Note: Blogging will be a bit light this week because I’m on travel. If time permits, I’ll provide some details. The Washington Post featured AetherCzar’s hometown – Huntsville, AL – in their travel section last week. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center, home of “Space Camp,” has tended to eclipse […]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
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Late this afternoon, 4 July, 1944, the 313th received order to attack. At the same time, German forces located the Regiment and began an artillery barrage, causing many casualties.
[iframe: src=”http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=uwbantennacom-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&asins=B002ESGLKE” frameborder=”0″ width=”120px” height=”240px” scrolling=”no”] This Land is Mine B&W (1943) Drama 103 min. Dir: Jean Renoir Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Geroge Sanders, Walter Slezak, Kent Smith, Una O’Connor, Philip Merivale. Blurb: A cowardly school teacher (Laughton) discovers there can be no bystanders when his town is occupied […]
Today, 3 July, 1944 the 79th Division attacked. The 314th and 315th Regiments jumped off at 0530 with the 313th (and Paul Farnum) in reserve.
Clara is a special needs five-year-old girl. Although she has learned to feed herself with a fork, her fine-motor-control difficulties have made spoon-feeding elusive. Until now. The ergonomic design of the Baby Dipper bowl and feeding set have helped this little girl learn to feed herself. Here’s what her Mom […]
The Allies have secured a tenuous foothold in Normandy. VII Corps (including the 79th Infantry Division) accomplished its objective of capturing Cherbourg and securing the Cotentin peninsula. Now the Allies need to expand the beachhead, securing enough room to maneuver to enable a breakthrough attack.
From the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Ten Tips for Streamlining Patent Prosecution.
Ettore Bellini (1876-1943) and Alessandro Tosi devised a much improved direction-finding system in 1907. [[1]] Their scheme deployed two orthogonal arrays similar to those of Stone. The key advantage of the Bellini-Tosi direction finder was a rotating transformer coupling. Rather than rotate a potentially large antenna system, the Bellini-Tosi system […]
Keith Cooper reports on an intriguing new theory for why ET has not phoned us yet, in The Frugal Alien’s Beacon at Astronomy Now online. Hat tip: Richard Harris.
Writing over at Reason, Ronald Bailey highlights the recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science which purports to rank the merit of climate scientists based on the usual metrics of articles published and articles cited. Then those scientists’ position on the anthropological global warming (AGW) hypothesis […]