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Произведения автора582007
USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was a Casablanca class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was the first ship to carry her name.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood".
Smelting
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes iron extraction from iron ore, and copper extraction and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to change the oxidation state of the metal ore; the reducing agent is commonly a source of carbon such as coke, or in earlier times charcoal. The carbon or carbon monoxide derived from it removes oxygen from the ore to leave the metal. The carbon is thus oxidized in two stages, producing first carbon monoxide and then carbon dioxide. As most ores are impure, it is often necessary to use flux, such as limestone, to remove the accompanying rock gangue...
Pluralism (political philosophy)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pluralism is, in the general sense, the acknowledgment of diversity. The concept is used, often in different ways, in a wide range of issues. In politics, pluralism is often considered by proponents of modern democracy to be in the interests of its citizens, and so political pluralism is one of its most important features.
Newport Municipal Airport (Arkansas)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Newport Municipal Airport (FAA LID: M19) is a general aviation airport located 5 miles NE of Newport, Arkansas.
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nathan Gregory Silvermaster (November 27, 1898 – October 7, 1964), an economist with the United States War Production Board (WPB) during World War II, was the head of a large ring of Communist spies in the U.S. government. It is from him that the FBI Silvermaster File , documenting the Bureau`s investigation into Communist penetration of the Federal government during the Cold War, takes its name. His wife, Helen and stepson, Anatole Volkov, were members of his ring.
USS Hanna (DE-449)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Hanna (DE-449) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships in convoy, in addition to other tasks as assigned, such as patrol or radar picket. She proudly returned home with five battle stars to her credit after she was reactivated for Korean War duty.
Supertram (Sheffield)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Supertram, officially called the Stagecoach Supertram, is a light rail tram system in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is owned by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE), who own the infrastructure, and Stagecoach who operate and maintain the vehicles.
USS Deede (DE-263)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Deede (DE-263) was an Evarts-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. The ship was named after LeRoy Clifford Deede, LTJG, USNR.
Silverstone Circuit
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Silverstone Circuit is an English motor racing circuit next to the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. The circuit straddles the Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire border, with the current main circuit entry on the Buckinghamshire side. The Northamptonshire towns of Towcester (5 miles) and Brackley (7 miles) and Buckinghamshire town of Buckingham (6 miles) are close by, and the nearest large towns are Northampton and Milton Keynes.
Nathan Abshire
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nathan Abshire (June 27, 1913 near Gueydan, Louisiana – May 13, 1981, Basile, Louisiana) was an American Cajun accordion player who, along with Iry LeJeune, was responsible for the renaissance of the accordion in Cajun music in the 1940s.
USS Growler (SS-215)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Growler (SS-215), a Gato-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy named for the growler, a large-mouth black bass. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 2 November 1941 (sponsored by Mrs. Robert L. Ghormley), and commissioned on 20 March 1942 with Lieutenant Commander Howard W. Gilmore in command.
USS Hank (DD-702)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Hank (DD-702), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was named for Lieutenant Commander William Hank.
Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sierra Nevada (Spanish: , snowy mountain range) is a mountain range in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, between the California Central Valley and the Basin and Range Province. The Sierra runs 400 miles (640 km) north-to-south, and is approximately 70 miles (110 km) across east-to-west. Notable Sierra features include Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America; Mount Whitney at 14,505 feet (4,421 m), the highest point in the contiguous United States; and Yosemite Valley sculpted by glaciers out of 100-million-year-old granite. The Sierra is home to three national parks, 20 wilderness areas, and two national monuments. These areas include Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings...
Nasjonal Samling
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nasjonal Samling (Norwegian pronunciation: , National Gathering, National Unification, or informally National Socialist Party), abbreviated NS, was a fascist party in Norway that was active in from 1933 to 1945. Founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters such as Johan Bernhard Hjort – who was to lead the party`s paramilitary wing (the Hird) for a short time before leaving the party in 1937 after internal conflict. The party claimed to have been founded on the 17 May, Norway`s national holiday, but was in fact founded on 13 May.
USS Grouper (SS-214)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Grouper (SS/SSK/AGSS-214), a Gato-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grouper, a salt-water fish noted as a gamefish and for its food values.
Newbridge, County Kildare
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Newbridge (officially called by its Irish name Droichead Nua) is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. Its population of 18,520 (2006 Census) makes it the second largest town in County Kildare and the seventeenth largest in the Republic of Ireland.
Nasim Hasan Shah
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Born in Lahore on April 15, 1929 to Syed Mohsin Shah, an eminent advocate and political activist, Justice Dr. Nasim Hasan Shah, a former Chief Justice of Pakistan, gained international respect and recognition when he restored the sovereignty of the Parliament in Pakistan; the first such instance in the country`s turbulent constitutional history. The Supreme Court held that dissolution order was based on an incorrect appreciation of the role assigned to the president and of the powers vested in him by the constitution. The Prime Minister is not answerable to the President. In fact, it is the president who is obliged to act on the advice of the Prime Minister except when he enjoys discretionary...
Pixel
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, (picture element) is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled.
PVT (band)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! PVT (also known as Pivot) is an experimental rock band based in London and Sydney.
USS Grimes (APA-172)
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Grimes (APA-172) was a Haskell-class attack transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of transporting troops to and from combat areas.
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