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Operation Kita was conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Pacific War in February 1945 to return both Ise-class hybrid battleship-aircraft carriers(Ise pictured) and their escorts to Japan from Singapore, where they had been based since November 1944. Before departing, the Japanese ships (designated the Completion Force) were loaded with oil and other raw materials to help bring supplies through the Allied blockade of Japan. The Completion Force sailed on 10 February 1945 and was sighted leaving port by a Royal Navy submarine. The Allies, who had learned of the Completion Force's composition and goals from decrypting Japanese radio signals, planned coordinated attacks by U.S. submarines and aircraft. All attempts failed and the Completion Force reached its destination of Kure, Japan, on 20 February without suffering any casualties. Due to the intensifying Allied blo • Shortly after the turn of the century (2000/2001) I was asked to put together a collection of Russian plays for a well-known Russian publisher whose books come out in English. I translated several plays myself, commissioned a few others, pulled them all together, wrote the introduction, and submitted the manuscript. Several months later the publisher informed me that she had consulted with some expert in the UK and that expert had told her the collection was not worth publishing. She chose to accept the expert’s opinion over mine. I ended up paying a couple of the fees for translations out of my own pocket. I think the abandoned intro still stands as a decent picture of Russian drama at the turn of the century, before the New Drama Festival came into being, before Teatr.doc was born, before the corner in new writing in Russia was turned. My comment that the best new plays being written at the time were “poetic” puts me out of sync with the future (Teatr.doc, verba • Welcome to Brusnika Hotel Nagornaya: Your Affordable Stay in Moscow |