51) Bougainville. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Japanese stronghold in the Solomons. It became part of Papua New Guinea in 1973. A bloody secessionist uprising, begun in the late 1980s, persisted through much of...
52) 1916, March 22. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...to Vice President Feng Guozhang (1857-1919, elected Oct. 1916). Sun Zhongshan headed a secessionist government in Guangzhou (Sept.), from which he was expelled by...
53) secession, in political science. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...of the union. It was the principal point in the controversy over states' rights. 2The secessionists argued that the union created by the Constitution was only a compact...
54) 27338. Hayes, Rutherford Birchard. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Hayes to Guy M. Bryan (May 8, 1861). Justifying the war to an old college chum who was a secessionist from Texas....
55) 1981, June. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...bomb outrages, strikes, and a campaign of noncooperation. In Punjab, a militant Sikh secessionist movement had been smouldering for some years and now began to find...
56) Papua New Guinea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Papua New Guinea. Full independence was gained in 1975. In the late 1980s a violent secessionist movement broke out on Bougainville. A cease-fire, monitored by...
57) Czech Republic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...which had a disproportionate share of subsidized state-owned heavy industry. A strong secessionist movement in Slovakia led to a declaration in 1992 that the Czech...
58) Croatia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...early 1970s would satisfy Croat demands for increased republican autonomy and thus dampen secessionist sentiment. The death of Tito in 1980, however, weakened Yugoslavia...
59) Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation. Mencken,
H.L. 1921. The American Language
...are clipped in American; there are actually more of them in British English. Sesech (from secessionist, really a noun, but often used as an adjective) is one of the...
60) Czechoslovakia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...government dealt with defense, foreign affairs, and certain economic matters. A strong secessionist movement in Slovakia, however, led to the formal declaration on...
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