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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 ...
    29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
  • 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 ...
    31 KB (4,719 words) - 11:15, 19 May 2023
  • 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 ...
    65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
  • 'Sir' in 1919 following the massacre at Amritsar. Despite the ... the title 'sir' following the massacre at Amritsar, which cost ...
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  • commentators as The "Halloween Massacre." {| cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" style="float: left; margin:1em ...
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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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  • 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 ...
    36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
  • 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 ...
    32 KB (5,281 words) - 16:31, 29 January 2024
  • Filipino commander who masterminded the Balangiga massacre in Samar province, a surprise attack that killed almost fifty American soldiers. Media reports ...
    65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
  • *The 1991 massacre of Iraqi Shia Muslims after the Shia uprising at ... *A massacre of Kurds in 1991, which targeted civilians and soldiers ...
    56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
  • 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. ...
    36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023

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