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No man's land remained a regular feature of the battlefield until near the end of World War I when mechanised weapons (i.e., tanks and airplanes) made entrenched lines less of an obstacle. Effects from World War I no man's lands persist today, for example at Verdun in France, where the Zone Rouge (Red Zone) contains unexploded ordnance , and is ...
The history of Singapore (ABC-CLIO, 2011). "Nation's History". Singapore Infomap. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009; Baker, Jim. Crossroads: a popular history of Malaysia and Singapore (Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, 2020). Bose, Romen (2010). The End of the War: Singapore's Liberation and the Aftermath of the Second ...
Temasek (also spelt Temasik or Tumasik) is an early recorded name of a settlement on the site of modern Singapore.The name appears in early Malay and Javanese literature, and it is also recorded in Yuan and Ming Chinese documents as Danmaxi (Chinese: 單馬錫; pinyin: Dānmǎxī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tan-má-sek or Chinese: 淡馬錫; pinyin: Dànmǎxī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tām-má-sek).
Singapore and Japan sign the Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement. 12 October: The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay officially opened as Singapore's major performing arts centre. 2003: 1 March - 16 July: SARS virus outbreak in Singapore. 6 May: Singapore and United States sign the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USS-FTA). 29 October
No Man's Land, a play by Harold Pinter; No Man's Land (Baldacci novel), a novel by David Baldacci; No Man's Land (Greene novel), a 1950 novel by Graham Greene; No Man's Land: An Investigative Journey Through Kenya and Tanzania, a 1994 book by George Monbiot
Singapore was considered so important that Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered Percival to fight to the last man. The Japanese attacked the weakest part of the island defences and established a beachhead on 8 February. Percival had expected a crossing in the north and failed to reinforce the defenders in time.
Singapore will soon have its fourth-ever prime minister since independence, as the country's current leader, Lee Hsien Loong, signaled when he will end his nearly 20-year tenure.
The no man's land in the Latrun region (between the green lines) Closeup of central area. No man's land in the Latrun area (NML) was a strip of territory covering 46.4 square kilometres (17.9 sq mi), [a] in the area of Latrun. Israel considers the area of the NML to be a part of its state, while Palestinians regard it as a part of the West Bank ...