The Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)

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"Highway of Death" Iraqi Army Armed Retreat from Kuwait 1991..

Originally Posted by loughers

A true hero - not a keyboard warrior..

There is nothing heroic about war..Just a lot of suffering..

The Highway of Death refers to a road between Kuwait and Basra on which retreating units of the Iraqi army as well as Iraqi civilians were attacked and destroyed by American aircraft and ground forces during the UN Coalition offensive in the Gulf War, on the night of February 26-February 27, 1991, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of vehicles and the deaths of an unknown and disputed number of Iraqi soldiers and civilians.

When you type keyboard warrior, who exactly are you referring to ?

Originally Posted by loughers

Strawman..

The Battle of Basra was a major engagement of the Zanj Rebellion, fought on September 7–10, 871.

2003 - The Battle of Basra While elements of the Parachute Regiment cleared the 'old quarter' of the city that was inaccessible to vehicles..Entering Basra had only been achieved after two weeks of conflict, which included the biggest tank battle of the war by British forces when the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards destroyed 14 Iraqi tanks on 27 March..US and UK forces both used depleted uranium munitions in the course of the battle..Basra officials contested the use of these weapons, saying that depleted uranium used during the 1991 Gulf War was responsible for birth defects and cancer among the city's population..British paratroopers fought two companies of Iraqi infantry in the Rumaila oil fields, killing or wounding about two-hundred..The Paras called in close air support from RAF Harriers and US A10 “tankbusters” during the battle...


Aerial view of a destroyed Iraqi column..

The use of DU in munitions is controversial because of concerns about potential long-term health effects..Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by exposure to uranium, a toxic metal..The actual level of acute and chronic toxicity of DU is also controversial. Several studies using cultured cells and laboratory rodents suggest the possibility of leukemogenic, genetic, reproductive, and neurological effects from chronic exposure..A 2005 epidemiology review concluded: "In aggregate the human epidemiological evidence is consistent with increased risk of birth defects in offspring of persons exposed to DU"..

Its a pity that DU is not made of straw..This time, he appears in a Christmas special, where he puts on his party head and heads off to the Scarecrow ball..

(Proverbs 23:12):"Apply thine heart unto instruction and thine ears to the words of knowledge"

(Amenemope, ch. 1):"Give thine ears, hear the words that are said, give thine heart to interpret them."..

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The Longest Day..

Originally Posted by magenta_moonshadow

My uncle was in the Parachute Regiment, he was one of the first paratroopers at Pegasus Bridge during the D-Day Normandy landings...

On the night of 5 June 1944, a force of 181 men, led by Major John Howard, took off from RAF Tarrant Rushton in Dorset, southern England in 6 Horsa gliders to capture Pegasus Bridge, and also "Horsa Bridge", a few hundred yards to the east, over the Orne River...


Pegasus Bridge..

Many of the soldiers killed in the actions of June 1944 are buried in the war cemetery at Ranville..The Ranville War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery containing predominantly British soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy.. It is located in the Calvados department, east of Caen in lower Normandy..A large proportion of those interred were members of the British 6th Airborne Division...

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American Psycho: Office Scene (2000)..

In American English the word corporation is most often used to describe large business corporations..The word "corporation" derives from corpus, the Latin word for body, or a "body of people".. By the time of Justinian (reigned 527–565), Roman Law recognized a range of corporate entities under the names universitas, corpus or collegium..These included the state itself (the populus Romanus), municipalities, and such private associations as sponsors of a religious cult, burial clubs, political groups, and guilds of craftsmen or traders..A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries..


Operation Overlord..

Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy..In June 1940, German dictator Adolf Hitler had triumphed in what he called "the most famous victory in history"-the fall of France..The defending British Expeditionary Force, trapped along the northern coast of France, was able to evacuate over 338,000 troops to England in the Dunkirk evacuation (27 May to 4 June)..The decision to undertake a cross-channel invasion in 1944 was taken at the Trident Conference in Washington in May 1943..was a World War II strategic meeting from May 12 to May 27, 1943, between the heads of government of the UK and the US..

Canal de Caen à la Mer is a short canal in the department (préfecture) of Calvados, France, connecting the Port of Caen, in the city of Caen, downstream to the town of Ouistreham and the English Channel..The quay at Blainville-sur-Orne measures more than 600 metres (2,000 ft).. It acts as the 4th commercial French port for the importation of exotic wood, generally coming from the Gulf of Guinea.. It also loads and unloads iron, fertilizer, coal, and construction material..Straw houses have been built on the African plains since the Paleolithic Era..The port exports cereals that are produced in the area and has a silo capacity of 33,000 tons..Concentration of media ownership is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the Mass media...

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British Gliders And Planes Landing (1943)..

On 5 June 2004, as part of the 60th anniversary commemoration of D-Day, Prince Charles unveiled a replica Horsa on the site of the first landing at Pegasus Bridge, and talked with Jim Wallwork a British soldier, the first pilot of the first Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944, during the Second World War..This achievement was described as "the greatest feat of flying of the second world war" by Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory..Staff Sergeant James Horley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 – 24 January 2013)..Although most noted for his part in the Battle of Normandy, Wallwork flew gliders in every major British airborne operation of the Second World War..These also included the Sicily landings, Arnhem and the Rhine Crossings..After the war he worked as a salesman and then in 1956 he emigrated to British Columbia east of Vancouver..


I am Towing-Paratroops leaving an Airspeed Horsa Glider..

The Horsa, given the designation of AS 51, was produced to meet Specification X.26/40 issued on 12 October 1940.. Initially it was planned that the Horsa would be used to transport paratroopers who would jump from doors installed on either side of the fuselage, and that the actual landing would be a secondary role; however the idea was soon dropped, and it was decided to simply have the glider land airborne troops..With up to 30 troop seats, the Horsa was much bigger than the 13-troop American Waco CG-4A ( Hadrian by the British), and the 8-troop General Aircraft Hotspur glider which was intended for training duties only..

The Horsa was first used operationally on the night of 19/20 November 1942 in the unsuccessful attack on the German Heavy Water Plant at Rjukan in Norway (Operation Freshman)..The 2 Horsa gliders, each carrying 15 sappers, and one of the Halifax tug aircraft, crashed in Norway due to bad weather..All 23 survivors from the glider crashes were executed on the orders of Hitler, in a flagrant beach of the Geneva Convention which protects POWs from summary execution..On 10 July 1943, 27 surviving Horsas were used in Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily..The first units to land in France, during the Battle of Normandy, was a coup de main force carried by 6 Horsas that captured Pegasus Bridge in Operation Deadstick, over the Caen canal, and a further bridge over the River Orne..Large numbers were also used for Operation Dragoon and Operation Market Garden, both in 1944, and Operation Varsity in March 1945; the final operation for the Horsa when 440 gliders carried soldiers of the 6th Airborne Division across the Rhine...

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The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1500..

