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NORTH KOREAS LEADER

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KIM JONG-UN

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KIM JONG-UN

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NORTH KOREAN LEADER

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PRESIDENT OF SOUTH KOREA

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PARK GEUN-hye

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PARK GEUN-hye

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SOUTH KOREAS PRESIDENT wm

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CHUCK HAGEL

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SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

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Ecuador President

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Rafael Correa

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PRESIDENT OF EQUADOR

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Rafael Correa

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HURRICANE SANDY

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HURRICANE WHICH STRUCK AND DEVASTATED EAST COAST IN 2012.

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Bashar Assad

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President of Syria

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The suspect in the Aurora Colorado movie theater killings

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James Holmes

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MOOCs

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Online courses

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Moodle

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an open-source online teaching software package

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Olympic sprinter , the double-amputee revered in South Africa for overcoming his disability to compete in the London Games last year, wept in court Friday as he faced a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of his girlfriend.

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Oscar Pistorius

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

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Youngest of marathon bombers

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev

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Oldest of marathon bombers

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Giorgio Napolitano

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President of Italy

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BREEZY POINT

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IRISH RIVERA QUEENS, NY

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“Obamacore.”

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K-12 core curriculum standards republican nickname

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President of Mexico

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Enrique Peña Nieto

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Kobenomics

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Japan economic plan

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The respected one

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Kim jun un supreme leader of North Korea nickname

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Oxbow

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Preakness winner

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Swatting

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Crank calls hoax that involves police or other emergency services

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Jamie Dimon

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Chase CEO

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), o

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R-Minn tea party spokeswoman

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French President

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Francois Hollande

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Heinrich Rohrer

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dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology

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James B. Comey

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Head of FBI

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Rami Hamdallah

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Palestinian Authority’s New Premier

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China’s new president

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Xi Jinping

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Anwar Al-Awlaki

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American Yemeni terrorist killed by drones along with 16-year-old son.

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PRISM

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involves the FBA and the NSA peering into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies–for the purpose of extracting audio or any other data that helps track a person’s contacts and actions.

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Palace Malice

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Winner of the 145th Belmont Stakes

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Kentucky Derby winner

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Orb

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Preakness winner

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Oxbow

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MOOC

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Massive Open Online Courses

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Palace Malice

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Winner of Belmont Stakes

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The National Security Agency’s classified PRISM program

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an internal government computer system used to manage foreign intelligence collected from Internet and other electronic service providers,

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NSA

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National security agency

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Edward Snowden

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the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

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“Kinky Boots,” with songs by Cyndi Lauper, won six Tony Awards at the 2013 ceremony on Sunday, including best musical, best score and best leading man.

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with songs by Cyndi Lauper, won six Tony Awards at the 2013 ceremony on Sunday, including best musical, best score and best leading man.

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Dilma Rousseff

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Brazil’s President

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Tamsim square

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Site of uprising in turkey

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President of turkey

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Abdullah Gul

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Glenn Greenwald

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Journalist who broke NSA scandal

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Hassan Rowhani

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Newly elected president of Iran succeeding amadenajad

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Prism

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classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies

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Phil Mickelson

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Winner of us open

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James Comey

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head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Defense of Marriage Act married gay couples everywhere can receive federal marriage benefits

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DOMA

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 by

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Invalidated by scotus. a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval.

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Wendy Davis

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Who made 13-hour filibuster against a bill to restrict abortion rights

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President Dilma Rousseff

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President of el brasil

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Bradley manning

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Whistle blower

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A military judge on Tuesday found Pfc. Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted him of multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act.

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Manning verdict

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XKeyscore

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XKeyscore allows the NSA to see everything you do online.

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NSA

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Government surveillance program snowmen exposed

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Bob Filner

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San Diego pervert mayor

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Ariel Castro

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Cleveland unemployed bus driver who held three women captive for 11 years

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2399 bill

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Bill to stop gov survalillance of phone numbers. Con conyers

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Detroit

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Bankruptcy declaration. City pensions protection

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Shinto abe

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Prime minister of Japan

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Iran’s new president,

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Hassan Rouhani

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Robert Mugabe

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Zimbabwe President

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Boston Globe

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New York Times Company sold Boston globe and its other New England media properties to John W. Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, returning the paper to local ownership after two decades in which it struggled to stem the decline in circulation and revenue.

