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Katyn
Katyn , village, W central European Russia, 12 mi (19 km) W of Smolensk. During World War II, when it was part of the USSR, it was occupied by the Germans in Aug., 1941. In 1943 the German government announced that the mass grave of some 4,250 Polish officers had been found in a forest near Katyn... Read more |
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Sharpeville Massacre
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My Lai Massacre 1968
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Palawan
Palawan , island (1990 pop. 528,287), 4,550 sq mi (11,785 sq km), 5th largest of the Philippines, N of Borneo and between the Sulu Archipelago and the South China Sea. Lumbering is an important industry on Palawan. There is concern that excessive logging and slash-and-burn farming will deplete the... Read more |
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Varus
Varus (Publius Quinctilius Varus) , d. AD 9, Roman general. In 13 BC he was consul with Tiberius Claudius Nero (later emperor as Tiberius ) and later was governor of Syria. Although unsuited for the position, he was appointed governor of Germany by Augustus . In AD 9, to suppress an uprising, he... Read more |
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Peterloo massacre
Peterloo massacre public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws and... Read more |
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Sand Creek Massacre 1864
SAND CREEK MASSACRE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, an attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members. About two-thirds of the dead were women and children. Many bodies were brutally... Read more |
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massacre of Saint Bartholomews Day
massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day murder of French Protestants, or Huguenots , that began in Paris on Aug. 24, 1572. It was preceded, on Aug. 22, by an attempt, ordered by Catherine de' Medici , on the life of the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny . The failure of the attempt led to formulation... Read more |
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck , 1862-1949, Belgian author who wrote in French. After practicing law unsuccessfully for several years, he went to Paris in 1897. He had already been touched by the influence of the symbolists and the mystical thought of Novalis and Emerson; his eventual 60-odd volumes can be... Read more |
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Nob
Nob in the Bible, religious center just N of Jerusalem. Saul had its inhabitants massacred.... Read more |
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Katyń massacre
Katyń massacre. During the Nazi–Soviet partition...number of mass graves in the Katyń forest near Smolensk, which they believed...1951). Zawodny, J. K. , Death in the Forest: the Story of the Katyn Forest ... |
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Somberly revisiting WWII horror ; Exhibit on massacre at Katyn is reminder of...
The Katyn massacre exhibit at...publicizing the story of a terrible...were shot to death and put in...officers in the Katyn Forest. Among the...Fundalinski, to the Katyn massacre...she has ... |
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Soviets `must pay,' says son of officer massacred at Katyn
...history forget the Katyn Forest massacre. Seweryn's father...during World War II, deaths the Soviets blamed...years ago in the Katyn Forest in Russia...investigation that confirmed stories that Russians ... |
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Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin's Polish Massacre
...The Untold Story of Stalin's Polish Massacre Allen Paul Charles...graves in the Katyn Forest contained only...references to Katyn have come to...involved the death of great numbers...events of the Katyn ... |
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'This is a double tragedy'. Israeli son of Katyn massacre victim shocked by...
...son of Katyn massacre victim shocked...president's death on eve of...anniversary of the Katyn massacre in...anniversary of] Katyn, for the...Soviets in the Katyn Forest, told ... |
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Polish film director Wajda says he wants to film movie about Katyn massacre
...the World War II Katyn massacre, the state...and around the forest near the city of Katyn, in what was...memory of the massacre remains a strong...real hero of this story is my mother...the time of his ... |
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Proust and Katyn. (Josef Czapski gave Marcel Proust lectures to fellow...
...in the 1940 massacre of 15,000...buried in the forest of Katyn, near Smolensk...the killings, Katyn was still in...guilty of the Katyn massacre. The...years after his death, Polish prisoners...interest to ... |
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Maryland Gives $200,000 for National Katyn Memorial
...hundred spared the death sentence, was kept...when he returns to Katyn Forest to pray among the...helped to tell the Katyn story to leaders whose...started (on the Katyn work)", said...anniversary of the ... |
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Katyn.(Movie review)
...Baijal In a forest near Katyn...carried out the massacre in 1943 when...is less the story of the murders...of Poland. Katyn is often less...the lie of Katyn poisoned the...in 1943 at Katyn is ... |
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Local Angle Brush Prairie author has ties to Poland tragedy
...wrote the 1962 book Death in the Forest about the Katyn Forest massacre, where an estimated...a memorial in the Katyn Forest. Janusz served...Remembrance for Poland. Of Death in the ... |
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VOA NEWS: POLAND TO PROBE DEATH OF WARTIME LEADER SIKORSKI
...issued the following story: A Polish official says...probe into Sikorski's death, saying there was reason...Cross investigate the Katyn Forest Massacre. In 1941, German troops discovered in the Katyn forest, ... |
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