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19 hours ago · Kentucky (1908) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 ...
- Warren, joined by unanimous
- Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.
19 hours ago · Its most famous appearance is as the location of the final chase scene in the 1959 film North by Northwest. [88] [89] [90] [57] It is used as a secret base of operations by the protagonists in the 2004 film Team America: World Police , [91] [92] and the secret underground city of Cíbola is located there in the 2007 film National Treasure: Book ...
- 1,278 acres (5.17 km²)
- Pennington County, South Dakota
- 2,440,449 (in 2022)
- Keystone, South Dakota
19 hours ago · Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( / ˈpɪntʃɒn / PIN-chon, [1] [2] commonly / ˈpɪntʃən / PIN-chən; [3] born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics.
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- Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr., May 8, 1937 (age 86), Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
- c. 1959–present
19 hours ago · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- April 10, 1925
- 1925
- Tragedy
19 hours ago · Tehran ( / tɛəˈræn, - ˈrɑːn, ˌteɪ -/; Persian: تهران Tehrân [tehˈɾɒːn] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Iran, also serving as the capital of the Province, County and the Central District. With a population of around 9.4 million in the city, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area, Tehran is the most populous city in ...
19 hours ago · A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East. In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of heresy from Christianity.
19 hours ago · 1999–2003: The Second Liberian Civil War against the government of Liberia. 1999–2009: The Second Chechen Rebellion against Russia. 1999: The Iran student protests, July 1999 were, at the time, the most violent protests to occur against the Islamic Republic of Iran. 1999–2000: The Cochabamba Water War in Bolivia.
