The Sopwith Camel.
The Sopwith Aviation Company built 5490 of these single rotary engine World War I biplane fighters. Twin Vickers .303 machine guns were mounted directly in …
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Month: November 2010
$250,000,000.00 Per Plane
OK, An F-22 is missing on its way back to Elmendorf AFB in Alaska. According to AP the 1.75 billion would mean seven more …
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Democrats, Obama Failed by Abandoning Core Consumers
This has been a handy couple of weeks to be in the world of marketing, because you understand implicitly what the whole world of politics …
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More On The Allied Bombing Of Germany
Firestorm, the documentary is one of those gems you find on Netflix, the greatest movie distribution outlet ever. Firestorm was directed by Michawl Kloft and …
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“Run Away….Run Away!!!!” The Feigned Retreat.
In the mid 13th century the Mongols were still an immensely powerful military and political force, but like all empires, and empires by definition expand, …
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Sergeant Alvin York
Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) During World War I, a man with mixed emotions about killing became …
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March 4th, 1865, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Was An Exercise In Restraint And Piety. He Wanted No More War.
AT this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the …
Why We Chose Hiroshima And Nagasaki.
A. The range of the aircraft which would carry the bomb. B. The desirability of visual bombing in order to insure the most effective use …
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The Tatar Yoke. Shifting Power Struggles In The 13th Century.
Mongol Warrior The Tatars swooped out of Central and North Asia on horseback and in clouds of dust, the din of conquerors about to …
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Viet Cong Guerilla Thoughts On Vietnam’s Insurgency And The Late Response Of The Bao Dai Government.
Support for anti communist Diem and an attempt to reunify Vietnam was taken by a South Vietnamese government that was behind in military preparedness, and …
The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone a fragment of a larger stone that contains a decree made in Memphis, Classical Egypt, in 196 BC by Ptolemy V. The …
Reading Thucydides.
Thucydides writes about the Peloponnesian inhabitants before the wars that raged prominently and primarily between Athens and Sparta. He writes that in many ways the …
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