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  • approach to ethics. If a lord mistakenly ordered a massacre of civilians, should the samurai observe loyalty and massacre innocent people as his lord ...
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  • Despite the massacre, Wali Khan continued to support talks with Bhutto over a new constitution. Shortly afterwards, he received appointment as ...
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  • **Massacre of the Innocents (2:16–18) Baptism and early ministry *John the Baptist (3:1–12, 11:2-19, 14:1–12) *Baptism of Jesus (3:13–17) ...
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  • and some officials stating they would provoke a massacre if they tried to rescue them from the mob.ABC News Online, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20041 ...
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  • and were tried, as, for example, at the Biscari Massacre trials. The unconditional surrender of the Axis powers was unusual and led directly to the formation ...
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  • date the news of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots reached Geneva. * The "Escalade" (literally, "scaling the ...
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  • Battle of the Little Bighorn, survivor of the massacre]] During the period of the Indian Wars, the Crow supported the United States military by ...
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  • as they are now trying to stifle it in Kansas by massacre, rapine, and murder. Has it come to this, that we must speak with bated breath in the ...
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  • the loss of the British mission and the subsequent Massacre of Elphinstone's army of approximately 16,000 people, which included civilians and camp ...
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  • brought smallpox disease. In 1870, the Marias Massacre occurred. American troops killed 200 Piegan women, children, and elderly despite the fact that ...
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  • a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard ... clergy, including the imprisonment and massacre of priests throughout France ...
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  • Movement Ustasha committed a massacre in the hamlet of Šurmanci against 559 Serb civilians, which led Mostar bishop Alojzije Mišić to write ...
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  • mention 110) and died a violent death in the massacre which the Mongols inflicted on Nishabur in April 1229 although possible death dates range from ...
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  • #039;s account of the visit of the Magi, the massacre of the innocents by Herod, and the flight into Egypt is not mentioned by Luke. ...
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  • as in the case of the Nanking Massacre, the Holocaust, and the Winter Soldier Investigation of the Vietnam War. The representation of every ...
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  • carried out what became known as the “Halloween Massacre,” firing large numbers of the agency’s most experienced operations officers with a terse ...
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  • years saw violent imprisonment and later the massacre of priests throughout France. French priests had to receive Papal approval to sign such ...
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  • at age 16. In January 1919, the Porvenir massacre came under the scrutiny ... quot; Enright in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (1986) ...
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  • en masse, particularly in the Bleiburg massacre and Foibe massacres. == Post-war Rule== After the Tito-Šubašic Agreement in late 1944, the provisional ...
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  • an event that became known as the "Munich Massacre." ==Government== [[Image:Germany CIA map extended.gif|right|thumb|225px| Munich is ...
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  • Council to "act immediately to stop the massacre of Kurd civilians by Iraqi forces" under Saddam Hussein. During the 1980s, Amnesty ...
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  • and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre. However, possibly because of a misunderstanding, fighting resumed. According to official documents ...
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  • and Prophet Zakariyah died, killed during the massacre of the innocents. On the same night, a revelation descended upon Jesus. God commanded him ...
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  • often accompanied by their destruction and the massacre of their inhabitants. On his way to Delhi he met fierce resistance put up by the Governor of ...
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  • together with other slaves, planned a rebellion to massacre all white people present on the island, but their plot was discovered ahead of time, resulting ...
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  • Turks' liberal reforms, resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands of Christians in Adana province. James Creelman, [http://select.nytimes ...
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  • Michigan Territory from the horrors of an Indian massacre." This was a huge victory for Brock for a number of reasons. First, it struck a ...
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  • early years after independence Mugabe ordered a massacre of all Ndebele-speaking people. The genocide resulted in the death of over 100,000 Ndebele ...
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  • were killed by British troops in the Amritsar massacre.[https://www.mkgandhi.org/bio5000/bio5index.htm Gandhi's Life in 5000 words] From the ...
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  • Arian Christian cousin Constantius II led a massacre of Julian's family. Constantius ordered the murders of many descendants from the second marriage ...
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  • was generally unsuccessful in conversions (a massacre of Christians in 1860 was the occasion for further European interventions), but did build an ...
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  • After the massacre of the Champ de Mars on July 17, 1791, Robespierre moved into the house of Maurice Duplay in order to be nearer to the assembly ...
