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Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2005 ... Connecticut College

Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2005 An improved economic and political climate resulted in a series of meetings with the International Monetary Fund, which opened consultations with the Republic of the Congo government on May 24, 2004. The IMF announced in July that it would undertake a three-year program designed to reduce poverty and increase economic ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2006 New attempts were made in 2005 to disarm the remnants of the militiamen who had fought the government of the Republic of the Congo during the 1998-2003 civil wars. On January 31 former rebel leader Frederic Bitsangou announced a drive to implement the peace agreement signed on March 17, 2003, ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2007 Attacks in January 2006 by armed gangs in the troubled Pool region of the Republic of the Congo caused the suspension of relief activities by the International Red Cross (ICRC) and Doctors Without Borders. The ICRC resumed its work on February 23, citing improved security. Although the World Bank granted ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2008 Preparations for the June 24, 2007, parliamentary elections in the Republic of the Congo were marked by controversy between opposition parties and the government of Pres. Denis Sassou-Nguesso. The dispute concerned the role and composition of the new National Electoral Commission (CONEL). Claiming that CONEL would not be sufficiently independent ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2009 New voting cards were issued in the Republic of the Congo to all Congolese electors prior to the June 29 and Aug. 4, 2008, local and senatorial elections. In the balloting the presidential coalition took 600 of the 846 seats in local councils and captured 70 of the 72 Senate ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2010 The reelection of Republic of the Congo Pres. Denis Sassou-Nguesso in the July 12, 2009, presidential poll took place amid considerable controversy. Sassou-Nguesso, who had ruled for much of the past 30 years, took 78% of the vote. The government claimed that 66% of the 2.2 million eligible voters cast ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2011 On Aug. 15, 2010, UN General Assembly Pres. Ali Abdussalam Treki, along with dignitaries from Africa and France, attended ceremonies in Brazzaville marking the Republic of the Congo's 50th year of independence from France. In celebration of the event, Pres. Denis Sassou-Nguesso announced that by January 2011 civil servants would ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2012 In 2011 health issues remained a concern in the Republic of the Congo. Congolese citizens welcomed a February 21 announcement that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria would provide Congo with $35 million for the provision of services. Other health issues, however, continued to take their toll. ... Congo, Republic of the: Year in Review 2013 The Republic of the Congo's capital, Brazzaville, was rocked on the morning of March 4, 2012, when a fire in an armoury in a densely populated suburb triggered a huge explosion that killed more than 280 people, injured more than 2,300 others, and left more than 14,000 homeless. The blaze ... Congo, Republic of the country situated astride the Equator in west-central Africa. Officially known as the Republic of the Congo, the country is often called Congo (Brazzaville), with its capital added parenthetically, to distinguish it from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is often referred to by its acronym, the DRC, or called ... Congonhas town, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), Brazil, situated in the Brazilian Highlands at 2,854 feet (870 metres) above sea level. The settlement was made the seat of a municipality in 1938 and was known as Congonhas do Campo before 1948. It is a centre for the mining of iron, nickel, ... congregation an assembly of persons, especially a body assembled for religious worship or habitually attending a particular church. The word occurs more than 350 times in the King James Version of the English Bible, but only one of these references is in the New Testament (Acts 13:43). As it is used ... Congregational Church of England and Wales national organization of Congregational churches, established in 1832 and known until 1965 as the Congregational Union of England and Wales. It developed from the activities of English Christians of the late 16th and 17th centuries who wished to separate from the Church of England and form independent churches. A group ... Congregationalism Christian movement that arose in England in the late 16th and 17th centuries. It occupies a theological position somewhere between Presbyterianism and the more radical Protestantism of the Baptists and Quakers. It emphasizes the right and responsibility of each properly organized congregation to determine its own affairs, without having to ... Congress Kingdom of Poland Polish state created (May 3, 1815) by the Congress of Vienna as part of the political settlement at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It