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Steep Holm Steep Holm ( ) ( ) is an English island lying in the Bristol Channel . The island covers at high tide , expanding to at mean low water . At its highest point it is above mean sea level . It lies within the historic boundaries of Somerset and administratively , it forms part of North Somerset . Between 1 April 1974 and 1 April 1996 it was administered as part of Avon . The island serves as a wind and wave break , sheltering the upper reaches of the Bristol Channel . The island is formed of Carboniferous Limestone and is geologically a continuation of the Mendip Hills at Brean Down . The island is now uninhabited , with the exception of the wardens , and protected as a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , notification having taken place in 1952 . Nearby is Flat Holm island ( ) , part of Wales . According to legend in the 6th century Saint Gildas lived on Steep Holm visiting his friend Saint Cadoc , who lived on Flat Holm as a hermit . Gildas supposedly left the island to become Abbot of Glastonbury . Former military uses . Both Steep Holm and Flat Holm were fortified in the 1860s as a defence against invasion . They form part of a line of defences , known as Palmerston Forts , built across the channel to protect the approaches to Bristol and Cardiff . The island was fortified following a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to France , where they had been concerned at the strength of the French Navy . The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom , under direction of Lord Palmerston , recommended fortification of the coast and the island formed part of this strategic coastal defence system . Construction began in 1865 and was completed in 1869 . Steep Holm has several gun batteries , some of which are Scheduled Ancient Monuments , and a centralised group of brick - built barrack blocks . These facilities were updated in both World War I and World War II ; in World War II , search light batteries were built on Steep Holm . The Steep Holm batteries were also connected , by underwater telegraph cable , to the Brean Down Fort batteries , but parts of the cable were stolen for scrap after the end of World War II . Kenneth Allsop Memorial Trust . The island is owned by the Kenneth Allsop Memorial Trust , a charity which took over the administration of Steep Holm in 1974 in memory of the broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop , and purchased it in 1976 . The mission statement of the Trust is : " To protect , preserve and enhance for the benefit of the public the landscape , antiquities , flora , fauna , natural beauty and scientific interest of the island of Steep Holm in the County of North Somerset and to advance the education of the public in the natural sciences . " Visits can be made to the island . The trust runs day - long boat trips from Weston - super - Mare . One barrack block is in use to provide visitor facilities .
USS LST - 556 USS " LST - 556 " was a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1946 . Construction and commissioning . " LST - 556 " was laid down on 4 February 1944 at Evansville , Indiana , by the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company . She was launched on 7 April 1944 , sponsored by Mrs . James C . Bradshaw , and commissioned on 1 May 1944 . Service history . During World War II , " LST - 556 " was assigned to the Pacific Theater of Operations . She participated in the capture and occupation of the southern Palau Islands in September and October 1944 . She then took part in the Philippines campaign , participating in the Leyte landings in October and November 1944 , the landings at Ormoc Bay in December 1944 , the landings at Mindoro in December 1944 , and the landings at Zambales and Subic Bay in January 1945 . She then participated in the assault on and occupation of Okinawa Gunto in April and May 1945 . Following the war , " LST - 556 " returned to the United States . Decommissioning and disposal . " LST - 556 " was decommissioned on 14 March 1946 and stricken from the Navy List on 12 April 1946 . On 26 April 1948 , she was sold to the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester , Pennsylvania , for scrapping . Honors and awards . " LST - 556 " earned five battle star s for her World War II service .
AN / PRC - 127 In military radio communications , the AN / PRC - 127 ( RT - 1594 ) Radio is a handheld transceiver operating in the 136 - 160 MHz range used by the US Army , as well as other NATO forces . It is the militarized version of the civilian LPI series high band Bendix - King radio . The radio was initially manufactured beginning in 1996 by the Bendix - King Corporation . The final version of this radio ended with the model AN / PRC - 127EFJ . Technical data :
Alexander Cunningham , 1st Earl of Glencairn Alexander Cunningham , 1st Earl of Glencairn , 1st Lord Kilmaurs ( 1426 – 11 June 1488 ) was a Scottish nobleman . He was firstly created a Lord of Parliament in 1450 , with the title Lord Kilmaurs . King James III of Scotland created Lord Kilmaurs Earl of Glencairn on 28 May 1488 , by Letters Patent under the Great Seal . Fighting on his king ' s side , he was slain at the Battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June 1488 . The Earl married Margaret , daughter of Sir Adam Hepburn , Master of Hailes , and sister of Sir Patrick Hepburn , 1st Lord Hailes . They had four sons . The second son , William , was ancestor of the Cunninghams of Craigends , Robertland , Bedlan , Auchenharvey , and Auchenyards . By the Act Rescissory , passed in the first parliament of James IV , 17 October 1488 , all creations of new dignities granted by that monarch ' s father since the preceding 2 February were annulled , and , in consequence , Robert Cunningham , 2nd Lord Kilmaurs , eldest son of this Earl of Glencairn , was deprived of the title and dignity of Earl . This was , however , overturned by the 1503 Act Revocatory .
