and regenerate an important marine plant depends on animals to eat its seeds and poop them out around the ocean according to recent research.
and co-author of a study published recently in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. It's hard to understate the importance of eelgrass
and irradiated so that militaries can find more efficient ways to kill other human beings in the wars in
They often live in groups known as mobs troops or courts which can range in size from 10 to more than 100 kangaroos.
and there was a suggestion to develop a moose-mounted cavalry. Such proposals remained unimplemented mainly
and a brother named James. When George was only a few weeks old Confederate raiders invaded the farm kidnapping George his mother and sister.
There are two U s. military vessels named in his honor. There are also numerous scholarships and schools named for him.
We work with existing social structures 100 year-old missions a domestic violence shelter schools a veteran's organization
Thutmose I was a warrior king who launched successful campaigns into Nubia and Syria expanding the territory under Egyptian rule.
Like his predecessor he fought in Nubia. oethe Egyptian army continued to quell uprisings in Nubia
Others target military spending or federal boosts to individual industries such as winemakers or fruit-growers.
Geophysical tools have proven useful in several real human cases such as finding the so-called Disappeared people in Northern ireland thought to have been killed by The irish Republican Army.
its inhabitants it seems preferred to defend it with men rather than mortar. However within a few decades after a defeat against the Thebans at the Battle of leuctra the city found itself reduced to a oesecond-rate power a status from which it never recovered.
The prowess and fearlessness of Sparta's warriors has inspired the Western world for millennia and even in the 21st century has been incorporated into Hollywood films like 300
and the futuristic video game series Halo (where a group of super-soldiers are called oespartans). Yet the real-life story of the city is complicated more than popular mythology makes it out to be.
The incorporation of the people of Messenia into Sparta s slave population was important as it provided Sparta with oethe means to maintain the nearest thing to a standing army in Greece Kennell writes oeby freeing all its adult male citizens from the need
  oethe magistrates from time to time sent out into the country at large the most discreet of the young warriors equipped only with daggers
and raised in barracks beneath the eyes of older boys writes University of Virginia professor J. E. Lendon in his book Soldiers and Ghosts:
Ancient sources indicate that Leonidas started the battle with a few thousand troops (including 300 Spartans at its core.
and especially to the king that though he had plenty of combatants he had but very few warriors.
Many of the troops who were with Leonidas withdrew (possibly because the Spartan king ordered them to).
The Persian army proceeded south sacking Athens and threatening to break into the Peloponnese. A Greek naval victory at the Battle of Salamis halted this approach the Persian king Xerxes going home
and leaving an army behind that would later be destroyed. The Greeks led by the now dead Leonidas had prevailed.
when a man named Lysander was named commander of Sparta s navy. He sought out Persian financial support to help the Spartans build up their fleet.
which was of silver and gold wrote Xenophon (430-355 B c.).Translation by Carleton Brownson via Perseus Digital Library) With Persian financial support Lysander built up his navy
At Leuctra oefor reasons unclear the Spartans posted their cavalry in front of their phalanx. The Lacedaemonian cavalry was poor
because good Spartan warriors still insisted on serving as hoplites infantrymen...he writes. oethe Thebans by contrast had an old cavalry tradition
and their excellent horses much exercised in recent wars quickly routed the Spartan cavalry and drove them back into the phalanx confusing its order.
With confusion in the Spartan lines the slaughter was on. oecleombrotus fighting in the phalanx as Spartan kings did was struck down
and was carried dying out of the battle...Other leading Spartans were killed soon fighting as well writes Lendon.
 There were efforts to restore Sparta to its former military might. The Spartan kings Agis IV (244-241 B c.)and later Cleomenes III (235-221 B c.)brought in reforms that canceled debt redistributed land allowed foreigners
the first is that of Pausanias the general at Plataea the second is that of Leonidas.
Agricultural development including wild-harvesting in conflict areas like Mali is one of the best opportunities for employing would-be combatants strengthening household incomes and food security and stimulating sustainable economic growth in remote rural areas.
Fruit-fly Army Infiltrating California They're here! For the past several decades a stealthy foe has been secretly infiltrating California spreading far and wide.
