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  • after which they carried out a massacre. The nearby city of Sippar, wishing to avoid a similar fate, surrendered without a fight. Meanwhile ...
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  • reached its peak following the Sabra and Shatila Massacre in September 1982, when tens of thousands gathered to protest in Tel Aviv in what was one of ...
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  • however, and the impact of this large-scale massacre left its mark on Levinas, both personally and philosophically. Levinas is best known for ...
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  • Mossadeq dismissed Zahedi in mid-1951 for "ordering the massacre of rioters who were protesting" the visit by Averell W. Harriman.Kinzer ...
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  • destroyed the village, and involved the massacre of women and children. After the burning of the village, Carson was nearly killed by a Klamath ...
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  • receives the homage of the viziers and the beys, massacre of 2,000 prisoners, the rain falls in torrents." Reportedly among those 2,000 were several ...
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  • of Boston eventually led to the Boston Massacre of 1770. That same year, Gage was promoted to lieutenant general. Late that year he wrote "America ...
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  • against the CCP and ordered the Kuomintang to massacre Communists. The Communists fled from the cities into rural areas, where they organized forces ...
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  • his eyes. The two responded differently to this massacre: Kintpuash gained a deep hostility, while Toby-Winema gained a resolve to find a path that would ...
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  • fell to the Romans, but he managed to escape the massacre (Gittin 58a; Sotah 49b). On the restoration of order in Palestine, the western Galilean town ...
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  • used at the university. This fact and the massacre at Jagannath Hall and nearby ... Yahya Khan. According to Robert Payne in Massacre [1973], on February 22, ...
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  • from Poland. The discovery of the Katyn massacre soured Polish-Soviet relations ... and by the beginning of the Wola Massacre, the mass execution of approximately ...
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  • The French suffered heavily, mainly because of the massacre of the prisoners. The constable, three dukes, five counts, and 90 barons were among ...
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  • Shimon's patriotism, developed through the horrors of the massacre of countless Jewish during the Bar Kochaba revolt, led him to express ...
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  • Constantine Kanaris at Chios, after the massacre of the island's population ... the more infamous atrocities include the Massacre of Chios, the Destruction ...
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  • Taylor-Taylor, and Brian Jonestown Massacre, led by Anton Newcombe. ... and has toured with the Brian Jonestown Massacre. The groups of the Silverlake ...
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  • Guyana, site of the Peoples Temple massacre in 1984]] A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship, especially with ...
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  • rumours circulated about the complete massacre of all Europeans and native ... massacred by the rebels. Although the massacre might have occurred without ...
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  • view, having defended it in his essay, War and Massacre. ====Pacifism==== Pacifism is the belief that war of any kind is morally unjust. Pacifists ...
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  • The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre) on Tuesday May 4, 1886, in Chicago, began as a rally in support ...
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