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In April 1912 a beautiful four-funnel liner arrived in New York City at the completion of her maiden voyage. This was, obviously, not the RMS TITANIC. She was the proud new flagship of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique -- the SS FRANCE. At approximately 24,000 tons with a service speed of 23.5 knots she was not a record breaker in size or speed. However, at this moment she was still the 4th largest and 3rd fastest liner in service. More importantly in the era of the "floating palaces" she was designed in the image of the most iconic palace in the...

A senior official at Germany's defence ministry has sparked an uproar with a tweet commemorating the death of Erwin Rommel, a favourite general of Adolf Hitler who was later involved in a plot to kill the Führer. "Erwin Rommel, who was forced to commit suicide by the Nazis, died 74 years ago today," wrote Peter Tauber, a former close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, on Twitter.

The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society has always pursued noble goals and sought to strengthen Russia’s position in the Middle East. June 3, 2017 will mark 135 years since this ancient society was founded. Question: What do you think of its current activities, including its friendly ties with Middle Eastern people, its contribution to cultural, historical and spiritual heritage, and mainly the phenomenon of “Russian Palestine”? Lavrov: This society was designed to promote friendly relations with the people of the region, particularly to create favourable conditions for pilgrims. However, it didn’t just seek to make it possible for Russian people to...

This past fall The New York Times began publishing a powerful, ongoing series revealing the U.S. militaryÂ’s mistreatment of soldiers who were exposed to decades-old chemical weapons during Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to The Times, between 2004 and 2011 U.S. troops stumbled across about 5,000 Iraqi chemical munitions of various types, and at least 17 American personnel, mostly bomb disposal experts, were wounded by them. All of the ordnance was manufactured by Iraq prior to the 1991 Gulf War, during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.Much of the conservative media has seized on the Times articles as long-awaited, sweet vindication...

There have been many harrowing dramas about the Great War, but Peter Jackson’s extraordinary documentary, which had its world premiere last night as part of the London Film Festival, is as close as we can come now to seeing it as it was lived, as it was endured. I watched it next to my son, a young adult who has known no existential horror greater than double maths on a Monday morning, and I confess to shedding a tear at the thought of what, a century ago, might have been. There is one particular moment that is both profoundly moving...

The Florida Divsion Of Elections has just released yesterday "Mail-In Ballot voting activity...it reports as follows: Republicnas,- 247,350 votes cast & recorded. Democrats - 207,171 votes cast & recorded. Others - 3,020 votes cast & recorded. No Party Affiliation - 96,629 votes cast & recorded. REPUBLICANS now lead by a 40,179 vote margin. It is not looking good for Florida, Democrats across the board, at this point, but, we shall have to go on further to get a more clear picture of how patterns are developing in all groups of voters. Please note that "Early voting in person" starts within...

Voters in the great state of Massachusetts...all of you, cast your precious votes for Republican, Geoff Diehl, who is running against, Lie Telling, Cheating, Progressive, Socialist, Communist, America Hater, Low life, Democrat, Senator Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren competing for a U.S. Senate seat, in the upcoming Mid-Term Elections, on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 or earlier, via mail-in, absentee or early voting. Do it!! This evil woman is a lie teller & cheat and she no more belongs in Congress representing anyone, for she cares about for only, herself and her nutcase political agenda. The great state of Massachusetts should be ashamed...

The inscription discovered in the new excavations is nothing more than a scrawl in charcoal, likely made by a worker renovating a home. But it is dated to 16 days before the "calends" of November in the old Roman calendar style - which is 17 October in our modern dating method. "Since it was done in fragile and evanescent charcoal, which could not have been able to last long, it is highly probable that it can be dated to the October of AD 79," the archaeology team said in a statement. They believe the most likely date for the eruption...

A hybrid derived from the Greek words meaning “well” and “born,” the term eugenics was coined in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton, a British cousin to Charles Darwin, to name a new “science” through which human beings might take charge of their own evolution. The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– movement that turned the fledgling scientific theory of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. Perhaps more surprising still, American eugenics was neither the work of fanatics, nor the product of fringe science. The goal of the movement was simple and,...

he remains of the body were uncovered in a water-filled coffin within a tomb at Tieguai Village in China. The skeleton was buried with various other artifacts, such as a model house with miniature furniture inside and a silver pendant decorated with dragons. A sign found on the coffin said the tomb belonged to the "Grand Lady" who lived in "Ankang Commandery." While her actual name was difficult to read on the sign, the archaeologists believe it could be née Jian, LiveScience reports. One indication of the Grand Lady’s age came from the 200 bronze coins located within her coffin...

