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Declaration of war
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Falklands War
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Abyssinian War
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total war
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war game
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holy war
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Secretary of War
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Beaver Wars
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Winter War
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Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller 1923-99, American writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Heller is best known for his first novel, Catch-22 (1961). Set in World War II, it is a darkly humorous commentary on the illogic of war and bureaucracy. The title, which refers to an inescapable double bind, has entered the language.... Read more |
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military history
...military history. The study of war and its effects has a long...his treatise on The Art of War. European theorists came later...began with Julius Caesar's Commentaries nearly 2,000 years ago created...Clausewitz's masterpiece On War. In all cases, ... |
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Kennan, George F.
...architect of America's Cold War strategy.As director of Policy...S. entry into the Korean War, he unsuccessfully opposed...Studies, Kennan also engaged in commentary on foreign policy matters...involvement in the Vietnam War, offered constructively ... |
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Goldwater‐Nichols Act
...military operations since World War II had suffered from conflict...unification since the end of World War II. In general, those who objected...problems in the post–World War II era resulted from lack of political...Washington's Biggest Scandal, Commentary, ... |
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Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh)
...traveler during the Spanish Civil War are reflected in the poem...escaping Europe; and Journey to a War (1939), a sad survey...The Sea and the Mirror, a commentary on The Tempest concerned...1973), a collection of minor commentary. In 1972 Auden returned ... |
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anti-Semitism
...Solution during the Second World War was the culmination of 2,000...in the last years before the war, and they were to rise still...uncommon. At the same time, pre-war Poland had granted far-reaching...Zegota). The most eloquent commentary on Polish ... |
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royal prerogative
...dispensing justice, and declaring war and peace, limited mainly by custom...Blackstone's observation in his Commentaries (1765) that ‘the king has the sole prerogative of making war and peace’, while nominally...ministers remained a tug-of-war throughout the ... |
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Newcomb, Simon
...for science. He underpinned his commentaries with appeals to a positivistic conception...Sciences; Science: Revolutionary War to World War I.Bibliography Albert E. Moyer...American People in Depression and War, 1998. Albert E. Moyer |
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painting
...final destructions in the Civil War, resulted in many examples...got artists through the Civil War with the Restoration seeing...portraiture but in social and moral commentary, like The Rake's Progress...Sutherland gave a deep insight into war, L. S. Lowry ... |
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Eastlake, William
...seizing a European castle in World War II; The Bamboo Bed (1969...love affair during the Vietnam War; Dancers in the Scalp House...of the American Revolutionary War. A Child's Garden of Verses...1970) uses prose and poetry as commentary on contemporary ... |
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Second Amendment
...the amendment before the Civil War, statements by Justice Joseph...prevailing view. Story in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United...The aftermath of the Civil War brought a new dimension to the...states immediately after the war, limited the ... |
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Levi ben Gershom, Ralbag
...eminent Talmudist who wrote a commentary on Berakhot (now lost) and probably a commentary on the thirteen hermeneutical...1800). He wrote several commentaries on Averroesʾ paraphrases and commentaries on Aristotle and on the Bible...Adonai (The Book of the ... |
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Dead Sea scrolls
...disagreement. During the Jewish War of 66–70 CE the sect perished...the Community. Pesher means commentary, so 1QpHab refers to the community's commentary on the OT book Habakkuk and 4QpPs37 to a commentary on Psalm 37. The copper scroll... |
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Tan-luan
...in the middle of composing a massive commentary on the Mahāsaṃnipāta Sūtra (Chin., Ta-chi ching) when...factors: the almost constant state of war that existed in north China at the time...advocated five related practices in his Commentary on [Vasubandhu's] Upadeśa on the... |
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Luther, Martin
...pamphlet advising the princes to wage war against the peasants who had risen in revolt (see PEASANTS' WAR) cost him some popular support, the religious...and Large Catechisms (1529), biblical commentaries, and hymns, many of which are still... |
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Karaites
...biblical exegete and wrote Sefer-Mivhar, the classic Karaite commentary), and the codifier, Aaron b. Elijah the Younger, whose Gan...general subject to the same edicts. During the Second World War, the German government pronounced that the Karaites were not... |
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Redaction Criticism
...Criticism of the NT was developed in Germany after the Second World War and in Britain and North America during and after the 1950s...in the infancy narratives, using the Jewish method of commentary called midrash, regards it as important to show for his community... |
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Rehnquist, William Hubbs
...after distinguishing himself in the air force during World War II. He holds BA, MA, and LLB degrees from Stanford and...Justice. He is a distinguished author of legal histories and commentaries. In this position, he presided over the Court's shift to... |
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Taranis
...has suggested that he may have been sacrificed to either Taranis or Teutates. A 9th-century commentary on Lucan describes Taranis as a ‘master of war’ and links him to Jupiter. But from what we know, Taranis is only an embodiment of the... |
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Eliot, T. S.
