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Произведения автора582007
Syd Lucas
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Syd(ney) Maurice Lucas (21 September 1900 – 4 November 2008) was, at age 108, one of three remaining British Tommies of World War I (along with Harry Patch and Netherwood Hughes), although the war ended before he was sent to fight. He was born in Leicester, England, and conscripted into the British Army`s Sherwood Foresters while a teenager in August 1918. He was also, along with his compatriots Claude Choules and Bill Stone, and France`s Fernand Goux, one of the four remaining veterans in the world to have served in both World Wars. Like Choules, he lived in Australia, in Rosebud, Victoria, the same state as the last Australian veteran John Campbell Ross.
Platoon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A platoon is a military unit typically composed of two to four sections or squads and containing 16 to 50 soldiers. Platoons are organized into a company, which typically consists of three, four or five platoons. A platoon is typically the smallest military unit led by a commissioned officer—the platoon leader or platoon commander, usually a lieutenant. He is usually assisted by a senior non-commissioned officer—the platoon sergeant.
Remote Desktop Protocol
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to another computer. The protocol is an extension of the ITU-T T.128 application sharing protocol. Clients exist for most versions of Microsoft Windows (including Windows Mobile), Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Android, and other modern operating systems. By default the server listens on TCP port 3389.
Roger Trinquier
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roger Trinquier (20 March 1908 – 11 January 1986) was a French Army officer during World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, serving mainly in airborne and Special forces units. He was also a Counter-insurgency theorist, mainly with his book “Modern Warfare”.
Rocky Marciano
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rocky Marciano (September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was an American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. Marciano is the only champion to hold the heavyweight title and go undefeated throughout his career. Marciano defended his title six times. He holds notable wins over Ezzard Charles and Joe Louis.
Thornton Wilder
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Roberto Farinacci
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roberto Farinacci (October 16, 1892 — April 28, 1945) was a leading Italian Fascist politician, and important member of the National Fascist Party (PNF) before and during World War II, and one of its ardent anti-Semitic proponents.
Robert Menzies
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978), Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia. His first term as Prime Minister commenced in 1939, after the death in office of the United Australia Party leader Joseph Lyons and a short-term interim premiership by Sir Earle Page. His party narrowly won the 1940 election, which produced a hung parliament, with the support of independent MPs in the House. A year later, his government was brought down by those same MPs crossing the floor. He spent eight years in opposition, during which he founded the Liberal Party of Australia. He again became Prime Minister at the 1949...
West Germanic languages
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three traditional branches of the Germanic family of languages and include languages such as German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, the Frisian languages, and Yiddish. The other two of these three traditional branches of the Germanic languages are the North and East Germanic languages.
Orbifold
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the mathematical disciplines of topology, geometry, and geometric group theory, an orbifold (for "orbit-manifold") is a generalization of a manifold. It is a topological space (called the underlying space) with an orbifold structure (see below).
PlanetMath
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is hosted by the Digital Library Research Lab at Virginia Tech. The site is owned by a US-based nonprofit corporation, "PlanetMath.org, Ltd."
Non-standard analysis
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Non-standard analysis is a branch of mathematics that formulates analysis using a rigorous notion of an infinitesimal number.
Shadows of Memory
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shadows of Memory is a 2000 documentary by Claudia von Alemann that describes the rise and fall of Hitler from the perspective of a Nazi supporter—Alemann`s 84-year-old mother.
Peak Practice
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series.
Undergraduate education
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Undergraduate education is an education level taken prior to gaining a first degree (except for an associate`s degree). Hence, in many subjects in many educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a bachelor`s degree, such as in the United States, where a university entry level is known as undergraduate while students of higher degrees are known as graduates. In some other educational systems and subjects, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a master`s degree, for example in some science and engineering courses in Britain and some medicine courses in Europe.
Sugar beet
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Platonism
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Platonism is the philosophy of Plato or the name of other philosophical systems considered closely derived from it. In a narrower sense the term might indicate the doctrine of Platonic realism. The central concept of Platonism is the distinction between that reality which is perceptible, but not intelligible, and that which is intelligible, but imperceptible; to this distinction the Theory of Forms is essential. The forms are typically described in dialogues such as the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic as transcendent, perfect archetypes, of which objects in the everyday world are imperfect copies. In the Republic the highest form is identified as the Form of the Good, the source of all other...
Ouvrage Rimplas
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ouvrage Rimplas is a work (gros ouvrage) of the Maginot Line`s Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, known also as the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block, two infantry blocks and three artillery blocks at an altitude of 986 metres (3,235 ft). It was the first ouvrage of any portion of the Maginot Line to be completed, in 1928. The ouvrage features an aerial tram entrance.
Second Italian War of Independence
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Second War of Italian Independence, Franco-Austrian War, Austro-Sardinian War, or Austro-Piedmontese War (also known as the Campaign of Italy, Campagne d`Italie, in France), was fought by Napoleon III of France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859. In respect to the Italian unification process, this war is also known as the Second Independence War.
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