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By destabilizing the region, the war enabled the rise of the Islamic State, which at its height occupied a substantial slice of Iraqi territory, beheading its opponents, attempting genocide against the Yazidi minority, and spreading terrorism around the world.

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1874: General George Custer announced the discovery of gold in Lakota territory, specifically the Black Hills.

But also, our hearts are in our throats a huge amount of the time, because we're driving through water, and it's an unknown territory.

Borders between the Bosniak territory and the Bosnian-Serb territory have calmed down.

Here was an army that had just had experience in the First World War, where millions of men fought each other in the trenches, getting nowhere, making no progress, and here someone had come up with a device that allowed them to fly up in the skies high above enemy territory and destroy whatever they wanted with pinpoint accuracy.

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