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  2. USS Columbus (CA-74) - Wikipedia

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    9 × 8 in (200 mm) guns. 12 × 5 in (130 mm) guns. The third USS Columbus (CA-74/CG-12), a Baltimore -class heavy cruiser, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Columbus, Ohio. She was launched on 30 November 1944 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts; she was sponsored by Mrs. E. G. Meyers; and commissioned on 8 June 1945.

  3. Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    In his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, journalist and historian William L. Shirer wrote that the DNVP's status as a far-right party rather than a mainstream conservative party was one of the main reasons for the Weimar Republic's downfall. In Shirer's view, the DNVP's refusal to "take a responsible position either in the government ...

  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects : Commons. Free media repository. MediaWiki. Wiki software development. Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia project coordination. Wikibooks. Free textbooks and manuals.

  5. Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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    Normandy landings. / 49.34; -0.60. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.

  6. SS Ohio (1940) - Wikipedia

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    SS. Ohio. (1940) SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco ). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania. The United Kingdom requisitioned it to re-supply the island fortress of Malta during the Second World War.

  7. JD Vance - Wikipedia

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    Recorded February 28, 2023. James David " JD " Vance[ b] (born James Donald Bowman; [ a] August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, and Marine veteran who has served since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he is its nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential ...

  8. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    See Battle of Fallen Timbers. [ 1] Downtown Cincinnati in 2010. The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union on March 1, 1803, as the 17th state of the United States. The recorded history of Ohio began in the late 17th century when French ...

  9. Category:Writers from Columbus, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    M. Amit Majmudar. Lee Martin (writer) Jack Matthews (author) John Matthias (poet) Lida Rose McCabe. Aaron McCollough. Craig McDonald. Thomas A. McKean.