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After the system was finished, no more floods occurred. The irrigation made Sichuan the most productive agricultural place in China and the people have been living peacefully and affluently ever since. Now, the project is honoured as the 'Treasure

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He solved the first problem by gravitating to every misfit and ne’er-do-well in the 43rd Air Group. As another pilot, Walt Krell, recalled, “He recruited a crew of renegades and screwoffs. They were the worst — men nobody else wanted. But they gravit

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The Times of Israel mentioned the missing plane and hinted at his heroics. We said there might be a lesson to be learned or simply a tale worth re-telling. He waved his hand dismissively, but, fresh from Pilates and in a rush to finish his chores bef

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http://original.antiwar.com, by Guy Somerset

Russia is the place both invading armies and preconceived notions come to die. Although generally included in the figurative West by its legalities and customs it is in many ways a unique entity. Never has this proved truer than during the ongoing co

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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Gary North

There is a famous line at the end of the movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (1962). The man who did not shoot him got the credit: James Stewart’s character. Toward the end of his political career, he finally tells the true story to a reporter, w

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Just seven years earlier, when Ptolemy Philadelphos (second of the rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty) took the throne, Alexandria was but another city on the Mediterranean. In less than one hundred years, it went from a small seaside town founded by Al

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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan

As the old saying goes, you cannot truly understand a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.

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https://www.nytexaminer.com, By Murray Polner

While analyzing Vladimir Putin, our latest foreign devil, I wonder if many of our born-again Russian experts could pass a simple exam evaluating and explaining the possible impact of Russia’s past on him?

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http://www.wired.com, By Rhett Allain

“Hey, look! There’s a big container of coins. I wonder if there’s any 1964 quarters in there.” That’s how it started and here’s how it ended.

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