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A Chinese Palatial Church, Once Headquarters of the Fourth Army of the Red Army Sign up for free email newsletters. The two pictures attached are old photos of a Christian church located in Shima Liberation West Road, Longhai City, Zhangzhou, Fujian. In 1859, a Christian meeting place was set up in Xizibian, Daxiangqian, Shima, in an “old fashioned house, Junai Hall, bought from a man with the last name of Wang”. In 1927, the church staff of Shima Church found that �...

Authorities in Egypt have built a 22-mile long concrete and wire wall encircling the tourist resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. Officials say the structure will protect tourism at the Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula. The wall is made of concrete slabs with stretches of wire fencing separating the resort from the desert around it. Some of the slabs are marked with black peace symbols. Tourism industry chiefs hope the security...

Excerpt from ‘The Princess Spy’ Larry Loftis "The Princess Spy" by Larry Loftis. In 1941, Aline Griffith, born and raised in a quiet New York suburb, is a college graduate desperate to aid in the war effort as World War II rages across Europe. Although she studied Spanish and French, she has hardly left New York and doesn’t know where to begin as a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline’s life changes when she meets a man named Frank Ryan a...

Egypt says a recently constructed three-kilometre concrete and wire barrier encircling Sharm El-Sheikh will help protect tourism at the Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula, Reute...

Egypt says a recently constructed 36 km concrete and wire barrier encircling Sharm el-Sheikh will help protect tourism at the Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula.

Armored Blitz To Avranches: How the Allies Broke Into Brittany The race for Avranches brought an end to the Americans fighting in swamps and hedgerows for incremental gains. Heres What You Need to Know: The U.S. VIII Corps exploited Operation Cobra and cracked a doorway into Brittany. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley had reason to be pleased by the last week of July 1944. His First Army had scratched out a substantial foothold on the Normandy coast, capturing three times more French territory t...

Tom Tucker was one of the first men from Patton’s Third Army to cross the Rhine River, the last natural barrier to the heart of Germany.

Keeping Score: Chaney kept things interesting Published: 2/5/2021 7:56:36 PM Modified: 2/5/2021 7:56:31 PM Good morning! John Chaney’s death last week rekindled memories of the night he threatened to put UMass coach John Calipari six feet under. It happened 27 years ago next Saturday, after UMass beat Temple 56-55 on a short jumper by Mike Williams with three seconds left. It was Calipari’s fourth win in five games against Temple, after Chaney’s teams had beaten Calipari’s Minutemen ni...

Breaking Down the Door To Europe: The Bloody Fight at Aachen in World War II To enter Germany, the U.S. Army would first need to capture the city of Aachen in one of the toughest urban battles of World War II. Heres What You Need to Know: The capture of Aachen was a significant event, kicking in the door that allowed the Allied drive toward the Ruhr and the Rhine to continue. By the autumn of 1944, German resistance in the West was quickly crumbling as the British and Americans approached the G...

Third Army boss plays down influx threat Third Army boss plays down influx threat THAILAND: The Third Army has given assurances that there will be no influx of Myanmar people into Thailand in the wake of the military seizure of power in the bloodless coup yesterday (Feb 1). Tuesday 2 February 2021, 08:56AM Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party converge outside the Myanmar embassy on Sathon Road yesterday to condemn the military coup and demand her release. Pho...