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19 hours ago · Palau, [a] officially the Republic of Palau, [b][7] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific. The republic consists of approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caroline Islands with parts of the Federated States of Micronesia. It has a total area of 466 square kilometers (180 sq ...
19 hours ago · Recorded January 4, 1980. James Earl Carter Jr.(born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United Statesfrom 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 76th governor of Georgiafrom 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senatorfrom 1963 to 1967.
19 hours ago · Website. www.orderofmalta.int. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, [a] and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric, and noble nature. [4]
19 hours ago · 1968 [ 5 ] –1969: [ 6 ] Chair of the Republican Governors Association. Ronald Wilson Reagan[ a ] (February 6, 1911–June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one ...
19 hours ago · The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
19 hours ago · e. Hurricane Katrina was a devastating tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane ...
19 hours ago · This was in the wake of the American Civil War, when the U.S. emancipated slaves and passed US constitutional amendments granting freedmen citizenship in the United States. In 1988, the federal court in the Freedmen case of Nero v. Cherokee Nation [121] held that Cherokees could decide citizenship requirements and exclude freedmen. On March 7 ...
