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Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.
# Digimon Adventure: Our War Game ( Part two of Digimon: The Movie )
Early in his term, Major presided over British participation in the Gulf War in March 1991 and negotiated " Game, Set and Match for Britain " at the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991.
However, during the episode " The Killing Game ," in which the Hirogen had taken over Voyager and forced the crew to participate in holodeck recreations of various combat situations which included World War II Europe, the holodeck character played by B ' Elanna Torres is portrayed as pregnant with a Nazi officer's child.
A similar sequence occurs in a 1965 UK-produced faux documentary, The War Game.
The 1905 / 6 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships includes a revised edition for " The Naval War Game ".
In 1940 Fletcher Pratt's Naval War Game was first published.
The game was respected by the Naval War College and serving naval officers regularly participated in games For an evaluation of the Fletcher Pratt Game versus reality see Chapter 10 of The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame book.
In 1955 Jack Scruby started producing miniatures using RTV rubber molds, which greatly reduced their expense, and he turned this into a business ( Scruby Miniatures ) in 1957 and started publishing War Game Digest.
He also popularized miniatures wargaming with a cheaper production process for miniature figures, publishing the first miniature wargaming magazine, the War Game Digest, and community building.
* Rules for the Jane Naval War Game ( S. Low, Marston, 1898 )-The first published miniature wargame.
* Phil Barker Know The Game: War Gaming, EP Publishing 1978.
* Donald Featherstone War Game Campaigns, S. Paul 1970
# redirect War Game
The War Game is a 1965 television documentary-style drama depicting the effects of nuclear war on Britain.
Made in black-and-white with a running time of just under 50 minutes, The War Game depicts the prelude to and the immediate weeks of the aftermath to a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain.
In the 1980s The War Game was followed by such similarly themed films as The Day After ( US ABC, TV film, 1983 ) and Threads ( BBC, 1984 ), the latter of which particularly evoked Peter Watkins ' style and delivery.
The War Game itself finally saw television broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC2 on 31 July 1985, as part of a special season of programming entitled After the Bomb ( which was also Watkins ' original working title for The War Game ).
In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, The War Game was placed 27th.
The War Game was also voted 74th in Channel Four's 100 Greatest Scary Moments.
" The War GameThe Controversy ".

War and 1965
* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
* 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
* 1965The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.
In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.
The popular view can be summarized in an essay published in 1965, the then Captain Robert O ’ Neill, Professor of the History of War at the Oxford University.
A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by World War II: the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: it was built next to the already existing seminary.
Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).
* 1965 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243, 000 more men by the end of 1966.
* 1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
Henry Saperstein ( whose company UPA co-produced the 1965 film Frankenstein Conquers the World and the 1966 film War of the Gargantuas with Toho ) was so impressed with the octopus sequence that he requested the creature to appear in these two productions.
The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.
In 1965, Jeep developed the M715 1. 25-ton army truck, a militarized version of the civilian J-series Jeep truck, which served extensively in the Vietnam War.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4, 000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75, 000 to 125, 000.
He enrolled in the Army in search of a disciplined environment, served in the Vietnam War, and was wounded in action on November 19, 1965.
* Jubilee Medal " Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 " ( 1965 )
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 resulted in a stalemate and a UN-negotiated ceasefire.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
The lesson was re-learned, first by the Pakistani Army in the 1965 War with India, where the nation fielded two different types of armored divisions: one which was almost exclusively armor ( the 1st ) while another was more balanced ( the 6th ).

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