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5 hours ago · Jacques Offenbach ( / ˈɒfənbɑːx /; [n 1] 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly ...
1 day ago · t. e. Rosa Luxemburg ( Polish: Róża Luksemburg, [ˈruʐa ˈluksɛmburk] ⓘ; German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ⓘ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the ...
1 day ago · Signature. Louis XIV(Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great(Louis le Grand) or the Sun King(le Roi Soleil), was King of Francefrom 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign. [1][a]Although Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the Age ...
1 day ago · Late on Sunday, Ludovic Franceschet, a local garbage collector, brought the flame inside Paris City Hall, where it spent the night under high protection. Franceschet, who seeks to raise environmental awareness with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram, seized the occasion to remind residents and visitors to put their trash in bins.
5 hours ago · In the histories of both colonial and postcolonial Malawi, there have been cases of religious-related violence, both in its physical and non-physical forms. Such cases have led to the deaths of the “perpetrators” of violence and ‘innocent’ believers, destruction of property, prison detentions, and even the forced removal of citizens from the country. This paper analyzes two case studies, one in which private citizens perpetrated the violence, led by a preacher called John Chilembwe ...
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