USS Wasp (CV-18) - takeoff - each pilot a specific target, and to neutralize those islands for the forthcoming Marianas campaign. As the force neared Marcus, it split, sending San Jacinto north to search for Japanese picket boats while Wasp and Essex launched strikes on the 19th and 20th, aimed at installations on the island. American planes encountered heavy antiaircraft fire but still managed to do enough damage to prevent Japanese forces on the island from interfering with the impending assault on Saipan. When weather canceled launches planned for the 21st, the two carriers rejoined San Jacinto and steamed to Wake. Planes from all three carriers pounded that island on the 24th and were sufficiently effective to neutralize that base. However, the system of pre-selecting targets for each plane fell short of the Navy's expectations,.
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USS Seadragon (SS-194) - November and commenced training operations as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet. A year later, she prepared for overhaul; and, by 8 December 1941 (7 December east of the International Date Line), she had started her yard period at the Cavite Navy Yard. Two days later, on 10 December, she and sister ship Sealion (SS-195), moored together, were caught in an enemy air raid against Cavite. Sealion took a direct hit which demolished that submarine and damaged Seadragon. The force of the explosion ripped off part of the latter's bridge. Shrapnel and splinters punctured her tanks and pierced her conning tower, killing one and wounding five. The heat of the explosion scorched her hull and blistered her black paint. Fires and explosions raged along the wharf. A nearby torpedo shop went.
August 2003 - have debated carbon dioxide's role in global warming for over a decade, with most voices (though notably fewer within the US) calling it the biggest factor, while others call it negligible. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Americann and Iraqi officials are discussing the possibility of forming a large Iraqi militia or paramilitary force to help improve security in the country. [1] Terrorist: Terrorism group Jemaah Islamiyah has schemes, revealed in a 40-page manifesto (the Pupji book or General Guide to the Struggle of Jemaah Islamiyah), for a suicide bombing campaign designed to change Asia and the Pacific region into Islamic provinces. Jemaah Islamiyah is also shown to be a well-formed organization with a constitution, rules of operation, and leadership structure. [1] Afghanistan: Soldiers are killed in a remote region (near the town.
Heavy water - remission, but the effect is not predicted to be great enough to make this a useful therapy. Poisoning is doubtful except in unusual industrial and scientific situations. It depends on the patient taking only heavy water. An intake of, say, 25% heavy water in ordinary water would produce no symptoms. So it is not so much that heavy water is damaging to health, but rather that light water is necessary for it. Production On Earth, heavy water occurs naturally in regular water at a proportion of roughly one part in 6,000. It may be separated from regular water by distillation or electrolysis. In each case the slight difference in molecular weight produces a slight difference in the speed at which the reaction proceeds. To produce pure heavy water a large cascade.
Glide bomb - the development of a number of radio controlled glide bombs. These were constructed by fitting a control package on the rear of an otherwise standard bomb, starting with their 100kg armor-piercing bomb to create the Ruhrstahl SD 1400, commonly referred to as the Fritz-X. The bomb aimer dropped the bomb while the aircraft was still approaching the ship, and guided it into an impact with the target by sending commands to spoilers attached to the rear of the bomb. This proved to be difficult to do, because as the bomb dropped toward the target it fell further behind the launch aircraft, eventually becoming difficult to see. In addition it proved difficult to properly guide the bomb to impact as the angle of descent changed, and if the bombadier didn't "get it.
Government of the United States - of Agriculture (USDA) supports agricultural production to ensure fair prices and stable markets for producers and consumers, works to improve and maintain farm income, and helps to develop and expand markets abroad for agricultural products. The department attempts to curb poverty, hunger, and malnutrition by issuing food stamps to the poor; by sponsoring educational programs on nutrition; and by administering other food assistance programs, primarily for children, expectant mothers, and the elderly. It maintains production capacity by helping landowners protect the soil, water, forests, and other natural resources. USDA administers rural development, credit, and conservation programs that are designed to implement national growth policies, and it conducts scientific and technological research in all areas of agriculture. Through its inspection and grading services, USDA ensures standards of quality in food offered for.
Talking to Americans - with ridiculous statements about Canada. The intent was to satirize American ignorance of its neighbour. Examples included Americans persuaded to congratulate Canada on legalizing insulin or adopting the twenty-four-hour day; to exhort the Canadian government to install an air conditioner to preserve the National Igloo; or to agree that the U.S. should bomb Saskatchewan or send ground troops into Gilles Duceppe. In fact, some of the Americans interviewed seemed just to be playing along, although professors at distinguished American universities seemed always to be taken in by absurdities like the Saskatchewan seal hunt. The most famous segment featured Mr. Mercer in 2000 asking then-presidential candidate George W. Bush – who had previously stated that "you can't stump me on world leaders" – for his reaction to an endorsement by Canadian Prime.
Alexandrian school of anatomy - to the assiduous cultivation of anatomy, he appears, to have studied with particular attention those parts which were least understood. He recognized the nature of the pulmonary artery, which he denominates arterious vein; he knew the vessels of the mesentery, and showed that they did not go to the vena portae, but to certain glandular bodies; and he first applied the name of twelve-inch or duodenum (dodekadaktulos) to that part of the alimentary canal which is next to the stomach. Like Erasistratus, he appears to have studied carefully the configuration of the brain; and though, like him, he distinguishes the nerves into those of sensation and those of voluntary motion, he adds to them the ligaments and tendons. A tolerable description of the liver by this anatomist is preserved in the.
Amphetamine - Today it is officially admitted for treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and narcolepsy. General Info Amphetamine is a synthetic substance used to suppress appetite, control weight, treat narcolepsy and also ADHD. It is a commonly abused drug, usually bought on the street very impure or mixed with other drugs. Amphetamine can be snorted, taken orally, smoked, or injected. When the drug is snorted, smoked or injected, the effects can be felt within a few minutes, but the duration is usually lessened. When taken orally, the effects of the drug tend to feel “smoother” and are generally longer-lasting. Amphetamine was introduced in most of the world in the form of the pharmaceutical Benzedrine from the late 1920s. It was banned except for prescribed use in the late 1950s. It is also.
Baedeker - from Mainz to Köln). This provided the basis for the first of the Baedeker travel guides. The Baedeker Company The Baedeker company relocated in 1872 to Leipzig under his third son Fritz, who took over control of the company following the death and disablement of his older brothers. With the widespread advent of mechanical transportation, it was Fritz who managed an explosive growth in the line of travel guides, also producing international guides. In World War II, Germany launched a series of revenge attacks against English cities featured in the Baedeker Guide to Britain, known as the Baedeker raids. The Baedeker company's premises and files perished in a December 1943 air raid, but Baedeker's great grandson revived it, restarting, in 1948, publication of tourist guides. External Link Baedeker Der Verlag Karl.
Battle of the beams - War II when Luftwaffe bombers started using radio navigation for night bombing. British scientific intelligence at the Air Ministry fought back with a variety of increasingly effective means, and the Germans eventually gave up trying to use any such system. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Background 2 Lorenz 3 Knickebein 4 X-Gerät 5 Y-Gerät Background Both the British and Germans based much of their pre-war bombing strategy on night bombing, where the bombers would be relatively immune to interception and the threat from anti-aircraft systems was greatly reduced. However the problems for the bombers were equal, finding the target at night was a very difficult task. The RAF thus invested very heavily in navigation training, equipping their planes with various equipment for taking a star fix and giving the navigator room.
Tomahawk missile - low altitude aircraft that could be launched from a submerged submarine. It was subsequently deployed both on submarines and surface vessels as well as in a nuclear equipped Air Force version (GLCM-Ground Launch Cruise Missile) that could be launched from trucks. Both the GLCM launch vehicles and GLCM missiles were destroyed as a result of the 1987 Intermediate (Range) Nuclear Forces Treaty. The Tomahawk can be used against surface ships, as the Tomahawk Anti-Ship Missile (TASM), or land targets, employing several different types of warheads. Three primary variants are currently operational: nuclear land attack (TLAM-N) (not deployed), conventional land attack (TLAM-C, unitary warhead), and conventional land attack submunition (TLAM-D, dispense bomblets). It is an all-weather, subsonic missile with stubby wings, powered by a small turbofan engine. The small size of the.
Nagasaki - this time, despite the shogunate's official policy of ending foreign influence within the country. The Dutch demonstrated that they were interested in trading alone, and demonstrated their commitment during the Shimabara rebellion by firing on the Christians in support of the shogun. In 1641 they were granted Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki Bay, as a base of operations. From this date until 1855, Japan's contact with the outside world was limited to Nagasaki. In 1720 the ban on Dutch books was lifted, causing hundreds of scholars to flood into Nagasaki to study European science and art. After US Commodore Matthew Perry landed in 1853 and the shogunate crumbled shortly afterward, Japan opened its doors again. Nagasaki became a free port in 1859 and modernization began in earnest in 1868. With.
