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1 day ago · Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
1 day ago · General description and myth. In Norwegian sailor folklore, kraken ("the krake " or "the crookie"), also known as horven (among others), is a legendary sea monster said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland . It is said that when fishermen row out a few miles ( Scandinavian miles) from the coast on a hot summer's day in a calm, and ...