Moving pictures from before World War Two showed a man named Buck Rogers landing on the planet Mars.

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"The excess deaths reported in the Congo since 1998 make the conflict there the bloodiest conflict on the Planet since World War II,".

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Its fiery colour and erratic movement across the night sky terrified the ancient Greeks and Romans, causing them to name the planet after their gods of war.

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In the show, the race of Daleks was said to have been developed by a scientist to survive a war on their home planet of Skaro.

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Indeed, the way things are going, by November 2012, we may see the Mideast - and perhaps other parts of the planet - plunged into a cataclysmic war.

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