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22 hours ago · The end of the Second World War wasn't just supposed to be a definitive military moment, but also a victory over tyranny. A triumph over the Nazis, and their terrible brand of extremism and hatred.
22 hours ago · The Sonoran Desert has, in the past, generally been immune from wildfire. But new research says that’s starting to change. Ben Wilder, a Tucson-based desert ecologist, botanist and biogeographer, says a handful of fires that happened this year prove the point: the Wildcat Fire northeast of Scottsdale burned more than 14,000 acres; the Simmons Fire, Adams Fire and Spring Fire are also among ...
22 hours ago · Expand. On June 6, 1944, at 2:30 a.m., there was no question, he said, something massive was underway. “The 1st sergeant comes barreling into our barracks with paint cans,” the 100-year-old ...
22 hours ago · 185 M4 Sherman tanks [14] 4,000–9,000 killed, wounded, missing, or captured [15] The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the ...
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7 hours ago · Israel has transferred hundreds of Palestinian detainees out of the shadowy detention facility of Sde Teiman in Israel’s Negev desert, a state attorney told Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday during a first-ever hearing about the facility where prisoners from Gaza have allegedly been held under conditions of extreme abuse.
22 hours ago · After several days, one of the crew, a 17-year-old cabin boy, fell unconscious due to a combination of starvation and drinking seawater. The others (one possibly objecting) decided then to kill him and eat him. They were picked up four days later. Two of the three survivors were found guilty of murder.
22 hours ago · Background Main articles: Davidian Seventh-day Adventist, Mount Carmel Center, Branch Davidians, and David Koresh The Branch Davidians (also known as "The Branch") were a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Shepherd's Rod (Davidians) following the death of the Shepherd's Rod founder Victor Houteff. Houteff founded the Davidians based on his prophecy of an imminent ...
