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1 day ago · World leaders voice their outrage after Vladimir Putin launches a deadly hypersonic missile attack on multiple Ukrainian cities, with a children's hospital struck in Kyiv. It comes on the eve of a ...
1 day ago · After crossing Tennessee and Kentucky, they arrived at the Ohio River across from Golconda in southern Illinois about the 3rd of December 1838. Here the starving Indians were charged a dollar a head (equal to $28.61 today) to cross the river on "Berry's Ferry" which typically charged twelve cents, equal to $3.43 today.
1 day ago · The right or southern wing under Schwarzenberg (34,000) crossed the Western Bug on a pontoon bridge at Drohiczyn on 2 July. Tormasov's third army prevented him from joining up with Davout. When Tormasov occupied Brest (Belarus) at the end of July, Schwarzenberg and Reynier were cut off from supplies.
1 day ago · India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
1 day ago · ISO 3166 code. IE. Internet TLD. .ie [d] Ireland ( Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ⓘ ), also known as the Republic of Ireland ( Poblacht na hÉireann ), [a] is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island.
1 day ago · Lynching of John William Clark in Cartersville, Georgia, September 1930, after killing Police Chief J. B. Jenkins [1] Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States ' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
1 day ago · 2,000,000–4,500,000 displaced, [13] 500,000 of whom fled abroad [14] The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state which had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. Nigeria was led by General Yakubu Gowon ...
