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12 hours ago · Crete ( / kriːt / KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti [ˈkriti], Ancient: Krḗtē [krɛ̌ːtεː]) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete rests about 160 km (99 mi) south of the ...
12 hours ago · Charlotte Payne-Townshend. . . ( m. 1898; died 1943) . Signature. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
12 hours ago · Marie Brémont. Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mésange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) [2] was the oldest recognised person in the world from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years and 42 days. [1] She was born in Noëllet, Maine-et-Loire, on April 25, 1886. [18] Her first husband, railway worker Constant Lemaître ...
12 hours ago · 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1920s decade.
12 hours ago · 10. 17 March 1932. An Act to confirm and give effect to a certain agreement made between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Government in the Irish Free State with respect to the registration and control of veterinary surgeons. Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1932.
12 hours ago · c. 100: Plutarch, Parallel Lives: "Armenia, where Tigranes reigns, king of kings, and holds in his hands a power that has enabled him to keep the Parthians in narrow bounds, to remove Greek cities bodily into Media, to conquer Syria and Palestine, to put to death the kings of the royal line of Seleucus, and carry away their wives and daughters ...
12 hours ago · There were 775,836 people identifying as being part of the Māori ethnic group at the 2018 New Zealand census, making up 16.5% of New Zealand's population. This is an increase of 177,234 people (29.6%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 210,507 people (37.2%) since the 2006 census.
