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Themed Set: Unruly Britannia

February 12th, 2008 Headsman

The United Kingdom came out on the winning side of World War II, but its hold on its globe-spanning territorial dominions was irrevocably weakened. As its own imperial offspring, the United States, took up the hegemon’s place, British colonies started breaking free — and those social and political sunderings frequently brought violence.

The next two days’ executions were true calendar neighbors, merely hours apart in 1942, as an empire at the end of its run fought for its survival.

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1. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip | September 16th, 2009 at 1:56 am

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