was ruled by the tsars of Russia until its loss in World War I. The Kingdom of Poland comprised the bulk of the former Grand ... Congress of Racial Equality interracial American organization established by James Farmer in 1942 to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects. Farmer had been working as the race-relations secretary for the American branch of the pacifist group Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) but resigned over a dispute in policy; he founded CORE ... Congress of the People South African political party founded in 2008 by Mbhazima Shilowa, Mluleki George, and Mosiuoa Lekota, former high-ranking members of South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), who disagreed with the direction of that organization. The new party positioned itself as "progressive" and diverse, pledging to reach out to ... Congress of the United States the legislature of the United States of America, established under the Constitution of 1789 and separated structurally from the executive and judicial branches of government. It consists of two houses: the Senate, in which each state, regardless of its size, is represented by two senators, and the House of Representatives ... Congress, Library of the de facto national library of the United States and the largest library in the world. Its collection was growing at a rate of about two million items per year; it reached more than 150 million items in 2012. The Library of Congress serves members, committees, and staff of the ... Congressional Quarterly group of periodicals published in Washington, D.C., reporting the activities and politics of the U.S. Congress. It was established in 1945 by Henrietta and Nelson Poynter, editor and publisher of the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times. Over the next decade the original Quarterly evolved into a Weekly Report with a Quarterly ... Congreve rocket artillery rocket developed by Sir William Congreve (q.v.) and first used in 1806. It was an improvement over the rockets used by Hyder Ali, prince of Mysore, against the British in Indian in the 1790s. Used by both the British and Americans during the War of 1812, Congreve rockets bursting ... Congreve, Richard Positivist philosopher, a disciple of Auguste Comte and founder of the Church of Humanity in London. Congreve, Sir William, 2nd Baronet English artillery officer and inventor, best known for his military rocket, which was a significant advance on earlier black-powder rockets. It provided the impetus for an early wave of enthusiastic utilization of rockets for military purposes in Europe. Congreve, William English dramatist who shaped the English comedy of manners through his brilliant comic dialogue, his satirical portrayal of the war of the sexes, and his ironic scrutiny of the affectations of his age. His major plays were The Old Bachelour (1693), The Double-Dealer (1693), Love for Love (1695), and The ... Coniacian Stage third of six main divisions (in ascending order) in the Upper Cretaceous Series, representing rocks deposited worldwide during the Coniacian Age, which occurred 89.3 to 85.8 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. Rocks of the Coniacian Stage overlie those of the Turonian Stage and underlie rocks of the Santonian ... Conibear, Hiram Boardman American trainer and rowing coach at the University of Washington (1907-17). He developed a distinctive style known as the American stroke (also called the Washington stroke and the Conibear stroke) that revolutionized college rowing and had an effect on the sport that lasted for 30 years. conic section in geometry, any curve produced by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone. Depending on the angle of the plane relative to the cone, the intersection is a circle, an ellipse, a hyperbola, or a parabola. Special (degenerate) cases of intersection occur when the plane passes through ... conidium a type of asexual reproductive spore of fungi (kingdom Fungi) usually produced at the tip or side of hyphae (filaments that make up the body of a typical fungus) or on special spore-producing structures called conidiophores. The spores detach when mature. They vary widely in shape, colour, and size, large ... conifer any member of the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, order Pinales, made up of living and fossil gymnospermous plants that usually have needle-shaped evergreen leaves and seeds attached to the scales of a woody, bracted cone. Among living gymnosperm divisions, the conifers show little similarity to the Cycadophyta and Gnetophyta but ... coniferous forest vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing, needle-leaved, or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in regions of the world that have long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation. The northern Eurasian coniferous forest is called the taiga, or the boreal forest. Both terms are used to describe the entire circumpolar coniferous forest ... Coningsby political novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1844. It is the first novel in Disraeli's trilogy completed by Sybil (1845) and Tancred (1847). Coningsby follows the fortunes of Harry Coningsby, the orphaned grandson of the marquis of