• Founder of FacebookMark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) he is CEOand president . It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University • Founder of Google Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page andSergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. [1] • Founder of wikileaks Julian Assange , an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director. • Founder of Microsoft William Henry "Bill" Gates III, (born October 28, 1955) the software company he founded with Paul Allen • Founder of Yahoo Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang andDavid Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995 • Founder of MSN Bill Gates • Founder of Twitter its creation in March 2006 and its launch in July 2006 by Jack Dorsey , • Founder of myspace Thomas "Tom" Anderson (born November 8, 1970 ) is an Americanentrepreneur . He co founded the social networkingwebsiteMySpace in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe.
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• Founder of Facebook
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) he is CEO and president. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo
Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at HarvardUniversity
• Founder of Google
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry
Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford
University in California.[1]
• Founder of wikileaks
Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described asits director.
• Founder of Microsoft
William Henry "Bill" Gates III, (born October 28, 1955) the software
company he founded with Paul Allen
• Founder of Yahoo
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994
and was incorporated on March 1, 1995
• Founder of MSN
Bill Gates
• Founder of Twitter
its creation in March 2006 and its launch in July 2006 by Jack Dorsey,
• Founder of myspace
Thomas "Tom" Anderson (born November 8, 1970 ) is an American entrepreneur. He co
founded the social networking website MySpace in 2003 with ChrisDeWolfe.
Physiology or medicine Robert G Edwards For the development of in vitro fertilization
(IVF)
Physics Jointly to Andre Geim andKonstantin Novoselov
For groundbreaking experiments regarding thetwo-dimensional material graphene
Chemistry Jjointly to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki
For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings inorganic synthesis
Literature Mario Vargas LlosaFor his cartography of structures of power andhis trenchant images of the individual'sresistance, revolt, and defeat
Peace Liu Xiaobo For his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China
EconomicsJointly to Peter A. Diamond,Dale T. Mortensen andChristopher A. Pissarides
For their analysis of markets with searchfrictions
Top ten controversial nobel prize winners
10. Jimmy Carter of USA
Jimmy Carter’s 2002 Nobel Peace Prize—awarded for the “decades of untiring effortto find peaceful solutions to international conflicts
9. Wangari Maathai
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Wangari Maathai, 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, created controversy byappearing to lend credibility to the theory that HIV was invented by white scientiststo destroy black people
8. Al Gore of USA
Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on raising public awareness of Global Warming
7. Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
6. Henry Kissinger of USA
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his work on the Vietnam Peace
5. Yitzhak Rabin of Israel
Rabin won the prize jointly with Shimon Peres and Yasser Araft in 1994.
4. Shimon Peres
Awarded the prize jointly with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, Peres wasresponsible for developing Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal
3. Yasser Arafat of Palestine
Kåre Kristiansen, a Norwegian member of the Nobel Committee, resigned in 1994 in
protest at the awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat, whom he labeled a“terrorist”
2. Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull was awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace in 1945 in recognition of hisefforts for peace and understanding in the Western Hemisphere
1. Menachem BeginMenachem Begin (6th Prime Minister of Israel) was awarded the Nobel PeacePrize in 1978 for his contributions to the successful closure to the Camp
David Accords in the same year (the award was jointly given to Begin andAnwar Sadat).
Barrak obama American president was awarded for Nobel prize of peace in 2009 ,his nomination was criticized and declare it a controversy
Liu Xiaobo of China was awarded nobel prize for peace 2010 ,Chinesegovernment disagreed for his nomination and protested against his nomination .
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Heads of Important InternationalOrganizations
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Here is a list of the heads of important international organizations along withtheir names and designation in the form of a quiz. The names of these importantinternational officials are asked in the form of 'who is' questions and their names arelisted below each question in the form of answer.
Heads of Important International OrganizationsWho is the Secretary-General of United Nations Organization?
Answer: Ban Ki-Moon
Who is the Vice-President of World Bank (IBRD)?
Answer: Anil Sood
Who is the Chairman of UN General Assembly?
Answer: Ali Triki
Who is the Director-General of United Nations Educational Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO)?
Answer: Koïchiro Matsuura
Who is the Director-General of Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)?
Peace Treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France and
their respective Allies.
In the name of the most holy and individual Trinity: Be it known to all, and every one whom itmay concern, or to whom in any manner it may belong, That for many Years past, Discords andCivil Divisions being stir’d up in the Roman Empire, which increas’d to such a degree, that notonly all Germany, but also the neighbouring Kingdoms, and France particularly, have beeninvolv’d in the Disorders of a long and cruel War:
War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was fought amongseveral European powers, principally the Spanish loyal to Archduke Charles, theHoly Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal and the Duchy of Savoy against the Spanish loyal to Philip V, France and the Electorate of Bavariaover a possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch. Such a unification would have drastically changed the European balanceof power.
