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2. Grace Laughton Bell - Wikipedia

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   At the outbreak of the Second World War, she began working for the Women's Royal Naval Service, where she served from 1939 to 1946. [1] Grace and her sister Vera Laughton Mathews were among the first officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Vera became head of the service between 1939 and 1946. Grace reached the rank of superintendent. [2] [3]

3. History of South America - Wikipedia

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   The history of South America during World War II is important because of the significant economic, political, and military changes that occurred throughout much of the region as a result of the war. In order to better protect the Panama Canal, combat Axis influence, and optimize the production of goods for the war effort, the United States ...

4. Foreign policy of the Theodore Roosevelt administration

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   Roosevelt was unwilling to consider using the military to intervene in the far-flung region, but Japan prepared for war against Russia in order to remove it from Manchuria. [106] When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in February 1904, Roosevelt sympathized with the Japanese but sought to act as a mediator in the conflict. He hoped to uphold the ...

5. Aurangzeb - Wikipedia

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   Aurangzeb. Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as Aurangzeb ( Persian pronunciation: [ʔaw.ɾaŋɡ.ˈzeːb] lit. 'Ornament of the Throne' ), was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. His regnal name is Alamgir I ( Persian pronunciation: [ʔɑː.ˈlam.ˈɡiːɾ] lit.

6. Roosevelt Corollary - Wikipedia

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   e. In the history of United States foreign policy, the Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904, largely as a consequence of the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903. The corollary states that the United States could intervene in the internal ...

7. Kingdom of Kush - Wikipedia

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   The Kingdom of Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ /; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙 𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš ), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern ...

8. Decimation (punishment) - Wikipedia

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   Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725) In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth' [ 1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort. The discipline was used by senior commanders in the Roman ...

9. The Order of the Stick - Wikipedia

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   The Order of the Stick ( OOTS) is a comedic webcomic that satirizes tabletop role-playing games and medieval fantasy. The comic is written and drawn by Rich Burlew, who illustrates the comic in a stick figure style. Taking place in a magical world that loosely operates by the rules of the 3.5 edition of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ...