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I say follow your interests. There is no point in studying anything unless it excites you. That is why I got my degrees in history and am now contemplating doing a send MA in International Relations. I am with you that I find Marine Biology inetersting, I just don't find it interesting enough to get a degree in it.Hey, isn't Woods Hole not far from where you live?
They founded the US through tyranism toward the very subjects who wrote the very first workable constitution and this tyranism lead to a tiny small group of mixed lead colonist with many diversified ideas, religions and cultures to band together and fight for one simple right which was the freedom to have a say in their own affairs.
I think it is still an open question as to wheher the Constitution will remain workable. It s a remarkably resilient document but only worht the effort people put into keeping it. I can't remember who said but one of the best quotes I have ever read is from one of the Founders who said (I paraphrase) “We have given you a democracy, if you can keep it.”
I wonder about the reasons to set such a media: is it to target a specific audience or does it want to really provide a different view among all existing media already on air in the US ?I might be paranoid but I don't think it's just another media.I remember when CNN was launched in Europe, ppl were quite curious to know why they came, was it just an American view or something really different than before? Well it was and for both (at least for those who could understand English) especially during the first Gulf war.Today different channels are flooding over the network and I think people just keep watching their local news network.That's why I'm still wondering why they do that …
Personally, I think they do it for propaganda purposes, not because they think too many people are going to watch what they put on the air. Arab TV is even more boring than PBS in the States.
German president visits France WWII massacre site (Oradour)http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23958458
I wonder if people are going to get as upset about this as did when Angie visited Dachau a few weeks ago?
Heck, the only reason I know so much about how the American army is organized is because I spent 23 years in, otherwise I would know way more about the Prussian Army than the American.OOB is only roughly equivalent within armies over time. The Regiment used to be the mainstay of the US army but it is now the brigade. The only unit I kno of that still has a regimental org. in the US Army are the 3 cavalry regiments 2nd, 3rd, and 11th US Cavalry and the 3rd Infantry (Old Guard) that guard the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington.
So far with three games left to be played I have gotten all my picks but 3 right. One of the one's I got wrong was the GA State game. Who would have though Samford would win?
It is called Order of Battle (OOB) and here is the general breakdown from top to bottom. It also only generally holds true for Western Style forces. You get away from Western forces and Order of Battle gets crazy. The Russians and Chinese use a roughly similar but at the same time totally different system with totally different names for some echelons.Army and Marines(minus Armies for Marines): Army Group, Army, Corps, Division, Brigade, Battalion/Squadron, Company/Troop/Battery, Platoon, Section, Squad, Fire TeamAir Force: Air Force, Wing, Squadron, Flight, SectionNavy: Fleet, Task Force, Battle Group, Division, VesselOf course, there is also an org chart within vessels but that is different for every vessel.
Well, I did it backwards this week then. I assigned them points in reverse order. I gave the lowest points to the picks I had the most confidence in.I was dissapointed to see the OU game was not on the list too. 🙁
There is a reason that artifacts from the Middle East fare so much better when they are held in the West. While I think every nation should care about it's heritage and work to preserve it and spread that knowledge, I am enough of a realist to know that often does not happen.
{{{{{{ This post is so great and nice }}}}}I am wondering if they would put the remains in a museum….I can understand if they need to remove them given the fact that they need to build something like a train station there, but they should at least remove them properly and put them in the kind of place they were in originally.
Begone, Spammer!
You are assuming that future generations of Eqyptians will care that so much was destroyed by looting. I am not sure that is a very good assumption as people on the ragged edge of survival don't often care about such things. The people of Egypt and the wider Middle East seem bound and determined to ensure they continue to live in 2nd World countries at best.