The War of the Polish Succession (1733–1738) was a major European warfor princes' possessions sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession toAugustus II, King of Poland that other European powers widened in pusuit of their
own national interests. France and Spain, the two Bourbon powers, attempted tocheck the power of the Austrian Habsburgs in western Europe, as did the Kingdomof Prussia; whilst in the East, Saxony and Russia mobilized to support the eventualPolish victor. The slight amount of fighting in Poland resulted in the accession of Augustus III, who in addition to Russia and Saxony, was politically supported by theHabsburgs.
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans) was a series of wars waged from 1337to 1453 by the House of Valois(France) and the House of Plantagenet(England), also known asthe House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of thesenior Capetian line of French kings. The House of Valois claimed the title of King of France,while the Plantagenets from England claimed to be Kings of France and England. PlantagenetKings were the 12th century rulers of the Kingdom of England, and had their roots in the Frenchregions of Anjou and Normandy.
Treaty of Utrecht
The Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht, comprises a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of SpanishSuccession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713. The treaties between severalEuropean states, including Spain, Great Britain, France, Savoy, and the Dutch Republic, helpedend the War of the Spanish Succession. The treaties were concluded between the representatives
of Louis XIV of France and Philip V of Spain on the one hand, and representatives of QueenAnne of Great Britain, the Duke of Savoy, the King of Portugal and the United Provinces on theother.
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended thestate of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactlyfive years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on theGerman side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties.[1] Although the armistice signedon 11 November 1918 ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the ParisPeace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the
League of Nations on October 21, 1919, and was printed in The League of Nations Treaty Series.Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (or VCLT) is a treaty concerning theinternational law on treaties between states. It was adopted on 22 May 1969[1] and opened for signature on 23 May 1969.[2] The Convention entered into force on 27 January 1980.[2] TheVCLT has been ratified by 111 states as of November 2010;[3] those that have not ratified it yetmay still recognize it as binding upon them in as much as it is a restatement of customary law.
The Convention codifies several bedrocks of contemporary international law. It defines a treatyas "an international agreement concluded between states in written form and governed byinternational law," as well as affirming that "every state possesses the capacity to concludetreaties." Most nations, whether they are party to it or not, recognize it as the preeminent "Treatyof Treaties"; it is widely recognized as the authoritative guide vis-à-vis the formation and effectsof treaties.
Hague Convention
The Hague Convention(s) may refer to:
• Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907), among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in international law
• International Opium Convention, the first international drug control treaty,sometimes referred to as the Hague Convention of 1912
• Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (signed 14 May 1954)
• Hague Conference on Private International Law, the preeminent organisationin the area of private international law from the early 1900s through thepresent day
○ Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation forForeign Public Documents, signed on October 5, 1961
○ Hague Convention on Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, signed in 1971
○ Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation inRespect of Intercountry Adoption, signed in 1993
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed theArgonaut Conference, was the February 4–11, 1945 wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively—for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. Mainly, it wasintended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. The conferenceconvened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, the Crimea. It was the second of three wartimeconferences among the Big Three (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin). It had been preceded by theTehran Conference in 1943, and it was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, whichwas attended by Harry S. Truman in place of the late Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill — himself replaced mid-point by the newly elected Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements[1] or Declaration of Principles (DOP), was a milestone in theongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, one of the major continuing issues within the wider Arab-Israeli conflict. It was the first direct, face-to-face agreement between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was intended to be the one framework for
future negotiations and relations between the Israeli government and Palestinians, within whichall outstanding "final status issues" between the two sides would be addressed and resolved.
French Revolution
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–99) was a period of radical social
and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruledFrance for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation asfeudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from liberal political groups and the masses on the streets. Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumbedto new Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
American Revolution
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together tobreak free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. They first rejected the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain to
govern them from overseas without representation, and then expelled all royalofficials. By 1774 each colony had established a Provincial Congress, or anequivalent governmental institution, to form individual self-governing states. TheBritish responded by sending combat troops to re-impose direct rule. Throughrepresentatives sent in 1775 to the Second Continental Congress, the new states
joined together at first to defend their respective self-governance and manage thearmed conflict against the British known as the American Revolutionary War (1775–83, also American War of Independence). Ultimately, the states collectivelydetermined that the British monarchy, by acts of tyranny, could no longerlegitimately claim their allegiance. They then severed ties with the British Empire in
July 1776, when the Congress issued the United States Declaration of Independence, rejecting the monarchy on behalf of the new sovereign nation.
