The type of religious fascism prevalent in the Middle East has been likened to the Ku Klux Klan in the US. It is a mixture of religious intolerance, extreme nationalism and race hatred. It is characteristic of all such movements that they have no apparent relation to the realities of modern life.
Apr 21, 1951 NYT The Egyptian wave of terrorism was almost entirely the work of members of the Moslem Brotherhood. The Moslem Brotherhood was dissolved by Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha just before his assassination and only recently has been revived.
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Apr 20, 1951 #WWII NYT Shigeki Tanaka, 19-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, won the fifty-fifth annual Boston Athletic Association marathon run in near-record time today, as foreign entrants captured seven of the first eleven places.
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Apr 20, 1951 NYT Although the version offered by MacArthur differed slightly with what was believed to be the original six-line British Army ballad that for generations has answered the recruits' question about what becomes of old soldiers, his recollection was sound.
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It was extraordinary television, whatever a viewer's political feelings. His delivery modulated with precision; his timing was thoroughly professional; his composure was self-evident. For a man who forty-eight hours earlier had'never been before a TV camera, his was a farewell in the great tradition
Apr 20, 1951 The General fittingly had saved his climactic scene for the end. As he spoke, with tears in his eyes, of an old soldier who did not die but merely faded away, millions saw fleeting history not likely to be repeated. It was not likely to be soon forgotten.
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No one is happy that Proper Hotels is not retaining the Cal Neva name. Not a good start.
4/20/26 12:20pm Update:
The storm that will move into our area late tonight/early tomorrow is expected to bring 9-18" (up to 2') of late-season #snow through Weds.
Cold temps won't last long though as we expect to see average temps at the lab beginning on Thurs and throughout the weekend.
#CAwater
That's an amazing journey!
Historically, the Snake River Basin accounted for 40 to 50 percent of the salmon in the Columbia River Basin. Wild runs that once numbered in the millions have declined by more than 90 percent in the last 60 years.
Awesome! I would love to visit and throw a line in.
We have a little storm coming in. Better than nothing.🌬
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Mom, Dad and I visited when I was a child.
Opened in 1888, Mt. Shasta is the oldest trout hatchery west of the Mississippi. Located in Siskiyou County in Northern California.
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Firing squads in Iran were busy executing former associates of the Shah of Iran. Officials in Washington were now saying that Administration had changed its mind and was willing to let the Shah come to the U.S. to live, once the situation with Iran became more stable.
More than a month after a dramatic rescue along a neighborhood trail, Truckee’s bald eagle is continuing its recovery and showing steady progress.
Fort Stevens Oregon was the only mainland military base attacked in #WWII.
The attack illustrated a flaw US coastal defense. Enemies could always develop weapons with longer ranges than coastal guns. The I-25's small deck gun could outshoot the big rifles in the fort.
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A trigger spot to watch.
The Juan de Fuca microplate is bounded on the south by the Blanco fracture zone , running northwest off the coast of Oregon, on the north by the Nootka Fault running southwest off Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, BC.
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1941 #WWII So far in this war, and in the period preceding it, Axis efforts to wean the Arabs away from Britain have failed completely, even though there is some discontent among Arabs as a whole about the fight between the Zionists and Arabs in Palestine.
Apr 20, 1941 #WWII NYT "Strong" British forces have landed at Basra, in Iraq, it was announced. Thus did the British act to insure protection of their back door and to guard the rich supplies of oil that they control, supplies toward which the Axis has been looking.
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The UN is going the same way.
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One Russian paper today claims “Life has become four times more joyous.” Another reports the country’s economic reserves are “largely exhausted.” Plus: “a new drop in the approval rating of the [Russian] authorities.” And who are the Kremlin’s friends in the West? #ReadingRussia
#WWII The bar and stools have remained untouched in a home and barn in rural Maryland for 70 years. They were kept by the son of the original purchaser who had installed the bar in his home's basement as a curiosity.
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Apr 19, 1951 #WWII Hitler's yacht, a 476-foot, $4,000,000 steamship that was presented by the German people to their Fuehrer in 1935, was towed off yesterday to a New Jersey scrap heap. The ship, named the Grille was purchased by the North American Smelting Company.
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Apr 19, 1951 NYT The committee said there was a precedent for returning the stone in the 1937 Act of Parliament handing back to Scotland certain documents taken 600 years ago. It suggested it could be sent for the coronation of kings which it has been used since 1296.
www.nytimes.com/1951/04/19/a...
The signature of the Treaty of Paris, 18 Apr 1951 reconciled France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It created a solidarity of fact and common democratic management of the strategic materials of war, steel and energy, primarily coal.
www.brusselstimes.com/2084826/why-...
Apr 19, 1951 NYT History was made in Paris yesterday when the Foreign Ministers of six European nations signed a fifty-year treaty embodying the Schuman Plan, designed to lay the first economic foundation for a United States of Europe.
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I don't think so. Sammy might be before my time. I first visited the Cal Neva in 1999.
Apr 19, 1951 In what was billed as his “farewell address,” General Douglas MacArthur concluded: "but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that ‘old soldiers never die; they just fade away.'"
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As the Sun rises so does the seismic activity. Five aftershocks of 2.5.🌎
