Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Nothing Is Too Good For Our Boys In The Trenches!!!
Casey: Shortages Claim Plausible Associated Press | February 28, 2008 WASHINGTON - Gen. George Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, said Feb. 27 he has no reason to doubt Sen. Barack Obama’s recent account by an Army captain that a rifle platoon in Afghanistan didn’t have enough Soldiers or weapons. But he questioned the assertion […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Feast of Romanus, about 460, and Lupicinus, abbots, 479
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Feast of Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Feast of Oswald
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Feast of Daniel Brottier
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Former Prosecutor to Testify for Detainee
As a former officer, I wish he had waited until his retirement to be so critical of the Commander-in-Chief, even though I agree with his criticisms of the prison at Guantánamo. February 28, 2008 By WILLIAM GLABERSON Until four months ago, Col. Morris D. Davis was the chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay and the most […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
German air minister Hermann Goering offered a $5,000 reward for capturing what famous Hollywood star and World War II Air Force officer?
Maj. Clark Gable, who as a tail gunner made five bombing raids over Germany. Goering offered the reward—plus an instant promotion and furlough—to anyone who took Gable prisoner.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Nothing Is Too Good For Our Boys In The Trenches!!!
Pentagon to probe delays of gear to Iraq By RICHARD LARDNER (02/27/08 23:49:18) An investigation into allegations the Marine Corps delayed sending blast-resistant trucks to Iraq also will examine whether the Marines were negligent in delivering a laser to divert drivers and people from checkpoints and convoys, according to a memo obtained by The Associated […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I Love These!!!!
This image shows the elliptical dwarf galaxy Messier 32 (M32) as a whitish oval patch slightly above and to the right of center. Filling the lower part of the picture, angled diagonally from top left to bottom right, is Andromeda Galaxy. M32 is one of several satellite galaxies of Andromeda Galaxy, which it is expected […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Earth’s Final Sunset Predicted
By Clara Moskowitz Staff Writer posted: 2008 February 26 07:00 am ET “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice,” wrote the poet Robert Frost. Astronomers, it turns out, are in the former camp. A new calculation predicts that Earth will be swallowed up by the sun in 7.6 billion years, […]