In the beginning stage of American history, explorers' motives for coming to the new world was typically to find land and provide a better life for their families and themselves. The only problem with this thought is that people were already living on this land. The only option of owing the new land was to take it from the people who were already settling there. ... At the time this was the only way they knew how to acquire the land. ... Some many people died and so fast that it was expressed "the living was not able to bury the dead". ...

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The first day of the land on Normandy, June 6, proved to be a good start. ... Because weather was lousy naval drop off targets were way off, and greeting to meet the Americans at the shore of Omaha beach was a German first class unit that bombarded the allies with bombs leaving 2500 Ameicans dead on the first day. ... Although the Germans' had some weaknesses the Allies didn't land on Normandy with open arms and no risks. The Allies had to land on open beaches giving the Germans a clear view of Allies on the beach. ...

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Millions of people lay dead at the hands of fascists and Presidents. ... Though the test bombing in Alamogordo, New Mexico, had given them an idea of the blast radius and the effect on the land, no one could have determined the effect on humans, short or long term. ... People were dead before they even knew why. ...

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One of the worst things in the trenches was the stench of dead bodies. ... Once the bombardment stopped, the soldiers would climb out of their trenches and in a line, walk across "no man's land" where they, in theory, were meant to find the opposition trench blasted to bits and no soldiers left standing. ... This meant that the soldiers would go underground, and when the bombing stopped they would step out as they knew the soldiers were coming, and because the soldiers walked across "no man's land" this gave the German's enough time to ready their weapons. ...

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In this attack, British warplanes were to bomb the Germans from the air while 6,000 troops and 50 tanks moved from the sea to land using landing crafts. ... At the end of the nine-hour raid, 907 Canadians were dead and 1,874 were taken prisoner by the Germans. ...

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This poem takes place in the land of Hush-A-Bye in the days of Yore. ... And I'll tell you this quite plainly, it bumps them every day and more, and more, and leaves them dead, and burned, and dying thousands of them sick and crying . ... The setting, the Land of Hush-A-Bye, and the time, the days of Yore, are very eccentric. ...

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Everything was starting to feel the same again, especially that he was going to get his land back. He had made an agreement with Carl Heine, a white fisherman, who had kept Kabuo's family's land for them during the war. ... Kabuo's life takes a turn when Carl Heine is found caught in his fishing net dead and now he was accused of his murder. ...

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They do not pay attention to the person dead in the boots all they want is a nice pair of boots that will not rub their heels and that keep water out as much as possible. ... It showed how a soldier would pack up and move to a strange land they had never been before and have to cope to their surrounding and live there for a while. ... There is no report on the front because Paul along with everyone else is dead and there is no one left to report back. ...

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In some areas Jews were forced to live in ghettos, pay special taxes, and were not allowed to own land or have certain occupations. ... Their dead bodies were dissected and the organs were sent in for research. ...

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Before several Womens Rights movements women were not allowed to vote, had to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming, married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity, divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women, women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes, most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they were paid...

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This war between the Koreas was a mortifying war that not only permanently split a nation apart but was also responsible for the loss of more than 1,560,000 soldiers and civilians that are missing, captured, wounded or dead. ... Air, land, and sea forces were sent to support the South Koreans but the real help came from the air force. ... With the South Koreans gaining more and more land each day, a lot of mixed feelings grew. ...

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The United States had no proximate enemies, other than the Native Americans resistance in the heart of the United States which could only be controlled by land warfare due to the Native Americans not having any large bodies of water nor any naval war knowledge in the slightest. ... "The action terminated shortly after three o'clock and, of about one hundred men reported fit for duty in the morning, twenty-one were found dead, and sixty-three wounded....

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According to Davis, in "The Invasion Not Found in the History Books," an article found in the Omaha World Herald, Operation Olympic would begin with "X-Day" on November 1, 1945, and would land fourteen American divisions with the support of the largest naval fleet ever assembled, a total of more than 450 American vessels. ... "half a million dead" (Coffey, 474). ...

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They believed that, "an art must grow and flower in the land before the country will be a real home for its people- (Newman 175). ... The strike was broken, "two people were dead, dozens more were injured, and scores were arrested- (Newman 136). ...

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The working roles of women in Australia and how they changed! Because on the 6th of march 1942 conscription age rose, more men were getting called away to fight, leaving the workforce almost empty. This meant that they had to get women to fill in the roles of the men. December 1942 and a direc...

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According to Davis in the Invasion Not Found in the History Books, an article found in the Omaha World Herald, Operation Olympic would begin with "X-Day" on November 1, 1945, and would land fourteen American divisions with the support of the largest naval fleet ever assembled, a total of more than 450 American vessels. ... "half a million dead" (Coffey, 474). ...

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The line is sarcastic as Owen has now himself seen a gas attack and a man drown 'under a green sea', and has found out that dying out there in a far off land was a waste of a life and is completely pointless. ... It causes tension and sadness because the answer to the questions we probably could answer but do not because it is upsetting to remember the dead - especially when the question implies why should it have been them and not you? ...

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Pathet Lao declared the Hmong people dead. ... The Department of State realized that they couldn't leave Cambodia without the protection of the United States because of the influence from the International Security Control Commission, which included an Indian chairman, a Polish and Canadian member.17 Churchill tried to rebuild British military power in Cambodia and Laos that broke down after the Burma front collapse of 1942.18 Vietnam has always been trying to fight against Cambodia and Laos for land. ...

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He was a true influence for modernising Russia, as he pressed hard for social reform, redistribution of land and unsupported war negotiating settlement with Germany top gets out of war, which were just losses for Russia. ... After Linin's dead rapid modernization occurred in the hand of Stalin, by far the most ruthless leaders. ...

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