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  • After the massacre of the Champ de Mars on July 17, 1791, Robespierre moved into the house of Maurice Duplay in order to be nearer to the assembly ...
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  • U Aung Htoo, [http://alrc.asia/article2/2003/12/the-depayin-massacre-a-crime-against-humanity-and-its-effect-on-national-reconciliation/ The ...
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  • known as the Bloody Verdict of Verden or Massacre of Verden. The massacre, which modern research has not been able to confirm, triggered two ...
    56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
  • The largest massacre of Catholics was carried out in 1866, under Daewongun, while he served as regent for King Gojong. In the Catholic Persecution ...
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  • the first of which commemorates a massacre of the Jews during World War II. Opinions are divided as to how great a risk this was; the poem had ...
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  • people's king was torched, and an infamous massacre of Hui Muslims at the hands of the People's Liberation Army claimed over 1,600 lives in 1975. ...
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  • Arkansas to investigate the Elaine Race Riot, a massacre of more than two hundred black Americans by white vigilantes and federal troops after a deputy ...
    28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
  • their Portuguese rulers. This "Batepá Massacre" remains a major event in the colonial history of the islands, and its anniversary is officially ...
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  • In May 1898, Milan was shaken by the Bava-Beccaris massacre, a riot related to a high inflation rate and famine. According to the government ...
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  • *Wanghailou Church, site of the 1870 Tianjin Massacre 望海楼教堂 *Xikai Church 西开天主教堂 *Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall 周恩来纪念馆 ...
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  • well organized. The death toll (by battle, massacre, flooding, and famine) of the Mongol wars of conquest is placed as high as 40 million by some sources. ...
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  • civilian uprising followed by a large- scale massacre by government troops went largely unreported. In response, Gnassingbé agreed to hold elections ...
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  • tens of thousands might have been killed in the massacre, as on any given day upwards of 100,000 people could be inside the towers. Ultimately, 2,749 ...
    31 KB (4,719 words) - 11:15, 19 May 2023
  • in a series of violent attacks such as the massacre of striking miners in the Wujek Coal Mine (9 killed). The government banned Solidarity on October ...
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  • 'Sir' in 1919 following the massacre at Amritsar. Despite the ... the title 'sir' following the massacre at Amritsar, which cost ...
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  • commentators as The "Halloween Massacre." {| cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" style="float: left; margin:1em ...
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  • The arrival of English warships provoked a massacre of more Europeans. Phetracha (reigned 1688-93) seized the throne, expelled the remaining foreigners ...
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  • During the Indian Massacre of 1622, nine of the settlers at Berkeley Hundred were killed, as well as about a third of the entire population of ...
    36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
  • Just two years after the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, West Germany hosted the World Cup. A lack of good teams—England ...
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  • others sat stunned, witnesses to a "marital massacre," and, though he was "strongly tempted to slug him" (Hill), he left with his ...
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