Walsall is a market town in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall. It is historically part of Staffordshire. Its town centre is 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Birmingham and 6 miles (10 km) east of Wolverhampton. A 2011 census revealed that 67,594 people live in the town and 269,323 people live in the borough.
It is a very industrial town and was effected by the Industrial Revolution. The town used to have a large industry of making products such as saddles and chains.
Walsall has been majorly redeveloped and modernised since the 1970s and is still being constantly developed.
Barr Beacon is a hill located in Walsall. It is the highest point between itself and the Ural Mountains in Russia.
The town has a professional football club, Walsall FC. Their nickname is "The Saddlers" and they play their home games at the Bescot Stadium in the Bescot suburb of the town.
Walsall has four twin towns. It is twinned with:
Tetyana Budko
Tetyana Budko (born 1984) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She played at the 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship, 2002/2003 European Cups, 2004/2005 European Championships, and 2003 FIVB Women's U20 World Championship.
Yuliya Bogmatser
Yuliya Bogmatser (born 3 June 1984 in Zaporizhia) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She played at the 2002 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship, winning a silver medal, 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship, and 2010 FIVB Women's World Championships.
She was best setter in the Ukrainian Superliga in 2004/05 and in 2005/06.
List of data references for chemical elements
The List of data references for chemical elements is divided into datasheets that give values for many properties of the elements, together with various references. Each datasheet is sequenced by atomic number.
Oxygen-16
Oxygen-16 (O) is a stable isotope of oxygen, having 8 neutrons and 8 protons in its nucleus.
Spetsnaz
Spetsnaz is an umbrella term (used for many different things) for special forces in Russian language and is used in numerous post-Soviet states.
Historically, the term meant a special operations units controlled by the main military intelligence service GRU (Spetsnaz GRU). It also describes task forces of other ministries (such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs' ODON and Ministry of Emergency Situations' special rescue unit) in post-Soviet countries. Russian special forces wear different berets depending on the branch of the armed forces they belong to.
As Spetsnaz is a Russian term, it mostly means the special forces of Russia, but other post-Soviet states often refer to their special forces units by the name as well, since these nations also got their special purpose units from the old Soviet security agencies.
During the Second World War, it Soviet forces needed intelligence on German troop positions in northern Norway and Finland. On 5 July 1941 Admiral Arseniy Golovko of the Northern Fleet authorized the formation of a ground spy troop. This unit, the 4th Special Volunteer Detachment, was to be recruited from the fleet's sports-men and had about 65 to 70 personnel. Later the unit was renamed the 181st Special Reconnaissance Detachment.
The most prominent of these new recruits was Viktor Leonov, who joined the Soviet Navy in 1937. He was assigned to a submarine training detachment and then moved to a repair station in the Northern Fleet at Polyarnyy. Leonov had trained as a scuba diver, after which he joined 4th Special Volunteer Detachment, where he conducted numerous secret operations and twice being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Initially the unit was confined to performing small scale reconnaissance missions, platoon sized missions by sea and on occasion on land into Finland and later Norway. They began conducting sabotage missions and raids to snatch prisoners for interrogation. They would also destroy German ammunition and supply posts, communication centers, and harass enemy troop concentrations along the Finnish and Russian coasts.
When the European conflict ended, the Naval Scouts were sent to fight the Japanese. Leonov along with Capt. Kulebyakin and 140 men, landed on a Japanese airfield at Port Vonsan, not realizing they were opposed by over 3,500 enemy soldiers. A tense standoff ensued, until the commanding officers of the unit managed to bluff the Japanese forces into surrendering.
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Soviet Spetsnaz forces took part in the Soviet–Afghan War of 1979–1989 in Afghanistan, usually fighting battles using helicopters. Their most famous operation, Operation Storm-333, was carried out on 27 December 1979 when Soviet special forces stormed the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan and killing Afghan President Hafizullah Amin and his 200 personal guards. The Soviets then installed Babrak Karmal as Amin's successor.
The operation involved approximately 660 Soviet operators dressed in Afghan uniforms, including 50 KGB and GRU officers from the "Alpha Group" and "Zenith Group". The Soviet forces occupied major governmental, military and media buildings in Kabul, including their primary target – the Tajbeg Palace.
In the first one and a half years of the war, Spetsnaz units in the form of the 459th special forces company, were exclusively responsible for recon missions and intelligence gathering for the 40th Army. Aside from reconnaissance, the 459th was also tasked with capturing prisoners, destroying the leaders and field commanders of the Mujahideen.
By 1985, the GRU had expanded its special forces footprint to two spetsnaz brigades in Afghanistan, comprising just under 5,000 troops.
Oxygen-17
Oxygen-17 (O) is a low-abundance, natural, stable isotope of oxygen (0.0373% in seawater; it is about twice as common as deuterium).
Oxygen-18
Oxygen-18 (, Ω) is a natural, stable isotope of oxygen and one of the environmental isotopes.
Madeley, Shropshire
Madeley is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and is now part of the new town of Telford. In 2001, the town had a population of 17,935 people.
Madeley is recorded in the Domesday Book as a small settlement.
A part of the Ironbridge Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is in the civil parish.
Bob the Builder (2015 TV series)
Bob the Builder is a CGI animated children's television series and a reboot of the British-American animated television show "Bob the Builder". It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 5, beginning on 1 September 2015 and PBS Kids in the United States in 14 November. The series ran for three seasons until 30 December 2018.
This show also has a feature length special called which was released in 2017.
A next Bob the Builder series is currently yet to be announced.Olga Pavlova
Olga Pavlova (born 4 March 1969) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She represented Ukraine during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Wellington, Shropshire
Wellington is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and forms part of the new town of Telford. It is 3.5 miles (5.5 km) northwest of central Telford and 12 miles (19 km) east of Shrewsbury. The 2011 census revealed that the town has a population of 25,554 people.
It became part of the new town of Telford in 1968.
The town's population makes it the third largest town in Shropshire, behind Telford and Shrewsbury.
The Wrekin hill is 3.5 miles southwest of the town.
The town has a railway station on the Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line. Passengers can get direct trains to Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, London and parts of Wales.
The New Bucks Head, the home stadium of football club A.F.C. Telford United, is located in Wellington.
Wellington has one twin town. It is twinned with:
Stoke on Tern
Stoke on Tern is a village in Shropshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Stoke upon Tern, next to the River Tern.