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Hace 4 días · In winning the Barbary Wars more than 200 years ago, America showed the world that military strength and resolve, not capitulation and negotiation, are the keys to defeating terrorism and hostage-taking. On May 14, 1801, the pasha of Tripoli chopped down the American flagpole at the American consulate after President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay a 'tribute' allowing American ships to freely ...
Hace 1 día · Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mohr was also the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography. No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928–29) are lost, including The Devil Dancer (1927), The Magic Flame ...
Hace 2 días · Tripoli lies at the western extremity of Libya close to the Tunisian border, on the continent of Africa. Over a thousand kilometers (621 miles) separates Tripoli from Libya's second largest city, Benghazi. Coastal oases alternate with sandy areas and lagoons along the shores of Tripolitania for more than 300 km (190 mi
Hace 2 días · Total: 255,268 (56,643 dead) [6] [11] The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli ( Turkish: Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
Hace 4 días · Survey of the Mediterranean Sea, the intercontinental sea that separates Europe from Africa. Called the incubator of Western civilization, it runs west to east from the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco to the coast of Turkey and north to south between Croatia’s southern shores and Libya.
Hace 3 días · From the shores of Sfax and Tripoli To the isle of Lampedusa. III. Porting two small children Upon my outstretched arms, The Maitre d’Hotel Still dazed by El Duce’s grandeur Rushes out of the revolving doors To prevent me from entering Caffè Corino from the blizzard Upon the Piazza San Carlo. In his hallucinations He sees me as a wandering ...
Hace 2 días · From the Halls of Montezuma. To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country's battles. In the air, on land, and sea. Saturday was Armed Forces Day, which recognizes servicemembers, past and ...
