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MASH (properly M*A*S*H) was an American anti-war situation comedy television show about a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War. MASH was created by Larry Gelbart, and Gene Reynolds and projected Alan Alda in the starring role of 'Hawkeye' to international fame. MASH was produced by CBS and TCF and ran from 1972 to 1983, becoming more and more shocking and anti-war until its highly disturbing final episode.
Lespedeza is a genus of shrubs and herbs of the family Fabaceae including 40 or more species, native to eastern Asia, Australia, and North America. Most species are shrubby, upright perennials but a few are herbaceous or semi- herbaceous perennials and two Asian species, common lespedeza (Lespedeza striata), and Korean lespedeza (Lespedeza stipulacea), are herbaceous annuals. The lavender flowers of the genus are conspicuous in the shrubby species and inconspicuous in most of the herbaceous species.
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Douglas MacArthur was an American general. He was born in 1880 and died in 1964. He defended the Philippines against the Japanese during the second world war. In 1951 he was relieved of command during the Korean war.
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George Blake (born George Behar) was a Dutch-born British KGB spy. He was born in 1922 at Rotterdam. After serving with the Dutch resistance he joined the British Royal Navy and in 1944 joined the SIS. In 1949 he was posted to South Korea and upon the outbreak of the Korean War was interned by the invading North Korean forces. In 1951 he defected to the Russians, and volunteered to work as a Soviet Spy, being assigned the KGB codename Diomid. Information supplied by Blake to the Soviets enabled them to eliminate the entire Western intelligence force in East Germany between 1953 and 1955. Blake also informed the Russians about the American CIA intercept tunnel built from West to East Germany, and designed to intercept Soviet communications - a tunnel which the CIA believed to be a success until the truth was revealed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union some forty years later. Blake was identified following information provided by the Polish defector Michal Goleniewski in 1961. Sentenced to forty-two years in jail, Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison after serving five years and travelled to East Berlin and from there to Moscow.
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Theodore Samuel Williams (Ted Williams) is an American baseball player. He was born in 1918. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960, and was the best batter of his era making 2654 hits and 521 home runs, with a lifetime batting average of .344 and in 1941 hitting an average of .406. His career was disturbed by his service in the army during the Second World War and Korean War, otherwise his totals would have undoubtedly been much higher.
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James Garner (real name James Scott Baumgarner) is an American actor. He was born in 1928 at Norman, Oklahoma. The first man in Oklahoma to be drafted as an infantry soldier to serve in the Korean War, he was awarded two purple hearts and wounded. In 1954 he entered show business, being given a non-speaking part in a broadwat show by an old friend, and later signing with Warner-Brothers.
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Hye-jong Kang is a Korean actress. She was born in 1982.
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Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress of Korean descent. She was born in 1971 at Nepean, Ontario.
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Yoon-jin Kim (also known as Kim Yoon-jin) is a Korean-born American actress. She was born in 1973 at Seoul.
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The Battle of Inchon was a successful American Marines amphibious operation on the 15th of September 1950 at Inchon during the Korean War. The Marines secured the city within two weeks and broke the North Korean forces' hold on the Pusan area.
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