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  2. List of conflicts by duration - Wikipedia

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    5 years, 8 months, 1 week and 3 days Paraguayan War: 1864: 1870: 5 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 days Second Congo War: 2 August 1998: 18 June 2003: 4 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days Russian Civil War: 7 November 1917: 16 June 1923: 4 years, 7 months, 1 week and 2 days World War I: 28 July 1914: 11 November 1918

  3. World peace - Wikipedia

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    For instance, in her essay "The Roots of War", Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history—a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world—from the end of the ...

  4. Twenty Days Without War - Wikipedia

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    Twenty Days Without War (Russian: Двадцать дней без войны, romanized: Dvadtsat' dney bez voyny) is a 1976 Soviet film based on a story by Konstantin Simonov, directed by Aleksey German and starring Yuri Nikulin and Lyudmila Gurchenko. [1] [2]

  5. Long Peace - Wikipedia

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    "Long Peace" is a term for the unprecedented historical period of relative global stability following the end of World War II in 1945 to the present day. [1] [2] The period of the Cold War (1947–1991) was marked by the absence of major wars between the superpowers of the period, the United States and the Soviet Union.

  6. Aziz Ahmad (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Aziz Ahmad (11 November 1914 in Hyderabad, India – 16 December 1978 in Toronto, Canada) was a Pakistani-Canadian academic who worked as a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Toronto and is best known for his work in Islamic history with a focus on South Asia.

  7. Ukraine war passes 400 days as Russia suffers major ... - AOL

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    The war in Ukraine has engulfed the European country for more than 400 days and tested the strength of Ukrainian resilience, president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday. “Four hundred days ...

  8. Days Without End (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel is narrated by Thomas McNulty, an Irish émigré who flees to Canada and then America to escape the Great Famine.In America he befriends John Cole and the two fall in love, working first, as young boys, as cross-dressing entertainers and then enlisting in the army and taking part in both the Indian Wars and the American Civil War.

  9. Military history of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    When the Six-Day War started, Pakistan assisted by sending a contingent of its pilots and airmen to Egypt, Jordan and Syria. PAF pilots downed about 10 Israeli planes including Mirages, Mysteres and Vautours without losing a single plane of their own. [19] Jordan and Iraq decorated East Pakistani Flight Lieutenant Saif-ul-Azam.