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It seems like we’re not done with the “horses and bayonets” meme quite yet. Instead of a political dig though, diagnosis the “old-fashioned” battle equipment is showing up in another unlikely place: a video game. Although it’s not expected to be the most popular of video games depicting war, find which today usually involve computer-graphics [...] On the opening weekend of the Hollywood blockbuster “Battleship” come be a part of history as we celebrate the centennial of the launching of the nation’s oldest battleship. Battleship TEXAS was launched May 18, web 1912 and will be celebrating 100 years afloat with a cake cutting ceremony on May 19 at 2 p.m. aboard [...] When the makers of “Top Gun” were filming on board the USS Enterprise, they donated a set of black fuzzy dice to liven up the ship’s otherwise drab interior. A quarter-century later, the dice will still be dangling inside the tower of “the Big E” as the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sets sail [...] The dispute over whether NASA’s early astronauts have title to the space-flown artifacts they kept as souvenirs from their missions may soon be resolved by Congress. A bill introduced by the chairman and ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Science, Space, and Technology Committee would confirm full ownership rights to the [...] A new monument is coming to Wesley Bolin plaza, across from the state Capitol. This one doesn’t honor a person or veterans of a war, but the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. What is the Bill of Rights? The first ten amendments to the Constitution. It guarantees, to name a few — freedom of speech, [...] The Brady bunch has released its annual scorecard rating states based on how strict their gun laws are. The scorecard is a very useful tool to help rights groups understand how their state compares to others on a liberty scale; more points = less liberty. Alaska, link Arizona and Utah have all achieved the coveted [...] Virginia Tech’s president Friday defended the university’s actions during a 2007 campus attack that left 33 people dead in the worst shooting spree in modern US history. Charles Steger took the stand Friday in a wrongful death trial commenced by parents of two of the shooting victims. The parents claim Virginia Tech officials might have [...] Indiana soon will have an official state rifle to go along with the state tree, state stone and state flower. The Indiana House voted 78-2 on Tuesday to declare the Grouseland the state’s official rifle. It is one of only six remaining long rifles made by famed Hoosier gunsmith John Small in the early 1800s. [...] A push is under way by lawmakers, historians and educators to give George Washington his birthday back instead of “diminishing the memory of the greatest American” by honoring it with a three-day weekend. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., is sponsoring a bill to change the holiday to Feb. 22 from the third Monday in February. That [...] |
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