The population was 10,972 at the 2010 census.

One of my colleagues at the Times did a great story about soldiers in Iraq who could look down a street and detect somehow whether there was an IED, a landmine, in the street.

The Japanese mine laying policy was effective at restricting the Russian movement of its ships outside Port Arthur when on 12 April 1904, two Russian battleships the flagship and the ran into a Japanese minefield off Port Arthur with both striking mines.