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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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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Nov. 9 marked the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but for one generation of East Germans the date was less an occasion to get out the champagne than to ponder the vagaries of their new national ...
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By Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press  CAIRO, Egypt -- When Iraqi insurgents this week blew up trucks carrying chlorine, the attacks conjured up frightening images of chemical warfare and soldiers choking to death on the battlefields of Belgium in World War I.
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Two columns of Second World War tanks, trucks and cars rumbled through Paris on Wednesday to re-enact the arrival of French and United States forces 60 years ago to liberate the city from four years of Nazi occupation.
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By Chris Guy, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 3--VIENNA -- For Mayor Russell Brinsfield and Chief Sewell Fitzhugh, the event yesterday was more than a celebration of the history of this little village along the Nanticoke River.
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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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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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Allied forces were pushing toward Berlin and the end of World War II in Europe seemed assured.
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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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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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By The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 7--Back when this region was dubbed the "chemical capital of the world," local chemists and plants made far-reaching breakthroughs in several important fields.
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By Aron Kahn, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 18--Germany was done. American and British bombs had devastated its cities, and the revenge-minded Russian infantry was heading eagerly into Berlin.   It was spring 1945.
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World War II tanks rumbled through Paris on Wednesday and thousands of Parisians danced in the streets to re-enact the arrival of French and U.S. forces 60 years ago to liberate the city from four years of Nazi occupation.
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In John le Carre's 1968 novel, A Small Town in Germany, the protagonist takes note of some posters in Bonn on a pious Friday evening in May during the early post-World War II period: Send the foreign workers ...
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Two columns of Second World War tanks,  trucks and cars rumbled through Paris on Wednesday to re-enact  the arrival of French and United States forces 60 years ago to  liberate the city from four years of Nazi occupation.
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World War II tanks rumbled through Paris on Wednesday and thousands of Parisians danced in the streets to re-enact the arrival of French and US forces 60 years ago to liberate