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32,372,211 | This article covers military uniforms during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
During the years 1860–1865 there were three distinct types of uniform in use by the United States Armed Forces. Styles used were traditional similar to those used in the Napoleonic Wars, a regimental dress such as used during the American ... | 1discusses military topics |
78,482,103 | Exo commuter rail (reporting marks EXO ) is a system of five radial commuter rail services serving the Greater Montreal area, operated by Alstom, using trackage owned by Exo as well as by the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
Exo's commuter trains are its highest-profile division. It uses dies... | 0does not discuss military topics |
64,043,604 | The Al Fahd 300 was an Iraqi solid-propelled short-range ballistic missile that was based on the Soviet S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile. Its expected range was 300 km, which violated the limits provided by UNSC 687 which stipulated that Iraq was only allowed to have missiles with a range lower than 150 km. The missil... | 1discusses military topics |
10,805,668 | William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington (22 June 1788 – 1 July 1857) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman notorious for his dissipated style of living.
Ancestry
One of his great-grandfathers was Henry Colley (d.1719) (or Cowley) of Castle Carbery, King's County, Ireland. That family from Rutland, England sett... | 0does not discuss military topics |
38,639,379 | Theme Park Studio is an amusement park simulator game developed by Pantera Entertainment. The project began seeking funding on Kickstarter in 2013 and has been released in phases since February 2014. It allows users to design and build their own theme parks featuring roller coasters and flat rides; similar to RollerCoa... | 0does not discuss military topics |
31,914,109 | Derek Mark Lane (born 7 October 1974) is a former English cricketer. Lane was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Lane made his debut for Hertfordshire in the 1998 Minor Counties Championship against Buckinghamshire. Lane played 2 further matches for Hertfordshi... | 0does not discuss military topics |
21,807,166 | John Louis Coffey (April 15, 1922 – November 10, 2012) was an American lawyer and jurist from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He served as a judge of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals from 1982 until his death, taking senior status in 2004. Prior to his federal appointment, he served four years as a justice of the W... | 1discusses military topics |
22,332,774 | The first USS Marie (SP-100) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
Marie was built as a civilian motorboat in 1912 by Seabury's at Morris Heights, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired her on 28 April 1917 from her owner, O. M. Pynchon, for use as a patrol boat du... | 0does not discuss military topics |
16,427,204 | 2708 Burns ( prov. designation : 1981 WT ) is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 19 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 24 November 1981, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona, in the Unite... | 0does not discuss military topics |
233,815 | Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire (2 January 1920 – 3 May 2004), styled Lord Andrew Cavendish until 1944 and Marquess of Hartington from 1944 to 1950, was a British peer and politician. He was a minister in the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (his uncle by marriage), and is also know... | 1discusses military topics |
43,162,603 | Octopus were an English psychedelic rock band, resulting from renaming a Hatfield (UK) based band named the Cortinas in late 1968. At the time of the renaming the group consisted of founder members Paul Griggs and his brother Nigel Griggs, Rick Williams and Nigel (Gary) Whinyates. As the Cortinas they released one sing... | 0does not discuss military topics |
3,320,456 | Steven Archibald (born 27 September 1956) is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager. He played prominently as a forward for Aberdeen, winning the Scottish league in 1980, Tottenham Hotspur, winning two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup, and Barcelona, winning the Spanish league in 1985. He also played for several o... | 0does not discuss military topics |
29,329,941 | The Villa Sacchetti , also called Castello Chigi , is a historical building at Castelfusano, near Ostia Antica, Rome, Italy. It was built in 1624-1629 for the Sacchetti family, close associates of Pope Urban VIII, and was the first architectural work of Pietro da Cortona. The villa is now known as Castello Chigi since ... | 0does not discuss military topics |
290,133 | Dangun or Tangun (Korean: 단군 ; Hanja: 檀君 ; [tan.ɡun] ), also known as Dangun Wanggeom ( 단군왕검 ; 檀君王儉 ; [tan.ɡun waŋ.ɡʌm] ), was the legendary founder and first king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom. He founded the first kingdom around the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. He is said to be the "grandson of heav... | 0does not discuss military topics |
41,473,454 | Brigadier-General Frederick Gordon Spring , (25 July 1878 – 24 September 1963) was a senior British Army officer.
Early life
Spring was born in 1878 in Bombay, India, the son of Colonel Frederick William Spring, a Royal Artillery officer. He was educated at Blundell's School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
... | 1discusses military topics |
14,313,549 | Charles Alfred Duncan , GC (13 April 1920 – 10 July 1943) was a soldier in the British Army's Parachute Regiment who was posthumously awarded the George Cross during the Second World War.
