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Goldie Jean Hawn is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in popular film comedies of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Hawn began her acting career as a cast member of the short-lived situation comedy Good Morning, World during the 1967-1968 television season, her role being that of the […]
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The Alaska Highway was constructed during World War II and connects the Continental U.S. to Alaska through Canada.
It runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon. Although the highway was completed on October 28, 1942 and its completion was celebrated at Soldier’s Summit on November 21st, the “highway” was not […]
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The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, from November 20, 1945 to 1949, at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
The first and best known of these […]
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The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the second time the United States was on the offensive, and the first offensive in the critical central Pacific region.
It was also the first time in the war that […]
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On November 19, 1941, during World War II, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran fought each other in the Indian Ocean, off Western Australia. The two ships destroyed each other and Sydney was lost with all 645 hands. Most of the crew from Kormoran were rescued and became prisoners […]
Linda Evans is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy nominated American actress known primarily for her roles on television. At twenty-three, the blonde Evans rose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck’s daughter and the sister of Richard Long, Peter Breck, and Lee Majors, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s Western, The Big Valley.
The Big Valley was among the […]
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The Battle of Berlin was a British bombing campaign on Berlin from November 1943 to March 1944, as well as other German cities to prevent concentration of defences in Berlin.
It was launched by Arthur “Bomber” Harris, AOC of RAF Bomber Command in November 1943. Harris believed this could be the blow which broke German resistance: […]
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Daniel Michael DeVito, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, director, and an Oscar-nominated producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of “Louie De Palma” on the popular ABC and NBC TV series Taxi from 1978 to 1983.
In 2006 he began co-starring as Frank Reynolds on the FX sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. […]
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Howard Brush Dean III, MD is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organization of the Democratic Party at the national level.
Before entering politics, Dean received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978. Dean was […]
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The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in Warsaw, former capital of Poland in the General Government during the German Occupation in World War II.
Nazis closed off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world on November 16, 1940, building a wall with armed guards. Between 1941 and […]
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