For many Icelanders, WW2 is actually known a “the blessed war” because the country has the war to thank for its independence.

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There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s 2011 tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”.

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Before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Saddam Hussein had turned over the day-to-day running of the Iraqi government to his aides and was spending most of his time writing a novel.

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