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- Owner description: On the initiative of the newly created Czechoslovak government, in 1947 the National Suffering Memorial was opened on the site of the suffering of tens of thousands; it was later on renamed the Terezin Memorial. The key mission of the Terezin Memorial, the only institution of its kind in the Czech Republic, is to commemorate the victims of the Nazi political and racial persecution during the occupation of the Czech lands in World War II, to promote museum ...
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How The Yankees Learned Of Thurman Munson's Death This weekend saw the 35th anniversary of Thurman Munson's death in a plane crash. From Michael Paterniti's superlative 1999 Esquire story, here's how Munson's Yankee teammates and George Steinbrenner remember hearing the news for the first time: Advertisement.
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- A woman carries flowers and balloons toward a memorial outside of the offices for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia after reporter Alison Parker and videographer Adam Ward were killed, August 26, 2015.
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- On April 11, 2008, Russian officials unveiled a monument to Laika. A small monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in Moscow that prepared Laika's flight to space. It features a dog standing on top of a rocket. She also appears on the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow.
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- Several packages of deadly sarin gas are set off in the Tokyo subway system killing twelve people and injuring over 5,000. Sarin gas was invented by the Nazis and is one of the most lethal nerve gases known to man. Tokyo police quickly learned who had planted the chemical weapons...
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Omar Mateen Omar Mir Seddique, also known as Omar Mateen, was an American mass murderer who killed 49 people and wounded 58 others in a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, before he was killed in a shootout with the local police. It is the deadliest act of violence targeting LGBT people in United States history and was also the deadliest shooting by a single shooter in United States history until the Las Vegas Strip shooting on October 1, 2017. Before the shooting
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Three Mile Island accident Three Mile Island accident. The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.
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Difference between academic and professional doctorate degrees 1 the student's general grasp of the subject matter of a large field of study. 2  distinguished attainments in that field.  the critical ability and power to analyze problems, as well as to coordinate and correlate the data from a number of allied fields in such fashion as to serve the progress of ideas in those fields.
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âA very haunting experienceâReview of Terezin Memorial Words really cannot explain what happened here. There are places where tourists can get information and watch videos etc But I would strongly recommend anyone visiting to come with a guide. (we used Wittmann Tours - A tour group in the Jewish Quarter) Anyone visiting Prague should take the time to visit Terezin.
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Flight 93 National Memorial Added to NRHP. The Flight 93 National Memorial is located at the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked in the September 11 attacks, in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Shanksville, and 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.
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9/11 remains returned to World Trade Center site 23 photos: 9/11 memorial and museum. 9/11 memorial and museum – Artifacts from ground zero get a preview at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Among them is a cross made out of steel from the World Trade Center in the 2001 attacks.3 photos: 9/11 memorial and museum. 9/11 memorial and museum – Pieces of American Airlines Flight 11 are on display. The plane plowed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001.
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- There have been accounts of prisoners in Japan that have died under suspicious circumstances while in custody. 1  On June 20, 1994, Iranian national Arjang Mehrpooran was beaten to death while in custody for a visa violation at the Minami Senju police station.
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Ivan Milat Ivan Milat. The Backpacker Murders is a name given to serial killings that occurred in New South Wales, Australia during the 1990s. The bodies of seven missing young people were discovered partly buried in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres south west of the town of Berrima, New South Wales.ive of the victims were international backpackers visiting Australia, and two were Australian travellers from Melbourne. Ivan Milat was convicted of the murders and is serving seven consecutive life sentences plus 18 years.
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- But the most tragic part of Terezin's history came after the Czech lands were occupied by Nazi Germany. Terezin's Small Fortress was converted to a police prison of the Prague Gestapo in June 1940; in November 1941, a ghetto and concentration camp for Jews was established in the Large Fortress and town of Terezin.
