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The Hurricane of 1928 African-American Mass Burial Site is located in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the southwest corner of the intersection of 25th Street and Tamarind Avenue. Originally, the pauper's cemetery was composed of approximately 12 acres (4.9 ha), but portions of the property were sold. Additionally, 25th Street was redirected to ...
Mass (formally: MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers) is a musical theatre work composed by Leonard Bernstein with text by Bernstein and additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy, it premiered on September 8, 1971, conducted by Maurice Peress and choreographed by Alvin Ailey. [1]
The word "mass" has two meanings in special relativity: invariant mass (also called rest mass) is an invariant quantity which is the same for all observers in all reference frames, while the relativistic mass is dependent on the velocity of the observer. According to the concept of mass–energy equivalence, invariant mass is equivalent to rest ...
The Talheim Death Pit ( German: Massaker von Talheim ), discovered in 1983, was a mass grave found in a Linear Pottery Culture settlement, also known as a Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture. It dates back to about 5000 BC. The pit takes its name from its site in Talheim, Germany. The pit contained the remains of 34 bodies, and evidence points ...
As in Russia and elsewhere, these sites keep appearing, e.g. a mass grave found in 2002 under the floor of a Ukrainian monastery. Belarus A mass grave site in Kurapaty near Minsk, Belarus. Kurapaty – At least 50,000 are thought to have been shot at this site near Minsk, with considerably higher estimates in the Soviet press.
Mass shootings are rare occurrences in China due to the country's strict gun control laws, which prohibit private ownership of firearms. [citation needed]. There have been very few incidents of mass shootings in the past 40 years. One of the most notable incidents was the Chongqing shooting that occurred on 5 April 1993. Chen Xuerong, a worker ...
Mass grave In August 2013, one of the larger primary mass grave sites from the Bosnian War was discovered by Bosnian authorities. Exhumation activities were assisted by forensic experts from the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and according to witnesses contain upwards of 1,000 Bosniak and Croat victims killed by Bosnian Serb ...
The Quba mass grave is a mass grave site claimed to be from 1918 located in the town of Quba in northeastern Azerbaijan, however there is no evidence or primary source attesting to a massacre occurring there at that time. It was discovered during the building of a stadium in April 2007.