Daugavpils Ghetto | ... 1, and was occupied by the Nazis between 1941–44. The Nazis established the | where the town's Jews were forced to live. During the Cold War it was the ... |
World Trade Center bombing | ... international terrorists, possibly the same group that had carried out the | two years earlier. The FBI also thought that a drug cartel might have been ... |
Huffman Aviation | ... States in May 2000, one month before Atta. They both trained in Florida at | , receiving their commercial pilot licenses in December 2000 from the FAA |
invading the Lae-Salamaua | ... attack by Allied land- and carrier-based aircraft on Japanese naval forces | area in New Guinea in March, Inoue requested the Combined Fleet to send ca ... |
Boeing B-29 Superfortress | ... 41, Air Corps leaders started to increasingly utilize the airfield, sending | es and Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and Douglas B-18 Bolo whi ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ni Hanjour could pilot and crash the plane into the Pentagon as part of the | . The crash killed all 64 passengers aboard the aircraft and 125 in the Pe ... |
voyage on the Beagle | ... ing young geologist Charles Darwin who read them with enthusiasm during his | , and has been described as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the ar ... |
Operation Wildhorn III | ... ject Big Ben mission used a stripped-for-lightness RAF twin-engine Dakota ( | ) (Most III) from Brindisi, Italy, to fly to an abandoned German airfield ... |
9/11 | ... on the allegation he was an enemy combatant. The Court held that the post- | congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) amounted ... |
Baltic Air Policing | ... onth intervals, is based in Lithuania to cover all three Baltic states (see | ) |
Schlieffen Plan | ... he German Army had been directed towards the Western Front according to the | . In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masuria ... |
2001 anthrax attacks | ... as able to save Weston). He also was the Congressional spokesman during the | |
Operation Noble Eagle | ... sions: Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and | (ONE) |
fault attacks | ... ase the computation time). Another concern for ECC-systems is the danger of | , especially when running on smart cards |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... nesses indicated these companions resembled Ziad Jarrah, the later pilot on | , and Said Bahaji, a then 26-year-old German-Moroccan member of the al-Qae ... |
Rwandan Genocide | ... recent conflict in what is now the DRC stems from the turmoil following the | of 1994, which then led to the Great Lakes refugee crisis. Within the larg ... |
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases | ... ntives and treatments for BW infections. This research is undertaken by the | (USAMRIID) which transitioned from the previous U.S. Army Medical Unit (US ... |
raid | ... his controversial role in planning and approving the famous Allied commando | in August 1942 |
September 11 attacks | ... meland Security, as part of a major government reorganization following the | of 2001. These three components include U.S. Citizenship and Immigration S ... |
Wars of Scottish Independence | ... en route to Scotland, sparked off the disputed succession which led to the | |
Fleur-de-lis | Four gates and an illuminated floral roof symbolizing | , consisting of twelve over ten metre high and twelve metre wide luminous ... |
Tet Offensive | ... ow opinion, but rather to adjust opinion to support his policies. Until the | of 1968, he systematically downplayed the war: few speeches, no rallies or ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... tagon, was erected outside the Shanksville firehouse near the crash site of | |
Anglo-Saxons | ... ts of today's Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony) lay south of Anglia. The | , two Germanic tribes, were a combination of a number of peoples from nort ... |
Operation Just Cause | ... litary exercises there. The Apache was first used in combat in 1989, during | , the invasion of Panama. The AH-64 participated in over 240 hours of comb ... |
attacks on September 11, 2001 | ... on nationwide television that he should have canceled the event. After the | , the NCAA ordered all football games scheduled for the weekend after the ... |
military coup | ... eory, with the first neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a | led by Augusto Pinochet took place in 1973 |
peacekeeping force | As of 2008, a 2,700-strong African Union | is attempting to bring stability and security to the city, as well as prov ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | In the | , the waterway was a key military target for the Coalition Forces. Since i ... |
Warrington bomb attacks | ... in recognition of the humanitarian role adopted by the choir following the | . Since then, he has appeared with the choir for performances in prisons i ... |
Danelaw | ... in the town in 796. In 886 it became a boundary town separating Wessex and | . It was the seat of the Barony of Bedford. In 919 Edward the Elder built ... |
Operation FS | ... osits on 15 May. Further operations against Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia ( | ) were to be planned once the MO and RY operations were completed. Because ... |
Operation Vigilant Sentinel | ... S. troops during Operation Restore Hope. The same ship also participated in | in the Persian Gulf in 1995. Roosevelt flew patrols in support of the Kurd ... |
October 2005 | ... risis between the two countries. Delhi again witnessed terrorist attacks in | and September 2008 resulting in the deaths of 62 and 30 civilians respecti ... |
Operation Enduring Freedom | ... acks on 11 September 2001, led to the initiation of three ongoing missions: | (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and Operation Noble Eagle (ONE) |
Operation Enduring Freedom | ... es that it has granted U.S. military aircraft contributed to the success of | . The government of Bahrain has cooperated closely on criminal investigati ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | ... ording to contemporary polls, the majority of Canadians were opposed to the | . Many Canadians, and the former Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as ... |
Kristallnacht | ... nniversary of the first large-scale Nazi-led pogroms against Jews in 1938 ( | ), so the day was considered inappropriate as a national holiday. Therefor ... |
Operation Ostra Brama | ... Uprising on October 2, 1944. Other major city uprisings of AK included the | in Wilno and the Lwów Uprising. In addition, AK prepared an uprising in Kr ... |
September 11 attacks | ... owever, a similar referendum, called for before, but held shortly after the | in 2001 in the US, was defeated by over 77% of voters |
Anglo-Saxon | Tostig Godwinson (died 25 September 1066) was an | Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson, the last crowned ... |
Operation Magic Carpet | ... of Navy construction battalions (or "Seabees"), as a part of her mission in | to return American servicemen home as soon as possible. The Alabama reache ... |
September 11 attacks | ... as "It's a good day to bury bad news"), in an email sent on the day of the | in 2001. The furor caused when this email was reported in the press eventu ... |
AD 70 | ... toricism have often maintained that Revelation was written in AD 96 and not | . Edward Bishop Elliott, in the Horae Apocalypticae (1862), argues that Jo ... |
1982 Lebanon War | The following year, during the | Israeli F-16s engaged Syrian aircraft in one of the largest air battles in ... |
French invasion of Russia | ... pated in numerous campaigns, including the Polish–Austrian War of 1809, the | in 1812, and the German campaign of 1813 |
Slashdot effect | This is known as the " | ", a term which was first coined on February 15, 1999 that refers to an ar ... |
hash collision | ... he table after it is created). Instead, most hash table designs assume that | s—different keys that map to the same hash value—will occur and must be ac ... |
invading French army | In 1882, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky quoted "La Marseillaise" to represent the | in his 1812 Overture. He also quoted the Russian national anthem he was fa ... |
1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary | In 1957, disillusioned by the | , Calvino left the Italian Communist Party. In his letter of resignation p ... |
Mexican–American War | ... ress, a Michigan state senator, and postmaster at Detroit. He served in the | and led the First Michigan Cavalry in the American Civil War. The colonel ... |
Vienna Offensive | ... ing, the 6th SS Panzer Army withdrew towards Vienna and was involved in the | . The only major force to face the attacking Red Army was the II SS Panzer ... |
The Raid at St. Nazaire | ... ntbatten was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of | in mid 1942: an operation resulting in disuse of one of the most heavily d ... |
September 11 attacks | ... eadquarters for the Department of Defense. It was one of the targets of the | ; 189 people died at the site when a jet passenger plane crashed into the ... |
