The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North ...
The King's Colonials - The Badges, History, Uniforms, Medals and Nominal Rolls of the King's Colonials, King Edward's Horse and 2nd King Edward's Horse
Although, as her Wikipedia page puts it, Kerr “is largely unknown to contemporary readers and her books are long out of print,” she had ten novels to her name by the time she was enlisted to work on this project and was a frequent contributor of magazine fiction. In theory, The Woman...
Henry Southcott Burge was born in Portsmouth on 2 September 1884. He joined the Royal Navy on 28 May 1903 for an initial engagement of 12 years. After initial training as a Boy Shipwright in Portsmouth Dockyard he was rated as Shipwright from July 1903, onboard HMS Duke of Wellington (dep...
The article argues that a need for improved education programs for NCOs known as NCO 2020 was necessary. It discusses U.S. Army preparatory programs for operations in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments (VUCA), and the need for implementing a data-driven process using the ...
Army's noncommissioned officer (NCO) corps and the case to revise the organizational program the Noncommissioned Officer Education System (NCOES). The article argues that a need for improved education programs for NCOs known as NCO 2020 was necessary. It discusses U.S. Army preparatory programs...
I didn’t expect much, that Thanksgiving. But a crusty-ass NCO rode to the rescue. Sort of. This guy, I’ll call him Toad, was a leather-faced thief and the author of a thousand tall tales. He was a veteran of the First Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Maybe other shit, I don’...
The JCS, however, was not in the direct operational chain of command, which ran from the war-fighting commander in chief directly to the secretary of defence and the president – collectively called the National Command Authority (NCA). The Joint Chiefs, collectively, were t...
as good as any on the Continent, but industrialisation and depopulation of the countryside combined to fracture culinary traditions, ushering in the Victorian Age of Indigestion, when quantity had to stand for quality. It was perhaps after the Second World War and on into the early 1960s, when...
On 14 January 1963, Colonel Hendrik van den Bergh was appointed head of the security branch of the South African Police. His orders were to reorganise the South African security establishment and it was he who created the first national intelligence service, originally known as Republican Intellige...