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In Greek mythology, the Nereids are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris, sister to Nerites. They often accompany Poseidon, the god of the sea, and can be friendly and helpful to sailors
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Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
Statement on the Rescue of Richard Phillips off the Coast of Somalia
April 12, 2009
I am very pleased that Captain Phillips has been rescued and is safely on board the USS Boxer. His safety has been our principal concern, and I know this is a welcome relief to his family and his crew.
I am also very proud of the efforts of the U.S. military and many other departments and agencies who worked tirelessly to secure Captain Phillips's safe recovery.
We remain resolved to halt the rise of piracy in this region. To achieve that goal, we must continue to work with our partners to prevent future attacks, be prepared to interdict acts of piracy, and ensure that those who commit acts of piracy are held accountable for their crimes.
I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/13/world/fg-captain-freed13
Los Angeles Times
U.S. captain rescued; 3 Somali pirates killed
3 hostage-takers are shot, ending the standoff in the waters off Somalia, the Navy says. Capt. Richard Phillips, taken captive Wednesday, was unharmed.
April 13, 2009 Josh Meyer and Edmund Sanders
WASHINGTON AND DJIBOUTI — After days of tense negotiations, the U.S. Navy rescued an American sea captain in seconds Sunday, with snipers shooting three Somali pirates who officials feared were about to kill him.
The commanding officer of the U.S. guided missile destroyer Bainbridge had received approval from President Obama to attempt a rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips by force if his life appeared to be in imminent danger after five days of captivity off the coast of Somalia.
With the seas in the Gulf of Aden getting choppier and the increasingly agitated captors pointing an automatic weapon at Phillips, Cmdr. Frank Castellano decided he had no other option, Navy Vice Adm. William Gortney said.
Castellano gave the green light, and sharpshooters on the fantail of the naval warship opened fire on the partially exposed pirates aboard the small enclosed lifeboat.
Phillips, who was bound and standing, was not injured in the rescue, which occurred just after dark at 7:19 p.m., said Gortney, commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. He gave an account of the rescue operation and the events leading up to it in a Pentagon conference call Sunday evening from the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain.
Phillips' three captors, who were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and small-caliber pistols, probably were killed instantaneously by the snipers. "We pay a lot for their training and we earned a good return on their investment tonight," Gortney said.
A fourth pirate, who was aboard the Bainbridge negotiating with the Navy over Phillips' release, was taken into custody by U.S. authorities.
After the rescue, Phillips, 53, was whisked to safety aboard the San Diego-based amphibious assault ship Boxer nearby, given a routine medical evaluation and was "resting comfortably," Gortney said.
Gortney said sailors on the Bainbridge had passed a note to Phillips from his wife, Andrea, that said, "Your family loves you, your family is praying for you, your family is saving a chocolate Easter egg for you unless your son eats it first."
"Well, Mrs. Phillips, keep your son away from those Easter eggs, his dad's headed home," Gortney said.
Phillips was taken hostage Wednesday when the pirates attempted to seize his cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama. On the Boxer, military officials confirmed that the soft-spoken captain had placed himself at risk in an effort to protect his crew, helping fight off the pirates and then offering himself as a hostage.
The pirates kept Phillips aboard the 24-foot lifeboat and repeatedly threatened him. They were seeking millions of dollars in ransom.
"His courage is a model for all Americans," Obama said in a statement released Sunday by the White House.
Asked if he had any message for a public that had been captivated by his ordeal, Phillips was self-effacing.
"The real heroes are the Navy, the Seals, those who have brought me home," he told John Reinhart, president and chief executive of Maersk Line.
Gortney and other military officials said they feared the rescue could provoke retaliation from Somali clans. He said the solution lay in going after the pirates on land in Somalia and other havens where they have flourished amid "lawlessness, lack of government and economic instability."
Local news reports quoted some Somali pirates as saying Sunday that they planned to step up their activities, and that they would kill hostages before they could be killed themselves.
In nearby Mombasa, Kenya, where the Maersk Alabama had arrived Saturday without its captain, the crew erupted in celebration when news of his release came through. Two flares were fired in the air and the ship's horn sounded. Nine crew members, one wrapped in an American flag, came to the stern, pumping their fists.
"He's one of the bravest men I've ever met," one of them shouted to reporters, referring to Phillips. "He's a national hero."
Friends and family in Phillips' hometown of Underhill, Vt., were more subdued. Many said their Easter prayers had been answered; his family asked for privacy. Alison McColl, a family friend, read a brief statement to reporters outside the Phillips home, saying the captain and his wife had spoken by phone.
"I think you can all imagine their joy, and what a happy moment that was for them," said McColl, according to the Associated Press.
In Washington, Obama praised the military and other U.S. officials involved in Phillips' rescue. But he too warned that though the first known hostage-taking of an American merchant seaman in more than a century was over, the broader problem of piracy on the high seas was not.
In his statement, Obama vowed to take steps to prevent such occurrences, especially in the waters off the Horn of Africa.
The Maersk Alabama, an American-flagged and Danish-owned vessel, had been carrying humanitarian aid to Africa. Since the attack, Phillips and his captors had been floating in the life raft, out of fuel and shadowed by U.S. warships.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/13/world/fg-captain-freed13/2
Los Angeles Times
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U.S. captain rescued; 3 Somali pirates killed
3 hostage-takers are shot, ending the standoff in the waters off Somalia, the Navy says. Capt. Richard Phillips, taken captive Wednesday, was unharmed.
