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  1. 8 hours ago · A consensus of historians who address the origins of the American Civil War agree that the preservation of the institution of slavery was the principal aim of the eleven Southern states (seven states before the onset of the war and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to form ...

  2. 8 hours ago · Mexican cuisine [5] is a complex and ancient cuisine, with techniques and skills developed over thousands of years of history. [6] It is created mostly with ingredients native to Mexico, as well as those brought over by the Spanish conquistadors, with some new influences since then.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Xi&Xi'an - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Xi'an [a] is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, [7] the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populous city in Northwest China. [8] Its total population was 12,952,907 as of the 2020 census.

  4. 8 hours ago · General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalizes special relativity and refines Newton's law of universal gravitation ...

  5. 1 day ago · In accordance with existing practice, the Titanic 's lifeboat system was designed to ferry passengers to nearby rescue vessels, not to hold everyone on board simultaneously; therefore, with the ship sinking rapidly and help still hours away, there was no safe refuge for many of the passengers and crew with only twenty lifeboats, including four ...

    • Collision with iceberg on 14 April
    • 1,490–1,635
    • 14–15 April 1912; 111 years ago
  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › FeminismFeminism - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Feminist, author and social activist bell hooks (1952–2021) Third-wave feminism is traced to the emergence of the riot grrrl feminist punk subculture in Olympia, Washington , in the early 1990s, [82] [83] and to Anita Hill 's televised testimony in 1991—to an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee —that Clarence Thomas , nominated ...

  7. 1 day ago · By Sean Bell, military analyst . At 5am, the Russians launched a surprise attack on the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, killing two civilians and injuring at least five others.

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