When this news reached England, it confirmed Kidd's reputation as a pirate, and various naval commanders were ordered to " pursue and seize the said Kidd and his accomplices " for the " notorious piracies " they had committed.

According to the Western news media the base is reportedly to help China project seapower well into the Pacific Ocean area, including challenging United States naval power.

The crew of Whiting had not yet received news of the American declaration of war, and her capture was the first naval action of the American War of 1812.

Once news of the scale of the British defeat, and its consequent humiliation, reached the British Admiralty in London, a new naval force was assembled under Vice-Admiral Sturdee.

When the news of the defeat at the Battle of Hansando reached Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he ordered that the Japanese invasion forces cease all naval operations.

The simultaneous Battle of Artemisium, consisting of a series of naval encounters, was up to that point a stalemate ; however, when news of Thermopylae reached them, they also retreated, since holding the straits of Artemisium was now a moot point.

Shortly after the fall of the North government, news arrived of the decisive British naval victory at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean which would have boosted the government had it still been in power.

The simultaneous Battle of Artemisium, consisting of a series of naval encounters, was up to that point a stalemate ; however, when news of Thermopylae reached them, they also retreated, since holding the straits of Artemisium was now a moot point.

SUBSIM is an online publication founded by Neal Stevens in Jan. 1997 that focuses on naval and submarine computer game reviews, articles, and news.

' Rusty ' Ryan ( John Wayne ) becomes disgusted when his superiors refuse to see the small boats as viable naval craft and is in the process of writing his request for a transfer to destroyers when news arrives of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

As soon as Rodgers received news of the declaration of war, fearing that the order to confine naval ships to port would be reconsidered by Congress, he departed New York harbor with his squadron within the hour.

" I have some news for you about your boys ," the naval officer said.

Referencing a naval tradition in a pre-launch news conference he had said: " For thousands of years, humans have been going to sea in ships.

The last American naval forces were destroyed three months earlier but the news had been kept secret.

However, the news stunned the South and Webb faced criticism even after the war from experienced naval officers.

Three days of hype, supported by news maps showing the annexation, died away when it was revealed that the " annexation " was the result of the misreading of an American naval chart by a Philippine naval officer.

The expedition returned with the good news for the naval command-a natural bounty and deep waters at Subic Bay.

However, whilst camping near Nicea, the remnants of the German army, including a dazed and sick King Conrad, straggled past the French camp, bringing news of their disaster.

" However, the enormous scale of the disaster shown in the movie makes it impossible that viewers would consider the movie to be true, without independent news reports.

Some paintings showed the hazards and tragedy of the community's life, for example, women anxiously looking out to sea as the boats go out, or a young woman crying as news of a disaster is heard.

Cable News Network revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

* Muppet News Flash – The Muppet Newsman gives a newsbrief only to have some disaster befall him ( typically the same disaster he was just describing ), or another strange scenario: such as the time that he ran on, stated " There is no news tonight.

While Margaret sheltered at nearby Cerne Abbey, the Duke of Somerset brought news of the disaster at Barnet to her.

Such was the centralized control of information and the intense pressure on party cadres to report only good news — such as production quotas met or exceeded — that information about the escalating disaster was effectively suppressed.

This blanket suppression of news was so effective that very few Chinese citizens were aware of the scale of the famine, and the greatest peacetime demographic disaster of the 20th century only became widely known twenty years later, when the veil of censorship began to lift.

C. elegans made news when it was discovered that specimens had survived the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003.

The news of the disaster quickly spread and afterwards many settlements surrendered without a fight.

The Governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, toured the area in a National Guard helicopter and held a news conference on the disaster at 3: 30 PM US Central Time.

Despite the fact nearly every home and business sustained damage, news reports indicate the town is not eligible for Federal disaster aid.

Its most famous news broadcast was the report of the Hindenburg disaster by Herbert Morrison.

Among other news items, he covered the Challenger disaster, EDSA Revolution, Loma Prieta earthquake, fall of the Berlin Wall and Hurricane Andrew.

The Veronicas radio was used to transmit news of the disaster to the outside world and to seek assistance.

Within four days of the quake, cinemas around New Zealand offered news specials about the disaster.

When the news of the disaster at Sedan reached Paris, Gambetta called for strong measures.

