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Kamikaze was a term initially used for Japanese suicide pilots in World War II, but is occasionally used in other contexts. Some reports at the time labelled the 1972 Lod Airport massacre in Israel by the Japanese Red Army (JRA) a "Kamikaze" attack, but others have criticized the label, including the surviving attacker's interpreter. [5][6] The Kamikaze were a unit of suicide bombers in for ...
The Special Activities Center (SAC) is the center [a] of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responsible for covert operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior to a 2015 reorganization. [3] Within SAC there are at least two separate groups [b]: SAC/SOG (Special Operations Group) for tactical paramilitary operations and SAC/PAG (Political Action Group ...
The L, [a][4] formerly known as the Market–Frankford Line, [b] is a rapid transit line in the SEPTA Metro network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The L runs from the 69th Street Transit Center in Upper Darby, just outside of West Philadelphia, through Center City Philadelphia to the Frankford Transit Center in Near Northeast Philadelphia. Starting in 2024, the line was ...
A 20th-century depiction of Revere's ride Paul Revere's midnight ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 18, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord. In the preceding weeks, Patriots in the region learned of a planned crackdown on the Massachusetts ...
Internet Cafe, Alice Springs, Australia (pictured 2005) While most Internet cafés are private businesses many have been set up to help bridge the ' digital divide ', providing computer access and training to those without home access. There are also Internet kiosks, Internet access points in public places like public libraries, airport halls, sometimes just for brief use while standing. Many ...
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic selling and underlying economic factors. They often follow speculation and economic bubbles. A stock market crash is a social phenomenon where external economic events combine with crowd psychology in a ...
Subway & Elevated Lines for Suggested Unified System "Twinning Plan", 1916, map In 1916, the director of the Philadelphia department of city transit, William S. Twinning proposed scrapping the initial plan of building an elevated line along Woodland Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia that would connect onto the existing Market Street Subway-Elevated at 32nd Street and planned to replace it with ...
The Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal was the primary intercity bus station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station's function relocated to 618 Market Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets in Center City Philadelphia.