Word: secessionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quebec has often struck outsiders as a byword for radicals and recalcitrance. The French-speaking province sends its own delegates abroad and calls its legislature the National Assembly. In 1970 a lunatic fringe agitating for Quebec's secession from Canada murdered a Cabinet minister, kidnaped a British diplomat, and...
As an orator, Woodhull bowed to no man. "We mean treason; we mean secession..." she declared. "We are plotting revolution; we will [overthrow] this bogus Republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead." When someone dared to ask whether she practiced her preachings of free love, she defiantly...
Abdullah denied that he advocated secession from India, and vowed to fight back. He declared, "We shall begin a massive civil disobedience program at all levels of life here, but it will remain non violent." Mrs. Gandhi's latest show of strength is unlikely to damage seriously her standing...
There are two outstanding exhibitions this year. One is historical: "The Arts in Vienna from the Founding of the Secession to the Fall of the Hapsburg Empire," a stupendous collocation of more than a thousand objects that fills the Palazzo Grassi: paintings by Klimt and Schiele, furniture by Hoffman and...
The Renaissance popes ignored the increasing alienation of the intellectuals, such as Martin Luther, who were ethically troubled by the trafficking, and the populace, who for purely financial reasons disliked the practice. They also overlooked the German and Spanish forces that marshalled outside Rome in 1527 and attacked the city...