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A U.S. Marine went on trial Friday at Camp Pendleton in California in the deaths of 24 unarmed civilians in Iraq. It happened in 2005 and it s been described as an atrocity by U.S. t
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On the southwest corner of Central Park West and 106th Street in New York City, there an enormous castle. It takes up the whole east end of the block, with its red brick cylindrical turrets topped with gleaming silver cones. The stained glass windows and intricate stonework make the building look like something out of a fairytale. Credit: Stern. This building past, however, is not very fairytal
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stanley thermos mug of New York Public Library. During and after the Civil War, American cancer patients would go to Europe, if they could afford it, since European doctors had developed more advanced forms of cancer treatment. Doctors from the United States would also go to Europe to study pathology and surgical techniques, and one such doctor, J.
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