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10 hours ago · Case Western Reserve University confirms it is temporary withholding degrees and banning those students from university property until the process is completed.
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1 day ago · BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.Originally identified to highlight investment opportunities, the grouping evolved into a cohesive geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies since 2009.
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10 hours ago · Botswana ( English: Land of the Tswana; / bɒtˈswɑːnə / ⓘ, also UK: / bʊt -, bʊˈtʃw -/ [17] ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( Setswana: Lefatshe la Botswana, [lɪˈfatsʰɪ la bʊˈtswana] ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the ...
10 hours ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...
- 22 June 1941 – 7 January 1942, (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Axis captured approximately 600,000 square kilometres of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line
- Soviet Victory, Axis operational failure
1 day ago · In 1999 researchers at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, led by Hunter Peckham, used 64-electrode EEG skullcap to return limited hand movements to quadriplegic Jim Jatich. As Jatich concentrated on simple but opposite concepts like up and down, his beta-rhythm EEG output was analysed using software to identify patterns in the ...
10 hours ago · General George C. Marshall, the 50th U.S. Secretary of State. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173 billion in 2023) in economic recovery programs to Western European ...
10 hours ago · Watch on YouTube. Watch on. From the New York Times obituary section: David William Sanborn was born on July 30, 1945, in Tampa, Fla., where his father was stationed in the Air Force. He grew up in Kirkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. His life took a fateful turn at 3 when he contracted polio, which ravaged his left arm, right leg and lungs.
