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- Category:Military A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- authorities made a show of overwhelming military force. The strike spread ... ===British military presence=== One battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers ...44 KB (6,886 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- Army officer and creator of special military units in World War II and ... Wingate was born February 26, 1903 in Naini Tal, India to a military ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- Forces Base Esquimalt, the Canadian military’s main Pacific naval base. ... schools, foodstuff manufacturing, light aircraft manufacturing (Viking Air ...26 KB (3,658 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2023
- the UAE. Dubai shares legal, political, military, and economic functions ... Airline receives the Boeing 777-200LR aircraft—part of its November 2005 ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- Kirov became commander of the Bolshevik military administration in ... secret by Vasili Ulrikh, Chairman of the Military Collegium of the Supreme ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- regarded as one of the most prominent military saints. Christian folklore ... following year at Jerusalem. Chivalric military Order of St. George were ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- to the attack on Pearl Harbor and joined the military. ==World War II== of 1943, he began service on the light aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- part of Mexico, under American military occupation as the result ... oil drillers, movie makers, airplane builders, Douglas Aircraft, Lockheed ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- === Military === century, although it has an expeditionary military peacekeeping unit known ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- Africa, and refused permission for the aircraft carrying the Springbok rugby ... Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and in October 2007 ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- The island can be reached by private boat, by ferry, by small aircraft ... wood, is a European adaptation of Islamic military architecture. Mackinac Island ...24 KB (3,463 words) - 22:57, 7 May 2023
- expedition into the Negev, then a closed military zone requiring a permit ... couple married after Sonya finished her military service as a truck driver ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- by Percy Spencer. In 1934, the British military began to make strides toward ... systems (HVAC); and various subsystems of aircraft and automobiles. ...26 KB (3,608 words) - 15:50, 13 February 2024
- After Harrow he went to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He ... 1895, he went to Cuba while on leave as a military observer during the Spanish ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- and Chemical Technology, Part 7, Military Technology; the Gunpowder ... more dangerous. At the present time, aircraft are not designed to withstand ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- to become a cavalry officer at the Military School of Karlberg. He took ... 039;s defense plan, training them in anti-aircraft work and as medical assistants ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- Missouri, while Joseph completed his military service at nearby Fort Leonard ... Also in 1996, after Cuban military pilots shot down two small civilian ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- measures. The introduction of compulsory military service in France in 1798 ... the German Confederation, with a Prussian military garrison housed in the capital ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The United States maintained two large military bases in the region; U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay was 75 km (50 mi.) to the southwest, while Clark ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- The Alaska Commercial Company and the military also contributed to the ... been possible without the development of aircraft, which allowed for an influx ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- ballistic vests have become standard in military use, as soft body armor ... a helmet. Vests intended for police and military use may also include ballistic ...58 KB (9,062 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- tenure. Kim strengthened the role of the military by his Songun ("military ... biography states he was born in a secret military camp on Paektu Mountain ...64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
- The White House was surrounded by the military but the troops defected ... In December 1994, Yeltsin ordered the military invasion of Chechnya ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
- impress foreign peoples with China's military might. He ruthlessly suppressed ... expense, China launched annual military expeditions to weaken the ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- a radio controlled boat to the U.S. military, believing that the military ... of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. In 1934, Tesla wrote to ...61 KB (9,138 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- served as an important railroad and military supply hub. In 1864, the ... During World War II, manufacturing such as the Bell Aircraft factory ...39 KB (5,622 words) - 06:05, 21 August 2023
- Russians also dominated the Soviet military and the Communist Party ... Despite this acceptance, post-Soviet Russia lacked the military and ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- a glow plug within a diesel or model aircraft engine. Excessive heat can ... Diesel engines were first tried in aircraft in the 1930s. A number ...60 KB (9,401 words) - 14:31, 29 January 2024
- the Ayyubid dynasty, a Turco-Circassian military caste, the Mamluks, took ... the dissolution of the parliament in a military coup d'état known ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- monetary, political, diplomatic and military assistance, he formed the ... freedom only if it had political, military and diplomatic support from ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- airport runway is unable to accommodate large aircraft. ... quot; and welcomed offers of foreign military help. Australia, Malaysia ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- noisy environments. One such use is in aircraft cockpits where they are ... *Locating objects by sound: acoustic source localization, e.g. military ...49 KB (7,389 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- #039;s taxes, social security system, the military, international relations ... Although Scotland has a long military tradition that predates the ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and ... boy and was widely read on classical military history, particularly the ...100 KB (15,023 words) - 13:47, 12 November 2022
