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He said he expected a summit "in the near future." Sarkozy has called for an overhaul of the international financial architecture established just after World War Two at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, and said on Saturday the summit could be held in New York before the end of November. "Why must we make haste?" Sarkozy said. (India Times, India)
EU to urge reform as Asia joins bailout Oct 15, 2008
The ructions of recent weeks have exposed glaring shortcomings in international financial structures developed after World War Two ... French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Brown say post-World War Two financial architecture is no longer adequate. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Wisden commemorate Bradman phenomenon Oct 14, 2008
" After World War Two, Bradman returned to England as an elder statesman to lead the unbeaten 1948 Australian side. His final test innings, when he was bowled for no score needing only four runs for an overall average of 100, is part of cricket folklore. "As one of the writers points out in one of the essays in the book, the fact that he didn't get a test average of 100 actually makes the average more romantic, more memorable as well," said Wright. "I think if he had got to a 100 people might... (International Herald Tribune)
Clintons campaigning for Obama... Oct 13, 2008
"I think it is safe to say we have not seen more troubles at one time since World War Two," Clinton told a rally in Little Rock, Ark. Friday. (The Drudge Report)
Veteran sportscaster-actor Gil Stratton dead at 86 Oct 13, 2008
Arriving in Hollywood in 1943, he landed work in radio and appeared with Mickey Rooney in the film "Girl Crazy," but his show business career was interrupted by a World War Two stint as a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He later returned to films, playing the stuttering narrator "Cookie" Cook in Billy Wilder's 1953 war movie "Stalag 17," which starred William Holden, and appearing as an outlaw motorcyclist beside Marlon Brando in "The Wild One.". (Yahoo News)
Clintons launch campaign swing for Obama Oct 12, 2008
"I think it is safe to say we have not seen more troubles at one time since World War Two,'' Clinton told a rally in Little Rock, Ark., Friday. "Probably no president will inherit more challenges that President Obama will, since Harry Truman had to take over from Franklin Roosevelt. . (The Star Online, Malaysia)
A minor offence Oct 8, 2008
I mean prisoner of war camps and World War Two was no laughing matter but they still made Hogan s Heroes. Wed 08 Oct 08 (12:33pm) Hunter gatherer replied to Fenimore Cooper Wed 08 Oct 08 (02:16pm). (NEWS.com.au)
Hang out in Hawaii! Oct 8, 2008
Passing the occasional World War Two bunker, youll end up at the peak for the finest views on the island of Oahu and some beautiful photographs. Learn to 'hang 10' Hawaii's Waikiki Beach is one of the best known beaches in the world, with wide, white sands framed by the volcanic cone of Diamond Head in the background. (iAfrica.com)
Australia Fights Climate Change Threat to Rivers Oct 6, 2008
Water in the past came from the massive Snowy Mountains Scheme, a chain of alpine dams and underground pipes built after World War Two to hold and divert snow-melt from east to the western Murray-Darling. But irrigation is now threatened by what scientists say is the "accelerated climate change" already occurring in Australia and bringing more frequent storms, droughts and estimated average temperature rises of between 1. (Planet Ark, United States)
Dr Fredrick Toben's arrest should alarm us all Oct 5, 2008
The World War Two allies remain in power and Germany, who had its wings clipped, remains its willing accomplice. In the past Luther and Galileo were punished for 'Heresy. (Telegraph.co.uk)
The life of the WW2 'Great Escaper' Oct 4, 2008
The World War Two tunnel digger John Fancy, whose actions inspired the film the Great Escape, has died aged 95. Warrant officer Fancy helped dozens of his fellow inmates escape from prisoner-of-war camps in Poland, Lithuania and Germany. (BBC News)
LETTER: 'Obama will solve all our problems'; that's a laugh Oct 3, 2008
His grandfather, who was a world war two veteran, taught him, and they recited it often as a family. He has led the pledge many times in the senate. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
'Angry' voters aid Austrian right Oct 3, 2008
Apart from a series of coalitions between the conservatives and the far right between 2000 and 2006, the Social Democrats and the People's Party have run Austria since World War Two. But their last grand coalition was paralysed by internal fights and personal feuds. (BBC News -- Europe)
Jerusalem concert features violins saved from Nazis Sep 24, 2008
"The German officers heard him play in the streets one day and later brought him to perform every night in their compound in town," said Sefi Hanegbi, whose father played alongside Motele in a partisan camp in a forest during World War Two. After each performance, Motele hid his violin in the building and walked out with an empty case. (Yahoo News)
VC: Bailouts Are Communist Sep 24, 2008
