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1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to these sierra hotel persons/organisations:
- Adam Cherrington, Brian Au, chris lakin, Dark Prince,
ehren fickenscher, Emiel Suilen, fdg dfgdf, GCN4Life,
inkhoMi, James Zhu, Jon Duke, Kenny Pang, Nik "Frost" Manak,
Redwolf, Richard Parry, and Wei Huang, for feedback.
- AlX05, Asagiri Yohko, Djaran, HypersonicGamer, Joeb,
Phisher, rpgmaster999, and other Netters in the C&C:
Generals and Generals: Zero Hour message board in
GameFAQs.com, for Q&A.
- Jean-Luc Barbera of France, for the French
translation of the Disclaimer, and the English translation
of the NOIR foreword. (After all, English and French are
the two official languages up here in Canada, the True
North Strong and Free.)
- Lieutenant Colonel YANG Li Wei, 38, Chinese People's
Liberation Army Air Force, of Sui Zhong County, Hu Lu Dao
("Gourd Island") City, Liao Ning Province, People's Republic
of China. Fighter pilot with 1,350 hours of flight
experience, and astronaut with 21 hours 23 minutes of space
experience. His Shen Zhou 5 ("Divine Vessel 5") capsule,
atop a CZ-2F (Chang Zheng-2F, "Long March-2F") rocket, took
off from Jiu Quan ("Wine Fountain") Satellite Launch Centre,
Gan Su Province, at 09:00 (Bei Jing time, 01:00 GMT) on
Wednesday, 15 October 2003. It orbited Earth for 14 times,
(did not collide with any United States spacecraft,) and
landed in Inner Mongolia, 4.8 km (3 miles) off-target, at
06:23 (22:23 GMT) on Thursday, 16 October 2003. After his
historic mission as the first astronaut of the People's
Republic of China, he was promoted to full Colonel.
http://www.hld.gov.cn/new/1/20031015134917.html
- The Peace Boat.
http://www.peaceboat.org/english/index.html
http://www.peaceboat.org/index_j.html
- Vadim Pryde, VAL, and other Netters, for the Russian
translation of the Disclaimer. (Over the years, gamers in
non-English countries (such as France and South Africa) had
read my game FAQs and e-mailed me. Then a couple years ago,
I noticed my game FAQs were leeched and cross-posted at
multiple Russian game FAQ sites. o(>_<)o I was more annoyed
that they did not always have the latest versions of my
game FAQs.)
- Wavehawk of Philippines, for feedback.
(Social democracy in action.)
[Ramble ON]
In memory of:
- The seven astronauts on the NASA space shuttle USS
Columbia, which was lost in action (Mission STS-107) about
203,000 feet above north-central Texas, USA, at about 9 AM
EST (14:00 GMT, 16 minutes before her scheduled landing at
Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA) on
Saturday, 1 February 2003 (Chinese New Year Day).
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/
"The seven astronauts on board were accomplished
women and men of great courage who put their extraordinary
skills and knowledge to the service of humankind. Each one
was a hero. Their contribution to science and space
exploration will never be forgotten."
- Jean Chretien, Canadian Prime Minister, 1 February
2003
"The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors."
- George W Bush, US President, 1 February 2003
- The casualties (Iraqi and non-Iraqi, military and
non-military, hostile and friendly fire) of OIF (Operation
Iraqi Freedom, also known as Operation Telic in the UK), the
war in Iraq in March-April 2003. <(T_T)
- The 70 sailors and officers of the Ming-class (Type
035, variant of Former Soviet Union/Russian Romeo-class)
conventional (diesel-electric) submarine No. 361 of the
12th Brigade/Detachment (No. 359, 360, 361, 362), North Sea
Fleet, Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Ren
Min Jie Fang Jun Hai Jun), based at Lu Shun (formerly Port
Arthur), Liao Ning Province, People's Republic of China
(Zhong Hua Ren Min Gong He Guo). Her crew were martyred
during a training exercise east of the Nei Chang Shan
Islands in the Bo Hai Sea, northeast of Yan Tai City and
north of Wei Hai City, Shan Dong Province, People's Republic
of China, before Friday, 2 May 2003 (or about Wednesday, 16
April 2003), local time.
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/GB/junshi/20030523/999074.html
http://www.phoenixtv.com/home/news/Inland/200305/06/60047.html
http://www.phoenixtv.com/home/news/review/200305/22/66199.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030613/ap_on_re_as/china_submarine_accident_2
- Squadron Leader Janusz "Jan" Zurakowski, Royal Air
Force (Retired). Fighter pilot during World War Two, and
test pilot of the de Havilland Vampire, the Gloster Meteor
and Javelin, and Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck and CF-105 Arrow
after World War Two. He was 89. He was born in Ryzawka,
Russia, on 12 September 1914. He passed away at his home
"Kartuzy" in Barry's Bay, (northern) Ontario, Canada, on
Monday, 9 February 2004.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/02/10/zurakowski040210
http://www.geocities.com/buckeyepa/JZurakowski.html
- Former US President Ronald Wilson Reagan, alias
"The Gipper" and "The Great Communicator". He was 93. He
was born in Tampico, Illinois, USA, on 6 February 1911;
passed away in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Saturday,
5 June 2004; and was buried at the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, USA, on
Friday, 11 June 2004. He was the 40th US President, from
20 January 1981 to January 1989, and contributed to end
the Cold War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
nations and the Warsaw Pact nations. <(T_T)
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is
right will always eventually triumph. And there's
purpose and worth to each and every life."
- The victims of the earthquake that happened in the
Indian Ocean, off the west coast of northern Sumatra,
Indonesia, on Boxing Day, Sunday, 26 December 2004, at
07:58:53 local time; and the victims of the resultant
tidal waves caused by the earthquake, in various South
Asia and East Africa nations, including India, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/
- Comrade ZHAO Zi Yang. Former Premier of the People's
Republic of China and General Secretary of the Chinese
Communist Party. Deposed because of his support for the
months-long, anti-corruption and pro-democracy protest in
Tian An Men Square, Bei Jing, China, that was ended by the
People's Liberation Army on 4 June 1989, he was under house
arrest until his death. He was 85. He was born in Hua Xian
(Hua County), He Nan Province, China, on 17 October 1919;
and passed away in Bei Jing, on 17 January 2005.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2005-01/17/content_2469579.htm
- Captain James Montgomery Doohan, Royal Canadian Army
(Retired). Actor who, in Star Trek, played Captain
(at first Lieutenant Commander) Montgomery "Scotty" Scott,
Star Fleet, the (legendary) Chief Engineer on the NCC-1701
USS Enterprise. He was 85. Born in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, on 3 March 1920. Beamed up in Redmond,
Washington, USA, on Wednesday, 20 July 2005.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Actors/Doohan__James__1920_2005_/
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1533988,00.html?gusrc=rss
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