Davin Lives

2022-2024 Old Blog

Category: War

  • Pearl Harbour War Museum

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    We visited the Pearl Harbor War Museum while staying in Hawaii the museum is a spectacular tribute to dear American war machine and showed us various types of weaponry including battleships jet fighter planes helicopters and submarines.

    Battleship

    We visited a spectacular battleship with enormous guns on the deck and impressive construction. There were some very good exhibits describing some of the battles that were held in the Pacific against Japanese bombers and the Japanese Navy

    The fighter jets were also very impressive and it was interesting to see the evolution of military aviation over the course of several decades with examples of different types of fighter jets and helicopters that we could look at up Close. and touch.

  • Hawaii 50

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    We just spent the last week of June in Hawaii for my sister’s 50th birthday. It was a great family re-union. it was a great chance for our family to get together and for the cousins to hang out. We went surfing great tuna poke and sunsets on the North Shore.

    family

    We also visited the Polynesian Cultural Centre and the War Museum, cruised through a couple of missiles and went swimming with the turtles.

    We visited the Pearl Harbor War Museum while staying in Hawaii the museum is a spectacular tribute to dear American war machine and showed us various types of weaponry including battleships jet fighter planes helicopters and submarines.

    We visited the USS Arizona which was a spectacular battleship with enormous guns on the deck and impressive construction. There were some very good exhibits describing some of the battles that were held in the Pacific against Japanese bombers and the Japanese Navy

    The fighter jets were also very impressive and it was interesting to see the evolution of military aviation over the course of several decades with examples of different types of fighter jets and helicopters that we could look at up Close. and touch.

  • Queen Zenobia

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    Queen Zenobia was the supreme ruler of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean successfully defeating the Roman Empire in 240 AD and conquering Egypt freeing it from Rome.

    The city of Palmyria Was the capital city for Queen Zenoba’s empire.

    This is the ruins of her palace and Temple.

    In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to Upper Egypt, 

    Septimia Zenobia (Palmyrene Aramaic: 𐡡𐡶𐡦𐡡𐡩‎, Bat-Zabbai; c. 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry;

  • Syria-The Desert Oasis of Palmyra

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    Zenobia Queen of the dessert

    In 270, Zenobia launched an invasion that brought most of the Roman East under her sway and culminated with the annexation of Egypt. By mid-271 her realm extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to Upper Egypt, 


    We take the take a driver with a van to take us from Damascus out to the desert and the next day we hike up to the top of a mountain where there’s an old ruined castle.

    This ruined castle on top of this small mountain looks over the oasis and it’s a fortress made out of stone and you can look through the slits of the fortress, and I was watching the sunset setting over the desert when I realized this was the place the Volney had sat when he wrote the manuscript .

    The Queen Zenobia Zenobia was a cultured monarch and fostered an intellectual environment in her court, which was open to scholars and philosophers. She was tolerant toward her subjects and protected religious minorities.