George Halsey Perley Sir George Halsey Perley , KCMG , PC ( September 12 , 1857 – January 4 , 1938 ) was an American born Canadian politician and diplomat . Early life . Born in Lebanon , New Hampshire , the son of William Goodhue Perley and Mabel E . Ticknor Stevens , Perley was educated at the Ottawa Grammar School , at St . Paul ' s School in Concord , New Hampshire , and at Harvard University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878 . Perley became a partner in the Perley & Pattee , a lumber company in which his father was senior partner . After Perley & Pattee dissolved in 1893 , Perley became head of G . H . Perley & Co which had mills at Pointe - Calumet , Quebec and vice president of the Hull Lumber Company , Ltd . , which is operating largely on the upper Ottawa . For many years , Perley was vice president of the Canada Atlantic Railway Co . , president of the Rideau Club and president of the Ottawa Golf Club . Along with the other heirs of his father , he donated his homestead on Wellington Street for the purpose of establishing a hospital and served as vice president of its Board of Management . In 1900 , he was chairman of the Ottawa and Hull Fire Relief Fund , and distributed about $ 1 , 000 , 000 among the sufferers by the 1900 Hull – Ottawa fire . Perley married Annie Hespeler in Kitchener , Ontario on 4 June 1884 . Perley had two children : Mabel , born 8 July 1885 and died 13 March 1887 , and Ethel Lesa , born 16 September 1888 . Politics . He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Conservative MP for Argenteuil in 1904 , having failed to defeat Mr . W . C . Edwards for the seat in Russell County during the election of 1900 . Perley served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Minister of the Overseas Military Forces in the World War I government of Sir Robert Borden . He did not run for re - election in the 1917 federal election in order to concentrate on his duties in London . He returned to the House of Commons in the 1925 federal election and subsequently served as Secretary of State for Canada in the short - lived 1926 government of Arthur Meighen and then as Minister without Portfolio in the government of R . B . Bennett following the 1930 federal election . He was re - elected in the 1935 federal election which also saw the defeat of Bennett ' s government , and remained an MP until his death in 1938 .
Lowe Army Heliport Lowe Army Heliport is a military heliport serving Fort Rucker in Dale County , Alabama , United States . Owned by the United States Army , it is located 8 nautical miles ( 15 km ) southwest of the city of Ozark . Facilities . Lowe AHP has four asphalt paved runways designated 6L / 24R , 6R / 24L , 18L / 36R and 18R / 36L , each of which measures 2000 by 75 feet ( 610 x 23 m ) .
