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• War with Colombia? An ex president speaks

  
  Venezuela News And Views — Authority: 423
  Carlos Andres Perez is a Venezuelan ex president, the one against whom Chavez did his failed 1992 coup. The only thing worth remembering from that day is that Carlos Andres recovered from his initial stupor (and panic?) to prevail while Chavez was the lone military to fail his objectives, ruining the coup won ...
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• Yemen-Saudi Skirmishes Threaten a Wider Conflict

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 459
  Saudi forces began a series of air raids against the Yemeni rebels last week [AFP] From Time Magazine: Yemens President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, flew into the Gulf of Aden on Nov. 7 to celebrate the first exports of liquefied natural gas from a sprawling $4.5 billion plant — the biggest ever investment in his ...
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• World Briefing | Asia: The Philippines: Captive Is Beheaded

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said.
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• What should a leader say in times of tragedy?

  
  Public Speaking Advice and Commentary — Authority: 119
  The recent tragedy at Fort Hood prompted President Obama tomodify previously scheduled comments to a Native American group in order tocomment on the horrific shootings ( http://tinyurl.com/yjg4pyz ) .   ThePresident’s comments demonstrate both the opportunities and the pitfalls ofthis sort of leadership speech, ...
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• Cathy Wood’s Black Confederates

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 426
  I‘ve been following this story out of Tennessee [and here] involving a local chapter of the UDC and SCV and their plans to honor 18 so-called black Confederates.  I was actually contacted by the author of this article for my position on this issue, which you can read.  The author does a pretty good job [...]
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - We Will Not Solve the Problem with Troops Alone

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This interview, with National Security Adviser General James Jones, was published by Spiegel Online International, November 9, 2009 US National Security Adviser James L. Jones talks to SPIEGEL about his skepticism regarding calls for more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the chances of Pakistans nuclear ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cronies and warlords wait in the wings

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by M K Bhadrakumar, was published in the Asia Times, November 9, 2009 Afghans do not like Britains tutorial - not only on good governance but on any topic under the sun. For a fleeting hour or two, a question hung in the rapidly chilling autumn air in the Hindu Kush: did British Prime Minister Gordon ...
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• Appreciating Veterans at a Bed and Breakfast

  
  Bed & Breakfast Blog. B&B Industry News, Special Events, Packages and Inn Listings for Innkeepers and B&B Travelers. — Authority: 106
  Honor Code - Did you know that a shoe store owner helped turn Veteran’s Day into what it is today?   In the early 1950’s, Al King started a campaign to change Armistice Day, (a day of remembrance to honor those who served in World War I) into a holiday for all war veterans.   Eventually, Congress signed a ...
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• Spoon Confirms Discovered Shipwreck of CSS Appomattox

  
  NC Cultural Resources Newsroom — Authority: 428
  KURE BEACH –The CSS Appomattox went down in flames in 1862 as her Confederate crew set her ablaze while fleeing Union forces.  A team of volunteer divers has located the Civil War shipwreck and its identity has been confirmed by the Underwater Archaeology Branch , N.C. Office of Archives and History in the ...
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• Colonel Arthur T. Wilcox

  
  Sandusky History — Authority: 116
  Arthur Tappan Wilcox was born in Lorain County, Ohio on December 28, 1834. By 1860, he had moved to Sandusky, Ohio, where he was listed as a law student in the 1860 Sandusky City Directory. In 1861, Arthur T. Wilcox graduated from law school at the University of Michigan. He married Julia Morehouse in June of 1861, in ...
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• Safe House Lanterns

  
  Blog, She Wrote — Authority: 128
  We are using the Homeschool in the Woods Time Travelers History Series Civil War to guide us on our rabbit trail of learning about The Civil War in the US. We used the Explorers study from the same series last spring during our World Exploration unit so I knew I wanted to give this one a try. Plus, I was able to ...
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• Best of Civil War Memory (2)

  
  Civil War Memory — Authority: 426
  This is the second in my series of “Best of” posts that will be shared throughout November in recognition of the four-year anniversary of this blog.  The following post appeared on March 23, 2006 and is titled “Why the Civil War Matters”.  This post was formally presented at my school as part of the 2006 ...
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• Gettysburg scenarios from Enduring Valor run at Fall-In by Jim Kopchak

  
  CHARGE! Civil War wargaming — Authority: 401
  Thomas Smyth’s brigade of the Union II Corps prepares to move out to seize the Bliss Farm in this portion of a miniature wargaming layout by veteran gamemaster and rules author Jim Kopchak of Parma, Ohio.  Jim is an old friend of mine, having played in several of my playtests of what became my Enduring Valor: ...
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• November 2009 Civil War Book Notes

  
  TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog — Authority: 125
  Those that can’t write, Review! November 2009 James Durney *********************************************************** New Releases A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers should be in the stores this month.  Reconstruction policy after the Civil ...
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• John Brown Symposium, Reenactments and Memorial Service

  
  New York History — Authority: 133
  A tremendous slate of events has been planned for the Lake Placid-North Eba area to commemorate the life and death of abolitionist John Brown. Dubbed the "John Brown Coming Home Commemoration," and to be held from November 4th to December 8th, 2009, the series of events will examine John Browns impact on the country ...
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• Port Columbus Civil War Naval Museum

  
  GEORGIA TOURS — Authority: 114
  Georgia > West Central Region >  Muscogee County > Columbus On display at Port Columbus is this 30-foot section of the CSS Chattahoochee, a Confederate gunboat designed to protect the Confederate manufacturing center of Columbus during the Civil War. Traverse the majestic, gaping hull of the ironclad ram CSS ...
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• Foreign 24-pdr Howitzers

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  The US Army adopted the 24-pdr caliber for howitzers in conformance with European conventions.   Therefore a look at how the class appeared on the other side of the pond is in order, in the first place to compare with contemporary US manufactured weapons in the class.  Furthermore, a few of these European weapons ...
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• On a Rant About Time Off and Pay

  
  Faces of War — Authority: 110
  Like many Americans throughout history, The Civil War officer had his frustrations with government, as evidenced by the following excerpt from a letter written by Leroy D. House to his friends on Dec. 28, 1864. House, a clockmaker from Bristol, Conn., served as a captain in the 108th U.S. Colored Infantry. "Congress ...
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• The lure of living history … and John Brown’s body

  
  Sheryl Gwyther - author — Authority: 119
  When you were a kid did you sing that song, John Brown’s body lies a-moulder’n in the grave ? I remember wondering why people sang about a mouldy old corpse? Along the way somewhere as I became interested in history and other things, I got the message – this was an anti-slavery call to arms, a song about the ...
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• That watery wall left

  
  Venezuela News And Views — Authority: 423
  Tomorrow we are celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. 20 years! I still remember how stunned I was when I heard the news coming back from work. I lived in Baltimore then, and I think I spent half an hour in the parking lot until I finally left the car radio to go for the TV and start a round of phone calls to ...
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