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  2. Capote (garment) - Wikipedia

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    The River Road by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1855 (Three habitants wearing capotes). A capote (French:) or capot (French:) is a long wrap-style wool coat with a hood.. From the early days of the North American fur trade, both indigenous peoples and European Canadian settlers fashioned wool blankets into "capotes" as a means of coping with harsh winters. [1]

  3. Timeline of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).

  4. Cold War (1947–1948) - Wikipedia

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    The Cold War from 1947 to 1948 is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948. The Cold War emerged in Europe a few years after the successful US–USSR–UK coalition won World War II in Europe, and extended to 1989–1991.

  5. Outline of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) The Cold War Files; Documents available online regarding aerial intelligence during the Cold War, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library; Bibliographies. Annotated bibliography for the arms race from the Alsos Digital Library; News. Video and audio news reports from during the cold war ...

  6. Outline of the history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)

  7. Cold War - Wikipedia

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    Western analysts suggest that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War, only five or six of the post-communist states are on a path to joining the rich and capitalist world while most are falling behind, some to such an extent that it will take several decades to catch up to where they were before the collapse of communism. [340] [341]

  8. List of periods and events in climate history - Wikipedia

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    500 million years of climate change Ice core data for the past 400,000 years, with the present at right. Note length of glacial cycles averages ~100,000 years. Blue curve is temperature, green curve is CO 2, and red curve is windblown glacial dust (loess). Scale: Millions of years before present, earlier dates approximate.

  9. Cold War (1948–1953) - Wikipedia

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    Gaddis, John Lewis (1990), Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States- An Interpretive History; Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (2005) Gaddis, John Lewis. Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987) Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security ...