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The
solstice that occurs on June 20th or 21st marks the official
beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, when Earth
arrives at the point in its orbit where the North Pole is at
its maximum tilt (about 23.5 degrees) toward the Sun,
resulting in the longest day and shortest night of the
calendar year. (By longest ''day,'' we mean the longest
period of sunlight hours.) On the day of the June solstice,
the Northern Hemisphere receives sunlight at the most direct
angle of the year. More
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No need to send the
captured illegals to El Salvado, the Miami-Dade Collier
Training Facility is an abandoned airport facility right in
the middle of the Everglades, and it presents an efficient,
low-cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility
because you don't need to invest that much in the perimeter.
If people get out, there's not much waiting for them other
than alligators and pythons.
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Casey Ramirez, front and
center, poses with Japanese exchange students and their host
families in front of a helicopter as he provided rides at
the Princeton Municipal Airport in the summer of 1982, in
this photo from the Princeton Union-Eagle. Ramirez would
often offer helicopter tours of the city to residents. More |

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As the name so aptly implies,
bunker busters are special purpose bombs where its sole purpose
is to punch through ground, concrete, or anything else to knock
out a target. What sets apart a bunker buster from a regular
aircraft-dropped bomb? It's not as simple as adding ''more
bomb,'' and relies more on how the bomb is constructed. Instead
of exploding on a target, a bunker buster needs to explode
through the target. More |
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