Who was the greatest writer in history?
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Daily Quiz for March 23, 2010
Mary Queen of Scots smuggled this onto the scaffold when she was executed.
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World Airways’ Audacious Vietnam Baby Airlift
Ed Daly, president of World Airways, turned a DC-8 into a “flying crib” in Operation Baby Airlift to rescue over 50 Vietnamese orphans in April 1975.
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An Infantryman Recalls a Somber V-E Day on the Front Lines
A 22-year-old army lieutenant writes to his brother with a somber account of V-E Day from the front lines.
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In Alsace, Peaceful Vineyards Belie a Traumatic Past
Tourism in Alsace trades on its vineyards and photogenic villages, not its complicated past. Reminders of the German occupation and the savage fighting of January 1945 are few, and they are rarely obvious, but they are here—and can take surprising forms.
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Coca-Cola Kid Startles Sleeping Marines
Tired and hot Marines who had found the perfect shady spot for some much-needed shut-eye, sat up in disbelief when a little Vietnamese kid walked into their secluded nest and tried to sell them ice-cold Coca-Colas
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What was the best automobile design in history?
What was the best automobile design in history?
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Daily Quiz for March 22, 2010
The period of the Valois and Bourbon dynasties in France, the 14th to the 18th centuries, has been described as "despotism tempered by" this.