Articles about World War II (0-50 of 13309)

  • Day Trip To World War Ii Cemeteries In Al Alamein
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    Our representative will pick you up from your cruise port by your private English speaking Egyptologist guide who will accompany you to Al Alamein World War II remains and cemeteries then you will also visit the Military Museum which includes the old weapons, tanks, flights, and bikes used in the World War. Also the descriptions actions of Montgomery, Rommel and the others participated in the battle are all on display. You will have your lunch enroute on t ...

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  • Considering Honesty In Literature In Diary Of Anne Frank (written During World War Ii) And To Kill A
    By: Paul Thomson | - Writers like to talk about honesty and truth. They aim to tell an honest tale, reveal honesty in characters, or get the truth of a story on the page. What does it mean? In a fictional novel, the truth authors seek is a sincere understanding of the world and the characters they have created. A truth that is so sincere that they, along with their readers, feel as though the story could have actually happened, the characters and the world that the story is set in could ...
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  • Inspiration In World War Ii And Lord Of The Flies
    By: Paul Thomson | - What moves a writer to write? Or, more importantly, what moves a writer to write something great? It seems odd to consider that our favorite novels, which have become so ingrained in our society, actually started with a blank page. A writer started with a stark white page full of possibility. Next, was probably some self-doubt, a lot of hope, endless hours of perseverance and more head banging than students at an ACT prep course. After all the authors hard work we end up with a classic like L ...
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  • Two Events That Altered The Outcome Of The Second World War
    By: Peter Bruce | - During World War 2, two events were to have a pivotal impact on the eventual conclusion - the Battle of Britain and the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Battle of Britain took place in the air between August and September 1940. After the German successes, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the surrender of France, Britain was alone facing Germany. The Battle of Britain is perhaps the best known battle of the second world war. In order to control the English Channel, the German air force had to command the ...
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  • Books About Concentration Camps And The Second World War
    By: Michele de Capitani | - There are some historical periods that inspire writers, poets and scholars more than others, and the Second World is certainly one of these. The Second World War has affected many peoples for many years, and what happened during this span of time from Nazi concentration camps to bloody battles like the battles of Monte Cassino along with the serious consequences deriving from that in terms of deaths, poverty and destructions cannot but have seriously affected not only the people who ...
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  • Will There Be Another World War
    By: tishbite | - This article is nothing more than speculation but speculation is good and healthy if it causes us to use our minds. Now my answer to the question is yes.

    The biggest problem that the world has as far as weaponry is the nuclear technology that so many countries posses. Since this technology was developed during WWII the United States has tried to keep the lid on these weapons but the truth is that there are countries who posses these weapons who are more than eager to use them if ne ...

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  • Announcing A Holiday Gift To Bring Joy To The World
    By: Andrzej Anonimus | - An Amazing Writer Enriches World History

    There's a new book coming out just in time for Christmas, titled "Back From Oblivion." It's a fascinating first-person account of historical events that took place during the invasion of Poland at the beginning of WWII. Read about the horrific adventures of Angus, an irrepressible eleven-year-old boy. He survived hell, not once, but twice. First, his town of Poznan was invaded by the Nazi devils in 1939. His family, along with much of the tow ...

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  • My Grandfather Lived Through Hell, Twice, And Wrote An E-book About It. He Is 83
    By: Andrzej Anonimus | - Meet our Grandpa, hes 83 years old. We call him Mis /Meesh/, which means bear in Polish, he gave himself a pen name of Andrzej Anonimus. (Andrzej=Andrew, Anonimus = Latin for Anonymous).

    Retired, our grandpa became writer. What makes our grandpa really incredible is that he totally embraced computers to do it, and now he has embraced the Internet too.

    Hes been using a PC since the early 90s... In love with the Internet, he is the most digital ...

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  • World War One Planes: Setting The Requirements
    By: jameay08lo | - The world was at war, requiring creative thought as nations pressed researchers and technical engineers to create much better and quicker methods to grab triumph by defeating the enemy. Aircraft had been included for the very first time, carrying out reconnaissance missions and getting pictures. The attitude seemed to be "If it flies, bring it together!" The year 1914 saw canvas and wood biplanes utilized as world war one planes.

    Risk from enemy planes triggered pilots to obtain a b ...

