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  • In 27 months of combat action in World War II, Murphy became the most ... popular To Hell and Back (1955), based on his memoir of the same name ...
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  • City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was the unsuccessful ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...
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  • a heavier-than-air craft in which movement of the wings is not used to generate ... Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers ...
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  • great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...
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  • The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking ... During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous ...
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  • The tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin, also known as the Forty-Seven Samurai ... most famous case involving the samurai code of honor, Bushidō. ...
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  • de las Malvinas) was an effective state of war in 1982 between Argentina ... Endurance was dispatched to remove the camp on March 25, but was prevented ...
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  • at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability ... Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of ...
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  • Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was one of the ... to retreat to Taiwan (The Republic of China) where he continued serving ...
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  • Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...
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  • On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces ... in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims ...
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  • celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...
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  • island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ... Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands ...
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  • operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...
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  • when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632 ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...
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  • Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...
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  • laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...
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  • Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...
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  • Flying Crosses and eighteen clusters on his Air Medal. Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in ...
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  • The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...
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