Well....as I have been posting all year long and longer, the current Democrat Party is self-destructing internally from its very own Democrat Party members. Case and point, Hillary Clinton & Elizabeth Warren, But there are many others doing the exact same destruction. Included in the destroyer list should be: Obama, Biden, Booker, Hirono, Harris, Durban, McCaskill, Sanders, Blumenthal, Waters, Gillum, O'Rouke, Schumer, Pelosi, Wasserman Schultz, Menendez, Casey, Brown, Stabenow, Kaine, Nelson, etc., etc.!!! I am beginning to believe that the so-called Democrat Party "Blue Wave" is nothing more then a dream fantasy from the very start, conjured up by Democrats...

The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as Ch’ang Cheng—the “Long March”—the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco. ---SNIP--- It was the longest continuous march in the history of warfare and marked the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communists.

<p>POPLARVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Six foals sired by a cream-colored stallion called DeSoto scamper across a pasture in southwest Mississippi — the first new blood in a century for a line of horses brought to America by Spanish conquistadors and bred by Choctaw Indians who were later forced out of their ancestral homelands.</p>

In 1958 China, a public health campaign went terribly wrong. The Great Sparrow Campaign was a symbol of human folly. Millions of people perished.

DU Title ("Cherokee Nation: Warren's use of DNA test 'inappropriate,' 'wrong'") they posted from the Hill They are unhappy with both the Cherokee Nation and the Hill now. Typical comments (edited for profanity) Vinnie From Indy (10,287 posts) 4. XXXX this jackass named "Chuck Hoskins" Who the XXXX is he to claim ownership over anyone's lineage? LiberalFighter (36,505 posts) 36. Until Elizabeth Warren attempts to apply for Cherokee status he should STFU. He does not have any authority until then. It appears that he was trying to stir something up that he has no jurisdiction. Coventina (18,183 posts) 43. It's...

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Here are the official Florida Secretary Of State results for votes cast yesterday in the "Mail-In" vote activity: Republicans - 202,731 votes cast & recorded. Democrats - 162,881 Votes cast & recorded. Others - 2,465 votes cast & recorded. No Party Affiliation - 77,896 votes recorded. (Independents) Republicans have increased their "Mail-In" Ballot vote lead by 10,000 votes in one day. Their lead over Democrat Party votes cast now stands at: 39,850 votes. A trend of voting now favors the Republican heavily....but, it is still early & the early voting is yet to come. We shall soon have a clearer...

On a lush hilltop deep in Southern Ohio, a giant snake slithers through the grass, its intentions a mystery. Despite more than a century of study, we still don't know who built the Great Serpent Mound, or why. That's part of what makes a visit here so fascinating, and also a little bit frustrating. There are still questions that can't be answered through a Google search or more than a century of research. This much is known: At 1,348 feet long, the serpent is the largest effigy mound in the world -- that is, an earthen creation in the shape...

Situated in the building known as 'House of Desks' -- near the spot where the exquisite golden ibex was found in 1999 -- the finds include a marble protocycladic female figurine, two small marble protocycladic collared jars, a marble vial and an alabaster vase, which were found inside clay chests of rectangular shape. According to a culture ministry statement, the finds were made under rubble inside a large and probably public building that is south of Xeste 3, near where the golden ibex now on display at the Museum of Prehistoric Thira was also found in a clay chest beside...

It is now possible to tell the story of mankind's presence and evolution on the planet by analyzing trends in soil and sediment accumulation of fecal sterols, chemical compounds which are crucial in human physiology. Scientists at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes of the National Research Council (CNR-IDPA) have identified and dated traces of sterols within the sediments of two New Zealand lakes, thus proving the presence of the Maori people who, starting from around 1280, colonized the two oceanic islands and cleared them of forests in just a few decades...