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A surprise 100th birthday visit was celebrated on Wednesday, January 12, at Roger Metz Manor in Winona for LeRoy Woychik, a World War II veteran. Three of the Arcadia American

Police have impounded 28 gambling machines and arrested four operators in Kakamega.

Police have impounded 28 gambling machines and arrested four operators in Kakamega.

This week in history: July 26-August 1 25 July 2021 Megawati Sukarnoputri On July 27,1996, Indonesian government forces attacked the head office of ousted Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) leader Megawati Sukarnoputri. The military junta used thousands of riot police and troops to put down protests by her supporters. The clashes were the most serious in the capital since President Suharto and his fellow generals seized power in the bloody coup of 1965. Megawati was removed as PDI leader at a pa...

East Palo Alto woman bludgeoned to death in garage FacebookTwitterEmail An unidentified woman was bludgeoned to death in an East Palo Alto garage and her alleged assailant, a 42-year-old man, was arrested and booked for murder, police said on Saturday.Evan Sernoffsky / Evan Sernoffsky An unidentified woman was bludgeoned to death in an East Palo Alto garage and her alleged assailant, a 42-year-old man, was arrested and booked for murder, police said on Saturday. Police responding to a disturban...

“If the government issues a report saying it’s all artifacts of camera, balloons, bokeh — the ufologists are not going to accept it. Nothing satisfies a true believer.” (Michael Shermer, )

Actually getting a 7,800-ton submarine in the water is far more complex than one might expect. Once completed the Royal Navy’s HMS Anson will be one of the most sophisticated underwater vehicles ever built. Displacing 7,800 tonnes, the ninety-seven-meter long hunter-killer submarine is scheduled to launch next year. She is the fifth of a planned seven Astute-class boats that have described as a key component for Great Britain’s naval strategy. Anson recently entered the final stages of c...

Submitting... The battlecruiser, built in 1918, was one of the Royal Navy’s largest and most famous – and her sinking the Royal Navy’s single largest loss of life in the Second World War. HMS Hood before her departure from Scapa Flow, taken from HMS Prince of Wales. Picture: Orkney Library and Archive Accompanied by newly-commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales and six destroyers, she had been sent to try to prevent Bismarck reaching the North Atlantic from Norway because of her threa...

80th anniversary events to mark HMS Hood’s ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow in Orkney against Bismarck announced Alastair Dalton The 80th anniversary of HMS Hoods ill-fated mission from Scapa Flow to intercept Germany’s largest battleship Bismarck is be marked with series of online events this month, organiser Another Orkney Production has announced. © HMS Hood The talks and films will be streamed via the Orkney International Science Festival’s YouTube channel on 21-22 ...

Published: Sunday, 28 February 2021 05:58 An illustrated view of the Battle of Java Sea. February 28, 2021 - By Jeff Jardine - In February 1942, less than three months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor – 79 years ago this weekend – the Japanese scored a decisive victory in one of the first actual sea battles in the Pacific, the Battle of Java Sea. Among the losses to the United States Asiatic Fleet, more than 2,000 sailors and 10 ships: including the U.S. Navy’s first-ever ai...