Duncan was born in Bexhill-on-Sea on 13 April 1920. He was a member of the Signal Platoon in the 4th Battalion of the Parachute Regi... | 1discusses military topics |
70,011,402 | Henriette Mankiewicz (born 20 July 1852 in Vienna as Henriette Tauber; died 30 June 1906 in Bad Vöslau) was an art embroiderer from Austria-Hungary.
Early life
Mankiewicz was the daughter of the stockbroker and writer Joseph Samuel Tauber (1824-1879) and his wife Louise, née Edle von Hönigsberg (1824-1894). Her great-g... | 0does not discuss military topics |
24,021,848 | John William Holden Gastall (25 May 1913 – 1997) was an English professional association footballer who played as a centre forward.
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40,370,022 | The Central Military Commission Political Work Department Song and Dance Troupe (simplified Chinese: 中央军委政治工作部歌舞团 ; traditional Chinese: 中央軍事委員會政治工作部歌舞團 ; pinyin: Zhōngyāngjūnweǐ Zhèngzhì Gōngzuóbù Gēwǔtuán ), formerly known as Chinese People's Liberation Army General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe (simplif... | 1discusses military topics |
69,643,219 | The Saint-Chamond modèle 1921 was a prototype wheel-cum-track military vehicle made in France during the interwar period. The type was known as autochenilles .
Design
This vehicle could move either on tracks in difficult terrain, or on its two sets of retractable wheels on roads. A small 2-cylinder, 2 hp (1.5 kW) auxil... | 1discusses military topics |
33,406,482 | Sarma Sedleniece (4 November 1939 - 27 December 2020) was a Latvian chess master who achieve victory in the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1968.
Sarma Sedleniece started to play chess at the age of 13 and won the Latvian Girl championship for the first time at the age of 15 and was successful winning the same ... | 0does not discuss military topics |
12,111,640 | Chess Mates is a computer software program, released in 1996 for Macintosh and 1997 for Microsoft Windows, designed to teach the basics of Chess. Chess Mates was marketed as an easy way for children to learn the building blocks of becoming a successful chess player. It was developed by Presage Software. The original pr... | 0does not discuss military topics |
68,338,104 | Sophie Ambler is a medieval historian, focussing on politics, ethics, and warfare, often through the lens of the Crusades. She undertook her PhD at King's College London, supervised by David A. Carpenter.
Career
Between 2012 and 2013, Ambler worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded 'Breaking of Britain' projec... | 0does not discuss military topics |
29,524,221 | The I Corps of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: 1 nci Kolordu or Birinci Kolordu ) was one of the corps of the Ottoman Army consisting of ethnic Albanians. It was formed in the early 20th century during Ottoman military reforms.
Formation
Order of Battle, 1911
With further reorganization of the Ottoman Army, to include the... | 1discusses military topics |
2,785,283 | Mathias Färm (born September 9, 1974, in Örebro, Sweden) is a guitar player, best known as a member of the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin. He is also the frontman of a punk band named Franky Lee, a side-project of Millencolin.
He started skating in 1987 and started listening to Operation Ivy, Mc Rad, the Descendent... | 0does not discuss military topics |
21,064,461 | Yuri Garrievich Abramovich (Russian: Юрий Гарриевич Абрамович ; 5 September 1935 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR – 28 February 2017 in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, Russia) was a test pilot of the Moscow Aviation Industrial Association (MAIA).
Abramovich graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1959. From 1965 to 1995 Abramov... | 1discusses military topics |
19,560,505 | The Pennsylvania Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the highest echelon of CAP in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Wing headquarters is located at Fort Indiantown Gap, an Army National Guard installation near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Wing is abbreviated as "PAWG", and is often referred to by its members as "... | 1discusses military topics |
11,197,963 | Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit is a 2002 memoir written by Eric L. Haney about his experiences as a founding special forces operator in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta (also known as Delta Force) the U.S. Army's counterterrorist unit. Haney recounts the format... | 1discusses military topics |
53,571,452 | The late Fliegerstaffel 15 (No 5 Squadron) of the Swiss Air Force was active until 1994 and equipped with Hawker Hunter aircraft. The home base of their last service was the airfield at St. Stephan. The Fliegerstaffel 15 carried as their coat of arms a paper aircraft on a blue ground with a red "15". The old badge of t... | 1discusses military topics |
18,673,133 | Major William Adolphus Chaffey (18 February 1915 – 4 March 1987) was an Australian farmer, distinguished soldier and long serving member of the Parliament of New South Wales.
