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The Holodomor, [a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine, [8] [9] [b] was a mass famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
Red Dwarf ' s design from Series X (2012) and onwards. The main setting of the series is the eponymous mining spaceship Red Dwarf. [9] In the first episode, set sometime in the late 21st century, [a] an on-board radiation leak kills everyone except lowest-ranking technician Dave Lister, who is in suspended animation at the time, as punishment for smuggling a cat aboard the ship.
On June 3, 2013, Titan TV Broadcast Group sold four stations, along with operating agreements for two stations, to Sinclair. [56] Prior to the deal, a seventh station, KDBC-TV in El Paso, Texas , to Cunningham, [ 57 ] fueling speculation KDBC-TV would be consolidated with Sinclair-owned KFOX-TV . [ 58 ]
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [9]
The Greek painter Apelles of Kos, a contemporary of Praxiteles, produced the panel painting Aphrodite Anadyomene (Aphrodite Rising from the Sea). [265] According to Athenaeus , Apelles was inspired to paint the painting after watching the courtesan Phryne take off her clothes, untie her hair, and bathe naked in the sea at Eleusis . [ 265 ]
Torchwood is a British-American science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies.A spin-off of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who, it aired from 2006 to 2011.The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from BBC Three to BBC Two to BBC One, and acquiring American financing in its fourth series when it became a co-production of BBC One ...
A Vietnamese script called chữ Nôm used modified chữ Hán to express the Vietnamese language. Both chữ Hán and chữ Nôm were used up until the early 20th century. Rapa Nui is an Austronesian language like those of Indonesian, Tagalog, and many other Southeast Asian languages.