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The Black Death killed about 40% of Egypt's population. [145] In Cairo, with a population numbering as many as 600,000, and possibly the largest city west of China, between one third and 40% of the inhabitants died within eight months. [115] By the 18th century, the population of Cairo was halved from its numbers in 1347. [115]
Her suicide, after suffering months of bullying from school classmates, brought international attention to the problem of bullying in US schools. In March 2010, a state anti-bullying task force was set up as a result of her death. The Massachusetts legislation was signed into law on May 3, 2010. [45]
Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [1] She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in the United States of America in 1977. [ 2 ] Her final appeals and the last three months of her life were chronicled by filmmaker Liz Garbus in the documentary The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002).
Eiza González came to the defense of Jennifer Lopez after the singer announced the cancellation of her first tour in five years. “I have to say the level of bullying that this woman has ...
On February 28, 2013, Smyrnes was sentenced to death. Smyrnes appealed his sentence. In February 2017, a judge upheld his death sentence. [39] His execution was delayed in July 2017. [40] Robert Loren Masters Jr. [19] [37] pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping on December 19 ...
Figures for the death toll vary widely by area and from source to source, and estimates are frequently revised as historical research brings new discoveries to light. Most scholars estimate that the Black Death killed up to 75 million people [5] in the 14th century, at a time when the entire world population was still less than 500 million.
At about 10 p.m. on Oct. 15, a black Chevy Equinox pulled up to a ranch house in the southern New Jersey city of Bridgeton. A group of men in ski masks hopped out and headed for the front door. A ...
Black Doves follows Helen (Knightley) in the days after Jason, (Andrew Koji) the man she has been having an affair with, is murdered. As she tries to unravel the mystery of who ordered Jason’s ...