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- British nuclear weapons and the Falklands War (Nick-D)
- Nuclear weapons were obviously not used in the 1982 Falklands War, but there is a nuclear aspect to the conflict. The Royal Navy warships sent to the South Atlantic carried most of the UK's nuclear depth bombs, as it would have taken too long to have offloaded them. It was also reported during and after the war that a British ballistic missile submarine had been sent to menace Argentina, though historians have found no evidence for such a deployment. It later emerged that British Prime Minister Thatcher might have been willing to use nuclear weapons if the war had gone disastrously wrong for her...
- Siege of Baghdad (AirshipJungleman29)
- According to AirshipJungleman's nomination statement, "The Siege of Baghdad shook the world. The end of the Abbasid Caliphate, the zenith of the Mongol conquests, the foundation of a new empire in the Middle East. Legends sprang up around the siege, and it became a byword for wanton destruction—but was it?" Apparently not, although the inhabitants might argue that 200,000 killed vs. 2,000,000 is a matter of degree, not intent...!
- Jozo Tomasevich (Peacemaker67)
- Another subject in PM's series on the military history of the former Yugoslavia, Tomasevich was an economist and historian whose works on Yugoslavia in World War II continue to be widely cited today despite his first book on the Chetniks being published nearly fifty years ago. He died before completing the third volume of his planned series on Yugoslavia in the war, a work focussing on the Partisans. The second volume in the series was published posthumously in 2001, edited by his daughter.
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A NASA Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flying over a Northrop HL-10 and its pilot William H. Dana in 1969 -
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The 1946 US Army anti-fascist propaganda film Don't Be a Sucker
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Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz concentration camp in May 1944; this photo forms part of the Auschwitz Album
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- Boot Monument (Relativity)
- The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial located in Saratoga National Historical Park, New York. Erected during 1887 by John Watts de Peyster and sculpted by George Edwin Bissell, it commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold's service at the Battles of Saratoga while in the Continental Army, but does not mention him on the monument because Arnold later betrayed the Continental Army to the British Army. Instead, it commemorates Arnold as the "most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army".
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