Some Christian commentators have seen the war in heaven as "not literal" but symbolic of events on earth..The motif of the fall of Satan and his angels can be found in Christian angelology and Christian art, and the concept of fallen angels (who, for rebelling against God, were degraded and condemned to a life of mischief or shame on earth or in a place of punishment) is widespread..The Christian tradition has stories about angelic beings cast down from heaven by God, often presenting the punishment as inflicted in particular on Satan..Parallels are drawn to the passage in Isaiah that mentions the "son of the morning" that had "fallen from heaven" and was "cast down to the earth".. In verse 12 of this passage, the Hebrew word that referred to the morning star was translated into Latin as Lucifer.. With the application to the Devil of the morning star story, "Lucifer" was then applied to him as a proper name..Some scholars discern the concept of a war in heaven in certain Dead Sea Scrolls, namely, the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, also known as the War Scroll..The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, also referred to as the Angelic Liturgy, are a series of 13 songs, one for each of the first 13 Sabbaths of the year, contained in fragments found among the Dead Sea scrolls..In The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, one of the Dead Sea scrolls, Belial is the leader of the Sons of Darkness..In the Book of Jubilees, uncircumcised Gentiles are called "sons of Belial"..Pâté is a mixture of cooked ground meat and fat minced into a spreadable paste..


The Battle of Arnhem, 1944, taken from the British Pâthe newsreel "Red Devils of Arnhem"..

A Naraka differs from the hell of Christianity in two respects: firstly, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment and punishment; secondly, the length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually very long..In the Devaduta Sutta, the 130th discourse of Majjhima Nikaya, hell is described in vivid detail..In the Resurrection of Jesus Christ ( Bartholomew) of the New Testament apocrypha, Belial was visible along with 666 fallen angels when Michael was commanded by Jesus to show Hell to his disciples..

The sufferings of the pretas often resemble those of the dwellers in hell, and the two types of being are easily confused.. The simplest distinction is that beings in hell are confined to their subterranean world, while pretas are free to move about..Pretas are generally seen as little more than nuisances to mortals unless their longing is directed toward something vital, such as blood.. However, in some traditions, pretas try to prevent others from satisfying their own desires by means of magic, illusions, or disguises..They can also turn invisible or change their faces to frighten mortals..What am I becoming as the days & nights fly past?..

The Silence of the Lambs ..

What Does He Do, This Man You Seek?..

Moreover, the doctrine of rebirth held that any human could be reborn as animal, and any animal could be reborn as a human.. An animal might be a reborn dead relative, and anybody who looked far enough back through their series of lives might come to believe every animal to be a distant relative..One could not, therefore, make a hard distinction between moral rules applicable to animals and those applicable to humans; ultimately humans and animals were part of a single family..They are all interconnected..Those that live among humans are often slaughtered for their bodies, or taken and forced to work with many beatings until they are slaughtered at the end of their lives.. On top of this, they suffer from ignorance, not knowing or understanding with any clarity what is happening to them and unable to do much about it, acting primarily on instinct..And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof..

In Christian and Biblical sources, Beelzebub is another name for the devil..In Christian demonology, he is one of the se7en princes of Hell according to Catholic views..The Dictionnaire Infernal describes Beelzebub as a demonic fly who is also known as the "Lord of the Flies" have been depicted in mythology and literature..Simon is the first child on the island to realize that the Beast is created by the boys' fear.. He decides that "the news must reach the others as soon as possible".. Meanwhile, the boys have been feasting and begin to do their tribal pig-hunting dance..Created out of fear, the Lord of the Flies is the remnant of a mother sow who, though at one time loving, protective, and innocent, has now become a manically smiling, bleeding image of horror..Beelzebubb claims to cause destruction through tyrants, to cause demons to be worshipped among men, to excite priests to lust, to cause jealousies in cities and murders, and to bring on war..Beelzebub is commonly described as placed high in Hell's hierarchy.. In the Biblical 4th plague of Egypt, flies represent death and decay...

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F Bty Cypher..

F (Sphinx) Parachute Battery Royal Horse Artillery (RHA)is a close support battery of 7th Parachute Regiment RHA, part of the RHA of the British Army, currently based in Merville Barracks in Colchester..The Battery was raised in India in 1800 as an experimental Brigade of Horse Artillery.. They were immediately sent to Egypt to join the force that was operating against Napoleon’s Army.. The Troop sailed to the Red Sea coast where they marched across the desert.. This took a heavy toll on the troops and particularly on their horses and by the time they reached the Nile the guns were being towed by camels..The Troop sailed up the Nile to Giza, home of the Sphinx, where they were encamped on the Isle of Roda..By the time they were ordered to march to Rosetta the French had given up Alexandria so the Troop never had the glory of facing Napoleon's Army in the field..On leaving Egypt the Troop returned to India where they were garrisoned at Dum Dum, Calcutta.. In 1926 the honour title Sphinx was awarded to the Battery for services in the 1801 campaign against the French in Egypt..In 1842 the Troop, then known as 1st Troop, 1st Brigade Bengal Horse Artillery was involved in the famous retreat from Kabul during the First Afghan Campaign.. The Troop was part of a force of 4,500 men and 12,000 civilians who left Kabul in January 1842 and were massacred by Afghan tribesmen..The Battery was based at Dum Dum, for most of the 19th century where it was involved in numerous conflicts and uprisings including the Mahratta War, the Gurkha War and the Burma War..The most renowned campaign the Battery fought during its time in India was during the Indian Mutiny in 1857 where it was involved in the Relief of Lucknow..The Residency at Lucknow had been besieged by Indian Troops for nearly six months before a British relief force, including the Battery, arrived..During the fighting Gunner and Rough Rider Edward Jennings received the Victoria Cross for his actions..Jennings' VC is now owned by the Battery and his exploits are remembered by the crimson stripes of the VC ribbon that now adorn the Battery stable belt..


Ben Parkinson, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire..

Now named F Battery RHA, the Battery was heavily involved in the fighting on the Western Front during World War I seeing action in Ypres, Loos, the Somme, Arras and Cambrai amongst others as well as in Italy..Between the wars, the Battery spent several years based at St John's Wood performing ceremonial duties..At the outbreak of World War II, the Battery moved to Cairo where it became part of 4th RHA..The Battery was part of Montgomery’s famous 7th Armoured Division (The Deshret Rats)..In 1961 the Battery became part of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and moved from Germany to Aldershot..The Battery was then despatched for 4 Operation Banner tours in Northern Ireland, the final of these being a full Battery deployment to South Armagh as part of 1 Royal Scots BG...In 1999 the Battery along with the rest of the Regiment became part of the newly formed 16 Air Assault Brigade..In 2003 the Battery accompanied the Regiment to Iraq where the Regiment fired all 18 guns in the first shots fired by any coalition troops in the ground campaign...2006 saw members of the Battery deploy on the first of 3 tours to Helmand Province, Afghanistan.. On June 11, 2006 Captain Jim Philippson RHA became the first British soldier to be killed in Helmand as a result of enemy action..Later in the tour Lance Bombardier (LBdr) Ben Parkinson was seriously injured when the vehicle he was travelling in hit a landmine.. LBdr Parkinson has since received considerable press attention as one of the most seriously injured soldiers to survive the conflict..Their most recent deployment saw the Battery's gun group deployed to Artillery Hill where they carried out mentoring and training with the Afghan National Army using Russian D30 guns..Doncaster is twinned with: Herten, Germany - Avion, France..The Benben stone (also known as a pyramidion) is the top stone of the Egyptian pyramid..


JC - Hurt ..September 12, 2003...

Ben was in the first British vehicle across the border in the Iraq war in 2003.. He fought the Battle of Rommalia Bridge on his 19th birthday..Still determined on a lifelong career, with 7 Para RHA, he served a 7 month Winter tour in Kosovo aged 20, before volunteering to deploy to Afghanistan with G Battery Gun group in 2003 -The UN lifts sanctions against Libya - In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill 8 Iraqi police officers -Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, one of se7en children born to Ray Cash ..He was mostly of Scottish and English ancestry, and as an adult traced his surname to 11th-century Fife, Scotland, after meeting with the then-laird of Falkland, Fife, Major Michael Crichton-Stuart..2006 - On 12th September, 2 weeks before the end of his tour, Ben was the rear gunner in a WIMIK Land Rover when the rear axle detonated a huge anti-tank mine..Ben took the full force of the blast..We learnt that he had won a regimental 'Blind Date contest in Iraq, the prize being dinner with a page 3 girl.. When the girl gave him a signed photo and wrote 'you were the best' - Ben responded by writing 'I've had better'. Mostly what we learnt was the love, respect and utter commitment that Ben inspired from within his regiment - The Big Unit was going to leave a massive hole in 7 Para and the boys did not intend to let go..The 7th Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade formation of the British Army.,The brigade is also known as the 'Desert Rats' - "Ben" is a song written by Don Black and composed by Walter Scharf for the 1972 film of the same name (the sequel to the 71 killer rat film Willard)..The book is set as a series of journal entries, where the unnamed narrator goes back and forth between his life with the rats and his work, in a low-level job at a company that his father used to own..Eventually, the police destroy the rat colony with flame throwers, but Ben survives and way back to Danny..Benben is also related to the Obelisk..


Ben On Remembrance Sunday ..

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United States Army Special Forces..

Known as the Green Berets because of their distinctive service headgear, are a special operations force tasked with 5 primary missions: unconventional warfare (the original and most important mission of Special Forces), foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, direct action, and counter-terrorism..The 10th Special Forces Group was the first deployed SF unit, intended to train & lead UW forces behind enemy lines in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe..As the U.S. became involved in Southeast Asia, it was realized that specialists trained to lead guerrillas could also help defend against hostile guerrillas, so SF acquired the additional mission of Foreign Internal Defense (FID), working with Host Nation (HN) forces in a spectrum of counter-guerrilla activities from indirect support to combat command.. The 3SFGA is theoretically oriented towards all of Sub-Saharan Africa with the exception of the Eastern Horn of Africa..


Tribute to... "The African Queen"..

During the Korean War, individuals such as former Philippine guerrilla commanders Col. Wendell Fertig and Lt. Col. Russell W. Volckmann used their wartime experience to formulate the doctrine of unconventional warfare that became the cornerstone of the Special Forces..In 1951, Major General Robert A. McClure chose former OSS member Colonel Aaron Bank as Operations Branch Chief of the Special Operations Division of the Psychological Warfare Staff in the Pentagon.. McClure retired from the Army in 1957 and died of a attack soon after at Fort Huachuca, Arizona..In June 1952, the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was formed under Col. Aaron Bank, soon after the establishment of the Psychological Warfare School, which ultimately became today’s John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.. The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was split, with the cadre that kept the designation 10th SFG deployed to Bad Tölz, Germany, in September 1953.. The remaining cadre at Fort Bragg formed the 77th Special Forces Group, which in May 1960 was reorganized and designated as today’s 7th Special Forces Group..Russell Volckmann died on 30 June 1982..In the early 70s, Bank began a personal investigation of the lack of security at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which is a few miles south of San Clemente..The consequence could be a CHERnobyl-type Incident, whereby the damaged plant would spew radioactivity into the atmosphere and contaminate millions of square miles..Attending his funeral were several officials representing the Philippine government..Aaron died on April 1, 2004 in Dana Point, California at the age of 101..He is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California..The 5th Special Forces Group is one of the most decorated active duty US Army Special Forces group in the U.S. armed forces..


ODA 525 team picture taken shortly before infiltration in Iraq, February 1991..

17 - 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium - Moon Waning crescent Visible: 23% Age: 25 days - Sarbjit Singh Chadha (born New Delhi, India) is an Indian singer, who is said to be the first non-Japanese enka singer.. He went to Japan to study agricultural industry.. He gained popularity via the Japanese program Kinyo 10 Ji: Uwasa no Channel - Milbury was a three-year letterman at Colgate University from 1972 to 1974. A defenseman who wore uniform number 7\18 - Carol Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, & Michael Kane, an architect who worked for the World Bank..Her family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Russia and made her 66 professional theatre debut in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Isabella Rossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman & Italian director Roberto Rossellini/19 - Heinrich Schlusnus (August 6, 1888 – June 18, 1952) was Germany's foremost lyric baritone of the period between World War I & II.. He sang opera and lieder with equal distinction - I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV\20 - Something is always happening, but when it happens, people don't always see it, or understand it... or accept it - Koichi Mashimo was born in Tokyo, Japan and from his early years showed interest in photography - Vikram studied at St. Michael's High School, Patna and the The Doon School in Dehradun/21 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open - The Philippine School of Commerce, through a government act, is converted to the College (later the Polytechnic University of the Philippines) - Jeremy Vernon Coney, MBE is a former New Zealand cricketer, who played 52 Test matches and 88 ODIs Kazi Zulkader Siddiqui is Pakistani businessman, academician and social worker - Marcella Detroit is an American soprano - Moon New Visible: 1% Age: 29 days\22 - My name is Dances with Wolves.. I have nothing to say to you - Alastair James Stewart OBE is currently employed by ITN where he is a main newscaster for ITV News/23 - US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea\24 - Pusey studied at Saint Martins School of Art in London where his painting evolved through Irrealism to a political and metaphorical Realism/25 -Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs - Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE musical career includes forming 70s & 80s New Zealand rock group Split Enz - Peter Erdo is a Hungarian Cardinal of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church..On 5 November 1999, he was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Székesfehérvár and titular bishop of Puppi..He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Balbina by John Paul II..Cardinal Erdo has focused on Hungary's need to restore its faith and hope, while celebrating midnight mass at St Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, to mark the Christmas holiday - Moon Waxing crescent Visible: 9% Age: 4 days\26 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties - Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew... The 5th SFG specializes in operations in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa..Many members of the 12th SFG transferred to 20th SFG following the group's inactivation..It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

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The Chi-Rho symbol..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat_candles..

Where did the 'M' go?..

Milling - In this event, each candidate is paired with another of 'similar weight and build', and is given 60 seconds to demonstrate 'controlled physical aggression' in a milling contest - similar to boxing, except neither winning, losing, nor skill are pre-requisites of passing.. Candidates are instead scored on their determination and aggression, while blocking and dodging result in points deducted. Candidates wear head protection, gum shields & boxing gloves..The earliest known depiction of boxing comes from a Sumerian relief in Iraq from the 3rd millennium BCE..Later depictions from the 2nd millennium BC are found in reliefs from the Mesopotamian nations of Assyria and Babylonia, and in Hittite art from Asia Minor.. The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete (c.1650–1400 BCE), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains (c. 2000–1000 BC)..Boxing was a popular spectator sport in Ancient Rome..Often slaves were used against one another in a circle marked on the floor..

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As the wearing of swords became less common..