- officers of the United States military. (At one time it was thought ... United States and take part in supersonic aircraft development for the U.S ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- wooden boats and wooden airplanes for the military. Through the end of World ... on both the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 aircraft. Among the many worldwide ...25 KB (3,633 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- The Philippines became a military base for the United States in the ... Camp O'Donnell, remained. All U.S. military and air force bases were ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- government spent heavily on the military, created a bloated civil ... Yugoslavia out of the war. But senior military officers opposed to the ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- {{Infobox Military Conflict |conflict=Battle of Trafalgar ... Empire, under Napoleon, was the dominant military land power on the European ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- also valuable for spacecraft and certain military applications. A fuel cell ... this technology with NASA and McDonnell Aircraft, leading to its use during ...40 KB (5,810 words) - 07:10, 15 April 2024
- electronic. There were indeed few non-military applications of electronics ... electronic location of enemy targets and aircraft. These included radio beam ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... were ordered to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- through the Great Depression and led the military alliance that defeated Nazi ... plans to rapidly build up the American military, but the remaining isolationists ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- He increased military spending, and set the Indian Army on course to fight the emerging threat of terrorism and insurgencies, as well as Pakistan ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- the Negro leagues. He served in the U.S. military for two years, played for ... served as a flag bearer in the 45th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion at Fort ...48 KB (7,068 words) - 20:11, 27 April 2024
- in 1662, expelling the Dutch Empire and military from the island. Koxinga ... Taiwan held strategic wartime importance as Imperial Japanese military ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- policy on homosexuals serving in the military. In foreign policy, he ended ... college in Hawaii. When Suharto, a military leader in Soetoro's ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- of the Ukrainian SSR. More than a dozen military schools and academies were ... Kiev has the headquarters for Antonov Aircraft Manufacturing company. Kiev ...26 KB (3,695 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- be found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft to industrial robots, digital ... locations since the 1950s, with the U.S. military's SAGE system the first ...50 KB (7,240 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- Theater during World War II, Shultz met military nurse lieutenant Helena ... Taiwan, especially over the sale of military aircraft, resulted in a crisis ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- of 1904–1905, Gunji, a retired Japanese military man and local settler in ... 000 in 1944 and maintained more than 400 aircraft in Kurils and Hokkaidō ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Robert E. Lee, then considered the best military commander. But Lee turned ... war strategy despite his inexperience in military affairs. Lincoln's ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- brought significant civilian and military casualties, extensive damage ... The Vichy authorities in 1941 allowed Germany to move aircraft and ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- and contracts with the German military/industrial technocracy. ... Rifle and the M1 Carbine. Allied military forces widely utilized IBM ...48 KB (6,957 words) - 06:47, 6 March 2024
- imaging technologies similar to those used in military aircraft to provide the driver with a better view of the road at night. There are standard ...30 KB (4,553 words) - 07:06, 23 August 2023
- the official opening hour. Though the military attempted to prevent rushing ... is an important producer of natural gas, aircraft, and food. The state ranks ...50 KB (7,185 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- when considering automotive, medical, and military applications where the device ... where night vision must be retained: Aircraft cockpits, submarine and ...41 KB (6,290 words) - 01:16, 26 October 2022
- they argue, has enabled continued military and economic dominance in ... In lieu of direct military-political control, neocolonialist powers ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- at Fort Dix, Gore was assigned as a military journalist writing for The ... In September 2005, Gore chartered two aircraft in order to evacuate ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- also hindered trade routes and prevented military expeditions across its expanse ... (Baron) Hunt (1910–1998) – British military officer. He was the leader ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- among local tribes, established numerous military camps and colonies, latinized ... With Yugoslav military assistance, Ahmed Bey Zogu, the son of a clan ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Also during the war the U.S. military employed many of New Mexico ... can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- in the Army, the Foreign Office and the military intelligence organization ... Brigadier-General Hans Oster, head of the Military Intelligence Office from ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- the oldest reasons why cities were built: military protection.” In this example ... may be based on heredity, religion, military power, work projects (such ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- (Sertorius, 75 C.E.) referring to the military commander Quintus Sertorius ... difficult upwinds causing to uplift the aircraft when landing. It did have ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- McQueen also flew and owned, among other aircraft, a 1945 Stearman, tail number N3188, (his student number in reform school), a 1946 Piper J ...50 KB (7,471 words) - 00:44, 26 February 2023
