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Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan

Jim Luce | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Russia, Khubilai Khan, Kamikaze, u.s. Naval War College, National Geographic, Titanic, Kamakura Period, Imari Bay, Vikings, Tokyo Bay, Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, New York City, Archaeological Institute of America, U.S.S. Monitor, The Sea Hunters, History, National Arts Club, Vancouver Maritime Museum, Aldon James, Japan, Gramercy Park, Yuan Period, East Asian Studies, China, Korea, Mongolia, Edo Bay, Books News
Jim Luce

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Memories of World War II From Men Who Fought in the Pacific

Pat LaMarche | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: USS Missouri, Earthquake, Kamikaze, USS St.Louis, Surrender, Japanese, World War II, US Navy, Politics News
Pat LaMarche

The fast acting Captain who turned the Missouri and saved Joe's life could not have done so if there hadn't been an officer on board who could recognize at an instant that the planes coming fast and low belonged to the enemy.

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Our Continuing Loss of World War II Heroes

Pat LaMarche | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: USS Missouri, WW II, Kamikaze, Navy, Japan, Veterans, Pacific Fleet, Politics News
Pat LaMarche

Joe and Bud live just about twelve miles apart but they've never met. That might not be a big surprise if they weren't among a vanishing breed of surviving U.S. WW II veterans.

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Piña Coladas, White Russians, Car Bombs & More Guilty-Pleasure Cocktails

Liquor.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alabama Slammer, B-52, Kamikaze, Cocktails, Pina Colada, Cocktail Recipe, Flaming Dr. Pepper, Slidepollajax, Guilty Pleasures, Irish Car Bomb, Sex on the Beach, White Russian, White Bat, Cocktail Recipes, Food News
Liquor.com

OK. It's time to come clean. In between nosing, tasting and discussing highbrow classics like the Sazerac and the Negroni, we admit to indulging with ...

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Kooky Kabuki Terrain.

Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eric Massa, March Madness, Kamikaze, Mitch McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, RINU, Orrin Hatch, Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Johnny Depp, Home News
Will Durst

This health care thing has driven people crazier than Johnny Depp in a Max Fleischer cartoon on acid. Pro or con, your rhetoric better be cranked up t...

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Toyota Recalls Time When You Were So Happy Together

Rip Empson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ford Pinto, Chrysler Bankruptcy, Kamikaze, Prius Recall, Chrysler, Gm, Prius, Ford, Eco-Friendly, Speed, Toyota, Toyota Tundra, Toyota Prius, Rendell-Kool-Aid, Toyota Recalls, Japan, Comedy News
Rip Empson

In related news, Felicia Thurgood of New Salem has announced that she will be recalling her 16-year-old son, Derek, who recently failed out of his third high school.

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Health Care: Do or Die

Dr. Philip Neches | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Kamikaze, Barack Obama, Waterloo, Politics News
Dr. Philip Neches

The upcoming vote on health care reform may be Obama's Waterloo. But will he come out of it a defeated Napoleon. Or alternatively, a victorious Wellesley?

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Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, Kamikaze, Dag Hamarskjold, Subway, Eleanor Roosevelt, New Yrok News, USS Missouri, Calendar Girls, Bookstore, Toyko Bay, We the Living, Jonathan Kellerman, Nagasaki, Astoria, Ayn Rand, Harry Fiegelson, Faye Kellerman, Ditmars Boulevard, Atomic Bomb, World War II, Yokosuka, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

There's no bookstore in the Ditmars section of Astoria. We don't need one. Harry puts the words out on the street -- his bookstand has been in the same spot for nearly a quarter century.

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