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4 days ago · In the Suez Crisis of 1956, Mountbatten strongly advised his old friend Prime Minister Anthony Eden against the Conservative government's plans to seize the Suez Canal in conjunction with France and Israel. He argued that such a move would destabilize the Middle East, undermine the authority of the United Nations, divide the Commonwealth and ...
- Assassination
Details. The IRA placed a 50lb gelignite bomb on Shadow V, a...
- Lady Pamela Hicks
Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks (née Mountbatten; born 19...
- Edwina Ashley
Family background and early life Mountbatten with her mother...
- Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess...
- Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Creation. The Earldom was created in the Peerage of the...
- Amanda Knatchbull
Lady Amanda Patricia Victoria Ellingworth (née Knatchbull;...
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Maria Nikolaevna...
- Manibehn Patel
Patel in October 1947. Maniben Patel (3 April 1903 — 26...
- First Sea Lord
The First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS) is...
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
25 December 1876 Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India...
- Assassination
2 days ago · Intent to inflict grievous bodily harm short of death, Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life (sometimes described as an "abandoned and malignant heart"), or. Intent to commit a dangerous felony (the "felony murder" doctrine). Under state of mind (i), intent to kill, the deadly weapon rule applies.
5 days ago · His regime countered North Vietnamese and communist subversion (including the assassination of over 450 South Vietnamese officials in 1956) by detaining tens of thousands of suspected communists in "political re-education centers".
2 days 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).
3 days ago · The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures.
4 days ago · genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race. The term, derived from the Greek genos (“race,” “tribe,” or “nation”) and the Latin cide (“killing”), was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born jurist who served as an adviser to the U.S ...
3 days ago · Pol Pot [a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a communist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge ...
