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One of millions of veterans who fought for your rights to live as a free American, to speak your peace and elect whom you wish.82

Hoovervilles

By Chef Jeff I am a veteran, and a historian. I often have read lots of pages on various subjects and I often formulate my own opinions about things. In this article I do not pretend that I am not biased...

25 comments    politics jobs war
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Financial crisis of America : Root causes

The main reason of American financial problem is bad spending habit, wrong political moves and zero saving ratio.This hub is continued as a third part. A well researched and mind boggling article from the author.....

17 comments    business finance america
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Animals sent to space

Laika - Russian Dog Animal were the first to sent to space before the manned space missions was done. The major reason was that they did not want to risk the human lives. The animal was sent to space to...

1 comment    animals space flight
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A Statue of Communist Dictator Vladimir Lenin Saved From Scrap Heap by an American Capitalist

Over a decade or so ago, not long after the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union, I heard a comment on the radio while driving home from work, about a statute of the former Soviet dictator, Vladimir...

4 comments    travel photos politics
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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...

5 comments    education politics celebrities
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Russia History

The history of Russia is intertwined with the history of Europe.    The people of Russia are largely Slavs from Eastern Europe but the first Russian state was formed by Vikings warriors in the 9th...

54 comments    socialist kiev st petersburg
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Esperanto Activist Killed by Russian Psychiatry

As I wrote in an earlier hub - http://hubpages.com/hub/Dangerous-Language - Esperanto has sometimes been regarded as a dangerous language, and Esperantists as suspect persons, by people from Hitler and...

3 comments    drugs happiness russia
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What If? : Questions in Subjunctive History

What if? All of us (or at least, the most of us) have encountered this question (or theory) sometimes in our lives. Oh yes, we all understand that living in the past has no use, that you cannot drive...

16 comments    education politics books
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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...

1 comment    john wooden usc trojans football
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Genocide: Horror Stories of the 20th Century

Adolf Hitler to his Army commanders, August 22, 1939: "Thus for the time being I have sent to the East only my 'Death's Head Units' with the orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who still talks nowadays about the Armenians?"

11 comments    politics civil war jews
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