There was renewed interest in fencing with the fists..The sport would later resurface in England during the early 16th century in the form of bare-knuckle boxing sometimes referred to as prizefighting..Early fighting had no written rules..There were no weight divisions or round limits, and no referee..In general, it was extremely chaotic..Can you smell his sweat?.That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid.. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia..A popular theory is that the celebration of the goat is connected to worship of the Norse god Thor, who rode the sky in a chariot drawn by two goats, Tanngrisnir & Tanngnjostr..A patrol of 8 went out..Only 5 returned..

They still ring in my ears..After years..

Blindfold Boxing - Thought to be Selected Originals from late 1940s material + British Pathé...

A team event, in which 8 men carry a log (a telegraph pole) weighing 60 kg over 1.9 miles (3.1 km) of undulating terrain.. Candidates wear a helmet and webbing..This is supposed to be one of the hardest events.. Points are awarded for determination, aggression & leadership..A gyppo logger is a lumberjack who runs or works for a small scale logging operation that is independent from an established sawmill or lumber company..Cutting trees with the highest value and leaving those with lower value, often diseased or malformed trees, is referred to as high grading..The log had other magical properties, particularly in parts of Northern Spain and Southern France..There, Bowler notes, "a remarkable feature of the log's powers is its ability to defecate gifts; so, I am apt to believe, the Log has had the Name of the Yule-Log, from its being burnt as an Emblem of the returning Sun, and the Increase of its Light and Heat..Not only the presents but the whole celebration should be full of surprises for all members of the family..The father lights the candle in the Jul-Leuchter, or ‘Jul Earthenware Candlestick’, from which the Tree candles in turn get their light..The Priestly source (or simply P) is, according to the documentary hypothesis, one of four sources of the Torah, together with the Yahwist, the Elohist and the Deuteronomist..P was written to show that even when all seemed lost, God remained present with Israel..

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Jesus of Nazareth Crucifixion ..

The events of Yuli are generally held to have centred on Midwinter and feasting, drinking, and sacrifice (blót) were involved..The custom of burning a Yule log for one or more nights starting on Christmas Eve was also formerly widespread in France, where the usual term is buche de noel..This may derive from a custom requiring peasants to bring a log to their lord..In Burgundy, gifts would be hidden under the log...All nautical instruments that measure the speed of a ship through water are known as logs..The word knot, to mean nautical mile per hour, derives from this measurement method.. At midknight, when the candles on the Yuletide Tree are burnt down, the SS Man will put the Jul-Leuchter on the..P is the 16th letter of the modern English Alphabet and the basic Latin alphabet Clarice...

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Peter Baptizing the Centurion Cornelius..

Cornelius was a centurion in the Cohors II Italica Civium Romanorum, mentioned as Cohors Italica in the Vulgate..He was stationed in Caesarea, the capital of Roman Iudaea province..He is depicted in the New Testament as a God-fearing man who always prayed and was full of good works and deeds of alms..Cornelius was the first Gentile converted to Christianity..His feast day on the General Roman Calendar is 2 February..He is commemorated in the Orthodox tradition on 13 September..Most historians believe maize was domesticated in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico..


Badge of the UK Royal Engineers..

9 Parachute Squadron RE, is an airborne detachment of the Royal Engineers, part of the British Army..The squadron's history goes back to 1787, when the Chatham Company of " 'Royall Military Artificers' " was raised at Chatham, which, in 1806, was numbered 9 Field Company in Gibraltar..The next hundred years of the squadron's history is rather meagre, but it is known to have served in the Kaffir Wars, the Crimean War, Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Hong Kong..The unit's first airborne operation was in Norway in 1942 when they were sent to destroy a heavy water plant..However, both gliders crash landed, and the few survivors were executed by the Gestapo..In September 44 the company took part in Operation Market Garden..The squadron had a difficult time in Palestine, being sent to clear the King David Hotel in Jerusalem after a horrific bomb attack..In Palestine the squadron lost three men killed in action..In April 1982, the squadron embarked for the Falkland Islands as part of 5 Infantry Brigade..After the Falklands War, the squadron had tours in Belize, Kenya, the Falklands and Canada..Oz..He was in the Falklands with me..They find work on a German building site in Düsseldorf but despite promises of hostel accommodation, are forced to live in a small hut that reminds them of a POW camp..The second series of 13 episodes in 1986 saw the boys reunited, initially to help Barry complete extensive building work on his new home in Wolverhampton..After six weeks of intense training, the squadron provided the guard for Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace and for the Tower of London..Trooper Steven John "Legs" Lane, MM (posthumous) former Lance Corporal of 9 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers and former Parachute Regiment..Died of hypothermia during action, 27 January 1991..Between April – October 2000, the squadron deployed on another tour to Northern Ireland, carrying out various tasks across the province and dismantling the famous golf towers of South Armagh..Naylor Road is an island platformed Washington Metro station in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, US..The station was opened on January 13, 2001..December 2001 saw a very quick deployment to Afghanistan, having only just returned from Macedonia..The boys then move on to Laos and later Thailand, where Barry's Russian ex-wife, Tatiana turns up to announce that she is carrying his child following a brief "reconciliation" back in UK..The squadron remains the longest continually serving in-role fighting unit in Airborne Forces..

You buy any of this Blair?..

The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus..

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino) was an American film, TV, character and voice actor whose career spanned more than six decades..Relics that are claimed to be the Holy Nails with which Christ was crucified are objects of veneration among some Christians, i.e., among Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox..3 Nails, nailed in 3 Men = Niall of the Nine Hostages...The O'Neill dynasty (Ui Néill means 'descended from Niall') is an historical certainty..According to legend, Niall was a warrior king at a time when Ireland was divided into many kingdoms and a heirarchy of kingship existed..Niall's legendary military skill was on a par with his sexual prowess..In modern parlance, he put it about..The Lamonts & MacNeils/McNeills both claim descent from the same O'Neill who settled in Scotland in the Middle Ages..The chiefs of Clan MacNeil, are reckoned from Niall Noigíallach, from whom all the MacNeil chiefs claim descent..Lóegaire (floruit 5th century) (died c. 462), also Lóeguire, is said to have been a son of Niall of the Nine Hostages..The Irish annals and king lists include him as a King of Tara or High King of Ireland..The term Kingship of Tara was a title of authority in ancient Ireland..Within Tibetan Buddhism Tara is regarded as a Bodhisattva of compassion & action..Nails are similar to claws in other animals..The lunula ("small moon") is the visible part of the matrix, the whitish crescent-shaped base of the visible nail..In humans, it appears by week 14 of gestation..One of the nails is said to have come to rest in the Iron Crown of Lombardy..The crown became one of the symbols of the Kingdom of the Lombards and later of the medieval Kingdom of Italy..We're prisoners on an alien ship..Perhaps your visual subroutines are malfunctioning.. Never play 'hard to get' with a hologram...

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http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.c...-hostages.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_Parachute_Squadron_RE
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Betende Hände..

Praying hands, also known as Study of the Hands of an Apostle (Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels), is a pen-and-ink drawing by the German printmaker, painter and theorist Albrecht Dürer, born on 21 May 1471, third child and second son of his parents, who had at least 14 and possibly as many as eighteen children..His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, was a successful goldsmith..A door is featured in the coat-of-arms the family acquired..After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre, in effect gap years, in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas..The journeyman brotherhoods had established a standard to ensure that wandering journeymen are not mistaken for tramps and vagabonds..Very soon after his return to Nuremberg, on 7 July 1494, at the age of 23, Dürer was married to Agnes Frey following an arrangement made during his absence..Within three months of his marriage, Dürer left for Italy, alone, perhaps stimulated by an outbreak of plague in Nuremberg..His famous series of 16 great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon (Rev. 12:7)..In Italy, he returned to painting, at first producing a series of works executed in tempera on linen..These include portraits and altarpieces, notably, the Paumgartner altarpiece and the Adoration of the Magi..In 1515, he created his woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself..(The most common kind of rhinitis is allergic rhinitis, which is usually triggered by airborne allergens)..Maximilian's death came at a time when Dürer was concerned he was losing "my sight and freedom of hand" (perhaps caused by arthritis) and increasingly affected by the writings of Martin Luther..At the request of Christian II of Denmark, Dürer went to Brussels to paint the King's portrait..On his return to Nuremberg, Dürer worked on a number of grand projects with religious themes, including a crucifixion scene and a Sacra Conversazione, though neither was completed..Dürer died in Nuremberg at the age of 56, leaving an estate valued at 6,874 florins..His large house (purchased from the heirs of the astronomer Walther), remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark.. It is now a museum..He is buried in the Johannisfriedhof cemetery..


The ROBert Plant - If I Were A Carpenter..

The word potable came into English from the Late Latin potabilis, meaning drinkable..Disposal of wastewaters from an industrial plant is a difficult and costly problem..The water fluoridation controversy arises from political, moral, ethical, economic, and safety concerns regarding the fluoridation of public water supplies..A molecule of heavy water has 2 deuterium atoms in place of the 2 protium atoms of ordinary "light" water..Heavy water is not radioactive..(apart from in the sea) In its pure form, it has a density about 11% greater than water, but is otherwise physically and chemically similar..Heavy water was first produced in 1932, a few months after the discovery of deuterium..With the discovery of nuclear fission in late 1938, and the need for a neutron moderator that captured few neutrons, heavy water became a component of early nuclear energy research..Since then, heavy water has been an essential component in some types of reactors, both those that generate power and those designed to produce isotopes for nuclear weapons..Most modern reactors use enriched uranium with ordinary water as the moderator..Radioactive waste has been discharged into the Irish Sea as part of operations at Sellafield since 1952..The Irish Sea has been described by Greenpeace as the most radioactively contaminated in the world, contaminating seawater, sediments & marine life, soaking up an estimated 200 kg (440 lb) of plutonium..The highest concentration is found in the eastern Irish Sea in sediment banks lying parallel to the Cumbrian coast..The consumption of seafood harvested from the Irish Sea is the main pathway for exposure of humans to radioactivity..Sushi Anyone ?..After 13 years of dedication, diligence and enlightening research Dr. Dean Murphy D.D.S. published the book "The Devil's Poison" "How fluoride is killing you"..Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration, fluoride in large amounts interferes with bone formation..The ultraviolet part of sunlight can also kill pathogens in water..You scientists are supposed to come up with a way of solving this problem rather than feeding the opposition?.It doesn't make any Rense.. The Chinese had been imported unlawfully via containers into Liverpool and were hired out through local criminal agents of international Chinese Triads; they were to be paid £5 per 25 kg of cockles..She was a fish-monger, but sure 'twas no wonder..Hey, Molly - I'm not gonna stand out here forever!.. let it melt slowly in hot butter in a sarge saucepan...

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KAMPEN OM TUNGTVANNET Norwegian - 1948..

In 1940, the "Deuxième Bureau" (French military intelligence) directed three French agents, Captain Muller and Lieutenants Mossé and Knall-Demars, to remove the world's extant supply, 185 kg (408 lb) of heavy water from the Vemork plant in then-neutral Norway..The French transported it secretly to Oslo, to Perth, Scotland and then to France..When France was invaded the French nuclear scientist Frédéric Joliot-Curie took charge of the material, hiding it first in a Banque de France vault and then in a prison..Joliot-Curie then moved it to Bordeaux, where it, plus research papers and most of the scientists (Joliot-Curie remained in France) boarded the British tramp steamer Broompark, which was one of the many merchant ships involved in saving over 200,000 troops and civilians in the three weeks after Dunkirk..Crucial to the success of the mission was the role played by Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk..In his early twenties, the Earl was made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh..The Nuffield Institute of Medical Research at Oxford University offered him a research post in the area of "explosives & poisons"..


The VeMork Hydroelectric Plant in 1935..

In Operation Grouse, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) successfully placed four Norwegian nationals as an advance team in the region of the Hardanger Plateau above the plant in October 1942..The unsuccessful Operation Freshman was mounted the following month by British paratroopers; they were to rendezvous with the Norwegians of Operation Grouse and proceed to Vemork..This attempt failed when the military gliders crashed short of their destination, as did one of the tugs, a Handley Page Halifax bomber..The other Halifax returned to base, but all the other participants were killed in the crashes or captured, interrogated, and executed by the Gestapo..British authorities were aware the Grouse team was still operational, and decided to mount another operation in concert with them..By this time the original Grouse team was being referred to as Swallow..O- Don't ask why..The combined team made final preparations for their assault, which was to take place on the night of 27/28 February 1943..Supplies required by the commandos were dropped with them in special CLE containers.. The container was brought back to England and was displayed in the Airborne Museum at Aldershot..The raid was considered successful..The entire inventory of heavy water produced during the German occupation, over 500 kg (1,102 lb), was destroyed along with equipment critical to operation of the electrolysis chambers..Although 3,000 German soldiers were dispatched to search the area for the commandos, all of them escaped; five of them skied 400 kilometres to Sweden, Two proceeded to Oslo where they assisted Milorg, and four remained in the region for further work with the resistance..Unknown to the saboteurs, a "Plan B" had been established by the SOE..The US provides about 60 tactical B61 nuclear bombs for use by Germany under a NATO nuclear weapons sharing agreement..So, you took on the whole Nazi party?..That's quite a sacrifice..

In 1984 The Famous Grouse was awarded the Royal Warrant..

David Bowie We Are The Dead + 1984 - Big Brother + Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletor Family..

