It is written in the world history that Ferndinand Magellan circumnavigated the world, although he did not made his final westward voyage because he was killed in our country, the Phillpines.
Most of us new that he was killed by Lapu-Lapu but there's is no detailed accounts we knew how he died in the battle of Mactan. Continue reading>>>
Posted By : Rogel Magcalas 8/10/2009
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50 Years of Hovercraft
The vision of a British engineer in the 1950s, a friction-free means of transport on a cushion of air,
gives birth to a revolutionary invention
still in use around the globe. Take a look the series of photos of the craft.
Mekong Patrol-
The military quickly latched onto the troop landing potential of these amphibious crafts. The U.S. Navy used specially adapted Bell SK-5s, fitted with gun decks, to patrol the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War.
Posted By : Rogel Magcalas 7/27/2009
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Moon Landing- 40 Years Anniversary
July 20,1969 is the 40th year anniversary since man stepped on the moon. It was year 1980 my first day in school and I was 7yrs old when I heard for the first time that men already sat foot on the moon. I am only aware before that skylab is the only manmade object launch into the sky,the Skylab.
Posted By : Rogel Magcalas 7/19/2009
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Robert McNamara Dies: The Architect of Vietnam War
At the beginning of his professional career, he made a name for himself as the wunderkind who reformed the ailing Ford Motor Co. At the end, he tried to rehabilitate his reputation, as a do-gooder striving to save the globe's poorer nations as head of the World Bank.
But Robert McNamara, who died early Monday morning in his sleep at home at the age of 93 (his wife Diana told the Associated Press he had been in failing health for some time), will always be best known for his role as the architect of Washington's failed Vietnam policy in the 1960s.
