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Students hold placards and flowers during a sit-in protest in Beirut January 17 , 2011, organized by Lebanese activists and Tunisians living in Lebanon to show solidarity and support for the people in Tunisia. Reuters/Jamal Saidi. Breaking news on the evening of February 25, 2011, notes that Twitter video shows men said to be Libyan Navy members in Benghazi declaring solidarity with the " Feb. 17th Revolution ." What is the " February 17th Revolution "? It appears to be the name of the group or uprising in Libya that dates to the public actions commencing on that date, which resulted in the severe violent reactions from Gadhafi's henchmen. Fox News from St. Paul-Minneapolis issued a report on Feb. 22, saying, in part:  Libyan-Americans living in Minnesota spoke with FOX 9 News about the news coming out of their home country. “What can I do?” asked one man, who asked only to be identified as Ali. “It’s very shocking.” Ali is a real estate broker living in Hugo,

Ion Hobana (January 25, 1931 - February 22, 2011), well-known ufologist and Romania's best-known science fiction writer, whose writings were internationally translated, has died. He was 80. One of his more famous books on ufology is UFO's From Behind The Iron Curtain . He was the President of the Romanian Organization for UFO Studies. Sorin Hobana said his father died late Tuesday, February 22, 2011, in a Bucharest hospital, according to the Associated Press. Hobana's stories were published in international anthologies, including  The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction and Twenty Houses of the Zodiac . November 2010 saw his last book, a history of French science fiction before 1900, published. Ion Hobana. Photo credit: Ovni-Ufologie Two volumes on UFOs, co-authored by Julian Weverbergh were published in the Netherlands. The books were translated into English, French and Spanish. His books on ufology include: OZN - o sfidare pentru raţiunea umană (Editura Encicloped