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During World War II, Richland in Washington State was home to the top-secret Manhattan Project that developed the B reactor–the world’s first, full-scale operating nuclear reactor.
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On the main train line from Kyoto and Osaka in the west to Tokyo in the east, Sekigahara is located at the foot of a pass through the mountains, which has been a strategic spot for centuries.
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Nagasaki was the first city in Japan to establish links with the west, as early as the 16th century when Portuguese traders and Christian missionaries were visiting Nagasaki and influencing its culture.
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South of Kyushu in Japan is a string of small islands leading to Taiwan. The largest of these is Okinawa, scene of the last battle of WWII.
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In 1814 Napoleon was exiled to the tiny Mediterranean island of Elba and the European political establishment slowly began to forget about him. But the defiant Corsican refused to lie down and in one last throw of the dice he left Elba in late February 1815 and sailed for France to overthrow Louis XVIII.
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