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Secretariat, United Nations

(Encyclopedia)Secretariat, United Nations: see United Nations. ...

Organization of Islamic Cooperation

(Encyclopedia)Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), international organization of 57 countries whose inhabitants are mainly Muslim, est. 1969 as the Organization of the Islamic Conference, renamed 2011. It is ...

United Nations Economic and Social Council

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Economic and Social Council: see Economic and Social Council. ...

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference: see Bretton Woods Conference. ...

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), organization founded (1943) during World War II to give aid to areas liberated from the Axis powers. There were finally 52 participatin...

Nervi, Pier Luigi

(Encyclopedia)Nervi, Pier Luigi pyĕr lwo͞oēˈjē nĕrˈvē [key], 1891–1979, Italian architectural engineer. Nervi is considered one of the foremost European architectural designers of the 20th cent. His first...

cultural pluralism

(Encyclopedia)cultural pluralism: see multiculturalism. ...

Cultural Revolution

(Encyclopedia)Cultural Revolution, 1966–76, mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth inaugurated by Mao Zedong in an attempt to prevent the development of a bureaucratized Soviet style of Communism. Mao closed sc...

copyright

(Encyclopedia)copyright, right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain literary, artistic, and musical productions whereby for a limited period of time he or she controls the use of the product. T...

Colombo Plan

(Encyclopedia)Colombo Plan, international economic organization created in a cooperative attempt to strengthen the economic and social development of the nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Officially the Co...