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  • with France. The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre, in which many French Protestants (Huguenots) were killed, strained the alliance but did not ...
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  • passed.Stillman, 78. During the Cordoba massacre of 1148, the Jewish philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides saved his own life only ...
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  • source, "Its first military action ended in a massacre because the group was surrounded by the National Guard and the Honduran army at the national ...
    51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
  • of civilians (such as the infamous Nanking Massacre), and the early end to the war prevented further bloodshed. In response to the argument that ...
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  • crime. The 1930s saw the Kansas City Massacre at Union Station, as well as a shootout between police and outlaws Bonnie and Clyde at the Red ...
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  • and William French in the "Westminster Massacre." === Independence to Statehood === [[Image:ConstitutionHouse WindsorVermont.JPG|400px ...
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  • in what has come to be called the Bleiburg massacre. === Second Yugoslavia === [[Image:Nixontito1971.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Richard Nixon and Mrs ...
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  • crushed by Red Army in the Black January massacre. Twenty-first century nonviolent revolutions include the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which ...
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  • In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the People's Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic ...
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  • reach the city in time to prevent the Manila Massacre, in which 19,000 Japanese soldiers who were trapped within the city during the Battle of Manila ...
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  • The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought between Russia and Chechnya from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in Chechnya's ...
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  • Artist Pablo Picasso's painting Massacre in Korea (1951) depicted violence against civilians during the Korean War. By some account, civilian ...
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  • between priests and Amerindians led to the Arena Massacre of 1699, wherein the Amerindians murdered the priests. After being hunted by the Spanish, the ...
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  • peoples such as the Bloody Falls Massacre, even including fellow Inuit, and of taking vengeance on them in return. Western observers often regarded ...
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  • an armed clash. This came to be known as the Kot Massacre. Ultimately, Bahadur won and founded the Rana dynasty, leading to the Rana autocracy. The king ...
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  • in which 14,000 Jews were killed, and the Jedwabne massacre in Poland which killed between 380 and 1,600 Jews. The last mass pogrom in Europe was the ...
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  • Merv to the ground. The Mongol leader ordered the massacre of Merv's inhabitants as well as the destruction of the province's farms and irrigation ...
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  • oldest monument in the world that celebrates a massacre. Irene J. Winter, On Art in the Ancient Near East, Volume 2: From the Third Millennium ...
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  • Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated building-up of the industrial potential of the Soviet Union. The plan ...
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  • under Louis IX of France was inspired by this massacre, but it accomplished little save to replace the Ayyubids and Khwarezmians with the more powerful ...
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