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There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
With the birth of the Turkish Republic after the First World War, St. Sophia became a museum, and the ancient mosaics, which were plastered over by the Moslems, whose religion forbids pictures in holy places, have been restored.
With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.
With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.
With the American Revolutionary War came " Brother Jonathan " as another personification and finally after the War of 1812 Uncle Sam appeared.
With the development of military aircraft during World War II, battles were fought in the sky as well as below the ocean.
With native and provincial assistance, the Army conquered New France in the Seven Years ' War and subsequently suppressed a Native American uprising in Pontiac's War.
With the defeat of Charles I ( 1625 – 1649 ) in the Civil War the Puritan pressure, exercised through a much-changed Parliament, had increased.
" With more than 2, 000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rican Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in twentieth-century Costa Rican history ", but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military.
With the entry of the United States into World War II, Hollywood became focused on themes related to the conflict.
With the onset of World War I, Hale organized the National Research Council to coordinate and support scientific work on military problems.
With the reform of its apartheid government, South Africa no longer needed Comoros as evidence of its ostensible ability to enjoy good relations with a black African state ; the end of the Cold War had also diminished Comoros ' strategic value to Pretoria.
Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.
With the construction of the large supercarriers of the Cold War era, the practice of operating each carrier in a single formation was revived.
With the end of the Cold War, however, Denmark has been supportive of U. S. policy objectives in the Alliance.
With the Eritrean-Ethiopian War ( 1998 – 2000 ), Ethiopia channeled most of its trade through Djibouti.
With pyrethrum in short supply, DDT was used extensively during World War II by the Allies to control the insect vectors of typhus — nearly eliminating the disease in many parts of Europe.
* von Bismark, Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf, Beamish, North Ludlow, ( translator ), On the Uses and Application of Cavalry in War from the Text of Bismark: With Practical Examples Selected from Antient and Modern History, T. & W. Boone, London, 1855

War and Honour
* Holt, James Clarke and John Gillingham ( eds ) ( 1984 ) War and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of J. O. Prestwich.
With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, Josip Broz Tito received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath.
New Zealand: Included in total military deaths are 14, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2009-2010 is the source of the total 18, 052 military dead The ' Debt of Honour Register ' lists the 1. 7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2009-2010 is the source of total 886, 939 UK military dead ( including Newfoundland ) the ' Debt of Honour Register ' lists the 1. 7m men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars.
* The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register
The Guard of honour | Guard of Honour ( a member from the Royal Canadian Navy at left and from the Royal Canadian Air Force at right ) at the National War Memorial ( Canada ) | National War Memorial in Ottawa, Remembrance Day, 2010
* POTSI ( archived ): Bermuda's First World War Roll of Honour
* POTSI ( archived ): Bermuda's Second World War Roll of Honour
With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour.
It suffered much from the ravages of the Thirty Years ' War, but the episcopal palace, then destroyed, was subsequently rebuilt, and in 1852 was converted by Louis Napoleon into a place of residence for widows of knights of the Legion of Honour.
* Lippe War Honour Cross for Heroic Deeds: 13 October 1917.
It took part in the First World War and saw its flag and banner decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour.
Evelyn Waugh's ( 1903 – 66 ) career also continued after World War II, and in " 1961 he completed his most considerable work, a trilogy about the war entitled Sword of Honour.
* The Monument in Honour of Brazilians ( Soldiers and Pilots ) killed in action on Italian Campaign ( World War II )
During the Second World War, when abbreviated courses were run to increase the supply of new officers, a Belt of Honour was awarded instead.
They are commemorated by name through the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour located in St George ’ s Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
Tiznow, Honour and Glory, and Bertrando are also all sire-line descendants of Man o ' War.
* Prescot Roll of Honour Web site dedicated to the commemoration of the men of Prescot who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1919
In 1801 he was sent to Spain to command the army intended for the invasion of Portugal ( see War of the Oranges ), and was named grand officer of the Legion of Honour.
Over the following years he was honoured with the Queen's Sword of Honour in 1870, the New Zealand Cross in 1874 and the New Zealand War Medal in 1876.
Her name is registered with the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, at the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England, and on the " Roll of Honour " on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département of France.
Before Tynwald sits, the individual presiding inspects the Guard of Honour and lays a wreath at the National War Memorial, which was inaugurated in 1923.
* Fedosov, Dmitry “ Cock of the East: A Gordon Blade Abroad ” pages 1 – 10 from Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy Essays in Honour of John Erickson edited by Ljubica and Mark Erickson, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 ISBN 0-297-84913-1.

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