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The antenna part of the AWACS, used to go by on a flatbed truck from Bethpage to US Navy Air field at Calverton (I assume it might have gone elsewhere like to then Suffolk County Air Force Military Reservation base at Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY) and appeared laughably like a flying saucer under the tarp. I lived mostly in the vicinity of MacArthur Airport nearby in Centereach on Route 25 (also named the Middle Country Road, [not the south or north both of which came first], also Jericho Turnpike). I once saw one of Gyrodyne's single pilot coaxial helicopters outside the compound flying over the potato fields that became suburban tract development nearby Stony Brook. The "Cradle of Aviation" its called, and a museum. I was sitting with the Grumman F-14 "Tomcat" test pilot when we announced we'd blow up all 80 of them in Iran, bought by the Shah, if the USSR invaded it. I still wonder if that F-102 Mass. Air Guard flying too low one 4th of July was President Bush...he did get out early to get a Harvard U. MBA.

I read or saw they're at the top of any operation, the radar and communications apex the "AWACS". And I don't know nothing about air crashes on Long Island, though my grandfather was a "tow" (and crash) boat operator at the Flushing Airport I think for Pan-Am "clippers" and once fished some B-24 crew out of it. He actually towed surplus PBY's the first commercial flights to Brazil, via Miami. Have you seen it on the FAA map? There's a crane in the runway and water everywhere, some think West Nile came from its abandonment.

Pensito Review » Dan Rather May Call Bush 41 and 43 to Testify in CBS Suit

As a fan of CBS news (a cousin produced both Democrat and Republican convention coverages for them in 1976, he earlier a director of NBC’s “Huntley and Brinkley” and a high school acquaintance is a “street reporter” for CBS in New York City) I think we should reflect on the lawsuit General Westmoreland filed for millions against the whole NBC network over an NBC news retrospective which alleged “body counts” were manipulated during the Vietnam War. He settled for an undisclosed amount. It is no coincidence, in my estimation that General Colin Powell a great American left the administration and his son, the former chief of the FCC also “left the building”. Now we have a Federal Censorship Commission, with new jacked-up fines and an apparent new imperious “bridge” taking the world admired American independence of news coverages perhaps into the iceberg of intolerance.

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/28/2007 | Congressman: State Dept. official threatened investigators

The Second Amendment guaranteed the right to bear arms in a state militia. At the time, stationed in the Bowery, were the National Guard defending the new republic, which again met there after 9/11/01. Why are "National Guards" (one in the Bowery called out in defense of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, where the Capitol Dome was being assembled and had been made cast in the Bronx for $1 million for President Lincoln) being used in Iraq when so few and so many in it never saw the Vietnam Conflict?

US Native American Day

Re: NEW OVERLAY at MTurk [Re: DemianC] #1013714 - 09/28/07 12:32 PM

I guess I would agree. The case of the Johnson's would be clear cut for example. They flew rickety airplanes 1000s of square miles over East Africa and Indonesia (where they were the first westerners to see orangutans, one, reported, fought for a backpack the other day, visiting with current Queen of England's mom I think then on safari), back in the early days of aviation (see "I Married Adventure" by Osa and Martin Johnson) and he perished in a commercial airline crash, which would be the cause. If they had crashed and walked away only to perish from some other danger it would not have been as a result of the crash, but other circumstances. Unless, somebody, knows more than they're saying (see "Evidence of missile launch on L.I. just several days before TWA 800 explosion" web page by John E. Fiorentino)

Google Earth Community: STEVE FOSSETT SEARCH--POST HERE

In the early 1980s I worked on a US Army Corps of Engineers proposed flood control study in suburban and urban New Jersey. It included 100 miles of the Passaic River and its tributaries which are still today a problem as development creates narrower and narrower channels closer to the previous wider outfalls (also industrial use of the rivers, etc.) Within it the area was divided into pixels of interest which translated into 600 feet by 900 feet (probably on a color monitor of 900x600 resolution) and each areas holding the potential for archaeological impact was translated onto aerial maps that had been traced onto paper 1"=200'. Some random areas were selected based on research of "high" "medium" and "low" probabilities for archaeological resources (historic and prehistoric) and were ranked based on research (paleo sites in New Jersey have only been found under at least 1 meter of river deposits) and a number were selected to test the method. My friend and I in Edgewater, NJ would take the corner coordinates and locate the to be shovel tested 600' x 900' rectangle on the landscape somewhere where we would go out and put at least four shovel tests into. As is was planned (or not) 50% of the selected test areas were underwater in flood when we went to test. Other areas had been developed so quickly the 16 month flyover was too old and areas thought wetland had been filled and built upon. This is amazing in that the data can be supplied so thoroughly in comparison and recent. I would suggest having worked in Idrisi and AutoCad using USGS data for the EPA and others, that some projective geometry be supplied to make these layers of information correspond thereby expediting evaluation of differences. I know this exists and I currently am assuming the difference in companies as the root problem.

New York Times (NYT) deserves criticism for MoveOn.org ad - BloggingStocks

1. Taco Bell took out a dated ad too: they tried to explain to the US it had just bought the Liberty Bell! I recall I was in Neptune, NJ (where Jack Nicholson is from) and well, April Fools! Gee I guess they had to spend a lot more for the ad. By the way they didn't buy the Liberty Bell...

I'm getting married in the morning...

Actually, my brother Thomas is getting married in Corrimony, Scotland on Wednesday.  He's wearing an Urquhart kilt and will be marrying a longtime friend with a piper and witnesses and a celebrant. I bought this tartan tie once in the "Blink Bonnie Enterprise" in Moultonboro, New Hampshire.  I've read in some places the Urquhart tartan is one or the oldest in Scotland.  Attached to the tie was a wee slip of paper which unfolded reads "The History of Urquhart" by Rodlinoch. (100% Pure New Wool Made in Scotland):

The Urquharts do not take their name, as is often supposed, from Castle Urquhart on Loch Ness but from the District of Urquhart near Cromarty.  Of this province of Cromarty they became Hereditary Sheriffs.

   In 1449, a Thomas Urquhart was Bishop of Ross.  Seven sons of Sir Thomas of Urquhart fell in the slaughter at Pinkie.  In 1585, the last Dean of Ross was an Urquhart.

   Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was one of the cavaliers who almost destroyed Inverness Castle.  He was a scholar, translated Rabelais and traced the line of the Family back to Adam and Eve.  One ancestor, he averred, had been born in The Ark. Getting into financial troubles, he sold the estates, which passed to the MacKenzies.

   The Headship of the Family went at one time to Urquhart of Muldrum and Byth in Aberdeenshire.

For a small charge to cover research, information on your Tartan connection and/or Highland dress may be obtained from The Scottish Tartans Society, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland (Registered Charity) July, 1975.

Once outlawed in the 18th century by royal decree, today there is celebrated a "Tartan Day" in New York City to celebrate Scottish heritage and contributions to America.

The Sir Thomas Urquhart, who sided with the crown during the English Civil War was in the Tower of London under Oliver Cromwell and may be where he started writing and translating Francois Rabelais, the French Renaissance writer. Currently there is a debate in London, England as to whether the uncontrolled "skyscraper" building near the Tower will detract from its historical significance and pedestrian view.  I submitted his imprisonment and translation as a reason to keep it on the skyline rather than big glass boxes.  I've read elsewhere that he also wrote in physics and linguistics (an artificial language, like modern Esperanto proposed) and was thought responsible for blowing up the castle at Loch Ness where Christian missionaries first recorded the sighting of the "monster".  He apparently traveled in Europe and Italy.  He died, consumed with laughter on hearing Charles II was restored to the throne the legend states perhaps in Italy.

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Woops...I missed September 19 (every year) "International Talk Like A Pirate Day" so here's the original site...X marks ye spot, matey! Ya' slack jawed sons of Davey Jones, 'ya to know that the Kidd's treasure, that rajas daughters dowry was dug up by the Crown from Gardiners Island and turned into a old sailors home in blimey blinking Blondon!

Where in the world is Mary FitzHerbert of Penalt, Wales?

