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The Dutch and English enclaves at Amboyna (top) and Banda-Neira (bottom). 1655 engraving. The Amboyna massacre [1] (also known as the Amboyna trial) [2] was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island (present-day Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia) of twenty-one men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders and a Portuguese man, [3 ...
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Decades later, Oliver Cromwell used embellished versions of this event, dubbed the "Amboyna massacre", as one of the pretexts to start both the First Anglo-Dutch War (in 1652) and the Second Anglo-Dutch War (in 1665), [6] while John Dryden produced his tragedy Amboyna; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants on request of one of ...
Jane Fonda is an icon to many while for others, she remains an enemy of the U.S. The latter take goes back to her protests during Vietnam War, and, more specifically, a photo that she recently ...
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Actor Anthony Mackie, who stars as Captain America in "Captain America: Brave New World," released a statement explaining prior controversial comments about the character after they went viral ...
Long history of stoking controversy Morrow, a nurse who home-schooled her own children, has a well-documented history of making controversial remarks about education and many other topics.