Power-One A.S.

Close call on Christmas Day: in villages leading into Bastogne, two American battalions stave off a massive panzer assault.(Battle of the Bulge, 1944-1945)(Event overview)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 3789 words; ...to puncture the 101st's western defenses at two...eastern sides of the 101st's perimeter, he reasoned...entire division of combat power against two American battalions...a ratio of three men to one in favor of the attacker...decide not just Bastogne's fate, but the fate of...

Channel Wing's noise pollution.(MAILBAG)(Letter to the editor)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 426 words; ...others have covered Custer's successes and made conjectures...failure, I think there's another reason it failed...throttle but at a fairly high power setting--with the props...as I recall. If there's any test flight documentation still extant, perhaps one of your readers can corroborate...

A day to visit Hereford.(City overview)
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 1661 words; ...OMITTED] Herefordshire's county town adds an agreeable...of the Wye Valley, it's also a manageable drive...town snugly embedded in one of England's least spoilt rural counties...King John to curb royal powers. You may want to sit and...

A biographer traces the rise of the woman who spoke for China.(Conversation with Hannah Pakula)(Madame Chiang Kai-shek)(Interview)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 1651 words; ...portrait of China's wartime power couple and the culture...Ailing arranged May-ling's marriage to Chiang, who...had Confucius and China's George Washington already...That was a general's prerogative. Why didn...lose China; that was the one thing Chiang had to dangle...

The last of the big guns.(Battle of Surigao Strait by Anthony B. Tully )(Book review)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 971 words; ...true measure of any navy's power. All that came to an abrupt...disabled the Italian and U.S. battle fleets inside their...subject of Anthony B. Tully's new book, Battle of Surigao...dreadnought battleships, one heavy cruiser and four destroyers...