Britain, Belgium, Denmark to Join US Airstrikes
Britain, Belgium, and Denmark have each announced their intentions to join the US air war in Iraq today, with the British and Belgian parliaments both voting in favor of conducting airstrikes, and the Danish government announcing it, with a parliamentary vote still pending. Britain’s vote came after ...
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Species Identification of Archaeological Skin Objects from Danish Bogs: Comparison between Mass Spectrometry-Based Peptide Sequencing and Microscopy-Based Methods
by Luise Ørsted Brandt, Anne Lisbeth Schmidt, Ulla Mannering, Mathilde Sarret, Christian D. Kelstrup, Jesper V. Olsen, Enrico Cappellini Denmark has an extraordinarily large and well-preserved collection of archaeological skin garments found in peat bogs, dated to approximately 920 BC – AD 775. Thes ...
Britain, Denmark & Belgium To Join The Air War Against ISIS
British Parliament voted overwhelmingly today to join the coalition of US, France and Arab states that are flying attack missions over Iraq and Syria to combat ISIS. In addition, Belgium and Denmark will be sending F-16MLUs to the fight. All are said to be fully aware that the mission to shatter ISI ...
Great Britain Recreated in Minecraft: Brickish Isles
A few months ago, we found out about the official Minecraft replica of Denmark. It turns out that there’s one for Great Britain too. Joseph Braybrook made GB Minecraft 2 late last year when he was still an intern at the Ordnance Survey. Now employed at the mapping authority, Joseph recently updated ...
The Quota House / Pluskontoret Arkitekter
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Large crowds for iPhone 6/Plus as Apple expands into over 20 new countries
> “Apple’s iPhone 6 launch maybe be its queueiest yet, according to droves of fans lining up around the world for round two of the new device’s global debut,” Darrell Etherington reports for TechCrunch. “Today, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus went on sale in over 20 new countries, including Austria, Belgium ...
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Earlier this afternoon, the U.K. Parliament authorized British airstrikes in Iraq against ISIS by a vote of 524-43. Earlier reports noted that British operations could begin as early as this weekend. The Brits are not the only country signing up for action: so too are the Danes. Earlier this morning ...
Britain votes to join US-led air strikes against jihadists
London (AFP) – British lawmakers on Friday voted overwhelmingly to join anti-jihadist air strikes in Iraq as US-led raids in Syria disrupted the Islamic State group’s lucrative oil-pumping operations. The House of Commons voted by a majority of 524 to 43 after the main political parties all approved ...
U.S. military official: air strikes disrupted Islamic State's abilities in Syria
U.S. military official: air strikes disrupted Islamic State's abilities in Syria France was the first European country to respond, on Sept. 19, but since Monday, Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark have announced they would dispatch warplanes. Cameron was careful to secure cross-party su ...
Britain, Denmark and Belgium join air campaign against Islamic State in Iraq
Ankara says the number of Syrians fleeing the fighting with Islamic State militants in the border town of Kobane has topped 160,000, as they stream into neighboring Turkey. (Reuters) By Griff Witte and Rebecca Collard September 26 at 4:50 PM Follow @ ...
Factbox - Denmark, Britain join U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State
(Reuters) - Denmark announced on Friday it will send seven F-16 fighter jets to take part in a U.S.-led military coalition attacking Islamic State militants in Iraq, and parliament in Britain approved British participation. Danish and British jets will ...
US praises Britain, Belgium and Denmark for agreeing to fight IS
Washington (AFP) - The White House on Friday praised allies Britain, Denmark and Belgium for joining the military coalition battling the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq. "We certainly welcome the recent vote that occurred in the British parliament," White ...
