins on Tuesday, Aug. 19. | | | The VICTORY Act supposedly will be subject to revision over the August recess, the NCC Privacy Group notes. | | | The National Consumer Coalition's Privacy Group recently read a draft copy of the VICTORY Act, which "has some chilling implications for consumer privacy," the group said. |
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http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200308/NAT20030818c.html
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| | ZNet Commentary: Victory? |
| | The “victory” over an already devastated and disarmed Iraq led Bush, Rumsfeld and their teammates into a locker-room frenzy of exultation and self-congratulation. | | | There is a long history of imperial powers, gloating over victories, becoming over-extended and overconfident, as their citizens begin to get uneasy because their day-to-day fundamental needs are being sacrificed for military glory while their young are sent to die in wars. | | | Those of us who become momentarily disheartened by “the cries of victory” should remind ourselves of that long history in which seemingly insurmountable power fell of its own unbearable weight, but also because of the resistance of those who refused finally to bear that weight, and would not give up. |
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http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2003-07/24zinn.cfm
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| | TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 17. Politics with People, Reinvented. Harold Meyerson. |
| | Minnesota has election-day voter registration: Show up at the polls with some documents establishing who you are and where you live, and you can vote. | | | That seems to be the conclusion many disaffected Greens reached soon after the Green Party convention that nominated McGaa, who'd been unknown to the delegates before they convened but who won them over on his platform of being an environmentalist, a feminist and a Sioux. | | | The whole idea of a campaign that devotes a great deal of resources to shoe leather harkens back to an earlier age of American politics. |
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/17/meyerson-h.html
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| | Martin Luther King Jr Day - MartinLutherKing Holiday Website |
| | Clearly a victory for nonviolent protest, King emerged as a highly respected leader and was chosen as president of the newly formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). | | | On April 3, 1968, King spoke of having "been to the mountain top and seen the Promised Land." The following day, while seeking to assist a garbage workers' strike in Memphis, Martin Luther King, Jr. | | | By this time, the core of King's philosophy of nonviolent protest had been formed, based on the ideals of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi. |
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http://martin-luther-king-day.123holiday.net
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| | RTÉ.ie Sport - Virenque powers to victory in the mountains |
| | Richard Virenque claims French victory on Bastille Day | | | Richard Virenque claimed the 10th stage of the Tour de France, held over 237km between Limoges and Saint Flour, to become first Frenchman to win on Bastille Day since 2001. | | | Scanlon's poor showing saw him drop further back in the overall standings, and the AG2R cyclist is now 90th overall, 31:31 behind race leader Voeckler. |
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http://www.rte.ie/sport/2004/0714/tourdefrance1.html
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| | Left I on the News |
| | And in today's humorous side note, Bush had this to say: "The victory of freedom in Iraq is strengthening a new ally in the war on terror." Oh yeah, that Iraqi government is strengthening day by day. | | | Billmon does this kind of thing so well, so I won't try, but I think we all know that one could assemble a series of quotes, one from every three months, dating back before the start of the invasion, which say precisely what this article says today. | | | On Tuesday, U.N. forces opened fire on peaceful demonstrators. |
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http://lefti.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_lefti_archive.html
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| | Printable Version |
| | Rather, what we as Orthodox Christians of Hellenic heritage celebrate every OXI Day is kairos, in the ancient sense of this unique Greek word, a critical juncture in the history of a human being or a people. | | | This is a day of rich significance, not only for the people of Greece, but for Hellenes and Philhellenes throughout the world. | | | October 28, 1940 was a day of revelation, both to the Greeks themselves and to the whole worldthe revelation of the character and spirit of Hellenism. |
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http://www.goarch.org/en/news/NewsDetail.asp?printit=yes&id=263
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| | 7ccid10.txt |
| | Howbeit this victory was not obtained without great loss to themselves: for two hundred and twenty of their people were left upon the field, and many were sorely wounded, among whom, even to the great peril of his life, was Don Rodrigo Frojaz, being wounded with many and grievous wounds. | | | And in that battle the two brethren of Don Rodrigo Frojaz, Don Pedro and Don Vermui, were slain, and the two sons of Don Pedro, so that five of that family died that day. | | | But King Don Sancho gathered together his host, and put the Cid at their head; and such account did he give of his enemies, that he of Navarre was glad to enjoy Rioja in peace, and lay no farther claim to what his father had lost. |
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http://www.knowledgerush.com/pg/etext05/7ccid10.txt
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| | Diet panel OK's bill to rename April 29 'Showa Day' (Kyodo) _ A House of Representatives committee on Friday approved a bill to rename April 29, which is now Greenery Day, as Showa Day to mark the birthday of Emperor Hirohito. | | | Well, beyond Bestimmung, the unhappy fact is that Western civilizations last chance of survival was probably a victory by the Central Powers in World War I. Their defeat let all the poisons of the French Revolution loose unchecked, which is the main reason that we now live in a moral and cultural cesspool. | | | Very few ancient Roman ivory objects have survived to the present day because ivory is a biodegradable material. |
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=emperor
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| | The Merchant Marine at D-Day |
| | As dangerous as D-Day was, for merchant mariners the most hazardous duty was on the infamous trip across the North Atlantic to the Russian port of Murmansk. | | | There were many other heroes and it will be with great pride that I will join merchant marine veterans of World War II aboard the JEREMIAH O'BRIEN to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day. | | | "When final victory is ours there is no organization that will share its credit more deservedly than the Merchant Marine." |
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http://www.marad.dot.gov/Education/history/d_day.html
