... . When the war broke out, the assault group of the Wehrmacht 135th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division burst into the western part of the Kobrin Fortification, trying to enter the Citadel. Within the first hours of the war several separate groups of the defenders were organized here: the location of the 125th Rifle Regiment, the dwelling houses, the North-East curtain wall, the North Gate and the East Fort.  After the artillery barrage, the commander of the 125th ... River there were trucks, motorcycles, fuel-servicing trucks of the 31th Detached Motor Transport Battalio...

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... (Command and Service Module) and Eagle (Lunar Module). On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin landed the Eagle at the relatively flat and unobstructed Tranquillity site on the moon, while Collins remained in the CSM. The LM spent 21 hours 36 minutes on the lunar surface, and the crew spent 2 hours 31 minutes outside the LM in a local area excursion on foot to a distance of approximately 50-m (160 ft) from ... Tranquillity Base (Encarta Encyclopedia). The nation watched in suspense as Armstrong took his first step off the module and onto the moon. This event brought the technological ach...

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... behind dark sunglasses, his name was withheld. A sense of conspiracy was even at this early stage beginning to envelope the events of that week. In the early hours of April 17th the assault on the Bay of Pigs began. In the true cloak and dagger spirit of a movie, the assault began at 2 a.m. with a team of frogmen going ashore with orders to set up landing lights to indicate ... , although unimpressive by today's standards, made short work of the slow moving B-26s of the invading force. On Tuesday, two were shot out of the sky and by Wednesday the invaders had lost 10 of their 12 aircraft...

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... now free, they were no longer under foreign control. Most Cubans supported Castro. 75% of farmland was owned by foreigners as well as most Companies and 2 million acres of land, the oil refineries and electricity companies were also under USA control. Most Cuban professionals saw Castro as a menace. Thousands of doctors, lawyers and businessmen fled to Florida hoping one day to ... Castro's forces with Napalm and explosives. This even turned into disaster for Kennedy as 4 of those bombers were gunned down once again by "outdated- weaponary. On the 19th April, just 72 hours after the ini...

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... to David Greenglass, who led the bureau to Julius Rosenberg. On July 15, 1950 Julius Rosenberg was arrested on the charge of conspiracy to commit espionage. On August 11, 1950 Ethel Rosenberg was arrested on the same charge as her husband. On March 16, 1951 the actual trial of the Rosenbergs began. After hours of trial, the jury returns a guilty verdict for the Rosenbergs. Six days later Judge ... Irving Kaufman sentences the Rosenbergs to death. For two years, various appeals are requested and all denied. One stay of ... execution is granted, but quickly repeals the stay. Then even af...

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... , inhumane conditions at the labour camps. Whatever the project may be, building dams or statues, the task was to be completed in set amount of time, at any cost, even human life. A normal working day was 8-10 hours, with 4-5 hour shifts. To ensure that inevitable absenteeism didn't occur, labour books reflected how hard a worker had worked day to day and their frequency of attendance ... . Peasants working on the collectivized farms were denied the right to leave the collectives which forced them to apply themselves more heavily to their work ... sacrifice for advancement. Stalin or "Un...

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... many political, social, cultural, and economic events taking place during that month. While none of these events are earth shattering they still shaped the history for that time and I am sure that there are many individuals that were impacted by these events. Only two days after my birth ... , Kathy Boudin, received a sentence of twenty years to life in a stat e penitentiary. She was involved in the Brinks armored car holdup in which a guard and two police officers were killed. She ha originally faced three consecutive sentences of twenty-five ... the Olympic games in Los Angeles, Calif...

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... page of The New York Times the next day, a picture of a B-26 was shown along with a picture of one of the pilots wearing a baseball hat and hiding behind dark sunglasses. His name was withheld. Even at this early stage, a sense of conspiracy had begun to unravel the events of that week. In the early hours of April seventeenth, the assault on the Bay of Pigs began in a cloak ... and dagger fashion. The assault began at 2 a.m. with a team of "frogmen- going ashore with orders to set up landing lights. Those lights indicated to ... the main assault force the precise location of their obje...

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... Canada, being only a "middle-power- in the world, spends more than the United Nations, which represents all but four of the world's countries. If it were possible, as a planet, to spend money where it is most urgently needed, the world may eradicate various diseases. As an example: "If we could divert just eight hours of military spending, worth $680 million, we ... might eradicate malaria. Some 200 million people worldwide suffer from this debilitating disease."" The entire history of the U.N. has been quite inexpensive. "Total support from international organizations, ... including th...

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... severity of their hardships can be observed in Solzhenitsyn's novel: "The narrator describes conditions in the camp detail by detail: the early start of the work day in the complete darkness and frost of a Siberian winter night, the cold of the prisoners' barracks, their starvation diet, and the brutality of the authorities."[13] The depth of degradation of the prisoners in the camp is startling. When Ivan Denisovich sees " ...a young fellow who ... Vietnam, a miscalculation which turned into a disaster and shocked national self-confidence."[18] In January Sakharov protested against the...

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... his marriage. His health problems persisted, as well. He had stomach trouble, was far too thin, and failed physicals for both the army and the navy. But again, his father's connections prevailed, and a friendly doctor gave JFK a clean bill of health. JFK was sworn ... the night of August 2, 1943, when it was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amigari. Two of JFK's crew were killed outright, while the others tried to stay afloat amid the wreckage. Under the young lieutenant's leadership, eleven men, several badly wounded, managed to hang on to the half of the PT boat that was still afloat a...

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... of Defense McNamara to say the famous quote, "We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked." (Finkelstein 76-77). Robert Kennedy, expecting a clear rejection of this deal by Khrushchev, said this of his brother John and of the escalating crisis: What hope there was now rested with Khrushchev's revising his course within the next few hours. It was a hope, ... not an expectation. The expectation was a military confrontation by Tuesday and possibly tomorrow (Finkelstein 98). This quote by Robert Kennedy shows ... the severity of the situation, and how the United Stat...

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