Entered on behalf of Pat Piddock. I was eight years old when war was declared on the 3rd September 1939. I think as children this didn’t really mean much to us. However one of my many memories of these war years was when the men from Dunkirk were brought back to England. My home town was Folkstone, SE Kent. Hoards of ships and little boats went out from the Harbour to ferry our boys home. I lived near a large railway embankment which was our playing area and as the soldiers were taken from the ships and put onto trains in the harbour, their trains passed by this embankment and stopped. The mums, women and children were there with loads of food and hot drinks. The soldiers looked happy to be home and we all felt as if we were really helping. The soldiers in turn gave us children souvenirs, and I can remember having a chain with a charm of some sort on it, this I carried in my gas mask box right to the end of the war. Soon after this the Folkstone schools were evacuated to Wales. My brother and I were sent to a village called Penalt on the Wye-Valley near Monmouth, we were billeted with a couple called Herbert, there were eight other evacuees in the home which was called ‘Nodfa’. We had a very happy few years there and I’m still in contact with my best friend Phyllis after 60 years and have been back a few times to visit. About 3-4 years ago I was visiting the Penalt church and met, in a most remarkable way, the granddaughter of the Herberts. She never knew her Grandparents so I was able to tell her what wonderful people they were, and that no one has ever made a fruit cake like her grandma! © Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this. I found this on the BBC site 9/11/07 or 11/9/07 as they say there, looking for info on Penalt, Wales, (Britain dials 999 in an emergency). Mary FitzHerbert of Penalt and Uruguay and I attended Stony Brook University, and both graduated in 1978 in Anthropology and we worked and site or sight-saw our way to Mississippi in 1979, there to work in archaeology of the Tenn-Tombigbee Barge Canal. She had been married to an Iberia airline pilot and last I heard moved back to Hillside Farm to take care of her elderly mum in Penalt, a very interesting place I've "visited" online to see the railways and such. Hello Mary! One of her sons worked for Dole, Inc. in the Philippines and she flew there to see him married in a church with an all bamboo pipe-organ, said the only one in the world.

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Yes by base imagery I meant the older September stuff. I worked in close-range photogrammetry by Rollei a number of years ago in archaeology in EPA HAZMAT sites and others and I'm a little disturbed by the apparent distortion and lack of correspondence of the two sets of imageries in some places and not in others, making it hard to "flip" the old and new to see differences as noted elswhere here ( Andres in web page ) used in astronomy as a "blink comparator". Then Rolleimetric stuff being developed for AutoCad by Prometric Technologies now of Markham, Ontario. Used in on-scene car accident research recording in England I've read. I used it to record the West Point Foundry archaeology in Cold Spring, NY primarily 1989-1992. It was then known as MR2. It was taken up when the Canadians were drubbed for a US crash in Gander, Newfoundland not recorded before the blizzard set in. Can be done from helicopter flyby with and integrated with ground photos. Taught to me while Avianca 52 crashed "nearby" Cove Neck, Long Island, NY, running on empty due to communication breakdown. Schneider Optics there was a source for close-range photogrammetry. (Long Island) Google Earth Community: STEVE FOSSETT SEARCH-->POST HERE Update: New satellite to sharpen Google Earth Reuters By Andrea Shalal-Esa Fri Sep 14, 2:58 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Inc's (GOOG.O) interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive. The new spacecraft, dubbed WorldView I, is to be launched on Tuesday...

I have been busy with this a few days...

Steve Fossett Missing: Help find him by searching satellite imagery Amazon Mechanical Turk Interesting Baghdad blog...Baghdad Observer  at McClatchy Newspapers

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Comment on "Japanese Wooden Boats in Woodblock Prints A Research Project Journal"

Folks:

Graduate student Michelle Damian has posted video clips of her visit with Japanese Shipwright Mr. Kanji Mitsumori as part of her seventh project journal entry. Through the journal Michelle shares her experiences while conducting her MA research on Japanese wooden boats. This includes a variety of activities from studying woodblock prints to travel to Japan. She writes about the importance of woodblock prints, museum exhibits, and intensive study of classical Japanese language texts. You can read her latest entry and view the video clips by clicking on “Research” in the left hand menu of her journal found here:

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/project_journals/aj/aj_intro.shtml

We hope you enjoy this inside view of one woman’s academic travels as she seeks to learn about Japanese boat building techniques rarely studied in the west.

