ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Crews began transferring 1.3 million gallons of fuel Monday from a Russian fuel tanker to the iced-in western Alaska city of Nome..The offloading began near sundown, said Stacey Smith of Vitus Marine, the fuel supplier that arranged to have the Russian tanker Renda and its crew deliver the gasoline and diesel fuel. The process began after crews safety-tested 2 transfer hoses with pressurized air...Sitnasuak owns the local fuel company, Bonanza Fuel, and has been working closely with Vitus Marine. The pipeline leads to storage tanks in town...(Sarah Louise Palin (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an Ameracan politician, commentator and author who served as the 9th Governor of Alaska, from 2006 to 2009).. www.adn.com/2011/12/05/2203651/russian-t...o-carry-fuel-to.html
The North Russia Intervention, also known as the Northern Russian Expedition and the Murman Deployment, was part of the Allied Intervention in Russia after the October Revolution. The intervention brought about the involvement of foreign troops in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White movement. The northern campaign lasted from the final months of World War I in 1918 through to 1919...
In March 1917, a number of events occurred which changed the dynamics of World War I. Following the abdication of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the formation of a provisional democratic government in Russia, the U.S. entered the war. The angered U.S. government declared war on the German Empire in April (and later upon Austria-Hungary) after learning of the former's attempt to persuade Mexico into joining the Central Powers. The Russian Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky, pledged to continue fighting Imperial Germany on the Eastern Front. In return, the U.S. began providing economic and technical support to the Russian provisional government so they could carry out their military pledge...
The lines of communications south from Arkhangelsk were the Northern Dvina in the east, Vaga River, Arkhangelsk Railway, the Onega River in the west, and the Yomtsa River providing a line of communication between the Vaga River and the railway in the centre..This campaign saw the first ever coordinated aerial and naval bombardment and amphibious landing in wartime, at the bombardment of the battery at Mudyug Island, Arkhangelsk. The Red Air Force was still in its infancy, with an assortment of aeroplanes. The Allied occupation of Arkhangelsk itself took place on 2 August 1918..In February 1919, 2 sergeants from the British Yorkshire Regiment were court-martialled and given life sentences for refusing to fight. From April 1919, the inability to hold the flanks and mutinies in the ranks of the White Russian forces caused the Allies to decide to leave...
On August 28, 1918 the British 6th Royal Marine Light Infantry Battalion was ordered to seize the village of Koikori (Койкары) from the Bolsheviks as part of a wide offensive into East Karelia to secure the British withdrawal to Murmansk. The attack on the village was disorganized and resulted in three marines killed and 18 wounded, including the battalion commander who had ineffectually led the attack himself...A British River Force of 11 Monitors (HMS M33, HMS Fox and others), minesweepers, and Russian gunboats was formed to use the navigable waters at the juncture of the Rivers Vaga River and Northern Dvina. 30 Bolshevik gunboats, mines, and armed motor launches took their toll on the allied forces..Britain supplied equipment to the White Russian Northwestern Army including six tanks together with their volunteer crews, who were the only British troops to fight alongside the Northwestern Army. British tank crews pushed to within 12 miles of downtown Petrograd (formerly Saint Petersburg) in the autumn of 1919..All 6 tanks survived the battle, despite having developed some mechanical problems...O-perations to keep open a line of withdrawal against the 7th Red Army took place along the "Arkhangelsk Railway" with an Armoured Train manned by the Ameracans.. The last major battle fought by the Americans before their departure took place at Bolshie Ozerki from March 31 through April 4, 1919...
The area where Arkhangelsk is situated was known to the Vikings as Bjarmaland. Ohthere of Hålogaland told from his travels circa 890 of an area by a river and the White Sea with many buildings. This was probably the place later known as Arkhangelsk.[citation needed] According to Snorri Sturluson, there was a Viking raid on this area in 1027, led by Thorir Hund...On March 16, 2004, 58 ( 5 + 8 = 13 ) people were killed in an X-plosion at an apartment block in the city...