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  • U Aung Htoo, [http://alrc.asia/article2/2003/12/the-depayin-massacre-a-crime-against-humanity-and-its-effect-on-national-reconciliation/ The ...
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  • known as the Bloody Verdict of Verden or Massacre of Verden. The massacre, which modern research has not been able to confirm, triggered two ...
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  • The largest massacre of Catholics was carried out in 1866, under Daewongun, while he served as regent for King Gojong. In the Catholic Persecution ...
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  • the first of which commemorates a massacre of the Jews during World War II. Opinions are divided as to how great a risk this was; the poem had ...
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  • people's king was torched, and an infamous massacre of Hui Muslims at the hands of the People's Liberation Army claimed over 1,600 lives in 1975. ...
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  • Arkansas to investigate the Elaine Race Riot, a massacre of more than two hundred black Americans by white vigilantes and federal troops after a deputy ...
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  • their Portuguese rulers. This "Batepá Massacre" remains a major event in the colonial history of the islands, and its anniversary is officially ...
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  • In May 1898, Milan was shaken by the Bava-Beccaris massacre, a riot related to a high inflation rate and famine. According to the government ...
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  • *Wanghailou Church, site of the 1870 Tianjin Massacre 望海楼教堂 *Xikai Church 西开天主教堂 *Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall 周恩来纪念馆 ...
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  • well organized. The death toll (by battle, massacre, flooding, and famine) of the Mongol wars of conquest is placed as high as 40 million by some sources. ...
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  • civilian uprising followed by a large- scale massacre by government troops went largely unreported. In response, Gnassingbé agreed to hold elections ...
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  • tens of thousands might have been killed in the massacre, as on any given day upwards of 100,000 people could be inside the towers. Ultimately, 2,749 ...
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  • in a series of violent attacks such as the massacre of striking miners in the Wujek Coal Mine (9 killed). The government banned Solidarity on October ...
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  • 'Sir' in 1919 following the massacre at Amritsar. Despite the ... the title 'sir' following the massacre at Amritsar, which cost ...
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  • The arrival of English warships provoked a massacre of more Europeans. Phetracha (reigned 1688-93) seized the throne, expelled the remaining foreigners ...
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  • commentators as The "Halloween Massacre." {| cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" style="float: left; margin:1em ...
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  • During the Indian Massacre of 1622, nine of the settlers at Berkeley Hundred were killed, as well as about a third of the entire population of ...
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  • Just two years after the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, West Germany hosted the World Cup. A lack of good teams—England ...
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  • others sat stunned, witnesses to a "marital massacre," and, though he was "strongly tempted to slug him" (Hill), he left with his ...
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  • |casus=State Security Police massacre of unarmed protestors ... The Parliament massacre forced the collapse of the government. The ...
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  • ;1842 : Massacre of Elphinstone's Army in Afghanistan. Paul Vallely, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/1841-a-window-on ...
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  • #039;s death in the so-called Guadalupe Canyon Massacre could just as well have been (and is usually assumed to be) a revenge-killing by angry Mexican ...
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  • Filipino commander who masterminded the Balangiga massacre in Samar province, a surprise attack that killed almost fifty American soldiers. Media reports ...
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  • *The 1991 massacre of Iraqi Shia Muslims after the Shia uprising at ... *A massacre of Kurds in 1991, which targeted civilians and soldiers ...
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  • Using the My Lai Massacre as a case study, Peck also examines group evil, discussing how human group morality is strikingly less than individual ...
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  • As such, the battle could be seen as an inevitable massacre by an overwhelmingly superior enemy, but this scarcely diminishes its symbolic importance. ...
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  • against indigenous civilians such as the Manila Massacre and the implementation of a system of forced labor, such as the one involving four to ten million ...
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  • forest, in what came to be known as the Katyn massacre. With Poland divided between two powers, the Soviet Union put forth its territorial demands ...
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  • a tense month negotiating the release of the massacre survivors, protected by some friendly Nez Perce, the Spalding family evacuated down the Columbia ...
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  • Malagasy died. On May 8, 1945, the Sétif massacre took place in Algeria. ... with the recognition of the 1961 Paris massacre during the Algerian war ...