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  • How The Tsunami In Japan And World War 2 Affected Currency Markets And World Business Part 2
    By: David Slacozzi | - Partly in light of government reforms and cash infusions Japan enjoyed one of the biggest economic recoveries and most prosperous decades in the history of any country. By 1952 wages had returned to prewar levels and were continuing to increase. From 1953 to 1960 Japan's overall economy grew an average of 9.3%. Because of the increased investment in industry and technology and with a highly skilled, well educated labor force Japan was able to increase productivity 7.2% annually from 1953 to 1962 ...
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  • How The Tsunami In Japan And World War 2 Affected Currency Markets And World Business Part 1
    By: David Slacozzi | - Since early March a lot of the worlds focus has been on the cataclysmic earthquake, tsunami and subsequent radioactive fallout in Japan and the tragic unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. While both here at home and abroad, economists are struggling to predict the tumultuous effects on economies and the future track of business, currencies and investments. Even though it's not an exact comparison there are many similarities between current events and those occurring during and after World ...
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  • Download Shooting Games Such As Flight For Fight
    By: Peter Sokolov | - At Warlock Studios, you can download shooting games amongst other types of games. There is a wide variety of games available to suit many different tastes. One game which combines fighting with a flight simulator is the highly addictive and enjoyable Flight for Fight, a World War II flight simulator which is easy to start playing but hard to stop. Flight for Fight is an adrenaline-packed action game which combines characteristics from shoot-em-up type games and flight simulators. With this game, ...
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  • Where's Your Sheepskin Bomber Jacket?
    By: Georgie Henderson | - Even though leather bomber jackets have been around for close to a century, they are still a desirable and stylish item. This is one fashionable jacket that just seems to never go out of style and appeals to folks in just about every generation. For many years many different types of celebrities have donned leather bomber jackets, giving these fashionable coats a remarkably resilient image that has never been lost. There is nothing that says "fashion" and "style" like a sheepskin bomber jacket.< ...
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  • Movies About The Second World War
    By: Michele de Capitani | - The second world war has certainly been one of the most important events of the 20th century, an event that has remained in the collective memories of many peoples and countries, and that has inspired many directors all over the world in the making of their movies. This might be due to a need of remembering and making people not forget what happened only a few decades ago, as well as to the desire of understanding and explaining the various features of this major event.

    The Second W ...

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  • How Would Our Political Class Have Handled The Dog That Mocked Hitler?
    By: Bruno Korschek | - Use your imagination and play along with a theoretical situation and try to imagine how our political class may have handled a historical situation. The specific historical situation was described in a January 7, 2011 Associated Press report. Historians found a set of World War II documents that revealed a weird obsession that Hitler's German government had with a Finnish dog.

    A Finnish husband and wife owned a mixed breed dog that the wife, a German living in Finland who despised ...

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  • The Four Battles Of Monte Cassino
    By: Michele de Capitani | - Cassino is one of the major places of the Second World War; no wonder that many students visit it: visiting the war museum of the city and the abbey of Monte Cassino, indeed, you can look into some important moments of the Second World War.

    Four battles took place in the city of Cassino and near the abbey of Monte Cassino between the January and May of 1944. The intention of the Allies was splitting the Gustav line - a series of fortifications that used to divide Italy in two, the ...

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  • The Most Compelling Book On Guernsey
    By: Steve Smith | - Occasionally a book is published that grabs hold of you, difficult to put down and when finished, leaves the reader begging for more. One such book is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, written by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows, a book set within and after World War Two.

    Shaffer visited Guernsey in 1976 and was fascinated by the wartime occupation. During her research, she learnt tales of terrible cruelty and great courage.

    A best selling book, it ...

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  • The History Of World War 2 And D Day
    By: Richard McMunn | - At 06.30 the first landing craft descended on Omaha & Utah beach. Omaha beach was the most fortified of all beaches with high bluffs containing mortars many machine gun nests and artillery. Supposedly weakened by the pre-landing naval and aerial bombings the defnese proved ineffective as many of the barrages were hopelessly off target causing heavy allied casualties.

    In support of the landing troops was supposed to be 16 specially designed amphibious Sherman tanks called DD ...

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  • Adolf Hitler And World War 2
    By: Richard McMunn | - Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th April 1889 in Braunau am Inn Austria, the fourth child of six. Hitler's father Alois Hitler was a local customs official, his mother Klara Polzl the third wife of Alois and also his cousin for which a papal dispensation was required for them to marry.