Best regards,

T Kurt Knoerl Director The Museum of Underwater Archaeology

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I have enjoyed your journey and postings on such a difficult topic. My grandfather, though he fought in four wars starting in the Canadian Black Watch as a youth in Canada as a resident of Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, the highest tides in the world nearby, where I once picked dulse at the right Moon tide there for harvesting, and he as a citizen of the US in then in Merchant Marine, Murmansk, Russia lend-lease runs and later aboard the USS Buckner (what the US called the bay in Japan it first occupied in WWII, also one of the camps at West Point Military Academy, also there another camp the 10th Mountain Division. I was on the preliminary archaeological survey of Fort Drum, NY back in 1983, where the 10th Mountain Division moved to from Camp Hale in Colorado now its "permanent" cantonment near Watertown, NY.) always thought well of Japanese people, their craftsmanship and culture. As did my father who stressed the success of Army Japanese Americans who were highly decorated for their bravery fighting in Europe, he had served in Italy.

My grandfather's brother Leman Chapman Urquhart, a Savannah harbor pilot, put in charge as captain of the "SS City of Atlanta" in January 1942 after the Dec. 7, 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor (which I read recently 25% of our casualties there were from our own falling munitions after fired up into the air) in New York City after the Nazi's also declared war, was torpedoed off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina by U-123 with a loss of 43 he among them though, only two survivors. The Captain of the U-boat was interviewed by a high school associate, an investigative television reporter in NY for CBS, Lou Young. There is an interesting book "Operation Drumbeat" by scholar Michael Gannon about the "Battle of the Atlantic" though they misspelled his name. Savannah lines made regular runs from Manhattan, NY to Savannah. I once mistakenly queried the National Archives after the S.S. City of Savannah, which they told me they stopped a "German raider" off our coast and took over 240 POW's. A renamed "Q-ship" no doubt disguised as an unarmed vessel.

What reminded me, or motivated me to write was the 1981 meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology December meetings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which I drove to and back in an ice storm too after locating a buried circa 1730s ship hulk in the landfill of Manhattan in the last back-hoe test allowed. It became known after the site developer for the consortium of British banks that became National Westminster Bank since absorbed and renamed, the "Ronson" ship. I photographed a number of pieces of the ship in a wet lab against a 2" grid, for Warren Reise and Shelly Smith. The whole thing was done by March 6 and taken to landfill on Staten Island. The point is in the museum there in Philadelphia was an excellent documentary of the making of the samurai sword by traditional methods. Which reminds me of another enigma, that the Dutch and Portuguese had been in Japan very early and a circular blade guard was found on another site the early reputed "Augustine Heerman's Warehouse" site between Whitehall, Pearl, Bridge and Broad Streets, in lower Manhattan, where Paul Revere's grandfather also once lived, excavated also in the winter after the "175 Water Street" site the "Ronson Ship" was found in by me and African-American Bert Herbert with the back-hoe operator Fred, once a West Point Academy MP during WWII whose unit he was picked out of for height did not survive the war. It might be that the unprovenienced blade guard had its origin in Japan, Augustine Heerman ambassador and glass trader from the Catholic colony of Maryland. I read recently all those artifacts have gone to the State Museums in Albany, NY where they'll hire three people to process them from the various sites from lower Manhattan once stored at the South Street Seaport Museum which no longer had the room or funds for them it said.

I particular liked the video of the "pull saw" which my grandfather Lawrence G. Urquhart often tried to explain to us. He had a small Japanese Buddha and two Yuzen prints of tigers on silk one the male at night under the moon and the other nursing the "kittens" under the "bushes".

TWA Flight 800 Redux

September 1, 2007

Evidence of missile launch on L.I. just several days before TWA 800 explosion

By John E. Fiorentino

"Recent documents uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) indicate that there was a possible missile launch into the skies of Long Island, N.Y., just several days before TWA Flight 800 exploded in midair on July 17, 1996."

