In 1903, Orde Wingate, British general who led his forces against the Japanese in Burma in World War II, was born in Naini Tal, India.
By bypassing negotiations, the Palestinians seek to gain a state that will be born in a state of war with Israel.
Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry, who in 2005 became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross since the Falklands War, was born in Grenada before moving to the UK in 1999.
Les was actually born in Europe, after World War II, to a family of Hungarian refugees.
Nguyen was born in Saigon during the Vietnam war and came as a refugee with his family to the U.S. under a sponsorship by the Catholic church in 1975.
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Since it would not be established in the framework of a peace treaty with Israel, and since its leaders reject Israel's right to exist, "Palestine" would be born in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Many are local and young, born when Russia first went to war in Chechnya in 1994, says Mr Shvedov.
Born in Dundee, he served in World War II and later studied at Slade School of Fine Art before relocating to Paris.
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Heidemarie Jiline Sander her mother shortened it to Jil when she was little was born in a village outside Hamburg during World War II.
Ryan, who was born in Ireland in 1920, covered World War II as a war correspondent before he turned to writing books.
It was born in 1922, matured after the second world war, and has all the features of a typical state-owned monopoly of the mid-20th century.
More important, however, nationalists seem to have gained a political self-confidence that unionists now lack, born of both war-weariness and faith in the leadership of Sinn Fein and the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, the largest nationalist party.
Afterward, a senior officer laid a wreath on a memorial to five pre-Revolutionary War royal governors who had been born in the historic city.
The daughter of a teacher and a U.S. Navy fighter pilot who was killed during the Vietnam War, Ms. Ashby was born in Pensacola, Fla.
Mackinder, who was born in 1861 and died just after the Second World War, looked at the past thousand years in Europe and proposed a surprisingly simple geographic explanation for everything that had happened.
Given that the population has increased by one-and-a-half million in the past 25 years, and two-and-a-half million people in this city were born in other countries, some of which are at war with each other, it is a miracle the place is as peaceful as it is.
Howell was born in Surrey, England, just after the Second World War.
One German newspaper says Lipschis, who was born in what is now Lithuania in 1919, finished World War II fighting for Germany on the eastern front.
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Born into World War II, as a young boy in the middle of the Korean War, having to flee the fighting with his family -- just as his home country has risen, so he has risen to leadership on the world stage.
Jan was born in Slovakia to Jewish parents who fled the Nazis during World War II.
Born in Munich in 1923, Sawallisch began his career after World War II.
However in 12 years, when millions of babies born after World War II start turning 65 and become eligible for the program, that ratio will drop sharply.
It was a basic humanity and a largeness of vision that Inouye extended to individuals from all backgrounds, born not only out of his experiences seeing his own people -- Japanese-Americans -- vilified and interned during World War II (Inouye himself signed up as soon as the U.S. government lifted its ban on American-born Japanese enlistments), but from his own crucibles in the war.
The cookbook series was born in 1995, when Mr. Paul's opposition to the War on Drugs opened the family to criticism.
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Born in Kazakhstan, where his Ingush family had been deported after World War II, Gutseriev became the president of state oil company Slavneft, but was dismissed in 2002 before privatization.
David Thai, a coffee-shop entrepreneur (see article), was born in Saigon to a family that had fled the north after the war to expel the French, left on a boat in 1975 and ended, via the Philippines and Vanuatu, in America.
Soon-Shiong was born in South Africa in 1952 to parents who had fled China during World War II.
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His father was drafted into the army just after Mori was born, in 1937, and didn't come home until after World War II had ended.
Aussies and Americans like you have stood together since World War I, the war in which so much of your national character was born -- your incredible ANZAC Spirit.
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Born to Indian- Anglo parents in Japan where his father settled after World War II, he was educated in London and has been managing his family's various businesses for much of his career.
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