Knut Haukelid, who was the only trained commando in the immediate area, was informed of the German plan to remove the heavy water and advised he would have to muster support and destroy the shipment..He recruited two people..They decided to sabotage a ferry that would be carrying the heavy water across Lake Tinn..The Germans were using the ferry to transport a large quantity of heavy water to Germany, where it was to be used for nuclear weapon research..The heavy water had been produced at Vemork, a factory located in Rjukan..Eight and a half kilograms of plastic explosive with two alarm-clock fuses were fixed to the keel of the ferry, SF Hydro, which was to carry the railway cars with the heavy water drums across Lake Tinn..On 20 February 1944, shortly after setting off around midnight, the ferry and its cargo sank in deep water..Haugland and others, stayed in Hardangervidda for two months with Einar Skinnarland, whom he trained. Haugland then went to Oslo to train marine telegraphers..On 1 April 1944 he narrowly escaped another capture by the Gestapo when one of his transmitters, hidden in the Oslo Maternity Hospital, was located by radio direction finding.. Haugland fled to the UK again, and did not return..Haugland first met Thor Heyerdahl at a paramilitary training camp in England.. It was here that Haugland first heard of Heyerdahl's theories about Polynesian migration patterns, and his plans to cross the Pacific on a balsa wood raft..After the war, Haugland continued his military career for many years, except for 1947 when he took part in the Kon-Tiki expedition..He rounded off his career as board chairman of the Kon-Tiki Museum in 1991..Five of the six men in the Kon-Tiki expedition were Scouts..The wreck of the ferry was discovered in 1993..In 2003 he made a BBC documentary with Ray Mears, The Real Heroes of Telemark..The New York Times reported that Rønneberg was "still mentally sharp at his advanced age..In 2004, it was investigated and filmed for an episode of NOVA; Deuterium has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6420 of hydrogen..Isotope separation is the process of concentrating specific isotopes of a chemical element by removing other isotopes..By tonnage, separating natural uranium into enriched uranium and depleted uranium is the largest application..Analysis revealed the fish to be closely related to Arctic char..The light-colored, translucent fish is up to 15 cm long & lacks a swim bladder...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norweg...water_sabotage
http://www.hydro.com/en/About-Hydro/...s-of-Telemark/
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General Officer Commanding, 1st Airborne Division, October 1942..

Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague "Boy" Browning GCVO KBE CB DSO (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces"..He was the commander of I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation Market Garden in September 1944..Frederick Arthur was born at his family home in Kensington, London..The house was later demolished to make way for an expansion of Harrods, allowing him to claim in later life that he had been born in its piano department..He was educated at West Downs School and Eton College, which his grandfather had attended..While at Eton, he joined the Officer Training Corps..Browning sat the entrance examinations for the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 24 November 1914.. Although he did not achieve the necessary scores in all the required subjects, the headmasters of some schools, including Eton, were in a position to recommend students for nomination by the Army Council.. The headmaster of Eton, Edward Lyttelton, put Browning's name forward and in this way he entered Sandhurst on 27 December..He graduated on 16 June 1915, and was commissioned a second lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards..Rebecca is a feminine given name originating from the Hebrew ..

Earth & water?.You'll find plenty of both down there..

Rebecca & Eliezer, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 17th century..

Initially, Browning joined the 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, which was training at Bovington Camp.. When it departed for the Western Front in August 1915, he was transferred to the 5th (Reserve) Battalion..Around this time he acquired the nickname "Boy"..For a time he served in the same company of 2nd Battalion as Major Winston Churchill.. Upon Churchill's arrival, Browning was given the job of showing him the company's trenches.. When Browning discovered that Churchill had no greatcoat, Browning gave Churchill his own.. Browning was invalided back to England with trench fever in January 1916, and, although only hospitalised for four weeks, did not rejoin the 2nd Battalion at the front until 6 October..Browning participated in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, the Battle of Poelcappelle and the Battle of Cambrai (DSO)..He was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, and mentioned in despatches..Browning became aide de camp to General Sir Henry Rawlinson, appointed adjutant of the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards and was granted the substantive rank of captain..He was the first adjutant, during the Sovereign's Parade of 1926, to ride his horse (named "The Vicar") up the steps of Old College and to dismount in the Grand Entrance..Your bishop makes me feel strange..His workload was very light, allowing plenty of time for sports..He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor..In 1931, Browning read Daphne du Maurier's novel The Loving Spirit and, impressed by its graphic depictions of the Cornish coastline, set out to see it for himself in Ygdrasil..They were married in a simple ceremony at the Church of St Willow, Lanteglos-by-Fowey on 19 July 1932, and honeymooned on Ygdrasil..Their marriage produced three children..In mid-May 1940, Browning was given command of the 128th (Hampshire) Infantry Brigade (consisting of three battalions of the Hampshire Regiment) with the rank of brigadier.. Part of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, the 128th Brigade was a Territorial Army brigade that was preparing to join the British Expeditionary Force in France..Age makes women grow to look more like each other..The name Rebekah meaning "snare", "noose","to tie firmly".. Distributed by MGM/UA Entertainment (US) Company Founded April 17, 1924..Loew was born in New York City, into a poor Jewish family..Mayer was born Lazar Meir to a Jewish family in Dymer, Kiev Oblast, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)..

What makes this woman think she can speak among men?.

I think we might be Goring..A bridge too far..The First Drop..

On 3 November 1941, Browning was promoted to major-general, and appointed commander of the 1st Airborne Division..In this new role he was instrumental in parachutists adopting the maroon beret, and assigned an artist, Major Edward Seago, to design the Parachute Regiment's now famous emblem of the warrior Bellerophon riding Pegasus, the winged horse..As the airborne forces expanded in size, the major difficulty in getting the 1st Airborne Division ready for operations was a shortage of aircraft..In July 1942, Browning travelled to the US, where he toured airborne training facilities with his American counterpart, Major General William C. Lee..In mid–September, as the 1st Airborne Division was coming close to reaching full strength, Browning was informed that Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, would take place in November..The results of British airborne operations in North Africa were mixed, and the subject of a detailed report by Browning.. The 1st Parachute Brigade had been called the "Rote Teufel" or "Red Devils" by the German troops they had fought..On 1 January 1943, Browning was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath..He soon clashed with the commander of the US 82nd Airborne Division, Major General Matthew Ridgway..Some saw him as "a ruthless and manipulative empire builder who brooked no opposition"..I Airborne Corps became part of the First Allied Airborne Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton, in August 1944..When I Airborne Corps was committed to action in Operation Market Garden in September 1944, Browning's rift with Brereton had severe repercussions .. He also disagreed with the British drop zones proposed by Air Vice Marshal Leslie Hollinghurst of No. 38 Group RAF, which he felt were too distant from the bridge at Arnhem, but Browning now felt unable to challenge the airmen .. 'Boy' Browning landed by gliders with a tactical headquarters near Nijmegen... In his pack, Browning carried three teddy bears and a framed print of Albrecht Dürer's The Praying Hands..Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names suggest Rebbeca means "tied up", "secured", & even beautifully ensnaring"..

Major General Gavin, now commanding the 82nd Airborne Division, was critical of Browning..unquestionably lacks the standing, influence and judgement that comes from a proper troop experience.... his staff was superficial... Why the British units fumble along... becomes more and more apparent.. Their tops lack the know-how, never do they get down into the dirt and learn the hard way..After the war, Gavin and his staff were criticised for the decision to secure the high ground around Groesbeek before attempting the capture of the Waal bridge at Nijmegen..Browning took responsibility for this, noting that he "personally gave an order to Jim Gavin that, although every effort should be made to effect the capture of the Grave & Nijmegen bridges as soon as possible, it was essential that he should capture the Groesbeek Ridge and hold it"..After the battle, Browning was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta (II class) by the Polish government-in-exile, but his critical evaluation of the contribution of Polish forces led to the removal of Major-General Stanislaw Sosabowski as commanding officer of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade..Browning served in South East Asia BC from December 1944 until July 1946; Mountbatten soon came to regard him as indispensable..In January 1948, Browning became Comptroller and Treasurer to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth Duchess of Edinburgh, although he did not officially retire from the Army until 5 April 1948..From 1944 to 1962 he was Commodore of the Royal Fowey Yacht Club, he was elected its first Admiral..Browning had been drinking since the war, but it had now become chronic..This led to a severe nervous breakdown..Du Maurier had known of his taking a mistress in Fowey, but his breakdown brought to light two other girlfriends in London..For her part, Du Maurier confessed to her own wartime affair..He retreated to Menabilly, the mansion that had inspired Du Maurier's novel Rebecca, which she had leased and restored in 1943.. In 1960 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall..In 1963 when, under the influence of prescription drugs and alcohol, he was involved in an automobile Incident in which two people were injured.. He was fined £50..He died from a attack at Menabilly on 14 March 1965..And the A-shes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea...

