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61 matches to Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden. 1957-. Wahabi Saudi Arabian construction magnate turned terrorist. World Trade Center. Taliban. al-Qaeda.
Qaeda, al-. 1989 Founded by Arabs in Afghanistan. 1990 Sudan. 1996 Afghan training camps. 2001 World Trade Center. Osama bin Laden.
WorldTradeCenter, 1972-2001. New York. Attacked 1993, destroyed September 11, 2001 by al-Qaeda terrorists. Osama bin Laden.
Terrorism. Zealots. Cagoulards. Baader-Meinhof. Irish Republican Army. Hamas. PLO. Osama. Taliban. al-Qaeda.
Babington, Anthony. 1561-86. English conspirator to murder Elizabeth I for Mary Queen of Scots. Beheaded.
Binet, Alfred. 1857-1911. French. Invented intelligence test 1905. Projective testing 1903.
Borden, Robert. 1854-1937. Canadian Cons Prime Minister 1911-20. Union Gov’t. Imperial War Cabinet. Women suffrage.
Bramah, Joseph. 1748-1814. English Invented combination lock 1784, hydraulic press, modern toilet.
Cabinet. Evolved from English Privy Council, 18C. Ministers controlling government policy.
Cato St. Conspiracy. 1820. Thistlewood plot to assassinate cabinet ministers.
Cherubini, Luigi. 1760-1842. Italian/French composer. Classical form; French opera.
Combination Acts. 1799, 1800. Britain outlaws trade unions. Repealed 1824.
Crosby, Bing. 1904-77. US singer and actor. White Christmas-best selling record until 1998.
Danton, Georges. 1759-94. French Cordelier, Jacobin. Girondin leader 1792-3. Defeated foreign interveners. Executed by Robespierre.
Dayan, Moshe. 1915-81. Israeli general in Arab-Israeli Wars. Cabinet Minister 1967~79.
Defoe, Daniel. 1660-1731. English writer: Robinson Crusoe 1719; Moll Flanders 1722. Idea of savings bank, 1697.
Eclecticism. 2C BC. Philosophical doctrine combining elements of various, sometimes contradictory, philosophies. Cicero.
Fascism. 1919-45. Totalitarian movement combining Socialist theories and Nationalism. State as highest value. Mussolini. Falange. Nazism.
Gabrieli, Andrea. c1510-86. Venetian church music composer. First to combine voice and instruments in concerto form.
Gay-Lussac, Louis. 1778-1850. French chemist. Laws of combining gases, 1804. Meteorology.
Gobineau, Joseph. 1816-82. Rationalized anti-semitism and Aryan supremacy. Essay on Inequality of Human Races 1353-5.
Grande Armée. 1805-12. Napoleon’s 1,000,000 man army; combined smaller armies for central control.
Harris, Arthur. 1892-1984. WWII air marshal. Saturation bombing.
Henze, Hans. 1926-. German/Italian composer. Combines German intellectualism with Italian lyricism. We Come to the River 1976.
Hood, Robin. Robin Hood.