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  1. Poland Probes Artist's Claim He Used Holocaust Ash

    Tue, 8 Jan 2013

    resting place and face up to eight years in prison. In 1989, there were still some human ashes remaining in furnaces from World War II from the burning of the Nazi's victims. Removing any ash would be a crime, but there were no security cameras on the site

  2. Mobile Phone Ads With Lenin Spark Anger in Poland

    Tue, 8 Jan 2013

    imposed mass terror in the Soviet Union. A communist regime was later imposed on Poles against their will by the Soviets after World War II . The company, Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa S.A., counted on younger Poles having shaken such associations, and recently

  3. Etty Allen, Mother of Former Va Governor, Dies

    Mon, 7 Jan 2013

    for her Tuesday in California. The daughter of an anti-Nazi resistance fighter in occupied Tunisia, she immigrated after World War II to Iowa where she met and married George H. Allen, then a small-college football coach. Over the next four decades

  4. Etty Allen, Mother of Former Va Governor, Dies

    Mon, 7 Jan 2013

    Tuesday in California. The daughter of anti-Nazi resistance fighter Felix Lumbroso, she lived in occupied Tunisia during World War II . After the war, she immigrated to Sioux City, Iowa, where she met and married George H. Allen, then the head football

  5. Antique Spitfire Plane Collapses on UK Runway

    Mon, 7 Jan 2013

    Rolls Royce collapsed shortly after landing at East Midlands Airport in central England. The airport said in a statement the World War II -era plane's undercarriage failed as it touched down Monday afternoon. The pilot was unharmed and the damaged aircraft

  6. Review: 'Blood Gospel' Is Supernatural Thriller

    Mon, 7 Jan 2013

    action-adventure thriller, and award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell, author of four Hannah Vogel mysteries set in pre- World War II Nazi Germany, combine their talents and create a supernatural page turner in "The Blood Gospel." Fans will discover a

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  1. Class of 2012: Diploma Dilemma for Europe Grads

    Mon, 7 Jan 2013

    eyes of young people emerging from the cocoon of student life into the worst downturn the continent has seen since the end of World War II . Follow the class on its new Google plus page: http://apne.ws/ClassOf2012 ——— Outmoded

  2. Class of 2012: Diploma Dilemma for Europe Grads

    Mon, 7 Jan 2013

    eyes of young people emerging from the cocoon of student life into the worst downturn the continent has seen since the end of World War II . Follow the class on its new Google plus page: http://apne.ws/ClassOf2012 ——— Outmoded

  3. Today in History

    Mon, 7 Jan 2013

    transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London. In 1942, the Japanese siege of Bataan began during World War II . (The fall of Bataan three months later was followed by the notorious Death March.) In 1949, George C. Marshall resigned

  4. British Spitfire Search Team Arrives in Myanmar

    Sat, 5 Jan 2013

    hope will unearth dozens of rare British fighter planes said to have been buried in the Southeast Asian country at the end of World War II . The 21-member team led by farmer and businessman David Cundall will soon start excavations to find several stashes of

  5. West Texas Group on Mission to Save Smokestacks

    Sat, 5 Jan 2013

    complaints of polluting the area while incinerating materials from a military facility that produced chemical weapons from World War II . ASARCO filed for bankruptcy in 2005 and four years later placed $52 million in a trust to clean up the area. The towers

  6. Excavators Head to Myanmar to Find WWII Spitfires

    Fri, 4 Jan 2013

    Belarusian videogame company, could uncover dozens of Spitfire aircraft locked underground by American engineers at the end of World War II . "We could easily double the number of Spitfires that are still known to exist," said 63-year-old David Cundal, the

  7. Sweden Honors WWII Hero With Commemoration Day

    Fri, 4 Jan 2013

    Sweden will honor its World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg with an annual commemoration day in recognition of his achievements in saving thousands of Jews from the

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  1. Love Letters Lost and Found: Couple Read Recovered Letters From World War II

    Sun, 6 Jan 2013

    husband and his wife durg world war ii . They survived the war, but the letters did not. Or so they 1940s. Sent while lloyd michaels was serving in europe during world war ii . Love letters he would send home to his young wife and the

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    world war ii .
  2. 113th Congress: 20 Female Senators Hit the Hill

    Thu, 3 Jan 2013

    today as the session opens at noon for the new congress the 113. Congress will. Have the fewest number of military since world war two and also several longtime lawmakers will not be returning including congressman Barney Frank. And senators Joseph Lieberman

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    the 113. Congress will. Have the fewest number of military -- since world war two and also several longtime lawmakers will not be returning including congressman Barney Frank. And senators Joseph Lieberman and Olympia Snowe. The new
  3. Love Letters Wash Ashore After Superstorm Sandy

    Thu, 15 Nov 2012

    use Craigslist and dot com before she found the couple sneaks. On the phone from her home in Virginia she says served in world war two and was Pearl Harbor the couple married had two children. and the couple's son are now deceased though. he resides in

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    the phone from her home in Virginia she says -- served in world war two and was -- Pearl Harbor the couple married had two children. -- and the couple's son are now deceased though. -- he
  4. Searching for Noah's Ark: Treasure Hunters Scale Mount Ararat

    Fri, 21 Dec 2012

    up to the davis site. I can't tell you exactly where we are because keeping that a see create. Ed davis was an american world war ii soldier who had also braved this rugged terrain. Her strategy is to retrace his steps to the top. I found, I think, one

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    world war ii soldier who had
  5. Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye Honored on Capitol Hill

    Thu, 20 Dec 2012

    will lie in state. In to capitol rotunda of the 88 year old senator from. why he died Monday he was decorated decorated World War II hero and the second longest serving senator in US history late buying in state in the rotunda is usually reserved for presidents

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    old senator from. -- why he died Monday he was decorated decorated World War II hero and the second longest serving senator in US history late buying in state in the rotunda is usually reserved for presidents.
  6. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg on 'Epidemic of Gun Violence'

    Mon, 17 Dec 2012

    Jr. were assassinated. Roughly four. 100000. Americans have been killed with guns which is more Americans than died in World War II . They will be leave behind mothers and fathers sisters and Brothers friends and neighbors like those with us today. Whose

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    have been killed with guns which is more Americans than died in World War II . They will be leave behind mothers and fathers sisters and Brothers friends and neighbors like those with us today. Whose lives are
  7. Jan. 20, 1989: Pres. George H.W. Bush's Inaugural Address

    Wed, 26 Dec 2012

    not only leadership. Is passed from generation to generation been so is stewardship. And the generation born. After the Second World War has come of age. I've spoken of a thousand points of light. Of all that community organizations. That are spread like

    Second World War found at 10:01

    to generation been so is stewardship. And the generation born. After the Second World War has come of age. I've spoken of a thousand points of light. Of all that community organizations. That are spread like stars
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