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  • Act, the Boston Tea Party, and the Boston "massacre" set in motion the revolution against the British Empire, the most powerful empire in its day. ...
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  • after the Conquest of Canada. Volume 1: To the Massacre at Michillimackinac. Reprint ed. 1994. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 080328733X ...
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  • Trotsky's supporters with a major political massacre of people within the Soviet Union, and the assassination of Trotsky's supporters and family ...
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  • Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 24 or August 4, 1929 – November 11, 2004) was born in CairoIrwin Abrams (ed.), [http://nobelprize ...
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  • effectively. Muravchik described the massacre at Srebrenica as "the worst atrocity since World War II" and argues that the UN "did ...
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  • In 1768, Adams moved to Boston. After the Boston Massacre in 1770, several British soldiers were arrested and charged with the murder of four ...
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  • England. Known as the "Saint Brice's day massacre" (because it took place on November 13, Saint Brice's Day) the Dane's were ...
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  • ground by the Amalekites. They, however, do not massacre the women and children of the settlement, taking them captive instead, including David's ...
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  • , which commemorates a shipwreck and an Ottoman massacre *Chrysi island (Ierapetra, Lasithi), which hosts the largest natural Lebanon cedar forest ...
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  • central sequence of this film is the Odessa Steps massacre of citizens by the czar's troops. Potemkin is a more unified and successful film than ...
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  • after what became known as the Saturday Night Massacre of October 20, 1973, in which he ordered Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor in the Watergate ...
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  • The Maccabees (Hebrew: מכבים or מקבים, Makabim) were Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Hellenistic ...
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  • An important watershed in this war was the massacre of civilians by the FLN near the town of Philippeville in August 1955. The government claimed ...
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  • Perhaps the most notorious incident of these centuries was the massacre of Christians in 1860, when fighting between Druze and Maronites in Mount ...
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  • The massacre of Teutonic troops left them with few forces to defend their remaining territories. The Grand Masters from then on had to rely on ...
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  • did the Imperial Japanese Army with the Nanking Massacre. Today, there is strong disagreement as to whether homosexuality and abortion are perfectly ...
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  • especially after the Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857 and the Utah War in 1857-1858. The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. deposit of silver ...
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  • for war crimes, such as the Nanking Massacre. As for Emperor Hirohito ... this, such as denial of the Nanjing Massacre and other war crimes; revisionist ...
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  • into the United States. Events such as the Dawson Massacre and two recaptures of Béxar in Texas of 1842 added urgency to the desire for statehood. However ...
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  • Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (Hippius) ( Зинаи́да Никола́евна Ги́ппиус|p=zʲɪnɐˈidə nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvnə ˈɡʲipʲɪus ...
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  • escalated, culminating in the Fort Mims massacre. Full-scale war between the United States and the "Red Stick" Creeks began, known ...
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  • Médecins Sans Frontières (pronounced mɛtsɛ̃ sɑ̃ fʁɔ̃tjɛʁ), or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental ...
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  • Louis, however, still burned with guilt over the massacre at Vitry, and desired to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to atone for his ...
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  • which became known as the "River Raisin Massacre." The defeat ended Harrison's campaign against Detroit, and the phrase "Remember ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Tutankhamen map Valle Re Nilo space STS026-041 ...
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  • used the story in order to deny the ongoing massacre of Jews as British propaganda. The story also "encouraged later disbelief" when reports ...
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  • The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis de la Constitution ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom ...
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  • after refusing to have his legion massacre a Christian uprising. Honored as early as 460, Saint Maurice has had numerous artworks and structures—even ...
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  • resist apartheid for years until the Sharpeville Massacre. That event coupled with the referendum establishing the Republic of South Africa and the ...
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  • should be killed, and Moses even ordered the massacre of women and boys, together with the enslavement of virgin girls. Other examples include God& ...
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  • could be a holocaust in Bosnia. After the first massacre at Srebrenica in April 1993, Thatcher thought it was a "killing field the likes of which ...
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  • [[Image:Massacre saint barthelemy.jpg|thumb|left|230px|Painting of ... by the powerful duke of Guise, led to a massacre of Huguenots at Vassy in ...
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  • Gaulle's government covered up the Paris massacre of 1961. He was also targeted by the settler Organisation de l'Armée Secrète terrorist ...