    Hitler's childhood was a troubled one, his father often beating him and his mother, years later he is said to have told his secretary "I then resolved never again to cry when my father whipped ...

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  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction
    By: Paul Wise | - The 88mm gun was a famous family of German artillery pieces employed throughout World War II. Originally developed for the anti-aircraft role, it was discovered that they were even more proficient as anti-tank artillery, in which role the weapon has cemented its fearsome reputation, being able to knock out even heavy tanks at maximum ranges.

    The English word "flak" comes from the German "FlaK" for "Flugzeugabwehr-Kanone" or "anti-aircraft cannon." When its prowess as an anti-tank ...

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  • What Drives The African World War?
    By: Stephen Reeves | - The Democratic Republic of the Congo borders has been described as the heart of Africa. Geographically it is surrounded by nine other African nations. DR Congo should be a wealthy nation. It is the sixth most mineral rich country in the world. Its landscape possesses fifty percent of African forests and a river system that could provide hydro-electric power to the entire continent. Instead it is a place where for over a decade the worlds deadliest conflict has raged killing an estimated five an ...
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  • World War Two Uniforms And Equipment
    By: Scott Lipe | - World War II Uniforms: With so many different countries fighting in the war, Uniforms played a huge part. The typical neutral greens worn by British infantry soldiers were very much so distinguished from the dark blue/black uniforms that the Germans wore. Yet while the uniforms played a great deal in identifying ones friend, the uniforms also offered valuable protection.. Standard uniform did not just include the uniform clothes; equipment was issued with it as well. The following would be given ...
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  • Famous German Artillery Flak Kwk And Pak
    By: Arthur N. Miles | - The 88mm gun was a famous family of German artillery pieces employed throughout World War II. Originally developed for the anti-aircraft role, it was discovered that they had been even much more proficient as anti-tank artillery, in which role the weapon has cemented its fearsome reputation, being able to knock out even heavy tanks at maximum ranges.

    The English word "flak" comes from the German "FlaK" for "Flugzeugabwehr-Kanone" or "anti-aircraft cannon." When its prowess as an anti- ...

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  • World War Two Weapons Including Rifles And Gatlin Machine Guns
    By: Scott Lipe | - WWII Weapons: As the war developed, so did the weapons used throughout it. From the straight forward rifle, right down to the development of the nuclear bomb, weapons were developed to try to gain an advantage over the opposition.

    The Second World War is normally credited for bringing into being the stable version of the hand held machine gun. While used in the World War I, the machine gun, otherwise known as the Gatlin gun, was very inaccurate and couldn't be moved about. Yet with ...

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  • World War Two Was A World Wide Conflict Between The Allied And Axis Powers
    By: Scott Lipe | - World War II was a world wide conflict between the Allied and Axis powers. It went on for 6 years between 1939 and 1945 and finally came to an end with the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in total 60 million deaths occurred.

    While the Axis consisted of Germany, Italy and Japan, the European countries had separate goals to that of Japan. It was through the common enemies that they became allies, so World War II is really split into two parts, Germany and Italy's genoc ...

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  • World War Two Lincoln Memorial And Washington Monument
    By: Scott Lipe | - Due to the amounts of lives lost in WWII there have been numerous memorials put up around the globe, dedicated to the soldiers who died in action. One of the most famous ones is the National World War II Memorial in Washington DC, USA. This memorial was erected to all the soldiers who served and died in the Second World War, and is located on the national mall in Washington DC. It was built on the former site of the rainbow pool which is located between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Mo ...
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  • World War Two Aircraft Fighters, Attackers And Bombers
    By: Scott Lipe | - WWII Aircraft: Throughout WWII there were many advances in technology, and it is also the first war to have ever experience air war fare. Because of this, many different aircrafts were built, but they all normally fall under three groups, Fighters, Attackers and Bombers. Of the 3 Groups it's a matter of opinion which one was the most important.

    Fighter Aircrafts: The Fighter aircraft was a major asset during the war, as they had to be produced to help defend against bombing attacks ...

