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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A Palestinian rocket landed in a courtyard next to a crowded day care center in this southern Israeli town on Monday, sending panicked mothers scrambling to rush their screaming toddlers to safety.
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Paris partied to celebrate the 60th anniversary of liberation from Nazi occupation yesterday, but its mayor warned that, faced with a recent surge in racist and anti-semitic attacks, the city needed to recover the courage it had shown in the summer of 1944
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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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Strikes against rocket launch sites are first since Hamas took control last week.
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Revolutionary Guard has thousands of rockets to return fire on 'enemy'.
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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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European launchers have come to be associated with French Guiana - powerful large rockets that lift-off from the steamy-hot equatorial base at Kourou.
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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.
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The local newspapers had already spent several days building it up as The Return of the Legend - Yao Ming&#39;s homecoming to China with the Rockets.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Linda Gradstein reports from the Israeli town of Sderot, a frequent target of Palestinian rocket fire from the nearby Gaza Strip.
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Until recently, it seemed that Holocaust movies came from everywhere but Germany.
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SDEROT, Israel  - First you hear the whistle. Then  the boom. Hugging tight her 8-year-old daughter, Maia Oriloh is  terrified to leave her home in the Israeli town of Sderot after  a rocket fired from Gaza hit yards away. Neighbor Ruthi Levy  wakes in panic at the slightest noise.
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They grew up as middle-class Germans with the ordinary names Fritz and Daniel. They had by and large sound family backgrounds and attended good schools. They even once played American football and basketball.
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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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On November 9, 1989, jubilant Germans breached the ugly concrete wall that separated East and West Berlin. Soon the Wall began to disappear piece by piece, visible evidence the Cold War was over.
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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.