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Created by dipity on Oct 10, 2008
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...to be the assassination of a generation. It was a fervent prayer on the lips of many mothers and fathers that the events that led to WW1 never be repeated. History will cleary show that these prayers were never answered, in fact they were thrown aside in the...
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Figure/Speed Skating
http://www.suite101.com/content/commemoration-plans-for-the-first-world-war-ww1-a332402
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...army in WW2, with excellent generals too. A good job Hitler kept over-ruling them. Did they lose fewer young officers in WW1 than we did ? Did their juniors not 'lead from the front' ? Or was the WW2 performance down to the generally-admitted high standards...
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UK Poli Blogs
http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2010/03/military-question.html
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...to ride a bike even with normal jeans on so now we walk 5. Tom Tom has a wild imagination when planning our trips from one place to the next 6. Apparently Ben is getting bossier and less tolerant Photo 10 hole in the gorund left by WW1 mine bombing...
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Travel Blog
http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Belgium/blog-481901.html
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...Tirico, Ron Jaworski, Jon Gruden. Westwood One Radio: Kevin Harlan, Boomer Esiason, Mark Malone (Field reporter). SIRIUS: 124 (WW1), 126 (Atl.), 125 (NO). XM: 124 (WW1), 103 (Atl.), 102 (NO)… the game can heard regionally on the Saints Radio Network (WWL 870...
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New Orleans Saints.com
http://www.neworleanssaints.com/Articles/2009/10/Saints%20vs%20Falcons%20Capsule.aspx
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...soldier Harry Patch died on July 25. His funeral took place in the first week of August on the 95th anniversary of the day WW1 began. Patch was wounded in 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele, the bloodiest encounter of WW1. In three months of fierce fighting,...
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Times of India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Poetry-in-the-pity-of-War/articleshow/4895560.cms
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...after witnessing the amazing and moving Canadian procution, "Paschendale" about the Canadian soldiers who gave their lives in WW1. This movie however, steers away from the traditional "war movie genre" in some ways. "Paschendale" clearly focuses on the "personal...
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Movies Online
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Moviesonline/~3/6NpKCD2AVTk/movie_review_detail.php
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... The project to exhume, identify and re-inter up to 400 British and Australian soldiers in France is in crisis after bad weather compounded the Department of Defence's choice of a low-cost commercial archaeological firm. Heavy rain and a lack of a continge...
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The Age
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/reburial-of-ww1-anzacs-in-crisis-20090706-d9e7.html
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...of that. I cannot bring myself to condemn the England management in 2009, nor the Australian management who led their team to WW1 memorials on previous trips: the players who have been have spoken of the humbling and thought-provoking nature of the experiences,...
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Cricinfo.com
http://blogs.cricinfo.com/diffstrokes/archives/2009/06/of_cemeteries_and_cricket_anot.php
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...tax" mjh Actually, it was "estate tax", not inheritance. Estate, of course, sounds like it only affects billionaires, so As for terms mutating, I recall George Carlin WW1: Shell Shock WW2: Battle Fatigue Vietnam-Iraq: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. ...
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Media Matters for America
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/oa1NwgpsBHs/200906200006
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...2008-March 2009), the bailouts managed to spend far in excess of nearly every major one time expenditure of the USA, including WW1&2 (omitted from graphic), the moon shot, the New Deal, total NASA budgets (omitted from graphic), Iraq, Viet Nam and Korean wars...
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Corrente
http://www.correntewire.com/bailouts_and_opportunity_costs
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... (AP) Guinness World Records said Friday that 113-year-old British World War I veteran Henry Allingham has become the world's oldest man. The previous holder of the title, Tomoji Tanabe, died in his sleep in southern Japan earlier Friday at the age of 1...
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CBS News
http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsPCAnswer/~3/x2zL1qj0HjM/main5099342.shtml
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... Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, said the last Englishman to hold the title of world's oldest man was Frederick Butterfield, who died in March 1974 at the age of 110. Allingham joined the Royal Naval Air Service - precursor to th...