September 2, 2007

TWA Flight 800 – The Incredible “Zoom-Climb”

About John Fiorentino

Author, Independent Researcher and Legal Investigator. Founder of Fiorentino Research. A unique investigative research service for business, government, the legal profession and the public at large.

"The purpose of this article is not to discuss or re-hash the various theories proposed by many as they relate to TWA Flight 800’s demise. Nor is it simply meant as a criticism in total of the official government explanation for the disaster. Rather, it is an expose of but one component of the official version of events, which has been looked upon with much disdain by many members of the scientific and aviation communities."

The day before the crash on Long Island, the island cable station ran the complete Canadian television series on modern forensic investigations back to back. It was narrated by the "Star Wars" "Luke Skywalker" actor,  Mark Hamill (among a gazillion roles) or at least I thought it was him and watched it for hours.

Matt Lauer, Greenwich H.S., CT alumnus is in Tehran, Iran

MSN "Ask Matt Lauer" for 9/13/07

The former Grumman F-14 test pilot, Tom Gwynne at the "Cradle of Aviation" museum on Long Island, reported we had sold 80 F-14's to the Shah, which as I recall TV reported we would blow-up if the USSR moved to invade Iran (in the student started "hostage crisis", Savak was spying in the US on Iranian students they allege) as the air-to-air missile technology was top secret. I was at his house for this, a belayed birthday. Are F-14's (the only country ever sold them) still flying in Iran?

My Response to Rudy Giuliani's Attacks

Comment on: My Response to Rudy Giuliani's Attacks Robert Greenwald at Huffington Post He's done a few things that have pushed the envelope of government secrecy: 1) He would not allow the State Comptroller to review the city books for expenditures stating the comptroller was a candidate for Governor and the request political. 2) He would not allow the historians to look at the papers generated while he was mayor, moved to a warehouse, though technically they belong to the citizens of New York. 3) He had the state flag of Arkansas flown over City Hall while visiting there, considering a run against now Senator Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady. City Council passed a law forbidding the act in the future. 4) Under his administration, in 1999, City Hall Park was upgraded with electric bollards and a higher fence cemented into stone. I worked on the "First Almshouse" cemetery there in the park and he came out to visit a few times, which I think was a perfect "news black out" unlike other civic center human remains found that make national news. During that time there were demonstrations by city employees in unions and against the bombings in Europe. Outlines of other buildings that had been there were being outlined in darker plaza stone, i.e., the jail "blacker than any black hole of Calcutta" (NY Times 1903) where Ethan Allen is said to have been tortured, the British Army barracks, and other structures once on the City Commons historic district, now with the new adjacent National Monument the African Burial Ground on the next block. In the remodeling, the statue representing patriot Nathan Hale, whose "regret for only having one life to lose for his country" has become famous, was moved to the front of City Hall Park where once it had been near the corner of Broadway and Chambers streets. 5) I read his company was in charge of the multi-million dollar cleanup of the US Post Office from anthrax (non-weapon grade) attacks on the US, which has yet to be solved. posted 09/08/2007 at 13:26:04