April 13, 2009 Josh Meyer and Edmund Sanders
The captain jumped off the lifeboat Friday night and tried to swim for freedom, but the pirates quickly recaptured him.
The Pentagon did not release the identities of the four pirates. Gortney said discussions were underway with the Justice Department on whether the detained pirate could be tried in a U.S. court of law.
The rescue ended an incident considered one of the first tests of how the Obama administration would deal with the growing problem of international piracy.
Pentagon officials confirmed that the president had approved military requests to attempt rescues Friday and again Saturday.
But for much of the last four days, the situation appeared to be in a stalemate. FBI hostage negotiation experts and the military were careful not to portray themselves as being open to paying a ransom, but also hesitant to close off any opportunities to peacefully settle the crisis.
By Saturday, the U.S. negotiators had persuaded the pirates to allow them to send an inflatable boat out to the lifeboat with food, water and even a change of clothes for Phillips, Gortney said. That effort proved invaluable when one of the captors agreed to come aboard the Bainbridge to negotiate, and enough of a rapport was built that the warship was given permission to tow the lifeboat when bad weather caused the seas to get choppy and potentially dangerous.
It was during that tow that the snipers got a clear view of Phillips' captors, Gortney said. "The on-scene commander made the decision that Capt. Phillips' life was in immediate danger" after a de-escalation of the tension earlier Sunday proved short-lived.
The deadly rescue was a blow to Somali pirates who have for years preyed on international shipping and some of whom still hold hostage more than a dozen ships with about 230 civilian sailors from many nations.
Officials in Somalia's transitional government welcomed the end of the hostage crisis, but said it underscored the need for the international community to do more to help the government bolster its security services.
"We are delighted," Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdulahi Omaar said. "This is a capability that we need to be able to undertake ourselves."
He said it was possible that the deaths of the three pirates could spur an anti-U.S. backlash among a small number of extremists, but that most Somalis would support and understand the American operation.
"People are fed up with gun-toting warlords, whether they are onshore or offshore," he said.
Elders and family members of the pirates, who were gathered in the coastal village of Garacad, said they had begun to suspect something was amiss earlier Sunday after they lost contact with the pirates via satellite phone.
According to one elder, before the rescue, the increasingly desperate pirates had dropped their demand for ransom and asked that a hijacked Greek ship be permitted to approach them so they could escape.
Kulmiye Moalim Hassan, interviewed by telephone in the port city of Eyl, a pirate stronghold, said the Americans refused permission, raising the possibility that a rescue operation was underway.
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Johnny Paycheck
Birth: May 31, 1938
Greenfield
Highland County
Ohio, USA
Death: Feb. 19, 2003
Nashville
Davidson County
Tennessee, USA
Country Western Singer. Born Donald Eugene Lytle, he began playing guitar by age six. He changed his name to Johnny Paycheck in the 1960s. He is best remembered for his 1977 hit song, "Take This Job And Shove It," which sold over 2 million copies and inspired a motion picture by the same name.
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Born Donald Eugene Lytle on May 31, 1938, in Greenfield, Ohio
He died on Feb. 19, 2003
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
202 - Toasts of the President and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at a Dinner in Moscow.
June 27, 1974
Mr. General Secretary Brezhnev, President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin, all distinguished guests:
To you, Mr. General Secretary, on behalf of all of your American guests, I express our grateful appreciation for not only the hospitality you have extended to us tonight but for the very generous words of friendship you have just spoken.
And I am very gratified that I shall have the opportunity to see more of your great country on this visit, and I trust that on )-our next visit to the United States next year, you will be able to see more of our country as well.
All of us gathered here tonight are fortunate to be present at a moment of great historical significance. Two years ago in this place, we began a process which has resulted in a profound change in the relations between the two strongest nations in the world.
We have moved in those 2 years from confrontation to coexistence to cooperation. And while, as the General Secretary has correctly pointed out, we have many problems yet to negotiate on, the success of our negotiations to date gives a good indication of the progress we can and will make in this third summit meeting.
To see the extent of the progress that has been made, we can point to the fact that over the past 2 years, more agreements have been negotiated and signed between our two countries in those 2 years than in the entire history of the relations of our two countries up to that period.
And it is significant to note the character of those agreements. In part, they have dealt with the concern that both of our nations have with regard to the need to avoid war, and motivated by that desire--the desire to avoid war--we have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms.
And in 1973, we negotiated and signed the historic agreement with regard to the prevention of nuclear war. But that is only one side of the equation as far as our agreements are concerned. We both seek peace, but we seek peace that is more than simply the absence of war. We seek peace because of the positive progress it can bring to both of our peoples.
And that is why we have negotiated a number of agreements in the areas of peaceful progress. They are too numerous to mention, but they cover all fields of human endeavor: health, science, the environment, the peaceful exploration of space, agriculture. Many others could be added, but together what they mean is that both our great peoples now have a stake in peace from a positive standpoint.
We must still do everything that we can to negotiate those agreements that will lessen the burden of armaments and reduce the danger of war. But we must go further and add to this and to give to every individual in each of our countries a positive stake in peace, because it is in this way that two peoples with different systems of government can establish relationships that will not be broken in the future.
And it is also, I think, very worthwhile to note how these agreements were negotiated. They were possible because of a personal relationship that was established between the General Secretary and the President of the United States. And that personal relationship extends to the top officials in both of our governments.
It has been said that any agreement is only as good as the will of the parties to keep it. Because of our personal relationship, there is no question about our will to keep these agreements and to make more where they are in our mutual interests.
