Can the stock market pick the next president?
February 17, 2012
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The number has been repeated so often by presidential prognosticators that it's an article of faith: No president has been re-elected since World War II with an unemployment...
US judge: Baroque artwork to return to man's heirs
February 06, 2012
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A U.S. judge has ordered the return of a 16th century Italian painting to the heirs of a Jewish man who owned the Baroque work before World War II. U.S. Judge Robert Hinkle filed...
Missing ancient objects returned to Berlin
February 06, 2012
| AFP
Dozens of mostly Egyptian objects from the 4th to 7th centuries AD which had been missing since the end of World War II have been unearthed and returned to a Berlin museum,...
Treasure hunter says he found $ 3B WWII wreck
February 02, 2012
| AP
A treasure hunter said he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was...
Treasure hunter takes aim at $ 3B sunken bounty
February 01, 2012
| AP
A shipwreck hunter says he has found the wreck of a World War II merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod with a load of platinum now valued at $3 billion...
Lawmakers ponder major repairs to UK's Parliament
January 23, 2012
| AP
British lawmakers are considering whether they will need to abandon the House of Commons for the first time since World War II. Legislators were meeting Monday to discuss if...
In elections, jobless trend matters more than rate
January 07, 2012
| AP
Unemployment is higher than it's been going into any election year since World War II. But history shows that wo not necessarily stop President Barack Obama from reclaiming the...
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World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. In a state of "total war," the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources....
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