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...Moscow, the Russians had launched another offense. It began, as the one in Stalingrad began, with an artillery barrage. The Moscow front lay under a white blanket of snow. Cossack cavalrymen wrapped their horses' hoofs in burlap to deaden the sound and get a better footing on hard crust. Artillery was mounted on skis. On their first plunge into the deep and long-held German defenses the Russians reached the village of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the border of Latvia...
...Because bandages are eliminated, wounds can be inspected at any time. In several Mare Island cases bullet and shrapnel wounds were discovered in burned areas which would have been overlooked had they been bandaged. ^ Wax treatment does not produce the leathery crust which forms on burns treated with tannic acid and dyes. These crusts often trap purulent materials and have to be removed painfully...
...Crust Continues Cracking...
...coaling station and therefore a bright military jewel which, with Gibraltar and Suez, gave the empire control of the Mediterranean. This was not to say that the Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this new and beefy rule...
This time it was not U.S. bombers that made the earth tremble in Tokyo and Yokohama and set up far-glaring fires. More ancient was the enemy: Asamayama ("Mountain Without Bottom"), most fretful and dangerous of Japan's 50 active volcanoes. Seismologists had predicted that an ominously growing crust inside the cone threatened an eruption as violent as that of 1783, when 48 villages were buried deep beneath a scoriaceous lava stream. The word "catastrophe" in Axis news broadcasts indicated that what the seismologists feared may have occurred. But Allied nations were given no word of the damage...