Santa Cruz Operation - Santa Cruz Operation The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) sold a Unix variant called SCO UNIX running on Intel x86 processors. SCO was founded in 1979 by Doug and Larry Michels as a UNIX porting and consulting company. In 1983 they shipped XENIX for the Intel processor, their first packaged UNIX System. Xenix, renamed SCO UNIX in 1989 following SCO's port to the Intel 80386 processor chip, became the most installed flavor of UNIX due to the popularity of the x86 architecture. The company went public in 1993 on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. In 1995 it acquired the AT&T UNIX source from Novell and the UnixWare operating system, at which time it renamed SCO UNIX as OpenServer. SCO announced on August 2, 2001 that they would.
July 2003 - a portion of a shopping mall and the adjacent hotel in Makati City, Metro Manila in the Philippines demanding President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's resignation. They claim to have surrounded the occupied zones with explosives and have temporarily held several people in the hotel, including Australian Ambassador Ruth Pierce. The group is said by some officials to be connected to ousted President Joseph Estrada and oppositionist Senator Gregorio Honasan, who staged several coup attempts in the late 1980s. [1] [1] The BBC reports that an extensive investigation of Loch Ness by a BBC team, using 600 separate sonar beams, found no trace of any "sea monster" in the loch. Loch Ness is a popular tourist attraction because of the rumors surrounding an alleged monster or plesiosaur populating the lake (see Loch Ness Monster)..
HMS Newcastle - in Algiers to engage Barbary Pirates. This action resulted in the destruction of the entire pirate fleet and won Newcastle her first battle honour. In 1657 she took part in Admiral Blake's daring attack on Santa Cruz in Tenerife. In 1703, after many years of skirmishes and battles with such diverse nations as France, Holland and Spain, not to mention the Barbary Pirates, Newcastle came to a tragic end, being sunk, not in battle, but by a storm off Spithead. HMS Newcastle (1704-1746) The second Newcastle was built in 1704 also as a fourth-rate 54-gun frigate. The following year, she gained the first battle honour of her career at Marbela, attacking French convoys. The rest of her career was mainly spent in the Caribbean and Mediterranean before she was sold in.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson - enforcement of the act was problematic -- now-foreign American vessels were no longer allowed to trade with British colonies in the Caribbean Sea, an unpopular rule with both the colonies and the Americans. After seizing four American vessels off Nevis, Nelson was sued by the captains of the ships for illegal seizure. As they were supported by the merchants of Nevis, Nelson was in peril of imprisonment and had to remain sequestered on Boreas for eight months. It took that long for the courts to deny the captains their pound of flesh, but in the interim Nelson met Fanny Nesbit, a widow native to Nevis, whom he would marry on March 11, 1787 at the end of his tour of duty in the Caribbean. Nelson lacked a commission starting in 1789,.
Gray Whale Ranch - is a part of Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz County, California. It is a 2,305 acre parcel of undeveloped land in the Santa Cruz Mountains, just outside of the City of Santa Cruz and adjacent to the University of California, Santa Cruz. The addition of Gray Whale Ranch to Wilder Ranch results in a 6,000 acre park that extends seven and a half miles upslope from the coast, and creates a swath of publicly owned land from the shore all the way to the town of Felton. In June of 1999 a new trail was completed that linked previously existing trails. The ranch contains a variety of grasslands, redwood and Douglas fir forest, oak woodland and mixed conifer forest. There are trails and fire roads through the property, making.
USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) - on the surface, was engaged with gunfire by Salt Lake City as the ships maneuvered to avoid torpedoes. Screening destroyers made numerous depth charge runs, but no kill was confirmed. Operations against a third contact brought similar results. The group returned to Pearl Harbor on the 15 December to refuel. Salt Lake City operated with Task Force 8 until 23 December, covering Oahu and supporting the task force strike that was planned to relieve beleaguered Wake Island. After Wake fell, Salt Lake City's group carried out air strikes in the eastern Marshalls at Wotje, Maloelap, and Kwajalein to reduce enemy seaplane bases. While conducting shore bombardment during those strikes, Salt Lake City came under air attack and assisted in downing two Japanese bombers. In March, she supported air strikes at Marcus.
