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Tony  Cozier

Tony Cozier

Cover of Tony Cozier's 1978 book: The West Indies: Fifty years of Test Cricket (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Anthony "Tony" Cozier (born 10 July 1940 in Bridgetown, Barbados) has been a cricket writer and commentator for West Indian cricket since 1958. Cozier...

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Michael Holding

Michael Holding

Michael Anthony Holding (born 16 February 1954) is a former West Indian cricketer . One of the fastest bowlers ever to play Test cricket, he was nicknamed "Whispering Death" by umpires due to his quiet approach to the bowling crease. His bowling was smooth...

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Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Christopher Martin-Jenkins at Adelaide Oval (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins , MBE , also known as CMJ (20 January 1945 – 1 January 2013), [1] was a British cricket journalist and a past President of the MCC . He was...

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Green on blue attacks in Afghanistan

Green on blue attacks in Afghanistan

According to the news, Afghan security forces killed six service members from the American-led military coalition in a series of attacks in southern Afghanistan. These attacks were the latest in the long series of so called green on blue incidents (attacks...

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Eva Braun

Eva Braun

Eva Anna Paula Hitler ( née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was 17 years old, while she was working as an assistant and model...

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Mussolini

Mussolini

Mussolini (left) and Hitler sent their armies to North Africa and into Egypt against the British Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (Italian pronunciation: [beˈnito mussoˈlini] ; 29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and leader of the...

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General Rommel

General Rommel

Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel in December 1943. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as The Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs, listen ( help · info ) ), was a German Field Marshal of World...

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Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi

Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi

An empty chair awaits Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, president of Sudan, before the opening of the 20th session of The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 30, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)...

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The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The triangle...

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