Jonathan M . Foltz Jonathan Messersmith Foltz ( 25 April 1810 – 12 April 1877 ) was a military surgeon of the United States Navy , who served in the Mexican – American War and American Civil War , eventually rising to the rank of commodore and serving as Surgeon General of the United States Navy in 1871 - 72 . Biography . Foltz was born in Lancaster , Pennsylvania . He studied medicine as the apprentice of Dr . William Thompson from 1825 – 28 , and graduated from Jefferson Medical College , Philadelphia , in 1830 . Foltz entered the Navy as an assistant surgeon on 4 April 1831 , serving aboard the frigate , and in February 1832 landed with the storming party at Quallah Battoo , Sumatra , being specially commended in Lieutenant Irvine Shubrick ' s official dispatch . " Potomac " finally returned to Boston in June 1834 , and Foltz then served at the Medical Bureau , Washington , D . C . , being stationed at Washington Navy Yard . In 1835 he published his observations on the voyage of the " Potomac " , and in 1837 received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale College . In February 1838 he was present at the duel between William J . Graves and Jonathan Cilley On 8 December 1838 Foltz was examined and received promotion to the rank of Surgeon in the Navy , and on 1 April 1839 was appointed Surgeon of the Naval Hospital at Port Mahon , Minorca . On 13 March 1841 was assigned to the frigate , and 30 October 1843 to the frigate . Between 1844 - 46 he served as Fleet Surgeon aboard the " Raritan " during the Mexican War and was present at the battles of Palo Alto , Resaca de la Palma , the blockade of Vera Cruz , and the battles of Alvarado and Tabasco . Foltz remained aboard " Raritan " in the Brazil Squadron until 1847 , and served in the of the same squadron in 1851 - 54 . He was fleet surgeon of the Western Gulf Squadron in 1862 - 63 , and was with David Farragut on the in all his battles during those years . He occupied the same place on the during Farragut ' s voyage to Europe in 1867 - 78 . Foltz was president of the naval medical board in 1870 - 71 , of which he was one of the founding members in 1857 . He became medical director on 3 March 1871 , and was appointed " Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery " and " Surgeon General " , with the rank of commodore , on 25 October of that year . He was placed on the retired list on 25 April 1872 .
SMS Lussin SMS Lussin was a torpedo cruiser of the Austro - Hungarian Navy . As envisaged by the Navy Commander ( " Marinekommandant " ) , Admiral Friedrich von Pöck , " Lussin " would be the leader of a flotilla of torpedo boats , with the additional capability of carrying out scouting duties . Built by Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino at San Rocco , " Lussin " was launched on 22 December 1883 and completed 12 July 1884 . A vessel of 995 tons displacement , she measured in length with a beam of and a draft of . Propulsion was supplied by two compound steam engines with four cylindrical boilers , producing for a speed of . The crew comprised 154 officers and men . Original armament of " Lussin " consisted of two 15 cm guns , one 6 . 6 cm landing gun and one torpedo tube , located in the bow below water . The 15 cm guns were mounted on barbettes , one forward between the bridge and the raised forecastle and the other aft ; armored bulwarks had to be lowered to allow firing . In 1887 four 4 . 7 cm quick - firing guns were added . " Lussin ' s " barquentine rig and elegant lines were more appropriate for a steam yacht of the day . Indeed , experience with previous torpedo cruisers , " Zara , Spalato " and " Sebenico , " showed they were too slow and too lightly armed for their intended employment . Even before completion of " Lussin , " a change in naval leadership spelled the end of the torpedo cruiser program . The new Navy Commander , Vice Admiral Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck , proposed a more capable type of cruiser with a reinforced bow for ramming , a respectable gun armament , and sufficient speed for employment with torpedo craft as well as with the fleet or on detached service . Daublebsky called the new type a torpedo ram cruiser . Since a role had to be found for " Lussin , " she was disarmed in 1890 and relegated to use as a training ship for stokers . In 1910 she was converted to an admiralty yacht and re - engined with MAN diesels of , giving a speed of . " Lussin " became an accommodation ship at Pola for German submarine crews in 1916 . Ceded to Italy in 1920 , " Lussin " was renamed " Sorrento " and rearmed with four 7 . 6 cm anti - aircraft guns . She was recommissioned on 11 September 1924 as a depot ship for motor torpedo boats with a crew of 45 officers and men . " Sorrento " was discarded in 1928 and sold for scrap .
Boghammar A Boghammar is a High Speed Patrol Boat ( HSPB ) for use in coastal patrol . The term " Boghammar " originated from the Iranian patrol boats manufactured by the Swedish company Boghammar Marin AB during the 1980s used in the Iran - Iraq War and the Tanker War . Wider use . The term boghammar , sometimes spelled boghammer , has also come to mean an improvised naval fighting vessel , typically used by a local irregular military force and usually being a modified civilian boat or other similar machine . It is usually a speedboat or fast patrol boat ( as used by police for harbor / river patrol ) on which are mounted recoilless rifle s , heavy machine gun s , mortar s , or other relatively small weapons systems . A boghammar is usually unarmoured . Boghammars , in this sense , have been used by paramilitary forces to attack offshore oil platform s and civilian shipping , or even larger military vessels , most notably by Iran in the Tanker War . Other users of such vessels include Nigerian militants , LTTE Sea Tigers , and Somali pirates .
