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Nearby, several of his men sat in the shade of a small blockhouse, holding automatic weapons.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
These bolts anchored the blockhouse to the slab, Penders said.
—Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
This makeshift blockhouse marks where technicians launched Bumper 8 on July 24, 1950 — America's first rocket from the Cape.
—Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
The news touched off a wild celebration in the blockhouse hard by the Vanguard launching platform.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
The ultimate penalty was meted out to him in a rural penitentiary on the evening of Nov. 10, 2009, in a stark, concrete blockhouse called L Unit, as Meyers’s brother, Bob Meyers, looked on.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
Few, though, wander over to see the actual Fort Kent, a wooden blockhouse constructed during the Aroostook War of 1838-9, a border dispute between England and the United States that ended without a shot being fired.
—New York Times, 15 June 2021
To see the historic blockhouse that once stood at the site, head east to Courthouse Square Park in downtown Dayton.
—oregonlive, 29 May 2021
Originally built to limit conflict between white settlers and local Native American communities, the blockhouse was later used for storage and as a jail on the Grand Ronde Reservation.
—oregonlive, 29 May 2021
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
These bolts anchored the blockhouse to the slab, Penders said.
—Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
This makeshift blockhouse marks where technicians launched Bumper 8 on July 24, 1950 — America's first rocket from the Cape.
—Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
The news touched off a wild celebration in the blockhouse hard by the Vanguard launching platform.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
The ultimate penalty was meted out to him in a rural penitentiary on the evening of Nov. 10, 2009, in a stark, concrete blockhouse called L Unit, as Meyers’s brother, Bob Meyers, looked on.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
Few, though, wander over to see the actual Fort Kent, a wooden blockhouse constructed during the Aroostook War of 1838-9, a border dispute between England and the United States that ended without a shot being fired.
—New York Times, 15 June 2021
To see the historic blockhouse that once stood at the site, head east to Courthouse Square Park in downtown Dayton.
—oregonlive, 29 May 2021
Originally built to limit conflict between white settlers and local Native American communities, the blockhouse was later used for storage and as a jail on the Grand Ronde Reservation.
—oregonlive, 29 May 2021
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