During World War II, Japan occupied French Indochina.As well as fighting the French in the battles of Khai Phat and Na Ngan, the Việt Minh started a campaign against the Japanese. As of the end of 1944, the Việt Minh claimed a membership of 500,000, of which 200,000 were in Tonkin, 150,000 in Annam, and 150,000 in Cochinchina. After the Japanese coup d'état in …

John Connor is a fictional character in the Terminator franchise.Created by writer and director James Cameron, the character is first referred to in the 1984 film The Terminator and first appears in its 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day (T2).In the character's first appearance, John is portrayed by Edward Furlong as a child, and briefly by Michael Edwards as an adult in a small …

Attempts to conceptualize something similar to a modern "military–industrial complex" existed before Eisenhower's address. Ledbetter finds the precise term used in 1947 in close to its later meaning in an article in Foreign Affairs by Winfield W. Riefler. In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills had claimed in his book The Power Elite that a class of military, business, and political leaders ...

The Catholic focus on the role of Mary in salvation and redemption continued with Pope John Paul II's 1987 encyclical Redemptoris mater. Mary as the masterwork of God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in paragraphs 721–726, claims that Mary is the first dwelling-place of God in salvation history. As such, she is the masterwork of God and ...

The way Thomas Aquinas viewed sin and vices was radically different from later approaches, especially that of 17th-century moral theology.He presented sin and vices as contraries of virtues.He discusses the subject in his Summa Theologica part Ia–IIae (Prima secundae) qq. 71–89.. In one of his definitions of sin Thomas quotes Augustine of Hippo's description of sin as …

Salvation Army (NSW and QLD) 28 Jan–10 Feb 2014: Sydney: The Salvation Army's response to child sexual abuse at boys’ homes in Indooroopilly, Riverview, Bexley and Goulburn. 6: Toowoomba: 17–24 Feb 2014: Brisbane: The response by the Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Toowoomba, to allegations of child sexual abuse. 7: Parramatta Girls

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone ().A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing …

The IT Army of Ukraine (Ukrainian: IT-армія України) is a volunteer cyberwarfare organisation created at the end of February 2022 to fight against digital intrusion of Ukrainian information and cyberspace after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The group also conducts offensive cyberwarfare operations, and Chief of Head of State Special ...

En Angleterre, en pleine révolution industrielle, William Booth fonde la Mission chrétienne de l'Est de Londres le 2 juillet 1865 [4] pour propager la foi et lutter contre la pauvreté [5].Cette mission devient, le 7 août 1878, l'Armée du salut. À cette époque, les foules ouvrières s'entassent dans les quartiers pauvres d'East End (à l'est de Londres) [6], [7].

Covenanters (Scottish Gaelic: Cùmhnantaich) were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who supported a Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the primacy of its leaders in religious affairs.The name is derived from Covenant, a biblical term for a bond or agreement with God.. The origins of the movement lay in disputes with James VI, and his son …

The Carignan-Salières Regiment was a Piedmont French military unit formed by merging two other regiments in 1659. They were led by the new Governor, Daniel de Rémy de Courcelles, and Lieutenant-General Alexandre de Prouville, Sieur de Tracy.Approximately 1,200 men (Piedmont, Savoyard and Ligurian) arrived in New France in the middle of 1665.

Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation, titled Dragon Warrior III when initially localized to North America, is a 1988 role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix.It is the third installment in the Dragon Quest series and was first released for the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan and later for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America.

Andrei Aleksandrovich Sukhovetsky (Russian: Андрей Александрович Суховецкий; 25 June 1974 – 28 February 2022) was a Russian Airborne Forces major general (one-star rank).He was killed in action during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sukhovetsky's last assignment was as deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army, a Russian Ground Forces command ...

Cologne (English: / k ə ˈ l oʊ n / kə-LOHN; German: Köln (); Kölsch: Kölle ()) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million people in the urban region.Centered on the left (west) bank of the Rhine, Cologne is about 35 km (22 mi) …