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...what shall we do, what do we have available,’ then began moving all our furniture, our pieces, into the building,” Thompson says. The effort to collect pieces for a possible long-term D/R retrospective exhibit snowballed. Thompson and company scoured Cambridge-area antique stores and their own homes for old cookware, vases, or furnishings originally sold by D/R almost 50 years ago. Marimekko donated some of its modern merchandise to the exhibit, and a photographer took portraits of people wearing original D/R clothing to hang alongside the furnishings. One former D/R employee even donated...
...nations that recognizes the legitimacy of our action. Unlike Vietnam, we are not facing a broad-based popular insurgency. And most importantly, unlike Vietnam, the American people were viciously attacked from Afghanistan and remain a target for those same extremists who are plotting along its border. To abandon this area now - and to rely only on efforts against al-Qaeda from a distance - would significantly hamper our ability to keep the pressure on al-Qaeda and create an unacceptable risk of additional attacks on our homeland and our allies...
...free of weapons and reserved for scientific research alone; its signatories vow to refrain from making any claims to the territory, which is considered neutral ground. The pact fulfilled a longtime goal of its brainchild, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who feared the remote region could one day become an area for military competition. "The Antarctic Treaty and the guarantees it embodies constitute a significant advance toward the goal of a peaceful world with justice," he said the day the treaty was signed. (See vintage pictures of polar exploration...
...Antarctica is widely believed to have been Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, whose expedition first spotted land in January 1820. But further interest in the continent waned in the 1800s and Antarctica largely went unexplored until the final decade of that century, when some 16 expeditions explored the area. (See "Sub-glacial Antarctica" in mankind's great explorations and adventures...
...runs between Iran and Iraq. Back then, Tehran accused the Brits of trespassing in its waters. (London insisted the personnel had been patrolling Iraqi seas.) The 15 were pardoned and released by Ahmadinejad after being held for two weeks. Three years earlier, eight British servicemen snatched in the same area were also accused of trespassing. In both cases, the British military personnel were paraded on Iranian television. "Whether it's premeditated or the actions of an enthusiastic local officer," says Richard Schofield, senior lecturer in boundary studies at King's College London, the seizure of foreigners usually occurs...