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Week in history highlights from May 18 to May 24
A compact retro chronicle recounts key events: Alexander the Great dies in Babylon at 31 and Greece partitions. U‑boat U‑232 surrenders in Portsmouth amid Hitler’s death. Lenin’s brother executed inspires Vladimir. Lindbergh’s Paris crossing near miss. a B‑36 hydrogen scare in Albuquerque. Bremer disbands Iraqi forces triggering insurgency. Joan of Arc captured and burned at Rouen.
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Alexander the Great
Babylon
Arabia
West
Hoti
Craterus
Ptolemey
Pharoah
Egypt
Seleucus
Syria
Antigonus
Cassander
Greece
Alexander
Alexandria
Caesar
Marc Anthony
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Berlin
Tokyo
mid-Atlantic
Hitler
Germany
America
Iraq
L. Paul Bremer
CIA
Donald Rumsfeld
Champagne
Joan OF Arc
Duchy of
Burgundy
Belgium
Lorraine
Charles VI
Joan
France
Lion Heart
the Great
Charles