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IDF patrol, Gaza Israel revered its paratroopers, by the 1970s disillusionment set in, they had ceased to be a manageable grouping of...
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Cambodia, 1975-82
Exodus from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1975 The peasant revolt which led to Pol Pot taking control of Cambodia 1975 to 1979 resulted in many...
Smyrna, Asia Minor, from Polyglot Multiculturalism to Barbarism
Smyrna, re-named Izmir in modern Turkey, was a centre of Greek, Armenian, Levantine, British, American and Turkish mercantile empires...
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By the end of 1988, 82 stares had recognised this new state. The PLO declaration was acknowledged by the UN General Assembly by 15...
Trench Warfare in Ukraine, 2024
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Do not Mourn Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi
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Drugs, Drug Gangs and Opioids, in Ireland, 2024
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Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and the Green Party, 2024
Fine Gael, the party of landowners, prosperous farmers and business people are in power since 2011. Fianna Fail, the country of die hard...
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