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French history the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was dissolved in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new Legislative Assembly

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The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.
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Portraits of Lincoln and Eisenhower were removed from the offices of the Republican National Committee.
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Whether he can do it on the national stage is the unanswered question.
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We face a lot of problems at this moment in our national and global history.
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But the last national figure to wield ancient personal authority in an explicitly religious way was Robert F. Kennedy.
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What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct?
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He was long a correspondent of the National Intelligencer and other papers, residing in Virginia.
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He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.
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I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.
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Opening of the national assembly of France, after the abdication of Louis Philippe.
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