The Asian Seven Year War was fought during 1592?1598 between these nations.
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The Channel Islands
In late June 1940, the Channel Islands became the only part of Britain to be occupied by the Germans during the war.
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Interview: Laurence Rees / The Nazis and the “Final Solution”
Award-winning historian and producer Laurence Rees, creator of the BBC documentary series and book Auschwitz: The Nazis and the “Final Solution”, is no stranger to the war’s moral quandaries. But his latest dual-media project—a book, World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis, and the West, and a series of the same name now airing on PBS—places the 1940 Soviet massacre of Poles at Katyn into chilling contexts: how Stalin played Roosevelt and Churchill, how they tried to play him, and what happened to the Poles and their country.
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Daily Quiz for May 6, 2009
The first known working torpedo was developed by a man from this country.
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Daily Quiz for May 5, 2009
This man was the last Confederate general to surrender an army in the field at the end of the Civil War.
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Interview: Ric Burns and Chris Eyre / We Shall Remain
Directors Ric Burns and Chris Eyre talk in an exclusive interview about the making of We Shall Remain and the determination to tell the story of Native Americans in a way it has never been told before, neither demonizing nor deifying their subject.
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Daily Quiz for May 4, 2009
This person pioneered the use of statistical analysis in hospital settings.
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Daily Quiz for May 3, 2009
The often-fatal puerperal fever was more commonly known as this.
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Daily Quiz for May 2, 2009
The game called tic-tac-toe in America was known by this name in Victorian England.