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(Encyclopedia) TighinaTighinatĭgēˈnə [key], formerly BenderTighinabĕnˈdûr [key] or BenderyTighinabĭndyĕˈrē [key], city (1996 est. pop. 137,423), E Moldova, a port on the Dniester River. It is a rail…A Meditation in Time of War
A Meditation in Time of WarFor one throb of the Artery, While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate Mankind inanimate fantasy.Vietnam War Timeline
U.S., South Vietnam, and Allies versus North Vietnam and National Liberation Front (Viet Cong).1950President Truman sends 35-man military advisory group to aid French fighting to maintain…World War I Timeline
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…Trending
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