Word: persianism
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...Army last October to make the berets part of the uniform enraged the elite Army Rangers, who were suddenly losing their distinctive symbol. After much debate, the Rangers agreed to switch to tan berets, which they say are reminiscent of the D-Day beaches, sand in the Persian Gulf and khaki uniforms worn in Vietnam and Korea...
...where dozens of women were sexually assaulted by drunken pilots. Since then, the Navy has pushed hard to put women aboard nearly all of its vessels except for submarines. Last year, the first female skipper took a U.S. Navy warship on a real-world mission to the Persian Gulf. But suggestions that precious Navy funds are going toward more frequent doctors' visits by female sailors will raise anew questions about the wisdom of putting women aboard ships, some Navy officers fear...
...Like her Ptolemaic predecessors in the three centuries following Alexander the Great's ouster of the Persian administration in Egypt in 332 B.C., Cleopatra had to appeal to both Greeks and Egyptians-to be seen as both Greek monarch and Egyptian pharaoh. She also needed to present herself as a formidable figure amid the violence and chaos that characterized the Mediterranean region at the time. Indeed, before Cleopatra even ascended the Ptolemaic throne, she needed to have been ruthless, given the familial bloodbaths that long characterized her incestuous line...
...tail is covered with feathers, with a fan, or tuft, at the end. "It doesn't look anything like what most people think dinosaurs look like," explains the American Museum's Mark Norell, one of the team's co-leaders. "When this thing was alive, it looked like a Persian cat with feathers...
...Cambodia. Harding describes them as "very well prepared." But the force came under fire at home for having a limited mandate when an unprotected Japanese policeman was killed by guerrillas because soldiers were stationed in a secure area miles away. Japan has also sent its soldiers minesweeping in the Persian Gulf, peacekeeping in Mozambique and on humanitarian missions to Rwanda and Honduras. The unit in the Golan is the one long-term operation...