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4 hours ago · During the nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd in May and June 2020, Attorney General William Barr blamed the violence on "anarchic and far left extremist groups using Antifa-like tactics" [150] and described the actions of "Antifa and other similar groups" as "domestic terrorism", [151] echoing similar statements by National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien. [152]
4 hours ago · Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855 when James Irvin, a U.S. Congressman from Bellefonte, donated 200 acres (0.8 km 2) of land in Centre County [17] to the newly-established Farmers High School of Pennsylvania, representing the first of 10,101 acres (41 km 2) the school eventually acquired.
4 hours ago · GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) [3] and was known under that name until 1946. During the Second World War it was located at Bletchley Park , where it was responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes .
4 hours ago · Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs '; Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslavija / Југославија [juɡǒslaːʋija]; Slovene: Jugoslavija [juɡɔˈslàːʋija]; Macedonian: Југославија [juɡɔˈsɫavija] [a]) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.
4 hours ago · Sixteen faces expressing the human passions – colored engraving by J. Pass, 1821, after Charles Le Brun. Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. [1][2][3][4] There is no scientific consensus on ...
1 day ago · Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [ 9 ]
4 hours ago · 12.8 °C 55 °F. 731.1 mm 28.8 in. Perth (Nyungar: Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth as of 2023 [update]. It is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of Perth's metropolitan area on the ...
