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Speech act
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Speech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin`s doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts. ``Speech acts`` are commonly taken to include such acts as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating.
USS Awatobi (YTB-264)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Awatobi (YTB-264) was a harbor tugboat acquired by the U.S. Navy during the close of World War II. She was outfitted with two .50-caliber machine guns and assigned to the San Francisco Bay area where she provided tug services, and other harbor services as required.
Speech
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually to about 10,000 different words) vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units differ, creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Human speakers (polyglots) are often able to communicate in two or more of them. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also provide humans with the ability...
Religion in Cameroon
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christianity and Islam are the two main religions in Cameroon. Christian churches and Muslim centres of various denominations operate freely throughout Cameroon. Approximately 70 percent of the population is at least nominally Christian, 21 percent is nominally Muslim and 6 percent practise traditional indigenous religious beliefs. Groups that constitute less than 5 percent of the population include Orthodox Jews, the Bahai Faith, and persons who do not associate themselves with any particular religious movement. The Christian population is divided between Roman Catholics (38.4 percent of the total population), Protestants (26.3 percent), and other Christian denominations (including Jehovah`s...
Spectr-H64
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In cryptography, Spectr-H64 is a block cipher designed in 2001 by N. D. Goots, A. A. Moldovyan and N. A. Moldovyan. It relies heavily on the permutation of individual bits, so is much better suited to implementation in hardware than in software.
Walter C. Wetzel
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter C. Wetzel (died April 3, 1945) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military`s highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Unity Mitford
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Unity Valkyrie Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a member of the aristocratic Mitford family, tracing its origins in Northumberland back to the 11th century Norman settlement of England. Unity Mitford`s sister Diana was married to Oswald Mosley, leader of British Union of Fascists. In Britain and Germany, Unity was a prominent and public supporter of fascism and from 1936, a part of Hitler`s inner circle of friends and confidants for five years. Following the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide, although subsequently doubt of the attempt was cast in the media, following the declassification of MI5 government documentation.
Immunosuppression
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Immunosuppression involves an act that reduces the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immuno-suppressive effects on other parts of the immune system, and immunosuppression may occur as an adverse reaction to treatment of other conditions.
WWE Brand Extension
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; 1982–2002) and World Wrestling Entertainment (2002–2011), currently promotes its core business of professional wrestling through two "brands" (that are intended to operate on television as scripted independent branches of the company) named after their two major television shows Raw and SmackDown. Upon the completion of the Monday Night Wars in 2001, a brand rivalry between promotions: World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the WWF, the latter company emerged superior. This eventually led to the WWF acquiring all assets of WCW and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW; the third largest promotion in the United States during this point in...
William G. Harrell
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William George Harrell (June 16, 1922–August 9, 1964) was a United States Marine who was awarded his nation`s highest military honor — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Relief Society
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Relief Society (RS) is a philanthropic and educational women`s organization and an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was founded in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois, USA and has approximately 6 million members in over 170 countries and territories. The Relief Society is often referred to by the church and others as "one of the oldest and largest women`s organizations in the world."
USS Athanasia (AF-41)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Athanasia (AF-41) was an Adria-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas.
Special Protection Area
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Special Protection Area or SPA is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.
Regions of England
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In England, the region is the highest tier of sub-national division used by central Government. Between 1994 and 2011, the nine regions had an administrative role in the implementation of UK Government policy, and as the areas covered by (mostly indirectly) elected bodies. They are defined as first level NUTS regions ("NUTS 1 regions") within the European Union.
USS Atascosa (AO-66)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Atascosa (AO-66) was an Atascosa-class fleet oiler acquired by the U.S. Navy for use in World War II. She had the dangerous task of supplying fuel and ammunition to ships in and near, combat areas in both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The US Eighth Air Force in World War II, later designated the United States Strategic and Tactical Air Forces (USSTAF) was the first and became the overall command and control authority of the United States Army Air Forces against the European Axis members (and as Eighth Air Force, responsible in and for the Northern Europe Theater) during World War II, where it`d started as a complementary command to that of the smaller theater organized Ninth Air Force, Twelfth Air Force and Fifteenth Air Forces. As the oldest command, initially beginning the earliest American operations in Europe as VIII Bomber Command, the Eighth had provided British liaison and strategic tasking guidance over each of those...
Special Area of Conservation
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Special Area of Conservation (SAC) is defined in the European Union`s Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora. They are to protect the 220 habitats and approximately 1000 species listed in annex I and II of the directive which are considered to be of European interest following criteria given in the directive. They must be chosen from the Sites of Community Importance by the State Members and designated SAC by an act assuring the conservation measures of the natural habitat.
USS Arequipa (AF-31)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Arequipa (AF-31) was an Adria-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in the fleet, and to remote stations and staging areas.
United States Navy Armed Guard
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! United States Navy Armed Guard units were established during World War I in an attempt to provide defensive firepower to merchant ships in convoy or merchant ships traveling alone. This was done because of the constant danger from enemy submarines, surface raiders, fighter aircraft and bombers, and because of the shortage of Allied escort vessels necessary to provide the merchant vessels with adequate protection.
Red
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared (below red), and cannot be seen by the naked eye. Red is used as one of the additive primary colors of light, complementary to cyan, in RGB color systems. Red is also one of the subtractive primary colors of RYB color space but not CMYK color space. Sometimes certain shades of red are even used to symbolize anger, or aggression.
United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory was a highly secret design and manufacturing site for code-breaking machinery located in Building 26 of the National Cash Register (NCR) company in Dayton, Ohio and operated by the United States Navy during World War II. It is now on the List of IEEE Milestones, and one of its machines is on display at the National Cryptologic Museum.
William F. Buckley, Jr
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for extensive vocabulary.
Space environment
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Space environment is a branch of astronautics, aerospace engineering and space physics that seeks to understand and address conditions existing in space that affect the operation of spacecraft. A related subject - space weather - deals with dynamic processes in the solar-terrestrial system that can give rise to effects on spacecraft, but that can also affect the atmosphere, ionosphere and geomagnetic field, giving rise to several other kinds of effects on human technologies.
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