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The world's longest ongoing war The world's longest ongoing war. For more than 60 years, Karen rebels have been fighting a civil war against the government of Myanmar. In February 1949, members of the Karen ethnic minority launched an armed insurrection against Myanmar's central government.
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Homosexuality The word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid, with the first element derived from Greek ὁμός homos, same (not related to the Latin homo, man, as in Homo sapiens), thus connoting sexual acts and affections between members of the same sex, including lesbianism.
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The 335 Year War â The Isles of Scilly vs the Netherlands The 335 Year War - the Longest War in History. Situated off the western coast of mainland Cornwall and basking in the warmth of the Gulf Stream, the Isles of Scilly were - until 1986 - involved in the longest running war in history.
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10 of the Longest Wars Ever Fought On May 19, 1643, French Bourbon forces beat Spanish forces allied with the Hapsburgs at the battle of Rocroi during the 30 Years War. This French victory for practical purposes ended Spain’s time as a land power. As the name implies, the war went on for a long time, just as several other notable wars have.
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Battle of the Atlantic Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted from September 1939 until the defeat of Germany in 1945, was the war’s longest continuous military campaign.-boats were withdrawn from the Atlantic, and the battle was won. Although new German submarines arrived in 1945, they came far too late to affect the course of the battle. Historians estimate that more than 100 convoy battles took place during the war.
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- Digital History. The Vietnam War was the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. It was the first war to come into American living rooms nightly, and the only conflict that ended in defeat for American arms.
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- The Battle of B-R5RB was the largest and bloodiest in the history of warfare. More than 20 million soldiers were killed and more than 600 warships -- some of them kilometers long and capable of destroying lesser vessels with a single shot -- destroyed in a battle that raged for 22 hours.
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- His musical interpretation of HG Wells's 'The War of The Worlds' has achieved international acclaim (see awards below), with over 15 million sales to date and is among the longest running albums in UK chart history, currently over 330 weeks.
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- Confidence votes 5.3K. Been fascinated about every aspect of WW2 since I started to research into military history and have continued to learn things about it every week. The longest battle fought during World War 2 was the Battle of the Atlantic. It started on September 3rd 1939 and ended on May 8th 1945.That is a total of 5 years, 8 months and 5 days.onfidence votes 5.3K. Been fascinated about every aspect of WW2 since I started to research into military history and have continued to learn things about it every week. The longest battle fought during World War 2 was the Battle of the Atlantic. It started on September 3rd 1939 and ended on May 8th 1945.
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A Decade, Yes, But Afghanistan NOT Americaâs Longest War By Most Measures A Decade, Yes, But Afghanistan NOT America’s Longest War By Most Measures. As the war in Afghanistan passed its tenth anniversary this week, many news outlets repeated the frequently repeated claim that the conflict there has replaced Vietnam as America’s longest war. That is a questionable assertion.
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Declaration of War: Ten Years Later And yet, our involvement in Libya is unconstitutional. The United States is at war—and has been, continuously, for ten years. This is a reality, of course. But more than that, it is a legality. Legally—constitutionally—the United States has been in a condition of declared war for ten years. On September 18, 2001, Congress enacted into law, and President George W. Bush signed, what is arguably the broadest declaration of war in our nation’s history.
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Guinness World Record for longest video game marathon broken Guinness World Record for longest video game marathon broken. Next time your hands are feeling sore following a particularly grueling gaming session, spare a thought for the digits of Okan Kaya, who just broken the Guinness World Record for longest gaming session with Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, reaching over 121 hours of solid gameplay and counting.
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The Battle of Verdun The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun.
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Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. One of the longest and most destructive conflicts in human history, as well as the deadliest European religious war in history, the war resulted in eight million fatalities. Initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers. These states employed relatively large mercenary
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Which Country has the currently longest reigning dynasty? Dulo Dynasty (2137 BC - 753 AD). The dynasty that ruled the longest in history is the Dulo Clan or the House of Dulo of Bulgaria. It ruled for 2,890 years. The Dulo Clan or the House of Dulo was the name of the ruling dynasty of the early Bulgars.
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How Long Did The Vietnam War Last How Long Did The Vietnam War Last. The Vietnam War is the longest war ever to have taken place in the American history. It lasted for 16 years and it was terrible for the Americans at that time as the Civil Rights campaign was at its peak and so also the Vietnam War and anti war protests. The Vietnam War was mainly between North and South Vietnam and the country split during the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union. It was a war of military conflicts by a large scale. Vietnam was in conflict with Cambodia and Laos also.
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The Battle of Verdun The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. The casualties from Verdun and the impact the battle had on the French Army was a primary reason for the British starting the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 in an effort to take German pressure off of the French at Verdun. The Battle of Verdun started on February 21st 1916 and ended on December 16th in 1916.
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What has been the longest running government in history? Using this logic the longest lasting empire ever is Japan, which has existed as an empire for over 2600 years if we count legendary emperors, and still 1743 years and counting if we start from the first historical emperor.
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Why did the US get involved in the Vietnam war? The Vietnam War was the longest war ever fought by the United States. It lasted more than 15 years, from 1959 to 1975. It was also the first war that the United States lost. WHY THE WAR WAS FOUGHT The United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia.
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Worldâs Top Ten Biggest Wars in History So here, we have the world’s ten biggest bloodiest wars in history. 10. American Civil War (1861-1865) The American Civil War was basically a war fought between the ‘North’ or the ‘Union’ and the South also known as the ‘Confederacy’ formed by the secession of several southern slave states.
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APUSH Battles of WWII The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade.t was at its height from mid-1940 through to the end of 1943. The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarine (German navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) against the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, and Allied merchant shipping.
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- The Vietnam War was the longest in U.S. history, until the war in Afghanistan that began in 2002 and continues at this writing (2013). It was extremely divisive in the U.S., Europe, Australia and elsewhere.he VC were often supplemented by units of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), more often called simply the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) by those fighting against it. Following the Tet Offensive of 1968, the NVA had to assume the major combat role because the VC was decimated during the offensive.
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The World's Shortest and Longest Wars The World's Longest War. The world's longest war, on the other hand, spanned 355 335 years without a single shot fired. That war, between the United Provinces of Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, got started in 1651 and the story goes as follows:
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Inside the toxic grave of the longest battle in history: The French forest where 300,000 died in 300 days at the Battle of Verdun is still littered with so many bodies, arsenic and unexploded shells that nothing grows after 100 years Inside the toxic grave of the longest battle in history: The French forest where 300,000 died in 300 days at the Battle of Verdun is still littered with so many bodies, arsenic and unexploded shells that nothing grows after 100 years. The battle for Verdun in 1916 was the longest in history, with millions of shells fired over 10 months. At its end in December of that year, the French victorious, an area larger than the city of Paris had been destroyed.
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10 Longest-running TV Shows Gunsmoke tops the list as the longest-running dramatic series in network television history with 635 episodes. Set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the 1870s, Gunsmoke began as a radio program in 1952, switched to the land of visual entertainment in 1955, and finally ended its 20-year run in 1975. NEXT.
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Hereâs What Americaâs Longest-Serving General Most Fears January 11, 2016. Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command, goes “over the side for the last time” with 45 years of perspective on U.S. war-fighting and its future. “This will sound strange to you,” said Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, the U.S. military’s longest-serving general. “My greatest fear was that I would be offered another job.”. The four-star head of U.S. Southern Command will hand over his final command on Thursday and retire at the end of the month.