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  2. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Wikipedia

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    The book was first published in hardcover by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2011. [1] The paperback was published by W. W. Norton in May 2013 under the new title Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History. The British edition (Canongate Books, 20 October 2011) is entitled Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements. It ...

  3. List of genocides - Wikipedia

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    Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...

  4. List of massacres in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mass shooting against African-American shoppers at a Tops Friendly Markets. Suspect said motive was to prevent others from 'eliminating the white race' Robb Elementary School shooting: 2022 May 24 Uvalde: Texas: 22 One of the deadliest school shootings in American history, [48] leaving 19 children and 2 adults dead. The perpetrator was killed ...

  5. Crime in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Property crime rates in the United States per 100,000 population beginning in 1960. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. [needs update]Despite accusations, notably by Republicans and conservative media, of a "crime crisis" of soaring violent crime under Biden, FBI data indicated the violent crime rate had declined significantly during the president's first two years in office, after a spike ...

  6. Book claims these 9 presidents 'screwed up America' - AOL

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    "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America" comes just in time as the country prepares to select the 45th U.S. president. Hopefully whoever's elected doesn't end up being number 10 on McClanahan's ...

  7. United States atrocity crimes - Wikipedia

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    In the case of Korean War is also controversial that the United States committed a genocide [10] or just war crimes, therefore the list is not including: No Gun Ri massacre. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] During the Vietnam War it has been considered that part of the war strategy of the United States in Vietnam was an ecocide .

  8. The 9 Worst Years in History to be Alive - AOL

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    Dubbed "the worst year to be alive" by Harvard historian Michael McCormick, the year 536 saw an inexplicable, dense fog that shrouded much of Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in darkness ...

  9. Book Review: True crime meets history in Sara DiVello's 1920s ...

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    The unsolved murder of the beautiful Dot King captivated New York. In “Broadway Butterfly,” a jazzy true crime historical thriller, author Sara DiVello unearths piles of evidence and presents ...