"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen and not in mine is the great issue of civil war.

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One of her surviving brothers was blinded by a mine explosion during the war.

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Russian officials still stubbornly claim that it was in collision with a foreign submarine, or hit a mine from the second world war.

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Eventually the big Botticelli pictures were so identified with the soul of their country's heritage that Hitler buried them in a salt-mine with orders to destroy them if he lost the war.

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