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Oft-called the “the Graveyard of Empires,” the wild region now known as Afghanistan has foiled would-be conquerors for millennia. In 1809 a diplomat named Mountstuart Elphinstone led Britain’s first fact-finding mission to Afghanistan. In a land filled with strife and riven by independent factions, he met an elderly tribal leader and tried to convince him …
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Bristol BrabazonThe largest airplane ever built by Britain was also among the most controversial. In December 1942, even as World War II was still raging, the British government felt sufficiently … Read More6 Questions I Author Stanley WeintraubSTANLEY WEINTRAUB, PhD, published his first biography, about Lawrence of Arabia’s postwar years, in 1963. Since then he has been writing about other notable lives, and about wars, … Read MoreDaily Quiz for March 9, 2017Lake Louise in Alberta was named after Princess Louise, daughter of this monarch.
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