Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Norwich is fascinated by the stocky warriors who came down from Normandy as pilgrims and found the lower Italian peninsula, with its brittle alliances and private wars, exactly to their taste. The Normans raised sword against anyone who blocked their way, even the Popes, to whom they swore fealty. As Norwich writes, they "mastered the art of being on the winning side...
...Arabs are suffering from one of history's worst inferiority complexes, caused by the shock of discovering that a glorious past has become irrelevant in a powerless present. The original Arabs were the Semitic tribesmen of the Arabian Peninsula, the passionate nomads and born makers of creeds, whom T. E. Lawrence called "people of primary colors." Today one can hardly define an Arab; the name spans a racial rainbow. "Arabs" may be squat Lebanese, tall Saudis, white Syrians or grape-black Sudanese. They include dollar-dizzy Kuwaiti, secretive Druzes, Gallicized Algerians and Christian Copts. Only about 10% are nomads...
...early June afternoon the east ern Mediterranean sky was clear, the sea calm. The U.S. Navy communications ship Liberty, a converted Victory freighter, was steaming west-northwesterly at five knots, about 14 nautical miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Seconds later, lookouts sighted jet fighters bearing in from the southeast at 7,000 ft. A rocket slammed into Liberty's port side amidships, igniting two 55-gal. gasoline drums; a bomb struck the starboard side. The planes, sweeping down in teams of two or more, raked the ship with crisscross rocket and machine-gun fire, riddling hull and superstructure with...
...result was instant chaos. City and county offices in many western towns in the Upper Peninsula refused to change to Daylight Time; federal offices shifted obediently, then moved their office hours up one hour to cancel out the off-phase effect. State-operated liquor stores closed on Daylight, but bars grabbed an extra late hour of business by sticking to Standard Time. The twin cities of Calumet and Hancock could not agree and so divided...
State officials finally worked out a compromise. The Upper Peninsula will go on Central Daylight (which is, of course, the same as Eastern Standard); the rest of the state will stay on Eastern Daylight...