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Friday, October 2, 2015
War is Expensive
In April this year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, proudly announced that the British government had finally finished paying for the First World War.
--Ben Shepard, TLS, July 17 2015
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John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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