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5 hours ago · Transformers. (film series) Transformers is a series of science fiction action films based on the Transformers franchise. [note 1] Michael Bay directed the first five live action films: Transformers (2007), Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Dark of the Moon (2011), Age of Extinction (2014), and The Last Knight (2017), [1] [2] [3] and has served as ...
1 day ago · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
1 day ago · Etymology Main article: Name of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. As Forbes was a Scotsman, he probably pronounced the name / ˈ p ɪ t s b ər ə / PITS -bər-ə (similar to Edinburgh). Pittsburgh was incorporated as a borough on April 22, 1794, with the following Act: "Be it enacted by the Pennsylvania State Senate and Pennsylvania House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...
1 day ago · The empire was once thought to have controlled most of the subcontinent except the far south, but its core regions are now thought to have been separated by large autonomous areas. [101] [102] The Mauryan kings are known as much for their empire-building and determined management of public life as for Ashoka 's renunciation of militarism and far-flung advocacy of the Buddhist dhamma .
1 day ago · World leaders voice their outrage after Vladimir Putin launches a deadly hypersonic missile attack on multiple Ukrainian cities, with a children's hospital struck in Kyiv. It comes on the eve of a ...
1 day ago · As had been in colonial America, so too in Ireland now the King no longer had a monopoly of lethal force. [245] [238] [246] For many Europeans, such as the Marquis de Lafayette , who later were active during the era of the French Revolution , the American case along with the Dutch Revolt (end of the 16th century) and the 17th century English Civil War , was among the examples of overthrowing an old regime.
