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Share This: U.S. Soldiers with the Indiana National Guard National Guard stand in formation, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2021. At least 25,000 National Guard men and women have been authorized to conduct security, communication and logistical missions in support of federal and District authorities leading up and through the 59th Presidential Inauguration. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Tackora Hand) The Pentagon, stumped and unsure about how to address white nationalism and other forms of extremism in its ranks, announced plans for military-wide stand-downs that will pause regular ...

GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Big History For better or for worse, we’re in a period of history when technology, innovation and industry are roaring ahead as if there’s no tomorrow. It’s easy for me to forget how different the world in which I now live is, compared to the one in which I was born. 1942: Stalingrad, El Alamein, Midway; computers and the digital age were in the future; the turbojet plane was three years old; the first mobile phone four years away; the Manhattan atomic bomb project was just getting underway; and for every living person then, three are alive now. In the 78 years...

  The main body of the instrument is made with birch wood, while the rest are made of willow. With a long, slim neck, it is shaped like a boat. A horsehead is depicted at the top of the instrument.    A unique imagery is engraved the opposite of the soundboard. It depicts 6 deers, 1 mountain goat, and 5 dogs as well as a hunter looking to shoot his arrow, which in some ways look similar to cave paintings of the Turkic period. Scholars speculate that the imagery with the theme of hunting is due to how ancient nomads used to use music in worshipping the mountains and waters before embarking ...