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6 hours ago · B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth is calling for a system-wide overhaul of the provincial child welfare system, three years after foster parents beat an 11-year-old boy in their care to death. On Tuesday, representative Jennifer Charlesworth joined First Nations leadership and provincial health officials to publicly announce their months-long investigation into how the provincial ...
6 hours ago · Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap ( / ˈɪmədʒən ˈhiːp / IM-ə-jən HEEP; born 9 December 1977) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Her work has been considered pioneering in pop and electropop music. Heap classically trained in piano, cello, and clarinet starting at a young age. She began writing songs at the age of 13 ...
1 day ago · Malta has been inhabited since about 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean [28] has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians and Carthaginians , Greeks , Romans , Arabs , Normans , Aragonese , Knights of St. John , French , and British . [29]
6 hours ago · Joshua ( Arabic: يُوشَعُ بْنُ نُونٍ, Yūšaʿ ibn Nūn [juːʃaʕ ibn nuːn], is not mentioned by name in the Quran, but his name appears in other Islamic literature. In the Quranic account of the conquest of Canaan, Joshua and Caleb are referenced, but not named, as two God-fearing men on whom God "had bestowed His grace".
1 day ago · History Main articles: History of English land law, History of equity, Serfdom, Feudalism, Legal history of wills, and Trespass in English law The Bayeux Tapestry depicts William the Conqueror's knights seizing food from English peasants. The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded at least 12% of people as free, 30% as serfs, 35% as servient bordars and cottars, and 9% as slaves. The history of ...
6 hours ago · v. t. e. A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. [1]
6 hours ago · Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( Irish: Máire Mhic Róibín; [2] née Bourke; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who served as the seventh president of Ireland, holding the office from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to ...
