Battle of Stalingrad, successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad that was a turning point in favor of the Allies in World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider i
"Today we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone – 500,071 dead. That's more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined," he said. The newly-inaugurated president also held a candle-lighting cer...
Pitcher Fernando Valenzuela (November 1, 1960-October 22, 2024) won the National League's Cy Young and Rookie of the Year Awards in 1981, when he helped the Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series — the first player to win Cy Young and rookie honors in the same season. One of the ...
Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone star as a gang of survivors roaming a post-apocalyptic Earth overrun by flesh-eating zombies. The foursome abides by a strict list of rules in order to guarantee their survival as they make the treacherous cross-country journey ...
By Reuters | Feb. 2, 2022, at 4:44 p.m. Save More Deaths From Tainted Argentine Cocaine up to 17, Likely to Rise More BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -At least 17 people have died in Argentina after consuming cocaine suspected of containing a poisonous substance, with the cases clus...
Adolf Hitler was able to convince the German people to give him the power to improve conditions in Germany and restore the country’s strength and dignity. He vowed to tear up the Treaty of Versailles.THE SECOND WORLD WARHitler began invading Austria and Czechoslovakia. He also built up the ...
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2 of 2 Otto Hahn(more) The turning point in the quest foratomic energycame in January 1939, eight months before the start of World War II. German scientistsOtto HahnandFritz Strassmann, following a clue provided byIrène Joliot-Curieand Pavle Savić in France (1938), proved definitely that...
Some communities resembled the bombed-out cities of Europe after World War II, with buildings reduced to charred rubble piled atop blackened earth. Residents either managed to flee as the flames closed in, or perished. Millicent Catarancuic’s body was found near a car on her 5-acre property...
At court, he was a divisive figure, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan. The high point of Rasputin's power was in 1915, when Nicholas II left St. Petersburg to oversee Russian armies fighting World War I, increasing both ...