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2. Interstate Highway System - Wikipedia

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   The system had a profound effect on interstate shipping. The Interstate Highway System was being constructed at the same time as the intermodal shipping container made its debut. These containers could be placed on trailers behind trucks and shipped across the country with ease.

3. Spark-gap transmitter - Wikipedia

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   A second type of spark gap that had a similar quenching effect [15] was the "rotary gap", invented by Tesla in 1896 [92] [93] and applied to radio transmitters by Reginald Fessenden and others. [ 17 ] : p.359–362 [ 79 ] It consisted of multiple electrodes equally spaced around a disk rotor spun at high speed by a motor, which created sparks ...

4. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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   The Condor was a converted civilian airliner—a stop-gap solution for Fliegerführer Atlantik. Due to ongoing friction between the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, the primary source of convoy sightings was the U-boats themselves. Since a submarine's bridge was very close to the water, their range of visual detection was quite limited.

5. Inside Mohamed Al-Fayed's Royal Family Obsession in Wake of ...

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   Mohammed Al-Fayed and Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. The late Mohamed Al-Fayed, father of Dodi Fayed, who died alongside Princess Diana in a 1997 car crash in Paris, has been ...

6. 1973 Chilean coup d'état - Wikipedia

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   Allende's Cuban-trained guard would have had about 300 elite commando-trained GAP fighters at the time of the coup, according to a book of 2005 by Jonathan Haslam, [101] but the use of brute military force, especially the use of Hawker Hunters, may have handicapped many GAP fighters from further action. Which was the case of some GAP members ...

7. Brad Pitt and Girlfriend Ines de Ramon Have Chic Date Night ...

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   Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon are glowing! On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the couple stepped out for dinner at Mother Wolf in Los Angeles following the U.S. premiere of Pitt's film Wolfs at the TCL Chinese ...