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Hace 1 día · Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
Hace 1 día · The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.It stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret ...
Hace 1 día · You can’t arrest Bibi, complains Lord Dave – he’s my Jacuzzi buddy. Foreign Secretary declares that we supply ‘so little’ munition to Israel, but how much is that exactly? Tim Stanley 21 ...
Hace 1 día · Labour would make the benefits system more generous and cause a “ruinous” rise in unemployment, the Work and Pensions Secretary has warned. Mel Stride said the party’s plan to reduce the use ...
Hace 1 día · The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity in Western and ...
Hace 1 día · The defeat of the coup prompted many leading Austrian Nazis to go into exile in Germany, where they continued their efforts to unify the two countries. In early 1938, under increasing pressure from pro-unification activists, Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announced that there would be a referendum on a possible union with Germany versus maintaining Austria's sovereignty to be held on 13 ...
Hace 1 día · Lubbock (/ ˈ l ʌ b ə k / LUB-ək) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Lubbock County.With a population of 266,878 in 2023, the city is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwestern part of the state (the region is the Great Plains), an area known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado ...
