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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 ...
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 2025 crimes in North America by month ... This page was last edited on 1 January 2025, ...
1921 May 31 and Jun 1 Tulsa: Oklahoma: 39–300 ≥ 800 wounded. One of the nation's worst incidents of racial violence. Battle of Blair Mountain: 1921 Aug 25 Logan County: West Virginia: 10–33 Private army and US Troops against union organizers. WWI gas bombs used against union organizers. Herrin massacre: 1922 Jun 21 Herrin: Illinois: 23
In cities with at least 100,000 residents, property crime rates are 36% greater than average. At the same time, though, 27% of these 190 cities — including New York — have crime rates that don ...
2001. For Americans, 2001 ranks among the worst for being the year of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which caused nearly 3,000 fatalities, more than 25,000 injuries, substantial long-term health ...
Throughout its history, the United States has been accused of either directly committing or being complicit in violations of international criminal law known as atrocity crime which includes acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, both within the modern borders of its territory and abroad, as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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 ...