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Jeffrey P. Bezos

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agreed to buy The Washington Post, one of the nation’s most prominent newspapers, for $250 million

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Katharine Weymouth

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Washington post publisher ceo and Katharine Graham’s granddaughter.

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Dream 9

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five women and four men, who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, staged an unconventional and risky protest at the U.S.-Mexico border to spotlight the thousands of people deported under the Obama administration.

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Free flow of information act

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Act that protects journos sources

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Fraking

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Natural gas drilling tech

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Priminister of Canada

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Steven Harper

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Gerda Lerner

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Women’s history scholar, feminist historian

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Keystone pipeline

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Pipeline system to transport oil sands bitumen from Canada and northern us to refineries in Texas.

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Keystone XL pipeline

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Pipeline system from canada to Montana to oklahoma to nebraska Impacts environment. Nebraska Sandhills region

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Drone strikes

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Unmanned aerial vehicles Striking in Pakistan which hates us for it….

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Director of cia

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John Brennan

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Keystone xl tar sands pipeline

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Pipeline threat to environment by transporting oil increasing carbon emissions also climate

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Clean energy

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Energy that does not pollute like coal, oil. So electricity, nuclear power, green, solar

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Sustainable energy

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Energy that’s not zero sum gain, meeting needs of present without compromising needs of future generation

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Secretary General of un

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Ban Ki-Moon

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Secretary of treasury

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Jacob lew

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President of Afghanistan

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Hamid karzai

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Weapon used at newtown CT massacre

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Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle

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Sandy hook

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Elementary school in newtown where massacre took place

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Adam Lanza

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Newton sandy hook shooter

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James Holmes

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Aurora Colorado mass shooter

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Mike duke

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CEO Walmart

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Aaron Swartz

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Cyber activist, computer programmer social justice activist and writer committed suicide after downloading files from jstor via MIT and sentenced to prison developed rss violated computer fraud and abuse act
Championed open Internet

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Shamus Healy

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Irish poet died

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swimmer first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage.

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Diana Nyad

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Molly

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designer drug

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Gender creative

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Transgender term

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Desmond tutu

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South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop

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day General Augusto Pinochet seized power from the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende. Forty years after that sudden coup, and 23 years since its return to democracy, Chile is still recovering from the effects of Pinochet’s brutal rule.

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9/11 chile

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Wikileaks

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Whistle blowing website

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Bradley manning

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Private who gave docs to wiki leaks to show true costs of war

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The Free Flow of Information Act 2013,

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new shield bill provide shield protection for journalists from having to reveal sources against a subpoena

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Nina Davuluri, Miss New York, was

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crowned the new Miss America first of Indian descent

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a murderous rampage at the Washington Navy Yard,

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Aaron Alexis

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Dream defenders

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Trayvon Martin law

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Elmore Leonard has died. He passed away

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Novelist of get shorty

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Who bought the Boston Globe for a mere US$70 million

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Red Sox owner John W. Henry

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Pfc. Bradley Manning on Wednesday

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Sentenced to 35 years in prison for providing more than 700,000 government files to WikiLeaks, a gigantic leak that lifted the veil on American military and diplomatic activities around the world.

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Pervez Musharraf

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Pakistani Court Indicts Musharraf in 2007 Assassination of Bhutto

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Microsoft CEO to retire within 12 months

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Steve Ballmer

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Georgia school standoff hero who talked down gunman

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Antoinette Tuff

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National defense authorization act (NDAA)

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Federal law specifying budget and expenditures of us dept of defense

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Aljazeera

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Broadcaster owned by Al Jazeera media network in Doha Qatar

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Tim Scott

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First republican black senator South Carolina

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Malala yousafzai

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Pakistani school girl activist

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President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi

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President of Yemen

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Al SHABAB

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Al queda in Somalia

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Cassidy Lynn Campbell

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Transgender teen homecoming queen

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Hassan Rouhani

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newly elected Iranian leader

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Hiroshi Yamauchi

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Nintendo leader

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the America’s Cup winners

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Oracle Team USA

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Vo Nguyen Giap

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the relentless and charismatic North Vietnamese general whose battlefield victory at Dien Bien Phu drove France out of Vietnam and whose tenacious resistance to the United States in a long and costly war there eventually sapped America’s political will to fight, died

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Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap,

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Ousted U.S. From Vietnam, Is Dead

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Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai,

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Qaeda suspect known by his alias Abu Anas al-Liby, .