The ad in the form of a cartoon -1 shows the trio planting a flag in the style of the Iwo Jima Memorial near Washington, a tribute to U.S. soldiers during World War Two. But the flag wielded by Bush, Bernanke and Paulson bears the hammer and sickle communist symbol, emblazoned with the words "big insurance," "Detroit auto" and "Wall St banks.". (Newsmax)
Great Park Night Flights Season Finale Features Pete Jacobs and His Wartime Radio Revue and Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile Sep 23, 2008
Interspersing the hits of the 30's and 40's, along with late-breaking news-stories from the war-years, as well as several original songs, and even some 1940-style radio commercials, listening to Pete Jacobs and His Wartime Radio Review, is like taking a time-machine back to a World War Two U.S.O. show. Their sound is both full and authentic with three young female vocalists, a hot driving rhythm section and an eight-piece horn section. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Wax Hitler returns to museum after beheading Sep 15, 2008
Critics argued it was tasteless to display the replica of the man who unleashed World War Two and ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews. Madame Tussauds said the museum avoided politics. (MSNBC -- International)
Many stayed behind on Texas coast... Sep 14, 2008
GALVESTON, Texas, Sept 13 (Reuters) - John Benge, who lives down the street from the Galveston seawall, has ridden out every major storm to hit the Texas city since 1929, except for one during World War Two, when he was in Scotland with the U.S. army. Hurricane Ike was no exception for the 91-year-old, who spent Friday night alone in his six-room frame house as Ike roared ashore in the barrier island city with 110 mph (175 kph) winds, crashing waves and pounding rain. (The Drudge Report)
Driver beware: Buckle up on these scary roads Sep 13, 2008
The Stilwell Road, India and MyanmarLocation: Jungle route from Ledo, India into MyanmarBuilt during World War Two at the cost of thousands of lives, the Stilwell Road (aka The Ledo Road) climbs mountain passes, snakes through the jungle, and crosses more than 100 rivers and streams in its 1,079-mile length. Constructed as a supply route by Western Allies, the road today is returning to jungle, little used and inaccessible for much of its length in Myanmar. (MSNBC -- Travel)
'Frannie' bailout heavy with irony Sep 9, 2008 Extreme and risky action the only way to tackle global warming ... Sep 1, 2008 Europeans Back Tough Car Emission Targets - Poll Aug 29, 2008 Russia's Medvedev looks east for support on Georgia Aug 28, 2008 The Last Cavalry Charges Aug 27, 2008 Russia 'Not Afraid' of a New Cold War Aug 27, 2008 Bosnia court indicts Serb ex-policeman for genocide Aug 26, 2008 Tunnels show Hitler's megalomaniac vision Aug 26, 2008 Paul Keating's full speech Aug 25, 2008 Tributes to Leo Abse courageous and principled Aug 21, 2008 New judges assigned to Karadzic trial Aug 21, 2008 Russia promises to "crush" future aggressors Aug 18, 2008 China loses main chance for track glory Aug 18, 2008 Got 48 hours? How to spend it in the Windy City Aug 16, 2008 Busiek's Marvels and the Modern Age Aug 15, 2008 In photos: 'Japan World War Two Anniversary' Aug 15, 2008 Sapporo summer Aug 15, 2008 Falls Church Man Recalls Service in OSS Aug 15, 2008 Russia's War of Opportunity Aug 14, 2008 Japanese economy shrinks Aug 13, 2008 Canton obituaries Aug 12, 2008 The gold rush begins Aug 9, 2008 Japan remembers Nagasaki atomic bomb victims Aug 9, 2008 Nagasaki remembers bomb Aug 9, 2008 Bin Laden's Driver Gets 5 Years Aug 8, 2008 Secrets of storytelling Aug 6, 2008 Russia buries Solzhenitsyn in Moscow monastery Aug 6, 2008 Alabama Cattle Farmer Goes 'Green' Aug 5, 2008 US Submarine Radiation Leak Raises Concern in Japan Aug 4, 2008 Soviet writer Solzhenitsyn dies Aug 4, 2008 MP celebrates potential funding boom for rural infrastructure projects Aug 3, 2008 Green revolution in China Aug 3, 2008 "You don't understand al Qaeda," 9/11 plotter says Aug 2, 2008 More Gloom and Doom for Industrialized World Aug 1, 2008 Finnish War Hero Lauri Allan Trni Jul 31, 2008 US Special Forces Legend Larry Thor... Jul 31, 2008 Eclipse revives homemade telescopes Jul 31, 2008 Climate Change Could Hit Lebanon's Dwindling Cedars Jul 31, 2008 Scrabulous gone from Facebook Jul 31, 2008 New U.S. president will help dollar: Investors Jul 31, 2008 7 jailed over Srebrenica massacre Jul 30, 2008 Georgia's Lab Apes Languish in Post-Soviet Limbo Jul 30, 2008 Karadzic arrives in the Hague to face trial Jul 30, 2008 French fries helped calm bin Laden driver: witnesses Jul 26, 2008 Club row overshadows Brazil's trophy bid Jul 25, 2008 Russia opens trial of skinhead gang for 20 murders... Jul 25, 2008 Bin Laden driver knew Sept 11 target-prosecutor Jul 23, 2008 One of world's most wanted men Jul 22, 2008 Did Bruce help bring down the Berlin Wall? Jul 16, 2008 Police ban Srebrenica women from massacre site Jul 16, 2008 New top soldier visits troops in Afghanistan Jul 14, 2008 Boomers Gloomiest In New Study Jul 13, 2008 Pioneering heart surgeon DeBakey dies at age 99 Jul 13, 2008 Just minutes after museum opened... Jul 6, 2008 Man rips head from Hitler wax figure Jul 6, 2008 Finn wins battle for maiden pole with Webber Jul 6, 2008 Row over sale of Nazi memorabilia from unit which murdered British ... Jul 4, 2008 The Obama Recession? Jul 3, 2008 Baron Cohen to play Holmes Jul 2, 2008 Remembering Sam Bahadur Jun 30, 2008 Hamilton eclipses other British F1 winners Jun 30, 2008 Borneo to be wild Jun 30, 2008 Meet the Brentons, a military family Jun 27, 2008 Bob Ellis: We will handle the problems Jun 26, 2008 World in a web Jun 25, 2008
