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Tony Blair is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He has led the Labour Party since July 1994, and brought Labour into power with a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, replacing John Major as Prime Minister and ending 18 years of Conservative government. He is now the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister. He moved the Labour Party towards the centre of British politics, using the term "New Labour" to distinguish what he calls "modern social democracy" and his party's refusal to reverse privatisation and support for a market economy from its past belief in nationalisation and Fabian socialism. Since the advent of the "War on Terror" much of his agenda has been dominated by foreign affairs and he has supported many aspects of the foreign policy of George W. Bush. His party won an unprecedented third term in the 2005 general election, but its majority in the House of Commons was reduced considerably.
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Buddhist art originated in the Indian subcontinent in the centuries following the life of the historical Gautama Buddha in the 6th to 5th century BCE. Over time, contact with other cultures and its diffusion through the rest of Asia and the world caused it to develop and evolve into several distinct forms, not all of them tied to the same iconic Buddhist concepts. A first, essentially Indian, aniconic phase (avoiding direct representations of the Buddha), was followed from around the 1st century CE by an iconic phase (with direct representations of the Buddha). From that time, Buddhist art diversified and evolved as it adapted to the new countries where the faith was expanding. It developed to the north through Central Asia and into Eastern Asia to form the Northern branch of Buddhist art, and to the east as far as Southeast Asia to form the Southern branch of Buddhist art. In India, Buddhist art flourished and even influenced the development of Hindu art, until Buddhism almost disappeared around the 10th century with the expansion of Hinduism and Islam.
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A race is a population of humans distinguished in some way from other humans. The most widely used racial categories developed based on visible traits (especially skin color and facial features). Some cultures have categories linked to socioeconomic status. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and time, and are often controversial due to their impact on social identity hence identity politics. Viewpoints differ as to whether race is a folk taxonomy or a scientific classification. Since the 1940s, evolutionary scientists have rejected the view of race according to which a number of finite lists of essential characteristics could be used to determine a like number of races. By the 1960s, data and models from population genetics called into question taxonomic understandings of race, and many have turned from conceptualizing and analyzing human variation in terms of race to doing so in terms of populations and clines instead. That being said, many scientists still believe that race is a valid and useful concept.
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