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Bud Selig,

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who has presided over Major League Baseball as commissioner for 21 years, formally announced Thursday that he plans to retire after the 2014 season.

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Boko Haram

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Islamic militant in Nigerian massacre

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Government shutdown

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The federal government shutdown is a virtually unprecedented move by a political minority committed to rolling back one of the most significant legislative achievements in recent American history. The Affordable Care Act of 2010

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Janet L. Yellen

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chairwoman of the Federal Reserve

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Alice Munro

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won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature

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President of Libya

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Nouri abusahmain

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BP

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British petroleum controversial oil company an American BRITISH company . Responsible for oil spill in Louisiana destroying gulf ecology

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Scott Carpenter,

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who in 1962 became the fourth U.S. astronaut in space and second American to orbit the Earth, died

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Silvio Berlusconi,

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the powerful former prime minister, of Italy.

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Oscar Hijuelos

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a Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture, becoming the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize f

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Christine lagarde

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Director of IMF

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Angola three

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Herman Wallace 1972 murder of prison guard falsely accused. Released but died

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Rino

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Republican in name only with views and actions that are not conservative enough

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Thomas S. Foley,

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Former House Speaker,

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Ted Cruz

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Jr senator of Texas. Anti Obamacare cause of potential gov shutdown. Tea party supporter and supporter tea partyp

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Kumi nadoo

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Head of green peace

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Bradley manning’s new name

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Chelsea

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Lorraine Miller

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President NAACP

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Baby Lisa

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Blonde child found in gypsy camp in Greece white slave trade?

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Roma

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Gypsies

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Oar fish

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Large long serpent like fish in California earthquake predictor.

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Bill de Blasio

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Mayor of New York

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Thabo Mbeki

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Mandela’s Vice President and successor

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Darrel Wallace jr

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African American NASCAR winner

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warlord who has spent years kidnapping and killing villagers — and eluding his pursuers — across a wide swath of central Africa

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Joseph Kony

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Jerry Sandusky

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Convicted assistant penn state coach of sexual abuse of boys. Victims’ settlements announce.

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Marilyn Tavemmer

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In charge of Obamacare implantation

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Ran Paul

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Senator of Kentucky republican. Anti drones

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In house

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435

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in senate

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100, 2per state

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Rob ford

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Mayor of Toronto caught smoking crack and tirade

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The hedge fund giant has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud and pay a record $1.2 billion fine. Under

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SAC Capital

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Paul Ciancia

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LAX shooter

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Transfat

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FDA bans

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Dan cantor

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Exec director working families party

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Working families party

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3rd party. Goal to elect progressive candidates, like de blasio and cabinet members. Education and finance reform advocates

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Joe LHOTA

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New York City Republican mayoral candidate

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Zuccoti park

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Park where occupy wallstreet was born, which celebrated 2nd anniversary

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1969 Freud triptych by Francis Bacon

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sold Tuesday night at Christie’s for $142.4 million, described as the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction.

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Dakota Meyer

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Marine sgt. Medal of Honor winner

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people are feared dead in the central Philippines following one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.

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Typhoon Haiyan

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Benghazi

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Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, two of the CIA-affiliated personnel who died during terrorist attacks on Libyan mission. Not al Qaeda as republicans insisted trying to diss Hilary but reaction agst derogatory anti Islam video.

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The Green Monster

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popular nickname for the thirty-seven foot, two-inch (11.33 m) high left field wall at Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox baseball team

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Shop and frisk

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Racial profiling while shopping

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Carmen Carrera

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wants to be the first transgender Victoria’s Secret mode

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TTP

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Trans pacific trade pack. Wikileaks published text from this massive new trade pact

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Snap chat

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24 hr Photo messaging ap invented by Stanford students

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Arctic 30

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30 green peace activists arrested for protesting agst Russian gas drilling

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The chief digital architect for the federal health insurance marketplace

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Henry Chao

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The hunger cliff

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Point at which food stamps will be cut

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Iran

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US strikes deal abt nuclear power in Iran.