Here is Team Dubya and the Republicans, the ultimate proponents of free-market capitalism, pulling off the biggest nationalisation since World War Two. The laissez-fair brigade which usually beys about the evils of big government is strangely silent as the taxpayer rides to the rescue of the banking system. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
WWII artillery shell found in southside home Sep 7, 2008
The discovery of a World War two artillery shell at a Tucson home this morning. Officers responded to a burglary call at the home, in the 4,00 block of east Dover Stravenue, near Drexel and Alvernon. (KOLD.com, AZ)
"At the moment it's almost like talking about how we could stop world war two with an atomic bomb, but we haven't done the research to develop nuclear fission.". Such geo-engineering options have been talked about for years as a possible last-ditch attempt to control global temperatures, if efforts to constrain emissions fail. (guardian.co.uk)
5 litres of petrol per 100 km when produced just after World War Two. The 2008 Beetle Luna consumes a similar amount of fuel. (Planet Ark, United States)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stands in front of a canon at a World War Two memorial in Kursk August 18, 2008. Medvedev looked east on Thursday for support for Moscow's tough line over Georgia, which has inflamed relations with the West and prompted talk of a new Cold War. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
World War Two Saw the Final Hurrah of Horse Mounted Cavalry ... A few die hard regiments survived this transition and entered World War Two where they gave their last full measure and rode off into history ... The Polish Cavalry of World War Two fought the Germans hard and fast in historically controversial charges in 1939. (Suite101.com)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) stands in front of a tank at a World War Two memorial in Kursk. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) stands in front of a tank at a World War Two memorial in Kursk August 18, 2008. (ABC News)
The ICTY indicted Mladic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic over the Srebrenica massacre, seen as Europe's worst atrocity since the World War Two. Karadzic was arrested in July after 11 years on the run while Mladic remains at large. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
The overground plans, never completed because of World War Two, included boulevards, squares and huge buildings, such as an arch dwarfing the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the 290-metre high Great Hall, with room for 180,000 people ... Although most were destroyed, some of the maze of 1,000 World War Two bunkers are intact and serve as a reminder of the city's violent history. (Yahoo News)
Instead President Clinton and President George W Bush left us with the template of 1947; the template cut by the victorious powers of World War Two, the one where Germany and Japan were left on the outside, and still are sixty years later, and in which China and India are tolerated and palely humoured. Sixteen critical years have already been lost. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Born in Cardiff, where his father Rudolf was a solicitor and cinema owner, Leo Abse studied at Howard Gardens High School and the London School of Economics, before serving in the RAF during World War Two. In 1951 he set up his own law practice in the Welsh capital, and the firm, now known and Leo Abse and Cohen, is one of Wales largest. (WalesOnline)
Karadzic is before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to face two charges of genocide over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two. (Reporting by Reed Stevenson, editing by Tim Pearce). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
"If anyone thinks that they can kill our citizens and escape unpunished, we will never allow this," Medvedev told World War Two veterans in the Russian city of Kursk. "If anyone tries this again, we will come out with a crushing response.". (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Since World War Two, only the United States and the Soviet Union have topped final Games medals tables. But in the last Games in Athens, China came second, taking 32 golds to America's 36. (International Herald Tribune)
10:15 p.m. Watch a spectacular fireworks display from the patio of Riva restaurant on Navy Pier, a cultural center originally built as a municipal wharf and used for naval training in World War Two. SUNDAY. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Wonder and excitement were abroad in the Golden Age, and World War Two added to it. People everywhere, including Sheldon, embrace heroes, up until Seduction of the Innocent appears. (Suite101.com)