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In Ireland, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Canada, the X band 10.15 to 10.7 segment is used for terrestrial broadband. Alvarion, Cambridge, and Ogier make systems for this, though these are all incompatible.. The Ogier system is a full duplex Transverter used for DOCSIS over microwave. The home / Business CPE has a single coaxial cable with a power adapter connecting to an ordinary cable modem.. The local oscillator is usually 9750 MHz, the same as for Ku band satellite TV LNB.. 2 way applications such as broadband typically use a 350 MHz TX offset..The electromagnetic spectrum extends from below the low frequencies used for modern radio communication to gamma radiation at the short-wavelength (high-frequency) end, thereby covering wavelengths from thousands of kilometers down to a fraction of the size of an atom...For military communications satellites, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has assigned the X band uplink frequency band (for sending modulated signals) as from 7.9 to 8.4 GHz. The ITU-assigned downlink frequency band (for receiving signals) is from 7.25 to 7.75 GHz. The US military uses all frequencies in this spectrum; however, they use select signals on the frequencies throughout this spectrum...
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3 friends who fought the Japanese in Malaya during World War II end up on opposing sides in the Communist insurgency following the war. Ferris becomes a prosperous rubber plantation owner, with Dhana his mistress is now head of a schoolteacher's union.. The 3rd former guerilla, Ng goes to Moscow to obtain an education. When he returns, an even more committed revolutionary than during the war, Dhana is torn between the 2..Ra-Leased 23 October 1964 (West Germany) ...
October – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (the first British woman to win a Nobel) "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" \ 1 - 3 thousand student activists at University of California, Berkeley, surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the Berkeley Free Speech Movement / 4- -7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga \ 5 - 23 men and 31 women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall - Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh begin an 8-day visit to Canada / 6 - "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances \ 12 – The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. The flight is cut short and lands again on October 13 after 16 orbits / 14–15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power \ 16 - The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang - becomes world's 5th nuclear power / 18 – The NY World's Fair closes for the year (it reopens April 21, 1965) \ 22 - A 5.3 Kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, 21 miles (34 km) from Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Vela Uniform program. This test is the Salmon phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Dribble /25 - USSR performs nuclear test \26 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth, Western Australia between 1959 and 1963 / 27 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800 Belgians hostage \ 29 – A collection of irreplaceable gemstones, including the 565 carats (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City - Karmi'el founded in Galilee - has enacted by-laws to protect the environment and prevent pollution, and become a center for clean industries and advanced technology enterprises that abide by these standards - United Rep of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania / 30- Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam \ 31 – Campaigning at Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the Great Society - Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks...
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years (6 megaparsecs) away in the constellation Ursa Major - M101 is a relatively large galaxy compared to the Milky Way. With a diameter of 170,000 light-years it is 70 percent larger than the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small bulge of about 3 billion solar masses...A Wrinkle in Time is a sci- fi fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle,1st published in 1962.. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract...It is the first in a series of books about the Murry and O'Keefe families...The family includes her beautiful scientist mother; her mysteriously absent scientist father; her athletic 10-year-old twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys; and her 5 year-old brother Charles Wallace Murry, a super-genius who can sometimes read Meg's mind..In mathematics, a tesseract is a 4-dimensional shape (hypercube) that, when represented in 3 dimensions, looks, e.g., like a cube inside a cube with spokes connecting the corners of the 2 cubes together.. In the novel, the tesseract functions more or less like what in modern science-fiction is called a space warp or a wormhole, a portal from one area of space to another which is possible through the bending of the structure of the space-time continuum...The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0057813/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Circus,_London sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Recommended-Read...html?start=20#131445According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod the giant huntsman Orion went away to the island of Crete to spend his time hunting in company with goddess Artemis and Leto. Orion threatened to kill every beast, which made the goddess of earth Gaia angry. To punish him for his arrogance she sent against him a huge Scorpion which stung Orion to death. At the prayer of Artemis and Leto, Zeus, the ruler of the Olympian gods, put Orion and the Scorpion among the stars as a memorial of him and what had occurred...Any moon that appears more than half lighted but less than full is called a gibbous moon. The word gibbous comes from a root word that means hump-backed. You can see the hump-backed shape of the waxing gibbous moon..Spermaceti (wax ) occurs in large amounts in the sperm whale...sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Recommended-Read...html?start=80#134418
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Princess Wendy is a parody of Princess Diana, who was at the height of her popularity at the time. When kidnapped by Lacrobat, Wendy is placed in increasingly odd disguises, including bondage gear and a King Kong outfit...Bondage is the tying, binding, or restraining of a person for the sexual, aesthetic, and/or psychological pleasure of the parties involved. Rope, cuffs, bondage tape, self-adhesive bandages,elastic band around ones Knob or other restraints may be used for this purpose...