Lafayette Is Not Here - September 6, 2007 - The New York Sun

Here in New York we were to be "divided and conquered" using the Hudson River to separate the colonies into north and south and thereby the American Revolution was to be put down. George Washington as America's general lost the "Battle of Long Island" the first major battle and barely escaped to what today is Westchester county, he and the troops narrowly escaped, their retreat defended by John Glover during the Battle of Pell's Point in the American Revolutionary War in the Bronx in NYC. The USS Glover was the only turbine driven ship in the US Navy, commemorating John Glover's Marblehead, Massachusetts heritage. A series of "Great Chains" were stretched across the Hudson River to stop the advance of the British Navy. Those were defeated by Admiral Cornwallis and many battles ensued in the south Hudson Valley. Admiral Cornwallis had also been ordered to sail up the Bronx River by King George (who may have been poisoned from the wig of the Admiral Cornwallis according to some recent forensic analysis, see herein Admiral Cornwallis and the Bronx River (Oct. 10, 2004): "For 'arsenic and old lace' one might look at this interesting scientific analysis of King George and Admiral Cornwallis' wig [or was] at Scientifics"). To defeat the rebels at White Plains, an impossible task, except perhaps in a canoe. General Washington and his troops on the east shore of the Hudson River were joined by 6000+ French troops who had disembarked at Providence, Rhode Island and marched across New England. The various state historic preservation offices involved have been searching for some of the encampments that had to have been created en route. Here its thought, they may have convinced General Washington to not invade New York City, where many were in and had died in dis-masted prison ships in the harbors, and to join the combined French fleet to arrive off of Virginia. According to Barbara Tuchman ("The First Salute") General Washington observed the combined troops crossing from a tall wooden tower above the bank of the Hudson River, so any advancing troops in ships or boats from the British held New York City, could be seen. I have seen other "evidence" of Washington's use of towers elsewhere in the New York region, perhaps, where information could be gathered, i.e., the former Valentine House now under the grounds of St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY where one could see from an elevated vantage point, both the Hudson River and the Long Island Sound. The US National Trust headquarters at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, NY has two white busts on exhibit, one of George Washington and the other of Gilbert de Mortier, formerly the Marquis de Lafayette (until 1790, when he renounced any royal title). He revisited the United States in 1834, receiving honorary citizenship, commemorated in some of the ceramic dinnerware of the time I've cataloged from the archaeology of the South Street Seaport in New York City.

Brian Williams: Remembering The News - Media on The Huffington Post

I enjoyed your "Lincoln Logs" (hot dogs split on bread) over at "Slate" and I'm not too sure what that guy is doing across the way at 30 Rock either, (too far to be a lip reader?) but you'd think the atomic clocks on the wall would at least be in sync. (New GPS orders?) I wish in hindsight that the US would have consulted further with people who I knew know more, but were not. Let me give you an example. MacArthur fellowship receiver Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D., an archaeologist who has studied women's roles in the ancient "fertile crescent" with whom I studied ancient history and "Nuzi" a site excavated by Dr. Starr from Harvard University in the 1930s, near Kirkuk and the oil fields of Mosul, Iraq (or in Spanish Irak). She instead of perhaps, had the antiquities there to help Iraqis, after the invasion sort back into pre-Saddam ideology, instead must help trace the theft of antiquities from the museum of what historians have taught to be the origin of western civilization, though Iraq is listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica as in "south-west Asia". Other social anthropologists have studied the Kurds who are in the millions as people with a shared culture in what today has become what five countries? (after the USSR dissolved) and others who have spent time living and studying in those areas of the world could have been at least somehow involved in the current administration and shown to be involved. I think if the US government had, in the spirit of the Peace Corps or Veterans For Peace, it perhaps may have also kept the Republican Guard there in Iraq in uniform and gainfully employed. Instead we have maybe let in the other dangerously re-occurring event of western civilization, the civil war. Brian Williams: Remembering The News - Media on The Huffington Post

Arianna Huffington: In the Age of Terror, Isn't Busting Toe-Tappers an Insane Use of Our Law Enforcement Resources? - Politics on The Huffington Post

I agree that this is a misplaced charge, like being "in concert" with someone in the same car at a border crossing with pot in his or her pants after a seed mysteriously appears in the agents fingers from the seat "crack" of the vehicle and everyone is strip searched. What had the Senator actually done? He was in a situation that leaves no choice in review but an assumption of cause, effect and outcome without any objective evidence of wrongdoing. Through his quick "due process" admission we can all say "guilty" however I would rather we had Scots law in the USA, where a decision "not proven" is allowed in the courts. Arianna Huffington: In the Age of Terror, Isn't Busting Toe-Tappers an Insane Use of Our Law Enforcement Resources? - Politics on The Huffington Post

Smokehouses, Seal Cove, New Brunswick

Abandoned Smokehouses in Seal Cove, Grand Manan Island. Unfortunately, the industry decided to move off of the island, so all that remains are the abandoned buildings. Tracey Conley, Hamilton, Ont.