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| | Kentuckiana Digital Library: Help |
| | The Battle of Mill Springs in Wayne County ends in Union victory and the death of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer. | | | The Battle of Wildcat Mountain in Laurel County is the first Union victory in Kentucky. | | | Daniel Boone escapes from the Shawnee and travels 160 miles in four days to warn the settlers at Fort Boonesborough of an impending invasion. |
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| | Seattle Bastille Day 2005 |
| | The storming of the Bastille signalled the first victory of the people of Paris against a symbol of the Ancien Régime (old regime). | | | Coming after the austerity of the 1914-18 war, the 14th of July 1919 was the occasion of a great victory celebration. | | | Bastille Day is organized by the Consular Agency of France in Seattle in partnership with the French-American Chamber of Commerce Pacific Northwest Pacific, the Alliance Française, the Seattle-Nantes Sister City Association, the French-American Schools (French-Immersion School of Washington, French American School of Puget Sound) and the Mercer Island-Thonon Les Bains Sister City Association. |
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http://seattle-bastille.org/faq.htm
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| | NONVIOLENT ACTION HANDBOOK: Nonviolence by Sanderson Beck |
| | 1933 Day and Maurin founded the Catholic Worker. | | | The ultimate goal of nonviolent action is not victory over the opponents but the finding of a harmonious way of living together peacefully with justice. | | | The conventional view of political power sees people as dependent on the good will and caprice of their government and any other hierarchical system to which they belong. |
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http://www.san.beck.org/NAH1-Nonviolence.html
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| | New York Books - Richmond County |
| | July 9, 1776 Some five hundred Staten Island men, in a formal bid to solidify their loyalty to the British crown, sign an oath of allegiance to the King of England on the same day New York receives word of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. | | | Later, new quarantine stations were built on Hoffman and Swinburne Islands. | | | Nineteen people, including a heroic police officer attempting to rescue a trapped child, were killed. |
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http://www.timevoyagers.com/bookstore/NewYork/counties/richmond.htm
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| | New York Books - Richmond County |
| | July 9, 1776 Some five hundred Staten Island men, in a formal bid to solidify their loyalty to the British crown, sign an oath of allegiance to the King of England on the same day New York receives word of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. | | | Later, new quarantine stations were built on Hoffman and Swinburne Islands. | | | Nineteen people, including a heroic police officer attempting to rescue a trapped child, were killed. |
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http://www.timevoyagers.com/bookstore/NewYork/counties/richmond.htm
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| | Gamall Steinn - Culture of the Teutons - Volume 2 (Chapter 2/The Sword of Victory) |
| | Bolli must one day come to wield it against his cousin Kjartan, and will be driven to use it for that deed which should be long in his mind. | | | Praise of the sword's power to bring victory emphasises but one side of its being, the side facing outwards towards the rest of the world; in the respect for its dangerous quality there is understood a more characteristic, more personal estimate of the value of the thing as being bound up with a particular family. | | | And it was shame to be wounded by one's own weapons, even though no lasting harm appeared to be done; and so we can perhaps have some idea of what untameable feeling boiled up in men's mind when a kinsman's blood was shed by a weapon belonging to the family itself. |
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| | Hispanic Holidays (Cinco de Mayo, Day of the Dead, Fiestas, Folk Tales) |
| | Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day, but commemorates a Mexican victory in battle against the French. | | | In some places, Three Kings Day is called "Little Christmas", possibly because of the little prizes that are found in shoes and in Marzan bread. | | | The Day of the Three Kings is celebrated on January 6. |
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http://members.aol.com/DonnHolidays/Hispanic.html
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| | Mass Moments: Boston Celebrates First Evacuation Day |
| | "In St. Patrick's Shadow: The Peculiar Holiday of Evacuation Day," by Andrew Simpson in The Newsletter of the Boston Historical Society and Museum, 2004, Issue 1. | | | To commemorate the first Evacuation Day, 100,000 special medals were presented to the city's children. | | | The custom of parades on St. Patrick's Day was well established in Boston by the time the British Army occupied the city in the 1760s. |
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http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=83
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| | Worldandnation: High court hands major victory to backers of Venezuelan recall |
| | Putin swept to an entirely expected victory on Sunday, receiving 72.1 percent of the vote, after a campaign that featured overwhelming support of the incumbent from local governments and the state-controlled news media. | | | The observers - representing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - cited abuses of government resources, bias in the state news media and even instances of ballot stuffing on election day. | | | The ruling, while not guaranteeing a recall, was a big victory for Chavez's opponents, who said the council's decision had made the referendum nearly impossible. |
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| | Timeline 1879-1882 |
| | Jubilant over their victory at Hlobane the day before, the Zulus prepared to finish off the British at Khambula. | | | 1880 Dec 31, George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff who led the U.S. Army to victory in World War II and later became Secretary of State for President Harry Truman, was born. | | | This time, however, the outcome was different as the Zulus vainly assaulted British foes who were dug in and ready for them. |
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| | Articles - Charly Gaul |
| | However, he had already won the 1959 Giro d'Italia, its mountains classification and three stages - his victory at Courmayeur had seen him take 10 minutes advantage over Jacques Anquetil over the final two climbs of the day. | | | On the last day in the Alps, he launched one last do-or-die attack and gained 15 minutes on the then race leader, Raphael Geminiani by the finish at Aix-les-Bains. | | | Charly Gaul (born 8 December 1932 in Luxembourg City) was a leading professional cyclist of the 1950s. |
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http://www.lastring.com/articles/Charly_Gaul?mySession=bb7cc7c9a8b1641d9ae506248ab546d8
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