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  • of 1812 in what became known as the Fort Dearborn Massacre. After abandoning the besieged fort, a column of 148 soldiers, women, and children were attacked ...
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  • released under the title "Dresden – Massacre of Refugees" and stated that not 100,000 but 200,000 had died. Since no official estimate had ...
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  • and civilians in what is known as the Gwangju Massacre. Chun stated his intent to serve only a single term from the outset and eventually allowed ...
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  • One such massacre occurred at Nyarubuye. On 12 April 12 1994, more than 1,500 Tutsis sought refuge in a Roman Catholic church in Nyange, in then ...
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  • The massacre was one of the first events in what became known as Dunmore's War, a struggle between Virginia and primarily Shawnees of the ...
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  • asserted his claim to Sweden by force, ordered a massacre in 1520 of Swedish nobles at Stockholm, known as the “Stockholm blood bath.” This stirred ...
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  • Panama, officially the Republic of Panama ( República de Panamá ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an isthmus, Panama ...
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  • arrived in Colorado, scene of the recent Ludlow massacre, which was part of the Colorado Coalfield War between the John D. Rockefeller, Jr.-owned Colorado ...
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  • In September 1876, the massacre of a large number of girls (who had married men of their own age instead of men from an older regiment, as ordered ...
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  • Lee to Holcomb and visited the scene of the massacre. Over the course of the next few years, he became acquainted with everyone involved in the investigation ...
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  • The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. At its ...
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  • entry into Carthage, sparing it a sack and a massacre. During the emperor Maurice's reign, Carthage was made into an Exarchate, as was Ravenna ...
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  • Conquistadors – Cortés. June 1520 – Massacre at Tenochtitlán |publisher ... began in the 1960s leading to the massacre of an unknown number of ...
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  • Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and ...
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  • Following a massacre of Azerbaijanis at Khojali in Nagorno-Karabakh in March 1992, Mutalibov resigned, to be returned to power in May 1992. But ...
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  • with France. The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre, in which many French Protestants (Huguenots) were killed, strained the alliance but did not ...
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  • passed.Stillman, 78. During the Cordoba massacre of 1148, the Jewish philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides saved his own life only ...
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  • source, "Its first military action ended in a massacre because the group was surrounded by the National Guard and the Honduran army at the national ...
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  • of civilians (such as the infamous Nanking Massacre), and the early end to the war prevented further bloodshed. In response to the argument that ...
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  • and William French in the "Westminster Massacre." === Independence to Statehood === [[Image:ConstitutionHouse WindsorVermont.JPG|400px ...
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  • crime. The 1930s saw the Kansas City Massacre at Union Station, as well as a shootout between police and outlaws Bonnie and Clyde at the Red ...
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  • in what has come to be called the Bleiburg massacre. === Second Yugoslavia === [[Image:Nixontito1971.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Richard Nixon and Mrs ...
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  • crushed by Red Army in the Black January massacre. Twenty-first century nonviolent revolutions include the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which ...
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  • In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the People's Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic ...
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  • reach the city in time to prevent the Manila Massacre, in which 19,000 Japanese soldiers who were trapped within the city during the Battle of Manila ...
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  • The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in Chechnya's ...
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  • Artist Pablo Picasso's painting Massacre in Korea (1951) depicted violence against civilians during the Korean War. By some account, civilian ...
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  • between priests and Amerindians led to the Arena Massacre of 1699, wherein the Amerindians murdered the priests. After being hunted by the Spanish, the ...
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  • peoples such as the Bloody Falls Massacre, even including fellow Inuit, and of taking vengeance on them in return. Western observers often regarded ...
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  • an armed clash. This came to be known as the Kot Massacre. Ultimately, Bahadur won and founded the Rana dynasty, leading to the Rana autocracy. The king ...
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  • in which 14,000 Jews were killed, and the Jedwabne massacre in Poland which killed between 380 and 1,600 Jews. The last mass pogrom in Europe was the ...
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  • Merv to the ground. The Mongol leader ordered the massacre of Merv's inhabitants as well as the destruction of the province's farms and irrigation ...
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  • oldest monument in the world that celebrates a massacre. Irene J. Winter, On Art in the Ancient Near East, Volume 2: From the Third Millennium ...
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  • Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated building-up of the industrial potential of the Soviet Union. The plan ...
