- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.
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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.
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- Nov 07, 2020