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July 2011 Current Events: Business News

U.S. News | World News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in business news for the month of July 2011. European Bankers Meet to Discuss Greek Debt…

2010 Year in Review - Greece

Major World News Stories of 2010 The euro Related Links Greece Country Profile Ireland Country Profile 2010 Year in Review 2010 News of the Nation…

Niger Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Niger Index: People Government and Political Conditions Economy Defense U.S.-Nigerien Relations PEOPLEConsiderable evidence indicates that about 600,000…

James Winthrop: Agrippa III

Agrippa IIIJames Winthrop30 November 1787by James Winthrop, AgrippaTo the People.It has been proved, from the clearest evidence, in two former papers, that a free government, I mean one in…

Mississippi Scheme

(Encyclopedia) Mississippi Scheme, plan formulated by John Law for the colonization and commercial exploitation of the Mississippi valley and other French colonial areas. In 1717 the French merchant…

Dekker, Thomas

(Encyclopedia) Dekker, Thomas, c,1570–1632, English dramatist and pamphleteer. Little is known of his life except that he frequently suffered from poverty and served several prison terms for debt. He…

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

(Encyclopedia) Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751–1816, English dramatist and politician, b. Dublin. His father, Thomas Sheridan, was an actor and teacher of elocution and his mother, Frances Sheridan…

Perot, H. Ross

(Encyclopedia) Perot, H. Ross (Henry Ross Perot), 1930–2019, American business executive and political leader, b. Texarkana, Tex., as Henry Ray Perot, grad. Annapolis, 1953. In 1957 he resigned his…