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26 Sep 2014, 11:51 am
Parliament authorized British airstrikes in Iraq against ISIS by a vote of 524-43. [read post]
19 Feb 2007, 2:00 pm
Adams is also credited as the Father of the US Navy. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 3:09 pm
But the British clearly got a lot more than they bargained for. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:30 pm
” Still, in examining an American admiral, he decided to pull “punch after punch,” rather than reveal him to be “asinine and silly beyond belief,” because he “did not want an American high ranking officer disgraced before this court of British, Russian, Chinese etc. personnel. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 7:00 am
” Their contemporary analogue, perhaps, is the vaunted British Constitution, which consists of a perhaps ungainly collection of what might be termed constitutive statutes, political “conventions,” and, one is sometimes told, the inbred habits of the British people. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 6:45 am
When Augustine died, ownership fell to George’s half-brother Lawrence who renamed the place Mount Vernon after Admiral Edward Vernon, his commanding officer in the British navy. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 5:51 pm
It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature. [read post]
31 Dec 2019, 12:01 am
The first “time-ball” was invented by Robert Wauchope, an admiral in the British Navy who had more free time than he otherwise might have; he had trouble getting a ship to command on account of his opposition to allowing prostitutes on board. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 5:32 am
” To boot, Admiral Harris announced that the F-22 Raptor will be deployed out of northern Australia in 2017. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 2:18 am
The British monarch may prorogue or even dissolve the Parliament. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 11:07 am
But Sun Jianguo, a Chinese admiral and Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of China’s powerful Central Military Commission, warned that any freedom of navigation patrols conducted by foreign navies in the South China Sea could end “in disaster. [read post]
15 Aug 2021, 9:43 pm
Pentagon Spokesperson Admiral (Ret.) [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 6:47 pm
In the same publication, Sadiah Qureshi reviews Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga, a “remarkable book” that “shows that people racialised as black have been in Britain for more than two thousand years. [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 9:37 am
It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 1:01 am
Nimitz and the navy did much more than MacArthur’s army to defeat the Japanese. [read post]
9 Jan 2007, 3:46 pm
" And Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 69, said: It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies -- all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 12:15 pm
Navy Admiral Dennis Blair said yesterday that if China began dredging the disputed Scarborough Shoal, Beijing would risk a military conflict with the United States, one that the United States would “win because the military situation is set up that way. [read post]
28 Nov 2013, 4:24 am
Americans vacillate over national security and government power. [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 10:02 am
.), a retired Navy admiral who was propelled into politics by the Iraq war, said Murtha could still salvage elements of his strategy, but Sestak, an outspoken war opponent, is "a bit wary" of a proposal that would influence military operations. [. . .] [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 8:04 pm
It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature. [read post]
