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• Rear Admiral Sam Salt

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 503
  Rear-Admiral Sam Salt, who died on December 3 aged 69, commanded the Type 42 guided-missile destroyer Sheffiel d , the first British warship to be sunk by enemy action after the Second World War.   The Sheffield was one of three ships stationed on picket duty to protect the aircraft carriers Hermes and ...
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• Sebago Member Marcus Demuth Presents Tierra Del Fuego Expedition Plans

  
  Sebago Canoe Club — Authority: 410
  Sebago Canoe Club member Marcus Demuth and his paddling companion Biff Wruszek recently talked about their upcoming Kayaking Expedition to Tierra Del Fuego. Read more about thier presentation, with links to photographs from the evening and to other sites related to the event and the expedition, at Summit to Shore .
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• Emperors and Kings at last

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 129
  We went ashore on Saunders Island in the Falklands (Malvinas) this morning. The surf was high and the beach sandy. Commerson’s Dolphins played about the Zodiacs. Between the dolphins, the surf and the wind, our Zodiac drivers used every ounce of skill they had to put us ashore safely. This landing could not be ...
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• Rockhoppers and Tussock

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 129
  I saw for the first time in my life today a Rockhopper Penguin – the mad scientist of the penguin world. I was surprised at their size – tiny in comparison to Gentoos and Adelies. I did not see them rock hopping, rather they were standing upright or lying prone among Black-browed albatross nest. One observant ...
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• Steeple Jason

  
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  Yesterday, our day at sea ended with a showing of sing-along Mamma Mia, served with popcorn. The popcorn was a clever trick to encourage reluctant singers like me to attend. The well-attended event was enhanced by 10 degree rolls of the icebreaker. No injuries occurred, with exception of the shredding of our ...
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• In the Drake Passage

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 129
  Our landings – and those of nearly every other ship sailing the eastern end of the South Shetlands – were cancelled today. The winds are blowing at 40 knots and the sea swells are 3 meters. So Captain headed for the Drake and the Falklands. The inclinometer in the lounge has swung from 5 degrees port to 5 degrees ...
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• Lieutenant Commander Fred Frederiksen

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Fleet Air Arm pilot who inveigled his way into the Falklands War where he served with distinction
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• GOOD TO KNOW OUR LEADERS HAVE GOT THEIR PRIORITIES RIGHT

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 122
  UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson (pictured above) reportedly “went behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s back” last week in a last-ditch attempt to snatch the job of EU foreign supremo and abandon the Cabinet, it was claimed over the weekend. “Reliable” diplomatic sources claim Mandelson made frantic ...
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• "Clintons Folly?"

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 137
  U.S. Garage SaleCorporations that file for bankruptcy typically have their debt discharged -- zeroing out their shareholders -- and their new equity issued to erstwhile creditors.Whats the equivalent for sovereign nations?Put it this way: what would Alaska fetch on the open market?Sewards FollyWhen Secretary of State ...
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• Afghanistan: 2 coalition troops killed in blasts, clashes

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 457
  KABUL: Two coalition troops have been killed in bomb blast and clashes in Afghanistan belonging to UK and Denmark.
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• Captain Robin Green

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 503
  From the Telegraph: Captain Robin Green, who has died aged 74, commanded the landing ship Sir Tristram during the Falklands War, braving extreme danger by entering shallow waters where naval escorts could not offer protection until disaster struck his ship and Sir Galahad at Fitzroy in the single ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sunday readings: spare change

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 473
  Burro Hall commemorates an important date in the history of tourism : November 8, 1519 : Aztec ruler Moctezuma II welcomes a large Spanish package tour organized by Hernan Cortés and a local representative, Doña Malinche, to his lakeside hotel in Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). Hector Tobar ( Los Angeles Times ...
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• Remembrance Sunday

  
  Lulz — Authority: 107
  For all those who’ve died and those who’ve lost in the Great War and after.
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• BBC shows Jock & Maggie Dempster at Poppy Messsage launch

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  The BBC website, in a short piece on the launch of an imaginative Remembrance Day initiative at Edinburgh’s Omni Centre in Greenside Row, focused on a photograph of a two unidentified guests at the event, looking at the displays.On the displays are messages, attached to Poppies, sent from all over the world to ...
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• Should tactics in Afghanistan change after murderous attack?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  As five soldiers have been shot dead by a "rogue" policeman is it time for a rethink?
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• Five British soldiers shot dead by rogue Afghanistan policeman

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  The three Grenadier Guards and two Royal Military Police were attacked as they rested inside a compound by a gunman thought to go by the name Gulbuddin and believed to have had animosity towards his superiors.
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• Afghanistan attacks: timeline

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Three Grenadier Guards and two Royal Military Police killed making it the bloodiest year since the Falklands War.
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• The Warrah Mystery Has Been Solved

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 435
  Remember my post on the enigma of the warrah or Falkland Islands wolf ? I stated that we didn’t have the foggiest clue what its ancestry was, although early studies of its DNA suggested that it was derived from something like a coyote. It has been speculated that the culpeo and the other zorros or wolf-like foxes ...
  5 weeks ago

• MoD, Argyll, redundant submarines and nuclear waste disposal

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Much of the Scottish Media has spent the last two days headlining the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) intention to dump nuclear waste from redundant nuclear submarines in up to 5 locations in Scotland.Our own concern with the matter – apart from environmental concerns that ground our opposition to nuclear energy ...
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• My Tourist Dollar and the GDP.

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 129
  Stanley, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) The last port of call for me will be Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Over the centuries, the islands have welcomed Charles Darwin in HMS Beagle, countless whalers, sealers and explorers. 5% of the islands’ gross domestic product is a ...
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