The death of Gareth Williams, the MI6 officer who was found naked in a padlocked holdall in the bath at his London flat, was "criminally mediated", a coroner has said..On the balance of probability, Williams was "unlawfully killed", Fiona Wilcox concluded, although she had earlier said there was not enough evidence to deliver a formal unlawful killing verdict...In December 2010, police released further details, stating that Williams had visited a number of bondage websites. An expert brought in to examine the bag in which Williams body was found, concluded Williams could not have locked it. A police spokesperson stated that: "If he was alive, he got into it voluntarily or, if not, he was unconscious and placed in the bag"...www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/02/garet...coroner-never-solved
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The United States Navy's Sea, Air, Land Teams, commonly known as the Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command and United States Special Operations Command...
Chris Beck spent 20 years as an elite US Navy Seal, often operating in secret behind enemy lines. But the highly decorated serviceman was always hiding a deeper, personal secret - since early childhood, he felt he was a female born into a male body... "I am now taking off all my disguises and letting the world know my true identity as a woman." Chris had become Kristin...
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The Siege of Fort Macon took place from March 23 to April 26, 1862, on the Outer Banks of Carteret County, North Carolina. It was part of Union Army General Ambrose E. Burnside's North Carolina Expedition during the American Civil War...Less than 20 ft (6.1 m) shorter than Hindenburg, both the Macon and "sister ship" USS Akron (ZRS-4) were among the largest flying objects in the world in terms of length and volume. Although the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg was longer, the two sisters still hold the world record for helium-filled airships...Macon is a surname - It may be derived from French Maçon or Mâcon meaning marsh dweller (see Masson), or a variant of the occupational surname Mason...Generally macon has a light black and yellow colour,Sabrina Crucible Buzzzzzzz with the outer edges being a darker pink...
The city of Mâcon, formerly the capital of the Mâconnais, now of the Department of Saône-et-Loire, became a civitas (Celtic tribal 'city state') in the 5th century, when it was separated from the Æduan territory. Christianity appears to have been introduced from Lugdunum (present Lyon) into this city at an early period, and Hugh, Archbishop of Lyon, in the 11th century, would call Mâcon "the eldest daughter of the Church of Lyon"..The existence of Mâcon as a separate diocese ended at the French Revolution, and the title of Mâcon is since borne by the Bishop of Autun into whose bishopric it was merged...During the Merovingian era it was a politically important see. Two Bishops of Autun figured prominently in political affairs: St. Syagrius of Autun, bishop during the second half of the 6th century, a contemporary of St. Germanus, bishop of Paris, who was a native of Autun, and Leodegar (St. Léger), bishop from 663 to 680, who came into conflict with Ebroin and put to death by order of Theoderic III...
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Al-Jawf (Arabic: الجوف , also spelled Al-Jouf, is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the north of the country, bordering Jordan. It has an area of 100,212 km² and a population of 440,009 at the 2010 Census (preliminary result). Its capital is Sakakah...Many areas of Saudi Arabia are struggling to develop and modernize in a short span of time. In recent years, the Saudi government has been pouring money in the region of Al-Jawf, especially in Sakaka, to help develop this economically starved region of the kingdom...( Al Jawf (Arabic: الجوف Al Ğawf) is a town in southeastern Libya, the capital of the Kufra district in Libya..The city lies in the largest oasis in the Kufra basin.. It is one of the most heavily irrigated oases in the Sahara )..The province has 3 governorates - Sakakah, Qurayyat and Dumat Al-Jandal..Sakakah, also known as Al Jawf, a city known in Saudi Arabia for its major prison..There are also the ancient Rajajil standing stones in Sakaka, dating back nearly 6,000 years...
