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2 hours ago · Italy is celebrating the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S. They were looted years ago, sold to U.S. museums and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations. May 28 ...
19 hours ago · Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment: 198 and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945 ...
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May 29, 2024 · Of particular interest is the research conducted by Strange and Kempa , who attempt to compare how two of the most well-known former penitentiary institutions—the infamous former Alcatraz prison in the United States and the notorious Robben Island in Africa, a former prison complex for political prisoners of the Apartheid era, including the ...
19 hours ago · v. t. e. Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives. Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects.
19 hours ago · The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot. It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 ( c. 7.8 million).
19 hours ago · The prison had a design capacity of 631 inmates, but housed 1,020 in 2007 and 1,017 in 2008. The last prisoners were transferred in June 2009 to other locations and the prison was closed and subsequently demolished, with the site expected to be redeveloped by the State of New Jersey, the City of Camden, and private investors.
19 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. [64] It lies partly in the Great Plains near the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states.