Russian Revolution (1917)
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917,which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar wasdeposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917(March in the Gregorian calendar ; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). Inthe second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replacedwith a Bolshevik (Communist) government.
Nazism
Nazism ( Nationalsozialismus, National Socialism; alternatively spelled Naziism[1]) was theideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] It was a uniquevariety of fascism that involved biological racism and antisemitism.[10] Nazism presented itself as politically syncretic, incorporating policies, tactics and philosophies from right- and left-wing ideologies; in practice, Nazism was a far right form of politics.[11]
The Nazis believed in the supremacy of an Aryan master race and claimed that Germans represent the most pure Aryan nation.[12] They argued that Germany's survival as a modern great
nation required it to create a New Order — an empire in Europe that would give the Germannation the necessary land mass, resources, and expansion of population needed to be able toeconomically and militarily compete with other powers.
Communism
Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless societystructured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labour and private property in the means of production andreal estate.[1]
In Marxist theory, communism is a specific stage of historical development that inevitablyemerges from the development of the productive forces that leads to a superabundance of material wealth, allowing for distribution based on need and social relations based on freely-associated individuals.
Socialism
Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership and
cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.[1][2][3]
A socialistsociety is a social structure organized on the basis of relatively equal power-relations, self-management, dispersed decision-making (adhocracy) and a reduction or elimination of hierarchical and bureaucratic forms of administration and governance; the extent of which variesin different types of socialism.[4][5] This ranges from the establishment of cooperative management structures in the economy to the abolition of all hierarchical structures in favor of free association.
Fascism
Fascism (pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2][3][4] Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist
perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy.[5][6] Fascism was originally founded by Italian national syndicalists in World War I who combined extreme right-wing political views along with collectivism.[7] Scholarsgenerally consider fascism to be on the far right.[
Military values
Fascists favoured military values such as courage, unquestioning obedience to authority,discipline, and physical strength. They also adapted the outward trappings of militaryorganizations, such as paramilitary uniforms and Roman salutes. Hitler imagined a God who presided over military conflicts and ensured the survival of the fittest. Mussolini was famous for slogans such as “A minute on the battlefield is worth a lifetime of peace,” “Better to live an hour
like a lion than a hundred years like a sheep,” and “Nothing has ever been won in history without bloodshed.
Tashkent Declaration
The Tashkent Declaration of 10 January 1966 was a peace agreement between India andPakistan. In September 1965 before the two had engaged in the short run Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Peace had been achieved on 23 September by the intervention of the great powers who
pushed the two nations to a cease fire for fears the conflict could escalate and draw in other powers.
A meeting was held in Tashkent in the Uzbek SSR , USSR (now in Uzbekistan) beginning on 4January 1966 to try to create a more permanent settlement. The Soviets, represented by Premier Alexei Kosygin moderated between Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani
President Muhammad Ayub Khan.Indus Waters Treaty
The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-sharing treaty between the Republic of India and Islamic Republic Of Pakistan, brokered by the World Bank (then theInternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development). The treaty was signed inKarachi on September 19, 1960 by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru andPresident of Pakistan Mohammad Ayub Khan. The treaty was a result of Pakistanifear that since the source rivers of the Indus basin were in India, it could potentiallycreate droughts and famines in Pakistan, especially at times of war. However, Indiadid not revoke the treaty during any of three later Indo-Pakistani Wars.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also Nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty (NPT or NNPT) is a treaty to limit the spread ( proliferation) of nuclear weapons. Thetreaty came into force on 5 March 1970, and currently there are 189 states party to the treaty, fiveof which are recognized as nuclear weapon states: the United States, Russia, the UnitedKingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations SecurityCouncil).
Four non-parties to the treaty are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistanand North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel
has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program. North Korea acceded tothe treaty, violated it, and in 2003 withdrew from it.
The treaty was proposed by Ireland and Finland, and they were the first to sign.[
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and correspondinginternational treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union - the Cold War superpowers - on the issue of armament control. There were two rounds of talks and agreements:SALT I and SALT II.
Negotiations commenced in Helsinki, Finland, in 1969. SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic MissileTreaty and an interim agreement between the two powers. Although SALT II resulted in anagreement in 1979, the United States chose not to ratify the treaty in response to the Sovietinvasion of Afghanistan, which took place later that year. The US eventually withdrew fromSALT II in 1986.
SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation TalksAgreement, also known as Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. SALT I froze thenumber of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided forthe addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after
the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBMlaunchers had been dismantled.
