Fiji's main island is known as Viti Levu and it is from this that the name "Fiji" is derived, though the common English pronunciation is based on that of their island neighbours in Tonga. Its emergenc ...
Archeological evidence indicates that humans arrived on New Guinea perhaps 60,000 years ago, although this is under debate. They came probably by sea from Southeast Asia during an Ice Age period when ...
FilmographyManufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Director: Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick (1992)Last Party 2000, Director: Rebecca Chaiklin and Donovan Leitch (2001)Power and Terror: Noa ...
In the 1990s, Chomsky embraced political activism to a greater degree than before.Chomsky at the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre) in 2003His far-reaching criticisms of U.S. foreign policy and the leg ...
Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the affluent East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was the Ukrainian-born William "Zev" Chomsky, an Ashkenazi Jew who ...
In 1957, when the EU was founded, it had no environmental policy, no environmental bureaucracy, and no environmental laws. Today, the EU has some of the most progressive environmental policies of any ...
The European Union does not have one unified military. The predecessors of the European Union were not devised as a strong military alliance because NATO was largely seen as appropriate and sufficient ...
After World War II, moves towards European integration were seen by many as an escape from the extreme forms of nationalism that had devastated the continent. The 1948 Hague Congress was a pivotal mom ...
At the Third South American Summit on 8 December 2004, presidents or representatives from 12 South American nations signed the Cusco Declaration, a two-page statement of intent announcing the foundati ...
Nicolás Maduro was born on 23 November 1962 in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of a union leader. He attended a public high school at the Liceo José ?valos in El Valle, a working-class neighborhood on ...
Ollanta Humala is the son of Isaac Humala, an ethnic Quechua indigenous lawyer, member of the Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland, and ideological leader of the Ethnocacerista movement. Ollanta' ...
Mujica was born on 20 May 1935, to Demetrio Mujica, of Spanish Basque ancestry, and Lucy Cordano, a daughter of Italian immigrants. Mujica's father was a small farmer who went bankrupt shortly before ...
He received his basic education at a religious school in Encarnación, and sold snacks on the streets.His family was not particularly religious; by his own account, he never saw his father set foot in ...
After the electoral victory of 2011, the ruling party regained control over both chambers of Congress. They initiated a period of fiscal reform, which included several tax increases, limits to wage in ...
Fernández was born on February 19, 1953 in Tolosa, a suburb west of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. She is a daughter of Eduardo Fernández (of Spanish heritage), a bus driver, and Ofelia Esther Wil ...
