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GETTYSBURG

COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2013
At the Battle of Gettysburg, choices mattered
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago this week, was not the first example of "total war." But it did show why choices matter in U.S. history.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2013
Remembering the awe that is Gettysburg
It was the biggest battle of the war, unequaled in scale and violence by anything seen before or since in North America. Two immense armies collided in the fields and orchards and woods around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1863, and fought for three days with no quarter given, in arguably the pivotal moment of the great conflict that sits at the heart of American history.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2013
The shifting strategy of battlefield preservation
In 1988, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas pleaded with his colleagues to pass legislation that would prevent a new shopping mall on land integral to the Second Battle of Manassas. He imagined a future in which ever more commercial development encroached on land in Virginia preserved by the National Park Service, eating up the fragile buffer between the modern world and the carefully preserved 19th-century landscape that memorializes two bloody battles.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2013
Software program gives Gettysburg Address poor grade
"Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the 'send' button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program."

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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world