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21 hours ago · The Rhodesian Bush War, also called the Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwean War of Liberation, [13] was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe ). [n 2] [24] The conflict pitted three forces against one another: the Rhodesian white minority ...
21 hours ago · Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. [1] The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence movements in the colonies and the collapse of global colonial ...
21 hours ago · The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage. Three wars took place, on both land and sea, across the western Mediterranean region and involved a total of forty-three years of warfare. The Punic Wars are also considered to include the four-year-long revolt against Carthage ...
May 12, 2024 · After the Second World War, Sillamäe’s Estonian population was supplanted mainly by immigrant workers from Russia. At the same time, its built environment was transformed by housing complexes in the Stalinist style and by heavy industrialization. Prisoners of war built at least some part of the military-industrial complex.
21 hours 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 ...
May 12, 2024 · The Second World War birthed technological paradigms, applications, and hardware that were in earlier decades, all the way back to Jules Verne's Voyage to the Moon, as fanciful as amazing: radar, rocketry (from the V-2 to ICBMs, and NASA's Apollo program), atomic energy and the atomic bomb, satellites, and spaceflight. A new futurist epoch was ...
21 hours ago · v. t. e. Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives. Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects.