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  • The Importance Of Passing On History
    By: Kim Remsky | - Anyone that has a fascination with historical events knows that you always look at the important events, groups, and ideas from the past to help shape the world's future. History is so broad of a subject and it is very major part of how cultures and societies evolve in the world. If you look at the history of any people group in continents like South America, Asia, and Africa, you will see that there were certain events in history that help influence how they are today. By knowing a bit about wh ...
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  • Universal Themes And Family In Faulkners "barn Burning" And "the Diary Of Anne Frank"
    By: Paul Thomson | - Despite being only some one hundred paragraphs long, William Faulkners 1938 short story "Barn Burning" pals around in quite the variety of literary circles. Since its protagonist, Sarty, is a ten-year-old boy who breaks away from his family to forge his own identity, it is probably best defined as a coming-of-age tale. Then again, the storys depiction of small-town Southern life, morally-ambiguous characters, suspense, injustice, and insanity have all the characteristics of the Southern Go ...
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  • A Must-see, The Historiale Of Cassino
    By: Martina Meneghetti | - The territory of Monte Cassino has been hard hit during the Second World War. Unfortunately, the famous battle of Monte Cassino has devastated the area and killed thousands of civilians, harshly marking an area so beautiful by history and tradition.

    The Battle of Cassino, in its four phases, is still considered today one of the most important and discussed battles of the Second World War. Between 15 and 18 February 1944, as a result of the Anglo-American bombing raids, due to a hast ...

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  • World War 1: Ieper (ypres), Belgium
    By: Ankit Prashar | - Belgium, a country in the northwest of Europe on the North Sea. In ancient times Belgium was inhabited by the Belgae, the region was part of the Carolingian and Roman empires before breaking up into a number of feudal states during the middle Ages. The region occupied by present-day Belgium passed to the Hapsburgs in the 15th century and then to the French in the 18th century. After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Belgium was given to the kingdom of the Netherlands, from which it gained independ ...
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  • The Great History Passed Through Monte Cassino
    By: Martina Meneghetti | - One of the most important and bloody battles of the Second World War was the Battle of Monte Cassino, while the allies tried to break through the Gustav Line of the German defenses.

    Monte Cassino and the surrounding area were often the protagonists of important historical moments, since ancient times. One of the highlights was the famous battle of Monte Cassino.

    When speaking of the Battle of Monte Cassino, in fact it refers to a series of four battles fought during t ...

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  • The Worst German Victory In World War Ii
    By: William Nugent | - World War II is called "World War" because of its worldwide geographic extent and this is perhaps the least imaginative and least instructive basis to name a war. The Second World War was a teachable moment in a multitude of ways and we should draw as much of a lesson as possible from this costly and utterly tragic conflict.

    This article will focus on the European theater and the ultimate German victory in that theater. The war in Europe in WW II was a war over philosophy. Many if ...

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  • The Lesser-known Facts: A Wwii Study Guide To American (non-)involvement
    By: Paul Thomson | - This July 24th marks the 65th anniversary of the German retreat from Brittany and Normandy just a month and a half after the D-Day invasion of World War II. Heralded as the major turning point on the European front, the Allied invasion of Normandy remains one of the most celebrated military operations in living memory, having helped put an end to what is commonly known in America as the Good War.

    While buzzwords like D-Day, Allied Forces, and Good War give WWII an honored place in ...

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  • World War 2 - The Build Up To War
    By: Richard McMunn | - On the 1st April 1924, for his part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch Hitler was sentenced to serve Five years in Landsberg Prison, a sentence for which he served little less than a year. During his trial Hitler popularity soared as he was given unrivalled amount of time to speak turning him from a local personality, to a National figure. When serving time in Landsberg Hitler would receive favoured treatment from the prison guards and much mail from admirers, however the majority of his short stay ...
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  • World War 2 - The Early Days
    By: Richard McMunn | - After the end of the Great War Hitler returned to Munich and remained in the army or the Reichswehr as it would be known. In his role as an Intelligence Commando, he would infiltrate a small political party known originally as the German Workers Party which would later be changed to the National Socialists German Workers Party (NSDAP). On inspection Hitler was impressed by the parties founder member Anton Drexler's nationalists anti-Semitic, anti-Capitalist and anti-Marxist ideologies which favo ...
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  • World War 2
    By: Richard McMunn | - November 11th 1918 a famous day in history, the end of World War one. World War one the war to end all wars, a famous quote by then US President Woodrow Wilson, so right he should have been after the suffering and heartache endured by all nations involved, the awful conditions in the trenches and the horrific loss of life on all sides. An estimated total of over 65 million troops were deployed by all nations culminating in over 8 million confirmed killed, 21 million wounded and nearly 8 million ...
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  • How World War 2 Unfolded.
    By: Richard McMunn | - On the 28th June 1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed after six months of negotiations at the Paris peace conference consisting of diplomats of more than thirty countries including President Woodrow Wilson of the United states, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain and Georges Clemenceau of France, diplomats from Germany & Russia were not allowed to attend, however many representatives from various nations spanning the globe were in attendance each with their own agenda.
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  • A World War I Soldier's Photo Album: Gas, Guts And Eternal Glory?
    By: Jack Deal | - Grandpa collected a series of 350 or so photos, reprints and postcards from World War I when he was an American soldier. For some reason he wanted to save all the pictures and they fill almost two albums.

