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3 days ago · At least 137 people were killed in the fires that tore across large parts of central and northern Chile in February, leaving 16,000 people displaced and damaging more than 9,800 buildings ...
2 days ago · Lynching of John William Clark in Cartersville, Georgia, September 1930, after killing Police Chief J. B. Jenkins [1] Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States ' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
4 days ago · The huge gap between the use of the baton and the use of a firearm presented problems for law enforcement. As a result, law enforcement personnel shot people who arguably should not have been shot and could have been saved if there were a less-lethal alternative. A number of alternatives were tried. In the 1990s, the Taser became a nonlethal ...
5 days ago · Background Main articles: Davidian Seventh-day Adventist, Mount Carmel Center, Branch Davidians, and David Koresh The Branch Davidians (also known as "The Branch") were a religious group that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Shepherd's Rod (Davidians) following the death of the Shepherd's Rod founder Victor Houteff. Houteff founded the Davidians based on his prophecy of an imminent ...
1 day ago · Nazi Germany, [h] officially known as the German Reich [i] and later the Greater German Reich, [j] is a term used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [k] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire ...
3 days ago · Ukrainian authorities have evacuated more than 11,000 people from the region since the start of the offensive on 10 May. 12:22:55 Russian attack on DIY store kills at least 14 and injures more ...
20 hours ago · Uses Recreational LSD is commonly used as a recreational drug. Spiritual LSD can catalyze intense spiritual experiences and is thus considered an entheogen. Some users have reported out of body experiences. In 1966, Timothy Leary established the League for Spiritual Discovery with LSD as its sacrament. Stanislav Grof has written that religious and mystical experiences observed during LSD ...
