1851 gun used in Civil War returns to Arkansas: related news

1851 gun used in Civil War returns to Arkansas

Tom Gray, owner of Cowden Art Conservation, inspects an 1851 Alger Cadet Gun after it was placed on display at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, July 3, 2008. The bronze Artillery piece was commandeered by Confederate forces during the Civil War and assigned to an Arkansas infantry regiment during the conflict.

Arkansas museum unveils 1851 gun used to train military school soldiers, seized for Civil War

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: An 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years.

Arkansas museum unveils 1851 gun used to train military school soldiers, seized for Civil War

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas-An 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years.

Activision Announces Civil War: Secret Missions

Activision announced today that HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions will be released later this year for the Xbox 360, PS3, PlayStation 2, and PC. A completely new episode in the HISTORY Civil War franchise, the game will allow players to assume the role of Union and Confederate soldiers fighting behind enemy lines in legendary battles.

Activision Publishing Announces HISTORY(TM) Civil War: Secret Missions

announced today that HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions will be released later this year for the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION(R)3 and PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment systems, and PC. A completely new episode in the HISTORY Civil War franchise, the game will allow players to assume the role of Union and Confederate soldiers fighting behind enemy lines in legendary battles.

Activision Publishing Announces HISTORY(TM) Civil War: Secret Missions

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI - News) announced today that HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions will be released later this year for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems, and PC. A completely new episode in the HISTORY Civil War franchise, the game will allow players to assume the role of Union and Confederate soldiers fighting behind enemy lines in legendary battles.

The USA National Civil War Museum Houses One of the World's Largest Collections of Civil War Artifacts

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Bullets Tagged with Pollen Could Help Solve Gun Crimes

Pollen could be used to identify the perpetrators of gun crimes, thanks to developments in nanotechnology. The microscopic grains can be coated onto bullets during manufacture and are sticky enough to hold on even after the gun has been fired. Each 'nanotag' is made up of pollen and a unique chemical signature that can be used to identify the batch of ammunition.

Inside Africa's PlayStation War

In the rugged volcanic mountains of the Congo the conflict known as Africa’s World War continues to smolder after ten grueling years. The conflict earned its name because at the height of the war eight African nations and over 25 militias were in the combatant mix. But more recently the conflict was given another name: The PlayStation War. The name came about because of a black metallic ore called coltan. Extensive evidence shows that during the war hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coltan was stolen from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The UN and several NGOs claim some of the most active thieves were the Rwandan military, several militias supported by the Rwandan government, and also a number of western-based mining companies, metal brokers, and metal processors that had allegedly partnered with these Rwandan factions.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

PHILADELPHIA-Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

PHILADELPHIA: Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

A document spelling out the terms of surrender, signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, on April 10th 1865, a day after his surrender to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, is displayed at the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum in Philadelphia, Monday, July 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Justin Maxon)

Activision Preps Civil War: Secret Missions

Activision is prepping another video game tying in with the History Channel: this one lets players carry out covert ops in the U.S. Civil War.

Cybersecurity lessons from the Civil War

LAS VEGAS--The security issues we face today in cyberspace are the same ones the country faced during the American Civil War when Abe Lincoln was relying on telegraph transmissions to help keep the country united, a top U.S. cybersecurity official said in a keynote speech at the Black Hat security conference here Thursday.

2 Virginia museums perpetuate debate over U.S. Civil War

A statue of Abraham Lincoln on the grounds of The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia.

A battle over 'the next war'

BATTLING ‘NEXT-WAR-ITIS’: “We should not starve the forces at war today to prepare for a war that may never come,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates says. The Pentagon now focuses on irregular conflicts, but some military officials object.

"War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK

An anonymous reader writes "The board game The War On Terror is a satirical game in which George Bush's 'Axis of Evil' is reduced to a spinner in the middle of the board, which determines which player is designated a terrorist state. That person then has to wear a balaclava (included in the box set) with the word 'Evil' stitched onto it. Kent police said they had confiscated the game because the balaclava 'could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act.' Balaclavas are freely sold all over the place in the area." Schneier has blogged this stupidity, of course.

Call of Duty: World at War Coming to PS3, 360, PC and Wii

Activision and Treyarch announced today that they will be taking Call of Duty players deep into the South Pacific and European theaters this fall for Call of Duty: World at War, a gritty fight that will pit players against enemies that know no surrender and show no mercy. Utilizing the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War throws out the rulebook of war to transform WWII combat through a new enemy, new tactics and an uncensored experience of the climatic battles that gripped a generation. As U.S. Marines and Russian soldiers, players will employ new features like cooperative gameplay, and weapons such as the flamethrower in the most chaotic and cinematically intense experience to date.

Gears of War gun now available on Amazon

Wasteâ€� some imaginary Locust with the replica LancerEver wanted to dress up like Marcus Fenix, hide behind your front garden wall and growl manly obscenities at passers by? Well, today’s your lucky day: a full-size replica of Gears of War’s Lancer assault rifle is now available for pre-order on Amazon!

Gears of War 2's active sniper will not insta-down (Gears of War 2)

The one and only Cliff Bleszinski popped up on the NeoGAF forums where the latest video of Gears of War 2 was being discussed, to clarify the Longshot sniper's abilities. Responding to a remark claiming that "active downs with the Longshot are still existent in Gears 2", Cliff denied the claim, stating that the Longshot will not have insta-down abilities in Gears 2.

Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks

A frequent complaint of military historians is that the general public’s notion of the First World War is little more than a “myth�, largely fuelled by the enduring popularity of the War Poets. They argue that the widespread belief that the war was futile, uniquely wasteful of human life and conducted by arrogant and incompetent generals persists, in the face of the facts, because people read Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon rather than scholarly works of military history. Unlike the ordinary rankers who made up the greater part of the British Army and endured the trenches with stoicism and good humour, the War Poets are dismissed as a “small but unrepresentative group of junior officers� who stand accused of being oversensitive, of being too much concerned with their own finer feelings, even of “whingeing�.

Admitted Patent Troll Finds The Phrase 'Shell Entity' Offensive

You may recall last year that we wrote about a patent lawsuit where the judge banned the use of the word "patent troll." That seemed reasonable enough, since it's clearly a negatively loaded phrase. However, it looks like some patent attorneys are trying to go even further with that concept. Ray Niro, in defending Scott Harris (who, you may recall, licensed his own patents to be used in lawsuits against his own firms' clients), is demanding that the phrase "shell entities" not be used either, claiming that they, too, are used negatively. That's because, like so many patent holders these days, Harris used shell companies to hold the patents and to sue companies. Of course, "shell entities" is a descriptive term, not one that is clearly designed as an insult like "patent troll.

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