Within a few weeks the fort had been attacked by a force of several hundred warriors from one of the aboriginal groups in the area.
With the growth of new settlements In virginia and the improving military situation of The english the original fort site became redundant.
They also found five churches (one replacing the other) row houses including a structure that appears to be the governor s house a blacksmith shop and barracks among other features.
 The remarkable thing about our study was that over a six-year period the same troops of ring-tailed lemurs used the same sleeping caves on a regular daily basis Sauther said.
His offense also violates the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 which makes it illegal to hunt
or get up close to manatees as well as all other marine mammals such as whales seals and walruses. These laws however have not prevented some recent close encounters in Florida perhaps due to a lack of awareness.
Cinco de Mayo which marks Mexican military victory over The french in 1862 is celebrated more widely in the U s. than it is in Mexico.
Gladiators of the Roman empire To find out she and her colleagues analyzed portions of bones from the femurs of 36 individuals from two Roman cemeteries.
U s. Marines were then called upon to help with oeoperation Volcano Buster by flying cargo helicopters to drop huge concrete blocks at the edge of the lava tunnel.
George Vancouver of The british Royal navy who named it in honor of Alleyne Fitzherbert The british Ambassador to Spain who also held the title Baron St helens. The volcano was relatively active in the early 19th century
In addition Congress approved $950 million in emergency funds to the Army Corps of Engineers FEMA and the Small Business Administration to help recovery efforts.
and Wildlife Service superintendent for the Papahä naumokuä kea Marine National monument which encompasses Midway Atoll NWR.
Linking these marine and land-based livelihood interventions is critical in a place experiencing so much pressure on its resource assets.
Victory in battle features prominently in these narratives with one example showing Louis with his army crossing the Rhine river in 1672. oehair streaming dressed in Roman style
which led to America getting critical support from The french military. Spawforth notes that Louis XVI would have one of his inventions a oefranklin chimney installed that produced less smoke than an ordinary fireplace.
Army field guides say drinking urine is a good survival tool when stranded in the wilderness.</
The machines can employ air cannons for launching trebuchets for flinging and a variety of torsion machines that propel pumpkins via the power of twisted cables basically anything that doesn't involved gunpowder said Grant Imahara co-host of a Science Channel special on the event which airs at 8 p m
The same strategy the military uses in its camouflage patterning the egg splotches disrupt its own outline with the colors
A warlord and nobleman who controlled a vast swath of Asia during the 14th century Timur (aka Tamerlane) was renowned as a military tactician
I. Within a matter of hours Adolf hitler's troops invaded Russia; an estimated 26 million people died as a result.
shortly thereafter the German army surrendered at Stalingrad ending their campaign against the Russians. French merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier according to legend stole a 115-carat blue diamond from the eye of a Hindu idol in India for this sacrilege Tavernier was mauled supposedly to death by dogs.
Did Native american leader Tecumseh curse William Henry Harrison after Harrison's troops emerged victorious at the Battle of Tippecanoe?
Meanwhile some people in China say the use of chopsticks over knives for eating there reflects the importance of scholars over warriors in Chinese culture.</
Children can send candies they have gathered to Operation Gratitude to be shipped to U S. soldiers overseas Mangieri said.
as if the same calories were in solid form says David Cummings associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington and the Veterans Affairs Puget sound Health care System.
A longstanding marine biology mantra holds that scholars should taste their species of study...or at least waste not want not.
#Super-Eruption Launched Algae Army Into the Sky Slimy brown algae not only survived a wild ride into the stratosphere via a volcanic ash cloud they landed on distant islands looking flawless a new study finds.
In the ancient Syrian city of Dura-Europos the remains of about 20 soldiers from A d. 256 were discovered by archaeologists in 1930.
Recent chemical analysis revealed these soldiers were killed probably not by swords or spears but by sulfur gases ignited by the invading Persian army.
The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments The use of poisonous gas and other chemical weapons was banned by the Geneva Protocol following World war i sometimes referred to as the chemists'war during
which chlorine gas tear gas (ethyl bromoacetate or chloroacetone) phosgene mustard gas and other chemical agents were used by both sides.
