Singer was born in Poland in On October 5, , a British dirigible crashes in Beauvais, France, killing all but seven people onboard. In the s, the major European nations competed with each other to build Eugene Hasenfus is captured by troops of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua after the plane in which he is flying is shot down; two others on the plane die in the crash. Under questioning, Hasenfus confessed that he was shipping military supplies into Nicaragua for use by the On October 5, , a young Italian car mechanic and engineer named Enzo Ferrari takes part in his first car race, a hill climb in Parma, Italy.
He finished fourth. Ferrari was a good driver, but not a great one: In all, he won just 13 of the 47 races he entered. Many people say Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. War of Native American History. Sign Up. He enlisted in the U. Navy when he was 17 in He served aboard the aircraft carrier U. Saugus at the U. He went on to do security work as a Defense Department civilian while working part-time as a freelance writer. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website.
You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo. And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime aol. Admiral: Networked Threats Pose 'Significant These postponed maintenance activities have to happen sometime.
To optimize survival, the organism schedules a time for them when it will be safest, which includes finding a protected place to be and initiating all maintenance activities in parallel to get them out of the way.
This leads to the temporal synchronization of all postponed maintenance activities. They further encourage all postponed internal maintenance activities to be synchronized and performed in parallel—in other words, sleep. Given the different day versus night ecosystems, it is natural that animals that have a survival edge during one phase of the hour cycle would use the other phase for sleeping.
Origin: Bitter has been an adjective meaning acrid or sour tasting since the year AD at least. The word was in common use in the Middle Ages and Shakespeare uses it numerous times in his plays and poems, as do many other dramatists. The phrase 'the bitter end' would seem, fairly obviously, to come directly from that meaning.
But not so fast. Enter, stage left, Captain Smith. Here's what he has to say, in his publication Seaman's Grammar, , which is the earliest citation of the phrase in print:. And the Bitters end is that part of the Cable doth stay within boord. As you might have deduced, a bitt is a post fastened in the deck of a ship, for fastening cables and ropes. When a rope is played out to the bitter end, it means there is no more rope to be used. But again, not so fast. Folk etymologists are those who say something is true with no more justification than that they would like it to be true.
They are thickest on the ground in the area of military and especially naval attributions. People seem to love a sailor's yarn, and anything with a whiff of the sea is seized on with enthusiasm. We like to be definitive and, although the naval origin does seem to have a good case, it isn't conclusive. This time we'll sit on the fence and let you decide. MAA: Master-at-Arms. A rate in the Navy similar in duties to a police officer.
Named for the Magnetic Anomaly Detector that sticks out from the tail of the aircraft.
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