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1 day ago · Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev[ b][ c] (15 April [ O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor ...
7 hours ago · Springfield, Illinois. / 39.79750°N 89.64500°W / 39.79750; -89.64500. Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [ 10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago ...
7 hours ago · A burial mound at Indian Mounds Park. Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about 2,000 years ago. [17] [18] From the early 17th century to 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota, a band of the Dakota people, lived near the mounds at the village of Kaposia and consider the area encompassing present-day Saint Paul Bdóte, the site ...
7 hours ago · Oklahoma is the 20th-largest state in the United States, covering an area of 69,895 square miles (181,030 km 2 ), with 68,591 square miles (177,650 km 2) of land and 1,304 square miles (3,380 km 2) of water. [ 60] It lies partly in the Great Plains near the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states.
1 day ago · New York City alone reported 6,374 deaths between December 1919 and April 1920, almost twice the number of the first wave in spring 1918. [1] Other U.S. cities including Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis were hit particularly hard, with death rates higher than all of 1918. [ 116 ]
7 hours ago · Traverse City ( / ˈtrævərs / TRAV-ərs) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Grand Traverse County, [ 5] although a small portion extends into Leelanau County. The population was 15,678 at the 2020 census, with 153,448 residents in the four-county Traverse City metropolitan area.