And also, we both can say that this new relationship between our two nations is overwhelmingly supported by the people of the Soviet Union and overwhelmingly supported by the people of the United States.
And now, looking to the future, we wonder how history will judge the leaders of these two nations and their people during this period. Too often in the past, history has judged those nations to be great which were engaged in aggressive war and in conquest. But what we are doing is establishing a record where the two strongest nations in the world and their leaders will seek greatness, not by what they might accomplish in war, but greatness by what they accomplish in the works of peace.
And without the cooperation of these two strongest nations in the world, the cooperation of both their leaders and their people, there can be no lasting peace in the world. And consequently, we believe that these meetings that we have had and those that we will have in the future will lead to our meeting the challenge of history for a strong nation to be remembered as a peacemaking nation rather than as a war-making nation.
Let this be our legacy for the generations ahead. And that is why I say that we should raise our glasses to our host, the General Secretary and his colleagues, to peace between the Soviet Union and the United States of America, and to peace for all peoples in the world, the peace to which the relations between our nations can make such an enormous contribution.
Note: The President spoke at approximately 8:45 p.m. in Granovit Hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace, in response to a toast proposed by General Secretary Brezhnev.
Earlier in the day, the President and Mrs. Nixon arrived in Moscow at Vnukovo II Airport and were greeted by General Secretary Brezhnev, President N. V. Podgorny, Premier A. N. Kosygin, Foreign Minister A. A. Gromyko, and Soviet Ambassador to the United States A. F. Dobrynin.
General Secretary Brezhnev proposed the toast in Russian. His remarks were translated by an interpreter as follows:
Esteemed Mr. President, esteemed Mrs. Nixon, ladies and gentlemen, comrades:
We are glad once again to greet here in the Kremlin as guests of the Soviet Union, the President of the United States of America and Mrs. Nixon, as well as the American statesmen accompanying the President.
This is already the third meeting between the leaders of our countries in just a little over 2 years since a cardinal turn became evident in Soviet-American relations towards normalization and the development of peaceful cooperation.
On the firm basis of the fundamental agreements which were signed in 1972 and 1973 and are known all over the world, we have made tangible progress. Probably never before have ties and contacts between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States in different areas of political, economic, and cultural activity been as lively as they are today.
Nowadays, thousands of people annually travel from America to the Soviet Union and from the Soviet Union to America. Mutual visits of ministers, contacts among businessmen, meetings between scientists and public figures, concert tours, various exhibitions, and tourist trips have become customary events. Parliamentary ties are beginning to develop.
We have been glad to welcome in the U.S.S.R. Senators and Congressmen belonging to the two biggest parties of the United States, and a delegation of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet recently visited America.
The material foundation of our good relations is becoming stronger as well. The volume of trade has increased several times over during the last 2 years, and several important long-term contracts have been signed.
At the same time, we all know that much remains to be done here, both in the sense of making economic ties more balanced and stable and in the sense of clearly establishing the principles of equality and respect for each other's interests in this area of relations. Credit is certainly due to those farsighted members of the business community of the United States who correctly understood the mutually advantageous nature of the development of economic ties between our countries and their importance for both our peoples and who actively support their government's line in this matter.
The biggest contribution, however, which we Soviet and U.S. statesmen of the seventies of the twentieth century can make to the cause of greater well-being and happiness for our peoples and for all mankind is undoubtedly the reduction and subsequently the complete removal of the possibility of war between our two states.
To insure stable peace between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. is the chief task in the development of Soviet-American relations, and the leaders of both countries are continuing to devote unflagging attention to its solution. For all the useful things that we can achieve in this direction, future generations will remember us with kind words.
If we fail to solve this task, however, all other achievements in the development of mutual relations may lose their significance.
The new Soviet-American summit meeting, as it is usually called, is a new step in the great endeavor which we jointly initiated with you, Mr. President, e years ago and which we resolutely intend to pursue, for it meets the fundamental interest of the peoples of the two countries and the interests of world peace.
Experience shows that progress along this path requires effort, sometimes quite a bit of it. The relaxation of tension in Soviet-American relations, as in international relations generally, comes up against rather active resistance. There is no need for me to dwell $n this subject since our American guests know better and in more detail than we about those who oppose international detente, who favor whipping up the arms race and returning to the methods and mores of the cold war.
I just want to express my firm conviction that the policy of such individuals--whether they themselves know it or not--has nothing in common with the interests of the peoples. It is a policy that attests most likely to the unwillingness or inability of its proponents to take a sober look at the realities of the present-day world.
We are confident, however, that the peoples will support those who seek to assure their peaceful future and a tranquil life for millions of people, not those who sow enmity and distrust. That is why we believe that the good results it has proved possible to achieve in Soviet-American relations in the last 2 years shall not be erased, particularly since their improvement has already justified itself and has in many respects given practical proof of its usefulness for both sides and for the world as a whole.
Today the task, as we see it, is to consolidate the successes already achieved and to advance further along the main road that we have jointly chosen to follow. The third round of Soviet-American summit talks has begun. We shall be discussing both the further development of bilateral relations and a number of international problems.
Although we have different viewpoints on several matters, we shall seek, and I feel not unsuccessfully, agreed ways toward the further consolidation of peace and mutually advantageous cooperation. I believe it can definitely be said that our talks will proceed in a businesslike and constructive spirit. We, for our part, express the hope that this time as well our meeting will be as fruitful as the preceding meetings in Moscow and Washington.
