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At the end of this work you will know a lot about Europe, about the cold war and about Mr Stone himself.
ECONOMIST: The Norman Stone story
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The great upthrust of the immigrant working class into the middle class after World War II, via the GI Bill, was stopped stone cold by the events of the autumn of 1973, when the October war in the Middle East led to the quadrupling of oil prices virtually overnight and the great inflation set in.
BBC: Class calculator: A US view of the class system
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"We get things like medieval stone anchors to shell cases from the war, " she said.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Expert help in whale stranding
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"There are probably more bands in Manchester now than there's ever been before, " says John Robb, who wrote a book on the Stone Roses and, with his blog Louder Than War, is a vocal champion of new music.
BBC: Can Manchester music move on from its past?
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Exhibits in the Old Stone House describe its connection to baseball and the Revolutionary War.
WSJ: A guide to exploring Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn
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Japanese ambassador Keiichi Hayashi told those present the stone was a "symbol of human suffering during World War II and the ongoing quest for peace".
BBC: Hiroshima stone
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With the format war finally behind us, and 1080p HDTV prices sinking like a stone, this week's Ask Engadget HD question was bound to surface.
ENGADGET: Ask Engadget HD: Is now the time to replace my 720p HDTV with a 1080p set?
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Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a jaw like a stone jetty, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraqi war hero, work together at what is surely the worst job in the armed forces: telling parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed in Iraq.
NEWYORKER: The Messenger
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Professor Stone advised the UK Ministry of Defence on protection of archaeological sites in Iraq in the run up to the war in 2003.
UNESCO: Archaeologists in the frontline
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It is hard to imagine that McChrystal's decision to open his doors to Rolling Stone was a calculated move to blow the lid off of the mirage of strategic competence surrounding the "good war" in Afghanistan.
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