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hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

layer that is closest to the child and which contains the relational features with which the child has direct contact (Paquette an...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

and technological innovation" (Ross, 2006). Europe, after all, was the site of The Enlightenment, that extraordinary flowering of ...

gotten his teaching certificate and then gone on to work for several years in education-at least enough to get noticed and promote...

up Amex and the possibly shady practices of particular companies. He is ridding Amex of companies that are not reliable or compani...

would become a primary target of that vengeance. For the United States to incur a direct attack on its shores was perceived as sa...

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

distinctive patterns, which include "a penchant for the obscure and improbable... accepting arguments pointing toward a conspiracy...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

August 10, 1984, the U.S. mens basketball team was coached by then Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight. It was the las...

He operates his business with an overriding belief that: "whats good for the customer will ultimately turn out to be in the compan...

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

dizzying masterstroke, that picture is also the cover of the book itself. The iconic figures in the book within a book include th...

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

emotions and sympathy for the Columbine victims and families. For example, it is difficult not to agree with Moore that the decisi...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...