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William R. Peers – U.S. Army Lt. General best known for leading the army's investigation of the My Lai incident Kelly Perdew – winner of The Apprentice Brian R. Price – author, editor, publisher, martial-arts instructor of the Italian school of swordsmanship , reconstructive armorer, and dissertation fellow in history at the University of ...
The attack, which took place in full view of passers-by, left Siau bleeding profusely. Siau was immediately rushed to Singapore General Hospital and he survived the slashing after undergoing surgery and treatment. Nine men were subsequently arrested, charged in court, and convicted of rioting and being members of an unlawful assembly.
In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build an airplane which completed, unaided, a one-mile figure-eight course entirely under the power provided by the pilot himself. This is the story of those many failures and MacCready's success.
The last of the non-avian dinosaurs died 66 million years ago in the course of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, whereas the earliest members of the genus Homo (humans) evolved between 2.3 and 2.4 million years ago. This places a 63-million-year expanse of time between the last non-avian dinosaurs and the earliest humans.
The list was announced on 26 January 1989 by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Ninian Stephen. [1] The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.
The Sapper Leader Course is a 28-day United States Army small unit tactics and leadership course that develops soldiers in critical skills and teaches advanced combat engineer techniques needed across the Army. [1] Sapper training began development in 1982, and continued until 1985.
The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ( BUMED) is an agency of the United States Department of the Navy that manages health care activities for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. BUMED operates hospitals and other healthcare facilities as well as laboratories for biomedical research, and trains and manages the Navy's many ...
An exam invigilator, exam proctor or exam supervisor is someone appointed by an educational institution or an examination board to maintain proper conduct in a particular examination in accordance with exam regulations. Typically, the main duty of an exam invigilator is to watch examination candidates to prevent cheating. [1]