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States. The Black Belt was the center of attention for the Civil Rights movement; see postwar United States. The postwar years also saw concentration of...

in an EU bank account effectively frees you from any such controls, since the free movement of capital is maintained across the EU. In EU countries not...

converts. The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is one of the largest human migrations and brings together Muslims from all over the world. Some Muslims...

a paramilitary organization that is sanctioned by Western countries for human rights violations. Apart from its name, it essentially functions as a parallel...

contributed are known. Mannerism (or Late Renaissance) was a 16th-century movement to refine Renaissance art techniques, such as shading, perspective, and...

International Solidarity Movement, ismtraining@riseup.net. ISM has been working for Palestinian Human Rights since 2001, when the movement was co-founded by...

insects and other small animals. Any large animal is capable of killing a human, and almost any small animal, from the size of a mouse, is capable of inflicting...

that some interbreeding occurred between the two hominid species, and all humans apart from sub-Saharan Africans are known to have varying amounts of Neanderthal...

apartheid until 1994. Morocco maintains control over Western Sahara despite an established independence movement, and this remains a point of contention...

political status of Catalonia is uncertain, but so far the pro-independence movement poses no threat to any tourist, and should not discourage travel to the...

International Solidarity Movement, ismtraining@riseup.net. ISM has been working for Palestinian Human Rights since 2001, when the movement was co-founded by...

history, culture and natural beauty. Ancient Manipur was one of Asia's oldest human civilisations. It was known for the arts, language, philosophy, politics...

or training, and so on. If you're working at such a company, contact the human resources department and see if they have any openings. If you work for...

greater Cold War (the Seychelles was officially part of the Non-Aligned Movement). In 1981, the Seychelles Incident occurred when a group of South African...

Chechen independence movement soon splintered into several factions, with one faction forming the "Caucasus Emirate", a movement aimed to unite all of...

Shandong, China. Such actions by Japan would later result in the May Fourth Movement, which is further described in our article on early 20th century Chinese...

far the most destructive conflict in European history in terms of loss of human lives as well as historic architecture. The European theatre included North...

arose, demanding independence from Portuguese control. The most visible of them were the Popular Movement for Angolan Liberation (MPLA), the National Front...

contested for millennia by rival nations, who sought its minerals, cotton and control of sea lanes between Europe and the Levant. Turkey was a relative newcomer...

the annihilation, of Christianity. Paul became one of the leaders of the movement and devoted much time to writing letters (which can be found in Epistles...