PRISM is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007...PRISM is a government code name for a data-collection effort known officially by the SIGAD US-984XN..In optics, a prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that refract Light..Prisms are named for their base, so a prism with a pentagonal base is called a pentagonal prism..In surveying a double pentaprism (two pentaprisms stacked on top of each other) and a plumb-bob are used to stake out right A-ngles, e.g. on a construction site...
Ramadi (Arabic: الرمادي; Ar Ramādī) is a city in central Iraq, about 110 kilometers (68 mi) west of Baghdad. It is the capital of Al Anbar Governorate.. The city extends more than 60 kilometers along the Euphrates and is the largest city in Al-Anbar..Historically the city had a large Jewish community into the 20th century, but most migrated to Israel after its wars of independence and the 6 Days War.. By the 21st century, all of the inhabitants of the city were Sunni Muslims from the Dulaim tribe...Fertility rites may occur in calendric cycles, as rites of passage within the life cycle, or as ad hoc rituals....Commonly fertility rituals are embedded within larger-order religions or other social institutions..Ancient Phoenicia saw 'a special sacrifice at the season of the harvest, to reawaken the spirit of the vine'; while the winter fertility rite to restore 'the spirit of the withering vine' included as sacrifice 'cooking a kid in the milk of its mother, a Canaanite custom which Mosaic law condemned and formally forbade'..The death of Adonis - 'a vegetation spirit who...was manifest in the seed of corn' - was marked by 'the most beautiful of Phoenician festivals...celebrated immediately after the harvest'...Ramadi was a base of resistance to the U.S. occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2006...
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The Indo-Gangetic Plain also known as The North Indian River Plain is a large and fertile plain encompassing most of northern and eastern India, the most populous parts of Pakistan, parts of southern Nepal and virtually all of Bangladesh..The region is named after the Indus and the Ganges, the twin river systems...The plains support one of the most populous areas on Earth, being home to nearly 1 billion people (or around 1/7 of the world's population) on 700,000 km² (270,000 mile²)...
The Indo-Gangetic plain is bound on the north by the abruptly rising Himalayas, which feed its numerous rivers and are the source of the fertile alluvium deposited across the region by the 2 river systems. The southern edge of the plain is marked by the Vindhya- and Satpura Range, and the Chota Nagpur Plateau. On the west rises the Iranian Plateau...In geology, the plateau region of Iran primarily formed of the accretionary Gondwanan terranes between the Turan platform to the north and the Main Zagros Thrust, the suture zone between the northward moving Arabian plate and the Eurasian continent, is called the Iranian plateau (although Iran's major cancer petroleum causing reserves are not in the plateau)...The headwaters of major rivers arise in the Anti-Taurus: the east-flowing Aras River, which empties into the Caspian Sea; the south-flowing Euphrates and Tigris join in Iraq before emptying into the Persian Gulf..The Indus River begins in the highlands of Tibet and flows the length of Pakistan almost tracing the eastern edge of the Iranian plateau. The Indus River forms the Iranian plateau's eastern boundary...The languages of the Indo-Gangetic plain are predominantly Indo-Aryan.. There is in addition a great variety of regional languages, which in several cases form a dialect chain with one another..Extent of the Indo-Gangetic plain across South Asia.The great plains are sometimes classified into 4 divisions..The Bhabar belt ..The Terai belt ..The Bangar belt ..The Khadar belt..and the Gold sovereign Belt ...During WW2 gold sovereigns were included in the survival kit of SOE agents...
The Sharon Plain (Hebrew: שרון) is the northern half of the coastal plain of Israel. Its largest city is Netanya.The Plain lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Samarian Hills, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the east. It stretches from Haifa and Mount Carmel in the north to the Yarkon River in the south, at the edge of the present city of Tel Aviv, about 90 kilometres (56 mi). Parts of the Plain are included in the Haifa, Center, and Tel Aviv Districts of Israel. In 2008 The Sharon Plain was home to 1,131,600 people,[1] 965,300 of them (85.3%) are Jews, and 166,300 (14.6%) are Arabs...
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Do you know we are being led to slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting obscene on young blood..Do you know we are ruled by T.V...The moon is a dry blood beast..Guerilla bands are rolling numbers in the next block of green vine amassing for warfare on innocent herdsmen who are just dying...An American Prayer is the 9th and final studio album by The Doors..Recorded March 1969 and December 1970 (spoken word) - Raleased November 17, 1978...
