Archive for the ‘Sideline’ Category
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, Panzertruppen
A small gallery of German tank forces during the Second World War. Includes some rarely-seen color photos of Panzertruppen commanders. “The mainstay of the Panzerwaffe was the Panzer division. These consisted of a panzer brigade (two tank regiments) and two motorized or mechanized infantry regiments. All forces of a Panzer division were mobile. Support elements [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: African-Americans in WWII
A small gallery of photos showing African-American soldiers during the Second World War. About 125,000 blacks served in US combat units overseas during the war. “Many soldiers of color served their country with distinction during World War II. There were 125,000 African Americans who were overseas in World War II. Famous segregated units, such as [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, part 2
A collection of various photos from the Second World War. The second gallery. Photos of various events and people in no particular order. “The start of the war is generally held to be September 1 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany[4] by most of the countries in [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The US in Second World War
A photo gallery of the US soldiers and civilians in the Second World War. “As with World War I, the United States did not enter World War II until after the rest of the active Allied countries had done so. The United States’s first contribution to the war was simultaneously to cut off the oil [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, part 1
A collection of various photos from the Second World War. The first gallery. “The start of the war is generally held to be September 1 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany[4] by most of the countries in the British Empire and Commonweath, and by France.[5][6] Many belligerents [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The Battle of Kursk, part 2
The second part of the gallery of the Battle of Kursk, the greatest tank battle of all times. “The Battle of Kursk refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The Battle of Kursk, part 1
The first part of the gallery of the Battle of Kursk, the greatest tank battle of all times. “The Battle of Kursk refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Eastern Front
A small collection of Second World War photos from the Eastern Front in no particular order. “It was the largest theatre of war in history and was notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life. It bore the bulk of the Holocaust as the site of all extermination camps, death marches, ghettos, [...]
Posted on April 28, 2009 - by Venik
Russian Frigate Detains Somalian Pirates
The “Admiral Panteleyev” frigate of Russia’s Pacific Fleet detained a suspected pirate vessel with 29 aboard around 6pm Moscow time on Tuesday 15 kilometers from the shores of Somalia. In addition to the crew, the detained vessel was carrying seven AK-47s, various types of handguns, aluminum ladders with grappling hooks, satellite navigation equipment, multiple fuel [...]
Posted on April 26, 2009 - by Venik
Su-35 Crashed in Russia
According the Russian media, a Su-35-4 (third flying prototype) crashed on Sunday around 11am local time while taking off from the runway of Sukhoi’s KnAAPO manufacturing plant in Komsomolsk-na-Amure. It has been reported that the aircraft collided with an unidentified obstacle at the end of the runway and was completely destroyed. Yevgeniy Frolov, one of [...]
Posted on April 20, 2009 - by Venik
Loudicrous
It seems Lou Dobbs decided to join the choir of starry-eyed optimists who believe that the recession is over that the American economy will begin to recover any month now. Lou, what is the point of parading Nobel Prize-winning economists on your show if all you do is interrupt them with your idiotic ideas? I [...]
Posted on April 16, 2009 - by Venik
Glimmers of hope
Recently there has a lot of talk of Obama’s “glimmers of hope” in the US economy. This tentative optimism hinges precariously on the small stock market gains in the past few days. Companies across the country are cutting production and inventories and the expectation is that eventually this will spur some consumer demand. This is [...]
Posted on April 12, 2009 - by Venik
Is Sprint Reading Your E-mail?
We all know that Google has a huge database of your online searching and browsing interests. We also know that every credit card company is tracking your spending habits more diligently than you do. We even know that your Windows operating system comes pre-configured with a clandestine application called the WGA Notification tool, designed to [...]
Posted on April 3, 2009 - by Venik
Georgian Navy auctions sunken ships
Georgian media reports that the country’s Navy auctioned off three of its ships sank by the Russians during the brief war between the two countries in August of last year. The bidding on the lot of three sunken patrol boats still cluttering Poti naval base started at $10. The winner at $61,000 was Gem Aidemir, [...]
