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71Petrobrás — officially Petróleo Brasileiro SA Brazilian oil and natural gas company, the largest corporation in South America. It was founded in 1953 as a government owned monopoly to prospect, extract, and refine domestic petroleum and to transport that oil …
72Rio Treaty — officially Convention on Biological Diversity International environmental agreement approved at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Negotiations began in 1988 under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Program. Its goals are the… …
73Saint Kitts-Nevis — officially Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Independent nation of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean. Area: 104 sq mi (269 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 46,200. Capital: Basseterre (on Saint Kitts). Most of the population is of… …
74Stasi — officially Staatssicherheit ( State Security ) Secret police of East Germany (1950–90), established with Soviet help by German communists in Soviet occupied Germany after World War II. It was responsible for both domestic political surveillance… …
75Sudan, The — officially Republic of the Sudan Country, North Africa. Area: 966,757 sq mi (2,503,890 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 37,090,000. Capital: Khartoum. Muslim Arab ethnic groups live in the northern and central two thirds of the country, while… …
76Vichy France — officially French State French État Français (July 1940–September 1944) French regime in World War II after the German defeat of France. The Franco German armistice (June 1940) divided France into two zones: one under German military occupation… …
77Washington Conference — officially International Conference on Naval Limitation Conference held in Washington, D.C. (1921–22), to limit the naval arms race and negotiate Pacific security agreements. Several major and minor treaty agreements were drafted and signed: the… …
78Sherman tank — officially M4 General Sherman main battle tank designed and built by the United States for the conduct of World War II. The M4 was the most widely used tank series in the war, being employed not only by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps but also… …
79Jesuit Order — (officially, the Society of Jesus) Roman Catholic religious order organized by Ignatius Loyola (1491 1556) and authorized by the bull Regimini militantis ecclesiae issued by Pope Paul III in 1540. The goal of the new order was to restore the… …
80Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea — Officially known as the Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS)[1], the treaty provides for the equal distribution of revenue derived from the disputed Greater… …
