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Interesting assignment. However I would be very cautious of anyone asking for a non fiction novel since a novel is a invented (i.e. fiction) prose narrative see the Encyclopedia Brittanica. You would think a teacher of English would be aware of what they are actually asking for. I don't know...

Actually George, I have seen how hot dogs are made and the thing that struck me most about it was the last time I had seen some of the machines, they were 1000 meters unground crushing rocks in an uraninum mine.  They were being used to crush frozen blocks of meat.  Another thing I noticed was...

Actually there are a few second showing it moving on it's tracks in the lab

I wondered that myself until I remembered U comes before V in the alphabet. But it is pretty isn't it?

Careful your revealing two Sweden's secret weapons, ABBA  and SAAB cars with cannons, wait isn't that the Viggen?  Remember OPSEC

Oh but they did, the first radio bit regarding the incident I heard, said HMCS Winnipeg colided with an American fishing trawler in the Straits. This caused me to think the vessels were under way and HMCS Winnipeg hit the trawler. It was just a short announcement but without any detail eg...

Daniel for 1900 - 1930  Try 1918 when the Canadians along with the British and Americans and Japanese occupied places in Russia in order to repossess weapons and supplies sold by the Allies to Czarist Russia. It may not be classic peacekeeping but it certainly had elements of it.  As you...

I remember waking up to the CBC saying a Canadian Observer was aboard a helicopter which had been shot down by the VC for flying over one of their base camps. I don't know if the chopper had actually overflown the camp all I knew was a respected friend was gone. He was Charley LaViolette of the...

Actually what the OP was referring to was The Holocaust which refers to the attempted genocide by the Nazis of the Jewish people.  While Stalin's purges etc may have been holocausts they are not The Holocaust, that specifically refers to the Nazis and Jews.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. You're right politics are bloody but you are forgetting WWII was a world war with global consequences.  The Nazi regime was based upon the hatred and despair created as a result of WWI. The Nazis can be defined as a cancer in the world body politic.  They had...

Theres no harden the f#^* up needed. Did you not see what the video showed?  The man, after being sprayed with something like pepper spray, worked thru it's effect on him and he completed the exercise.  He didn't quit, he completed the drill. Now some questions for you, what were the trainers...

Of course not unless you considered misguided Infanteers, aka crunchies, as part of the many? FYI when Radley Waters was commissioned in The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment, they were Infantry, they only became armour when the CASF decided they needed more armoured regiments to provide proper...

Are you sure you weren't Col. John Masters of the Gurkhas in a previous incarnation. He makes the same sort of observations in his memoirs Bugles and a Tiger in the morning, and Beyond Mandaly. He makes the point that respect is all important. That if you respect your troops culture and honour...

Very interesting.  It all depends on your definition of people. Who ever created these artificats, they were not homo sapiens, 300 million years ago was well before homo sapiens or any of our mammal ancestors. It would be fascinating to learn how these metal artificats became embedded in...

This is an interesting story but I suspect we're not getting the entire story. How many of you noticed the line in the article, that she was a factory worker and the noise occurred after she had worked four days of 12 hours.  Quite frankly if I was working 4 day weeks of 12 hours each in a...

No not a national holiday,  I prefer it the way it is when the observers have to make a personal effort to remeber.  On Remeberence Day,  I like the way some drivers pull over to the side and just stop for two minutes as a mark of respect.  The world may be asking us to keep going and rush rush...

Interesting photos but my first reaction was not the Avro Arrow but rather the North Americian Vigilantee. When you read farther in the thread you see that There are others who thought it's design influenced the desugn of the Vigilantee. Beautiful aircraft, but I can't see any of them in a...

There is oil up there, but you did miss at least 1 item from your list i.e. people.  The forces seem to fly quite a few SAR missions for missing lost snowmobilors. Also there is more than 1 diamond mine up there. At the current rate of ice melting there will soon be an open water summertime...

No offense but why should this be limited to the RCAF, if ultralights can help Recce elements avoid IEDs and Ambushes, shouldn't they be integral to the Army unit? They won't require large support facilities, should be capable of flying and landing on a dirt road. Let the air and ground crews...

Looking at the Bushcaddy sport I was interested by the possibility of buying a kit for around 25,000$.  I was just thinking how nice it would be for a Reserve unit to be bought the kit and have them assemble it. I suspect it would be great for the unit's morale and the ground and air crew would...