International recognition of the State of Palestine has been the objective of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence formally established the de jure sovereign state on 15 November 1988 in Algiers, Algeria, at an extraordinary session in-exile of the Palestinian National Council.The declaration was promptly …

This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, measured by the number of human inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile, and also sortable by total area and by population.The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.The list also includes unrecognized but de facto …

De facto duration De jure duration De facto - de jure difference Status of claim Isles of Scilly vs Dutch Republic: First Anglo-Dutch War (Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War) 1651: 1654: 1986: 4: 335: 329: The Dutch Republic under Michiel …

De facto and de jure states. De facto map of control of the world, May 2019. Most sovereign states are both de jure and de facto (i.e., they exist both in law and in reality).

The most common title for a head of government is Prime Minister.This is used as a formal title in many states, but may also be an informal generic term to refer to whichever office is considered the principal minister under an otherwise styled head of state, as minister — Latin for servants or subordinates — is a common title for members of a government (but many other titles are in …

In which John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider Am...

Charles of Habsburg was born on 24 February 1500 in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city of the Burgundian Low Countries, to Philip of Habsburg and Joanna of Trastámara. His father Philip, nicknamed Philip the Handsome, was the firstborn son of Maximilian I of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria as well as Holy Roman Emperor, and Mary the Rich, Burgundian duchess of the Low …

L’Organisation des Nations unies (ONU) est une organisation internationale regroupant en juin 2022 193 États membres.Elle a été instituée le 24 octobre 1945 par la ratification de la Charte des Nations unies signée le 26 juin 1945 par les représentants de 51 États.Elle remplace alors la Société des Nations.. Les objectifs premiers de l'organisation sont le maintien de la paix et la ...

Speaking of government "de facto" of the second kind, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Thorington vs. Smith (8 Wall., 1), said: "But there is another description of government, called also by publicists a government de facto, but which might, perhaps, be more aptly denominated a government of paramount force. Its ...

There is no policy, either de jure or de facto, of automatic acceptance or rejection based on any single "soft" variable. Gratz v. Bollinger, ante, p. 244, distinguished. Also, the program adequately ensures that all factors that may contribute to diversity are meaningfully considered alongside race. Moreover, the Law School frequently accepts ...

The FIFA Club World Cup is an international men's association football competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), the sport's global governing body.The competition was first contested in 2000 as the FIFA Club World Championship.It was not held from 2001 to 2004 due to a combination of factors in the cancelled 2001 tournament, most …

Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008), was a writ of habeas corpus submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. Guantánamo Bay is not formally part of the United States, and under …

Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.Officially independent, but with half of its territory occupied under harsh terms of the armistice, it adopted a policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany, which occupied the northern and ...

The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, both of which had been conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I in 1918. The mandate was assigned to Britain by the San Remo conference in April 1920, after France's concession in the 1918 Clemenceau–Lloyd George …