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1950 British Columbia B-36 Crash
On February 13, 1950, a Convair B-36B, serial number 44-92075, assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing at Carswell Air Force Base, crashed in northern British Columbia, after jettisoning a Mark IV atomic bomb.
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Colony Collapse Disorder
While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term Colony Collapse Disorder was first applied to a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honey bee colonies in North America in late 2006.
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Holocaust
The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
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Asian Holocaust
Japanese war crimes occurred during the period of Japanese imperialism.
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SourceWatch
SourceWatch your guide to the names behind the news.
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Hiroo Onoda
Hiroo Onoda (??? ?? Onoda Hir?; born March 19, 1922) is a former Japanese army intelligence officer who fought in World War II, and did not surrender until 1974.
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Ishi
Ishi (c. 1860 – March 25, 1916) was the pseudonym of the last member of the Yahi, in turn the last surviving group of the Yana people of California.
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Uncontacted Peoples
Uncontacted peoples are peoples who, either by choice or chance, live, or have lived, without significant contact with the 'modern' civilizations of the world.
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List of coupled cousins
This is a list of prominent individuals who have been romantically or maritally coupled with a cousin, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle.
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Hale Boggs
The events surrounding Boggs' death have been the subject of much speculation, suspicion, and numerous conspiracy theories.
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Sex in Space
Sex in space is human sexual activity in weightless and extreme environments of space.
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The 27 Club
The 27 Club, also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club or the Club 27, is a popular culture name for a group of influential rock and blues musicians who all died at the age of 27, sometimes under mysterious circumstances.
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The Flexner Report
The Flexner Report is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by the professional educator Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation.
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The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas (SOA; Spanish: Escuela de las Américas) is a United States Department of Defense facility at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia in the
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Battalion 316 (Honduras)
Battalion 316 was a Honduran army unit responsible for carrying out hundreds of political assassinations and widespread torture of suspected political opponents of the government during the 1980s.
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House of Death
The House of Death refers to a serial killing site in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, where executions were committed by members of the Juárez Cartel, some with the knowledge and participation of a United States undercover informant kno
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The Mexican Drug War
The Mexican Drug War is an armed conflict taking place between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico. The crackdown has resulted in the arrest of some high-level figures in the drug trade.
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Operation Condor
Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor), was a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America.
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1973 Chilean coup d'état
The Chilean coup d'état of 1973 is a landmark in the history of Chile and the Soviet-American Cold War. On 11 September 1973,
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Military Animals
Military animals are creatures that have been employed by mankind for use in warfare. They are a specific application of working animals.
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Anti-tank dog
Anti-tank dogs, also known as dog mines, were dogs carrying explosives harnessed to their back and trained to seek food under enemy tanks and armoured vehicles. By doing so, a small wooden lever would be tripped, detonating the explosives.
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List of United States defense contractors
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My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre (My Lai.ogg pronunciation (help·info), approximately [mi.???'l??j??])[1] (Vietnamese: th?m sát M? Lai) was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, entirely civilians and some of them women and children.
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Bat bomb
Bat bombs were bomb-shaped casings with numerous compartments, each containing a Mexican Free-tailed Bat with a small timed incendiary bomb attached.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945.
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The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the totalitarian communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979 At least 200,000 people died.
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Exploding whale
Exploding whales have been documented on two notable occasions, as well as several lesser-known ones.
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Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male[1] (also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Public Health Service Syphilis Study, or the Tuskegee Experiment) was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama by
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Legality of cannabis
Since the 20th century, most countries have enacted laws affecting the legality of cannabis regarding the cultivation, use, possession, or transfer of cannabis for recreational use.
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