Chaffey represented the electoral district of Tamworth from 1940 to 1973. He also served as the New South Wales Minister for Agriculture from 196... | 1discusses military topics |
2,864,142 | Royal Air Force Luqa (or more simply RAF Luqa ) is a former Royal Air Force station located on the island of Malta, now developed into the Malta International Airport.
It hosted aircraft of Air Headquarters Malta (AHQ Malta) during the Second World War. Particularly during the Siege of Malta from 1941 to 1943, RAF Luqa... | 1discusses military topics |
52,094,931 | You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town was the first book by Zoë Wicomb. Published in 1987 (by Virago in London), it was a collection of inter-related short stories, set during the Apartheid era and partly autobiographical, the central character being a young Coloured woman growing up in South Africa, speaking English in an A... | 0does not discuss military topics |
40,922,210 | Special Album is the first and only compilation album by South Korean girl group Baby V.O.X. It was released on March 30, 2002 by DR Music. The single "Coincidence" was used to promote the 2002 FIFA World Cup; a special World Cup-themed video for the song was released. "Go" was later used for their debut mini album in ... | 0does not discuss military topics |
78,024,674 | 28 ASW Squadron is a maritime patrol squadron of the Pakistan Navy stationed at PNS Mehran in Karachi. Equipped with Lockheed P-3C Orions, the squadron is assigned Anti-submarine warfare wartime role.
History
28 Squadron was formed at PNS Mehran between 1996 and 1997 when the first batch of three Orions were inducted. ... | 1discusses military topics |
1,074,436 | Cape Canaveral and adjacent Merritt Island on Florida's Atlantic coast are home to the USA's Eastern Range, the most active rocket range and spaceport in the country. The Eastern Range hosts two groundside operators: the military Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and the civilian Kennedy Space Center. Between them are... | 1discusses military topics |
56,487,295 | Song Li (Chinese: 宋丽 , born 10 March 1981) is a Chinese speed skater. She competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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74,438,890 | The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed Church of England church in Stokesay, Shropshire, England, adjacent to Stokesay Castle. The church first dates from around 1150, and was probably the chapel to the castle. It was badly damaged during the English Civil War, and rebuilt in 1654. The church consists of... | 0does not discuss military topics |
21,986,483 | Jānis Dukšinskis (born 8 June 1963, Daugavpils) is a Latvian politician. He is a member of the LPP/LC and a deputy of the 9th Saeima (Latvian Parliament). He began his current term in parliament on November 7, 2006. He is currently a member of the Daugavpils City Council.
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13,145,736 | The 56th Division ( 第56師団 , Dai-gojūroku Shidan ) was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the Dragon Division ( 龍兵団 , Tatsu Heidan ) . It was formed on 10 July 1940 in Kurume, simultaneously with the 51st, 52nd, 54th, 55th, and 57th Divisions. The formation nucleus was the headquarters... | 1discusses military topics |
1,845,177 | Guillermo Enrique Billinghurst Angulo (27 July 1851, Arica – 28 June 1915, Iquique) was a Peruvian politician of English descent who served as the 37th President of Peru. He succeeded Augusto B. Leguía, from 1912 to 1914. An Anglo-Peruvian, Billinghurst's surname is a locational name; Billingshurst is a small town and ... | 0does not discuss military topics |
21,630,086 | The Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology program was a project of the United States military, DARPA, and NASA. Its objective was to conduct science and technology research that would secure advancements in the engineering of the gas turbine engines used in military aircraft. It ran from 1987 until 200... | 1discusses military topics |
10,010,996 | The Naval Network Warfare Command ( NAVNETWARCOM ) is the United States Navy's information operations, intelligence, networks, and space unit. Naval Network Warfare Command's mission is to execute, under Commander TENTH Fleet Operational Control, tactical-level command and control of Navy Networks and to leverage Joint... | 1discusses military topics |
60,883,263 | The steam corvette Jequitinhonha was a warship in the Imperial Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War. It took part in the Battle of Riachuelo.
