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21 hours ago · Signature. Yukio Mishima[ a ] (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), born Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai. Mishima is considered one of the most important post-war stylists of the ...
21 hours ago · e. Francisco Franco Bahamonde[ f ][ g ] (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. This period in Spanish history, from ...
21 hours ago · Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle[ a ][ b ] (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. In 1958, amid the Algerian War, he ...
21 hours ago · 1968 [ 5 ] –1969: [ 6 ] Chair of the Republican Governors Association. Ronald Wilson Reagan[ a ] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement ...
21 hours ago · Samora Machel (53), a Mozambican politician, military commander, and revolutionary, was killed on 19 October 1986 [ 172 ] in a mysterious plane crash close to the Mozambican-South African border. Cam Lyman (54–55) was a multimillionaire dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987.
21 hours ago · Dynasty. Fifth Dynasty. Djedkare Isesi (known in Greek as Tancheres) was a pharaoh, the eighth and penultimate ruler of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt in the late 25th century to mid- 24th century BC, during the Old Kingdom. Djedkare succeeded Menkauhor Kaiu and was in turn succeeded by Unas. His relationship to both of these pharaohs remain ...
21 hours ago · (The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East,2005, Robert Fisk) The U.S. could hardly turn over Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to the Iranians; given it was the U.S. and Great Britain who placed him on the throne after the successful led coup against their democratically elected government. One will never know with any certitude how many Iranian’s were jailed, tortured and/or ...