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  • of prince Kurbsky), culminating in the Massacre of Novgorod (1570). This ... Russian masses were so aroused over the massacre that a general strike was ...
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  • population was scattered in the wake of a massacre of Massachusett warriors led by Captain Miles Standish of Plymouth Colony in 1623. ...
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  • . The massacre was ordered by the Qianlong Emperor, who felt betrayed by Prince Amursana, a Khoit-Oirat nobleman who submitted to Manchu authority ...
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  • an example being the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968, which according to government officials, claimed the life of around 30 protesters, even though ...
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  • killing thousands of civilians. In the Srebrenica massacre, Serbian troops committed genocide against Bosniaks, although Srebrenica had been declared ...
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  • Having lost any outlook for victory and facing a massacre, the French army broke off the battle and retreated in a western direction, hoping to join ...
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  • called Custer's Last Stand and Custer Massacre and, in the parlance of the relevant Native Americans, the Battle of the Greasy Grass—was an armed ...
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  • evacuate PLO forces. The September 16, 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Beirut prompted Reagan to form a new multinational force ...
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  • world became a major issue in China. In 1989 a massacre of mostly student demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square signaled the difficulty of ...
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  • Herut (Freedom) Party for the Deir Yassin massacre.Albert Einstein et al., To the editors. The New York Times, 1948. Einstein served on the Board ...
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  • Vallabhbhai Patel (October 31, 1875 - December 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role in the country's struggle ...
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  • would have had to accept “conversion, or the massacre." ==Decline== Following a period of thriving trade and settlement, cultural impulses ...
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  • officers in what has become known as the Katyn Massacre. Brown, 141. In November 1940, Stalin sent Molotov to Berlin to meet Ribbentrop and Hitler ...
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  • the SS in the Holocaust (though it did directly massacre Jews in Russia, Serbia, Poland, and Greece), but it supported the Einsatzgruppen, helped form ...
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  • shooting as many as 33,000 people in a single massacre, as in the case of Babi Yar. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the Final Solution ...
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  • * Bass, Jack and Jack Nelson. The Orangeburg Massacre. Mercer University Press, [1970] 1999. ISBN 0865545529 * Burton, Orville Vernon. In My Father ...
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  • in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572). After capturing the city from the Catholic party, King Henry IV of France re-established the ...
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  • stm Arrests follow India village massacre]," BBC News accessed 25 February 2007. Kerala's society practices patriarchalism less than ...
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  • was no longer immune from prosecution. After the massacre, Caesar led the first Roman army across the Rhine in a lightning campaign that lasted just 18 days. ...
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  • visit to the site of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to pay her respects. Protesters chanted "Killer Queen, go back," and there were ...
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  • family, touching off a revolt which led to the massacre of the Persian governor and his guard in 571, while rebellion also broke out in Iberia]. Justin ...
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  • most of those who were involved in the massacre. On October 6, 1973, the day of the Jewish Yom Kippur fast, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched ...
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  • by ordering brutal reprisals, including the massacre of Lidice. In late 1942, German forces under Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel were defeated in ...
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  • the plot was answered by a military crackdown. A massacre of three thousand people from the eastern region living in the north occurred soon afterwards ...
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  • Poland. This event has become known as the Katyn Massacre. Official Soviet archive records, opened in 1990 when glasnost was still in vogue, show that ...
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  • * Mullan, Don, and John Scally. Bloody Sunday: Massacre in Northern Ireland, the eyewitness accounts. Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1997. ISBN ...
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  • most of those who were involved in the massacre. On October 6, 1973, the day of the Jewish Yom Kippur fast, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched ...
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  • In 390, troops under the Roman Emperor Theodosius I led a massacre against the inhabitants of Thessalonica, who had risen in revolt against the ...
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  • When informed of the Biscari massacre of prisoners, which was by troops under his command, Patton wrote in his diary, "I told Bradley that ...
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  • The most infamous example of this policy being the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692. Jacobite rebellions continued on into the mid-eighteenth century until ...
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  • and is known for the Spanish Inquisition, the massacre and widespread expulsions of Jews, and as a bastion of Roman Catholicism. Today it is ...
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  • who would enter in large numbers and would massacre the Romans as far as the Column of Constantine the Great. After this an angel would descend, ...
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