Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Israeli forces advanced into the Sinai Peninsula along a 70-mile front. Unofficial reports still placed an advance Israeli group within 18 1/2 miles of the canal, although the Egyptians claimed they had smashed an Israeli column. Both nations' air forces were brought into the conflict...
...banner of the Republic of China seemed to have peacefully triumphed over the five-starred Red flag. Then an impetuous official ripped down two Nationalist flags in a strongly anti-Communist refugee project in Kowloon, across the bay from Hong Kong island. Riots, fear, death suddenly erupted across the peninsula...
Bloody Sea. But fail they did, and the decision was made to open the passage by capturing the shore. On the morning of April 25, 1915, 60,000 Allied troops headed toward the Dardanelles peninsula in the first great amphibious land assault of modern times. In an age when armored landing craft were practically unknown, British, French and Anzacs went ashore in a flotilla of paddle steamers, trawlers, yachts and river tugs. Scarcely a naval gun boomed to soften up the Turkish beaches before them: the warships at Gallipoli were too busy transporting the troops. The result was carnage...
Britons sometimes like to forget that their proud island was once a mere peninsula of the European continent-a condition that, as geologists figure it, ceased only a short time ago. Dr. Harold Godwin of Cambridge has now estimated within a few centuries the date when the friendly sea broke through to form the English Channel and give Britain its freedom. It was 5000 B.C., says Dr. Godwin...
After 8000 B.C.. the climate grew steadily warmer, melting the remnants of ice. Warmth-demanding plants (e.g., oak, elm and alder) invaded the Britannic Peninsula. New animals and new tribes of men trooped across the marshes. The climate was probably almost as warm as today. "A bit chillier," hazards Dr. Godwin...