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2. Carrie Nation - Wikipedia

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   Carrie Nation. Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, [1] Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments ...

3. Senegal - Wikipedia

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   Senegal, [f] officially the Republic of Senegal, [g] is the westernmost country in continental Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of ...

4. Popsy (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Plot summary. Briggs Sheridan, a gambling addict, has taken to abducting children for a Turkish man known as "Mr. Wizard" in order to pay off his debt of $35,000 (equivalent to $74,000 in 2023) to Mr. Reggie, a mobster who has threatened Sheridan with grievous bodily harm; Mr. Wizard has told Sheridan only that the children go "on a boat ride ...

5. List of newspapers in Zambia - Wikipedia

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   Lusaka Voice. The Seal Newspapers. Zambia News 24. The Independent Observer. Sunday Mail. Sunday Times. Lusaka Star. The Rainbow Newspaper Zambia Limited (RNZL) Zambian Children Young People and Women in Development (ZCYPWD)

6. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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   On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of ...

7. Ebenezer (hymn) - Wikipedia

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   Ebenezer (hymn) Ebenezer also known as Ton-y-Botel (Tune in a Bottle) is a famous Welsh hymn tune composed by Thomas John Williams A.T.S.C. (1869–1944) and extracted from the second movement of his anthem "Goleu Yn Y Glyn" (Light in the Valley).

8. Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story - Wikipedia

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   The graphic stories on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of stories that can be nominated. Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year ...

9. What Is a Nation? - Wikipedia

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   A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things which, properly speaking, are really one and the same constitute this soul, this spiritual principle. One is the past, the other is the present. One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present consent, the desire to live together, the desire to continue to ...