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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bass (SF-5/SS-164), a Barracuda-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bass. Her keel was laid at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched as V-2 (SF-5) on 27 December 1924 sponsored by Mrs. Douglas E. Dismukes, wife of Captain Dismukes, and commissioned on 26 September 1925, Lieutenant Commander G.A. Rood in command.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barbel (SS-580) was the lead ship of her class of submarines in the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named for the barbel, a cyprinoid fish, commonly called a minnow or carp.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barrow (APA-61) was a Gilliam class attack transport serving in the United States Navy during World War II. The unnamed attack transport APA-61 was laid down on January 28, 1944 at Wilmington, California, by the Consolidated Steel Corporation, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1854); named for Barrow County, Georgia, on March 11, 1944; launched on May 11, 1944; accepted by the Navy on September 27, 1944; and commissioned on September 28, 1944 at San Pedro, California, Lieutenant Commander Herman Jorgensen, USNR, in command. She was named for a county in north central Georgia

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barr (DE-576/APD-39), originally a Buckley-class destroyer escort, and later a Charles Lawrence-class of the United States Navy named for Pvt. Woodrow Wilson Barr of Keyser, West Virginia.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij is a steam railway line running from the city of Apeldoorn to the town of Dieren in the Netherlands. On its way from Apeldoorn, it passes through the following villages: Lieren / Beekbergen, Loenen, Eerbeek on the Veluwe, a region in the Netherlands.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yeo Valley Organic is part of a family-owned farming and dairy company based in the village of Blagdon, in the Yeo Valley, and in Cannington, near Bridgwater, Somerset, England

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barracuda (SSK-1/SST-3/SS-550), the lead ship of her class, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barracuda, a voracious, pike-like fish. Her keel was laid down on 1 July 1949 by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 2 March 1951 as K-1 sponsored by Mrs. Willis Manning Thomas, and commissioned on 10 November 1951 with Lieutenant Commander F. A. Andrews in command. Notably, United States President Jimmy Carter served as an officer on the SSK-1 during its first year.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barb (SS-220), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barbus.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yennora is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Yennora is located 29 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Fairfield and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yenisei Gulf (Russian: Енисейский залив) is a large and long estuary through which the lower Yenisei River flows into the Kara Sea. The Yenisei Gulf is formed by the river widening to an average of 50 km for up to 250 km in a roughly north-south direction, between a latitude of 70° 30` N in the area around Munguy settlement, north of Dudinka. The whole region of the lower Yenisei is bleak and sparsely inhabited, and the settlements are built on permafrost ground. There is no vegetation except for mosses, lichens and some grass.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barbican (ACM-5) was a Chimo-class minelayer in the United States Navy.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barrier (AM-150) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. In 1945, she was transferred to the Soviet Navy under Lend-Lease as T-522. The Soviets scrapped T-522, probably in 1956, never having returned her to U.S. custody. Because of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy was unaware of this fate and the vessel remained on the American Naval Vessel Register until she was struck on 1 January 1983.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barney (DD–149) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War II, later redesignated AG-113. She was the second ship named for Commodore Joshua Barney.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Veluwezoom National Park is a national park located in the Dutch province of Gelderland. This park is the oldest national park of the Netherlands. It is an area of 50 square kilometers at the southeastern edge of the Veluwe, a complex of terminal push moraines from the Saalian glaciation. It has a pronounced relief by dutch standards, with the highest point in the park at 110 meters above sea level.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Francisco Matos Paoli March 9, 1915 - July 10, 2000), was a poet, critic, and essayist who in 1977 was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Paoli was also a Secretary General of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and a renowned Puerto Rican patriot. In 1950 he was imprisoned for having a Puerto Rican Flag in his home, and for speaking on behalf of Puerto Rico`s independence.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Qibya massacre, also known as the Qibya incident, occurred in October 1953 when Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. Sixty-nine Palestinian Arabs, two thirds of them women and children were killed. Forty-five houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed.