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VICTORY GARDENS

Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.

AEROSPACE

THE BRANCH OF TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY CONCERNED WITH BOTH AVIATION AND SPACE FLIGHT.

TIDELANDS

land that is submerged at high tide.

COMMUTE

travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.

DESEGREGATE

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.

NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE

Nonviolent resistance (NVR or nonviolent action) is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence.

GREAT SOCIETY

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

SIT-INS

Following the Oklahoma City sit-ins, the tactic of non-violent student sit-ins spread. The Greensboro sit-ins at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation.

CHIACANO MOVEMENT

The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement or El Movimiento, was a civil rights movement extending the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American

SCANDAL

an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage.

TWO-PARTY SYSTEM

A two-party system is a party system where two major political parties dominate politics within a government. One of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority party while the other is the minority party.

BIPARTISANSHIP

BIPARTISANSHIP IS A POLITICAL SITUATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM, AS IS THE CASE FOR COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE UNITED STATES, IN WHICH OPPOSING POLITICAL PARTIES FIND COM

TERRORISM

THE USE OF VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION IN THE PURSUIT OF POLITICAL AIMS.

DEPORTATION

ACTION OF DEPORTING A FOREIGNER FROM A COUNTRY. "A

INFRASTRUCTURE

THE BASIC PHYSICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES AND FACILITIES (E.G., BUILDINGS, ROADS, AND POWER SUPPLIES) NEEDED FOR THE OPERATION

DESALINIZATION

DESALINATION OR DESALINIZATION IS A PROCESS THAT REMOVES MINERALS FROM SALINE WATER.

CINCO DE MAYO

CINCO DE MAYO (PRONOUNCED: [ˈSIŊKO ÐE ˈMAʝO]; SPANISH FOR "MAY 5TH", OR LITERALLY, "FIVE OF MAY") IS A CELEBRATION HELD ON MAY 5. THE DATE IS OBSERVED TO COMMEMORATE THE MEXICAN ARMY'S UNLIKELY VICTORY OVER FRENCH FORCES AT THE BATTLE OF PUEBLA ON MAY 5, 1862, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF GENERAL IGNACIO ZARAGOZA SEGUÍN.

BIOMASS

the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume.

WIND FARMS

A windfarm or wind park is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbi

GLOBALIZATION

GLOBALIZATION (OR GLOBALISATION) IS THE PROCESS OF INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION ARISING FROM THE INTERCHANG