Word: southern
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...does it matter to us, in 1998, so far removed from this massacre in both time and space? First, understanding the massacre and the tensions that sparked the protests helps us to comprehend the complexities of current Taiwan-China relations. The Taiwanese people emigrated to Taiwan from southern China about 400 years ago, but the island they settled was only claimed by the Chinese empire for eight of those years. In the past half millenium, Taiwan has been periodically governed by several European powers and eventually by the Japanese in the 50 years prior to World War II. During these...
Some of Iraq's next-door neighbors are afraid the country will fall apart if the U.S. hits it too hard. With Iraq pulverized, Iran becomes the biggest military power in the area. If the Shi'ite southern area of Iraq breaks away, Shi'ite Iran might gobble it up and move on to Saudi Arabia's eastern province, also Shi'ite and home to the kingdom's most important oil fields. At the same time, Iran would be deeply worried if the northern segment of Iraq were to break away and create an independent Kurdistan. Turkey and Syria share...
...given Cambridge's spotty weather conditions, much of the data collection at present is being done at other University observatory locations, including Harvard's remote facility in southern Arizona...
...North Carolinian, McCorkle said her Southern background helped her create characters...
...northern neighbor by winning the World Cup. Canadians began to rethink their national plan (More funding? A youth movement? Abandon NAFTA?), but what really upset them was learning that hardly anyone in the U.S. even knew about the contest. It's one thing to import Canadian NHL teams to southern U.S. cities, steal SCTV guys for SNL, infringe on fishing rights, but to beat them at their own sport? This could get ugly...