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Jun 26, 2024 · June 26, 2024. Roberta A. Kaplan, the celebrated lawyer who took on former President Donald J. Trump, and helped win marriage equality for gay Americans, is stepping down from the law firm she ...
4 days ago · Shortly before 9:00 am the Carpathia headed for New York City, where it arrived to massive crowds on April 18. Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 people.
4 days ago · The mission of the CRD is to protect the people of California from unlawful discrimination in employment, housing, businesses, and state-funded programs, and from bias-motivated violence and human trafficking. Employment Discrimination. Housing Discrimination. Hate Violence.
5 days ago · The Supreme Court is most likely to grant a hearing when a case involves. a. an issue of state law as opposed to an issue of federal law. b. an issue of private law as opposed to an issue of public law. c. an issue that is being decided inconsistently by the lower courts.
Jun 27, 2024 · Bartolome de Las Casas, early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. His several works include Historia de las Indias (first printed in 1875).
- Bartolomé de Las Casas was a Dominican priest and missionary in the Americas. Las Casas—who was ordained in either 1512 or 1513—may have been the f...
- Bartolomé de Las Casas was an outspoken critic of the Spanish colonial government in the Americas. Las Casas was especially critical of the system...
- Bartolomé de Las Casas did own serfs. As a young man, Las Casas participated in several military expeditions in the West Indies. In return for his...
- Bartolomé de Las Casas was a prolific writer. He wrote many petitions, treatises, and books on the subject of the Spanish conquest of the Americas....
- The Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies) had an immediate impact in Spain. The pol...
Jun 26, 2024 · Chute de l’URSS, guerre du Golfe, coup d’État en Haïti, affrontements raciaux aux États-Unis : 1991, année charnière pour le monde, et Montréal n’y échappe pas. « C’est en outre le ...
5 days ago · The Department of Defense is America's largest government agency. Our mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security.
