Julius Gaius Caesar was committing treason against the Roman Republic when he crossed this river.
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Daily Quiz for March 18, 2012
This great military leader was born with the name Temujin.
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Daily Quiz for March 17, 2012
This tank was the only tank produced and used by Germany during World War I.
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The Cadaver Connection
A former DEA agent lays to rest rumors that a flood of heroin entered the U.S. with the remains of servicemen from Vietnam
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Rescue in Death Valley with HHM-163
The “Evil Eyes” had to get under the weather for one last rescue attempt at A Shau Special Forces Camp in March 1966
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Daily Quiz for March 16, 2012
This is the name of the horse Napoleon rode at the pivotal Battle of Waterloo.
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Reviews – Donut Dolly, An American Red Cross Girl’s War in Vietnam
Donut Dolly: An American Red Cross Girl’s War in Vietnam, by Joann Puffer Kotcher, makes a strong case for the impact that a small cadre of women had on the arc of women’s equality in the armed forces
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Reviews – The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon: An Intelligence Officer’s Memoir, 1972-1973
The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon, by Timothy J. Lomperis, who served two tours of duty, is both memoir and history, offering a “mid-level” perspective of the rear-echelon war in Saigon
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Reviews – The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War
The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War, by David Zierler, provides an examination of the first great ideological battle between nascent environmentalism and cold war dogmatism
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Daily Quiz for March 15, 2012
This 1939 battle discouraged any future Japanese war plans against the Soviet Union for the remainder of World War II.