Esteemed Mr. President, I do hope that you and Mrs. Nixon feel well on Moscow soil in the Kremlin residence with which you are already familiar. Soon you will be seeing the southern coast of the Crimea, where on the Black Sea shores hundreds of thousands and even millions of our country's workers, farmers, and office employees annually spend their vacations at health resorts. I do hope you like the Crimea. We certainly love it.
For my part, I shall be glad to reciprocate to some extent the hospitality that was accorded to us last summer on the Pacific Coast in San Clemente. I trust that in the Crimea there will be no less comfortable a setting for quiet and productive discussions.
I also hope that the visit to the Hero City of Minsk, the capital of Soviet Byelorussia, will also be interesting for you, Mr. President. This title of honor has been conferred upon the Byelorussian capital for its outstanding feat of arms in the years of our joint struggle against the Hitlerite aggressors.
Of course, we would have liked you to see more of the Soviet Union and to travel around our country, but since you have not been able to make your visit a longer one, I should like to express the wish that it should prove to be at least as useful and pleasant as possible.
May I propose a toast to the health of the President of the United States, Mr. Richard Nixon, and Mrs. Nixon.
To the health of all the American guests present in this hall.
To peace and friendship between the peoples of the Soviet Union and the United States of America.
To lasting peace all over the world.
On June 28, 1974, in addition to meeting with Soviet officials, the President participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Aleksandrov Gardens. That evening, the President and Mrs. Nixon attended a performance at the Bolshoi Theater.
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=21132
George Bush [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology
June 23, 1992
Thank you, and welcome to the Rose Garden. Well, thank you very much. And what a beautiful day here in the Rose Garden.
I am very proud to present the National Medals of Science and Technology to our 16 recipients
Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, who cofounded Microsoft
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-village.html ]
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/clinton-misspoke-about-bosnia-trip-campaign-says/
The New York Times
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton greeted U.S. soldiers as they arrived at Tuzla military airport, Bosnia, March 25, 1996.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/politics/25clinton.html
The New York Times
Clinton Says She ‘Misspoke’ About Dodging Sniper Fire
By PATRICK HEALY and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: March 25, 2008
BLUE BELL, Pa. — As part of her argument that she has the best experience and instincts to deal with a sudden crisis as president, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton recently offered a vivid description of having to run across a tarmac to avoid sniper fire after landing in Bosnia as first lady in 1996.
Yet on Monday, Mrs. Clinton admitted that she “misspoke” about the episode — a concession that came after CBS News showed footage of her walking calmly across the tarmac with her daughter, Chelsea, and being greeted by dignitaries and a child.
The backpedaling was a rare instance of Mrs. Clinton’s acknowledging an error
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2014-featured-story-archive/a-look-back-25-years-since-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall.html
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A Look Back: 25 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, after serving as the symbol of the Cold War for decades, the Berlin Wall fell. Its demise signaled the dawn of change not only in Eastern Europe, but the world.
The Berlin Wall started as a barbed wire fence built by the communist East German state (with approval from the Soviet Union) to stop the flow of refugees from East Berlin into West Berlin. For years, the CIA had predicted the East German government would take stern measures to stop border crossers but did not have tactical forewarning that a barrier would be put up starting on August 13, 1961. Stretching 96 miles long, the fence eventually evolved into the now familiar 12 foot high concrete wall, built in 45,000 separate sections, each four feet wide.
The Berlin Wall divided East Berlin and West Berlin for 28 years, from 1961 until November 1989. Typical for totalitarian states, the East German government declared the Wall to be a necessary defense against Western aggression. In reality, the Wall was intended to stop East Germans from seeking freedom in the West. In 1962, a second barrier was placed 100 yards back, creating a no-man’s land, widely known as the “death strip,” useless for defense against the West but clearly intended to prevent escape. It was booby-trapped with tripwires, offered no cover, and provided a clear field of fire to the watching guards. Even so, some 5,000 East Berliners escaped into the western half of the city. Tragically, an estimated 200 people died trying. Although the East German government always denied having a “shoot to kill” policy, the border guards were told to treat attempted defectors—even women and children—as criminals and stop them by whatever means necessary.
The Wall proved a propaganda disaster for the Soviet bloc as a whole. It became a powerful symbol of communist tyranny that Western leaders, starting with President John F. Kennedy, frequently denounced. In 1987, Ronald Reagan gave his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, at which he challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
Two years later, during the summer of 1989, communist Hungary removed its border restrictions with Austria, and in September, more than 13,000 East German tourists in Hungary escaped to Austria. Demonstrations broke out all over East Germany. The long-time leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, who in January had predicted that the Berlin Wall would stand for “a hundred more years,” resigned on October 18, replaced by Egon Krenz. By November 4, 1989, the protests had increased significantly, with a million people gathered that day in Alexanderplatz in East Berlin. Meanwhile, the wave of refugees leaving East Germany for the West had increased through Czechoslovakia, tolerated by the new Krenz government and the communist regime in Prague.
To ease the complications, the Krenz government decided on November 9, 1989, to allow refugees and even private travelers to exit directly through crossing points between East Germany and West Germany, including West Berlin. The new regulations were to take effect the next day, on November 10, to allow time to inform the border guards. However, no one told the East German government spokesman, who had not been briefed on the situation but simply had been handed a note to announce that East Berliners would be allowed to cross the border with proper permission. He read the note aloud at the end of the conference and, when asked when the regulations would come into effect, he replied, “As far as I know, effective immediately, without delay.” Nobody, including the East German government, knew that on November 9, 1989, the Wall would start coming down.
