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The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand (and) tens") is a decade in the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 2010 and will end on December 31, 2019. It is the current decade

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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district.

The Canadian activist group Adbusters initiated the protest, which subsequently led to Occupy protests and movements around the world. The main issues are social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, We are the 99%, addresses the growing income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters act on consensus-based decisions made in general assemblies which emphasize direct action over petitioning authorities for redress.

Protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. After several unsuccessful attempts to re-occupy the original location, protesters turned their focus to occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, college and university campuses.

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Dilma Rousseff was a Brazilian politician serving as the first female president of Brazil. She was president from 2011 until her impeachment on 31 August 2016.

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...that the Burj Khalifa (pictured) holds many records due to its height, including the world's tallest structure, world's highest restaurant, world's highest nightclub, and world's highest outdoor observation deck?
...that Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the highest grossing film of 2015 and (as of July 2016) the third highest-grossing film of all time?
...that the Nintendo 3DS is the first gaming device that allows players to view 3D without needing stereoscopic glasses?
...that One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was reconstructed after the original building collapsed in the September 11 attacks?
...that Pope Francis became the first non-European pope in 1,272 years?

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Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːt͡slav ˈɦavɛl] (

listen); 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician.

Havel was the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote more than 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally.

Havel was voted 4th in Prospect magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. At the time of his death he was Chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. He was the founder of the VIZE 97 Foundation and the principal organizer of the Forum 2000 annual global conference.

Havel was one of the signatories of the Charter 77 manifesto, a founding signatory, together with Joachim Gauck, of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism (launching the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism), and a council member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Havel received many recognitions, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award.

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