Decade ("60s" or "sixties"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in "The Great Depression of the 1930s" or "The Roaring Twenties". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year "zero", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its "first" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the "second" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although "the 1960s" comprises the years
Roaring Creek Station in the station to AT&T for $55 million in January 1988. Roaring Creek Station Roaring Creek Earth Station is a satellite ground station operated by AT&T and located approximately south of Catawissa, Pennsylvania. The facility includes three dishes that handle much of the communications between the United States and Europe and the Middle East. According to James Bamford, the National Security Agency uses the facility to capture and monitor satellite telecommunications traveling in and out of the United States. Roaring Creek Station opened in June 1984 under the co-ownership of COMSAT (50 percent), AT&T (47.5 percent), RCA and Western Union