Operation Enduring Freedom | ... ores were owned by Leon Batie, Jr., an Army reservist, who was called up to | in March 2005, three years after he bought his first Subway. Batie alleged ... |
Operation Paperclip | ... that had originally been brought to America by Colonel Holger Toftoy under | . As the Korean War started, the OGMC was given the mission to develop wha ... |
American Airlines Flight 77 | ... The next morning, Nawaf al-Hazmi, along with four other terrorists, boarded | and hijacked the plane so that Hani Hanjour could pilot and crash the plan ... |
Duc d'Anville Expedition | ... Acadia, Ramezay was sent from Quebec to the region to join forces with the | . Upon arriving at Chignecto, he sent Boishebert to Ile Saint-Jean on a re ... |
Operation Southern Watch | ... 355th Wing (355 WG). Following Operation Desert Storm, the 355 WG supported | during deployments to Al Jaber, Kuwait, in 1997 by deploying 24 A-10s, in ... |
simple/differential power analysis attacks | ... uently, it is important to counteract side channel attacks (e.g., timing or | ) using, for example, fixed pattern window (aka. comb) methods (note that ... |
Operation Downfall | ... to production and were planned to be used in the Allied invasion of Japan ( | ), however the atomic bombings of Japan negated its use. After World War I ... |
Fall of Saigon | ... er the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the | , leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil crisis puts ... |
United States Exploring Expedition | The | under Charles Wilkes visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. Duri ... |
Jewish Revolt | ... n of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina in 135, following the destruction of the | of 70 and the of 132–135 |
attempted rescue operation | ... rs became less severe and generally more tolerable. Following the late 1970 | at Son Tay prison camp, most of the POWs at the outlying camps were moved ... |
Slashdot effect | ... rwhelm some smaller or independent sites. This phenomenon is known as the " | " |
Anglo-Saxon | The | system of maintaining public order since the Norman conquest was a private ... |
Anglo-Saxon | ... . The Geordie dialect has much of its origins in the language spoken by the | populations who migrated to and conquered much of England after the end of ... |
Operation Torch | ... responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in | in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, f ... |
Shankill Road bombing | ... ysteel massacre. The UFF claimed the attack was in retaliation to the IRA's | which killed nine, seven days earlier |
Anglo-Saxons | ... to modern-day Caistor St Edmund, which fell into disuse around 450 AD. The | settled on the site of the modern city from around the 5th – 7th centuries ... |
Columbine High School massacre | ... ed to publish the story "Shoot", about high school shootings, following the | , despite the fact it had been written and submitted prior to the event. T ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | On September 11, 2001, during the terrorist attacks on the United States, | crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township, north of the town of Shanksvill ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the | |
Phoenix Program | ... n an extensive program of psychological warfare during the Vietnam War. The | had the dual aim of assassinating Viet Cong personnel and terrorizing any ... |
French intervention in Mexico | During the | , Sonora was invaded by French troops as part of the effort to install Max ... |
Battle of Walkerton | On March 2, 1864, the | , an engagement of the American Civil War took place here, resulting in a ... |
September 11 attacks | ... e Voice and Time Out New York, who asked rhetorically in a reference to the | , "Can there be another movie that speaks as resonantly — if unwittingly — ... |
September 11 attacks | ... to be removed from the exhibit following criticism of elements based on the | in the United States. A French street artist known as Invader made a name ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | In 2003, in the lead-up to the | , an ONA intelligence officer named Andrew Wilkie resigned from the agency ... |
St George's Cross | ... f. Dunkirk fell, and was handed over to England, as promised, so flying the | until Charles II sold it to the king of France in 1662 |
Falaise pocket | A German counter-attack, starting on 7 August, at Mortain, in the | , threatened Patton's break-out from the beachhead. This was repulsed by 2 ... |
United Airlines Flight 175 | ... d as Alshehhi) (May 9, 1978 – September 11, 2001) was the hijacker-pilot of | , crashing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as par ... |
Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 | ... ng the American Civil War but resumed when F. V. Hayden led the well-funded | . Split into two divisions, the expedition explored Yellowstone under Hayd ... |
16th Street Baptist Church bombing | ... public library on Sunday afternoon, September 15, 1963 (the same day as the | in Birmingham), further violence ensued and two black ministers, N.Q. Reyn ... |
Anglo-Saxons | ... became the leader of The Clan McDuck. In 946, the castle was under siege by | , raiders who did not care about the treaty that King Edmund I of England ... |
Anglo-Saxons | ... cult. The linguistic contact of the Viking settlers of the Danelaw with the | left traces in the English language, and is suspected to have facilitated ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... sville came to international attention during the September 11 attacks when | crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township |
Chieu Hoi | ... personnel and terrorizing any potential sympathizers or passive supporters. | program of the South Vietnam government promoted Viet Cong defections |
one engagement | ... 64 took part in invasion of Iraq in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In | on 24 March 2003, 31 Apaches were damaged, and one Apache was shot down an ... |
Columbine massacre | ... Is Your Time" (about Cassie Bernall, one of the students killed during the | ). In the music video for this song, the beginning shows a real video of B ... |
Dieppe Raid | ... in the Battle of the Atlantic. He personally pushed through the disastrous | of 19 August 1942 (which certain elements of the Allied military, notably ... |
Flight 175 | ... l Airport, accompanied by an unknown man, where he purchased his ticket for | . On September 9, the motel manager cleaning the room Shehhi had vacated f ... |
Operation Torch | ... pointment for security reasons. The campaign in North Africa was designated | ; French cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign, and Eisenhower ... |
Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen | ... nd Nawaf checked into the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia where | , a prominent Saudi government official, was staying – although no evidenc ... |
Danelaw | ... hensibility difficult. The linguistic contact of the Viking settlers of the | with the Anglo-Saxons left traces in the English language, and is suspecte ... |
Operation Enduring Freedom | Many Fort Hood units have deployed to Afghanistan for | , and to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 4th Infantry Division was a ... |
United States Exploring Expedition | The | led by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes was tasked with a vast survey of the Paci ... |
DDoS attack | ... e for news stories related to the singer, and was assumed by Google to be a | , although many queries were submitted by legitimate searchers |
invading Iraq | ... e of 21 Democrats in the Senate to vote against the War Authoritization for | . Quoted from her Senate speech |
Manhattan Project | ... , in the U.S., the first experimental atomic reactor (1942), as well as the | Hanford production reactors which produced the plutonium for the Trinity t ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... ent's authority in the colonies. The orthodox British view, dating from the | of 1688, was that Parliament was the supreme authority throughout the empi ... |
September 11 attacks | ... burgh, Pennsylvania. Shanksville came to international attention during the | when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township |
Glorious Revolution | ... the monarch was all but extinguished by the Whig revolution of 1688-89 (see | ). The king or queen of the United Kingdom is one of the last monarchs sti ... |
Operation Overlord | | , the Allied "D-Day" landings in Normandy, took place on 6 June 1944. In p ... |
hijacked airplanes crashed | ... cal television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two | into and destroyed the World Trade Center towers. Transmitter maintenance ... |
Operation Eiche | Soon after being ousted, Mussolini was rescued by a German commando in | ("Oak"). The Germans brought Mussolini to northern Italy where he set up a ... |
Dyle Plan | ... Allied Forces that were advancing east into Belgium, as part of the Allied | strategy |
Demyansk Pocket | ... t offensive of January 1942 had trapped a number of German divisions in the | between February and April 1942; the 3 SS Totenkopf was one of the divisio ... |
invasion of Southern France | ... andy landings on June 6, 1944 were costly but successful; a month later the | took place, and control of the forces which took part in the southern inva ... |
Operation Provide Comfort | ... oosevelt flew patrols in support of the Kurds over northern Iraq as part of | in 1991. In 1996, George Washington played a peacekeeping role in Operatio ... |
American 11 | ... r control as pilot, and at 9:03 a.m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed | into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the S ... |
Operation Wooden Leg | ... tempt when Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed his headquarters there as part of | , leaving 73 people dead. Arafat had gone out jogging that morning |
Anglo-Saxon | ... ( or ) is the earliest English (Northumbrian) poet whose name is known. An | who cared for the animals and was attached to the double monastery of Stre ... |
September 11 attacks | ... the city in 2006, one in ten of the population. In 2001, shortly after the | , teenager Ross Parker was murdered by a gang of Muslims of Pakistani orig ... |
USS Cole bombing | ... q bin Attash, one of the Yemenis, and others who were later involved in the | . Hazmi and Mihdhar also met with Fahad al-Quso, who was later involved in ... |
Fenian raids | ... tinued , however, due to a series of small-scale armed incursions named the | by Irish-American Civil War veterans across the border from 1866 to 1871 i ... |
Western Front | ... ed in the collection are war diaries kept by Sassoon while he served on the | and in Palestine, a draft of "" (1917), notebooks from his schooldays, and ... |
September 11 attacks | ... in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security after the | , and may be used to refer to the actions of that department, the United S ... |
Unified Task Force | ... alia operation, in which Moroccan personnel served as part of UNOSOM I, the | , and the follow-on mission |
Manhattan Project | ... now reported to Leslie Groves, the retired army general who had managed the | . Remington Rand had its own calculating machine lab in Norwalk, Connectic ... |
International Force for East Timor | ... l stage by providing Peacekeeping forces to the United Nations (UN), in the | (INTERFET), from 1999 to 2002. And participating in the and the mission th ... |
Anglo-Saxon | ... idence for these origins came in the form of a 19th-century discovery of an | trefoil-headed brooch which is now in the collection of the British Museum |
Wars of Scottish Independence | ... brunt of the conflicts with England, both during declared wars such as the | , and armed raids which took place in the times of the Border Reivers. Thu ... |
Hohmann transfer orbit | ... to Mars. The required \Delta v from LEO is approximately 3000 m/s, using a | . For the sake of argument, let us say that the following thrusters may be ... |
11 September 2001 attacks | After the | "Only Time" was used as a soundtrack in many radio and television reports ... |
Operation Linebacker II | At the end of 1972, the failed of | brought US to a negotiated end to Hanoi government. By 1974, the United St ... |
Western Front | ... with barbed-wire to represent no-man's land and German trench lines on the | . To commemorate this, the only surviving Mark I tank was sited at Hatfiel ... |
Operation Southern Watch | ... November 2000. The carrier's air wing flew 869 combat sorties in support of | , including a strike on Iraqi air defense sites on 16 February 2001, in re ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... ed by the London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 shortly after the | |
2001 anthrax attacks | ... ated threat is mail containing unidentified powders or chemicals, as in the | |
Pan Am Flight 103 | ... 88, 35 Syracuse University students were killed in the terrorist bombing of | over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students were returning from a study-abroad ... |
September 11 attacks | After the | in 2001 in New York, Bush launched the War on Terrorism, in which the Unit ... |
Anglo Saxon | Aylsham is thought to have been founded around 500 AD by an | thegn called Aegel, Aegel's Ham, meaning "Aegel's settlement". The town is ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. During the | in 2001 he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. Bingham die ... |
Munich massacre | ... ources, including Mohammed Oudeh (Abu Daoud), one of the masterminds of the | , and Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black ... |
Italy's invasion of Ethiopia | Roosevelt invoked the act after | in October 1935, preventing all arms and ammunition shipments to both coun ... |
Western Front | ... (who had by now joined the Entente) in the Alps and the Anglo-French on the | , thereby assailing the Central Powers from all sides |
Revolution of 1688 | ... argely from the north of Ireland, to settle here. Some were veterans of the | . Named for Lord Charles Townshend, this settlement survived and was incor ... |
Indonesia's 27th province | Nine days later, Indonesia invaded the territory declaring it | Timor Timur in 1976. The United Nations, however, did not recognise the an ... |
Rwandan Genocide | Hundreds of thousands of people fled from the | in 1994 into neighboring countries. Thousands of refugees from deteriorati ... |
Lwów Uprising | ... prisings and helping to liberate various cities (ex. Operation Ostra Brama, | ), only to find that immediately afterwards AK troops were arrested, impri ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001 he was a passenger on board | . Bingham died when the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Penns ... |
Operation Overlord | ... he Allied assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 under the code name | , the liberation of Western Europe and the invasion of Germany |
Anglo-Saxons | ... Century, Britain was colonised by invaders from northern Europe called the | . The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us that they won the Battle of Crayford ... |
LAN Manager | With a focus on interoperability with Microsoft's | , Tridgell released "netbios for unix", nbserver, version 1.5 in December ... |
Operation Restore Hope | ... December 9, 1992 to spearhead the United Nations peacekeeping forces during | , in which Pakistan, Italy and Malaysia also participated |
Western Front | ... n "curing" his patients simply in order that they could be sent back to the | to die. Rivers's feelings of guilt are clearly portrayed both in fiction a ... |
invasion of Romania | ... gnificant strategic pressure from Russia and whilst conducting a concurrent | . In 1917 the Germans were still able to defend effectively against Britis ... |
Danelaw | ... e Vikings. In 867 Northumbria became the northern kingdom of the coalescing | , after its conquest by the brothers Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar the Bonel ... |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... ibertarian conservative, and Republican causes in America. A week after the | , on The O'Reilly Factor, Clancy stated that left-wing politicians in the ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... Catholic - a law which dates from the Act of Settlement 1701, following the | of 1688. However, since the monarch is also the Supreme Governor of the Ch ... |
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | ... ulation. In August 1968, the Polish People's Army took part in the infamous | |
Falaise pocket | ... nd came in mid August when the German Army was encircled and trapped in the | , including the 1 SS Leibstandarte, 10 SS Frundsberg and 12 SS Hitlerjugen ... |
Side-channel attack | | s do not attack the underlying cipher and so have nothing to do with its s ... |
Catalan flag | ... ust 3,486 members, faced a number of restrictions. After the Civil War, the | was banned and football clubs were prohibited from using non-Spanish names ... |
Able Danger | ... ressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project | had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi all u ... |
Danelaw | ... , mainly in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (within the former boundaries of the | ): over 600 end in -by, the Scandinavian word for "farm" — for example Gri ... |
Flight 93 | ... ial Park to honor Tom Burnett, a San Ramon resident, and other victims from | killed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. A plaque was installed at the ... |
attacking German forces | ... ese factors would prove to be important for the Norwegian fight against the | |
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ... ously he condemned the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary in response to the | . Therefore he publicly disavowed his allies at the United Nations, and us ... |
September 11 attacks | ... don had accumulated in her name while they were married. In the wake of the | Jackson was moved to compose "Free the World". She performed the song for ... |
September 11 attacks | ... Continuity of Operations Plan, Sabato said it "failed outright" during the | |
September 11 attacks | On September 9, 2001, two days before the | in the United States, Massoud was assassinated in Takhar Province of Afgha ... |
Flodden Field | ... the absence of the English King Henry VIII. His forces met with disaster at | ; the King, many senior noblemen, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. As ... |
Second Italo-Abyssinian War | ... tion for world influence. In 1935 Mussolini decided to invade Ethiopia. The | resulted in the international isolation of Italy, as France and Britain qu ... |
Mexican Expeditionary Forces | ... Riley, until July 1916. In 1916, he served with General John J. Pershing's | , as commander of the bakeries. This was the first use of the army field o ... |
B-29 Superfortress | ... roduced innovative and important bombers, from the B-17 Flying Fortress and | , to the jet-powered B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress. The company's ... |
Ponary massacre | ... lice, who had already murdered hundreds of Polish civilians since 1941 (see | ) |
Mud March | ... er rains before it accomplished anything and has been derisively called the | . In its wake, he asked that several officers, who were openly insubordina ... |
Hill 262 | ... , while the 2 SS Das Reich and the 9 SS Hohenstaufen were ordered to attack | from the outside in order to keep the gap open. By 22 August the Falaise p ... |
Operation Ostra Brama | ... couting or organizing uprisings and helping to liberate various cities (ex. | , Lwów Uprising), only to find that immediately afterwards AK troops were ... |
XOR attacks | ... .5 hours; using a single encryption key longer than this time allows simple | to retrieve the encryption key |
2003 invasion of Iraq | Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled conflict in their nation since the | |
Khobar Towers bombing | The suspected driver of the reconnaissance vehicle involved in the | fled to Canada where he was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ... |
1972 Easter Invasion | ... equipped with the XM26 Armament Subsystem were deployed to help counter the | . USAF Lieutenant James P. Fleming piloted a UH-1F on a 26 November 1968 m ... |
2001 anthrax attacks | In its February 19, 2010, investigative summary on the | , the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that Bruce Edwards Ivins wa ... |
Anglo-Saxon | ... t people") reduced in size (after a blitzkrieg, it only consists of the old | heptarchy) and characterized by atavism (cf. "Deep England"), while Englan ... |
Operation Rah-e-Nijat | ... operations undertaken by the Army include Operation Black Thunderstorm and | |
Opération Daguet | ... Second Foreign Engineer Regiment were sent to the Persian Gulf as a part of | . They were a part of the French 6th Light Armoured Division, whose missio ... |
United States Exploring Expedition | ... n the Oregon Country to the north. In 1841, an overland party of the famous | passed through the area |
Western Front | ... . This was mainly employed in World War I in the Gallipoli campaign and the | . Trench warfare often turned to a stalemate, only broken by a large loss ... |
Operation Southern Watch | ... in Afghanistan. Vinson sailed towards the Persian Gulf intending to support | in July 2001. This changed in response to the attacks, and the ship change ... |
September 11 attacks | ... the deadliest act of terrorism against the U.S. on American soil until the | . However, the deadliest act of terror against the U.S. prior to September ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | ... led "O2." He is a peace activist, and has often spoken publicly against the | . Harrelson is also an ethical vegan and raw foodist. He did not eat Twink ... |
Lwów Uprising | ... or city uprisings of AK included the Operation Ostra Brama in Wilno and the | . In addition, AK prepared an uprising in Kraków, but it was canceled due ... |
Pan Am Flight 103 | ... ct of terror against the U.S. prior to September 11 was the 1988 bombing of | , which killed 189 Americans in an explosion over the United Kingdom. It h ... |
snap roll | ... m directional instability in wide turns, and in tighter turns, it tended to | . The dive brakes vibrated heavily when extended at their design speed of ... |
Operation Market Garden | In World War II, during | (September 1944), the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Ind ... |
Italy invaded Albania | ... Albania to avoid becoming second-rate member of the Axis. On April 7, 1939, | |
Mexican–American War | ... g since the colonial period, and for its status as a border state since the | . After the Gadsden Purchase, Sorona lost more than a quarter of its terri ... |
Boeing B-29 Superfortress | ... Rutan's popular Boomerang, Catbird, V-Jet II and Starship. The last flyable | named "Fifi" owned by the Commemorative Air Force made its return to the e ... |
terrorist attack | On September 11, 2001, during the | s on the United States, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in St ... |
Allied invasion of Italy | After the | in September 1943, Hitler ordered the II SS Panzer Corps to move to Italy, ... |
7 July 2005 London bombings | ... ormer senior police officer Andy Hayman, who sat on the committee after the | and at other intervals from 2005–2007, was highly critical of its workings ... |
his supporters | ... gned by the Earl of Marlborough supporting the recently exiled James II and | had been discovered. This document is likely to have been forged by Robert ... |
Operation Lüttich | ... lied advance. 1 SS Leibstandarte and 2 SS Das Reich took part in the failed | in early August. The end came in mid August when the German Army was encir ... |
Philippine–American War | During the Philippine Revolution and the | between 1896 to 1913, the island of Negros and other neighboring islands i ... |
Wars of Scottish Independence | ... n Scottish Gaelic) (24 June 1314) was a significant Scottish victory in the | . It was one of the decisive battles of the First War of Scottish Independ ... |
invasion of France | ... e invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful | and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the fir ... |
Kristallnacht | Although the synagogue survived | without damage, it was acquired by the municipality after the war and conv ... |
Reagan Doctrine | Under a policy that came to be known as the | , Reagan and his administration also provided overt and covert aid to anti ... |
Allied invasion of southern France | ... ence on German troop movements in and around the Rhone Valley preceding the | ("Operation Dragoon"). Although he had been reinstated to his old squadron ... |
Battle of Eccles Hill | ... radically until 1871. The raids ended after unsuccessful attacks during the | in Quebec and in the northwest frontier, near the Manitoba border. The Fen ... |
German Meteor expedition | ... ntic trade). Scientific explorations include the Challenger expedition, the | , Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the United St ... |
Operation Enduring Freedom | ... tacks, Vinson and Roosevelt were among the first warships to participate in | in Afghanistan. Vinson sailed towards the Persian Gulf intending to suppor ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ty of Operations plan into effect for the first time directly following the | . Their implementation involved a rotating staff of 75 to 150 senior offic ... |
Swedish invasion | ... hmelnytsky Uprising engulfed the south and east, and was soon followed by a | , which raged through core Polish lands. Warfare with the Cossacks and Rus ... |
Operation Cyclone | ... some sources claim 1,500–2,000) to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan as part of | . with the supply of 250 launchers |
Challenger expedition | ... mericas (known as transatlantic trade). Scientific explorations include the | , the German Meteor expedition, Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth ... |
Operation Litani | ... ing vehicles, killing thirty-seven civilians. In response, the IDF launched | three days later, with the goal of taking control of Southern Lebanon up t ... |
Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands | ... detention centre. Australia, New Zealand and other nations took part in the | from 2003 after a request for aid |
Glorious Revolution | ... st daughter of King James II (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the | , was given the title of Princess Royal during James's exile at Saint-Germ ... |
Danelaw | ... withdraw to an area north and east of Watling Street, thus establishing the | |
Glorious Revolution | ... with the utmost violence'. Nor did the city accept the outcome of the 1688 | with a unified voice. The pre-eminent citizen, Bishop William Lloyd, would ... |
Battle of Normandy | Some Me 410s were utilized with Junkers Ju 188s during the | for high-altitude night reconnaissance missions |
11 September | ... y" (Stockhausen 2002, 76). The same journalist then asked how the events of | had affected him, and how he viewed reports of the attack in connection wi ... |
Manhattan Project | ... the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, home of the | that developed the first atomic weapons. Edward Teller and Ernest O. Lawre ... |
11 September 2001 attacks in the USA | ... in racial vilification towards them after a number of events including the | , the Bali bombings, and these rapes |
2005 Amman bombings | ... d be filmed in Jordan before the producer Moustapha Akkad was killed in the | . When Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement ... |
Roman invasion | During the | the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the l ... |
Morgan's Raid | ... rn access to the trans-Mississippi West. July brought short-lived counters, | into Ohio and the New York City draft riots. Robert E. Lee’s strike into P ... |
Italy's invasion of Ethiopia | In October 1935, in protest of | , Merton joined a picket of the Casa Italiana. The Casa Italiana, establis ... |
Hohmann transfer orbit | ... t fuel-efficient means to move from one circular orbit to another is with a | : the spacecraft begins in a roughly circular orbit around the Sun. A shor ... |
Tet Offensive | ... US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak (1964–68), during the | . He adopted a strategy of attrition against the National Liberation Front ... |
terrorist attacks | ... in East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Following the September 11, 2001 | on the United States, Egypt, which has itself been the target of terrorist ... |
Reagan Doctrine | ... ssoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of U.S. support under the | |
Deluge | ... who was under strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits. After the | , and other wars of the mid-17th century, in which all enemies of Poland w ... |
Kristallnacht | In the | pogrom on November 10, 1938, Wiesbaden's large synagogue on Michelsberg wa ... |
Operation Cyclone | ... Lee-Enfields (a common rifle in the Middle East and South Asia). The CIA's | provided hundreds of thousands of Enfields to the Mujahideen, funneling th ... |
September 11 attacks | ... y of Operations Plan has seen a return to relevance in the 2000s. After the | , many speculated that terrorists might attempt to destroy a large part of ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... m. He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the | but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions ... |
Battle of Flodden Field | ... d Ross of Halkhead, died when leading his forces against the English at the | on September the 9th, 1513. Fought in the county of Northumberland, in nor ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ican Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the | |
first terrorist attack on | ... of the additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions in 1977. He faced the | a Swissair plane in Zarqa, Jordan in 1970. After retiring, he gave his opi ... |
Kristallnacht | ... riminated against and later persecuted; their synagogue was torn down after | in November 1938. The sole RAF strategic bombing during World War II again ... |
Western Front | This series is set in 1917, on the | in the trenches of the First World War. Another "big push" is planned, and ... |
King David Hotel bombing | ... General in Jerusalem, wrote in response to a pro-Irgun commemoration of the | : "We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to ... |
Manhattan Project | ... scribed as "cloaked in the deepest wartime secrecy, matched only by ... the | for developing the Atomic Bomb". Three months after the start of construct ... |
Operation Konrad | ... rmy (Army Group Balck), which was mustering for a relief effort, code named | |
Western Front | ... ked by a rough cross while serving in the British Army as a chaplain on the | , which bore the pencil-written legend "An Unknown British Soldier". He su ... |
Glorious Revolution | The theory of divine right was abandoned in England during the | of 1688–89. The American and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth cen ... |
Western Front | ... esistance because the bulk of the German Army had been directed towards the | according to the Schlieffen Plan. In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and ... |
Napoleon's invasion of Russia | ... 1806 Kalisz became a provincial capital within the Duchy of Warsaw. During | , following Yorck's Convention of Tauroggen of 1812, von Stein's Treaty of ... |
Roman conquest | ... y dropped. That island was first invaded by Julius Caesar in 55 BC, and the | of the island began in AD 43, leading to the establishment of the Roman pr ... |
Battalion 316 | ... campaign of extrajudicial killings by government-backed units, most notably | |
Anglo-Saxon | Bernicia (Old English: Bernice, Beornice; Latin: Bernicia) was an | kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now ... |
conquest of Britain | ... e few efforts to expand its already vast extent; the most notable being the | , begun by emperor Claudius (47), and emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia ( ... |
Wars of Scottish Independence | ... Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the | |
Israeli occupation of the south | ... reign aid to help it rebuild from both the long civil war (1975–89) and the | (1978–2000). In addition, the delicate social balance and the near- dissol ... |
Danelaw | Polabian Slavs (Wends) settled in parts of England ( | ), apparently as Danish allies. Polabian-Pomeranian Slavs are also known t ... |
Operation Anthropoid | ... Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in | , and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U.S. to carry out a ... |
Operation Red Hat | ... tional incident. These munitions were moved in 1971 to Johnston Atoll under | |
Anglo-Saxons | ... ber of the Gregorian mission sent from Italy to England to Christianize the | from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, although the date of his arrival i ... |
French expeditionary force | ... sulted in the destruction of the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet. With the help of a | , the Greeks drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese and proceeded to the c ... |
Easter Offensive | In 1972, General Vo Nguyen Giap launched the " | ", an all-out attack against South Vietnam from the DMZ. The assault combi ... |
King David Hotel bombing | ... wish Resistance Movement, the Irgun was asked to speed up the plans for the | of July 22. The hotel was where the documents were located, the base for t ... |
September 11 attacks | ... f cameras. Filming of the season was also suspended during the onset of the | |
First Jewish–Roman War | ... ecorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the | , which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70 |
Kristallnacht | The Nazis took this act as a pretext to stage a nationwide pogrom known as | . It was in Hanover on November 9, 1938 that the synagogue, designed in 18 ... |
Kristallnacht | ... ple, it portrays Speer's reaction, or, to be specific, lack of reaction, to | |
Secret Invasion | ... " "Utopia," "" and "Necrosha" (2009). The X-Men were also involved in the " | " storyline |
Operation Fiery Vigil | ... was diverted to the Indian Ocean to participate alongside 22 other ships in | , evacuating civilians following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on Luzon Isl ... |
First Barons' War | ... The king reneged on his promises of reform, leading to the outbreak of the | . Even after the Magna Carta was signed, Fitzwalter maintained his control ... |
Operation Agatha | ... bombing and the arrest of Jewish Agency and other Yishuv leaders as part of | caused the Haganah to cease their armed activity against the British. Yish ... |
9/11 | ... hter dealing with alcoholism, family dysfunction, and other issues in post- | New York City. He received Emmy nominations in 2006 and 2007 for Outstandi ... |
Manhattan Project | ... e river passes through the Hanford Site, established in 1943 as part of the | . The site served as a plutonium production complex, with nine nuclear rea ... |
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition | ... during this period Frank Hurley's documentary film, South (1919), about the | was released. It documented the failed Antarctic expedition led by Ernest ... |
bombing of the King David Hotel | Two of the operations for which the Irgun is best known are the | in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre, carried out tog ... |
Anglo-Saxon | ... s [Yeading] around the stream called Fiscesburna [Crane or Yeading Brook]." | settlement in Yeading therefore seems probable, but the history of Yeading ... |
stall | The speed range of paragliders is typically , from | speed to maximum speed. Beginner wings will be in the lower part of this r ... |
Operation Unified Assistance | ... have also provided aid after natural disasters; in 2005, Lincoln supported | in Indonesia after the December 2004 tsunami, and Truman provided aid afte ... |
Operation Overlord | ... h Quartermaster Service Company billeted in Chelston and Cockington. During | more than 23,000 men of the American 4th Infantry Division departed Torqua ... |
Anglo-Saxons | ... fe area that was easily defended and not particularly desirable to invading | |
Glorious Revolution | ... terwards King William III) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the | , and issued his famous declaration "The Liberties of England and The Prot ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ropped, which was attributed by Kodak to the financial shocks preceding the | . Executives hoped that Kodak might be able to slow the shift to digital t ... |
9/11 | ... opean tour of 2001 was canceled, largely due to security concerns after the | terrorist attacks, and the band flew back to the US to tour again with Aer ... |
Western Front | Sassoon's periods of duty on the | were marked by exceptionally brave actions, including the single-handed, b ... |
Manhattan Project | As part of its contribution to the | , Canada built and operated a 6 tonnes per year electrolytic heavy water p ... |
Enola Gay | ... exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum associated with display of the | , the Superfortress used by the United States to execute the first atomic ... |
U.S. plan to invade Iraq | The Holy See took a firm stance against the | . Pope John Paul II's special envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was sent by the C ... |
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ... tter. He thought he had learned an important lesson from the failing of the | , believing the Kremlin would allow him a free hand in pursuing domestic r ... |
Manhattan Project | ... ed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist and the scientific director of the | . He favored Los Alamos |
Raid on Drvar | The | , codenamed Operation Rösselsprung, was an attack by the Waffen-SS and Luf ... |
7 July 2005 London bombings | In a widely criticized episode, initial online BBC reports of the | identified the perpetrators as terrorists, in contradiction to the BBC's i ... |
Operation Linebacker | President Richard Nixon dispatched more bombers in | to provide air support for the ARVN when it seemed that South Vietnam was ... |
Operation Noble Eagle | ... October 2001. Following the attacks, Stennis and Washington participated in | , carrying out homeland security operations off the West Coast of the Unit ... |
Centennial Olympic Park bombing | The Atlanta Olympics were marred by the | on July 27. Security Guard Richard Jewell discovered the pipe bomb and imm ... |
Anglo-Saxon | ... ation—especially irreconcilable with his opinion of himself as a privileged | —has been theorized as galvanizing his racism to the point of fear, a sent ... |
American Airlines Flight 77 | ... l-Makki) (August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001) was one of five hijackers of | , which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks |
Fall of Saigon | ... n Refugees and Escapees continued to focus on Vietnam, especially after the | in 1975 |
Moorish invasions | ... ndependent marches and Frankish feudal fiefs. In a bid to stem Frankish and | , a northern alliance of the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe, Ribagorza, and ... |
September 11 attacks | ... nity and American economic and cultural power. It suffered the brunt of the | , along with two other places in the Mid-Atlantic, Arlington, Virginia and ... |
Operation Hannibal | ... coast, many soldiers and civilians were evacuated by ship in the course of | . Between January 23, 1945 and May 5, 1945, up to 250,000 Germans primaril ... |
Anglo-Saxon | The area lay within the | administrative division of Wallington hundred |
Anglo-Saxon | Wyrd is a concept in | culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is anc ... |
Danelaw | ... thrum consolidated his rule as king over the other Danish chieftains of the | (Danish ruled territory of England), what is known is that by 874 he was a ... |
September 11 attacks | ... Trade Center site (ZIP code: 10048), also known as "Ground Zero" after the | , sits on in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The World Trade Center comp ... |
Mumbai train bombings of 2006 | ... rifles were a familiar sight throughout railway stations in India after the | and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. They are also still seen in the hand ... |
Operation Unified Response | ... ding aid and drinking water to earthquake survivors as part of the U.S. led | , alongside other major warships and hospital ship Comfort |
bomb exploded | ... et for terrorists. After a failed attempt to bomb Canary Wharf, a large IRA | at South Quay on 9 February 1996. Two people died in the explosion, forty ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... the passengers who attempted to storm the cockpit of the hijacked airliner | to try to prevent al-Qaeda terrorists from using the plane as a part of th ... |
Battle of Flodden Field | ... III to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk to commemorate his victory at the | . It is a modification of the Royal coat of arms of Scotland. Instead of i ... |
Anglo-Saxons | ... overrun by pagan, Germanic peoples who came to be known collectively as the | . Of the kingdoms they created, Kent arguably had the closest links with E ... |
Danelaw | ... (died c. 890), christened Æthelstan, was King of the Danish Vikings in the | . He is mainly known for his conflict with Alfred the Great |
Enola Gay | ... Air Field was a training base for bomber pilots, including the crew of the | . The Enola Gay was stationed here until June 1945 |
Mexican–American War | The | resulted in only one major military confrontation between Mexican and U.S. ... |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... uld remain the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the | . The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the ag ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... was strongest. The modern situation largely dates from 1690, when after the | the majority of Scottish bishops were non-jurors, and in response Presbyte ... |
St George's Cross | The previous flag of Guernsey was the | . Guernsey was permitted to use it in 1936 for its state flag. However, th ... |
Operation Southern Watch | ... s was involved in during the 1990s were the Gulf War and its aftermath, and | in southern Iraq. All active vessels were engaged in both of these to some ... |
September 11 attacks | ... to try to prevent al-Qaeda terrorists from using the plane as a part of the | . The target of the Flight 93 hijackers was reported to have been either t ... |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... living in the area as of 2005, a jump from the 15,000 to 20,000 before the | |
Operation Foxley | ... , and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations (such as | , though this plan was never put into practice) |
Operation Scorched Earth | ... t insurgent intrusions of the kingdom's border, started using the Apache in | ; this involved launched air strikes against Houthi rebels operating insid ... |
Manhattan Project | ... Had the German nuclear program followed similar lines of research as the US | , the heavy water would have been crucial to obtaining plutonium from a nu ... |
Sterling Hall bombing | ... 1950s to the radical antiwar protests at UW-Madison that culminated in the | in August 1970. Recent politics have been comparatively moderate, but the ... |
Operation Agatha | In 1946, British relations with the Yishuv worsened, building up to | of June 29. The authorities ignored the Anglo-American Committee of Inquir ... |
XSL attack | ... y simple algebraic description. In 2002, a theoretical attack, termed the " | ", was announced by Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk, purporting to sho ... |
brute force | ... are quite easy to crack. Many of the classical ciphers can be cracked using | or by analyzing only ciphertext with the exception of the one-time pad |
Glorious Revolution | James's overthrow, known as the | , was one of the most important events in the long evolution of parliament ... |
Operation Torch | ... the fall of the Vichy regime in Algeria (November 11, 1942) as a result of | , the Free French commander in chief in North Africa slowly rescinded repr ... |
September 11 attacks | In the aftermath of the | , the stadium became a staging area for rescuers, its parking lots filled ... |
Xa Loi Pagoda raids | ... las. This most notably occurred on the night of August 21, 1963, during the | conducted by the Special Forces, which caused a death toll estimated to ra ... |
Roman conquest of Britain | Until the | , Cardiff was part of the territory of the Silures – a Celtic British trib ... |
Moscow theater hostage crisis | ... derivative), as a precursor to an assault on Chechen terrorists, ending the | . All 42 of the terrorists and 120 of the hostages were killed during the ... |
invaded from the east | ... the Germans invaded Poland from the west and, on 17 September, the Soviets | |
United Airlines Flight 93 | On September 11, 2001, he boarded | at the last minute, on his way to San Francisco to be an usher in his frat ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... general religious tolerance, this was one of the grievances that led to the | that ousted him from the throne |
Glorious Revolution | ... ved from power was James VII and II, who fled into exile in 1688 during the | |
spin | ... t model B-17 Flying Fortress). Something goes wrong; the bomber goes into a | and sandbags (substituting for the weight of bombs) break loose, pinning G ... |
September 11 attacks | ... rnett, a San Ramon resident, and other victims from Flight 93 killed in the | of 2001. A plaque was installed at the base of a lighted flagpole dedicate ... |
an expedition | ... ir credibility. In 1869, one-armed Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell led | from Green River Station in Wyoming, aiming to run the two rivers all the ... |
2001 shoe bomb plot | ... executed or planned terrorist acts of the early 2000s, most notably in the | and the 2005 London Underground bombings. Several detection devices have b ... |
Operation Arctic Fox | SS Division Nord in northern Finland took part in | with the Finnish Army and at the battle at Salla, where against strong Sov ... |
September 11, 2001, attacks | ... nnedy was in his Senate offices meeting with First Lady Laura Bush when the | took place. Two of the airplanes involved had taken off from Boston, and i ... |
Warrenpoint ambush | ... Parachute Regiment at Warrenpoint, County Down, in what became known as the | |
United Airlines Flight 175 | ... 0 Aon employees present at the time managed to evacuate the building before | struck it twenty stories below them |
First Barons' War | ... erwards further disagreements plunged England into a civil war known as the | . The war came to an abrupt end after John died in 1216, leaving the Crown ... |
Saxon | ... story, still current, that a settlement in Boston dates from AD 654, when a | monk, named Botolph, established a monastery on the banks of the River Wit ... |
Liberation of Paris | ... t that had governed France before the War. The sport was unbanned after the | in August 1944 and the collapse of the Vichy regime, although it was still ... |
Pan Am Flight 103 | ... ring town, Lockerbie, was devastated by the events that took place on board | on 21 December 1988 |
war in Ethiopia | ... persecution of the German Jewish community, and Mussolini's conduct of the | . In 1938 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page ... |
French invasion of Russia | ... retreat until mid-January 1942; by this time the losses were comparable to | in 1812 |
Colmar Pocket | ... st Army. By 15 January at least 17 German divisions (including units in the | ) were engaged, including the XIII SS Army Corps (17 SS Götz von Berlichin ... |
Norway was under attack | ... t aggressive, to represent the fighting spirit of Norwegians. In 1940, when | from the German forces, King Haakon VII received the power from the parlia ... |
invasion of Iraq | ... our of these countries supplied combat forces directly participating in the | : the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland. Other countrie ... |
Einsatzgruppen | They were often killed on sight, especially by the | (mobile killing units) on the Eastern Front. The total number of victims h ... |
Gukurahundi | ... tish colonial rulers. This continued after independence in 1980, during the | wars in Matabeleland in the 1980s. This led to the political merger of Jos ... |
Operation Overlord | ... came standard. In order to have as many Typhoons of 2nd TAF fitted before " | " conversion kits were produced and Gloster, Hawker and Cunliffe-Owen modi ... |
September 11 attacks | After an airline recession and the effects on the airline industry of the | in 2001 all airlines that flew across the Atlantic suffered badly |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... ons, and rules against any object that could be used as a weapon. Since the | , airport security has dramatically increased |
Babi Yar | ... most notorious massacre of Jews in the Soviet Union was at a ravine called | outside Kiev, where 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation on Septe ... |
Anglo-Saxon peoples | England in the early 7th century was ruled almost entirely by the | who had come to Britain from northwestern Europe, starting in the early 5t ... |
Bay of Pigs Invasion | ... 2's at a cost of $35 million.The Eisenhower administration also planned the | to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry ... |
riot in his neighborhood of Crown Heights | In 1991,Rabbi Schneerson was indirectly involved in the start of a | . The riot began when a car accompanying his motorcade—returning from one ... |
Tet Offensive | ... States forces "won every battle." The turning point of the war was the 1968 | , in which communist forces, having staged a diversion at the Battle of Kh ... |
United 175 | ... n, where he stayed at the Milner Hotel up until September 11. Upon boarding | , Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make t ... |
Whitecoat volunteers | ... . At Fort Detrick and Dugway Proving Ground, human trials were conducted on | to determine the median infective dose (18 MICLD 50 /person i.h.) and cour ... |
Fall of Saigon | rect 301 4 592 200 | rect 2 2 297 200 Watergate scandal rect 390 202 611 424 1973 oil crisis re ... |
Operation Agatha | Irgun committed the attack in response to | , known within Israel then and now as "Black Saturday". British troops had ... |
Dawson's Field | ... 5 September 1970, the PFLP hijacked five planes and landed three of them at | , located east of Amman. After the passengers were moved to other location ... |
Rwandan Genocide | ... , the Tutsi army proceeded to round up thousands of Hutu and kill them. The | in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye’s successor Cyprien Ntaryamira, ... |
Operation Agatha | ... wish paramilitary group in Palestine) and was conceived of as a response to | (in which widespread raids, including one on the Jewish Agency, had been c ... |
recommended an invasion | Shortly after the war began, Japan's Naval General Staff | of Northern Australia to prevent Australia from being used as a base to th ... |
Danelaw | ... to the Vikings when all of northern, central and eastern England came under | . The mound remaining of a castle built by Sahir de Quincy in the 12th cen ... |
Operation CHASE | ... remains in effect. From May 1964 to the early 1970s the USA participated in | , a United States Department of Defense program that aimed to dispose of c ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | ... regard to the War on Terror, including the 2001 war in Afghanistan and the | |
1993 World Trade Center bombing | ... "Reflecting Absence" honors the victims of the September 11 attacks and the | . The memorial, designed by Peter Walker and Israeli-American architect Mi ... |
British Arctic Expedition | ... er 1874, at which point Nares and Aldrich left the ship to take part in the | . The new captain was Frank Tourle Thomson. Second-in-command, and the mos ... |
Operation Solstice | | , or the "Stargard Tank Battle", in February 1945 was one of the last armo ... |
1993 World Trade Center bombing | ... en undertaken by Islamic terrorists, such as those who had masterminded the | . Some responded to these reports by attacking Muslims and people of Arab ... |
struggle for Okinawa | ... n northern Formosa and the southern Ryukyu Islands in support of the Allied | . On 21 April, Bang rescued a Navy pilot who had ditched his plane after i ... |
September 11 attacks | ... e assassination of Massoud is considered to have a strong connection to the | in 2001 on U.S. soil which killed nearly 3,000 people and which appeared t ... |
Muslim invasions | ... soldiers more mobility to react to the raids of the enemy, particularly the | which reached Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish rul ... |
United States Exploring Expedition | ... the depository for various Washington and U.S. government collections. The | by the U.S. Navy circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842. The voya ... |
Northern Expedition | ... trol with a series of deft military and political maneuverings known as the | . The Kuomintang moved the nation's capital to Nanjing and implemented "po ... |
2005 London Underground bombings | ... st acts of the early 2000s, most notably in the 2001 shoe bomb plot and the | . Several detection devices have been designed since those events. One, fo ... |
September 11 attacks | ... match was delayed for a year, as it was due to take place shortly after the | . It was subsequently decided to hold the Ryder Cup in even-numbered years ... |
September 11 attacks | ... s to extend it another . Security here was further tightened after the 2001 | . The U.S. Border Patrol credits the wall and better surveillance technolo ... |
Jacobites | ... lly that of clerical non-residence, awakened much ill-will, and of this the | took advantage, pursuing him to the end of his life with insult and reproa ... |
Babi Yar | ... n the Wannsee Villa on January 20, 1942. It occurred very shortly after the | massacre was carried out and the conference was chaired by Reinhard Heydri ... |
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | ... . Since The Oslo Agreement, violent episodes have recurred in the city. The | took place on February 25, 1994 when Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli physicia ... |
Kristallnacht | Hearst described | as “making the flag of National Socialism a symbol of national savagery” a ... |
stall | ... from inducing instability such as slips or skids, or a high AOA inducing a | . The limiters also prevent maneuvers that would exert more than a 9 g loa ... |
September 11 attacks | A memorial called "Reflecting Absence" honors the victims of the | and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The memorial, designed by Peter W ... |
Mexican–American War | ... lands. After the acquisition of the Colorado River basin from Mexico in the | in 1846, U.S. military forces commanded by Kit Carson forced more than eig ... |
Mexican–American War | ... 1836. In 1845 Texas joined the United States, which would later lead to the | . As a result of conflict with Mexico, the United States made further terr ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | ... of the population, and were championed by figures such as Noam Chomsky. The | led to a significant anti-war movement in which socialists argued their ca ... |
Western Front | ... e Somme) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the | , a line they had held since late 1914. The German defences in Serre were ... |
Banana Wars | ... hboring governments or by United States companies. As part of the so-called | all around the Caribbean, Honduras saw the insertion of American troops in ... |
Kristallnacht | The Dresden synagogue, which was burned during | on 9 November 1938, was rebuilt in 2001 and opened for worship on 9 Novemb ... |
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks | ... ted at his sentencing hearing in 2006 that Reid was a co-conspirator in the | on the United States, and that Moussaoui and Reid had intended to hijack a ... |
Soviet invasion of Hungary | ... Party. He left the party in 1956, with many other intellectuals, after the | when one of his reports was rejected |
the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima | ... odier, dark feel. The album spawned the hit single "Enola Gay", named after | . The song was originally intended to be included on the debut album, but ... |
invasion of Russia in 1812 | ... es conquered much of Europe but collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous | . Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat resulting ... |
Coastal Road massacre | ... inst Israel grew during the late 1970s. One of the most severe—known as the | —occurred on 11 March 1978. A force of nearly a dozen Fatah fighters lande ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | ... ibes the positions of world governments before the actual initiation of the | , and not their current positions as they may have changed since the |
Operation Sea Lion | ... slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned | , and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of "The ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... establishment of the prototype of constitutional monarchy in Britain in the | of 1688, and the emergence of a stable financial market there based on the ... |
Kristallnacht | ... synagogue of the Jewish Community in Münzgasse was desecrated and looted on | but, due to its proximity to the Opera House it was not razed. Inside the ... |
Operation Nickel Grass | ... morning of October 9. That day, President Nixon ordered the commencement of | , an American airlift to replace all of Israel's material losses. Anecdota ... |
Mexican War | ... erty formerly owned by president Ulysses S. Grant in the period between the | and the Civil War |
World Trade Center attacks | ... e accident took place on 11 September 2001, which landed shortly before the | in the United States. This was not a revenue flight, as all the passengers ... |
Raid on the Medway | ... also displays the stern of the HMS Royal Charles which was captured in the | , and the Hartog plate |
Operation Steel Box | ... ve the U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons from Germany. In 1990, as part of | , two ships were loaded with over 100,000 shells containing Sarin and VX w ... |
Hungarian Uprising | ... oviet communist regime in the Eastern Bloc, which had quelled both the 1956 | and the 1968 Prague Spring with Soviet-led invasions |
French Intervention | ... or site of the Mexican War of Independence, the Mexican Revolution, and the | . On another note, Brownsville and Matamoros, Tamaulipas are home to the C ... |
Wars of Scottish Independence | ... nce to England, Edward I invaded. During the first ten years of the ensuing | , Scotland had no monarch, until Robert the Bruce declared himself king in ... |
Danelaw | ... Street was a trading and market post between King Alfred's Saxon Mercia and | England with a consequent merging of dialects |
Allied invasion of Europe | ... ictor fire-control system based on an analog computer, just in time for the | |
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands | ... nically, the reported employment of tear gas by Argentine forces during the | constitutes chemical warfare. However, the tear gas grenades were employed ... |
Fenian efforts to use the U.S. as a base to attack Canada. | ... angry at British support for the Confederacy. One result was toleration of | More serious was the demand for a huge payment to cover the damages caused ... |
Operation Whitecoat | ... nts that tested various biological agents on human subjects, referred to as | , were carried out at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in the 1950s. The human subj ... |
Manhattan Project | ... d Nagasaki. Eventually Fermi and Szilárd's reactor work was folded into the | |
Kristallnacht | ... n was occupied by French troops between 1918 and 1930. In the course of the | in 1938, the Zweibrücken synagogue was destroyed. With the outbreak of the ... |
Second Italo-Abyssinian War | On 5 May 1936, Italian troops invaded Addis Ababa during the | , making it the capital of Italian East Africa from 1936 to 1941. After th ... |
Kristallnacht | ... the Nuremberg laws and for charging Jews with a billion reichsmark fine for | , which he never denied at his trial. However, his role in and awareness o ... |
Kristallnacht | During the | on November 9, 1938, Nazis burned down synagogues at two locations in the ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... as Anne's agent after the latter's father, James II, was deposed during the | ; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, Wi ... |
September 11 attacks | ... city's first memorial to honor the four Union City citizens who died in the | was a sculpture placed in Doric Park, in whose courtyard citizens gathered ... |
First Jewish–Roman War | ... have long resisted Hasmonean dominance, however, and indeed as late as the | was still considered Idumean. Herod the Great built the wall which still s ... |
Anglo-Saxon | ... Woolley's 1922–34 excavations. Gold, silver and garnet grave goods from the | ship burial at Sutton Hoo (1939) and late Roman silver tableware from Mild ... |
Operation Sea Lion | ... h the bombings continued through May 1941, the planned invasion, code-named | , never took place |
Operation Ajax | ... mmunism in poorer countries; the CIA in part deposed the leaders of Iran in | , of Guatemala through Operation Pbsuccess, and possibly the newly indepen ... |
Operation RY | ... naissance aircraft. Upon the completion of MO, the navy planned to initiate | , using ships released from the MO operation, to seize Nauru and Ocean Isl ... |
US-led invasion | Following the | and the removal of the Taliban government in late 2001, the military of Af ... |
Windows on the World | ... an to build a restaurant on top of One World Trade Center (to duplicate the | restaurant of old) was scrapped entirely because of potential risk of risi ... |
Operation Provide Comfort | During the post war periods called Operation Desert Calm and | , Fort Hood units continued to serve in the Persian Gulf area. From Decemb ... |
Operation Market Garden | ... o repair depots in Germany. On Sunday 17 September 1944 the Allies launched | , and the British 1st Airborne Division was dropped in Oosterbeek, to the ... |
Pancho Villa Expedition | ... exico to pursue Villa. This was known as the Punitive Mexican Expedition or | . The expedition was eventually called off after failing to find Villa, wh ... |
September 11 attacks | ... istributed over $2 million to the families of the 343 firemen killed in the | in 2001 in addition to providing funding for necessities such as a new mob ... |
Operation Wieniec | ... the Polish population from the massacres of Poles in Volhynia in 1943-1944 | ;sabotaging German rail transport in 1942; Operation Taśma in 1943, a seri ... |
Second Italo-Abyssinian War | ... 1935, Fascist Italy used mustard gas during the invasion of Ethiopia in the | . Ignoring the Geneva Protocol, which it signed seven years earlier, the I ... |
2003 invasion of Iraq | In 2005, van Creveld made headlines when he said in an interview that the | was "the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 sent his legions int ... |
Operation CHASE | ... U.S. decided to dispose of obsolete chemical weapons in an operation called | , which stood for "cut holes and sink 'em." Several shiploads of chemical ... |
United States invasion of Panama | The Sheridan's only air drop in combat occurred during the | (Operation Just Cause) in 1989, when fourteen M551s were deployed: four we ... |