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The Germany national football team represents Germany in men's international football and played its first match in 1908. The team is governed by the German Football Association, f…
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the…
The surface wave magnitude scale is one of the magnitude scales used in seismology to describe the size of an earthquake. It is based on measurements of Rayleigh surface waves that…
A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.
The Republic of China Armed Forces are the national military forces of the Republic of China (ROC), which is now based primarily in the Taiwan Area but formerly governed mainland C…
The Taiwanese military ordered the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat…
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly known as the Conservative Party and colloquially as the Tories, is a political party in the United Kingdom. It sits on the centre-righ…
British Conservative member of Parliament Ian Gow was killed outside his home in a car bombing by the Provisional…
Faith is a city in the northeastern corner of Meade County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 367 at the 2020 census. The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton kno…
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson found one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex…
Stephen Ray Vaughan, also known abbreviated as SRV, was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.…
American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was…
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States in response to Saddam Hussein invading neighboring Kuwait on 2 August 1990. The …
Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or…
Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI …
Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in…
The Northern Xinjiang railway or Beijiang railway is a railway in Xinjiang, China, between Ürümqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and Alashankou on the border with Kazakhstan. T…
Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou,…