A room at Crowne Plaza London Docklands. Originally branded as Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, the first United States Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel was opened in Rockville, Maryland, in 1983. Within a couple of years the brand was spun off as an independent chain (still owned at the time by Holiday Inn).
Americans have a better chance of being killed in Chicago than U.S. troops do in Afghanistan, figures from the nationâs third-largest city show. This year 228 Chicago residents have been killed, while the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan during the same period is 144, The Huffington Post reported.
The bloodiest conflict in our history, by a long way, was the last fought in our own territory. Figures for Civil War dead have always been approximate; for many years 618,000 was the accepted estimate of total deaths, but one recent study places the figure at 750,000. I've used the smaller number here. Even in those earlier conflicts, most people who served came back alive.