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8 hours ago · History Throughout the 1980s, several prominent filmmakers and industry personalities in the United States, such as Frank Capra and Martin Scorsese, advocated for Congress to enact a film preservation bill in order to avoid commercial modifications (such as pan and scan and editing for TV) of classic films, which they saw as negative. In response to the controversy over the colorization of ...
8 hours ago · The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
8 hours ago · By 1928, Chiang's army overthrew the Beiyang government and unified the entire nation, at least nominally, beginning the so-called Nanjing decade. [37] Sun Yat-sen envisioned three phases for the KMT rebuilding of China – military rule and violent reunification; political tutelage [ zh ] ; and finally a constitutional democracy. [38]
8 hours ago · Background At the outbreak of World War I, Asia Minor was ethnically diverse, its population included Turks and Azeris, as well as groups that had inhabited the region prior to the Ottoman conquest, including Pontic Greeks, Caucasus Greeks, Cappadocian Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, Zazas, Georgians, Circassians, Assyrians, Jews, and Laz people. Among the causes of the Turkish campaign against the ...
8 hours ago · The free metal does not occur in nature and must be prepared from compounds. Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars , sodalite , and halite (NaCl).
8 hours ago · Adithyan (1954–2017), Indian film score and soundtrack composer; Adje (born 1982), Dutch rapper; Adonxs (born 1995), Slovak singer-songwriter, model and dancer; Adriana, Colombian-Canadian drag performer; Ad-Rock born 1966, American rapper, musician and actor; Afra (born 1980), Japanese beatboxer; Afrob (born 1977), Italian-born German rapper
8 hours ago · The 1936 United States presidential election was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936.In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide.
