80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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Civil War Sites Preservation Fund Grant Recipients Announced
With this round of grants the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund has now allocated $20,312,188.32 in matching funds for the acquisition and preservation of over 1,100 acres associated with the 38 most ...
3 Middle Tennessee counties awarded state grants for protection of Civil War sites
The Tennessee Wars Commission, a division of the Tennessee Historical Commission, is responsible for administering grants through the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund.
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The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
It plunged into a civil war in 2013 and then again three years later ... “The prospect for peace and stability in South Sudan has now been put into serious jeopardy,” it added.
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Smoke and memory: A Civil War painting endures in Minnesota’s Capitol
At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...
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Fears of civil war in South Sudan stem from political rivalry between the president and his deputy
Amid the split, forces loyal to Machar carried out a massacre in the town of Bor that targeted the Dinka, angering rebel commander Kiir and John Garang, the movement's now-deceased political ...