Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/Actually, fulfilling that social responsibility obligation to extend education to society at large is not all that difficult, even for those whose bliss truly lies within academe. The SMH intends this white paper to generate a dialogue with history professors, college and university administrators, journalists, politicians, and citizens regarding the key role the study of military history can play in deepening our understanding of the world we inhabit and producing an informed citizenry
Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents : Planet Money : NPR
Tell you what: pay us an exorbitant membership fee into our collective and we'll keep you protected that way." A protection scheme isn't credible if some butcher shops don't burn down now and then. It was a corridor of silent, empty offices with names like "Software Rights Archive," and "Bulletproof Technology of Texas." It turns out a lot of those companies in that corridor, maybe every single one of them, is doing exactly what Oasis Research is doing
Michael Yon - Online Magazine
Rather than allow academic freedom and reasoned inquiry into an issue, Central Washington University (CWU) looked more like a propaganda theater run by Stalinists than an American institution of higher learning. Likewise, harder trees such as pine are flattened by the thousands during storms, while the palm tree, hard, but bending with the winds, remains standing even by the very edge of the sea the morning after a hurricane
The War on Drugs
Keeping in the spirit of not slowing down, The War On Drugs have also announced a string of new UK and EU dates, further extending their touring schedule into the fall. This comes at the end of a summer festival tour including Bonnaroo, Pemberton Music Festival, Forecastle Music Festival and a handful of dates internationally
2 comments House Votes to Let Banks Take Deposits from Marijuana Businesses (by Phillip Smith, Jul 16) In a historic vote this afternoon, the US House has approved an amendment to the Treasury Department appropriations bill barring the agency from spending any money to punish financial institutions that provide services to marijuana businesses where it is legal. 4 comments Washington Sheriff Tells Oregon Voters: Legalization Is Already Working (by David Borden, Oct 21) King County Sheriff John Urquhart has recorded a message letting Oregon voters know that legalization in Washington State has seen wasteful arrests decrease, DUIs decrease, taxes going to schools and police, and drug prevention programs getting funding
The Kentucky Civil War Bugle - Kentucky Civil War Sites List and Map
This state park includes a brick pavilion that encloses the Lincoln Marriage Temple, the cabin where the parents of President Abraham Lincoln were wed on June 12, 1806. Perhaps one of the most misunderstood and important features of the abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad helped thousands of slaves escape from bondage in the South
We also aim to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders, and their own countries, during The Great War
As 1,000 soldiers currently deploy to put down an uprising of exploited people who have been terrorized by a consistently racist police department, we stand in solidarity with the people of Baltimore and encourage service members and veterans to listen to their fellow community members and to stand on the right side of history. They Suffer Still: The Children of Iraq Posted to: New York City Recently I have seen an increase in news reports on Iraqi children being murdered, abused, or enslaved by ISIS members
CWGC - Homepage
Yet these must not be neglected, and some memorial there must be to the lost, the unknown, but not forgotten dead." Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the British Museum and Artistic Advisor to the Imperial War Graves Commission, 22nd November 1918. TURKEY - LONE PINE CEMETERY Construction of grandstands for 4000 seats will commence on the 5th July in preparation for the commemorative event on the 6th August
of California to design a series of battlefield expeditions that will parallel the Centennial year by year, incorporating reenactments of the battles and official commemorations. In our daily blog we host knowledgeable commentators and contributors on every aspect of the war, especially its literature (both new and classic works)and the performing and fine arts
The Predator War - The New Yorker
(The incident is being investigated by NATO.) According to a reporter for the Guardian, the bomb strike, by an F-15E fighter plane, left such a tangle of body parts that village elders resorted to handing out pieces of unidentifiable corpses to the grieving families, so that they could have something to bury. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, in August, 1998, President Bill Clinton retaliated, by launching seventy-five Tomahawk cruise missiles at a site in Afghanistan where bin Laden was expected to attend a summit meeting
The Wanderlust Project - Beauty, Travel, and Everything in Between
Why? Well, if you apply your moisturizer right after you apply your chemical exfoliant of choice, it raises the pH of the exfoliant, which renders the active ingredients useless. It all started when I moved apartments (my new apartment is so awesome and amazing btw!), and then I had a few deadlines get moved up with one of my jobs, and then a sort of lost my mind in all the craziness
It's a chance to contribute to a truly worthy cause and go in the draw to win a great-looking Early-War Polish army painted by Steve McCuen from CGR Painters. Mentioned in Despatches Berlin is also now available in Forces Of War, the Flames Of War online company builder, and the Flames Of War Digital iPad app
Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes - The Washington Post
The purpose of these investigations, as I have always said, is to ensure accountability for improper actions, not to second-guess, with the benefit of hindsight, commanders making difficult battlefield decisions. So, too, the Human Rights Council should condemn the inexcusable and cold-blooded recent slaughter of a young Israeli couple and three of their small children in their beds
The Mongol War Machine: How were the Mongols able to forge the largest contiguous land empire in history? :
However, if the Mongols were to conquer the world, they would need to be disciplined and be loyal to something or someone more than to themselves and loot. Once the Mongols became master besiegers, the tactic of hiding behind massive stone walls instead of fielding armies to face the Mongols in the open, actually helped the Mongols to beat them, because the Mongols just took every city and town they came across one by one, defeating enemies in a piecemeal fashion
Of course, if women do treat the men around them as such, and go so far as to verbally accuse them of being perverts, then the men will be upset and complain. Share this:Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading..
Korean War Veterans Digital Memorial : Veterans
The purpose of the oral histories and artifacts database is to allow these Korean War veterans to share their personal stories and experiences uncensored with the world. He had completed his freshman year at Princeton University (1947-48) when he enlisted in the artillery ROTC program as a private in the NJ National Guard
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004) - IMDb
When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative's house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother
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A 7-year-old Gaza child can't clutch her doll: her hand was the price of war One year later: here we are after the war written by Hossam Madhoun who runs therapy programs for traumatized children in Gaza. How the US and its allies 'sent hell' to Syria by putting ISIS in its midst While millions of Syrians are fleeing, tens of thousands of jihadi volunteers are coming in as shock troops of self-styled Islamic State
In Anhui province, among third children, there are 227 boys for every 100 girls, while in Beijing municipality (which also permits exceptions in rural areas), the sex ratio reaches a hard-to-credit 275. In Punjab Monica Das Gupta of the World Bank discovered that second and third daughters of well-educated mothers were more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday as their brothers, regardless of their birth order
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