The force responsible for quelling the uprising was supported by four World War I-vintage Skoda howitzers.
The
uprising in eastern Herzegovina on 23 June 1941 was a
Serb rebellion against the authorities of the
Independent State of Croatia (NDH), an
Axispuppet state established during
World War II on the territory of the defeated
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As the NDH imposed its authority, members of the fascist
Ustaše ruling party had begun a campaign of persecution against Serbs throughout the country. In eastern
Herzegovina, the Ustaše perpetrated a series of massacres and attacks against the majority Serb population commencing in the first week of June, igniting a series of spontaneous clashes between the NDH authorities and groups of Serbs. On 23 June, the day after the start of the
German invasion of the Soviet Union, sporadic revolts erupted into mass rebellion, triggered by Ustaše persecution, Serb solidarity with the Russian people, hatred and fear of the NDH authorities, and other factors. The Italians intervened after several setbacks for the NDH forces, who regained full control of all towns and transport routes by 7 July. (
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Art Nouveau Liberty Style, also published 42 scientific papers describing 377 new taxa of
Hymenoptera?
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1858 – Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by
papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic, sparking an international controversy.
There are 24 municipalities in the Northwest Territories, the
most populous of Canada's
three territories with 41,786 residents as of
2016 and the
second-largest territory in land area at 1,143,794 km2 (441,621 sq mi). The
Northwest Territories' municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass but are home to 95.8% of its population. According to the Cities, Towns and Villages Act, the Hamlets Act and the Charter Communities Act, all of which were enacted in 2003, a municipality is an area within a
city,
town,
village,
hamlet or charter community that was established or continued by a legislative order.
Yellowknife(pictured) is the capital of the Northwest Territories and its only city, while
Fort Simpson is its only village. Of the remaining 22 municipalities, three of them are charter communities, four are community governments of the
Tlicho people, eleven are hamlets and four are towns. Nearly half of the population of the Northwest Territories (46.8%) resides in Yellowknife, the largest municipality in the territory at 19,569 residents. (Full list...)
A wild male jaguar (Panthera onca) near the
Rio Negro in the
Pantanal, Brazil.
Jaguars from the Pantanal are the largest of their species, about 2.7 m (8.9 ft) long, with an average weight of about 100 kg (220 lb), and some weighing more than 135 kg (298 lb). A red jaguar was a mascot of the
1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and during the
2016 Summer Olympics, a jaguar in the national colors of green and yellow was the Brazil team's mascot.
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