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1 day ago · Band of Brothers is a 2001 American [2] war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose 's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. [3] It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan.[4]
1 hour ago · 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. A centenarian, Carter is the longest-lived president ...
1 day ago · His enslaver, Moses Carver, was a German American immigrant, who had purchased George's parents, Mary and Giles, from William P. McGinnis on October 9, 1855, for $700 (~$18,133 in 2023). [3] [8] [1] Giles died before George was born and when he was a week old, he, his sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas. George ...
1 hour ago · A “Californian farmer”’s 1913 letter to a local newspaper about Japanese immigration poignantly expresses the settler nightmare of losing control of the population economy: “Near my home is an 80-acre tract of as fine land as there is in California. On that land lives a Japanese. With that Japanese lives a white woman.
1 day ago · Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in 1811, they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north.
1 day ago · Krieg. Bilder eines „modernen“ Krieges (Zweiter Golfkrieg) Als Krieg wird ein organisierter und unter Einsatz erheblicher Mittel mit Waffen und Gewalt ausgetragener Konflikt bezeichnet, [1][2] an dem planmäßig vorgehende Kollektive beteiligt sind. Ziel der beteiligten Kollektive ist es, ihre Interessen durchzusetzen.
1 day ago · Witchcraft is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic or supernatural powers to inflict harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. [1] According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "Witchcraft thus defined ...
