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- members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically ... After World War II the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- soul, R&B, and gospel singer born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised ... Redding, and released by Atlantic Records in 1967, and her 1987 duet with ...28 KB (4,152 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- public servant, most famous as a child star in the 1930s. Temple began her ... Following her Hollywood career she spent a brief time in television ...38 KB (5,692 words) - 14:21, 27 January 2023
- and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and ... Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- recorded ballads, country music, and gospel. In a musical career spanning more ... Lennon, and Bruce Springsteen. At the same time, his blending of R&B and ...31 KB (4,709 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- to feature unambiguous homosexuality at a time when it was considered a mental ... English language to state his views on life in no uncertain terms, which led ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- This practice has been all too common in human history. Even biblical ... 1900–1959), a Polish Jewish legal scholar, in 1943, from the roots genos ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- she is primarily remembered for her role in the Second World War, in which ... proving that a woman was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States ... the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927 ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- ray particles arrive individually, not in the form of a ray or beam of ... can produce. There has been interest in investigating cosmic rays of ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on ... to cut the Germans off from their base in hopes of continuing the battle ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... nonviolent. They rejected a one-party state in a 1993 referendum and peacefully ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- for a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The River Gambia ... groups that live together harmoniously. In his 1977 Pulitzer Prize-winning ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- consider the age of Earth to be around 4.54 billion years (4.54 ... radiometric age dating, measurements of lead in uranium-rich minerals showed ...34 KB (5,149 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- that lasted for roughly nine months in 1971. The war resulted in Bangladesh ... Pakistan's partition from India in 1947 had arisen from the ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born ... official announcement of their engagement in July 1947, he abandoned his ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by the Roman Catholic priest ... and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church (Doubleday ...43 KB (6,418 words) - 15:47, 27 March 2024
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... It was inhabited in pre-colonial times by a number of ancient kingdoms ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- and journalists have a responsibility to act in the interest of the betterment ... of current events, the profession involved in writing the content of newspapers ...45 KB (6,779 words) - 14:13, 9 September 2023
- popular song with "Because of You" in 1951. Several popular tracks ... Despite having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016 ...61 KB (9,033 words) - 20:13, 12 September 2023
