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By the fourth century b.c. the Babylonians had been overthrown, and the Israelites returned to their land, which was now under the more tolerant rule of the Persians.
In the quiz, Bush had failed to name three of those leaders and had asserted that the leader of Pakistan, a general who had overthrown the country's elected government, recently "took over office … is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."
And a confluent NYT editorial concludes Hussein cannot be overthrown without an American invasion and occupation.
When Boris was at De Witt Clinton High School in New York, in the '30s, his history teacher once remarked that in February 1917, Alexander Kerensky had made the Russian Revolution and was soon after overthrown by Lenin.
The Qing rulers were overthrown in 1911, and the Republic of China, led by Sun Yat-sen, was declared.