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Soils
SOIL CONCEPT If there is anything on Earth that seems simple and ordinary, it is the soil beneath our feet. Other than farmers, people hardly think of it except when tending to their lawns, and even when we do turn our attention to the soil, we tend to view it as little more... Read more |
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Bounty Jumper
BOUNTY JUMPER BOUNTY JUMPER, a Civil War deserter. The system of military bounties paid during the Civil War to encourage enlistment in the U.S. military produced bounty jumpers. Aided and abetted by bounty brokers, a man would enlist, collect the bounty, desert, and then reenlist elsewhere. He... Read more |
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Eastern Desert
EASTERN DESERT Also called the Arabian Desert; it makes up almost a quarter of Egypt's land surface, covering an area of 85,690 square miles (221,937 sq km). The northern sector, from the Mediterranean coast to the latitude of Qena, is a limestone plateau marked by rolling hills. At Qena... Read more |
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desert
desert arid region, usually partly covered by sand, having scanty vegetation or sometimes almost none, and capable of supporting only a limited and specially adapted animal population. The so-called cold deserts, caused by extreme cold and often covered with perpetual snow or ice, are quite... Read more |
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Parricide
PARRICIDE "Murder of the father" is a reference to the murder of the legendary king of Thebes by Oedipus, the Greek hero in Sophocles' play Oedipus Tyrannus (King Oedipus). According to Freud, we were all, as young children, gripped by the "compulsion" embodied in the Greek legend: we were all,... Read more |
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republic
republic [Lat. res publica, =public affair], today understood to be a sovereign state ruled by representatives of a widely inclusive electorate. The term republic formerly denoted a form of government that was both free from hereditary or monarchical rule and had popular control of the state and... Read more |
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'One guy killed a local and a kid.The carwas riddled with bullets. Ah, good...
...certain point we all start to hate...understanding than the average...A lot of army people say...Kill 'em all. I say...gonna grow up to be killers...puffing himself up and stretching...sounds scratchy all of ... |
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DEFENSE SECRETARY GATES SPEAKS AT MAXWELL, ALABAMA
...missiles. We worked all night to fix...Brothers. They set up the first flight...the launch of Desert Storm. Since...those injured are up to 90 percent...might replace an Army heavy construction...Air Force Tech Sergeant, ... |
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Recipients of Purple Heart share bond of blood shed for country
...the petite Army captain pinned...jungles and ate desert dust in the Persian Gulf, all in the name...available to all, but desired...groups, more than 23,400 Purple...War in 1953, speaks from experience. The Marine ... |
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U.S. withdrawal from Iraq faces many hurdles
...that distant desert presents special...include more than 180,000 civilians...equipment -- all that ammo and...to be picked up by chartered...disposition of all the equipment...hold more than the thousands...of a young ... |
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Iraq Pullout Would Face Many Unknowns
...that distant desert presents special...to wrap it up by next spring...include more than 180,000 civilians...equipment - all that ammo and...to be picked up by chartered...hold more than the thousands...of a young ... |
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Many uncertainties face U.S. in eventual Iraq withdrawal
...that distant desert presents special...to wrap it up by next spring...include more than 180,000 civilians...equipment -- all that ammo and...to be picked up by chartered...hold more than the thousands...of a young ... |
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Years in planning, pullout to be long, hard
...that distant desert presents special...to wrap it up by next spring...include more than 180,000 civilians...equipment -- all that ammo and...to be picked up by chartered...hold more than the thousands...of a young ... |
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Mass.-based troops grow impatient in gulf
...the Regular Army's 43d Engineers...to follow up." Other...camps, and all we are doing...dump in the desert. Our mission...said it was up to Gen. Norman...Francis Kelley, speaks from the point...men in the ... |
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The Iraq Show
...knots. The army fired 18 missiles...to poetry it up a bit for the...Poetry it up for the writers...re different than you and me...a way that speaks to their sort...writers see all these numbers...the hot Iraqi ... |
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Sniping at the supreme allied commander
...U Lt.S. Army Gen. Wesley...is calling all the shots from...good infanti; sergeant major would...general and Desert Storm veteran...Clark grew up in Little Rock...in the Army speaks volumes ... |
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