Kosmos 1367 Kosmos 1367 ( meaning " Cosmos 1367 " ) was a Soviet US - K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1982 as part of the Soviet military ' s Oko programme . The satellite was designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . Kosmos 1367 was launched from Site 41 / 1 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Russian SSR . A Molniya - M carrier rocket with a 2BL upper stage was used to perform the launch , which took place at 13 : 09 UTC on 20 May 1982 . The launch successfully placed the satellite into a molniya orbit . It subsequently received its Kosmos designation , and the international designator 1982 - 045A . The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 13205 .
M121 155mm Cartridge The M121 / A1 155mm Projectile was a chemical artillery shell designed for use by the U . S . army . It was designed to be used with approximately 6 . 5 lbs of GB or VX nerve agents . History . The U . S . Army standardized the M121 shell in 1954 .
Camp Union Camp Union was a military training center for the Union Army during the American Civil War . Constructed near Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , the camp operated from 1861 until 1865 , and primarily served various Pennsylvania volunteer regiment s . The camp , one of 17 training sites in the greater Philadelphia region , was located north of Ridge Road ( now Ridge Avenue ) , not far from the Falls of the Schuylkill River . Thousands of recruits were mustered into Federal service , and were drilled and taught military tactics before their regiments were sent to the South .
George Doherty Johnston George Doherty Johnston ( May 30 , 1832 – December 8 , 1910 ) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . Early life . George Doherty Johnston was born in Hillsborough , North Carolina . In 1834 , his father moved the family to Greensboro , Alabama , where he died less than a year later . His mother then moved the family to Marion , Alabama . Johnston received his education from private tutors before attending Howard College . He then studied law at Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in Lebanon , Tennessee . After graduation , he returned home and began his practice in Marion . Johnson was elected mayor of Marion in 1856 and to the state legislature in 1857 . Civil War . Johnston joined the Confederate Army as second lieutenant of Company G of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment . Johnston fought with this unit at the First Battle of Bull Run . In January 1862 , Johnston was commissioned major of the 25th Alabama Infantry Regiment . In September 1863 he was promoted to colonel of the same regiment . Johnston was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Ezra Church two days after promotion to brigadier general . He was on crutches during the Franklin - Nashville Campaign and he took command of Brigadier General William Andrew Quarles ' Brigade following the Battle of Franklin . Johnston took part in every battle of the Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the Battle of Bentonville . Post - war career . Johnston served as commandant of cadets at the University of Alabama following the War . He then moved to South Carolina to serve as superintendent of the South Carolina Military Academy . He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to the position of United States Civil Service Commissioner . He was elected to the state senate after returning to live in Tuscaloosa , Alabama . Death . Johnston died in Tuscaloosa on December 8 , 1910 and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Tuscaloosa .
Herbert Haydon Wilson Herbert Haydon Wilson , DSO ( 14 February 1875 – 11 April 1917 ) was a British officer and polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics . Biography . Youngest son of Sir Samuel Wilson , of Victoria , Australia . He served in the South African Campaign 1899 - 1901 ( twice Mentioned in Despatches ) , and was in March 1901 appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) for gallantry in defence of posts in the Boer attack on Lichtenburg In the 1908 Olympics , he was a member of the British polo team " Roehampton " , which won the gold medal . Wilson was killed in action during the First World War , serving as a captain with the Royal Horse Guards near Arras . He was buried in the Faubourg D ' Amiens Cemetery nearby .
SMS Amazone ( 1843 ) SMS " Amazone " was a three - masted sail corvette ( caravel ) of the Prussian Navy ( " " ) . Her keel was laid down in Grabow near Stettin in 1842 and she was launched on 24 June 1843 . " Amazone " sank in a storm on 14 November 1861 off the coast of the Netherlands with 107 dead . " Amazone " was modelled on the , with a ship displacement of 370 tonnes and a length overall of . She had a complement of 145 men and was armed with twelve Swedish 18 - pounders . The ship served as a training vessel for Prussian naval officers of the Navigation School in Danzig , therefore it came under the Ministry of Finance rather than the Ministry of War . Nevertheless , she flew the Prussian war flag .
