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   13 hours ago · British literature is from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon ( Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages ...

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   13 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...