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Hace 1 día · The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun ...
Hace 1 día · Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind power and hydropower. Bioenergy and geothermal power are also significant in some countries. Some also consider nuclear power a renewable power source, although this is controversial.
Hace 2 horas · Ronald Wilson Reagan (/ ˈ r eɪ ɡ ən / RAY-gən; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in American history.
Hace 2 horas · Biography Childhood and adolescence: 1949–1968 Waits as a high-school senior at Hilltop High School in 1967. He dropped out at the age of 18. Thomas Alan Waits was born on December 7, 1949, in Pomona, California. He has one older sister and one younger sister. His father, Jesse Frank Waits, was a Texas native of Scots-Irish descent, and his mother, Alma Fern (née Johnson), hailed from ...
Hace 1 día · Etymology and roots. The word satire comes from the Latin word satur and the subsequent phrase lanx satura. Satur meant "full", but the juxtaposition with lanx shifted the meaning to "miscellany or medley": the expression lanx satura literally means "a full dish of various kinds of fruits". The use of the word lanx in this phrase, however, is disputed by B.L. Ullman.
Hace 1 día · A filtered cigarette An electronic cigarette. A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking.The cigarette is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder; the resulting smoke is orally inhaled via the opposite end. Cigarette smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption.
Hace 1 día · Election news. Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day commemorations early; PM says 'it's important we don't politicise this' This is Sunak's 'Gillian Duffy' moment, Farage says
