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5 days ago · Manpreet Kaur, who had dreams of becoming a chef, boarded the aircraft ready to fly from Melbourne to the Indian city of Delhi on June 20. It was going to be the first time she would see her family in four years, but sadly, she never made it. She died on the flight, while the plane was still attached to the gate. Picture: Supplied.
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- Jasmine Kazlauskas
Jun 22, 2024 · Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led dozens of enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad. Learn more about Tubman’s life.
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- Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of enslaved peopl...
- Harriet Tubman is credited with conducting upward of 300 enslaved people along the Underground Railroad from the American South to Canada. She show...
- In addition to leading more than 300 enslaved people to freedom, Harriet Tubman helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by a...
3 days ago · She became emaciated, weighing only 36 kg (79 lb; 5 st 9 lb) by June 1952. Death. Péron died at 8:25 p.m. on Saturday, 26 July 1952 at the Unzue Palace. Radio broadcasts throughout the country were interrupted with the announcement that "the Press Secretary's Office of the Presidency of the Nation fulfills its very sad duty to inform the ...
4 hours ago · Editor proved she had a taste for success. Judith Jones, who died in 2017 at age 93, spent her long and productive life in the editing trenches of New York publishing. Her main claim to fame was ...
Jun 23, 2024 · Karima Manji, seen in a police mugshot from 2015, was convicted of defrauding her then employer, the March of Dimes Non-Profit Housing Corporation. Manji is about to be sentenced again, this...
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- Juanita Taylor
2 days ago · She died on 5 September. Reactions. Mother Teresa lay in repose in an open casket in St Thomas, Calcutta, for a week before her funeral. She received a state funeral from the Indian government in gratitude for her service to the poor of all religions in the country.
2 days ago · The specific cause is unknown; however, there is evidence to suggest that she died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the camp, killing 17,000 prisoners. Gena Turgel, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen, knew Anne at the camp. In 2015, she told the British newspaper The Sun: "Her bed was around the corner from me. She was delirious, terrible ...