Tens of thousands of East Berliners heard the spokesman’s statement live on East German television and soon flooded the checkpoints in the Wall, demanding entry into West Berlin. The surprised and overwhelmed border guards tried to call their superiors, but no East German official was willing to take personal responsibility for issuing orders to use lethal force. Faced with the swelling crowd, the guards finally yielded, opening the checkpoints and allowing people through with little or no identity checking. Ecstatic East Berliners were soon greeted by West Berliners on the other side in a celebration of freedom and reunion. As a result, November 9 is considered the date the Wall fell.
In the days and weeks that followed, people came to the Wall with sledgehammers to chip off souvenir pieces. The first concrete section of the Wall was removed on the 12th. By June 13, 1990 the wall was officially dismantled, and on October 3, 1990 East and West Germany were reunified. The collapse of the Soviet Union would soon follow.
While it is often repeated by some that the CIA and the US Intelligence Community (IC) missed the fall of the Soviet Union, assessments from the time tell a different story. With the demise of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet system in crisis, the CIA in 1989 assessed the Soviet Union under Gorbachev would not survive. In 1990, the IC released a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), in which it stated, “the Soviet Union as we have known it is finished.(PDF)” (The NIE is an assessment by as many as 17 government agencies and departments regarding a national, regional or transnational issue of high importance, such as the Soviet Union, and is normally briefed to the President and other very senior officials). By the spring of 1991, the CIA warned of a future coup against Gorbachev, how it would take place, and the likelihood of the Soviet Union’s collapse—all accurate predictions of what happened soon after. On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Soviet Union ceased to exist
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/memorial-service-held-for-canter-a95347
KentOnline
Memorial service held for Canterbury VC Mick Mannock
29 July 2009
Robin Green, of the RAF Association, Maidstone branch, prepares to lay a wreath beneath the memorial stone for Canterbury VC and World War 1 pilot, Major Edward (Mick) Mannock
Tributes were paid to flying ace Major Edward Mannock VC at a service held at Canterbury Cathedral on Monday.
Major Mannock, affectionately known as Mick, was killed in action on July 26, 1918. He was a courageous and highly decorated officer, who was awarded a Distinguished Service Order, the Military Cross and Victoria Cross.
The Canterbury boy joined the Royal Flying Corps as an aircraft technician but rose through the ranks to become a flying supremo, recording more than 60 kills.
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Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Release Info
USA 8 October 1982 (New York City, New York)
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Cheryl Ladd
Biography
Date of Birth 12 July 1951, Huron, South Dakota, USA
Birth Name Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor
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tv.com
Charlie's Angels Season 1 Episode 1
Hellride
Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Sep 22, 1976 on ABC
AIRED: 9/22/76
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/loch-ness-monster-80-facts-1826765
Mirror
Loch Ness Monster: 80 facts to mark 80 years since Nessie was first spotted - but is she real?
14:11, 12 APR 2013 UPDATED 15:14, 12 APR 2013
BY KATIE IMMS
On April 14, 1933, a couple spotted something unusual as they drove past Loch Ness - sparking 80 years of speculation and mystery.
John Mackay and his wife saw "something resembling a whale" as they passed the freshwater loch on a nearby road.
Many sightings of Nessie have since been reported but there is lack of evidence to prove she really exists.
Scientists consider the Loch Ness Monster a myth and the sightings purely hoaxes and wishful thinking.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020917&slug=dige17m
The Seattle Times
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Local Digest
Gates family adds baby girl
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.
https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/experience-the-collection/text-version/stories/corona-americas-first-imaging-satellite-program.html
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CORONA: America's First Imaging Satellite Program
The 1950s was a time of great uncertainty for the US regarding the Soviet Union's budding strategic nuclear forces. Although the US knew the Soviets had ambitious programs to develop and deploy intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and bombers, the US knew little about the scope or success of Soviet efforts. The US frequently sighted Soviet strategic bombers and had evidence of Soviet missile test programs but lacked the means to get a comprehensive look at overall Soviet strategic deployments—the US did not know how many operational ICBMs and bombers the Soviets had and where they were deployed. The US Intelligence Community reflected this uncertainty in wild overestimates of Soviet bomber and missile production—the so-called "bomber gap" and "missile gap"—and forecast that the US was falling behind in the nuclear arms race and in real danger of nuclear attack.
Between 1956 and 1960, imagery from 24 U-2 photoreconnaissance aircraft missions over the Soviet Union opened up a crack in the Soviets' armor, but the crack was a small one and it closed before a single ICBM base could be found. President Eisenhower halted all U-2 overflights of the USSR when the Soviets shot down an American U-2 and captured its CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers near Sverdlovsk on May 1, 1960.
The CORONA Program began as a joint CIA-Air Force effort in the late 1950s. Cloaked in secrecy, it was known to the public as a scientific research program named DISCOVERER. The program’s goals were daunting: launch a large camera into earth orbit, photograph specific points and areas on the earth’s surface, parachute a capsule of exposed film to earth, snag the capsule in midair over the Pacific Ocean, develop the film, and search the images for answers to the nation’s pressing intelligence questions. Many things could go wrong—and did. The first 13 missions failed to return any useable imagery. Unsuccessful launches, orbits not achieved, camera malfunctions, spacecraft errors, and missed recoveries plagued the program.
Finally, on August 18, 1960, all systems on CORONA Mission XIV operated successfully! This remarkable technological achievement revolutionized the intelligence world by returning from space more photographic coverage of the Soviet Union in a single mission than in all previous U-2 missions combined.
