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Hace 15 horas · The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ancestors of today's Taiwanese indigenous peoples. People from China gradually came into contact with Taiwan by the time of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368 ...
Hace 15 horas · The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a gunfight that lasted less than a minute between lawmen led by Virgil Earp and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that occurred at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States. It is generally regarded [by whom?] as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Old West.
Hace 2 horas · So far Israeli forces have mainly been operating in eastern parts of the city, but the fighting has already triggered an exodus of more than 810,000 Palestinians, according to the U.N.
Hace 15 horas · The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.It resulted in the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and later the Soviet Union in most of its territory.
Hace 1 hora · SHALLOTTE, N.C. (WECT) - The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles license plate agency in Shallotte is set to reopen Thursday, May 23, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Per the NCDOT, the location, at 5300 Main St., Suite A, had closed on Dec. 20 when the previous operator’s contact ended. “In North Carolina, NCDMV ...
Hace 20 minutos · HALLSBORO, N.C. (WECT) - An investigation is underway after an argument led to shots being fired in Hallsboro, according to the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office. Per the CCSO, a deputy was dispatched to the 100 block of Bussy Road just after 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, in reference to a weapons disturbance. The deputy was told by the victim ...
Hace 15 horas · Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism is an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were also aspects of the movement ...