SALT II was a controversial experiment of negotiations between Jimmy Carterand Leonid Brezhnev from 1977 to 1979 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union,
which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. It was acontinuation of the progress made during the SALT I talks. SALT II was the firstnuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2,250 of allcategories of delivery vehicles on both sides. SALT II helped the U.S. to discouragethe Soviets from arming their third generation ICBMs of SS-17, SS-19 and SS-18 types with many more Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).
Technical barriers to trade
Technical regulations and product standards may vary from country to country.Having many different regulations and standards makes life difficult for producers and
exporters. If regulations are set arbitrarily, they could be used as an excuse forprotectionism.
The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade tries to ensure that regulations,standards, testing and certification procedures do not create unnecessary obstacles.
However, the agreement also recognizes countries’ rights to adopt the standards they
consider appropriate — for example, for human, animal or plant life or health, for the
protection of the environment or to meet other consumer interests. Moreover, members are
not prevented from taking measures necessary to ensure their standards are met.
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. It was adopted bythe United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996 but it has not yetentered into force. The Treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996.[2] It opened for signature in New York on 24 September1996,[2] when it was signed by 71 States, including five of the eight then nuclear-capable states. As of May 2010, 153 states have ratified the CTBT and another 29states have signed but not yet ratified it.
2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the CopenhagenSummit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark , between 7 December and 18December. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 5th Meeting of the Parties (MOP 5)to the Kyoto Protocol. According to the Bali Road Map, a framework for climate changemitigation beyond 2012 was to be agreed there.[2]
The conference was preceded by the Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions scientific conference, which took place in March 2009 and was also held at the Bella Center. The
negotiations began to take a new format when in May 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, organised by theCopenhagen Climate Council (COC), where he requested that COC councillors attend NewYork's Climate Week at the Summit on Climate Change on 22 September and engage with headsof government on the topic of the climate problem.
In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. To keep the processon the line there is an urgent need for a new climate protocol. At the conference in Copenhagen 2009 theparties of the UNFCCC meet for the last time on government level before the climate agreement need tobe renewed.
Cancun Climate Conference: what it all means
More than 190 countries gathered for two weeks of talks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The aim of the talks is to curb global warming bycutting carbon emissions.
How was it different from Copenhagen?
The last meeting of the UNFCCC in Copenhagen ended in chaos after countries failed to agree a
way forward.
Campaigners claim it it has placed UN talks back on track after the disaster at Copenhagen.Countries agreed a ‘balanced package’ that will keep temperature rise below 2C (3.6F).
It stops short of a legal treaty, but commits all countries to cutting emissions for the first timeunder the UN.
How did they do it?
Haunted by the Copenhagen summit, the host country Mexico tried to focus on areas of agreement instead of seeking an ambitious full treaty.
It also insisted on transparency rather than closed-door talks among major powers. This and anunrelenting positive mood made it difficult for trouble makers to complain.
How will countries cut emissions?
More than 80 countries, including the US, EU and China, put forward voluntary emissions cutsin Copenhagen. These have now been made a formal agreement under the UN process.
The Jasmine Revolution
Like the eastern European revolutions of 1989, the collapse of Tunisia’s autocracy serves as a reminder that nonation will forever endure political repression, denial of civil liberties and rampant corruption among its rulers.Tunisians deserve warm praise for their courage in effecting what promises to be the most positive change in their country’s system of government since it won independence from France in 1956. Deplorable violence accompaniedthe downfall of Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali, the president who seized power in 1987 and fled last week into exile in Saudi
Arabia. But the worst excesses were committed by his security forces, not by the people or by Tunisia’s army, whichhas shown commendable restraint since the turmoil began in mid-December. To avoid more bloodshed, it is essentialthat Tunisia’s interim authorities deliver on their promise to form a government of national unity, including the much-abused opposition, and hold free elections as soon as possible.
Colour revolution
Colour revolutions are a term used by the media to describe related movements that developedin several societies in the CIS (former USSR) and Balkan states during the early 2000s. Someobservers[who?] have called the events a revolutionary wave.
Participants in the colour revolutions have mostly used nonviolent resistance to protest againstgovernments seen as corrupt and/or authoritarian, and to advocate democracy. These movementsall adopted a specific colour or flower as their symbol. The colour revolutions are notable for theimportant role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and particularly student activists inorganizing creative non-violent resistance.
