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The War

The Chaser's War on Everything or simply The War, an Australian television comedy series


1971 in Pakistan

India aids the rebels and enters the war in the first week of December and inflicts a crushing defeat on Pakistan Military in just a fortnight, thus creating the state of Bangladesh.

Al McIntosh

Ken Burns included several World War II-era excerpts from McIntosh's weekly column in his documentary "The War," which are voiced by actor Tom Hanks.

Åsne Seierstad

Her other books include One Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal which describes the three months she spent in Iraq in the build-up to the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and most recently Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, an account of the time she spent in Chechnya after the war.

Eugene Sledge

His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was subsequently used as source material for Ken Burns's PBS documentary, The War, as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific, in which he is portrayed by Joseph Mazzello.

F.P.1

The German version was the last German film that either Siodmak or Peter Lorre, who played a secondary character, would make in Germany before the war.

Georgia Cottage

His memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa was, in part, the basis for Ken Burn's PBS documentary, The War, and the HBO miniseries, The Pacific.

James L. Jones, Sr.

When the war broke out, he departed Africa, due to the circumstances of military presence of Nazi Germany forces.

Paul Fussell

Fussell was one of several veterans interviewed in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The War in 2007, and in the 1999 ABC-produced documentary The Century: America's Time.

R. Burnett Miller

Robert Burnett Miller (born September 2, 1923) is a former mayor of Sacramento, California who co-founded, with Oakley Hall and Blair Fuller, the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference and was featured in Ken Burns' documentary The War.

Siegfried Behrend

Together with Konrad Wölki, Herman Ambrosius, Heinrich Konietzny and others, Behrend was one of the leading proponents in the development of mandolin and plucked string music towards higher quality and enhanced expressivity in Germany after the war.


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14th Battalion, Maratha Light Infantry

In the last weeks of the war in Europe, during February 1945, the 14th Battalion proceeded overseas for service in Iraq (Mesopotamian campaign).

48th Armored Medical Battalion

Doctor Orvan Hess – developed the fetal heart monitor after the war

Artix Entertainment

Other special events include wars, in which players collaborate to defeat enough "waves" of monsters to win the war over several days, and live events with guest stars like Voltaire, One-Eyed Doll, George Lowe, Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, the cast of Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ayi Jihu, ArcAttack, They Might Be Giants, and Michael Sinterniklaas as the voice of Deady.

Brendan I. Koerner

It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war.

C.E. Humphry

After the war, the couple remained in the city, where Helen Pearl Adam met the writer Jean Rhys, allowing her to live in the Adams' flat, editing Rhys’ first novel, Triple Sec, and introducing her to Ford Maddox Brown.

Chilmari Upazila

During the war of Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the famous Chilmari Expedition was conducted here by then BDF Sector 11, Mankarchar Sub-Sector, led by Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah Khan.

Christopher Landon

After the war he wrote several novels including: A Flag in the City (1953), his first novel which was about WWII British intelligence in Teheran and their plans to destroy Germany's fifth column operations in Persia; Stone Cold Dead in the Market; Hornet's Nest; Dead Men Rise Up Never; and Unseen Enemy (aka The Shadow of Time).

David Stanley Evans

Being a conscientious objector to World War II he spent the war years at Oxford with physicist Kurt Mendelssohn where they worked on medical problems relating to the war effort.

De Stefano 'ndrina

According to the sociologist Pino Arlacchi, the background of the war was the attempt of the De Stefano brothers to turn their accumulated wealth and power to account by claiming contracts for the Gioia Tauro port.

Dominic Waghorn

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.

Erema

Having completed her self-imposed mission, she sets out on her way back to California and the sawmill; reaches the other side of the Atlantic in time to help in nursing the sick and wounded in the civil war; and among them finds her old friends, Sampson Gundry and his grandson, arrayed on opposite sides in the war.

Franco Belgiorno-Nettis

After the war he returned to Italy to complete his studies in engineering at the University of Turin.

Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg

Living in the Netherlands, they became acquainted with Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and entered into lengthy negotiations with Elizabeth's Court to obtain support for his cause; these efforts failed to garner assistance for renewing the war either from the English queen or in any other quarter.

George Musulin

After the war the CIA conducted its own investigation into Musulin, which concluded that he had acted appropriately and that he had been the victim of James Klugmann and other British agents in the SOE with communist sympathies.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

Educated at St Paul’s School, London, Janner was evacuated to Canada during the war and attended Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

Gus Statiras

After the war he moved with her to Tifton, Georgia, and tried his hand at a few other enterprises including a hamburger stand.

Heinz Reinefarth

After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag.

Helen Tobias-Duesberg

Shortly after the war, Duesberg died of a heart attack in a Stuttgart courtroom while preparing to testify against several Nazi war criminals.

Henry Redhead Yorke

His writings from then on showed support for the war policy of the Pitt administration, and he wrote on 3 August 1798 a private letter to William Wickham condemning the views of the Sheares brothers.

History of Montenegro

They ended up with destroying nine Apaches and damaging the rest while also destroying Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) training camps in the vicinity of airport.Eight civilian casualties are reported during the course of the war.

