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Hah!  :salute: I like driving to Rockin in the Free World myself

Ahh, my mistake  :-[

The MacAdam shovel, patented by Sir Howard Sam Hughes in the name of his secretary. 1.  A trench shovel 2.  A shield for use while firing... It was never used because it was too heavy to be practical, and it had a big hole in the middle...  apparently they even had trouble disposing of them ...

Following the navy theme, what stunning practice of Canadian democracy was held in the Pacific Ocean on 7 May, 1945?

USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay?

BAH beat me to it... What is the sole surviving tribal class, and where is it located?

Perhaps he is thinking of the infamous executions of Canadian prisoners by the HitlerJugend under Kurt Meyer shortly after DDay in Normandy?

The Hurons and Wyandot/Wendat are one and the same  ;)

The Bishop and Priest Self-Propelled Guns?

Its a pretty large topic but I can start off an answer -  pre-marian reform legions were composed of velites (skirmishers with javelins), equites (cavalry), and a three-lined infantry system of Hastati (front line, youngest soldiers), Principes (second-line, regular troops) and Triarii, the...

aha...  there were a bunch of incidents that occurred that were similar, I just picked the wrong one  :blotto:

An SS leader named Alfred Naujocks planned an attack on a German radio station, making it appear to be Polish insurgents... which with other incidents was used as justification by the Germans to start the second world war.  They even went so far as to leave a lethal-injected polish sympathizer...

an article has been posted on the CBC regarding this incident.  Hopefully the hospitalized soldier will make a full recovery http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/12/07/afghanistan_cdn051207.html

It is possible that its not a full sized house?  It would make a neat coffee table ornament during the holidays  8)

The original version was a trial program, which ended earlier this year.  It came down the chain that the program has been reconstituted, and I plan to apply at the end of my third and fourth years at school.  Apparently if you were awarded a scholarship or bursary it was subtracted from the...

If you needed to show the importance of stress research in training by comparing it to operational examples, there is an interesting volume of "Dispatches" (Vol 10 No. 1, February 2004) called "Stress Injury and Operational Deployments" if you can track it down through your unit - it talks about...

You have the positive reinforcement def. right, just try not to think of positive and negative meaning good and bad, think of them as in math. Basically reinforcement means you want the behaviour to stay the same, either by adding or taking something away (positive or negative) since you're...

I am a bit unsure about your usage of "negative reinforcement" - negative reinforcement (easily confused, believe me  ;)) involves taking something bad away in order to reinforce the previous behaviour (if you want the students to keep failing, take away pushups after failure) Do you mean to...

"Captain Stockwell of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers recalled how after a truly "Silent Night" he fired three shots into the air at 8.30 on Boxing Day morning and climbed on to the parapet of his trench. Opposite him the German officer who'd given him beer and cigarettes the day before appeared on...

As well, zombies apparently did not wear the Canada shoulder flashes that the overseas troops did.