Monday, 15 September 2014

Road Traffic Accidents

1NAMIBIA53.465NIGERIA21.5129GEORGIA11.4
2SWAZILAND48.266LIBERIA21.5130MONACO10.7
3MALAWI45.467CHINA20.8131CYPRUS10.7
4IRAQ44.768MALI20.5132SERBIA/MONTEN.10.6
5IRAN43.869CAPE VERDE20.5133PHILIPPINES10.6
6THAILAND42.970ECUADOR20.4134ESTONIA10.6
7CONGO42.471TUNISIA20.3135TURKMENISTAN10.5
8CENTRAL AFRICA39.772SOUTH AFRICA20.2136HUNGARY10.4
9SUDAN39.273TOGO19.6137NEW ZEALAND10.3
10MOZAMBIQUE38.274ZIMBABWE19.3138TIMOR-LESTE10.3
11ZAMBIA37.975MOROCCO19.3139NORTH KOREA10.2
12ETHIOPIA37.876UKRAINE18.8140PORTUGAL10.0
13LESOTHO37.477INDIA18.7141BELGIUM10.0
14YEMEN37.378BHUTAN18.6142BARBADOS9.9
15BELIZE36.979COLOMBIA18.0143SLOVENIA9.8
16ANGOLA36.280COSTA RICA17.9144URUGUAY9.6
17VENEZUELA35.881SENEGAL17.8145ALBANIA9.3
18DOMINICAN REP.34.882MADAGASCAR17.4146TURKEY9.0
19UGANDA34.783SAINT KITTS17.2147TUVALU8.8
20MALAYSIA34.584BELARUS17.2148SAINT VINCENT8.6
21EQU. GUINEA34.285BOLIVIA17.1149AZERBAIJAN8.5
22DJIBOUTI34.086NEW GUINEA16.9150ITALY8.4
23JORDAN32.987CAMBODIA16.7151LUXEMBOURG8.1
24CAMEROON32.688PANAMA16.5152CZECH REPUBLIC8.0
25EL SALVADOR31.889KUWAIT16.5153CUBA7.9
26MONGOLIA31.690BANGLADESH16.4154SAN MARINO7.9
27GUINEA-BISSAU31.491SYRIA16.2155CANADA7.8
28GUINEA31.492TRINIDAD/TOB.16.2156PALAU7.6
29BURKINA FASO31.493BAHAMAS15.7157SEYCHELLES7.6
30NAURU30.994PAKISTAN15.5158HAITI7.5
31CHAD30.995LITHUANIA15.5159SAMOA7.4
32SIERRA LEONE30.296LATVIA15.5160AUSTRIA6.9
33ARAB EMIRATES29.997NIGER14.9161MICRONESIA6.8
34TANZANIA29.698JAMAICA14.7162AUSTRALIA6.8
35BURUNDI29.599ALGERIA14.5163DOMINICA6.6
36GUYANA29.0100MOLDOVA14.5164FRANCE6.6
37COTE D IVOIRE28.6101POLAND14.3165VANUATU6.5
38LEBANON28.6102SAINT LUCIA14.3166IRELAND6.1
39DR CONGO28.6103BRUNEI14.2167SPAIN6.1
40KENYA28.2104ARMENIA14.1168COOK ISLANDS6.0
41GHANA28.1105MAURITIUS14.1169SOLOMON ISL.5.9
42BOTSWANA26.6106PERU13.9170GERMANY5.7
43MAURITANIA26.1107UNITED STATES13.9171FINLAND5.7
44VIET NAM26.0108GREECE13.8172ICELAND5.6
45BENIN25.9109SOUTH KOREA13.7173KIRIBATI5.5
46GABON25.6110NICARAGUA13.7174DENMARK5.4
47LIBYA25.4111CROATIA13.6175SINGAPORE5.3
48AFGHANISTAN25.1112OMAN13.3176GUATEMALA5.2
49RWANDA24.2113MEXICO13.1177NORWAY5.2
50BAHRAIN23.6114BULGARIA13.1178TONGA4.9
51KYRGYZSTAN23.4115ROMANIA13.0179MACEDONIA4.9
52QATAR23.3116SAO TOME13.0180UNITED KINGDOM4.8
53SAUDI ARABIA23.2117SLOVAKIA12.9181BOSNIA/HERZEG.4.7
54INDONESIA22.6118HONDURAS12.8182ANTIGUA/BAR.4.4
55COMOROS22.3119CHILE12.4183SWEDEN4.1
56PARAGUAY22.2120UZBEKISTAN12.3184ISRAEL4.1
57BRAZIL22.1121ARGENTINA12.2185NETHERLANDS4.0
58LAOS22.0122SOMALIA12.1186TAJIKISTAN3.9
59SURINAME21.9123ANDORRA11.7187SWITZERLAND3.8
60RUSSIA21.9124MYANMAR11.6188FIJI3.8
61GAMBIA21.7125SRI LANKA11.5189JAPAN3.8
62ERITREA21.7126GRENADA11.5190MARSHALL ISL.3.8
63EGYPT21.6127NEPAL11.4191MALTA3.1
64KAZAKHSTAN21.6128NIUE11.4192MALDIVES2.4
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Monday, 9 June 2014

