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Bougainville (Do or Die)
After the defeat of Germany during the First World War in 1918, the German territories, collectively termed New Guinea, became a part of a League ... and Choisuel, and they felt that the wrong of 1899 should be corrected. During the Second World War Bougainville was the scene of fierce fighting. The island was occupied first by the Japanese ...
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Second World War. >> Read more... IOI Danielle de St Jorre Scholarship Award ... leading edge articles, reports and reference materials devoted to the issues and concerns affecting the world's oceans. IOInforma News PACEM IN MARIBUS XXXII The Malta Declaration >> Read more... IOI ...
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History of Daintree Rainforest - Australia - Tropical Far North Queensland Australia
After the Second World War the timber industry in the Daintree Rainforest came to life again with the return of soldiers from around the world. A local timber mill built a ... and job losses. The government won the election and nominated the Daintree Rainforest as a World Heritage area. Opposition came directly from the Queensland State Government, and took the federal ...
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The Party's Over - Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Foreword by Colin Campbell, authority on peak oil
Even the First World War, when oil was in its infancy, had a certain oil element ... Second World War for control of Indonesian oil. Hitler aimed at Baku on the Caspian with a desperate need for oil to support his war machine ... world’s population has expanded six-fold during the first half of the Oil Age. What will it do during the second half? [Will the "second ...
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9/11 and the Heart of the World
"Do not dishonor the dead by bombing the innocent." I felt as if I'd entered some inner heart of the world, ... totally, compassionately shared by people half a world away, whose souls still bear the scars of war. The tears that came, as sorrow was ... , I saw how an old French military base, established after the second World War, has been converted to a lively housing complex for five thousand ...
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9/11 and the Heart of the World
"Do not dishonor the dead by bombing the innocent." I felt as if I'd entered some inner heart of the world, ... totally, compassionately shared by people half a world away, whose souls still bear the scars of war. The tears that came, as sorrow was ... , I saw how an old French military base, established after the second World War, has been converted to a lively housing complex for five thousand ...
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PEACE PLEDGE UNION
At the beginning of the Second World War, the bombing of civilians was regarded as a barbaric act. As the war continued all sides abandoned ... , in the deep freeze of the Cold War and the promise of 'Mutual Assured Destruction', the world's nuclear arsenals contained enough bombs ... are fewer nuclear weapons than at the height of the cold war, more states have them and even more seem to want them ...
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WAR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
At the end of the Second World War Britain had over 2 million tons of munitions - artillery shells, phosphorus flares, mortars, incendiaries and ... . Unsurprisingly the Belgian government is not keen to advertise this fact. long shadow of war The First World War left, along with the bodies of soldiers, vast amounts of unused munitions lying about ...
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NH Outlook War Stories - NH Outlook
War Stories - NH Outlook Search NH Outlook Archives NH Outlook War Stories THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of residents from four quintessentially American towns. NH Outlook has produced two companion programs featuring World War Two stories from New ...
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Education World® : Professional Development Center : Archives : Voice of Experience
The first was a pretty dismal failure, but his second attempt at mentoring a student teacher taught him a thing or ... "slow teaching" has in a speed-teaching world. Included: A lesson Mrs. Miller taught me in second grade. Planning for a Substitute Was ... Their Past -- A World War I Project With so few veterans of WWI still alive, who will make sure the world remembers? Brenda Dyck ...
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