She stayed for three years as India prepared for its independence from Britain.

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Britain gave the islands their independence in eighteen forty-three.

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Specter has shown his independence as a Republican,most recently by becoming one of only three members of his party to vote for President Obama's economic stimulus package.

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They have fought three wars since independence in 1947 and are now nuclear powers.

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The two countries have fought three wars since independence in 1947 and went to the brink of a fourth in 2002.

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Saginaw, Michigan (CNN) -- Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall.

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