These movements have been successful in Serbia (especially the Bulldozer Revolution of 2000),in Georgia's Rose Revolution (2003), in Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2004), in Lebanon'sCedar Revolution and (though more violent than the previous ones) in Kyrgyzstan's TulipRevolution (2005). Each time massive street protests followed disputed elections or request of fair elections and led to the resignation or overthrow of leaders considered by their opponents to be authoritarian.
Colonialism
Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in oneterritory by people from another territory. Colonialism is a process whereby sovereignty over thecolony is claimed by the metropole and the social structure, government, and economics of thecolony are changed by colonists - people from the metropole. Colonialism is a set of unequal
relationships: between the metropole and the colony, and between the colonists and theindigenous population.
The term colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the late 15th to the 20th centurywhen European nation states established colonies on other continents. In this period, the justifications for colonialism included various factors such as the profits to be made, theexpansion of the power of the metropole and various religious and political beliefs.
Colonialism and imperialism were ideologically linked with mercantilism.
Cold War
The Cold War (Russian: Холо́дная война́, Kholodnaya voyna, 1947–1991) was the continuingstate of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition existing after
World War II (1939–1945) between the Communist World – primarily the Soviet Union and itssatellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States andits allies. Although the primary participants' military force never officially clashed directly, theyexpressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments,extensive aid to states deemed vulnerable, proxy wars, espionage, propaganda, conventional andnuclear arms races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events, and technologicalcompetitions such as the Space Race.
Cold Start (military doctrine)
Cold Start was a military doctrine developed by the Indian Armed Forces in 2004. It involves joint operations between India's three main services (Army, Navy, and Air Force) and integrated battle groups for offensive operations. A key component is the preparation of India's forces to beable to quickly mobilise and take offensive actions9/11 by the NumbersDeath, destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies, and otherSeptember 11 statistics.
The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.
• Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million
• Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion
• Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion
• Estimated amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5 billion
• Amount of money recently granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattansubways: $4.55 billion
• Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families:$500 million
• Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25
• Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million
• Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9
• Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40
• Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50
• Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered "inappropriate" to play after 9/11: 150
• Number of mentions of 9/11 at the Oscars: 26
• Apartments in lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup: 30,000
• Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,110
• Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to train or car: 1.4 million
• Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as aresult of 9/11: 422,000
U.N.OThe United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countriescommitted to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promotingsocial progress, better living standards and human rights.
The UN has 4 main purposes
• To keep peace throughout the world;
• To develop friendly relations among nations;
• To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy,and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms;
• To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.
The Triple Alliance was the military alliance between Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy that lasted from 1882[1] until the start of World War I in 1914.[2] Each member promised mutualsupport in the event of an attack by any two other great powers, or for Germany and Italy, anattack by France alone. In a supplementary declaration, Italy specified that its undertakings couldnot be regarded as being directed against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Shortly after renewing the Alliance in June 1902, Italy secretly extended a similar guarantee toFrance
Détente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is oftenused in reference to the general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the UnitedStates in the 1970s, a thawing at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War . In the SovietUnion, détente was known in Russian: as разрядка ("razryadka", loosely meaning relaxation,
discharge). Détente is an alternative strategy to rollback , the strategy of destroying an enemystate, and containment, which means preventing the expansion of the enemy state.
Causes
The NATO powers and the Warsaw Pact both had strong reasons to seek relaxation in tensions.Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt that the economic burden of thenuclear arms race was unsustainable. The American economy was also in financial trouble as theVietnam War drained government finances at the same time as Lyndon Johnson (and to a lesser extent, Richard Nixon) sought to expand the welfare state.
Deterrence
Deterrence may refer to:
• Deterrence theory, a theory of war, especially regarding nuclear weapons
• Deterrence (legal), a theory of justice
• Deterrence (psychological), a psychological theory
• Deterrence, a 1999 drama starring Kevin Pollak, depicting fictional eventsabout nuclear brinkmanship
Triple Entente
The Triple Entente (from French entente [ɑ̃tɑ̃t] "agreement") was the name given to thealliance among Great Britain, France and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente
in 1907. The alliance of the three powers, supplemented by various agreements with Portugal, Japan, the United States, and Spain, constituted a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. (Italy had concluded an additional secret agreementwith France effectively nullifying their alliance with Germany.)
Diplomacy of the great powers 1871–1913
Great powers
Austria–Hungary · British Empire · French Third Republic ·German Empire · Kingdom of Italy · Empire of Japan ·Russian Empire · United States of America
Treaties and
agreements
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The Great Game · Pan-Slavism · Russo-Turkish War ·Congress of Berlin · Scramble for Africa · First Sino-Japanese
War · German Naval Laws · Fashoda Incident · Spanish–American War · Annexation of Hawaii · Banana Wars ·Philippine–American War · Boxer Rebellion · Boer War ·Russo-Japanese War · First Moroccan Crisis · Dreadnought ·Agadir Crisis · Bosnian crisis · Italo-Turkish War · BalkanWars
Famous scientist listAbout 50 noted scientists are mentioned below.