Though the AHWG report thoroughly demolished Browning's claims of prior success and the basis of his " projection ", it made little impact, coming after a year of continued claims of a successful prediction, the endorsement and support of geophysicist David Stewart, and the tacit endorsement of many public authorities in their preparations for a major disaster, all of which was amplified by massive exposure in all major news media.

The news magazine report also included House Majority Thomas " Tip " O ' Neill and Rep. Edward Markey confirming that there were contingency plans for the relocation of the United States government in the event of a nuclear war or major disaster.

Mark Whittington, a writer from Texas, clearly recalled hearing the news of the Challenger space shuttle disaster, and explains his flashbulb memory as " shocking.

His first significant contribution to the news pages was coverage of the Penlee lifeboat disaster.

Braddock's column met with disaster in July 1755, and when news of this reached London the pressure increased on Newcastle and Fox.

As a result, his penchant for destruction has become so widely known and feared that just the news of Groo approaching is sometimes enough to cause chaos when the population reacts to the impending disaster.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

The introduction of simulcasts of the main bulletins on the channel was to allow the news bulletins to pool resources rather than work against each other at key times in the face of competition particularly from Sky News.

Many Parisians presumed Louis's actions to be aimed against the Assembly and began open rebellion when they heard the news the next day.

When news of his death at the Council of Constance in 1415 arrived, disturbances broke out, directed primarily against the clergy, and especially against the monks.

Jonah is mentioned twice in Chapter 14 of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, the conclusion of which finds Tobit's son, Tobias, at the extreme age of one hundred and twenty seven years, rejoicing at the news of Nineveh's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus in apparent fulfillment of Jonah's prophecy against the Assyrian capital.

Ma Bufang was forced to defend himself against the accusations, and stated to the news media that his army was a part of " National army, people's power ".

The reason for this is that rational agents would tend to believe that pieces of information that go against their prior beliefs in fact originate from low-quality news providers.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Unification Church of the United States undertook an extensive public relations campaign against the use of the word by the news media, including hiring civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy to equate it with the word " nigger ".

When Admiral Bokhari heard the news, a strong and powerful protest was launched against the Prime minister and the silent cold war with the admiral came to end with Prime minister approving the relieving papers of Admiral Bokhari the next morning.

The KILL file was a file ( called, obviously enough, < tt > KILL </ tt >) containing regular expressions matched against the subjects of news articles in each group ; if an article matched, it would be marked as having already been read.

* Some of the northern Greek cities, including Athens, revolt against the Macedonian regent, Antipater, following the news of Alexander's death.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

Upon hearing the news, the entire camp begins to complain and speak against the Lord for their misfortune, including Lehi.

TOW-2B was the first to use tandem warheads in the mid-1980s, an aspect of the weapon which the US Army had to reveal under news media and Congressional pressure resulting from the concern that NATO antitank missiles were ineffective against Soviet tanks that were fitted with the new ERA boxes.

Also featured on CNN and other national news organizations, Hunter has gone on to help inspire other teens and young adults to take action against injustice with his books, Be the Change and Generation Change.

Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus, according to the Roman historian Suetonius in his work De vita Caesarum (" On the Life of the Caesars "), was so shaken by the news that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting:

In 2012, Bogdanovich made news with an essay in the Hollywood Reporter, published in the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting, in which he argued against excessive violence in the movies:

Now the HP Alliance and Wizard Rock have come together to fight for a Potterwatch movement in the real world to fight back against Big VoldeMedia from further pushing out local and foreign news, minority representation, and the right to a Free Press.

He proposed the introduction of an endurance road race under the name " Marathon " which would start from the region where in 490 BC the battle of the Greeks against the Persians occurred and would end at the Pnyx of Ancient Athens, where, presumably, the messenger arrived bringing the good news of victory to the Athenians.

The Greek fleet holds its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws southward when news comes of the defeat at Thermopylae.

" Nasser felt that the Free Officers were not ready to move against the government, and for nearly two years he did little beyond recruit more officers and issue his underground news bulletins.

In August 1934, with the Red Army depleted by the prolonged conflict, a spy, Mo Xiong, placed by Zhou Enlai in the KMT army headquarters in Nanchang brought news that Chiang Kai-shek was preparing a major offensive against the Communist capital, Ruijin.

The British concession was too late, for by the time the news reached America the United States had already declared the War of 1812 against Britain.