...Europe, in 1927 becoming a British citizen. The Waste Land (1922) is usually seen as a commentary on the western civilization which collapsed in the Great War. For others, the religious poetry of Ash‐Wednesday (1930) and Four Quartets... |
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Lambert, (Leonard) Constant
...vers. by him and E. J. Dent, at CG 1946, the first post-war prod. there. Brilliant writer, his book Music, Ho! (1934) being an important and idiosyncratic commentary on contemporary mus. at that date. Witty conversationalist... |
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Commentary: Wars on terror and anarchy historically round up the theorists...
00-00-0000 Commentary: Wars on terror and anarchy historically...Russian drug mafia suspended turf wars with the Ukrainian mafia and with...claimed any real victories in its wars. The war on drugs, for instance, was so lost... |
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Commentary: How wars in ancient Greece compare to wars today
...NPR) 08-25-2004 Commentary: How wars in ancient Greece compare to wars todayHost: STEVE...form of airess was war, described so brutally...any time. For us, war is distant and unreal...had fought in the wars of Athens. They ... |
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Commentary: war against Iraq is brash
Commentary: war against Iraq is brash BEIJING, Feb...newspaper People's Daily said in a commentary. "The United States is preparing for...weapons inspections in Iraq," the commentary said. "This will only arouse more... |
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Commentary: War on terrorism is a modern interpretation of the concept of war
00-00-0000 Commentary: War on terrorism is a modern interpretation of the concept of war Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 10:00-11...Commentator Matt Miller points out the war on terrorism is a modern interpretation... |
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Commentary: War on Iraq is unnecessary at this time
00-00-0000 Commentary: War on Iraq is unnecessary at this...administration has emphasized that the war on terrorism may continue for...this: never fight unnecessary wars. Today, America is not at war with Iraq. Some of my fellow... |
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Commentary: War memorials on the National Mall remind people of troops now on...
00-00-0000 Commentary: War memorials on the National...lined with monuments to past wars. At one end, the black granite...middle, a memorial to World War II veterans is under construction. In between, the Korean War Veterans Memorial marks ... |
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COMMENTARY: WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?(News)
...responses to the following commentary. Read it then let her know...couldn't understand the Iraq war because he hadn't traveled to the war zone "in years." Senator...experience as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam war trumps... |
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COMMENTARY: War! What is it good for? For artists, a lot
...WIRE) MADISON, Wis. -- War is a topic that receives much...who attempt statements against war. Titled "The Disasters of War," the Chapman Brothers' exhibition...as the source of most of their commentary. Phalluses, some expertly rendered... |
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Commentary: War can affect playing of music in quartet
00-00-0000 Commentary: War can affect playing of music in quartet...started to fall in Iraq. During the war, NPR is playing voices like Harrington...might put down in a diary. Here is his war diary entry about playing music during... |
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Commentary: War vs. peace
...CHADWICK NPR Special 05-30-2005 Commentary: War vs. peaceHost: ALEX CHADWICKTime...program now with a poem, "An Ode to War and Peace," written and performed...field of victory, to the prisoner of war camp, to the medevac chopper, the... |
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