Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next spring, the 17th Governor General of Canada since Confederation, his wife (the former Lady Margaret Diana Bingham) and three children will move into Rideau Hall, the spacious Governor General's residence at Rockcliffe, a suburb of Ottawa. He will represent King George VI in Canada, and like the King, will act only on the advice of the Government. He will be expected to remain aloof from politics. Quiet, self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander was reported to be the choice of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
Most of the 21 damaged ships, repaired at sea, were soon back in action. As the crippled Pittsburgh limped toward port, the radio brought a message from one of the ships: "Have sighted a suburb of Pittsburgh and have taken it in tow." The Pittsburgh's bow went home...
...hours and 45 minutes it was all over. Eisenhower, Montgomery and Delattre had landed at Tempelhof, met Zhukov in the Berlin suburb of Köpenick, signed the papers...
...planes came to the Superfortresses as they droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...
Archeologists have long supposed that the site lay somewhere near the modern town of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. But Professor Herman Junker, in a recent Berlin lecture, advanced a new theory: he had found an old tomb inscription placing Heliopolis near Helwan, an ancient town on the Nile south of Cairo. He advised Egyptologists to dig in a large necropolis (cemetery), well-known to archeologists, near Helwan...