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The city of Tyre in southern Lebanon is one of the oldest cities in the world. Originally founded by settlers from the nearby city of Sidon in the 3rd millennium BCE, Tyre became politically independent when Egyptian influence in Phoenicia declined, and later it surpassed even Sidon to become the most important Phoenician trade center and seaport having commercial ties with all parts of the Mediterranean world.
The city is situated on a small bulbous peninsula that juts out from the Lebanese coast for nearly two kilometers. But it wasn’t always like this. Tyre was originally an island with half a kilometer of open water separating it from the mainland. The island was formidably defended with high walls surrounded on all sides that was 45 meters tall at places. Tyre was considered impregnable, having withstood several sieges in the past, including a 13-year siege by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar.
The Biggest Lies American Presidents Ever Told Pool/Getty Images
By Noemi Arellano-Summer/Feb. 9, 2021 11:35 am EDT
Politicians often make campaign promises (or even just regular promises) that they cannot possibly keep. In fact, the 11th president of the United States, James K. Polk, is generally known for accomplishing every major policy decision he set out to finish, says the Miller Center, and then skedaddling off to Tennessee, where he died some 100 days after the last day of his first and only term. (And now you can tell your friends you actually know something about Polk!)
On the other hand, other than Polk, that leaves 45 other U.S. presidents who didn t complete all their goals. And on top of that, sometimes they lied while in office. U.S. presidents lied for multiple reasons covering up something illegal, averting major disaster, some reason only they could understand, protecting America s secrets, and the list goes on. Unfortunately, some presidents
America built an astounding number of weapons and built them faster than they enemy could destroy them.
Key point: Some of Berlin s weapons may have been better, but they could not replace their losses. During the war, America built 86,000 tanks and 297,000 aircraft.
“We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible.”
This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
The above quote is attributed to William Knudsen, president of General Motors and Roosevelt’s wartime director of production management, a man who was intimately involved in the massive production drive that made the U.S. military the best supplied military in the world during World War II.
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