![]() ![]() “The shoe lay in a rubble-strewn yard amid the mustard yellow debris of a partially destroyed single-story home in a poor part of the city. She recalled seeing a red shoe smaller than her hand, adorned with a pink ribbon and bow: Fallujans’ accounts of the violence then sound eerily similar to their descriptions now.ĬNN correspondent Arwa Damon covered the Marine offensive in Falluja in 2004 and, on the 10th anniversary of the war, reflected on what she had experienced. Then, as now, about 50,000 people remained trapped in the city. There was no electricity, water or sewage disposal. More than half of Falluja’s 39,000 homes were damaged. PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty ImagesĪt its end, more than 80 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were dead. journalists embedded with Marine units gave terrifying accounts of the hunt for insurgents: navigating dark maze-like lanes laden with explosives and snipers, jumping from roof to roof, blasting through doors and windows and pounding the city with artillery shells.įalluja was pulverized by more than 300 bombs and 6,000 rounds of artillery during the six weeks of battle.ĭuring the second battle of Falluja in November 2004, a Marine writes a message on the bridge over the Euphrates where the charred bodies of American contractors were hung. legend alongside Iwo Jima in World War II and Hue in Vietnam. The second, Operation Phantom Fury, became the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War, securing its place in Marine Corps. military launched two major offensives on the city in 2004. The images elicited shock and outrage from the American public and changed the course of the war. One man held a sign that said: “Falluja is the cemetery for Americans.” Their bodies were mutilated and burned and two were hung from the steel girders of a bridge over the Euphrates. The men, employees of the former Blackwater security firm, were ambushed and killed by an angry Iraqi mob. soldiers fired on a demonstration against their presence and killed 17 people.įrom the very start of the Iraq War, Falluja was a bastion of Sunni dissent that would give rise to a violent insurgency, the birth of al Qaeda in Iraq and now the Islamic State.įalluja’s watershed moments came in 2004, when four American contractors were killed in chilling fashion. Local resentment of foreign forces was evident from the day soldiers of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division arrived in Falluja in late April 2003. Many Fallujans lost their jobs after the United States took control, disbanded the Iraqi army and sacked Baath Party members from civic institutions. Falluja had been as loyal to Hussein perhaps as the toppled leader’s hometown of Tikrit. The drive to Baghdad took me through Anbar province, heavily Sunni and tribal territory. And that in the fourth week of the 1991 Gulf War, a British Tornado airplane mistakenly bombed a market, killing 130 civilians and sparking local anger. ![]() I knew little about Falluja then: only that it was as ancient as Babylon and was the most populated city in Anbar province. It was from that road that I first saw Falluja in 2003, days after the invasion of Iraq began. Under Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein, Falluja had grown into a sizable city of 300,000 and gained importance for its strategic location, just 40 miles west of Baghdad and on the road to Jordan and Syria. Decades later, Dhari’s grandson ascended to prominence as a Sunni cleric and a vocal opponent of U.S. History books tell the tale of Falluja’s Sheikh Dhari who brazenly killed a senior British officer and sparked an uprising against colonial rule. Long before the Americans came, the people of Falluja stood up against the British, who invaded and occupied Iraq during World War I. A British plane mistakenly bombed a market in Falluja during the Gulf War in 1991. ![]()
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Make it gluten-free – Make sure you use certified gluten-free panko breadcrumbs when making gluten-free green bean casserole.Ina Garten Green Bean Casserole Recipe Variations Prepare as directed in Ina Garten’s Green Bean Casserole. Next, pour in the milk and cream cheese and stir until the sauce is thick and cohesive. The mushrooms should be added to the pan and sautéed until browned, with constant stirring. Soften butter in a sizable pot set over medium heat. How To Make Homemade Creamy Mushroom Soup?Įverything you need to make your own creamy mushroom soup is listed below. 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Then they invoke some theorems about how many rational solutions an equation with certain properties can have, chase some leads for potential rational solutions, and find that only one actually gives them valid triangles. Yoshinosuke Hirakawa and Hideki Matsumura, the authors of the paper revealing the unique pair of triangles, show that finding such a pair is equivalent to finding rational solutions of a particular equation. But some polynomials have a lot of rational solutions, and some have none. ![]() It makes sense that rational points are hard to find: there are a lot more irrational numbers than rational numbers, after all. That is, if the equation has two variables, x and y, a rational solution would be one in which both x and y are rational numbers.) For example, the equation x 2−y 2=5 has infinitely many rational solutions and a few integer solutions, but the equation x 3−y 3=5 has only finitely many rational and no integer solutions. A central question in much of algebraic geometry is how to determine whether a given equation has any solutions that are integers or rational numbers, and if so, how many. (For a solution to count as rational, all the variables must take rational values. To oversimplify a bit, algebraic geometry is like your high school algebra classes-understanding relationships between symbolic equations and geometric figures in a plane or higher-dimensional space-turned up a notch. The proof that (135, 352, 377) and (132, 366, 366) form the unique pair of triangles with the desired properties comes from a field of math called algebraic geometry. (Why I was so worried about knowing how to feel is an interesting question and beyond the scope of this blog post.) Is this surprising? If so, is it surprising that there is only one such pair, or surprising that there aren’t more? Should I be surprised that the side lengths of these very special triangles are as large as they are, or as small? Should I be surprised that the paper showing that this pair is unique came out just last year? Or that it is only five pages long? Is nothing a surprise at all, or is everything surprising? This answer to a question I never knew I had left me with even more questions. I had never thought about trying to find two rational triangles with the same perimeters and areas before, so I didn’t know how to feel when I found out. For the isosceles triangle, you can either apply Heron’s formula, which gives you the area of a triangle using only its side lengths, or first find the altitude of the triangle using the Pythagorean theorem and then figure out the area of the triangle from there. Either way you do it, you will find that each triangle’s perimeter is 864 units and area is 23,760 square units.Ī special pair of triangles. Credit: Evelyn Lamb It’s simple to compute the area of a right triangle knowing only its side lengths: it is half of the product of the shorter two sides. If you’re suspicious, you can easily add up the side lengths to see that their perimeters are the same. The right triangle of this pair has side lengths (135, 352, 377), and the isosceles has side lengths (132, 366, 366). The perimeters and areas of both triangles are equal.All side lengths of both triangles are rational numbers, and.One triangle is a right triangle and one is isosceles,.□ is the length of the perpendicular height of the triangle.In all the (Euclidean) world, up to simple scaling, there is only one pair of triangles with the following properties:. ![]() |
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