Word: seals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken ashore by the British at Halifax and kept in jail until the Provisional Government of Russia. demanded his release. He entered Russia a few weeks later at about the same time as Lenin, with whom he worked in preparation for the famed November revolution that set the seal of Bolshevism over all the Russias. His part in preparing for the Bolshevist revolution is admittedly hardly less than that of Lenin himself, and he is regarded by some as the greater organizing genius...
Provisions. In general the proposed laws provide penalties for foreigners (Italians naturalized in other lands are considered as for- eigners) and Italians who violate their provisions outside of Italy. For example, a person who commits a crime against the "personality" of the state, or counterfeits the seal of state, or falsifies Italian currency, or who "offends" on foreign territory the rights or polit- ical interests of Italy or of an Italian subject, is amenable to the statutes. Moreover, any foreigner tried and acquitted, or convicted and sentenced in the country in which the crime was committed may be retried...
...defeat of Germany his crusade for independence virtually came to an end?Anton Smetona put Lithuania on the map. A Lithuanian government had been elected at Vilna as early as 1917 and the formal independence of the nation was proclaimed on Feb. 16, 1918; the Armistice set the seal of permanency on the young state. Again Lithuania had secured independence...
...Seal...
...Lynn, Mass., a wild seal swam and dived in a stagnant inland pool beside a highway. Thousands of people paused to watch. Traffic on the highway came to a standstill. Unable to disperse the crowd the police, vexed, fetched a riot* gun, slaughtered the seal...