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History question: Who were the first black slaves in the Americas to gain independence from their white overlords? If your answer is the Haitians, you are wrong by more than 100 years. Correct answer: the bushmen of Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana, who escaped from their Dutch slave masters in the early 1600s, established a nation of small villages in the jungle and won a century-long guerrilla war against the European colonists and their mercenaries...
Byker said he hopes to gain faculty cooperation in the assessment of student writing abilities in classes outside of Expos...
Either the Communists could come to power and eventually burn themselves in the process, as has been the case of every government in Italy, or they would gain power and choose not to relinquish it when the time comes. Either way, they would provide a clearcut case of "democratic development" for all nations to see and to learn from...
...premature election that nobody particularly wanted, and when the votes were counted, nobody really won. In Italy's two-day national election last week, the dominant Christian Democrats (D.C.) recovered handsomely from disappointing regional election returns late last spring, but once again failed to gain the majority to form an effective government. The Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) picked up more votes and more parliamentary seats than ever, but not enough to overcome the Christian Democrats, as supporters had hoped. Italy's center parties, meanwhile, were caught between these political behemoths and were mauled...
...left the Christian Democrats (DC) with about 39 per cent of the vote in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies (an increase of some 3.5 per cent over their showing in the regional elections of 1975). The Communists, on the other hand, registered a gain of about 2.5 per cent over their showing in the 1975 elections, thus obtaining roughly 34 per cent of the vote in both parts of Parliament. The losers were the smaller parties of both right and center-left: the Christian Democrats apparently gained at the expense of the neofascists (MSI) and of their...