 Military
experts encounter people who want the U.S. Navy to get back
into the battleship business.The argument goes like this:
The remaining World War II Iowa-class battleships are
cheaper to operate, cheaper than building new ships, and
provide powerful and much-needed weapons. World War II gave
the world's navies a crash course in the next phase of war
at sea, using aircraft, guided weapons and submarines, not
the guns on board ships, ending the utility of the
battleship in the open ocean. More |
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Directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have
learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.Movie
ratings have the power to shape a films audience and
alter its commercial prospects. A PG-13 (parents strongly
cautioned) can unlock new demographics, while an R (anyone
under 17 must be with an adult) can mean millions of dollars
less at the box office. More |
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Betty Soskin retired as a park ranger
in March 2022 after more than 15 years at the Rosie the
Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in
Richmond, California. She led tours at the park and museum
honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime
and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the
conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit
after learning that ''she was employed only because her
superiors believed she was white,''according to a Park
Service biography. More
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Dickens' character Ebenezer Scrooge in ''The Christmas Carol''
is based on the life of John Elwes, an eccentric 18th-century
politician whose penny pinching was, if anything, even more
astonishing than that of Scrooge himself. More |

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