USS Enterprise (CV-6) - battles. Though the forces were in contact to 7 June, by the end of the 4th the outcome had been decided and the tide of the war in the Pacific had been turned in the United States' favor. Yorktown and USS Hammann (DD-412) were the only United States ships sunk, but TFs 16 and 17 lost a total of 113 planes, 61 of them in combat, during the battle. Japanese losses, far more severe, consisted of four carriers, one cruiser, and 272 carrier aircraft. Enterprise and all other ships of TFs 16 and 17 came through undamaged, returning to Pearl Harbor on 13 June 1942. After a month of rest and overhaul, Enterprise sailed on 15 July, for the South Pacific where she joined TF 61 to support the amphibious landings.
USS Mustin (DD-413) - earned thirteen battle stars for World War II service that included the battles of Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal and major amphibious operations in the Pacific. In 1946 she took part in Operation Crossroads, the atomic tests at Bikini. She was decommissioned 29 August 1946, and was destroyed by gunfire 18 April 1948 in the Marshall Islands. General Characteristics Displacement: 1,764 tons (2,313 tons full load) Length: 348 feet 4 inches Beam: 36 feet Draft: 12 feet 10 inches Performance: 50,000 shp for 35 knots Bunkerage: 459 tons Range: 6,500 nautical miles at 12 knots Guns: five 5-inch; four .50-cal machineguns Torpedoes: eight 21-inch Another destroyer was named USS Mustin (DDG-89)..
USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) - March 1935. The heavy cruiser soon shaped a course for the west coast. After a stop at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, she transited the Panama Canal on 7 and 8 April and then steamed north to San Diego, where she joined Cruiser Division 6 (CruDiv 6) in time to participate in Fleet Problem XVI staged in May in the northern Pacific off the coast of Alaska and in waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands. This operation was divided into five distinct phases which might be aspects of some real naval campaign of the future in which the United States would take the strategic offensive. Tuscaloosa subsequently was based at San Pedro, California, whence she conducted routine exercises and local operations with CruDiv 6. In the spring of 1936, the heavy cruiser participated in.
USS South Dakota (BB-57) - Navy Yard and repairs. South Dakota was ready for sea again on 12 October and began training with Task Force (TF) 16 which was built around aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV-6). The task force sortied from Pearl Harbor on 16 October to join TF 17, which was centered on carrier Hornet (CV-8), northeast of Espiritu Santo. The rendezvous was made on 24 October; and the combined force, now operating as TF 61 under Rear Admiral T.C. Kinkaid, was ordered to make a sweep of the Santa Cruz Islands and then move southwest to block any Japanese forces approaching Guadalcanal. "Catalina" patrol bombers sighted a Japanese carrier force at noon on 25 October, and TF 61 steamed northwest to intercept it. Early the next morning, when all carrier forces were within striking range,.
USS Atlanta (CL-51) - bombers. Despite the heavy antiaircraft fire, though, Enterprise took one hit and suffered some shrapnel damage from an estimated five near misses. Capt. Jenkins later reported that his ship may have shot down five of the attackers. Atlanta emerged from her baptism in fire unscathed and confident, as her executive officer, Comdr. Campbell D. Emery, wrote after the battle: "Although the Atlanta had been through the Midway campaign . . . this was the first opportunity the crew has had to actively join the enemy in battle. All hands welcomed the occasion with enthusiasm ...." Capt. Jenkins concluded: "The ship functioned as designed in all respects and can be considered an efficient unit ...." Reporting to TF 11 for duty the following day, Atlanta operated with that force - redesignated TF.
Aerolineas Argentinas - Aliaga Garcia. They were visionaries, and by this time, Argentina still had no acceptable airport facilities. Van Layden had been a pilot with the French airline Aeropostale (not to be confused with Aeroposta), and he was eager to help get the best pilot standards. The DC-3 proved to be an invaluable asset for Aerolineas Argentinas, just as it did for a host of other airlines worldwide. It enabled them to fly to domestic destinations that had, until then, been unreachable and to keep flying FAMA's international routes. Soon afterwards, Douglas DC-4s joined the fleet and services were inaugurated to Santiago, Lima, Santa Cruz, and Sao Paulo. The 1950s had arrived when the DC-6 arrived, allowing Aerolineas Argentinas to fly at night for the first time. Thanks to this plane, the name.
Battle of Guadalcanal - -- List of battles -- World War II The invasion of Guadalcanal, Operation Watchtower, by sixteen thousand United States troops began on 7 August, 1942 and was the first American offensive of the war. Additional amphibious attacks simultaneously assaulted the islands of Florida, Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo. Initially, only unarmed Japanese construction and support personnel occupied Guadalcanal itself, allowing the Americans to come ashore almost unhindered. But Japanese reinforcements arrived on the island from Rabaul to destroy the Americans (Operation Ka-Go). These convoys and the land battle on Guadalcanal became magnets for naval activity on both sides. This resulted in seven naval battles: Savo Island on 9 August Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August Battle of Cape Esperance on 11 & 12 October Battle of Santa Cruz Island on.
