.... the 1950's Arafat helped organize Arab Guerrilla groups including, AL Faith, now part on the PLO bases. Arafat addressed the UN general Assembly in 1974, and the UN then organized the PLO as the representative of the Arabs of Palestine. In 1983, fighting broke out between PLO supporters of Arafat anti those who opposed him. The rebels forced Arafat and his supporters to leave their in northern Lebanon, but Arafat remained chairman of the PLO. The PLO did not recognize Israel's rights to exist. Bur in 1988, Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had occupied a .....

.... concentrated on the importance of shipping and commerce to national economy, with a large fleet to protect this overseas activity. Mahan believed not only in the importance of the navy as a fighting force but also as a tool of national policy. Philiip A. Crowl's assessment of is skeptical at best. He gives credit only where credit is absolutely due and never in the form of compliment. Crowl believed "Mahan's failure as a logican (and therefore as a historian) was the direct result of his methodology: he began his labors with an insight, a light dawning on his ‘inner consciousness'; the insight hardened into a predetermined conclusion; fa .....

.... for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through this Analytical machine. Babbage's book Economy of Machines and Manufactures (1832) initiated the field of study known as operational research. In 1810 Babbage Entered Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1814 he graduated Peterhouse and received his MA from Cambridge in 1817. In 1820 he founded the Analytical Society with Herschel and Peacock. Babbage started work on the Difference Engine in 1823 through funding from the British Government and in 1827 published a table of logarithms from 1 to 108000. In 1828 he was appointed to the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, though he ne .....

.... collection.(1) Barnes may be best remembered as the author of the generally accepted definition of "revisionism," "Revisionism means nothing more or less than the effort to correct the historical record in the light of a more complete collection of historical facts, a more calm political atmosphere, and a more objective attitude." (2) Barnes had discovered that a more nearly accurate version of the history of the First World War was only possible after the fighting had ended and the emotional excesses had lessened. He was unable to predict that similar corrections of Allied propaganda and popularized conceptions of the methods of warfare in the Second Worl .....

.... and anthologies as well. Four of his most recent books are Selected Essays & Reviews, Collected Longer Poems, Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, and Suicides and Jazzers. He edited poetry for, Poetry, Harper's, and for 20 years The Hudson Review. He has received fellowships from the Bollingen Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, most recently in 1995, a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He has won many awords including the Lenore Marshall Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Vermont Governor's Medal, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, the Ruth Lily Prize, the National Book Award and The National Book Critics' Cir .....

.... Melville attended the Albany Academy from 1830 to 1831. After his father died Melville was forced to drop out. In 1832 he started work as a clerk at the New York State Bank in Albany. After that he moved to Pittsfield Massachusetts to work on his Uncle Thomas’s farm. Upon quitting his job in 1835 he attended the Albany Classic School and worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at his brother’s fur company. After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New York to become a sailor. Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. After .....

.... background. His father, Efimy, was a farmer of moderate success, married to a wife, Anna, who had already provided him with an older son, Dimitri. Although later enemies were to allege that 's surname was in fact an insult meaning "debauched" in Russian, it had been the family name for years, derived from the word for a fork in the road. Pokrovskoye perched on the banks of the Tura River in Tobolsk Province; Pokrovskoye was a typical Russian peasant village where few if any were educated and town’s people were religious, narrow minded and fearful. When was eight years old, he suffered his first tragedy. He was playing with his older brother along the banks .....

.... in the Civil War and died just a short time before Wyatt. He farmed for several year near Garden City, Kansas and died in December of 1928. Newton most likely ran against Wyatt to keep others from running against him. He would later name one of his children Wyatt Clyde Earp, so there is little chance that he and Wyatt ever had animosity between them over the election. On January 10, 1870, married Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Missouri. Wyatt’s father, Nicholas, performed the ceremony. Sometime that same year, Urilla died. How Urilla died is another small mystery in the life of . At least two references, Editor Glenn Boyer's comments in Josie Earp's memoirs s .....