Notices tagged with history, page 4
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1 year ago, inappropriate '#sexual conduct': #cardinal Keith O'Brien resigned from governance of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_O'Brien !history
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4 years ago in !history: Ві́ктор Фе́дорович Януко́вич (Viktor #Yanukovych) took office as 4th president of #Ukraine ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych
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What comes to your mind when you think about Ludwig von #Bertalanffy and his "systems understanding in science of !history" where he talks about the 3 aspects of most general indicators of human history are: continuous progress, cycles with structural similarities and existentialist, nihilistic aspects? cc @question
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166 years ago: 'Révolution française de 1848' (French Revolution of 1848) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution_of_1848 !history
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69 years ago: the US flag was raised atop Mount Suribachi #硫黄島の星条旗 (1200 km distance to Tokyo) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima tomorrow !history
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33 years ago: 23-F, El Tejerazo, attempted coup d'état in #Spain, "bursting into the Spanish Congress of Deputies by a group of 200 armed officers of the Guardia Civil during the process of electing Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo to be the country's new Prime Minister" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23-F #tomorrow !history
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October 2013: "I speak only de, en, fr and tr fluently but I like #languages because they offer a way to #think about stuff. I guess my other choices of study back then would be #history and/or #languages" February 2014: "I educate myself about #Asian culture and learn some of their !language" cc @question
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17 years ago: #Dolly's existence was announced to the public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29 tomorrow in !history
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91 years ago: Mustafa Kemal #Atatürk came on the front page of the Times, for the 2nd time. !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk
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50 years ago in !history: İsmet #İnönü (1938 - 1950: 2nd Turkish president) was attacked by a shooter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0smet_%C4%B0n%C3%B6n%C3%BC
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71 years ago: Hans and Sophie Scholl were executed by guillotine !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_and_Sophie_Scholl #tomorrow
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49 years ago in !history: 39-year old Malcolm X was #assassinated: "The autopsy report showed #21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, and arms and legs, of which 10 were buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Assassination
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99 years ago: the 'naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign' of WWI began (and lasted for 11 months) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_operations_in_the_Dardanelles_Campaign !history
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55 years ago: the 'London and Zurich Agreements' for the constitution of #Cyprus started with an agreement in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_Zurich_Agreements !history
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2 years ago: Christian #Wulff "resigned as President of Germany, facing the prospect of prosecution for allegations of #corruption relating to his prior service as 'Prime Minister of Lower Saxony' " !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wulff
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22 years ago: 'Israel Defense Forces fired missiles at the motorcade of عباس الموسوي (Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, co-founder and Secretary General of حزب الله Hezbollah) in southern Lebanon, killing him, his wife, his 5-year old son, and 4 others' #tomorrow !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_al-Musawi#Assassination
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45 years ago, 'Bloody Sunday' in Istanbul: "30,000 people marched on Taksim Square. The #demonstration was broken up by the police, but several 1000 continued the march towards Taksim. It was at this point that a counter-revolutionary force attacked a large group of these protesters with knives and sticks. During this confrontation, 2 protesters were #killed", #tomorrow !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281969%29
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Dedicating this to all Gentoo users in Antananarivo: Mbesil - Il blues del battibecco http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/324032/il-blues-del-battibecco #jazz #easylistening #pop #history #instrumental seen from @hgFernan@quitter.se !listening
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"Prior to the '#oil crisis of 1973', the members of the 'Seven Sisters' controlled around #85% of the world's petroleum reserves, but in recent decades the dominance of the companies and their successors has declined as a result of the increasing influence of the #OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies" !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_%28oil_companies%29
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160 dead and 410 wounded, is this "Italian offensive action against British, Commonwealth and Free French forces during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War" a happy occasion for you? !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_Egypt
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Do you think 71 years after the Battle of #Stalingrad (which lasted for over 5 months) ended, people still think about this even in human !history ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
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Have you read already the 11-page #review of Louis Segal: "The perils and promises of global !history: new ideas on a usable past" about "Linked labor histories: New England, Colombia, and the making of a global working class" by Noam !Chomsky 's daughter Aviva ? http://www.ncsu.edu/acontracorriente/fall_10/reviews/Segal_rev.pdf
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you're too late, the #Odrysian kingdom collapsed and came under #Macedonian control in 341 BC !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odrysian_kingdom
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It'll be 4 years since Operation Sledgehammer (Turkish: Balyoz Harekâtı) got known in public, it "is the name of an alleged Turkish secularist #military coup plan which reportedly dates back to #2003, and was allegedly in response to the Islamist Justice and Development Party gaining office." #tomorrow !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledgehammer_(coup_plan)
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RT @mikko Official #History of the #Bay of #Pigs operation, Vol I (document from Sep 1979) http://qttr.at/br4 [340 p.] http://qttr.at/br5
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Aren't you curious why Moshe Sharett said: '#Satan himself could not have chosen a worse timing.' "Ben-Gurion the defense minister consulted with Ben-Gurion the foreign minister and received the green light from Ben-Gurion the prime minister" #1955 !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olive_Leaves
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I think you mean #1961 !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_government_of_Israel
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nice panorama view! (not incl.) "In 1271, Kublai Khan declared the creation of the Yuan Dynasty and named his capital #Dadu (#大都, Chinese for "Grand Capital", or Daidu to the Mongols). It is also known by the Mongol name #Khanbaliq (汗八里), spelled Cambuluc in Marco Polo's account. Construction ... began in 1267 and ... the entire palace complex was completed in 1274 and the rest of the city by 1285." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanbaliq !history
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Don't tell me you were responsible for "Agnes Sampson being questioned by King James VI of Scotland and confessing to practising #witchcraft" ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Sampson !history
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#BER (Berlin Brandenburg #Airport): "Originally planned to be opened in #2010, BER has encountered a series of #delays due to poor construction planning, management and execution. As of October 2013, it is not known when the airport will be inaugurated. Since the still necessary (re-)construction work is estimated to take 18 months, and has not started yet, any dates prior to late #2015 are considered unlikely" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport http://oracle.skilledtests.com/conversation/68611 cc !history cc @question
