Operation Ajax - Operation Ajax Operation Ajax was the Anglo-American plan developed in 1951 to for the covert overthrow of the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq in response to his nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, as well as general fears that he was a Communist. The leader of the operation was Kermit Roosevelt (1916-2000), a senior CIA agent, and grandson of the former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. He convinced Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to depose Mossadeq. Shah, who had previously been the only political figure in Iran who out-ranked the Prime Minister, tried to do it. But Mossadeq Rejected the Shah’s order and Shah had to leave Iran for Italy temporally. The agents of Operation Ajax thus involved returning the Shah back to power in.
Operation Latchkey - Operation Latchkey \'Operation Latchkey' was a series of twenty-seven nuclear test explosions conducted in 1966 and 67 at the Nevada Test Site (with one exception). These tests followed the Flintlock series and were in turn followed by Crosstie. The individual explosions were: Latchkey Test Blasts Test Name Date Location Yield Note "Saxon" 28 July, 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Operation Plowshare "Rovena" 10 August, 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons "Derringer" 9 September, 1966 Nevada Test Site about 12 kilotons "Daiquiri" 23 September, 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons "Newark" 26 September 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons "Simms" 5 November 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons Operation Plowshare "Ajax" 11 November 1966 Nevada Test Site <20 kilotons "Cerise" 18.
Operation Sutton - Operation Sutton During the 1982 Falklands War. Operation Sutton was the British landings on Ajax Bay near the San Carlos settlements on East Falkland Island. Five thousand soldiers and Royal Marines came ashore against no ground opposition. The invasion, part of the overall Corporate plan sparked a strong reply from the Argentine Air Force who sunk the frigate H.M.S. Ardent at a cost of 16 warplanes lost. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Konami - Combat School, Batlantis, Flack Attack, B.A.W., Devil World, Fast Lane, City Bomber, Typhoon, Labyrinth Runner, Rack 'em Up, Boot Camp, Dark Adventure, MX 5000, Life Force(Japan only) 1988: Checkered Flag, Devastators, The Main Event, The Final Round, Ajax, Thundercross, Kitten Kaboodle, Hot Chase, Gang Busters, Konami '88, Hyper Sports Special(Japan only), Gradius II (called Vulcan Venture in Europe), Top Gun(on Nintendo's PlayChoice hardware) 1989: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gradius III, M.I.A, Crime Fighters, S.P.Y, Cue Brick, Black Hole 1990: Aliens, Lightning Fighters, Punk Shot, Over Drive, Surprise Attack, Parodius (Japan only) 1991: TMNT 2: Turtles in Time, The Simpsons, Sunset Riders, Roller Games, Bells and Whistles, Golfing Greats, Thundercross II, Vendetta, Super Contra(on PlayChoice hardware), Twinbee 2(Japan only), Xexex(Japan only) 1992: X-Men, Lethal Enforcers, G.I. Joe, Bucky O'Hare, Hexion, Potrio 1993:.
Johan Cruijff - football philosophy known as Total Football, developed by his trainer Rinus Michels. Cruijff played successively for Ajax, FC Barcelona, Los Angeles Aztecs, Washington Diplomats, Levante Union Deportiva and Feyenoord. As a player, Cruijff was known for his graceful play and his tactical insights. He has been named as one of the best football players of his day, alongside Franz Beckenbauer, and Pelé. As a Dutch international he played 48 matches, in which he scored 33 goals. Johan Cruijff trained two football clubs after his active career as a player, Ajax and Barcelona. Cruijff smoked twenty cigarettes a day, then had a heart bypass operation. In November 2003 Cruijff invoked legal procedings against the publisher Tirion Uitgevers, over its photo book Johan Cruijff de Ajacied, which used photographs by Guus de Jong..
