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The Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers took place on September 7, 1885, in Squak Valley (now called Issaquah), Washington Territory, when a group of men fired their guns into several tents where a group of Chinese hop pickers were sleeping. The gunfire resulted in the death of three Chinese men and the wounding of three others.
Mitchella repens (commonly partridge berry or squaw vine) is the best known plant in the genus Mitchella. It is a creeping prostrate herbaceous woody shrub occurring in North America belonging to the madder family ( Rubiaceae ).
Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. [1] The United States Department of Defense , for example, says that those declared KIA did not need to have fired their weapons, but only to have been killed ...
Three men were killed in Houston, 3 at Port Arthur, 1 at Beaumont, 3 at Lake Charles, La., 2 at New Orleans, and 2 at Mobile. [129] At least two of the reported 14 people killed were strikers: ILA member Etienne Christ shot to death in Port Arthur, Texas, on 10/21, [130] and striker Samuel L. Brandt shot to death in Houston on 11/25. [131]
The federal government has removed a word long used to slur Native American women from use on federal lands including 80 sites in California, U.S. Department of Interior officials announced Thursday.
A man in Jacksonville accused of impregnating and then killing his teenage niece has been found guilty of first-degree murder.. In addition, Johnathan Quiles, 38, was found guilty of sexual ...
The Tiananmen Mothers, a victims' advocacy group co-founded by Ding Zilin and Zhang Xianling, whose children were killed by the government during the crackdown, have identified 202 victims as of August 2011. In the face of government interference, the group has worked painstakingly to locate victims' families and collect information about the ...
Thirty people were killed by avalanches in the 2022-2023 winter season, while 17 were killed the previous season. It was the first day this ski season that the resort’s popular K-22 chairlift ...