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2. German Instrument of Surrender - Wikipedia

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   Third and last page of the German instrument of unconditional surrender signed in Berlin, Germany on 8 May 1945. The German Instrument of Surrender [a] was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, which ended World War II in Europe, with the surrender taking effect at 23:01 CET ...

3. List of Allied ships at the Japanese surrender - Wikipedia

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   These ships of the Allied navies of World War II were present in Tokyo Bay on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945) when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63). The only two US vessels present at both the Pearl Harbor attack and Tokyo Bay surrender were the USS West Virginia and the USS ...

4. Lee's Farewell Address - Wikipedia

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   Confederate General Robert E. Lee issued his Farewell Address, also known as General Order No. 9, to his Army of Northern Virginia on April 10, 1865, the day after he surrendered to Union Army Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Lee's surrender was instrumental in bringing about the end of the American Civil War.

5. Battle of Camperdown - Wikipedia

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   The Battle of Camperdown (known in Dutch as the Zeeslag bij Kamperduin) was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797, [Note 1] between the British North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Batavian Navy (Dutch) fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter. The battle, the most significant action between British and Dutch forces during the ...

6. Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero - Wikipedia

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   Spiritual biography. Gnanananda became a monk at age 17 on 26 March 1979 under Dambagasare Sumedhankara Thero and Dikwelle Pannananda Thero at Seruwavila. He received a traditional Buddhist academic education and entered the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. [2] He founded Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery in August 1999 in Waduwava, Polgahawela.

7. Ignacia del Espíritu Santo - Wikipedia

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   Ignacia del Espíritu Santo luco, also known as "Mother Ignacia" (February 1, 1663 – September 10, 1748) was a Filipino religious sister of the Catholic Church.She was known for her acts of piety and religious poverty and founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, the first native Filipino female congregation with approved pontifical status in what is now ...

8. Veneration - Wikipedia

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   Veneration in Noto St Conrad of Piacenza (San Corrado) Veneration ( Latin: veneratio; Greek: τιμάω timáō ), [a] or veneration of saints, is the act of honoring a saint, a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness. [1] Angels are shown similar veneration in many religions.

9. Walter Ciszek - Wikipedia

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   Bronx, New York, U.S. Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. (November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963. Fifteen of these years were spent in confinement and hard labor in the Gulag, plus five preceding ...