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The Bellingham Herald
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/347/story/957238.html
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... tool goes here LONDON — Guinness World Records said Friday that 113-year-old British World War I veteran Henry Allingham has become the world's oldest man. Britain's oldest man, and oldest surviving First World War veteran Henry Allingham, celebrates h...
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1355307.html
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...shattered from the stress, causing several injuries from snapped towlines an flying grapnels. One sailor, a former artist and WW1 veteran was in a coma for several days. When he awoke, he thought he had been struck down by another crewmember, one Eli Goldberg,...
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Neatorama
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/what-is-it-game-100-win-a-road-mice-computer-mouse/
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... Yesterday I posted about the British Labour party losing badly in local elections and today things have gone from bad to worse as results of elections to the European Parliament come in. The exact numbers are still being hashed out but it looks like Labou...
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The Moderate Voice
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/themoderatevoice/~3/t9aHqcmqTTA/
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...Salvation Army. The day was marked in honor of the “lassies” who brought donuts to troops behind the front lines in France during WW1. These brave women worked alongside our soldiers, manning (or womaning, amirite?) ”huts” that served up donuts, stamps and...
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The Inquisitr
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Inquisitr/~3/iOIJs6vTcXk/
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...of itself. Not typical US foreign policy this, waiting 20 years to get involved. Normaly it takes only 2 or 3 years, like WW1 or WW2. Oh and before you Colonials get hot under the collar I'm having a dig at your foreign policy, not Americans. It's called irony...
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Pakistan News.net
http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=25021246&cat=2411cd3571b4f088
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... Australia's oldest man and last remaining World War I digger Jack Ross has died, aged 110. Mr Ross died peacefully in his sleep at the Golden Oaks Nursing Home in the central Victorian city of Bendigo about 4am this morning. As an 18-year-old Mr Ross enli...
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New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ageing/news/article.cfm?c_id=15&objectid=10576274&ref=rss
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...Our potential enemies have much more manpower (China). The wars of the future would be long hard slogs not unlike during WW1 & WW2. Our nuclear arms, which are the ultimate basis of our military stength is our only ace in dealing with countries like Iran,...
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The Nation
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNationActnow/~3/Zn5uS7djpZw/the_case_for_nuclear_abolition
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...WW1 nearly 10 million soldiers lost their lives. Of these about 1 million were killed at Flanders Field in Belgium. As a young teen exchange student in 1952 I became aware of the immensity of these deaths as the driver there to the chaplain to the princes,...
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Blogger News
http://www.bloggernews.net/121008
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... If youre suffering from depression you need to find safe and effective ways to overcome it. Find out how you can start feeling your best today. More If you have aspirations of becoming a millionaire, check out these five habits that may be worth emula...
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WXII Greensboro
http://www.wxii12.com/news/19558173/detail.html
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...that happened before I was born were any more just than the ones that happened after — the European theater of WWII excepted. WW1, Revolutionary War, Civil War, memorial day remembers them all, i’m not the most patriotic fellow (to the ‘right’ at least) in...
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The Good Phight
http://www.thegoodphight.com/2009/5/24/885198/now-your-loving-man-has-gone-cc
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...someone knows how to handle naval forces. Maybe that happened after someone read ... Wait for it! Wait for it! ... Accounts of WW1 and WW2 naval strategic FAILURES and SUCCESSES. Posted by zippiez at 4:40 AM : May 22, 2009 + report abuse + permalink ...
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CBS News
http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsWorld/~3/JkFIny8TmnQ/main5033068.shtml
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...in the end made the murderous ascent of Hitler possible. An empire went under within 3 decades.Germany, ruined by its loss of WW1 started a process called "monetizing the debt." At the end of hyperinflation 99% of government revenue came fresh off the numerous...
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The Prudent Investor - Seeing Too Many Bubbles
http://prudentinvestor.blogspot.com/2009/05/hyper-inflation-in-2-pictures.html
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... It is hoped the troops can be identified using DNA techniques and then be reburied in a new military cemetery - the first to be commissioned by Australia in over 50 years. Australian, British and French dignitaries gathered in the French village of Fromel...