List of NES games - Radiance 1990 FCI Adventure Island 1987 Hudson Soft Adventure Island 2 1990 Hudson Soft Adventure Island 3 1992 Hudson Soft Adventure Island Classic 1992 Hudson Soft Europe only The Adventures of Bayou Billy 1989 Konami The Adventures of Captain Comic 1989 Color Dreams unlicensed The Adventures of Dino Riki 1989 Hudson Soft The Adventures of Lolo 1989 HAL The Adventures of Lolo 2 1989 HAL The Adventures of Lolo 3 1991 HAL The Adventures of Rad Gravity 1990 Activision The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 1992 THQ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1989 Seta After Burner 1989 Tengen After Burner II 1989 Sunsoft Japan only Ai Sensei no Oshiete: Watashi no Hoshi 1993 Irem Japan only Ai Senshi.
Air raid siren - Air raid siren An air raid siren is a electrically powered mechanical device for sound generation to provide warning of approaching danger and to indicate when the danger has passed. Initially designed to warn of air raids they were adapted to warn of nuclear attack and of natural phenomena such as tornadoes. The generalized nature of the siren led to them being largely replaced with more considered warnings, such as the U.S. Emergency Broadcast System. Sound is generated by having a motor drive a shaft at either end of which are mounted fans, one fan having a few more blades than the other. Around each fan is a housing with a number of cut slots to match the number of fan blades. The blades are designed.
Air Raid Precautions - Air Raid Precautions Air Raid Precautions (ARP) was an organization in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air-raids. It was created in 1924 as a response to the fears about the growing danger from the development of bomber aircraft. Giulio Douhet had published his influential Command of the Air in 1921 and his central thesis had been memorably taken into English as "the bomber will always get through." The bombing of Britain in WW I had begun on January 19, 1915 when zeppelins dropped bombs around Yarmouth, killling six people. Certain German bombing operations of WW I had been suprisingly effective, especially when the Gotha bombers supplanted the zeppelins, the 'best' raids had inflicted 121 casualties per ton of.
Dieppe Raid - Dieppe Raid The Dieppe Raid or The Battle of Dieppe or Operation Jubilee was an Allied attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France on August 19, 1942 during World War II. On the day, the raid was mostly an unmitigated disaster, very little was achieved and around 60% of the 5,000 who made it ashore were killed, wounded or captured. The Plan The origins of the raid are rather unusual. Various raids had been planned, but the Dieppe raid was brought into reality only by the desires of the new Chief of Combined Operations, Louis Mountbatten. The actual raid was undertaken without the approval of the Combined Chiefs of Staff and many elements in the planning suffered from the unofficial nature of the raid..
Kai Tak International Airport - the city, and people on the plane could see the flicker of televisions in apartment windows. The pilots used a checkerboard on a hillside to guide them to the ground. As well as the difficult and potentially dangerous landing, Hong Kong's growth stretched the airport's capacity. Moreover, the clearance requirements for aircraft takeoffs and landings enforced a limit on the height of the buildings that could be built on expensive Kowloon real estate. As a result, Hong Kong International Airport, also known as "Chek Lap Kok International Airport" was built near Lantau Island. All of the supplies were transported to Chek Lap Kok in a massive move, and planes stopped landing at Kai Tak. Its IATA Airport Code was given to Chek Lap Kok airport. History The story of Kai Tak.
Hughes Aircraft - a target to attack. Despite a highly critical committee report, Hughes was cleared. According to an old-timer at Hughes, when the Spruce Goose flying boat was flight-tested, it was filled with beach balls instead of the traditional ping-pong balls used when testing most sea planess. Every available beach ball in Los Angeles was purchased for the flight test. After the flight test, the beach balls were handed out to the spectators. In retrospect, this probably shows that Hughes did not intend to fly the aircraft again. In 1948 Hughes created a new division of the company, Hughes Electronics, hiring two engineers, Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge, who had new ideas on the packaging of electronics to make complete fire control systems. Their MA-1 system combined signals from the aircraft's RADAR with.
