Daily Archives: May 22, 2015

Book Review: Gunfire Around The Gulf

Gunfire Around The Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaigns Of The Civil War, by Jack D. Coombe This book has a horrible title, and its front cover text is full of a great deal of false advertising. For one, the … Continue reading

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Abbott And Costello Must Have Done A Skit About This

Occasionally in life I find that a problem exists become something appears to be different to myself and someone else. Rarely has that problem been more literal than it was today for myself and someone at another company who I … Continue reading

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I Will Remember Them No More

Very recently the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, famous in history for the resistance of their queen Xenobia to the Roman Empire for several years during the tumultuous third century, fell to the forces of the so-called Islamic state, which … Continue reading

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