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  • 31War Resisters' International — or WRI is an international anti war organization with members and affiliates in over thirty countries. Its headquarters are in London, UK. History Founded in Bilthoven, Netherlands in 1921, WRI adopted a founding declaration that has remained… …

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  • 32War of Succession of Champagne — Date 1216 1222 Location County of Champagne and its environs; mostly concentrated in southeastern Champagne Result Loyalist victory, Theobald IV succeeds as Count, Countess Regent Blanche centralizes authority over …

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  • 33War crimes in Manchukuo — were committed during the rule of the Empire of Japan in northeast China, either directly, or through its puppet state of Manchukuo, from 1931 to 1945. Various war crimes have been alleged, but have received comparatively little historical… …

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  • 34WAR SCROLL — WAR SCROLL, manuscript comprising 18 columns found among the manuscripts in Qumran Cave 1 in 1947 and acquired by for the Hebrew University; it is now in the Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem. Two fragments of the scroll were discovered when the cave …

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  • 35War Plan Red — was a military document outlining a hypothetical war between the United States and the British Empire (the Red forces). It was developed by the United States Army during the mid 1920s, and was officially withdrawn in 1939, when it and others like …

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  • 36war — [ wɔr ] noun *** ▸ 1 when countries fight ▸ 2 effort to stop something ▸ 3 when people compete ▸ 4 when people fight/argue ▸ 5 World War II ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) uncount fighting between two or more countries, that involves the use of the military and …

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  • 37war — W1S3 [wo: US wo:r] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Old North French; Origin: werre, from Old French guerre] 1.) [U and C] when there is fighting between two or more countries or between opposing groups within a country, involving large numbers of soldiers… …

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  • 38War of the Pyrenees — Part of the French Revolutionary Wars The Panissars blockhouse, looking south from the Fort de Bellegarde into Spain. The town of La Junquera is left of center …

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  • 39War — War, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Warred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warring}.] 1. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. [1913 Webster] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the… …

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  • 40German declaration of war against the Netherlands — At 6:00 AM (Amsterdam Time) on 10 May 1940, during the Battle of the Netherlands, the German envoy Count Zech von Burkensroda gave Dutch minister of foreign affairs Van Kleffens the following German declaration of war. It was only later… …

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