Barbed Wire
A key weapon in the struggle to settle America's plains, barbed wire was patented in 1873. Years of armed range fights and lawsuits ensued as ranchers and farmers separated livestock and g...
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Beirut (dpa) - Lebanese army troops backed by French peacekeepers
stopped Israeli troops Wednesday from laying a pipe to divert
rainwater into Lebanon, a Lebanese army sourc...
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North Korea has started building a fence along parts of its border with China in an apparent move to prevent people from fleeing the impoverished communist country, a news report said SundayThe Nor...
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Kabul/Islamabad (dpa) - Cross-border shooting erupted after Afghan
army troops tore down part of a fence newly erected by the Pakistani
side on disputed territory that is of...
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Bud Ekins, a renowned off-road racer and stuntman who performed the famous motorcycle jump over barbed wire in the film "The Great Escape" and bounced a Mustang up and down the hills of San Francis...
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SEOUL, Oct 29 (Reuters) - One of North Korea's cruellest
prisons is a place where beatings and executions are common,
and so isolated that a child born behind its barbed wire may
never hear of the...
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The prisoner was attempting to escape. As the man crawled under the barbed-wire fence, a shot echoed in the night sky and a patch of sand exploded in front of him. Caught, he crawled back into camp...
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Vienna (dpa) - Accusations of "extraordinary bad taste were
levelled Sunday after details emerged of an Austrian designer
snapping nude photos at a former Nazi concentration...
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