#world war

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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.


Bjork


#cruel #different #feel #i #i feel

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.


Lionel Blue


#during #encountered #home #households #i

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.


Stella Blum


#after #back #before #century #had

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.


Eliot Engel


#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.


Lane Evans


#history #ii #june #marked #moment

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.


Harry Browne


#articles #defeated #end #enough #had

After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'


Dave Brubeck


#california #composition #enjoy #especially #his

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.


Dave Brubeck


#could #experienced #express #i #ii

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.


James Buchan


#bombings #during #east #europe #exclusive

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet.


Jeremy Bulloch


#fiction #get #i #ii #little