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2005–06 Thai political crisis

The Democrat party spokesman called Thaksin worse than Saddam Hussein for not protecting the Thai economy from foreigners: "Dictator Saddam, though a brutal tyrant, still fought the superpower for the Iraqi motherland".

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

The novel was also the source of the song Vande Mataram (I worship my Motherland for she truly is my mother) which, set to music by Rabindranath Tagore, was taken up by many Indian nationalists, and is now the National Song of India.

De moribus tartarorum, lituanorum et moscorum

The work is neither a chronicle nor a travel book, but is rather a political essay which is critical of the author's motherland (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) and overly praises Muscovy and the Crimean Khanate for their centralized governments and united subjects.

Ethiopian World Federation

As a direct result of the support Ethiopia received from black people in the West, namely at that time African-Americans, during the Italian invasion 1935-1941, the Emperor granted five (5) Gashas of land near Shashamane to the E.W.F. Inc., for Ethiopian people in the Diaspora who desired to return to the motherland first in 1948.

Evgeny Vinokurov

The role of the enclaves as a generator of conflicts between motherland and surrounding states (e.g., Britain and Spain in the case of Gibraltar, Russia and the European Union in the case of Kaliningrad, Spain and Morocco in the case of Ceuta and Melilla) is of particular interest.

Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir

This DVD contains only English audio, with the shortened version of the second opening theme song "Ready Steady Go" by L'Arc-en-Ciel and the shortened third ending "Motherland" by Crystal Kay.

Garden Egg chair

Peter Ghyczy (1940) left his motherland Hungary in 1956 because of the revolution and moved to West Germany.

Ge'ez script

The films 500 Years Later (፭፻-ዓመታት በኋላ) and Motherland (እናት ሀገር) are two mainstream Western documentaries to use Ge'ez characters in the titles.

Genda Lal Dixit

The guidance of Dixit was sought by Ram Prasad Bismil, a fellow revolutionary who had established his own organization, called Matrivedi ("Altar of Motherland"), in the city of Shahjahanpur, United Province.

Great Anatolia Party

The Motherland Party protested against these cases and litigated to the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Electoral Council.

High Commission of Jamaica, London

In the post-war era, there was mass migration from Jamaica due labour shortages in the 'motherland', with the first arrivals aboard MV Empire Windrush, bringing almost 500 Jamaicans to Britain.

José de Diego

While in Spain, de Diego collaborated with the newspaper El Progreso (Progress) which was founded by José Julián Acosta y Blanco and which attacked the political situation in Puerto Rico; this led to various arrests which eventually forced him to leave the Madre Patria (Motherland) to return to the island.

Jovan Ratković

He was one of the organisers of the Assembly of the Serb Diaspora and Motherland, held in Szentendre, Hungary, which rallied leaders of the Serbian diaspora and of the then opposition movement in Serbia.

Julio Iglesias, Sr.

In his 1972 hit "Un canto a Galicia" (a song to Galicia), Julio Iglesias sings about his parents, with the words "Un canto a Galicia, Terra do meu pai. Un canto a Galicia, miña terra mai" (a song to Galicia, land of my father, a song to Galicia, my motherland).

Károly Doncsecz

When he was still alive, travel groups from the motherland Slovenia often visited him in his kétvölgyian workshop, and Doncsecz did not only tell about his craft, but also about biographies of man Slovenes from the Raba region in his mother tongue.

Khazar University Department of Eastern Languages and Religions Studies

The Department also includes studying religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam (as Middle Eastern traditions) and Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Shinto, Taoism (as South and East Asian traditions) which appeared in the motherland of these Middle Eastern and Far Eastern languages and turned to be an important part of the world’s civilization.

Liza Umarova

In 1998 Liza made her first recording with the song "Motherland", which set words about Chechnya to the tune of "Liberta", a 1980s hit by Italian pop duo Al Bano and Romina Power.

Maya Tiwari

Tiwari spent three years at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Saylorsburg, PA before relocating to Dayananda Ashram in her motherland of Rishikesh, India where she received her diksha as a sannyasin from her guru.

Njeriu prej Dheut

The movie is about the Albanian immigrants in Turkey, their struggle to adjust to the new lands and their yearning for the motherland.

Rick Kittles

He was featured in the BBC Two films Motherland: A Genetic Journey and Motherland – Moving On (released in 2003 and 2004, respectively), as well as in part 4 of the 2006 PBS series African American Lives (hosted by Henry Louis Gates).

Serge Avedikian

In 1947, influenced by Joseph Stalin's and Maurice Thorez's propaganda, they left to rejoin the motherland, where Avedikian attended the French school of Yerevan.

Sergei Khudyakov

His wife and younger son were also arrested on 13 January 1951 as members of a family traitor to the motherland, and sent to Krasnoyarsk Krai in the Taseyevsky District.

Teolindo Acosta

His skills were showed in his motherland with the Aguilas del Zulia, Cardenales de Lara, Industriales de Valencia, Licoreros de Pampero, Llaneros de Acarigua and Tigres de Araguaof the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

Tsedenia Gebremarkos

Tsednia makes a debut appearance in Motherland Motherland (film) and upcoming film (2009) from the producers of 500 Years Later.


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