In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.
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Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Sep. 2026
The final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end.
Not wanting to take up a bed at the Bishop Dudley shelter already overcapacity, Navarrete and Palmer ventured to a grassy area near Drake Springs with other encampments, something the Sioux Falls City Council voted two days later to restrict.
Homeless encampments, piles of trash, vermin, and car break-ins have bedeviled the 4000 block of Babcock Avenue in Studio City since the property was abandoned, said neighbor Clint Ledsworth.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Aug. 2026
Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.
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Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2026
Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.
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