Benito Mussolini

File:Mussolini biografia.jpgBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce ("the leader"), Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism.
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Originally a member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), Mussolini was expelled from the PSI due to his opposition to the party's stance on neutrality in World War I. Mussolini denounced the PSI, and later founded the fascist movement. Following the March on Rome in October 1922 he became the youngest Prime Minister in Italian history until the appointment of Matteo Renzi on February 2014. After destroying all political opposition through his secret police and outlawing labor strikes, Mussolini and his fascist followers consolidated their power through a series of laws that transformed the nation into a one-party dictatorship. Within five years he had established dictatorial authority by both legal and extraordinary means, aspiring to create a totalitarian state. Mussolini remained in power until he was deposed by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1943. A few months later, he became the leader of the Italian Social Republic, a German client regime in northern Italy; he held this post until his death in 1945.
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Since 1939, Mussolini had sought to delay a major war in Europe until at least 1942. Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. On 10 June 1940, Mussolini sided with Germany, though he was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity in 1940 to carry out a long war with France and the United Kingdom. Mussolini believed that after the imminent French surrender, Italy could gain territorial concessions from France and then he could concentrate his forces on a major offensive in Egypt, where British and Commonwealth forces were outnumbered by Italian forces. However the UK refused to accept German proposals for a peace that would involve accepting Germany's victories in Eastern and Western Europe, plans for a German invasion of the UK did not proceed, and the war continued.
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On 24 July 1943, soon after the start of the Allied invasion of Italy, Mussolini was defeated in the vote at the Grand Council of Fascism, and the King had him arrested the following day. On 12 September 1943, Mussolini was rescued from prison in the Gran Sasso raid by German special forces. In late April 1945, with total defeat looming, Mussolini attempted to escape north, only to be quickly captured and summarily executed near Lake Como by Italian partisans. His body was then taken to Milan where it was hung upside down at a service station for public viewing and to provide confirmation of his demise.

Saturday, 31 May 2014

John Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly known as "Jack" or by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963.
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After military service as commander of Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. At age 43, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office, the second-youngest president (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president. To date, Kennedy has been the only Roman Catholic president and the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race—by initiating Project Apollo (which would culminate in the moon landing), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the crime and arrested that evening. Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations were flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.
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Since the 1960s, information concerning Kennedy's private life has come to light. Details of Kennedy's health problems with which he struggled have become better known, especially since the 1990s. Although initially kept secret from the general public, reports of Kennedy being unfaithful in marriage have garnered much press. Kennedy ranks highly in public opinion ratings of U.S. presidents but there is a gap between his public reputation and his reputation among academics.

Monday, 5 May 2014

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was South Africa's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic
election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.
File:Nelson Mandela Signature.svgA Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended the Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the South African National Party came to power in 1948, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, was appointed superintendent of the organisation's Transvaal chapter and presided over the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) and sat on its Central Committee. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961, leading a sabotage campaign against the apartheid government. In 1962, he was arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, initially on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. An international campaign lobbied for his release. He was released in 1990, during a time of escalating civil strife. Mandela joined negotiations with President F. W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he led the ANC to victory and became South Africa's first black president. He published his autobiography in 1995. During his tenure in the Government of National Unity he invited other political parties to join the cabinet, and promulgated a new constitution. He also created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. While continuing the former government's liberal economic policy, his administration also introduced measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty, and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator between Libya and the United Kingdom in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, and oversaw military intervention in Lesotho. He declined to run for a second term, and was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman, focusing on charitable work in combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Denounced as a communist terrorist by critics, he nevertheless gained international acclaim for his activism, having received more than 250 honours, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Soviet Order of Lenin. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, or as Tata ("Father"); he is often described as "the father of the nation".

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Mother Teresa

The Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C., commonly known as Mother 
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.
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Mother Teresa at a pro-life meeting in 1986 inBonn, West Germany
ReligionRoman Catholic
OrderSisters of Loreto
(1928–1948)
Missionaries of Charity
(1950–1997)
Personal
NationalityOttoman (1910-12)
Serbian (1912-15)
Bulgarian (1915-18)
Yugoslav (1918-48)
Indian (1948-1997)
BornAnjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
26 August 1910
Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
(modern Skopje, Republic of Macedonia)
Died5 September 1997 (aged 87)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Senior posting
TitleSuperior General
Period in office
1950–1997
SuccessorSister Nirmala Joshi, M.C.
Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic Religious Sister and missionary of Albanian origin who lived most of her life in India of which, since 1948, she was a citizen.
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's and family counseling programmes; orphanages; and schools. Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor".
Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood, giving her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". A second miracle credited to her intercession is required before she can be recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church.
A controversial figure both during her life and after her death, Mother Teresa was widely admired by many for her charitable works, but also widely criticised, particularly for her campaigns against contraception and for substandard conditions in the hospices for which she was responsible.