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14 hours ago · Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment: 198 and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945 ...
- 1936–1945
- Biological weapons, Chemical weapons, Explosives
- Estimated 3,000 to 300,000, 400,000 or higher from biological warfare, Over 3,000 from inside experiments from each unit (not including branches, 1940–1945 only): 20 , At least 10,000 prisoners died, No documented survivors
14 hours ago · Christina (Swedish: Kristina; 18 December [O.S. 8 December] 1626 – 19 April 1689) was a member of the House of Vasa, and the Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654.
14 hours ago · Mississippi Today discusses the present-day Jim Crow legacy of felony disenfranchisement, and states that part of Mississippi’s 1890 constitution was not erased by the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. The article states the constitutional felony disenfranchisement clause "takes away — for life — the right to vote upon conviction ...
14 hours ago · Plot After hearing the prophecy of a Hebrew deliverer, Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt orders the death of all newborn Hebrew males. Yochabel saves her infant son by setting him adrift in a basket on the Nile. Bithiah, the Pharaoh Rameses's recently widowed daughter (and sister of the future Pharaoh Seti I), finds the basket and decides to adopt the boy, even though her servant, Memnet, recognizes ...
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Cecil B. DeMille
14 hours ago · Early life Connolly was born in the Cowgate or "Little Ireland" district of Edinburgh in 1868, the third son of Mary McGinn and John Connolly, a labourer, : 28 Irish immigrants from County Monaghan. Throughout his life he was to speak with a Scottish accent. : 636 He left the local Catholic primary school at age 10 to seek work. : 14 At age 14, following his eldest brother John, he enlisted in ...
- British Army (1882 to 1889), ICA (1913 to 1916)
14 hours ago · Birth and early life Painting of three-year-old Maria Theresa within the gardens of Hofburg Palace The second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Archduchess Maria Theresa was born on 13 May 1717 in Vienna, a year after the death of her elder brother, Archduke Leopold Johann, and was baptised on that same evening. The ...
14 hours ago · Contagion and legacy. Ra's returns to prominence and comes dangerously close to realizing his dream of worldwide genocide in the "Contagion" story arc of the Batman titles. His organization unleashes a deadly virus known as Ebola Gulf A (a.k.a. "The Clench") in Gotham City, putting Batman in conflict with a force he seemingly cannot defeat.