In January Wired reported that Syrian government troops had used Agent 15 on the rebels according to some U s. diplomats
and join their troop for a few days. This article originally appeared as The Adventures of a Professional Tree-Climber in the magazine Sierra.
The researchers hypothesized that the type of fat marine-derived might play a role. Since then study after study has confirmed that omega-3s in fish have a potent effect on reducing heart disease.
and warfare since World war i when Scandinavia deployed anthrax against the Imperial Russian Army. It was used also by The british army during WORLD WAR II to weaken German livestock.
More recently anthrax has been used in bioterrorism attacks in both Japan and the United states. In 1993 a religious cult in Japan deployed anthrax against civilians in Tokyo
Vodka's popularity spread with Russian soldiers during the Napoleonic wars After the Russian revolution one vodka maker relocated to Paris
because the National Marine Fisheries Service regulates shark fishing in U s. waters and has exclusive authority to say
and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on finning have developed cozy relationships with the industries they regulate.
and militarism anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney wrote in her book Kamikaze Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms:
A fallen cherry blossom symbolizes a fallen samurai who sacrificed his life for the emperor.
By the 1950s biologists had developed a special type of cannon-propelled net that allowed scientists to catch groups of wild turkeys more effectively to translocate them to new areas he added.
and the Solomon islands hitched a ride to Guam on military transport ships shortly after WORLD WAR II. Though poisonous the invasive specie's venom isn't lethal to humans.
In 2010 the USDA airdropped mice at military installations on the island according to CNN. com. That program's effectiveness led to the current airdrop program
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They interfere with playing sports social opportunities how well you sleep your relationships and your overall general happiness.''
I will not move my army without onions!##Ulysses s grant It's hard to imagine civilization without onions.#
Terracotta Warriors Inspired by Ancient greek Art The intrepid ancient shepherds of Central asia blazed trails that would expand into the economic highway of the ancient and medieval world.
#Lime Shortage Sours Cinco de Mayo Fiestas As people make plans to celebrate Cinco de Mayo the day an ill-equipped Mexican army repelled a much-larger force of French invaders in 1862
The 10 Fastest Military Airplanes We're flying with very high G forces at very high speeds and at very low altitudes.
Commonly called drones UAVS were once the domain of the military; now these devices show great promise in strengthening wildlife law enforcement.
and even served as mercenaries for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. They were united never politically as a single people
and the gestures of the naked warriors in front all in the prime of life and finely built men and all in the leading companies richly adorned with gold torques
#oein 278 B c. King Nicomedes I of Bithynia welcomed as allies 20000 European Celts veterans who had invaded successfully Macedonia two years earlier.
These warriors who called themselves the Galatai marched into northwestern Anatolia with 2000 baggage wagons and 10000 noncombatants:
The last line coincided nicely with my backhanding one of the soldiers in the jaw as his mace missed my shoulder in a failed downstroke.
The Army can tax the cow in my barn The Duchy can tax the rest of my farm The landlord taxes my own left arm...
if you think that you can#I let the dying man who'd been my shield slide down to the ground only to see another soldier with a crossbow raising it towards me.
And knives are good enough for a soldier's need perhaps but not good enough for a Knight's honor.
And though you may come to realize the grandeur of your problem here's a quote from Hawke's Green beret Survival Manual (which I am currently geeking out on) on the psychology of survival that
The model helps explain why most deep-sea marine life survived the mass extinction while surface dwellers disappeared from the fossil record the researchers said.
</p><p>A new levee proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers would change all that cutting off water from 75000 acres of wetlands.
This productivity was crucial for providing a consistent energy source for horses and livestock to support armies.
when as many as 95 percent of extant marine genera were wiped out by high carbon dioxide levels.
or more horses kept by every Mongol warrior. It must have created the ideal conditions for a charismatic leader to emerge out of the chaos develop an army
and concentrate power study researcher Amy Hessl who studies tree rings at West virginia University said in a statement.
and warm probably allowing for Genghis'initial military forays. Modern warnings The tree rings are less auspicious for modern Mongolia.
