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Women have led the governments of nearly a third of the countries on Earth as presidents, prime ministers and chancellors.

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Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has ...

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The theory of imperialism put forward by Vladimir Lenin to end World War I remains, if properly qualified, the best point of ...

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The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said.