1969 March 2 - In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted / 4 – The Kray twins were both found guilty of murder: Ronnie of murdering George Cornell; Reggie of murdering Jack "the Hat" McVitie \ 5 – The Kray twins are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum of 30 years by Mr Justice Melford Stevenson. They would both die whilst serving their sentences in prison / 18 – Operation Breakfast, the secret bombing of Cambodia, begins / 20 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-In" for peace in Amsterdam \ 25 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono married in Gibraltar \ 27 – First ordination of a woman in the Church of Scotland, Catherine McConnachie by the Presbytery of Aberdeen / 29 – The UK shared 1st place in the Eurovision Song Contest, with a 4-way tie with France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Lulu represents the UK, singing Boom bang-a-bang \ 1970 December 1 - The Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián / 3 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba \ 3 – Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins / 7 - Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners \ 12 – A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead / 23 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world \ 26 – Athlete Lillian Board, 22, died in Munich, West Germany, after a 3-month battle against cancer / 30 - In Viscaya, Spain, Basque county, 15,000 go on strike to protest the Burgos trial death sentences...
1978 - November 2: 8:00 pm – The Republic of Ireland's 2nd television channel RTÉ 2 goes on air (renamed Network 2, 1988; RTÉ Network Two, 1995; N2, 1997; and RTÉ Two in 2004) \ 18 – Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand / December 22 - The pivotal 3rd Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform - Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men, is arrested - Argentina started the Operation Soberanía against Chile / 25 – Vietnam launches a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia \ 27 – The Constitution of Spain is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military dictatorship...
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The Battle of Buna – Gona was part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific campaign of World War II.. On 16 November 1942, Australian and United States forces attacked the main Japanese beachheads in New Guinea, at Buna, Sanananda and Gona. When the Japanese forces were within sight of Port Moresby, the Japanese leadership decided holding Guadalcanal was a higher priority, and they ordered their New Guinea forces to withdraw to the coast. Since arriving on the north coast in June, the Japanese had built hundreds of well-camouflaged, reinforced bunkers in mutually supporting positions blocking all available approaches. Combined with the forces who had returned from the Kokoda Track, the Japanese initially had nearly 5,500 troops on the northern coast. This rose to about 6,500 later in the battle. Both the Japanese and Allied forces were riddled by disease and lacked the most basic supplies, including medicine and food.. Some U.S. troops were reduced to a small portion of a C - ration each day...
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On 8 December 1941, the War Cabinet of His Majesty's Government authorised the immediate declaration of war on Japan, following the Japanese attacks on Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Anthony Eden, was in transit to Moscow at the time, so Winston Churchill was in charge of the Foreign Office. The text of his letter to the Japanese Ambassador was as follows:
Sir,
On the evening of December 7th His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom learned that Japanese forces without previous warning either in the form of a declaration of war or of an ultimatum with a conditional declaration of war had attempted a landing on the coast of Malaya and bombed Singapore and Hong Kong.
In view of these wanton acts of unprovoked aggression committed in flagrant violation of International Law and particularly of Article I of the Third Hague Convention relative to the opening of hostilities, to which both Japan and the United Kingdom are parties, His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo has been instructed to inform the Imperial Japanese Government in the name of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that a state of war exists between our two countries.
I have the honour to be, with high consideration,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Winston S. Churchill
Of the letter, Churchill later wrote: "Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
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December 1 – WWII:Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Forces -A state of emergency is declared in British Malaya and the Straits Settlements \ 2 – WWII and Attack on Pearl Harbor: The code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack is to be carried out according to plan / 4 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a governor \ 6 – WWII: Soviet counterattacks begin against German troops encircling Moscow. The Wehrmacht is subsequently pushed back over 200 miles - The United Kingdom declares war on Finland – WWII: British submarine HMS Perseus is sunk by a mine off Cephalonia ..
