Naval forces of the USA will call the support ships in honor of the prominent politician and gay-activist Harvey Milk.
The tanker which only has to be built will get a name USNS Harvey Milk, as it is reported at the web-site of naval institute.
‘When Harvey Milk served in the army, he could not tell about himself. Now our country tells to the military men and all the world that we are proud of this person and support the choice of such people’, the politician from San Francisco Scott Winner commented on the decision of American military men.
Milk became one of the first American politicians who sincerely acknowledged their homosexuality. He was killed in a year after the victory at the election in the city observation council in San Francisco.
In the youth Milk served at the fleet and participated in Korean War. When in 1978 he was shot, Milk had a belt with the buckle of Naval Forces of the USA.
The life of Harvey Milk became a basis of the plot of movie of Gus Van Sant ‘Milk’ (‘Harvey Milk in Russian release) the main role in which Sean Justin Penn (who got Oscar) played
Near the volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii, on the 17-th of September the scientists finished an investigation that imitated the Mars lifestyle for the participators.
The district court of Amsterdam ordered to return to Ukraine 500 showpieces from four museums of the Crimea famous as ‘Scythian gold’, as Reuters reported on Wednesday, on the 12-th of December.
According to the information provided by Guardian on the 6-th of December, the famous singer Lady Gaga visited the centre in New York where LGBT-youth reside who do not have a permanent accommodation.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
On the 7-th of December in international mass media the information appeared claiming that Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez sent the manuscripts of his own books to the approval of Fidel Castro.
The Patriarch of Rome arranged a meeting with the scientist Stephen Hawking in Papal Academy of science located in Vatican. It is reported by Radio Vaticana.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
In the title of the most long-ruling monarch 90-year-old governess replaced the king of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej, 89, who died on the 13-th of October. He came to the throne in 1946. The reason of death has not been implicated yet.
The samples of saliva of 83 aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans showed that they are the direct descendants of the first people who inhabited the green continent nearly 50 thousand years ago.
In natural park of Oregon state the wreckage of a part of cliff happened that broke a structure from sandstone of unusual form. Then, the reason has become identified. Particularly, the unique geological formation was deliberately broken by the tourists.
Mark David Chapman who was 35 years ago convicted because of the murder of the leader of ‘The Beatles’ band John Lennon was not able to convince the profile commission in his deserving the early parole.
on the 21-st of August, the creator of the famous American band Backstreet Boys died. For now the reason of his death has not been defined yet. The edition Los Angeles Times reports about that.
