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Ladies' Peace

(Encyclopedia)Ladies' Peace: see Cambrai, Treaty of. ...

Karlovci, Sremski

(Encyclopedia)Karlovci, Sremski: see Karlowitz, Treaty of. ...

Sremski Karlovci

(Encyclopedia)Sremski Karlovci: see Karlowitz, Treaty of. ...

Kiyoura, Keigo

(Encyclopedia)Kiyoura, Keigo, 1850–1942, Japanese government official and political leader. He joined the ministry of justice in 1876 and participated in the drafting of new legal codes for Japan. He held several...

Black Tom

(Encyclopedia)Black Tom, part of Jersey City, N.J., also called Black Tom Island. In July, 1916, German saboteurs demolished U.S. munitions stores there; in Jan., 1917, they destroyed the Kingsland, N.J., munitions...

Sihanouk, Norodom

(Encyclopedia)Sihanouk, Norodom nōrōdŭmˈ sĭhənŭkˈ [key], 1922–2012, king of Cambodia (1941–55, 1993–2004), b. Phnom Penh. Sihanouk was educated in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Paris and was elect...

European Atomic Energy Community

(Encyclopedia)European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom or EAEC), economic organization that came into being as the 3d treaty organization of what has become the European Union; established by the Treaty of Rome (1...

naval conferences

(Encyclopedia)naval conferences, series of international assemblies, meeting to consider limitation of naval armaments, settlement of the rules of naval war, and allied issues. The London Naval Conference (1908–9...

Allen, Hervey

(Encyclopedia)Allen, Hervey, 1889–1949, American novelist and poet, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1915. After service in World War I, he taught English in Charleston, S.C., where, in collaboration wit...

Paris Peace Conference

(Encyclopedia)Paris Peace Conference, 1919: see Versailles, Treaty of. ...