In photos: 'Japan World War Two Anniversary ... In photos: 'Japan World War Two Anniversary ... Men wearing costume of the Imperial leave Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 15 August, 2008, marking the 63rd anniversary of the end of World War Two, after they offer a prayer for victims of the war. (Monsters and Critics.com)
After World War Two Japan's American occupiers introduced Daylight Saving Time, but it was dropped in 1952. Some here would like to see a return to that system. (BBC News -- Business)
(WUSA) -- When the National Archives revealed some nearly 70-year-old secrets Friday, naming famous Americans who served as spies in the World War Two era intelligence agency known as the Office of Strategic Services, Falls Church resident Walter Mess was on the list with celebrities such as TV chef Julia Child, singer Josephine Baker, and Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. Mess, who gained acclaim as Northern Virginia's longest -serving public official when he retired from the... (W-USA News, DC)
On September 18, 1938, Czech frontier posts were attacked by the German-Sudeten freikorps , according to Robert Goralski s indispensable World War Two Almanac. Four days later, while Chamberlain met with Hitler in Munich, the freikorps crossed the border into Czechoslovakia. (Human Events Online)
Consumers and companies cut spending as they struggle with steep rises in costs, while spreading damage from the U.S. slowdown hurt exports to emerging nations possibly marking the end of Japan's longest expansion since World War Two. The 0. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
He served in the Pacific during World War Two in the Army. Mr. Loughnane leaves a daughter and her husband, Mary and Paul MacNeil of Macon, Ga. (Canton Journal, MA)
He was killed in World War Two. Long lost gold but won the respect of one of the greatest Olympic champions. (India Times)
On August 15, Japan surrendered, bringing World War Two to an end. Fukuda said Japan had to fulfill its responsible role as a nation of peace. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
The dropping of the two bombs by the US was followed by Japan's surrender in World War Two on 15 August. However, it ushered in the nuclear age and an era of fear of the use of atomic bombs again. (iAfrica.com)
Osama Bin Laden's former driver, who was convicted in the first war crimes tribunal since World War Two, may be free by early next year. Wyatt Andrews reports. (CBS News)
The American author whose most famous novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" is a fictional account of his experience as a POW in the German city of Dresden when it was firebombed by the Allies in World War Two once set out a list of rules on how to write a short story. His first piece of advice is sacrosanct and one by which all stories live or die. (CNN -- International)
For more than 20 years, Solzhenitsyn, a bearded World War Two veteran who spent eight years in labour camps for criticising the Soviet government, became a symbol of intellectual resistance to Communist rule. Solzhenitsyn attracted international attention after the publication in 1962 of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", which chronicled the life of a labour camp prisoner. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
"The actual gasifier was used in World War Two," said Keith. Wayne Keith has modified an old creation, a 'gasifier' to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide to power his pick up. (WSJA.com, AL)
The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki came under nuclear attack from the United States at the end of World War Two in August 1945. DRY DOCK. (Planet Ark, United States)
For more than 20 years, the bearded World War Two veteran, who spent eight years in Stalin's camps for criticising the Soviet dictator, became a symbol of intellectual resistance to the Communist rule. His monumental work The Gulag Archipelago , written in secrecy in the Soviet Union and published in Paris in three volumes between 1973 and 1978, is the definitive work on Stalin's forced labour camps, where tens of millions perished. (India Times, India)
"I appreciate the importance of investing in infrastructure," stated Flaherty, "that s why we are making the largest single federal investment in public infrastructure since World War Two, and that s why we made federal gas tax funding permanent.". Through the Building Canada Fund, the federal government will provide $3. (Vision)
Much as Japan, rebuilding from scratch after World War Two, led the industrial boom in the global economy, so leading developing countries like China and India are looking to lead the world into the low carbon age. "The thinking in China is that there is no doubt that 00004000 in 20 or 30 years time China will be a world leader," Wu said. (India Times, India)
The jury of six military officers is scheduled to begin deliberating their verdict after the lawyers give closing arguments on Monday in the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War Two. Hamdan acknowledges he drove for bin Laden in Afghanistan for 200 a month but denies joining al Qaeda or participating in its attacks. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