The first CORONA images were grainy and of limited utility, but quality—and intelligence value—improved rapidly on succeeding missions. Within a few months, CIA photointerpreters had dispelled both the missile gap and the bomber gap. They found that Soviets were, in fact, significantly behind the US in development of a workable ICBM and that the Soviets were building up a strategic bomber force but were devoting most of their resources to missile production. In just a few weeks, CORONA photography had eliminated the Soviet intelligence dilemma that had haunted the US for a decade.
Over the years, the quantity, quality, and reliability of CORONA imagery improved, making it the single most important source of intelligence on Soviet strategic forces: missile launch complexes and test ranges, ballistic-missile submarine development and deployment, aircraft factories and air bases, anti-ballistic-missile activities, and air defenses. CORONA was also an invaluable source of intelligence on potential enemies in East Asia, the Middle East, and other areas of interest. In addition, the US Defense Department used CORONA imagery to produce military maps of denied areas more accurately than ever before.
CORONA enabled the US to specify verifiable terms of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) with the Soviet Union in 1971. US negotiators confidently knew that photointerpreters could monitor changes in the size and characteristics of missile launchers, bombers, and submarines. Satellite imagery became the mainstay of the US arms-control verification process.
CORONA is a milestone in US history. Developers of this nation’s first film-return photoreconnaissance satellite explored and conquered many technological unknowns of space, lifted the curtain of secrecy that screened military developments within the Soviet Union and Communist China, and opened the way for the even more sophisticated follow-on imaging satellite systems. The 145th and final CORONA launch took place on May 25, 1972 with the final recovery on May 31, 1972. Over its lifetime, CORONA provided photographic coverage totaling approximately 750,000,000 square miles of the earth’s surface. This impressive capability was surpassed only by the quantity and quality of intelligence that it yielded. Without CORONA, the US may well have been misguidedly pressured into a World War III.
http://www.subzin.com/search.php?title=Captain+Phillips&title_id=M642337421&search_sort=Popularity&type=All&pag=7
SUBZIN
Captain Phillips (2013)
00:15:02 - Shane. - Yeah?
00:15:04 We need those time sheets.
00:15:06 She's winking at me. But it turns out that's what they do.
00:15:09 I'll show you this place. I'll take you.
00:15:11 I'll have two beers and a bucketful of sin, please.
00:15:15 Yeah. About done with that coffee?
00:15:20 - Yeah. - Yeah, we're done.
00:15:22 That's 15, guys.
00:15:25 Back to work. Come on, let's go.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Jackson-Freeman-II
Encyclopædia Britannica
Walter Jackson Freeman II
American neurologist
Walter Jackson Freeman II, (born November 14, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died May 31, 1972), American neurologist who, with American neurosurgeon James W. Watts, was responsible for introducing to the United States prefrontal lobotomy, an operation in which the destruction of neurons and neuronal tracts in the white matter of the brain was considered therapeutic for patients with mental disorders.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/releaseinfo
IMDb
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Release Info
USA 19 November 1975 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest
Springfield! Springfield!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
You fooled them, Chief.
You fooled them. You fooled them all!
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Biography for
Bill Gates
Date of Birth
28 October 1955, Seattle, Washington, USA
Birth Name
William Henry Gates III
Spouse
Melinda Gates (1 January 1994 - present) 3 children
Children: Jennifer Katharine (26 April 1996), son Rory John (23 May 1999), Phoebe Adele (14 September 2002)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transvestite
Dictionary.com
transvestite
a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
a person who seeks sexual pleasure from wearing clothes that are normally associated with the opposite sex
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792177/bio
IMDb
Jamey Sheridan
Biography
Date of Birth 12 July 1951, Pasadena, California, USA
Birth Name James Patrick Sheridan
http://www.tv.com/shows/stephen-kings-the-stand/the-plague-1178981/
tv.com
Stephen King's The Stand Season 1 Episode 1
The Plague
Aired Sunday 12:00 AM May 08, 1994 on ABC
AIRED: 5/8/94
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087635/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Release Info
USA 27 January 1984
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/12/world/fg-somalia-pirates12
Los Angeles Times
Hijacked U.S.-flagged ship arrives in Kenya
Somali pirates are still holding the ship's captain. Pirates also hijacked an Italian-flagged tugboat today and are holding its 16-person crew hostage, officials in Kenya said.
April 12, 2009 Robyn Dixon
MOMBASA, KENYA — The first slivers of information about crew members' dramatic battle to regain control of their U.S.-flagged ship from Somali pirates emerged Saturday night as the Maersk Alabama finally docked in this Kenyan port.
From the ship's deck, exhausted crewmen shouted about heroism, and one pumped his fist in the air in jubilation as they approached the dock in the darkness.
But the men's relief was tempered by the knowledge that their captain, Richard Phillips, was hundreds of miles away off the coast of Somalia, drifting with desperate pirates in a lifeboat that had run out of fuel. Saturday was his fourth day in captivity. A day earlier, Phillips had tried to escape by jumping overboard, but was immediately recaptured by the pirates.
Details are sketchy, but Phillips had reportedly surrendered himself to the pirates to secure the safety of the 19 crew members.
With a heavy security cordon in place at the Mombasa port, and a screen of shipping containers erected to protect crew members' privacy, access was limited. But a couple of crew members spoke to reporters, and told of other heroic acts.
"Hey, this guy's a hero!" one said, indicating the ship's chief engineer, A.T.M. Reza. He described how Reza managed to lure one of the pirates into a trap in the engine room. Details of the saga were obscured as reporters shouted questions, and it was not known whether the pirate whom Reza nabbed later managed to flee with the captain.
