Word: anvils
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...NORRIS, TENN. Ever shot an anvil? Here's how. Place one large blacksmith's anvil upside down on the ground. Fill its cavity with a fine grade of gunpowder. Place a second anvil on top of it. Ignite the gunpowder and watch the top anvil fly as high as 125 feet into the air. Or if you would prefer just to watch, the Museum of Appalachia in Norris has an anvil shoot to celebrate the Fourth...
...fancy flying across the nation for an anvil toss, James Heintze, the librarian at American University in Washington, has a website, american.edu/heintze/fourth.htm that lists dozens of events, as well as pretty much anything else you wanted to know about Independence Day--except barbecue recipes...
...weeks U.S. forces had been watching as Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters gathered south of Kabul. Code-named Operation Anaconda, the battle plan aimed at this force was a hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce...
...hammer and anvil" maneuver on Saturday, allied forces tried to encircle al-Qaeda fighters and cut off their escape routes, while Afghan militia advanced into the valley. Instead the Americans found themselves pinned down by mortar fire and rescued only after a fierce 18-hour fire fight. In the next three days, eight Americans were killed in battle...
...weeks U.S. forces had been watching as Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters gathered south of Kabul. Code-named Operation Anaconda, the battle plan aimed at this force was a hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce...