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Bodo League massacre - Wikipedia

The Bodo League massacre (Hangul: 보도연맹 학살사건; Hanja: 保導聯盟虐殺事件) was a massacre and war crime against communists and suspected sympathizers (many of whom were civilians who had no connection with communism or communists) that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War. Estimates of the death toll vary. It has been estimated that the number of victims killed is between 100,000 and 200,000.[2] The number of Bodo League members killed in Ulsan, Cheongdo County and Kimhaealone, where the number of confirmed victims was almost exactly 4,934, was 30 to 70 percent of the press alliance members massacred and more than 100 people to more than 1,000 people were killed in each county unit respectively.[4] The massacre was wrongly blamed on the communists.[5] For four decades the South Korean government concealed this massacre. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it, under suspicion of being communist sympathizers. Public revelation carried with it the threat of torture and death. During the 1990s and onwards, several corpses were excavated from mass graves, resulting in public awareness of the massacre.[6][7]

The Cold War :dame:
 

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2003 attack on Karbala - Wikipedia
The 2003 attack on Karbala was an unsuccessful strike on the Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division by the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Medina Division was mostly deployed along the Karbala gap, west of the city of Karbala itself. The Iraqi Division was targeted as it was the best equipped Iraqi unit, and its destruction would negatively affect Iraqi military morale. The Medina Division sustained only limited damage during the engagement, and it is considered Iraq's only victory of the invasion.[citation needed]

The defeat for the Americans resulted in one AH-64 Apache being shot down intact. The two pilots were captured and shown on television along with the helicopter.[4] Pentagon officials stated the captured Apache was destroyed via airstrike the following day,[5][6] Iraqi officials claimed a farmer with a Brno rifle shot down the Apache. After the invasion, the farmer denied any involvement.[7]
 

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In a war full of ridiculous screw ups, Churchill came in with one of the worst.
Interesting to thing about what might have happened had it succeeded - given that the British resorted to plan b, "Lawrence of Arabia". That didn't turn out to well.

I always thought it was brave to the point of stupidity but if it had worked they could've made the Ottomans capitulate and reinforce and push up through the Balkans.
The world would probably be very different.
 

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Quantum gravity - Wikipedia

Possibly the greatest unsolved mystery in physics. We know how gravity works on a large scale (thanks to Einstein) which is why we can predict the motion of planets, stars, and galaxies. But nobody really knows how gravity works on a small scale or how small of a scale the rules of gravity still apply. Figuring this out is the key to understand what actually happens in a black hole and possibly what happened before the big bang.
 

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John Stuart Mill - Wikipedia

However, in Mill's view, limiting the power of government was not enough. He stated, "Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself."
 
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