Albert EinsteinHe is arguably at the pinnacle if the popularity of all the scientists is taken into account. He demonstratedsolutions to a trio of mind-boggling topics in Physics in 1905 and shot into limelight.
Sir Isaac Newton"Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica" called "Principia" is acknowledged as the greatestscientific book ever published. Sir Isaac Newton wrote this in 1687.
Galileo GalileiHe was the first to use the telescope for furnishing evidence that the earth revolves around the Sun. Thispostulate was in contrast to that held by the majority.
Charles Darwin
"On the origin of species by means of natural selection" is Darwin's famous book published in 1859.
Johannes Kepler Kepler compiled the Mars data which enabled him to propose the "Three Laws of Planetary Motion".
Louis Pasteur Some of his works are:
• separation of mirror image molecules and effect of polarized light
• identification of the parasite that was killing silkworms
James MaxwellHe is known for the "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" published in 1873. Maxwell independentlydeveloped the "Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases".
Edwin Hubble"Hubble's Law" stated that galaxies move away from each other at a speed determined by the distancethat separated them. He classified galaxies as per their distance, shape, brightness patterns and content.
Emil Fisher Some of his works are:
• synthesis of glucose, fructose, mannose starting with glycerol
He concluded that equal volumes of gases at similar conditions of temperature and pressure has the
same number of molecules.
William Henry
Henry's Law states that the amount of gas absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure rises.
John Dalton
He developed the atomic theory.
Alessandro Volta
He invented the practical battery using cells of two types of metals.
Antoine Lavoisier
He recognized and named oxygen and disproved the phlogiston theory.
Charles Augustin de Coulomb
He discovered the law of force between two charged bodies.
Henry Cavendish
He discovered hydrogen and nitric acid.
Thomas Newcomen
He invented the steam engine.
Robert Boyle
He proposed the Boyle's Law.
Blaise Pascal
The SI unit of pressure is named after him.
List of Dictators
1. KIM JONG IL of North Korea: A personality-cult-cultivating isolationist with a taste for fineFrench cognac, Kim has pauperized his people, allowed famine to run rampant, and thrownhundreds of thousands in prison camps (where as many as 200,000 languish today) — all thewhile spending his country’s precious few resources on a nuclear programme. Years in power:16
2. ROBERT MUGABE of Zimbabwe: A liberation “hero” in the struggle for independence whohas since transformed himself into a murderous despot, Mugabe has arrested and tortured the
opposition, squeezed his economy into astounding negative growth and billion-per cent inflation,and funnelled off a juicy cut for himself using currency manipulation and offshore accounts.Years in power: 30
3. THAN SHWE of Burma: A heartless military coconut head whose sole consuming preoccupation is power, Shwe has decimated the opposition with arrests and detentions, deniedhumanitarian aid to his people after 2008′s devastating Cyclone Nargis, and thrived off a black market economy of natural gas exports. This vainglorious general bubbling with swagger sports
a uniform festooned with self-awarded medals, but he is too cowardly to face an honest ballot box. Years in power: 18
4. OMAR HASSAN AL-BASHIR of Sudan: A megalomaniac zealot who has quashed allopposition, Bashir is responsible for the deaths of millions of Sudanese and has been indicted bythe International Criminal Court for war crimes. Bashir’s Arab militias, the janjaweed, may have
halted their massacres in Darfur, but they continue to traffic black Sudanese as slaves (Bashir himself has been accused of having had several at one point). Years in power: 21
5. GURBANGULY BERDIMUHAMEDOV of Turkmenistan: Succeeding the eccentric tyrantSaparmurat Niyazov (who even renamed the months of the year after himself and his family),this obscure dentist has kept on keeping on with his late predecessor’s repressive policies,explaining that, after all, he bears an “uncanny resemblance to Niyazov.” Years in power: 4
6. ISAIAS AFWERKI of Eritrea: A crocodile liberator, Afwerki has turned his country into anational prison in which independent media are shut down, elections are categorically rejected,indefinite military service is mandatory, and the government would rather support Somalimilitants than its own people. Years in power: 17
