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There is a reason why people fight over etiquette. Of the roughly 8.5 million French soldiers mobilized in 1914 to fight Germany and the other Central Powers, more than 6 million became casualties, either killed, wounded or declared missing during four years of grueling trench warfare. The Alabama State Port Authority announced in 2010 that $360 million would be spent over the following five years to improve infrastructure at the port. Overheating laptops have gotten a lot of press over the last few years. The last line of defense was the Maginot Line’s massive ouvrages, each large enough to hold 500 to 1,000 permanent troops. The enemy’s position would be communicated to a cluster of 78 fire control stations that coordinated the French defense from hilltop outposts. These colossal concrete “works” packed heavy firepower and were connected to nearby stations by underground rail lines to shuttle men, weapons and supplies. Behind an imposing line of pop-up gun turrets, tank traps and 12-foot (3.6-meter) concrete walls were fully equipped subterranean military bases complete with mess halls, hospitals, recreation facilities and railway lines. Despite its monumental concrete glory, which was the pride of interwar France, the Maginot Line ultimately wasn’t able to stop Adolf Hitler’s Nazi war machine from quickly overwhelming and occupying France in World War II.