... Ireland, as well as military stocks of unwanted ammunition. It is believed that, in the 30 years after the end of the Second World War, a million tons of munitions were dumped in the deep trench in the North Channel between Stranraer and Belfast. A memo ...

... devastating blow to the life of this small village, effectively wiping out a generation. Paradoxically, it may have been the second world war which temporarily halted the breakdown of the community, for while the men were away, and the entire population was directed ...

... with a curry, why not book a table at the Shalimar. f P O il % £ : 3 2 ¥ i T % 5 4m: | Y e S | | 5 THE great Soviet Second World War Marshal Georgi Zhukov was once asked for the secret of his success. The victor of the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad ...

... ‘a ‘torchlight pro: ¢ession “through the-: streets: marked the start of a night of festivities. Beams from eifiht» Second World War searchlights and fireworks lit up the town. In Stirling an estimated 30,000 revellers gathered round Stirling - Castle ...

... must be doing something right. And to be fair, it has had its share of correct forecasts, including the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the death of Princess Diana in 1997 and Labour’s landslide election victory. But the thought of P human clones ...

... air-raid shelfrom ladder while fighting disastrous ters built and sandbags filled as fire at Miller and Franklin's store, St Second World War declared. Leonard’s Road. Down Senior Schools completed. St Paul’s Free Church opened. Bexhill becomes a reception area ...

... both sides on.the First World War's first Christmas Day-: o . ¢)-Aset of medals wonby.a Scottish regiment during the Second World War = = - d) The first Scottish VC> : },As one of Europe’s nine Helsinki’s contribution will d) A festival of ice Sculpture ...

... THE PEOPLE’S CENTURY 1920-1929 1930-1939 Y E horrors of ” hand-to-hand \ 5 jungle warfare T in Burma during [ R the second world ,&% = war remain a har- % - rowing memory for A o u I e Fateh Mohammed - who served with . S the British Indian ? e - ARPET ...

... jammed the 2.5-mile crescent of Copacabana. In Tokyo, a focal point of celebrations was the Meiji Shrine, destromd in the Second World War and rebuilt, like much of the city. Signs of Asia’s long-running LETS CELEBRATE: Kiribati dancers, above, raise their ...

... smelly streets and into the future, what might our ancestors have imagined? Could anyone have foreseen the First and Second World Wars, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Communism, the Cold War and the terrible birth of atomic weapons? MAYBE not. But ...

... confectioners, at the time when Sir Harold - later Lord Mackintosh - was chairman. She remembers how, on the outbreak of the second world war, planned new lines had to be abandoned as production concentrated on toffee for the forces and export. In 1942, she married ...

... ever the expert planter of rumour and innuendo, speculated that her little shop stayed open until the first years of the Second World War because his book kept her afloat. That was not true. Sylvia Beach survived because she was careful with money. What little ...