    Maybe it was knowing that one day someone like me would look at the pictures and reflect on the true nature of war. Who knows. But whatever his reasons I'm glad he saved them. The effect of looking at the albums is sobering.

    Not much glory there in Grandpa's photo ...

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  • Golda's Stories Of The Holocaust
    By: Avinoam Amizan | - The True Stories of a Holocaust Survivor who Survived Six Years in the Concentration Camps.

    Golda Sandman was born in the small city of Strachovitsa in south Poland. At the beginning of World War II she was a girl age eighteen. After the occupation by the Germans she was sent from the ghetto to a work camp in the city. Later she was sent to Auschwitz Birkenau and from there to Bergen-Belzen.

    She spent totally six years in concentration camps.

    After ...

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  • Life As A Child In Germany During World War Ii
    By: Evelyn Whitaker | - This may be a touchy subject for many to read, but some of the things I'm about to tell you is real and a part of life many of us don't want to hear.

    Although there are many articles published about World War II in Germany, not too many touch on the personal aspect of what it was like growing up as a child during the war. For those of you that are interested, this article may be for you.

    My parents were raised in Germany during World War II. When the war first start ...

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  • World War Ii Names Still In Our Vocabulary -part One - The Lenin Mausoleum
    By: Bob Carper | - Almost seventy years have elapsed since the beginning of World War II. This was the bloodiest conflict our global world has ever endured. Almost every country throughout the world lost millions upon millions of its population. There has never been a war fought on such a massive scale as the Second World War. It is doubtful if such a war will ever be fought again. If it ever happens, it will mean the total destruction of our world.

    The Lenin Mausoleum is the first of a series ...

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  • A Glimpse Of The Weapons Used During World War Ii
    By: Joshua Miller | - The Second World War took place from the year 1939 to 1945 and it took place between the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. This war is regarded as the worst war in history because it led to the deaths of a huge number of people. This war has seen the use of different kinds of life threatening weapons by different countries. Given below are some of the weapons that were used during the World War II, http://www.http://www.a2armory.com/ww2-pistols.html:

    Bazooka - This weapon is the ...

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  • World War Ii Weaponry
    By: Jackie Kent | - Interestingly enough, two innocuous prunes claim to be accepted as one of the secret weapons of World War II period.

    Spink, an auction house in London, is selling two graying prunes that it claims were chosen to be stuffed with documents or other maps to be passed on to prisoners of war secretly. As part of the memorabilia sheltered by a British spy the prunes had been preserved.

    According to Emily Jackson, the Spink spokeswoman, the prunes are extremely dry and har ...

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  • Radical Islam Starts World War And Destroys Un Says Ancient Egyptian Prediction
    By: Marshall Masters | - We're living in prophetic times, says a newly-revealed ancient text inscribed by Egyptian scholars shortly after the Exodus. Having survived the millennia, these texts are now part of The Kolbrin Bible. They offer uncannily accurate predictions, and several have already come to pass.

    Those yet to be fulfilled warn us that Muslim terrorists will soon trigger a world war that destroys the United Nations and then divides the world into bloody hegemonies. Following that, another predi ...

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  • Will War In The Middle East Eventually Begin The Battle Of Armageddon?
    By: C.F. Bettridge | - Will history eventually disintegrate into a global holocaust of devastating chaos like many religious people say? Is the present situation in the Middle East that religious folks say are pointing at to give their claims weight? They are insisting that these events have been arranged specifically to forecast the day that Christ will rise up and walk the earth again at judgment. What makes this claim different then what they have asserted ...
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