7 (December 8 – 3:18 a.m., Japan Standard Time) – WWII:Attack on Pearl Harbor: Aircraft flying from Imperial Japanese Navy carriers launch a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, thus drawing the United States into World War II.. The attack begins at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time and is announced on radio stations in the U.S. at about 11:26 p.m. PST (19.26 GMT) - The Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire is published in Japanese evening newspapers but not formally delivered to the U.S. until the following day. Canada declares war on Japan - Tobruk's British and Commonwealth garrison is relieved after Axis forces under Rommel withdraw...
8 - WWII: The Battle of Hong Kong begins shortly after 8:00 a.m. (local time), less than 8 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour, when Japanese forces invade Hong Kong, which is defended by British, Canadian and local troops. The United Kingdom officially declares war on the Empire of Japan - The Japanese occupation of the Philippines begins 10 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor when Japanese forces invade Luzon and destroy U.S. aircraft on Clark Field - President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Infamy Speech" to a Joint session of the United States Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT). Transmitted live over all 4 major national networks it attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes.. Within an hour, Congress agrees to the President's request for a United States declaration of war upon Japan and he signs it at 4:10 p.m - Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, the Free French, Yugoslavia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador and Honduras also officially declare war on Japan, and the Republic of China declares war on the Axis powers - Japanese also attack British Malaya and Thailand - Guatemala declare war on Japan - The German advance on Moscow (Operation Typhoon) is suspended for the winter - Holocaust: the Nazi German Chełmno extermination camp opens in occupied Poland near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem. Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945 at least 153,000 people will be killed in the camp...
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13 Aug 2013 19:27 #174
10 – WWII: The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea north of Singapore \ 11 – WWII - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind - Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") delivers her first propaganda broadcast to Allied troops / 12 – WWII: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States - British India declares war on the Empire of Japan - The United States seizes the French ship SS Normandie - The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese Imperial forces is occupied in Legaspi, Albay in Eastern Philippines \ 13 – Sweden's low temperature record of -53°C is set in a village within the Vilhelmina Municipality / 19 – WWII: Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army \ 22 – WWII: Arcadia Conference opens in Washington, D.C., the first meeting on military strategy between the heads of government of the United Kingdom and the United States following the latter's entry into the war / 23 – WWII: A second Japanese landing attempt on Wake Island is successful, and the American garrison surrenders after a full night and morning of fighting \ 24 – WWII - British forces capture Benghazi - Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak; K XVI is herself torpedoed the following day by Japanese submarine I 66 / 25 – WWII: The Battle of Hong Kong ends after 17 days with surrender of the British Crown colony to the Japanese - Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces \ 26 – WWII: Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the United States Congress / 27 – British Commandos raid the Norwegian port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the garrison and defenses, drawing vital troops away from other areas...
Myra receives a warning to "Beware the Black Order" from the spirit of her father through automatic writing and the Master has a strange plant delivered to the Maynard house which, in the night, produces spores which fall and emit a poisonous cloud of vapor. Myra, with her power of clairvoyance, sees a vision of Dr. Alden in a crystal ball and is able to save his life...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
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Soldiers more likely to be convicted of violent offences
13 Aug 2013 20:44 #175
Major General Julian Howard Atherden Thompson, CB, OBE (born 7 October 1934) is a military historian and former Royal Marines officer who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War...said it would be "end of story" if Argentine forces took the British base on East Falkland..He told The Times: "The Argentines have a marine brigade. They've got a parachute brigade and some good special forces..."All they've got to do is get those guys on to the islands for long enough to destroy the (RAF) Typhoon jets and that's the end of it"...
RAF Mount Pleasant (IATA: MPN, ICAO: EGYP) (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, Mount Pleasant Complex or MPA) is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The airbase goes by the motto of "Defend the right" (while the motto of the islands is "Desire the right") and is part of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI). Home to between 1,000 and 2,000 British military personnel, it is located about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Stanley—the capital of the Falklands—on the island of East Falkland. The world's longest corridor, half a mile (800 m) long, links the barracks, messes and recreational and welfare areas of the base, and was nicknamed the "Death Star Corridor" by personnel..
The British government felt that Stanley airfield was not the best option for a large, permanent base and decided to construct a new RAF station and make it the centrepiece of considerably strengthened air defences for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This was intended to deter any future Argentine attempts to take the islands by force. Mount Pleasant, to the west of Stanley, was chosen as the site for the new station. The construction, which had extraordinary challenges to get materials on site, was undertaken by a Laing-Mowlem-ARC consortium.. The airfield was opened by Prince Andrew (who served in the Falklands War) on 12 May 1985, and became fully operational in 1986...
