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Произведения автора582007
RAF Coltishall
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The former Royal Air Force Station Coltishall, more commonly known as RAF Coltishall (IATA: CLF, ICAO: EGYC), was a Royal Air Force station, a military airbase, 10 miles (16 km) North-North-East of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, from 1938 to 2006.
Pacific Theater of Operations
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) was the World War II area of military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it, a geographic scope that reflected the operational and administrative command structures of the American forces during that period. (The other areas of the Pacific War -- the China Burma India Theater, the South-East Asian Theatre, and Manchurian Theatre -- had their own respective command structures, independent of PTO.)
USS Intrepid (CV-11)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. Her notable achievements include being the recovery...
Operation Cascade
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Cascade was the codename for an Allied deception operation during World War II for the Middle East and North Africa. Operation Cascade was one of the first successful Allied deception operations in World War II, and provided valuable experience for later operations.
USS Eagle Boat 56 (PE-56)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Eagle 56 (PE-56) was a United States Navy World War I-era patrol boat that remained in service through World War II. On 23 April 1945, while towing targets for US Navy bomber exercises off the coast of Maine, Eagle 56 was sunk by the German submarine U-853. Only 13 of the 67 crew survived. The loss was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the US Navy to reclassify the sinking as a combat loss due to enemy action.
Operation Excess
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Excess was a series of supply convoys to Malta, Alexandria and Greece in January 1941.
USS Grayson (DD-435)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Grayson (DD-435), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Cary Travers Grayson, who served as personal physician and aide to President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. He also served as chairman of the American Red Cross from 1935 until his death 15 February 1938.
North Sea oil
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! North Sea oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons, comprising liquid oil and natural gas, produced from oil reservoirs beneath the North Sea.
USS Advance (AMc-63)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Advance (AMc-63) was an Accentor-class coastal minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.
Westland New Post
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Westland New Post (WNP) was a Belgian extreme right-wing organization founded in March 1981 by Paul Latinus and members of the Front de la Jeunesse (FJ). The Front de la Jeunesse was in 1983 convicted for being a private militia.
Polyandry
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Polyandry (Greek: poly- many, andras- man) refers to a form of marriage in which a woman has two or more husbands at the same time. The form of polyandry in which a woman is married to two or more brothers is known as "fraternal polyandry", and it is believed by many anthropologists to be the most frequently encountered form.
Reasonable person
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The reasonable person (historically reasonable man) is a legal fiction of the common law that represents an objective standard against which any individual`s conduct can be measured. It is used to determine if a breach of the standard of care has occurred, provided a duty of care can be proven.
Quadrilateral
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Euclidean plane geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides (or `edges`) and four vertices or corners. Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used, by analogy with triangle, and sometimes tetragon for consistency with pentagon (5-sided), hexagon (6-sided) and so on. The word quadrilateral is made of the words quad (meaning "four") and lateral (meaning "of sides").
Sun Myung Moon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920) is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects. Among of the best-known of these are News World Communications, an international media conglomerate which published The Washington Times and other newspapers, and the Tongil Group, a South Korean business group or chaebol with business interests world-wide. Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han are also famous for holding blessing ceremonies, often referred to as "mass weddings".
Toyota iQ
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Toyota iQ is a city car introduced at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show, with Japanese sales having begun in October 2008 and European sales in January 2009. The production iQ followed a concept vehicle presented at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show. A North American version of the iQ, branded as the Scion iQ, is slated for release in the U.S. beginning in October 2011 with the West Coast states and Canada.
KDLT tower
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The KDLT tower is a 609.2 metres (1,999 ft) high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM and TV programmes in Rowena, South Dakota, USA. The KDLT tower was completed in 1998 and is owned by Red River Broadcast Co., LLC.
Operation Murambatsvina
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Murambatsvina (English: Operation Drive Out Rubbish), also officially known as Operation Restore Order, is a large-scale Zimbabwean government campaign to forcibly clear slum areas across the country. The campaign started in 2005 and according to United Nations estimates has affected at least 700,000 people directly through loss of their home or livelihood and thus could have indirectly affected around 2.4 million people.Robert Mugabe and other government officials characterize the operation as a crackdown against illegal housing and commercial activities, and as an effort to reduce the risk of the spread of infectious disease in these areas.
Population density
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Population density (in agriculture standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key geographic term.
Upper Canada
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Province of Upper Canada (French: province du Haut-Canada) was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution. The new province remained the government of the colonial territory for the next fifty years of growth and settlement.
Spoke
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface.
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