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  2. 1989 New Year Honours - Wikipedia

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    Military Division. Vice Admiral John Beverley Kerr, Royal Navy.; Lieutenant General Charles Edward Webb Jones, CBE, Colonel Commandant 3rd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets, Colonel Commandant Royal Army Educational Corps.

  3. 1952 Birthday Honours - Wikipedia

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    The Right Honourable Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, Bt, CBE, MC, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.; The Right Honourable Sir (Alfred) Duff Cooper, GCMG, DSO, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1934–1935; Secretary of State for War, 1935–1937; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1937–1938; Minister of Information, 1940–1941; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1941–1943; HM Ambassador to ...

  4. Surface-supplied diving - Wikipedia

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    Surface-supplied diver at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California US Navy Diver using Kirby Morgan Superlight 37 diving helmet [1]. Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell. [2]

  5. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    She is in the process of raising funds to test evidence found at the scene for DNA. [94] [95] Víctor Saldaño: Kidnapped and shot dead Paul Ray King. 28 years, 15 days Saldaño is the sole Argentine on death row in the United States. Jorge Chávez, his co-defendant, is serving life imprisonment. Andre Thomas

  6. Gasoline - Wikipedia

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    By 1935, there were seven different aviation grades based on octane rating, two Army grades, four Navy grades, and three commercial grades including the introduction of 100-octane aviation gasoline. By 1937, the Army established 100-octane as the standard fuel for combat aircraft, and to add to the confusion, the government now recognized 14 ...

  7. Hampton Roads - Wikipedia

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    The term "Hampton Roads" is a centuries-old designation that originated when the region was a struggling English outpost nearly four hundred years ago.. The word "Hampton" honors one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London and a great supporter of the colonization of Virginia, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.

  8. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    On Feb. 14, 2014, at the WIPP, radioactive materials leaked from a damaged storage drum (see photo). Analysis of several accidents, by DOE, have shown lack of a "safety culture" at the facility. [58] The 18,000 km 2 expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), which covers an area the size of Wales. The Soviet Union conducted 456 ...

  9. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 - Wikipedia

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    MiG-21М National People's Army of the GDR, August 1990 The MiG-21 was the first successful Soviet aircraft combining fighter and interceptor characteristics in a single aircraft. It was a lightweight fighter, achieving Mach 2 with a relatively low-powered afterburning turbojet , and is thus comparable to the American Lockheed F-104 Starfighter ...