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- Pakistani Taliban Attacks Mehran Naval Air Base, Killing 10 Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai May 22, 2011. Then Germany and France were forced into devising a detailed rescue plan, which, in fact, is unfolding this weekend. Wall Street Will Reform Washington Jeffrey E. Garten April 23, 2010. He provided a thumb drive with detailed directions to Pioneer Square, and an operations guideline for carrying out the attack.
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'Fargo': Is Fargo Based on a Real Murder Case? Here is an incident that may be close to Fargo story: The Wood Chipper Murder Case in Connecticut: Helle Crafts, a Danish flight attendant, was murdered by her husband, Richard Crafts, in Newtown, Connecticut, in the year 1986.
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Tear Drop 911 Memorial from Russia There is an E mail circulating about the Teardrop Memorial, a gift from Russia a Monument to the struggle against world terrorism, artist Zurab Tesereteli. I had to check it out to see if it was true, as I have never heard of it before. And it is true.
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Car plunges into credit union window News Photo by Jordan Spence A driver accidentally put their car into drive instead of reverse and wound up driving through the front of Alpena Alcona Area Credit Union main branch on Monday. ALPENA — Two people were injured after a car crashed into the Alpena Alcona Area Credit Union on Monday. The crash happened around 12 p.m. at the credit union located on Bagley Street in Alpena Township. Alpena Township Fire Department Capt. Ken Piper said the driver of the car refused medical care. Two employees inside the credit union when the crash happened were taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries.
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Briahna Gerloff: Pregnant Teen Dies After Shoveling Snow Outside Home In Pottstown, Pennsylvania Briahna Gerloff: Pregnant Teen Dies After Shoveling Snow Outside Home In Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Friends and family members are mourning the death of Briahna Gerloff, who died shortly after shoveling the snow outside of her home in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
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What Is Sarin? A Lethal Nerve Gas That Kills In Minutes The most notorious sarin attack occurred in March 1988 in Halabja when as many as 5,000 Kurds were killed and 65,000 injured when the Iraqi military used a combination of chemical agents that included sarin, mustard gas and possibly VX, a nerve agent 10 times more powerful than sarin.
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Ray Tensing & Samuel DuBose: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Since a second University of Cincinnati police officer who arrived on the scene had corroborated Tensing’s account of the incident, Terina Allen, DuBose’s sister, said it was likely Tensing would have gotten away with murder had it not been for the body camera.
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Pulled from rubble after 16 days: Water secret to survival Pulled from rubble after 16 days: Water secret to survival. Rescuers pull out a female survivor, Reshma, alive on the 17th day after the Rana Plaza building collapsed, in Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 10 May 2013. Television footage showed troops removing the survivor, identified as Reshma Begum, from the rubble and taking her to an ambulance.
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Three people killed in horrific wreck on I-45 identified HOUSTON (KTRK) --. 1  We have an update to a deadly crash on the North Freeway yesterday. We now know two of the three people killed were students at Dekaney High School in Spring ISD. 2  The Camaro then hit a curb, went airborne and crashed into a pillar, killing Larry Jessamy, Sarid Shahdaiah, and Quincy Williams.
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Reclaiming the dead on Mt. Everest The body of Japanese climber Takashi Ozaki is carried out of a helicopter after it was transported from Mount Everest to Kathmandu May 23, 2011. Ozaki died 11 days earlier, just several hundred metres from the summit.
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On the trail of New York's lost Teardrop: John Craven tracks down a forgotten monument to the 9/11 victims Around the base of The Teardrop were the names of all those who died on 9/11 – including 26 Russians. In fact the monument was a gift – an expression of grief – from the people of Russia to the US and officially named 'To the struggle against world terrorism'.
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Yankees remember Thurman Munson, on 35th anniversary of his death Yankees remember Thurman Munson, on 35th anniversary of his death. Yankees catcher Thurman Munson was killed in a plane crash 35 years ago Saturday. On the day Thurman Munson died, in the middle of summer, 1979, Tony Pena was a young minor leaguer playing in Buffalo. He had boarded the team bus for the ballpark when the word went up and down the aisles.