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Afghanistan's lost war
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[The News International] - Does anyone imagine they will be able to destroy the poppy fields? (Not that the foreign forces have managed to even reduce them in a decade of occupation.) President Obama announced last week that “The war in Afghanistan is coming to a close”, and he
Diane Boit: MHS wins Armistice football game, 1937
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[Mandan News] - It reads: "Ten thousand ghostly soldiers rise and march in grand advance / Above the snow white crosses of the poppy fields of France; / Ten thousand ghostly voices chant and echo this refrain - / Preserve the Peace we fought for, or we all have died
Guardian: Gregg Olsen's top 10 deadly reads
[The Guardian] - Billed as a kind of "Miss Marple for the YA set" the first in the series of Tanya Landman's Poppy Fields books hits all the right notes in a very different way than say, Alexander Gordon Smith does. It's a lighter touch to be sure. And it's geared to
Dorothy Dress Auctioned for $480K
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[Daily Beast] The Wizard of Oz went for $480,000 at an auction in Beverly Hills this weekend. The buyer of the dress—which did not come with the iconic ruby slippers in which Dorothy traipsed through a world of Munchkins, witches, and poppy fields—was not
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