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LondonTop 10 StandingsLeading Medal WinnersTrack & FieldSwimmingTeam SportsBoxingCanoeingCyclingEquestrianFencingGymnasticsModern PentathlonRowingShootingWeightliftingFreestyle WrestlingGreco-…Mongolia Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Mongolia Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Mongolian Relations PEOPLELife in sparsely populated…Vietnam Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Vietnam Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Vietnam Relations PEOPLEOriginating in what is now…Why is Kaliningrad part of Russia?
Russia's exclave on the Baltic Sea The city that is now known as Kaliningrad has a contentious past. For most of its history it was inhabited by Prussian Germans, and was known by its German name…4x400-meter Relay
4x400-meter RelayYear Time 1972 East Germany 3:23.0WR1976 East Germany 3:19.23 WR1980 Soviet Union 3:20.2 1984 United States 3:18.29 OR1988 Soviet Union 3:15.18 WR1992 Unified Team 3:20.20…Turkmenistan Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note TurkmenistanYoung people in native costume dance during ceremony in Gyami, Turkmenistan, February 11, 2007. [© AP Images]PROFILEOFFICIAL NAME:…Countries of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population, 1850–2011
Society and Culture > Race & Ethnicity > Immigration (resident population) Ten leading countries by rank1 1850 1880 1900 1930 1960 1. Ireland 962,000 Germany…Cripps, Sir Stafford
(Encyclopedia) Cripps, Sir Stafford, 1889–1952, British statesman. A brilliant and successful patent and corporation lawyer, he joined the Labour party in 1929 and became solicitor general in 1930,…Council of Europe
(Encyclopedia) Council of Europe, international organization founded in 1949 to promote greater unity within Europe and to safeguard its political and cultural heritage by promoting human rights and…Gide, André
(Encyclopedia) Gide, AndréGide, AndréäNdrāˈ zhēd [key], 1869–1951, French writer. He established a reputation as an unconventional novelist with The Immoralist (1902, tr. 1930), a partly…Trending
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