It's Hard to Be Humble
``It's Hard to be Humble ''Single by Mac Davis from the album Hard To Be Humble B - side`` The Greatest Gift of All'' Released March 1980 Format Single Genre Pop Length 4: 20 Label Casablanca Songwriter (s) Mac Davis Producer (s) Larry Butler Mac Davis singles chronology ``Every Now and Then ''(1976)`` It's Hard to be Humble'' (1980) ``Let's Keep It That Way ''(1980)`` Every Now and Then'' (1976) ``It's Hard to be Humble ''(1980)`` Let's Keep It That Way'' (1980) 45 RPM side label US release
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Military history of the United States
US troops participated in a UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia beginning in 1992. By 1993 the US troops were augmented with Rangers and special forces with the aim of capturing warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, whose forces had massacred peacekeepers from Pakistan. During a raid in downtown Mogadishu, US troops became trapped overnight by a general uprising in the Battle of Mogadishu. Eighteen American soldiers were killed, and a US television crew filmed graphic images of the body of one soldier being dragged through the streets by an angry mob. Somali guerrillas paid a staggering toll at an estimated 1,000–5,000 total casualties during the conflict. After much public disapproval, American forces were quickly withdrawn by President Bill Clinton. The incident profoundly affected US thinking about peacekeeping and intervention. The book Black Hawk Down was written about the battle, and was the basis for the later movie of the same name.
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On 16 March 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, which requires an annual stamp purchase by all hunters over the age of sixteen. The stamps are created on behalf of the program by the US Postal Service and depict wildlife artwork chosen through an annual contest. They play an important role in habitat conservation because ninety-eight percent of all funds generated by their sale go directly toward the purchase or lease of wetland habitat for protection in the National Wildlife Refuge System.[citation needed] In addition to waterfowl, it is estimated that one third of the nation's endangered species seek food and shelter in areas protected using Duck Stamp funds.[citation needed]
The Incredibles
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Eritrea
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When was Eritrea annexed by the largest peacekeeping troop contributor to the group in which the US and creator of an Avicenna stamp in 1980 became important members?
What superpower in 1980 created a stamp in honor of Avicenna?
the Soviet Union
the us and #1 became important members in
the United Nations
largest troop contributor to the #2 peace keeping mission
Ethiopia
When was Eritrea annexed by #3 ?
1953