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Three decades after the death of Genghis Khan, his grandson Hulagu launched an assault on Mesopotamia to secure the loyalty of the Abbasid Caliphate to his brother, supreme leader Mongke…
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Originally found as the Young Women’s Christian Association, YWCA doesn’t have this abbreviation any more. Prime reason for this is that YWCA’s staff and people are not all young, women…
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February 10, 1962 – American Gary Powers, is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel
by Vishul MalikOn February 10, 1962, Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of an American spy plane was freed from the Soviet Union in exchange for the Russian spy Colonel Rudolf Abel who…