Extreme care should be exercised to avoid a repetition of this tragic history.

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His recourse to the broad and often tragic sweep of Jewish history won proud approval from his new team of aides.

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But his chosen focus on the last year of the war means that he does not deal in detail with what is surely the key event in this tragic period in Italian history: the bungled arrangements for an armistice in September 1943.

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Yet, in one of the tragic turning points in the history of the West, this biblical ideal was rejected.

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Our history has witnessed tragic conflicts between immigrants and native peoples.

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The original function of the building had been forgotten for centuries, but it is now fascinatingly restored and offers a tragic insight into the darker side of German history.

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It may be the most tragic thing to have happened to South Africa in recorded history.

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Yet the history that Mr Milosz has witnessed epitomises the tragic story of Europe for nearly a century: from the first world war to the fall of the great monarchies, from Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto to the imposition of Soviet control, from the struggles of Solidarity to the globalised market-place.

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"The economic impact from the tragic events of September 11 continues to be unparalleled in the history of commercial aviation, " the ATA said in a prepared statement.

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Along the way he offers lively summaries of some of the key dramas of Russian history, including the exploration of Siberia, the tragic nobility of the Decembrists and the unspeakable siege of Leningrad.

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For many Ivorians, the transfer of Mr Gbagbo to The Hague is a tragic end to the political career of a populist and charismatic history professor, who simply was not ready to leave power.

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President Obama made history today by taking the most ambitious and aggressive action since 1968 and the tragic assassinations of Robert F.

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