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1 day 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 ...
- Suspected weapons violations, Cause of fire disputed
- Fire destroys compound: 86 dead in total
- February 28 – April 19, 1993 (51 days)
1 day ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...
- 22 June 1941 – 7 January 1942, (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Axis captured approximately 600,000 square kilometres of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line
- Soviet Victory, Axis operational failure
6 hours ago · Reporting from Washington and Jerusalem. May 23, 2024 Updated 2:25 p.m. ET. In the week since the U.S. military and allies attached a temporary pier to the Gaza shoreline, Pentagon planners have ...
1 day ago · Angela Davis. Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for ...
1 day ago · As outlined in 10 U.S.C. § 5063 and as originally introduced under the National Security Act of 1947, three primary areas of responsibility for the U.S. Marine Corps are: Seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and other land operations to support naval campaigns; Development of tactics, technique, and equipment used by amphibious landing ...
- United States
1 day ago · Soviet prisoners of war in Mauthausen The Nazis captured 5.75 million Soviet prisoners of war, more than they took from all the other Allied powers combined. Of these, they killed an estimated 3.3 million, [329] with 2.8 million of them being killed between June 1941 and January 1942. [330]
1 day ago · Elon J. Farnsworth, Union general in Civil War, killed at Gettysburg; John F. Farnsworth, Union general in Civil War, seven-term U.S. Representative (born in Canada) Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader (born in New York) James T. Farrell, author, Studs Lonigan; Charles B. Farwell, philanthropist, U.S. Senator (born in New York)
