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Green tickY Nystadt -> treaty between Sweden and Russia that ended the Great Northern War

  1. Okuma doctrine -> by Count Okuma; considered the Asian Monroe Doctrine
  2. Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty -> 1888 treaty regarding American fishing rights in Canadian waters
  3. Mikulski Commission - also known as the Commission on Delegate Selection and Party Structure, it was created following the Democratic loss in the 1972 to re-evaluate the processes by which candidates were nominated. Named for Barbara Mikulski.
  4. Symbolic analysts < concept in The Work of Nations by Robert Reich
  5. Operation Blast Furnace < 1986 military action; Bolivia – United States relations needs standalone
  6. Abolition of Private Property -> Idea from Engels and Marx's Communist Manifesto
  7. Treaty of Chateau-Cambresis -> Treaty signed during Italian War of 1551–1559
  8. Ex parte Yarbrough -> 1884 law case
  9. Vassi Dominici < Government of the Carolingian Empire
  10. Council of Magdeberg, Council of Magdeburg < needs standalone; see Magdeburg rights and German town law
  11. Costigan-Wagner Act Wagner-Costigan Act (Names May Be Reversed < 1935 anti-lynching initiative; should be a standalone at Costigan-Wagner Bill (currently redirect to Costigan bio)
  12. Fence mending - The term originated in 1879 when Ohio senator John Sherman made a trip home. It is what politicians do when they visit their electoral districts to explain an unpopular action. [1]
  13. Separating equilibrium - Some adverse selection problems can be reduced by the insurer offering two kinds of policies, one attractive to high-risk individuals and one attractive to lower-risk individuals. What kind of equilibrium does this produce? [2]
  14. Emergency Congress -> also known as "Hundred days congress", special session of congress that met March 9 to June 16, 1933 to discuss many issues in FDR's New Deal
  15. Statutes of Vizcaya -> system of laws issued in Spanish Basque Country, revoked in 1839 at the end of the First Carlist War
  16. Crime Victims Rights -> See here
  17. Shomrei Torah Sephardim-Sephardi Torah Guardians -> Israeli political party
  18. William Barloon And David Daliberti < Daliberti v. Iraq, Daliberti v. Republic of Iraq