Mahendra Percy Rajapaksa, known to his country and the world at large as Mahinda Rajapaksa, will celebrate his 80th birth ...

The Flagship Washington was one of the DC-4s that American Airlines used for its transatlantic passenger service. The sleek “landplane” was faster and safer than the passenger seaplanes that preceded ...

Having fulfilled the nation’s new “manifest destiny,” in 1899 ships of the U.S. Fleet sailed in triumph into New York Harbor. Cuba had been liberated; the Philippines had been seized. The U.S. had ...

The term concentration camp is often used to describe any detention site that existed in Nazi Germany after 1933 or in German-occupied Europe during World War II, but it is useful to differentiate ...

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur, at their first meeting, at the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, 27 September, 1945. U.S. Army. The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8, 1945, ...

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