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Oct 14, 2009 · December 21, 2012. Updated: August 21, 2018 | Original: October 14, 2009. For years there was speculation that on December 21, 2012, the world as we know it would end. Some predicted that we’d ...
Oct 27, 2009 · The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis the following year seemed to prove that the real communist threat now lay in the unstable, postcolonial “Third World.”
Mar 29, 2019 · 0. The first recorded, truly written, dated calendar is the West Semitic Sumerian Calendar tradition starting from 3100 BCE. Month names are agricultural and pastoralist ones, they are a reflection of the society that used the calendar.
Mar 10, 2024 · For example, between 32,000 and 12,000 years ago — up to the end of the last ice age — Aboriginal people in Tasmania retreated to caves, probably for protection from the cold. But the ...
Mar 11, 2021 · Feb. 23: The U.S. death toll surpasses 500,000, a number greater than the combined American losses in combat from the Civil War, World War I and World War II. “The people we lost were ...
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
Most historians believe that Islam originated with Muhammad's mission in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, although Muslims regard this time as a return to the original faith passed down by the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the will of God.
