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| | | | | The early 1600s saw the beginning of a great tide of emigration from Europe to North America. Spanning more than three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonist... | |
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| | | | | Jean-Marie Le Pen, the firebrand far-right French politician and one of the key architects of the modern neo-fascist movement in Europe, has died. The New York Times reports that "Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France's modern political far right, who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi... | |
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| | | | | My favorite book about the American Revolutionary war by far is called "1776". It's written by famous historian David McCullough. The part of the book that really stuck out to me was the Battle of Trenton. I think that this battle really defines the essential character of America, as seen in the decision-making of its... | |
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| | | Another of the British War poets I discovered in my research of The Great War for my novel in progress, is Edmund Blunden. The poem I've included at the conclusion was inspired by his experience at the Somme in 1916. The first large offensive of the Battle of the Somme was the offensive at Thiepval... | ||