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The Axis powers, also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was the alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. The alliance began in 1936 when Germany signed treaties with Italy and Japan. The "Rome-Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.
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738 - Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Hu Jintao of China in New York City
September 22, 2009
President Obama. We welcome your delegation to New York. I'm sorry that I didn't have a chance to see you in L'Aquila, but your Councilor, Dai, did an excellent job representing your country.
I also have to say that I enjoyed seeing Vice Premier Wang as well as Councilor Dai at the SED meeting. And Vice President Biden and I both had excellent meetings with Chairman Wu 2 weeks ago in the White House. I should also mention that Vice Premier Wang showed me his jump shot, which is excellent. [Laughter] How do you say "basketball shot" in Chinese? [Laughter]
As you know, I'm committed to pursuing a genuinely cooperative and comprehensive relationship with China. We need to make our relationship more dynamic and effective, given the growing number of common global and regional challenges that our countries face.
And I'm very much looking forward to my visit to China in November. I want to take cooperation on a range of global and regional and bilateral to a new level, and I appreciate the excellent cooperation that you have already showed to our advance team. So we're very welcome, and I think that will be an excellent visit.
President Hu. Thank you, Mr. President, for your warm and friendly remarks. I'm happy to see that now China-U.S. relationship has shown a sound growth momentum on the whole.
The agreement you and I arrived at, at our London meeting, in a number of areas is being implemented, and our two sides are now working together to build a positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship
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I Wasn't the Only Person Smoking in Windsor Castle (15 May 1994)
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1950 - North Korea invades South Korea beginning Korean Conflict.
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Tripartite Pact
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Anti-Comintern Pact
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On Aug. 23, 1939, Japan, outraged by the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, renounced the Anti-Comintern Pact but later acceded to the Tripartite Pact (Sept. 27, 1940), which pledged Germany, Italy, and Japan “to assist one another with all political, economic and military means” when any one of them was attacked by “a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the...
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Tightrope (film)
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Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood
While Block inquires about the victims at another brothel, he has sex with a prostitute. The hidden killer watches Block and the prostitute. The next morning, Block is called to the scene of a third victim. He is shocked to realize that it is the prostitute he had been with the night before.
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Melinda Gates, née Melinda Ann French (born Aug. 15, 1964, Dallas, Texas, U.S.), American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her husband, Microsoft Corporation cofounder Bill Gates
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SEATTLE — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, are parents for the third time.
Phoebe Adelle Gates was born Saturday at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue. The birth was announced yesterday.
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Luther Waller, a Montgomery lawyer hwo had a third-row seat on the hijacked Birmingham-to-Montgomery flight, remembers the lax attitude toward security the day he boarded Flight 49.
"Before that, there was no security at all," he said. "You could buy a one-way ticket and walk onto the plane carrying a sidearm."
Waller, now 76, had been in Wisconsin on business and was returning to Montgomery on the flight. The plane passed through Memphis, stopped in Birmingham and left the gate about 6:30 PM on Nov. 10, 1972.
As the jet prepared to descend toward Montgomery, three armed men stood. One pressed a pistol to the side of Capt. William R. Haas' head and that began a journey that would last 30 hours.
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Tennessee Narrowly Dodged Bullet in Tense '72 Hijack Episode
Crime: Three desperate men threatened to crash a commandeered passenger jet into a nuclear reactor to get airline to meet their ransom demands.
September 23, 2001|DUNCAN MANSFIELD | ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Twenty-nine years ago, hijackers took over an airliner with 27 passengers and four crew aboard and threatened to crash into the government's nuclear weapons production complex in Oak Ridge.
"They let us know that if we didn't have the money by X hour then we were going to dive into Oak Ridge," co-pilot Harold Johnson recalled from his Memphis home. "And there was no doubt in my mind that we would have done just that."
Johnson would be threatened with his life and shot in the arm before the 32-hour ordeal that began over Alabama and extended to Toronto finally ended on Nov. 12, 1972, in Havana.
Airline hijackings to Cuba were common in those days. The commandeering of the Southern Airways DC9 with its smiley face on the nose was one of about 30 hijackings that year.
But this was one of the few times in American aviation history--before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon--in which an airplane was used as a weapon.
Johnson, who retired in 1983 and lives in Memphis, said domestic security measures were increased after his flight. But he said the government didn't go far enough, as evidenced by the latest hijackings.
"For a long, long time, it was something that I thought could happen someday, but had just hoped and prayed that it never would," he said.
"My thoughts were, 'Gee whiz, four airplanes. That's bad.' But it could have been 20 airplanes. Whoever put this together could have had 20 airplanes just as easily as he had four," he said.
But unlike the recent hijackers, the three Americans who took control of Johnson's Memphis-to-Miami-flight had little training and virtually no plan. They did have guns, a hand grenade and a grudge against Detroit, where two of them had been charged with rape.
Hijacker Melvin Cale had grown up in nearby Knoxville and had worked in Oak Ridge before moving to Detroit with his half-brother, Louis Moore, another hijacker. Henry Jackson of Detroit completed the trio. All were in their 20s.
They commandeered the plane about 10 minutes after a stopover in Birmingham, crashing through the cockpit door with an arm around a flight attendant's throat and a gun to her head.
They wanted a $10-million ransom from Detroit, 10 parachutes and 10 bulletproof vests, and told the pilots to fly north. But Detroit was fogged in, so the plane flew on. It refueled in Cleveland and Toronto before heading to Tennessee.
The plane reached Knoxville and began circling Oak Ridge, site of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant and their specific target--a nuclear research reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The hijackers set a 1 p.m. deadline for their demands. But the pilots stalled them by saying they had changed time zones and were an hour early.
"It was surreal in a sense," said Jim Alexander, a former government spokesman at Oak Ridge. "We would look up in the sky and see this jet airliner circling. It was high, but it never left."
Reports suggest the facilities were evacuated. Alexander could only recall the question on everyone's mind: What would happen if the plane hit the reactor?
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The Incredible Hulk (1977)
Dr. David Banner: Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
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