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...aide to Brigadier General B. A. Poore, who finally endorsed Lieut. Twining's application for air training, snorting: "If he is crazy enough to want to transfer . . . we ought to help him." After a long siege of desk and staff jobs, named (1943) commanding general of the undersized Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific. On Jan. 26,1943, Twining's B-1 7 with 15 aboard was forced down at sea off the New Hebrides Islands. After six days on a life raft (during which Twining proved his marksmanship by shooting an albatross-for food-with...
...Privilege in these circumstances is not inconsistent with its history. The privilege has its origins in prosecutions for political and religious dissidence. Its sources may be found in the Inquisition of the thirteenth century (Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages) and in the sixteenth century persecution of the Puritans in England (Maguire, Attack of the Common Lawyers on the Oath Ex Office as Administered in the Ecclesiastical Courts in England...
...first films selected were a Russian film, "Alexander Nevsky," with its locale in thirteenth century Russian, and a series of Charlie Chaplain shorts. Both were made over thirty years...
...version of the National Salvation Army's activities begins in spring 1950, when he salvaged some 2,000 stragglers from the wreck of the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group and withdrew his demoralized troops to the Shan mountains on the Burma side of the border. In May 1951 Li attacked Red Yunnan with several thousand recruits gleaned from the borderlands, occupied eight hsien (Chinese counties), and appealed for volunteers. "Every able-bodied man in the district" stepped forward, he says; the National Salvation Army increased...
...record, they must be dropped from the belly of a high-flying bomber. Wing Commander Gibb's Canberra took off from the ground in the normal way and stayed in the air for 61 minutes. At the top of its flight, its engines were breathing air only one-thirteenth as dense as air at sea level...