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Best-Kept Secrets: NC’s Civil War sites tell lesser known side of war

Edit The Charlotte Observer 27 Jun 2016
More than 150 years ago, men fought and died in mostly small but still savage Civil War battles in North Carolina that ranged from the western mountains to the Outer Banks....

Ewan McGregor doesn't understand Star Wars fanatics

Edit NME 27 Jun 2016
Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor has claimed that he doesn't understand the obsession behind Star Wars. McGregor starred as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels Star Wars. Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars. Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars....

Best Kept Secrets: Day Trip Edition | Asheville

Edit The News & Observer 27 Jun 2016
More than 150 years ago, men fought and died in mostly small but still savage Civil War battles in North Carolina that ranged from the western mountains to the Outer Banks ... But North Carolina is also home to hundreds of other lesser-known places that paint a grittier and less romantic side of the Civil War, which some Southerners still prefer to call “The War Between the States.” ... “We get sort of this American story of the Civil War....

North Carolina's Civil War sites tell lesser known side of war

Edit Stars and Stripes 27 Jun 2016
(Tribune News Service) — More than 150 years ago, men fought and died in mostly small but still savage Civil War battles in North Carolina that ranged from the western mountains to the Outer Banks ... But North Carolina is also home to hundreds of other lesser-known places that paint a grittier and less romantic side of the Civil War, which some Southerners still prefer to call “The War Between the States.”....

How to Get Gears of War Ultimate Edition for Just $16 Right Now

Edit Gamespot 27 Jun 2016
While Gears of War fans have to wait a few months longer to play Gears of War 4, people who missed out on Gears of War Ultimate Edition can now pick it up on the cheap ... Gears of War Ultimate Edition ......

Booklet conveys tragedy of Iwojima / Ex-residents look to keep history alive

Edit The Japan News 27 Jun 2016
forces during the Pacific War, former residents have published a booklet called “Iwo-to Island Chronicle” to introduce the island’s progress from the pioneering days of the Meiji era to the present ... With over 70 years having passed since the end of the war and the former residents all elderly, the booklet is the realization of a desire to tell the tragic story of how their serene lives were changed forever by war....

Do We Really Want War with Russia?

Edit Information Clearing House 27 Jun 2016
June 27, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - War with Russia appears increasingly likely as the US and its NATO satraps continue their military provocations of Moscow ... How Europe Went to War in 1914.’ What is past increasingly appears prologue ... The war party in Washington, backed by the military-industrial complex, the tame media, and the neocons, are agitating hard for war....

The Carnage of the Somme (Australian War Memorial)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jun 2016
Australian War Memorial) ... First World War Centenary, News, Opinion, views and commentary. Like most Australian soldiers who fought in the First World War, Private James Makin did not fight on Gallipoli ... Makin's war began in Egypt, where for months he tramped on pack marches and rehearsed mock attacks in the hot desert sands before sailing for France....

Culture to tell the story of the Somme at Thiepval Centenary Commemorations (UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jun 2016
The Thiepval Memorial was built and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is the largest Commonwealth war memorial in the world and bears the names of more than 72,000 men who died in the Somme sector and who have no known grave ... The Imperial War Museum film features original footage from the battle and was originally released in 1916 and seen by around 22 million people in Britain during the First World War....

Somme souls remembered: Paul Clark visits hallowed shrine

Edit Belfast Telegraph 27 Jun 2016
At the outbreak of war in 1914, Edward Carson pledged that the UVF would fight for King and country and the men went on to form the core of the 36th (Ulster) Division ... He survived the bloodiest day in our military history and when the war ended he was a lieutenant in the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Donald Clark died in 1980, living long enough to have known that the First World War was not ‘the great war to end all wars’....

Why So Many Mass Killings? Look in a Mirror

Edit Information Clearing House 27 Jun 2016
Iraq was a war of choice, which is illegal, but who cares about law? Do you know how many nations the US is currently bombing? We have killed untold innocents in Afghanistan over the last 20 years ... The State Department has been taken over by war crazy neocons who are risking a nuclear holocaust.  It is no wonder that in a poll of 68 nations, the US was named the biggest threat to world peace....

Giant tribute to Somme fallen (Salford City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jun 2016
Giant banners, created from historical photos of men who served in the war, will be unveiled at the Civic Centre on Friday 24 June, followed by a brief memorial ceremony on Friday 1 July at 11am ... 'Our four modern day volunteers could easily have gone to war 100 years ago ... Salford commemorated 1 July as Thiepval Day until the 1950s when many war veterans passed away....

Suicide bombers kill 5 in eastern Lebanon, near Syria border

Edit Orange County Register 27 Jun 2016
Suicide bombers kill 5 in eastern Lebanon, near Syria border. Associated Press - 27 June 2016 03.24-04.00. News Topics. General news, Suicide bombings, War and unrest, Civil wars, Syrian civil war, Accidents and disasters, Terrorist attacks, Terrorism, Events. People, Places and Companies. Bashar Assad, Lebanon, Syria. Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ... ....
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