When the Germans, and Rockets, Came to Town
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After World War II, Huntsville, Ala., was transformed by Wernher von Braunâs rocket program. Now it has one of the countryâs highest concentrations of scientists and engineers.
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  May 29--"Nuts!" That's what an American general told a German counterpart  in 1944 when ordered to surrender.
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BELGRADE, Dec 6 (IPS) - The meeting of several hundred World War II  veterans last weekend would not have meant much, had it not been  convened in a town that symbolises so many things about a country  that no longer exists, Yugoslavia.
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In the opening days of the week-old assault on Fallujah, the Hadra Mohamadiya mosque was a major battleground. The rocket
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KABUL -- Just over 24 hours before Afghans were due to vote in their first ever presidential election, three rockets were launched from points around the Afghan capital Kabul.
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BERLIN Nearly 15 years since masses of demonstrators swelled the streets of East Germany, toppling the Berlin Wall and uniting Germany, a new wave of protests is rolling through eastern towns and cities from ...
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A visit to a rocketmaker shows a reliance on very basic materials. The range of rockets fired at Israel has slowly been growing.
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Geiger counters were a hot item in this small town a half century ago. Nearly every business, including the pool hall, sold the instruments to wannabe uranium prospectors.
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PARIS : Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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The military operation around the town of Beit Hanoun and the Jebalya refugee camp near Gaza City came amid reports that Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel.
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OOSTERBEEK, Netherlands - Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."   In the legendary "Market Garden" operation, which began Sept. 17th, 1944, a massive force that was supposed to end World War II found it had attempted to go "a bridge too far."   A ceremony Sunday commemorated the heroic but doomed assault with Dutch schoolchildren raising flowers above their heads before laying them on the graves of the 1,750 Allied soldiers - mostly British - buried in Oosterbeek near Arnhem...
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When Eric Feichthaler became mayor three years ago, this town was booming. The city issued 800 permits that month to build single-family homes.
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In the land where diamonds are a relative bargain, the Rockets&#39; attempt to mine an old-fashioned gem may have come up with a glitter.
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The Americans and their Allies invade Normandy, liberate Paris and push on into Germany.
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The city is reported to be a vital command centre for the German defence against Soviet forces approaching from the east.
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Tsezar Kats thought it was a Soviet parade as he marched with Jews out to Ukraine's Babi Yar ravine in 1941, but the absence of balloons and red Soviet flags puzzled the 4-year-old.     Then he saw the piles of ...Comment
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As talks collapsed and US forces launched intensive airstrikes, residents who had hoped for a settlement packed their bags. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.