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World War II Today World War II Today presents what happened on the day, seventy years ago. It focuses on individual incidents and experiences, rather than attempting a complete narrative history. So the history of the Second World War emerges with the progress of time. 0
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I like to be comfortable when I travel says Gracie Allen

April 27th, 2010 | Author: jimmyl1

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Young, Beautiful, Doomed

April 19th, 2010 | Author: jimmyl1

German actress Marieluise Claudius leans back in a chair in the Chancellery during an artists reception in Berlin, 1940. A prolific film actress during the 1930s, she died of heart failure in 1941, at age 29.

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My Day – Eleanor Roosevelt – April 12th 1940

April 12th, 2010 | Author: jimmyl1

From: http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1940&_f=md055552

APRIL 12, 1940

DENVER, Thursday—Last evening
just before dinner, I happened to pick up a timetable and out of
curiosity looked for the stations at which our train would stop. Then,
and only then, did I discover that we arrived in Denver at 8:50 a.m.
and that our car remained in the station until 4:50 in the afternoon! I
had not known we would spend several hours in Denver. The itinerary
furnished us by the lecture bureau only shows points of departure and
points where we have to change trains, so on it was noted only the fact
that we left Reno, Nevada, at 5:40 a.m. and arrived in Kansas City,
changed trains there and would take another train for Fort Smith,
Arkansas.

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