Island Hopping, the military tactic used for weakening and flushing out enemy forces on islands that were well packed in, was a brand new technique introduced during WWII. It involved heavy bombing ...
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Up and down the stone piers of Split's raucous port we walked, past a melange of ferries, yachts, tugboats and fishing vessels. Up and down.Past double-decker sailing yachts with racks of bikes onb...
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An Asian butterfly known for ravaging the leaves of young citrus trees has spread from the Dominican Republic to other Caribbean islands and could soon strike fruit producers in Florida, agricultur...
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a weakened and outnumbered U.S. fleet limped north to confront a flotilla of Japanese ships advancing on the remote Pacific atoll of Midway.A Japanese v...
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Spectacle Island has a swimming beach, five miles of walking trails dotted with gazebos, and a panoramic vista from the highest point in Boston Harbor. It's hard to believe that underneath all this...
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The people of the Central Pacific don't need science to understand one possible effect of global warming.These Micronesians, whose islands spread from near the Philippines on the west to five hours...
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WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORYBy Laurel Thatcher UlrichAlfred A. Knopf, 284 pages, $24
It can be a mistake to judge a career by its covers, but Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s boo...
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De Koog/Oost-Vlieland (dpa) - Some people consider Schiermonnikoog
the prettiest of the five Wadden islands off the northern coast of
the Netherlands yet Terschelling and Te...
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CUBA: Castro calls Chavez in live broadcast on communist-run islandHAVANA (AP) — Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro made his first live appearance on Cuban airwaves Sunday since falling ill 14 ...
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Many boys play cavalry and Indians. For Douglas MacArthur, that action was real life.Born in 1880, he was the son of Arthur MacArthur Jr., commander of an infantry company guarding frontier settler...
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General Forrest Harding's house in Franklin, Ohio, is preserved as it was before his death in 1970, and it is a museum of disappointment. Musty evening wear fills the closet, a shrunken military tu...
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Island Hopping Tactics: World War II
Island-hopping on Croatian coast
