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The 1970 Ancash earthquake was an undersea earthquake that affected the Peruvian regions of Ancash and La Libertad. Combined with a subsequent landslide, it killed 47,194 people and was the most catastrophic natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru. The 45-second quake destabilized the northern wall of Mount Huascarán and triggered a rock and snow avalanche that buried the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca. What did the earthquake register on the Richter scale?
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Avatar Posted by duke 36 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, has been the site of many historic events, including the 1963 March on Washington during which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. The building, designed by Henry Bacon and styled after a Greek temple, has 36 massive columns representing the states of the Union at the time. Inside the building is a heroic statue of Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French. On what units of American currency is the memorial depicted?
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Avatar Posted by duke 37 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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After Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658, the English republican experiment soon faltered. A strong reaction set in against Puritan supremacy and military control, and opinion favored recalling the exiled king. Charles II was persuaded to issue the Declaration of Breda, granting amnesty to former enemies of the house of Stuart, and return to England. As king, Charles reopened the country's theaters, which Cromwell's Puritanical government had closed, and encouraged what bawdy theatrical genre?
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Avatar Posted by duke 38 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Chamberlain served as prime minister of the UK from 1937 to 1940. His political legacy is defined by his controversial policy of "appeasement" toward Hitler, which culminated in the Munich Pact in 1938. When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, he pledged military support to Poland and led Britain to war. He was forced to resign in 1940, after the British debacle in Norway. Some recent scholarship suggests that Chamberlain's appeasement policy was developed to help Britain do what?
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Avatar Posted by duke 39 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Nehru was one of the most important leaders of the Indian independence movement and the Indian National Congress (INC). He became India's first prime minister when the country won its independence and served from 1947 until his death, developing many of the policies that have guided India's development. Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, and grandson, Rajiv, went on to lead the Congress and serve as prime minister. Why did Nehru wear a fresh rose in his coat from 1938 until the end of his life?
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Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. Ruling until his forced abdication in 1917, he proved unequal to the combined tasks of managing a country in political turmoil and commanding its army in WWI. Bolsheviks executed Nicholas and his family, fearing he would be liberated through a counterrevolutionary advance during the Russian Revolution. What famous mystic was involved in the court's affairs?
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Avatar Posted by duke 41 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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The Diet of Worms was an assembly opened by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to deal with the question of Martin Luther's recalcitrant behavior. Luther was asked to retract his teachings condemned by the pope, but he refused. Various theologians argued with him for a week, but he would not change his position. On May 25, Luther was formally declared an outlaw in the Edict of Worms, and the lines of the Reformation were thereby hardened. Who hid Luther to protect him from the Edict's enforcers?
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Avatar Posted by duke 42 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches over the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Construction on the bridge began in 1870 and lasted 13 years. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge in the world, and at the time of its completion, it was the world's longest suspension bridge—fifty percent longer than any previously built. A week after the bridge opened, rumors of its impending collapse caused a stampede that killed how many people?
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