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The village was the site of a farm and manor house belonging to the Mickiewicz family and was the birthplace of Adam Mickiewicz, [3] when, following the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, the area was part of the Russian Empire.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia . For people executed by Louisiana after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
Tsyelyakhany or Telekhany (Belarusian: Целяханы, romanized: Cieliachany; Russian: Телеханы) is an urban-type settlement in Ivatsevichy District, Brest Region, Belarus. [2] It is situated in the historical region of Polesia by the Oginski Canal. [3] As of 2024, it has a population of 3,701. [1]
Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Davyd-Haradok was part of Brest Litovsk Voivodeship. In 1793, Davyd-Haradok was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland . The 18 March 1921 Peace of Riga between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other defined Davyd-Haradok (Dawidgródek) as ...
Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895; aged 64), Russian writer. [652] He was diagnosed with male breast cancer as well as angina pectoris, asthma and other ailments, so it is impossible to know what role the cancer played as the deciding cause of death. Shari Lewis (1933–1998; aged 65), American ventriloquist, puppeteer, entertainer and singer.
Baranavichy (/ b ə ˈ r ɑː n ə v ɪ tʃ i / bə-RAH-nə-vitch-ee; Belarusian: Баранавічы, IPA: [baˈranavʲitʂɨ] ⓘ; Russian: Барановичи, romanized: Baranovichi [bɐˈranəvʲɪtɕɪ]; Yiddish: באַראַנאָוויטש; Polish: Baranowicze) is a city in Brest Region, western Belarus. [2]
"On June 22, 1941, the arrival of the Germans marked the death of 3 children: Kolya Kozlovsky, 3 years old, Moisey, 3 years old, and Ivan, 4 years old, and the wounding of Roman, 6 years old, and Nadezhda, 7 years old. 15 Jewish children aged 2 to 12 were taken from the orphanage and placed in the ghetto, and then 14 of them were shot, and only ...
Brest is the province with the highest birth rate in all of Belarus. As of 2008, the birth rate was 12.0 per 1000 and death rate was 13.4 per 1000. [10] In 2017, 12.4% of live births were to unmarried women (average in Belarus — 18.1%). [11]