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Featured article: March 11, 2005 The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the First World War at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The League's goals included disarmament; preventing war through collective security; settling disputes between countries through negotiation and diplomacy; and improving global welfare. The League was a government of governments, with the role of settling disputes between individual nations in an open and legalist forum. The League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, which they were often very reluctant to do. The League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the fascist powers in 1930s. The onset of the Second World War made it clear that the League had failed in its primary purpose—to avoid any future world war. The United Nations effectively replaced it after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organisations founded by the League. (more...) Recently featured: Comet Hale-Bopp – San Jose – Chemical warfare

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Featured sound Frank C. Stanley's 1910 performance of Robert Burns' Auld Lang Syne. Contains the first and last verse. (file info)

Featured picture: May 19, 2006 Cumulus clouds are characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower. They are formed by convection. Buoyant, upward air currents known as thermals rise to a height at which the moisture in the air can condense. Because of this, they grow vertically instead of horizontally. Though most common in warm, summer weather, cumulus clouds can be formed at any time of year. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive - More featured pictures...

Featured list: Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates

Map of Maryland house of delegates electoral districts: 3 sub-districts 2 sub-districts 1 sub-districts       3 dem.       2 dem., 1 rep.       1 dem., 2 rep.       3 rep.       2 dem.       1 dem., 1 rep.       2 rep.       1 dem.       1 rep. The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Maryland. Three delegates are elected from each district, though some districts are divided into sub-districts. In the original state constitution, four delegates were elected from each county to one-year terms, and two were elected from each of the major early cities of Baltimore and Annapolis. Reforms in the 1830s, however, led to the apportionment of delegates by population rather than geography, and by 1922, delegates served four year terms. The modern system of apportionment of seats began in 1972, when 47 districts of roughly equal population were identified, although sub-districts were created to ensure local representation for areas with too little population to warrant an entire district. Delegates are elected in even years when the President of the United States is not being elected, similar to most other state offices in Maryland. The most recent election was in November, 2006. Delegates are not term-limited. Party composition Affiliation Members   Democratic Party 104   Republican Party 37  Total 141  Government Majority 67 Current leadership Michael Busch, House Speaker Position Name Party District Speaker of the House Michael E. Busch Democratic 30 Speaker Pro Tempore Adrienne A. Jones Democratic 10 Majority Leader Kumar P. Barve Democratic 17 Majority Whip Talmadge Branch Democratic 45 Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell Republican 29C Minority Whip Christopher B. Shank Republican 2B See full list...

Featured topic: Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games
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