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1 day ago · Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
1 hour ago · The 28-year-old American criminal convicted of murder was initially given a death sentence by electrocution before being reduced to life imprisonment. Godwin died from electrocution when he bit into wires while attempting to fix a broken television set, at the same time sitting on a metal toilet in his prison cell at the Central Correctional Institute in South Carolina.
1 day ago · Kinjin (金人（キンじん）, Kinjin, lit. "gold (en) person") is a secret unplayable boss character in free-to-play game Tekken Revolution. His design is likely based on an easter egg in the console version of Tekken Tag Tournament, where meeting certain requirements would cause Tetsujin's normally silver color to turn gold.
1 hour ago · Cambodia portal. v. t. e. The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 ( c. 7.8 million).
1 hour ago · President of United Mine Workers of America union (1963–1972); later convicted in a murder case that also involved embezzlement Ted Kaczynski: 1942–2023 Lived near Lincoln at the time of his capture Domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber: Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan: 1867–1904
1 day ago · 1938 NKVD arrest photo of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in a labor camp The NKVD photo of writer Isaac Babel made after his arrest Theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold at the time of his arrest Botanist Nikolai Vavilov's photo, taken at the time of his arrest Aino Forsten; (1885–1937) Finnish educator and Social Democratic politician, later arrested and executed Paleontologist and ...
1 day ago · Nazi Germany, [h] officially known as the German Reich [i] and later the Greater German Reich, [j] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [k] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...
