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WWII's eastern front mapped every single day

The Eastern Front of World War II was the largest and most brutal battlefield of the conflict. This video maps the fighting ...

Man finds 150 WWII love letters his grandparents wrote after one blind date — now they're a $60 coffee-table book

More than 80 years ago, Helen and Bill fell in love amid the chaos of war. Now, their story has turned into a booming business for their descendants.

[Definitive Edition] It was actually war that decided the "taste" of coffee. How World War II rewrote the map of coffee varieties

Since learning this story, the way I look at instant coffee in supermarkets has changed.1. Before the war, coffee was in ...

WWII veteran's medals posthumously presented in Willmar ceremony

As the nation paused to observe and remember the Sept. 11 attack, family members of one World War II veteran gathered in Willmar to honor and remember their family patriarch, Dwight Stevens. During a ...

UWEC exhibit explores Japanese-American experiences during WWII

On the second floor of McIntyre Library, visitors are met with the sight of a mountain. Upon closer inspection, the art on the wall from research student Abby Hable is a collection of ...
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British Intelligence Secretly Hid Real Maps, Compasses and Cash Inside Monopoly Sets During World War II to Help POWs Actually Escape German Camps

Sometime around 1941, a Leeds toy-and-playing-card printer called John Waddington Ltd. began quietly building an altered version of one of Britain’s best-selling board games — one with a magnetic ...
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World wants better map depiction of Africa. America said no. | Opinion

The common Mercator projection map distorts the size of continents, making Africa appear much smaller than it is. The United Nations General Assembly voted to encourage the use of maps that more ...