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Aram

Probably the name of a people, applied to the country north and northeast of Palestine from the Mediterranean to the middle of Mesopotamia. In the Old Testament, Aram occurs in several combinations and Damascus was the most important state. From Aram is derived Aramaic.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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FIRST 48: Desert Bones/Party's Over
Charlie Wilson's War
15 January 1919
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the leaders of a radical socialist revolution launched in Berlin, Germany are murdered a by right-wing paramilitary.
18 January 1985
U.S. officials walk out of a World Court case concerning U.S. paramilitary activities against the Nicaraguan government.
12 February 1989

In Northern Ireland, loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Freedom Fighters kill prominent lawyer Pat Finucane.

21 March 1968
The Battle of Karameh in Jordan takes place between Israeli and the Palestinian Fatah movement.
13 April 2005
The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Omar Karami, resigns after failing to form a government.
8 May 1914
W.W. Hodkinson creates the film financing and distribution company Paramount Pictures.
23 July 1974
Military rule in Greece collapses as former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited back to take control of the country.
24 July 2000
As part of the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland., loyalist paramilitary hitman Michael Stone is released from the Maze prison.
13 October 1994
In Northern Ireland, three of the main Loyalist paramilitaries announce a ceasefire.
15 October 1976

In Northern Ireland, two members of a Loyalist paramilitary are each sentenced to 35 years in jail for killing three members of popular cabaret band from the Republic of Ireland.  

4 December 1971
The loyalist paramilitary, the Ulster Volunteer Force, explode a bomb in a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.
27 December 1997
In Northern Ireland, Loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is shot dead in the Maze prison. 
 

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