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How A Secretive US Church Forced Women Into Giving Up Babies For Adoption
The church, known as The Truth or the Two by Twos, coerced hundreds of unmarried mothers into giving up their kids -- some without even seeing them -- for adoption between the 1950s and 1990s.
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In 1950, Ex-Indonesia President Attended 1st Republic Day Parade At This Location
The first Republic Day celebrations were held in the 1930s-era Irwin Amphitheatre in 1950.
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Explained: How India Became A Republic On January 26, 1950
While India became an independent nation on August 15, 1947, it got its Constitution on January 26, 1950.
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"Unreal": Viral Video Of Alaska's 1956 DC-6 Airplane Airbnb Stuns The Internet
Recently, we came across a video on social media showcasing a 1950s plane transformed into a cosy Airbnb, nestled among Alaska's snow-capped mountains.
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"Vintage Beauty": Viral Video Takes You Inside A 1956 DC-6 Airplane Airbnb in Alaska
Located in Big Lake, Alaska, the aircraft now features a two-bedroom layout, a full kitchen, a living room, and even a cockpit.
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In UK, Manmohan Singh Sometimes Had To Live On Chocolate Bar: Daughter
While studying in Cambridge University on a scholarship in the mid 1950s, money was the only real problem for Manmohan Singh and there were times when he had to skip meals or live on a sixpence bar of Cadbury's chocolate, according to his daughter.
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When Human Zoos Paraded Real People: A Dark Chapter Of Mankind
Up until the late 1950s, Europeans could go and see people from other ethnic backgrounds exhibited in cages, or in specially built villages.
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War Knocked Human Development In Gaza Back To 1955, UNDP Says
The war in Gaza has devastated the Palestinian economy, which is now 35% smaller than it was at the start of Israel's invasion a year ago, while development levels in Gaza itself have collapsed to the level of the 1950s, the UN's development agency s
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Mitzi Gaynor, Star Of Iconic Hollywood Musicals, Dies At 93
Mitzi Gaynor, whose singing and dancing brightened Hollywood musicals throughout the 1950s, including trying unsuccessfully to "wash that man right outa my hair" as nurse Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific," has died at the age of 93.
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Colonialism Turned Tigers To Trophies. How India Relocated Humans To Save Them
British colonialism turned Indias tigers into trophies. Between 1860 and 1950, more than 65,000 were shot for their skins. The fortunes of the Bengal tiger, one of Earths biggest species of big cat, did not markedly improve post-independence.
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6 Dangerous Asteroids On Collision Course With Earth, First One May Hit In October
Asteroid Bennu, discovered in 1999, currently poses the greatest risk of impacting our planet.
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Indigenous Women Fight To Search 1950s CIA-Funded Human Experiments Site
A group of Indigenous women are hoping to stop the bulldozers at a former Montreal hospital which they believe could hold the truth about children still missing from a grisly half-century-old CIA experiment.
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Banana Apocalypse Could Be Averted Thanks to Genetic Breakthrough
A recent breakthrough in genetic research offers new hope for saving the world’s banana supply from fusarium wilt, a devastating disease that threatens the Cavendish variety. This study, detailed in Nature Microbiology, sheds light on how this disease, which previously wiped out the Gros Michel bananas in the 1950s, is now affecting Cavendish ban...
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Climate Change Impact on Wayanad Landslides: Study Reveals Key Findings
The World Weather Attribution (WWA) study revealed that the devastating landslides in Wayanad, which resulted in more than 200 fatalities, were heavily influenced by human-induced climate change. On July 30, Wayanad received 140 mm of rainfall in a single day, marking it as the third heaviest one-day rainfall event in the district's history. The st...
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North Korean Escapes To South, Crosses Maritime Border In Yellow Sea
Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, with most going overland to neighbouring China first, then entering a third country such as Thailand before entering South Korea.
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How A Secretive US Church Forced Women Into Giving Up Babies For Adoption
The church, known as The Truth or the Two by Twos, coerced hundreds of unmarried mothers into giving up their kids -- some without even seeing them -- for adoption between the 1950s and 1990s.
-
In 1950, Ex-Indonesia President Attended 1st Republic Day Parade At This Location
The first Republic Day celebrations were held in the 1930s-era Irwin Amphitheatre in 1950.
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Explained: How India Became A Republic On January 26, 1950
While India became an independent nation on August 15, 1947, it got its Constitution on January 26, 1950.
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"Unreal": Viral Video Of Alaska's 1956 DC-6 Airplane Airbnb Stuns The Internet
Recently, we came across a video on social media showcasing a 1950s plane transformed into a cosy Airbnb, nestled among Alaska's snow-capped mountains.
-
"Vintage Beauty": Viral Video Takes You Inside A 1956 DC-6 Airplane Airbnb in Alaska
Located in Big Lake, Alaska, the aircraft now features a two-bedroom layout, a full kitchen, a living room, and even a cockpit.
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In UK, Manmohan Singh Sometimes Had To Live On Chocolate Bar: Daughter
While studying in Cambridge University on a scholarship in the mid 1950s, money was the only real problem for Manmohan Singh and there were times when he had to skip meals or live on a sixpence bar of Cadbury's chocolate, according to his daughter.
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When Human Zoos Paraded Real People: A Dark Chapter Of Mankind
Up until the late 1950s, Europeans could go and see people from other ethnic backgrounds exhibited in cages, or in specially built villages.
-
War Knocked Human Development In Gaza Back To 1955, UNDP Says
The war in Gaza has devastated the Palestinian economy, which is now 35% smaller than it was at the start of Israel's invasion a year ago, while development levels in Gaza itself have collapsed to the level of the 1950s, the UN's development agency s
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Mitzi Gaynor, Star Of Iconic Hollywood Musicals, Dies At 93
Mitzi Gaynor, whose singing and dancing brightened Hollywood musicals throughout the 1950s, including trying unsuccessfully to "wash that man right outa my hair" as nurse Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific," has died at the age of 93.
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Colonialism Turned Tigers To Trophies. How India Relocated Humans To Save Them
British colonialism turned Indias tigers into trophies. Between 1860 and 1950, more than 65,000 were shot for their skins. The fortunes of the Bengal tiger, one of Earths biggest species of big cat, did not markedly improve post-independence.
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6 Dangerous Asteroids On Collision Course With Earth, First One May Hit In October
Asteroid Bennu, discovered in 1999, currently poses the greatest risk of impacting our planet.
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Indigenous Women Fight To Search 1950s CIA-Funded Human Experiments Site
A group of Indigenous women are hoping to stop the bulldozers at a former Montreal hospital which they believe could hold the truth about children still missing from a grisly half-century-old CIA experiment.
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Banana Apocalypse Could Be Averted Thanks to Genetic Breakthrough
A recent breakthrough in genetic research offers new hope for saving the world’s banana supply from fusarium wilt, a devastating disease that threatens the Cavendish variety. This study, detailed in Nature Microbiology, sheds light on how this disease, which previously wiped out the Gros Michel bananas in the 1950s, is now affecting Cavendish ban...
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Climate Change Impact on Wayanad Landslides: Study Reveals Key Findings
The World Weather Attribution (WWA) study revealed that the devastating landslides in Wayanad, which resulted in more than 200 fatalities, were heavily influenced by human-induced climate change. On July 30, Wayanad received 140 mm of rainfall in a single day, marking it as the third heaviest one-day rainfall event in the district's history. The st...
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North Korean Escapes To South, Crosses Maritime Border In Yellow Sea
Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s, with most going overland to neighbouring China first, then entering a third country such as Thailand before entering South Korea.