In another attack Saturday off the coast of Somalia, a lawless country that has had no stable government since 1991, pirates hijacked a tugboat and were holding its mostly Italian 16-member crew as hostages, maritime officials in Kenya said. The tugboat is Italian-flagged, but its ownership was unclear.
The latest hijacking brought the current total of pirated ships to more than 20, with about 300 hostages.
As the U.S. drama continued, family members of the four pirates who are holding Phillips and elders from their hometowns gathered Saturday at the Somali coast in an attempt to help end the standoff between the captors and the U.S. destroyer Bainbridge, which is monitoring the situation nearby.
"They wanted to free the captain without ransom and arrange to take the pirates back home safely," said Abdi Gaariye Samatar, who is part of a pirate gang in the Somali port city of Eyl.
"The elders are worried about the American warships surrounding the pirates," he said.
A maritime expert in Kenya, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the family members and elders spoke with U.S. negotiators and sought a written assurance that the Americans would permit them to bring the pirates back to Somalia for prosecution rather than have them be detained by the United States.
"The Americans refused," the expert said. "They said they would not guarantee that the elders could take the boys."
John Reinhart, president and chief executive of Maersk Line, said the Maersk Alabama's crew would not be allowed to leave the ship and be reunited with their families until an FBI investigation is complete.
"Because of the pirate attack, the FBI has informed us that this ship is a crime scene," he said Saturday afternoon during a short news briefing from the company's headquarters in Norfolk, Va.
Crew members will be given telephones to call their families, but Reinhart said it was unclear how long the FBI questioning would take.
He said he spoke with some of the crew members and they expressed concern about the captain.
"One of the things they asked was to make sure we do everything we can to bring home the captain," he said.
Despite intense interest in hearing details of how the crew retook control of the vessel, and whether Phillips volunteered to board the lifeboat with the pirates in return for his men's safety, Reinhart said he could not provide any specifics of the investigation to date or the status of the negotiations because such information "could pose a risk to our primary purpose," which was Phillips' safe return.
"I'm not going to say that he gave himself, because that is speculating," Reinhart said.
The relief was palpable among some crew members when the ship slowly approached the dock at Mombasa's port and a mooring rope was thrown.
"Are you guys all from the States?" one crew member said to the crowd of waiting journalists. "Really?"
"When I get home I'm going to hug my wife and kids, my boys."
And the first meal?
"Steak!"
But with the captain's life still in danger, not all the crew members were pleased to see the crowd of reporters. One crewman approached and stared for some minutes with obvious anger and contempt, before cursing and calling the journalists "leeches."
Many of the crewmen, wearing blue coveralls and blue hard hats, appeared exhausted. A bus was brought to the dock, ready to take the crew members away after the debriefing.
Analysts and diplomats see resolving Somalia's long-running civil strife as the key to the country's piracy problem.
"It's a bit difficult to patrol the sea, it's so vast. It's a land-based problem. If we can get the political situation in Somalia squared away, they won't have a base to operate from," the diplomat said.
Pirates often use large "mother ships" disguised as fishing boats as their ocean bases. Then they attack in powerful speedboats.
By the time the crew members realize that an attack is underway, the pirates are just minutes from the final move -- boarding the ship using grappling hooks, or even ladders, and firing machine guns and grenade launchers.
They typically gain control within a few minutes, and take the vessels to their bases in Somalia.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/fullcredits
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Montana settlement]
LILY: Come on.
COCHRANE: Good night Eddie. (to Lily) ...Go home.
LILY: You're gonna regret this tomorrow.
COCHRANE: Well, what I think you should have learned about me by now is that I don't have regrets. ...Come on, Lily, one more round.
LILY: Z, you've had enough. I'm not going up in that thing with a drunken pilot.
COCHRANE: But I sure as hell's not going up there sober.
LILY: What is that?
COCHRANE: That is the constellation Leo.
LILY: No, that.
(there is a bright orbiting light which suddenly fires two photon bolts towards the settlement)
LILY: It's the ECON.
COCHRANE: After all these years?
(more photon bolts)
LILY: We've got to get to the Phoenix!
(another photon bolt)
COCHRANE: To hell with the Phoenix.
http://www.chakoteya.net/enterprise/27.htm
Carbon Creek [ Star Trek: Enterprise ]
Mission date: April, 2152
Original Airdate: Sep 25, 2002
TUCKER: Every school kid knows that Zephram Cochrane met the Vulcans in Bozeman, Montana, on April 5th, 2063. I've been there. There's a statue.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30561
The American Presidency Project
Jimmy Carter
XXXIX President of the United States: 1977 - 1981
Absaroka-Betroth Wilderness in Montana Statement on Signing S. 1671 Into Law.
March 27, 1978
I am signing into law today S. 1671, which designates the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in the State of Montana.
This act adds 904,500 acres of some of Montana's most rugged and beautiful backcountry alpine lakes, meadows, and mountains to the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is the product of years of work by that tireless and dedicated conservationist, the late Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana. The enactment of this bill fulfills one of his dreams. I want to express my appreciation for the dedication of Senator Metcalf and to his colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives who have helped make this act possible.
This administration's goal of incorporating the Nation's most deserving areas as wilderness before they are lost forever moves an important step closer to realization with the enactment of this bill.
