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The Twelfth US Air Force : Tactical and Operational Innovations in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1943-1944

By: Major Matthew G. St. Clair, USMC

...This paper analyzes the participation of the US Twelfth Air Force in the Mediterranean theater of operation from 1943 to 1944 and also studies the coalition and joint operations required in the air campaign. Coalition and joint warfare provides numerous command, control, and coordination problems ...

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Five 20th Century Italian Poets

By: Various; Tony Kline, Translator

...senio The Eel If They Have Likened You The Coastguards’ House The Storm Two In Twilight Waterfront In Sleep Bring Me The Sunflower Motets I Mediterranean The Lemon Trees...

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Russia vs Turkey : The Geopolitics of the South & the Turk Stream Pipelines

By: Iakovos Alhadeff

...ting for regional dominance for many centuries. Today, the main geographical locations of their conflicts are the regions of Central Asia and East Mediterranean Sea. Both Central Asia and the East Mediterranean Sea are of strategic importance for the connection of Europe to the oil and natural gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and the Middle East. This essay examines i...

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Airlift Doctrine

By: Charles E. Miller

...OP CARRIER AND THEATER AIRLIFT IN WORLD WAR II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Origins of Troop Carrier Aviation . . . . . . . . .79 The Mediterranean and European Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Troop Carrier Operations in the Pacific . . . .122 Troop Carrier Aviation in the China-Burma-India Theater . . . . . . ...

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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

...e ten long years he is in Troy and another ten spent traveling through the Mediterranean, we can understand how it is a repetition of his past. We ca... ...lly to the interpretation I want to propose. The journey of Ulysses in the Mediterranean Sea is a re-edition of Ulysses’ voyage inside his mother’s ... ...mother’s womb. The womb is full of amniotic liquid, and seawater fills the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is contained within a sort of cove, just...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...The "Black Death" - an epidemic of bubonic plague which ravaged both Europe and the Mediterranean in 1347- 1351- killed one quarter to one third of t... ...ds off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. It traps dozens of blowflies at a time in a chamb...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...ll of treasures and glory, it took him 10 years of sailing all around the Mediterranean and having one adventure after another to finally reach Ith... ...e place in water. It shouldn’t be difficult to see the analogy between the Mediterranean Sea and the uterus of a woman. They both have a very simila... ...erent times, by stirring up frightening storms which throw them around the Mediterranean. If this is a poetic representation of the life of a foet... ... destiny different from that of Menelaus? If Ulysses’ wandering around the Mediterranean represents the wanderings of a human being in the tramautiz...

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Album Fotografija

By: Dusan Gojkov

...rants. 1987-1989 As a correspondent for Radio Belgrade and Belgrade daily «Politika» writes from Europe, Mediterranean, Near and Far East, Africa,...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

... trousers. Thrusting my other leg, I straddle the passage, two Herculean pillars, a sea of Mediterranean groceries between my calves. Toe by heel,...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

... was tall, with an olive complexion, and well built. He appeared to be of Mediterranean ancestry. He wore an old Hart- ford Whalers Jersey, cap, and ...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...st Tyre; which being in those days the queen of the sea, and covering the whole Mediterranean with her ships, could not yet defend herself against th...

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On the Shores of the Great Sea

By: M. B. Synge

...Book I of the Story of the World series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Brief histories of the Ancient Israelites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Scythians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans are given, concluding with the conquest of the enti...

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The Duchesse de Langeais, With an Episode under the Terror, The Illustrious Gaudissart, A Passion in the Desert, And the Hidden Masterpiece

By: Honoré de Balzac

...esse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac IN A SPANISH CITY on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, ... ...ngerous reefs that stretch far out to sea, with the sparkling waves of the Mediterranean playing over them. So, only from the sea can you discern the ... ...th a thor- oughly Spanish conception. But now surround this picture by the Mediterranean, and a burning sky , imagine a few palms here and there, a fe... ...ette de Navarreins was living, consumed by love, on a ledge of rock in the Mediterranean; but it was in the Pope’s power to dissolve Sister Theresa’s ...

...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extr...

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No Thoroughfare

By: Charles Dickens ; Wilkie Collins

...ght the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the Mediterranean—across the Alps in winter. Danger and treachery would prevail were it not for the courage of the heroine and the faithful company servant. - The story contains crafted descriptions, well-drawn and diverse charac...

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Count of Monte Cristo, The

By: Alexandre Dumas

...t is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. It is prim...

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Lecturing in Nigeria Southwest Universities. An instant photovideo blog. Second edition, revised

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ic, information fusion, and their applications. “While hundreds of migrants and refugees from North Africa drown each year attempting to cross the Mediterranean in inadequate boats, many people from Central and Western Africa succumb trying to cross the Sahara Desert towards Morocco, and from there to Europe. 44 Nigerians and Ghanaians were found dead these days. The De...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... CHAPTER 3 Did a wall of seawater first seep and then surge from the Mediterranean into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? W... ...housand years. A wall of seawater first seeped and then surged from the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driv... ...mmunity on the northeast shores of a freshwater lake flee from a flood of Mediterranean seawater, scatter in all directions and seed the tongues of ... ... Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s eastern shores for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bring... ...s using manpowered sailing galleys. They transported goods all across the Mediterranean and even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from thei... ...hing from the Indus River to the Danube and from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean. The Mongols promised justice to those who surrendered bu... ...eople was access to the Silk Road. Linked to China, India, Persia, and Mediterranean nations, its twisting channels of commerce had lain so far s... ... merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward from the Mediterranean ports, where trading of goods from the Orient terminated. Fr...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... CHAPTER 3 Did a wall of seawater first seep and then surge from the Mediterranean into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? W... ... thousand years. A wall of seawater first seeped and then surged from the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driv... ...mmunity on the northeast shores of a freshwater lake flee from a flood of Mediterranean seawater, scatter in all directions and seed the tongues of ... ...y. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s eastern shores for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bring... ...s using manpowered sailing galleys. They transported goods all across the Mediterranean and even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their ... ...hing from the Indus River to the Danube and from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean. The Mongols promised justice to those who surrendered but ... ...people was access to the Silk Road. Linked to China, India, Persia, and Mediterranean nations, its twisting channels of commerce had lain so far s... ... merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward from the Mediterranean ports, where trading of goods from the Orient terminated. Fr...

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French Natural Remedies & Recipes from Beautiful Tasmania

By: Christiane Guise

...r points.  Primarily, all recipes and remedies are inspired from French and Mediterranean cuisine; therefore, they are not only excellent for ou... ...ix them with salt. Keep it in a shaker. 84 L’aioli People from Mediterranean regions love garlic and of course, they enjoy this may... ...ree weeks but no longer than six months. 87 Le pesto The pesto is a Mediterranean seasoning, usually served with pistou, a thick soup fr... ...rlic bread. Enjoy! It is beautiful. 96 Le pistou The pistou is a Mediterranean soup from the South of France. It is served with the f...

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Grand Hotel

By: Dusan Gojkov

...ent for Radio Belgrade and Belgrade daily «Politika» writes from Europe, Mediterranean, Near and Far East, Africa, former 3 Soviet Union, Asia, ...

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