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    4 days ago · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] .

  2. 23 hours ago · Murder with malice (2 counts, murdered before trial) On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie ...

    • November 22, 1963; 59 years ago, 12:30 p.m. (CST)
  3. Apr 19, 2024 · Wikipedia, free Internet-based encyclopedia, started in 2001, that operates under an open-source management style. It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation and is one of the most-visited sites on the Internet. It uses a collaborative software known as wiki for editing articles.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. May 2, 2024 · Winston Churchill (born November 30, 1874, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England—died January 24, 1965, London) was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. After a sensational rise to prominence ...

  5. 2 days ago · Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. [5] It is the host of Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website in the world. In addition, the foundation hosts 14 other related ...

    • $154.7 million (2022), $162.9 million (2021)
    • Jimmy Wales
  6. Apr 19, 2024 · Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists ( Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.

  7. 5 days ago · November 30, 1939 - March 12, 1940. Location: Karelian Isthmus. Participants: Finland. Soviet Union. Context: German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. World War II. Key People: Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. Juho Kusti Paasikivi. Joseph Stalin. Semyon Timoshenko. On the Web: Presidential Library - The Soviet-Finnish 'Winter' War Began (May 09, 2024)

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