7. ISLAM KARIMOV of Uzbekistan: A ruthless thug ruling since Soviet times, Karimov has banned opposition parties, tossed as many as 6,500 political prisoners into jail, and labels anyonewho challenges him an “Islamic terrorist.” What does he do with “terrorists” once they are in hishands? Torture them: Karimov’s regime earned notoriety for boiling two people alive andtorturing many others. Outside the prisons, the president’s troops are equally indiscriminate,massacring hundreds of peaceful demonstrators in 2005 after a minor uprising in the city of Andijan. Years in power: 20
8. MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD of Iran: Inflammatory, obstinate, and a traitor to the liberation philosophy of the Islamic Revolution, Ahmadinejad has pursued a nuclear programme indefiance of international law and the West. Responsible for countless injustices during his fiveyears in power, the president’s latest egregious offence was leading his paramilitary goons, theBasij, to violently repress protesters after June 2009′s disputed presidential election, which many believe he firmly lost. Years in power: 5
9. MELES ZENAWI of Ethiopia: Worse than the former Marxist dictator he ousted nearly twodecades ago, Zenawi has clamped down on the opposition, stifled all dissent, and riggedelections. Like a true Marxist revolutionary, Zenawi has stashed millions in foreign banks andacquired mansions in Maryland and London in his wife’s name, according to the opposition — even as his barbaric regime collects a whopping $1 billion in foreign aid each year. Years in power: 19
10. HU JINTAO of China: A chameleon despot who beguiles foreign investors with a smile anda bow, but ferociously crushes political dissent with brutal abandon, Hu has an iron grip on Tibetand is now seeking what can only be described as new colonies in Africa from which to extract
the natural resources his growing economy craves. Years in power: 7 11. MUAMMAR AL-QADDAFI of Libya: An eccentric egoist infamous for his indecipherablyflamboyant speeches and equally erratic politics, Qaddafi runs a police state based on his versionof Mao’s Red Book — the Green Book — which includes a solution to “the Problem of Democracy.” Repressive at home, Qaddafi masquerades as Africa’s king of kings abroad (theAfrican Union had to politely insist that he step down as its rotating head). Years in power: 41
12. BASHAR AL-ASSAD of Syria: A pretentious despot trying to fit into his father’s shoes(they’re too big for him), Assad has squandered billions on foreign misadventures in such places
as Lebanon and Iraq while neglecting the needs of the Syrian people. His extensive securityapparatus ensures that the population doesn’t complain. Years in power: 10
13. IDRISS DÉBY of Chad: Having led a rebel insurgency against a former dictator, Déby todayfaces a similar challenge — from one of his own former cabinet officials, among others. To repelwould-be coup leaders, Déby has drained social spending accounts to equip the military, co-
opted opposition-leader foes, and is now building a moat around the capital, N’Djamena. Yearsin power: 20
14. TEODORO OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO of Equatorial Guinea: Obiang and his familyliterally own the economy, having reportedly amassed a fortune exceeding $600 million whilethe masses are left in desperate poverty. Equatorial Guinea’s extraordinary oil wealth puts itsGDP per capita on par with many European states — if only it were evenly shared. Instead,revenues remain a “state secret.” Years in power: 31
15. HOSNI MUBARAK of Egypt: A senile and paranoid autocrat whose sole preoccupation isself-perpetuation in office, Mubarak is suspicious of even his own shadow. He keeps a 30-year-old emergency law in place to squelch any opposition activity and has groomed his son, Gamal,to succeed him. (No wonder only 23 per cent of Egyptians bothered to vote in the 2005
presidential election.) Years in power: 29
16. YAHYA JAMMEH of Gambia: This eccentric military buffoon has vowed to rule for 40years and claims to have discovered the cure for HIV/AIDS. (Jammeh also claims he has mystic powers and will turn Gambia into an oil-producing country; no luck yet.) A narcissist at heart,the dictator insists on being addressed as His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. YahyaAbdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh. Years in power: 16
17. HUGO CHÁVEZ of Venezuela: The quack leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chávez promotes a doctrine of participatory democracy in which he is the sole participant, having jailedopposition leaders, extended term limits indefinitely, and closed independent media. Years in power: 11