1854-65
The Jequitinhonha is the only ship in the history of the Brazilian Navy to bear this name. It was built in Britain in the early 1850s, and arrived in Brazil on 25 Jan... | 1discusses military topics |
9,007,992 | Airpower or air power consists of the application of military aviation, military strategy and strategic theory to the realm of aerial warfare and close air support. Airpower began in the advent of powered flight early in the 20th century. Airpower represents a "complex operating environment that has been subjected to ... | 1discusses military topics |
14,247,500 | The Sky Sword I , Tien Chien I , or TC-1 (Chinese: 天劍一 ; pinyin: Tiān Jiàn Yī ; Wade–Giles: Tʻien 1 Chien 4 I 1 ) is a short range infrared guided air-to-air missile. The missile has fire and forget slave-by-radar capabilities. It consists of an imaging infrared seeker, a high explosive warhead, a solid propellant moto... | 1discusses military topics |
62,806,617 | The '' Gašinci'' Military Training Grounds is a Croatian Army training base located 10 kilometers from Đakovo, in the region of Slavonia, Croatia. The complex is a part of the Croatian Army Training and Doctrine Command.
History
Prior to being used by the Croatian Army, the training grounds were built and used by the Y... | 1discusses military topics |
48,254,531 | Allan Leslie Baldwin (9 February 1924 – 30 March 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Personal life
Baldwin served as a signalman in the Australian Army during the Second World War.
Notes
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1,624,194 | Angela Hewitt (born July 26, 1958) is a Canadian classical pianist. She is best known for her Bach interpretations.
Career
Hewitt was born in Ottawa, Ontario, daughter of the Yorkshire-born Godfrey Hewitt (thus she also has British nationality), who was choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa. She began piano ... | 0does not discuss military topics |
67,122,449 | The Mausoleum of Allal al-Qairawani (Arabic: ضريح السيد علال القيرواني ) is a darīh , zawiya , and ribat dedicated to Allal al-Qairawani in Casablanca, Morocco.
The mausoleum became a destination for fishermen.
History
Legend tells that Allal al-Qairawani was a trader who came from Qairawan to Anfa (Casablanca) around ... | 0does not discuss military topics |
64,780,581 | Albert Norris Johnson (1934 or 1935 – December 5, 1984) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Johnson also received multiple gubernatorial appointments to state commissions. He was the first black person to serve as a mayor in New Mexico.
Early life and education
Albert Norris Jo... | 1discusses military topics |
53,700,317 | Parv Bancil (7 February 1967 – 1 April 2017) was a British-Asian playwright and actor.
Life and career
Parveen Singh Bancil was born in Moshi, Tanzania, in 1967 into an Indian Sikh family, the son of Sohan Singh Bancil and Amrit (Arjan) Kaur Bancil. He was the grandson of Sardar Jogindar Singh Bancil of JS Bancil Build... | 0does not discuss military topics |
59,957,108 | John Lillingston Carr (16 May 1892 – 3 February 1963) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Born in British India, Carr served during the First World War with the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He continued to serve with the regiment after the war, until his retirement in 1936. He also played first-... | 1discusses military topics |
56,673,893 | Ronald William Withell (9 March 1916 – 14 May 1998) was a New Zealand amateur boxer, who represented his country at the 1938 British Empire Games, and won two national amateur titles.
Early life
Born on 9 March 1916, Withell was the eldest son of William Withell and Sarah Jane Withell (née Wilkinson), who farmed at Win... | 1discusses military topics |
37,376,233 | George Herbert Adams (May 18, 1851 – November 18, 1911) was an American Republican politician and lawyer who served as the President of the New Hampshire Senate.
Adams was born in Campton, New Hampshire, May 18, 1851, the only child of Isaac L. and Louisa C. (Blair) Adams.
After he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1... | 0does not discuss military topics |
52,995,165 | 2002 Satkhira bombing was a double bomb attack on 28 September 2002 of Roxy cinema hall and a circus tent in Satkhira District, Bangladesh that killed 3 people and injured 100 others.
Attacks
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, a Bangladeshi Islamist terrorist organization, carried out attacks on the early 2000s in public... | 0does not discuss military topics |
8,107,496 | The tsunami bomb was an attempt during World War II to develop a tectonic weapon that could create destructive tsunamis. The project commenced after United States Navy officer E.A. Gibson noticed small waves generated by explosions used to clear coral reefs. The idea was developed by the United States and New Zealand m... | 1discusses military topics |
17,424,725 | Danira Gović (also billed as Danira Govich ; born (billed 1972/1973)) is a Croatian actress, best known for a recurring role in the British television comedy-drama series Hotel Babylon .
