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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Luis Branco, an artist in this small Alsatian village, first realized that something was unusual about the young Germans partying at the local community hall two weeks ago when a conversation with one of them ...
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When the notices went up in Kiev ordering the Jews to gather on the corner of Melnyka and Dokterivska streets by 8 a.m., they assumed the Nazis were shipping them to a ghetto. Some even arrived early for a good seat on the train. There were no trains. What met the Jews that morning was death in a ravine called Babi Yar.
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BERLIN  - Some 5,000 residents of a Berlin suburb were evacuated from their homes Saturday while explosives experts defused a 250-kilogram U.S. bomb believe dropped during the last months of the Second World War, police said.
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Palestinian militants fired homemade rockets at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and Israeli media reported that one landed near the home of Israel&#039;s defense minister.
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Canadian rocketeers hoping to launch a privately built spacecraft from the small Saskatchewan town of Kindersley met with community officials Thursday, updating residents on the missionâs progress and reaffirming their intent to fly.
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There was little bread and barely any butter. Without coal, electricity or gas, Parisians were cooking meals on camp fires in the streets. By the summer of 1944, the French capital &#151; under the Nazi boot for four years &#151; was hungry, exhausted and seething with revenge.
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They came, they spoke and they went home. It appears German unions may have won some concessions in terms of job cuts.Comment
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Now the town houses a menorah workshop, and the chanukiahs have become popular with both Poles and tourists.
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Just when you&#39;re thinking, &quot;Boy, this town has to get up to speed on this&quot; ... around the first turn, there it was. Less than 24 hours after it was made official here, it was made official to the rest of the
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Until recently, it seemed that Holocaust movies came from everywhere but Germany.
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Sderot, Israel, a working-class town less than two miles from Gaza, has been repeatedly hit with rockets.
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For two months, this historic city of commerce and culture was a "no-go" zone for American troops, firmly in the grip of religious extremists, some linked to al-Qaida. During that time, residents say they endured a reign of terror, where gunmen snatched men from their homes and killed at least 10 of them as American spies.
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The first gas-powered, four-wheeled vehicle makes a test run in a small town in southwestern Germany. Compiled by Tony Long.
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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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Shouts of joy from excited schoolboys greeted the arrival of an Israeli convoy on its entry to a Palestinian town where visitors from the Jewish state are usually soldiers searching for militants.
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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.