Xenix - to their systems. The first ports of Xenix were to the Zilog Z8001 16-bit processor. Altos shipped a version for their computers early in 1982, Tandy Corporation shipped one for their 68000-based systems in January 1983, and Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) released their port to the Intel 8086 processor in September 1983. Xenix varied from its 7th Edition origins by incoporating elements from BSD, and soon possessed the most widely installed base of any Unix flavor due to the popularity of the inexpensive x86 processor, even though the port created for Tandy computers proved to be more robust. When Microsoft entered into an agreement with IBM to develop OS/2, it lost interest in promoting Xenix. Microsoft transferred ownership of Xenix to SCO in an agreement that left Microsoft owning 25% of.
SCO - originally known as "Caldera Systems", which acquired several things from Santa Cruz Operation in 2001. Among those: source code for UNIX, two divisions of the former Santa Cruz Operation, and the "SCO" trademark. Caldera later changed its name to "SCO Group". Santa Cruz Operation - Company founded in 1979, which sold a major division and its namesake trademark in 2001, and renamed itself "Tarentella" Additional related articles: SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit Sources: SCO Announces Official Closing of Sale of two Divisions to Caldera - Press release, 2001. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix the link, so that it points to the.
SCO Group - in 1998 by Ransom Love, and received start-up funding from Ray Noorda. Its main product was Caldera Linux, a Linux distribution mainly targeted at business customers and containing some proprietary additions. In 2000, Caldera acquired several UNIX properties from the Santa Cruz Operation, including SCO UNIX and UnixWare, proprietary operating systems for PCs that would be expected to compete directly with Linux. In 2002, Caldera joined with SuSE Linux, Turbolinux and Conectiva to form United Linux in an attempt to standardize Linux distributions. Later that year, Ransom Love left the company. Caldera's management recognized that the majority of its profits were coming from the legacy SCO flavor of UNIX, and renamed the company to SCO Group. (The company is not related to the former Santa Cruz Operation, now called Tarantella, other.
Politics of El Salvador - Commission to evaluate the human rights record of the ESAF officer corps. In 1993, the last of the 103 officers identified by this commission as responsible for human rights violations were retired, and the UN observer mission declared the government in compliance with the Ad Hoc Commission recommendations. Also in 1993, the Government of El Salvador and the UN established the Joint Group to investigate whether illegal, armed, politically motivated groups continued to exist after the signing of the peace accords. The group reported its findings in 1994 stating that death squads were no longer active but that violence was still being used to obtain political ends. The group recommended a special National Civilian Police (PNC) unit be created to investigate political and organized crime and that further reforms be made.
Marc Mitscher - east coast naval air stations and in the Offlce of the Chief of Naval Operations before reporting to Seaplane Division 1. On 10 May 1919 he took off from Newfoundland as pilot of NC-1. His plane and NC-3 landed in heavy fog near the Azores, but heavy seas prevented them from joining NC-4 in completing the first transatlantic air passage. For his part in this historic operation, Mitscher received the Navy Cross. In addition to several shore-based commands, Mitscher, during the next two decades, served in aircraft carriers Langley and Saratoga, seaplane tender Wright, and as commander Patrol Wing 1. Between June 1939 and July 1941 he served as assistan t chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Thence, he fitted out carrier Hornet and assumed command at her commissioning in October.
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List of battles 1901-2000 - Tshushima (Russo-Japanese War) 1908 Battle of Marakesh August 23 - Mulay Hafid successfully revolts against Morocco Sultan 1913 Adrianople - First Balkan War 1913 Battle of Dul Madoba 1914 Battle of Vera Cruz April 21 - US occupies Mexican town 1914 Liège August 4 - 17 - Germans invade of Belgium; start of World War I 1914 Battle of the Frontiers August 7 - September 4 - Germans invade France: Battle of Mulhouse August 7 Battle of Lorraine August 14 Battle of the Ardennes August 21 Battle of Charleroi August 21 Battle of Mons August 23 1914 Battle of Stalluponen August 17 - First battle on the Eastern Front in World War I 1914 Battle of Gumbinnen August 19 - 20 - Russians defeat German Eighth Army, advance to river Vistula.
