The House of Burgesses<span> was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.</span>
After a 36-year rule, Franco died in 1975. He restored the monarchy before his death, which made King Juan Carlos I his successor, who led the Spanish transition to democracy. After a referendum, a new constitution was adopted, which effectively created a democratic regime in Spain.
Read this excerpt from a summary of events in Srebrenica. "Zina Hasanovic is one of the lucky ones - she knows what happened to her husband, Haris. As Serbian bullets raced through a group of tightly-packed Muslim prisoners, Haris, mortally wounded, fell on top of his first cousin and best friend, Mevludin Oric. Mevludin lay on the ground, covered in blood and for hours pretended to be dead. He managed to escape to tell Zina of her husband's fate. Why is Zina Hasanovic referred to as "one of the lucky ones"?
most people never learned the fate of their loved ones
The colony of New<span> Netherland was established by the </span>Dutch<span> West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day </span>New<span> York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut, and </span>New<span> Jersey. A successful </span>Dutch<span> settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened </span>New Amsterdam<span>.</span>