18. BLAISE COMPAORÉ of Burkina Faso: A tin-pot despot with no vision and no agenda, saveself-perpetuation in power by liquidating opponents and stifling dissent, Compaoré has lived upto the low standards of his own rise to power, after murdering his predecessor, Thomas Sankara,in a 1987 coup. Years in power: 23
19. YOWERI MUSEVENI of Uganda: After leading a rebel insurgency that took over Uganda in1986, Museveni declared: “No African head of state should be in power for more than 10 years.”But 24 years later, he is still here, winning one “coconut election” after another in which other political parties are technically legal but a political rally of more than a handful of people is not.Years in power: 24
20. PAUL KAGAME of Rwanda: A liberator who saved the Tutsis from complete exterminationin 1994, Kagame now practices the same ethnic apartheid he sought to end. His Rwandan
Patriotic Front dominates all levels of power: the security forces, the civil service, the judiciary, banks, universities, and state-owned corporations. Those who challenge the president are accusedof being a hatemonger or divisionist and arrested. Years in power: 10
21. RAÚL CASTRO of Cuba: Afflicted with intellectual astigmatism, the second brother of Fidel Castro is pitifully unaware that the revolution he leads is obsolete, an abysmal failure, andtotally irrelevant to the aspirations of the Cuban people. He blames the failure of the revolutionon foreign conspiracies — which he then uses to justify even more brutal clampdowns. Years in power: 2
22. ALEKSANDR LUKASHENKO of Belarus: An autocrat and former collective farmchairman, Lukashenko maintains an iron grip on his country, monitoring opposition movementswith a secret police distastefully called the KGB. His brutal style of governance has earned himthe title “Europe’s last dictator”; he even gave safe haven to Kyrgyzstan’s toppled leader whenthat country rose up this spring. Years in power: 16
23. PAUL BIYA of Cameroon: A suave bandit who has reportedly amassed a personal fortune of more than $200 million and the mansions to go with it, Biya has co-opted the opposition intocomplete submission. Not that he’s worried about elections; he has rigged the term limit lawstwice to make sure the party doesn’t end anytime soon. Years in power: 28
Major Hazards and Losses due to their impact
44 Disasters of over 100,000Deaths
Number of Deaths
Disaster Type
1 - Worldwide, every year 2 to 5 million ayear
Malaria
2 - Western Hemisphere, mostly 16th - 18thcenturies unknown millions European Sicknesses
3 - Africa, 1981 - 1984 unknown millions Drought
4 - World-wide, 1918 - 19 35 to 100 million Influenza pandemic
5 - Europe and beyond, 1347-1350 25 million Bubonic plague
6 - China, 1958 - 61 20 million Famine
7 - India, 1769 10 million Famine
8 - China, 1876 - 1879 9 million Drought
9 - North Korea, 1995-98 3 million + Famine and Floods
10 - China, 1935 2 million + ? Flood
11 - Egypt and Syria, 1201 1.1 million Earthquake
12 - Ireland, 1845 - 48 1 million + Famine
13 - China, 1942 - 1943 1 million + Drought
14 - China, 1887 900,000 Flood
15 - China, 1556 830,000 Earthquake
16 - China, 1976 600,000 Earthquake
17 - China, 1920 500,000 + Drought
18 - France, Germany, America, etc., 1870 500,000 Smallpox
19 - Bangladesh, 1970 500,000 Floods
20 - World-wide, 1957 400,000 ? "Asian Flu"
21 - India, 1737 300,000 Typhoon
22 - China, 1642 300,000 Flood
23 - South Asia, 2004 283,106 Tsunami / Earthquake
The Chief Justice of Pakistan heads the Supreme Court of Pakistan. These are the names of theChief Justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (known as the Federal Court until 1960).
[ListTemporal
OrderName of Chief Justice From To
1 Justice Sir Abdul Rashid (Chief Justice, Federal Court)
7 June 1949 29 June 1954
2 Justice Muhammad Munir (Chief
Justice, Federal Court)29 June1954 2 May 1960
3 Justice Muhammad Shahabuddin 3 May 1960 12 May 1960
4 Justice A. R. Cornelius 13 May 1960 29 February 19685 Justice Dr. S. A. Rahman 1 March 1968 3 June 1968
6 Justice Fazal Akbar 4 June 1968 17 November 1968
7 Justice Hamoodur Rahman18 November1968
31 October 1975
8 Justice Muhammad Yaqub Ali1 November1975
22 September 1977
9 Justice S. Anwarul Haq23 September1977 25 March 1981
10 Justice Mohammad Haleem 23 March 1981 31 December 1989
11 Justice Muhammad Afzal Zullah 1 January 1990 18 April 1993
12 Justice Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah 17 April 1993 14 April 1994
* Justice Saad Saud Jan (Acting) 15 April 1994 4 June 1994
13 Justice Sajjad Ali Shah 5 June 1994 2 December 1997
14 Justice Ajmal Mian 23 December1997
30 June 1999
15 Justice Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui 1 July 1999 26 January 2000
16 Justice Irshad Hasan Khan 26 January 2000 6 January 2002
17 Justice Bashir Jehangiri 7 January 2002 31 January 2002