Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Today In Military History
On this day…
1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
1847 US defeats México in […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Today In Anchorage
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Marines, Afghan Troops To Stay Months In Marjah
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Afghanistan February 28, 2010, 12:19 pm ET
More than 2,000 U.S. Marines and about 1,000 Afghan troops who stormed the Taliban town of Marjah as part of a major NATO offensive against a resurgent Taliban will stay several months to ensure insurgents don’t return, Marine commanders said Sunday.
Meanwhile, insurgents are striking back by […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Today In History
On this day…
0870 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople. The Fourth Constantinople Council closed, under Pope Adrian II in the West and Emperor Basil I in the East. The council had condemned iconoclasm, and became the last ecumenical council held in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
1066 Westminster Abbey opens
1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Today In Military History
On this day…
1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London
1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English
1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1713 French troops […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Today In Anchorage
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
I Love These!!!!!!!
NASA’s new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft is mapping the sky like never before. Among its first images is Comet Siding Spring, which flashes across the sky impressively in this infrared image. Observers in Australia discovered the comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, in 2007.
Our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, also goes by the names Messier […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah
By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU and DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writers
2 hrs 6 mins ago
MARJAH, Afghanistan – Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled town of Marjah on Saturday — part of an offensive that is the run-up to a larger showdown this year in the most strategic […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
US military lets soldiers Tweet, blog and Facebook
Sat Feb 27, 12:40 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Pentagon said soldiers will be allowed to Tweet, blog and update their Facebook pages on the US military’s non-classified computer network under a new policy.
The decision came after a seven-month review with senior officials concluding that the benefits of social media outweighed the risks associated with […]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Today In History
On this day…
280 Birth of Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to be converted (ca. 312) to the Christian faith.
1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold […]