United States Information Agency

The United States Information Agency (USIA), which operated from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". In 1999, prior to the reorganization of intelligence agencies by President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton assigned USIA's cultural exchange and non-broadcasting intelligence functions to the newly created Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. USIA's broadcasting functions were moved to the newly created Broadcasting Board of Governors. The agency was previously known overseas as the United States Information Service (USIS) of the U.S. Embassy; the current name, the Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, is sometimes translated as the Public Relations and Cultural Exchange Agency.

Stalin's poetry

Before he became a Bolshevik revolutionary and the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was a promising poet

Bitzius

The Bitzius family was a Swiss patrician family of Bern. Its members exercised political power in the Bernese city-state in the 16th and 17th century. Its most prominent member was the writer Albert Bitzius, known as Jeremias Gotthelf

Paul Laband

Paul Laband was a German jurist and the German Empire's leading scholar of constitutional law

Karl Larenz

Karl Larenz was a German jurist and philosopher of law. He is known for his influential contributions to German civil law, as well as for being one of the leading Nazi legal theorists in the domain of civil law

Edmund Krzymuski

Edmund Krzymuski was a Polish scholar of criminal law

Xenagus

A xenagus (ξεναγός) was a senior Spartan military officer during the Peloponnesian War. The title was held by the Spartan commanders of the contingents provided to the Spartans by their allies in the Peloponnesian League

Dan Diner

Dan Diner is an Israeli-German historian and political writer. He is emeritus professor of modern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish history and Jewish culture, and professor at the

Dan Michman

Dan Michman is a Jewish historian. He is the head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust studies

Gaius Fidiculanius Falcula

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Federico Ruiz (composer)

Federico Ruiz Hurtado is a Venezuelan composer, arranger, and arts administrator. He has composed in diverse genres including symphonic, chamber, and electroacoustic music