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`` Even when the islands were under German mandate before World War 1,, Europeans gave Eromonga a wide berth.
So instead of being tests of the South's loyalty, the Spanish War, the two World Wars, and the Korean War all served to overcome old grievances and cement reunion.
Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.
He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.
The Secretary of War gave his assent after studying the history of the draft in the American Civil War as well as the British volunteer system in World War 1.
In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.
In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.
When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.
The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.
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.
Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.
This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.
As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;
Citing the experience of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War 2,, Eden said that all would have been confusion and disarray without them.
At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.
In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.
In 1950, Public Law 920 created Civil Defense ( different from Civilian-groups of World War 2 ), a responsibility of the Government at all levels to help reduce loss of life and property in disaster, natural or manmade.

World and Z
Brooks ' later work, World War Z, uses false interviews to create a mockumentary account of a worldwide zombie outbreak.
35 million euros between 1997 and 2011 ), despite stiff competition from other film locations in Eastern Europe and North Africa, with the Malta Film Commission providing support services to foreign film companies for the production of feature cinema ( Gladiator, Troy, Munich and Count of Monte Cristo ' World War Z, amongst others, were shot in Malta over the last few years ), commercials and television series.
* Phalanx, the name of the false zombie proof drug in the novel by Max Brooks, World War Z
Use and results of a thermobaric weapon at the Battle of Yonkers are described in Max Brooks ' World War Z.
* The World Wide Web Virtual Library: The Z notation, by Jonathan Bowen
Straczynski announced on February 23, 2007 that he had been hired to write the feature film adaptation of Max Brooks's New York Times-bestselling novel World War Z for Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B.
In 2011 Paramount Pictures filmed parts of the movie World War Z starring Brad Pitt in Falmouth Docks and off the coast.
Troy is featured in Max Brooks ' post-apocalyptic zombie novel World War Z, as a safe zone for humanity.
This village became a orgasm famous after The New York Times bestseller, World War Z, written by Max Brooks was published.
Little Cats A, B and C were also characters in the 1996 TV series The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss ( Little Cat N also made an appearance, but only once and some of the alphabetical cats appeared in Season 2 regularly as Little Cat Z began to be visible ).
In the novel World War Z by Max Brooks, an expandable pistol for use against zombies is called the " Meg "; a footnote points out that it is named after the Megatron toy.
The Claremont Colleges are featured in the zombie horror novel World War Z as the setting of a documentary featuring a battle between 300 students of the colleges and a horde of 10, 000 infected Californians.
Catacomb Z, beneath the Dissenters ' Chapel at the eastern end of the cemetery, suffered significant bomb damage during World War II, and is also closed to further interments.
While it is modelled on the British SAS, with which it shares the motto " Who Dares Wins ", the regiment also draws on the experience of World War II Australian special reconnaissance and commando units, such as Z Special Unit (" Z Force ").
Flat-twin engines were used in several economy cars, including the Citroën 2CV, the Panhard Dyna X and Dyna Z, Steyr-Puch 500, DAF Daffodil, BMW 600, several Jowett cars between World Wars I and II, and the Toyota Publica and Toyota Sport 800.
Piccolo has been in many Dragon Ball-related video games such as Super Butōden, the Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi series of games, as well as Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World and Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit.
Founded in 1998, Z Video produces videos about politics, economics, foreign policy, and the World Social Forum.
Gowen first gained national exposure wrestling for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling during early 2003 under the name Tenacious Z, but soon left TNA, after signing a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ).
Aztlán has been used as the name of speculative fictional future states that emerge in the southwest US or Mexico after the central US government suffers collapse or major setback ; examples appear in such works as the novels Warday ( 1984 ), by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka ; The Peace War ( 1984 ), by Vernor Vinge ; The House of the Scorpion ( 2002 ), by Nancy Farmer ; and World War Z ( 2006 ), by Max Brooks ; as well as the role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).
* In World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, a post-apocalyptic horror-survival novel by Max Brooks, an interviewed soldier tells of " flechette-filled anti-infantry canister shots " for the M1A2 Abrams tank which are highly effective against zombies.
The Montgomery Lines were again used for Brad Pitt's new film World War Z based on the novel by Max Brooks.
During World War II Careening Bay Camp became a major training base for the secretive Services Reconnaissance Department ( SRD ), also commonly referred to as " Z Special Unit ".

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