Monmouth. It also traces the waning of the Whigs and the Tories and ... Coninxloo, Gillis van Flemish landscape painter whose works show the transition from Mannerist to early Baroque landscape. conjoined twin one of a pair of twins who are physically joined and often share some organs. Fusion is typically along the trunk of the body or at the front, side, or back of the head. conjugated system in a covalent chemical compound, a group or chain of atoms bearing valence electrons that are not engaged in single-bond formation and that modify the behaviour of each other. If, for example, a carbonyl group (C : O) and a hydroxyl group (OH) are widely separated in a molecule, each ... conjugation in biology, sexual process in which two lower organisms of the same species, such as bacteria, protozoans, and some algae and fungi, exchange nuclear material during a temporary union (e.g., ciliated protozoans), completely transfer one organism's contents to the other organism (bacteria and some algae), or fuse together to form ... conjunction in astronomy, an apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies. The Moon is in conjunction with the Sun at the phase of New Moon, when it moves between the Earth and Sun and the side turned toward the Earth is dark. Inferior planets-those with orbits smaller than ... conjunction in logic, a type of connective that uses the word "and" to join together two propositions. See connective. conjunctivitis inflammation of the conjunctiva, the delicate mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelids and covers the front part of the white of the eye. The inflammation may be caused by a viral or bacterial infection. It can also be caused by a chemical burn or mechanical injury, ... Conjure Woman, The the first collection of stories by Charles W. Chesnutt. The seven stories began appearing in magazines in 1887 and were first collected in a book in 1899. conjuring the theatrical representation of the defiance of natural law. Legerdemain, meaning "light, or nimble, of hand," and juggling, meaning "the performance of tricks," were the terms initially used to designate exhibitions of deception. The words conjuring and magic had no theatrical significance until the end of the 18th century. Descriptions ... Conklin, Edwin Grant American biologist noted for his studies of human evolution, who was a leading critic of society's response to advanced technology. Conkling, Roscoe prominent U.S. Republican leader in the post-Civil War period. He was known for his support of severe Reconstruction measures toward the South and his insistence on the control of political patronage in his home state of New York. Conlai in Irish heroic tales, son of the most prominent hero of Ulster, Cu Chulainn, and of Aife (or Aoife), a warrior-queen of a magical land across the sea. Cu Chulainn overpowered Aife and asked her to bear him a son. He told her to send this son to him in ... Conn Cetchathach in Irish tradition, the first of a line of Irish kings that survived into the 11th century. He is said to have ruled a kingdom covering most of the northern half of the island. Connaraceae family of dicotyledonous flowering plants within the order Oxalidales, and containing 25 genera of trees, shrubs, and shrubby, twining climbers distributed in tropical regions of the world. Except for a few species bearing separate male and female flowers, the flowers are bisexual and have 5 sepals and petals; either 5 ... Connaught one of the five ancient kingdoms or provinces of Ireland, lying in the western and northwestern areas of the island. Its eastern boundary is the middle course of the River Shannon. Connaught is the poorest part of the Irish republic and comprises the modern counties of Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Galway, ... Connaught and Strathearn, Arthur William Patrick Albert, duke of third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert; he held various military appointments and served as governor-general of Canada. Conneaut city, Ashtabula county, extreme northeastern Ohio, U.S., about 70 miles (115 km) northeast of Cleveland. It lies along Lake Erie at the mouth of Conneaut Creek and is adjacent to the Pennsylvania border. A temporary settlement, Fort Independence, was made there by a group from the Connecticut Land Company led ... connectedness in mathematics, fundamental topological property of sets that corresponds with the usual intuitive idea of having no breaks. It is of fundamental importance because it is one of the few properties of geometric figures that remains unchanged after a homeomorphism-that is, a transformation in which the figure is deformed without ... Connecticut constituent state of the United States of America. It was one of the original 13 states and is one of the six New England states. Connecticut is located in the northeastern corner of the country. In area it is the third smallest U.S. state, but it ranks among the most ... Connecticut College Private liberal-arts college in New London, Conn. It was founded in 1911 as a women's college, and became coeducational in 1969. It offers a range of programs leading to the bachelor's degree. It maintains centers for international studies, conservation biology, and arts and technology. Enrollment is about 1,900.