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  2. Galician Americans - Wikipedia

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    Galician and Castilian are the official languages of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. Galician migration to North America took place mainly between 1868 and 1930, [1] although there was a second smaller wave in the late 1940s and 1950s, when Galicians managed to form a small community in Newark. [2]

  3. List of disasters in the United States by death toll - Wikipedia

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    An American United States Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber crashed into the center of the village of Freckleton. It crashed into a school, 3 houses, and a cafe. Sixty-one individuals, including 38 children and two teenagers, were killed. Ten American servicemen were among the fatalities. 61 1946 La Salle Hotel: Fire ...

  4. Galician diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The Galician diaspora is the ethnically Galician population outside of Galicia. The concept does not usually include the ethnic Galicians who live as natives in Spain or the adjacent country of Portugal. Massive emigration of the Galician people occurred during the last three decades of the 19th century until well into the mid-20th century.

  5. Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia - Wikipedia

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    The death toll among civilians murdered during the Volhynia Massacre is still being researched. At least 10% of ethnic Poles in Volhynia were killed by the UPA, according to Ivan Katchanovski , and thus "Polish casualties comprised about 1% of the prewar population of Poles on territories where the UPA was active and 0.2% of the entire ...

  6. Democide - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] This definition covers any murder of any number of persons by any government. [1] [2] Rummel created democide as an extended term to include forms of government murder not covered by genocide. According to Rummel, democide surpassed war as the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th century. [3] [4]

  7. Galicians - Wikipedia

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    Galicians (Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [8] and have their historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [9]

  8. Famines in Austrian Galicia - Wikipedia

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    Famines in Austrian Galicia were a common occurrence, particularly in the mid to late 19th century, as Galicia became heavily overpopulated. Triggered primarily by natural disasters such as floods and blights, famines, compounded by overpopulation, led to starvation, widespread malnutrition, epidemics, poverty, an average of 50,000 deaths a year, and from the 1870s to the beginning of World ...

  9. Parsley massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; [5] Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing" [6]) (French: Massacre du Persil; Spanish: Masacre del Perejil; Haitian Creole: Masak nan Pèsil) was a mass killing of Haitians living in illegal settlements [7] and occupied land in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region in October 1937.