Note: As enacted, S. 1671 is Public Law 95-249, approved March 27.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30559
The American Presidency Project
Jimmy Carter
XXXIX President of the United States: 1977 - 1981
Proclamation 4558 - Sun Day, 1978
March 27, 1978
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Today the need to develop and expand renewable energy sources that can provide heating, cooling and power for homes, farms and factories is greater than at any other time in our Nation's history. For this reason, Americans are seeking ways of using the sun as an inexhaustible source of clean energy.
The Federal government and private organizations are working on programs to improve solar technology and encourage greater use of this safe, environmentally acceptable energy source. Our success, however, will depend upon an informed and involved public.
In order to inform the general public, industry and labor about solar technologies and to demonstrate the sun's potential in meeting America's energy needs, the Ninety-fifth Congress has adopted a joint resolution (H.J. Res. 715) designating Wednesday, May 3, 1978, as Sun Day and calling upon the President to issue a proclamation calling for its appropriate observance.
Now, Therefore, I, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, May 3, 1978, as Sun Day and call upon the American people to observe that day with appropriate activities and ceremonies that will demonstrate the potential of solar energy. I direct all appropriate Federal agencies to support this national observance.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and second.
JIMMY CARTER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
Arecibo message
The Arecibo message was beamed into space a single time (not repeated) via frequency modulated radio waves at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope on 16 November 1974. It was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 some 25,000 light years away because M13 was a large and close collection of stars that was available in the sky at the time and place of the ceremony. The message consisted of 1679 binary digits, approximately 210 bytes, transmitted at a frequency of 2380 MHz and modulated by shifting the frequency by 10 Hz, with a power of 1000 kW. The "ones" and "zeroes" were transmitted by frequency shifting at the rate of 10 bits per second. The total broadcast was less than three minutes.
Because it will take 25,000 years for the message to reach its intended destination of stars (and an additional 25,000 years for any reply), the Arecibo message was more a demonstration of human technological achievement than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials. In fact, the stars that the message was aimed at will no longer be there when it arrives. According to the Cornell News press release of November 12, 1999, the real purpose of the message was not to make contact, but to demonstrate the capabilities of newly installed equipment.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0715FD345C1A7A93C2AB178AD95F408785F9
The New York Times
Archives
Article Preview
ANTENNA BEAMS FAR-OUT MESSAGE; Scientists Hope to Reach Hypothetical Civilization in a Cluster of Stars.
By WALTER SULLIVAN
November 20, 1974, Wednesday
Page 85, 1139 words
There have been scientific experiments whose chances of success were very small, but few can compare in that respect with an effort last Saturday to communicate with a hypothetical civilization far out in space.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Phoenix cockpit]
RIKER: How are you feeling?
COCHRANE: I've got a four-alarm hangover either from the whiskey or your laser beam, ...or both, ...but I'm ready to make history! Ha, ha, ha.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/chron-1905.htm
Einstein Chronology for 1905
January 6: Second anniversary of marriage to Mileva Maric.
Early March: Begins to submit one-paragraph reviews of recent scientific papers on heat theory to the Beiblätter zu den Annalen der Physik — mainly summaries, with occasional critical remarks. By the end of the year 21 of these reviews were published.
March 14: His 26th birthday.
March 17: Sends Annalen der Physik his photoelectricity paper, “On a Heuristic Point of View concerning the Production and Transformation of Light.” Received March 18, published June 9.
May 14: First birthday of son, Hans Albert.
April 30: Submits his University of Zurich doctoral dissertation, “A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.” (Published in 1906.)
May: Sends Annalen der Physik his Brownian Motion paper, “On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in Stationary Liquids Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat.” Received May 11, published July 18.
Mid-May: Conceives special relativity theory (he later recalled that he sent the paper in for publication five or six weeks after the idea came to him).
June: Sends Annalen der Physik his special relativity theory paper, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.” Received June 30, published 26 September.
July 27: Doctorate is approved unanimously by University of Zurich Philosophy II faculty (the degree was formally awarded January 15, 1906).
August: Sends Annalen der Physik his doctoral dissertation on size of molecules, received August 19, published with slight revisions February 8, 1906. This would become one of Einstein’s most frequently cited papers. It shows how to use fluid phenomena to determine Avogadro’s Number, which is related to the size of atoms (and for skeptics, their reality).
Late summer: Travels to Serbia with Mileva and their son, visiting friends and Mileva’s family.
September: Sends Annalen der Physik his mass-energy equivalence paper, “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon Its Energy Content?” Received September 27, published November 21. This paper contains the concept which would later be written E=mc².
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/nereid/indepth
NASA
Nereid: In Depth
Nereid is one of the outermost of Neptune's known moons and is among the largest. Nereid is unique because it has one of the most eccentric orbits of any moon in our solar system. Nereid is so far from Neptune that it requires 360 Earth days to make one orbit. This odd orbit suggests that Nereid may be a captured asteroid or Kuiper Belt object or that it was greatly disturbed during the capture of Neptune's largest moon Triton.
Discovery:
Nereid was discovered on 1 May 1949 by Gerard P. Kuiper with a ground-based telescope. It was the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before Voyager 2's discoveries four decades later.
How Nereid Got its Name:
Moons of Neptune are named for characters from Greek or Roman mythology associated with Neptune or Poseidon, or the oceans. Irregular satellites are named for the Nereids, daughters of Nereus and Doris and the attendants of Neptune.
Nereid (NEER-ee-ed) is named after the Nereids, sea-nymphs, in Greek mythology. Kuiper proposed the name when he reported his discovery.
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Crickets
(crickets trilling) Crickets!
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:52 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 17 January 2016