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Cop 19

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Climate change summit held in Warsaw conference of parties

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Mike Duggan

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Mayor elect Detroit

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agender

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non-binary gender, meaning that the teen doesn’t identify as either a male or a female and prefers the plural pronoun “they”

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Arnon Milchan

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confirms to UVDA Israel Channel 2 he secretly was spy Hollywood producer Israeli billionaire

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Fatwa

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“Iran’s supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons.”

fatwa is a ruling by a religious authority, often with judicial implications.

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Tahrir Square

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focal point of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution against former president Hosni Mubarak

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, Juan Orlando Hernandez

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won the Central American country’s presidential vote. Honduras

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William J. Bratton

A

to. Picked to lead the New York Police Department,

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Denis McDonough

A

Chief of staff

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Octocopter

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Amazon drone delivery system

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Shinzo Abe

A

Prime minister of japan

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William Rockefeller

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Metro North Railroad engineer at controls in bronx train crash

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Thailand protests

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The protests were set off by the government’s effort to push through an amnesty that would have broadly applied to any politics-related cases since 2004. Critics said it would help ease Mr. Thaksin’s return to Thailand by wiping clean pending corruption cases against him and voiding his conviction. The government withdrew the amnesty bill last month after a public outcry, but Mr. Suthep, the protest leader, expanded protesters’ demands to include the elimination of what they call the “Thaksin regime.

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Robert Mugabe

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Zimbabwe’s authoritarian president,

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Merrill Newman

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Detained American in Korea freed

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Thabo Mbeki,

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. Mr. Mandela’s successor as president

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Mary barra

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First female GM chief operating officer

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Eliseo medina

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Cesar Chavez organizer fighting for immigration reform

200
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Rolihlahla,

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Mandela’s name means “tree shaker,” or “troublemaker,” in the Xhosa language.

202
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Robben Island

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Mandela was banished to this penal colony

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Johannesburg.

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called city of gold:

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Afrikaner government

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Government determined to entrench white rule through a legal system that mandated racial discrimination in jobs, housing and virtually every other aspect of life.

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Oliver Tambo,

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later became president of the ANC

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Jacob Zuma

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President of South Africa

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Jang Song Taek,

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the uncle by marriage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was executed for attempting to seize power for himself

208
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Cesar CHAVEZ

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United farmworkers activist

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Caroline hunter

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Led boycott of Polaroid agst South Africa photos for passbooks

210
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Michelle batchal

A

President chile

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Q

Viktor yanukovich

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President of Ukraine

Protest agst his siding with Russia vs European Union on political and free trade agreements

212
Q

John D. Podesta

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Center for American Progress, founded by

213
Q

Sochi Russia

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Site of 2014 Winter Olympics

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Kurt DelBene

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former Microsoft executive taking over healthcare.gov.

215
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Max baucus

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Senator nominated as ambassador to china

216
Q

Mikhail khodorkovsky

A

Oil tycoon freed from prison

217
Q

Mikhail Kalashnikov

A

Ak-47 creator died

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Q

Phil Robertson

A

Duck dynasty star who made racists and anti homosexual slurs.

220
Q

Devyani Khobragade

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the deputy consul general in New York arrested for employee abuses

221
Q

Muslim brotherhood

A

Terrorist organization in Egypt removed morisi from office

222
Q

Jorge bergoglio

A

Pope Francis

223
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Andre cassagnes

A

Etch a sketch invenventer

224
Q

The other 98%

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Grp asking Wall Street to contribute bonuses to those who lost in housing crisis.

225
Q

Jahi McMath

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13-year-old girl on a ventilator who has been declared dead by doctors.

226
Q

Ulghurs/weegers

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Last 3 freed from gitmo to Slovakia

Muslim minorities facing persecution in china

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Sasheer zamata

A

Snl blk female cast member recently hired

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Q

Sergio Garcia

A

Undocumented man became a lawyer but can’t get job in firm so opened own law office

229
Q

Bitcoins

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Digital currency

230
Q

Jalal talabani

A

President of Iraq

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Volker rule

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Ban on proprietary trading

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Q

Braten

A

NYC police chief

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Bridget Anne Kelly

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Christies Deputy chief of staff behind traffic scandal

234
Q

Melissa

Mark-viverito

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Speaker of the city council first Hispanic

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