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• Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
  ...by the United Nations Statistics Division and previously by the League of Nations. ...r the Bulletin include the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Civil Service Com
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• Korean War
  Under the aegis of the [[United Nations]], nations allied with the United States intervened on behalf of South Korea. After rapid advances in a South ...nflict expanded, becoming a proxy battle in the [[Cold War]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]]. The term has also been used to describe
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• Internationalism
  ....org/wiki/World_Federalist_Movement World Federalist Movement], claim that nations should [[cooperate]] because their long-term [[mutual]] interests are of gr ...chauvinism. Internationalism [[presupposes]] the [[recognition]] of other nations as [[equal]], in spite of all their [[differences]]. The term international
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• Polling the Nations
  '''''[https://0-poll.orspub.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/ Polling the Nations]''''' 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries.
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• World War II
  ...global [[War|military conflict]] which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military al ...age for the [[Cold War]], which lasted for the next 45 years. The [[United Nations]] was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict. The [[self-de
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• 911
  ...w.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/SC7143.doc.htm] by Islamic extremists on The United States.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks]
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• Desertion
  ...thority]] was subsequently formulated into International Law by the United Nations as we see in this quote: ...nscientious_objection Conscientious objection] to military service, United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/77” [[recognized]] that “[[p
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• FAOSTAT
  From the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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• Refugees
  A '''refugee''' is defined by the United Nations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugee ...ons_Relief_and_Works_Agency_for_Palestine_Refugees_in_the_Near_East United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East] (UNRWA), w
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• State of Food and Agriculture
  ...Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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• Captal Punishment
  ...in India and in many US states it is rarely employed). Each of these four nations has consistently voted against the General Assembly resolutions.[https://en
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• Immigration
  ...s come from Asia. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations United Nations] estimates that there are 214 million migrants across the globe, an increas The United Nations found that, in 2005, there were nearly 1 million international migrants wor
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• Cosmopolitan
  ...al]] [[relationships]] between [[nations]] or [[individuals]] of different nations. A [[person]] who adheres to the idea of cosmopolitanism in any of its form ...ationship, or a political [[structure]] that [[encompasses]] [[different]] nations. In its more positive versions, the cosmopolitan community is one in which
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• Hostage
  ...983 and has been ratified by all but 24 of the member states of the United Nations.
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• Dominion
  ...ed : a self-governing nation of the Commonwealth of Nations other than the United Kingdom that acknowledges the British monarch as chief of [[state]] ...iki/Commonwealth_of_Nations British Commonwealth] that [[shared]] with the United Kingdom the same [[person]] as their respective [[monarch]]. These have inc
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• Custody
  ...ies, terms such as "residence" and "contact" (known as "visitation" in the United States) have superseded the [[concepts]] of "custody" and "[[access]]". Ins ...nal_Child_Abduction The Hague Convention] seeks to avoid this, also in the United States of America, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Child_Custody
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• Orphan
  ...ferent]] definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the United States is a minor bereft through "[[death]] or disappearance of, abandonmen ...pedia.org/wiki/Joint_United_Nations_Programme_on_HIV_and_AIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS] (UNAIDS), and other [[groups]] label any child t
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• Literacy
  The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] (UNESCO) defines literac ...hat the [[definition]] of literacy should be expanded. For example, in the United States, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Teachers_of_
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• New York City
  ...e of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Headquarters United Nations Headquarters], New York is an important center for international [[diplomac ...le, and is also part of the most populous Combined Statistical Area in the United States, containing an estimated 23.4 million people.
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• Torture
  '''Torture''', according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is: ...y civilians) in armed conflicts. Torture is also prohibited by the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which has been ratified by 145 states.
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• United States
  ...the title was changed to read, "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America". ...of Confederation] announced, "The Stile of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'".
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• Children
  The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as "a [[human]] being ...b/k2crc.htm "Convention on the Rights of the Child"]. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. https://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2cr
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• City
  :c : a usually large or important municipality in the United States governed under a charter granted by the [[state]] ...l cathedral], hence the official [[status]] of St David's as a city in the United Kingdom despite its [[population]] of 1,797 in 2001.
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• Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World
  ...its of Liberal Democracy; and Lloyd Axworthy and John Bolton on the United Nations
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• Rodeo
  ...s this latter usage which was adopted into the cowboy [[tradition]] of the United States and Canada. ...of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western [[United States]], western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today it is a sporting event
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• Atom Bomb
  ...o nuclear weapons have been used in the course of [[warfare]], both by the United States near the end of [[World War II]]. On 6 August 1945, a [https://en.wi ...ted States, the Soviet Union (succeeded as a nuclear power by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, and North
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• Nationalism
  ...on promotion of its [[culture]] and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational [[groups]] ...mphasizes [[collective]] [[identity]] - a 'people' must be [[autonomous]], united, and [[express]] a single national [[culture]]. However, some nationalists
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• Suffrage
  ...]] to vote, which is sometimes denied those who have a legal right. In the United States, extension of suffrage was part of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja ...of [[government]] whereas the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States] does not offer initiatives at the federal level or in many states.
