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Today, May 20th is:
East Timor Independence Day On May 20, 2002, about half of a
small island in the Lesser Sundra group became the Democratic Republic
of East Timor after being an unwilling and brutalized province of
Indonesia for the previous two decades and under Portuguese colonial
rule for hundreds of years before that. Among the approximately 200,000
attendees at the independence ceremony in the capital city of Dili were
Bishop Carlos Belo and Jose Ramos Horta, who won the NOBEL
Peace Prize in 1996 for their efforts toward building the peaceful
independence of this Roman Catholic region within Indonesia, the
largest Muslim country in the world. From Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary |
Quotation of the Day
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Freedom
John Stuart Mill "The only freedom
which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own
way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or
impede their efforts to obtain it." from Respectfully Quoted |
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