In Japan, manufacturing industry activity shrank for a fifth month, according to another survey report which can only compound the growing belief that the longest expansion since World War Two is coming to an abrupt end there. "All mired in stagnation. All teetering towards the brink of recession," Holger Schmieding, an economist in London for Bank of America, said of the trend across the industrialized world. (ABC News -- Wire)
The young Lauri Allan Trni served as legendary commander of ski-borne, machinegun toting Jaeger troops in the Finnish Winter War as well as World War Two ... Torni, unable to bring himself to surrender, joined the regular German army and continued to fight the Soviets for another nine months until the end of World War Two. (Suite101.com)
Not wanting to stop fighting when his country surrendered he joined the Nazi German army and continued his war with the Soviets until the end of World War Two in 1945. He was decorated with both the highest German and Finnish Awards and had attained the rank of Captain in both armies. (Suite101.com)
World War Two veteran and astronomy enthusiast Mikhail Levchenko built this telescope and observatory from scratch in the 1970s, working far from the grand research centers that were once at the heart of the Soviet space race with the West. Now, the neighbors and locals he mesmerized with his creation want to bring it back to life, and they hope a total solar eclipse on August 1 will inspire enthusiasts elsewhere to support them. (Scientific American)
British troops used cedar wood to build the Tripoli-Haifa railway in World War Two. Now cedars cover only 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) in Lebanon, clinging on in just a dozen high-altitude redoubts. (Planet Ark, United States)
Once the pride of Soviet science, Sukhumi's Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy is now a shadow of the pioneering center that helped defeat polio and saved countless thousands of lives in World War Two with penicillin treatments. Multimedia. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Mr. Nixon closed the so-called gold window on Aug. 15, 1971, effectively ending the dollar's ties to gold prices and the system of fixed exchange rates in place since World War Two. From that point to his resignation on Aug. 8, 1974, the dollar fell 13. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Europes worst atrocity since WWIIKaradzic and Mladic have been indicted for the massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, and over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo. Mladic is still at large and believed to be hiding in Serbia. (MSNBC -- International)
Once the pride of Soviet science, Sukhumi's Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy is now a shadow of the pioneering centre that helped defeat polio and saved countless thousands of lives in World War Two with penicillin treatments ... Under the auspices of the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences, Zinaida Yermolyeva came during World War Two to test the first Soviet penicillin on monkeys. (Planet Ark, United States)
Karadzic faces two charges of genocide for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two. Arrested last week after 11 years on the run, Karadzic was most recently living under an assumed name as a bearded, long-haired alternative healer. (AlertNet)
He is facing charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two. Prosecutors are relying largely on Hamdan's statements during interrogations in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay during more than six years of captivity in an attempt to show he was an active, important supporter of bin Laden and al Qaeda. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Until 1980, the Olympic tournament was officially amateur but, in the period after World War Two, eastern European countries fielded their strongest national teams. The tournament is nowadays taken seriously in Africa and Latin America. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Local anti-fascist campaigners have repeatedly urged the authorities to tackle rising xenophobia and neo-Nazism in Russia, which lost millions of its citizens fighting against fascism during World War Two. (Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Giles Elgood). (The Drudge Report)
Hamdan, a father of two with a fourth-grade education, is charged with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two. He could face life in prison if convicted. (Reuters)
His father was a Serb nationalist fighter who was wounded by Tito's partisans at the close of World War Two and imprisoned. As a youth, Mr. Karadzic moved to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, and qualified as a psychiatrist specializing in neurosis and depression. (Globe and Mail)
The words fed the discontent building in East Germany and added to a restless mood in the country severed from the West after World War Two -- and especially in the city split by the Wall, built during the darkest hours of the Cold War in 1961. Taste of freedomThe East German organizer told Reuters hardline leaders only reluctantly endorsed the plan by the Communist partys FDJ youth group to let Springsteen in. (MSNBC -- Music)
