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Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see Site Index (11-21) 23:09 PST -- Stanford leads series, 55-46-11. Rugby replaced football from 1906-1914. Cal returned to football in 1915, four years before Stanford. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 Story last updated at 11/22/2009 - 12:49 am SANTA FE, N.M. - The people who buried John Quincy Lott in Santa Fe National Cemetery didn't know him, only that he was a fellow military veteran. Full Article at Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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The relatives of Enrique Naputi, a victim of a shooting rampage in the community of Kannat Tabla in Saipan on Nov. 20, visit the site of the shooting on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. View Photo »
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That's what this vet center does. This is a place where you can sit down — maybe with another veteran from Iraq or Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, World War II or peace time — and say, 'You know, I've been in that hole you're in. I'm going to climb in there with you because I know the way out and I'm gonna...
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In 1952, a 13-year-old boy got a phone call that still makes him cry when he talks about it decades later. Full Article at The Clarion-Ledger
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SARTELL When James Gammell joined the Boy Scouts, Herbert Hoover was president and the Great Depression was in full swing. A faded photo shows the 12-year-old in a worn, hand-me-down uniform at a Scout camp in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1930. Full Article at St. Cloud Times
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Ruth Szabo, a resident of the city of Southfield for 60 years, recently received the 2009 Outstanding Community Service award from the City of Southfield Veterans Organizations. Full Article at The Oakland Press
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The relatives of Enrique Naputi, a victim of a shooting rampage in the community of Kannat Tabla in Saipan on Nov. 20, visit the site of the shooting on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. View Photo »
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The California jobless rate hit 12.5%, a post-World War II high, up from a revised 12.3% in September...
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NEW ORLEANS — Since opening nine years ago, the National World War II Museum has been a magnet for anyone interested in the 20th century’s defining conflict. Now, it gives people even more reasons to go — or go back. And not just during the day. Full Article at 2TheAdvocate.com
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MOVIE RATINGS = Poor = Fair = Good = Excellent G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience CC = Closed captioned for hearing impaired ALPHABETICAL... Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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That's what this vet center does. This is a place where you can sit down — maybe with another veteran from Iraq or Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, World War II or peace time — and say, 'You know, I've been in that hole you're in. I'm going to climb in there with you because I know the way out and I'm gonna...
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The California jobless rate hit 12.5%, a post-World War II high, up from a revised 12.3% in September...
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He was probably in the First World War, and the Second World War. What a bloody unlucky time to be a soldier. He’s probably dead, too.
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This is further evidence of the banalisation of anti-Semitism and the trivialisation of the genocidal massacre of Jews in the Second World War
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Of the post-World War II presidents, Obama now is the fourth fastest to drop below the majority approval level
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For the first time since World War II, Florida’s population is shrinking ... This is a disturbing revelation for a state that has built its economy — and structured its budget — on the assumption that throngs of new residents will move to its sunny shores each year.
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Many people consider the song the World War II equivalent of Irving Berlin’s ‘Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.’
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Although leadership came from many countries, once the United States finally awakened to its responsibilities, it reestablished the moral authority the world had come to expect from the U.S. during the 40 years after World War II.
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The U.S. In that period was dragged into participating in World War Two after Japan and Nazi Germany attacked it ... Previously there was a debate in the U.S., whether or not to join the war. The Americans thou Nazi Germany was a power. Iran is a third world country. ght that after World War One, there ...
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People often just skip from World War II to Vietnam; they don't realize what was taking place in Korea
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victory in World War II required flattening cities, firebombing factories, shops and homes, devastating vast tracts of Germany and Japan.... Victory today requires the same: smashing Iran's totalitarian regime and thus demoralizing the Islamist movement and its many supporters, so that they, too, abando...
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I cannot think of any time since World War II when Democrats and Republicans alike have yearned for a Europe that can be a more capable partner
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This goes to my role as the chief elections official for the state and the person who encourages people to participate in government and to be engaged citizens ... I can't think of better role models of good citizenship than World War II veterans.
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The world needs this kind of story nowadays. It's just...everybody's so screwed up. It seems like our country's in a kind of morbid mood, because of the recession or whatever. We're becoming juvenile as a nation. The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a...
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In a state that is facing over 12 percent unemployment - the highest since World War II - it's inexcusable that California chose to pursue unnecessary and harmful regulations that will destroy thousands and jobs and lose millions in tax revenues
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The third tidal wave was massive government funding… After World War II, the Cold War drove this funding to new highs, so that by the 1950s, the United States was spending 3 percent of GDP on R&D, which amounted to a majority of the total spending on science on the planet. Government funding of basic re...
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He is pandering to terrorism and doing it all over the Middle East too ... He is wrong, dead wrong. I don't know who is giving him advice, but it's bad advice. You can't placate terrorists. This isn't World War II or World War I where we fought Prussians who all wore funny little hats. The opposing sold...
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When President Obama [ Images ] announced from Pittsburgh that the G20 would replace the G8, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew called it an implicit acknowledgement that the post-World War II order had come to an end
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Walter served his country during World War II, stationed at Los Alamos, building the atomic bomb which ended the war with Japan
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He wasn't on our radar — he wasn't on anyone's radar — and this is a case that clearly shows it is possible, even at this point, to identify perpetrators who bear responsibility for serious crimes committed during World War II and bring them to justice
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After the experiences of the Great Depression and World War II, the United States led in the creation of the international financial system that anchored prosperity and stability for more than 60 years
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It also carries the image of a mosque to designate the unit's service in North Africa in World War II.
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Without doubt, Copenhagen should have been the most important meeting of world leaders since the second world war. Yet procrastinating politicians are preparing for more talks in the outmoded but time-honoured fashion that's all about brokering deals and consensus-politics. The outcome could be the long...
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Japan was the key market of the post World War II era, in relative terms it is declining
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