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Hardware MQ-1 Predator
Military use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, dates to World War I experiments with practice targets, and guided aerial weapons were operational by World War II. But it took advances in electronics and satellite technology to realize unmanned
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Letters
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Young Longshanks’ Loss At Lewes
In mid-May 1264 Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, gambled. As English King Henry III pushed north from Hastings toward London, Montfort broke off his siege of the castle at Rochester and moved south to Fletching. After praying there in the ch

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