AAF Station Buchschwabach Army Air Force Station Buchschwabach is a former military airfield , located 10 . 1 miles southwest of Nuremberg in Bavaria , Germany . History . Buchschwabach and its airfield was captured by the United States Army on 21 April 1945 as part of the Western Allied invasion of Germany . It may have been used by the Luftwaffe as an emergency airfield , although no records have been located of a permanent base . The airfield was repaired by IX Engineering Command , Ninth Air Force into an Army Air Forces advanced Landing Ground , designated R - 42 . The field had a 5 ' 000 ft grass runway which was also hardened by PHS . IX Air Service Command units used the airfield as a casualty evacuation and combat resupply airfield until the German Capitulation on 8 May . The IX Fighter Command 368th Fighter Group operated P - 47 Thunderbolt fighters from the field after the surrender , remaining at the filed until 15 August when they moved out . The airfield was dismantled and today some roads can be seen in farmer ' s fields as single - track access roads .
Major Bahadur Singh Baral Major Bahadur Singh Baral ( ) ( 15 April 1892 – 16 October 1962 in Nawalparasi District , Nepal ) was a national poet of Nepal and a military officer in the First Gorkha Rifle of the British Indian Army . He served as a major in the British Indian Army . He is known for his contributions to Nepali literature . He wrote several poems which comprise " Baral ko Asu " , a poem book written by him . It consists of poems of religion , patriotism , equality , social reforms , and the bravery of the Gorkhalis . Bahadur Singh Baral was born in Chuli Bojha , Deuchuli , of Nawalparasi District . He was well mannered and disciplined as a child . He was always punctual as he was brought up in a military environment . He was a brave and patriotic Gurkha . Both he and his father Sarwajeet Singh Baral were majors in the Second Battalion of the First Gorkha Rifle in the British Indian Army . Bahadur Singh Baral had commandeered the Second Battalion of the First Gorkha Rifle in World War II .
Annibale Bergonzoli Annibale Bergonzoli ( 1 November 1884 – 31 July 1973 ) , nicknamed " " barba elettrica " " , " Electric Whiskers " , was an Italian Lieutenant General during the Spanish Civil War and World War II . He commanded the defence s of Bardia , Libya , after the short offensive into Egypt made by Rodolfo Graziani . At the end of 1940 , a British offensive called Operation Compass , led by General Richard O ' Connor , took Bardia forcing the Italians to retreat into Cyrenaica . Bergonzoli continued to command the XXIII Corps of the Italian Tenth Army during the retreat . In February 1941 , after the disastrous defeat at Beda Fomm , Bergonzoli surrendered to Australian forces . He was held as a Prisoner in India and the USA before being repatriated to Italy . Bergonzoli settled in his birthplace , Cannobio and died there in 1973 .
Rubén Darío Paredes Rubén Darío Paredes del Río ( 1933 ) was a Panamanian army officer and the military ruler of Panama from 1982 to 1983 . Colonel Paredes came to power following the coup against Colonel Florencio Flores . Paredes ' tenure was from March 1982 to August 1983 . Paredes was promoted to the rank of general on March 3 . Paredes retired from the Panamanian National Guard after making a deal with Manuel Noriega that would make Paredes president . However , after his resignation , Noriega reneged on the deal and had him arrested . Paredes is retired and lives in Panama City , Panama . His uncle , Rigoberto Paredes , was a member of the National Assembly in the 1980s who was one of Norriega ' s closest allies . Rigoberto hosted a talk radio show on Radio BB in Panama City . Rigoberto Paredes died in 2007 .
Shen Yang ( Eighteen Kingdoms ) Shen Yang was the ruler of the Kingdom of Henan ( 河南國 ) of the Eighteen Kingdoms during the Chu – Han Contention , an interregnum between the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty . Shen Yang was from Xiaqiu ( 瑕丘 ) . He was originally a subordinate of Zhang Er ( 張耳 ) , a of the insurgent Zhao kingdom . After the fall of the Qin Dynasty in 206 BC , Xiang Yu divided the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms . Shen Yang was appointed by Xiang Yu as " King of Henan " ( 河南王 ) and granted part of the former Han kingdom ' s territory as his fief . In 205 BC , Shen Yang surrendered to Liu Bang and his kingdom became the Henan of the Han Dynasty .
List of conflicts in British America List of conflicts in the British America is a timeline of events that includes Indian wars , battles , skirmish es massacres and other related items that occurred in Britain ' s American territory up to 1783 when British America was formally ended by the Treaty of Paris and replaced by British North America and the United States .