The Construction of a Yurt

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/yurt/

because the canvas is heavy.) This works best with 3 people -- two on the leading corners and one person inside the yurt with a pole (such as a spare rafter) to guide the center o

Naming the M113 after General James M. Gavin to honor the great human being who created it

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This was the first "heavy drop" of a platform-loaded artillery howitzer using a delayed opening, two-state cargo parachute system, which we take for granted today. Here the extrac

RTTY Teletype

http://radioblvd.com/rtty_teletype.htm

were generally robust, heavy and usually fairly large. All early machines required routine maintenance to keep them running reliably. All wire TTY setups employed polar relays to

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