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Soviet leaders wanted to negate Russia’s imperial past, and so they renamed the city in honor of the man who was the driving force behind the Bolshevik Revolution. However, that was not the only ...
4 days ago · In April 2009, two men from the city of Perm, Russia, killed and ate their brother. [226] On 28 April 2009, Angelo Mendoza Sr attacked his 4-year-old son, eating the boy's left eye and damaging the boy's right eye. Angelo Mendoza Jr. told authorities "my daddy ate my eyes," when they came to the scene.
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1 day ago · The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a ...
Apr 27, 2024 · Dutch Republic, (1588–1795), state whose area comprised approximately that of the present Kingdom of the Netherlands and which achieved a position of world power in the 17th century. The republic consisted of the seven northern Netherlands provinces that won independence from Spain from 1568 to 1609, and it grew out of the Union of Utrecht ...
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1 day ago · This is the discography of American singer-songwriter Billy Joel.He has released 13 studio albums, seven live albums, 18 compilation albums, 10 video albums, 82 singles, three promotional singles and 45 music videos.
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Apr 25, 2024 · International Grandmaster (1956) Viktor Korchnoi (born March 23, 1931, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]—died June 6, 2016, Wohlen, Switzerland) was a world chess champion contender who was one of the fiercest competitors in the history of chess. During his prime years he was known as “Viktor the Terrible.”.
May 14, 2024 · In reward for the citizens’ bravery during the siege, the University of Leiden was founded in 1575 by William I (the Silent), prince of Orange. The university became a centre of Dutch Reformed theology and of science and medicine in the 17th and 18th centuries, with such scholars as Joseph Justus Scaliger, Hugo Grotius, Jacobus Arminius, Daniël Heinsius, Franciscus (Frans) Hemsterhuis, and ...
