Sentences with phrase «army bases named»

Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals?

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Thunderbird, which takes its name from its location on a deactivated Army Air Training base just outside Phoenix, was offering a global slant to business education when most deans didn't think international business was important.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

It was an emblem of the central place of Jesus when, under the terms of the Geneva Convention of 1864 for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick of Armies in the Field, the international organization created to carry out that moral imperative took the name «Red Cross Society»; its symbol, based on a reversal of the colors of the Swiss flag, is a red cross on a white background.

Cuomo, who has called for the re-naming of streets that are part of an Army base in New York City named for Confederate generals, said Columbus has a different meaning for Italian - Americans.

The soldiers who died on Saturday evening when gunmen opened fire outside the Massereene army base in County Antrim, 16 miles north of Belfast, were named as Sappers Cengiz Azimkar and Mark Quinsey.

The Crown Prince is hiding behind his small army of establishment surrogates who are sent out on a daily basis to call Crazy Carl nasty names.

hey my name's tiffany my dad was in the air force so I kinda love the military I'm half Japanese half white I live in Livingston Texas the closest army base is fort Polk last I love it their

Not far from the old seafarer's fortress, Beaufort, is a military base with the same name kept by the Israeli army.

The film project, based on the book The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner, is about an Army veteran named Roger Holder and girlfriend Cathy Kerkow hijacking a Western Airlines Flight in a protest against the war in Vietnam.

Dad's Army is a light - hearted comedy based on the sitcom of the same name from the 60s and 70s, and features an all - star cast, including Catherine Zeta - Jones, Bill Nighy, Toby Jones, Michael Gambon, and Blake Harrison, all of whom have proven time and time again that they can easily handle comedic acting.

Based on a true story as recounted in Eric Lomax's 1995 autobiography of the same name, The Railway Man relates of how British Army signal officer Lomax (Firth, The King's Speech) survived adverse conditions in a Japanese POW encampment in Thailand during World War II, including grueling cruelty and torture, and the PTSD would affect his outlook and demeanor nearly 40 years later.

The titular city is a mythical land based on feudal China, forever unnamed by its inhabitants, but named over and over by the armies that conquer it, only to lose it to the following army.

As a port of the DS game of the same name, awarded the IGN Strategy Game of the Year award in 2009, the main story takes place on a node - based board, but the real action unfolds on the battlefield where you and your army of creatures attempt to break through the enemy creatures and do damage to the enemy's end zone.

«A Shout Within a Storm» is titled after an essay written by Mexico's Subcomandante Marcos, the pen name of Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente of the Chiapas - based Zapatista National Liberation Army.

Personnel stationed at the Selfridge ANGM Air Force Base and the Detroit Arsenal Army Base, to name a few places, should definitely get quotes from USAA into their mix of companies.

For the families and service members at Schofield Barracks Army Base, Hickam Air Force Base, and Barking Sands Missile Range Navy Base - to name a few - USAA makes an excellent and affordable auto insurer to include when getting quotes.