History of North Georgia College and State University

When Congress created the National Defense Act of 1916 that created ROTC the college used to train troops for the war and retained .

India in World War II

Later in the war however, the INA's second division, tasked with the defence of Irrawaddy and the adjoining areas around Nangyu, was instrumental in opposing Messervy's 7th Indian Infantry Division when it attempted to cross the river at Pagan and Nyangyu during the successful Burma Campaign by the Allies the following year.

Jean-Marie Colombani

In 2004 Colombani co-authored with Walter Wells, editor of the International Herald Tribune, the volume Dangerous De-Liaisons : What's Really behind the War between France and the U.S. (published by Melville House).

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

Denison-Pender ran C&W services during the war years and it was some feat that it remained undisrupted during that time, despite numerous setbacks including the Electra House HQ (London), Brentwood wireless station, the Moorgate-Porthcurno landlines and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall) all receiving direct hits in 1940 and up to 1945.

Józef Hen

Immediately after the war he was editor of the weekly The Polish Soldier.

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (Reinoso, Spain, June 13, 1770 - Moraya, Bolivia, December 4, 1831) was an Argentine general of Spanish origin (considered also a Bolivian for his activities in Bolivia) that fought in the war for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile and Peru.

Khan Muhammad Khan

Colonel Khan Muhammad Khan (Urdu: کرنل خان محمد خان)was a prominent soldier and politician in Poonch, serving in the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly and later as Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 War of Independence.

Lawrence Olson

After the end of the war, Olson worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington DC between 1948 and 1950, and he served as cultural attaché at the American embassy in Manila, Philippines from 1951 to 1952, before finishing his PhD at Harvard.

Medicine in the American Civil War

Colonel Eli Lilly had been a pharmacist; he built a pharmaceutical empire after the war.

Medieval Welsh literature

Guto was also a soldier who fought on the Yorkist side during the War of the Roses, but spent his last years as a lay guest at the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis, near Llangollen.

Michael Flinn

After the end of the war, Flinn took a history degree at the University of Manchester before spending two years as a grammar school teacher while writing a postgraduate dissertation in his spare time.

Mikhail Stakhurskii

After the war, from 1945 to 1961, he served as the First Secretary of four regional party committees, including three in Ukraine (Vinnytsia Oblast from 1945–1951, Poltava Oblast from 1951–1955, and Zhytomyr Oblast from 1957–1961) and one in Russia (Khabarovsk Krai from 1955–1957).

Nickajack Cave

Soon after the war started, the operation at Nickajack Cave was taken over by the Confederate government.

OEF

Operation Enduring Freedom, official U.S. government name for the War in Afghanistan

Palestine Railways P class

After the War of Independence and subsequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War, main line services were truncated to the territory within the new State of Israel.

Pete Hoffman

Afterwards, he returned to Toledo and stopped by to see Steve Roper authors Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; he had met them as a student cartoonist and had been sending them additional sketches during the war.

Peter Ramsaroop

{DD Form 214 - dtd May 13, 1997 issued by the Department of Defense} Ramsaroop is the recipient of the Kuwait Liberation Medal, The Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Force Achievement Medal with Valor for service during the war.

Ricciotti Garibaldi

In 1866, alongside his father, he took part in the Battle of Bezzecca (1866) and the Battle of Mentana (1867); in 1870, during his father's expedition in support to France during the Franco-Prussian War, he fought in the Vosges, where he occupied Châtillon and, at Pouilly, captured the sole Prussian flag lost during the war.

Robert Foster Kennedy

After the war he worked in the Bellevue Hospital, New York, where one of his colleagues was Samuel Kinnier Wilson.

Rudolf Leonhard

He fled, was recaptured, and eventually fled again, living in underground Marseille until the end of the war.

Samuel A'Court Ashe

After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).

Seeteufel

The only existing experimental vessel was taken to a facility near Lübeck, and destroyed at the end of the war.

Sudeki

David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".

Theatre of France

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the avant-garde Parisian theatre, "New theatre" or, as the critic Martin Esslin termed it, "Theatre of the Absurd," around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Thembang

In an early days the people of the village have fought many battles, most important one is the war with Chandagmai a miji queen, some more were a war with Tukpenpa (present Rupa), the head of the a Mag-pon (general) of Tukpen is still buried under the stone stair near the fort at Thembang.

Von Görschen

He was a successful commander during the War of the First Coalition in the region of Piemont 1797 and also during the War of the Second Coalition around Taufers (South Tyrol) and Susch (Engadin) in 1799 against Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.

West Belarus

The borders of the BSSR were again altered somewhat after the war (notably the area around the city of Białystok (Belastok Voblast was returned to Poland) but in general they coincide with the borders of the modern Republic of Belarus.

Xul Solar

Over the following few years, despite the onset of World War I, he would move among these cities, as well as Tours, Marseille, and Florence; towards the end of the war he served at the Argentine consulate in Milan.

Zahid Ali Akbar Khan

After the war, he then directed the DESTO Laboratories which was established to produced the high-atomic explosive materials and weapons.