Universal Century - be the primary Gundam timeline. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Universal Century Gundam Series: 2 Pre One-Year War: 3 The One-Year War 4 Operation Stardust (Gundam 0083) 5 The AEUG/Titan Conflict (Zeta Gundam) 6 The Neo-Zeon Conquest (Double Zeta Gundam) 7 (name) 8 Char's Counterattack 9 (name) 10 Cosmo Babylonia 11 The Zanscare Empire Universal Century Gundam Series: Mobile Suit Gundam (UC0079) Mobile Suit Gundam - The 08th MS Team (UC0079) Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 - A War in the Pocket (UC0080) Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 - Stardust Memories (UC0083) Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (UC0086) Mobile Suit Double Zeta Gundam (UC0087) Mobile Suit Gundam - Char's Counterattack (UC0093) Mobile Suit Gundam F-91 (UC0122) Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (UC0153) Pre One-Year War: ;UC 0001 With Earth's population at 9 billion, an ambitious.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) Part 5 - battleships North Carolina (BB-55), Washington (BB-56), and three cruisers lent for the occasion by Task Force 58. A total of seven battleships, four eight-inch gun heavy cruisers, and three light cruisers armed with six-inchers laid their fire on the landing areas. At first, the fire was slow and deliberate. It was checked for an air strike, as lanes from the fast carrier force delivered bombs, rockets, and napalm before the ships resumed a heavier fire. Beginning at 0850, fire was so adjusted that carrier fighters could strafe the beaches during the last few minutes before H-hour. One minute before H-hour, the turret guns ceased firing, and the secondary guns began to drop a rolling barrage just ahead of the marines as they landed and moved inland, shore fire control parties (SFCP).
Mohammed Mossadegh - reforms. Iran's centuries old feudal agriculture sector was abolished, and replaced with a system of collective farming and government land ownership. Plot against Mossadegh The governments of Britain and the United States grew increasingly distressed over Mossadegh's reforms. Publicly, they denounced his policies as harmful to the country; privately, both governments sought to implement lucrative oil contracts, but Mossadegh refused. Mossadegh's socialist reforms and increasingly close partnership with the Iranian Communist Party also prompted fears that Iran may develop closer ties with the neighbouring Soviet Union. In October of 1952, Mossadegh declared that Britain was "an enemy", and cut all diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom. In November and December 1952, British intelligence officials suggested to American intelligence that the prime minister should be ousted. The new US administration under Dwight.
Vespasian - the feeling in Vespasian's favour quickly gathered strength, and the armies of Moesia, Pannonia and Illyricum soon declared for him, and made him in fact master of half of the Roman world. His troops entered Italy on the north-east under the leadership of Antonius Primus, defeated the army of Vitellius at Bedriacum (or Betriacum) (which had awaited him in Mevania), sacked Cremona and advanced on Rome, which they entered after furious fighting and a frightful confusion, in which the Capitol was destroyed by fire. On receiving the tidings of his rival's defeat and death at Alexandria, new emperor at once forwarded supplies of urgently needed corn to Rome, along with an edict or a declaration of policy, in which he gave assurance of an entire reversal of the laws of Nero,.
Kaunas - were unfortunate for Kaunas. In 1665 Russian army attacked the city several times. In 1701 city hosted Swedish army, plagues in 1657 and 1708, fires in 1731 and 1732. At 1812 war army of Napoleon was crossing Nemunas, so the city was devastated too times during same year. In 1862 a railway connecting Russian empire and Germany was constructed, making Kaunas a significant railway hub. In 1898 first power plant started its operation. After Vilnius was occupied by Russians in 1919, government of Republic of Lithuania established its main offices here. As Vilnius was occupied by Poland breaking Suvalkai treaty in 1920, Kaunas became temporary capital of Lithuania. Between the World Wars Kaunas industry prospered, it was largest city of Lithuania, though, after regaining Vilnius it became second largest. After Second.
Vertical take-off and landing - VTOL performance were huge, and while it turned out to be fairly easy to move the plane, moving the support equipment and fuel was not so easy. By the mid-1960s interest in VTOL had faded, perhaps due much to the widespread introduction of ICBMs as the main nuclear delivery system. Currently there are believed to be two types of practical VTOL aircraft in operation: Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey "tilt-rotor" and the British Aerospace Hawker Harrier "Jump jet" An early VTOL prototype was the so-called "flying bedstead". The Harrier is often flown in STOVL mode which enables it to carry a higher fuel or weapon load over a given distance. It was developed from the Hawker P.1127 and Kestrel. The United States Marine Corps uses a license-built derivative of the Harrier. NASA.
Kawfakha - km east of Gaza Israeli occupation date May 30, 1948 Israeli military operation Operation Barak? Israeli attacking brigade Negev Brigade Remaining population after occupation 0 Remaining structures after occupation A mosque Population 1596 1931 1945 n/a 317 500 Number of houses 1931: 56 Historical names Caananite name n/a Roman name n/a Crusader name n/a Israeli settlement(s) Nir'Aqiva Public structures A mosque, a school See also List of destroyed villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war External Links & References http://www.palestineremembered.com/Gaza/Kawfakha/index.html.
