On May 14, 1948, the British Mandate officially expired. That same day, the Jewish National Council issued the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. About 10 minutes later,...
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Author: Editors, Charles RiverSummary: -
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Today's Ukraine is a huge country, incorporating an area over 600,000 square kilometers and home to 42 million people. It stretches from the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea in the south to...
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"We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality and in elevation of feeling, that I beg your Excellency to be so good as to inform the emperor that I...
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Juneteenth : The history and legacy of the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the south
Author: Editors, Charles RiverSummary:Inevitably, for many across the South, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived slowly, and in other locales, the new was withheld entirely, sometimes by years. Slaveowners were not...
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Among some of history's famines, the Holodomor's death toll is considerably lower than others, such as the the Chalisa and South India Famines between 1782 to 1784, which killed roughly...
Genre: History and geography