Mount Pleasant was opened by Prince Andrew on 12 May 1985, becoming fully operational the following year. The station was constructed as part of British efforts to strengthen the defence of the Falkland Islands following the 1982 war with Argentine forces. It remains the newest purpose-built RAF station and replaced previous RAF facilities at Port Stanley Airport...On 2 March 2012, the Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called for Aerolineas Argentinas flights to Buenos Aires to replace LAN Airlines flights to Chile. The idea of flights to Argentina was not supported in the islands, because this might result in Argentina having a monopoly on commercial flights and controlling all commercial air access..On April 2, 2012, an Uruguayan air company, Air Class Líneas Aéreas, gained permission from the Uruguayan Ministry of Defence to start a commercial flight to the Falkland Islands..Flights are planned to Saint Helena when a new airport there opens in 2016...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Theme from Harry's game is a song of Clannad's 7th album "Magical Ring"..Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his one new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin...The story begins with Cabinet minister Henry Danby being shot dead by an IRA gunman Billy Downes, who then escapes to Belfast. Army officer Harry Brown is sent undercover into Belfast's Catholic community to track down the assassin. Brown is chosen for the mission because he is an Ulsterman who had previously done similar work in O-man..O-riginal run 25 O-ctober 1982 –27 O-ctober 1982...
October 1 - USSR performs nuclear test \ 2 - Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700 / 5 - China PR performs nuclear test \ 6- Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die / 7- Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000 \ 9 - Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead / 10- Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint- US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union \ 11 - Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire - English ship Mary Rose raised at Portsmouth, England / 12 - A victory parade is held in London to mark the end of the Falklands war \ 15 - The Ford Sierra is launched as replacement for the long-running Cortina / 16 - USSR performs underground nuclear test \ 17 - USSR performs another nuclear test / 21 - Sinn Féin win first seats on Northern Ireland Assembly, with Gerry Adams winning the Belfast West seat \ 27 - 3 RUC officers killed by an IRA bomb near Lurgan in Northern Ireland / 28 – The Socialist Party wins the election in Spain; Felipe González is elected Prime Minister \ 30 - Portugal revises constitution / 31- Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
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Soldiers more likely to be convicted of violent offences
19 Aug 2013 00:00 #177
Conscription in the United Kingdom has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1919, the second was from 1939 to 1960, with the last conscripted soldiers leaving the service in 1963. During World War I and World War II, it was known as War Service or Military Service. From 1948 it was known as National Service..
The Military Service Act 1916 was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom during the First World War. It was the first time that legislation had been passed in British military history introducing conscription..
The Bill which became the Act was introduced by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith in January 1916. It came into force on 2 March 1916. Previously the British Government had relied on voluntary enlistment, and latterly a kind of moral conscription called the Derby Scheme..
The Act specified that men from 18 to 41 years old were liable to be called up for service in the army unless they were married, widowed with children, serving in the Royal Navy, a minister of religion, or working in one of a number of reserved occupations. A second Act in May 1916 extended liability for military service to married men, and a third Act in 1918 extended the upper age limit to 51...
Men or employers who objected to an individual's call-up could apply to a local Military Service Tribunal. These bodies could grant exemption from service, usually conditional or temporary. There was right of appeal to a County Appeal Tribunal..Due to political considerations the Act did not extend to Ireland, which was then part of the United Kingdom. The Conscription Crisis of 1918 when the British Government tried to impose conscription on Ireland led to a conscription crisis and to increased support for Sinn Féin..Yobbo or yob is a slang term for an uncouth or thuggish working-class person. The word derives from a back slang reading of the word "boy" (boy or boyo reversed becomes yob or – slightly modified – yobbo)...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The EPA (environmental protection agency) and OSHA took air samples in the days following September 11th, they reported that they found no excessive levels of asbestos contrary to other findings....
With the anniversary of September 11th literally just around the corner, unanswered questions still remain for families who lost loved ones during the tragic event, as well as from families...
In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the United States Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off...
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