Which Vietnam veteran, awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, won the Best Director Oscar for 1986's "Platoon"?

Before "Titanic", which actress played Sue Bridehead in "Jude", the 1996 film version of Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscu… For more than a thousand years before the capital moved to Tokyo in 1869, which city was Japan's imperial capital? Before it became a television network, CBS got its start in which medium? In which 1976 horror film did John Travolta play one of the tormentors of the shy title girl? Who founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923 and began a sweeping program to modernize the nation? In which 1865 book does a young girl begin a series of strange adventures by following a rabbit down a hole? Which nation began a war with Russia by launching a surprise attack on Port Arthur in February 1904? Which comedy trio began a run of nearly 200 short films for Columbia with "Woman Haters" in 1934?