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Man who rescued JFK finally honoured

An elderly Solomon Islander who changed world history 64 years ago has this week finally been honoured.

New Zealand's source for World News on Stuff.co.nz - Printable

Princess Diana ...on 60 Minutes; Exclusive Video Only on Yahoo! News

Now we hear on the TV that it took two hours to get her to the hospital and emergency medical procedures have been changed in France since. The attending physician found her agitated and did not know how much bleeding was going on internally. Agitated she was prescribed two sedatives which then caused a dangerously low blood pressure and then it became necessary not to move her until there was change apparently in her blood pressure. We also heard Geraldo Rivera the other day say something like, Princess Diana was 9 weeks pregnant but had only met Doty Fayed 6 weeks before which may have also complicated the diagnosis. As a child I attended the poorest parish in NYC, St. Rita's, on College Ave. (btwn. 145th and 146th streets) and I recall her and Mother Teresa meeting nearby. Princess Diana ...on 60 Minutes; Exclusive Video Only on Yahoo! News

House moving response on histarch

There's a whole "town" from the pre-Civil War 19th century on Long Island in Bethpage, NY called "Old Bethpage Village" composed almost entirely of houses moved there from around Long Island (Ed. - some, must be seeing a B-24, B-17, and a P-51 Mustang landings yesterday "next door" at Republic Airport (lots a backfires) and the ivy rash and spider bites digging there in the new tenacious vines.) They have some interesting "re-enactments" (summer horse racing) and other events there and an air-conditioned vistors center. I recall the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's baby rocker there in one of the small houses... Nearby the Grumman Co. started as a small machine shop in the "cradle of aviation" and went on to build the Lunar Excursion Module, from pieces manufactured in small machine shops all over Long Island I was told by one of its organizers, so no one had the "big picture" until after final assembly. They recently joined with Northrup and while shovel testing "out east" saw the last two F-14s fly they had built. Eighty (80) had been delivered to Iran, purchased by the Shah, and over 4000 Grumman employees were once in Iran outside "Teheran" (old spelling?) training their air force to be ready "Anytime, baby" (from their shoulder patch). Grumman was once the single largest employer on Long Island, about 25,000. Some house moving, huh? To the Moon... Sorry I mis-wrote, some of the houses at Old Bethpage Village have been moved there now that I think about it. It was once proposed by Huntington Town Historian, Rufus Langhans, that many of the older structures could be moved there he said. He had published the Huntington town records from what was known on maps as "Ashford" in the time of Oliver Cromwell, (I suspect a duality for many other places) that had never been sent as a matter of record to the then (and now) county seat in Riverhead, NY. Perhaps a struggle between locations the backdrop to where Connecticut's patriot son, Nathan Hale, was thought brought before the young commander of Long Island, the Queens Rangers' Benjamin Thompson (also cited as "gay" online, later known as the physicist Count Rumford) at Fort Golgotha in Huntington's cemetery, before transported to New York City hung and buried at as a yet verified location. A statue of him who regretted he "had but one life to lose for his country" has been moved to the front of the New York City Hall. Though in the 20th century I thought I'd add that some buildings are sold off from Federal property apparently. One in Setauket, NY was transported from the former Camp Upton, Yaphank ("Yip, yip, Yaphank" the Irving Berlin WWI song, film records troops practicing with brooms, no weapons supplied) today the site of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. I'm not sure if it was a barracks or other building from the times. It's sort of behind the Captain Brewster Hawkins House, the shipbuilder of record of "Wanderer" the "last slaver" though not its owner when involved in the British blockade running off of Africa there though reported boarded by the British Navy. I was told a half dozen or so were auctioned off? It's on Hawkins Ave., off the Shore Road (which Captain Brewster Hawkins had to make wide enough for two carriages to pass in order to build a dock according to the Town of Brookhaven records), in the Town of Brookhaven Historic District in East Setauket (one of the first town designations I believe, nearby Stony Brook village preservation "defended" by shoe heir Ward Melville in the early 1960s before the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, its first president, Benjamin Franklin). It is or was the fourth house in on south side of the "dead end"?