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12 hours ago · After seizing power in the 1972 coup d'état, Major Mathieu Kérékou declared the People's Republic of Benin a Marxist-Leninist state and sought financial support from communist governments in Eastern Europe and Asia. To distance the modern state from its colonial past, the country became the People's Republic of Benin in 1975.
12 hours ago · Aurora australis seen from the ISS, 2017 [1]. An aurora [a] (pl. aurorae or auroras), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), [c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
12 hours ago · Allied war crimes during World War II. During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers. At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials.
12 hours ago · Yunnan University (云南大学), located in Kunming, is one of the largest and the most prestigious universities in China and is the only university in Yunnan province which has been developed into a "National Key University". It was founded in 1922, as "University of the Eastern Land". Its name has been changed six times subsequently.
12 hours ago · Auctioneer: Lot 257 started (D . Y. Cameron 1865 - 1945, Ink on paper, Arran & Perth Bridge, 14cm x 26cm & 19cm x 27cm Signed) Auctioneer: Lot 256 passed. Auctioneer: New asking bid £10. Auctioneer: Lot 256 started (A set of four coloured racing prints, each 27cm x 37cm) Auctioneer: Lot 255 sold to Bid at £65.
12 hours ago · Britton Chance, ForMemRS (1913–2010), Penn College class of 1935, B.A., M.A. 1936, and Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry (1940) at the University of Pennsylvania winner of a gold medal in sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games retired as the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of biochemistry and biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine [145]
