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1 day ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a period of ...
- 18 May 1803 – 20 November 1815, (12 years, 5 months and 4 weeks)
4 hours ago · Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a general of the Venetian army in defence of Cyprus against invasion by Ottoman Turks. He had recently married Desdemona, a beautiful and wealthy Venetian lady younger than himself, without the knowledge of and despite the later objection of her father.
- William Shakespeare
- 1941
January 9, 1913 (Thursday) Richard Nixon, the future 37th president of the United States, was born in Yorba Linda, California, at 9:35 p.m. [43] He held office from 1969 to 1974, and was the only U.S. president to resign from office. Nixon died on April 22, 1994, at the age of 81.
1 day ago · The tiger is a carnivore and an apex predator feeding mainly on ungulates, with a particular preference for sambar deer, Manchurian wapiti, barasingha and wild boar. Tigers kill large ungulates like gaur [110] and opportunistically, smaller prey like monkeys, peafowl and other ground-based birds, porcupines and fish.
