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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
The Puzzle Of Rome’s Lost Legion
One of the great mysteries of history has re-emerged this week: the fate of the Roman Ninth Legion (Legio IX Hispana), which seemingly disappeared around AD 108, never to be seen or heard of again. The theory that it was destroyed in a great battle in Caledonia (modern-day Scotland) was put forward by Rosemary Sutcliff in her novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), which was turned into the movie The Eagle in 2011, but that is only one of five major theories about what happened to its 5,500 officers and men. With the publication of a new book by the archaeologist and historian Dr. Simon Elliott, entitled Roman Britain’s Missing Legion, the theories have been re-examined by The Times of London, and discussed in its letters pages.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Spokane Teachers Credit Union has agreed to merge with a credit union based in Coulee Dam, Washington, in an agreement that must be approved by state and federal regulators. If approved, the merger of STCU and CDFCU, which does not include a transfer of funds, would be completed later this year. All current employees would be retained under the merger plan, and CDFCU locations will become STCU branches. The boards of both institutions voted unanimously in December to pursue the merger, STCU spokesman Dan Hansen said.
In the lead-up to World War II, the federal government used the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and the Defense Plant Corp., chartered in 1940, to boost war materiel production by financing mills and factories across the country. The Northwest was chosen for aluminum production facilities. The Grand Coulee Dam, under construction since 1935, would open in 1942 and provide the power required to make sheet aluminum to build airplanes. The first aluminum plant in Spokane would be the Trentwood rolling mill, built between the Spokane River and Trent Avenue, between Evergreen and Sullivan Roads. This was quickly followed by the Mead plant, where a line of electric melting pots would pour molten aluminum in large ingots that the Trentwood plant would roll into sheet metal. A few months later, a magnesium plant was added near Hillyard
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