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Kelly Gissendaner. Kelly Renée Gissendaner ( née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia. Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997). [1] [2] At the time of the murder ...
(The original U.K. titles were Mrs Harris Goes to New York, Mrs Harris MP, and Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow.) In New York, the French Count re-appears and, again, all but one or two characters reveal hidden hearts. In Parliament, Mrs Harris finds that being nice, kind and hopeful does not always lead to people being nice and kind in return. There ...
The Marburg Files are the main subject and focus of the episode "Vergangenheit" ("Past") of the Netflix television series The Crown, [ 16] which depicts Queen Elizabeth II 's initial review of the documents. The episode's director Philippa Lowthorpe has stated that replicas of genuine files were used during filming. [ 11]
Victory in Europe Day. Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
May 11, 1945 (Friday) USS Bunker Hill hit by two kamikazes. While supporting the Battle of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) was badly damaged by Japanese kamikaze attacks and suffered about 600 casualties. The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei ended in tactical stalemate but a Japanese operational victory.
The children, born between 1932-1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide. Magda Goebbels had an elder son, Harald Quandt, from a previous marriage to Günther Quandt. Harald, then aged 23, was a prisoner of war when his younger half-siblings were killed.
Pompeii is a novel by Robert Harris, published by Random House in 2003. It blends historical fiction with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD, which overwhelmed the town of Pompeii and its vicinity. The novel is notable for its references to various aspects of volcanology and use of the Roman calendar. [citation needed]
1945 is an alternate history novel by Michigan economics professor Robert Conroy, an author of alternate history novels, such as 1901 and 1862. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook form by Ballantine Books in May 2007. [1] [2] In the novel's point of divergence, the Kyūjō coup overthrew Japanese Emperor Hirohito and so World ...