Most of the characteristics of today's world now appeared including centralized government and power military forces and warfare institutionalized religion patriarchy monetary systems poverty large-scale agriculture trade networks and empire.
It was found buried in tombs alongside warriors and priestesses and is now available at liquor stores across the United states thanks to a reconstruction effort by Patrick Mcgovern a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Delaware-based Dogfish Head Craft
The oldest sample came from a large jar buried with a male warrior in Denmark. The other three came from strainer cups used to serve wine found in Denmark and Sweden.
The oldest sample which was buried with a male warrior was an anomaly. The jug found in that grave contained only traces of honey suggesting that the occupant went to his grave with a jar of unadulterated mead.
Because the warrior had crafted well weapons in his tomb he was likely of high status. Pure mead was probably a drink for the elite
and they were the ones that would serve it to the warriors he said The imported wine strainer cups
and once it reaches FAS headquarters in Manaus Brazil can be grouped and analyzed using Google Fusion Tables Ribenboimsaid referring to Google's Web application for gathering visualizing and sharing data tables.
Hang around their dive headquarters at Mcmurdo Station and you ll see rows of oxygen tanks wetsuits and breathing apparatus;
This pledge is OSSI s equivalent of the idea that underpins the open source software movement in the form of the General Public Licence or GPL.
He made beautiful landscape photographs where WORLD WAR II ordnance had exploded but have since been reclaimed by nature. And I thought that was lovely
As flaming balls of lava and ash rain down on the streets of Pompeii the renegade gladiator Milo gallops on horseback after a chariot ridden by his beloved Cassia who has been kidnapped by an evil Roman senator.
See Clip from POMPEII Movie The film produced by Tristar Pictures tells the fictional story of a slave-turned-gladiator named Milo (played by Kit Harington) who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy merchant
and the character of an African gladiator was based on a cast of a large man who may have been from North africa.
and gladiator games were a big part of life. See Images from Pompeii Movie The filmmakers used lidar a laser remote-sensing technique to re-create the city's topography on the set.
The amphitheater where the film's gladiator scenes take place was also well done she said. The film departed from historical record in its depiction of women however.
The mystery of an ancient battle between two warring troops of elephants has been solved thanks to a modern genetic analysis of the lumbering beasts.
The matchup included tens of thousands of troops thousands of cavalry and dozens of war elephants on each side.
when it was hunted for food in 1951 by soldiers according to the IUCN. The name gazelle comes from the Arabic gazal the term for love poems.
The U s army once encouraged its soldiers to perform three daily S's two of which are shower and shave.
But it is latrine efficiency not long-term health that's the Army's top priority.
One study of 387 U s. Marines put protein supplements to test during basic training. At the end of 54 days the protein-supplemented group showed stronger immune systems with 33 percent fewer medical visits than the Marines given a placebo or a carbohydrate and fat supplement.
Marines taking the protein supplements also experienced less muscle soreness and had 28 percent fewer medical visits for muscle and joint problems.
The members of the group taking protein supplements were also less likely to visit doctors for infections during the study published in 2003 in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
Revered Chinese Warrior Guan Yu was a Chinese military general whose martial prowess was so great that after his death he was deified as a god.
Liu Bei s early military ventures did not go well. In A d. 200 Guan was captured by Cao Cao a military general who would go on to control a vast amount of territory in northern China.
His lands would eventually form the Kingdom of Wei. Cao Cao treated Guan well and made him a lieutenant general in his own army.
Still Guan regarded Liu Bei and Zhang Fei as brothers and he would not abandon them.
#Translation by Rafe de Crespigny published in 1969) To repay Cao Cao for the good way he had treated him Guan decided to kill a general named Yan Liang who served a man named Yuan Shao (a rival of Cao Cao.#
and broke through to Liang among ten thousand men of his army. He cut off Liang s head
and came back and no one in Shao s army could resist him#wrote Ssu-ma Kuang.
After the battle he fled Cao Cao s army to rejoin Liu Bei. Cao Cao was said to have been impressed
and martial prowess that he ordered his troops to let Guan Go over the next two decades Guan would work with Liu Bei in a series of military campaigns that would eventually lead to the foundation of the Kingdom of Shu.
