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World War 2 Weapons

The Second World War was a worldwide military conflict, now noted as the most widespread war in history. With more than 100 million military personnel becoming involved through various countries. There were two main sides to the war- the Allies (Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom) and the Axis (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan).

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Plain Spoken:  Harry S. Truman76

The Legacy of Harry Truman

Presidential history differs from the other disciplines of history in that from the moment a president takes office his legacy and background are under scrutiny. As soon as a president first walks through the...

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The Best Sports Teams of all Time

In July 2009, Sporting News Magazine took a bold step to name former UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden as the greatest American athletics coach of all time. To those of us who grew up listening to Dick Enberg...

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Kseniya Simonova, sandpainting performance,

Kseniya Simonova is an artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills.She is bringing the power of —...

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This map shows how the USA and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies formed opposing blocs of power during the Cold War. Europe was split between the communist allies of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the non-communist allies. 79

The Cold War - an overview

The Cold War is the name given to the period from 1945 to 1990 when a high level distrust existed between the USA and the USSR. A conflict of opposing ideologies - capitalism and communism. The Cold War was...

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Russian Actress - Natalia Sokolova

Beautiful Russian Actress Natalia Sokolova. She is Part of the Baywatch Babes and a Play boy Playmate, she has successfully taken on the role of a blonde beauty. Keep up the good work. Put it this way, she needs a fireman as an escort in order to simmer her...

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My copy of the Kite Runner.83

The Kite Runner: A Book Review And An Overview Of Afghanistan

So have you read the book the Kite Runner that everyone is talking about?The Kite Runner is the sad, but uplifting first novel written by Khaled Hosseni. Today we only hear about the horrors of war in...

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Simple facts about the Cold War

The causes Ideology Both countries at the time were strong and powerful superpower nations that influenced the world in a way, but also both governments thought that their political ideologies were...

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UKRAINIAN Girls

Ukraine has an extensive Slavic history, which extends back to 4500 BCE. Ukraine flowered in the 10th century, when it was at the nexus of a very powerful empire, the Kievan Rus, that had an influential reach...

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US History: COLD WAR INTRIGUE 1950 - 1960

The Cold War began as World War II ended and continued unti the fall of the Berlin Wall in1989 and the collapse of the USSR, around 1990 - 1991. The Cold War involved spies and counterspies, new technology...

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