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A map of Cambria County showing Hastings, Pennsylvania highlighted on the map. Date: 18 October 2006: Source: Source image taken from the United States Census Bureau's website pa_cosub.pdf. Image was modified by Ram-Man. Author (c)2006 Derek Ramsey (from U.S. Census Bureau source) Permission (Reusing this file)
Hastings is 13 miles (21 km) north of Ebensburg, the Cambria County Seat, 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Altoona, and 31 miles (50 km) northeast of Johnstown. According to the United States Census Bureau , Hastings has a total area of 0.56 square miles (1.44 km 2 ), all land.
Zanzibar Blue was a jazz club located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for its live jazz each night and for Sunday brunch, it branded itself as "Philadelphia's Premier Jazz Club". Owned by brothers Robert and Benjamin Jr. Bynum, the club was located in Center City, Philadelphia below the Bellevue on the Avenue of the Arts. Zanzibar Blue ...
The death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini on 25 August 1896 and the succession of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash, whom the British did not approve of, led to the Anglo-Zanzibar War. On the morning of 27 August 1896, ships of the Royal Navy destroyed the Beit al Hukum Palace. A cease-fire was declared 38 minutes later, and to this day ...
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Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash Al-Busa'id (Arabic: خالد بن برغش البوسعيد; 1874–19 March 1927) was the sixth Sultan of Zanzibar. The last sovereign Sultan of Zanzibar, he reigned for roughly three days, after which he was deposed by the United Kingdom in the 38-minute Anglo-Zanzibar War.
Scott was tortured for 3.5 hours and then burned alive by an angry mob on Sunday December 2, 1917. [364] 15 Mexican Americans: 15–50: Latino: Porvenir: Presidio: Texas: 1918: Accused of stealing and ambushing Texas Rangers
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history. [ 3 ]