Kafr 'Inan - km east of Acre Israeli occupation date October 30, 1948 Israeli military operation Operation Hiram Israeli attacking brigade Golani Brigade Remaining population after occupation 0 Remaining structures after occupation A mosque, a shrine Population 1596 1931 1945 259 246 360 Number of houses 1931: 47 Historical names Caananite name Kefar Chananya Roman name Kefar Chananya Crusader name n/a Israeli settlement(s) Kefar Chananya Public structures A mosque, a shrine See also List of destroyed villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war External Links & References http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Kafr-%27Inan/index.html.
Kavminvodyavia - of Mineralnye Vody in the Caucasus. The company also operates the airport of the city. The first air operation dates from 1925, when the one aircraft was a French Dornue-Comet. The present three-story airport building opened in 1965. The airport and its civil aviation service was reorganized into the Mineralnye Vody Civil Aviation Enterprise in 1988, under the direction of V.V. Babaskin. It was reorganized again in 1995, receiving its present name. The airline purchased several Tu-204s in 1997..
Kawkaba - km northeast of Gaza Israeli occupation date October 20, 1948 Israeli military operation Operation Yoav Israeli attacking brigade Givati Brigade Remaining population after occupation 0 Remaining structures after occupation None Population 1596 1931 1945 88 522 680 Number of houses 1931: 121 Historical names Caananite name n/a Roman name n/a Crusader name Coquebel Israeli settlement(s) Kokhav Mikha'el Public structures A school See also List of destroyed villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war External Links & References http://www.palestineremembered.com/Gaza/Kawkaba/.
Verner's law - an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing and became respectively *b, *d, *z and *g. When Grimm's law was discovered, a strange irregularity was spotted in its operation. The Proto-Indo-European (PIE) voiceless stops *p, *t and *k should have changed into Proto-Germanic (PGmc) *f, *ŝ (dental fricative) and *x (velar fricative), according to Grimm's Law. Indeed, that was known to be the usual development. However, there appeared to be a large set of words in which the agreement of Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Baltic, Slavic etc. guaranteed PIE *p, *t or *k, and yet the Germanic reflex was a voiced consonant (*b, *d or *g). At first, irregularities did not give scholars sleepless nights as long as there were many examples of the regular outcome. Increasingly, however, it became the.
Vector processor - reduce the amount of time this takes, most modern CPUs use a technique known as instruction pipelining in which the instructions pass though several sub-units in turn. The first sub-unit reads the address and decodes it, the next gets the values, and the next does the math. With pipelining the "trick" is to start decoding the next instruction even before the first has left the CPU, in assembly line fashion, so the address decoder is constantly in use. Any particular instruction takes the same amount of time to complete (known as the latency) but the CPU can process the entire batch much faster than if it did so one at a time. Vector processors take this concept one step further. Instead of pipelining just the instructions, they also pipeline the data.
Kamen - 209 AH-1 HueyCobra 1967 : The Sea Sprites are modified into twin turbine helicopters . 1969 : US Navy begins LAMPS ( Light Airborne Multipurpose System) development to obtain a on board helicopter for escort ships 1971 : SAVER The Stowable Aircrew Vehicle Escape Rotoseat is the first jet powered autogyro with telescoping rotor blades May 1973 : SH-2F Sea Sprite The LAMPS I enters US Navy service Rotor diameter: 13.41 m Length: 16.03 m Height: 4.72 m Weight: 3200 kg - Max: 6100 Engine: 2 x GE T58-GE-8F of 1350 hp each Speed: Max: 240 km/h Range: 660 km July 1976 : Kaman designs and begins manufacturing the K-747 blade, the world's first production all-composite rotor blade for the Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopter. Total production exceeds 4,000 blades. January 1991.
Keyboard technology - keyboard, usually differentiated by the switch technology employed in their operation. Since there are so many switches needed (usually about 80-110) and because they have to be highly reliable, this usually defines the keyboard. The choice of switch technology affects key response (the positive feedback that a key has been pressed) and travel (the distance needed to push the key to reliably enter a character). Newer models use hybrids of various technologies to achieve greater cost savings. Dome switch keyboard Dome switch keyboards are kind of a hybrid of membrane and mechanical keyboards. They bring two circuit board traces together under a plastic "dome" or bubble. The top of the bubble is coated in some conductive substance. When a key is pressed, it collapses the dome, which shorts out the two.
Key pulsing - a system of sending telephone calling signals in which the digits are transmitted by operation of a pushbutton key set. The type of key pulsing commonly used by users and PBX operators is dual-tone multifrequency signaling. Each pushbutton causes generation of a unique pair of tones. In military systems, pushbuttons are also provided for additional signals, such as precedence. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188.
