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The Last Days of the Romanovs | National Geographic

For 300 years the Romanovs ruled Russia as tsars. But as World War I brought Russia to revolution, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were overthrown. During his World Cup tour of Russia, National Geographic reporter Sergey Gordeev visits the…

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Why more military spending is a bad idea | Christopher Preble

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Christopher Preble: It’s true the U.S. military is a costly enterprise. It cost us more as a share of our total output during the Cold War,…

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Battle of Midway – War Room | History

Seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, American and Japanese forces clashed over Midway Atoll, a dot of land in the middle of the Pacific. The Battle of Midway tested intelligence and combat capabilities on both sides, and would…