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Sky News
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Operation-Begins-To-Recover-Bodies-Of-WW1-Soldiers-From-Mass-Graves-Near-Fromelles-In-France/Article/200905115274701?f=rss
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Archaeologist will today begin to excavate, and possibly identify, the remains of 400 Australian and British soldiers who were buried in one of the largest mass graves ever found on the battlefields of the First World War.
Over the next four months,
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New Zealand Herald
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/history/news/article.cfm?c_id=500832&objectid=10570466&ref=rss
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...also reported 63 deaths and 28,585 cases of hepatitis as a direct result of yellow fever vaccination during only six months of WW1. According to a report in the Irish Examiner, "The report of the Surgeon-General of the US Army shows that during 1917 there...
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NewsTarget - Natural Health & Wellness News
http://www.NaturalNews.com/026148.html
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... Niuean and Cook Island soldiers who fought alongside New Zealanders in the First World War, will be remembered on ANZAC Day, Minister of Pacific Island Affairs Georgina te Heuheu said today. Niueans and Rarotongans were recruited in late 1915 to serve alo...
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InfoNews.co.nz
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infonews/all/~3/tgXLkTwvbtk/news.cfm
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...for the lucky winner. And that winner is: sunnyannie, who posted on guardian.co.uk/culture: "As a ditzy teenager, I encountered some WW1 paintings by Paul Nash: stark & dark, their shock showed me the point of pacifism." Bob was impressed by the text's "honesty...
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/21/bob-roberta-smith-competition
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... The play tells the story of a simple young soldier, Hamp, who walks away from the battlefield at Passchendaele after enduring the death of his ent ire battalion. Captain Hargreaves is assigned to defend the Private who is charged with desertion. The pri...
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Portadown Today
http://www.portadowntimes.co.uk/star-entertainment/RENOWNED-DIRECTOR-BRINGS-WW1-PLAY.5158023.jp
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... The pair’s sleazy husbands filmed them as they ripped off their skirts and tops. The men have now been sentenced for insulting the memory of heroic soldiers after making the sleazy vid at the Vimy memorial in northern France. A French court heard the ...
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The Sun
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2367222.ece?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
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...Houses of Parliament in a protest against taxes on pubs. The character was posed in the style of Lord Kitchener in the famous WW1 recruitment poster, below which was the line: "British beer needs you!" Mark Hastings, BBPA director of communications, said:...
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Brand Republic
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http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/896502/Beer-industry-rounds-government-tax-plans/
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...wearing flat caps in an apparent tribute to the founder of United Kingdom Kabbalah, the late Mr Albert Tatlock, a reclusive WW1 veteran. There has however been criticism of Madonna's choice of orphan with accusations of 'Designer Deity' being hurled in her...
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The Spoof (Satire)
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i50658
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...Party line and cut off gas to Europe so they couldn’t complain. Obama apologizing to the World for America. I guess things like WW1, WW2, being the backbone of NATO while financially waiving all war debts of Europe, the charity of America and every good thing...
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Ft. Hard Knox
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FtHardKnox/~3/syy4rvKeri8/
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...as resistance. They succeeded in taking just 10 metres of street back and I found myself comparing their action with famous WW1 battles for the absolute pointlessness of their brutality. And then the police in a truly infantile display of their hyper-active...
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UK Indymedia Newswire
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/426221.html
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...guiness was one of the lagest breweries in europe, due to its large export trade. its dominance of te style was secured during ww1, when brewing stouts in england was stopped as making dark malt which needed more coal to produce than the light malts needed...
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Manchester Evening News
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1102409_dark_secrets_of_the_black_magic?rss=yes?rss=yes
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...when the baby was born, voila! She used our name! But the name we're now thinking of we found in a list of soldiers who died in WW1 so its quaintly turn of the century... unique but not odd or stuffy. Anonymous (not verified) said: Now Zuma will know who to...
