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the blandly and bureaucratically named Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, forever remembered as the G.I. Bill of Rights, would alter both the aspirations and the expectations of all Americans, veterans and nonveterans alike.

Coca-Cola collectors have been cashing in on the company?s advertising memorabilia for years. But finding rare items has always been a challenge.

London has such a long and varied history that?s it?s difficult to summarise it for you quickly, but I?ll have a go.

Though William was not a clever statesman like his erstwhile chancellor Bismarck, he tried his best diplomacy to avoid the war with Great Britain as it would attack if Germany would start its warring frontier in France through Belgium. Upon the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles in early 1919, Article 227 expressly provided for the prosecution of William "for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties", but Queen Wilhelmina refused to extradite him, despite appeals from the Allies. Pathetically some years ago only William hosted US President Theodore Roosevelt in a review of the German army on parade and Roosevelt exclaimed, "My God, if I had an army like this, I could rule the world!"

There were a number of reasons that made the United States refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and to join the League of Nations.

Any mention of communism in Russia has to start with a discussion of Vladimir Lenin. Here is an overview of Lenin, an undeniably important historical figure.

Elephant Pass has come a long way from being a stretch of shallow waters that separated the Northern Jaffna Peninsula from the rest of the island in pre-colonial days and has now evolved into a military epicenter of the civil war. The shallow waters through which elephants once carried goods into the Jaffna peninsula, giving it the name Elephant Pass, have been a silent witness to the ebbs and flow of the northern conflict. The fall of Elephant Pass has changed the military course of the whole conflict. The horrors of the war and the heat of the battle could be seen around the Elephant Pass Camp which was finally lost to the hands of LTTE in 1999.

The United States of America, as widespread opinion states, finds itself teetering precariously on a fine balance today, between taking up its cudgel to police the destructive forces plaguing the world and shrugging its shoulders and walking away to safety and defeat.

The salvation army is one of the most visible charity organizations in the United States, especially around the Christmas Holiday.

The history books in school never told you a lot of what happened during the Revolutionary War. Patriotism is (NOT) a sin, and the Fourth of July has always had more to it than fireworks, beer, picnics, baseball games, and another holiday off.