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 *'''New Deal Socialism''' (69) - the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal name] given to the series of programs implemented between 1933-37 under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt President Franklin D. Roosevelt] with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Great Depression].
-*'''Bolsheviks''' (69) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks members] of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party's Bolshevik faction. Bolsheviks had an extreme socialist and internationalist outlook, and were opponents of the Russian traditional statehood and the Russian Orthodox Church.
+*'''Bolsheviks''' (70) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks members] of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party's Bolshevik faction. Bolsheviks had an extreme socialist and internationalist outlook, and were opponents of the Russian traditional statehood and the Russian Orthodox Church.
+*'''"...turned St. Petersburg into Leningrad..."''' (70) - Roy is referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg St. Petersburg, Russia], which became known as Leningrad in 1924 in honor of the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, who led the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution October Revolution]. It was later changed back to St. Petersburg in 1991, after the collapse of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Soviet Union].
+*'''Marx and Engels''' (70) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx Karl Marx] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels Friedrich Engels] were the co-founders of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism Marxism] and the authors of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto ''The Communist Manifesto''].
+*'''Lenin and Trotsky''' (70) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin Vladimir Lenin] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky Leon Trotsky] were both Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia during the early 20th century.
+*'''Josef Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt''' (70) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Stalin], leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt Roosevelt], the U.S. President from 1933 to 1945, were allies during [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II World War II].
+*'''New York State Bar Association''' (71) - Founded in Albany in November of 1871, the [http://www.nysba.org NYSBA] is now the largest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Bar_Association association] of lawyers in the U.S., with about 72,000 members.
+*'''Brahmin''' (73) -  a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin] member of a certain division of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism Hindu] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system caste system].
+*'''"ipso facto secular humanism"''' (73) - The phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipso_facto "ipso facto"] is Latin in origin and, when used in a religious context, indicates an individual guilty of specified actions considered unlawful by a committee, resulting in removal of membership from the religious group. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism Secular humanism] is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism humanist] philosophy that upholds reason, ethics, and justice and rejects rituals and ceremonies as a means to affirm their life stance.
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