A U.S. Army veteran from Western Washington is now helping in the fight against wildlife poachers in East Africa. Kinessa Johnson, whose home is in Yelm in Thurston County, served four years in the Army as a weapons instructor and mechanic, and served a tour in Afghanistan. Last November she decided to join Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (VETPAW) ... Read More »
Ellen Jewett, a sculptor in Canada, creates intricately detailed and handmade clay sculptures of animals that look like they’ve sprung to life and popped right out of our wildest dreams.Ellen says her inspiration comes “from animal physiology and a love of the fantastic, grotesque and absurd. Each sculpture is handmade and painted with no more tools than fingers and a ... Read More »
Here is how much 12 leading President and Prime Ministers get as their annual salaries. Not monthly o, annual! President Obama leads the pack with $400,000. South African President Jacob Zuma is the only African President in the list with an annual salary of $223, 500. Read More »
Mahmoud Reza Khavari born May 26, 1952 is a former banker who was involved in 2011 our homeland embezzlement scandal. As of 2014, he is a Fugitive and Wanted by the judicial authorities of our homeland and Interpol. He was chairman of Bank Melli in our homeland. On September 27, 2011, he flew our homeland to Canada, where he holds citizenship. Khavari signed ... Read More »
In this years memorial there was a American muscle car parade with Chevrolet Camaro SS, Ford Mustang and … March organizers where noting we are showing off our American taste of our revolution! Muscle car is a term used to refer to a variety of high-performance automobiles. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines muscle cars as “any of a group of American-made ... Read More »
Flak towers were 8 complexes of large, above-ground, anti-aircraft gun blockhouse towers constructed in the cities of Berlin (3), Hamburg (2), and Vienna (3) from 1940 onwards. Other cities that used flak towers included Stuttgart and Frankfurt. Smaller single-purpose flak towers were built at key outlying German strongpoints, such as at Angers, France and Heligoland, Germany. Read More »
Tasnim news reported that during the winter times we will now start to see the Ski (or we better say moral!) police in the mountain areas around the capital. These include famous ski resorts as well as hiking areas where mostly the younger generation has been using for their leisure time, as it had been one of the few areas the ... Read More »
The cost of defending ourselves from each other has risen astronomically. Even if actual warfare does not succeed in crippling a nation, the economic toll on a country can often finish what war’s devastation started. Here is a list of the 10 Most Expensive Wars to date, and just how much money the countries involved poured into killing each other, ... Read More »
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was knocked off her feet. The blonde 48-year-old political leader was photographed tumbling down the measures of the Elysee Palace Sunday while wearing a long purple coat and black heeled boots. The photographs show her walking down the measures completely fine but then losing her balance as she heads towards the bottom. She fell forward ... Read More »
Soldiers in South Korea’s special forces are preparing for a possible attack from North Korea in freezing temperatures and extreme conditions in an area roughly 80 kilometers from the two country’s borders. On Thursday in Pyeongchang-gun, a county in the northern part of South Korea, the SWC began a routine two-week military drill. The temperature during the exercises was below ... Read More »
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