The Limes and Hadrian's Wall: Rome's Northern European boundaries

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The Limes in southern Germany and Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain are the most distinctive physical remains of the northern expansion and defense of the Roman Empire. The Limes and Hadrian's Wall belonged to a series of very large ancient walls that includes the Great Wall of China, Offa's Dyke between England and Wales and the Danevirke in northern Germany.

United Kingdom, Germany, History, Archaeological expeditions, Hadrian's Wall, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD

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Overkill is not dead

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In 1998 the US will spend $25 bil to maintain its nuclear arsenal which includes 2,300 warheads equal to about 44,000 Hiroshimas. At the same time, the Russian arsenal is deteriorating. This policy of expensive and globally destabilizing overkill that the US is pursuing, is discussed.

Analysis, Cover Story, Statistics, Russia, Military policy, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear arms control

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Reunion

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Holocaust survivor Anna Heilman traveled back to her native Poland to meet with a few other survivors of the horror that was Auschwitz. She takes her grown daughters, who had never been to Poland, and together walked the grounds of the notorious death camp.

Behavior, Poland, Description and travel, Prisoners, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust survivors, Concentration camps, Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

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