For most of the early Roman Empire, the legions formed the Roman army’s elite heavy infantry, recruited exclusively from Roman citizens, while the remainder of the army consisted of auxiliaries, who provided additional infantry and the vast majority of the Roman army’s cavalry. Provincials who aspired to citizenship gained it when honorably discharged from the auxiliaries. The Roman army, for most of the Imperial period, consisted mostly of auxiliaries rather than legions.
Direct support artillery units are assigned to infantry units. Current US Marine Corps artillery regiments are the 10th Marines from Camp Lejeune NC, the 11th Marines from Camp Pendleton CA, the 12th Marines from Camp Smedley Butler in Okinawa Japan, and the 14th Marines from Fort Worth TX.
Fort Saskatchewan is actually in Alberta.
In northwest Saskatchewan there are dune fields stretching for about 60 miles along the south shore of Lake Athabasca. The dune fields are one of the most northerly in the world. The Athabasca Sand Dunes have 10 plants that grow nowhere else in the world. Travel by air is required to get to the park. In southwestern Saskatchewan there are the Great Sand Hills with dunes up to 75 feet high.
The Great Sand Dunes in southwest Saskatchewan are close to the Cypress Hills Park. That Park is part of the continental divide: streams there flow south and ultimately empty into the Gulf of Mexico via the Missouri/Mississippi.
Almost all the rest of Saskatchewan drains north, into the Huson Bay drainage system, or into the Arctic Ocean, via the Mackenzie River.
(And the Great Sand Dunes are a hoot for an active 5 year old Piper Cub, as we discovered when we were there on vacation a few years ago.
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The Mackenzie River delta is the second largest in Notth America, after the Mississippi. A new permanent road is being built between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk (or simply, Tuk) to replace the current ice road. Tuk is the northernmost place in Canada to where you can drive from the US’s lower 48. Once the new road is completed, estimated in 2017, Tuk will be accessible by car 24/7/365. Right now on the ice road, Tuk is car accessible 24/7/winter months only.
If you want to drive an ice road and you’re in the western US, go now before the new road is completed! Inuvik NT is only a 2,300 mile drive from Seattle. Doable in 2 days. Then on to Tuk, it’s less than 100 miles on groomed ice.
Go now before this great experience is gone!
Oh an by the way, on that ice road on the Mackenzie River delta and over the Arctic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean at some points is 3,300’ deep below that ice road.
The salinity of the Arctic Ocean varies seasonally depending on the melting and freezing of the ice cover. It has the lowest average salinity among all the oceans because of low evaporation, heavy inflow of freshwater and limited connection to other oceans.
At the other end of the world, the Antarctic continent is so cold that it is the driest continent on the earth.
And the highest.
And the windiest.
And the coldest.
Paul Gambi is a DC comics character who makes costumes for various DC enemies of the Flash, including Captain Cold, Mirror Master, the Top, and many others
The fictional character Captain America first appeared in a comic book in March 1941. He often fought the Axis alliance during WWII as a super soldier. During WWII he was the most popular character of Timely Comics (a predecessor of Marvel Comics).
The Red Wheel is a cycle of novels by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, retelling and exploring the passing of Imperial Russia and the birth-pangs of the Soviet Union. The cycle currently has appeared as: August 1914, 1971 (expanded form in 1984); October 1916, 2 volumes, 1985; March 1917, 4 volumes, 1989; April 1917, 1991 (not translated into English so far)
The Red October Russian Revolution of 1917 occurred mainly in November, on the 7th & 8th.
The two main political parties in Quebec in the latter part of the 19th century were the Bleus (conservatives) and Rouges (liberals). The strongly ultra-montane Catholic church hierarchy supported the Bleus, going so far as to have as a saying: “Le Ciel est bleu; l’enfer est rouge.” (“Heaven is blue; Hell is Red.”)
The three-aspect traffic light standard (green, yellow, red), is also used at locks on the Upper Mississippi River. Red means that another vessel is passing through. Yellow means that the lock chamber is being emptied or filled to match the level of the approaching vessel. After the gate opens, green means that the vessel may enter.
The list of countries with red, yellow, and green flags include Benin, Bolivia, Burkin Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Grenada, Guinea, Lithuania, Mali and Senegal.
The landlocked countries of Africa are Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
There are two doubly-landlocked nations: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan. In the time period between the Unification of Germany in 1871 until the end of World War I, there were no doubly landlocked countries – Liechtenstein bordered the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had an Adriatic coastline, and Uzbekistan was then part of the Russian Empire, which had both ocean and sea access.
North America and Australia are the only continents with no landlocked countries (not including Antarctica).
The Australian Cattle Dog or simply Cattle Dog, is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia for driving cattle over long distances across rough terrain. It has been nicknamed a “Red Heeler” or “Blue Heeler” on the basis of its coloring and practice of moving reluctant cattle by nipping at their heels.
The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is an American original breed. In 1807, two Newfoundland dogs named Sailor and Canton escaped a shipwrecked British vessel off the coast of Maryland. The hardy Newfies were observed to be effective retrievers, and locals bred them with other dogs from the area. Sailor and Canton’s offspring marked the beginning of the Chesapeake Bay Retriever.