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Tag: Afghanistan

‘You Focus on the Golf Ball. Not on the Past or the Future.’

‘You Focus on the Golf Ball. Not on the Past or the Future.’

Health and Mediacal
HE WAS SOARING. Forty, fifty, sixty feet high. Capturing air was not a brand-new sensation for Jesse Williamson. He 'd felt it lot of times as a moto-cross racer, braaaping his motorcycle up a mound and soaring off a ramp. That sort of air felt great. This sensation was misery. It was a long method from the Cascade foothills of his home town of Monroe, Washington, to the top of a Humvee turret in Bakwa, Afghanistan, and on that day, August 6, 2009, he and his team were returning from a two-day objective supporting their sis squad, which had actually been assaulted by the Taliban. As they produced of a dry riverbed, the world unexpectedly turned orange and red. He has no memory of it, Williamson would later on find out that the blast introduced him high into the air and that he landed on hi...
Pentagon primary loses quote to decline 9/11 plea offers

Pentagon primary loses quote to decline 9/11 plea offers

General
WASHINGTON--A military appeals court has actually ruled versus Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to throw away the plea deals grabbed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 2 other accuseds in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. authorities stated. The choice returns on track the arrangements that would have the 3 males plead guilty to among the most dangerous attacks on the United States in exchange for being spared the possibility of the death sentence. The attacks by al-Qaida eliminated almost 3,000 individuals on Sept. 11, 2001, and assisted stimulate U.S. intrusions of Afghanistan and Iraq in what the George W. Bush administration called its war on fear. The military appeals court launched its judgment Monday night, according to the U.S. authorities, who was not licensed to go over the matter openly a...
How the Geography Now YouTube channel developed a travel encyclopedia of the world

How the Geography Now YouTube channel developed a travel encyclopedia of the world

Science and Nature
This post was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK)On 15 October 2014, Paul 'Barbs' Barbato published a video profiling Afghanistan on his YouTube channel, Geography Now. It was the 2nd upload on the page, published after a trailer teasing what was to come: an entry on every UN-recognised nation on the planet, launched in alphabetical order-- the very first such geographical encyclopaedia on social networks, to Paul's understanding. A years on and more than 3 million customers later on, he covered the task up in October 2024 with a profile on Zimbabwe. We speak with the host about his program, from the customers who added to its episodes to the power of social networks, and what's next.Where does your enthusiasm for travel originated from?I matured in a varied area in Chicago, aro...