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'[May] my Emperor [live and reign for] ten thousand years', 'ten thousand years', 'ten thousand of ten thousand years'). The foregoing phrase is best known to modern Chinese through televised films, but is not historically accurate; in the Ming dynasty , the only occasion during which 萬歲 is used is the great court, which was held one to ...
The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a ...
Thousand Days' War: 0.1–0.18 million [213] 1899–1902 Colombian Conservative Party vs. Colombian Liberal Party: Colombia Sri Lankan Civil War: 0.08–0.17 million [214] [215] 1983 [h] –2009 Sri Lankan government vs. Separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: Sri Lanka Civil conflict in the Philippines: 0.16 million [217] [218] 1968–present
The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, [m] ended in May 1945, after only 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war .
7 years, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day War of the Austrian Succession: 16 December 1740 18 October 1748 7 years, 10 months and 2 days World War II: 1 September 1939 2 September 1945 6 years and 1 day Jebel Akhdar War: 30 January 1954: 10 October 1959: 5 years, 8 months, 1 week and 3 days Paraguayan War: 1864: 1870
The US Army Tenth Corps is the name of the main field force featured in Harold Coyle's 1993 techno-thriller "The Ten Thousand". In the novel its ground combat elements are the 55th Mechanized Infantry Division , the 4th Armored Division and the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment .
Hitler's "prophecy" of January 30, 1939, comprised the core of Nazism’s narrative of World War II. A historical subject called "international Jewry" had launched World War II with the intent of bringing about the "Bolshevization" of the world. It would fail. Instead, Nazi Germany would retaliate for this aggression and annihilate the Jews.