Biography
After having finished her education in a secondary economic school in her native city of Šibenik, Danira arrived in London ... | 0does not discuss military topics |
8,625,933 | SS Zhongshan , formerly romanized as Chung Shan , was a Chinese gunboat built in Japan in 1913. It was originally known as SS Yongfeng (romanized at the time as Yung Feng or Wong Feng ), before being renamed in 1925 in honor of Sun Yat-sen. Zhongshan was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanes... | 1discusses military topics |
33,715,739 | Dennis John Ciclitira (Greek: Διονύσης Τσικλητήρας ; 11 August 1918 – 9 June 2000) was a British soldier and businessman of Greek descent.
Early life and education
Ciclitira was born in Patras, Greece, but his family emigrated to England, settling in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. His father Demosthenes set up a company impo... | 1discusses military topics |
15,024,399 | John William Meagher (December 5, 1917 – April 14, 1996) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.
Meagher joined the Army from his birthplace of Jersey City, New Jersey, and by Jun... | 1discusses military topics |
11,462,041 | Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life is a life simulation and real-time strategy computer game that allows players to experience, guide, and control evolution from an isometric view on either historical earth or on randomly generated worlds while racing against computer opponents to reach the top of the evolution ch... | 0does not discuss military topics |
33,107,722 | Bimbashi Arabic ("soldier Arabic", or Mongallese ) was a pidgin of Arabic which developed among military troops in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and was popular from 1870 to 1920. Bimbashi later branched and developed into three languages: Turku (and its modern descendant Bongor Arabic) in Chad, Ki-Nubi in Kenya and Uganda, an... | 1discusses military topics |
2,285,446 | Austin is an underground MTR rapid transit station on the Tuen Ma line in Hong Kong, situated perpendicular to Wui Cheung Road and Austin Road West, and formerly adjacent to Jordan Road Ferry Pier Bus Terminus.
History
Austin station was built as part of the Kowloon Southern Link project, built to connect the West Rail... | 0does not discuss military topics |
2,329,201 | General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart (2 September 1841 – 18 March 1900) was a British General in the British Indian Army.
Military career
Lockhart was born at the Manse in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, where his father Dr Laurence Lockhart, DD (1795–1876) was the minister. Lockhart's uncle was John Gibso... | 1discusses military topics |
7,486,413 | Bamse (Norwegian word for "(male) bear", "teddy bear" or "big boy") (1937 – 22 July 1944) was a St. Bernard dog that became the heroic mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces during the Second World War. He became a symbol of Norwegian freedom during the war.
Pre-war life
Bamse was bought in Oslo, Norway, by Captain Erling... | 1discusses military topics |
32,237,080 | Count Wilhelm Otto Albrecht von Bismarck-Schönhausen (1 August 1852 – 30 May 1901) was a German counselor, civil servant and politician, who served as a member of the Reichstag from 1880 to 1881 and president of the Regency of Hanover from 1889 to 1890. The youngest son of Otto von Bismarck, he and his brother Herbert ... | 1discusses military topics |
75,087,947 | Baltimore (released as Rose's War in the United States and Germany) is a 2023 thriller film written and directed by Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy. It is based on the life of Rose Dugdale, a British heiress-turned-IRA member, played by Imogen Poots. The film is an international co-production between Ireland and the Un... | 0does not discuss military topics |
72,755,570 | Danny Ittiw Kingad (born September 28, 1995) is a Filipino mixed martial artist, currently competes in the Flyweight division for ONE Championship. He is currently ranked #3 in the ONE Flyweight rankings.
Background
Kingad was born on September 28, 1995, in Sadanga, Mountain Province, Philippines. He is of Igorot desce... | 0does not discuss military topics |
848,305 | The Social Liberal Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Liberal , PSL ) was a far-right political party in Brazil, that merged with the Democrats and founded the Brazil Union. Founded in 1994 as a social-liberal political party, the PSL was registered on the Superior Electoral Court in 1998.
In January 2018, former Social... | 1discusses military topics |
41,209,387 | The German city of Mainz was bombed in multiple air raids by the Allies during World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as the United States Army Air Forces. These led to numerous victims and heavy damage throughout the cityscape.
Overview of major air raids
1939 to 1941
During the first two years of World Wa... | 1discusses military topics |
38,914,444 | The Cohors VI Nerviorum (English: Sixth Cohort of Nervii ) was an auxiliary unit of Roman Army Cohors quinquagenaria peditata type attested in the Roman province of Britannia from the second century to the early fifth century AD.
Service in Britannia
The cohort was based at Greatchesters fort on Hadrian's Wall intermit... | 1discusses military topics |
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