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...COLLI EUGANEI Rent a car and putter around the Euganean Hills, a few kilometers southwest of Padua. Don?t miss the gardens at Villa Barbarigo in Valsanzibio (+39 (0) 49 805 5614) and the Castello del Catajo in Battaglia Terme...
...route of the 3rd Infantry Division. But, just prior to departure for the Gulf, the Division was told that the 3rd ID was confident it could seize all of these key positions unassisted. Staff officers planned a new mission: to drive up behind the 3rd ID and, from positions southwest of Baghdad, launch air assaults to the north of the capital. This would isolate Baghdad from the four Republican Guard divisions deployed around Mosul and Tikrit. That mission never happened, either...
Recuperating in her hospital bed in southwest Germany, Army Private First Class Jessica Lynch had several requests for her doctors: pink casts for her fractured legs and arm, a new hairbrush and a menu of turkey and steamed carrots for when she was stable enough to eat solid foods. She also had an urgent question: Had the story of her rescue made the Parkersburg News and Sentinel, her hometown paper in Palestine, W.Va., the one-store hamlet in the Appalachian foothills where Lynch had spent nearly all of her 19 years...
LeBlanc’s work has centered on the American southwest and Turkey. The image of prehistoric tribal groups in these areas as “peaceful noble savages” is widely accepted, LeBlanc says, yet his work has uncovered evidence of ancient wars in both places...
...began to think that if the Southwest was not peaceful,” LeBlanc writes, “then there was little reason to believe any other place on Earth was peaceful for long. The whole idea of a peaceful past came into question...