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Imperial, territorial, and economic rivalries led to the “Great War” between the Central Powers and the Allies. About 10 million combatants killed, 20 million wounded. These are key dates in the…Cold War on the Courts
U.S. and Russian basketball teams play the most controversial game in Olympic history by Gerry Brown Russian Aleksander Belov scores the controversial winning basket in 1972. (Source: AP)…War Without Congress
Presidents have been going to war without Congress for years Andrew JacksonThe Celtic Twilight: War
by W. B. Yeats A Remonstrance with Scotsmen f...The Queen and the FoolWar When there was a rumour of war with France a while ago, I met a poor Sligo woman, a soldier's widow, that I know…Elián and the Cold War
Elián González, a young Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast in Nov. 1999, became the subject of an international dispute between the U.S. and Cuba. The boy's…Strike Against War
by Helen Keller To begin with, I have a word to say to my good friends, the editors, and others who are moved to pity me. Some people are grieved because they imagine I am in the hands…The Devil's Dictionary: War
by Ambrose Bierce WALL STREETWASHINGTONIANWAR -n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who…Brewer's: Sacred War
(1) A war undertaken by the Amphictyonic League against the Cirrhaeans, in defence of Delphi. (B.C. 594-587.) (2) A war waged by the Athenians for the restoration of Delphi to the Phocians…Brewer's: Trojan War
(The). The siege of Troy by the Greeks. After a siege of ten years the city was taken and burnt to the ground. The last year of the siege is the subject of Homer's Iliad; the burning of…Brewer's: Tug of War
(The), a rural sport, in which a number of men or boys, divided into two bands, lay hold of a strong rope and pull against each other till one side has tugged the other over the dividing…Trending
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