Wings Over Suez: The Only Authoritative Account of Air Operations During the Sinai and Suez Wars of 1956
The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | yesterday
No need for a dramatic rescue this time around : The Maersk Alabama, the American-flagged ship captured briefly by pirates in April before a dramatic rescue of its captain, came under fire early Wednesday morning off the Somalia coast, but evaded the attackers. Four men in a skiff sped within 300 yards of the container ship, firing automatic weapons in an attempt to board it, according to the U.S....
we move to canada (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bravo Rick Salutin! Our own little Abu Ghraib? The nauseating component in current claims and reactions about Canada's role in turning Afghan detainees over for torture does not lie in the betrayal of some mythic Canadian role as an idealistic actor on the world stage – as opposition questions implied in the House of Commons yesterday. We have always played an ambiguous, often duplicitous, role...
Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A Russian naval task force led by the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer will resume an anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa later this month, the Navy said on Thursday. It said the destroyer and an auxiliary vessel were currently crossing the Mediterranean and should reach the Suez Canal on November 23. The Navy will maintain a constant presence off the Horn of Africa, with each fleet dispatching...
Victorian Paintings (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[Bazaar, Suez] signed, titled and dated .Bazaar, Suez / Wm. Simpson, R.I. 1884 lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse watercolour and pencil heightened with bodycolour on paper 27 by 19½in. . 1823 - 1899. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simpson_(artist )
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Here's a nifty write-up of counterinsurgency sensei David Kilcullen's speech at John Hopkins, delivered last night. Kilcullen's been in the news recently, warning of a "Suez-like disaster" should the White House lowball USFOR-A boss Gen McChrystal's request for 40k additional...
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
LNG shuttle regasification vessel named at Samsung Heavy Industries.
Bishop Alan’s Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Back to Seer Green Church of England Combined School where I had great fun with music a couple of years ago , for their 150th Anniversary celebration. Singing was great, and Olwyn Oakley , child ren, staff and friends seem to be enjoying life. Good to share the assembly with Gaenor Hockey , the local Vicar, who is well known and loved in school. 150 is a great age to be, along with Big Ben , the Red...
Word of Mouth (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
What do you think of the prospect of Hershey and Ferrero buying Cadbury? Aren't the products of these suitors uniformly awful? I was born with chocolate in my nostrils. When the wind was in the right direction the heavy smell of melted chocolate would drift over our house from the Fry's factory in Keynsham . I never found a gold ticket or got invited into the factory by a dodgy old man in a tall hat...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
THE head of Egypt's Suez Canal yesterday said the waterway has been deepened to allow ships with a draft of up to 66ft to pass through.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
THE head of Egypt's Suez Canal yesterday said the waterway has been deepened to allow ships with a draft of up to 66ft to pass through.
The Diary Junction Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
‘The scene before us was full of life and animation. Down at our feet a very Babel was at work - men loading the animals from the deep pits in which they were toiling, to a wild accompaniment of sounds, in which the moaning roars of the camel and the braying of donkeys rose above the cries of the workmen.’ This is William Howard Russell, a well-known journalist of the day, describing the...
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Btms^ for Tuesday, November 17. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Great Lakes’ Edmund Fitzgerald Beer, 2 toast 2 Canadian singer & songwriter Gordon Lightfoot born 2day in 1938. On this date in… 1800 – The U.S. Congress held its first sessions in Washington, D.C. 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas was inaugurated. 1894 – The ”Daily Racing Form”...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
perseverate \per-SEV-uh-reyt\, intransitive verb: To involuntarily repeat a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder. To repeat something insistently or redundantly. Perseverate is a back formation of perseveration from Middle French perseveration from Old French and classical Latin...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
If you listen to the outraged wails of leftists and Muslims, you might reasonably be under the impression that the United States is in the business of persecuting Muslims. The reality is radically different. If anything American policies should have made us the Muslims' best friends. Before 9/11, the United States had fought two wars on behalf of Muslims, the Gulf War under George Bush Sr. and the...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558. The Suez Canal was inaugurated in 1869. Nine Czech students were executed, 1200 were sent to concentration camps, and Czech universities were closed in 1939 for anti-Nazi demonstrations. Tenzin Gyatso became the 14th Dalai Lama at the age of 15 in 1950. And in 1989, riot police suppressed a student demonstration in Prague, sparking the Velvet Revolution....
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