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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
| Time |
Event |
| 9:01a |
This Day in Navy History Monday, November 05, 2007 1775 - Commodore Esek Hopkins appointed to Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy. 1915 - In AB-2 flying boat, LCDR Henry C. Mustin makes first underway catapult launch from a ship, USS North Carolina, at Pensacola Bay, FL. 1917 - German submarine torpedoes USS Alcedo off French coast. 1923 - Tests designed to prove the feasibility of launching a small seaplane from a submarine occur at Hampton Roads Naval Base. A Martin MS-1, stored disassembled in a tank on board USS S-1, was removed and assembled. Then the submarine submerged allowing the plane to float free and take off. 1944 - TF 38 (Vice Admiral John S. McCain) begins 2 days of carrier strikes on Luzon, Philippines. 1945 - Ensign Jake C. West (VF-41) makes first jet landing on board a carrier, USS Wake Island (CVE-65). [Source: http://www.history.navy.mil] http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowStory.aspx?StoryID=209654 | | 9:20a |
О двух волках
Когда-то давно старый индеец открыл своему внуку одну жизненную истину.
В каждом человеке идет борьба, очень похожая на борьбу двух волков. Один волк представляет зло - зависть, ревность, сожаление, эгоизм, амбиции, ложь… Другой волк представляет добро - мир, любовь, надежду, истину, доброту, верность…
Маленький индеец, тронутый до глубины души словами деда, на несколько мгновений задумался, а потом спросил: - А какой волк в конце побеждает?
Старый индеец едва заметно улыбнулся и ответил:
- Всегда побеждает тот волк, которого ты кормишь. | | 9:24a |
Cris. Morley, "TO A U-BOAT"
With Apologies to William Blake
Tiger, tiger of the seas,
King of scarlet butcheries,
What infernal hand and eye
Planned your dread machinery?
Men of Hamburg, Bremen, Kiel,
Watch the gauge and turn the wheel,
Proud, perhaps, to have defiled
Oceans, to destroy a child.
With your thunderbolt you strike
Cargo, women, all alike—
Stain with red God's clean green sea,
Call it "naval victory."
U-boat, U-boat, as you grope
With your half-blind periscope,
Lo, your hateful trail we mark,
Send you to your kin, the shark! |
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