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I'm Not Obsessed
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2009/03/16/gwen-stefani-stole-the-name-zuma-from-no-doubt-band-member
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... MEDIA STATEMENT 9 March 2009 National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) NORML responds to the government media release that Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne will represent New Zealand this week at the Vienna meeting of the UN C...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00100.htm
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... Refer to a friend 2009-03-09 18:23:09 - 1998 along with more than 300 other World War I veterans. Patch fought as a machine-gunner in the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele, where he was wounded. He told Gourdault-Montagne that he appreciated the wa...
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/uk-survivor-of-ww1-trenches-given-r1103052.htm
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...state governments are a major customer of petrol, oil and libricants...at a special price..AND teh Feds still have not paid off the WW1 fuel.oil , petrol and libricant bills. We welcome your comments on this story. Comments are submitted for possible publication...
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The Courier Mail
http://couriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,25138659-952,00.html?from=public_rss
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...plunged 24 percent. As the depression grew the President began to dismantle the huge federal bureaucracies built up during WW1. The Presidents slogan was "less government in business" as he opposed excessive governmental interference in the private sector...
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The Oregon Catalyst
http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php/archives/2112-The-Other-Great-Depression.html
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...the CBS FM stations in St. Louis. Westwood One was, at one time, managed by CBS, but there’s no current connection between CBS and WW1. about this blog An ongoing conversation on the St. Louis job market in first-person accounts of workers and employees, experts...
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/stl-jobwatch/2009/02/18/latest-wave-of-layoffs-claims-auto-media-workers/
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...to its dramatic impact, a visual masterpiece in its recreation of a life reeling backwards from the Hurricane Katrina disaster to WW1. The film is, in essence, about the choices we make and the life we live to the full … and in all respects it is the finest...
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Irish Examiner
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bnents/~3/532459968/
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...this entity any money anyway. I thought that was... the argument clinic: Hey, we tried pulling divisions out of germany once, after ww1. look what happened. that... ollie-B: For more than once, I totally agree with you. Who are these legislators anyway....
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Say Anything
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SayAnything/~3/EjFEjlK5VUM/
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...in agreement with findings in the brains of soldiers who had been injured or died after being exposed to explosions in wars, from WW1 to the war in Iraq. Based on their observations, the team came to the conclusion that the maximal peak levels of blast generated...
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Webindia123
http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20090129/1164234.html
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...Century. Yes they did, frequently. Did you know that the breaking of a diplomatic code by the British helped get the USA into WW1? The Zimmermann Telegram is a classic telling of the tale by Barbra Tuchman. And it is just one example of how spying shaped the...
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Classical Values
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2009/01/science_toys_3.html
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...was not even a twinkle in Korngold's eye when he wrote Die tote Stadt. The opera captures the zeitgeist of the years following WW1. There's a Freudian dream sequence; a deep-seated nostalgia for a more beautiful past; intense mourning for a dead beloved. Korngold...
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/observations-music-made-for-hollywood-1501283.html
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...in agreement with findings in the brains of soldiers who had been injured or died after being exposed to explosions in wars, from WW1 to the war in Iraq. The Swedish Armed Forces have restricted their safety regulations: In summary, the study shows that the...
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YubaNet
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Yubanet/~3/517663264/Blast-overpressure-is-generated-from-the-firing-of-weapons-and-may-cause-brain-injury.php
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...in agreement with findings in the brains of soldiers who had been injured or died after being exposed to explosions in wars, from WW1 to the war in Iraq. The Swedish Armed Forces have restricted their safety regulations In summary, the study shows that the...
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RedOrbit
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1625244/blast_overpressure_generated_from_the_firing_of_weapons_may_cause/index.html?source=r_health
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...are in agreement with findings in the brains of soldiers who had been injured or died after being exposed to explosions in wars, from WW1 to the war in Iraq. The Swedish Armed Forces have restricted their safety regulations In summary, the study shows that...
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AlphaGalileo,org
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=535295
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