His publications included a book called "Monuments of War: How to Read a War Memorial" and World War II At Sea.
Electricians were shocked to find an unexploded World War II bomb at a former home of a war veteran.
Others believe, with equal passion that the war was an unjustified provocation of the Muslim world or at least a diversion from the true war against terrorism.
What is different about this Cold War is that it's a verbal war for influence in the world at large.
In 1943 he was interned at Weifang and he died of a brain tumour just months before the end of World War II, at the age of 43.
Ezra Susser, an epidemiologist at Columbia, realised that a famine experienced by the Dutch at the end of the second world war had created an ideal set of subjects for a study of maternal malnutrition and filial psychopathology.
On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's Parliament to watch the world premiere of an opera depicting how the Nazis methodically killed mentally or physically deficient children at a Vienna hospital during World War II.
"There is a surplus not because of the genius of goverment, there's a surplus because the taxes on the people who work for a living are the highest they have been as a percentange since World War II, " Bush told a rally at a baseball field in Blue Ash, a suburb of Cincinnati.
Mr Milosevic further thumbed his nose at the world by refusing to let a prosecutor from the international war-crimes tribunal at The Hague, Louise Arbour, enter Kosovo.
There have been moving history moments, like in 1984, when Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl held hands at a World War I cemetery in Verdun.
Since the Russian diplomacy has a clear commitment to restore its world influence, at least at the Cold War level, Chavez also represents for them a door to Latin America in terms of political and economic influence.
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His grandfather, a first-generation French immigrant who worked at a cafe downtown, bought the place after World War II.
He said he experimented with pyrotechnic devices and helped organise displays for the local community during World War II, at a time when fireworks were not readily available.
Mr Collier had been a gunner during World War II and made his comedy debut in 1948 when a performer at Hull's Perth Street Club failed to show up and he agreed to fill in.
In years to come, warns veteran oil analyst Matthew Simmons, to keep up supply the world will need to build new rigs at a rate not seen since the "Liberty Ship" drive of World War II.
In the second world war he worked at Bletchley, a country house where clever people broke enemy codes.
Unemployment is stuck at a post-World War II high of 4.9% and is likely to go higher before it falls as bloated companies continue to rationalize.
If we were talking about the World Court or at least a permanent war crimes court applicable to all countries, there would be no opposition from Serbs to Milosevic's extradition.
It explicitly condemns weapons manufacturers even more so than the first film, basically calling them out as the reason that the world is at war, rather than merely a symptom of global conflict.
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If you look at the history after World War II, a lot of people in the U.S. left their animation jobs for other types of work.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon struck a personal note in his opening remarks, as he recalled his childhood as a displaced person at the close of World War II when his mother, like other women enjoyed little help bringing children into the world.
In his internal war at least, a world that has grown used to demonising Mr Sharon should now be wishing for his success.
Despite farmers' loud political voice, barely 4% of the French workforce works on the land today, compared with a third at the end of the second world war.
Mr. Hudec arrived in Shanghai at the end of World War I "in a city that wanted to change, and he wanted to change with it, " Ms. Warr says.
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The artist served as an officer in the 1st Gurkha Rifles in World War II, before joining a course at Maidstone College of Art.
Nobody remembers now, but during World War One Baldwin suffered a horrible explosion at a nearby munitions plant it was operating, killing 133 workers (mostly women and girls).
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It is an historical accident: employers began offering health insurance during the second world war as a way of attracting workers at a time when wages were fixed by the government.
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The second had a different result after the Soviet Union sent the Red Army into Manchuria to claim territorial spoils from a fatally crippled Imperial Japan at the conclusion of World War II.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
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