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...After talking fluent German with a wounded German prisoner in a base hospital in France, George V said, "Poor chap. His lot is doubly hard. He can't talk with any of the men around him." It was, however, a specific German atroc-ity-the first daylight bombing of London -which caused His Majesty to declare all German titles held by his family and subjects relinquished, to proclaim on July 25, 1916: "We, having taken into consideration the name and title of our Royal House and Family,* have determined that henceforth our House and Family shall be styled...
Nowhere else but in Plympy’s daylight-free confines can my mood swing so suddenly from one extreme to the other, vascellaroating from love to hate. Sometimes I simply theodore the place, and sombunthames I am hardly abel to stand it. I never have the steinhardt to express myself one way or another so I simmer and stew and, because of that industrial yet exciting environment, the feeling fades and I’m fine again, ready to be thrilled by a great breaking story or a tightly woven lede or a quote that speaks volumes beyond...
Vincent van Gogh's great-grandnephew is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters. Islamic schools are attacked and mosques vandalized and set ablaze--with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of them. Can all that really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with...
...employed a Bradley to smash the compound's walls after 25-mm cannon rounds failed to dent its iron gates. The Wolf Pack searched and secured a three-story building, taking a high spot overlooking the mosque and its minaret. At night it almost felt safe inside, but daylight brought the snipers and insurgent cells out into the streets. The attack started in the east but was soon joined by shooting from the north. From three edges of the roof, the soldiers fired at the insurgents, who wore tracksuit pants and the uniforms of the Iraqi National Guard as they...
...north responded to the Fallujah offensive by taking to the streets of cities from the capital all the way up to Mosul, emerging from the shadows in groups numbering up to 50 fighters at a time to brazenly confront U.S. and Iraqi government forces in broad daylight. Within a day of pronouncing Fallujah essentially over, U.S. forces were mounting a major offensive in Mosul, aimed at returning Iraqi policemen to police stations throughout the western half of the city that had fallen into insurgent hands. And Ramadi, Samarrah, Baquba, Tal Afar and Baghdad itself have all seen intensified rebel attacks...