During this battle Cao Cao s army pressing south tried to reunify China by destroying the forces of Liu Bei
As Liu Bei consolidated his position becoming the King of Shu Guan was promoted to the position of General of the Van#something that he was unhappy about
Around A d. 219 Guan led an army of Liu Bei s in attacking Fancheng a city held by Cao Cao.
He replaced the local general Lu Meng with a man whom Guan thought would pose no threat.
This led Guan to withdraw troops from his rear guard to support the siege. Sun also sent a letter to Cao Cao offering to launch a joint attack against Guan.
Meanwhile Lu attacked Guan s weak rearguard positions taking them out before a message could be sent to Guan.
While his rearguard positions were under attack Guan s siege of Fancheng faltered. A counterattack by Cao Cao s forces forced Guan to break it off.
Guan suddenly found himself commanding a weakened force trapped between two enemy armies those of Cao Cao and Sun Quan.
Lu Meng Sun Quan s general made Guan s situation worse by capturing the city of Jiangling
and made sure that Guan s army knew it.##oeall knew that their families had come to no harm
so Yu s soldiers became less interested in fighting#wrote Ssu-ma Kuang. This led to desertions shrinking Guan s forces even further.
Still Guan refused offers to surrender at one point pretending to surrender to Sun Quan s troops before running away.
Other Christian denominations have a small representation with Jehovah s witnesses being the largest contingent of Non-catholic Christians.
and barracks for sailors or military troops have been discovered near the Giza Pyramids. They were in use
The barracks are located at the city while a newly discovered basin that may be part of a harbor is located by the Khentkawes town.
A military presence Where there is a port there are sailors. At the city the archaeologists found evidence that a series of long buildings called galleries held troops who could have participated in voyages to the Levant and possibly guarded VIPS while at Giza.
These galleries were about 23 feet (7 meters) high and each set was at least 113 feet (34.5 meters) long north to south.
The Lost City of the Pyramid Builders What was all this cedar from the Levant doing in a common workers barracks?
In fact these troops are represented in the tombs of highly placed officials and in pyramid temples.
You have representations of these gangs these troops repeated over and over again he said adding that the word for them can be translated as escort or the following.
which is a unit these troops could be organized into Lehner said. I wonder if we are basically seeing barracks not of the workers
but of elite crews of ships Lehner said. A pharaoh named Sahure had images in his valley temple (part of his pyramid complex) of troops near the king's ship of state he noted.
Lehner's suspicions that the galleries were meant for troops were reinforced in 2012 when the archaeologists discovered a broken hippo hip.
In ancient Egypt hippos were considered nuisances as the animals ate crops at night. The young troops go out
and they harpoon them and spear them he told the Toronto audience. There's actually a ritual in
This ritual could have taken place at Giza at a public place such as the harbor the hippo meat (apparently quite tasty) being consumed afterwards by the troops in the galleries.
These troops didn't always get the best food. The hippo meat would have been a nice respite from their everyday diet.
The troops didn't get as much cattle or Nile perch which were considered the more desirable forms of meat and fish.
The BBC reports that storms have uncovered unexploded WORLD WAR II bombs on beaches with the Royal Navy's Southern Dive Unit responding to an emergency call almost every day
and others are shells from British military training. Meanwhile up North on the Isle of Man storms have scoured beaches
Groups of monkeys are called missions tribes troops or cartloads. A troop will work together to take care of the young monkeys in the group.
They also like to play cuddle and protect each other. The strongest and largest of the male monkeys is the leader of the troop.
In monkey genus groups that practice polygyny the leader will mate with multiple females. The gestation periods for monkeys vary depending on the genus. For example the gestation for a rhesus monkey is 164 days Baboons have a similar gestation period of around 187 days.
When a troop of howler monkeys yell they can be heard for up to three miles. Grinning or pulling the lip is a sign of aggression in monkeys
Two by two (the soldiers) skated over the ice with bows and arrows in their hands and shot one at the leather ball and the other at a kind of hat of leather also laid upon the ice at a little distance from the gate Houckgeest wrote in his journal.
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