More than 8,000 men died in the Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. "They didn't let us pass, they didn't even let us lay flowers," Munira Subasic, head of a Srebrenica women's association, told Reuters by telephone from a bus returning to Sarajevo under police escort. (AlertNet)
Gen. Walter Natynczyk, Canada's new Chief of the Defence Staff, addresses soldiers at a forward operating base during his first visit with Canadian troops in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan on July 9, 2008. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Stevo J McNeil). (CTV.ca)
Kaiser says, like many others born between the end of world war two and 1965, that past family success is no guarantee of the future. "We may not do as well as our parents did," Kaiser said. (Click2Houston, TX)
During World War Two, DeBakey served in the Surgeon General's office and was credited with developing the mobile Army surgical hospitals -- MASH units -- that moved medical care closer to the battle lines and hastened treatment of wounded soldiers. In 1953, using his wife's sewing machine, he fashioned out of Dacron the first artificial artery for repairing damaged arteries in a surgery he pioneered. (Reuters)
Critics said it was inappropriate to display the Nazi dictator, who started World War Two and ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews, in a museum alongside celebrities, pop stars, world statesmen and sporting heroes ... The Hitler figure had sat in a mock-up of the bunker where the mass-murderer killed himself at the end of World War Two. (The Drudge Report)
Critics said it was inappropriate to display the Nazi dictator, who started World War Two and ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews, in a museum alongside celebrities, pop stars, world statesmen and sporting heroes ... Unobtrusive signs asked visitors to refrain from taking photos or posing with Hitler "out of respect for the millions of people who died during World War Two." Camera surveillance and museum officials were meant to stop inappropriate behavior. (Yahoo News)
The 26-year-old Finn roared around the former World War Two airfield in 1:21. 049, with Australian Mark Webber second fastest in 1:21. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
The soldiers in the Royal Norfolk Regiment won five Victoria Crosses during World War Two, the most for any British division during the conflict. The Totenkopf division was formed in 1939 and held in reserve until being sent to France in May 1940. (Telegraph.co.uk)
A prime example is the final ending of the Great Depression by World War Two. During the Depression, deflation and unemployment created an emergent cycle of fear and uncertainty that undermined investor and consumer confidence. (Human Events Online)
The classic Basil Rathbone pictures updated his adventures from Victorian London to the dark days of world war two, while Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes re-branded him as a plucky boy investigator. However, history suggests that Conan Doyle's adventures are resistant to a purely comic approach. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
On February 22, 1942, Captain Manekshaw had just captured two Japanese positions in the Burma campaign of World War Two when seven bullets from a machine-gun whipped through his body. Major General D T Cowan instantly pinned his own medal on Manekshaw, saying, You cant award a dead man the Military Cross. (India Times)
Red Bull's Coulthard remains the last British winner at the former World War Two airfield circuit, triumphant with McLaren in 1999 and 2000 while also finishing third with Williams in 1995. Button's best result at Silverstone was in 2004, when he finished fourth. (International Herald Tribune)
The capital is Kota Kinabalu, adequate, but not a charming little city like Kuching, basically because the Japanese flattened it during World War Two. In fact, the Japanese record on Borneo during WWll is not a glowing one and the less said the better. (iAfrica.com)
While submarines in the current war are not used the classic World War Two style "hunt 'em down, shoot 'em up' style, they serve a different and essential purpose today. "We run mostly ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance] missions and we occasionally launch tomahawk cruise missiles in support of endeavors on the ground. " While Kevin is and has been a submarine commander, he primarily works on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. While Kevin Brenton serves the nation from its... (Fairfield Minuteman, CT)
And just when they thought it was safe to make a living again, we were drawn into World War Two. Gasoline. (West Frankfort Daily American, IL)
Greenspan said the current environment is the most complex he has seen since World War Two, although he has noted some improvement since the recent central bank actions to alleviate the problems. Number of adverse events ahead. (iAfrica.com)
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