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• Viet Nam War
  ...the award-winning PBS history series, American Experience. Meanwhile, the United States, its military demoralized and its civilian electorate deeply divided The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as
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• Slum
  ...sing, squalor, and lacking in tenure [[security]]. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent
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• Unanimity
  ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_resolution United Nations Security Council] [[resolution]] is not considered "unanimous" if a member
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• Moon
  ...a programme] was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft, the United States' NASA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program Apollo program] ...wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Outer Space Treaty], [[free]] to all nations to [[explore]] for [[peace]]ful [[purposes]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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• 2010-04-10-A United World
  ===Topic: ''A United World''=== ...] is slowly moving toward that goal and many forms of government in some [[nations]] are close to realizing this [[ideal]]. However, the functionaries of thes
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• Genocide
  ...nocide''' [[scholars]], a [[legal]] definition is found in the 1948 United Nations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_ ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials Nuremberg trials] that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG which defined the crime of genocide under international
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• Kryon
  ...nal channel for Kryon, and has been honored over the years by seven United Nations invitations to channel Kryon at the UN building in New York city. The Kryon
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• America's News Magazines
  ...entatives and Senate 1789 to 1817, covering the first 14 Congresses of the United States. :Journals of the executive proceedings of the United States Senate 1789 to 1980, covering the first Congress through the 96th Co
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• The Folded Up
  [81.7] And when [[soul]]s are united, [81.27] It is naught but a reminder for the nations,
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• 134:5 Political Sovereignty
  134:5.2 [[War]] on [[Urantia]] will never end so long as [[nations]] cling to the [[illusive]] notions of unlimited [[national]] [[sovereignty ...erce]], and [[conquest]], tribes become [[unified]] as a [[nation]], while nations themselves sometimes become unified by [[empire]].
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• Ambassador
  ...Region or sometimes a seat of international organizations like the United Nations/ European Union. In some cases an Ambassador at Large may even be specifica ...han the government has persisted. For example, ambassadors to and from the United Kingdom are accredited to or from the Royal Court of St. James's (referring
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• Population
  ...opulation hit 6.5 billion (6,500,000,000) on February 25, 2006. The United Nations Population Fund designated October 12, 1999 as the approximate day on which In 2007 the United Nations Population Division projected that the world's population will likely surpa
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• Farmer
  ...]] while meeting the needs of the household or [[community]]. In developed nations however, a person using such techniques on small patches of land might be c In developed nations, a farmer (as a [[profession]]) is usually defined as someone with an owner
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• Interdependence
  ...8, 1944. Others have been written in the years since, and interest in the United States has picked up in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Leaders ...tion, upon the interdependence of the various elements in and parts of the United States – a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation
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• Defamation
  ...than a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_wrong civil wrong]. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights ruled in 2012 that the criminalization of libel
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• B.C.E.
  ...obal standard, recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union.
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• 134:6 Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty
  ...gnties, reposing them in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom]. ...g the [[machinery]] for preventing small [[wars]], wars between the lesser nations. But global wars will go on until the [[government]] of [[mankind]] is crea
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• Anniversary
  ...for example the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial United States Bicentennial]. These could be the date of independence of the nation Anniversaries of nations are usually marked by the number of years elapsed [[described]] with [https
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• World Government
  #"The Law of Nations Shall be Founded on a Federation of Free States" *'''''League of Nations'''''
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• 2018-01-25-Meeting and Responding to Censorship
  ...cultures that really seem wrong to us, but what is the proper role of the United States in terms of addressing we might see in another nation? ...se viewpoint, but since they are very interested in what the people of the United States think because of the power you have both economically and militarily
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• Emigration
  ...f [[residence]] or country to live elsewhere <emigrated from Canada to the United States> ...have [[personal]] reasons such as [[marriage]]. Some people living in rich nations with cold [[climates]] choose to move to warmer climates when they retire.
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• Alice Bailey
  ...as born as Alice LaTrobe Bateman, in Manchester, England. She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a [[writer]] and [[teac ...[meditation]], [[healing]], spiritual [[psychology]], the [[destiny]] of [[nations]], and prescriptions for [[society]] in general. She described the [[majori
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