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Tom Lehrer, master satirist of Cold War era, dies

Tom Lehrer, master satirist of Cold War era, dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, a social and political satirist who amassed a devoted following in the 1950s and 1960s for routines featuring blithely subversive musical numbers such as “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III),” “National Brotherhood Week” and “The Vatican Rag,” died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 97.

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Alert: Tom Lehrer, a song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics and the Cold War, dies at 97, friend says

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Tom Lehrer, song satirist, dies at 97

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Tom Lehrer, influential musical satirist, dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, a popular musical satirist who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s before returning to a career teaching math, has died at age 97.

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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and Harvard mathematician, has died

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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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Tom Lehrer, Song Satirist and Mathematician, Dies at 97

Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s.

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American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report

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Legendary Mass. satirist who sang of the joys of ‘poisoning pigeons’ dies at 97

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'Dream come true' | Navy vet gets first look at Cold War memorial that replicates nuclear submarine in Ohio

WCPO 9 News went behind the scenes of a $9.5 million project that's been in development for more than two decades. Officials hope it will help a workforce problem and honor America's veterans.

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The surprising lessons of a secret cold-war nuclear programme

I N THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain an incongruous new member. That state was Sweden, a neutral power that sat out both world wars, then declined to join the West’s new defence alliance, NATO, at its founding in 1949.

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A Cold War-Era Building Is About to Become a Craft Beer Hot Spot

The mission of Millvale-based Grist House Craft Brewery is to grind out great beers. Soon they’ll be making suds inside a former Nike Missile Command

Colonial lines, A Hindu Temple and A New Frontier For US-China Cold War Reason Behind Escalating Border Conflict Between Thailand and Cambodia

The latest flare-up started on Thursday, with intense fighting spreading across multiple border areas. Early Saturday, Thailand’s navy joined the army in repelling what it described as incursions by Cambodian troops at three points in eastern Trat province.

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Cold War or WWIII? Russian invasion of Ukraine draws comparisons

Historians pinpoint the Cold War as starting with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and ending with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It's likely the U.S. is going to be entering a prolonged ...

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The New Cold War - CBS News

The following is a script from “The New Cold War” which aired on Sept. 18, 2016. David Martin is the correspondent. Mary Walsh, producer. One of the key questions of this presidential campaign ...

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TURNING POINT: THE BOMB AND THE COLD WAR : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Our Call: STREAM IT.Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War isn’t going to make you feel better about the fate of the current world, but it does a good job of showing just how we got here and ...

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Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse

After decades of Cold War tension and confrontation, Gorbachev struck nuclear arms deals with the United States and brought the Soviet Union closer to the West than at any point since World War Two.

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'Cold War' review: A near-perfect film - The Washington Post

“Cold War” is a near-perfect film, an artfully crafted, flawlessly acted meditation on love, memory and invented history that’s both deeply personal and politically attuned. Written and ...

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The Middle East Cold War | Origins & Key Players

The ongoing Middle East Cold War is a complex power struggle involving regional rivals, shifting alliances, and proxy conflicts. This video explains the origins, key players (such as Saudi Arabia and Iran),