Dan Van der Vat, The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill’s Greatest Failure. The sequel to The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914, which I read years ago and really like. Again Van der Vat is looking at how a single ship made a big difference. Rather than the formidable battlecruiser Goeben, we are looking at the lowly Turkish minelayer Nusret. On March 18, 1915, the mines it laid sank 3 allied battleships, and seriously damaged 3 others and a battlecruiser. This forced the allies to abandon their plan to force the Dardanelles open by naval power alone, which was not really a good idea in the first place. As a result the allies decided to land an invasion force on the Gallipoli peninsula, which was an even greater failure.
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Tag Archives: science fiction
Monday Night Irish Class, January 11, 2016
Irish Class, January 11, 2016
Rang Gaeilge, 11ú lá mí Eanáir 2016
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Seanfhocal
| Is beag an aibhleog a lasann tine mhór. | A small coal lights a big fire | |
| Is doimhin é poll an amhrais. | Deep is the hole of doubt. | |
Adjectives
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Cé acu Captaen spásloinge is glice, Kirk nó Picard? Tá Picard níos glice ná Kirk./Is glice Picard ná Kirk.
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Ainnmnigh fear atá níos deise ná Donald Trump? Tá Will níos deise ná Donald Trump.
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Cé acu beoir is áitiúla, Summit nó Guinness?
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Cé acu cathair is fairsinge, San Francisco nó Los Angeles
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Cé acu cathair is ísle, Denver nó Charleston
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Ainnmnigh scannán atá níos stairiúla ná Braveheart? Tá Apollo 13 ….
Nuacht ó na stáit
Tógadh níos mó ná céad mac léinn go dtí hospidéil mar réamhchúram ó scoil Horace Mann i ndiaidh fuarthas amach méideanna ard aonocsaíde carbóin. [IL]
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Tá crann Nollag na priomhchatrach saorga sa bhliain seo, agus tá sé ar taispeáint i Halla Cuimhneacháin. [ND]
D’oscail arís Roinn na leabhar annamha Leabharlainne Poiblí i ndiadh ráig múscáin. [MA]
An Fhondúireacht
NA SÍCEASTARAITHE
The way the future was
Beam me up Scotty
German scientists invent working teleporter, of sorts
An object at one end of the system is milled down layer-by-layer, creating a scan per layer which is then transmitted through an encrypted communication to a 3D printer. The printer then replicates the original object layer by layer, effectively teleporting an object from one place to another.
For those who remember Frank Herbert’s Dune
The virtues of old technology
Monday Night Irish Class, July 28, 2014
Irish Class, July 28, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, 28ú lá Mí na Iúil 2014
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Le Meas …
Part of our homework was to write “… a script for a short clip … to be used at a dating site! But it isn’t about you, pick a famous person, dead or alive.”
Here is my effort:
Dia dhuit! Inseoidh mé cupla rud fúm féin:
Is mise an captaen loinge réaltaí Enterprise.</i
- Is maith liom taiscéaladh domhan aisteach nua.
- Is maith liom cuardach saol nua.
- Is maith liom dul go dána go háiteanna atá ní fhaca aon duine sula.
- Is maith liom mná ó gach cine, daonna agus thar.
- Ní maith liom an Phríomhtreoir.
Monday Night Irish Class, July 14, 2014
Irish Class, July 14, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, 14ú lá Mí na Iúil 2014
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Labhair mé faoi Convergence
Convergence 2014 – General Notes
I did not preregister for Convergence this year, but did so at the door ($$), and am glad I did. Continue reading
Changing Times
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: US need not lose its edge in science … but if things continue as they have been the last couple decades, it will. This seems quite similar to the talk that Mia McDavid, Rachel Hadley and I heard him give in May
