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12 hours ago · The battle's earliest known appearance in culture is a series of epigrams commemorating the dead written by Simonides of Ceos in the battle's aftermath. [175] In Europe, interest in the battle was revitalized in the 1700s with the publication of the poems Leonidas, A Poem by Richard Glover in 1737 and Leonidas by Willem van Haren in 1742. [ 176 ]
12 hours ago · The Herero and Nama genocide or Namibian genocide, [5] formerly known also as the ' Herero and Namaqua genocide', was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire. It was the first genocide to begin in the ...
12 hours ago · The Malayan Emergency(1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in the Federation of Malaya between communist fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth. The communists fought to win independence for Malaya from the British Empire and to establish a ...
12 hours ago · There were the Battles of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Ezra Church. Each time, the gray came close, but not close enough, to breaking the blue lines. As August dwindled down to its last day, Hood ...
12 hours ago · Sun 29 September 2024 04:38. Lottie O'Neill. Drake Hogestyn, a Days of our Lives veteran, has tragically died from pancreatic cancer, a day before his 71st birthday. The TV star played John Black on the beloved soap for 38 years. The celebrity began his journey on the long-running series on January 24, 1986 and appeared more than 4,000 times.
