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  • into the Arakan Peninsula. The operations ended in disaster, during which Slim was restored to command of XV Corps, albeit too late to salvage the situation ...
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  • have not yet thought of. Such a planet-wide disaster need not result in human extinction if the human race were to be able to colonize additional ...
    67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
  • also have responsibility for fire service, disaster relief, and maritime surveillance. [[Image:SolomonIslandsMap.png|350px|thumb|Map of the Solomon ...
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  • River Delta. The campaign culminated in a disaster on a very large scale; the ... according to Thucydides, his death was a disaster for Athens, since his successors ...
    80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
  • of human society, which would end in disaster. Former admirers of Burke, such as Thomas Jefferson and fellow Whig politician Charles James Fox ...
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  • widely used by humanitarian agencies to reach disaster zones as it has been by the military in the prosecution of armed conflict. ==History== ...
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  • to purchase rank, as a direct result of the disaster at the Battle of Balaclava. ==Major events of the war== * Some action also took place on ...
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  • sea, and made little progress on land after the disaster of Custoza. An armistice was signed, by which Austria did cede Venetia to Italy, but this result ...
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  • from a military point of view, but a political disaster due to external forces. Along with Suez, the United States was also dealing with the near ...
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  • from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986, and subsequent ... === Chernobyl disaster=== [[File:Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 2011 ...
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  • in communication for rescue work when a sea disaster occurred. Effective communication was able to exist between ships and from ship to shore. ...
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  • souls of dead warriors, an omen foretelling disaster (especially war or famine). In Scotland, the northern lights were known as "the merry ...
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  • for at the time of French intervention. True disaster came to what remained of France's colonial empire in 1791 when Saint Domingue (comprised ...
    25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
  • meters among his other accomplishments. But disaster struck again, as he finished fourth in the 500 meters and twenty-sixth in the 1,000 meters. So ...
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  • ears,Stephen Turnbull, Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights ... * Turnbull, Stephen. Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights ...
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  • Force (BEF). Montgomery predicted a disaster similar to that in 1914 ... the operation ended in an unmitigated disaster with the destruction of ...
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  • location, and its susceptibility to natural disaster. Kathmandu has problems with contaminated water supply, while earthquakes and pollution have damaged ...
    24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
  • British leaders realized the scale of the disaster. Haig appointed Lieutenant ... long-held consensus that the battle was a disaster; asserting that the Battle ...
    54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
  • of his Mosè in Egitto led to a disaster in the scene depicting the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea. When the defects in stage ...
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  • [[Image:Dee bridge disaster.jpg|thumb|The Dee bridge after its collapse]] ... The Dee bridge disaster was followed by a number of cast iron bridge ...
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