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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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And we thank our veterans for their service to America.
Good morning fellow cubevillians! 
Hey, that's neat. Good morning Ma.
Good morning Kath
Good morning My!
Jeez would ya look at the mugg on that lemon!
Mornin', Kathy! And g'night, when you are ready! I posted this on the wrong thread a minute or two ago. Thank you for all you do!
God bless our troops!
I've got to git! Grin.
Good morning, Kathy!
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SALUTE!
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Good morning, LaDiva!! Good morning, Canteen Crew ! Good morning, EVERYBODY! 
TROOPS!
Today's FEEBLE
YOKE :
Over dinner one evening, MoJo says to the Sailor, "I met this horrible and rude man downtown this morning, and right away I knew he was a troublemaker. He started to insult me. He used really bad language. He even threatened me!"
"How did you meet this fellow?" the Sailor asked, very concerned.
"Well," MoJo says, "we met by accident. I hit him with the car."
Chicagoland Weather
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| Chicago, IL | |
| Sunrise | 7:17 AM (CST) |
| Sunset | 4:39 PM (CST) |
| Hrs. of Daylight | 9 Hrs., 22 Mins |
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| Flood Watch - FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COOK COUNTY VALID FROM TUE JAN 11 2005 04:00 AM CST UNTIL TUE JAN 11 2005 10:30 AM CST. |
| FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 348 AM CST TUE JAN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH FOR THE COUNTIES OF WINNEBAGO...MCHENRY...BOONE...LAKE...OGLE...COOK... KANE...DE KALB...DUPAGE...LEE...WILL...KENDALL...LA SALLE...GRUNDY... KANKAKEE...LIVINGSTON...IROQUOIS...FORD...PORTER...JASPER...NEWTON AND BENTON. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT 600 PM CST WEDNESDAY (700 PM EST WEDNESDAY) UNTIL 600 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING (700 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING). A STRONG WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. THE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE THREE QUARTERS TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCH OF RAINFALL ACROSS THE REGION. THE ANTICIPATED RAIN ATOP NEAR SATURATED SOILS AND RESIDUAL SNOW PACK WILL LIKELY GENERATE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF INTO NEAR BANKFULL STREAMS AND RIVERS. FURTHERMORE FOR LOCATIONS WITH A SNOW PACK, SNOW-BLOCKED DRAINS AND CULVERTS COULD CAUSE FLOODING ACROSS ROADS, LOW LYING AREAS AND FIELDS. A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE ACROSS THE AREA FOR LARGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLOODING OF CREEKS, STREAMS, AND LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA,BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER AND DRIER GROUND AND MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. |
| Winter Weather Advisory - URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COOK COUNTY VALID FROM TUE JAN 11 2005 02:11 AM CST UNTIL TUE JAN 11 2005 12:00 PM CST. |
| BOONE-COOK-DE KALB-DUPAGE-GRUNDY-KANE-KANKAKEE-KENDALL-LA SALLE-LAKE- LEE-MCHENRY-OGLE-PORTER-WILL-WINNEBAGO- 209 AM CST TUE JAN 11 2005 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY EXTENDED UNTIL NOON... A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. THE AREA OF CONCERN LIES ROUGHLY NORTH OF THE KANKAKEE AND ILLINOIS RIVERS. THE MIXED PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE TO AROUND NOON WITH ICE ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN A TENTH AND TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH EXPECTED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM DIXON TO DE KALB TO DOWNTOWN CHICAGO. NORTH OF THIS LINE... THE OVERNIGHT SNOWFALL BETWEEN 2 AND 6 INCHES WILL LIKELY BE CRUSTED WITH A LIGHTER ICE COATING OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN. |
Morning, Pusterfuss!
Morning, Pippin!
Morning, Ma!
Morning, E.G.C.!
Morning, JJ!
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this. 
