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British Legend: The Sun Never Sets on the Lee-Enfield Rifle

British Legend: The Sun Never Sets on the Lee-Enfield Rifle Outside of England, at least 46 nations adopted the SMLE in its various guises, according to one estimate. Key Point:  Outside of England, at least 46 nations adopted the SMLE in its various guises, according to one estimate. India and Pakistan continue to use thousands of SMLEs, though they are no longer frontline weapons. Some Afghan fighters prefer the Lee-Enfield for its superior range compared to the AK-47. (This first appeared several months ago.) A small party of about 40 German soldiers had infiltrated the Australian lines around the besieged town of Tobruk, Libya, during the night of April 13, 1941. They began setting up a half dozen machine guns, several mortars, and even a pair of small infantry guns laboriously dragged through the desert sands. It was a foothold the Germans could use to expand into the perimeter and capture the town. They began firing at the nearest Australian unit, B Company of the 2-17 I

A state corporation is still pushing a massive gas line plan in Alaska Is it a pipe dream?

4:59 A state corporation is in the middle of making another big push to try to get an 800-mile-long natural gas pipeline built from the North Slope to the Kenai Peninsula. Supporters say it will be good for the state’s economy and for energy costs. But critics argue that it’s way too expensive, and it’s time to give up on the pipe dream. “There’s just no money in it. It’s never worked out. It’s never gotten built,” said Larry Persily, who was tasked under former President Obama with trying to get an Alaska gas line constructed.

HEXTOL COLUMN: Grammar school memories as site is to be demolished

IT was recently brought to my attention that the grammar school where I spent five long years of my youth is being demolished, and replaced by posh houses. The school itself is being recreated on an out-of-town site, and it will doubtless be a high tech, carbon neutral marvel of modern design, churning out scholars of rare and shining brilliance. But I can’t help thinking that some schoolboys of my era will not be sorry to say goodbye to their old alma mater, founded in 1502 by former Lord Mayor of London Sir John Percyvale. I was the only boy from my old primary school to pass the Common Entrance Exam to qualify to go to grammar school, and was thrust into an alien world straight out of a Frank Richards novel, where masters strode round in sinister black robes, first names were never used, and violent retribution was the punishment for the most trivial misdemeanor.

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