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1 day ago · American literature. American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but it also includes literature produced in the United States in languages other than English.
1 day ago · v. t. e. The Weimar Republic, [b] officially known as the German Reich, [c] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
3 days ago · 1991. The Cretaceous ( IPA: / krɪˈteɪʃəs / krih-TAY-shəs) [2] is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic. The name is derived from the ...
1 day ago · World population, 10,000 BCE to 2023 CE, with projection to 2100 CE Part of a series on Human history Human Era ↑ Prehistory (Stone Age) (Pleistocene epoch) Holocene Timelines Neolithic – Contemporary (10,000 BCE – Present) Age of the human race Recorded history (Common Era) Earliest records Protohistory Proto-writing Ancient Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Axial Age Classical antiquity ...
2 days ago · Outcome. Reform of Wall Street; relief for farmers and unemployed; social security; political power shifts to Democratic New Deal Coalition. The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938. Major federal programs ...
2 days ago · —anonymous Stonewall riots participant The police were to transport the bar's alcohol in patrol wagons. Twenty-eight cases of beer and nineteen bottles of hard liquor were seized, but the patrol wagons had not yet arrived, so patrons were required to wait in line for about 15 minutes. Those who were not arrested were released from the front door, but they did not leave quickly as usual ...
1 day ago · Cornu aspersum (formerly Helix aspersa) – a common land snail. Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks [a] ( / ˈmɒləsks / ). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. [3] The number of fossil species is estimated between 60,000 and 100,000 ...
