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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac - George Orwell
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On this day:
The Seven Years' War Starts - 1756, W.G. Grace Scores his Hundredth Hundred - 1895, Relief of Mafeking - 1900
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