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Marcus Cowper on July 01, 2002
Douglas MacArthur was born on 26 January 1880 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the third child of the renowned Civil War general Arthur MacArthur II. He had won renown in the Civil War as the 'boy colonel', winning the ...
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Norman Franks on May 01, 2001
When they are asked about aeroplanes used by the Germans in the First World War, historians and aviation enthusiasts more than likely think of the Fokker DrI Triplane first. This is due to the association of this aircraft with one man, Rittmeister, the Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
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Charles Stephenson on May 01, 2001
The post-war cleavage in the Grand Alliance that had defeated the Axis powers, if it had not been abundantly apparent before, was epitomised by the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948. The blockade was called off in the late September of 1949 at ...
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on March 01, 2001
On the banks of the River Avon, overlooking the town of Warwick lies Warwick Castle, possibly the finest example of a medieval fortification in England. This has been a place of power and influence from before the Norman Conquest up until the final years of the 19th century...
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Martin Brayley on November 01, 2000
The formidable weather encountered in Korea led the British forces into developing a new combat uniform, closely modelled on the US M1943 multi-layered system...
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on July 01, 2000
Measuring just seventeen and a half miles by eight and a quarter, Malta is the largest of three main islands situated in the middle of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily and almost equidistant from Gibraltar to the west and Suez to the east...
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Martin Marix Evans on May 01, 2000
As the French and British stumbled back across the fields of Flanders and the Panzer divisions pushed up from the south, an order was sent from German Army Group A headquarters at Charleville-Mézières to the commanders at the front...
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René Chartrand on March 01, 2000
The regrettable and violent events in East Timor have attracted much attention from the world's media in recent months. However, it is not only news gatherers who have been drawn to this former Portuguese colony...
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Simon Dunstan on March 01, 2000
The bitter and protracted war that precipitated the collapse of the former Republic of Yugoslavia remains an appalling and enduring example of the fragility of many modern societies. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe ...