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On November 23, 1999, a U.S. Army National Guard UH-1H "Huey" helicopter crashed in fog during an attempted landing after training exercises above eastern Long Island; two were killed and two injured. [120] [121] [122] On July 25, 2008, a bomb threat was received for Southwest Airlines Flight 2622, bound for Chicago.
The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health was founded in 1916 and became an independent, degree-granting institution for research and training in public health, and the largest public health training facility in the United States. [161] [162] [163] By 1922, schools of public health were established at Columbia and Harvard on the ...
Public safety agencies, as well as municipal governments, sometimes use notification systems that the public can voluntarily enroll in to receive alerts or notices for public safety or law enforcement related incidents. [151] [152] Other methods of emergency information dissemination used by law enforcement include Amber alerts and Silver Alerts
[76] [77] [78] The group currently receives military training, weapons, and financial support from Iran and political support from Syria, [79] although the sectarian nature of the Syrian war has damaged the group's legitimacy. [76] [80] [81] Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016. [82]
Designed by Alfred Leete in 1914 as a recruitment poster for the British Army, "Lord Kitchener Wants You" is the most famous British recruitment poster ever produced and an iconic and enduring image of World War I. [77] Produced by the British government in 1939 for World War II, the Keep Calm and Carry On motivational poster is now seen as ...
On April 27, 2012, the LSU Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of an $80 million south end-zone upper deck expansion that added approximately 60 "Tiger Den" suites, 3,000 club seats and 1,500 general public seats to bring the total capacity of Tiger Stadium to 102,321, making it the 6th-largest college football stadium in the country.
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".