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Yes, Corporal - it's the wind!..

First EDition..

Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish journalist and auTHOR mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books..The book is not a dry military history, but rather a story about people,and reads at times like a novel..It is based on interviews with a cross-section of participants, including U.S., Canadian, British, French & German officers and civilians..I hear you're planning another archeological expedition..

Paratroopers landing..

Ryan's book is divided into 3 parts: the first part is titled The Wait, the second part is named The Night and the 3rd part is named The Day..

I collect Church collapses, recreationally..

The Longest Day - Parachuting Fiasco (1962) HD ..

Researchers spent almost 3 years locating survivors of D-Day and over 3000 interviews were undertaken in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France & Germany.. 383 accounts of D Day were used in the text of the book..

The book takes its name from a comment made by Erwin Rommel to his aide Hauptmann Helmuth Lang on 22 April 1944: "...the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive...the fate of Germany depends on the outcome...for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."..Ryan dedicated his book for all the men of D-Day -Tell me, though.. Does man, that marvel of the universe, that glorious paradox who sent me to the stars, still make war against his brother?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_(book)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...-released.html
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Till Deaf Us Do Part..

You always were a cunning linguist, James...

South-African born Emile Cilliers is a 37-year-old Army sergeant PT instructor..Based in Aldershot, Hampshire, he worked with the Royal Army Physical Training Corps - attached to the Royal Engineers..On April 5, 2015, Easter Sunday,Victoria Cilliers suffered multiple serious injuries after a botched parachute jump..Cilliers's wife Victoria fell 4,000ft during a skydive after her main and reserve parachutes failed to deploy properly..Miraculously she survived the fall, landing in a ploughed field, but suffered a broken pelvis, ribs and fractured her vertebra..After telling Ms Goller that his wife was undergoing surgery, Cilliers, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, wrote: “One day we might have a family of our own”..

The bride & groom married at the 12 Apostles Hotel and Spa..

Army sergeant Cilliers is seen marrying his wife Victoria in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2011..

He then asked her: “Will you be my cleaner? I only like nude house cleaners. I pay with hugs and kisses”..

She replied: “Haha I like naked cooking”

Cilliers responded: “Ooo cool. Apart from splashback.”

Ms Goller continued: “I will wear an apron and an apron only.”

Cilliers added: “I might get distracted and you'll end up being distracted by me and then burn the cooking.”...The 37-year-old is also accused of a 3rd charge of damaging a gas valve at their home a few days earlier in the second allegation that he attempted to kill his 40-year-old wife..

The Bourne Supremacy - Fighting Close & Dirty..

Justin 'Kenny' Everett, a former member of the Royal Artillery parachute display team known as the Black Knights, said he was working as the drop zone controller at the time of the fall..He said that he spoke to Mrs Cilliers briefly before the jump and said: 'She seemed normal, didn't seem any different to normal.'..Describing Mrs Cilliers' jump, he said: 'Straight away I could see the reserve was not working correctly..The reserve parachute was spiralling with only one side attached and the person underneath the parachute was being violently thrown around.'..He said that Mrs Cilliers was 'very experienced, more experienced than myself in the qualifications she's got'...The prosecution allege that Cilliers twisted the lines of the main parachute and removed two of the four slinks - a nylon soft link connector between the lines and the harness - from the reserve - When the main parachute and reserve were examined, there were no signs of damage to the main or reserve parachute apart from the missing s links - Victoria is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa..It is located in Region E. and appears to be named after Queen Victoria - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland has been restarted after a two-year conversion - Devastating floods in northern Chile leave at least 25 dead and more than 100 missing - Kenyan Air Force planes bomb two al Shabaab bases in response to last week's attack on Garissa University College - Xi Mei & Lu Lu break the record for the longest mating session ever recorded..

The progenitor of the Cillier name in the region was a French Huguenot refugee named Josué Cellier from Orléans, France who arrived in the Cape of Good Hope in 1700 - Charl (Sarel) Arnoldus Cilliers (7 September 1801 – 4 October 1871) was a Voortrekker leader and a preacher..With Andries Pretorius, he led the Boers to a huge victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838..The 3 morning services were led by 3 men..In 1847, Cilliers sold his farm and moved to the Orange Free State. - Charl Cilliers is a settlement in Gert Sibande District in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.. The village is some 32km north of Standerton - Cilliers began his professional career with the Sharks, but his time with the team was limited by knee injuries - The order Lamniformes includes 10 families with 22 species, with a total of se7en living families and 17 living species - 1 April 1987 - A great white shark was captured near Kangaroo Island in Australia...Spyhopping often occurs during a "mugging" situation, where the focus of a whale's attention is on a boat, such as whale-watching tours, which they sometimes approach and interact with.. It can therefore be said that spy-hopping behaviour is used for many different reasons across a wide range of species....

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Clan Murray..

Furth fortune and fill the fetters..

Murray joined the British Army in 1979 after he left school because of a lack of available jobs in Glasgow at the time.. While training he was selected to join the Parachute Regiment, following in the footsteps of his father who also served in the Parachute Regiment..He was assigned to 1 Para Regiment and served with them in deployments in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone & Kosovo..During his service, Murray reached the rank of Sergeant Major..Murray served with the British Army until 2002 when he retired...

Hello, buddies..What's the trouble now? - Lads Army - Love for corporal Murray..

In 2002, after he had retired from the army, Murray attended a casting audition for the ITV reality programme, Lads' Army.. He was given the part of one of the corporals in charge of one of the two sections in the programme after receiving training in how to behave as a 1950s National Service corporal.. In the programme he was referred to as "Corporal Murray" and became better known to the public as such, despite his real Sergeant Major rank..

"Old Guys Training " THE MONUMENTS MEN Movie Clip # 1..

The progenitor of the Clan Murray was Freskin who lived during the twelfth century..It has been claimed that he was Pictish but it is much more likely that he was a Flemish knight, one of a ruthless group of warlords who were employed by the Norman kings to pacify their new realm after the Norman conquest of England..David I of Scotland who was brought up in the English court, employed such men to keep hold of the wilder parts of his kingdom and granted to Freskin lands in West Lothian..The ancient Pictish kingdom of Moray (Moireabh in Scottish Gaelic) was also given to Freskin and this put an end to the remnants of that old royal house..Sir Walter Murray became Lord of Bothwell in Clydesdale thanks to a marriage to an heiress of the Clan Oliphant..He was a regent of Scotland in 1255..He also started construction of Bothwell Castle, which became one of the most powerful strongholds in Scotland..It was the seat of the chiefs of Clan Murray until 1360 when it passed over to the Clan Douglas..Blair Castle is the current seat of the chief of Clan Murray, the Duke of Atholl - About Zodiac.. I've been thinking..Does he think that Zodiac's gonna send another code?..

