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1 day ago · Shirley Anita Chisholm ( / ˈtʃɪzəm / CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. [1] Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [a] for ...
- Barbadians
Barbadians, more commonly known as Bajans (pronounced / ˈ b...
- Forest Lawn Cemetery
Forest Lawn Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in...
- Major Owens
Major Robert Odell Owens (June 28, 1936 – October 21, 2013)...
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New York's 12th congressional district is a congressional...
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1 day ago · The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people between 430 BC and AD 1000. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1493, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the Taínos. The Taíno people's numbers went dangerously low during the later half of the 16th century because of new ...
1 day ago · Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
- 2,219,791 acres (8,983.18 km²)
- 3,290,242 (in 2022)
- March 1, 1872; 151 years ago
- U.S. National Park Service
1 day ago · Kosovo Serbs are one of the ethnic groups of Kosovo and they form the largest ethnic minority community in Kosovo (5–6%). There are around 100,000 Kosovo Serbs as of 2014 and about half of them live in North Kosovo. Other Kosovo Serb communities live in the Southern municipalities of Kosovo.
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3 hours ago · The special territories of members of the European Economic Area ( EEA) are the 32 special territories of EU member states and EFTA member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union and the European Free Trade Association . The special territories of EU member ...
- 2,733,792 km² (1,055,523 sq mi)
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- 6,114,658
3 hours ago · The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations ...
