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President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, issued a proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.

内战期间，亚伯拉罕·林肯总统发布了一项公告，将11月的最后一个星期四定为节假日。

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He appers as a character, or a collection of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GI. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle.

他在1945年的电影《美国大兵乔的故事》中扮演了一个角色，或者说（该角色的）一系列不同美国人格；这部电影基于记者厄尼·派尔在战争末期时所发生的故事而拍摄。

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Just before the Civil War, the Whig political party was making a last effort to remain a part of American political life.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

Except for a year at the University of Mississippi at the end of World War One, that was the last of his official education.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

The last president to remove a war commander was Harry Truman.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

So if the Kosovo conflict were solved, there would be a decent chance of it being Europe's last war for a long time.

ECONOMIST: Defining NATO��s aims

Above all, they had hoped for a verdict on the war's last 60 hours, when a desperate last push deep into south Lebanon gained nothing but the deaths of 33 soldiers, a quarter of the war's total Israeli losses (some 1, 400 Lebanese are reckoned to have died).

ECONOMIST: Israel's war in Lebanon

Mr Rumsfeld insists the reason for a smaller force is that since the last Gulf war there has been a huge change in the way ground campaigns can be fought, especially with weapons getting smarter and more precise.

ECONOMIST: Punching through to Baghdad