- a system of administration and built military garrisons and barracks in ... the Service of Internal Security, Military Counterintelligence, border ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- better responses from this extra military intelligence. ... by air using Blimps and scouting aircraft. Costello and Hughes, 110. ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- * "Mobile Sources" as motor vehicles, aircraft etc. ... * Military, such as nuclear weapons, toxic gases, germ warfare and ...34 KB (4,855 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- skin effect also increasing with frequency. Aircraft and military equipment traditionally employ 400 Hz power supplies since the decrease in efficiency ...40 KB (5,952 words) - 02:06, 2 May 2023
- including civil infighting as well as military operations. In addition ... behind their King, and the political and military privileges granted to the ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- base to forge a trading, and ultimately a military, alliance with the Algonquin ... It includes the aerospace companies like aircraft manufacturer Bombardier ...36 KB (5,238 words) - 15:40, 7 December 2022
- built at the Elco Boatworks in Bayonne, and the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) was briefly docked at the Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- retreat and was almost destroyed by Russian military forces. ... government. This includes numerous military headquarters and the headquarters ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- The major application of uranium in the military sector is in high ... uses of DU include counterweights for aircraft control surfaces, as ballast ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- families whose members, bearing military titles, formed a governing ... boys went through harsh religious and military training that turned them ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- absence of women emigrants as well as the military nature of the conquest. ... the New York Times made his way through military lines and met with the Castro ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- engines; notably this has made steam aircraft extremely rare. Similar ... *Military: Steam tank (tracked), Steam tank (wheeled) *Space: Steam rocket ...41 KB (6,343 words) - 19:56, 9 February 2023
- until unified by the Tibetan lama and military leader Shabdrung Ngawang ... to Tibet, have been closed since the 1959 military takeover of Tibet (although ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- comes from an Egyptian stele documenting military campaigns in Canaan. This ... Irgun in 1931, which attacked the British military headquarters, the King David ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- In Henry Hathaway's The Real Glory (1939), he plays a military ... Due to his age and health, Cooper did not serve in the military during ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- the October Revolution. The Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ... meeting Caddell while touring a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
- at the naval gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. However, he was discharged from the navy at the age of 19 on medical grounds because of ...44 KB (6,554 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- flight with a powered, controlled aircraft (1903).]] [[File:Cinématographe Lumière.jpg|thumb|400px|The world's first movie poster, for ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- ** AAA: (triple a) American Automobile Association or anti-aircraft artillery or American Arbitration Association ** IEEE: (i triple e) Institute ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- Toronto financier, industrialist and military man. Other notable neighborhoods ... Canada and serves the Bombardier Aerospace aircraft factory. ...43 KB (6,252 words) - 23:37, 15 January 2024
- From 1249 to 1250, Afonso Henriques and his successors, aided by military ... World War I was a global military conflict which took place primarily ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- who dominated the country by means of military force and alliances with ... to the north, especially in ship and aircraft manufacture. Moreover, the ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- Political, commercial and military events during the Late Bronze Age ... II, in the Merneptah Stele, documenting military campaigns in Canaan. ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- retains major economic, cultural, military and political influence ... paved the way for the diplomatic and military cooperation that preceded ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- plate of the Martin ejector seat of the military aircraft, stating that the design is covered by multiple patents in Britain, South Africa, Canada ...72 KB (10,557 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- *military equipment (General Dynamics, Raytheon), *lasers ([http://www ... airports with six major runways and large aircraft maintenance facilities capable ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- include the design and manufacture of jet aircraft (Boeing), computer software ... There are several large military-related reservations, including Fort ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- watch towers also served as the site of a military camp for the Mysore army ... also uses it to test and develop fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force ...48 KB (6,769 words) - 03:28, 17 September 2023
- it is also about training civilian and military personnel. But the involvement ... are around half a million people on board aircraft at any given time. There ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- By 1775, the Omaha were a powerful military force and wielded great ... During World War II a huge aircraft plant was built at Fort Crook ...48 KB (6,855 words) - 04:25, 11 March 2023
- and challenged American claims of military, economic and technological ... the third acted as a communications relay aircraft. Two of the Sea Kings carried ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- discharge. In the course of his brief military career, he rose to the rank ... distances, partly because his aversion to aircraft complicated the logistics ...53 KB (8,012 words) - 13:28, 6 March 2024
- The Mongols left their impact on the Russians in such areas as military ... nobles, who were obliged to serve in the military. The manor system provided ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- lands as temporary fiefs to dukes (tribal military leaders), counts (appointed ... was to be similarly reduced, and no military aircraft were allowed. Germany ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- when it replaced Sirmium as the main military base in the Balkans. ... Thessaloniki was also home to a military camp-converted-concentration ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- Prosecutor's Office, and the Russian Military and Historical Archive. ... him to reveal the location of the Firefox aircraft, which he has stolen and ...199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022