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What is thy bidding, my master?..

Attention: Richard now has itchy feet..

Nauyokas joined the British Army in 1980, leaving as a Warrant Officer Class 2 (Squadron Sergeant Major) after 22 years of service in which he undertook duties as a driver, radio operator, Physical Training Instructor & Military Training Instructor.. He served in Kosovo, Bosnia & Germany until 2001 when he retired..Murray has expressed his support for a reintroduction of National Service after his work on Bad Lads' Army, a viewpoint that was not shared by fellow Bad Lads' Army corporal Nauyokas..

Control & Restraint..

Bad Lads Army 2 - Episode 2 - Private Luke Brown "spoiling for a fight"..

The Douglases were one of Scotland's most powerful families, and certainly the most prominent family in lowland Scotland during the Late Middle Ages, often holding the real power behind the throne of the Stewart Kings...The heads of the House of Douglas held the titles of the Earl of Douglas and later the Earl of AnGus..Many Somerset soldiers died during the First World War, with the Somerset Light Infantry suffering nearly 5,000 casualties.. War memorials were put up in most of the county's towns and villages; only nine, described as the Thankful Villages, had none of their residents killed.. During the Second World War the county was a base for troops preparing for the D-Day landings..In 2007, however, The Light Infantry was amalgamated further with the Devonshire & Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets to form The Rifles...I'd say I'm pretty sound, considering the ravages O' Time..

The Skulls - The Revealing Process (2000) HD ..

The name Luke is the English form of the Latin name Lucas.. It is derived from Lucius, and it either means "the great Lucius", or it is a shortened form of the Latin name..Lucius means "the bright one" or "the one born at dawn"..Luke is the second-longest of the four gospels, and together with Acts of the Apostles, the pair make up a two-volume work from the same pen, called Luke–Acts..Together they account for 27.5% of the New Testament..The gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke share so much in common that they are called the Synoptics..Despite being grouped with Matthew and Mark, Luke's gospel has a number of parallels with the Gospel of John..Luke has both expanded Mark and corrected his grammar and syntax – Mark wrote poor Greek..Some passages from Mark he has eliminated entirely, notably most of chapters 6 and 7, which he apparently felt reflected poorly on the disciples and painted Jesus too much like a Magician..Lucania was an ancient area of Southern Italy..According to another hypothesis, Lucania might be derived from Latin word lucus meaning "sacred wood", or from Greek,lykos meaning "wolf"..They say the Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman..Beware the moon, lads...

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Act 2 Scene 7..

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) Trailer..

Mitty is a meek, mild man with a vivid fantasy life.. In a few dozen paragraphs he imagines himself a wartime pilot, an emergency-room surgeon, and a devil-may-care killer..Even in his heroic daydreams, Mitty does not triumph, several fantasies being interrupted before the final one sees Mitty dying bravely in front of a firing squad..Military Uniforms cannot to be worn without Authority - Exceptions..In the course of any bona fide military representation..Any persons from wearing any uniform or dress in the course of a stage play performed in a place duly licensed or authorised for the public performance of stage plays..In the course of a music hall or circus performance..I was 27 years old the first time I died..

All the world’s a stage..

and all the men and Women merely players..

007 Octopussy - Clown Scene..

Individuals who impersonate serving or retired members of the armed forces are known as "Walts" in the British Armed Forces, a shortened form of the name "Walter Mitty"..The Guardian reported on 23 Jan 2016 that up to 10% of servicemen and ex-servicemen who made use of the services of military psychiatrists were "Walter Mitty" characters who fabricated or exaggerated their experience..Many of the Walter Mittys pretend to be Special Forces soldiers..Walter Mittys with Everest dreams need to bear in mind that when things go wrong up in the darth zone (above 26,000 feet)—and sooner or later they always do—the strongest guides in the world may be powerless to save a client's life; indeed as the events of Everest demonstrated, the strongest guides in the world are sometimes powerless to save even their own lives..He is awakened from this daydream by his Mother, who orders him to come to dinner.. Believing he is still a British fighter pilot, he salutes, and places a red-hot poker under his arm—only to burn a hole in his suit jacket, did you get that?.Very important.. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted...

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Rising of the moon as the sun goes down..

In a timeless place..

Gulf War (202 of 374) - Desert Storm..

Broadcast (New Zealand): 3rd February, 1991...

On 16 January 1991, Operation Desert Storm began when Allied war planes attacked Iraqi targets..As the air war began, 2d Brigade of the 82d initially deployed near an airfield in the vicinity of the ARAMCO oil facilities outside Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia..While While 1st Brigade and 3d Brigade consolidated at the Division HQ (CHAMPION Main) near Dhahran, 3 National Guard Light-Medium Truck companies, the 253d (NJARNG), 1122d (AKARNG), and the 1058th (MAARNG) joined 2d Brigade of the 82d, providing the troop ground transportation required for them to keep pace with the French Division Daguet during a young brocket deer incursion..The ground war began almost 6 weeks later..The 2-325th INF was the division's spearhead for the ground war who actually took positions over the Iraqi border 24 hours in advance of coalition forces at 0800hrs - Saudi Aramco's origins trace to the oil shortages of World War I and the exclusion of American companies from Mesopotamia by the United Kingdom and France under the San Remo Petroleum Agreement of 1920..The company allegedly covered up a large oil spill in 1993..The Shamoon malware had a logic bomb which triggered the master boot record and data wiping payload at 11:08 am local time on Wednesday, August, 15..The attack occurred during the month of Ramadan in 2012..On 3 February 2014, Bolmer released the first EP of his solo career, the "Light and Dark EP..Among the many African American women and men serving in Desert Shield And Storm was Sgt. Lauren Long...

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Red Hawthorn..

Mac Iain, MacIain..

26th Chief of the Name and Arms of Johnstone..

British Army Parachute Regiment - Short Film + Part 1..

The Clan Johnstone were once one of the most powerful of the Border Reiver Scottish clans..They originally settled in Annandale and for over 600 years they held extensive possessions in the west of the Scottish Marches, where they kept watch against the English..The first of the clan to be recorded was John Johnstone, found on the Ragman Roll..The Warden's son was Adam Johnstone who was the first Laird of Johnstone..The Johnstones had a long feud with the Clan Moffat who were another Scottish border clan..The name Moffat may be of Norse origin, the Johnstones only raided England..However they did have a feud with the Clan Maxwell..In 1633, Charles I of England created James Johnstone, chief of Clan Johnstone as Lord Johnstone of Lochwood..The third baronet fought for William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne..The Annandale Johnstones were confirmed as chiefs of Clan Johnstone and in 1982 the Lord Lyon King of Arms recognised Major Percy Johnstone of Annandale as baron of the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell and of the lordship of Johnstone, Hereditary Stewart of the Stewartrye of Annandale, and Hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben Castle..It is now protected as a scheduled monument.. It lies 4 miles west of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway..It has been inhabited since earliest times due to its strategic position on the routes from England to Scotland and Ireland, to the small lochs surrounding it and to the relatively fertile soil in the area..The first inhabitants may have lived in crannogs in the lochs..The Lochmaben stone has had a wide range of names attached to it over the last few millennia or so...

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