People in my age always have paradoxy feelings toward the Berlin Wall. We all know what it represented, but we never understand why what it represented was so important.
His was as Irish a face as could be found in the length and breadth of the homeland he had left so long ago — round, high colored, short nosed, wide mouthed and belligerent.
He has promised a harder line on North Korea, which has been increasingly bellicose in recent months, launching yet another missile on May 4th, just days before the inauguration.
I think there's a lot more talk going on at the tactical and operational level, while the heads of state remain bellicose but it is just upping the ante and you never know when this might happen.
So the oldest brother, who was a combative man, asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence: a wand that must always win duels for its owner, a wand worthy of a wizard who had conquered Death!
In the northern part of Greece there was a land called Macedon, and this land was at a time ruled over by a warlike king named Philip. Philip of Macedon wanted to become the master of all Greece.
And internationally, an Egyptian bombing campaign carried out on Ethiopian soil would be almost inevitably interpreted as a major act of aggression and Egypt would stand to be cast as a war-mongering pariah state.
Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed, but nobody would have heard of an Alexander.
In the aftermath of this latest humiliation, Guangxu became convinced that Cixi's reforms hadn't gone far enough that China needed to modernize now to stand any chance of catching up with its belligerent neighbor.
Between the frequent warring and human sacrifice, you might think that the Maya were a violent and warlike people, but they were also scholars and astronomers, who made many advances in mathematics, writing, and art.
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired over 100 rockets and mortars into Israel after the death of a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner detained on terrorism charges in Israel.
Military officials in Pakistan say at least 30 soldiers and almost 100 militants have been killed in several days of fierce fighting in the Tirah Valley in north-western Pakistan.
In private, Mr. Trump has made fun of his adviser's militant reputation, suggesting that he was the one restraining Mr. Bolton rather than the other way around.
In 2026, caught between the militancy of its supposed allies and the hostility of markets, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour government prevaricated, backtracked, appealed to voters and then finally collapsed.