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5 hours ago · Reflecting on Auburn’s recent performance, it has been nearly two years since they last triumphed over a Power Five team with a winning record. That win came against Missouri on September 24, 2022, in a narrow 17-14 victory. However, since then, they’ve struggled against top-tier teams, losing five close games to ranked opponents by a ...
1 day ago · Junípero Serra is the second native saint of the Balearic Islands after Catherine of Palma. [152] He is also included among the Saints of the United States and México. [154] Serra's feast day is celebrated on July 1 in the United States and on August 28 everywhere.
1 day ago · The 14th Dalai Lama [b] (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Tenzin Gyatso; [c] né Lhamo Thondup; [d] born 6 July 1935) is, as the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. Before 1959, he served as both the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet and ...
5 hours ago · Retrieved 10 October 2023. Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, (born 11 January 626, Medina, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died October 10, 680, Karbalāʾ, Iraq), hero in Shiʿi Islam, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fāṭima and son-in-law ʿAlī (the first Imam of the Shi'a and the fourth of the Sunni Rashidun caliphs ).
2 hours ago · Intense partisanship, punctuated by violence, has long been a part of American politics. In 1798, congressmen from opposing parties brawled in the US House chamber, beating each other with a cane and fireplace tongs. Four presidents have been killed by assassins, with other presidents and candidates wounded or targeted.
1 day ago · Cnut ( / kəˈnjuːt /; [3] Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈknuːtr]; [a] c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, [4] [5] [6] was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. [1] The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are ...
