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Dudley Clarke (1899–1974) was an officer in the British Army, known as a pioneer of military deception operations during the Second World War. His ideas for combining fictional orders of battle, visual deception and double agents helped define Allied deception strategy during the war. Clarke trained with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and then led a varied career doing intelligence work in the Middle East. In 1936 he was posted to Palestine, where he helped organise the British response to the 1936 Arab uprising. Early in the Second World War, Clarke proposed, and helped implement, an idea for commando raids into France. In 1940, he was placed in charge of strategic deception in Cairo, and was called to London in 1941 as his deception work had come to the attention of Allied high command. Throughout 1942 Clarke implemented Operation Cascade, an order of battle deception which added many fictional units to the Allied formations; by the end of the war the enemy accepted most of the formations as real. From 1942 to 1945, Clarke continued to organise deception in North Africa and southern Europe. He retired in 1947 and lived the rest of his life in relative obscurity. (Full article...) Recently featured: Hudson Valley Rail Trail – Adelaide leak – New Forest pony Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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Sri Lankan Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake is dismissed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa following her contested impeachment. In the Central African Republic, the government signs a ceasefire agreement with rebels, ending a month of conflict and establishing a new coalition government. France commits troops to aid government forces in the current Northern Mali conflict. Sakine Cansız, one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, and two other Kurdish activists are shot dead in Paris. More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan. Recent deaths: Aaron Swartz Syrian civil war – Wikinews – More current events...
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January 16: Teachers' Day in Thailand 27 BC – Gaius Octavianus was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate when he became the first Roman emperor. 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult attacked the amphibious evacuation of the British under Sir John Moore in Corunna, Galicia, Spain. 1919 – The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight states, establishing the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. 1938 – Benny Goodman (pictured) performed a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall which has been considered instrumental in establishing jazz as a legitimate form of music. 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and his staff moved into the Führerbunker, where he would eventually commit suicide. More anniversaries: January 15 – January 16 – January 17 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now January 16, 2013 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Nasser Al-Attiyah, a Qatari rally driver, in a Ford Fiesta S2000 at the 2010 Rally Finland. He is the only Arab to have won the Dakar Rally, a feat he achieved in 2011. In addition to driving, Al-Attiyah is a sport shooter and won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in skeet.

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